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10 Day Marvels of the North Island
Over 10 days discover New Zealand's North Island. Highlights include Wellington, Rotorua, Bay of Islands and Auckland.
Day 1. Arrive Wellington, Freedom of Choice
Be met upon arrival and transfer to your hotel. Tonight, choose where to dine.
Two Nights: Amora Hotel Wellington FD
Day 2. Wellington, Freedom of Choice
Personalise your Wellington experience with a choice of included sightseeing activities. B
Day 3. Wellington, Napier
Travel through scenic Woodville and Waipukurau to the seaside city of Napier. On arrival, enjoy a tour and wine tasting at the New Zealand Wine Centre.
Napier, Scenic Te Pania Hotel BD
Day 4. Napier, Rotorua
Depart Napier and journey through Esk Valley and Te Pohue, stopping at Taupo. Continue to Rotorua, the geothermal capital of New Zealand. This evening, immerse yourself in traditional Maori culture at a Hangi Feast.
Two Nights: Millennium Hotel Rotorua, located on beautiful Lake Rotorua B, FD
Day 5. Rotorua, Freedom of Choice
In Rotorua, choose from a range of activities, including a 4WD Bush Safari; an eco-thermal tour; a round of golf; a visit to Hobbiton; or a trip to the Rotorua Museum. Tonight, head to Longlands Farm for a tour and a special dinner. B, FD
Day 6. Rotorua, Bay of Islands
Travel through Waikato farmland to Cambridge and then continue north to Auckland. Admire the view over Waitemata Harbour as we cross the busy Auckland Harbour Bridge. Follow the east coast Pacific Ocean Drive to Paihia in the spectacular Bay of Islands.
Two Nights: Scenic Hotel Bay of Islands BD
Day 7. Bay of Islands, Freedom of Choice
After breakfast, choose your preferred sightseeing activity. Take a tall ship sailing adventure or embark on a dolphin watching cruise. Play a round of golf or cruise to Russell. Discover Kerikeri, or visit Cape Reinga. B
Day 8. Bay of Islands Cruise, Auckland
Step aboard a catamaran and enjoy a cruise to Cape Brett and the famous Hole in the Rock. Hear about the ecology and history of the area as you keep an eye out for dolphins. Afterwards, return down the coast to Auckland.
Two Nights: Auckland, Crowne Plaza Hotel B
Day 9. Auckland, Freedom of Choice
Choose from a range of included sightseeing activities. Perhaps take a cruise on Waitemata Harbour, explore the Auckland Museum, or visit Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium. Included with each of these options is an Auckland City Sights Tour. Other choices include a head, neck and shoulder massage, a Wilderness Adventure, and an Auckland Bridge Climb. Tonight, enjoy a Farewell Dinner. B, FD
Day 10. Depart Auckland
After breakfast, transfer to Auckland airport. B
Includes 15 Meals – 9 Breakfasts (B), 2 Dinners (D) and 4 Feature Dinners (FD)
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Since then, TPWD has hired salvage and dive team and oil cleanup contractors to help repair leaks and pump water out of Blister tanks on the ship's outer hull. Costs for these repairs are close to $1 million and expected to rise. TPWD is still assessing options for the ship's long-term future. But one thing seems clear: moving it is not feasible, a fact underscored by the recent situation. Ship surveys by outside experts Proceanic in 2008 and AECOMM in 2011 strongly recommended against towing the ship any significant distance. In keeping with a master plan for the entire San Jacinto Battleground, TPWD has been exploring a permanent solution to dry berth the ship on site. In October 2010, TPWD contracted for a preliminary dry berthing design with AECOM, a global architecture and engineering design firm. AECOM submitted estimates on four proposed dry berth options in September 2011 and a fifth in May 2012. These ranged from $33 million to $48 million for the dry-berth alone, plus an additional approximately $23 million for necessary repairs before the ship could be placed on the berth. As of July 1, after design studies and other expenses, $23.9 million remained in the battleship project budget. Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site is one of the most popular destinations in the state park system, with admission and merchandise revenue approaching $1 million annually and attendance consistently around 100,000 visitors each year. The historic site is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Entrance fees are $12 for adults; children 12 and younger can tour the vessel for free. Anyone wishing to make a donation toward the preservation of the 100-year-old battleship may do so at http://www.battleshiptexas.org --- On the Net: http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/battleship-texas -30- [ Note: This item is more than seven years old. 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On July 1, biologists began releasing captive-bred Aplomado Falcons to the wild for the first time at Mustang Island State Park to take advantage of additional habitat that the endangered birds of prey need to survive. "We are delighted to have Mustang Island State Park as a partner in this recovery effort," said Bill Heinrich of The Peregrine Fund, an Idaho-based conservation organization focused on birds of prey. "The park helps fill in a gap in habitat between falcon populations that are already well-established and self-sustaining in South Texas." Since 1984, The Peregrine Fund has released Aplomado Falcons in wide-open grassland areas that provide native food and shelter. They are raised in captivity at The Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho. When chicks are about a month old, they are flown to the release sites by LightHawk, a volunteer aviation group that donates flights for conservation projects. Fast flights on private aircraft are the best way to ensure that the chicks arrive with little stress and in good overall health, Heinrich said. Over the last three years, LightHawk volunteer pilots have transported more than 200 Aplomado Falcon chicks to support the reintroduction effort. This latest flight to Texas is being donated by Carl Mattson and Julie Boyd, of Denver, Colo., who will be piloting their Cessna 210 turbo. When the chicks reach Mustang Island State Park, they will be placed at newly constructed "hack sites." Each site consists of a large wooden box atop a platform raised 10-12 feet off the ground for protection from predators. The birds will be fed while they become accustomed to their new surroundings. A few days later, the door will be opened and the birds will be able to fly freely. They will continue to be fed and monitored at the hack site for about two months while they hone their flying and hunting skills and are able to survive on their own. Currently there are about 34 nesting pairs in South Texas, spread to the north and south of Mustang Island, including the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Complex and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Aplomado Falcons were widespread in the American Southwest until the 1950s when their range was restricted to a few areas in Mexico, most likely due to the combined effects of habitat changes, pesticides and human persecution. For the recovery effort, the falcons have been released on both private and public lands. The Peregrine Fund has enrolled more than 2 million acres of private Texas ranchland in the Safe Harbor Program, which was developed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reduce landowner concerns over endangered species on their property and to provide access to habitat for the falcon. Aplomado Falcon recovery is a cooperative program with federal, state, and private partners, including The Peregrine Fund, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program. Did you know? --Northern Aplomado Falcons were put on the U.S. Endangered Species List in 1986. --Aplomado is a Spanish word for dark grey, the color of the bird's back. Adults have a long banded tail and a black cummerbund, contrasting with a white upper body. A distinguishing characteristic is a white dash above each eye. They are 15-17 inches in length and weigh 9-14 ounces. --The falcons feed primarily on small birds and insects caught in the air. They require open grasslands and savannahs where tall cacti, yuccas and taller pines and oaks grow in open stands. --Aplomado Falcons nest in old stick nests of hawks and other birds constructed in tall yuccas and lay usually two or three eggs. -30-


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Backup With Combivir or Single Dose (SD) Truvada in Order to Avoid Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NNRTI) Resistance After SD Nevirapine for the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission (PMTCT)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00346567
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 30, 2006
Last Update Posted : February 23, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Zidovudine and Lamivudine (Combivir) Drug: Emtricitabine and Tenofovir (Truvada)
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|566 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Clinical Trial: Backup With Combivir (AZT/3TC) or Single Dose (sd) Truvada (FTC/TDF) in Order to Avoid NNRTI Resistance After sd Nevirapine for the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission (MTCT)
|Study Start Date :
|June 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2011
Active Comparator: 1
AZT from week 28 or asap thereafter. Intrapartum AZT and 3TC + Single dose NVP Postpartum Combivir tail for 7 days twice daily
Drug: Zidovudine and Lamivudine (Combivir)
Experimental: 2
AZT from week 28 or asap thereafter. Intrapartum Single dose Truvada + Single dose NVP
Drug: Emtricitabine and Tenofovir (Truvada)
- frequency of mother-to-child HIV transmission [ Time Frame: 6 weeks post partum ]
- frequency of NNRTI resistance development [ Time Frame: 6 weeks post partum ]
- Comparison of p24 antigen to HIV RNA for treatment induced changes in viremia [ Time Frame: Delivery, day 7, day 42 and month 9 post partum ]
- Comparison of p24 antigen ability to detect viremia for the various subtypes A,C & D [ Time Frame: Delivery, Day 7, Day 42 post partum, mother, Day 42 and Day 90 post partum child ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV infected, antiretroviral naive, not fulfilling national Tanzanian criteria for HAART treatment, giving informed consent, consenting to homevisit-follow-up in case of no-show for scheduled hospital visit.
Exclusion Criteria:
- CD4 less than 350 x10(6)/L, suffering from systemic diseases in need of medical treatment e.g. TB, renal or liver failure etc.
- Creatinin higher than 1,5 mg/dL, Alanine aminotransferase above 140 U/L
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00346567
|Bombo Regional Hospital
|Tanga, Tanzania
|Study Director:
|Terese L Katzenstein, MD Ph.D.
|Rigshospitalet, Denmark
|Responsible Party:
|Terese Katzenstein Consultant, MD, Ph.D. DMSc, Rigshospitalet
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00346567 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|June 30, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 23, 2016
|Last Verified:
|February 2009
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Lamivudine, zidovudine drug combination
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
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|And these are the names of
our parents, our brothers,
our sisters and all of our
relatives, the holy
the pure and the honest
who were killed by the hands of the
hateful Nazis in the city of Kremenets
in the years of the Holocaust
5700-5705 (1940-1945)
|For eternal memory
|Our father, Yakov son of R'Yehuda-Leyb Otiker, 62 years old
|Our mother, Rivke Otiker daughter of R'Mordekhay-Leyb Fingerit, age 62
|our older sister Rachel, age 34
|her husband Arye, known as Leybchik, son of R'Yakov Feldman, age 39
|Their daughter Chane, age 7
|our youngest sister Yehudit, age 20
Were killed in the city of Kremenets in the year 5702 (1942)
|Our young brother Yosef, age 26, died in Namangan USSR, on 7 Elul 5703
|Written by
Yisrael Otiker, Naan
Shalom Otiker, Galil Yam
|Tamuz 5726 (June-July, 1966)
For eternal memory
My mother, Taube daughter of Melekh Lebovski, age 62
My sister, Feyga, age 7
May the Lord revenge their blood
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By The Hays Daily News
The Hays Larks could now possibly need two wins to wrap up the 2013 Jayhawk League Championship.
Hays (29-11 overall, 21-10 Jayhawk League) sits two games ahead of Wellington in the league standings, but Wellington has 19 wins. It was announced this morning Wellington (28-12, 19-12) would make up a rainout from earlier in the season with the El Dorado Broncos (24-14, 18-13). Plus, the Heat have a game Thursday with the Derby Twins.
If Wellington were to get three wins and the Larks win twice against Dodge City, the two teams tie, and the league would go to a tiebreaker. If Wellington loses one of its games, one win for the Larks would seal it.
Hays plays at 7 p.m. today in Dodge City, then closes the regular season at home against the A's on Thursday. The Larks can finish no worse than second, and have already secured a berth in the �Championship Week� of the National Baseball Congress World Series. El Dorado, with two wins against the Heat today could possibly take the league's second spot, and force Wellington to play in the first week of the tournament.
If Hays wins out, the Larks are the league champions for the second straight season.
The league picture will either become more clear or more murky, depending on what happens in today's games.


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The angles and tones of light are different. There are ribbons of crispness in the air. The landscape is dry and colors are draining. I see it. I feel it. It is autumn.
Many traditions and cultures mark this season as a time of reaping, quiet, reflection, contemplation, and rest. Like other species, our bodies change as well, going through a seasonal shift in our sleep patterns, appetite and energy. There is evidence that we experience a decrease in optimism and risk-taking, a shift that has been tracked in stock market data.
While a general quieting is common, for some this change can become distressing especially if one has a tendency toward negativity and obsessive thought patterns. The result can be the unhappy mood and lethargy known as the "winter blues". For others, the blues may actually meet criteria for a variant of clinical depression known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD.
SAD symptoms must occur at least two years in a row. Typically, SAD starts in the fall and continues through the winter lifting in the spring and summer. Symptoms include:
- Sadness most days,
- Hopelessness,
- Anxiety,
- Depressed energy and interest,
- Feeling heavy and "leadened,"
- Social withdrawal,
- Difficulty concentrating,
- Oversleeping,
- Appetite changes especially craving carbohydrates, and
- Weight gain.
SAD varies by latitude with rates varying from 0.4%- 2.6% in the general population and climbing towards 10% at higher latitudes. Milder "winter blues" have been estimated as high as 25% of the population in extreme latitudes. Research also indicates that there can be a seasonal worsening of symptoms for adults and children with other diagnoses including depression, bipolar diagnoses, substance abuse problems and dementia.
The causes of SAD are not completely understood. Since rates are quite low in Iceland, despite the high latitude, there is the possibility of a genetic component. Another theory is based on the winter drop in serotonin levels. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects mood and appetite regulation. Deficient serotonin is implicated in depression. Others claim that the changes in natural light disrupt the balance of melatonin, a hormone that affects sleep and mood. It might be that the reduction in light disrupts the internal clock, your circadian rhythms, affecting sleep and wake cycles. Chronic disrupted sleep is known to adversely affect mood.
SAD treatment depends on severity. If symptoms are not significant consider exercising regularly, getting outside in the natural light, exposing yourself to bright lights indoors, socializing, and practicing stress management. However, if symptoms are causing significant distress and dysfunction in your life, or if you are turning to alcohol or drugs to regularly manage your moods, it is time to see a doctor. First you want to eliminate any other causes for mood and energy changes. Then your medical professional will help determined if you meet the criteria for SAD. Treatments at this time are quite standardized.
Light Therapy – This is considered the first line of treatment. It provides mood relief for 50% to 80% of sufferers. The great benefit of this therapy is that it starts working in 2-4 days and has few side effects. The disadvantage is the inconvenience. Light therapy requires a specialized light and daily sessions of 30 minutes or more. This must be continued throughout the winter as rapid relapse occurs if you stop treatment.
Medications – Given the link with deficient serotonin, the next most common treatment is the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). These medications lead to the same remission rates as light therapy. The advantage is the convenience of taking a medication once a day. The disadvantage is that it may take 4-6 weeks to realize benefits and there may side effects. Nevertheless, this is a very common and generally safe treatment. By beginning them before the seasonal onset of symptoms, these medications can be used as a preventative.
Alternative Medications and Therapies – There are herbal remedies and supplements that are commonly used for depression. A naturopathic doctor can help with these types of treatments. While not a conclusive list, these could include St. John's Wort, SAMe, melatonin (appropriately timed) and other supplements. Acupuncture may also be helpful in the treatment of SAD.
Counseling Therapy – While many counseling therapies may work, the scientific research is focused on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the treatment of SAD. CBT helps people understand how their minds create thoughts that can undermine them and create negative mood patterns. Individuals learn to monitor thoughts, reframe them, and take responsibility for choosing their behaviors. Across many SAD studies, CBT has the same remission rates as light therapy and antidepressants. In addition, one study that reevaluated participants a year later found that relapse rates were 7% of those who received only CBT, 37% of those who received only light therapy, and 5.5% of those who received both CBT and light therapy. That is, CBT appears to have lasting effects. The disadvantage is that it does require an initial investment in therapy and a commitment to using the techniques to change thought patterns.
Lam, R.W. et al, "The Can-SAD Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness of Light Therapy and Fluoxetine in Patients with Winter Seasonal Affective Disorder," The American Journal of Psychiatry, May 1, 2006; 163: 805-812.
Mayo Clinic Staff, "Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), September 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2012: www.mayoclinic.com/health/seasonal-affective-disorder/DS00195.
Peiser, B., "Seasonal affective Disorder and exercise treatment: a review," Biological Rhythem Research, February 2009, Vol. 40:1: 85-9
Rohan KJ. Coping with the seasons: A cognitive-behavioral approach to seasonal affective disorder, therapist guid, New York: Oxford University Press; 2009.
University of Rochester Medical Center (2007, January 25) "Getting SAD is More than Having the Blues," ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 12, 2012: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070124143805.htm.
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management (2011, October 11). "Fall market jitters a SAD thing: Less daylight in fall may lead to depressed markets," ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 12, 2012: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011132058.htm.
Westrin, A. and Lam, R. "Long-Term and Preventative Treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder," CNS Drugs, 2007, vol. 21:11: 901-909


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State child protection agency finds no one abused or neglected Brockton child rapper 'Lil Poopy'
The state's child protection agency has found that the family of a 9-year-old Brockton rapper did not abuse or neglect him by allowing the boy to star in several videos posted online showing him in club scenes and simulating sexually suggestive activity with women.
The controversy surrounding Luie Rivera Jr., whose stage name is "Lil Poopy,'' began in February, when Brockton police filed a child abuse and neglect complaint against Luis Rivera, the boy's father. After a month of investigation, the state Department of Children and Families has closed the case without taking any action against the father.
"After a thorough investigation, the Department did not find evidence to support the allegations of abuse or neglect,'' DCF spokeswoman Cayenne Isaksen said. "The decision followed interviews with members of the family, school officials, and medical professionals.''
Joseph Krowski Jr., Rivera Jr.'s attorney, said the family is happy the ordeal has come to an end.
"This is the outcome they expected,'' he said. "No one thought it should ever have gone this far.''
Krowski said the younger Rivera has been recording music throughout the investigation, and may end up benefiting from the media exposure.
He said ABC News's 20/20 program is coming to Brockton next week to interview the boy.
"His name's been in the media all over the world, literally all over the world, so there's going to be some more name recognition,'' Krowski said.


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Amos Elon, who died earlier this week at age 82, published his first article in The New Yorker in 1985. He reported for the magazine from Argentina, Egypt, and Eastern Europe, as well as from Israel, where he was one of that country's most respected intellectual voices. His friend Bernard Avishai, also an occasional contributor, wrote the following memorial essay.
"Well, I hope you are r-right, dear boy."
This was the way my conversations with Amos Elon almost always ended. Year after year, ever since the late nineteen-seventies, his expression of "hope" for my analysis of Israel had been a sign that there was really nothing more to analyze, that though I had won the debate I had lost the argument. I had done my duty: had laid out a logic, a possible convergence of forces that left room for peace, or, at last, American action; had shared part of an interview he hadn't attended, or pointed out an economic trend he hadn't considered.
But I had somehow neglected the overriding facts of life, which it was his duty to uphold. And uphold them he did. "It is good that you are optimistic," he'd say, finally. That is, things do fall apart; history is made by people. Oh, yes, there are naïve, avid Arab kids willing to blow themselves up—and demagogues on both sides who secretly feel relief when they do. But there are also maniac settlers, and clueless American Jews, with their lobby. Philip Roth once wrote, "Jews are members of the human race. Worse than that I cannot say about them." Amos put it a little differently, explaining (as does a character in Roth's "The Counterlife") that one lives in Israel because it is the only place on earth where you can tell anti-Semitic jokes.
Of course, this cheerful misanthropy was partly bravado. His warmth—or the evidence of his fierce wish for it—was everywhere, in the books strewn on his desk, or the drawings on the wall, or a sudden call to his wife, Beth. His clever eyes could beckon like a port. The conversation never ended without a hug, which he found awkward and American, but which he never resisted. Yet his warmth was mixed with serious disappointment. He had seen this tragedy grow from its infancy. At times the conversation began before my coat was off: "Did you read what that idiot said?," the idiot being someone on the Left who should have known better. (Idiots on the Right were just a force of nature.)
Opening questions, I hasten to add, were not just pawn to king-four. Amos hated intellectual games, or, more precisely, intellectual brats and bullies. He cared that the idiot should have known better, and who if not us should say so, for all the good it would do. What writer who is merely skeptical, or querulous, writes essay after essay, column after column, employing a penetrating sense of history to explain Israelis and Jews to themselves, much the way a physician examines patient after patient who will not quit smoking?
Some eulogists have suggested that, while Amos promoted humankind, he had little compassion for humans. This is exactly backward. Amos could not get over how history went wrong because of the ways in which broken-hearted people act together and ricochet off one another, how qualities that we ordinarily like in people—creativity, loyalty, sincerity, steadfastness—combine to create disasters; how human desires, whose details only a compassionate observer can describe, explain everything, including how we routinely throw happiness away:
Had they [Palestine's Arabs] agreed in 1919, not to turn Palestine into "the" Jewish homeland, but to incorporate "a" national home for the Jews, as stipulated by the Balfour Declaration, a Jewish minority, moderate in size, probably would in time have been absorbed into an Arab-Palestinian state. Had the Arabs not rejected British proposals for a Palestine Legislative Council a few years later, the Jews would have at best emerged a minority within the general Arab framework, similar perhaps to the Maronites in Lebanon….If, if, if. On the other hand, had Israel after 1949 been more sensitive to the fate of the Palestinian refugees—had it permitted more to come back or compensated the rest for their abandoned property rather than allow the neighboring states to exploit the problem for political ends—perhaps some of the intense hatred of Israel that prevails among the Arab masses and ties the hands of more moderate leaders would slowly have abated…
The easy work of hindsight? In fact, this passage is taken from an essay in The New York Review of Books that Amos wrote in August of 1968—an essay in which he was already pleading (against his colleagues at Haaretz) for a sensible partition and warning of the dangers posed by devotees of Greater Israel—people whose excesses he understood, which made them all the more horrible to contemplate. We went together to Nablus in 1981, just before Menachem Begin was reelected, to interview its former mayor, Bassam Shakha, who had lost his legs to a bomb planted by a Jewish terrorist group. While we were there, as if on some cosmic cue, Shakha's youngest son, who had spent six months in prison, suddenly appeared at the front door, unexpectedly freed. Amos turned to me, moved, as father and son fell into each other's arms. "Of course, they don't love their children the way we do," he said, winking darkly, resigned to what his readers would say even before he began writing.
Which brings me to his books. The best books, Orwell once observed, organize your scattered thoughts, tell you what you already know. But at times they tell you what you don't know, or more important, what you don't want to know. Amos wrote so many such books, over a span of forty years—and with Orwell's glass-like clarity—that you have to ask the question, What big thing did he know that his readers could not easily bear? Where did he get the stamina—how did he sustain the indignation—to stay so far ahead of the readers he worked so hard for?
The record is impressive, even on its face. While Israelis were finally digesting the facts that came out of the Eichmann trial, Amos wrote "Journey Through a Haunted Land," which gave Israelis their first glimpse of a democratic Germany emerging from the war, burdened and yet surrendering to the passion for normality much as Israelis themselves were—a Germany that Israelis once thought they would never set foot in, but now journey to more or less routinely. After the Six-Day War, while Israelis were still savoring their victory—and Moshe Dayan had not yet surrendered his laurels—Amos wrote "The Israelis: Founders and Sons," a book that left no doubt about the ideological sophistication, and corresponding blinders, of the pioneering Zionist leaders, but left you wondering about the coarse "realism" of their heirs: people who prided themselves on thinking that the land was theirs the way the sun rises in the morning—that is, that their parents' philosophical enthusiasms, like theories of planetary motion, betrayed a diaspora mentality.
"Herzl" came next. You could not put the book down without admiring Theodor Herzl's courage and practical achievements—his romance turned into a Congress, a bank, a diplomacy. But you could also not fail to reflect on the deeply neurotic sources of Herzl's ambition and, not coincidentally, of national feeling in general. Amos's next books—his travels to Egypt, and then his most impressionistic book, "Jerusalem"—sustained these latter reflections, in a way. It was as if he felt that all nationalist and political clichés needed to be explored, down to every frustrated libido and social grievance.
As for historical "lessons," including the ones in Herzl's "Der Judenstaat," we needed to learn how grotesque they could be—how grotesque historical determinism of any kind must be. Amos's last great book, "The Pity of It All," tried to nail down this ultimate point by surveying the record of German Jewry, to show that their disaster was by no means preordained, as Zionist theories alleged, but was an unexpected and dreadful interruption in their real progress toward an emancipation unique in Europe until then—and that interruption was another horrifying consequence of the madness and desperation left over from the First World War. The real lesson, if that's the word for it, was that violence drives people crazy. You needed only ordinary compassion to see this. Violence should be avoided.
This brings us pretty close to the big thing that I believe Amos knew. It was hardly an original bit of knowledge for a Viennese-born Jew advancing, if only in imagination, toward civil society and bildung. People, being people, need political structures that allow them to settle disputes without violence. They—Jews, too—need a state that looks like American or European civil society; they need fair laws and civil rights and common decency, just to keep savage instincts in check. One of the most charming stories he told me (he loved the word "charming") involved an experience during the 1948 war:
I was a runner in Jerusalem during the war, and one mission was to bring a message to the head of the Haganah in the Jewish Agency building. I arrived one dark evening at the building in the middle of an artillery barrage, with boom-boom everywhere, and the place was gloomy and deserted—except for a light in one office, where I found Dr. Leo Kohn, the legal adviser to the Jewish Agency, curled over his desk, writing. "What are you doing here?," he asked.
I told him I was looking for the Haganah headquarters.
He pointed me to the basement.
I was young, and a little brash, so I could not resist. I asked him, "What are you doing here?"
He answered almost nonchalantly, in a heavy German accent, "I am writing the constitution of the Jewish state."
This constitution was never enacted, of course. Kohn's forlorn hope is what made the story charming. He was, like Amos, a liberal among revolutionaries. And this reminds me of the other backward thing said about Amos, especially after he and Beth began living full time in their home in Tuscany: that Amos—this ultimate journalist insider—left for Europe because he had given up on Israel, or politics, or both. The fact is, Amos had never left "Europe," any more than Dr. Kohn or, say, Abba Eban did—had never seen Israel from within the closed theories of Labor Zionist theory, or the closed precincts of any Zionist parties. He knew the open society and its enemies, and was sickened by the thought that Israel would fill up with the latter. He was something like our Camus: always an outsider the way a healthy citizen must be: alert to what has been thought said and done in other places and other times.
He was posted in Hungary during the 1956 uprising and saw how absurd revolutions become. As his newspaper's Washington correspondent, he was a friend and neighbor of John F. Kennedy ("He was furious about our nuclear program") and celebrated the American civil-rights movement. While Israelis remained stuck in a kind of socialist prudishness, Amos was a natural man about town, an important first for an Israeli intellectual. It was no accident that, when he came back to Israel in the mid-sixties, with his gorgeous, sassy American wife, he began to focus almost immediately on the peculiar, vulgar legal status of Israel's Arab citizens. He wanted to bring the world to Israel—he lived, above all, in the world.
Nor was Amos indifferent to or (for the sake of expediency) indulgent of Israel's Orthodox, the way most Israeli leftists were. He actively despised halachic life, the way free-thinkers despise all forms of orthodoxy. He was the first to notice that Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were becoming two separate realities. Don't try lighting Sabbath candles around him.
But during the last weekend we spent together, this past February at his home in Tuscany, with the winter sun setting, I sang to him Bialik's welcome to the Sabbath bride, and he listened quietly, smiling, amused (and reassured) by the irony of my singing it and his hearing it—the irony that alone saves the Hebrew gestalt from piety. No, he did not live out his last days in his Tuscan home out of anger, but because he wanted the beauty of the place, which was no more than humans deserved. It was, he told me, a matter of dolce far niente: the sweetness of doing nothing.
Arthur Koestler, whom Amos particularly admired, once wrote that there were two planes of experience, the tragic and the trivial, and that artists and writers are blessed—cursed, really—with seeing "everyday experience" on the tragic plane, the "angle of the eternal." My last view of Amos called that distinction to mind. He was lying in his living room, too weak from the developing leukemia to sit up, unwilling to speak of disease or goodbyes, asking for a blanket, asking perfunctorily where I was going next in Florence, his frail hand in my hand. But then he was reminded of something that some Likudnik had said, something that we had actually covered earlier, but never mind—and it prompted a new scoffing sentence, a new disbelieving laugh, and his voice rose, gaining strength from the pity of it all.


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After giving her son up for adoption, Cheryl Culpepper never anticipated that 27 years later she would meet her firstborn son.
After giving her son up for adoption, Cheryl Culpepper never anticipated that 27 years later she would meet her firstborn son.
Her son, Brandon Vaughan said he was adopted by good parents who gave him a good life. Vaughan said he never felt the desire to find his birth mother until his son was born about five years ago.
"I was just comfortable with who God made me," said Vaughan, who is associate pastor of Little Sandy Baptist Church.
Vaughan said the birth of his son quickly showed him how strong the bond of motherhood is.
The nurses took his newborn son into the nursery after delivery so his wife could rest. Thirty minutes later, Vaughan said his wife kept crying and pleading for her son, who was only two doors down the hallway. When their son was brought back into the delivery room, she held onto their son so tightly, as if she hadn't seen him in years, he said.
Culpepper said she gave Vaughan up for adoption when she was only a teenager. Culpepper said she didn't even get the chance to hold her first child.
"When I saw my son and saw how much it affected my wife being away from him for 30 minutes, I realized it might have tormented (Culpepper's) entire life," Vaughan said.
"In 2008, it was the first time I made any attempt to find her. I knew my only shot at finding her was through the adoption agency, which was in Jacksonville, Fla., where I was born," Vaughan said.
Vaughan quickly lost all hope when he was told that, according to Florida law, Culpepper's file was sealed for 99 years.
"I just thought it wasn't in God's will, that door was shut so tightly. I just gave up cold turkey," Vaughan said.
"About three years later ... the Lord put it in my heart to find her one more time," Vaughan said.
He remembered some unidentified information papers that his adoptive mother had shown him when he was a teenager, but she was unable to relocate those papers, so Vaughan called the adoption agency for a copy. A year passed without any word.
"Almost a year later, January of 2012, I got a call out of the blue and I didn't recognize it so I almost didn't answer, but when I did, they said they were from the adoption agency and that they were so sorry," Vaughan said.
The adoption agency employee informed Vaughan they discovered his birth mother's file after cleaning around the office. It had fallen behind a filing cabinet.
"This lady was different than anyone who I had ever spoken to at the agency. You could tell she really wanted to help me, and instead of just sending the unidentified information, that lady sent me a package of handwritten paperwork from my birth mother," Vaughan said.
The employee from the adoption agency strategically blacked out most of the information with a Sharpie marker, but Vaughan was able to make out her name, that she graduated in 1983 and that she had a brother named Douglas Heath.
Vaughan conducted a search for Douglas Heath and came across one who had an old address in Florida (where he was originally born), and a sister named Cheryl. The $30 dollar background check revealed that Douglas Heath had two half-brothers and a half-sister.
Vaughan said the greatest moment of his life was when he did a Facebook search for his half-sister, Amber, and stumbled upon a graduation picture of her in her cap and gown, standing between her two brothers and their mother.
Vaughan asked his wife to help and to also be the mediator between himself and his birth mother. His wife was finally able to get in contact with Culpepper's husband, who was reluctant to reveal her contact information. Vaughan's wife told Culpepper's husband it was a family emergency.
"Does this have something to do with 1984?" Culpepper's husband asked.
The first conversation Vaughan had with his birth mother in 27 years was a melting pot of emotions, Vaughan said.
"I never thought about what I would do in that particular moment if it ever happened and I had three other children who didn't know," Culpepper said.
After telling her children about their half-brother who lived in Alabama, Culpepper made that first phone call to her firstborn son.
"We talked about four hours, laughing and crying and catching up on 27 years," Vaughan said.
The two families welcomed one another, and they visit each other often. The first time Culpepper came to visit Alabama, she asked Vaughan if she could meet his adopted mother, Glenda Vaughan. When the two met, Culpepper thanked Glenda for doing what she couldn't do and Glenda gave Culpepper Brandon's outfit when he came home from the adoption agency. They hugged and cried.
The more Culpepper came to visit Vaughan, the more questions she had about the Christian faith.
"Growing up, my grandparents took me to church quite often, but what they taught never really stuck with me and, of course, the dysfunctional family I grew up with didn't support going to church and my life didn't really focus on belief and faith," Culpepper said.
"She had questions about my faith and I would answer them, but they never really registered," Vaughan said.
Culpepper says before meeting Brandon, she always had an interest in faith and wanted to believe, but it wasn't until they met and started going to services together that she began to accept Christianity.
One Labor Day weekend, Culpepper visited Vaughan and before church that Sunday she found a book on his shelf labeled, "Eternal Security, Being Saved and Knowing It."
"I asked him what it means to be saved and he explained it to me in a way I never heard before. ... What he said to me made a light go on and it kind of scared me, but we stopped talking about it," Culpepper said.
Culpepper says that day at church she couldn't keep her composure, all she could do was cry.
"She left the sanctuary to talk to my pastor's wife and when she was done, she had that glow to her that saved folks have to them. She seemed alive," Vaughan said.
Culpepper said that was the moment she committed to the Lord.
"I absolutely know that God orchestrated the entire thing, this is no surprise to God. ... It was time for him to bring us back together. Through our testimony we are able to bring others to the Christian faith," Culpepper said.
"God knew in 1984, well before 1984, that all this was going to happen. If you give him your life there is no telling what he can do with it," Vaughan said.
Vaughan has self-published a book, "Reconciled," which tells the story of his search for his birth mother. The book is available locally at Barnes & Noble or online at amazon.com.


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State Council Assessment and Review: A 5-Year Cycle Explained
Every five years, each state humanities council writes a forward-looking self-assessment report that considers the context in which the Council works, the humanities benefits and services it provides, and the Council's management and organizational effectiveness. This report serves as the basis for a site visit to the Council by two outside consultants and a representative from Federal/State Partnership.
The site team serves as fresh eyes looking at the Council. The site visitors are humanities professionals and nonprofit leaders. They serve the Council as free consultants whose job is to study the Council's self-assessment report, observe the Council at work, and listen to those involved in the Council's work and those with whom the Council works. The recommendations they make in their site visitors' report are based upon what they have learned about the Council and their own understanding of state humanities councils and nonprofit cultural organizations. The site visitors' report, along with comments and recommendations from Federal/State Partnership, the Chairman and his staff, and members of the National Council on the Humanities is officially sent to the Council shortly after the quarterly meeting of the National Council at which it is reviewed.
As the Council prepares for its site visit, it should consider the kinds of issues about which it would like guidance. These issues might be communications and outreach, fundraising, board development, succession planning. The Council's hopes for the site visit should be taken into consideration when suggesting people to serve as site visitors. The Federal/State Partnership representative will discuss possible site visitors with the Council executive and will frequently have suggestions of good people who have worked with councils or Federal/State Partnership.
The site visit team meets with the Council's executive, staff, and board as well as with grantees, partners, and constituents. A council project may be visited. There is usually time for informal conversation, often over a meal. The goal is a 360-degree look at the Council and the effectiveness and impact of its programs and services. The site visit considers not only the public humanities programming carried out by the Council but also the Council's strength as a nonprofit organization.
The goal of the self-assessment and review process is to encourage and facilitate on-going strategic planning. One council executive called it at least $30,000 worth of high-level consulting. This process is a key part of the reporting requirement outlined in the founding legislation.
Each year at least ten to twelve state humanities councils write a self-assessment report and host a site visit.
In the third year of the cycle, the Council writes an interim narrative report analyzing its responses to the review process.


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This section describes how to use the dpconf command to create and configure LDAP data sources. For reference information about these topics, see LDAP Data Sources in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
For information about how to create and configure LDAP data sources, see the following procedures.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-source -h host -p port [-s] source-name host:port
In this command, source-name is a name that you assign to the new data source. host and port refer to the host and port on which the LDAP server is running. Note that the data source does not use SSL by default. Use -s to enable to specify a secure port.
If the host is specified by an IP V6 address, you need to use the IP V6 reference when you create the data source. For example, if Directory Proxy Server will bind to a host with the IP V6 address fe80::209:3dff:fe00:8c93 on port 2389, use the following command to create the data source:
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-source -h host1 -p 1389 ipv6-host \ [fe80::209:3dff:fe00:8c93]:2389
If you use the console to create the data source, you must specify the actual IP V6 address (without the square brackets).
For information about how to modify the properties of an LDAP data source, see To Configure an LDAP Data Source.
(Optional) View the list of data sources.
$ dpconf list-ldap-data-sources -h host -p port
The following procedure shows how to display the properties of an LDAP data source and how to set the properties that you require to change. The procedure shows the commands using which any of the properties of the LDAP data source can be changed. It also shows how to get the detailed information of a property, which helps you to set that property.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
View the properties of the data source by using this command syntax:
$ dpconf get-ldap-data-source-prop -h host -p port \ [-M unit] [-Z unit] source-name [property...]
In this command, -M and -Z refer to the units in which you want data to be displayed. The M option specifies the unit of time. The value for -M can be M, w, d, h, m, s, or ms, to represent months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds. The -Z option specifies the data size unit. The value for -Z can be T, G, M, k, or b, to represent Terabytes, Gigabytes, Megabytes, kilobytes, or bytes.
If you do not specify a property, all properties are displayed. The default properties of an LDAP data source are as follows:
bind-dn : - bind-pwd : - client-cred-mode : use-client-identity connect-timeout : 10s description : - down-monitoring-interval : inherited is-enabled : false is-read-only : true ldap-address : host ldap-port : port ldaps-port : ldaps monitoring-bind-timeout : 5s monitoring-entry-dn : "" monitoring-entry-timeout : 5s monitoring-inactivity-timeout : 2m monitoring-interval : 30s monitoring-mode : reactive monitoring-retry-count : 3 monitoring-search-filter : (|(objectClass=*)(objectClass=ldapSubEntry)) num-bind-incr : 10 num-bind-init : 10 num-bind-limit : 1024 num-read-incr : 10 num-read-init : 10 num-read-limit : 1024 num-write-incr : 10 num-write-init : 10 num-write-limit : 1024 proxied-auth-check-timeout : 1.8s proxied-auth-use-v1 : false ssl-policy : never use-read-connections-for-writes : false use-tcp-keep-alive : true use-tcp-no-delay : true
Enable the data source.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-source-prop -h host -p port source-name is-enabled:true
Configure all the properties that are listed in Step 1, if you want to change the default settings.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-source-prop -h host -p port source-name property:value
For example, if you want to modify entries on a data source, configure the data source to allow write operations.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-source-prop -h host -p port source-name is-read-only:false
To use a read connection to process write operation when all the write connections are busy, run the following command. The vice-versa is also true.
dpconf set-ldap-data-source-prop -h host -p port source-name \ use-read-connections-for-writes:true
To find information about a property used in a subcommand, run this command:
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A master of dialogue that is both funny and brutally revealing, Jack Thorne is one of the most sharply empathic writers we have in film, TV and on stage today. New writing company DryWrite have performed an act of theatrical grace in commissioning this intuitive and witty playwright to create their first full length play, Mydidae.
In a clever move this two hander is set entirely in the intimacy of a bathroom – here fully plumbed in Amy Jane Cook's minimalist but impressive design – as a modern relationship is stripped bare. Against this clinically exposing setting, Thorne shines a spotlight on a young couple with more to hide in the bathroom mirror than merely the onset of age. What begins playfully soon sinks into darker territory as a tragic anniversary threatens to suffocate Marian and David a year later.
In Vicky Jones' courageous production, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kier Charles have nowhere to hide. Waller-Bridge is utterly compelling as Marian. In a fearless performance she imbues this witty, damaged woman with a complexity and depth that feels endless and completely human. Charles does an admirable job as her duelling partner and the chemistry between the two is palpable.
This confident production pierces the heart of Thorne's bitter-sweet study of humanity. The only act of hesitancy comes when Thorne continues the play for too long. What has been an opaque and potent exploration of modern intimacy comes dangerously close to becoming an issue piece. Even so the writing and performances remain peerless throughout making this superb show unmissable.
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It's funny after Preston & Jennifer & Steve & Linda got eliminated I have been really upset about each team getting eliminated.
That was a heroic effort!! Good job Jodi and Christie!!! Darn, am I going to cry every single week from now on??
Officially from CBS Eye-lert, start time is 8:51 p.m., but I was pretty damned close.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 25, 2013)
Working incollaboration with university medical schools and science centers, local hospitals and clinical research facilities, America's biopharmaceutical companies have conducted more than 8,200 clinical trials of new medicines in Texas over the last 13 years, according to anew report
by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The report – "Research in Your Backyard: Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials in Texas
" – was released today at a news conference with Sen. Bob Deuell, (R - Greenville), Rep. Jim Murphy, (R - Houston), Tom Kowalski, President,Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute
and Dr. Curtis Triplitt, Asst. Professor, Diabetes/Medicine, theUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Texas Diabetes Institute
, in the Lt. Governor's Press Conference Room at the State Capitol.
The report findings show the state's clinical tests of new medicines have been beneficial to patients, the advancement of science and the economy.
[Learn more at our Clinical Research & Trials resource page.]
"Improving health is a shared goal of biopharmaceutical companies and state medical schools, hospitals and clinical research facilities. Through clinical trials, they are not only helping advance science and improve patient care, but also strengthening Texas' economy," said Jeffrey Bond, Senior Vice President, PhRMA. "When you consider that clinical trials account for 45 to 75 percent of the average $1.2 billion needed to develop a new medicine, there is greater appreciation for not only the health benefits generated from clinical trials, but also the economic benefits to the state."
Biopharmaceutical research companies are an important source of jobs, tax revenue and research spending in Texas. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) has invested over $130 million in pharmaceutical-related startups since 2005. That public investment in research and development is supported by the state's vast network of public universities and health-related institutions. In 2010, Texas public institutions of higher education invested more than $2.5 billion on medical and life sciences research, accounting for 61 percent of all higher education R&D expenditures in the state.
"We support R&D not only for the jobs it offers and the investment it brings, but also for the significant advancements in health care, pharmaceutical therapies and technology innovations that stand to benefit so many Texans and people around the world," said state Sen. Bob Deuell (R-Greenville). "That's why Texas needs to offer all businesses performing R&D some sort of smart-minded tax credit or incentive."
Texas lawmakers are currently considering proposed legislation that would allow all businesses performing R&D the option between a sales tax exemption on R&D equipment and a franchise or margins tax credit on R&D expenditures, including salaries. Many believe the legislation would give Texas a competitive edge.
"We must foster an environment in Texas that encourages this critical first phase of research and product development," said Rep. Jim Murphy (R-Houston). "Quality studies that aim to quantify just how critical the R&D sector is to our larger economy and society – studies like this latest clinical trials research assessment – make it clear that we can and must do more to ensure that R&D dollars, jobs and tax revenue flow into, and not out of our state."
More than half of the clinical trials in the Lone Star State have targeted the most devastating chronic diseases, with more than 4,300 aimed at asthma, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and mental illnesses.
Report highlights illustrate the importance of clinical trials for new medicines to treat chronic disease:\
- More than 110,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year in the state and 37,000 Texans will die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. Biopharmaceutical companies and their local research collaborators, including the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas and the Texas Tech University Health Science Center, are currently conducting more than 600 trials of new cancer medicines that are recruiting patients.
- Nearly 10 percent of the state's adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, which, in 2007, killed 5,105 diabetics in the Lone Star State. Currently, 92 clinical trials for diabetes are recruiting patients in Texas.
- More than 189,000 state patients died of heart disease in 2009 and 46,000 from fatal strokes. 49 heart disease and 15 stroke clinical trials are seeking Texas patients.
- About 833,000 Texas adults live with serious mental illness and about 288,000 children have significant mental health conditions, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. 96 clinical trials of new mental illness medicines are seeking patient participants in the Lone Star State.
- The state's asthma toll is more than one million adults and nearly 600,000 children. 29 clinical trials of new asthma treatments are active and recruiting patients at institutions, such as Alamo Clinical Research in Austin.
Through biotechnology, researchers are developing new ways to improve our ability to predict and even prevent disease, providing hope for future generations. Among the 914 clinical trials still recruiting patients in the state, there are trials of a genetically-modified vaccine to treat melanoma, a fusion protein to treat diabetic macular edema and a new antibody that targets lupus and various cancers.
There are dozens of institutions conducting clinical trials of new medicines in collaboration with biopharmaceutical companies in Texas, including:
- Allergy and Asthma Research Institute, Waco
- Baylor Research Institute, Dallas
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Houston
- Central Austin Cancer Center, Austin
- Lone Star Heart Center, Amarillo
- The Methodist Health Systems, San Antonio
- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
For a full listing of clinical trials that are recruiting patients and their locations within Texas as well as more information on clinical trials, please visit our Clinical Research and Trials resource page.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested over $500 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $49.5 billion in 2011 alone.
Find PhRMA Online:
- Website – http://www.phrma.org
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/PhRMA
- Blog – www.phrma.org/catalyst
- Twitter – www.Twitter.com/PhRMA and www.Twitter.com/PhRMApress
- YouTube – www.youtube.com/PhRMApress
For information on how innovative medicines save lives, visit: http://www.innovation.org
For information on the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, visit: http://www.pparx.org
For information on ensuring the flow of medicines during public health emergencies, visit http://www.rxresponse.org
The Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute (THBI) (http://www.thbi.com) was created in 1996 and is a non-profit public policy research organization comprised of biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as research organizations and economic development corporations. The mission of the Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute is to research, develop, and advocate policies and actions that promote biomedical science, biotechnology, agriculture, and medical device innovation in Texas.


text: This book is a collection of 65 articles from the Bulletin of of the Atomic Scientists published between 1945 and 1962 that concern the relationships of science and society, especially the threats posed by nuclear weapons. The collection is organized in four parts: "Failure," "Peril," "Fear," and "Hope." The first part discusses the beginning of the atomic era and the failure of international control of nuclear weapons. "Peril" and "Fear" describe the consequences of the nuclear arms race. "Hope" presents the results of international efforts by scientists and others to control nuclear weapons. One set of articles discusses the Pugwash conferences, gatherings at which scientists from the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries met to discuss arms control. Many of the articles were written by key scientists in the era after World War II, and 12 of them were authored by Eugene Rabinowitch. The book is an excellent resource for insight into the views of scientists of the time.


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text: One of the most fun parts of XPRS2012 was getting the chance to talk to Doug Sewell, who is a heckuva nice guy. But I had a specific question for him. I had recently decided to buy a Sweet 16 combo, based on the demos and reviews I'd heard and read. Being a strictly basement player, a nice low-power PRS amp seemed like a good choice for me. After I unboxed the amp (only a few weeks ago) I noticed that it was labelled as a "16+" but didn't pay much attention in my rush to dime that baby. Yowza. I loved it and did some online research which turned up - exactly nothing. So I cornered Doug after one of the demo sessions this weekend and asked him about it. Well, his reaction was to nearly fall down laughing. He said, "Before I say anything else, do you like it? And did you notice it was kinda loud?" After hearing an affirmative answer to both, he told me the story (with the help of Mike Clark, who was also sitting there amused). Basically, he said, it's a "joke amp" - apparently an unnamed Nashville client wanted a Sweet 16 and Paul asked Doug to "work his magic" on one as a prank. So he jacked the power up to 40+ watts (apparently using 6L6 in place of 6V6 tubes) and swapped in a different speaker (Warehouse Guitar Speakers ET65) and sent it off. A little time passed, and Doug got a call from Paul - 'What the hell did you do to that amp? And more importantly, did you write it down?'. Turns out the un-named client *loved* it, so they made a few more. Bottom line is I got what Doug and Mike described as a CAD amp at a core price. Apparently there are fewer than 20 of them out there - anybody else lucky enough to have gotten a hold of one?


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Finally, an iPad case you can use in a fight
SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD/iWORLD 2013 – Some people are really serious about the work they get done on their iPad. Take our Reviews Editor, Charlie Sorrel, for example. Dude, takes his iPad everywhere with him on his crosscountry bike rides to bang out his awesome posts.
The problem with doing serious work with the iPad is that it's a fairly delicate device. You drop it once and your entire iPad world can be shattered. There are a few cases that can handle a few blows, but the iKey StreetCase is ready to go to war for you.
This is an iPad case that even James Bond would be proud of. It's made out of ABS polycarbonate and was designed to handle the high shock and vibration demanded for in-vehicle use. Basically, it was made with cops in mind and the crazy car chases they get into.
On the bottom of the iKey StreetCase is an integrated VESA mounting pattern so you can attach it to anything you want. It has a full-sized, Bluetooth, rechargeable keyboard that's also backlit with pretty red LEDs. You can carry the case around and feel like you work at NORAD. And if you have to beat up a few bad guys with it you won't have to worry about your iPad screen because this bad boy can take damage. A firm release date and price haven't been set yet, but iKey told us they play to launch it at the end of February or beginning of March.
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: Getting into the 2011 Chevrolet Volt here at the office, the display showed a 71 percent charge that was good for about 15 miles. After that, the gasoline engine switched on and carried me the rest of the way home.
I plugged the car in inside my 55-degree garage and charged it overnight. Initially, the display said a full charge would happen by 4:30 a.m., and then it went to 9 a.m. When I left the house at 7 this morning, the display showed 91 percent battery, good for 26 miles. It seems as if the Volt battery pack does not really like cold weather, plus you have to run the heater, the wipers, etc.
While I can certainly appreciate all of the technology that has gone into the Chevy Volt, and it really is impressive, all things considered, you don't have to spend much time in this to realize it's certainly not for everyone. It is an extremely expensive commuter car, with room for four people. I appreciate General Motors getting out in front and doing an extended range electric, and from that standpoint it's a cool vehicle. But it's really nothing special to drive, the hard, low-rolling-resistance tires are not the most compliant, and the interior comfort isn't much better than that of the Chevy Malibu. Actually, not sure how the heating and cooling system works, but the temperature set on the controls would seem to be just an approximation. I had it set to 75 and was freezing.
Anyway, this car has a limited audience, to be sure. For around town errands, it's probably terrific. No need to buy any gasoline. But from our limited tests, a full charge will get in the neighborhood of 30 miles, and all things considered, that's not a whole lot.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR--AUTOWEEK.COM BOB GRITZINGER: For buyers in four-season climates with specific, short (20-miles round-trip) daily commutes who want to be on the cutting edge of transportation technology, the Chevrolet Volt is your poster car.
The car is really an engineering marvel that works well, changing the game to electric power from using internal combustion as primary motivation. And it does it with considerable style, given that the underlying chassis is a humble yet capable Chevrolet Cruze. For those familiar with the typically Spartan interiors in eco models, the Volt interior is top-shelf, especially in this upper-crust version. The appliance-white center stack trim (some have likened it to an iPod face) is replaced with a much more handsome darker trim, and the seats, steering wheel and other surfaces are all well done. This red paint job also wears well on the car.
What is kind of surprising, considering the hype surrounding the Volt, is just how normal it is to drive. Yes, it's a tad heavy in the corners because of the battery load. And here and there, the engine winds up in ways that are completely disconnected from the accelerator pedal. But most of the time, you have to be a car geek who is really listening for it, otherwise you'll never notice. Play the radio and you won't hear the engine, ever. The power is strong, smooth and steady-state refined in a way that most drivers will find quite impressive for a car that otherwise would be driven by a small-displacement engine tied down by an automatic transmission. Punch up Sport mode, shift into "L," and the car becomes truly sporty in drive character.
Living with the Volt for few days revealed some of the real-world issues that an owner would face on a regular basis, not the least of which is plugging the car in every day. Sounds simple, and for buyers who upgrade to a 220-volt outlet in their garage, it would be easier because the cord would be there at the ready at all times. But I could see it becoming a pain for those who opt for standard household current, what with the bother of getting out the charging cord from its stowage under the rear cargo floor, unwinding it, plugging it in at both ends (and making sure no one launches a blow dryer on the same circuit!), and then reversing the process each morning before you drive away.
Inevitably, the Volt power cord gathers gunk and dirt from your garage floor, so you have to remember to unplug and pack up the wiring before you're dressed and ready to go to work, for instance. Some might say, "What's the big deal?" But after charging via household 110-volt outlets for a few days, I can attest that the novelty soon wears off. It starts to make stopping at a gas pump seem simple by comparison.
The novelty is further degraded when an overnight nine- or 10-hour charge in a 45-degree garage only results in a 90 percent charge, equating to somewhere between 20 miles and 26 miles of driving distance with an ambient temperature in the 40s. I can imagine that Volt owners in colder climates might just pump gasoline instead of fighting for the kilowatts on a daily basis.
For now, the Chevrolet Volt has be viewed through the same lens as any whiz-bang new technology, be it the latest smartphone, tablet reader, computer, TV or Weedwacker. The price of entry is high for early adopters, but as the technology proliferates, the cost comes down for the rest of us plodders who would rather wait to make sure the latest technology has staying power. Here's one vote saying this approach to transportation will be around for a long time.
EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I averaged about seven miles of juice on each two-hour charge over the weekend. I couldn't charge it overnight because the car stuck out the back of my garage and I didn't want to leave my garage door open all night. I'd go for the 220-volt outlet in my garage if this was my car. That, and we should drive one this summer to see whether it charges quicker and whether it goes further than 20-something miles on a full charge.
As for the driving, the transition between all electric power and running on the generator is seamless. You just press the start button, select D on the transmission and go. It's refined, and all you can hear is a quiet whine and whirr from the electric motor.
It doesn't feel quite as quick as the claimed 9.0-second 0-to-60-mph time, but it does pull away strongly and seamlessly from a stop. I thought the car rode and handled well, better than I thought it would. I was worried it would drive heavier than it did. I'd much rather drive this everyday than a Toyota Prius, that's for sure.
I agree that some version of this could well be the powertrain of the future. I wonder why this car needs such a big engine if it's only going to act as a generator. Perhaps the next one could be a small two-cylinder unit, or I've heard talk of a small turbine or rotary engine.
NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: "Drive it like a regular car," the keeper of the keys said as I was tossed the set to the Chevy Volt for a night. That was pretty much my only option, as my suburban bachelor pad is a good distance from the downtown Detroit digs of One AutoWeek Tower.
But nevertheless, I was excited, sort of like getting a new iPhone, when I unhooked the power cable and set sail for the suburbs. The charge meter said I had 26 miles of electricity, which got me almost exactly home, the screen indicating one mile of range when I coasted into my apartment parking lot.
That meant the ride back in was exclusively on the power of the Ecotec four-banger, as I had no practical way of charging the Volt overnight. No worries, though. This Chevy is the embodiment of new and different technology, and I consumed less than half of the amount of fuel I would have normally used.
The power is respectable when in electric mode, and passing is not a huge chore. This is by no means a fast car, but it's not dog-slow, either. In conventional mode, the Volt is still decent, but I found myself flooring it to fill gaps and build speed for maneuvers.
The steering has a nice weight to it at higher speeds, and is appropriately lighter during slower movement. The chassis is reasonably comfortable, too. Really, the regen brakes are the only interactive driver element that stand out, as they are heavy and demand a bit of pedal travel.
Inside, the Volt looks futuristic and worthy of the heady sticker. Really, Chevy had to dress up the interior or risk having its most important technological accomplishment in recent memory come across as inexpensive. But fear not, the buttons have a very modern feel, the door panels are gorgeous and the touch screen is among the best I've used. All of the information can be reasonably comprehended after a short time in the car, and it's smart and intuitive. The seats were comfortable. I found a nice driving position quickly, and the back seat offered ample legroom and headroom for a man of average build. I liked the four-seat configuration. It felt sporty, and really, who wants to sit in the middle?
I liked the sheetmetal, but the Chevrolet Volt doesn't really stand out. The taillights and blacked-out roof are cool styling cues, and the wheels and side trim look upscale. I would say the silhouette is a bit chunky, but it looks better than a Nissan Leaf or a Toyota Prius to my eye.
General Motors did exactly what it said it would with the Volt. I came away impressed with the execution. The biggest flaw is the drive character does not stand out. At times, you could just as easily be in a heavier version of the Chevy Cruze. Mainstream consumers and early adopters will like the Volt. Alas, enthusiasts will not find their passions aroused.
AUTOWEEK.COM EDITOR DALE JEWETT: OK, so I thought I could be the poster-child commuter for the Volt. The trip from the office to the family compound is only about 13 miles. I left the office with a fully charged battery pack and stated electric range of 28 miles. So I didn't even bother to look at the status of the gas gauge.
But I hadn't traveled even one mile from the parking garage before the battery indicator showed that 10 percent of the charge was already gone! And I thought I was being pretty good--no radio, no seat heaters, easy on the throttle and brake. And another 10 percent was gone before I'd racked up three miles on the trip.
Then things settled down. The flow of rush-hour traffic let me maintain a pretty steady pace of about 45 mph and also let me see braking events developing and let me keep the powertrain in regen mode as much as I could. So when I reached Casa de Jewett, the readout said I still had 12 miles of electric range left. That was good enough to make a run for some takeout and get back home without burning any petrol and two bars lit on the battery gauge.
The Volt spent the night charging in the garage. I plugged it in to the standard outlet at about 8:30 p.m., and by 6:30 a.m., the blinking green light on the dash said the pack was all charged up and ready to go. I even used the remote "start" function on the key fob to get the interior preheated while the Volt was still plugged in--and I didn't have to worry about going out and opening the garage door to vent any exhaust.
The full battery gave me a range of 28 miles, the readout said as I rolled out of the garage. That would be plenty for the drive back to work.
But the Chevy Volt is a hot property. Mrs. J asked if I could swing by her office since her boss has been jonesing for one since they were announced. Well, of course. So, 9 miles of stop-and-go driving got me to her office and left 18 miles on the range gauge. I spent 15 minutes showing off the car--doors, hood and hatch open, passing around the charging cord, playing musical chairs in the driver seat. Then, let's take the boss for a short drive. He liked it --"just like a regular car," he said. And he was a big fan of the thrust when I nailed the throttle. "And much better than my Ram on gas," he added. The Volt easily blended in with other cars on the road. And the interior layout and materials make you feel right at home, regardless of what you've been driving for the past five years.
OK, maybe there's a raise--or a free lunch--for Mrs. J.
But now the range gauge was down to 10 miles. That might just make it--but the shortest route to the office is also the most congested. So I opted for the longer but less congested route. It starts with a six-mile stint on the freeway. Man, rolling along at 70 mph really drains the battery pack. Getting off the freeway and onto the usual surface route, I had only two miles left on the range gauge. I nursed it for three miles, then the engine kicked in--quite seamlessly, I note.
So I managed 26 miles on the battery pack, but had to dip into the fuel tank to finish the run to the office. But tonight's driver should leave here on a full battery pack.
The Volt is a fine driver. The chassis is solid and the suspension handles the bumps with a luxury-like thump.
The lack of engine noise means you can hear plenty of tire noise, suspension noise and ambient noise from the traffic around you. The noise factor seems loudest coming from the rear seats and the hatch area of the car. But I'm a fan of convertibles, so road and tire noise is music to me. And for most drivers, they'll just turn up the satellite radio to compensate (I purposely left it off to evaluate the noise level.)
For many people, on many days, the Chevy Volt will need only battery power. It was interesting to note that the car is programmed to run the engine at least once a month for maintenance purposes. And it tracks your fuel use--if you don't burn off a tank of fuel within a year, it will run the engine to burn the gasoline before it gets stale.
But I think that having the Volt as your daily driver wouldn't be much different than having a Toyota or Ford hybrid. And I don't see any advantage to taking this car on a long trip.
Without the electric drive system, what you have is a really expensive Cruze.
MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: Finally, a taste of the Chevrolet Volt, and I enjoyed it. The battery gauge claimed 26 miles when I climbed aboard, but as others mentioned, the gauge drops by a few miles almost immediately once you start to drive. I made it about 23 miles and change before running out of juice. That was almost enough to get me home from the office. I'll tell you what, there are plenty of work days when I wouldn't have to burn any, or maybe just a tiny little bit, of gasoline.
The car is incredibly quiet running on either electric or gasoline power, and the direct drive is a little bizarre when you are used to conventional transmissions or even less conventional designs such as a CVT. This is like driving a real-life slot car in that sense.
The transition from electric to gasoline, as mentioned, is imperceptible, unlike the lurch you feel in many hybrid automobiles. I also found this car more pleasant and rewarding to drive than some of those others, notably the last Prius that I drove.
Dale makes an interesting point, that this is just a technologically (and price)-enhanced Cruze, but I like the exterior and the interior is slick, with Camaro-esque, color-coordinated door panels, a very cool dashboard design and nice switchgear.
I definitely look forward to a more extended drive in the Volt, but my first impression is that it's a great first-gen effort at changing the way some cars are powered.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: My esteemed colleagues more or less covered everything about this Chevrolet Volt. From a technology standpoint, this is quite the marvel. With a full charge to the battery, I hit the expressway toward Ann Arbor from downtown Detroit and cruised along at about 75 mph. Dale is correct that battery drains at an alarming rate at those speeds. The flow of traffic was steady as I rode along in the left lane, and I managed 26 miles before the gasoline engine virtually unnoticeably came to life.
It's true that this car is just a regular car. It has a comfortable ride and handles fairly well. Someone above mentioned tire noise, which isn't a surprise with the low-rolling-resistance tires. Those tires also were quick to squeal around corners when you tried to push the Volt some. Steering feel and response are OK, and the brake pedal offers a decent amount of modulation.
On pure electric, the Volt gets up and goes with ease. The lack of an engine note when you accelerate beyond 60 mph takes getting used to, but the smoothness of the powertrain really needs to be applauded here.
Visually, the car sports the aerodynamic wedge shape which isn't a surprise. It looks pretty good to my eye and the interior layout is attractive and functional. All of the different screens available to you for various readouts for range, battery charge, fuel and etc. will take a bit figure out, but they should become second nature to run through for owners. Nothing is overly complicated, which is good.
The price is still a sticking point here. For a vehicle like the Volt to truly make sense, the price of the technology needs to come down and battery technology still needs to improve to offer better range on pure electric power. All of that will come in time, but the Chevy Volt is a much better starting point than I thought it would be.
2011 Chevrolet Volt
Base Price: $41,000
As-Tested Price: $43,485
Drivetrain: 111-kW electric motor, 1.4-liter I4; FWD, two-mode electric drive system
Output: 149-hp, 273-lb-ft electric motor (84 hp @ 4,800 gasoline engine)
Curb Weight: 3,781 lb
Fuel Economy (EPA): 93 mpg-e all electric/37 mpg gasoline only/60 mpg-e combined composite
AW Observed Fuel Economy: 59.8 mpg
Options: Premium trim package including leather-appointed seating, premium door trim, heated front seats, leather-wrapped steering wheel ($1,395); 17-inch forged wheels ($595); crystal red metallic tintcoat paint ($495)


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Pop superstar George Michael has died peacefully at home, his publicist said.
The 53-year-old, who was set to release a documentary in 2017, rose to fame as a member of Wham!, known for their hits Club Tropicana and Last Christmas.
Michael - whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - sold more than 100 million albums throughout a career spanning almost four decades.
In a statement, the star's publicist said: "It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period.
"The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage."
Michael nearly died from pneumonia in late 2011.
After receiving treatment in a Vienna hospital, he made a tearful appearance outside his London home and said it had been ''touch and go'' whether he lived.
Doctors had performed a tracheotomy to keep his airways open and he was unconscious for some of his spell in hospital.
Meanwhile, Michael's 1990 album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 had been set to be reissued accompanied by a new film featuring Stevie Wonder, Elton John and the supermodels who starred in the video to his hit single Freedom! '90.
The movie, with the working title Freedom: George Michael, was to be narrated by Michael and set to feature Mark Ronson, Mary J Blige, Tony Bennett, Liam Gallagher, James Corden and Ricky Gervais.
The record was his second solo album, after the hugely successful Faith, and was arranged produced and almost entirely written by Michael, but did not feature him on the album cover.
A musical great known for both his chart-topping hits and his turbulent personal life, George Michael was a giant of popular culture.
The Wham! singer and solo performer enjoyed a glittering chart career, having sold more than 100 million records including seven number one singles in the UK, with tracks such as Careless Whisper and Faith.
Michael entered a period of semi-retirement in 2008, quitting live performances and seeking a "quieter life" out of the public eye.
Michael - born Georgios Panayiotou - found fame as a teenager in the early 1980s after forming Wham! with school friend Andrew Ridgeley.
The pair enjoyed hit after hit, including Club Tropicana, Young Guns (Go For It) and Last Christmas.
But they decided to bow out at the top, pulling the plug on their partnership with a final chart-topping single The Edge Of Heaven in 1986 and triumphant Wembley shows.
Michael then embarked on a hugely successful solo career, plus occasional collaborations with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Sir Elton John and Queen, after the death of Freddie Mercury.
His album Faith - which has been remastered and later released in 2010 - was a massive success in 1988.
Stars from the world of showbiz have paid tribute to the "truly brilliant" singer.
Pop stars from the former Wham! front man's heyday were joined by more contemporary names in declaring their sadness.
Martin Fry, lead singer and songwriter with Look Of Love band ABC, said on Twitter: "Absolutely devastated to hear of the loss of @GeorgeMichael Truly brilliant talent #sad #sad #sad."
Contemporaries Duran Duran referenced the so-called "curse of 2016" - which has seen the deaths of rock and pop behemoths David Bowie, Prince and Rick Parfitt, posted on their official Twitter account: "2016 - loss of another talented soul. All our love and sympathy to @GeorgeMichael's family."
While former Radio One disc jockey Tony Blackburn said: "Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent."


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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Welcome to today's edition of Starting Blocks TV, hosted by Branson Wright.
Chuck Yarborough is out trying to find the meaning of life.
Today is Hey, Mary Kay! Before Mary Kay Cabot answered questions from the fans, she jumped right into today's poll --- Why won't the Cleveland Browns pursue Peyton Manning? Her answer had nothing to do with Manning's injuries or on how much the Browns would spend to get him here.
Mary Kay also answered questions on if Mike Holmgren will end his streak of not drafting quarterbacks in the first two rounds. And if GM Tom Heckert still has his eyes on Arizona QB Kevin Kolb.
SBTV will return on Monday with Plain Dealer reporter Dennis Manoloff.