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Chinese tycoon wants to 'rebuild' New York Times
Beijing (AFP) - A Chinese tycoon said Monday he is serious about buying the New York Times and wants to work on "rebuilding its credibility and influence" by reforming its award-winning coverage of China.
Chen Guangbiao, listed as one of China's 400 richest people and a man known as much for his publicity stunts as his charitable giving, penned an op-ed in the state-run Global Times newspaper headlined: "I intend to buy The New York Times, please don't take it as a joke".
"The tradition and style of The New York Times make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China," Chen wrote.
"If we could purchase it, its tone might turn around. Therefore I have been involved in discussing acquisition-related matters with like-minded investors."
The New York Times has published several award-winning reports on China, including a 2012 investigation into the family wealth of then-premier Wen Jiabao that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
The paper's website has been blocked ever since in China, the world's second-biggest economy, and several of its reporters have had difficulty obtaining visas.
Chinese state media and officials often interpret overseas criticism of the ruling Communist Party as an attack on the country itself.
Chen added that if he succeeds he "will conduct some necessary reforms, the ultimate goal of which is to make the paper's reports more authentic and objective, thus rebuilding its credibility and influence".
Last Monday, Chen said at an event in the southern Chinese boom town of Shenzhen that he planned to travel to the US "to go discuss the acquisition" of the paper, a remark that many dismissed as the wealthy entrepreneur's latest play for attention.
Four days later, Chen was spotted by a Chinese Business News reporter at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
A New York Times spokeswoman told a reporter for the newspaper last week that the company had "no information" about any negotiations with Chen.
Chen built his fortune, estimated at five billion yuan ($825 million) by Chinese wealth publisher the Hurun Report, on the recycling company Huangpu Renewable Resources Utilisation Group.
But he has been derided by critics as a publicity hound who will go to great lengths for attention.
In the past, he has sold "canned fresh air" to residents of smog-ridden Beijing and also recently posed in front of a wall made out of thousands of "bricks" made of banknotes.
In his op-ed, Chen wrote that he has "persuaded a Hong Kong entrepreneur to contribute $600 million to this cause" of buying the paper, whose parent company is listed on Wall Street and has a market capitalisation of more than $2 billion.
"I have said as long as the price is reasonable, there is nothing that cannot be bought," he wrote.
He added that he first had the idea of purchasing the newspaper when he placed an advertisement in it in December 2012 asserting Chinese sovereignty over a disputed island group called the Diaoyus by China and the Senkakus by Japan.
"I find Americans know little about a civilised and open China that has been enjoying unprecedented development," Chen wrote.


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Tag: protest groups
I get e-mails and press releases daily from protest groups asking me to "come to Denver" and join them. Here's the platform of one of them (I'll tell you which one at the end):
If you think no government should be allowed to do what the Bush regime has done the past 7 years, come to Denver and join others building a movement to that end.
If you are sickened by your government waging an endless, illegitimate, immoral war and occupation in Iraq, with ominous and immediate threats on Iran, and you demand U.S. aggression in the Middle East stop now, come to Denver and say it loudly!
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Posted: Aug 25, 2009
HONOLULU – The University of Hawaiʻi has selected three faculty members as recipients of the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research. This award recognizes scholarly contributions that expand the boundaries of knowledge and enrich the lives of all in the community, nation and the world.
Milton Diamond is a professor of anatomy, biochemistry and physiology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Mānoa. Throughout his professional life, he has been involved in teaching, clinical activities and research particularly at the interface areas of sexual behavior and reproduction and in understanding sexual development. Diamond's research has resulted in over 150 publications including nine books. He has been interviewed and consulted for several television programs regarding sexuality, and has served as a consultant to public and private institutions, individuals and firms regarding various sexual matters. In his career, Diamond has made distinctive contributions to effective research with worldwide human impact.
Sandip Pakvasa is a professor of physics and astronomy at UH Mānoa. He is an internationally recognized theoretical physicist whose research over the years has encompassed a wide range of topics in particle physics and particle astro-physics, always with an eye to devising innovative experimental tests for cutting-edge theory. Pakvasa has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, many of which are highly cited. His many provocative proposals have had significant impact on the progress of theoretical physics, and led to the implementation of a number of new high-energy physics experiments. Pakvasa has had a long and fruitful career in which he has made numerous inclusive and far-reaching contributions to particle physics.
Jon Van Dyke is a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH Mānoa. H e has created an extensive body of work of great value to his students and other researchers and scholars across many disciplines, as well as to the general public. Van Dyke has written frequently on issues related to the rights of Native Hawaiians. His recent book Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʻi? culminates 12 years of research and analysis and is already being used as a teaching tool in university classes. Van Dyke is an impressive and prolific scholar of written works that span across a remarkable range of topics, including international ocean law, international environmental law, human rights law and constitutional law.
These three individuals will be recognized for their achievements along with other UH award recipients at the annual Convocation ceremony to be held September 15, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at Kennedy Theatre on the UH Mānoa campus. The ceremony is open to the public at no charge, and no reservations are needed. For more information on the awards ceremony, visit http://www.hawaii.edu/about/awards.


text: This weekend we welcomed our newest neighbor to the Dallas Arts District, Klyde Warren Park, with two days of activities and free general admission to the DMA. On Sunday, October 28, we also celebrated ancient Mexico through our free Family Celebration, which took place during the closing celebrations of Art in October. We even held some of our programs at Klyde Warren Park. Below are a few pictures from the day's events. Be sure to visit The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico before the exhibition closes on November 25!


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I got this from my friend Hank this morning. Various versions of this one has been around the block before. It just goes to prove, "
I got this from my friend Hank this morning. Various versions of this one has been around the block before. It just goes to prove, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
A man walked into a very high-tech bar. As he sat down on a stool he noticed that the bartender was a robot. The robot clicked to attention and asked, "Sir, what will you have?""A-r-e...
The man thought a moment then replied "A martini please."
The robot clicked a couple of times and mixed the best martini the man had ever had.
The robot then asked, "Sir, what is your IQ?" The man answered "Oh, about 164."
The robot then proceeded to discuss the 'theory of relativity', inter-stellar space travel', the latest medical breakthroughs, etc...
The man was most impressed. He left the bar but thought he would try a different tact. He returned and took a seat. Again the robot clicked and asked what he would have? "A martini please."
Again it was superb. The robot again asked "What is your IQ sir?"
This time the man answered , "Oh about 100". So the robot started discussing NASCAR racing, the latest basketball scores, and what to expect the Dodgers to do this week end.
The guy had to try it one more time. So he left, returned and took a stool.... Again a martini, and the question, "What is your IQ?" This time the man drawled out " Uh..... bout 50".
The robot clicked then leaned close and very slowly asked,


text: Google is asking developers to take over its effort to make end-to-end email encryption more user-friendly, raising questions over whether it'll ever become an official feature in the company\u2019s browser.On Friday, the search giant said its email encryption tool, originally announced in 2014, was no longer a Google product. Instead, it's become a "full community-driven open source project," the company said in a blog post.The tool is designed to work as an extension to Google's Chrome browser that uses the OpenPGP standard to encrypt emails, ensuring that only the recipient can read them -- and not the email provider or a government. \u00a0The main goal of Google's project was to make OpenPGP easier to use. It was announced amid growing scrutiny over U.S. surveillance efforts following disclosures from noted leaker Edward Snowden.However, the search giant hasn't made the extension officially available on its Chrome Web Store. Instead, the project's source code has only been made available on GitHub, a software collaboration site, making the extension harder to install, especially for non-technical users.\u00a0The GitHub page also hasn't been frequently updated, so it's unclear how serious the search giant has been about the effort, or if others will take up the project.Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. But the GitHub page is offering the source code to what's called E2EMail, a Chrome extension that works with Gmail. "At this stage, we recommend you use it only for testing and UI feedback," the page says. E2EMail A screenshot of the E2EMail extension.\u00a0Back in Dec. 2014, Google also said that its end-to-end encryption tool still wasn't as "usable as it needs to be," pointing to the problem of managing the public keys used in PGP encryption. Often, the keys necessary to exchange secure messages are held on a public server or sent via email, but the authenticity of the user providing them is never verified.Last month, Google announced a separate open-source project, called Key Transparency, that tries to solve this problem. It essentially works as a lookup service for public keys. However, as a safeguard, all the logs can be audited to track for any suspicious activity.In Friday's blog post, Google said the Key Transparency project was "crucial" to the development of its end-to-end email encryption efforts."Key discovery and distribution lie at the heart of the usability challenges that OpenPGP implementations have faced," it said.Although Google's email encryption tool is no longer a company-led product, Google is still hoping to integrate it with its Key Transparency project, according to the blog post.\u00a0In the midst of Google's effort, others are also developing new email encryption protocols, too. Last month, the developer behind Lavabit, an email service Edward Snowden used, released its own open-source encrypted email standard for surveillance-proof messaging.\u00a0


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Bodhi LEELA Aubergine Mandala Aubergine Yoga Mat
Whether as a practical alignment aid or simply a pretty extra - the fun designs of the Leela Collection bring a little color to your yoga practice.
An all-round PVC mat, suitable for all yoga poses with a textured, grippy surface on both sides, providing reliable comfort for yoga and fitness.
SGS tested: free of AZO dyes, DOP softeners, phthalates and heavy metals. 6P free: Contains no DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP and DNOP.
Please note, with a lot of sweat or humidity the non-slip properties of the mat can be reduced as the mat does not absorb moisture and a film of sweat may lead to less grip on the mat.
- Size: 183 x 60 cm, 4mm
- Weight: 1 kg
- To clean, simply wipe with a damp cloth and air dry
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Equestrian signalman on the New York Central's Eleventh Avenue freight line circa 1911. In a 1930 article on the West Side tracks' demise, the New York Times wrote of the "eight men and twenty-four horses comprising the famous 'cowboy troop' [or 'West Side Cowboys'] whose function it has been for years to ride ahead of the puffing locomotives as they wheeled along Death Avenue." The dangerous street-level tracks were eventually replaced by a 1½-mile viaduct, the High Line, that after decades of abandonment is being turned into a long, thin elevated park.
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Blueberry Sourdough with Hazelnuts - fresh blueberry that is
Many have made similar breads, notably:
Here's my version, inspired by all the posts above, adapted to use ingredients I have on hand, and a fermentation process that works for me.
Fresh Blueberry Sourdough with Hazelnuts
Note: makes one 650g boule.
bread flour, 195g
ww flour, 60g
blueberry puree, 45g
water, 115g
maple syrup, 15g
salt, 4.5g
starter (100%), 90g
fresh blueberries, 84g
hazelnuts, 66g, toasted and skin peeled off
1. Mix everything together, autolyse for 30min, knead at low speed for 1min, medium speed for 3min.Gluten is mediumly developed. Add in blueberries and hazelnuts, mix in gently with hands.
2. Bulk rise at room temp (74F) for 3 hours, S&F as needed. I did 3 times at 30min, 60min, and 90min.
3. Round, rest, shape into boule, drop into basket smooth side down. Cover and put in fridge overnight.
4. Next morning, finish proofing at room temp for another 80min, until the dough bounces back slowly when lightly pressed.
5. Bake at 450F for 40 to 45min, the first 13min with steam.
While blueberry puree adds a lot of blueberry flavor to the bread, if too much is added, the acidity would disintegrate the dough completely, no amount of S&F can save it. Don't ask me how I know. Stick to fresh blueberries, frozen ones are too easy to break, release juice, then make the dough too wet - a tip I could've learned from Shao-ping's post if I had read it BEFORE making the bread. This version was my 3rd try, with the appropriate puree amount, and fresh berries, it's actually not difficult to make.
A whole wheat bread with strong blueberry flavor, while hazelnuts add a contrasting texture/taste, I would choose it over blueberry pies anyday!
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For more than a year, a 30-foot-tall pile of unwanted sand towered over three acres on Claude Riglemon's property. The price for the sand dropped about the time this stockpile was ready for sale, so the 120,000 tons of sand just waited.
Riglemon isn't a miner. A real-estate appraiser, he also runs a cranberry operation north of Tomah, Wis. He jumped into the frac sand frenzy when a mining company offered to dig him a new reservoir in exchange for the rights to the sand it removed.
The company built him a great reservoir — but then struggled to sell the sand.
Wisconsin's sand is in demand for use in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a method of unlocking previously trapped oil and natural gas that has boomed in the recent years.
Frac sand mining has surged in Wisconsin over the past few years, growing from a handful of sites to almost 100 permitted facilities. Nationally, the hydraulic fracturing industry purchased $3.7 billion worth of sand in 2011, according to The Freedonia Group, a business research firm.
Although no official figures are available, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has estimated that the state's frac sand industry will create more than 2,500 jobs. The industry has created controversy as well — some residents are concerned about traffic increases, dust pollution, and environmental damage.
The sand is valuable, but mining it profitably depends on both the cost of transportation and on fluctuating market prices. For example, the fine-grained sand the natural gas industry prefers has lingered in Riglemon's backyard because the U.S. currently has a surplus of natural gas.
"The demand just isn't there," Riglemon said. "Western Wisconsin is all sand; this is not a scarce commodity. So the big issue becomes logistics. The cost (of transporting the sand) freezes the little guys out."
Trucks finally started hauling away the sand from Riglemon's land in late November. He said he thinks the company, which he declined to name, had good intentions, but was caught by surprise when the price for sand dropped.
Wisconsin's sand is in demand, yes, but only to oil and gas drillers operating out of state. Getting it to buyers in North Dakota or Pennsylvania turns out to be a serious logistical challenge, said Tom Beekman, regional planning engineer with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Sand that's mined far from rail lines or barges may be too expensive.
"They've got all kinds of sand in the backyard, but they just can't get into the market," Beekman said of the small operations. "Individuals have realized that they can't get sand to the rail."
Sand prices range widely depending on grain size, strength and location, but industry experts agree that the prices have come down significantly from the more than $100-a-ton high that ignited Wisconsin's mining boom. Official government estimates are not yet available for 2011 or 2012.
For smaller operators who planned for higher prices, the frac sand boom might turn out to be a bust.
Supply soon to meet demand
The price of frac sand depends on the demand for its use in fracking.
Shale gas production exploded in the past decade, increasing 2,400 percent nationally from 2002 to 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This boom created a surplus of natural gas this year, which lowered gas prices, leading to lower prices for sand.
And as more of the new sand mines in Wisconsin begin production this year, the supply is catching up with the demand.
Rich Budinger, the regional manager for the Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company (WISC), a subsidiary of Fairmount Minerals, which has three operating sand facilities and one more in development in Wisconsin, said these price fluctuations are part of natural market cycles. Lower prices will benefit experienced sand mine operators like WISC, said Budinger, who also is president of the Wisconsin Industrial Sand Association.
"If prices continue to drop off, a competitive market will be established," Budinger said. "Experienced companies have seen that before, and we're prepared for it."
WISC doesn't just produce frac sand. It also sells sand for glass, construction and recreational uses. This diversification is key to weathering the ups and downs of the market, Budinger said.
"Week by week, month by month, the price shifts can be dramatic, but over the long term, there is strength in our market share," Budinger said.
"When fracking boomed, drillers were so desperate they would buy any sand," said Mike O'Driscoll, the global head of research for the trade magazine Industrial Minerals. "Now that there is more supply coming online, they can choose to use better sand."
Moving sand costs plenty
And buyers want the best prices. Transportation expenses can make up about 50 percent of the cost of a ton of frac sand, said Jen Casebier, who runs DownHoleTrader.com, which connects drilling companies to suppliers.
Said O'Driscoll: "Sand is high-volume commodity. You need a lot of it, but it's relatively low priced, and it costs a lot to move this stuff from point A to B."
Large sand mine operators, unlike many small ones, typically sign long-term contracts with both buyers and railroads so they can produce and sell a steady supply of sand, the DOT's Beekman said.
Only about a quarter of Wisconsin's operating and developing sand facilities have rail access on site, but most of the largest operations are on that list. Beekman said rail access is key for the frac sand industry going forward.
"It's not just the number of mines, it's who has the business model to set themselves up on a rail line, who has property to expand," he said. "That's the business model that's going to be successful."
Enough sand mines, maybe?
The growth in Wisconsin's sand mining industry has already slowed. County officials received far fewer new permit applications this fall than they did earlier in the year, according to Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism research. Only eight new mines or processing facilities were proposed during the past four months, compared to more than 60 between June 2011 and June 2012.
Beekman said his research shows the nationwide demand for frac sand is likely about 40 million tons a year, and "we might have enough (facilities) in place right now."
"The companies that have managed to put large processing plants on the rail lines average about 1.5 million tons a year," Beekman said. "Twenty to 25 of these big locations could meet the national demand."
Some permitted mine sites have not yet begun construction. Beekman suspects some are waiting to see if sand prices go back up.
But, O'Driscoll said, "A lot of the smaller operations who are waiting might be waiting a while. I don't think the price of sand is going to go back up very soon."
Not everyone agrees that Wisconsin's sand boom is over. Trempealeau County leads the state with nine mines in operation and 11 more in development. Kevin Lien, the county director of land management, reports that applications are still coming in.
"It's not crazy like it was a year ago, but it hasn't let up," Lien said. "I think people are speculating that the drop in price is just economics and it will come back up."
Lien said the construction delays he's seen are the result of companies adjusting their plans to be more competitive in the market. Raw sand is not very valuable, so mines are adding facilities to wash the sand, requiring more permits and taking longer to build.
Pros and cons to market's wane
If planned mines don't develop and the jobs they promised don't materialize, who loses out?
The owners of properties that are not developed may lose the most, depending on what type of contract they signed with the mining company. Some landowners have mineral rights contracts that offer no payment up front, said Lance Pliml, chair of the Wood County Board and president of the recently formed Wisconsin Counties Association Frac Sand Task Force.
Pliml said some mining companies may be negotiating contracts for land they have little intention of mining — either to boost the amount of sand they can claim in reserve or perhaps prevent competitors from moving in.
"My guess is that long term, some people won't see that windfall they anticipated," Pliml said. "If they don't exercise options that they (mining companies) have on these properties, it's just back to square one, back to farming."
On the other hand, communities rarely make investments to support or entice proposed mining projects, Beekman said, so they don't have anything to lose if the plan falls through.
"The counties that might lose out are those lifting moratoriums, hoping to get new mine development now that they have regulations in place," Beekman said. "They might not because the market is close to saturation."
That appears to be the case in Dunn County. A year-long moratorium expired in October, and according to Cleo Herrick, the county zoning administrator, the county has yet to receive a single new application.
That's okay with Barb Flom, a Dunn County landowner who turned away a frac sand company interested in her property. She believes mining exacts too high a price on communities.
"I would be happy if the whole industry left," Flom said. "Dirty air, dirty rivers. Those are the costs that local citizens are paying."
The future of frac sand
Most industry experts agree frac sand mining is not going to disappear anytime soon, despite the recent slowdown in the natural gas industry.
"The only thing that makes frac sand mining go away is the end user," Pliml said. "As long as they allow fracking, I don't see it going away."
In fact, Budinger says lower natural gas prices don't necessarily mean bad news for the sand industry. Affordable energy could lead to a resurgence of American manufacturing. More manufacturing means more demand, long term, for both energy and sand, he said.
Claude Riglemon is just happy that his days in the frac sand industry are almost over. He supports the industry, but he describes his own experience as frustrating.
Riglemon estimates he spent about $6,000 on the permitting process, including the environmental engineers who drew up his stormwater and reclamation plans. Given the chance, he wouldn't do it again — too much of a hassle.
"I would tell anybody that was going to get involved to be very careful and know who they are dealing with," Riglemon said.
"Right now, it might be a little Wild West, but in a couple of years, the quick-buck operators will wash out. The boom will subside. The big guys will provide the market with what they need."
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.


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I am porting a code from DirectX/HLSL to OpenGL/GLSL. I am stuck with inputting two vertex buffers into vertex shader. My code in HLSL is as below:
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Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021 – अमरावती पोलीस भरती 2021
Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021 – अमरावती पोलीस भरती 2021
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Amravati Gramin Police Recruitment 2021 Complete Details
Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021 is announced to recruit Police Shipai in Police Department. In Amravati Gramin Police Bharti, there are vacancies available for the Police Shipai post. Online applications are starting very soon and we will update here. Amravati Gramin Police Recruitment is organized under the new portal. As for this recruitment, Many students are waiting for long as they are preparing for Amravati Gramin Police Bharti for years. So, this is really good news for those students. In this article, we will share all the important details required for Police Bharti Amravati Gramin i.e educational & physical qualification, age limit, Police Bharti Syllabus, application fees, online application date, how to apply procedure & selection process.
|अमरावती पोलीस भरती 2021
|पदाचे नाव
|पोलीस शिपाई
|पद संख्या
|वय मर्यादा
|18 – 33 वर्ष
|Rs. 5,200 to 20,200
|अर्ज पद्धती
|अर्ज करण्याची अंतिम तारीख
|23 सप्टेंबर 2019
|सविस्तर माहिती खाली वाचा
Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021 Details
|Department Name
|Police Department, Amravati Gramin
|Recruitment Name
|Police Bharti 2021
|Name of posts
|Police Shipai
|Total Vacancies
|Not Yet Declared
|Pay Scale
|5,200 to 20,200 Rs. (Grade Pay – 2,000 Rs.) with Special Pay 500 Rs. and Other.
|Application Mode
|Official Website
Educational Qualification For Police Bharti 2021
|Police Shipai
|12th should be passed from its respective boards.
Amravati Gramin Police Bharti Vacancy Details
|Police Shipai
|Not Declared
Age Limit For Amravati Gramin Police Bharti
|General Category
|18 to 28 Years
|Reserve Category
|18 to 33 Years
Physical Eligibility For Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021
|Minimum Height For Female
|Minimum Height For Male
Application Fees
|General Category
|Update soon
|Reserve Category
|Update soon
|Ex-Serviceman Candidates
|Update soon
All Important Dates
|Starting Date For Online Application
|3 September 2019
|Last Date For Online Application
|23 September 2019
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Selection Procedure For Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021
- In the Selection Procedure, Candidate needs to give Physical Test & Written Exam.
- Physical Test is for 50 Marks & Written Exam is for 100 Marks.
- Male Candidate should perform – 100 Meters Running, 1600 Meters Running and Shot Put.
- Female Candidate should perform – 100 Meters Running, 800 Meters Running and Shot Put.
How to Apply For Amravati Gramin Police Bharti 2021
- Interested & Eligible candidate should apply by filling an Online Application Form on Mahapariksha Portal for Amravati Gramin Police Recruitment.
- Candidate should keep their Passport Size Photo & Signature Photo with them while filling an online application form.
- You need to pay online application fees by Net Banking, Debit – Credit Card or by BHIM UPI. After paying application fees you will get the confirmation message on your mobile and then your Amravati Gramin Police Bharti application will be successfully submitted.
- After successful submission of the application form, print the application form for confirmation.
Keep doing study well as this year Written Exam is for 100 Marks in Amravati Gramin Police Bharti.


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Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – 2013-02
The winter edition of the job trends are back! Today, we are looking at traditional programming languages, which currently include Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. After this months job trends are posted, I will be reviewing all of the posts and the languages included. I believe some change is needed, so hopefully we will see some change in the summer edition. As always, please review some of the other job trends posts to see if your favorite language is already in one of these posts.
First, we look at the job trends from Indeed.com:
Most of the job trends have continued to decline for about a year. Oddly, the one language that looks to have grown during the past year was Visual Basic. VB is showing more demand now than it has in over seven years. Objective-C has a fairly flat trend for the past year, while the others show declining trends. Java shows a significant drop in the past six months, returning to job levels from 2008. Perl has dipped below Visual Basic for the first time in over six years. C# and C++ show almost identical trends and demand.
Now, let's look at SimplyHired's short term trends:
SimplyHired's trends differ greatly from Indeed's. Overall, these trends are fairly flat, with a slight rebound towards the end of last year. Objective-C does not show much growth during 2012, except at the very beginning of the year. Java leads the rebound at the end of the year, showing more growth than the other languages, but still less demand than in February 2012. C++ and C# continue their twin trends, showing almost identical demand. Perl barely stays ahead of Visual Basic, and both showing slight growth in the end. If we ignore the hiccups prior to February, all of the trends seem to be flat for the year.
Finally, here is a review of the relative scaling from Indeed, which provides an interesting perspective on relative job growth:
Surprisingly, Objective-C growth slowed significantly during the past six months. However, slowing from over 700% to about 550% is not a terrible decline. C# growth is also slowing significantly, dropping below 100% for the first time in over 4 years. Interestingly, Perl and Java are showing similar declining growth trends, with current growth dropping to the same level as 2006. Visual Basic seems to have held steady at slightly positive growth, while C++ continues to decline.
What does all this mean? There has been a definite slowdown in demand in the past year. Given the growth of mobile, this is very surprising due to the leading mobile development languages being Java and Objective-C. What we could be seeing is the true rise of web development, which allow companies to use a much greater breadth of languages than before. Java and Perl are not required knowledge when writing for the web, and the continued decline of languages like C++ and C# point to the same possible conclusion. Being a true polyglot, meaning developing in multiple languages during the same project, may soon become a requirement. We will likely see more evidence of this when we look at the web and scripting languages in the next job trends installment.
Related articles
- Does The World Still Need Visual Basic? (pluralsight.com)
- Job Trends Via Twitter Activity (i-programmer.info)
- Reflecting On Programming Language Trends (dorai.me)
Reference: Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – 2013-02 from our JCG partner Rob Diana at the Regular Geek blog.


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Vienna - (UNODC) - 5 March 2012 - The Government of Japan is to supplement its voluntary funding to projects in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries by $13.6 million as part of its "Aid to Afghanistan" initiative. This follows some $9 million to strengthen the Afghan criminal justice system donated in January from Japan's Peacebuilding Grant, bringing the country's overall funding to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to roughly $23 million.
Thanking the Government of Japan during a meeting today with Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC, said: "This is a most generous contribution and I take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation for the long-standing support shown by your country." He also noted the timeliness and importance of this contribution, coming so soon after the launch of the 2011- 2014 UNODC Regional Programme for Afghanistan and neighbouring countries, which is designed to boost coordinated counter-narcotics efforts and regional stability.
At a recent high-level conference in Vienna to address drug trafficking from Afghanistan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted that: "Fighting the drugs trade is essential to our work to reduce poverty and raise standards of human well-being."
With the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force from Afghanistan in 2014, Mr. Fedotov has stressed that the international community would increasingly look to the United Nations to shoulder additional responsibilities in support of Afghanistan. "The focus must shift to the non-military aspects of transition - development, governance and strengthening civilian authority," said the Executive Director, adding that the Japanese grants would help UNODC to bolster support for these areas.
The projects will range from law enforcement, research and advocacy, to criminal justice and health. While most target Afghanistan, many will be implemented over a vast area, including Central Asia. In Afghanistan, counter-narcotics capacities will be strengthened, for example, with support for a forensic laboratory within the counter-narcotics police and mobile detection teams. Significant funding will also go towards comprehensive drug treatment and interventions and providing alternative livelihoods for subsistence opium crop farmers.
Greater cooperation will be forged between border liaison offices in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan to stem the flow of precursor chemicals, which are used to manufacture drugs. On the northern trafficking route, the expertise of officers at the Tajik and Kyrgyz border will be enhanced. In another example, selected schools in Kazakhstan will receive information on drug abuse prevention.
The Executive Director commended the Japanese Government for its commitment to building and consolidating peace in Afghanistan and expressed the hope that other donors would follow suit.
In a separate development, Japan pledged $2 million to the Trust Fund to Support the Initiatives of States to Counter Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, which brings to $3.5 million the total paid by Japan to the Trust Fund since 2010.
For more information please contact: Preeta Bannerjee, Public Information Officer:T: (+43-699) 1459-5764 | M: (+43-699) 1459-5764 | E: preeta.bannerjee{at}unodc.org


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About this song.This carefree song features bouncy piano and happy whistled tune. The call and response style of the melody together with the snappy, clappy rhythm give the song a very friendly, welcoming, and inclusive feel.
This song will bring a positive and vibrant energy to your project, be it film, commercial, corporate, or any other media. It would also work very well for children related projects.
Instrumentation.Whistling, glockenspiel, celesta, vibraphone, kalimba, piano, snapping, clapping, electric bass, and ukulele.
Included Tracks.There are five variations included with this song, giving you ultimate flexibility. Here they are in order of appearance in the preview track:
- Full Song (As described above) 1:40
- Light Loop (A seamlessly loopable version of the lighter song section with piano and snapping. Light and playful.) 0:18
- Main Loop (A seamlessly loopable version of the main song section in full swing. Bright and uplifting.) 0:18
- Main Loop With Ending (A single main loop with the clean, final ending. Use this on its own, or tack it to the end of either looped version for a seamless, complete song with the music length you need!) 0:23
- Short Version (A compact variation suitable for use as a musical intro/outro or with shorter commercial/video spots. Final hit around 0:27) 0:30
Each variation is its own separate file, included as both a full resolution WAV as well as a high quality MP3 for quick and easy use over the web and portable devices.


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Swedish study followed 47 infants for 7 years.
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Infants with fewer types of intestinal bacteria are at increased risk for developing asthma, a small new study suggests.
Researchers assessed the varieties of gut bacteria in 47 infants and then followed them until they were 7 years old. At that age, 17 percent had chronic asthma, 28 percent had hay fever, 26 percent had the skin condition eczema, and 34 percent reacted to the allergens in a skin prick test.
However, only the cases of asthma could be connected to low diversity of intestinal bacteria when the children were 1 week and 1 month old, according to the study recently published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy.
The findings may provide further evidence that bacteria in the intestines can affect the airways, which has previously been shown in animal studies, the researchers say.
"A high diversity of gut [microbes] during the first months of life seems to be important for the maturation of the immune system," study author Thomas Abrahamsson, a pediatrician and researcher at Linkoping University in Sweden, said in a university news release.
It's believed that for the immune system to function effectively, it needs to be "trained" by large numbers of different microorganisms. If a child's immune system has not been exposed to and stimulated by large numbers of different bacteria, it may overreact to harmless substances, Abrahamsson explained.
More information
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about asthma.
SOURCE: Linkoping University, news release, Jan. 7, 2013
January 10, 2014


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I am designing a tarp and I wanted to get some opinions from you all about some features I want to include. It will likely be an 8' x 10' or 11' x 10' rectangular flat tarp.
My first question is regarding tieouts. As I type right now, I can hear the wind whistling through the area...I know I am going to be in windy conditions with this tarp, so I am planning on trying to add two tieouts on each wall like so:
Do I just sew a peice of reinforcing fabric onto the tarp, and then attatch the loop on the outside of the wall? Here is a picture of the tieout:
http://www.mountainlaureldesigns.com...073efa2eaef0c1 (bottom right corner)
What do you all think of this approach? I was thinking of rigging something like in the picture when it gets windy. Is that going to give me a noticably more solid structure?
Thank you for your help, oh experienced tarpers!


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Making releases
Main tarballs (#)
Cutting a new release is automated, you use the ./scripts/make-dist.sh script after double-checking version strings across the code repository:
- scripts/lib/gt4.0/brokerdist/build.properties
- scripts/lib/gt4.0/dist/build.properties
- cloud-client/builder/environment.sh
- control/src/python/workspacecontrol/main/wc_optparse.py
- pilot/workspacepilot.py
- cumulus/authz/pynimbusauthz/__init__.py
You can also use a script that does this all on a remote node where a webserver resides. This is what the Nimbus committers uses on the nimbusproject.org web server to cut every set of release tarballs and any intermediate ones. See the original commit message for usage.
Cloud client (#)
Most cloud client releases do not need to happen in tandem with a service release because the protocol rarely changes.
Making a new cloud client release involves getting the "workspace/vm/cloud-client" tarball builder and reading its README.txt.
The cloud client has its own CHANGES.txt and README.txt files that need updating.
Transfer the final result to the usual place, "[email protected]:/www/workspace.globus.org/downloads/"
It's a good thing to help out and note on the download page which version of the cloud client is actually compatible with various clouds. Especially if there are no clouds that a new version is compatible with, this can happen right after a release of the service and cloud client.
Context agent (#)
The context agent is released more "manually", there is no release generation script, it is just a tarball of your efforts.


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A cache of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton's nomination at the party's convention next week in Philadelphia, details the acrimonious split between the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's former rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Several emails posted by Wikileaks on its document disclosure website show DNC officials scoffing at Sanders and his supporters and in one instance, questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion. Some emails also show DNC and White House officials mulling whether to invite guests with controversial backgrounds to Democratic party events.
Although Wikileaks' posting of the emails Friday did not disclose the identity of who provided the private material, those knowledgeable about the breach said last month that Russian hackers had penetrated the DNC computer system. At the time, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the breach was a "serious incident" and a private contractor hired to sweep the organization's network had "moved as quickly as possible to kick out the intruders and secure our network."
On its web page, Wikileaks said the new cache of emails came from the accounts of "seven key figures in the DNC" and warned that the release was "part one of our new Hillary Leaks series" — an indication that more material might be published soon. Among the officials whose emails were made public were DNC spokesman Luis Miranda, national finance director Jordon Kaplan and finance chief Scott Comer, but other DNC and media figures and even some White House officials communicated with them between January 2015 and last May, Wikileaks said.
The emails include several stinging denunciations of Sanders and his organization before and after the DNC briefly shut off his campaign's access to the party's key list of likely Democratic voters.
The DNC temporarily curtailed Sanders' access to the list in December 2015 because the organization accused the insurgent campaign of illegally tapping into confidential voter information compiled by the Clinton campaign. The Sanders campaign briefly sued the DNC but the party reached an accord with Sanders and the suit was dropped in April.
The emails show that after the furor over the voter records was resolved, hostility simmered from top DNC officials over the Sanders campaign.
In mid-May emails with Miranda, his deputy, Mark Paustenbach, questioned whether the DNC should use the voter record furor to raise doubts about the Sanders campaign.
"Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never had his act together, that his campaign was a mess," Paustenbach wrote. Miranda spurned the idea, although he agreed with Paustenbach's take: "True, but the Chair has been advised not to engage. So we'll have to leave it alone."
The same month, in another email to DNC officials, another official identified only as "Marshall" said of Sanders: "Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps."
The Associated Press emailed Miranda, Paustenbach and DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall about the Wikileaks releases but they were not immediately available for comment. Sanders campaign officials were also not immediately available after contacts from the AP.
The Wikileaks releases also included exchanges between DNC officials and White House event planning officials about whether to allow several influential Democratic party donors to attend events where President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were scheduled to appear. The emails contained lengthy discussions about the donors' backgrounds, including, in some cases, criminal histories.
One email exchange concerned whether to allow singer Ariana Grande to perform at a DNC event in the wake of an infamous online video posted on the TMZ website that showed Grande licking other customers' doughnuts at a bakery in California. DNC officials also worried about the singer's comment in the same video that "I hate America." Grande, whose real name is Ariana Butera, later apologized for the comment.


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Roald Dahl Plass
Thursday, 17th July 2008 by James Turnbull
Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff, Wales, is named after everyone's favourite Children's author Roald Dahl who was born here in the Capital, and the word "plass", meaning "plaza", is a nod to his parent's Norwegian origins.
If you're a fan of Doctor Who or the Torchwood spin-off, then you'll immediately recognise this as being the location of a spatio-temporal rift in time1.
At the north end of the plaza stands a 21m tall water fountain (which hides the entrance to the secret Torchwood underground cave).
The south-east of the Plaza is home to the National Assembly for Wales, the Senedd. We looked for the Senedd before while touring the United Kingdom's devolved assemblies, but it wasn't finished then.
At the north-east of the square is the Wales Millennium Centre, a hall for performing arts. The front of the building has an enormous Welsh poem written across its entire face using the medium of windows. You can read the windows in Microsoft's bird's eye view imagery.
There's more information on Roald Dahl Plass and Cardiff Bay on Wikipedia.
Thanks to AndrewAnorak, Jam, braddie, and Andrew Shackson.
If you didn't watch either of these shows then I apologise for the gibberish. ↩


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Friday, 8 July 2011
Sunday, 3 July 2011
We Make Launch Night
Wow, so many gorgeous things at the We Make London Summer Boutique Pop-up Shop Launch party last night. The organisers did a great job, the place was packed with people and looked fab. I was very proud to see my monkey monster in the window :o)
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No matter what proprietary plug your favorite gadget uses to charge, chances are the other end terminates in that ubiquitous electronic duckbill: The USB Type A connector. It's five volts of future fury. If you're like me, you have USB wall warts sticking out of every outlet in your house.
Correction: If you're like me—as of last weekend—you have one wall outlet with a USB jack built right into it. Hey holla hey ho! Living in the future is totally boss. Tough road to get here, though.
What Is It?
A standard-looking two-plug wall outlet with a superpower: A built-in pair of 2-amp USB Type A ports ready and willing to charge all of your gadgets.
Who's it For?
Anyone with cellphones, tablets, e-readers, cameras, sports watches, universal remotes, noise-canceling headphones, or anything else that charges via USB.
Clean and elegant: no screws, protrusions, or stupid graphics.
Using It
Spring-loaded dust-caps give way to your gadget-juicer—but only if you come in at the perfect approach angle. You get used to it.
The Best Part
Each jack spits out 5 volts and 2 amps of gear-charging current—enough to efficiently fill up anything you've got, including the notoriously power-hungry new iPad.
Tragic Flaw
You might be tempted to flip the ol' circuit breaker and install this yourself. Beware: The Power2U, unfortunately, is wider than the standard box for a single wall receptacle. If that's what you've got behind the wall, you'll either need to replace it with a two-gang box, or install an external outlet mount. The former requires that you remove quite a bit of drywall for proper installation, and the latter may not be to code in your area.
This Is Weird...
Why make an outlet that's wider than a standard outlet box? Serious DIY buzzkill.
Test Notes
• Between trying to widen my outlet box and trips to the electrical supply store (Thank you Mike!), the f@#$ing thing took me 3 hours to install—and I'm pretty handy.
• Faceplate screws and mounting screws get in the way of each other, making a flush fit tougher to achieve than it should be.
• The guys at my local electrical supply store and my local hardware store independently recommended a USB outlet made by Cooper. It's half the price and fits in a standard box, but it only has one AC outlet and the USB ports only pump out 700mA—not enough to charge a power-hungry device like an iPad.
Should You Buy It?
If you're building a house from scratch or doing a serious remodel—or you're game for a real project—then absolutely yes. In addition to being the only UL-listed USB outlet we could find, it's the best combination of form and function out there.
Newer Technology Power2U AC/USB Wall Outlet
• Amperage (AC): 15 Amp
• Voltage (AC): 125 Volts
• Amperage (USB): 2 Amp
• Voltage (USB): 5.2 Volts
• Price (Amazon): $26
• Giz Rank: 3.5 stars
Your house is the biggest gadget of all. A Gizmodo Home Mod shows you how to recharge it, clear its cache, and update its operating systems.


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CBD stands for cannabidiol oil. It is applied to take care of various signs even though their use is rather controversial. There's also some distress regarding how the oil influences our bodies. The oil could have health benefits and such products that have the element are legal in lots of places today.
What it is
CBD is really a cannabinoid, a element found in weed plant. The oil contains CBD concentrations and the uses vary greatly. In cannabis, the ingredient that is popular is delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. It's an active ingredient present in marijuana. Marijuana has CBD and THCA and both have various effects.
THC alters your brain when one is smoking or preparing with it. The reason being it's damaged down by heat. Unlike THC, CBD isn't psychoactive. This means that your state of mind does not change with use. However, substantial improvements could be noted within the human body suggesting medical benefits.
Hemp is just a the main cannabis seed and generally, it is maybe not processed. This really is wherever a lot of the CBD is extracted. Marijuana and hemp originate from marijuana sativa, but are very different. Today, marijuana farmers are reproduction plants so that they'll have high THC levels. Hemp farmers do not need to change flowers and are accustomed to develop the CBD oil.
How it operates
Cannabinoids affect your body by attaching themselves to different receptors. Some cannabinoids are produced by the body and there are the moonrocks and CB2 receptors. CB1 receptors can be found all through the body with a great number of them being in the brain. The receptors are accountable for temper, feelings, pain, action, coordination, memories, appetite, thinking, and a number of other functions. THC influences these receptors.
Are you aware that CB2 receptors, they're primarily in one's defense mechanisms and influence pain and inflammation. Although CBD doesn't attach straight here, it blows the human body to make use of cannabinoids more.
The benefits
CBD is advantageous to individual health in numerous ways. It is a natural pain reliever and has anti-inflammatory properties. Over-the-counter drugs are useful for pain relief and most people prefer a more normal substitute and this is where CBD oil comes in.
Study has shown that CBD provides an improved therapy, specially for people with serious pain.
There's also evidence that claim that the use of CBD can be very great for anybody who is wanting to stop smoking and working with drug withdrawals. In a study, it absolutely was observed that smokers who had inhalers that had CBD tended to smoking significantly less than what was usual for them and without the further craving for cigarettes. CBD could be a great therapy for people with habit problems particularly to opioids.
There are numerous different medical problems that are aided by CBD and they include epilepsy, LGA, Dravet problem, seizures and therefore on. More study is being conducted on the consequences of CBD in the human body and the answers are rather promising. The likelihood of overcoming cancer and different anxiety problems can also be being appeared at.


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Lynn Crosbie, Montreal born, is a cultural critic, the author of four books of poetry: Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillainElle, Pearl and a collection of new and selected work, Queen Rat.
Her recent collection of poems, Pearl, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is also the author of the controversial book, Paul's Case and the editor of The Girl Wants To and Click. She lives in Toronto, and has a PhD in English literature (on the work of Anne Sexton). Crosbie teaches at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto.
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Did a Software Kingpin Fake His Own Ruin?
John McAfee is a tricky one. The software mogul said he squandered his anti-virus fortune on worthless bonds and real estate. But what if he got his nephew killed and is trying to escape the consequences?
There was something implausible about McAfee's vocal promotion of his own poverty last year. He told the New York Times his fortune had fallen to $4 million from $100 million due to losses on bonds issued by recently-belly-up Lehman Brothers; on his Colorado mansion; and on assets like his 10-passenger Cessna jet and Hawaii estate. As we noted at the time, this was a rather unlikely situation for a man who just two years earlier was flying higher, and more smartly, than his contemporaries.
Sure enough, Jeff Wise recently visited McAfee and has a fresh report on him in Fast Company, detailing the many ways he does not seem like an impoverished man, or even a man scraping by on $4 million: He spent $1.5 million on just the land for his home, $1 million on a patrol boat he donated to the Belizean coast guard, rents a $450,000 boat, spent $400,000 in greenhouses for his biotech venture, hired 35-40 employees and started and "gave away... a high-speed ferry company, an Internet-services company, a rickshaw company, a water-sports facility, and... an aerial-tour company." He's also building an airstrip for tourists and, by his own admission, handing out bribes like candy.
Also, McAfee is implausibly trying to invent a sort of female Viagra, and cure bacterial infections, using native plants.
And he's been lying about where he lives, altering wikis and Facebook pages to say he lives in Honduras or the British Virgin Islands.
Suddenly, writes Fast Company, it doesn't seem like McAfee really lost all the cash he claims. Instead, the magazine theorizes, he's scared of a lawsuit over how he ran his last U.S. venture, a New Mexico "aerotrekking" company. The company flew its guests very close to the desert floor in a "trike," basically a hang glider with an engine attached. The hitch is that this is a very tricky and dangerous thing to do, and McAfee let his unqualified nephew offer flight instruction, according to a $5 million civil complaint. The nephew took a student into a dangerous canyon pass and both died on impact with a cliff face; a lawyer retained by the student's family filed the suit. (McAfee has speculated the accident was caused not by his newphew but the passenger, "who'd been ill before his visit," and had maybe "had a stroke or a heart attack and fallen onto the wires of the kite's wing.")
The lawyer: "I think [McAfee] is trying to liquidate all property that could be used to collect a judgment, so that it's all beyond the reach of execution in the United States."
McAfee: "A judgment in the States is not valid down here. And lawsuits in process in the United States have a difficult time in the collection stage."
McAfee has the mind of a true hacker: He made his fortune because he cracked one of the first computer viruses, "Pakistani Brain." It would appear he's now attempting a social hack. He should hope his knowledge of the Belizean and U.S. legal systems is as good as his knowledge of code — and that he can hand out enough of those bribes to see him through a long stay as an outlaw in Belize.
(Update: Fixed a typo where we had Wise's name transposed with McAfee's.)


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Joe GarnieHometown: Teller, Alaska
There are no records for this musher during the 1989 race.
Joe Garnie was born on June 27, 1953. He grew up in Teller and still makes his home there, where he is a carpenter. He began mushing when he was 6 years old and has been interested in the Iditarod since his uncle, John Komok, ran the very first Iditarod. Joe says, "I wanted to run the Iditarod one more time while I'm physically able to and to see old friends along the trail. Joe is married to Mary and they have six children, Ashley, 11 and Jazzly, 10, still at home and Emma, Josie, Blanche and Alissa, grown and gone from home now. He lists his hobbies as raising and mushing dogs, raising his two daughters, fishing and smoking fish.


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For most people, attending a relative's wedding is a happy occasion. But for one Highland Park couple, seeing their son socialize and dance qualified as a once-in-a-lifetime thrill.
"Ethan was just so appropriate ... so engaged in life," said Rebecca Fishman, reflecting on the spring event. "For one glorious moment, we got to be this normal family ... and I just can't let that slip away."
Ethan Fishman, 20, has Fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition closely related to autism. His mother credited his newfound social skills to arbaclofen, an experimental drug he was taking in a clinical trial.
But the study was terminated in May because it failed to reach its goals and resources were limited, according to a statement from Seaside Therapeutics, the company that created the drug. Two months later, with the drug no longer available, the Fishmans, along with other families in the trial, say the benefits they had observed are dwindling.
"It's just been devastating," said Rebecca Fishman, who was attending her 11-year-old child's school concert when the news about ending the study popped up in a text message. "I had to get out of there ... it felt like a death."
The Fishmans' experience sheds light on the emotional roller coaster of all clinical trials, which combine vulnerable and often desperate patients with untested drugs and market forces. Despite all the consent forms and cautionary language, the subjects sometimes perceive the process as a cure, rather than an experiment.
It also illuminates the long odds of bringing new drugs to market. Researchers say the challenges are particularly daunting when the objective of the study is assessing something as complex as behavior, which, unlike the size of a tumor or cholesterol count, is difficult to measure.
Three Illinois families whose children participated in the trial and took arbaclofen told the Tribune they believe the drug reduced their child's anxiety or increased communication. They viewed the drug as the key to unlocking the enigma of Fragile X, which has no cure and affects 1 in 100,000 Americans with symptoms ranging from mild aggression to severe cognitive impairment.
While the drug showed significant benefits in some areas in the 300-patient trial, researchers said, it failed to beat the placebo on the main goal of the study: social withdrawal. That caused Seaside and its partner, Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, to pull the plug. Seaside and Roche issued statements expressing regret and acknowledging the disappointment by participants.
The drug is unavailable anywhere in the world, leaving the families frustrated and feeling abandoned. Following the announcement, advocates started online petitions, reached out to potential investors and even appealed to the White House, all to no avail.
"I got so much out of those 31/2 years," sighed Holly Usrey-Roos, referring to her son's time in the study. His vocabulary exploded, enabling the 14-year-old to use a complete sentence rather than a single word when he wanted an object. One of those sentences allowed Usrey-Roos to hear Parker say "I love you" for the first time.
The single mother made the four-hour one-way drive each week from her home in Canton in west central Illinois to Rush University Medical Center, the largest of Seaside's 23 research sites.
"You know going in that participating in a trial is a risk," said Usrey-Roos. "But we didn't expect it to end this way."
Melissa Zolecki of Plainfield said she also observed dramatic strides forward, including being able to take her 12-year-old son, Matt, for his regular blood draws without him physically resisting.
"It's just so frustrating to know that there's help out there and not be able to fix it," said Zolecki, whose son started taking arbaclofen in 2010 and finished his last dose in mid-June.
Clinicians frustrated, too
Ethan, Parker and Matt are just a few of the 40 patients followed by Dr. Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, a key investigator for the trial of the drug, also known as STX209. It's a derivative of a drug used to treat muscle stiffness in cerebral palsy and was also thought to quiet some of the "noise" in the brains of patients with Fragile X syndrome, which is caused by a single gene.
After four years, arbaclofen was in the home stretch of new drug development that could lead to Food and Drug Administration approval for marketing — to confirm effectiveness, monitor side effects and collect data. It also required meeting a clearly-stated and specific goal: In this case, arbaclofen's effect on social withdrawal in patients ages 12 to 25.
During the first three months, neither Berry-Kravis nor the volunteers knew who was on the drug or the placebo. Later, all participants had the option of going on arbaclofen.
The drug cleared early safety hurdles and researchers were focused primarily on efficacy, said the pediatric neurologist. Among her participants taking the drug, about one-third had little or no improvement from their previous behaviors, one-third showed some benefits and for the remaining 30-40 percent arbaclofen "could be life-changing," she said.
Measuring the drug's effectiveness can be difficult because children and young adults develop at different rates, and some will mature and show behavioral and cognitive improvements without the help of drugs at all. Moreover, the gains were not always the particular behavior that Seaside was looking for, so it still counts as a failed study, Berry-Kravis said. "But in my heart of hearts, I know the drug works for some patients."
When the statistics were compiled, arbaclofen didn't succeed strongly enough and scientific rigor trumped anecdote.
Like all researchers, Berry-Kravis understands that controlled, well-regulated clinical trials are the only way to protect the public from untested new drugs, some with potentially lethal side effects.
Still, with a disease like Fragile X, pinpointing one single behavior is much more elusive and nuanced than for other drug trials, such as lowering cholesterol. In these instances, Berry-Kravis can't help but wonder if the rules shouldn't be tweaked.
"Maybe the tests for these brain-based disorders need to be designed differently? How do we create new measures that will capture the whole disorder?" she said. "That's really a key issue for all of us in the scientific community."
While the process is frustrating for researchers, it pales compared with the agony it causes for trial participants, said Berry-Kravis, who spent hours on the phone with distraught parents weaning their children off the drug.
Parents across the country pleaded with the researchers, proposing every possible way of getting arbaclofen, such as asking "someone rich" to buy Seaside. But without FDA approval, drugs — even trial leftovers — simply cannot be legally obtained, Berry-Kravis said.
Laurie Zoloth, a professor of medical humanities & bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, understands the moral dilemma. She has spent time at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, listening while parents begged to allow a certain gene therapy trial to be approved.
"In all of these situations, we as a society have to make difficult choices and we set in place a system to make the choices as fair and deliberate as possible — and in any such system, individuals will not get all they need," said Zoloth. "But unless everyone operates under the same rules, we will not have a system for research, sharing resources, evaluating drugs or, ultimately, finding stable cures."
Most drug trials fail
While the announcement that arbaclofen was being discontinued hit hard, the fact that the drug fell short is more the rule than the exception, experts said.
At any given time, hundreds of treatments are vying to win the FDA's endorsement through clinical trials. But only 16 percent of the medications that are studied in humans actually get to market, according to Kenneth Kaitin, director of Tufts University's Center for the Study of Drug Development.
For psychiatric and neurological disorders, the odds are even lower at 8 percent.
Pharmaceutical companies weigh many factors before embarking on a trial, and psychiatric and neurological diseases have a double-whammy: Patients usually need to be on the drug for a lifetime, which means studies need to be done to demonstrate that the drug works and is safe over a long period. And the end points are notoriously hard to measure, whether it's Fragile X or Alzheimer's disease, which has not seen the FDA green-light a new treatment in almost a decade.
"These clinical trials tend be longer, larger, more complex and, unfortunately, more likely to fail," Kaitin said. "That's why, even though the market potential is enormous, several major pharmaceutical companies have reduced or totally eliminated their investment to treat these diseases."
Starting all over again means more time lost for patients. For companies, it may not be feasible to channel more money into something that will, in all likelihood, yield little or no return.
Robert Miller, executive director of the National Fragile X Foundation, called the arbaclofen story "gut-wrenching." He acknowledged the controversy, but said this wasn't a case of a heartless corporation putting profits over people. "Apparently, it just didn't hit the endpoint Seaside was looking for."
'Something just clicked'
Since Ethan was diagnosed with Fragile X at age 2, Rebecca and Ira Fishman have tenaciously searched for ways to combat the condition. They have traveled all over the country seeking alternative therapies, trying special diets, surrounding him with mentors.
But no intervention had ever worked like arbaclofen, his mother said. "Right from the beginning, something just clicked. … He was calmer, more socially appropriate. The nerves in his brain were firing like never before," she said.
At that memorable family wedding in May, Rebecca Fishman felt as if she caught lightning in a bottle.
"The five of us were all together, on the dance floor … and that had never happened before," she said. "Instead of being on the outside of life, Ethan wanted to be a part of it."
And now? "We're back to all of us swimming inside the fishbowl, while Ethan is knocking on the outside," said Fishman, who is the cousin of the spouse of a Tribune editorial employee.
Ask Amy
For Usrey-Roos, the difference between "before" and "after" can be summed up by a simple trip to the movies.
Before arbaclofen, she'd start out well before show time to coax Parker from the car to the lobby, from the lobby to inside the theater. Once inside, he could enjoy himself, providing she had packed headphones and Twizzlers to help alleviate irritability and sensory overload.
With the drug, though, it was a glitch-free outing, just one of the many gifts she gleaned from the study, she said. "I know what is inside him now. ... I got to see all the thoughts and humor that I knew were going on in his head. What is breaking my heart is that we are going to lose it. We are going to lose it not because it isn't safe or doesn't work. How was I to know that was a possibility?"
For Matt Zolecki, the proof was also in his sociability, his mother said. While on the medication, "he was eager to attend his special education golf class, but now he doesn't want to go at all," said Melissa Zolecki, an emergency room nurse.
Matt has been enrolled in numerous trials, starting when he was barely 2 weeks old. But his mother said she's done with medications.
"As important as research is, we've done our fair share. I can't do this anymore ... not to him, not to us."