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Fargnot, Mr. Mut said he doesn't need the free tour, but he'd sure take you up on the free lunch.
I think there should be an event based on this.
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This reads like a tourism brochure. Can't wait to visit the area. Mmmmmmm free lunch, what about Brewskis ? Sounds like a good idea and it promotes an area that many may never visit otherwise. See you Mid May, Will attend said fictitious event.
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Well, many may not see that this can be and is the best place to promote a good cache. Be it Minnesota or elsewhere but primarily Mn. IF and only if, the top members are onboard. There are supper cachers in Duluth, and From Ely to Hibbing, International Falls to Bemidji ( Icluding Black Duck. Loved that place) Grand Rapids, Moose lake to Brainerd that have that oh so neat cache. So ? lets get them out there, on the Migizi, Why not? . These are the places that, as Canucks we go, just because of the variety. Multiply this by how many others that want to see unique hides. This can all be applied on the migizi. Guess what ? If it was not for the promotion of this area by Hipster, who is from ND. We would not have spent our $ in the area. 4 days and 3 nights in the area means alot to a local economy. We enjoyed every minute of it. 90 caches, and could have been alot more. But we shop, we sight see, and enjoy another spot in Gods Country, which whether Canadian or American is " THE NORTH.
The nice thing about it was caching and Knowing the trail also brought out cachers Like Aix sponsa, and Jicknarson. Hmmm more local $ because of geocaching. Build it. They will come. So build it. I want to return. I really do. Thanks for the fun.
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Hunter-Killer: So glad that the MiGiZi lived up to your expectations. It really is a beautiful place. It was fun to read your logs and the logs of those trailing behind you. I think as time goes on and the word gets out, more will come and check it out. Maybe next time you visit you could place a cache of your own.
FYI: The forest service campground on the south side of the lake is now open (until Labor Day). We love to camp there. There are only 25 sites--half of which are lake side. It doesn't have electricity or running water, but it's a nice peaceful place to camp. The MiGiZi runs right by it. If you need electricity, Norway Beach on the east side of Cass Lake is the place to camp. There is a short bike trail from Norway Beach that connects to the MiGiZi.
The pipeline crews were hard at work this weekend (even on Memorial Day) on the north side of the lake. It probably won't be long before the rest of the bike trail is repaired and you will once again be able to bike around the entire lake.
Speaking of bike trails, they just completed the bike trail from Guthrie to Walker, so if you're an avid biker looking for someplace new to try, the trail is now paved all the way from Walker up to Lake Bemidji State Park. There aren't any caches on it yet (that I know of), but I'm sure they will begin to pop up sooner than later.
One more thing, there is a large black bear that has been hanging around the east side of Pike Bay. He's been seen on the bike trail as well as near the cabins on the lake. I don't think it's anything to keep you away, but if you were biking around a corner on the trail and he was standing in your path, it might be good to be on the look out. We were biking all over this weekend with the kids and thankfully we never ran into him. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.
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The bike trail on the north side of the lake has been finished--it's been tore up since last summer due to the pipline. Now only if this rain would quit...
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Good to hear about the trail opening up. We were at a local walk
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and had the opportunity to walk with a couple and we talked about Northern Minnesota and they brought up the Migizi trail!!! We were floored as we were just there. They are Not geocachers, but hike the area. What a coincidence. We explained geoaching to them and the numerous caches on the Migizi. They seemed interested, but Holy crow!!!! They knew about this excellent paved trail system amongst the huge pines. Heaven on Earth. And here we thought we were unique and only geocachers would know every inch of this trail system. There ya go. Beautiful place. So come on Mn. Cachers, check it out, enjoy, and get a few out there. I hope to see some finds from the Duluth Gang soon. They would enjoy the flat terrain. Something different.
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Is there a place to rent a bike? I plan to be at a Family Reunion in Bena and it seems like this would be an excellent place to pick up a couple geocaches.. Exactly how long is the paved trail? How many trail heads are there??
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While a bike is an enjoyable way of moving between caches, you can also drive to all of them. Of course, you'll have to park and walk in, but most are a very short walk from the various roads throughout the Pike Bay area.
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awesome thanks Uffda! I will keep that in mind provided that there are plenty of parking around various places I assume.
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awesome thanks Uffda! I will keep that in mind provided that there are plenty of parking around various places I assume.
We are talking a very slightly used forest road that goes down the east side of Pike Bay from Hwy 2 & becomes just more slightly used as it goes across the south past the Pike Bay campground & on to Hwy 371. The MiGiZi bike trail winds back & forth over the same route; crossing the forest road several times.
Most of the caches have been placed by folks on foot, after parking their caching mobiles at one of the sections where the MiGiZi Trail & forest roads cross. I've placed the majority of mine while riding my recumbent bikes & trikes. I like to park at Norway Beach on Cass Lake, near the boat ramp/swimming area/picnic area/visitor's center & bike my way south past the Pike Bay campground & back (or reverse order). So far the cache concentration is between the SW corner of Pike bay on around & 1/2 way up the east side of Pike Bay. There are a few north of Hwy 2 on into Norway Beach.
Finding someplace to park will not be a problem. Just be sure to pull to the side far enough to allow someone to pass & please don't block the bike path. You'll see what we mean once you are on the ground in this gorgeous area. There are also many old side paths & roads off the Pike Bay loop where one may park out of the way.
Have fun! BTW: When are you planning on going there? I'll be at my cabin on Cass Lake much of July/Aug/Sept/Oct (including the 4th of July weekend). PM me for contact info if you'd like. I'd be glad to be a local geocaching guide for your hunt or at least meet up to say hello. (With enough advance warning I could even provide some fairly normal bikes if you wish or recumbent bikes/trikes if you are adventurous. I have a fleet!) Grin
PS. You asked about the length of the MiGiZi. That all depends. Norway Beach on Cass Lake to the SE corner of Pike Bay is about 9 miles. You can do a loop completely around of about 17 miles.
You can ride down to Walker (about 25 miles). From Walker you can ride NNW to the NE edge of Lake Bemidji & on into Bemidji State Park on the newest section of the Paul Bunyan. From Walker you can ride basically west to Park Rapids on the Heartland. From Walker you can ride south to nearly Brainerd on the older section of the Paul Bunyan. (172 miles of connecting paved bike trails) Here are some good links:
If on this last link you pick "View this route in 3D (Google Earth)" & have Google Earth loaded on your computer & have Geocaching Google Earth Viewer enabled - you will see all the MiGiZi caches popup on the map.
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Okay..I'm a little late coming to the game. I FINALLY placed a cache on the Migizi. Of course, as soon as I place the cache and it's published, we get a torrential downpour. Seems like that's happened to the last two caches I've placed. LOL
Anyways, I think you'll get a kick out of my contribution to the trail. Many thanks to Ladyandthetramp for their awesome idea.
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Thanks for the reply LJ
I think my biggest worry is listeria and toxoplasmosis. Based on the way I have been washing my lettuce, jas there been any risk of those?
I think I just need some reassurance
(I was never this paranoid for my last 2 pregnancies :P)
11th January 2014 07:15 AM #47
Please don't worry. It sounds like what you have been doing has been fine. The salt washing guidelines just give an extra clean to the lettuce.
I hope you are able to relax and enjoy your pregnancy.
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30th January 2014 06:57 AM #48
The following question was written by our new forum member amawji - welcome to our forum and congratulations on your pregnancy.
Amawji sent it to me by private message and is happy for her question to be shared here.
I have a CONSTANT fear of contracting listeria. I know that it is rare, but I still worry about it quite a bit.
My question is this:
I ate a piece of Manchego cheese while I was in Mexico that had been sitting out in the heat for a couple of hours! We called the place that we bought it from and they said that was pasteurized. This was about 4 months ago(I was in my first trimester, now I am in my third). If I did get the listeria bug back then, would my baby still be okay by now? Or could it have problems at birth still? Like would it take 4-6 months for a problem to show up, or would I know something was wrong by now? I have had many doctors appointments and ultrasounds and everything is okay, but could a problem show up so much later? Like after I deliver?
Thanks so much!'
30th January 2014 07:04 AM #49
Dear amawji,
Thank you for your message.
Please try not to worry and do remember how rare listeria is. Most symptoms start sooner rather than later. It is also reassuring that the cheese was pasturised.
Based on what you have shared, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
In terms of the time for the symptoms of listeria to appear after infection, symptoms usually appear within 1 month but would appear within 70 days. Again, you have passed this time period so I would not be concerned.
You may find it helpful to take a relaxation, Hypnobirthing or yoga class in pregnancy. I know it can be hard (speaking from personal experience) but keeping stress and worry to a minimum in pregnancy will benefit you and your baby.
Best wishes,
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Hi ladies i hope this thread is still active. I am currently 23 weeks pregnant . I have kept tjis pregnanct to myself as i suffered a late loss last feb at 38 weeks. Two weeks ago my daughter went to play at a friends house we had never been to before. The mom is lovely and invited me in for tea. They are dairy farmers and unknown to me at the time she used unpasteurised milk in my tea, she had no idea i was pregnant and they use it all the time. I am so terrified that this milk may have contained listeria. Just wondering if you think the hot water in the tea may have killed any potential listeria in the milk. I have had a blood test taken will have to wait two weeks for results am so worried. I developed a sore throat and runny nose two weeks lster. Would blood test two weeks after drinking milk be valid. Also i didnt drink all of the tea. Thank you in advance for any advice.
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Hi dearg3,
I have 5 children and have eaten raw beef, raw cheese, raw milk, raw honey and raw eggs during my pregnancies with no harm.
I want to put your fears to rest and let you know that listeria in raw milk is extremely rare. According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, "raw milk actually contains beneficial bacteria that is proven to kill off harmful pathogens. Because of the missing beneficial bacteria in pasteurized milk, harmful pathogens are able to flourish in the "dead" milk.
Usually a dairy farmers will drink their own raw milk during pregnancy, so I would ask if she has ever had raw milk when she is pregnant (my guess is that her answer will be "yes").
When doing a search for information about listeria in raw milk, I ran across this excellent article on the safety of raw milk.
They mentioned that the State of California monitors and tests all of their raw dairy products multiple times per MONTH. The state has never found one pathogen (salmonella, E.coli or listeria) in any of their products. Even more interesting is the fact that not one human pathogen has ever been found in the hundreds of environmental swabs that have been taken at their facility.
There is nothing you can do while waiting for your test results, and worrying will only add more stress to your body and your baby. If, in the very rare event, you may need to fight a pathogen (even a cold or flu virus) your body needs to be the strongest it can be. Your body will be much stronger if you say to yourself that you are very healthy. This mindset actually helps the body to fight infection.
Again, there is a very low chance that you contracted any pathogen from the raw milk. On top of that, the tea was hot which would most likely kill any pathogens in a small amount of milk.
Enjoy every week you have with your little one and know that you have a great chance of giving birth to a healthy baby.
Warm Blessings for an uneventful pregnancy and a healthy baby.
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Thank you so much for your reply. I am trying not to worry too much i hope that these next rwo weeks fly by so that i can get a negative result please God. I am so so careful with everything i do and for this to happen just adds to the extra stress. The Mum did say she drank the milk all the way through her pregnancies and she has four healthy kids. I cant but worry i will be the unfortunate one.
11th March 2014 12:54 AM #54
Dear dearg3,
I'm sorry to hear about your concerns and I'm so saddened to hear about the loss of your baby last February. I have no words to say to such a loss. You have my thoughts and sympathies.
As Kate says above, you would be highly unlikely to contract listeria from drinking unpasturised milk in tea. Unpasturised milk is not a common way to contract listeria - is is far more commonly obtained from undercooked meat. I can't say it is completely impossible I am afraid but it would be extremely rare. This low probability is made even lower by the fact that boiled water was poured onto the milk. It is safe to drink unpasturised milk which has been boiled in pregnancy; so whilst your friend didn't quite do this she did go a way to raising the temperature of the milk. All these factors (added to the fact that listeria in pregnancy is rare in itself anyway) make it extremely unlikely that you contracted listeria. Please try not to worry (I know it's easier said than done) as it is best to keep stress to a minimum in pregnancy.
Also, listeria most commonly results in stomach symptoms (vomiting and diarrhoea) which you have not described.
Warm wishes,
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The issue with pasteurised milk is not so much if it has just come out right now - though there is a small chance of some bacteria being on the cow's teat - but more if it is left around, not chilled fast enough, not kept in sterile containers etc as it will happily grow all sorts of things that might get into it.
I'd expect dairy farmers would have just got enough that morning for the tea and breakfast not stock pile it at room temperature.
15th March 2014 07:26 AM #56
Thank you for sharing this Cole and welcome to the forum.
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Thank you ladies for both of your replies i really appreciate ypu taking the time to reply .
17th March 2014 06:24 AM #58
You are really welcome dearg3.
I wish you all the very best with your pregnancy,
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Hi ladies, this may not necessarily be in relation to contracting Listeria, more general food poisoning I suppose though the fact that Listeria can be relatively symptom free is what has causes my on going anxiety. On Friday night I very stupidly ate a pizza which had thawed from frozen (as had been put in fridge instead of freezer) then re-frozen as I thought it wouldn't do any harm being veggie, however pretty much the minute I'd greedily consumed it I started researching the wisdom of refreezing thawed raw food and it is universally condemned. It had goats cheese on it which I know (in the UK) is fine if cooked but if it's been frozen, thawed and re-frozen, could that cause Listeria? I haven't been sick.or suffered any adverse consequences but as mentioned, it's the symptomless aspect of Listeria that worries me and I can't stop stressing, I am 16+3 by the way. What would you guys do if it was you, nothing? Or speak to a doctor? Many thanks!
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Hi, I too am panicking about listeria! I am 8 weeks pregnant. I read somewhere online that feta was ok to eat as long as its pasteurised. Then I spoke to a friend who is a nutritionist and she said it is definitely a high risk food for listeria! I have been eating it the whole time and salads from the local cafe before realising I shouldn't be. Now I have a cold (or listeria)- I have been a little achy, sore throat and headaches (which I was getting before the 'cold'). I haven't had a fever or diahhrea though. I know the chances are its just a cold but could my symptoms possibly be listeria? Do you think I should get a listeria test?


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Huddled around a dispatch radio, everyone waited to hear what had gone wrong.
Moments later, the female voice came through the radio loud and clear: There was an active shooter at the Utah State Fairpark, at least 20 people were down send all available units.
Luckily, the units were already there and the shooting only imagined as Salt Lake Valley fire departments practiced responding Wednesday to a mock mass casualty incident with dozens of victims who needed help.
All but two of the approximately 50 victims were inflatable adult- and child-sized dummies scattered across the rodeo arena of the park. The gray mannequins slumped sideways in the grandstand seats, lay listless on the dirt, or remained hidden.
The scene was reminiscent of the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., earlier this year. But since mass casualty incidents in the Salt Lake Valley, such as the Trolley Square shooting in 2007, don't happen often, "it's important for us to get practice," said Craig Orum, a Salt Lake City firefighter.
A crew of Salt Lake firefighters arrived on the scene to find their first "patient," its legs sticking out of a booth. They determined from a card on the dummy listing its vitals and injuries that the patient was healthy enough to walk theoretically and moved on to the rest.
Allison Tripp and Tanya Dow, the two volunteer victims, were prone in the grandstand as they waited for help. They watched emergency responders spread across the arena, getting to patients as quickly as they could.
Tripp said she realized the severity of such a crisis when she volunteered at a previous practice run.
"I would probably die if this was real," she said.
The advanced emergency medical technician student said there is no way responders can get to everyone in time, with only so many resources available.
As a student with mostly classroom experience, she said it was helpful to witness a situation in which rescuers "have more than they can handle."
At least a handful of personnel from seven fire departments, Gold Cross Ambulance and Salt Lake City police convened on the arena, as they would in a real-life emergency. The responders called for more help given the number of patients, but dispatch informed them they had to make do.
Firefighters first tagged each patient with a green, yellow or red tape, depending on whether they had minor, serious or critical injuries, respectively. The red-tagged patients were transported immediately, while yellow and green patients were carried on boards and in bags to a treatment area near the horse stables.
Orum learned during the practice Wednesday that it was quicker and easier to move patients in bags than on boards, as long as they didn't have any spinal problems.
Other firefighters will get their practice during drills that continue this month.
This is the second consecutive year that Salt Lake Valley fire departments have practiced a mass casualty incident. They hold at least 10 practice rounds throughout the valley each year in different locations so the largest number of responders can participate, said Jasen Asay, spokesman for Salt Lake City Fire Department.


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Justin Bieber books ticket to space with Virgin Galactic
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(Yahoo!) - As if he isn't already a big star, now Justin Bieber wants to go to the stars!
The 19-year-old and his manager, Scooter Braun, 31, have signed up for an intergalactic adventure with Virgin Galactic, according to Virgin's billionaire founder, Richard Branson.
The British entrepreneur tweeted the exciting news:
Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!— richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 5, 2013
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Their space journey will reportedly set them each back $250,000, which probably seems like chump change to the teen heartthrob, who, according to Forbes, raked in a cool $55 million in 2012.
Taking a journey to the stars is something that has been on the Canadian cutie's mind for months. In February 2012, he dished to his 40 million Twitter followers, "I wanna do a concert in space." NASA seemed fond of the idea and replied, "Maybe we can help you with that."
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Watch Studio Footage Of Metallica Writing And Recording "Am I Savage?"
Metallica have released a video showing the band working on their track Am I Savage?
It features on the 10th studio album Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, which launched in November last year.
The studio clip shows the band laying down ideas for the track, which originally had the working title Sawblade.
While working on the riff, James Hetfield says: "It's one of those riffs that's either horrible or is great but needs a lot of work. It's just so jerky, but if we make it into a song that's all like that I think it might be OK."
The clip also shows Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Robert Trujillo jam through sections of the track and later focuses on guitarist Kirk Hammett working on the solo. Watch it above.


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Scotty McCreery to perform on 'American Idol'
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Scotty McCreery is set to perform on this week's "American Idol" results show. The country singer announced his upcoming appearance to fans on Twitter, just days after news leaked that he had survived being robbed at gun point.
Looking forward to being back on @AmericanIdol stage next Thurs, May 15, 9pm ET! #FeelinIt
— Scotty McCreery (@ScottyMcCreery) May 9, 2014
The season ten winner will be returning to the show that made him famous for the Top Three episode, and will be on hand as America names its finalists for the season 13 crown.
The 20-year-old singer will perform his new single "Feelin' It," the latest cut off his 2013 album See You Tonight. This week's "Idol" results show airs Thursday night on Fox.
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A decade before Daniel Day-Lewis gave an Oscar performance as Abraham Lincoln, he won the same award portraying a violent New York City gang leader brought low by the most violent riot in American history.
As every fan of the film knows, the cause of all the death and carnage depicted in "Gangs of New York" was Lincoln's signature on a document ordering the first national military draft.
Two years into a war that was going badly for him, Lincoln needed more troops in the field. More precisely, he was desperate to fill the ranks of existing Union armies that had been shredded by lesser Confederate forces under superior leadership.
His chosen remedy was the Conscription Act he signed on March 3, 1863, 150 years ago today. Months later, on July 11, a Saturday, federal agents finally began drawing names of New Yorkers identified as eligible for conscription. By Monday, the city was in chaos and the agents hiding or on the run.
Though war weariness and anti-draft sentiment were rife in large sections of the Union, New York City was undoubtedly the epicenter of discontent. Its swelling population of destitute immigrants, jammed together in tenements under appalling living conditions, was most at risk for compulsory war duty, and knew it.
Class warfare that had simmered for months now became warfare in fact. Mobs of mostly Irish immigrants, seething with resentment and shouting "Down with the rich!" torched the mansions of wealthy citizens, many of whom had made a killing on the war.
Draft offices and government buildings fed the conflagration. Businesses were looted and set ablaze. Draft agents, public officials, abolitionists, prominent members of Lincoln's Republican Party, even the merely well-dressed, were forced to run for their lives. A number were chased down and stabbed, beaten, bludgeoned or shot.
Racism fed the frenzy. Civil War historian James McPherson, in Battle Cry of Freedom, noted that a month before the riot, striking Irishmen had been supplanted by black stevedores brought to the docks under police escort.
Now, the rioters were indiscriminate in their revenge against a race they considered the chief cause of the war. All blacks presented a target. Several Protestant missions and churches with largely black congregations, along with the Colored Orphan Asylum, were burned to the ground.
Half a dozen black laborers, blamed for beating poor whites out of the few jobs open to the unskilled, were hanged from street lamps and their corpses burned.
Shelby Foote, in his monumental The Civil War: A Narrative, quotes an eyewitness to the sheer savagery of the rioters: "three objects the badge of a defender of the law, the uniform of the Union army, the skin of a helpless and outraged race acted upon these madmen as water acts upon a rabid dog."
It took three days for federal forces, less than two weeks removed from victory at Gettysburg, to arrive from Pennsylvania in relief of the city's beleaguered police. When they finally did, they were all business, and just as merciless as the rioters, who fell by the dozen under musket and cannon fire. A majority of the bluecoats had volunteered in the patriotic flush of the war's early days and thus had little sympathy for draft-dodging roughnecks with foreign accents.
Estimates on the toll of the dead vary from just over 100 to a couple of thousand. The drawing of names for conscription resumed almost immediately.
In the end, Lincoln's effort to supplement his forces by nationwide conscription was a poorly conceived and poorly executed enterprise. In the North, just as in the South, the draft proved not only unpopular but of little worth.
Out of a total of 776,000 picked for military service, 161,000 failed to report for duty, one-eighth of the remaining were excused when quotas were filled, three fifths of the 522,000 left were let go for physical or mental impairment or because they were the sole means of support for dependent relatives.
A reluctant draftee had still other options than the battlefield. Some 74,000 paid for a substitute to take his place for the duration, and 87,000 conscripts paid a commutation fee of $300, good for one draft only. Both were legal. Significant numbers employed such means as bribery or fraud to escape serving.
The math tells the story: Only 46,000 of the Union's 776,000 draftees ever personally put on a uniform.
Still, the troop shortage was not lasting. After the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863 authorized blacks to join in the fighting, nearly 180,000 made it into uniform by war's end. And enlistments rose, in no small part due to the steady influx of immigrants signing on to be soldiers.
Indeed, from the beginning of the war in 1861 to the surrender of the Confederate States in the spring of 1865, more than a quarter of all white Union soldiers were immigrants who had been born on foreign soil. And just 2 percent of 2.1 million troops who served were draftees, far less than the 6 percent hired by conscripts to serve in their stead.


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WASHINGTON -- Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) has introduced a small business bill that proposes a 20% tax break to small businesses (500 or fewer employees). Called the Small Business Tax Cut Act of 2012, the bill (HR 9) provides the tax break for one year.
"Small businesses are the key to economic growth and job creation in this country. That's why the House is moving forward with real solutions to free up capital and drive small business job creation," Cantor said. "Today, Chairman [David] Camp [R-MI] and the Ways and Means Committee advanced the Small Business Tax Cut Act that will provide more than 22 million small businesses with a tax cut, allowing them to keep more of their hard earned dollars and grow their businesses."
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Tornados top Bobcats 71-56 in Comfort Suites ClassicNovember 27, 2010
Three Tornados scored in double-figures in the win
Salisbury, N.C. - The Brevard College women's basketball team was able to pick up their third win of the season when they rolled the Lees-McRae Bobcats 71-56 on Saturday afternoon in the Comfort Suites Classic. The Tornados had three players in double-figures as led throughout the majority of the contest at Goodman Gymnasium on the campus of Catawba College. The Tornados improved their record to 3-4 overall with the win.
Brevard fell behind by as many as seven points in the first eight minutes of play as they tried to go stride for stride with the Bobcats, but Lees-McRae took a 14-7 lead with 11:51 remaining in the first half. The Tornados were able to rebound with a 13-point run giving them a six point, 20-14 lead over the Bobcats with just over five minutes remaining in the first half of play. Lees-McRae was able to tie things up with just over two minutes left in the half, but the Tornados were able to take the game into the half with a three point advantage.
Micheala Watkins (Forest City, N.C.) and Anna Schlobohm (Greensboro, N.C.) led Brevard in the first half of play with eight points each. Lindsay Brendle (High Point, N.C.) and Brianna Worley (Asheville, N.C.) were each able to contribute five in the first 20 minutes of play.
Brevard came out flying in the second half of play to jump out to a nine point lead with 16:49 remaining when Watkins hit a pair of free throws, giving the Tornados a 36-27 lead. Brevard continued to build on their lead and took a commanding 19 point lead following a pair of free throws by Candice Fritz (North East, MD) with just 9:40 left in the game. Brevard was able to gain a 21 point advantage with 6:37 left on the clock. Watkins was able to sink another pair of free ones to give BC a 60-39 advantage.
The Tornados were able to hold out a double-digit lead throughout the final minutes of play. Chezney McJunkin (Easley, S.C.) and Micah LaJoie each hit their first buckets of the 2010-11 season. Each of the guards hit a three-point bucket in the final six minutes of play contributing to the 71-56 final in favor of the Tornados. The three-ball was McJunkin's first collegiate basket of her career.
Watkins led all-scorers in the game with 20 points, giving her 20 or more points in two consecutive games for Brevard. Brendle and Schlobohm each added 11 points of their own en route to the Tornados win. Holli Flippo (Kingston Springs, Tenn.) led the Tornados with eight rebounds, four offensive and defensive. Flippo was also able to pick the Bobcats' pockets on three separate occasions.
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Hi everyone,
First time post here, so I hope I'm in the right forum.
To get right to it, I'm having an issue with some text that I'm trying to get to write from left to right on a part of a site that I'm working on. The link to it is :
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there is a list of book "categories" that I'd like to run from left to right, and then once the text reaches the border (or a few px in from that edge), I'd like for the next category in the list to begin at the left margin on the next line (essentially below the first line of categories).
At the moment, I can only get it to scroll in one continuous line.
The "bookcase" that I am using is based on a slider plugin, and I've tried just about everything I can think of :
centering textjustifying textmarginspaddingalign left / align rightfloat etc....
.... to get the text to appear how I want it to but, unfortunately, all to no avail.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Quarterwave. Welcome to the forums.
Yep, this is the right forum to be posting in. The problem is caused by the massive inline width you have here:
<div class="buttons_container" style="width: 470%;">
Remove that, and the text will flow naturally.
Hi Ralph,
Thank you for your help. I have one more problem though - where is that line item !!!! I've looked through every file code I can find in the plugin, my Thesis CSS and PHP and CANNOT find it anywhere !
Any help would be much appreciated.....
Also - do I just need to delete it entirely - or just change the value to say, 100% ?
Thanks again....
Do I take it you managed to find it? I've just looked at your site and that line reads

and it looks fine to me. :)
Yes, it's been changed.
@Quarterwave; There were many links there before ... so presumably they weren't needed? Anyhow, to be tidy about it, the idea would be to move that inline style to your style sheet, at line 61 of Stylesheets/bookshelf_slider.css
.buttons_container { margin:0 auto; position:relative; height:60px; width: 58%; }
Man, thanks for your help - but, my background is in SEO / SEM and not really into code, so I'm kinda feeling my way along here.
I think the reason why the value was less, was b/c I was messing with the plugin earlier today (trying to find that line item), but could not and took a break to spend some time with my family. I didn't get a chance to return the page to "how it should be" in regards to the # of categories that I need until just now.
So, with all that in mind, I have two quick questions :
1) I found the line item, but it has no width value (or mention of width at all)
2) Where exactly should I move that line to ? As I'm unsure as to what inline means....
.... and again, thank you for all of your help.
Yes, I've just realized that the width is set by JavaScript, so you won't see it in your HTML. I guess the first question we need to ask is how you want this to appear. That setting you changed did help, but if you want rows and rows of links, the layout will have to be modified anyway.
Thanks for your time and effort.
Ideally, I'd like for the categories to be evenly spaced across the column (which is 790 px wide, not including any padding or margins), and then as each right hand margin is reached, and following categories start on a new line, at the left hand margin.
So, it would sort of look like this :
Books Arts & Photo Biographies Business & Investing CalendarsChildren's Books Comic's & Graphic Novels Computers & TechCookbooks, Food & Wine Crafts & Hobbies Education & ReferenceFashion Health & Fitness History Humor & Entertainment
etc.... etc....
Also - I currently have the text set to "align:center" - would setting it to "justify" help to fix that as well ?
After looking at how my "categories" idea posted in the forum, it didn't add all the equal spaces like I had initially put into the message, so if you can imagine it all being "square", that would give you a better idea....
Perhaps the easiest way to doeal with this is to find your CSS file and add this code:
.buttons_container {
width: 100% !important;
.panel_bar {
height: auto !important;
text-align: justify !important;
You could put this in your custom.css file here:
Ralph - you're a lifesaver ! Thank you.
One more quick question - I have some code for a hover effect on text that I've been trying to apply to those "categories". This is the code :
<="" p="">
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
min-height: 300px;
margin: 25px;
opacity: 0.8;
border: 10px solid #eee;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s ease;
-o-transition: all 0.5s ease;
-webkit-box-reflect: below 0px -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(transparent), color-stop(.7, transparent), to(rgba(0,0,0,0.1)));
opacity: 1;
/*Reflection*/ -webkit-box-reflect: below 0px -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(transparent), color-stop(.7, transparent), to(rgba(0,0,0,0.4)));
/*Glow*/ -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.8); -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.8); box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px rgba(255,255,255,0.8);}
Would you mind advising where the best place would be to put this code into, so that the "categories" highlight when a mouse pointer is placed over the text ?
Thanks again for your help !
Hm, you've lost me a bit there. I'm not sure what you are trying to do there. What is #ex5?
This is some code that I found when looking for a way to have my book "categories" highlight when a user puts their mouse pointer over any specific category (to make it visibly standout).
Again, I'm in over my head with code and are trying to get my page somewhat functional, and to try and learn as much as I can in the process, so I'm not sure what that line of code means.
You'll have to excuse my ignorance, it's definitely not deliberate - just being honest with you
The thing is, due to the plugin that is a big part of my site, just about every bit of code I try to use (or learn and apply) never seems to work !
Case in point - since implementing your code (which worked great) I've been trying forever to get the categories to be evenly spaced in their "shelf" on my page, but all my efforts have been to no avail.
So, having said that, I know it's simply a matter of my not knowing how to code and not applying things correctly (in some way)..... and so your replies have been of great help .
That's OK, I understand. The problem for me is that I don't know what you are referring to on the page. Which bits are the "categories", for example? Just describe visually hwat you want to see on the page and we can help you with that. All we need is a clear idea of what you want to see where.
Ok, great. I'll be as concise as I can....
In short, the site I have is a book site to help promote self-published authors :
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, I have a list of book "categories". I have these set up so that all of the books on the site don't get lost in an un-organized mess, and so with that in mind, I decided to organize them via genre (ie : Sports / Hobbies / Children's Books etc....).
The problem I have now, is that those "categories" align against the left hand margin, but when I to try to justify them (to have them spaced evenly across the page), they will not respond to that CSS command.
Also - as there are a lot of categories, I'd like to have each one stand out when a user puts a mouse pointer over each "category" (a nice highlighted effect was what I've been trying to get - and the code I had mentioned is from this link :
which if you scroll down that page, is supposed to be the code for the "fade in and reflect" highlight style).
So, that's what I've been chipping away at, trying to get it all to work. I know it's a lot to do for a novice, but I started SEO the same way, and now I am somewhat of an expert in that field, so I know it can be done !
Needless to say, any and all help in my endeavour is really, really appreciated.
OK, that's clearer.
That list of links isn't well suited to the effect you want. Firstly, the text won't justify, because each link is wrapped in a div, which nullifies the effect, so you are probably stuck with that, unless you can work out how to modify the plugin code to remove those divs.
One thing you might consider for highlighting the links on hover is something like this:
.button_bar a:hover {
text-shadow: 0 0 14px #e27a04;
Ok, thank you for the explanation.
In regards to the hover code, I tried putting it into the Thesis CSS and also the plugin CSS, and it had no effect on the "categories" at all.
Am I doing something wrong, or do you think it's due to that div issue ?
OK, maybe try this:
.button_items .button_bar a:hover {text-shadow: 0 0 14px #e27a04;}
If you put it inside this file, it will work fine:
It may not be an effect you'd like, but it's a start. It can be modified, of course.
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I tried putting it at the start and the end of the file that you suggested, and it didn't work.
So, I left it in the file - just below this part :
body { font-size: 10px; }* { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
in case you have a moment to have a look, and can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Should it perhaps be in the CSS of the "bookcase" plugin ? As it's a PITA to have to deactivate, edit, reactivate and then copy and paste code into the HTML everytime I need to change something on that damn slider.
I did try the other code that you had kindly provided earlier and put that into the bookcase CSS, but as per my earlier post, that didn't take either....
Hm, the problem is that the code is not actually in there. I'm not sure why, though. Perhaps you have to confirm something to make the change active? (WP is not my thing.) If you look at the last link I posted, the CSS code is not in there. You could just create your own style sheet if all else fails and link to it in the head of your pages.


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The test, covering Jan. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31 last year, was conducted by auditors with the Los Angeles County Transportation Authority, Stockton and Honolulu.
During the review, auditors checked Long Beach's compliance with Government Auditing Standards, a set of guidelines issued by the U.S. comptroller general. Work consisted of interviews with staff members along with a review of written policies and procedures, sample audits and training documents, among other checks.
It is the second time the Association of Local Government Auditors have given favorable marks to Long Beach's auditing operations since City Auditor Laura Doud took office in 2006.
"I am pleased that our office has continued to achieve the highest standard of audit work," Doud said in a statement. "I remain committed to continuous improvement in our office as we strive to provide the most efficient and effective city government possible for our residents."
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The recent success of Amazon's Kindle Fire has given Google hope that the small-screen, inexpensive tablet market is worth pursuing. Google has set the tech world abuzz by announcing its new Nexus 7 tablet, the result of a partnership with ASUS, a multinational computer hardware and electronics company.
If you've considered adding a tablet to your arsenal of tech gadgets but have balked at the price tag -- or the paltry performance of most low-end tablets -- take a look at the Nexus 7.
Your first inclination is probably to compare it to the iPad, the dominant tablet on the market. In truth the Nexus 7 wasn't made to compete with the iPad. Its $199 starting price tag and 7-inch screen puts it squarely in the ring with the major eReader hybrids: the Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble's Nook tablet.
When it comes to hardware, the Nexus 7 outpaces every other similarly priced tablet. It has faster response to your input, lighter weight and better screen resolution. It also offers a front-facing 1.2 megapixel camera for video chat (through Skype or Google+) that the Fire and Nook lack.
The biggest complaint about tablets is that they typically lack the power to do much beyond surf the net and check email. Google has put a lot of attention into getting this device capable of doing more. It has a faster processor (a quad-core vs. the dual-cores offered by Fire and Nook) and a dedicated graphics processor to allow images to render faster.
Since the core function of a tablet is to view media (be it streamed from the Web or stored on the device) and play games, display quality is a huge factor. While comparative tablets share the same 7-inch screen size, the Nexus 7's display resolution is superior. On the Fire or Nook, you'll do a lot of "pinch-to-zoom" to get the smaller text on a website or online magazine large enough to read comfortably. The Nexus 7's higher resolution allows for smaller text to be clear and easier to read, making the experience of paging through media or surfing the Web more enjoyable.
My issue with all low-priced tablets is how content is funneled through their proprietary channels. They're really just a tool to purchase content through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and now Google. If you purchase and stream content from these sources anyway, you're going to be married to the device that supports your library. In my opinion, Amazon offers the largest selection of inexpensive content, so if you're planning to start a library I would be hard-pressed to steer you away from the Kindle Fire. For example, while Google Play offers most of the same magazines as Amazon, many of them are more expensive. No one can compete with Amazon's library of eBooks, music and movies yet.
If you want to watch your own content (movies or photos) or listen to your own music on the device, the Nook is the only low-priced tablet that supports an expansion SD card. For those that wonder why storage on a tablet matters, the first long flight without Internet access to stream new material will leave you wondering why you bothered packing your 8GB Fire or Nexus 7.
Verdict? Wait a couple of months for the rumored next generation of Kindle Fire to be released. If it's closer to the Nexus 7's hardware specs, you may be glad you waited. If you don't plan to purchase content and are just looking for a low-priced tablet to surf the net, play games and check your email, the Nexus 7 is absolutely the best small-screen, low-priced tablet currently on the market.
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NEW DVD ON OLD THEATERS: The last 116 movies our daughter has seen have all been screened at the Edwards 26 at the Towne Center on Carson, not far from our house. It's got, as the whiz kids among you already have guessed, 26 screens. That's more than the entire city of Long Beach had when we were her age.
The deeper you go into the history books, the more theaters you'll find. You go to the era of the silent films in the 1920s and you could practically leap from theater roof to theater roof, especially in the town's Pike amusement zone along West Seaside Avenue where, in one one-block stretch there were seven theaters, four across the street from three: On the north side of the avenue were the Arrowhead, the Bijou, the Bentley Grand and the Palace of Pictures. Across from those were the Byde-a-Wyle, the Lyric and the old Art Theater.
But that's all before almost everyone's time. Nostalgia these days goes to the grand old days of the more recently lost theaters that were around back in the 1940s through the 1970s: The beloved Cabart on Anaheim and Junipero, the Crest and Towne theaters on Atlantic in Bixby Knolls, the Atlantic on the same street in North Long Beach, the Art on Fourth Street, the Imperial, the Roxy, the State and the Fox West Coast on Ocean, the Palace on Pine, the Rivoli on Long Beach Boulevard and the Belmont on Second Street in the Shore.
Of all those, only the Art remains as a full-time working movie house.
Last week, we wrote about the drive-ins, and Long Beach historian and videographer Dennis Morawski dropped us a line to remind us that the Circle Drive-In, on the Traffic Circle, had a giant screen that could be seen out the windows of the maternity ward at Community Hospital, up the hill from the theater. The Circle folks installed speakers in the rooms so women (and the occasional intrepid father) could enjoy the films in the evening.
And there's a good two reels' worth of more great lore from the old days of movie theaters in Long Beach in Morawski's latest historical DVD, "Saturday Matinee," a look back at the great film houses in Long Beach, as recalled by old-timers who were kids back in the day.
The men and women interviewed by Morawski (they include Long Beach Heritage Museum founder the late Ken Larkey) reminisce about the Saturdays spent in front of the giant screen watching double-features and assorted serials, shorts, cartoons and newsreels.
It was a great deal for the harried moms of the era, when they could drop their kids off and run errands or whatever it is they claimed to be doing all day while their children sat transfixed for hours.
"What a great deal for a baby sitter," one person noted. "For a quarter, we kids would be entertained for four or five hours."
As is always the case when older folks talk about the glorious olden days, the first person to talk doesn't have a chance. As more people recollect the past, the cheaper the ticket gets. Following the initial salvo of 25 cents, another veteran moviegoer recalled spending five hours watching movies for just a dime. Another claimed a 9-cent buy-in. We're giving the trophy to the man who recalled getting a quarter from Mom, which he would use to load up on candy and a glass bottle of pop, with enough left to see movies all day, after which he'd return to the store, get a penny back from returning the bottle and buy more candy with that.
The 26-minute DVD joins Morawski's collections of great historical Long Beach films, which include looks back at the Pacific Red Cars, the 1933 earthquake, the Pike, the Queen Mary, the Cyclone Racer and more. They're not available for purchase, but copies are available for check-out at the Long Beach Public Library and its branches.
FOOTBALL PICKS WEEK 3: Oh, come on! Carolina, a team that couldn't pull a drunk hobo off its sister, beats New Orleans? Seattle, which doesn't even want to have a team, beats Dallas?
It was another idiotic week in the NFL, the kind of idiotic week that makes it difficult for a genius like us to perform up to what's expected of us. Dave Ursini, of Naples Rib Co. - and with whom we definitely don't have a side bet this season - is off to a great start, blundering into a mess of upset picks.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's just-released The Way Forwardis to fuel speculation about his possible presidential ambitions. And while the book is worthy of praise for its candor, insight, and novel policy ideas, Ryan still manages to stumble just a bit when it comes to matters of race.
First, the good parts. Those looking for a behind the scenes look at the Romney-Ryan ticket in 2012 will not be disappointed. Ryan fluidly weaves his experience on the campaign trail with Mitt Romney as he discusses the problems that vex America, as well as his thoughts on how best to fix them.
Ryan's reflections on President Obama's invitation to join at George Washington University, where the president received the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles Commission to reign in entitlement spending, are also noteworthy. Ryan says he thought Obama had brought him to the event to pursue a bipartisan path forward, but was was shocked when the president savaged his proposed budget blueprint. Of Obama's speech that day, Ryan writes: "His false attacks were offensive, even by the low standards for discourse and civility in Washington, D.C…This is who he is, I thought. Savage defense. Demagogue Republicans. Don't triangulate. Don't moderate. Go all in."
"Paul, I'm so sorry," Ryan reports Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the president's own entitlement reform commission, telling him after the event. "I'm ashamed of what just happened. I cannot believe the president just did that. I apologize. That was reprehensible behavior and I'm ashamed of it as a Democrat."
The Way Forward also touches on many of the challenges we face concerning the national debt and the urgent need for entitlement reform, an issue that many in Washington are unwilling to touch. He ably describes the public policy disaster that is Detroit as an example of what happens big government liberalism runs amok, and spends much of the first half of the book comparing the Motor City to his comparatively idyllic hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin.
Still, Ryan opens himself up to needless criticism when he writes how Republicans can make inroads with communities of color. I've long defended Ryan from people who say he's some kind of dog-whistling racist who doesn't care about people of color. Having been his friend for more than 20 years, I know that nothing could be further from the truth. And yet when Ryan discusses his early efforts to reach out to the black community in his home district, which he did mostly by going to predominately black churches, I couldn't help but wince.
"It's a different deal at a black church, of course," Ryan observes. "And if anyone's faith ever needs perking up, that's the place to go. I always tried to get into the spirit of things with dancing, clapping, and singing out in the pews. It was a small mercy in 2012 that no videotapes of my dancing ever surfaced."
Of course Ryan should meet with his constituents, but come on, Paul. The fact is, many people will question your sincerity if you just keep going to black churches in search of black votes. When I worked for President Bush and Vice President Cheney, I offered them both a simple message which I know they both took to heart: don't treat black people like black people. Treat them like concerned citizens worried about jobs, their children and the future of the country. The minute you start showing up in churches and talking about welfare and the like, you sound as if you are talking down to people based on the color of their skin.
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For more than a century, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by regional conflict and a deadly scramble for its vast natural resources. In fact, greed for Congo's natural resources has been a principal driver of atrocities and conflict throughout Congo's tortured history. In eastern Congo today, these mineral resources are financing multiple armed groups, many of whom use mass rape as a deliberate strategy to intimidate and control local populations, thereby securing control of mines, trading routes, and other strategic areas.
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Profit from the mineral trade is one of the main motives for armed groups on all sides of the conflict in eastern Congo - the deadliest since World War II. Armed groups earn hundreds of millions of dollars per year by trading four main minerals: the ores that produce tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. This money enables the militias to purchase large numbers of weapons and continue their campaign of brutal violence against civilians, with some of the worst abuses occurring in mining areas. The majority of these minerals eventually wind up in electronic devices such as cell phones, portable music players, and computers. Given the lack of a transparent minerals supply chain, American consumers have no way to ensure that their purchases are not financing armed groups that regularly commit atrocities, including mass rape.
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Congo's conflict minerals leave a trail of destruction as they make their way from the mines in eastern Congo to the mobile phone in your pocket. How does the process work? What is the human cost? What can consumers do to help end the violence being fueled by Congo's illicit mineral trade? This video breaks it all down.
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60 Minutes investigated the role of gold in fueling Congo's deadly war, highlighting the hidden cost of the gold and other conflict minerals used in our jewelry, cell phones, and electronics. The segment also detailed the Central African players and forces involved on the ground.
Enough experts lead you down the path of the 3Ts—tin, tantalum, tungsten—and gold from the mines of eastern Congo all the way to your cell phone.
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The conflict minerals problem is complicated, and the suffering in Congo is immense. But there is good news: because we as electronics consumers are tied so directly to the problem, we can actually play a role in ending the violence.
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Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Effects of Passive Cannabis Inhalation
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This primary aim of this study is to assess the effects of active versus passive (second-hand) inhalation of cannabis smoke on toxicological analysis of "native" oral fluid (saliva) and blood specimens. The results of this study will help inform the validity of oral fluid as a biomarker of cannabis exposure and to determine whether, and for how long, passive inhalation of cannabis smoke could result in a positive toxicology result.
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
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|Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Effects of Passive Cannabis Inhalation
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- delta-9-tetrahydrocanabinol (THC) Tmax [ Time Frame: Post-Cannabis Exposure ]After exposure to cannabis, we will conduct a pharmacokinetic analysis of THC in saliva and blood collected 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, and 34 hours post cannabis exposure.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Intoxication [ Time Frame: Post-Cannabis Exposure ]Immediately after exposure to cannabis, participants will provide subjective ratings of intoxication using a 100mm visual analog scale
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Active Comparator: Cannabis
Participants in this condition will self-administer cannabis cigarettes ad libitum
Drug: Second-hand cannabis smoke
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Other Name: marijuana
Experimental: Second-hand cannabis smoke
Participants will be in a room with other participants who will be smoking cannabis. This group will be passively exposed to second-hand cannabis smoke.
Drug: Cannabis
Cannabis cigarettes, each containing approximately one gram of cannabis, will be smoked during a 60-minute session.
Other Name: Marijuana
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|18 Years to 45 Years (Adult)
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- Be between the ages of 18 and 45
- Be in good general health based on a physical examination, medical history, vital signs, 12-lead ECG and screening urine and blood tests
- Demonstrate ability to expectorate 3-5 mL of "native" oral fluid over a 5-minute period
- Be willing and able to abstain from use of any over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription drugs (other than birth control medications) after providing written informed consent and continuing until discharged from the study. OTC antacids may be taken up to 12 hours prior to dosing
- Not be pregnant or nursing (if female), and using effective birth control. All females must have a negative serum pregnancy test at the Screening Visit and a negative urine pregnancy test at clinic admission.
- Have a body mass index (BMI) in the range of 19 to 33 kg/m2
- Have head hair that is at least 4-6 cm (approximately two inches) in length on the back of the head.
- Blood pressure at Screening Visit must not exceed a systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 140 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of 90 mmHg
- Must not have history of significant medical or psychiatric illness judged by the investigator to put the participant at greater risk of experiencing an adverse event due to exposure or completion of other study procedures.
- Cannot have been enrolled in another clinical trial or have received any drug as part of a research study within 30 days prior to dosing.
- No history of panic/anxiety reaction to extended periods of confinement in close quarters, smoke filled areas, or tight social situations.
- No history of adverse reactions to cannabis exposure, whether via direct use or passive exposure.
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|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
Sponsors and Collaborators
Ryan Vandrey
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
RTI International
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|Responsible Party:
|Ryan Vandrey, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01798186 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 18, 2013
|Last Updated:
|December 3, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Marijuana Abuse
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 24, 2017