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Vaticinate provides marketing services to small businesses and organizations, especially those in technology and the intersection of the arts and technology. Their services include marketing audits, primary and secondary market research, marketing strategy and plan development.
Vaticinate was charged by its client, Drum Corps International to provide a Survey Solution to be utilized in a 60 day, cross country audience profiling project that collected data in nearly 115 events. The solution needed to be lightweight, easy-to-use, and allow collection of location data to track each event regardless of network availability.
The business problem that Drum Corps International faced was providing value to their corporate and marketing partners. Before this project, DCI had poor audience profile information. There were estimates and guesses as to the age of the audience at different events, how far patrons traveled to attend an event, the racial/ethnic composition of the audience, and the motivation of attending an event, etc.
Since we wanted to limit the survey sample to those who were actually at the event, we eschewed on-line surveys and any survey technique that could result in invitations or links to the survey from being shared or used by patrons who did not actually attend the event. The Opinionmeter survey software allowed us to track GPS coordinates of survey respondents and we knew without question from what specific event the surveys came. This was essential to making the project a success – knowing that the respondent was actually at a specific event when the survey was completed.
With Opinionmeter, we were able to collect surveys on low cost Android tablets without regard to network availability. We then uploaded them to the survey servers at our convenience after the event or the next day. We conducted polling at 110 different drum and bugle contests from coast to coast – sometimes 3-4 events per day. Each night, tablets would be charged and the following day they would be used off-line, to collect data.
The Opinionmeter software worked as we expected. When surveys were uploaded, we used the Opinionmeter reporting tools to validate the data and gain a quick understanding of the audience that attended the event.
- The benefits of using Opinionmeter's survey software versus a serialized postcard solution included saving printing, shipping, return mail and data entry costs that we would have incurred. We estimate the savings to be in excess of $30,000. We collected over over 15,500 surveys – if patrons had completed 15,500 postcards and returned them to us, we would have incurred a postage expense of nearly $12,000.
- We did evaluate other software solutions which we located by researching options on-line. After testing four of them in April, we decided on Opinionmeter because of the GPS options, platform support and ease of uploading and pulling reports.
- Because DCI now has a fairly complete, event-by-event audience study, they can make better decisions as to where events should be located so they draw the young audience DCI is seeking. They can also make better marketing decisions with respect to how certain events should be promoted and audience demographics. They can now start to focus on event marketing rather than generic marketing. And they can now answer with assurance partner and sponsors questions about what the DCI audience looks like at any specific event regardless of where it is in the country.


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Schneider 5 x 5" Combination 81EF/True-Linear Polarizing Water White Glass Filter
The Schneider 81 Series of filters control the bluish coloration that affects daylight film. They can also remove excessive blue from the effects of electronic flash.
Sometimes a Director of Photography may prefer to use an 81EF rather than an 85. When used alone in daylight, this filter under-corrects tungsten balanced film and provides a cool or bluish look. However, if an 81EF is used with tungsten balanced film in tungsten light, it results in a warm look.
It's Autumn. The clouds are low hanging and the sky is "patchy blue". You've gone for a ride upstate to the mountains and the light in open shade is bluish. A photo taken of your girlfriend with daylight balanced film leaning against the side of a barn will yield bluish tones that she might not find particularly flattering.
An 81EF filter (the strongest in the 81 series) will more than replace the yellow missing from the image and place all skin tones on a distinctly "warmish" level. You might even consider using an 81EF at the beach to make a hot scene even "hotter". The 81 series allows you to choose how much warmth you wish to replace in the image.
The Schneider True-Polarizing Filter is by far the most effective polarizer for motion picture and television cameras. Having an extinction ratio of ER 374, the Schneider True-Pol is 12- times more effective than other polarizing filters, and is unmatched in its ability.
The polarizing film in a Schneider True-Pol filter is laminated between two pieces of Schneider's crystal-clear, water-white optical glass. The filter is protected against edge-chipping and delamination by Schneider's unique Edge Seal, which also effectively reduces edge-reflections and flare.
The absolute clarity of the glass combined with advanced polarizing material make True-Pol filters particularly effective on demanding scenes, as when shooting through windshields in rigged-cars. On such shots, Directors of Photography have found that Schneider True-Pol filters capture more color saturation, wider tonal range and much more contrast inside the car.
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If two Virginia Tech researchers, collaborating with the American Dental Association (ADA), are able to successfully construct a tissue engineered composite material for oral reconstructions, these dismal statistics might yield a better outcome.
The repair of the diseased tissue in these cancers often requires reconstruction of the bone, and Brian Love, Virginia Tech professor of materials science and engineering, and principal investigator on a $140,000 National Institutes for Health (NIH) grant, believes "substantially better clinical outcomes for all oral constructions could result if a more viable scaffold material were used that was capable of faster and higher quality bone formation."
Love and the team are looking at amorphous calcium phosphates (ACPs) as inorganic host materials in the rebuilding of tissue. ACPs, in the presence of cells that make bone (called osteoblasts), are believed to "more readily" provide the host material for new bone formation in tissue engineering than other choices, Love explains.
"By constructing tissue engineered composites containing ACPs, living osteoblasts, and donor materials," Love believes the result could be faster and higher quality bone formation.
The Paffenbarger Research Center of the ADA is supplying the ACP for the current studies. Aaron Goldstein of Virginia Tech's chemical engineering department is a co-principal investigator, and Drago Skrtic of the ADA Paffenbarger Research Center and Peter Shires of Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine are collaborating with Love and Goldstein. Both are also affiliated with the Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Science.
In earlier studies, Love recently completed a research leave at the Dental Polymers Group of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), where he worked on photopolymers used in dentistry. Goldstein has performed post-doctoral work at Rice University's Tissue Engineering Laboratories, and has six years of cell culture and tissue engineering experience with bone marrow stromal osteoprogenitor cells at Virginia Tech. Skrtic has studied ACP precipitation, purification, and incorporation into remineralizing resins for the past 12 years. Shires' primary research interests are bone defects, osteoarthritis, and surgical repair. He has the facilities to evaluate host tissue responses to the tissue-engineered materials.
As the interdisciplinary research team better understands how bone-making cells respond to ACP, their next challenge will be to assess these re-growth characteristics in vivo.
Their work to date is currently in press for upcoming issues of the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymers Edition, and the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.


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"Palestine supporters hold protest in SF against violence in Gaza," www.sfexaminer.com
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We were disappointed by your photo essay (by Jessica Christian, July 27). We attended this protest, and we feel that your chosen photographs deliberately and harmfully misrepresented the protest and its intentions.
Nearly all the photos depicted marchers dressed in Palestinian garb, most with scarves or masks over their faces. But in reality, the protesters were highly diverse, including a large Jewish contingent and many Americans of all races who simply want to stop the killing.
Gaza is a human-rights issue, not solely a Palestinian issue as your photographer implied.
The photo essay also showed the burning of an Israeli flag and graffiti equating the Star of David to a swastika. It is unfair of you to spotlight this extremism. The huge majority of the protesters reject these hateful statements. We want peace, not more hatred and violence.
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That was not a designed playcall, the protection broke down immediately and Manning panicked. It was 2cd and 6 for goodness sake as well, he should have thrown that ball away. He knows better.
However, if they ran that play (Sprint right option) on that third down its a low risk high reward way to play it with aggression versus passivity. There could also have been an incomplete there, but if the TE is open that's a real good risk I would take all day, every day.
Plus, that is not a standard DEN play and BAL would not have reacted well to that playcall. I gaurantee they would have had a shot at making the first down and maybe more.
Good point Med12,
And everyone is focusing on the relative odds of completeing a 3rd and 7 pass in that situation. But had the plan been to get that first down no matter what, after we had just gotten the last first down with three conservative plays in a row that would have had a high odds of success! The Ravens saw we were trying to run out the clock and were loaded for bear for stopping the Dive run between guard and center.
After the run plays to get that first first down, on first, second or third down, Manning could have done his very best tuck fake hand off for yet another fake dive run over Haloti and dropped back for a quick 10 yard pass to Tamme, Decker or Stokely for the first down right then and there.. and possibly more.
Do that while taking an extra 45 seconds off the clock and then we could have taken three knees to end the thing! The Ravens know Foxy's tendencies in such situations which we had just reinforced on the previous series for a first down .. they would not have been expecting a first or second down pass in that situation if we set it up like another Dive run all along.
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Enjoy the Small Things - Improvments on the Transitional Sellwood Bridge
After a week long closure and an epic engineering feat that pushed the current span of the Sellwood bridge approximately 60 feet north of its current location, the transitional bridge had its grand reopening this past wednesday. (check the time lapse footage of the bridge move here)
I was curious how bikes had figured into the transitional Sellwood bridge plan, and headed down on Saturday to check things out. For those unfamiliar, the Sellwood Bridge has long been a hot button issue with cyclists who ride over it - built to barely accomodate pedestrians, there is hardly room for opposing lanes of traffic, let alone any sort of substantial bicycle infrastructure. Signs before the bridge directed cyclists to ride on the road however that usually left a whole string of miffed motorists who didn't have room to pass, and similarly riding on the narrow sidewalk requires constant weaving around lampposts and stopping to let other cyclists and pedestrians pass. In short, the Sellwood Bridge since its inception has never been ideal for bike users or pedestrians for that matter.
Upon riding over the bridge on Saturday I was surprised to find that the approaches on both sides of the bridge had a divided bike / pedestrian lane with a guard rail and everything - a hands down improvement from the old span. The interface with the underpass that directs cyclists to the River View Cemetery on the west side of the bridge is also a bit cleaner, with a divided lane that interfaces seamlessly with the bike lane. The middle of the bridge is still the same old - but the new wider approaches make the bridge a bit more comfortable, and certainly ridable as crews begin work on the new span set to deploy in 2015.
So for now I suggest enjoying the small things - wider and protected approaches, all the while dreaming of the greatness that will be the new Sellwood Bridge.


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My flight back from India was 16 hours with a 10 hour time difference. I slept for the first 9 hours of the flight and then was awake for the last 7. The major problem was that when we landed it was 7 AM in Chicago. Point of the story being that my jet lag was something fierce. Readjusting my schedule was proving to be really difficult, and I was trying my hardest to occupy my last few days of vacation with activities so that I wouldn't fall asleep. Luckily my buddy Arif called me to get together with him, Jessie, and KVG for some brunch. We would've gone somewhere around campus, but since I've got a car people like to take that as an opportunity to go elsewhere. We ended up in the south loop at the Bongo Room.
The Bongo Room is set up with two rooms. There's one main dining room and another with the host stand and a small breakfast bar. They're only open for breakfast and lunch with hours that are something like 8AM-2PM. Jessie made an interesting observation that although we were in the south loop and not the wicker park location, the waitresses still maintained a pretty hipster look. We went at 12:30 on a Friday which isn't really representative of a breakfast rush. I'd assume the waits get pretty substantial for the weekend brunch. If it's too crowded you might be able to run over to the 11 City Diner down the block.
The service was fine, and the waitress put up with a rather lengthy bout of our indecisiveness. Arif could've used some more frequent coffee refills I guess. We also noticed something strange in that the tables were a bit lower than normal. The cost was what I've grown to expect out of brunch with the majority of items around $10. Portions were justifiable large. I'm pretty sure everyone besides me had leftovers.
The Food
For our meal Jessie got the Special Veggie Omelet, KVG got some Banana Heath Bar Pancakes, Arif had the Red Velvet French Toast , and I got the Veggie Croissant Sandwich. Jessie thought the omelet was "nothing special." It doesn't look like it from the picture, but it was loaded with veggies. The potatoes, however, were sub par. They were unevenly roasted and somewhat undercooked. The french toast was soft, soaked, and heavily topped. The fruit abundance was nice, but the sweet dressing may have been a bit much. My veggie croissant was really delicious. The egg was runny how I wanted it, the veggies were really fresh, and the basil mayo added a light and delicious spin to the dish.
I think people like the Bongo Room for their big sugary breakfast options. I've always been one to lean toward the savory side though. Some of their dishes could have probably shown a bit more restraint for me. The veggie omelet was a great call. Breakfast restaurants without solid potatoes are always suspect to me. It's pretty similar in my mind to Yolk. I'm giving them 3 out of 5 Pearls.


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I guess I really mean prediction software! From the Ubuntu Gnome Repository I've got Gnome Predict 'sort of running" It puts me IN the right place QF15bt but REPORTS it as QF25bt so I'm a bit suspicious about the accuracy. Feel free to put me right. Anyway, it's on hold for a day or so, the latest assignment from TAFE (Tech College) is a "doozy" and will eat a fair bit of playtime. Sigh.... never mind, I can see light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully its not a train!!!! Greg D. wrote: > What tracking software? I use two programs. For casual viewing of what > is going on I run mtrack, which gives me a nice view of where the > satellites are across the planet, pass predictions, and the ground > visibility circle. For actual tracking, I have a copy of predict, which > I have modified to drive my homebrew Az/El rotor controller. The PC is > running SuSE 10.0, but I expect both will run on any Linux distro and PC. > > Greg KO6TH > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: VK2XCI <email@example.com> > To: Sarex <email@example.com> > Subject: [sarex] Linux tracker > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:58 +1000 > > Good morning all, > > Wonderful inspiring view of ISS and Atlantis from this QTH last night. > The neighbors are still talking about it and want to bring friends for > an ISS party tonight! > > To the question... > > What prediction program are folks using under Linux. I'm using Ubuntu on > a pretty standard 800MHz Celeron with 256 M of memory. > > -- > de VK2XCI > Norm in Mildura, QF15bt > Australia's Wintersun City > ---- > Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex > > > > > -- Norm, VK2XCI, Mildura, The Wintersun City QF15bt Victoria, Australia. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 15/09/2006 ---- Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
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I'm nervous about traveling overseas… is it safe?
Such apprehensions are usual. You may even remember feeling something similar before leaving home to come to the University of Florida. Study Abroad Services has many precautions in place to assure that students will stay safe and healthy while overseas. All study abroad program fees include comprehensive health insurance. Your pre-departure and on-site orientations will include lots of common-sense tips. All UF-Sponsored programs have on-site staff to help you with any problems. After a short time in your new overseas surroundings you will likely feel comfortable and very much at home.
Can I fulfill my summer residency requirement abroad?
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The target date to have everything complete is August 1st.
The project will cost $516,000. The Parks Improvement Advisory Board was given a $200,000 grant by the Mesa County Mineral Lease District to go towards the project. CMU, District 51 and the City of Grand Junction picked up the remaining balance.
FieldTurf is the same company creates turf fields for various NFL teams.
"It's a two-layer system that's got sand and rubber," Grand Junction Sports Facilities Supervisor Mark Mancuso says. "And it really plays a lot more like natural turf. Athletes enjoy the way that this feels way better rather than just a traditional all-rubber infield system. We felt like FieldTurf with this two-layer technology was a good product. a good safe product and something they could use."
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A Selection of Fiction for Children and Young Adult Readers Certain to Make Great Holiday Presents
Jill Norgren writes: Here is an opportunity for grandparents and special friends looking for children's and young adult books to hear straight from the mouths of young readers. This year I asked about gift suggestions from my granddaughters, 17, 13, and 10, as well as young friends 4 to 15 who live in Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, and New York City. I asked each of them, "which books did you most enjoy reading this past year that you think others your age would also enjoy?" Some of their favorites are new, but many are classics. more »
Pretty Girl: Girl with a Pearl Earring makes a stop at The Frick in New York, the last leg of its American tour
Val Castronovo writes: Girl's head, shoulder, garments and accessories stand out against a dark, solid background, which is blackened now but once was translucent green. The effect is rather like the effect of looking at this painting in an otherwise empty room — just as everything is stripped away in the Oval Room so that our attention is laser-focused on Girl, so everything is stripped away in the background of the painting itself so that we zero in on the figure's physiognomy and accoutrements, which signal mercantile wealth and prosperity. more »
Revisiting Favorite Books: The Forstytes and the Acquisitive Victorians
Joan L. Cannon writes: John Galsworthy's descriptions of nature are ravishing, his limning of his characters clear enough for a crime sketch artist to draw them. This descriptive artistry and the revelatory dialogue show the reader within a hundred pages the contrasts and individuality of everyone who has anything to do with the advancing story of Soames and Irene, and also with the subplots enacted by other members of the Forsyte family. All are influenced by the motive principles of the Forsyte clan in general, Victorian society, and their admired Soames in particular. more »
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"Rain Without Thunder," a dreary, nondramatic tract envisioning an America in which abortion is outlawed, deserves special notice for its unfortunate timing. Two weeks into the Clinton Administration, here is a film set in a 2042 where pictures of young Dan Quayle still adorn the walls of government offices. And women who have had abortions are imprisoned at Walker Point, a correctional facility presumably imagined in honor of Walker's Point, George Bush's summer home. To be fair, "Rain Without Thunder" would be hopeless even if its foot were not so clearly in its mouth.
As written and directed by Gary Bennett, "Rain Without Thunder" is all talk. Endless subjects are supposedly interviewed by a television reporter (Carolyn McCormick), who is trying to reconstruct the story of Allison Goldring (Ali Thomas). Allison and her mother (Betty Buckley) have been jailed for trying to go to Sweden in the early weeks of Allison's pregnancy, under the provisions of a new Unborn Child Kidnaping Act. The film dwells portentously on this and other imaginary legal developments, like a 28th Amendment giving full Constitutional rights to fertilized eggs.
Constructed listlessly as a drab parade of earnest talking heads, the film seems strangely halfhearted even in its commitment to being futuristic. Not much has changed in 50 years, except that men wear slightly effeminate, multi-cultural costumes while they constrain women with oppressive laws. Also in the film's arsenal are inexpressive slang words ("velvetheads," "hummer," "fruited") and grisly descriptions of abortion-related horrors ("blood dripping down thighs onto filthy tenement floors . . ."). Viewers will have had more than enough of this after 15 minutes, though the film lasts an eternal hour and a half.
"Rain Without Thunder," which takes its title from Frederick Douglass (to the effect that progress is impossible without struggle), incorporates several familar actors into an otherwise amateurish-sounding cast. None of them are allowed the chance to do more than recite lines into the camera, punctuating this dialogue with the occasional pregnant pause.
The actors, including Jeff Daniels, Frederic Forrest, Graham Greene, Linda Hunt (by far the most alert cast member) and Austin Pendleton, do the best they can under impossible circumstances. If there is a good way to deliver a line like "Could it be, Father, that society has gone a bit too far in punishing women?," nobody here knows what it would be.
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The HC85 and HCT85 are high speed magnitude comparators that use silicon-gate CMOS technology to achieve operating speeds similar to LSTTL with the low power consumption of standard CMOS integrated circuits.
These 4-bit devices compare two binary, BCD, or other monotonic codes and present the three possible magnitude results at the outputs (A > B, A < B, and A = B). The 4-bit input words are weighted (A0 to A3 and B0 to B3), where A3 and B3 are the most significant bits.
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Before you approach an editor or an agent, do the following:
Get your manuscript printed out or typed in double line spacing, with margins of about 1.25" on all sides, and with serially numbered pages. Make sure that you print or type only on one side of the paper.
The "cover" or "title page" should clearly contain the following:
Tip: To calculate the word count is simple in MS Word. Just go to: Tools > Word Count
If you have a typed book, you could count the number of words in each of ten densely packed pages, average it out per page and multiply this by the total number of pages.
Editors need this information about word count, page count etc. before they can finally take a decision on your manuscript.
If you are using a Word Processor, you might consider inserting your name and the novel's name on alternate "Headers". Not really necessary. It just looks a bit better and more professional. To do this in Ms Word, you just have to go to View > Header & Footer
Do not "file" the manuscript in any type of file. Publishers prefer manuscripts reaching them in "loose-leaf" form. So, at best, place it in an easily open able folder when you send it to them. And don't worry. Manuscripts survive!
Make a few photocopies of the manuscript and keep them ready for dispatch. Make a few extra copies of the first three chapters (or the best three chapters, whichever you prefer), since many publishers / literary agents would like to see this before asking to see the complete manuscript.
After you complete all these initial steps, there comes the most important part of the whole process. Writing the query letter!
There are thousands of people who want to write books. There are thousands of people who want to have their books published. Because of this, publishers as well as agents are very very busy people!
They receive requests from many people to get their book published. Instead of going though so many books and then deciding which to publish and which not to publish, they devised a system of "query letters."
Before sending your complete book or manuscript to the agent or publisher, you first send the agent or publisher a query letter.
The idea of the query letter is that after reading the query letter, the agent or the publishers gets an idea what your book is about. It they find it worth publishing they shall ask you to send them the manuscript or just the first three chapters.
This means that if you do not write a good query letter, your book will not even be read. If you query letter is not impressive enough, your brilliant masterpiece will not even be considered.
So, you have to write a brilliant query letter! If you don't your book will surely not be published. We have tried to guide you though the entire process of writing the "perfect" query letter in detail here.
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A Study of the Effect of RO4607381 on Atherosclerotic Plaque in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00655473
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 10, 2008
Last Update Posted : November 2, 2016
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|First Posted Date ICMJE
|April 10, 2008
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|November 2, 2016
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|March 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|November 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Same as current
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|A Study of the Effect of RO4607381 on Atherosclerotic Plaque in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study of the Effect of RO4607381 on Progression or Regression of Atherosclerotic Plaque in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Including Patients With Other CHD Risk Factors
|Brief Summary
|This study will assess the effect of RO4607381, compared to placebo, on atherosclerotic plaque in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) including patients with other CHD risk factors. After a pre-randomisation period during which positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT) and MRI will be conducted, patients will be randomized to receive either RO4607381 600mg po daily, or placebo po daily. PET/CT and MRI scans will be taken at intervals during the study. The anticipated time on study treatment is 2 years, and the target sample size is 100 individuals.
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|Coronary Heart Disease
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|Actual Study Completion Date
|November 2010
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|November 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
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Tri County Auto Dismantlers in Santa Paula, California, is a family-owned-and-operated auto salvage and used auto parts company. Since 1968, our full-service wrecking yard has offered a bigger selection of used engines, auto salvages, and parts because we maintain a larger yard with more space than our competitors.
We save our customers money and time by providing fast service and getting orders out on time. Our customers get quality parts the first time and, as a full-service company, we find, remove, and devliver parts ourselves. When you receive parts from us, all fluids are removed and property disposed. Our company is environmentaly aware and strives to provide offordable parts.
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About Us
Our family has always lived in the center of Tuscany. Our ancestors have taught us to love, respect, preserve, and enhance this area. As children, we lived next to Il Borghetto, the villa which had been abandoned for decades and was in a serious state of disrepair.
It was a magical place for us to play. We had always dreamed of restoring the villa to its original splendor.
After 3 years of hard work and restoration, our dream came true
Everyone in our family contributed to the restoration: Sandra as architect and decorator, Riccardo and Nicola as the labor force, Simona with her background in tourism, and even Papa and Mama participated with their constant and precious help and encouragement. All worked very long days for the duration of the reconstruction.
It was a monumental undertaking, but the family now has the pleasure of being able to welcome our guests to the place we love.
The villa has been open now for more than a decade
and our enthusiasm is still as great as it was on the first day.
It is our great fortune to host so many people from all over the world and to share with them our traditions and our culture.
Il Borghetto is a family-run Tuscan villa
we welcome you as part of our family and hope that our hospitality will enrich your stay and encourage you to return.
The contentment of our guests is our greatest wish! Whatever your interests are, we will endeavor to guide you, give directions, and/or make reservations for the best place to enjoy them.
The suggestive Tuscany villa 'il Borghetto' in the countryside of the historical town of San Gimignano, on the original old dirt road leading to the town with the best view of the famous towers, is the ideal starting point for your holidays and to discover the most beautiful and evocative places this region has to offer!
The little cluster of buildings is perfectly situated in the midst of the splendid Tuscan countryside
surrounded by olive orchards and vineyards for the production of fine oil of the highest quality and fragrance, and Vernaccia, the white wine praised by Redi in his Dithyrambic of Bacchus in Tuscany.
San Gimignano is just 4 Km away, and is a symbol and treasure beloved by all humanity, safeguarded and protected by Unesco for its art, history and culture.
The other major Tuscan historical tourist zones are all nearby: Firenze 40 km, Siena 35 km, Arezzo 90 km, Volterra 30 km, Pisa and Pistoia 90 km, Lucca 100 km , the Chianti region 30 km and the Tyrrhenian sea 90 km away.


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(1) For all passenger cars, regardless of weight, and for other vehicles 1 1/2 tons and lighter, not to exceed $75.00, excluding incidental work such as winching and dolly towing, during the period including 6:00 a.m. through and including 6:00 p.m., and$110.00 during the period including 6:01 p.m. through and including 5:59 a.m.
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Rarely crowded like its neighbors, Playa Hermosa Costa Rica is a peaceful place to visit. Playa Hermosa activities will accommodate for young and old so you will have the time of your life no matter what activity in Costa Rica you choose to do. The soft gentle waters in the area are not appropriate for Costa Rica surfing, though some of the other beach in the area can accommodate the wave lovers. Activities in Playa Hermosa will allow you to enjoy the area at its fullest. Costa Rica has many pleasurable day tours that will be the perfect partner to a well-planed trip.


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Hockey masks are pieces of headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.
Covering the face, they are off-white with red and blue stripes on it and have a worn appearance. The benefits to the wearer of the hockey mask is that their Unarmed skill is raised by 5 points when equipped.
- One can be found in the Mesquite Mountains lean-to.
- Randomly found on escaped convicts in Primm.
- Can be purchased from Quartermaster Bardon in the Hoover Dam offices.
- #108 in Higgs Village in the Big MT. One can be found in a box in house
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|The following is based on unverified behind the scenes information and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- The mask's main shape is based upon the mask worn by former NHL goaltender Jacques Plante.
- The hockey mask as raider headgear may be a reference to Lord Humungus, the villain in Mad Max 2(AKA The Road Warrior in the U.S.).
- The 5 point skill increase in Unarmed is likely a reference to the fact that some hockey players have a tendency to get into fist-fights during a game. The involvement of a goalie in such altercations is very rare however.
- The markings on the mask bear a striking resemblance to the "war paint" used by the street gang in Death Wish 3. This could be a coincidence, but due to the same colors and markings used it could be a unintentional design. Also, hockey masks in game are normally used by raiders who share much in common with the street gangs of Death Wish 3.
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Although it revolves around a crucial issue in the history of California, this subpar drama misses its targets somehow. The time is 1848 in California when an American justice system has to try Californians who are either Mexican in culture and speech and heritage, or not. Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) is a sorry example of the "not" side of the equation, and he is on trial for murdering a Mexican. The Mexican-Americans who back California's U.S. government are anxious to see if American justice is racially and ethnically blind. In the meantime, there is a romance or two to divert attention as Hatfield's accusers get ready for the trial. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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Legal Education at the Crossroads
The Association of American Law Schools just concluded its annual meeting, and despite the less than stellar weather, the event was a big success.
As the 2014 President of the AALS, I addressed the meeting of the House of Representatives on Saturday, January 4, 2014. My remarks focused on the guiding notion of my presidency, the idea of "Legal Education at the Crossroads." We are indeed at a crossroads, and we must consider the challenges we face as opportunities to undertake meaningful reform. Happily, this is happening. Some of the most interesting and potentially most transformative developments in legal education today are experiments—ideas that emerge from bold choices and acute imagination—often borne of necessity. These "disruptive innovations" will bring meaningful change in the long run, and I call upon my colleagues to collaborate broadly and creatively, and make good use of the great wisdom in our community.
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Several highlights from the 1967 Senior Bowl football game. A crowd fills the sold-out Ladd Peebles Stadium, in Mobile Alabama, for the Senior Bowl game, matching all star football players from the North and the South. Oregon State's Bob Grim is seen running the ball to pick up 25 yards. North's Quarterback hits Iowa State's Eppie Barney for a touchdown, with 1:13 remaining in the 3rd period. South quarterback Terry Southal, of Baylor, passes to Louisiana State's Dick Redding for a touchdown at the 13:12 mark of the 4th quarter. North's Bob Grim takes handoff and runs from the 40 yard line until pushed out of bounds at the South's 15 yard line. Nebraska's Harry Wilson runs the ball for a touchdown in the 4th Quarter. North beats the South 35 to 15.
(Note:The final North tally came at the very end of the game with a pass from BYU's Virgil Carter to Nebraska's Pete Tatman. Bubba Smith of Mich. State was a monster on Defense and won the MVP award.)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy's speech regarding racism and racial tensions in Alabama, delivered from Washington DC, the White House. United States President Kennedy seated at a desk and speaks over a microphone. The President speaks about racial discrimination against blacks in the United States. He talks about the University of Alabama not giving admission to two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negroes, due to segregation and discrimination practices. View of people crowded outside the University of Alabama. Men take pictures as officials escort entering students Vivian Malone and James Hood into the University. The President says that the nation is founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. President Kennedy says that it is right for American consumers of any color to receive equal service in places of public accommodation, to register and to vote in a free election without interference or fear of reprisal. Additional views of Vivian Malone and James Hood walking with crowds and also unaccompanied on the University of Alabama campus. A policeman rides a motorcycle on a road at the University. President Kennedy talks about respecting negro citizens and importance of civil rights and equality. The President says that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore the rights of any of its citizens. Press record his speech and take pictures.
Football practice in Alabama,United States. Alabama Crimson Tide football team players Andrew Pernell,Birmingham's Tucker and Doc Rone practice for the match on the field. Head coach makes announcements.
Football match in the United States. The football match between teams Tennessee Volunteers and Alabama Crimson Tide begins. Spectators cheer the players. Tennessee wins the match against the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 24-13.
Film opens with February 1st, 1967 Change of Command Ceremony for Commanders in Chief of U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). General John Dale Ryan is assuming command from General Joseph J. Nazzaro. A color guard stands with American flag flanked by flags of Air Force, SAC, units, and award ribbons. A military marching band marches in front of a stage (reviewing stand) where Generals and guests are seated, including Generals Nazarro and Ryan, plus the Commanders of SAC's three Air Forces. Civilian leaders present included Nebraska Governor and Mrs. Norbert Tiemann. Closeup of General Ryan. View of Governor and Mrs. Tiemann standing amongst six Air Force Generals. A traditional ceremony for change of command ensues. The flag of outgoing General Nazzaro is furled and cased and the flag of incoming General Ryan is unfurled and uncased. The flag ceremony completes as the two Generals exchange positions. Views of Generals and guests. Closeup of General Nazzaro.The band plays and marches and a contingent of U.S. airmen march in review. General Nazzaro renders them a parting salute and then he and Ryan shake hands and both turn to greet the Governor and his wife.
Bombing demonstration by U.S. Army Air Service DH4 aircraft under command of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The target is Battleship USS Alabama, in September, 1921 in the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Army flier is seen checking security of a bomb under wing of aircraft. USS Alabama underway in the Chesapeake Bay. Aerial views from United States Army Air Service planes in flight over the battleship. USS Alabama is hit by a bomb. Later it is hit by a phosphorus poison gas bomb. Finally it is hit by 2000 pound bombs. The USS Alabama rolls over halfway, in shallow waters.


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Editor's Note: This editorial from the September 1 issue of The Nation has been updated to take into account Russia's acceptance of a cease-fire agreement.
"The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone…. Nothing can justify this loss of life and destruction. It is a warning to all."
–Mikhail Gorbachev, Washington Post, August 12
Former Soviet President Gorbachev's condemnation of Georgia's assault on Tskhinvali on the night of August 7, which precipitated the larger Russia-Georgia conflict, reminds us that if we had heeded his vision of a truly post-cold war world, we might not today be confronting such dangerous geopolitical gamesmanship. It should also remind us, as a wobbly cease-fire is put in place, that the conflict has been flagrantly misreported in this country.
I am heartsick at the violence and brutalities on all sides. Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian friends have all suffered. Yet commentary in the US media, almost without exception, has turned a longstanding, complex separatist conflict into a casus belli for a new cold war with Russia, ignoring not only the historical and political reasons for South Ossetia's drive for independence from Georgia but also the responsibility of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the current crisis. So eager have commentators been to indict Vladimir Putin's Russia that they have overlooked Washington's contribution to the rising tensions.
Certainly Russia should be condemned for escalating the fighting beyond what was necessary to defend South Ossetians and Russian peacekeepers. But the US media have failed to provide the full backdrop. For one, the role of Saakashvili–who has sought to provoke Moscow over a range of issues in recent years–has been whitewashed. Georgia's president has often seemed more intent on currying favor with the Bush Administration, which has strongly supported Georgia's bid for NATO membership, than on looking after the interests of his people. The United States has also sent hundreds of military advisers to Georgia and welcomed Georgian troops in its "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. The irony is that the Bush Administration, which violated Iraq's sovereignty, now feigns outrage over Russia's actions. And for all the flowery talk of promoting Georgia's democracy, the Bush Administration has in the past year downplayed Saakashvili's violent crackdown on Georgian protesters, as well as his rigged election, declaration of martial law, attacks on opposition media and jailing of opponents.


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Plots are full up for 2017!
2017 We have plots available! They go fast. If you are interested in a plot please email to firstname.lastname@example.com
We now have bird houses at the garden thanks to the kids at the Salvation Army!
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2016 Let's get ready to plant!
Work days have been re scheduled for the following:
Work days Saturday 4/30 and Sunday 5/01 (9 to 11) 2016. Please bring a rake and shovel if you have one.
See you at the garden!
Thanks to Home Depot and Birch Community Garden Volunteers the fence is complete!
Installing the fence this weekend! May 1-2, 2015 (9 to 4)
We got the grant from Home Depot for the fence!
Birch Community Garden Kick off day 2014
Prep day for the donation plots this Saturday March 29th from 10 AM to noon.
This Saturday the volunteer coordinators will be preparing the four large donation plots for kick off day. We will be there between 10 and noon. If you would like to come out and help, that would be great. See you there.
Kick-off day is April 12, 2014 9 to noon.
Kick-off day for the garden is April 12, from 9 AM to noon (or as long as you want to work). We will be cleaning up, turning the soil in the plots, putting in burlap paths, installing drip systems, and planting seeds. So, come with lots of energy! Bring family, friends, neighbors, coworkers or anyone that would like to get their hands dirty. The more who participate, the better! We really need your help.
Come one come all…..
If you have a shovel and or rake please bring it with you!
Mike has offered his broadfork for those that would like to use it. It is great to use instead of tilling or turning with a shovel. See link below:
Have you started your seedlings??? YOU NEED TO ASAP!!!
If you have questions feel free to ask. We have answers.
- Last Frost for Colorado, in your area
- What to plant now
- What to plant in a few weeks
- How to care for your plants all season long
Let's get growing!


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Funds for ruined North Uist church Teampull na Trionaid
Almost £200,000 has been awarded towards preserving the ruins of an ancient church on the Western Isles.
Teampull na Trionaid on North Uist was founded in the 1200s as a college for priests.
The Scottish government has given Teampull na Trionaid Conservation Association £194,000 to stabilise the remains of the medieval church.
The ruins are close to the site of the Battle of Cairinish, which took place in 1601.
It was believed the battle was sparked by member of the local Clan MacDonald divorcing his wife, a MacLeod from the island of Harris.
A MacLeod raiding party were defeated by the MacDonalds.
Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil has welcomed the funding.
He said: "I know that many people in Uist have worked tirelessly on a voluntary basis, and I am delighted that all their hard work has secured this funding."


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The drama critic Harold Hobson was quick to recognize Laurence Olivier's greatness, writes Terry Coleman in Olivier, the hefty, official (but by no means hagiographical) new biography. In 1933, Mr. Hobson wrote that Olivier's performance in "The Rats of Norway" was "heartbreaking" and later listed it as one of the seven moments in the theater when he had been "in the presence of greatness."
Olivier also seems to have been aware of his greatness - possibly too aware.
Richard Eyre, who became director of Britain's National Theatre (originally Olivier's baby, about which there is much in this biography), observed that his predecessor "was a man for whom applause was almost better than life itself."
Yet Olivier distrusted and protested against the notion of inborn genius, and insisted that acting is a craft or trade demanding exhaustive, scrupulous skills; research; practice; and detailed preparedness. According to Coleman, he "achieved greatness" (although he didn't object if it was also "thrust upon him.")
A credible biography must delve into the vanities and personal flaws of its subject as well as the triumphs, and Coleman shows us that Olivier was not always a particularly admirable man, whatever his personal charisma.
He was excessively self-regarding (after all he and his second wife, Vivien Leigh, were virtually the royals of the British theater), wilfully ambitious; brutal toward others one minute, guilt-ridden the next; and often plain dishonest in his recollections if he could effectively embellish the Olivier myth.
He could be exceedingly funny on stage, yet through this long look at his private as well as his public life, there are few hints of warmth in Olivier's sense of humor.
What he did have was his personal share of vulnerability underneath the egotism. Coleman repeats, for example, a revealing recollection of John Mills about Olivier's opening night as Richard III (the Shakespearean antihero whom he later portrayed memorably on screen). Olivier asked his friend to see him in his dressing room. "There he was in his makeup. 'Sit down,' he said. 'You are my best friend, so I don't ever try to fool you. I'm just telling you that you're in for a very poor evening. I'm lousy in the part. I don't know it, and I just want you to know that I know'.... The curtain went up, on came his lordship, and said, 'Now is the winter of our discontent' ... and the whole theatre froze. It was the performance of a lifetime."
One critic compared it to the renowned Richard III of Edmund Kean.
Coleman then adds: "It was the first time in his life, in twenty years on the stage, that [Olivier] sensed that the public, the critics, and he himself, all together, knew that a performance of his had been right. He breathed in the sweet smell of success, which he described as like seaweed, or like oysters."
He had, more than once, tasted failure. For instance, although eventually he succeeded (at least to a degree) in his bid to be a Hollywood matinee idol, Garbo famously rejected him as her leading man. (Much later he admitted she was right.)
He would occasionally taste failure again. As a classical actor he was a comparatively late developer: "By the time he was twenty-eight," Coleman points out, "he had never played in a single play by Shakespeare." (Unless, that is, you count his schoolboy performance of Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew," praised highly by no less an actor than Ellen Terry.)
Olivier had an extraordinary instinct as an actor, and along with it, an almost reckless courage. He was physically daring.
Indeed, he was very physical, finding his way to his multiplicity of radically different characters from the outside in. Physical appearance came first, inner feeling later.
But the feeling was there all right. He could be startlingly moving. He combined an extraordinary virility with a strange degree of femininity.
Coleman discusses at length the balance of male and female in Olivier's character, concluding that some reports of his sexual proclivities have been much exaggerated and that what really mattered anyway was the way he used his personal character to inform his art.
Olivier has often been contrasted with John Gielgud. Their style of acting was very different. And this biography also discloses striking differences in their personal characters.
Coleman quotes Gielgud's generous and thoughtful appreciation of Olivier the actor (though confessing that he was rather frightened of him). It was Gielgud who first gave Olivier the opportunity to shine in Shakespeare. Coleman writes: "[Olivier] owed a great debt to Gielgud but never acknowledged it. Perhaps he simply didn't see it that way."
His comments on Gielgud's acting were scarcely appreciative. Probably Olivier used Gielgud's special powers as the potent enemy to be defeated so that he could discover his own opposing "reality."
Although Olivier's dedication to the founding of a National Theatre was enormous, and possibly involved a sense of "destiny" rather than mere ambition, he was first and foremost an actor.
Richard Eyre is given by Coleman the opportunity to present a balanced view of this actor's achievement. "As Eyre saw it, it wasn't necessarily that Olivier was the greatest actor of his time. He simply satisfied a desire for actors to be larger than life, and to be able to be seen to be acting at the same time as they were moving an audience to tears or laughter."
But then isn't that pretty much what all remarkable actors do?
• Christopher Andreae has been writing for the Monitor since the 1960s. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.


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Tyrades! Is Your TV Trying To Kill You?
According to the Reuters news agency, Australian researchers have determined that sedentary activities (sitting in front of the TV, working at a desk, riding in a car, etc.) can significantly increase your chances of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, or other causes.
(This report probably elicits a big "I told you so!" from pioneering fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who was recently cover-featured on the "American Profile" Sunday magazine. At age 95 the robust LaLanne still exercises two hours every morning and eats at least 10 raw vegetables a day. I have an unconfirmed report that his pastimes include chopping wood, gardening, and mopping up the floor -- with Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris.)
Smoking and overeating can exacerbate the problem, but it is the very act of sitting that is the recurring risk factor in the study. The researchers lecture us that the human body just isn't designed for prolonged periods of sitting. Did you ever notice that you can always depend on researchers and reformers to unleash a litany of things that the human body isn't designed for? "The human body isn't designed to wear shoes. The human body isn't designed to eat meat. Etc." But you never hear anyone declare, "The human body isn't designed to support cockamamie research projects."
After a stressful day at work, I happen to enjoy sitting down and researching my next article or watching an episode of "Monk." But now it seems I have a death-wish if I'm not out there hiking, rappelling, jogging, and otherwise communing with nature. But if the do-gooders think the Creator did such a messed-up job of designing the human body to meet the needs of the 21st century, what makes them think the rest of nature is worth gazing at while you're coughing up a lung????
I also enjoy curling up with a good book and increasing my knowledge, but apparently such an activity shortens your lifespan. This news has dismayed the Democrats. ("At this rate, Sarah Palin will live forever!")
How will society change in response to the sedentary lifestyle scare? Here are some possibilities:
1. Dating services will spring up to match your 14-year-old daughter with 45-year-old ex-cons, so you can toss and turn all night and exercise even in your sleep.
2. Rodin's famous sculpture "The Thinker" will be renamed "The Poor Schmuck Waiting On A Myocardial Infarction."
3. Lawyers for alleged "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will argue that he was just trying to give unhealthy passengers a chance to jump up and do something on a long airplane ride.
4. The CIA will reveal that the Beverly Hillbillies' invitation to "set a spell, take your shoes off" was a major communist plot of the Sixties.
5. NBC will introduce the new high-impact exercise "twisting slowly in the wind." (No, wait, that's if you're ON television. Sorry, Conan.)
6. Churches will brainstorm to keep their pews from contributing to a lazy lifestyle. ("Forget Folgers Flavor Crystals. We've secretly replaced our members' usual Episcopalian hymnals with Pentecostal rattlesnakes...")
It's best not to panic. Continue your scrapbooking club or "DVD night," but throw some moderate physical activity into the mix. For instance, Jack LaLanne likes to do pushups with his ear hair during pinochle games. And I understand he has listed himself as his own pallbearer and...
Note: Danny Tyree welcomes e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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deep crease in left side panel
can I remove left rear panel?
Is this a good question?
can I remove left rear panel?
Is this a good question?
Are you able to weld ? can you cut steel? This is not an unbolt and bolt new piece in type of job replacing box panels is a long and time consuming job that requires a certain amount of skill in metal fabrication and welding skills. Then once the panel is replaced there is a certain amount of body work required to massage the panel into a smooth contoured shape that it was as when new . Then you need to repaint . this is a job for someone with experience in this field . If you dont care how it looks then crawl in under the truck and find the dint or crease , have someone hold a hammer or dolly on the outside along the crease and from the inside have at it with a hammer tap out the damaged area as best as possible then remove the paint and fill the dints with bondo to smooth out the surface. once you have it to you liking paint. Hope this helps
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