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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
It comes to this: the rent is too damn high.
New York City is more expensive than it's worth. Unless you are an actual rich person, living in the city is like throwing money in a hole, taking a shit on it, and then setting the shit-currency pile ablaze. As my friend Alicia sometimes says, "I don't want to spend my life in a city where $1 million makes you middle class."
And after six years, the allure of dwelling in The Most Important Place On Earth has dulled considerably. To quote my cousin Stephanie, "New York is the best place in the world to spend your twenties." I'm 31. My extended adolescence is over. I want to own a house, or at least an apartment, get some savings together, maybe even land me one of them husbands and grow a human parasite inside my undercarriage (eventually expelling it and raising it). It's getting close to movin' time.
I'm on a book tour, so it seems an ideal time to audition other cities. Bear in mind that as a freelance writer, I can kinda move anywhere as long as I'm willing to hustle and churn out the writingses. Same thing is true for web video, blogging, etc. And I can always pick up a day job of some sort if necessary, particularly for health insurance purposes (hi, Prozac!) Let's look at the likeliest candidates. I'd really appreciate your input in the comments.
Not technically a city, but a loosely-defined region that basically means "Not in New York City or on Long Island." Julieanne lives in this area and she seems to like it very much. It's quieter and more affordable than NYC, plus it's prettier and you can schlep back into Manhattan for a job or a meeting or whatever if you need to.
On the downside, the winters are fucking cold and I don't have many friends up here. But I bet I could make some like-minded buddies in Hudson or Beacon or wherever. It'd probably be pretty lonely until I did, though.
I like doing comedy for fun and sometimes for profit. I'd like to write for TV and film, and this is unquestionably the best place to do that. I have many friends here, and they seem to have nice enough lives. In many areas, it smells like flowers all the time. You've got the ocean and the mountains and the desert.
On the downside, it seems like everyone you run into works in film or television, and even the people who don't are absurdly attractive. L.A. is where all the best-looking people from every high school in America move to become staaaahz. That's kind of obnoxious. The rent is still better than in NYC, but the traffic is horrendous. And I'd have to learn to parallel-park, which is terrifying and freaky in the extreme.
The smog is gross and when I go to L.A., I enjoy it but it doesn't feel like home. It doesn't feel like me. Then again, neither does New York City, and I've been there for six years.
BONUS KNOWLEDGE: I just got into grad school in Long Beach (MFA in writing; an hour from Los Angeles. I want to have the option of teaching writing at the college level, and I need an MFA for that, apparently. Should I go? I dunno. You tell me.)
Didn't see this one coming, did you? Or maybe you did – Asheville is one of those places, like Austin and Portland, where ultra-liberal slightly hippie-ish white chicks with too many degrees often settle in order to nest with a bearded dude (or boyish lady) and maybe have a baby who they dress exclusively in hand-woven organic cotton things purchased from Etsy.
I say this with a mocking tone, yet it is a life I often crave. I could rent or maybe even buy (one day) a little house and decorate it with stained glass objects I find at the local flea market. I could have a backyard. I could have chickens! I don't want chickens, but that's not the point. I could have them.
I went to school here and I have some old friends here. It's a lovely place, and the springtimes are the most glorious springtimes I've ever seen. Asheville feels like home to me.
On the downside, it's a bit isolated, the culture shock would be intense, it's entirely possible to overdose on hippies, and I could kiss any comedy career goodbye (aside from the aforementioned Internet stuff.) In one of the aforementioned places I could at least commute to auditions and to do TV pundit-type spots. Not in Asheville. I'd have to make the choice to end one particular chapter of my career and exclusively focus on another – namely, writing.
Plus, I lived in Asheville for two years. My memories of it are frozen in time from my early twenties. Sure, I've visited in the intervening years, but a visit isn't the same as a long-term stay. Maybe I'd get bored.
You pick! I'm an impulsive gal, and I trust your judgment better than my own sometimes.
Okay, you have your options. GO! Go, ladies, gooooo!


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A no deposit bonus offered by a free poker for Windows site is considered free starting money which you can use to play your favourite poker game. Basically, it acts as a starting point towards your progress as a professional poker player. Regardless of how familiar you might be when it comes to playing poker online, if you really want to play against real opponents, you will have to try using free poker money.
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With countless innovations in the world of online gambling, various platforms have been introduced, allowing players more options in playing their favourite casino games. Platforms such as the mobile device, tablet, and smartphones are among the latest additions particularly when it comes to online poker. However, one of the most widely used platform is the desktop computer with Windows as the operating system. But why is the reason why a lot of people still prefer this option?
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2. Wider Game Variety
Another advantage of a free poker for Mac or Windows is that there is a wider variety of games to choose from. This means that you can easily find the game that suits your preference perfectly without the need to visit other sites just to do so. Also, since you have the option of playing the games for free, you can test them out one by one to familiarize yourself with its basic rules and mechanics.
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Change of Shift (Santa Fe Style!)
The latest installment of Change of Shift is up over at Digital Doorway
All the way from New Mexico! Keith has returned from his new home to host our beloved blog carnival.
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There's the smell of a debacle around the upcoming motion control accessory for the Xbox 360, the Microsoft Kinect. The technology's sound, but early feedback indicates that it's seriously laggy, and the price? Absurd.
Right now, our early instinct is that Microsoft will want people to forget the Kinect shortly after its released, but despite early resports, Microsoft is putting on its bravest face. Microsoft's vice president of interactive entertainment in Europe, Chris Lewis, is now saying that the Kinect will expand the 360's lifespan by 5 years.
"Kinect really gives us, I think, a very genuine additional five years," Lewis said in an interview at the Gamescom computer-games fair in Cologne, Germany. "What Kinect does is broaden us out to users that we weren't addressing in the past."
Anything's possible, we guess, but with the Kinect costing almost as much as a Wii without a 360 to pair it to, and with its motion-control and voice-control features so buggy so soon to launch, we want a good hard snort of whatever corporate pixy powder Lewis is having.
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BoneThugsNHarmony's newly signed artist to FleshNBone Global, CityBoiStreets is making sure he gets noticed. Holding no punches, CityBoiStreets is coming out swinging with his hot new collaboration buzzing on worldstarhiphop.com with fellow Piff boy Ziggy called "Chef Ramsy" after much success on the Player Made Tour with Kirko Bangz. After the Player Made Tour, Cityboi got an amazing phone call, which resulted in the joining of Cash Money's artist, "Caskey", on his No Apologies US Tour. Living off of the high from the tour life, Cityboi got his wish when BoneThugs and Harmony asked Cityboistreets and the rest of the Piff Boyz out on their recent national tour which just ended this past April.
He has been breaking through and grinding hard to the next level of his career. As a member of a talented collective of artists that started out as the Piff Boyz now called Piff & Bonez, CityBoiStreets is a hot young dragon that is already scorching. With the expectancy on his Mixtape titled "Rip my beats" Vol.1 and Vol.2 and his first solo album titled "Black Rose" with features from Caskey, Flesh -NBone, Lazy Bone, Lil Flip, Kirko Bangz, OG Maco, Waka Flocka and more, and also working alongside working with producers Mrjayondatracc, Tubz and Hector Sounds.
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…OBJ, IBB urged to speak up
… Isyaku Ibrahim, Ezeife, Musa, Falae, others speak
FORMER Head of State and Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general election, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), on Monday threw a direct challenge to three of his successors – Generals Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo as well as President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing them of being responsible for the rot in the oil industry and the spiraling wave of corruption in the country.
The comment drew responses from President Jonathan and Babangida and is panning out as a repeat of a similar face-off between Obasanjo and Babangida exactly a year ago.
Last August, Babangida, who ruled Nigeria between 1985 and 1993, kick-started the fight on the eve of his 70th birthday celebration in Minna, Niger State when he dismissed Obasanjo's achievements after eight years as President, as low. He said Obasanjo failed to improve the power sector, despite the huge cash available to the government.
Vintage Obasanjo's reply was swift. He said Babangida should be "pitied" and not "condemned" or visited with "anger" because he was a fool. His words: "Some of the things he (Babangida) said, unfortunately, were not well thought-out. For instance, he talked about our energy. When I was the military Head of State, I built Jebba Dam; built Shiroro Dam. I prepared the foundation of Egbin plant, which President Shagari completed and commissioned.
That time, the money we were making was not up to the money Babangida was making annually for his eight years and yet we built two dams. But since the building of Egbin power plant, until I came back in 1999, there was no generating plant for almost 20 years and Babangida spent eight years out of that.
Dividends of democracy
"Now, he has the audacity to talk about anybody; I think that is unfortunate. I also read where he said in his time, he gave the dividends of democracy and at the same time he regretted.
"When I read that, well, I said Babangida should be pitied and shown sympathy, rather than anger or condemnation because the old saying says a fool at 40 is a fool forever and I would say a regret at 70 is regret too late. Well, a regret at 70 is regret to the grave."
Babangida countered and accused Obasanjo of massive failure during his reign. "In my eight years in office, I was able to manage poverty and achieve success while somebody for eight years managed affluence and achieved failure.
"Chief Obasanjo should ponder these incontrovertible facts: The revenues that accrued to former President Olusegun Obasanjo during his eight years are more than those that accrued to the nation from independence till 1999 before he took over. Despite such stupendous wealth of the nation, what is his performance profile? …The history of Chief Obasanjo is an open sore that is irredeemably contrived in several incongruities and contradictions," he said.
The bitter exchanges were to continue for a while before the Generals sheathed their swords and denied Nigerians of dearly needed details that would have helped to unearth the reasons behind Nigeria's paradox of poverty amid plenty.
This time, eminent citizens want the battle to be fought to a logical conclusion and have challenged Babangida, Obasanjo and Jonathan, to defend themselves against the allegations.
Incidentally, the quartet, cumulatively, have ruled Nigeria for 23 out of the 52 years the country has existed as an independent nation. While Obasanjo ruled for 11 years, Buhari was in power for approximately two years, Babangida – eight years and Jonathan, two years.
Buhari's allegation: Pointedly, Buhari said that the corrupt practices in the oil sector during the eras of Babangida, Obasanjo and Jonathan had led to the enslaving of the masses. The first to respond was President Goodluck Jonathan.
While declaring open the 52nd Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja, on Monday, President Jonathan said he could not be held responsible for the country's failings and wondered why former leaders, who had the opportunity of fixing the nation and failed to do so, were now criticizing his young administration.
"Sometimes, even people who have held offices in government criticise me to the extent of personal abuses. Sometimes I ask, were there roads across the country and Jonathan brought flood to wipe out these roads? Or we had power and I brought hurricane to break down the entire infrastructure?
"If they say Boko Haram is because of poverty; were there massive irrigation projects in the North where agriculture can thrive and massive farms, and Jonathan brought drought to wipe out these farms? Under two years, is it possible?" he wondered.
Obasanjo is yet to defend himself on the issue. Rather, speaking at the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, NLI, Guest Speaker Forum in Lagos, on Tuesday, he regretted his inability to fix the power problem, which he attributed to lack of funds in the initial period of his administration, owing to the low price of crude oil in the international market, Nigeria's depleted foreign reserves and huge debt burden.
He also refused to comment on Nigeria's leadership at the moment when asked to rate the country's current leadership.
On his part, IBB, who spoke through his spokesman, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, threatened to expose Buhari's shady deals in the oil sector when he functioned as Petroleum Minister and later chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), if Buhari did not shut his mouth.
"We are conversant with General Buahri's so-called holier-than-thou attitude. He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister. Secondly, he presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), which records we also have. We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios. Those, who live in glass houses, do not throw stones. General Buhari should be properly guided," he said.
Exposing corruption
However, Buhari insisted on his comments and challenged Babangida to expose his shady deals if he had facts.
Reacting to the development, some eminent Nigerians have urged the former leaders to speak up in the interest of the country's development.
Among those who spoke are Second Republic politicians and elder statesmen, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim; former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa; former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife; one-time Minister for Finance and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae; and former President of Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria, ICAN, Otunba Lateef Owoyemi.
They should fight it out—Balarabe Musa
Musa said the issue should not be swept under the carpet. "It is a disagreement of former heads of state. Apart from President Jonathan, they are all former heads of state. Let them fight it out themselves. I don't think anybody should interfere. Let Ibrahim Babangida expose Buhari like he threatened," he said.
Obasanjo, Babangida, Jonathan must defend themselves — Isyaku Ibrahim
On his part, Isyaku Ibrahim said the manner Buhari made the allegation should compel the former leaders to speak and defend their integrity.
His words: "Babangida should expose Buhari instead of threatening to do so. If Babangida has anything on Buhari, let him say it. Buhari said that the governments of Babangida, Obasanjo and Jonathan are the most corrupt. He said it categorically; he did not issue a threat.
"If Babangida has something on Buhari, he should say it. If your integrity is involved, you come out to fight because Buhari threw the challenge directly," he stated.
"For me as a politician, if somebody challenges my integrity and I know something about the person, I will say it. The matter is in the public. Let them say whether or not what Buhari said is true. Buhari has challenged them, let them defend themselves. Buhari is going to run for election, if Babangida has something against him, we will like to know."
We want to know how they ruined Nigeria — Ezeife
To Ezeife, General Buhari must come out with facts to substantiate his claims. In a telephone chat with vanguard, he said, "General Buhari must know what he is talking about. Is he saying that Jonathan inherited oil industry destroyed by leaders before him? He must know what he is saying: how they ruled and ruined our great country, Nigeria, ruining the North even more.
"Please, it is not every high level statement that I understand. I don't know what they know but if Buhari is saying that IBB, Obasanjo and Jonathan destroyed the oil industry, he must surely know what he is talking about. However, let me say they, all together, should tell Nigerians how they ruled and ruined Nigeria and the North."
Corruption blossomed under Obasanjo —Falae
Reacting to the exchanges, Falae told Vanguard on phone that corruption reached an alarming height during Obasanjo's administration in 1999.
His words: "The people are former heads of state and to the extent that corruption had been going on for quite sometime in the country, maybe that is why he (Buhari) is holding them accountable. But I don't know the statistics or information to either agree or disagree with him (Buhari). But there is corruption in the whole country; the country is washed with corruption and nobody can really know where it started from though some government functionaries can. Corruption is the biggest problem we have.
"I cannot attribute it to any particular person but this thing started in earnest since 1999 that was during the Obasanjo administration; that was when the thing really blossomed. In the past, one suspected that a few military leaders were the ones, who had access to the money, but since we returned to civilian rule, thousands of people now got into the act: from the local to state and federal government level. And it has been growing since then. Corruption has grown very fast since 1999."
They are all culpable — Owoyemi
However, Owoyemi said the former leaders, including Buhari, contributed to the rot in the oil industry.
He said: "Whoever should have done the maintenance of the refineries and did not do it and instead started importing fuel should be blamed for each and every part of the problem.
"Whoever provided funds for people to do turn around maintenance of the petroleum refineries and did not carpet or disgrace the contractors for failing to carryout their jobs, should be blamed for the destruction of the oil industry.
"So, definitely the military as a whole did a lot of havoc with the issue of accountability and transparency in this country; all of them, all the military people, including Buhari. Their take-over of the government was illegal and they ran the government illegally throughout when they suspended the Constitution of the country especially law and order.
"They, all of them, are guilty. If the politicians had been in charge since 1960 till now, things would have been better. They should allow the politicians to run the government and things will be better off.
"They were just too ambitious that was why they dabbled into the whole thing and messed everything up and now we are in for it. This is our generation: nobody has money except the corrupt! It is very unfortunate," he said.


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16 years on, two priests, nun held for Sister Abhaya's murder (Second Lead)November 19th, 2008 - 8:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi, Nov 19 (IANS) Sixteen years after Sister Abhaya's body was found in the well of a Kerala convent, investigations into her murder finally made some headway Wednesday with the arrest of two Catholic priests and a nun.In the first arrests in the case, Father Jose Putarika, 56, a former Malayalam professor at the Kottayam college where Abhaya studied, and Thomas Kottor, 61, the Diocesan chancellor of the Catholic Church at Kottayam, were picked up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday. The third, 45-year-old Sister Seffi, who belonged to the same convent as Abhaya, was arrested Wednesday.
The three, who were subjected to a truth serum test in Bangalore last year, were remanded in CBI custody till Dec 2. A huge crowd thronged the chief judicial magistrate's court, and shouts of "shame, shame" were heard as people pushed and shoved to get a glimpse of the three custodians of faith.
Inside the court, the judge refused bail for the accused and turned down the demand that they be questioned in presence of their counsel. However, the magistrate did caution the CBI, which had been under pressure to make an arrest in the case, that questioning be done without any physical torture.
Abhaya, a resident of Pious X Hostel near here, was found dead in the well of the Kottayam convent March 27, 1992. The CBI concluded in November 1996 that the death was a homicide but the murderer remained untraced. The Kerala police had earlier dismissed the case as suicide.
Addressing reporters after the three arrested for their suspected involvement in the murder were brought before the court, CBI Joint Director Ashok Kumar said the case would be taken to its logical conclusion in under 30 days.
"It is the endeavour of the CBI to complete the investigation of the case as expeditiously as possible and as directed by the Kerala High Court," he said.
The sudden turn of events took place after the new investigation team - this was the 13th CBI team investigating the murder after the 12 previous probes failed to crack the case - questioned Sanju Mathew, whose house adjoins the convent.
Mathew, who was picked up by the CBI last week, testified that he was a student at the time and was studying that night. In the early hours of March 27, he went out to have tea when he found Father Thomas Kottor's two-wheeler.
Abhaya's elderly father Thomas said he was happy that the CBI had finally made an arrest.
"We want to know more details… This arrest is going to be a big boost for the closing of the case; don't worry, if there is a god, the case will be solved and the truth will come out," Thomas told reporters.
However, the Kottayam Diocese of the Church said the latest developments were suspicious.
"In the 16 years of the investigation, various teams looked into the case and could not find anything," a Church press release stated, adding that it was surprising that in four days the team got clues leading to the arrests.
"The arrested are innocent and if a proper investigation is initiated then the real truth would come out."
The Kerala High Court last month rapped the investigating agency over the slow progress in its probe and asked the Kerala unit of the CBI to take over.
Public interest in the case was re-ignited in April last year after a newspaper reported that ASister Abhaya's medical reports were tampered with at a Thiruvananthapuram laboratory.
Responding to the arrests, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said the way events unfolded have shown that "some people command a lot of respect but incidents like this prove that this very same people can do otherwise also".


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WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) – There's a deal in place to deal with a dog problem in Winslow Township that some say has gone on for years on one particular property there.
No one wanted to discuss the accord reached after hours of negotiations between the dog owners and the town prosecutor, but now the owners of almost four dozen dogs and puppies are giving them up to animal control officers.
The animals had been housed on a property along Norcross Road (photo) where a house once stood until a fire took it out years ago.
There are debates about conditions there, but no one was alleging animal cruelty. Township law, however, prohibits keeping dogs on a property where no one lives.
Now, the three former dog owners — Ivan and Darrell Murray and Dannon Williams — have agreed to pay for the animals' care and feeding while attempts are made to find them permanent homes.
The owner of the property — Ivan's mother, Loretta — has also agreed to allow the township to clear most of the debris from the lot, with a $5,000 lien placed against her to pay for it.
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The hybrid model has proven to be a big winner this year for Triad Advisors, the independent broker-dealer owned by Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services.
The Atlanta-based IBD, which offers advisory firms both a broker-dealer and a fee-based RIA multi-custodial platform, is now closing in on a record $20 million in new revenues from recruiting this year; the 16-year-old firm joined Ladenburg Thalmann in 2008.
"We've had as strong a pipeline as we've ever had," says Nathan Stibbs, Triad's senior vice president of national business development. "We expect the migration to independent RIAs to continue, and I think we're in the fifth inning of that trend. It's one we intend to capitalize on."
Triad now has around $25 billion in assets under management with around 225 firms, Stibbs says.
In its latest deal, Triad signed on Connecticut-based Wealth Management Group of North America, Wealth Management Group, which has assets of approximately $130 million and has offices in Farmington, Conn. and Delray Beach, Fla.
Founded in 1995 by CEO Daniel Friedman, and president and CFO Brian Beck, Wealth Management Group -- the 20th firm to join Triad this year, according to Stibbs -- specializes in working with small business, corporate and dental and specialized medical practices.
Triad is looking for firms with around $1 million in annual revenue and up, Stibbs says. "We want to partner with other entrepreneurial firms who want more flexibility to build their own independent brand and create more enterprise value."
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Colorado became the nation's 38th state on Aug. 1, 1876. It's the eighth-largest state,
covering 104,185 square miles. Its capital is Denver.
THE land that would become Colorado was home to the Apache, Arapaho and Ute natives. Among the first Europeans to explore the territory was Spanish conquistador Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. His futile search for a fabled land of gold led him through the area.
But gold was found in Colorado more than 300 years later. During the Pikes Peak Gold Rush (1858-1861), more than 100,000 fortune seekers poured into the area.
Small amounts of gold had been found on the South Platte River Valley, but it was not enough to deter those headed to California in search of bigger treasure. These small amounts were not discounted, but, at the same time, they were not reported right away. But once gold-dust fever died in California, interest in the Rocky Mountain gold soared. After word of Colorado's valuable ore reached the eastern part of the country, the gold rush was officially on.
Railroads were built to haul the ore, which not only included gold, but valuable minerals.
The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 opened the Colorado territory to slavery, but with the impending Civil War and strong Union support, Colorado sided with the Union.
One of the most shameful events of the Civil War was the slaughter of a peaceful band of Native Americans by Union Col. John Chivington at Colorado's Sand Creek Reservation. On Nov. 29, 1864, 163 mostly elderly men,
women and children were killed at Sand Creek, supposedly a safe and protected area. Although the massacre
was denounced, no one was ever charged with the crime. The slaughter was later lauded as a great Union victory.
The Colorado territory officially became the nation's 38th state on August 1, 1876, almost exactly 100 years after the nation declared its independence – hence its nickname, the Centennial State.
Colorado experienced a second boom in 1879 – this time, in silver. It yielded $82 million worth of the metal, mostly purchased by the U.S. government. But it all came to an end in 1893, when silver prices collapsed. Mining is a boom or bust industry, offering little in between. Some thriving mining towns soon became ghost towns, which now serve as tourist attractions. Others, such as Aspen, Telluride and Cripple Creek, became world-class ski resorts.
Coal, metals and gems are still mined in Colorado. Agriculture, including wheat, dairy, corn and hay farming, as well as cattle ranching, contribute to the state's economy.
In 1972, Colorado became the only site ever chosen to host the Olympic Games to reject the honor. Voters opposed the use of public money to fund the high cost of staging the Winter Games, which instead went to Innsbruck, Austria.
The capital city of Denver, named for Kansas territorial Gov. James Denver, is known as the Wall Street of the West for its skyscraper-lined financial district.
The state was important to the Beat Generation. Part of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" takes place there. Beat icons Neal Cassady and Alan Ginsberg both spent time there.
Colorado has some of the coolest and driest weather in the country. It also is prone to lightning, and is a leading state in deaths caused by lightning strikes.
If you go, be sure to visit one of the many national parks, including Dinosaur National Park, Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Rocky Mountain National Park and the Cliff Place in Mesa Verde National Park.
Famous Colorado natives include actor-comedian Tim Allen, presidential candidate John Kerry and boxer Jack Dempsey.
Did you know that …
* Colorado has almost as many dead towns as live ones – 500 ghost towns and 650 live towns?
* Seventeen flags have flown over the state?
* The largest building made of ice in North America was built in Leadville in 1895? It used 5,000 tons of ice and was built in just 36 days. It was closed after two months due to unseasonably warm weather.
* Colorado enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year?
Today's lesson fulfills the following standards: ELA 1c, 3c, 3d, 4a, 4b, 5a Social Studies Standards 1 and 3
New York Post Activities
USE the Internet or other reference source to learn more about Colorado.
USE a globe or map to locate the Colorado River and trace its path.
BE the reporter and write an article on what you think Colorado was like during the frenzy of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush.


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Chubb European Group Ltd, (Chubb) Offsite Activities Insurance provides an online resource for teachers, parents, governors and anyone involved in planning a school trip. It offers information, tools, tips and useful resources to help everyone deliver safer out of school education. Formerly known as Eduvia.com this has now been refreshed and brought in line with the core brand that sits behind the service, Chubb.
When a school takes its pupils anywhere outside the school boundaries (an off-site activity), there is always an element of risk. For example:
Our online resource aims to help schools in the planning and preparation of off-site activities and minimise the risks they face. After all no one wants an accident to occur and planning in advance can help reduce them.
This scheme provides comprehensive insurance for all off-site activities, and, offering automatic worldwide cover for every child and teacher every time they leave the school gates with fixed annual costs with no hidden extras or adjustments such as excesses.
The scheme provides access to the 24 hour Chubb Assistance helpline for medical emergencies abroad.
On-site cover is also available.
During a trip or off-site activity a teacher has a duty to act in loco parentis i.e. as if they were a reasonable and prudent parent. Parents and courts of law take a serious view of this duty of care and the extent of these responsibilities can be onerous.
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Jenna Drey Climbs the Charts
By Rachel Laskow
TAXI member Jenna Drey's career is going up! In May, her song "Killin Me" hit number 23 on the Billboard Radio Airplay Chart AND number 41 on the Billboard Club Play Chart in the same week. On the Radio Airplay Chart, her song was a "Greatest Gainer," meaning it received the most increased radio spins, nationally, that week. The song then went on to reach number 16 on the Radio Airplay Chart.
And Jenna's success all started with TAXI. She got a record deal through TAXI, and then the record label referred her to another company that promoted her project. "This opportunity wouldn't have happened without TAXI," Jenna said.
TAXI members also leant Jenna a helping hand. "First, I'd like to thank our members for their support. I asked them to call their local stations and request Jenna's CD, and it looks like they took it to heart," TAXI CEO Michael Laskow said.
Jenna admits that she was told she'd have no chance without being represented by a major label. In fact, most of the artists on the chart are represented by major labels. But that didn't seem to stop Jenna. "It shows that an artist can go somewhere without going to Sony," she said.
When Jenna's manager David Frangioni found out about her accomplishment, he was proud, thankful, excited, and amazed.
"It takes so much hard work, sacrifice, and talent to achieve anything at all in life [and certainly in music] that when you are able to chart on Billboard, you count your blessings and then continue working towards your next goal. The journey never really ends but it's a lot more enjoyable when some success is achieved along the way," Frangioni said.
And that's exactly how Jenna looks at her success: "This is just one small step. There is still a long road ahead."
For Jenna, that journey includes a follow-up song. She also wants "Killin Me" to gain momentum and cross over to the Pop charts. ("Killin Me" is more of a Pop-Dance song.)
Laskow knows that Jenna's ambition will create even more opportunities.
"I've had the pleasure of meeting Jenna. She's one of those people who is focused like a laser beam and well-grounded at the same time. She may achieve Diva status, but she'll never act like a Diva she's just plain nice, and that's why I'm asking our members to continue their incredible show of support," Laskow said.
"I just want a shot, and I feel that TAXI has given that to me."
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PPSC Lecturer Recruitment 2015 Computer Science Important Mcqs
. Where as a computer mouse moves over the table surface, the trackball is
a. Stationary
b. Difficult to move
c. Dragged
d. Moved in small stems
Correct Answer: a
2. Which one of the following input device is user-programmable?
a. Dumb terminal
b. Smart terminal
c. VDT
d. Intelligent terminal
Correct Answer: d
3. Which computer memory is used for storing programs and data currently being processed by the CPU?
a. Mass memory
b. Internal memory
c. Non-volatile memory
d. PROM
Correct Answer: b
4. Computer instructions written with the use of English words instead of binary machine code is called
a. Mnemonics
b. Symbolic code
c. Gray codes
d. Opcode
Correct Answer: b
5. computer operators
a. writes computer programs for specific problems
b. operate the device which input and output data from the computer
c. normally require a college degree in computer science
d. all of the above
Correct Answer: b
6. A computer programmer
a. Dies all the thinking for a compute
b. Can enter input data quickly
c. Can operate all types of computer equipment
d. Can draw only flowchart
Correct Answer: a
a. Is a `semiconductor memory
b. Memory register
c. Magnetic memory
d. None of the above
Correct Answer: d
8. Which of the following is not a primary storage device?
a. Magnetic tape
b. Magnetic disk
c. Optical disk
d. None of the above
Correct Answer: d
9. A name or number used to identify a storage location is called
a. A byte
b. A record
c. An address
d. All of above
Correct Answer: c
10. Which of the following is a secondary memory device?
a. Keyboard
b. Disk
c. ALU
d. All of the above
Correct Answer: b
11. The difference between memory and storage is that memory is …. and storage is …
a. Temporary, permanent
b. Permanent, temporary
c. Slow, fast
d. All of above
Correct Answer: a
12. A floppy disk contains
a. Circular tracks only
b. Sectors only
c. Both circular tracks and sectors
d. All of the above
Correct Answer: c
13. The octal equivalence of 111010 is
a. 81
b. 72
c. 71
d. None of above
Correct Answer: b
14. The first electronic computer in the world was
a. UNIVAC
b. EDVAC
c. ENIAC
d. All of above
Correct Answer: c
15. The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in electronic data processing system is called
a. ASCII
b. EBCDIC
c. BCD
d. All of above
Correct Answer: a
16. Which was the computer conceived by Babbage?
a. Analytical engine
b. Arithmetic machine
c. Donald Knuth
d. All of above
Correct Answer: a
17. Offline device is
a. A device which is not connected to CPU
b. A device which is connected to CPU
c. A direct access storage device
d. An I/O device
Correct Answer: a
18. Which of the following registers is loaded with the contents of the memory location pointed by the PC?
a. Memory address register
b. Memory data register
c. Instruction registers
d. Program counter
Correct Answer: c
19. Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location where the next instruction is located?
a. Memory address register
b. Memory data register
c. Instruction register
d. Program counter
Correct Answer: d
Which of the following printers are you sure will not to use if your objective is to print on multi carbon forms?
a. Daisy wheel
b. Dot matrix
c. Laser
d. Thimble
2. Which of the following printing devices an output composed of a series of data?
a. Wire matrix printer
b. Band printer
c. Wang image printer
d. Both a and c
3. The personal computer industry was started by
a. IBM
b. Apple
c. Compaq
d. HCL
4. In the IBM PC-At, what do the words AT stand for
a. Additional Terminals
b. Advance technology
c. Applied technology
d. Advanced terminology
5. Magnetic tape can serve as
a. Secondary storage media
b. Output media
c. Input media
d. All of the above
6. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be
a. 216
b. 65,536
c. 64K
d. Any of the above
7. The two major types of computer chips are
a. External memory chip
b. Primary memory chip
c. Microprocessor chip
d. Both b and c
8. As compared to the secondary memory, the primary memory of a computer is
a. Large
b. Cheap
c. Fast
d. Slow
9. Which of the following is a way to access secondary memory?
a. Random access memory
b. Action method
c. Transfer method
d. Density method
10. Which was the most popular first generation computer?
a. IBM 1650
b. IBM 360
c. IBM 1130
d. IBM 2700
11. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a computer?
a. To produce result
b. To compare numbers
c. To control flow of information
d. To do math's works
12. The secondary storage devices can only store data but they cannot perform
a. Arithmetic Operation
b. Logic operation
c. Fetch operations
d. Either of the above
13. Which of the printers used in conjunction with computers uses dry ink power?
a. Daisy wheel printer
b. Line printer
c. Laser printer
d. Thermal printer
14. Which of the following produces the best quality graphics reproduction?
a. Laser printer
b. Ink jet printer
c. Plotter
d. Dot matrix printer
15. Which of the following memories allows simultaneous read and write operations?
a. ROM
b. RAM
c. EPROM
d. None of above
16. Which of the following memories has the shortest access times?
a. Cache memory
b. Magnetic bubble memory
c. Magnetic core memory
d. RAM
17. A 32 bit microprocessor has the word length equal to
a. 2 byte
b. 32 byte
c. 4 byte
d. 8 byte
18. An error in computer data is called
a. Chip
b. Bug
c. CPU
d. Storage device
19. A set of information that defines the status of resources allocated to a process is
a. Process control
b. ALU
c. Register Unit
d. Process description
20. Any method for controlling access to or use of memory is known
a. Memory map
b. Memory protection
c. Memory management
d. Memory instruction


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Ruthin School is committed to providing a first class education for all its pupils.
Pupils are closely monitored with:
- weekly assessment of Merits/Demerits
- weekly tutorial meetings
- fortnightly formal testing
- termly Parents meetings
- termly reports
- supervised prep/study
- daily report cards where applicable
The curriculum is broad-based and balanced. Sciences are taught as separate subjects throughout.
A Science and Technology block was constructed in the late 1990s and provides excellent facilities for the Mathematics, Science and ICT departments. Mandarin, Latin and Spanish are taught to all pupils from Form 1. French is introduced to all pupils in Form 3. These subjects can be taken as an option for GCSE.


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Thursday February 7th, 2013
7:30 pm
Admission: $15 at the door or call 613-729-0693 to purchase in advance. Advanced reservations must be claimed 15 minutes prior to showtime.
Jamie Reynolds is a gifted pianist and accomplished composer with an abundance of startlingly original ideas, Toronto native and current New York City resident Jamie Reynolds makes a potent statement on Time With People, his debut as a leader for the Fresh Sound New Talent label. Joining him on this impressive trio date are bassist Gary Wang and rising star drummer Eric Doob. Together they exhibit an indelible tightness and uncommon delicacy on a collection of Reynolds' intriguing compositions, ranging from the darkly insinuating Miel Coeur and the evocative Morning Sun to more dynamic offerings like the driving Cold Spring and the intricate, densely harmonic title track. Along the way, Reynolds reveals traces of his piano mentors Fred Hersch and Craig Taborn, both of whom he studied with privately in New York, as well as key influences like Keith Jarrett and Lennie Tristano. But the depth of his compositional vision remains uniquely his own on this auspicious first outing.


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Nearly 20 years later, son still shining on Fox NFL
His father, legendary broadcaster Marv Albert, 20 years ago authored a book, "I'd Love To, But I Have A Game: 27 Years Without a Life."
The title referenced Albert's busy schedule, something his son seems to have inherited.
Kenny Albert does play-by-play for Fox's No. 2 NFL broadcast team, which will call the Packers-Giants game Sunday from MetLife Stadium. He also is radio voice of the New York Rangers
Albert, 45, was among a group of young offspring of established announcers hired in 1994 when Fox established its sports division. He has broadcast games in all four major sports, including hockey — NHL and Olympics — for the NBC Sports Group.
Before he goes on the air Sunday with "Moose" and "Goose" — Fox analysts Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa — Albert discussed his unusual NFL booth, the early days at Fox and other topics.
Q: Is it a difficult transition to go from TV play-by-play on football to radio play-by-play on hockey?
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1 Fox Sports insider Jay Glazer scored the interview of the NFL season last weekend by getting a sit-down with Richie Incognito Glazer declared at the outset that he is friendly with Incognito, which might help explain why the outcast lineman's checkered past wasn't addressed. Glazer did ask some tough questions, but there are many more-qualified interviewers. Unfortunately, we're in an age where the athletes control the circumstances.
2 The parade of retired athletes moving into the broadcast booth continued with baseball's Mark DeRosa (MLB Network) and hockey's Martin Biron (MSG). One of the stranger moves of the week is NBC's hiring of current tennis star Maria Sharapova to provide Winter Olympics reports in her Russian homeland. We presume that she won't need to scream between sentences.
3 Former WNYT sports anchor Andrew Catalon takes a break from his CBS Sports Network duties to call the U.S. Olympic curling trials in Fargo, N.D., for the NBC Sports Network. Catalon, who will get his third chance to call curling at the Olympics in February at Sochi, Russia, is working with analyst John Benton, the skip on the 2010 U.S. team, and reporter Steve Sands, known mostly for his work on the Golf Channel.
A: It's not really for me. I'm just so used to it. It has been 20 years now, believe it or not, going back and forth with the football on TV and the hockey on radio. It's a totally different animal. With football on TV, it's a pretty set formula.
I'm like a traffic cop. We have a unique crew with Daryl and Tony. Tony's not your typical sideline reporter. We throw it down for an injury report or a story two or three times a quarter. He's a sideline analyst. His mic is open. He basically controls his microphone, so he can come in whenever he has something pertinent to say. Usually he comes in every four or five plays.
I feel like I have to edit myself even more than in past years, when it was only a two-man booth. The communication between Daryl and Tony is incredible because they're not together. Daryl's up in the booth with me, and Tony's down on the field. They can't see each other, but they hardly ever talk over each other, step on each other. They've developed that over the last decade. For me, I call the play, may add a fact at the end, then get out of the way and try to set them up.
Whereas hockey on the radio, it's pretty much non-stop action. I have to really work hard to let Dave Maloney come in at the pertinent times. You don't want miss anything important in the offensive zone, so I might take a breath if there's an icing or a similar situation. As far as the hockey on the radio, you're just calling the play 90 percent of the time.
Q: The dynamic with Tony is interesting. Is there any kind of warning system that says he wants to talk, or does he just talk when he has something to say.
A: There's really not, and that's what the viewers at home probably don't realize. With all of the other NFL crews and college football crews that have a sideline reporter, a lot of the stories are pre-planned. They might come in, like I said, two or three times a quarter to give an injury report, but he really is a third analyst. He controls his mic.
He's down in the end zone watching the game from a similar angle as when he was a player. In the early years he would roam the sideline back and forth, but that wasn't how he was used to watching the games, so he's now set up in the end zone and has all kinds of monitors. He has the live play-by-play monitor, he has the replay monitors, he has access to the stats and iso replays.
He's got a great setup down there. His monitors are bigger than the monitors the officials use on the reviews. They come over to him sometimes and ask what he saw. He controls when he comes in. It will usually be every four or five plays or so. Sometimes Daryl will cut his thoughts short and take a breath. If Tony comes in, great; if not, Daryl or I might continue up from the booth.
Q: It almost sounds like that was a precursor to what hockey is now doing with analysts between the glass. Have you ever wanted to do that in hockey with your analyst, Dave Maloney?
A: We've talked about it. We haven't done it yet. I've worked many games through the years with Pierre McGuire over on the NBC side, a bunch of playoff games last year and two games so far this year with NBC Sports Network, so I've done it in hockey, as well. That's a little different because there's nobody in the booth with me. It's just Pierre downstairs. That's a little strange when the game starts and you're talking to yourself and there's no one else around you aside from camera man and the audio guy and the stats guy in the booth.
As far as Dave and hockey goes, maybe we will give it a shot one day. I'm sure he'd have a good time down there seeing a game from down there.
Q: I hope you don't take it personally that certain analysts don't want to be in the booth with you.
A: In bad weather, they do. We did a Giants-Buffalo game in '07 during the Giants' run to the Super Bowl, it was Week 16, and it started hailing and snowing and it was windy. That's when Ahmad Bradshaw had the 88-yard touchdown run. All of a sudden, I turn to my right when the second half got under way, and there was Goose in the booth. He couldn't brave the elements down there.
Q: It's hard to believe it has been almost 20 years that you have been with Fox. When you initially took that job, how much apprehension was there?
A: It's crazy that it's 20 years. Time has just flown by. A bunch of us were really in the right place at the right time when CBS lost the NFC package to Fox after the '93 season, and the executives at Fox, David Hill and Ed Goren, their plan moving forward was to bring over a bunch of the veterans from CBS to establish credibility, with Pat Summerall and John Madden, and with Dick Stockton and Matt Millen, and a lot of the production guys over at CBS. They also wanted to hire a bunch of young play-by-play announcers and color analysts.
I remember going out to the auditions in April or May of '94, and Joe Buck and Thom Brennaman and Kevin Harlan, who was hired by Fox at the time, a little bit older than us but in that same age range. They took a chance, and here we are 20 years later, and Joe and Thom and myself are still there. I'm very proud to think we were part of that initial group hired by Fox Sports.
Our first seminar that summer, John Madden made the comment, "Why are we called Fox Sports? It should be Fox Sport. There's only one sport, the NFL." We always look back and talk about those days and the Fox lineup getting first hockey and then baseball and horse racing, NASCAR, and now, with the UFC and Fox Sports 1, college basketball, college football. It's grown tremendously, but those of us who were there at the start are so proud of the fact that it was built from the ground up. Aside from those of us on the air, there are a high number of the production folks who are still there, as well. It's hard to believe it was 20 years.
Was there apprehension? It's like the phrase you hear sometimes: "You don't know what you don't know." We were all so young at the time. I had a little bit of experience doing some local college football here in the New York area. I know Joe and Thom hadn't done much football up until that point. They were more on the baseball side, and I was doing hockey. We all started low on the totem pole that first year.
I worked 10 games with Ron Pitts. A few of the games were out in Anaheim. Our first game was the L.A. Rams and Arizona Cardinals. I still remember the game like it was yesterday. It was Buddy Ryan's first game as head coach of the Cardinals, 14-12 final score. I've done over 300 games now for Fox on the NFL side. Most of them blend in together, but I remember that first one like it was yesterday.
Q: So Ron Pitts was your first analyst?
A: I had Ron Pitts the first year, Anthony Munoz the second year in '95, Tim Green for seven years, then I was with Brian Baldinger for four years, and now seven years with Moose and Goose.
Q: And you have been elevated to the No. 2 team.
A: Yes, that was 2007, when we were elevated. We've done five Divisional Playoff games since then. The biggest one, the most memorable one, was probably New Orleans-San Francisco two years ago at San Fran.
Q: Was there disappointment last year when the network didn't put you on the Divisional Playoff game?
A: There definitely was disappointment. You always want to work the playoffs. We had the opportunity the five years prior to that, but we certainly respected the decision of management. This year hopefully we're right back there for the divisional round. Just like the players, you want to take part in the biggest games come playoff time.
Q: What's ahead for you? You've done Olympics in the past. Are you signed up for Sochi?
A: Yes, I'm going to go over to Sochi. I've been very fortunate to be involved in the last three with NBC. The folks at Fox are great about it as far as letting me do the NBC Olympic hockey and the NBC NHL hockey, as well. I had the opportunity to Salt Lake in 2002, Torino (Turin, Italy) in '06 and Vancouver in 2010. It's just a tremendous experience.
You don't get a lot of sleep during the Olympics. It's usually two games a day, and you get back and it's preparation for two games the next day. The adrenalin takes you through, and it's really the top level of hockey. It's pretty much all-star teams from the NHL who are over there, and you throw in the additional countries, and I've really enjoyed doing some of the women's games, as well. I couldn't be more excited about heading back.
Q: I'm not sure a lot of people understand it, but there is a big difference between calling hockey on radio and TV, isn't there?
A: There is, for sure. Doing radio hockey is what I grew up on. We didn't have cable TV, believe it or not, growing up on Long Island, until I was 18, so I listened to a lot of radio — Rangers, Islanders, Devils, plus all the other sports.
My first job out of college was two years of minor-league hockey down in Baltimore with the Baltimore Skipjacks. I had a color analyst for probably half the games, so I was doing half the games on my own. I was not only doing play-by-play and color, but I was doing your own engineering, setting up the equipment, etc., etc.
That was what I did throughout the early years, and I've done a bunch of hockey TV, as well. As I said before, hockey on radio is pretty much wall-to-wall play-by-play, where on TV, the viewers can see what's going on, and you want to give the analyst more time. It's a lot different.
Q: Something I didn't know, you played club hockey at NYU?
A: I did. I played through high school. We had a club team in high school, and I always enjoyed playing hockey. When I was at NYU, my first year was the '86-'87 season, and another student started a club team at NYU that year. I enjoyed playing on the team. I didn't score too many goals, but I did score the first one.
The club at NYU is still going strong. I keep in touch with the current coach there. It was a lot of fun. We used to played our games at the old Sky Rink in Manhattan, on the 16th floor of a building, on 33rd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. We usually would have one practice a week and one game a week, somewhere around 11:30 at night or midnight, whenever we could get the ice time.
Q: Something I ask most announcers I talk to, and it's a little different with you, but are there guys you grew up listening to or guys you try to emulate?
A: I listened to a lot of radio growing up, and with three family members in the business (his uncles Steve and Al also are broadcasters), they were certainly on often in the house, with my father and two uncles. I tell people that at family get-togethers at holidays, that was like the early version of a sports-talk radio show. They'd all be talking about their various teams and stations and networks. I would just listen and let things sink in by osmosis.
Two other guys that I really enjoy listening to are Howie Rose and Doc Emrick — Howie back in his early days doing some Rangers radio, and Doc Emrick on the Devils at the time. They're both great friends of mine and guys for the last 25 or 30 years I've enjoyed listening to. You have to look at an Al Michaels, and a Vin Scully on the baseball side, as far as the national guys. I really enjoy Mike Tirico on ESPN on the Monday night games, but growing up Howie Rose and Doc Emrick would have been the two non-family members I would have enjoyed listening to the most.
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Many friends have asked me if I knew any of the pasts of Multiple Sclerosis. So here is what I have found and hopes it answers a lot of questions. I have also learned that MS is a Northern Europe Descent Chronic Illness and in Geography the Higher Latitudes have Higher MS Incidence.
1400 AD: Lydwina of Schieden – Dutch patron Saint of Ice Skaters ( 1400 AD ) The earliest written record of someone with MS.
1830: Probable cases of MS start showing up in European medical literature. A Scottish doctor named RobertCarswell identified changes in the appearance of the spinal cord specimens. Carswell noted areas of scarring which he referred to as "a peculiar disceased state" and "patches" of a "remarkable lesion of the spinal cord," and documented these pathological findings in a series of drawings.
1838: Medical drawings clearly show what we today recognize as MS, but with 19th century doctors did not understand what they saw and recorded
1849: MS diagnosed in a living person by Dr. Friedrich Theodore von Freriches, MD.
1860-1870: First studies of Myelin and Glial cells in brain tissue.
1868: French Neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot publishes his landmark description of classical MS. It was Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot who first scientifically described, documented, and named the discease process, we still call Multiple Sclerosis.
1869: First attempts to treat MS with gold chloride, zinc, sulfate, silver nitrate, strychnine and electrical stimulation (by Clarcot)
1878: Myelin was discovered by Dr. Ranvier
1890's: Caused by the supression of sweat; treated with Herbs & Bedrest; life expectancy after diagnosed was 5 years.
1910's: Caused by an unknown blood toxin; treated with Purgatives & Stimulants; life expectancy after diagnosed was 10 years.
1928: Discovery that Myelin is produced by oligodendrocyte glial cells
1933: American neurologist Thomas Rivers, MD, a researcher at Rockerfeller University in New York, develops an animal model for a disease similar to MS, called "experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE)", for studying causes of and treatments for.
1938: Described a case of Optic Neuritis, caused by severe DeMyelination and attributed it to Devic's Syndrone. This syndrone was considered to be a subclass of Multiple Sclersosis, during this time period.
1940's: Caused by blood clots & poor circulation; treated with drugs that improve circulation; life expectancy after diagnosd was 18 years.
1943: First detailed description of the composition of myelin.
1946: Sylvia Lawry founds National MS Society
1947: Elvin Kabat, MD and colleagues discover abnormal immunologic proteins in the spinal fluid of people with MS, contributing to the development of a lab test for diagnosing MS.
1950: Society funds first major survey of MS in the U.S. and Canada.
1954: First Fellowship programs to train MS scientists offered.
1955: American John Kurtzke, MD, develops the Disability Status Scale (DSS) to classify the severity of MS. A 1983 revision of this scale (EDSS) includes other functional systems and is still in use today.
1960's: Caused by allergic reaction; treated with Vitamins & Antihistimines; life expectancy after diagnosis was 25 years.
1970: A team headed by Augustus Rose, MD, of UCLA shows that the steroid "Adrenocorticotropin hormone" (ACTH) can hasten the recovery from MS flare-ups. (ACTH becomes the first drug shown to speed recovery from MS relapses.)
By the late 1970s, scientists believe that MS results from an autoimmune disturbance, possibly triggered by a viral infection. This view still holds today.
1974: Society convinces U.S. Congress to appoint commission on MS; resulting report increases federal funding for MS research.
1978: Lawrence Jacobs, MD, and colleague's initiate pilot study in MS patients using a form of interferon beta.
1980: Society funds first large trial of any form on interferon (interferon alpha), stimulating interest in interferons for treating MS.
1981: Scientists produce the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of an MS-affected brain, revolutionizing scientist.
1983: Society supports studies of the anti-cancer agent mitoxantrone in an animal model of MS. In 2000, this drug (Novantrone) is approved by FDA to treat worsening MS.
1984: First modern documentation of cognitive problems in MS.
1988: First demonstration, using MRI, that there is significant lesion activity in the brain in MS, even when the disease is clinically quiescent.
1992: Society supports first comprehensive search for GENES that make people susceptible to MS, initiating a targeted research program in MS GENETICS.
1993:"Betaseron" (interferon beta 1b) is approved in the United States to reduce the frequency of exacerbation's in ambulatory patients with relapsing-remitting MS.
1996: Society grantees find that aerobic exercise improves physical and psychological well-being in persons with MS.
1996: "Avonex" (interferon beta 1a) is introduced for the treatment of relapsing forms of MS. It is the first drug to slow the progression of the disability and also reduce the frequency of relapses.
1996: "Copaxone" (glatiramer acetate for injection) is introduced and FDA approved for treatment of relapsing-remitting MS (Formerly known as copolymer-1) This is the drug I have been on since Feb. 2000. www.copaxone.com If you have any questions please call or e mail me and I will be glad to help you the best I can.
1996: MS caused by AutoImmune reaction possibly linked to a Virus; treated with Steroida & Immune System regulating drugs; life expectancy after a diagnosis is essentially normal for most.
1997: Zanaflex (tizanidine) approved for treatment of spasticity.
1997: Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship Program established to train doctors in conducting clinical trials in MS.
1998: National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) breaks it's 50 year silence when it's Medical Advisory Board advises that people with relapsing-remitting MS should begin the use of one of the four disease modifying agents as soon as possible and continue the therapy once started.
1998: Society launches targeted research initiative into gender difference in MS.
1999: Society grantees first to isolate immature cells in the adult brain capable of developing into replacements for myelin-making cells destroyed by MS.
1999/2000: Society initiates new clinical trials in estrogen treatment for women with MS and T-cell vaccination, both of which had their origins in early fundamental NMSS research.
2000: Society initates international collaborative research efforts to better correlate the MS lesion with disease state and MRI: The MS Lesion Project.
2000: "Mitoxantrome" (Novantrone) received approval on Jan. 28, 2000 from the FDA Advisory Panel, an immune-suppressing drug treatment of worsening Relapsing-remitting, Secondary Progressive, progressive relapsing MS. Novantrone is NOT indicated for primary progressive. It was FDA Approved Oct. 13, 2000.
2001: Society task force develops new diagnostic criteria for MS, which may shorten the time it takes a person to receive a firm diagnosis.
2001: Society collaborates with NIH on a $20 million research initiative on gender-based differences in immunce responses to increase understanding and treatments.
2002: "Rebif" (interferon Beta-1-a) received FDA approval March, 2002 for treatment of Relapsing Forms of MS. It should be used in caution by people who have depression, seizure disorders, and liver problems. Common side effects include injection-site reactions and flu-like symptoms. Rebif is available in ready-to-use prefilled syringes requiring no needle assembly.
2002: New Career Transition Fellowship Program launched to foster promising young MS investigators.
2003: Italian researchers transplant cells to enchance nerve tissue repair in mice with MS.
2005: "McDonald Criteria" for diagnosing MS updated by Society Task Force, speeding time to diagnosis for many.
2006: "Tysabri" was first approved November 11, 2004 and taken off the market from February 28, 2005 until Approved again July 2006. It is generally recommended for patients that have not been helped enough by, or cannot tolerate, another treatment for MS.
2007: Society and MS Society International Federation convene a Stem Cell Research Summit of leading stem cell and MS experts to explore the potential of all types of stem cell research for MS and to set research priorities.
First large-scale trial of sex hormone estriol gets underway in women with MS, a result of the Society's targeting of gender differences.
With support from Society to International MS Genetics Consortium, two genes are confirmed to be linked to MS susceptibility.
2007/2008: Congressional MS Caucus launched to raise awareness and generate discussion about access to health care, increase in research funding, disability rights and other MS issues, with members from the House and Senate.
2008: MS activists secure a place for MS research in the $50 million Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program administered through the Department of Defense, plus $5 million restricted to research within the CDMRP
International MS Genetics Consortium undertakes a whole genome scan involving 10,000 individuals around 20 regions in the genome that are associated with MS risk. Society funds second study of 10,000 cases to validate the findings.
2009: International task force convened by Society publishes landmark guidelines on the complex process of telling MS from look-alike disorders ("differential diagnosis")
2009: Extavia is approved by the FDA as a new brand of interferon beta-1b
2010: "Gilenya" Sept. 22, 2010 — The FDA today approved Novartis' Gilenya, the first oral drug for multiple sclerosis (MS). Gilenya (formerly spelled Gilenia, generic name fingolimod) last June received the overwhelming approval of an FDA expert advisory panel
2010: Ampyra approved to improve walking ability in people with all types of MS.
2010: Nuedexta and Botox approved to treat specific symptoms that interfere with quality of life in people with MS.for the treatment of Spasticity the flex or muscles of the elbow, wrist, and fingers in adults. Manufactured by Allergan, Inc., this drug is administered via injection by a medical professional and is available through prescription only. The approval includes its use for individuals with MS.
2012: Aubagio™ (Oral Teriflunomide) Receives FDA ApprovalOn September 12, 2012, Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved their new drug, Aubagio™ (oral teriflunomide), for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The FDA had accepted their New Drug Application (NDA) in October, 2011. This is the ninth disease-modifying therapy approved by the FDA for the long-term treatment of MS. Of these nine, Aubagio is the second approved medication for MS that is taken orally.
This drug is an immunomodulator that affects the production of T and B cells. It inhibits rapidly dividing cells, including activated T cells, which are thought to drive the disease process in MS. It also may inhibit nerve degeneration by reducing the production of free radicals, possibly decreasing the risk of infections and other complications linked to chemotherapy-like drugs.
2013: Tecfidera (BG-12) Approved for the Long-Term (RRMS)Treatment of MS. March 28, 2013
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Since the term was coined seven years ago, the concept of "impact investing" has gained considerable traction among investors and philanthropists alike. Impact investments, made with the intent of generating measurable social and environmental impact as well as financial return, have been met with both skepticism from those who doubt the feasibility of their dual nature and enthusiasm from those who herald them as a welcome trend in foreign investment.
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Comic-Con: George R. R. Martin Talks Game of Thrones Prequel Possibilities
Also, post-game chat about the Red Wedding and Charles Dance's shoulder rubs.
Here's some news, Game of Thrones fans: George R.R. Martin is considering writing a prequel to his A Song of Ice and Fire book series, the source material for the hugely popular HBO drama. During the audience Q&A portion the show's Comic-Con session, the author was asked if he'd consider ever telling the story of the fall of the Mad King in a prequel — the fan's rationale being that we'd potentially see more Ned Stark and "Sean Bean wouldn't have to die again." Martin ruled out only part of that idea. "I might [write a prequel]," Martin said. "I don't think, however, it would be a prequel about Robert's Rebellion. By the time I'm done with the last two books, you'll know all that, all the twists and turns and betrayals."
Continuing to speculate on what he might write if he ever were to do a prequel, Martin said, "But I might go back earlier and write something about Aegon and his sisters, or Aegon the Unworthy with his nine mistresses. There is lots of material if I want to go back and write about Westeros." But first, of course, Martin has two more books to complete: The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring. "That's going to take awhile," he said, noting that HBO's ongoing adaptation is expediting the process. "The locomotive is coming and I'm still laying down the tracks," he joked.
Elsewhere, there was still much mourning of last season's Stark massacre at the Red Wedding. Martin refused to take all the blame for killing off Robb and Catelyn. "[Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss] have turned up everything up to 11 from the books," he said. "They've killed many characters who are still alive in the books, so I'll only take some of the blame here," he said. Richard Madden, who played Robb, admitted he sobbed openly. "I cried a lot, actually," he said. "I had a good cry on set … [On the plane home], I was ordering multiple drinks on a one-hour flight." Benioff praised composer Ramin Djawadi, who came up with the ominous "The Rains of Castamere" tune that accompanies the scene. "It's just one of those haunting things that's playing in my head right now," he said. Originally, the producers considered using the show's theme song for the scene. Said Weiss: "Thank God, I lost that argument."
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