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Alumnus Steve Estrellado talks about "Tectonic Shift" in Marketing
R. Steve Estrellado (B.S. Marketing, 2000)
Social Media SEO Strategist at Estro Communications
How has marketing changed since you've graduated the RBS program?
The fundamentals of Marketing has not changed, rather the method of delivery has. Organizations still need to identify their target market, satisfy their product or service curiosity and then deliver on that promise. In hopes to create satisfied customers that return to that particular Brand on an ongoing and perpetual basis.
What do you suggest students do if they are interested in shifting to a career in online marketing? How can they start?
Today's students have an opportunity to capitalize in a new interconnected global economy and not since the days of the Industrial Revolution has opportunity been so prevalent. This tectonic shift in Marketing is due to the proliferation of high speed internet and smart phone technology, invigorating a need for real time information.
Students looking for a career in Marketing and Advertising should be motivated to learn about online marketing outside of their University curriculum. Online marketing is an open platform of communication where companies and consumers interact directly with each other without the need of an intermediary. Online marketing consists of Web Development, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Rich Media Advertising, E-Commerce and most importantly Social Media.
To become competitive in today's job market, students must become autodidactic and read Social Media Blogs such as Mashable and Digiday. They should read novels from David Meerman Scott and Brian Solis. Lastly, they should implement what they've learned onto their own online Brand.
Social media marketing is an emerging field that is constantly changing. How do you suggest marketing students keep up?
Social Media is technology and it is changing at an exponential rate that requires constant learning on everyone's part not only students. RBS hones into the fundamentals of Marketing and Advertising. It is up to the individual student to learn what it takes to be relevant and competitive in today's job market.
Students need to read everything they can on the topic of social media. Start by googling the search phrase "social media". Currently there are over 388,000,000 million search phrases that are relevant to those keywords. Make it a goal to learn one new thing in online marketing and social media a day. You would be amazed by how well versed you become in only 3 to 6 months.
Social Media is not a subject that you learn once and put to the side, rather it is a dynamic subject that requires continuous learning. I recommend reading social media blogs such as Mashable and Digiday. These two sites aggregate stories from multiple bloggers, writers and authors on the subject. Staying on top of these sites would keep you abreast of current events in online digital marketing.
How can students use social media to help in their job search? What should they know that they might not already know?
Student should apply these 3 Steps to their job search:
Step 1: Take ownership of your online profile. Apply what you've learned in RBS to yourself. You are now a Brand. Ask yourself, "How do I want to be perceived in this online digital world?"
Step 2: Become a thought leader. Showcase your knowledge by creating an ecosystem of intelligence, by demonstrating your critical thinking skills and thought process. Create an About.me to aggregate your social networks into one central repository. Making it easy for employers to learn about you and what makes you different from any other applicant.
Step 3: Most importantly, students must be proactive in building their network. Social media has simplified the outreach process. Market yourself to family, friends and other people that you might have a connection with. Use Linkedin to reach out and engage those that would help point you in the direction you want to go.
How has RBS helped you get where you are today? (eg. Did a faculty member strike a chord with you, did you read a case that you found fascinating, or did a classmate shape where you wanted to take your career?)
Rutgers Business School opened my eyes to opportunity. It invigorated my entrepreneurial passion by instilling the holistic fundamentals of business and overall strategies for success. Without a road map to follow, I turned to my old college textbooks to help build the foundation to our business.
My advice to any student would be to stay positive, work hard and never stop learning. What you learn at RBS today will be priceless tomorrow.


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OK, show of hands: Who didn't see the big developments coming in tonight's Dirty Sexy Money? Now, show of hands: Who didn't find them entertaining?
Because I sure did.
I got yer spoilers right here. Let's take it from the top.
Brian Jr.: Andrea gets full custody of the adorable not-Gustav, and Brian ends up under arrest for attempting to bribe the arbitrator. He's committed a Class-C felony, and Letitia wants to exploit any available connections to get the charges dropped. When Tripp indignantly refuses, asserting that Brian has made his bed, Letitia picks a fight and notes that Tripp would help Patrick, even though he's denounced his father, and would go out of his way for Karen. There it is, looming large…
Jeremy and Sofia: Sofia won't give Jeremy any more, uhm, sugar until she sees his apartment. Jeremy, trying to keep her from knowing he's a Darling, enlists Nick's wife, Lisa, in a cuckoo scheme to trick her into thinking he's a poor painter. Hilarious hijinks ensue. Actually, it's kind of sweet in a twisted way, but God bless
The interaction between Lisa and Jeremy, though, is charming. It's funny that she keeps scolding him to tell the truth, and yet totally unable to resist the charming rogue routine. It makes Jeremy more human and Lisa more likable — and the exchange in front of Nick is particularly great — she's getting a little of her own back; the Darlings are harder to resist than she thought, as it turns out. Maybe now she'll be able to, you know, dislodge the stick.
Patrick, Ellen, and Carmelita: Ellen decides she can't share Patrick and demands he give up Carmelita — as he's in the hospital recovering from the Ellen-inflicted gunshot wound, and high on morphine. Of course he can't give her up, and Carmelita — who may have more integrity in her own way than anyone else in the place — offers to let him go. Another reason to love Carmelita — on Ellen: "She must really love you — you know, to shoot you like that."
Paternity mystery solved: Of course Brian is Dutch's son and Nick's brother. Nothing about this build-up was subtle. But the flashback to Dutch's birthday six months before, when Tish told him the truth, was poignant, well-played and tough to watch. Even tougher to watch was Nick's flashback to the last time he saw his father, when Dutch was anguished and regretful, and reaching out. Nick's rejection of his father, and Brian's vitriol toward his mother, were two beautiful pieces of acting by Peter Krause and Glenn Fitzgerald, who I could watch all day long.
Brian's farewell to his son was also touching and well-acted, with Brian giving Brian Jr. the watch passed down from Dutch — the one artifact he possessed that he could pass on.
Karen and Simon the Delicious: Karen was sweetly unsure of herself — or at least a lot less cool and collected — around Simon Elder, even The Morning After. The fact that she was so protective of her father, asking Elder not to do to her dad what he did to Darling Plaza, was a nice touch. Theirs is an extremely interesting dynamic — he clearly finds her both a kook and another Darling conquest, and he brings out both her savvy and a girlishness that's a nice change from her seen-it-all, been-married-to-'em-all manner. Even if she does sometimes look at him like he's a steak and she's starved.
Some other thoughts:
1. We continue on the horrendous Tripp dialogue train. Some samples:
- "He is fueled by contempt. Contempt permeates every cell of his being."
- "How can you blame Nick for your systemic malfeasance?"
- "You want to be angry? Be angry at Letitia and Dutch — they're the ones who spawned this disaster."
Oh dear.
2. More Patrick on morphine! His asides during Karen and Elder's conversation were hilarious.
3. I actually bought Nick's argument that he's stuck working for the Darlings because of the money — and what he's able to do with it. For someone interested in doing good works, a $400 million pediatric cancer research center is mighty compelling. And I totally cheered when Nick stood up to Tripp and told Tripp that he owes him the truth. Now let's see if he can stick to his guns.
4. What was up with Andrea's outfit? I realize she's supposed to be all free-spirit-hippie-girl, but does that make her color-blind too?
What did you think? Are you glad the "great secret" has been revealed, and were you surprised? What do you make of Karen and Simon Elder?

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The attorney for a man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by a now-deceased priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf says the Vatican has refused to be served with a lawsuit over the matter.
St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson, who frequently clashes with the Catholic hierarchy over abuse allegations, said in a Sunday news release that his office tried to serve the lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other high-ranking officials at the Vatican as defendants, but that it was returned via Federal Express.
Anderson's client, listed in court papers as John Doe, is a deaf man from Illinois who alleged in his lawsuit that the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy molested him for a number of years while Murphy worked at a Milwaukee-area school for the deaf. The lawsuit contends Pope Benedict and other Vatican officials conspired to keep quiet decades of abuse allegations against Murphy.
Anderson did not return a call seeking comment Sunday but planned a Monday news conference in which he'll accuse the Vatican of "dragging out the healing of deaf victims."
Jeffrey Lena, the U.S.-based attorney for the Vatican, said in an e-mail that the lawsuit should have been served through diplomatic channels as would be done with any foreign state. He wrote that holding a news conference on such a matter "is really just a form of grandstanding by Mr. Anderson for the press and the public."
A U.S. federal judge in October asked the Vatican to cooperate in serving court papers to the pope and two other Vatican officials, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and Cardinal Angelo Sodano. The Vatican is not obliged to comply with such requests.
Murphy, who died in 1998, has been accused of sexually abusing some 200 boys at the deaf school from 1950 to 1974. In 1996, Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland had complained about Murphy in a letter to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the powerful Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger from 1981 until he became pope in 2005.
That office initially ordered Weakland to hold a canonical trial against Murphy in 1997, but later changed course after a letter from the accused. The Vatican noted Murphy's advanced age, failing health and lack of further allegations.
The Vatican argues it's not liable for clerical sex-abuse cases under canon law and a church structure that holds bishops — and not Rome — responsible for disciplining pedophile priests.
Plaintiffs in a similar case in Oregon have sued the Vatican using a similar approach. Anderson represents clients in that proceeding as well, and on numerous occasions has expressed a desire to hold prominent Vatican leaders liable for sexual abuse by priests.
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Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
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'We the People' Petitions Filed in Nineteen States Seeking Permission to Secede from the Union — In the aftermath of last week's presidential election, residents in at least nineteen states have put up petitions on the government's "We the People" petitioning website seeking the right to secede from the rest of the country.
Byron Tau / Politico:
Secession petitions flood White House website — President Obama's reelection last week has prompted a slew of requests to secede from the United States. — Using the Obama administration's own We the People website, nearly two dozen petitions have sprung up asking the Obama administration for permission to withdraw from the Union.
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In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes — It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch.
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The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self defeating.
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When Girlfriends first aired in 2000, director Spike Lee criticized the show for portraying African-American women as stereotypically oversexed ("Female Trouble", Samuels, Newsweek, 2002). Yes, it's true; the black women of Girlfriends talk about, and often engage in sex. And one should not underestimate the import of interpreting the meaning of such a depiction on primetime television without taking into consideration the larger representational context in which it resides.
In the case of Girlfriends, this context includes centuries of representing black people as carriers of deviant sexual behavior. Thus, some viewers, such as Lee, are compelled to compare the women in Girlfriends to the stereotype of the lusty Jezebel.
The characters of Girlfriends: Seventh Season, however, are not mere racial stereotypes. Like Sex and the City, to which it is often compared, Girlfriends is more product and champion of a pro-sex "postfeminist" culture than it is a relic of the past. While "postfeminist" culture comes with its own set of complications that are worthy of critique, suffice it to say, Girlfriends: The Seventh Season does not exploit the myth of black hypersexuality. Taken as a whole, the women of Girlfriends attempt to illustrate some of the diversity that exists among middle-class African-American women. The girlfriends may be types, but they are not essentialized into just a few simple traits.
Girlfriends: The Seventh Season returns with only three of the show's four original types: Joan Clayton (Tracee Ellis Ross), the attorney turned restaurateur who desperately wants to marry; Maya Wilkes (Golden Brooks), a working class wife and mother turned "authoress"; and Lynn Searcy (Persia White), the biracial, over-degreed, sexually-free freeloader who was raised by adoptive white parents.
Missing this season is Toni Childs (Jill Marie Jones), real estate broker and born-again gold-digger. After a falling out with Joan at the end of the sixth season, we learn that Toni has moved to New York. Though not an official girlfriend, Toni's absence has been filled by Monica (Keesha Sharp), a product of the black Chicago elite.
Adding to development of the show's characters, Girlfriends: The Seventh Season finds the girlfriends on a path of personal growth. Maya is evolving as a mother. Lynn is settling down to pursue her passion as a musician.
Fans of the show who were disappointed at the way in which the writers demeaned Joan's character in the sixth season with its "It Girl" storyline should be pleased that Girlfriends: The Seventh Season gives Joan back her dignity. Joan is learning to be comfortable with herself, as well as to better negotiate relationships with men. "Just Joan", for example, centers on her character discovering how to be happy without a man, and offers a humorous scenario that involves Joan going out to dinner alone.
Girlfriends: The Seventh Season also continues the show's established history of dealing with subject matter that is both political and personal. Naturally, some of these issues specifically reference blackness. Others are more "universal". "I Want My Baby Back" is adept at handling both. In this episode Maya's teenage son, Jabari (Kendr'e Berry) considers living up to the sexualized expectations that his suburban white classmates have of him as a black male. Challenging the stereotype, the show reveals that while his classmates are sexually active, Jabari is still a virgin.
On a lighter note, the same episode also features Joan getting better acquainted with her new boyfriend, Aaron (Richard T. Jones). Aaron lives in an austere apartment that has only one bathroom. Joan has been sleeping over with Aaron as of late. Come morning though, Joan rushes off. Aaron presumes that Joan's abrupt departures are due to her discomfort with his modest lifestyle and the circumstances of his past. Turns out, Joan just needed to use the bathroom.
The laughs starts out slow in Girlfriends: The Seventh Season, but after a few episodes the momentum picks up. Ross has earned the NAACP Image Award (2007, 2009) and the BET Comedy Award (2005) for her performance in this series, but in the "mainstream" her talent as a romantic comedienne goes unrecognized. An awkward beauty, Ross transforms from glamorous to geeky to goofball in a single episode.
Complementing Ross's comic talent, as in previous seasons, the funniest character is not a girlfriend at all, but the guy friend, William Dent (Reggie Hayes). A Republican attorney and business partner to Joan, William also defies stereotyping. In another context, perhaps, William's authenticity as a black man might be called into question. Here however, William, whose demeanor is reminiscent of comedian Dave Chappelle performing whiteness, is just another example of difference that emanates from the African-American experience. Nonetheless, in "Bad Blood" the show does offer self-conscious recognition of William's affect, and cleverly plays upon competing images of blackness, taunting William with an alter ego that is a "cooler" version of himself.
Girlfriends returned for an eighth and final season, which ended prematurely due to the writer's strike. That it survived as long as it did is credit to a show that gives us multilayered and flawed characters who contribute to the ongoing struggle over the meaning of blackness.
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What Happened
The Leafs (3-0-1) will surely take the three of four available points they earned after visits this week from the Calgary Flames (3-2 comeback win) and Colorado Avalanche (3-2 OT loss) produced a pair of flat starts and highlighted some of the club's inherent flaws. On the positive side of the ledger, Phil Kessel (six goals, three assists) continued his scorching hot start as part of a suddenly-dynamic top line and Dion Phaneuf's +8 leads all NHL skaters. But as the top line becomes increasingly potent, the reverse seems to be occurring for the previously reliable Clarke MacArthur-Mikhail Grabovski-Nikolai Kulemin line, who have yet to regain the chemistry that made them so dangerous last season.
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Kessel Gets Assertive
Kessel's early production shows that there is a fine line when it comes to success and failure in sports. For much of last season, the 24-year old winger (who, by the way, looks about 54 in person right now) was considered to be forcing play and not letting the game come to him on account of having to cope with lesser linemates (no, he never even suggested as much openly) and shoulder more of the load. Fast forward to this year and it's hard to see many changes beyond the whole productive part. Sure, he's comfortable with Joffrey Lupul and even Tyler Bozak so far, but that doesn't make either of them world beaters. And there he is, still skating into one-on-five situations and firing practically anything he touches inside the blue line at the net. But instead of "forcing play", he is now 'aggressive' and 'opportunistic'. Kessel's goal-scoring streak won't last forever, nor will he be able to maintain his ridiculous 37.5% shooting percentage over the course of a whole season, but it'll be hard to fault him any longer for trying to do too much when it's clear that – given the right circumstances – it can work.
Aren't These Guys Supposed to Be Young?
Much has been made of the youth of the club, with the Star's Mark Zwolinski pointing out that Jeff Finger remains the only player in the organization to have reached his 31st birthday. While that should bode well for the future of the club, shouldn't it also help offer an energy boost in the meantime? These Leafs seem to rise to the occasion when need be (see the second period comeback against Calgary and Kulemin's late goal against Colorado), but take an awfully long time to get into gear. On Saturday, the Flames opened the scoring with two first period goals within 1:22 of each other. On Monday, the Avs were even more dominant early on, taking the first three shots on goal and having six others either blocked or narrowly miss the net, all the while keeping play in Toronto's zone for nearly all of the game's first six minutes. Credit the Leafs' defence with a dedicated shot-blocking effort, but Toronto simply needs to emerge with more fire early on. Also worth noting is that the club has now grabbed seven of eight points in their first four games despite having yet to put together a full, 60-minute effort.
Lombardi Up to the Top?
Don't read too much into Matthew Lombardi's place centring Kessel and Lupul during the third period of Monday's game. The Leafs were in need of an offensive spark (and they got it, although that came thanks to the second line) and Ron Wilson decided to provide a little jolt to get his charges going. While it does speak to the early strides that a healthy Lombardi has taken, it shouldn't carry over in the games to come. Bozak has earned at least a temporary reprieve as the top pivot until Tim Connolly can return to action (and maybe even after that) and Lombardi doesn't need to be rushed along into higher pressure situations just yet as he continues to get his timing back from post-concussion issues. Plus, he has found a comfortable role among the bottom six and on the penalty kill as a two-way player who has shown he can use his speed to contribute in both ends. Let's not forget – as much as his speed would seem to offer a complimentary presence to that of Kessel, he isn't the type of offence-first forward that should be centring a top line.
No Man Advantage
Having a suddenly potent offensive attack, boasting the league's leading scorer, hasn't made for any more power play success on the part of the Leafs. Aside from two goals scored while one man up against Ottawa, the team is 0-12 on the PP this season (their unit ranks 23rd league-wide over-all). Kessel and Phaneuf's offensive efforts with the man advantage have been somewhat mitigated by the lack of a presence in front of the net, something that has been strangely lacking from Brian Burke's supposedly truculent teams. Mike Brown has tried to mix it up in front of the opposing goaltender, but doesn't see much power play time. Lupul may be the man for the job, but he has been fairly successful sliding into a slot position during most of his line's time in the opponent's zone. Perhaps the best-suited Leaf would be Robert Steckel, whose 6'6" frame could disrupt plenty of netminders and who finds himself in the odd PP situation already thanks to his faceoff skills. Am I missing something as to why he isn't being planted in front?
What's Coming Up
Vs. Winnipeg (Wednesday); @ Boston (Thursday); @ Montreal (Saturday); @ Philadelphia (Monday)
If the season's first five games represent the cream puff portion of the schedule, the next four are the jaw-breaker portion. From five home dates spread out over 14 days with just one game pitting them against a 2010-11 playoff team, they move on to a four-game road stretch (the above games plus a visit to Madison Square Garden next Thursday) against a quintet of playoff teams, including the defending champs, the 2009-10 Cup finalists, a Saturday night date at the raucous Bell Centre and a battle with the winners of the Brad Richards sweepstakes. Nazem Kadri won't be back in time for tonight's Jets tilt, but might find himself in the line-up during the road trip.
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TU 025 Keishi Bukuryo Gan for Post-menopausal Hot Flash Management
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Hot Flashes Menopause |
Drug: TU 025 Keishi Bukuryo Gan |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | TU 025 Keishi Bukuryo Gan for Post-Menopausal Hot Flash Management |
- frequency and severity of hot flashes by Mayo Hot Flash Diary
- sleep quality by the Pittsburgh Questionnaire
- bodyweight/BMI by standard measurements
- quality of menopausal life by Greene Climacteric Scale
- lipid profile by laboratory test
- liver function profile by laboratory test
- hormone profile by laboratory test
Estimated Enrollment: | 180 |
Study Start Date: | November 2004 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | February 2006 |
Menopause is a natural transition in a woman's hormonal state associated with the cessation of ovulation and menstruation. For approximately 80% of peri-menopausal women, menopause may be defined by the experience of uncomfortable symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, dyspareunia, urinary frequency, sleep disturbance, fatigue, depression and anxiety.
Hot flashes are the most common complaint of perimenopausal and postmenopausal Western women. Approximately 10-20% of postmenopausal women find such symptoms nearly intolerable. Nearly one-third of postmenopausal women experience disruptive hot flashes for 5 years after natural menopause and approximately 20% experience hot flashes for 15 years.
Menopause has been understood as an estrogen deficiency state from which women are placed at great risk for osteoporosis, colon cancer and heart disease. For symptom management, as well as for disease prevention, the medical response for 20 years has been hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In recent years, as many as 38% of US women between ages 50 and 74 years were using HRT.
For menopause hormone therapy, in 2005, counseling patients from an evidence-based perspective means informing patients of the significantly increased risk of dementia, breast cancer,endometrial cancer,venous thromboembolism and gallbladder disease. Additionally, physicians must also state that hormone therapy increases the risk of cardiovascular events (heart attack or strokes) in women with or without pre-existing heart disease. Furthermore, well-done studies demonstrate that hormone therapy does not enhance health-related quality of life.
For this reason, there is great interest in non-hormonal alternatives for menopausal hot flash management. The current standard of care, based on controlled clinical trials in women with breast cancer, is the use of SSRI anti-depressants such as venlafaxine. However, many women seek other options.
In Japan, TJ25 Keishi Bukuryo Gan is a leading non-hormonal prescription agent for management of menopausal hot flashes. However, no clinical data exists on its effectiveness in American women.
This is a pilot phase II clinical study to estimate the effectiveness of TU-25 Keishi Bukuryo Gan for reduction of both the severity and the frequency of hot flashes in healthy postmenopausal American women. This study will also estimate the best dose and determine the common short-term side effects and risks.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 45 Years to 58 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Post-menopausal women aged 45-58 with an adequate hot flash frequency severity score. Post-menopause is defined as amenorrhea for at least 12 months, or post-hysterectomy for more than one year with follicle-stimulating hormone levels greater than or equal to 40 mIU/mL and estradiol (E2) levels of less than or equal to 20 pg/mL, or greater than two months post oophorectomy.
- All subjects must be up to date with both pap and mammogram screening by the US Preventative Services Taskforce Guidelines for the length of the trial.
- All subjects on any prescription medication need the approval of their prescribing physician for participation in the trial.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concurrent hot flash therapies (prescription medications including hormones, antidepressants, SERMs, gabapentin or over the counter supplements)
- Moderately severe disease state(s) or diseases that affect absorption/metabolism, or diseases that mimic menopausal hot flashes.
- Inability to swallow vitamin size pills
- Beck depression inventory score greater than 11
- Greater than 10 cigarettes per day
- Abnormal liver function
- Treated or untreated hypertension greater than 160/90.
- BMI greater than 36
- Inability to give consent or commit to the length of the trial
- Known hypersensitivity to ingredients
- Physician judgment
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00119418
United States, Minnesota | |
University of Minnesota General Clinical Research Center | |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455 |
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00119418 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | July 4, 2005 |
Last Updated: | October 25, 2010 |
Keywords provided by Plotnikoff, Gregory A., M.D.:
hot flash menopause herbal medicine kampo alternative medicine |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hot Flashes Signs and Symptoms |
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An Acupuncture Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study on Chronic Pain: Response Reliability and Dose Effect
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First received: March 1, 2010
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In this proposal, we plan to dynamically investigate brain response to verum acupuncture (of two different "doses") and placebo acupuncture, using a paradigm that approximates clinical acupuncture practice across multiple treatment sessions in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients. This proposal aims to: 1) characterize session-to-session brain responses to verum / sham acupuncture treatment (reliability of response) for OA patients, and 2) investigate how different "doses" of acupuncture influence brain response and acupuncture efficacy (impact of dose). The findings of this project will deepen our biological understanding on why and how acupuncture can treat chronic pain and what happens in the brain during the multiple-session acupuncture treatment.
Condition | Intervention |
Osteoarthritis, Knee |
Device: acupuncture |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Basic Science |
Official Title: | An Acupuncture fMRI Study on Chronic Pain: Response Reliability and Dose Effect |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- fMRI signal changes evoked by different modes acupuncture stimulation [ Time Frame: 5-7 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- subjective knee pain rating changes after different treatment [ Time Frame: 5-7 week ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 36 |
Study Start Date: | January 2010 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | March 2014 |
Primary Completion Date: | September 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: High dose acupuncture
six needle applied during acupuncture
Device: acupuncture
patient will receive high dose, low dose or sham acupuncture treatment.
Experimental: Low dose acupuncture
two needles will be applied.
Device: acupuncture
patient will receive high dose, low dose or sham acupuncture treatment.
Placebo Comparator: placebo acupuncture
sham acupuncture treatment will be applied
Device: acupuncture
patient will receive high dose, low dose or sham acupuncture treatment.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 40 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Volunteers 40-70 years of age.
- Meet the Classification Criteria of the American College of Rheumatology for osteoarthritis of the left / right knee for at least the past 3 months, as determined by the referring physician.
- Radiographic evidence of Grade 2 or 3 knee OA using the Kellgren-Lawrence Scale [78, 85-87].
- Patients must have moderate or greater clinically significant pain on most days during the past month (more than 15 days out of 30, of average daily pain of >3/10) in the left or right knee.
- At least a 10th grade English-reading level; English can be a second language provided that the patients feel they understand all the questions used in the assessment measures.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any interventional procedure for knee pain, including corticosteroid injections (within 6 months, [88]) to the knee.
- Prior acupuncture treatment for any condition. Because we are using a placebo needle as a control, acupuncture-naive patients are necessary to maximize the benefits of blinding and to control expectancy.
- The intent to undergo surgery during the time of involvement in the study.
- Presence of any illness or medication use that is judged to interfere with the trial. For example: skin irritations around the knee such as psoriasis; bleeding disorders or anticoagulant use that would be contraindications for acupuncture; opioids or benzodiazepines, which may alter pain sensitivity and BOLD response.
- Knee pain due to other causes, such as inflammation or malignancy, other pain disorders that may refer pain to the leg, OA of ipsilateral hip, diagnosis of RA.
- Non-ambulatory status.
- History of cardiac, respiratory, or nervous system disease that, in the investigator's judgment, precludes participation in the study because of a heightened potential for adverse outcome. For example: asthma or claustrophobia.
- Presence of any contraindications to fMRI scanning. For example: cardiac pacemaker, metal implants, fear of closed spaces, pregnancy.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01079390
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01079390
United States, Massachusetts | |
Massachusetts General Hosptial | |
Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States, 02129 |
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Principal Investigator: | Jian Kong | Massachusetts General Hosptial |
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Responsible Party: | Jian Kong, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01079390 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
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Study First Received: | March 1, 2010 |
Last Updated: | May 15, 2013 |
Keywords provided by Massachusetts General Hospital:
acupuncture osteoarthritis fMRI |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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A student branch of ASME has been established on the Rose-Hulman campus. All students who are enrolled full time at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology are eligible for membership and, after entering, will receive a subscription to "Mechanical Engineering," ASME's monthly publication. Upon graduation, the student member becomes eligible for regular membership in this professional society.
The purpose of the student chapter of ASME is to give students an opportunity to exchange ideas and be exposed to professional mechanical engineering. Activities include regular meetings, community service events, and the annual spring regional student conference. Student members are also eligible to receive scholarships and financial aid sponsored by ASME, access to the ASME job board, and discounted fees for professional development seminars hosted by ASME.
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Birmingham's drama group for deaf and hearing actors, Integreat, presented me with a very interesting notion with their performance of Mirror last year.
The production was unlike any other I'd seen, amateur or otherwise. The story, very cleverly written and performed, depicted a world where the norms had been reversed and its effects were mirrored.
In this life it was 'normal' to be deaf and anything other than this was disabled. The complete opposite of the world today!
Mirror followed the life of a couple who were expecting their second child. A 'normal' deaf family, they enjoyed a great social life, conversing with their community in British Sign Language and their eldest daughter received a great education in her first language, surrounded by friends.
Soon after the birth of their second daughter, a doctor approached the couple to inform them that something was 'wrong' with their baby girl. "She's hearing," he told them.
The parents were given very little information on the choices available to their daughter, fearing that she would never be able to fully access their 'deaf world.'
They soon took their child home where they met with relatives and close friends. On receiving the news that she was different, they could only offer three words – "I'm so sorry."
Mirror continued to depict the struggles this young girl faced. The language barriers when starting school, the bullying, the loneliness, the identity crisis. Everything that an awful lot of deaf children encounter when stepping into a hearing world.
And in Mirror we saw how the young hearing girl felt such a sense of relief when she met others like her. She was encouraged to join a 'hearing club' and she was able to celebrate her own verbal language, even though her family all communicated in a different way.
The beauty of Mirror was that it presented the trials that deaf people face in such a thoughtful, unique way that I couldn't help but smile at how easy life would be for us if things were the other way round.
If only schools delivered all of their lessons in sign language. If only all the shop keepers and bus drivers and waitresses of the world could sign too. And if only we were seen as 'normal.'
And with the majority of deaf children being born to hearing parents I can only hope that with plays like Mirror and more information on offer that deaf awareness is gradually increasing. Perhaps in this way it won't be so daunting for new parents to discover their child has a hearing loss.
On a personal note I hope that diagnoses are no longer responded to with such sympathy, nor with those dreaded words of apology. Deafness may prevent us from being able to hear fully, but it does not prevent us from enjoying and living our life, provided we are given fair opportunities and equal access.
With thanks to Angie and the Integreat team for their insightful production. For more information on Integreat see www.integreattheatre.org.uk
Rebecca-Anne Withey is an actress, sign singer and tutor of performing arts. A black country girl at heart, she now resides in Derby where she works in both performance art and holistic therapies. She writes on varied topics close to her heart in the hope that they may serve to inspire others.
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James L. Lynch, 74, of East Stroudsburg, died Saturday morning, June 22, 2013, at Golden Living Center in East Stroudsburg. He was the husband of Ruth V. (Crolius) Lynch, with whom he celebrated 52 years of marriage on June 18.
Born on Feb. 6, 1939, in Englewood, N.J., he was the only child of the late James J. and Mildred E. (MacNamara) Lynch.
He was self-employed in carpet sales and installation.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children: Scot Lynch and his wife, Desiree, of Ridgefield, Conn.; Susanne Organ and her husband, Steve, of Alameda, Calif.; Gary Lynch and his wife, Vanessa, of Andover, N.J.; and Katherine Bennett and her husband, Greg, of Philadelphia; and three grandchildren: Ophelia, Maxine and Nicholas Lynch.
There will be no local services; however, a memorial service will be held at Riewerts Memorial Home in Bergenfield, N.J., at a date and time to be announced by the family.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial remembrances be made to the American Cancer Society, 2158 W. Main St., Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
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Virtual Fibre Channel for NPIV Requires Memory too!
N-Port Id Virtualisation (NPIV) and virtual Fibre Channel adapters - like high speed physical adapters (see an earlier blog) do require memory to operator at full speed. NPIV effectively turns the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) into a kind of virtual SAN switch where packets are passed through with no changes from the physical adapter to the client Virtual Machine (LPAR). I found it very hard to find a recommendation in the documentation but was given a rule of thumb. As before it should be noted that starving the VIOS and the Hypervisor of... [More]
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The LPAR term is dead - Long live the Virtual Server / Machine
I am not making a claim to fame (OK, I am really) but the UK Power Systems Advanced Technical Support group (that is me and Gareth) dropped the term "LPAR" or Logical Partition as a New Years resolution. We like to occasionally test to see if we can influence other IBMers and the IT Industry. We now in 2011 onwards use the terms: Virtual Server - this is the term used by Systems Director for over three years. While I can live with that name but the abbreviation of VS - it just does not feel or sound right. Virtual Machine - this... [More]
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Whole Power Server + Virtual Server Monitoring - Part 1 via Systems Director
I get email a few times a week like "Nigel, what do you recommend for getting a good view of what the whole Power Server is doing, what resources are free for reuse for further Virtual Machines and which Virtual Machines are busy" My detailed thoughts are on the DeveloperWorks AIX wiki here: AIX Other Performance Tools but it appears no one reads websites any more, so I thought I would blog a few examples by screen capture to illuminate what is available. My first Whole Power Server and Virtual Server view recommendation is Systems... [More]
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Whole Power Server + Virtual Server Monitoring - Part 2 via lpar2rrd
LPAR2RRD Briefly, Based on the same HMC data that Systems Director gathers is LPAR2RRD but it saves the data in the famous and excellent rrdtool database and graphing tools. This is a supported by the developer which is Pavel Hampl, IBM Czech republic, as a personal project tool and does a very good job. For more details and a sample website to look round see - AIX Wiki page for LPAR2RRD I note this is a sourceforge.net project now - See the above for a link to the project and code Cut from that AIX wiki page for the project here (all... [More]
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Whole Power Server + Virtual Server Monitoring - Part 3 via topas CEC analyser
We have all probably seen or used the topas CEC on-screen view (topas -C command). This is started while logged into one AIX Virtual Server (LPAR) and shows all the other AIX or VIOS (as it is based on AIX) Virtual Servers of a single Power Server. Here is a reminder - this is on-line, on-screen and updated every 10 seconds or so: Here my Virtual Servers are called purple<something> and below the top machine summary we have a line for each Virtual Server and stats like AIX release, memory use, CPU stats (PhysB is the Physical CPU time... [More]
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PowerVM Virtual I/O Server - Recommended Levels
While I was installing a re-purposed POWER6 machine over the weekend, got round to installing my Dual Virtual I/O Servers, from DVD and then upgrading from there and I noticed a new service pack 2 for the latest VIOS version. It must have sneaked out without me noticing and there is a Interim fix too. The VIOS 188.8.131.52-FP24 SP2 Readme highlights lots of fixes including some for the Shared Storage Pool feature. A feature that I have been using and talking about (see this blog for more information). This got me thinking! I talk to lots... [More]
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Rule of Thumb: Sizing the Virtual I/O Server
I often get asked: How large to make a pair of Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)? The classic consultant answer is "it depends on what you are doing with Disk & Network I/O" is not very useful to the practical guy that has to size a machine including the VIOS nor the person defining the VIOS partition to install it! Added new guidance at the bottom in RED Observations : The VIOS server unfairly gets a bad press but note: Physical adapters are now in the VIOS, so device driver CPU cycles (normally hidden and roughly half of the OS CPU... [More]
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AIX Virtual Processor Folding is Misunderstood
This mysterious AIX CPU Folding area is often misunderstood, so below is what I know from osmosis from talking to various guru level developers over the last 10 years. Shared Processor virtual machines (LPARs for the old fashioned) have a setting called Virtual Processors (or VP for short). This is the number of physical CPUs that the virtual machines can spread out across - in fact, I prefer to call it the "spreading factor" as it is much more obvious what it means. This can be the upper threshold for the number of CPUs that can be... [More]
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PowerVM Virtual Ethernet Speed is often confused with VIOS, SEA IVE/HEA speed
Update in 2016: Please note this blog is from 2011 during the initial POWER7 days and technology has moved on with faster CPUs and memory in addition there has been software improvements. I am amazed how many good computer people read this and assume this blog is true to all time! Virtual Ethernet is faster now but there is also a warning here. Here is an analogy. Most vehicles can do 10 MPH (including me on a bike), most cars can do 100 MPH (including my family car) but very few vehicles can do 1000 MPH. That last times ten multiplier is... [More]
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PowerVM has multiple internal Virtual Ethernet Switches - Info please?
This is a follow on to a previous blog on " PowerVM Virtual Ethernet Speed is often confused with VIOS, SEA IVE/HEA speed "- here is a Direct Link I regularly get asked : "I have just heard about this [PowerVM virtual switch | vSwitch | Hypervisor Ethernet Switch] is available but I can't find out any information at all, help!" They are wanting to run two (or more) virtual switches within the one Power machine to completely separate the network packets of groups of virtual machines (LPARs) so they know for sure there can... [More]
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Local, Nar & Far Memory part 5 - Low Entitlement has a Bad Side Effect
The title should read "Local, Near & Far ..." - I will not correct it or links might fail. With a shared processor virtual machine (I am calling this "VM" but was called LPAR!) there are various suggestions of setting Entitlement ("Desired processing units" on the LPAR profile on the HMC, I am calling this "E") and Virtual Processor numbers (I am calling this "VP"). For Capped, the Entitlement is the maximum guaranteed CPU time that you can't go over and you round up the Entitlement to the... [More]
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Local, Nar & Far Memory part 6 - Too High a Virtual Processor number has a Bad Side Effect
The title should read "Local, Near & Far ..." - I will not correct it or links might fail. In this entry we carry on from part 5 but we are going to look at setting the virtual processor number for the virtual machine . There is a side effect that is not obvious and after 6 years of using them, it never occurred to me so perhaps it is news to others too. The problem of virtual processors is that they are ephemeral - i.e. they don't actually exist and costs nothing. So I find most systems administrators feel they can be generous... [More]
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Local, Near & Far Memory part 7 - VM placement also needs RAM
We all tend to concentrate on the CPU first and the memory second. CPUs, as the "brains" of the machine, does get a high focus and have a lot of extreme technology within it but the RAM is the "guts" of the machine to "feed" the CPU with nutrient data. OK, let us stop the analogy there :-) Along with reducing the number of CPUs via a lower virtual processor count, we also need to have the CPUs matching the memory - so AIX has a fighting change to localise a running process to its home SRAD and thus have it's data... [More]
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Local, Near & Far Memory part 8 - Dynamic LPAR changes can mess up your placement
After you have started and used your virtual machine (VM) for a while, you may decide to change its size using a Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR) change from the HMC (or SDMC or IVM, of course). This has virtual machine placement implications. When shrinking your VM, the hypervisor will decide which CPU or memory (LBM) to release and it might not select what you think is the obvious choice. When enlarging your VM, we might thing there is an obvious way to grow in a balanced way but we can't see: 1) where physically our virtual machine is placed in the... [More]
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Local, Near & Far Memory part 9 - Firmware Updates
The Hypervisor makes the virtual machine (LPAR) placement decisions and changes during DLPAR. The Hypervisor is part of the Power Systems Firmware. The POWER7 machines first arrived in the early months of 2010. Since then we have had a lot of field experience with the larger machines with large configurations with large applications and tens of thousands of processes running and in particularly the machines with all three layers of memory - which are the Power 770, Power 780 and Power 795. From this experience, the POWER developers have... [More]
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Local, Near, Far part 10 - Final of the table by Model
Finally, I have the types of memory by POWER7 model double checked. I refreshed the table in part 1 but thought I should make sure every one sees the final version so I have not mislead people. Only the Power 770/780 and Power 797 have Near memory. All the smaller machine operate a Local memory meaning on the same same POWER7 chip and Far memory for any access to another POWER7 chip's memory.
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mpstat -d and the undocumented stats
I just realised that I got help from the AIX developers to explain the output of the mpstat -d command for my POWER7 and Affinity Technical University sessions in Miami and Copenhagen that I never passed on to every one. In an earlier blog we examined some mpstat columns but skipped others. The nearly undocumented mpstat stats are: S0rd, S1rd, S2rd, S3rd, S4rdand S5rd. In the AIX manuals it states: S0rd = The percentage of thread re-dispatches
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Local, Near & Far POWER7 Affinity Nine Conclusions
I thought I should summarise the long eleven part Local, Near & Far POWER7 Affinity series. 1) Placement: Find out the layout of your boxes CPU and RAM and if the RAM is evenly distributed across available DIMMs Find out the placement of your Virtual Machines (LPARs) with lssrad -av - or - topas -M 2) SMT4 : Expect POWER7 SMT4 CPU use to "look" different POWER5 & 6 have two equal threads POWER7 shuts down threads 3 & 4 and even thread 2 - when there is not enough processes running. 3) Entitlement : Only set minimum Entitlements,... [More]
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Don't miss out on the AIX Virtual User Group sessions & replays
I have been touring cities in Europe: Birmingham for the 4 day Technical University, Manchester, central London and Dublin for the Ask the Experts 1 day event and last week Copenhagen for a POWER & AIX User group Technical Event. I have had about 250 to 300 people in my sessions and asked every time - How knows about the AIX Virtual User Group and only had about 30 people put their hands up. I am amazed how few people have found this invaluable resource. The organiser, Joe Armstrong an IBMer, set-ups up roughly monthly world wide... [More]
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Adverts for Virtual User Groups - AIX and PowerVM
I highly recommend the AIX Virtual User Group run by Joe Armstrong that roughly has a hot topic Webinar session once a month. Typically, there is 300 to 700 online to the session, many include a demo and there are Slides and Replay downloadable if you miss one or look back over the previous 70 or more sessions and want an update. On the larger hot topics there are lots of questions and answers handled during the session. Officially, it is called the USA AIX Virtual User group but they take registrations from around the world but schedule for... [More]
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I'm not sure it doesn't make sense, especially not capitalized. Take a game like the original Deus Ex, for example. Sure, it wasn't a fully interactive world, but within a level, you could go to hundreds of places, some of them useful, some of them less so. I spent hours on each level, going everywhere, just checking everything out. But I didn't have to. I could also have just gone to the objectives and done the mission. Add the extra interactivity, and some detail to make it interesting, but non-essential, to explore around a bit.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has delayed a plan to shoot thousands of badgers to stop the spread of tuberculosis in cattle in the face of overwhelming public opposition to the cull.
Critics of the cull, which was supported by farmers, said it would be ineffective, not least because fleeing badgers would simply spread the disease beyond the pilot areas in southwest England where it had been due to begin shortly.
The debate is a sensitive one in Britain, where the mass slaughter of cattle to control disease in livestock has left deep scars in farming communities following outbreaks of other diseases over the past two decades.
Last year, 26,000 affected cattle were slaughtered and the disease cost taxpayers 90 million pounds ($145 million), including compensation to farmers.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said on Tuesday the delay had been due to surveys showing a higher number of badgers than thought in the afflicted areas. The opposition Labour party branded it a further example of government ineptitude after several blunders this month.
"The farmers delivering this (culling) have concluded that they cannot be confident that it will be possible to remove enough badgers based on these higher numbers," Paterson told parliament.
"It would be wrong to go ahead if those on the ground cannot be confident of removing at least 70 percent of the badger populations."
Public opposition to the cull has been widespread, with more than 150,000 people signing an online protest petition initiated by former Queen guitarist Brian May.
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have fallen further behind Labour in the polls and critics say they are increasingly seen as both incompetent and out of touch with ordinary voters.
One of Cameron's senior ministers resigned after he was accused of calling police "plebs", a condescending insult for working people. A botched attempt to find a private company to run a railway line and a Cameron statement on energy bills that sowed confusion have added to the government's problems.
"Labour has warned the government for two years that a cull was bad for farmers, bad for taxpayers and bad for wildlife, and it is right that it has been delayed," opposition environment spokeswoman Mary Creagh said.
Paterson said that while the government remained committed to vaccinating cattle against TB, the vaccine was not yet fully developed, and so the shooting would start next summer.
Animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the night-time shooting and police leave had been canceled until the New Year in one of the areas for fear of violence.
(Reporting by Peter Schwartzstein; Editing by Alison Williams)