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Hawke's Bay Fish and Game are urging hunters to obey the rules and regulations for game bird hunting and be a responsible firearm owner and user.
"We're lucky in New Zealand to be able to practise the tradition of game bird hunting," Hawke's Bay Fish and Game general manger Pete McIntosh said.
"It's more than just pulling that trigger - it's about socialising with friends and family and enjoying the outdoors, of which we are blessed with here in the Bay."
The new season is also the busiest time of the year for hunting shops as hunters buy ammo, licences and the latest gadgets to attract ducks to their ponds.
"Adults become kids again as they drool over all the new toys at the shop," Hastings's Rivers to Ranges owner Jeremy Hanaray said.
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Mickey, meet Spidey. Donald, meet Deadpool. Goofy, say hello to the Hulk. Please, try not to make him angry.
Too late. Rick Munarriz and I are dueling again, and this time we're pitting Marvel Entertainment
That's right: I said sell.
Puny mouse! Marvel SMASH!
Think I'm crazy for writing that? I can understand. Disney is one of America's best known and most-beloved brands. My boys were watching "House of Mouse" on the Disney Channel when I was last upstairs for a coffee refill.
And Disney is a movie-making star. But so is Marvel. If it weren't, why would Viacom's
Here's why: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a film made mostly for comic book fans and action geeks, has grossed $172 million domestically and $342 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. Hugh Jackman's cranky mutant with the Cuisinart claws has been a global winner.
Better still: Wolverine cost roughly $150 million to make. How delighted do you think Rupert Murdoch is with these numbers? If your answer is "very," grab a lollipop from the bowl at the front of the class.
May I see your license please, Mr. Mouse?
Disney's characters are also a worldwide phenomenon, of course. My point is that the gulf between Marvel and Disney as licensing franchises, while huge in terms of dollars, shows signs of tightening. Iron Man has been spotted in Japan. Spidey is headed for Broadway. Captain America is being welcomed in Dubai. Even Bollywood wants more of Marvel.
In addition, the math is interesting. License Global magazine says Disney was last year's No. 1 consumer brand worldwide, responsible for $30 billion in sales. Marvel was fourth with $5.7 billion in sales, a shade behind the $6 billion generated by Time Warner's
Disney's licensing operation is 5.3 times bigger than Marvel's -- but its market cap is 16.6 times bigger. Please think about that for a minute.
Yes, Disney has a more pervasive business than Marvel. Yes, it produces a lot more licensing revenue than does Marvel. But is this gulf really fair? I can see 10 times, certainly -- Disney is well-established enough to deserve that sort of premium -- but more than 16 times? I don't buy it, especially when Marvel is growing faster and proving its model with each successive project.
To be fair, Disney looks like the cheaper stock in relative terms, with a 13.6 price-to-earnings ratio. Marvel, by contrast, trades for 13.9 times trailing earnings. Not much of a gulf, is it?
Why the House of Mouse isn't as cheap as you think
In fact, Marvel deserves the higher multiple. Not only is it growing faster -- Marvel's net income has risen more than 30% annually over the past three years, versus 9.6% for Disney over the same period -- but Marvel also earns dramatically more from every dollar of capital it deploys:
Return on Capital by Year |
Disney* |
Marvel |
Trailing 12 months |
7.7% |
42.5% |
2008 |
9.6% |
40.3% |
2007 |
9% |
44% |
2006 |
7.7% |
19.9% |
2005 |
6.1% |
24.3% |
Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.
* Disney totals organized by fiscal year, which typically ends on Sept. 30.
Sometimes, the sequel is better than the original. Rocky II was better than Rocky. The Empire Strikes Back was better than Star Wars. Spider-Man 2 was better than Spider-Man. The Dark Knight was better than Batman Begins.
Among entertainment stocks, Marvel is the sequel, and it's better than Disney.
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In what she describes as her "short 30 years" of working in the health care system, Cathy E. Duquette has always attempted to view the workplace as a place where a team environment, partnerships and collaborations can triumph.
And thanks in large measure to that attitude, Duquette has been named an industry leader in health care services for the Providence Business News 2013 Business Women Awards program.
For instance, Duquette's response to the award was to frame it in terms of an accomplishment of her team. "I'm being recognized for what I've been able to do working as part of an incredible team. It's never been myself working alone, but as part of a great team," Duquette said. "It's satisfying to be recognized for the work that I've been able to do with others."
Duquette, who is the executive vice president for nursing affairs at Lifespan Corp. and senior vice president and chief quality officer at Rhode Island Hospital, began her career as a registered nurse.
Her work in quality control was a natural outgrowth of her passion "to fiercely advocate" for patients, improving care and improving outcomes, she explained. "I have to say that quality has always been my passion, even before it was [introduced] in the health care arena," Duquette said. "I was very interested in the impact of what I did as an individual nurse to improve overall patient safety and care from a broader perspective."
Her mentor, Duquette said, was her mother, who was also a nurse, working in the maternity ward at what was then Kent County Hospital. Today, Duquette said she serves as a mentor to her daughter, who is also a nurse.
She said she learned from her mother that "nursing was a great opportunity. She was my strongest mentor; she encouraged me to go to school and she made sure I did."
"I had the honor to turn around and become a mentor to my daughter, who choose nursing as a career, and help her succeed in an incredibly rewarding profession," Duquette said.
Duquette complemented her basic education, a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Rhode Island, and her clinical experience with first a master's degree in nursing administration from URI and then a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Massachusetts.
Edward Quinlan, president of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island, hired Duquette to fill a new position to help design a hospital public-reporting program that became a model that was replicated across the nation.
"Cathy came to us at a time when the quality movement was ascending in our state and throughout the nation, and we had created a new position to respond to that," Quinlan said. "She brought to us someone who had achieved a strong career in quality improvement and patient safety. And, through her excellent work with us, her strong career became an outstanding career."
In helping to design a hospital public-reporting model for Rhode Island, Quinlan said, Duquette helped to forge close working relationships with the legislative leaders and state regulators that were critical to the success of the program.
For Quinlan, words of praise about Duquette's leadership role in improving patient care and safety in Rhode Island came easily, he said.
"Cathy has really initiated so many new efforts to improve patients' safety," he said. He cited her work in creating the ICU Collaborative, designed in collaboration with the Rhode Island Quality Institute and Healthcentric Advisors. "Every ICU bed in every hospital throughout Rhode Island participated in the initiative; it achieved remarkable results. She has a strong will and determination to see new ideas and new models of care developed to better the patient experience for all Rhode Islanders."
Some of her other major achievements were her work on the Rhode Island Hospital's Operational Excellence Program in 2010; her leadership of Rhode Island Hospital's successful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services full validation survey; and her work helping Newport Hospital attain Magnet Redesignation in 2009.
In talking with colleagues in health services about the coming challenges of implementing health care reform, Duquette said that the conversations often boil down to two perspectives. Nurses in one camp, she said, say that they wish they were at an age when they could retire, because the challenges they face now are so perplexing.
The other camp, in which Duquette places herself, "believes that these challenging times are some of the most exciting in our careers. When we are able to work through them we will be in such a better place."
One of the major problems, Duquette said, is the way the current system is structured. "We get paid for volume, for units of service. We don't get paid for value. We don't get paid to promote health and wellness," she said.
An important component of the future solution, Duquette said, "is the establishment of partnerships," creating a continuum of care that can provide all levels of services that an individual needs. •
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MTP's David Gregory Does Journalism, Some Citizens Want His Arrest
from the welcome-to-the-stupid-show dept
The moderator of Meet The Press found himself the subject of a D.C. Metro PD inquiry over his prop use of high-capacity rifle magazines during an interview with an NRA representative. The inquiry being one thing, there's also a completely misguided White House petition floating around asking for the immediate arrest of Gregory.
David Gregory is not above the law; he is a journalist, and must be held accountable to the same law as every other person.I admit, it's difficult to know where to begin. Let's start with MTP's use of the magazines as props. It turns out that the show's producers might make the dean's list for dumb this year. They did indeed get permission to use the props on the show, but they only got permission from the ATF, not local law enforcement, where those magazines are illegal. Stupid, but that kind of thing happens in show business, I suppose.
DC High Capacity Ammunition Magazines - D.C. Official Code 7-2506.01 (b) No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. For the purposes of this subsection, the term large capacity ammunition feeding device means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
We The People demand that he be formally charged for violation of this law on "Meet The Press."
Now, dealing with the petition itself. It's just pickles that someone from Boise, Idaho is so whole-heartedly concerned with Metro D.C. gun laws that they need to start a petition to get the White House involved. Either that, or people are having more of those over-the-top reactions to a tragedy I mentioned earlier. Not to mention, as the linked article notes, attempting to get the Obama administration involved in any of this is simply futile.
The drive to lock Gregory up still needs about 15,000 signers, but in the mean time, let's clear this up. Although the White House could certainly apply political pressure to the D.C. government, it has no direct purview over the Metropolitan Police Department's investigations. To boot, Gregory held up the magazine as an example of the kind of ammunition used in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and in the wake of that carnage, President Obama has moved toward making gun control a key issue in his second term. So, yeah, demanding that the White House clap David Gregory in irons is kind of dumb. Let's instead focus on the real villains, like CNN blabber Piers Morgan. A petition calling for his deportation back to the United Kingdom has garnered more than 82,000 signatures.Now there's a petition I can get behind.


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I'm sure by now most of our regular readers will have noticed that my byline has been a little scarce around here lately. That isn't an accident, as I'll be winding down my stewardship at NEI Nuclear Notes as well as my tenure at the Nuclear Energy Institute by the end of the week.
From here on in, day-to-day responsibility for the blog will shift my colleague, Jarret Adams, who made his blog debut last week. Jarret is a valued member of the editorial team here at NEI, known well for his work on a variety of projects. He's written Congressional testimony, speeches and is the editor of Nuclear Policy Outlook. Best of all, there isn't anyone on the editorial staff who knows more about Yucca Mountain and used nuclear fuel than Jarret.
In turn, David Bradish, who has worked hard to leverage his detailed statistical knowledge to debunk anti-nuclear claims on a regular basis, isn't going anywhere. If anything, I think you'll be seeing David more often on these pages going forward. To say the least, I think I'm leaving things in capable hands.
Don't for a second think this was an easy decision. I've enjoyed my time here at NEI, and leaving behind the blog and all the other work we've done online in the last three years has left me a little torn. The fact is, as successful as the work we've done has been, there's always more work to fo -- something I'm sure that many of my colleagues with similar responsibilities will empathize with.
So what's next for me? As of Monday, I start work at CounterPoint Strategies as Vice President. CounterPoint is a specialized media relations agency that combines assertive communication strategies and counsel to help clients confront volatile media circumstances. It's an exciting opportunity and I'm looking forward to applying everything I've learned at NEI in my new position.
For those of you who would like to stay in touch, you can reach me via e-mail at eric.mcerlain-at-gmail.com. Alternately, you can always find me on LinkedIn or Facebook.
Instead of turning this into a lengthy valedictory, I'll just simply say thank you to our readers, especially those who regularly participate in our discussion strings and make things around here so lively. I'd also like to say thanks to everyone who stumbled across our blog, and then in turn decided to start one of their own.
Back when we started almost three years ago, pro-nuclear energy blogs were few and far between, even if there was more than a little support for the industry. But now, things have gotten to the point where it's starting to get tough keeping track of all of you. Needless to say, it was something I was hoping to see and I'm gratified that our blog has so much company now.
I'd also like to thank NEI Vice President Scott Peterson and CEO Skip Bowman and my old boss Walter Hill for their unwavering support of the blog and our online outreach efforts.
Finally, I want to say thanks to the folks who work inside the nuclear energy industry. Over the past 3.5 years I've come to know many of you, and know just as well how lucky our nation is to have you on the job. Nuclear Energy is going to continue to be a vital part of America's energy mix going forward, and the work that you've done over the past several decades making it safe, affordable and reliable is going to be critical as we seek to balance our energy needs with environmental protection.
Thanks and goodbye.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Saying Goodbye
Posted by Eric McErlain at 12:05 PM
Labels: Blogging, electricity, energy, environment, media relations, Nuclear Energy, public relations, technology
9 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Sorry to see you leave, Eric. Keep defending nuke power, though. Good luck in your new job. Best wishes!
- February 13, 2008 at 6:21 PM
- johnnn said...
best of luck in your new line of work, Eric, no doubt your work at NEI has prepared you well for 'volatile' PR situations, etc!
- February 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Rod Adams said...
Thank you for all that you have done in improving the communications posture of the industry. Your blog is valuable and the web site is a wealth of well organized information.
Don't be a stranger - comments remain enabled.
Fair winds and following seas. - February 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- DV8 2XL said...
Merci pour tout. Au revoir et bonne chance dans votre nouveau poste.
DV8 - February 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Norris McDonald said...
You'll be missed by us over here at the African American Environmentalist Association. You were a great help in keeping us informed about the latest in nuclear power. Stay in touch. - February 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- JCN said...
Happy trails!
- February 14, 2008 at 9:12 PM
- Y!M dmriedinger said...
Eric, congratulations on your new endeavor and on helping to provide a strong voice on nuclear power issues. With your help, NEI has broken new ground in power sector communications, and not a moment too soon.
Dan - February 14, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Lisa Stiles said...
I'm already missing you! I truly believe the nuclear industry is greatly indebted to you for your creative vision and hard work. As Rod said, don't be a stranger.
Lisa - February 15, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- John Wheeler said...
You are a tenacious visionary, an advisor, and a friend. Thank you for all you have accomplished in seeding and nurturing what has grown into a vibrant community. Best of luck in your exciting new adventure!
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Wings beat Blues at own game
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"It appeared to me like they felt they could be physical, I thought we were physical right back," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "I didn't think that that was an issue, it's not going to be an issue with this group."
The Wings used a hit by defenseman Brad Stuart late in the first period as a wake-up call to over take the Blues en route to a 3-1 victory at Joe Louis Arena. The win – the 17th straight at home – gave the Wings an NHL-best 67 points and a three-point cushion for the overall league-lead over Central Division rivals St. Louis and Chicago.
Despite a slow start, momentum turned in the Wings' favor after Stuart delivered a clean, crushing check on Alex Pietrangelo, as the Blues' defenseman skated the puck into the Wings' zone. Moments later, Stuartsaid that has he tried to get off the ice following a long shift, Blues forward Chris Stewart grabbed them and began throwing punches.
Both players received fighting majors, but Stewart was also given an instigator penalty and a 10-minute misconduct. And as hockey justice usually has it, the Wings scored on the ensuing power play for a 1-1 tie.
"I guess he thought it was a dirty hit," Stuart said. "Seems to be now (with) big hits there's got to be a fight, which is unfortunate, but it seems that a lot of teams are going that way. I don't agree with it, but we took advantage of it and stayed disciplined."
The Wings' discipline certainly prevailed as the Blues added four more roughing penalties, and David Backes and Pietrangelo also got 10-minute misconducts – all in the third period.
"You really don't expect any hits like that but anytime that happens it definitely gets everyone involved and fired up," said Niklas Kronwall, of his defensive partner's hit. "I thought they played much better than us in the first period. They stayed on top of the puck and I don't know what we were doing, kind of just looking at each other, hoping that another guy would do it.
"But after that hit I felt that guys really took control, stayed strong on the puck and we were able to get it deep and get some more o-zone time than we did in the first."
However, the Blues indiscretions weren't limited to the first period. With the game's outcome still in the balance and the Wings clinging to a 2-1 lead, the Blues' Carlo Colaiacovo took an ill-advised roughing penalty against Darren Helm.
Just 32-seconds after Colaiacovo went to the box, Kronwall scored his 11th goal of the season, giving the Wings a league-best 33 goals-scored by a defensemen.
"Instead of them being able to pull the goalie early and really going after it I think that gave us some momentum back and we were able to hold onto the puck," Kronwall said. "I'm just glad that we were able to take advantage of it and slow some things down a little bit."
But emotions were far from slowing down, in fact, Stuart's first-period hit was like lighting a fuse to a tinderbox as the physical ante was raised with big hits in the open-ice that followed, like Helm's on T.J. Oshie and Roman Polak's hit on an off-balanced Kronwall.
In all, the teams combined for 60 hits, including 29 by the Wings, who were led by Helm (6) and Justin Abdelkader (5). But in the end, it was the team that remained disciplined that took home two big points.
"You know, we stayed disciplined and they didn't and I think that was a big part of the turnaround," Stuart said. "Their emotions got a little too high and ours weren't high enough to begin with, but we keep them in check and took advantage of some undisciplined play from them and I think that was the difference."
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USU tennis: men's team concludes season with 4-0 loss to New Mexico State at WAC Tournament on Friday
Utah State men's tennis was taken down by New Mexico State, 4-0, in a battle of the Aggies in the quarterfinal round of the Western Athletic Conference tournament Friday in Denver, Colo. USU ended the season with a regular season record of 7-14 and a WAC record of 2-4.
New Mexico State swept the singles competition. In the No. 3 singles position, Marc Westgate defeated sophomore Matt Sweet in straight sets (6-3, 6-2). In the No. 5 spot, sophomore Marcus Fritz fell to Paul Denele in straight sets (6-2, 6-0), and in the No. 6 spot junior Andrew Whiting was defeated by Patrick Pfister in straight sets (6-2, 6-0). Senior Sven Poslusny, junior Fredrik Peterson and sophomore Curran Wearmouth were left on the courts in unfinished matches.
In doubles action, Sweet and Poslusny fell to Luis Ramirez and Denele, 8-5, in the first position. In the third doubles spot, Peterson and Wearmouth were defeated by Naveen Manivannan and Yannick Blank, 8-2.
Doug Hoffman is the assistant athletic director for Utah State University Athletic Media Relations.
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Attestation d'accueil
An "Attestation d'Accueil" is a document required if you are going to France and planning to stay with friends or relatives for a period of less than 3 months.
An "Attestation d'Accueil" form (see specimen), otherwise known as a Certificate of Board & Lodging, must be obtained by your host in France if you are planning to stay with them. Your host may obtain this document from either their local Town Hall or their local police station. Your host must fill in and sign form CERFA no.10798*03 and will also have to provide the following materials:
- Identity card, passport or residence permit.
- Property deed or rental agreement.
- Recent utility bill or rental receipt.
- Evidence that their property is appropriate for lodging a guest.
- Evidence of financial support for their guest for the whole duration of their stay.
The "Attestation d'Accueil" is not required for:
- EU and EEA citizens and their family members.
- Holders of visas endorsed with "Carte de séjour à solliciter dès l'arrivée en France."
- Holders of visas endorsed with "Famille de Francais (spouse of a French citizen, child of French citizen, dependent ascendant of a French citizen)."
- Citizens of Switzerland, Andorra or Monaco
- Russian nationals hosted by Russian relatives (spouse, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren)*
- The spouse and / or minor children under 18 years of Tunisian, Moroccan or Algerian nationals, holders of a French residence permit or a temporary residence permit (Decrees of the 10th June 1992, Decree of the 15th June 1993, decree of the 19th December 1994) *


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Nottingham Forest produced a club record ninth straight home league win and moved back into the Coca-Cola Championship automatic promotion places after beating Middlesbrough 1-0.
Chris Cohen struck midway through the second half as Billy Davies' side surpassed the number of City Ground successes set under the legendary Brian Clough in 1980.
Forest had to withstand some late Boro pressure and were grateful to goalkeeper Lee Camp for some late saves as Gordon Strachan's team searched for an equaliser.
But the Reds held on to replace West Brom in second place in the table. However, Albion play Bristol City at Ashton Gate on Sunday.
Davies named the same starting XI that beat Sheffield United in midweek but his team found it tough going in the first half as as Boro bossed the midfield.
Fellow Scot Strachan made three changes with Kyle Naughton, Emanuel Pogatetz and Julio Arca recalled at the expense of Justin Hoyte, Jonathan Grounds and Jonathan Franks, who all dropped down to the bench.
Middlesbrough started strongly and put Forest under early pressure with a flurry of corners but the likes of Pogatetz and David Wheater coming up from the back were unable to capitalise.
Radoslaw Majewski clipped the top of the crossbar with a free-kick from the edge of the area before Forest went close again when Cohen's lob landed on the roof of the net.
Camp kept Boro at bay at the start of the second half when he tipped Gary O'Neil's free-kick round a post.
Kelvin Wilson thought he had given Forest the lead when he turned home a loose ball inside the box but the Boro defence had pushed out and the big centre-back's celebrations were cut short by an offside flag.
However, soon afterwards the Reds did break the deadlock.
Boro lost possession deep inside the the Forest half and a flowing counter-attack resulted in Dexter Blackstock squaring a pass across the 18-yard box for Cohen to coolly tuck the ball away.
Camp immediately preserved his side's lead when he pushed a 20-yard shot from substitute Leroy Lita wide and the Forest keeper produced another fine save five minutes from time to keep out a firm header from Pogatetz.
Boro kept pushing for an equaliser and Stephen McManus had a shot cleared off the line in the first of three minutes of injury time before Camp produced another stop to thwart Lita right at the death.
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Study of a New Anti-HIV Drug, T-20, in HIV-Infected Children
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The purpose of this study is to determine the best dose of T-20, a new anti-HIV drug, to treat HIV-infected children.
T-20, unlike other anti-HIV medications, lessens the ability of HIV to infect certain cells (T cells) in the body. Doctors hope to better treat HIV by adding T-20 to anti-HIV drug combinations that include 1 or 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) plus a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) and/or a protease inhibitor (PI).
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
HIV Infections |
Drug: Enfuvirtide |
Phase 1 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase I/II Study of T-20, a Fusion Inhibitor, in HIV-1 Infected Children |
Estimated Enrollment: | 24 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2002 |
T-20 is the first drug to be developed which specifically inhibits the function of the gp41 transmembrane glycoprotein. By inhibiting the essential protein-protein surface interaction, T-20 is able to block the process of virus-to-host cell membrane fusion. Combination antiretroviral regimens (reverse transcriptase inhibitors plus PIs) have benefited many HIV patients, but heavily pretreated patients often develop multi-drug resistance via multiple gene mutations. A pharmacologic agent, such as T-20, that is effective at an alternative point in the virus replication cycle will make a valuable addition to the treatment of HIV infection.
This Phase I/II open-label, dose-escalating, randomized study is divided into 2 parts. Patients may participate in Part A and/or Part B. Part A (single dosing): 12 patients are sequentially assigned to receive 1 of 3 doses of T-20 given once on Day 0 by SC injection into the abdomen, deltoid area, or anterior aspect of the thigh and once on Day 1 by IV infusion. Provided safety criteria are met, patients who complete Part A, or new enrollees who did not participate in Part A, enroll in Part B. Doses for Part B are determined by pharmacokinetic data obtained in Part A. [AS PER AMENDMENT 4/20/00: Current data has now projected a pediatric dose. Each child will move to chronic dosing in Part B provided the child has no Grade 3 or higher toxicity to study drug through Day 7 in Part A.] Part B (multiple dosing): Patients are randomly assigned to 1 of 3 dose cohorts to receive 24 weeks [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/7/00: 48 weeks] of treatment (optional extension to 48 weeks [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/7/00: 96 weeks]) with bid SC injections of T-20. Cohort 1 receives the dose identified in Part A (Dose 1) as the lowest dose that is well tolerated and that achieves the target trough plasma concentration. Cohort 2 receives the next higher dose from Dose 1 (Dose 2). Cohort 3 receives either Dose 1 or Dose 2, depending on the tolerability and antiviral activity of each dose. [AS PER AMENDMENT 4/20/00: Cohort 1 receives 30 mg/m2 SC bid (Dose 1); Cohort 2 receives 60 mg/m2 SC bid (Dose 2); and Cohort 3 receives Dose 1 or 2 SC bid.] On Day 7 of T-20 dosing, children begin a new antiretroviral therapy regimen chosen by the site investigator based on study parameters. (Abacavir and amprenavir are not allowed for this regimen.) [AS PER AMENDMENT 1/6/00: Abacavir and amprenavir are now allowed.] The first injection will be given in the clinic and a parent/guardian will be trained to give successive injections. [AS PER AMENDMENT 4/20/00: The 2 doses given prior to obtaining trough levels on Days 1 and 7 must be directly observed by medical personnel.] Patients undergo clinical and laboratory evaluations to monitor viral load, HIV-related symptoms, and pharmacokinetics at time points throughout the study. Patients participating in Part A are evaluated at the clinic on Days 0, 1, and 7. Patients participating in Part B are evaluated at the clinic 6 times during the first 3 weeks and then every 4 weeks through Week 24. [AS PER AMENDMENT 12/7/00: Patients participating in Part B are evaluated at the clinic 6 times during the first 3 weeks, every 4 weeks through Week 24, and then every 8 weeks through Week 48.]
Ages Eligible for Study: | 3 Years to 12 Years (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria
Children may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are 3 to 12 years old (consent of parent or guardian required).
- Are HIV-positive.
- Are receiving combination anti-HIV therapy. He/she must have been taking this combination for at least 16 weeks, and it must include either 2 NRTIs alone or 2 NRTIs plus either an NNRTI or a PI. (This study has been changed. This no longer has to be a child's first anti-HIV drug combination.)
- Have a viral load greater than 10,000 copies/ml while taking this anti-HIV drug combination.
- Have never received treatment with a PI or an NNRTI. (One or two doses are allowed.)
- Have never taken at least 1 NRTI.
Exclusion Criteria
Children will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Are receiving treatment for an opportunistic (AIDS-related) or serious bacterial infection at the time of study entry.
- Are receiving chemotherapy for cancer.
- Have certain serious diseases (other than HIV) or conditions.
- Have received or are currently receiving certain medications.
- Are pregnant.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001118
United States, California | |
UCSD Med Ctr / Pediatrics / Clinical Sciences | |
La Jolla, California, United States, 920930672 | |
Long Beach Memorial (Pediatric) | |
Long Beach, California, United States, 90801 | |
Children's Hosp of Los Angeles/UCLA Med Ctr | |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 900276016 | |
UCSF / Moffitt Hosp - Pediatric | |
San Francisco, California, United States, 941430105 | |
United States, District of Columbia | |
Children's Hosp of Washington DC | |
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 200102916 | |
Howard Univ Hosp | |
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20060 | |
United States, Florida | |
Univ of Florida Health Science Ctr / Pediatrics | |
Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32209 | |
Univ of Miami (Pediatric) | |
Miami, Florida, United States, 33161 | |
United States, Louisiana | |
Tulane Univ / Charity Hosp of New Orleans | |
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 701122699 | |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Children's Hosp of Boston | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 021155724 | |
Boston City Hosp / Pediatrics | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118 | |
Baystate Med Ctr of Springfield | |
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 01199 | |
Univ of Massachusetts Med School | |
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 016550001 | |
United States, Michigan | |
Children's Hosp of Michigan | |
Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201 | |
United States, New Jersey | |
Univ of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey / Univ Hosp | |
Newark, New Jersey, United States, 071032714 | |
United States, New York | |
Bronx Lebanon Hosp Ctr | |
Bronx, New York, United States, 10457 | |
Bronx Municipal Hosp Ctr/Jacobi Med Ctr | |
Bronx, New York, United States, 10461 | |
North Shore Univ Hosp | |
Great Neck, New York, United States, 11021 | |
Bellevue Hosp / New York Univ Med Ctr | |
New York, New York, United States, 10016 | |
Metropolitan Hosp Ctr | |
New York, New York, United States, 10029 | |
Harlem Hosp Ctr | |
New York, New York, United States, 10037 | |
SUNY Health Sciences Ctr at Syracuse / Pediatrics | |
Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210 | |
United States, North Carolina | |
Duke Univ Med Ctr | |
Durham, North Carolina, United States, 277103499 | |
United States, South Carolina | |
Med Univ of South Carolina | |
Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 294253312 | |
Puerto Rico | |
San Juan City Hosp | |
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 009367344 |
Study Chair: | Joseph Church | |
Study Chair: | Coleen Cunningham |
Responsible Party: | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00001118 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
P1005 11642 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES ) ACTG P1005 PACTG P1005 T20-204 |
Study First Received: | November 2, 1999 |
Last Updated: | May 17, 2012 |
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Injections, Intravenous Injections, Subcutaneous Drug Therapy, Combination HIV Protease Inhibitors Membrane Fusion |
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Anti-HIV Agents Viral Load peptide T20 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |
Enfuvirtide HIV Fusion Inhibitors Viral Fusion Protein Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Anti-HIV Agents Anti-Retroviral Agents Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 24, 2017


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Two years ago, the Horn of Africa experienced the worst drought in 60 years. There was no rainfall in southeastern Ethiopia and the land dried up across the entire region.
But today there are signs of recovery.
Pastures, previously cracked and barren, are slowly sprouting new growth and animals are grazing and growing stronger. We have been working in rural Ethiopia to make sure farmers and herding families have the resources they need to build back through their livestock, food stores and markets.
One woman, Fatumo Ahmed, relies on her camels to support her family. Camel milk, full of protein and nutrients, can last one month without refrigeration. Fatumo is able to keep her camels healthy and productive through the veterinary care and proper hygiene advice Mercy Corps provides. And with a better quality product, Fatumo can now take milk to a collection center in the village where she connects with market vendors who pay higher prices for the milk.
Because of you, Fatumo and her fellow milk producers have something to celebrate after a long hardship of drought. Listen to them singing at Mercy Corps' local collection center last month.
Thank you for helping turn crisis into opportunity for the people of the Horn of Africa. It's ongoing support like yours that makes our work possible.
With gratitude,
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Is Euro Disney is worth going to?
(124 Posts)MNHQ have commented on this thread.
...or should I wait a few years and take the kids to Disney in Florida? My children are 6 and 4 I'm just not sure if we (DH and I) should spend money on Euro Disney or wait until the kids are a bit older and go to Florida?!
Would love some advice?!
I'm a planner. I reseach holdays well in advance, and have a colour co-ordinated spreadsheet printed out and in a special document folder that I carry with me every holiday...
OK I think we've learned here that DLP suits those who can do that sort of planning, and can be frustrating for the "aimless wandering" type holiday makers (like wot my husband is....seethe.....)
Camping is my idea of hell.
This thread is a great way of sharing what you enjoy and dislike about a holdiay that is routinely touted as "magic", but let's you know what the reality is.
Melanie - exactly, it would have been a very frustrating experience I think if we had just shown up without some plan. But don't get me wrong, there were moments which couldn't have been planned. For instance, during the Stitch Live show, Stitch 'spoke' with DD who was only one of two children given the microphone. When we had lunch at the princess place, we were allocated a table right next to the dancefloor in front of Cinderella's coach, stuff like that was magical for the DCs. The rest of it was planned by me on the laptop in our living room!
No, disliked it. DD (8)wasn't particularly impressed, she doesn't 'do' the whole princess thing. DS (ASD) was overwhelmed, jumped around, climbed, ran off and got lost. We had exit passes because of DS, and felt so sorry for the people that had to queue for 2 hours to go on a mediocre ride. The parade was the only good thing. Much preferred Parc Asterix
catinabox we've also done that stuff over the years and TBH The Eden Project ,which we have done twice is my children's worst nightmare . Much as I love DLP I wouldn't stay at either the Sante Fe or Cheyenne .
My DC are still v.tiny. I hope i never have to endure Disney. I'll hold back my judgement until the oldest is 10.
....I would go to Peppa Pig world though
Peppa Pig World <hollow laugh>
Speaking from bitter experience that really is a special kind of hell
Our DCs love it there too though! We have just got back from a 2 -day visit there, as they were going to bed, I could hear DD wistfully saying 'I wish Peppa Pig World was the whole world'...
Very easy to drive (according to my husband) and we have gone in the 2nd week of November for 6 years, early October once
Food is pretty dire in the cheaper in park places, Ludwigs castle is quite nice, I would stay in the sequoia lodge. It's mid range price wise
I went in January 1998 for one nigt, cost £14 including one night stay in a Disney hotel and one full day pass. It was cold, it rained for about an hour until the parade started - and the sun shone many things were closed for winter - rides and hotel stuff.
We'll still be taking DS in a few years.
Spain has a big holiday week/long weekend at the beginning of December: 6&8 are both holidays, often it's stretched into a long weekend. Not this year, though, 6th is Friday so a short hols.
It is VERY commercial, and thus very expensive. A large part is basically an expensive shopping mall ... Queues are horrendous, service is poor. Yes, you can stay overnight in the car park furthest away of the entrance for 35 pounds UNTIL midnight and then 35 pounds again. So, if you arrive at 8 in the morning and leave before midnight you pay 35 pounds, if you leave the next morning you pay 70 pounds AND NO there are NO toilets, no showers, no nothing.
Go to the Efteling in the Netherlands whichmis,the largest theme park in Europe with a mini camping 300 m walk away or stay in the fabulous Efteling hotel. Much much better value for money.
We've been this summer with ds (6) and dd (2.9) and we all had a fabulous time, hardly any queues. Kids adored meeting characters and just seeing everything. We stayed in Newport bay hotel and had a picnic lunch and then maccy d / sandwich / pasta for dinner so that we didn't spend billions on food.
Parade is magical, rides are great, yes it's cheesy and expensive and noisy and blingy but I think it's fantastic and tbh I was almost dreading going beforehand! It was just lovely seeing the kids being so enthralled by it all, dd just loved it so so much more than I thought she would and ds who spends most of his time trying to be 'cool' at home was my little boy again 😃
Cheesy but true!
Why not go to Hell with the little ones instead? It would be more educational, and have real ponies besides. I would rather my daughter took after any of the Mitford sisters than aspired to be like a Disney Princess. Any money spent with Disney encourages unhealthy stereotypes.
Gosh, Ericae, generalising much?
Mulan, the Incredibles, Princess and the Frog, etc - the more modern films that show kick-ass women as empowered and in charge of their world don't seem to count as Disney - just the dated stuff from another era.... p.s. my girls took up mixed martial arts partly due to Mulan... worked their way up to black belts and are now practising hard for their second dan... so I agree that yes they do influence kids, but as parents it is up to us to point out the stereotyping...
Any money spent with Disney makes money for the government of the country involved through taxation and money for shareholders and money for the local economy (even if you are "trapped" on site, the staff are not) and money for the Disney worldwide charitable foundation..... oh as well as a providing a holiday for the ones that pay for it.....
OP - would always recommend May as a time of year to go - seems to be quieter, sunnier - less rain , but not stiflingly hot. But may go in Oct/Nov/Dec next time ourselves as it would be nice to see the Halloween and Christmas seasonal stuff too....
My daughter wanted a bow and arrow for her birthday so she coukd be like "brave".
It terrifies me that she's such a pink obsessed simpering little thing. NOT.
I wouldn't mind being a Mitford sister. Obviously the non nazi ones.
hi, could someone do a break down of the cost of why is it so expensive, I've looked online and it looks fairly cheap considering I've heard from friends you need at least £1500 for DLP. I was thinking of taking the DC3 as their christmas present but when i add it up the prices seem reasonable and no where near £1500, what am i missing out.
If you fly and stay a couple (or more) nights in a Disney hotel it is expensive, if you do as we did - take the ferry, stay in the Kyriad or any other cheapish local hotel it is not.....
Gosh I feel like im.going to need a notebook to plan this weekend away
This isn't really an AIBU so we're moving it to Shorthaul.
Hermione- I have two young cousins who watch far too much Disney and have very entitled attitudes.
I doubt it is the Disney film that give your cousins entitled attitudes
More like it is the parenting that goes on...
We went in May half term, and loved it. DCs are 6 and 3.5. I would say plan ahead, I read lots of advice on the Tripadvisor forum, bought the Brit guidebook, booked our meals before we left (doesn't require a deposit and you can always cancel), knew which rides were good for wet weather and which ones are outdoor. Great help as we had mixed weather and covered everything by working tactically.
Yes, it requires some research,but it was worth it. The majority of it I did in the week before, and the holiday itself was relaxing as a result. It was not at all busy - apparently the May half term is the best uk school holiday to go as the French do not have that as a school holiday.
Oph thats good to.know. We are restricted to school.hols due to DHs work and May seems so.much more appealing than winter!
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CATALINA ROMERO, Carlos et al. Prevalence of tobacco consumption among working population after the Law 42/2010, Spain. Rev. Esp. Salud Publica [online]. 2012, vol.86, n.2, pp.177-188. ISSN 2173-9110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1135-57272012000200006.
Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the impact on tobacco consumption among working population of the Law 42/2010, which amends smoking regulations in Spain. Methods: Data were obtained from 413,473 Occupational Health check-ups, conducted between July of 2009 and June of 2011, in the Society for Prevention of a Mutual Insurance Company. We analyzed changes in the biannual percentage of smokers and the magnitude of tobacco consumption among smokers in the overall set of medical check-ups, by gender, age, occupational level (manual vs. non-manual workers), and in the specific occupational subgroup of waiters, barmen and similar workers (chi-square test). Results: In the overall set of medical check-ups, the percentage of smokers decreased by 5% (from 40.3% to 35.3%) over the period of study (p <0.001) and the group of smokers with lower daily consumption (< 10 cigarettes) became the most frequent (p <0.001). In the group of waiters, barmen and similar workers the differences in the biannual percentage of smokers did not reach statistical significance (p =0.07). In this group, smokers of < 10 cigarretes/ day also became the most common consumption group (increasing from 40.5% to 48.8%) and the percentage of 21-40 cigarretes/day decreased from 10.6% to 4% (p =0.008). Conclusions: These results suggest that the new regulation has been accompanied by a significant reduction in smoking among Spanish workers and strongly support population-level measures against tobacco consumption.
Palabras clave : Tobacco; Smoking; Prevalence; Preventive medicine; Smoking cessation; Public health; Health surveillance.


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Just like it was suggested yesterday by Google, Dell's latest ultra thin luxurious flagship – Adamo is now available and you can order it online worldwide wherever you are. As you may be aware, the Adamo is available in white (Pearl) and black (Onyx). In addition to that the specs differ by a tiny bit with Desire being the bigger brother of Admire. The below is a breakdown of the official specs and pricing for those in the UK and US.
Apple has unveiled the next generation of iPod Shuffle which will feature a newly implemented technology for iPods called Voiceover which uses a speech engine to tell you the name of the singer or the title of the song in up to 14 different languages (English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish). At half the size of the previous generation iPod Shuffle, latest successor is just 7.8mm thick and looks even more stylish with no control buttons at all.
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Here comes another very glossy Inspiron Mini from Dell. The Mini 10 is a 10-inch deal powered by an Intel Atom Z530 processor running at 1.6GHz, with a glass screen, a multi-touch trackpad with gesture support, built-in GPS, 802.11n Wi-Fi, mobile broadband and even an integrated TV tuner.
That glossy 10-inch display can show 720p high-definition content, and the screen itself is a widescreen 16:9 model. An edge-to-edge keyboard helps take advantage of what little typing space is available on a laptop this size, so all being well the Mini 10 won't be out of the question for speedy typists!
Dell didn't release much other details at its press conference, but we'd expect Windows Vista or Windows XP on board to be likely, a couple of gigabytes of RAM and a solid-state disk option, just like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. No prices or availability details yet, but we'll keep you posted.
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The release date for Apple's gorgeous new cylindrical Mac Pro was teased in a clip shown in US movie theaters over the weekend (August 16-19).
Apple's forthcoming Mac Pro has the appearance of a hollow cylinder and features next-generation Intel Xeon processors with up to 12 cores and dual workstation GPUs powered by AMD FirePro -- which will give it up to two and a half times faster graphics than the previous Mac Pro -- and it will be capable of driving three ultra-high-definition (4K) resolution displays at the same time.
Over the weekend prior to Monday, August 19, a teaser trailer for the Mac Pro was shown in US cinemas before various movies, reports MacRumors. The trailer, which was first shown at the WWDC event where the Mac Pro was revealed, shows the new device from several angles, and, according to reports on MacRumors, now ends with the line "Fall 2013."
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When it comes to fashion, hairstyles, makeup, flowers, and colors… Spring is definitely one of my favorite seasons. Easter especially! Easter is very special day to me, my husband proposed to me on Easter Sunday by putting my ring in an Easter egg! The candy, Easter baskets for the kids, the nice new spring outfits – it is just a fun time for all, especially being with family and friends.
What types of fashion would you see during the spring season? I would say that spring is the best time to have articles of clothing at are very loose, clothes that flow, shorts, tank tops, lightly colored jeans, lots of color and flower prints. Don't forget to accessorize your clothing with fun colored bracelets, earrings and necklaces. Having a simple outfit and adding jewelry can make a huge difference to a woman's wardrobe. The best colors for spring are pale colors such as mints, corals, light pinks, blues, and yellows. There are many fashion stores that are well priced and have the latest fashions for you to choose from within your budget. Get creative!
Spring makeup can be very light on the eyes or lips. If you do more of a darker eyeliner or shadow you need to do a lighter lipstick, and if you decide to do a bright or dark lipstick, you need to go lighter on the eyes. Using soft blushes like light pinks or corals are beautiful colors for spring.
When it comes to spring, when choosing hairstyles and hair colors most women tend to go lighter in color with highlights vs. in the winter when women go darker in color, it just depends what color goes well with the different season. Soft curls, braids, and pony tails are totally in for spring! Adding flowers, headbands, and accessories for your hair always makes your hairstyle fun and different. You can be wearing a simple outfit and adding things to your hair and make the whole style change! Express yourself! When it comes to the condition of your hair, when spring starts than follows summer so making sure you are adding more moisture to your hair is extremely important. Doing a conditioning treatment once a week is needed in this time of year, if you have extremely dry hair you will need to do a deeper conditioning treatment once a month with heat. Using a leave- in conditioner every day is also important, finding one that has a sunscreen protector is even better. Also, adding some gloss in your hair will keep it moisturized all day. Don't be afraid to try new colors and styles, when it comes to lighten your hair it's okay to do it by a professional, just make sure to trim your hair and keep it moisturized. Spring and summer are also nice to jump in a pool and cool off, I highly recommend to wet your hair first than apply a leave-in conditioner before you jump in that pool. Once you jump in the pool with dry hair that chlorine loves to soak into your hair, which can cause dryness and if your hair is light in can turn green; unless you're okay with a little green in your hair, which seems to be a hairstyle fashion these days. Make an appointment with your hairstylist and try a new style and cut, go to some fashion stores to buy the latest fashion and colors for this time of year. Number one is to keep your hair conditioned strong and healthy, adding moisture vitamins and protein to your hair is very important in this time of season.
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Schizophrenia: Current science and clinical practiceISBN: 978-0-470-71054-8
272 pages
April 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
Written by experts in the field who have a track record of being engaging authors, this book provides a rapid overview of the current state of the art in schizophrenia research and clinical management. It will be invaluable to all psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropharmacologists, researchers in psychiatry and psychopharmacology in academia and in industry, and clinical and behavioural neuroscientists.
Table of Contents
1 Diagnosis and revision of the classification systems (Assen Jablensky).
Origin and evolution of the concept of schizophrenia.
Kraepelin's 'clinical forms'.
Bleuler's 'group of schizophrenias'.
Leonhard's 'endogenous psychoses'.
Classification of psychoses in French psychiatry.
Other post-Kraepelinian and post-Bleulerian subtypes and dichotomies.
The schizophrenia spectrum concept.
Statistically derived clusters and symptom dimensions.
Schizophrenia in ICD-10 and DSM-IV.
Origins of the two classifications.
Both DSM-IV and ICD-10 are descendants of the Kraepelinian nosology.
Criteria for assessing the diagnostic classification of schizophrenia.
Positive impact and unintended adverse effects.
Clinical relevance and cognitive ease of use.
Utility in research.
Concepts of validity.
Predictive validity: course and outcome.
Criterion validity: genetics.
Aspects of culture.
Reducing stigma.
Revision of the classifications: prospects for schizophrenia.
One classification or many?
Critical issues in the revision process.
Disease or a broad syndrome?
'Deconstructing' schizophrenia: categories or dimensions?
The concept of utility.
2 Pathophysiology of schizophrenia (Peter Falkai, Andrea Schmitt and Tyrone D. Cannon).
Major findings and related pathophysiological hypotheses.
Symptom domains and neurotransmitter hypotheses.
From domains to disturbed neuronal networks.
From networks to the cellular level.
Hypothesis of disturbed synaptogenesis and neurogenesis.
Effects of antipsychotics.
Summary and conclusions.
3 Neurocognition, social cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia (William P. Horan, Philippe-Olivier Harvey, Robert S. Kern and Michael F. Green).
Neurocognition in schizophrenia.
Domains, measurement and magnitude of impairment.
Neurocognition as a core deficit of schizophrenia.
Associations with functional outcome.
The NIMH-MATRICS initiative and current research directions.
Social cognition.
Domains, measurement and magnitude of impairment.
Social cognition as a core feature of schizophrenia.
Association with functional outcome.
Current research directions.
Relationships among neurocognition, social cognition and functional outcome.
Distinctiveness of neurocognition and social cognition.
Social cognition as a mediator.
Future directions.
4 The genetics of schizophrenia (James T.R. Walters, Michael O'Donovan and Michael J. Owen).
Genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia.
Family, twin and adoption studies of schizophrenia.
Genetic epidemiology – informing diagnosis?
Molecular genetics of schizophrenia.
Positional candidate studies.
Functional candidate studies.
Chromosomal abnormalities.
Genome wide association studies.
GWAS in schizophrenia.
Copy number variation.
The future of schizophrenia genetics.
Schizophrenia genetics in the clinic?
5 Early recognition and prevention of schizophrenia (Patrick D. McGorry and Sherilyn Goldstone).
The context for early recognition and prevention.
The prodromal stage: definition and assessment.
Treatment during the prodromal stage.
The psychosis risk syndrome: a novel diagnostic entity?
Ethical issues.
Summary and conclusions.
6 Pharmacological treatment (Jonathan E. Sherin and Stephen R. Marder).
Current state of pharmacological treatment.
Phases of schizophrenia.
Acute phase treatment.
Stabilization phase treatment.
Maintenance phase treatment.
Treatment resistant patients.
Managing first episodes.
Newer antipsychotics.
Personalising drug treatment in schizophrenia.
Cognition and negative symptoms as therapeutic targets.
Glutamatergic targets.
Dopamine targets.
Cholinergic targets.
Histamine targets.
7 Cognitive-behavioural interventions (Suzanne Jolley and Philippa Garety).
The development of cognitive behavioural approaches to schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis.
Cognitive behavioural models of psychosis.
Biopsychosocial vulnerability.
Life events and schematic beliefs.
The role of affect.
The central role of appraisal.
Reasoning biases.
Anomalous experiences.
The role of behaviour.
Insight and illness appraisals.
Cognitive behavioural therapy in schizophrenia.
Psychotherapy in schizophrenia: more than unspecific learning?
Combining psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
Efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp).
Future developments.
8 Management, rehabilitation, stigma (Wulf Rossler).
Managing schizophrenia: integrative approaches.
Burden for patients, families and communities.
Gender issues.
Legal problems.
Health care settings for schizophrenia patients: which setting is optimal?
Psychiatric rehabilitation.
The international classification of functioning, disability and health.
Target population.
Conceptual framework.
Current approaches.
Individual-centred rehabilitation.
Cognitive behavioural therapy.
Social skills training.
Ecological approach to rehabilitation.
Participation in community life with full rights.
The contribution of mental health professionals to stigma and discrimination.
The role of the psychiatrist in the management and rehabilitation of schizophrenia patients.
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"Professor Gaebel and contributing authors are to be congratulated for this outstanding text." (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 6 June 2012)
"Nonetheless, Schizophrenia: Current Science and Clinical Practice will be an asset to those who are seeking a current and sophisticated synthesis of the field, combined with stimulating discussions of some pivotal controversies in both research and treatment. Gaebel has assembled a distinguished group of contributors who are more than up to the task of grappling with the challenge of discerning the implications of cutting-edge research for clinical intervention." (PsycCRITIQUES, 11 January 2012)
"I am not in a position to comment on most chapters, as I am not an expert in those fields, but all I can say is that I learnt a lot and that the book provided me with a good overview on different aspects of what we commonly call schizophrenia." (Acta Psychiatr Scandinavica, 2012)
"The first chapter is an excellent and factual review of the diagnosis and classification systems that highlights the major validity issues. . .This new book is useful and current." (Doody's, 30 September 2011)
"The book will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropharmacologists, researchers in psychiatry and psychopharmacology, and clinical and behavioral neuroscientists." (Book News, 1 August 2011)
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Haredi and IDF soldier Tal law Jerusalem 390.(Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem / The Jerusalem Post)
Yesh Atid petitions High Court on haredi exemption
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Lapid tries to block PM exempting 1,300 Haredim from IDF service: "Israel cannot distinguish between blood of Haredim and others."
Yesh Atid filed a petition with the High Court of Justice on Monday to block Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision on Sunday to
exempt 1,300 haredim from military service
in favor of national service.
Lapid and eight other members on his list for the Knesset personally filed the petition and spoke out on the issue from the courthouse.
The Yesh Atid Party leader said the government's releasing of haredim from military service "was a disgraceful decision made for political reasons and with contempt" for the High Court's decision nullifying the Tal Law, which allowed haredi men to evade service, four months ago.
Lapid added, "It cannot be that the State of Israel distinguishes between blood [of haredim] and blood [of others]."
Rather, he said there must be "equal service for all."
"With the assistance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the haredi parties took advantage of this moment before the election, to express contempt for the rule of law, contempt for secular and religious [non-haredi] sectors of society and contempt for the IDF," said Lapid.
According to Lapid, the government's decision is a "blatant mockery of an express decision of the High Court, and we cannot allow this decision to pass."
He also slammed the Labor Party, stating, "I do not understand why I stand here alone on the steps of the court and why there is not by my side the leader of the Labor Party [Shelly Yacimovich] as a partner in this process."
Lapid concluded: "We are here to commit that we will not sit in a government that does not accept this principle" and that "this is one of our five commitments and part of our contract with the State of Israel."
Speaking with The Jerusalem Post, Boaz Nul, one of the leaders of the draft reform campaign and a candidate for Knesset for the Tzipi Livni Party, conceded that the civilian service request for new manpower was understandable, but that the decision was problematic from a legal perspective.
The Camp Sucker movement which Nul leads pitched its tents once again at Tel Aviv's Central Train Station on Monday in protest.
Nul described the decision as an attempt to placate the Shas Party on the issue of haredi enlistment ahead of the elections, and called on Netanyahu to declare publicly the terms of new legislation he intends to propose to replace the Tal Law.
Director of the Civilian Service Sar-Shalom Gerbi told the Post that the petition against the government decision was "misplaced."
"The civilian service will be part of any future arrangement for haredi enlistment, so it's hard to see what the fuss is about," Gerbi said. "Eighty-five percent of graduates from the program have integrated into the work force, so in that regard it is very successful and needs to be preserved."
Gerbi argued that the trust built up between the civilian service directorate and the rabbinate of the haredi community was at risk if continued recruitment was not permitted.
He pointed to comments made on Monday in haredi newspaper Yated Ne'eman by the most senior haredi rabbi in the country, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, calling on yeshiva students not to enlist for civilian service as evidence of the danger the program faces.
Yoav Kish, a former leader of the Camp Sucker movement and head of the Likud Panel for Equality in the Burden of Military Service, said the criticism of the government was political in nature and unjustified since it was only intended as a temporary solution to the civilian service's inability to draft new recruits following the expiration of the Tal Law.
The petition itself begins by recounting the famous Talmudic dictum that "All of Israel is responsible for one another." It then satirically interprets the passage into Yesh Atid's view of the context that the "haredim send the secular to die in their place and the secular send the haredim to learn Torah in their place."
The petition calls the government's decision an attempt at an end-run around the court's February decision striking the Tal Law as of August, and blocking further military service exemptions for haredim by the defense minister without Knesset action.
It also accused the government of acting out of political considerations to maintain the loyalty of haredi parties in the governing coalition.
Yesh Atid said in the petition that the only difference between haredi Torah studies and secular academic studies was that haredim studied in yeshivot and the secular in universities, and that in that light, there was no reason haredim should get special privileges.
The petition attacked what it said was faulty reasoning, in which the government claimed the authority to fashion the new policy in light of its residual authority, since the Knesset had failed to act.
In contrast, the petitioners said there is no case where residual authority allows the state to carry out policies which are explicitly against a prior ruling of the court simply because the Knesset has not acted.
The petition cites a dissenting opinion from 2002 when the majority of the court initially upheld the Tal Law, as a prophetical declaration of the problems with the law which would eventually demand its cancellation.
Joining Yesh Atid in its petition was Maj. Yehuda Ressler (res.), a lawyer who the petition said has been fighting the exemption of haredim from military and national service since the early 1970s, including involvement in seven prior petitions to the court. He also filed a petition the day after the Tal Law was passed in 2002.
Finally, the petition said the reason for the timing of the decision was that the government wanted to avoid hearing Ressler's previously filed petition, which is due to be heard on December 15, to compel the state to do a mass draft of young haredim.
The Movement for Quality Government (MQG) in Israel, an NGO, also filed a petition against the government decision, calling on the High Court to grant a temporary injunction freezing the defense minister's ability to grant the 1,300 exemptions from military service.
The organization argued that the government and the defense minister were providing exemptions despite the fact that the High Court has demanded that the government explain why it has not drafted the approximately 40,000 yeshiva students who were receiving military deferrals under the now expired Tal Law, in accordance with an MQG petition from July.
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To borrow a popular internet meme, what if I told you we could build suburbs that preserved the natural landscape, had super energy efficient homes, built a sense of community and had no vinyl siding. Well we can, and the neighborhood of Echohaven, in the northwest community of Rocky Ridge in Calgary is doing precisely that. The homes of Echohaven must be super energy efficient, collect rainwater and are located in an oasis of nature. Echohaven has turned the modern process of building a neighbourhood on its ear
Food may not be what created Calgary, but it's quickly becoming a reason many tourists visit (and rave about) the city.
Just over a month ago now the Economist Magazines Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its annua Livability Survey Report, which found Calgary to be tied with Adelaide, Australia as the fifth most livable city in the world!
Did you know that same study found the "dirtiest oil in North America" is not produced in Canada, but just outside your own hometown of Los Angeles, where the Placerita oil field generates about twice the level of upstream emissions as Canada's oilsands? Actually, the title of "world's dirtiest oil" goes to Brass crude blend from Nigeria where the uncontrolled release of methane during the oil extraction process generates upstream GHG emissions that is over four times higher than Canadian diluted bitumen?
A new and exciting change in downtown Calgary is on the horizon, one that we all can look forward to. You may have heard about it or even been to one of its events already such as "Food Truck Frenzy" or "Flow by the Bow".
The government created major problems for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program when it began to loosen the rules in 2006; it created an approval process with little oversight that largely amounted to rubber stamping applications, which has directly led to Canadians losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers.
Have you taken a closer look at your cab driver lately? More often than not, he/she is likely to be a person of minority and a first generation immigrant. Arrived in Canada with family and has formal training in medical/legal/engineering/education/accounting/whatever profession in overseas home country. Turned down for qualified jobs because of lack of "Canadian experience".
There are many heavy hearts in our city, and many tears have been shed. We may not have known them, but we grieve. We all want to wrap the family in as much love as we can. That a little boy should have found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time is tragic enough, but that this "wrong place" was a home where he felt safe, where he spent so much time with people he loved and who loved him back makes it even more difficult for us to understand.
How do we rally around and support a family who is undoubtedly walking through their darkest days, on a journey that will last a lifetime? I've never met Jennifer O'Brien. We don't navigate life side-by-side the way I do with the sister-friend I spent tonight with, and others in my circle.
Canada celebrates its 147th birthday on July 1 and Vacay.ca has team members in the nation's four largest metropolitan areas. Here's what's happening on Canada Day in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
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If you go to the University of Calgary you don't suffer from a lack of choice when it comes to Students Union clubs. There are options for everything from swing dancing to politics to Bronies. But the most interesting club in our view is one called Team Zeus. It's only three years old but these undergrads are building an electric racing motorcycle.
Aside from the obvious differences between my bake sale experiences as a child and my upcoming experience this week (i.e. that I am now an adult and a vegan, and that I know exactly what this particular bake sale will raise money for), I'm also very aware of the community aspect of this bake sale. This year, we have around 20 volunteers planning, baking, and working towards goals of promoting awareness and improving the lives of local animals.
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At Beau Ideal beauty salon at The Hair Gallery in Brackley, beauty therapist Hannah Walmsley offers a full range of facial and body waxing treatments. Waxing is a very convenient, cost-effective, longer-lasting and quick method of removing unwanted hair. Unlike razors and hair removal cream, waxing does not damage the skin.
Karen B said
Hannah is lovely, relaxed and professional. Prices are very good as well. Happy to recommend.