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Skyline Releases Men's Basketball Report #9
- Shahee Martin named to Honor Roll
Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the ninth Men's Basketball report for the 2009-10 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Junior guard Shahee Martin (Queens, N.Y./West Hempstead) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Martin scored 10 points and had a career-high 15 rebounds in the win over Mount Saint Vincent. He had 16 points against Old Westbury and pitched in with 11 at home against Mount Saint Mary. Martin averaged 12.3 points and 8.7 rebounds in a 2-1 week for Farmingdale.
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No. 1 Alabama and second-ranked Ohio State again claim all but one of the first-place votes in the USA Today Coaches football poll.
The poll had its first regular-season update Tuesday and undergoes minor changes although the four ranked teams that lost last week suffered in the voting. Georgia, which lost to Clemson, drops from fifth to No. 12, and Texas Christian, which was beaten by Louisiana State, slips four rungs to 24th. Boise State and Oregon State, which lost to unranked opponents, drop out of the Top 25.
Clemson is tied (with UCLA) as the biggest mover up, moving from eighth to No. 5 and LSU, now 11th, is among five teams improving two places this week.
Defending BCS champion Alabama, as it did in the pre-season poll, grabs 58 of the 62 first-place votes while Ohio State gets the other three. Oregon remains third with Stanford, the only Top 25 team not to play last week, fourth. Clemson sits in fifth.
South Carolina is up one spot to sixth with Texas A&M, which pulls in the final first-place vote, drops from sixth to No. 7. Louisville and Florida, both up one, are eighth and ninth, respectively. Florida State, 12th in the pre-season, enters the Top 10 at 10th.
LSU comes in 11th ahead of Georgia with Notre Dame, down two, in 13th. Oklahoma State remains in 14th place but Big 12 foes Oklahoma and Texas switch places with the Sooners in 15th and the Longhorns down to 16.
Michigan is again 17th and UCLA comes in No. 18, pushing Nebraska down one spot to 19th. Big Ten rivals Northwestern, now 20th, and Wisconsin, 21st, are both up two this week.
Southern California, also up two, is 22nd, and Washington enters the poll at 23rd. TCU 20th last week, and Miami (Fla.), unranked in the pre-season, are tied for 24th.
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Cosmetics made with ingredients tested on animals is no longer allowed in the European Union, under a ban that took effect Monday.
The European Commission, the governing body for the 27-country EU, said in a statement that the new rule "is in line with what many European citizens believe firmly: that the development of cosmetics does not warrant animal testing."
Officials said they plan to support development of alternative testing methods and to preach the virtues of animal-free makeup to other countries, including the U.S. The commission said it made $309 million available from 2007 to 2011 for research on such alternatives.
"This is a great opportunity for Europe to set an example of responsible innovation in cosmetics without any compromise on consumer safety," said Tonio Borg, the commissioner in charge of health and consumer policy, in a statement.
Testing of finished cosmetics on animals has been prohibited in the EU since 2004. A ban on marketing of items with ingredients tested on animals was originally set for 2009 then pushed back to this year.
Trade group Cosmetics Europe, which represents more than 4,000 companies, was less than pleased. The European personal care industry is worth more than $90 billion, and that doesn't even include exports of cosmetics, toiletry and perfumes.
"The ban ignores the reality that science is not yet ready to bridge existing knowledge gaps and that non-animal alternatives cannot address all ingredient safety questions," the group said in a statement. "Furthermore, the ban acts as a brake on innovation for the European cosmetics industry while achieving little to improve global animal welfare."
Animal advocacy group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the new regulation "a cause for celebration for animals, consumers and science" after "an epic campaign, spanning more than 20 years."
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What Does H1N1 (Swine) Flu Mean for People With HIV/AIDS?
HIV Expert Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., Provides the Details
Last Updated: July 21, 2009
[Editor's Note: This interview was initially posted on April 29, 2009, when the virus formally known as novel influenza A (H1N1) was just beginning to spread worldwide. We will continue to periodically update this article as needed to ensure its accuracy, but as the months pass since it was first posted, we've found that Dr. Gallant's words still largely hold as true as they did in April, and that many of his predictions have indeed come true.]
As the H1N1 ("swine flu") virus has made its way across the world, so has misinformation and confusion about what the virus is and what sort of threat it poses. This holds particularly true for people with weakened immune systems or some people living with HIV. To help us fill in that knowledge gap, we've asked Dr. Joel Gallant for some insights. Dr. Gallant is a professor of medicine and epidemiology in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and he happens to be one of the leading HIV specialists in the United States.
Dr. Gallant, thank you very much for talking with us.
Thank you, Myles. My pleasure.
Let's start with the basics. What is swine flu?
Swine flu is just a new strain of flu that has not been circulating in the population. As a result, nobody has any immunity to it. It's an influenza virus, just like other influenza viruses, but it's just one that human beings haven't seen before and as a result, our immune systems don't have any memory of it and that makes us a little more vulnerable.
When it comes to people living with HIV then, how does this translate? Are people with HIV more at risk for coming down with swine flu?
Not really. HIV-infected people are not in general at greater risk of influenza or flu than other people. And that's in part because the cellular immune system, the part of the immune system that the CD4 cells comprise, is not really responsible for fighting the flu. As a result, HIV doesn't make you more susceptible. For most people with HIV, the swine flu is pretty much the same as it would be with somebody without HIV.
"For most people with HIV, the swine flu is pretty much the same as it would be with somebody without HIV."
The only exception to that is that because people with HIV are at higher risk for pneumonia and because flu can increase your risk of pneumonia as a complication of flu, people with low CD4 cells could be at higher risk of complications of flu if they do get the flu and that the most important complication is pneumonia.
So the bottom line is that if you're HIV positive, but you're on HIV medications and doing well and have a reasonably good CD4, then there's probably not much to worry about. But if you're quite immunosuppressed -- if your CD4 is well below 200 -- then there is a slightly increased risk, but certainly not the same level as the risk of some other diseases like tuberculosis or something like that where the CD4 cells are so important.
It sounds like people with HIV have a greater risk not of getting swine flu necessarily, but of suffering complications related to it if they have a low CD4 count.
That's right, yes. The risk of getting the flu is the same.
I'm assuming viral load doesn't make a difference here.
Probably not much. Again, the viral load could contribute a little bit to the risk of complicated flu, if you had a high viral load. Although, I suspect the CD4 count would be a little more important.
Certainly at our clinic [Moore Clinic in Maryland -- click here for contact information] we try to vaccinate everybody against the flu, but in general, if you look at most influenza seasons, we really don't see a lot of people getting really sick from the flu. We don't really see a lot of need for hospitalization. And certainly, we don't see a lot of deaths.
So I think that with respect to the swine flu, it shouldn't be much different given what we know so far about this strain now. Although, again, this is a new epidemic and we may get more information as time moves along.
Are there any precautions HIV-positive people need to take to protect themselves from swine flu?
It's pretty much the same as for anyone else. Normally I would say get a vaccination, but that's not available yet for this strain of flu, so the next best thing you can do is:
But short of that, there's not really much you could do.
You said there's no vaccination for this flu. But what if someone got vaccinated for the flu before the winter -- will that do anything to protect them from swine flu?
No, unfortunately it won't. The vaccine for this last winter's flu covered flu strains that are not the same as this swine flu and it would not provide protection.
Alright, so that flu bird has flown?
Yes, exactly. They are trying to come up with a vaccine for this one, but that wouldn't be available for some time.
If a person were to come down with swine flu, what are the treatments that are typically available?
There are actually a number of drugs that are active against various strains of flu. The ones that are most widely used are Tamiflu [oseltamivir], which is a pill, and then Relenza [zanamivir], which is an inhalation. Both of them are effective against this strain of flu, so if you were to come down with symptoms, then it would be important to try to get this medication and start taking it relatively soon. You don't want to wait too long or it ceases to be effective.
Remember that a lot of people will refer to cold symptoms as a flu, but it's important to distinguish between a common cold and a flu. Flu is something where you have pretty significant fever and muscle aches and fatigue before you actually get respiratory symptoms. So it's not like a cold where you get a sore throat and then maybe you feel sick a day or two later. With swine flu you really can all of a sudden feel really wiped out with muscle aches and fever and that would be a time when you'd want to start taking medication.
"It's important to distinguish between a common cold and a flu. Flu is something where you have pretty significant fever and muscle aches and fatigue before you actually get respiratory symptoms. So it's not like a cold where you get a sore throat and then maybe you feel sick a day or two later."
Do you know how readily available Tamiflu or Relenza are?
I have not heard of any shortages at the present time. I'm told that there are big stockpiles and that there is enough Tamiflu to go around, that it's being shipped out to states that are reporting flu cases, so I haven't heard. There's certainly no reason to rush out and try to stockpile it. It is available.
Is this the sort of thing that is typically covered by private health insurance, Medicare, ADAPs [AIDS Drug Assistance Programs]?
It's covered by private health insurance. I'm not aware of whether it's on ADAP formularies. I sort of doubt it, although perhaps some states would have it. That's a state-by-state issue.
Can Tamiflu or Relenza potentially interact with HIV medications or with the medications used to treat infections, such as pneumonia?
No, the drug can be used with antiretrovirals. There are no significant drug interactions. It can be used with the drugs we commonly use to treat or prevent pneumonia. So that really should not be a concern, but do keep in mind that if you were to develop flu and then develop pneumonia -- of course by then, I hope you would be under the care of a doctor -- that Bactrim [co-trimoxazole] may not be the right drug. So Bactrim's a good drug for pneumocystis, but not a great drug for the types of pneumonia that might complicate flu.
Alright, well is there anything else that you'd want to tell HIV-positive people listening to the swine flu craziness that's now overwhelming the news?
For the most part, I've been reassuring my patients that they don't really have to think about this flu differently than anyone else. And that's in part because most of my patients are on HIV treatment and have undetectable viral loads and have decent CD4 counts. So for them, it really is not a special issue. It's an issue we all have to be concerned about.
So no need to panic?
No, definitely not. I mean so far this doesn't look like the kind of SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] or avian flu sort of pandemic that we have been worried about in recent years.
If I had to bet, I would say that this will end up being perhaps a big epidemic in numbers, but not too much worse than just a regular old flu season except that it's happening at the wrong time of year. That's what I hope we'll see, but like I said, we'll have to just see what happens as the data emerge.
I guess we'll stay tuned. I have saved the most important question for last, which is: Is it not true, sir, that you are most likely to get swine flu if you eat pork that's been imported from Mexico?
[laughs] No, you're not going to get it from eating the pig. Maybe if you're raising the pig, that might be different, but it's OK to eat it.
Dr. Gallant, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us.
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Reporting on Iraqi benchmarks in mid-September, Bush and his team of Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker sought to pin some of the blame on Iran. Eschewing diplomatic language during his testimony, Crocker boldly said, "Iran plays a harmful role in Iraq." Gen. David Petraeus added that Iran is fighting a "proxy war" in Iraq by aiding Shiite extremists and providing weapons that are killing American troops.
Anyone doubting that Bush is not serious about taking on Tehran should note his words from last month: "We will confront this danger before it is too late." On September 17 the Telegraph reported that the Pentagon has already drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 2,000 targets across Iran.
The great irony is that while of these accusations towards Tehran are supported by thin evidence, plenty of evidence does exist that another of Iraq's neighbors, U.S.-ally Saudi Arabia, is supporting resistance groups in Iraq, and intends to continue to do so.
A Neighborly Mess: Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia has both the means and the religious responsibility to intervene [in Iraq]," wrote Nawaf Obaid, neoconservative ally and a former security advisor to the Saudi government, in a shockingly frank editorial for a Washington Post last November. He warned the Bush administration, sinking ever deeper into the quagmire of Iraq: "America must not ignore the counsel of Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If it does, one of the first consequences will be massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis."
Obaid's warning, in response to talk of a possible U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, noted the current Saudi political stance "I am my brothers' keeper" towards fellow Sunni Arabs in Iraq. Clearly the Saudis do not consider all Iraqis their brothers, particularly the Shia.
The editorial said, "As the economic powerhouse of the Middle East, the birthplace of Islam and the de facto leader of the world's Sunni community, constituting 85 percent of all Muslims, Saudi options are to provide Sunni military leaders (primarily members of the former Iraqi officer corps, who make up the backbone of the insurgency) with the same types of assistance -- funding, arms and logistical support -- that Iran has been giving to Shiite armed groups for years or to help establish new Sunni brigades to combat the Iranian-backed militias."
Obaid admitted that Saudi involvement in Iraq carried great risk and "...could spark a regional war but the consequences of inaction are far worse" and that his country "had pressed other members of the Gulf Co-operation Council...Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman -- to give financial support to Sunnis in Iraq."
Arming the Neighborhood
In August, the Bush administration announced new arms packages for Israel and seven Arab nations comprising military equipment worth $20 billion to Saudi Arabia, over $30 billion in military assistance to Israel, and $13 billion to Egypt."
To some extent, the arms packages are an extension of the same policies that have been in place for years in the Middle East. For example since 1998, Saudi Arabia alone has received over $15 billion in U.S. weapons.
But these sales have had little impact in the region other than arming everyone to the teeth. In her article, The Saudi Arms Deal: Congressional Opposition Grows, Rachel Stohl points out that "The United States has had little success in the past using arms sales to buy leverage in the region. "
From Washington's viewpoint the sale has two objectives: bucking up the Saudi-dominated six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and countering Iran's influence. But the sales will likely cause Iran to respond by boosting its arms caches.
A dangerous side effect of the sales is the addition of more arms into a region where each country has distinct objectives in the region and inside Iraq. The sales set the stage for Iraq to be the flashpoint for a potential proxy and/or regional war.
But most dangerously for Iraqis and U.S. troops, the sales reward a country that is providing an estimated 45% of all foreigners fighting U.S. troops and Iraqi government forces.
Destabilizing Iraq: The Saudi Role
A "clear" view of Iraq is now visible only through a blood-soaked kaleidoscope of contradictory and conflicting U.S. policies. While the Bush administration regularly lashes out at Syria and Iran for aiding militias and foreign fighters in Iraq, according to official U.S. military figures reported in the Los Angeles Times on July 15, about 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia. Fighters from the kingdom are believed to have carried out the majority of suicide bombings in Iraq.
Who is to blame for the influx of fighters though? Gen. Mansour Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, however, blames forces inside of Iraq for the flow of Saudi human bombs into Iraq. If he is to be believed, "Saudis are actually being misused. Someone is helping them come to Iraq. Someone is helping them inside Iraq. Someone is recruiting them to be suicide bombers. We have no idea who these people are. We aren't getting any formal information from the Iraqi government." But Iraqis are quick to point the finger across the border. Lawmaker Sami Askari, an advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Askari accuses Saudi officials of following a deliberate policy of sowing chaos in Baghdad: "The fact is that Saudi Arabia has strong intelligence resources, and it would be hard to think that they are not aware of what is going on."
Askari claims that imams at Saudi mosques regularly call for jihad against Iraq's Shi'ites and that the Saudi government had funded groups to cause chaos and bloodshed in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite south.
But in large part this continues to be conveniently overlooked by the Bush administration so that massive arms packages can be sold to Saudi Arabia, access to the vast oil reserves continues unabated, and the Saudi royal family's long-standing connections to the Bush family remain unmentioned in mainstream circles.
There are the odd rare days, however, when the boat does get rocked.
Just days before the $20 billion arms package was handed to the Saudi monarchy, Bush administration officials voiced their anger at the "counter productive" role of Saudi Arabia in Iraq. They accused Saudi Arabia of regarding Maliki as an Iranian agent and actively working to undermine his government and for offering financial backing to various Sunni groups inside Iraq.
Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and presently the U.S. ambassador to the UN, wrote in the New York Times recently, "Several of Iraq's neighbors, not only Syria and Iran but also some friends of the United States, are pursuing destabilizing policies there."
But this is the exception rather than the rule. The cozy relationship between Washington and Riyadh continues, largely unscathed.
And Destabilizing They Are...
"Mosul is where the Saudis are the most active today because it is already primarily Sunni and there are a few Kurds," says Sureya Sayadi, a 46-year-old Kurdish American woman who lives in the Bay Area of California. Sayadi, from Kirkuk, Iraq fled to the United States with her family when the U.S. left Kurds in the lurch after encouraging them to rebel against Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the 1991 war against Iraq.
A teacher and a medical doctor, Sayadi fills the rest of her time facilitating the work of an international NGO that assists Kurdish orphans and victims of honor killings. She is busier than ever as the number of both has escalated dramatically in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. She believes Bush administration policies "have empowered Islamist political parties whose clerics promote honor killings" and have "destroyed Iraq's judicial system and altered its laws to justify the killings." She adds, "One of our Kurdish employees has heard from the community that the Saudis are taking over parts of Kurdistan by promising people education."
In recent conversations with her NGO colleagues, Sayadi has found that within the last two years, the Saudi government has financed the construction of at least 50 mosques in Erbil and Suleimaniya alone. They are also very active on the Turkish/Iraq border and in Kirkuk and Halabja. She explains, "They go to areas where there is the most poverty and suffering, stepping in to offer services that people are not getting from the government -- health care, education, and sometimes employment -- and in the process implant[ing] their fundamentalist ideology."
Sayadi believes the Saudi monarchy is directly involved in funding "at least four new Islamic groups in Kurdistan. They are exploiting the fact that Kurds are mostly Sunni."
During the summer of 2005, members of al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sunna cells were among several extremists arrested in Erbil, and most of them were Kurds. Prior to this, Saudi mosque-building in the area during the 1990's combined with the return of Kurdish militants who had fought against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan is believed to have led to the emergence of groups like Ansar al-Sunna. The general perception was that these men aspired to radicalize the general population by replicating the Afghan model in Kurdistan. Reinforcing this trend around that time, Saudi Arabia established links with these Kurds to counter the power of Saddam Hussein. In 1992-93 Islamist Kurdish groups worked under the Saudi based International Islamic Relief Organization and other "charities," which pumped $22 million a month into Kurdish areas. Today the Saudi names have been replaced with Kurdish names.
In the decade following the 1991 war, when Saudi "charities" constructed 1,832 new mosques, alarmed Kurdish officials instituted restrictions. Wahabi teachings followed in Saudi had been translated into Kurdish and imported into the region, accompanied by the Salafi strain, a puritanical, strict interpretation of the Koran adhered to by al-Qaeda.
In 2003, U.S. air-strikes had targeted bases of Ansar al-Islam on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran. These same radical groups, thanks in large part to Saudi backing, are now alive and flourishing in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq.
"Islamists, from Saudi Arabia, are offering money to young Kurds, visiting their schools, marrying Kurdish girls and taking them back to the kingdom." Sayadi tells me, "Kurds have always been quite secular, none of us practiced the hijab but now Kurdish women are being forced to do this. There is segregation of men and women. People in sheer desperation and hope for aid are turning more fundamentalist. The environment is ripe for fundamentalism, and Saudi influence is increasing rapidly. They are creating a hope-filled impression amongst the people that Islamic assertion is the way to resist the West.
Kurdish girls assisted by Sayadi's NGO have revealed that Saudi Islamists are pressuring Kurdish women to adopt a fundamentalist ideology in exchange for free religious studies in Kurdish universities. From her experience with Kurdish refugees in southeastern Turkey she sees that, "In both Iraq and Turkey Islamists are operating in a similar fashion, leaving no stones unturned to convert people to fundamental Islam. They are buying poor Kurds desperate for survival and feeding them ideology."
Sayadi's 35-year-old unemployed nephew Mushtaq, with a Kurdish mother and a Shi'ite Arab father, used to drive a taxi between Beji and Baghdad. "A man with a Saudi dialect called his mother, my step-sister Gailas, and ordered her to raise $2,500 to free Mushtaq. They called from his cell phone and had him appeal to his mother to give them the money. She raised the money and brought it to a suburb in Baghdad where they had instructed her to go only to find her son's burned taxi and his hacked body wrapped in his prayer rug. The men said they did it because he was Shia."
Another disturbing incident in northern Iraq this April was the stoning to death of a 17-year-old Yezidi girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, by men from the Saudi-funded mosques.
Amnesty International condemned the killing, calling it "a so-called honor crime" in which the girl "was killed by a group of eight or nine men and in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika, near Mosul because she had engaged in a relationship with a Sunni Muslim boy and had been absent from her home for one night."
The Middle East is floating in the violence and chaos bred by failed Bush administration policies. Generations are now being raised in occupations and/or war zones, which were caused and/or supported by Washington. Needless to say, anti-American sentiment in the region is quite likely higher than it has ever been in history.
The primary sword in the belly of the Middle East -- that of the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- must be immediately and unconditionally removed. The United States must simultaneously pay full compensation to every Iraqi who has lost a loved one or suffered damages as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
Second to this, the massive weapons packages should be immediately canceled; there is no need to attempt to douse the raging fires in the Middle East with yet more sophisticated weaponry.
In addition, if Iran is to be sanctioned, is it not inherently hypocritical not to be sanctioning Saudi Arabia in the same way, since there is more than ample evidence indicating that fighters, funding, and most likely weapons, are pouring across its borders into Iraq?
The solution must, finally, include diplomacy and even-handed dealings amongst all of the countries in the Middle East, as opposed to the current model where countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia effectively have carte blanche to do what they may. Otherwise it is sure to fail.
Dahr Jamail has reported from inside Iraq and is a Middle East expert. He writes for Inter Press Service, The Asia Times, and is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.
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Tapering isn't as simple as dialing back your weekly mileage and the intensity of your workouts.
Most newcomers to the marathon reckon that the toughest part of their preparation is, well, the tough elements of training: long runs, lifetime highs in terms of mileage and long tempo runs. But veterans will typically tell you that the high-end running, while obviously a formidable challenge, isn't the most difficult aspect of getting ready for race day. That honor is reserved for running less than most would have it, a state of affairs characterizing that agonizing two to three weeks before game day and given an epithet of its own: the taper.
Tapering is Necessary
The reason for tapering before a goal competition isn't mysterious – it's to allow you to be as rested as possible so you can maximize your potential. Clearly, the need to taper from your peak mileage is at odds with doing too little for long enough to cost you aerobic fitness. Therefore, most formal schedules have you cutting back mileage for about three weeks before the marathon. Pete Pfitzinger, co-author of "Advanced Marathoning" and a two-time Olympic marathoner as well as an exercise physiologist, believes that you should run 80% of your normal training volume three weeks out from the race, 60% two weeks out, and one-third the week before. On its Web site, Hanson's Running, which has overseen one of America's most successful elite marathon groups over the past decade-plus, includingOlympians Brian Sell and Desiree Davila, advises nothing more drastic than a one-week cutback, even for its advanced programs. I fall somewhere in between; it's far from a settled issue.


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Hello: I just posted my intro on the Open Board, so I hope it is OK if I ask a question.
I am working on an awards logo for a not for profit organization and I am suggesting a motto of "Truly With Praise". The best Latin translation I can come up with is "Vere Cum Laude". Would anyone kindly be able to confirm this is an accurate translation, or suggest a better one if not?
Thank you for any help in advance!


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I did a lot of work with some people I just met when starting this project to set up the server and the wikis. If you're curious, the interface and experience may be similar to what you know on BS01, The Ninjago Wiki, or other independent wikis. Brickimedia will be cooperating with many other sites, including sites like Brickset to integrate information from the Brickipedia wiki to bring a more unified, easy, and complete online LEGO information on various sites you visit.
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Thank you for your post mrfaize. The issue you describe seems to be related to a corrupt/old profile still stored.
If you haven't already, try uninstalling the drivers software and eliminating the profiles, then reinstalling the software package, without a reboot, and create the profile once again, avoid migrating it from a previous set up.
Latest driver and Intel® PROSet software, (the last option, "Wireless_15.1.0_s64.exe") can be downloaded at the link bellow:
1- Go to 'Start' right-click on 'Computer' click 'Properties' then on device manager (on the left panel) click on "Network Adapters"\right-click the adapter and select 'Uninstall'
2- Remove the 'Intel® PROSet wireless WiFi software' from Control Panel\ Control Panel\ programs, 'uninstall a Program'
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Being completely waterproof and designed to hold water, and you can clean them and treat them just like any porcelain basin. They can withstand damp and humid environments and will not wear under normal bathroom basin use. Like any bathroom basin product, do not use acidic, abrasive or harsh chemical cleansers as they may dull, imperfect or affect the integrity of the finish, and avoid dyes and coloured liquids that might stain a stone surface.
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Being a natural stone product this basin is designed to last a lifetime! Sandstone has withstood the test of time in a number of harsh environments around the world, now you can enjoy these benefits in your bathroom for many years to come.
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The look of sandstone is timeless, it has been used in a number of applications around the world and continues to offer stunning appeal. Now you can enjoy the earthy feel and unique combination of eye catching colours in you own bathroom. The rich sandy base colour combined with the natural variations provide a piece of art that will add to the wow factor of your bathroom.
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This basin is unique, there is no other, they are sold this way because there are so many natural variations as it is a natural product so we want to ensure you get the exact piece you are looking for!
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It looks like shes been digging in the dirt...
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UPDATE – Phottix have now officially release the Laso TTL Flash Triggers for Canon, which are directly compatible with the 2.4GHz Canon RT radio system.
And Laso receiver units open the Canon RT system up to including legacy non RT TTL flashes like the Canon 580EX II and 430EX II, as well as firing studio lights in the system.
The Laso are available for pre-order now from B&H Photo and Adorama for $159.95 for the Laso Transmitters, and $99.95 for the Receiver units.
The Phottix Laso transmitter units resemble the form and function of Canon's own ST-E3-RT transmitter, though the Laso also included an added AF assist light, and USB port for firmware updates.
The 2.4 GHz Laso transmitters are directly compatible with the Canon 600EX-RT and 430EX III-RT Speedlites.
As well as the additional AF assist light and USB port, the Phottix Laso transmitters feature a Linked Shot shutter release port, quick locking shoe, and power via 2 AA batteries just like the original Canon ST-E3-RT.
- 2.4G two-way Canon RT compatible radio communications
- Directly compatible with original Canon ST-E3-RT / 600EX-RT / 430EX III-RT wireless signals
- Range up to 100 meters
- HSS to 1/8000th
- Flash Modes: ETTL /M / Multi / Gr
- FEC / FEB – 1/3rd increments (±3 stops)
- Manual Flash – 1/128 – 1/1 (in 1/3rd increments)
- 5 Groups (in GR mode) ( A / B / C / D / E )
- Up to 15 off camera flashes possible
- 15 Physical Channels, 1 Automatic Channel
- Device IDs – ID0000~ID9999
- Modelling Light
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- Auto-save function
- High-Resolution Dot Matrix LCD Screen
- AF Assist Light
- USB Port for Firmware Updates
- Wireless Shutter Release Port / Linked Shot
- Quick Lever Locking foot
- Power : 2 AA batteries
Canon RT Radio Compatibility :
Possibly of more significance still though are the Phottix Laso TTL Receiver units.
The Laso TTL Receivers effectively open the Canon RT system up to including legacy non RT TTL flashes like the Canon 580EX II, 430EX II, and Phottix's own Mitros and Mitros+ speedlites.
The RT receiver units also allow studio lights to be fired via an RT compatible transmitter or master flash mounted on the camera hotshoe, without any extra transmitter units attached to the camera (as the Canon system alone otherwise requires).
|Compatible models
|EOS type-A camera compatible with E-TTL II/E-TTL autoflash**
|84.1×68.3×58.5 mm
|118 g(Excluding the batteries)
|Auto, Ch.1-15
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|2.4 GHz
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|2 x AA alkaline batteries or AA NI-MH batteries
|High Speed And Second Curtain Sync
|1/8000s* , high speed sync is possible only with EOS digital cameras released since 2012
|On-camera wireless ash trigger
|AF Assist Light
|Yes. The AF assist beam is eective within 5m range (lens zoom range 17-105mm) measured from the center AF point.
|Exposure Control System
|E-TTL II/E-TTL auto, manual ash, multi. flash, auto external flash metering (only when the flash mode is set to )***
|Manual Flash
|1/1-1/128(1/3-stop increments)
|Flash Ratio Control
|1:8-1:1-8:1, 1/2-stop increments
|Modulation System
|Primary Modulation: OQPSK, Secondary Modulation: DS-SS
|Wireless Radio ID
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|Up to 5 groups(A/B/C/D/E)****, up to 15 units
|93×70×47.5 mm (LxWxH)
|Approx. 93.3g
|Auto, Ch.1-15
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|Exposure Control System
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|Up to 5 groups(A/B/C/D/E)****, up to 15 units
Please note: Product specifications and external design are subject to change without notice.
* On compatible (Canon) cameras released after 2012 (excluding EOS1200D).
**ETTL auto flash is not available with EOS lm cameras and EOS 1D, EOS 1Ds.
***Multi flash is not compatible with Laso receiver.
****Group flash is not possible with cameras released before and up to 2011 (and EOS1200D), flash sync speed will be one stop slower then normal sync speed.
The Phottix Laso TTL Trigger system are likely to provide a higher quality alternative to the already available YongNuo RT transmitters and receivers.
(Though at this stage the YongNuo transmitters do provide some extra features and added compatibility with pre-2012 cameras).
At the time or writing this Phottix will be one of only 3 third party manufacturers now known to have attempted tackling the more sophisticated Canon RT TTL radio protocols.
With Phottix already having the larger Indra portable TTL lights in their arsenal though, as well as recently announcing collaborations with Elinchrom and Sekonic light meters, there is also a lot of potential for Phottix to possibly expand on the Canon RT system in great ways into the future.
The Phottix Laso Transmitters and Receivers are available now for Pre-Order from around $159.95 and $99.95 respectively –
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- A Peshtigo man waits to appear in court, accused of stabbing to death his girlfriend, who was an advocate for victims of domestic violence. 48 year old Brent Kaempf was charged Wednesday with one count of first degree murder.45 year old Patricia Waschbisch was found dead in her Peshtigo home Sunday night.According to court documents, friends told authorities that Waschbisch was going to break up with Kaempf,and that he was stalking her at a bar. Police found Kaempf sleeping in his car in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa early Monday.He's expected to appear in Marinette County court today.(Copyright 2013 Associated Press - All Rights Reserved)
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City forges ahead with landscaping around sign
Council told grant might not be available.
First they were told they would and then that they might not.
However Gothenburg City Council members don't want to wait around until fall to landscape an area around a new entrance and directional sign on the south edge of town.
After discussion at their Dec. 1 meeting, they decided to go ahead with a design so the area—south of McDonald's Restaurant on Highway 47—could be landscaped this spring.
Council president Jeff Kennedy, who owns a landscape business and who will draw up the design, said the city may still get a $10,900 grant—$8,720 from the state and $2,180 in matching funds the city would pay.
Earlier, city administrator Bruce Clymer told the council he'd received a memo from the Nebraska Forest Service that said funding for 2009 had been denied even though Gothenburg had been approved to receive a Community Enhancement Program grant.
CEP grants are through the Nebraska Forest Service that partnered with the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum.
Kennedy said the federal grants are funneled through the U.S. Department of Transportation into the Nebraska Department of Roads.
"We were approved but the funds are not available," he said, noting that there's still a chance successful applicants might yet get grants in 2010 but they probably won't know until summer.
Clymer talked about heavy oversight of projects with grant money from the federal highway administration.
He said the same rules for $2 million projects are applied to $4,000 plans.
Strict environmental rules are also involved with such grants, Kennedy noted.
Clymer suggested that local tree board members decide what they want to do.
Kennedy said the council needs to figure out if it wants to spend the money without a grant.
Mayor Joyce Hudson indicated she would as did council member Jeff Whiting.
Although the city probably wouldn't be reimbursed for design costs, Kennedy said they still might get money through the landscape grant.
He pointed out that Central Platte Resource District also has a grant for which the city could apply.
Members also talked about paring down the project to $8,000.
On a related matter, the council learned that base concrete had been poured over brackets on the new directional sign.
Clymer said Stonco officials said lettering that was sanded over needed more time to cure so it blends in with the stone.
Stonco is the company that sold and etched the stone directional sign.
Employees later covered up the original etching when city officials thought it was too small for passersby to read from the highway.
Stonco then re-engraved the sign in a different place on the monument with larger letters.
On another matter, council members authorized Clymer to pursue an energy efficient and conservation block grant for street lighting.
The city administrator said stimulus money is available through the Nebraska Energy Office to fund lighting projects up to $250,000 with a 20% match by local governments.
Clymer said he's visited with a sales representative about LED lights which save about 58% in energy costs a year.
LED, light-emitting diodes, use less power and have longer life spans than traditional fluorescent or incandescent bulbs.
Replacement of 400 street lights would cost about $257,000. A fully funded grant with a 20% match would pay for $206,080 of the cost, he said.
The city would end up paying about $51,520 for fixtures for the LED lights, he said.
Clymer said the bulbs are supposed to last 30 years compared to the two to five-year lifespan of bulbs used now.
"If we were funded with the grant, the project would pay for itself in energy costs alone with the in the first three years," he said.
The council made a motion for Clymer to apply for the grant.
"Hopefully we'll be at the top of the list," he said about getting the application in around the first of December. "I figure it's a one in 1,000 shot."
In other business, the council:
- granted a Redevelopment Authority request for sales tax grant money to pay for paving water and sewer improvements on remaining lots in Hilltop Estates subdivision.
- passed a resolution authorizing city officials to sell a digger truck by sealed bid with a minimum bid of $5,500. Bids will be opened on Friday, Dec. 18, at 2 p.m. in city council chambers. Council members had earlier approved the purchase of a new digger truck for $134,712 and had planned to sell the old digger truck at a public auction Nov. 28 but didn't receive a minimum bid of $7,500.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A lawsuit headed to trial in New Mexico accuses a doctor, hospital and an international biomedical firm of teaming up to implant unneeded pacemakers and other devices in patients to boost profits.
Tommy and Barbara Sowards are suing for damages after they say the doctor implanted an unneeded pacemaker when Tommy Sowards went to MountainView Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces in January 2007. They're suing cardiologist Dr. Demosthenes Klonis, the hospital and pacemaker manufacturer Biotronik, Inc.
The Las Cruces Sun-News (http://bit.ly/16ppZaC ) reports attorneys for the doctor and manufacturer denied the allegations, but declined further comment Tuesday during a break in pre-trial proceedings. The case is set for trial in November. The hospital didn't respond to requests for comment.
One of the Albuquerque-based attorneys representing the Sowards says 34 people reportedly received unnecessary implantations.
Information from: Las Cruces Sun-News, http://www.lcsun-news.com