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The cofounders of Hotwire, Gregg Brockway and Eric Grosse, are together again for a new startup, thanks to Brockway's wife, Anna.
It's an online furniture-consignment store called Chairish launching today.
The idea for came after Brockway left his other travel startup, TripIt, which was acquired by Concur Technologies in 2011 for $120 million.
He and Anna moved to a new home and some of their furniture didn't fit. It was too nice to sell on Craigslist and it was too much of a hassle to schlep it to a consignment store.
His old Hotwire friend, Grosse, was looking for his next gig, working as an entrepreneur-in-residence for Matrix Partners.
At the urging of Anna, an interior designer, and with her as a cofounder, the Hotwire team gave birth to a high-end, online consignment furniture store.
Chairish is no Craigslist. It's choosy about the furniture it accepts into its store. It also edits photos, writes product descriptions, and arranges deliveries for 20% fee.
For a 40% fee, it will come to your house and do all the work, including storing the furniture off site.
Chairish hopes to as addictive for interior-design buffs as ModCloth is for vintage fashionistas.
It's likely to be a success. The home-furnishings market is huge, some $90 billion, says Grosse. Plus, the two have come a long way since Hotwire, which they sold to IAC in 2003 for $663 million. (Hotwire is now part of IAC spinoff Expedia.)
"Hotwire was a fantastic experience," says Brockway. "We raised $75 million in its first round, hired 100 people and grew as quickly as we could. It was complete and utter chaos."
In contrast, Chairish is self-funded, has fewer than 10 employees, and has caused "a lot less drama."
The home-furnishings and -decoration market is hot. Houzz, a site for planning redecoration and renovation projects, raised $35 million last month. And Fab and One Kings Lane have collectively raised hundreds of millions of dollars.


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Documenting China's Unnatural Disaster
But their focus shifted when they found themselves unwelcome in what looked like a war zone. About 87,000 people, thousands of them children, died when they were buried beneath collapsed schools. And there was no apparent government rescue effort in place.
"The Chinese government tried to use the Sichuan earthquake as an opportunity to polish its image and to present to the global community a government that was very responsive and passionate," says College of Staten Island political science professor Ming Xia, a Sichuan native who served as translator. "We found a different theme; it was about a corrupt, irresponsible, also unaccountable, government."
Xia traveled to China with Peter Kwong, professor of Asian American studies, urban affairs and planning at Hunter College and of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where Xia teaches international political economy.
On the second day, the crew - led by award-winning producers/directors Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, with whom Kwong has worked on other films - stumbled onto a protest by parents who'd lost their children in school rubble and were marching on the provincial capital to demand answers about the buildings' shoddy construction. Because of China's one child policy, the majority of parents had lost their only child.
Xia, who speaks a local dialect but like Kwong has no family in the area, persuaded the grief-stricken parents to share their stories. Many described how their children, buried under debris, called from their cell phones crying for help. The rescue teams never came, so the parents dug for their children's bodies with bare hands.
"I really felt heartbroken," says Xia. "I often had tears when I was translating the film and screening it."
The parents' stories became the focus of the 38-minute HBO documentary. "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" premiered in the United States on May 7th , four days before the first anniversary of the disaster, and is available on DVD. Xia and Kwong are among the co-producers.
Alpert and O'Neill were denied visas to show the documentary at a film festival in China, but Xia says it was a big hit there even though the government didn't allow it to circulate; people uploaded it online and shared it.
Xia is proud of his work, although he's afraid to go back to China, where he's a faculty member at two universities. His crew members were detained and interrogated for several hours during their nine days there, and he's certain that he's on the regime's radar.
"Our presence was a threat to the Chinese government; this is why they tried to throw us out," he says.
It's not the first time Xia has defied the Chinese regime. At 16, he left Sichuan to study at Shanghai University and then became an assistant professor in the Department of International Politics at Fudan University in Shanghai. He taught courses on western political systems at a time when a democracy movement in China was on the rise.
In 1989, his students took part in pro-democracy demonstrations, and Xia was forced to choose between them and the Communist Party, to which professors were required to belong. His explicit support for his students and his disloyalty to the regime doomed his career. "I was accused as one of the 'black hands' in Chinese propaganda to manipulate and organize students," he says
Xia refused to "confess" his crimes to regain party membership. Instead he took the advice of a U.S. professor he met in Shanghai and left his country to start a new life in America. He arrived at Temple University in 1991 to pursue his Ph.D. in political science and in 1997 joined the faculty at CSI.
"As I stepped on the soil of the U.S., I told myself that I would not turn back," says Xia. "I believe that the U.S. is the best country in the world, and it's my home. I have never regretted my decision to leave China for America. I have never regretted my refusal to make self-criticism. I believe that I sided with the right direction of history. I have confidence that I will see China become democratic in my lifetime."
He wants his students to pay close attention to world affairs and to be able to interpret political events. "I want them to be international: to have a cosmopolitan attitude toward learning and life," says Xia, who is the author of several books on China and is working on one about the Sichuan earthquake as well as a trilogy about China's criminal underworld.


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Steve2009 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 163 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Our business is in the start-up phase and we are looking for fun fresh designs (with a 3D edge maybe) to help us in branding. Our company specializes in fine furniture, antiques and collectibles. We are looking for something classic and modern with a timeless quality.
Chelsea Antiques
We are open to creative ideas that have a fresh and interesting approach to an industry that people often think of as dusty and uptight (i.e. ol' antique shops). We are innovative in our approach and carry a large variety of beautiful objects including: fine furniture, imported glassware, watercolour paintings among many other fine items. Our store is well staged and reflects the fine quality of our treasures - we would like a logo to reflect that quality in a modern way.
- Item 1... classic with a modern twist
- Item 2... logo needs to incorporate the business name
- Item 3... clean and simple design - not cluttered (and are open to 3D options)
- Item 4... logo must be able to be used (and resized) for a variety of mediums including: print, web, business cards, brochures, labeling, advertising and so on
- Item 5... must be an original design, logo and concept
- Item 1...no "grandma's old fashioned" type design or fonts
- Item 2... no London (UK-British) references
- Item 3... no red, gold and/or green colour combinations
- Item 4... no clip art
- Item 5... no furniture or collectibles in the logo
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Returning to the US today. Had a great time at the IWTC. My talk went pretty well, I think, and so I was told. It's a new conference, so attendance was pretty sparse. My talk was fairly specialized, so unless the talk was specially featured, as it was in Croatia, it's going to be a small talk.
Met a great gang of people, including Sean O'Donnell, Clare Dillon, Ana Nelson (no relation), Martha Rotter, Barry Alistair, Joe, Michael Twomey, Anton Manning, Vickie, Jessie, and many people whose names I did not catch.
Had a chance to wander around Dublin before the conference started. Found the conference venue, a Maplin, a martial arts store that had tai-chi sword with a live blade, the spire, the Ha'Penny Bridge, the Millenium bridge, and Trinity College.
Did a LOT of drinking, at least a lot for me. Many a Guiness flowed past my lips. But I didn't over-do it, I think. At least I didn't feel any ill effects.
On the flight back. A detestable 757 with overhead video. Tons of stuck pixels on the LCD. No choice of movie to watch. The person next to me is sucking her thumb. Acceptable in a child. but really creepy in an adult.
I'm working on Gnash full time these days, so I was pimping Gnash at every opportunity. Talked to the Adobe guys about them being more helpful towards us, but of course got no committments. Stuff like that happens at the CTO level. I think I may just use my OSI cajones to wrangle a meeting with the Adobe CTO. What's the point of being on the OSI board if I can't change the world?
Sitting in Andrew Shorten's talk on Adobe's flex. You can write an application using flex that runs inside a flash player, or on the desktop using air. Will have a Linux air player later this year. buzzword uses flash as a word processor. picnik does picture editing. sliderocket does presentations (not yet public).
The command-line compiler is free, bit the IDE is proprietary. Flex can cache the flex class library inside the player. Can use rtmp to push data to the app. air has a SQLite library built in. Cute stuff.


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President Jimmy Carter thank you letter
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To Governor Joe Garrahy
I enjoyed the warm hospitality extended to me today. It was good to see you and Margherite.
I appreciated this opportunity to visit with citizens in Providence, and to be with you for the plenary…
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The Warlord Wants Forever
Author: Kresley Cole
Series: #1 in the Immortals After Dark series
Narrators: Hagan Verret and Simone Fomhar
Run Time: 3hrs and 58 minutes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Nikolai Wroth, once a ruthless human warlord in the 1700s and now a general in the rebel vampire army, needs to find his Bride, the one woman who can render him truly alive. As a turned human, he doesn't enjoy a heartbeat or breaths and is consequently weaker than fully blooded vampires. He wants his Bride for the power she will bring him and can hardly believe it when his heart beats for Myst the Coveted, a mad, fey, mythological creature.
Myst is known throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, part chillingly fierce warrior, part beguiling seductress who can "make you want her even as she's killing you." She has devoted her life to protecting an ancient, powerful jewel and to fighting the vampires, and she now sees a way to torment one—for with Wroth's heartbeat comes consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her.
She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen the jewel which commands her, giving him absolute power over her. While he possesses it, he can make her do anything, and he plans to in order for her to experience first hand the agonizing, unending lust she'd purposely subjected him to for half a decade. Yet when Wroth realizes he wants more from her and frees her, will she come back to him?
So in all honesty, I needed to start another series like a hole in the head…I mean, seriously – 20+ series in progress right now, and I decide to start one that has 12 books currently and more to come…yeah…anyways, I want to say that maybe I read this book a while ago when it was part of an anthology. I know that I have the anthology on the shelf somewhere…but I was blanking on the story itself…enter the audiobooks that are slowly being released. Being as the audiobook was just under 4 hours long – it was perfect to finish out a weeks listening because I started another chunky read.
Anyways…meandering back on to the book…I liked the world that the author developed – there wasn't a whole bunch of fact dropping, but rather just little tidbits of information bit by bit. And I still had some questions left at the end of the book, which I'm hoping are answered in later ones in the series. When it comes to mythology, I am always glad to see new beings making appearances – there are only so many times that the major gods/goddesses' can be written about – so the use of the Harpies was unique – off the top of my head, I can't think of any other books featuring them as primary characters (if you have any ideas, please let me know)…
As for the narration, ummm, yeah, I will be on the look-out for both Hagan Verret and Simone Fomhar in the future. I haven't listened to anything narrated by them before, but I was impressed. I had read a few reviews where the listening didn't really enjoy Hagan's narration – but I enjoyed it. Although, I do have to say, after listening to the next book in the series – Robert Petkoff is as good, if not better. I really liked the range of voices that both of the narrators were able to put into the characters and found them all easily distinguishable. I'm looking forward to reading/listening to the other books in the series.


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Mercedes' new head of motorsport Toto Wolff has played down speculation that he is looking to replace Ross Brawn as team principal.
On Monday Mercedes announced that Wolff had joined the management team alongside Brawn and Niki Lauda and that Wolff would also become a shareholder in the F1 outfit. On Tuesday stories emerged in German publications suggesting Wolff was attempting to poach McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe, with BBC Sport suggesting the McLaren man's arrival could result in current team principal Brawn being pushed out.
However, during a teleconference with British journalists later on Tuesday afternoon, Wolff said he is hoping Brawn stays at the team.
"Ross is there and Ross is part of the leading team and I hope Ross is going to stay," Wolff was quoted as saying by journalist James Allen's website JA on F1. "This is the current situation. If you look at Ross's track record, it's fantastic.
"It would be foolish to talk about replacing anyone… That is speculation in the media, I think I would be aware of that. Ross is there and he is part of the team and I hope Ross is going to stay as long as possible."
Talking about the rumours surrounding Lowe, Wolff said: "Paddy is a recognised person in the paddock, he has been with McLaren for 15 or 20 years. I've read it in the paper, that's all I can tell you. Obviously in F1 there is always a lot of speculation about personalities joining or not joining, but there's nothing I can tell you at this stage."
The BBC Sport story quoted Eddie Jordan as a source, who was also the first to break the news that Lewis Hamilton was heading to Mercedes from McLaren. Jordan suggested that Wolff and Lowe would take over the responsibilities of Brawn and CEO Nick Fry, although a Mercedes spokesperson described the information as "highly speculative".
"Paddy Lowe is going to Mercedes and it would appear that Brawn and Fry are on their way out, and Lowe will be there in a very senior capacity," Jordan said. "Lowe won't be technical director; he'll be more senior than that. But he won't be called team principal either because that will be Wolff. But Lowe will effectively be running the team on a day-to-day basis."


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Accepted Student Days Announced for Spring 2018
Save the dates! Undergraduate Admissions announces dates for Spring Accepted Student Days: March 24 and April 21.
Undergraduate Admissions will once again be hosting two Accepted Student Days in spring 2018: Saturday, March 24, and Saturday, April 21.
As always, the success of these events depends on the participation of faculty, staff, students, and the entire Brockport community. Departments on campus will be contacted early in the spring semester with additional details. If you would like to volunteer, contact your department chair or director. We thank you for your continued participation and support.
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Most of the NFL's emphasis on player safety in recent years has focused on reducing hits to the head. But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said at his State of the League press conference that he's concerned about knees as well.
Specifically, Goodell mentioned that he wants the league to focus on eliminating dangerous low blocks and improving field conditions as it continues to try to eliminate shots to the head.
"The Competition Committee's agenda will include looking at eliminating certain dangerous low blocks; further taking the head out of the game and expanding the standards for the quality of our playing fields," Goodell said.
Field quality became a particular concern after Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Seahawks defensive end Chris Clemons both suffered serious knee injuries on a terrible playing surface at FedEx Field. Low blocks have long been a topic of discussion, especially among defensive players who think the NFL has put all of its focus on protecting the offense. But there was renewed enthusiasm for changing the rules to protect players from low blocks when Texans linebacker Brian Cushing suffered a torn ACL when Jets guard Matt Slauson took him out at the knee. Goodell said the league takes injuries like that seriously.
"In working with our Player Advisory Committee that Ronnie Lott and John Madden chair, we talked about that earlier this year shortly after the Brian Cushing injury. We need to review all of those low blocks," Goodell said.
So hits to the head aren't the only kinds of hits that Goodell wants to reduce.


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European Commission seeks criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation to improve deterrence and market integrity
Brussels, 20 October 2011 – Investors who trade on insider information and manipulate markets by spreading false or misleading information can currently avoid sanctions by taking advantage of differences in law between the 27 EU Member States. Some countries' authorities lack effective sanctioning powers while in others criminal sanctions are not available for certain insider dealing and market manipulation offences. Effective sanctions can have a strong deterrent effect and reinforce the integrity of the EU's financial markets. That is why the European Commisison proposes today EU-wide rules to ensure minimum criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation. For the first time, the Commission is using new powers under the Lisbon Treaty to enforce an EU policy through criminal sanctions. The proposed Directive requires Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure that the criminal offences of insider dealing and market manipulation are subject to criminal sanctions. Member States will also be required to impose criminal sanctions for inciting, aiding and abetting market abuse, as well as for attempts to commit such offences. The Directive complements today's proposal for a Regulation on Market Abuse, which improves the existing EU legislative framework and reinforces administrative sanctions.
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said: "In these times of crisis, it is essential that citizens regain confidence in our markets. This is why, as a complement to effective supervision of the markets, the Commission proposes today to strengthen the enforcement of EU rules against insider trading and market manipulation by means of criminal law. Criminal behaviour should have no place in Europe's financial markets!"
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: "Sanctions for market abuse today are too divergent and lack the necessary deterrent effect. By imposing criminal sanctions for serious market abuse throughout the EU we send a clear message to deter potential offenders – if you commit insider dealing or market manipulation you face jail and a criminal record. These proposals will heighten market integrity, promote investor confidence and level the playing field in the internal market."
Defining criminal offences at EU level
Insider dealing occurs when a person who has price-sensitive inside information trades in related financial instruments. Market manipulation takes place when a person artificially manipulates the prices of financial instruments through practices such as the spreading of false or misleading information and conducting trades in related instruments to profit from this. Together these practices are known as market abuse.
The proposal for a Directive defines the two offences – insider dealing and market manipulation – which should be regarded by Member States as criminal offences if committed intentionally. In line with the scope of the proposed Market Abuse Regulation, transactions for certain purposes are excluded from the scope: buy-backs and stabilisation programmes, monetary policy and debt management activities and activities concerning emission allowances in pursuit of climate policy.
The proposal also requires Member States to criminalise inciting, aiding and abetting insider dealing and market manipulation, as well as attempts at these forms of market abuse. Criminal or non-criminal liability should also be extended to legal persons.
Member States should ensure that criminal sanctions imposed for these offences are effective, proportionate and dissuasive. The proposal includes a review clause requiring the Commission to report to the European Parliament and Council, within four years of the Directive's entry into force, on its application and, if necessary, on the need to review it, in particular with regard to the appropriateness of introducing common minimum rules on types and levels of criminal sanctions. If appropriate, the report shall be accompanied by legislative proposals.
This is the first legislative proposal based on the new Article 83 paragraph 2 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which provides for the adoption of common minimum rules on criminal law when this proves essential to ensure the effective implementation of a harmonised EU policy. Current sanction regimes applied in the Member States for market abuse offences have proven not to be sufficiently effective. They do not always use the same definitions of these crimes and are too divergent, allowing perpetrators to benefit from loopholes.
Today's proposal follows the approach set out in the Commission's Communication "Towards an EU criminal policy – Ensuring the effective implementation of EU policies through criminal law" of 20 September 2011 (see IP/11/1049). This included an assessment, based on clear factual evidence, of the national enforcement regimes in place and the added value of common EU minimum criminal law standards, taking into account the principles of necessity, proportionality and subsidiarity.
Today's proposal is also part of the follow-up to the Commission's Communication on "Reinforcing sanctioning regimes in the financial services sector" of 8 December 2010 (see IP/10/1678). This envisaged the introduction of criminal sanctions for the most serious violations of financial services legislation if and where this would prove essential to ensure the effective implementation of such legislation.
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The proposal now passes to the European Parliament and the Council for negotiation and adoption. Once adopted, Member States will have two years to transpose the Directive into national law.
See also IP/11/1217 and MEMO/11/715
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Develops and maintains the Planning Program's operating budget. The Resources Branch is the primary budget liaison with the program's internal and external partners. The Branch provides analysis and reporting on the Planning Program's budget, allocates resources, tracks and forecasts expenditures, provides advice on proper use of funds, contract management, information technology purchases, and the overall budget management.
Manages technical administrative and business services, including space management, safety compliance, records management, coordinating the annual District Agreements for the program, and providing analysis and guidance on the policies, practices and procedures for the program regarding Title VI and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program.
Provides guidance and manages the overall implementation of the SPR Part I program. The SPR Branch is also responsible for the development and submittal of the SPR Part I Work Program, preparing amendments, monitoring deliverables, cost, and schedules for the proposed activities, and preparing the Year-End report.
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Coordinates research efforts between the Division of Transportation Planning, Division of Transportation System Information, and the Division of Research and Innovation. Transportation research plays a key role in enabling the Department to provide for the efficient, safe, and economically sensitive movement of people and goods in a rapidly changing global economy
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|For the vehicle, see fighter jet.
|This is an overview article which contains background information and cross-game comparisons. For game-specific information and stats, see the articles linked on the right.
Jet is a highly addictive drug first synthesized by Myron. It is extracted from brahmin dung fumes and administered via an inhaler.
When Myron first encountered the Mordinos, they were farming peyote cacti and selling it to tourists as the "Reno Experience." Unfortunately, as Myron explains, peyote trips last too long, and profit is generated by fast turnaround and a high addiction rate. Furthermore, the climate was far too ravaged and irradiated to grow anything but the hardiest of plants. So, Myron began delving into growing mushrooms. Hallucinogens have low overhead and thrive in plentiful brahmin dung. From there, Myron began experimenting with derivatives of lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin and THC. However, the Mordinos still desired something a little harder and more addictive that could aid them in gaining control of Redding. The solution to the problem came from the brahmin fertilizer itself; Myron discovered that the slaves harvesting the drugs were in a constant state of intoxication from inhaling the fumes.
In the pre-War days, big meat companies had experimented with a cheap protein extract for growing food. However, the product had to be abandoned due to contamination from a skin bacterium, which caused it to act like an amphetamine when ingested. By the time this was discovered, tons of the material were irreversibly contaminated, and rather than destroy it, the meat companies fed it to their cattle in an attempt to recoup their losses - these cattle were the ancestors of the post-apocalyptic brahmin.
After exposing slaves to vats of brahmin dung sans the plants they had been cultivating, Myron realized that not only had the intoxicating properties of the protein extract been preserved in brahmin tissues, one did not need to slaughter the brahmin to harvest it - Myron was able to develop a process to refine it from their waste, thus providing the Mordinos with the cheap, addictive and fast-acting drug they had been in search of since they had entered the trade.
About a hundred slaves were killed in initial testing — mostly results of heart attacks, cerebral hemorrhages, and psychotic episodes — but Myron was ultimately successful in producing jet. Thanks to Myron and jet, the Mordino family were able to build their drug empire. Grateful, they supplied their boy-genius with anything he wanted, usually whores and drugs. The Stables research team would further Myron's work, hoping to create a stronger and even more potent version, codenamed jet beta. However, the results were unsuccessful, as they could not quite get the kinks out (e.g., nasal bleeding, hallucinations, heart attacks). But they did increase the duration of its high - from 15 to 60 minutes.
Myron would die less than a year after the Chosen One defeated the Enclave, somewhat ironically stabbed to death by a jet addict while drinking in a bar at the Den. While no one would remember Myron's name - let alone that he had created jet - his creation would live on, even spreading as far as the Capital Wasteland, where Murphy would attempt to produce an even more potent version, named ultrajet, designed for use by ghouls, who are barely affected by standard jet.
Meanwhile, in the Mojave Wasteland, some of the more scientifically enlightened learned about the secrets of ultrajet and sought to make it themselves, and home chemists developed a potent form of jet called rocket. Surprisingly, rocket was one of few drugs that is not known to the Great Khans, who have the drug trade in a stranglehold.
While it is stated that Myron was the first person to create jet, information revealed in later installments of the series now contradict this.
Mrs. Bishop says that she got hooked on jet by John Bishop (before they got married) and for that she got kicked out of Vault City, which would require jet to be much older than Myron is. According to Chris Avellone, what Mrs. Bishop says is a mistake and is not canon.[1] It is more likely that Bishop got her hooked on some other drug. Consistent use of jet would have muddled Mrs. Bishop's perceptions in any case.
In Fallout 3, jet can randomly be found in containers located in sealed Vaults. Although as mentioned, some vaults sent people to trade with nearby settlements, so the jet could have come from outside vendors. Old Lady Palmer from Vault 101 used to lead such explorations, as seen in a file in the Overseer's terminal. However this explanation is very unlikely in vaults where the residents died or were killed by their experiment and the vault remained sealed thus the only remaining explanation for the jet's placement can be attributed to the game's random loot generation.
In Fallout 4, in the Vault-Tec Regional HQ, a pre-War log found on a terminal talks about Psycho and jet being sent to Vault 95 during its construction, nearly 164 years before its invention.[2] In addition, jet can also be found lying beside some pre-War skeletons and within certain book return terminals.
While most characters say it has a near-100% addiction rate, for the Chosen One the rate is only 50% in Fallout 2, only 20% in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, and only 25% in Fallout 4.
This is the most common and basic form of jet, which all other variations are based on.
- For the weak version of jet in Fallout: New Vegas, see: Dixon's jet
This more powerful variant of jet was first seen in the Capital Wasteland, created by a ghoul named Murphy. He created ultrajet by combining jet, Sugar Bombs, and Abraxo cleaner. Later, in the Mojave Wasteland, ultrajet is found being sold by NCR Sergeant Daniel Contreras, the only known source in the entire area. How he obtained it remains a mystery. Ultrajet is also available in the Commonwealth.
Ultrajet is harder to get addicted to than standard jet, but the addiction to it is permanent, should someone abuse it too much.
This variant of jet is currently only known to be present in the Mojave Wasteland. Made by mixing jet with Nuka-Cola and detergent, the product provides a greater energy rush due to the refinement.
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Jet Fuel is a variation of jet which is the result of combining regular jet with flamer fuel. It is currently only known to be present in the Commonwealth.


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When hypocrisy is a good thing
By Selwyn Duke
Many leftist partisans are licking their chops over the revelation that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig solicited sex from a male undercover detective in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. This scandal is reminiscent of that involving Ted Haggard, the disgraced preacher who had relations with a male prostitute. You may remember Haggard, he was the Distraction du Jour the media conjured up right before the 2006 election. I keep my finger on the pulse of our culture and I had never heard of this Haggard fellow. But fixating on this minor story served well the purposes of demonizing the "right" and distracting people from the real issues – always useful during an election cycle.
What is interesting about our time, though, is that these men are castigated not because they have been living an immoral lifestyle but because they have been living an immoral lifestyle without also sanctioning that immoral lifestyle.
Certainly, as far as politicians who toe the left's line go, they can't seem to flaunt their Liberace leanings enough to register on the radar screen. Congressman Barney Frank (D) owned a residence out of which a call-boy operation was being run, and the late Congressman Gerry Studds (D) once spirited a 17-year-old boy off to Spain for a sexual liaison. Studds won re-election until his retirement in 1997, and Frank is still in office, lisping his way to legislative success. Of course, both represent Massachusetts, and there has just got to be something in the water up there.
What interests me, though, are not the obvious double standards, but identifying the correct standards. You see, it's interesting how the Studds and Franks of the world are often cast as superior to the Craigs and Haggards merely because it was they – and not someone else – who thrust open their closets and dumped the contents in the public square. The idea is that it's worse to espouse a standard you cannot live up to than one you can and do live down to; second, it's always implied that an individual's position cannot be credible if he lacks credibility. And such tacks certainly are rhetorically effective.
They're also nonsense.
Let's examine the second point first. Does a virtue cease to be a virtue simply because the vice-ridden espouse it? If a preacher teaches that "Thou shalt do no murder," do we conclude that murder must be a moral act if we discover he is a serial killer? Or, for those on the left, would you assume preserving the environment was unimportant simply because you discovered that an environmentalist – like, oh, let's say, Al Gore or Ted Kennedy – uses far more energy than the average person or preaches wind power but opposes it in his own neighborhood? It's silly. You may as well say you won't believe a mathematician when he tells you that 2+2=4 if you find out he is a bad man.
A position either has merit or it doesn't, either a basis in truth or it doesn't. The rightness of a position is not determined by the righteousness of a politician.
Once this is understood, refutation of the first point is simple. It cannot be said that a person who espouses everything he lives is morally superior to one who doesn't – nor can we say he is inferior – as greater specificity is required; we have to ask what behaviors he engages in and whether or not they would translate into valid positions if advocated publicly. In reality, though, it's seldom very cut-and-dried, for while truth is black and white, people are shades of gray, possessed of both virtue and vice. And our standards should reflect not our virtues and vices, but the virtues we possess and those we should possess.
In other words, it's ideal to have saintly leaders whose lives reflect the highest standards, but what is the next best thing? If a leader is lacking, will we really be better served if he translates his vice into policy than if he merely practices it while advocating the virtue that eludes him?
We would readily understand this if we applied it to other domains. If a teacher lived a decadent lifestyle, would we prefer that he advocated same in the classroom? Would we say, "Well, it's so commendable that he's no hypocrite, that he lives no double life. Why, he possesses the virtue of consistency!"? If a parent cannot stop smoking, is a glutton, is lazy, or has a tendency to tell lies, would it be a good thing for him to sanction this behavior in his children? Should a therapist with a gambling or drinking problem encourage it in his patients?
Moreover, if one did so, it would most likely be part of a rationalization, one that says his darkness is actually light and that he designed so he could feel better about himself. And this brings us to an important point: Such behavior is antithetical to love, as it is selfish. It is directed toward satisfying the emotional needs of the self, not the moral needs of others. We would do well to remember that misery does love company, but true love doesn't spread misery.
Now we come to a very simple principle, one that applies whether your designation is politician, preacher, parent or person. No one is perfect, as we're all bedeviled by frailty, and we all commit our sins. But whatever one's sin may be, there is one greater: Leading others into sin. This is why closets exist, because certain things should be kept in them. There is no nobility in releasing your inner demons when doing so means they will possess your fellow man.
Lest I be misunderstood, my title is somewhat figurative; hypocrisy isn't really a good state, but it can be the lesser of two evils. Sure, we should strive to elect politicians of strong moral fiber and I certainly think we can do better than Larry Craig, Barney Frank and Gerry Studds. But I do know this: I'd rather have a politician propositioning in a bathroom than proposing policy that turns the whole country into a bathroom.
We should, however, also understand what hypocrisy is. It is not saying one thing but doing another; rather, it's saying one thing while intending to do another. In other words, let's say a man has a weakness for drink but seeks to abstain from alcohol and preaches sobriety. Let's then suppose he attends a party, has alcohol waved under his nose, is overcome by temptation and becomes soused. While this isn't good, it also doesn't mean he is a hypocrite. It simply means he is weak.
And this brings us to an important point. Really, we're all weak, in some areas and to some extent. Thus, if we did espouse a standard of perfection – which would be ideal – how could we possibly live up to it? In point of fact, being human, we could only measure up to mortal standards, never godly ones. But just as a musician or athlete strives for perfection knowing all the while it's unachievable, we will fail to fulfill our moral potential unless we shoot for the stars. And would we ever tell an aspiring young athlete or musician that being mediocre was the state to strive for simply to make him feel better about his lack of proficiency or make ourselves feel better about our own? This is why we not only can but must erect a standard of perfection for our fellow man; to do any less does him a disservice. As I said in my piece, Are Christians Hypocrites?,
"It's ironic, but anyone who can truly practice what he preaches isn't practicing anything worth preaching."
There is no doubt about it. If we were limited to espousing only what we could practice consistently, our standards would be cursed with our imperfection, when they should be blessed with the divine reflection.
As for the matter of weakness versus hypocrisy and the Craigs and Haggards of the world, my guess is it isn't that their values are a facade but that their vice is a fall. Whether I'm correct or not, though, I do know one thing for certain, and this I direct toward the open-closet crowd on the left.
They're better than you.
Yes, they might have fallen from grace in a shameful way, hurting their families, party and/or cause. They may be light years away from Heaven and a heartbeat from Hell, but your greatest sin cannot be laid at their feet. That is, such people don't aggressively push libertine values to create latitude for vice. They don't seek to transform their nation into a toxic wasteland just so they can feel (because, above all else, leftists just have to feel good) better about themselves. Their secretiveness is their saving grace, in that they limit their battle to the confines of their minds and souls. Theirs is an internal battle against personal corruption, not an external one for the public variety. They leave the rest of the world unmolested.
So perhaps, just maybe, they're the worst thing they could be: Hypocrites. But they're still better than you.


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A Talk with Patti McGee
"The First Betty" of skateboarding on going pro
By Sky Siljeg
Patti McGee was 19 when she became the first professional female skateboarder in history. I recently got to talk with this sports legend about her career and her groundbreaking decision to go pro.
"I had about two weeks to decide to go pro or not after winning the Woman's Title at the US Nationals in 1965," said Patti.
At that time, to "go pro" meant giving up competing. Patti knew she had to make a living, so she turned pro and said goodbye to competing. Her decision also affected her surfing career. She started surfing in 1958 and worked her way up in the sport.
"I had started out as a surfer, so when there was no surf my friends and I would find a hill to ride. That's how I started skating," Patti said. "That was also about the time they invented parking garages, too. The exits were a challenge not to mention having to watch out for the security guards. Yep, not much has changed for skaters there!"
Patti's surfing would, for a time, take back seat to skating. Her impact as a surfer was not forgotten though. In 2004, Patti was inducted into the Malibu Surf Legends.
"I was the only girl pro at the time . . . the guys that I skated with were great," Patti recalled, as she shared pictures and showed me her board collection. "Skating at the time was all flat ground. We did figure eights, hand stands and 360's."
"I appeared upside down on my board doing a hand stand on the cover of LIFE magazine on May 14th, 1965," she said. "I also got the cover of Skateboarder Magazine. That will always be my pride and joy. It's also another first for girl skaters."
Patty toured for about a year, and then skateboarding's popularity died down for a while. "So my decision to go pro was a good one," she said.
The next phase of her life saw Patti in all kinds of different environments. She spent a few years snow skiing at Lake Tahoe. Then she went into Turquoise mining in Nevada and later worked as a leather smith. For 15 years, Patti ran a southwestern Trading Post in a place called Cave Creek in Arizona. During these years, she raised her son and daughter.
Today, at 61, Patti is currently involved with in a screen-printing business with her daughter, Hailey. The business, First Betty, prints girls skate wear. I also hear that Patti still likes to take her board, a gift from "Deathbox" Dave Hackett, out to the local park and ride.
"A 53-year span in skating, and so many think it is new for the girls," Patty smiled. "Who would have thought it would grow to what it is today?"


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Win a #TravelTuesday Chefs Across The Water #CAW Grand Prize with @Hastings_House @SaltSpringAir and @hummingbird604
If you have followed my blog closely you probably have realized how much I travel writing I do, and how many wonderful events in Canada I promote and highlight. Travel Tuesday is usually one of my favorite days of the week because it usually gives me the chance to write about fantastic travel-focused events that happen in Canada, and especially my home province, British Columbia. One of the destinations I have more proudly highlighted on my travel writings (and where I feel most at home) is Salt Spring Island. Once you reach Salt Spring Island, you are on island time and you really have a chance to relax. And one of my absolute favorite food and wine events happens every year precisely on Salt Spring Island. It's one of those amazing opportunities that you ABSOLUTELY MUST enjoy at least once in your lifetime: Chefs Across The Water. I recently announced on my Twitter stream the dates for Chefs Across The Water 2012, hosted by Hastings House on Salt Spring Island. You can tell how much I loved it that I highlighted Salt Spring Island as one of my top travel experiences and destinations in 2011.
Hastings House Country House Hotel and Dining Room on Salt Spring Island is pleased to announce our guest chef program is returning for 2012 — top BC chefs have been invited to prepare multiple-course dinners in the Hastings House kitchen, incorporating Salt Spring Island's produce, seafood, and meats. Wine pairings featuring BC wines will be offered to complement the extraordinary menus.
Salt Spring Island is a food-lover's paradise, blessed with a mild Mediterranean-like climate and devoted growers and producers renowned for their organic fruits and vegetables, meats, and cheeses. Fresh-caught, wild seafood rounds out nature's local pantry. In recent years, island wineries have further added to the diversity of the local harvest. Diners can look forward to amazing experiences as the celebrated guest chefs each put their own personal spin on Salt Spring Island flavours.
Chefs Across The Water is, without a doubt, one of the premiere wine and food events in the entire province of British Columbia, and certainly would rank up high there in Canada. The 2012 programme sounds simply amazing:
The new guest chef line-up builds on the tradition of connecting British Columbia's fine dining establishments while highlighting the incredible bounty of the region's produce. This year Chefs Across the Water invites distinguished chefs from three Relais & Châteaux luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants to participate in a series of gastronomic island adventures in the months of June, September and October.
Chefs Across the Water participants and dates are as follows:
Chef Nicholas Nutting
The Wickaninnish Inn
Monday, June 11th
Chef Lee Parsons
The Wedgewood Hotel
Monday, September 17th
Chef Terry Pichor
Sonora Resort
Tuesday, October 16th
Each one of the dinners is $100.00 per person, wine pairings $40.00. This is really affordable, even more so if you think about the kind of exclusive and one-of-a-kind experience it is, and each person gets to enjoy a delicious five course dinner prepared with local ingredients by some of the most amazing chefs in the province of British Columbia.
I am super excited to announce that Salt Spring Air and Hastings House have again partenered with me (as they usually do, because they are amazing and they always have been incredibly kind to me) to offer a lucky reader of mine (and a guest of theirs) a Chefs Across The Water 2012 Grand Prize. The Grand Pack elements are as follows:
My Chefs Across The Water/Hastings House/Salt Spring Air Grand Prize package will include two return (Vancouver-Salt Spring Island-Vancouver) seats on the flight to Salt Spring Island that is most appropriate for Chefs Across The Water (June 11th afternoon to return June 12th morning). If you know anything about Salt Spring Air, you'll know that they are absolutely wonderful and that they provide top-notch service (as well as dozens of Twitter deal, you should follow them at @SaltSpringAir). Beyond their fantastic service and amazing customer service quality, another thing that I love about Salt Spring Air is how eager their owner (Phillip) is willing to experiment with social media (check out Salt Spring Air Pinterest, for example). I always have entrusted my travel to and from Salt Spring (and sometimes to Victoria too) to Salt Spring Air.
SaltSpring Air is the islanders' airline. We are a locally owned airline based out of Ganges on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Now offering free parking at Vancouver Airport. We offer scheduled seaplane service between Saltspring Island, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Downtown Vancouver/ Vancouver Harbour, and Maple Bay on Vancouver Island. Saltspring Air also provides seaplane flights to the many Gulf Islands.
Charter flights and scenic sightseeing flights are available to any destination throughout the west coast of British Columbia including Victoria Harbour, Nanaimo Harbour, Tofino, Sunshine Coast, Canada's Southern Gulf Islands and most points reachable by floatplane on Vancouver Island. Our scheduled service serves the following communities; Ganges, Fulford Harbour, Duncan, North Saanich, Pat Bay, Mill Bay, Chemainus, Crofton, Ladysmith, Cowichan, Saturna, Poets Cove and Port Washington of Pender Island, Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island, Miners Bay on Mayne Island, Montague Harbour on Galiano Island, Telegraph Harbour on Thetis Island, Brentwood and Sidney by the Sea.
My Grand Prize Package also includes dinner for two at the June 11th Chefs Across The Water dinner. You REALLY should try, regardless of whether you win (or not) my Grand Prize, to visit Salt Spring Island for Chefs Across The Water. You can read my experience at the August 2011 Chefs Across The Water here. And a couple of photos just to entice your appetite.
Not only do you get to experience the scenic flight over to Salt Spring Island, courtesy of Salt Spring Air, and a fantastic dinner for two in the dining room of Hastings House at Salt Spring, but Hastings House has kindly upped the ante on my Grand Prize and is offering accommodation for two for an overnight stay at the amazing Hastings House. You can read my experiences at Hastings House (which have always been wonderful, both for Chefs Across The Water and for the Salt Spring Island Documentary Film Festival) here. Just a couple of photos of my previous visits to show you how cozy and comfortable the accommodations are.
Hastings House Country House Hotel is a small waterfront luxury country resort, spa and restaurant – sits on 22 acres on the waterfront of Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Enjoy luxury lodging, fine dining, wellness and relaxation in a casually-elegant atmosphere. Explore British Columbia's natural beauty, Salt Spring's mild climate and the warmth and creativity of its people.
The heart of the seaside resort is a magnificent 11th century Sussex-style Manor House overlooking peaceful Ganges Harbour on Salt Spring Island, BC. The Manor House is where guests gather for cocktails and conversation, before dinner. Eighteen unique guest rooms and suites, each with its own décor and history, are situated in seven lovingly maintained buildings around the estate.
So, what do you need to do to enter to win my Chefs Across The Water/Salt Spring Air/Hastings House Grand Prize contest? Well, that is actually pretty easy. You can earn one entry by dropping a comment on this post telling me about your best travel experience in British Columbia. Bonus points if said travel experience has been to Salt Spring Island, or a stay at Hastings House, or flying with Salt Spring Air! I just think it is important to highlight how much of a fantastic travel destination Salt Spring Island is, and while I love all of British Columbia, I think it would be neat if your travel experience had a Salt Spring Island component (this is not mandatory, however!).
If you want to earn a second entry on top of your comment (for a total of two), you can post the following on Twitter:
Shared BC travels w/ @Hummingbird604 http://is.gd/U9nQoH 2 enter 2 win #CAW @saltspringair @hastings_house Chefs Across The Water prize
I will count the second entry (Twitter) only after you drop a comment on this post. I will void entries that just drop a one liner, though. My goal with Grand Prize contests like this is to enrich the experiences of my readers by having my readers share their own travel experiences, so a one liner or a two word phrase just telling me where it was where you travelled and had the most fun doesn't really inform the other contest participants and commenters on the post. Share about the wonders that Salt Spring Island and the province of British Columbia have!
The fine print:
This contest is open to 19 years of age and older. Please drink responsibly if you consume any alcohol during your dinner. Travel to-and-from Vancouver (if you are out of the Metro Vancouver area) is on your own, as the flight will leave downtown Vancouver and drop you off in Ganges, Salt Spring Island.
I will draw a winner from all entries on the second Travel Tuesday of June, June 5th, at 4pm Pacific Standard Time. Good luck everyone, and thanks Salt Spring Air and Hastings House for, as always, partnering with me to offer amazing Grand Prizes to my readers.
Related posts:
- Chefs Across The Water at Hastings House in Salt Spring Island (August 2011)
- Salt Spring Island Cheese (Salt Spring Island, BC)
- Breakfast at Hastings House in Salt Spring Island
- Hastings House Country House Hotel (Salt Spring Island)
- 12th Annual Salt Spring Island Documentary Film Festival


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The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context.
Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, Peter Burger, Jen-Luc Nancy, Edoaurd Glissant, and Felix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Ranciere's influential "Problems and Transformations in Critical Art." The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. And it features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
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Ciara Served With Legal Papers at Los Angeles Concert
R&B songbird Ciara was served with a lawsuit while she was performing at an L.A. Pride concert Saturday (April 8).
TMZ was in Los Angeles to capture the moment when a female process server handed the 'Body Party' singer legal papers. CiCi simply threw the papers back at her like, "Bitch, don't kill my vibe," and continued on with her performance.
Apparently, a Los Angeles gay bar is suing Ciara for allegedly reneging on her contract with the venue.
The owners of the Factory claim that the Atlanta native backed out of her appearance at the last minute, which left them without a major star for their pre-L.A. Pride party. The Factory is seeking damages for loss of profits and monies used to promote her appareance at the venue.
However, a rep for Ciara said the lawsuit is bogus because no contract was ever finalized.
"Despite being notified...that Ciara could not appear, the Factory continued to market and promote Ciara's appearance," said the rep. "The reason for the continued marketing/promotion is unclear, as it is not known why the Factory would intend to continue to mislead the public, to cause damage to the L.A. Gay Pride festival and to attempt to portray Ciara in a negative light."
Attorneys for Ciara had no comment on the matter.


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Effect of Contact Lens With Alginic Acid in Dry Eye Patients
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01918410
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 7, 2013
Last Update Posted : May 20, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|Dry Eyes
|Device: Contact Lens with alginic acid Device: Contact Lens without alginic acid
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Official Title:
|To Evaluate Effect of Contact Lens With Alginic Acid (7 Days) in Patients With Dry Eye
|Study Start Date :
|February 2014
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Active Comparator: Contact Lens with alginic acid
Device: Contact Lens with alginic acid
Worn for 7 days, at least 8 hours a day
|Placebo Comparator: Contact lens without alginic acid
Device: Contact Lens without alginic acid
Worn for 7 days, at least 8 hours a day
- • Difference of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for the ocular discomfort between control and treatment group. [ Time Frame: 7 days ]
A VAS will be applied to evaluate dry eye symptoms as described by Schaumberg et al. (Schaumberg, Gulati et al. 2007). The scores will be recorded separately for frequency and severity of dry eye symptoms. The patient will be asked to check a point on a 100-mm line that corresponds to the degree of the symptom. The location of the mark made by the patient for each question will be measured in mm from the left hand side of the 100 mm line and recorded in mm. For the follow up visits, which measured the distance between the mark made by the patient and the central anchor, a negative value will be recorded if left of the anchor and a positive value if right of the anchor.
A global score will be calculated by multiplying the frequency score by the severity score and taking the square root of the result (to transform back to the original scale).
- Tear lipid layer thickness measurements of LipiView [ Time Frame: 7 days ]During the measurement of each eye, the participants place their chins on a chin rest and look at a single white light source for 30 seconds. During this period, participants are encouraged to blink freely at a comfortable rate which the assessor measures the LLT.
- Schirmers I reading [ Time Frame: 7 days ]
This will be done with the standard strips currently used at SERI (5 mm wide with a notch for folding) (Sno strips, Bausch&Lomb, France) without anaesthetic. The strips will be positioned over the inferior temporal half of the lower lid margin in both eyes at the same time.
The study participant will be asked to close their eyes during the test. Any excessive irritation signs or reflex tearing will be noted. The extent of the wetting in each strip will be recorded after 5 minutes of testing. The strip will be collected and stored in 1.5ml eppendorf tubes at -80˚C until further tear lipid and protein analysis.
- Tear break up time (TBUT) [ Time Frame: 7 days ]Keratograph 5M will be used to perform the non invasive tear break up time. Patient will sit comfortably in front of the instrument and blink freely while fixing on a target directly ahead. Once the patient is ready, patient will be instructed to blink once and refrain from blinking. Keratograph 5M is fully automated and it will capture any break or distortion in the image and the time of the break will be noted. Three readings will be taken for each eye to get the average value.
- Corneal flourescein staining [ Time Frame: 7 days ]Routine anterior segment assessment with a slit lamp microscope will be carried out to evaluate corneal health and clinical signs. Assessment of positive fluorescein staining on cornea and conjunctiva will be assessed. A scoring system will be applied as adapted by Bron A, Evans VE, Smith JA. (2003).The grading scheme depends on the intensity and the area of the staining for each panel with scale from 0 to 5. Briefly, there will be corneal zone and exposed interpalpebral conjunctival regions as shown in Figure 2. The staining increases by 1 log unit for the first 2 panel and ½ unit log for the subsequent 3 panel.
- Tear proteomic analysis [ Time Frame: 7 days ]The strip will be collected and stored in 1.5ml eppendorf tubes at -80˚C until further tear lipid and protein analysis.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age of 21 years old and above and has full legal capacity to volunteer
- Soft contact lens wearer
- Willing to wear study lenses for at least 8 hours/day for 7 days
- Reports dryness symptoms with contact lens wear on questionnaire.
- Schirmers I with no aneasthesia of less than 10mm
- Is willing and able to follow instructions and maintain the appointment schedule
- Vision correctable to 6/9 (Snellen) or better in each eye at distance with study lenses at baseline
- Has a contact lens prescription between +4.00 to -6.00D with astigmatism <=-1.00
Exclusion Criteria:
- Requires concurrent ocular medication
- Is participating in any concurrent clinical or research study
- Has used Restasis® in the last 3 months
- Wears punctal plugs fitted in the last 1 month
- Any systemic illness which would contraindicate lens wear
- Diabetic
- Has had an eye injury or surgery within the last 3 months
- Keratoconus or other corneal irregularity
- Has had ocular surgery done within the previous 3 months
- Active ocular surface conditions such as infection or pterygium that may affect tear film stability.
- Is pregnant, lactating or planning a pregnancy
- Any other specified reason as determined by clinical investigator.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01918410
|Singapore National Eye Centre/ Singapore Eye Research Institute
|Singapore, Singapore, 168751
|Responsible Party:
|Louis Tong, Clinician-Scientist, Senior Consultant, Singapore National Eye Centre
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01918410 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|August 7, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 20, 2015
|Last Verified:
|June 2014
Keywords provided by Louis Tong, Singapore National Eye Centre:
contact lens
dry eyes
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca
Dry Eye Syndromes
Conjunctival Diseases
Eye Diseases
Corneal Diseases
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Mark Buehrle, however, presented another challenge.
A four-run fifth inning wiped out the cushion the offense provided Buehrle, who got knocked out in the sixth for the second consecutive time in a 10-7 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
Against an Angels without longtime Sox nemesis Chone Figgins and Howie Kendrick because of injuries, Buehrle surrendered 10 hits. The biggest blow was a three-run home run by Vladimir Guerrero in the fifth, marking Guerrero's first home run since April 21.
"A couple hits here and there, but they're still hits," said Guillen, who wasn't concerned about Buehrle's latest rut.
Buehrle has been haunted by big rallies in four of his eight starts.
He allowed seven runs in the second inning to Cleveland on Opening Day, and he surrendered three runs after two outs and no one on in the second inning of an April 19 loss at Tampa Bay.
Buehrle was coming off a loss to Minnesota on Wednesday in which he was tagged for five runs in the sixth and took out his frustrations on a dugout heater with a bat.
Although light rain fell Monday morning throughout most of Los Angeles and Orange County, no dugout heaters were necessary as the Sox had more pressing matters.
Buehrle's ERA swelled to 5.81, and he hasn't won since his second start, in Detroit on April 6.
Making matters worse, he was staked to a three-run lead in the second and held a 4-2 lead entering the fourth after not receiving any run support in his two previous starts against the Blue Jays and Twins.
Buehrle's ERA against the Angels is 6.23 in four starts dating back to 2007.
"Take one pitch away (to Guerrero), and we win this game," Buehrle said.
His failures stunted the momentum built by the offense, which immediately distanced itself from Sunday's 6-3 loss at Seattle in which they stranded 13 runners and were 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position.
They scored three runs in the second against Nick Adenhart, 21, the youngest player in the American League who could be optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake as the Angels need to make room for staff ace John Lackey, who will come off the disabled list to pitch Wednesday night.
Although the Sox didn't sting the ball, they produced three runs on Joe Crede's infield hit and Juan Uribe's two-run, broken-bat single.
After Buehrle surrendered two runs in the second, the Sox add a run with two out in the fourth on Nick Swisher's double and Crede's single for a 4-2 lead off Adenhart, who was pulled after 52/3 innings.
The Sox mounted a rally in the eighth off reliever Chris Bootcheck. After staring at a heckler, A.J. Pierzynski ripped his second double of the game to score Jermaine Dye, and Alexei Ramirez delivered an RBI single to close the deficit to 10-6 and knock out Bootcheck.
Pablo Ozuna's RBI groundout in the ninth made it 10-7, but Francisco Rodriguez struck out Pierzynski with two runners aboard to end the game.
The Sox's five through nine batters reached base 15 times through the first eight innings, compared to the top of the order, which reached base once.


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Vaso Cubrilovic
Bosnian Assassin, second of a seven man team to murder Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Archduke Ferdinand & Wife Assassinated 1914-06-28
In a chain of events leading up to World War I the Archduke and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Princip was just one of a seven man team set to murder the Archduke. The assassins had prior knowledge of the street path the automobile was driving through and were lined up along side each waiting for their chance to kill the Archduke.
Princip was just one of a seven man team set to murder the Archduke. The assassins had prior knowledge of the street path the automobile was driving through and were lined up along side each waiting for their chance to kill the Archduke.
- Mehmed Mehmedbasic - failed to murder the Archduke because a police man was too close to him while he waited, and was afraid that if he failed his attempt the other assassins would not get a chance to carry out the deed. Mehmedbasic was the only assassin able to escape.
- Vaso Cubrilovic - failed to murder the Archduke because he was afraid that he may injure or kill the Archduke's wife. He lived through his prison sentence and became a historian.
- Nedelko Cabrinovic - a friend of Princip who invited him into the murder plot. He threw a bomb, but hit the wrong car which injured a few people. He failed to kill him self by drinking poison, and he later died in prison from Tuberculosis.
- Cvetko Popovic - did nothing in the plot claiming he could not see the car because he was near-sighted. He survived a prison sentence and became a school principal
- Danilo Ilic - master mind of the assassination plot. he had connections to the Black Hand secret society, and the exile community. He had no weapon, but he was the one that supplied the others with gun's and bombs. He was executed.
- Trifko Grabez - did nothing fearing he may hurt an innocent by-standard, or get his friend standing next to him unjustly arrested. He died in prison.
- Gavrilo Princip - Hearing the bomb going off that was thrown by Cabrinovic and assumed that the assassination was complete. The motorcade had already passed by when he realised what had happened. For some reason the motorcade came back to a place where Princip was standing on a corner, the car backed-up to turn down the same corner Princip was standing and this is when he fired two shots - one killing the Archduke, the second killing his wife. Princip failed trying to shoot him self, and in swallowing a a poison pill. He died in prison. Princip also had ties to the Black Hand and its leader Dragutin Dimitrijevic aka Apis


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Online images of World Heritage sites, an outdoor exhibit and a new book project are among the most recent developments of the partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Our Place, the World's Heritage Ltd, launched in July 2006.
Our Place is the first collection of World Heritage photographs developed in partnership with the World Heritage Centre. It includes photos of more than 200 World Heritage sites so far, and continues to grow. Recent photographic work was undertaken at sites in Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan and Zimbabwe. These high-quality photos can be viewed on the Our Place website or the relevant World Heritage sites' pages on this website.
As part of a series of events held in conjunction with the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee, the Canadian Government with the assistance of provincial and municipal partners has decided to prepare and host an outdoor exhibition called "Six Billion People, One Common Heritage". More than 20 large photographs of heritage sites from around the world, primarily from the Our Place World Heritage Collection, will be presented outside the Québec City Convention Centre, Quebec City, Canada throughout the 32nd session taking place from 2 to 10 July. The exhibition will then be displayed at the Esplanade Park located in front of the Canadian Quebec National Assembly and at the entrance of the Historic District of Old Québec until the end of September. The Quebec Field Unit of Parks Canada intends to display the exhibit at different locations of Quebec City in coming years to provide greater awareness of World Heritage Sites to Canadians and the millions of visitors who come to the city each year.
The first of a series of books on a selection of World Heritage sites, "Places of Wonder and Discovery", is under preparation and planned for publication in the autumn of 2008. It is now available through the Our Place website www.ourplaceworldheritage.com


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For the last three years I've been producing and selling an annual photo calendar.
The first year I made a very limited number as the calendars were intended just for family and close friends. But then friends of theirs learned about it, and requests started coming in from folks I'd never met.
If you check this space even semi-frequently you're already familiar with the kinds of photos that fill the calendar--people recreating in beautiful places. The samples within this post are among the 86 images that fill this year's edition.
Quick math with the above digits will tell you that you're getting roughly 7 images per month, plus a front and back cover shot.
The images are organized seasonally, so you get winter shots in winter and summer, well--you get the idea.
Each calendar is 10" x 13", spiral bound, contains 12 months (which is roughly equivalent to a year--at least where I live), and is printed with enviro-geek inks on a very high quality recycled paper.
Each year I've dug a little deeper in an effort to keep the pricing reasonable. And each year I've found that a quality product costs substantially more than the alternative.
So you can easily pick up any old calendar for fewer sheckels. The tradeoff is that it will probably be printed overseas with gnarly inks, on non-recycled paper, and will contain far fewer (and lower quality) images than mine.
I think most that have seen or owned one of my calendars would agree that you'll have a difficult time finding a nicer product.
Price is $37 per, and that includes shipping.
I'll accept orders until December 10th.
Once ordering is closed, this page will be removed and that'll be it--no more 'til next year.
Want one? Two? More?
Here's what you need to do.
1) Log in to your PayPal account.
2) Verify that your ship-to address is current.
3) Send a payment for $37 per to firstname.lastname@example.com
4) Receive an email confirmation from me within a day or so.
5) Start expecting your calendar to arrive around Christmas.
The fine print: I will ship via USPS only, and to US addresses only. The past few years I have shipped calendars to Canada, Oz, the EU, even South Africa. The resultant hassles with customs (before and after shipping) make it not remotely worth my while to do so any longer. Truly sorry 'bout that.
I'll amend/update this page if I've somehow omitted any pertinent info.
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Tommy Lee Jones inducted into Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
2 actors inducted into Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
FORT WORTH — Better known for portraying on-screen cowboys, Tommy Lee Jones and Barry Corbin were among six people inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame on Thursday night.
"By God, y'all are cowboys too," Gov. Rick Perry told the actors as the crowd of about 600 laughed.
Jones, an eighth-generation Texan who raises cattle and polo ponies on his 3,000-acre ranch, said he had won many awards but had never felt they were about him.
"This might be the first time that I've taken an award personally," Jones said. "This is the first time in all my long years of award-winning that I wish my granddad could be here."
Jones, 62, won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in 1993's The Fugitive. His other awards include an Emmy for the 1982 made-for-TV movie The Executioner's Song. His films include Coal Miner's Daughter, JFK, Batman Forever and Men in Black.
Corbin, a Lamesa native who now lives and ranches in Fort Worth, was getting the 2009 Rick Smith Spirit of Texas Award.
Corbin, 68, was nominated for an Emmy twice for his work on the early 1990s TV series Northern Exposure role and has appeared in numerous TV series, including Dallas, Reba, The Closer and One Tree Hill. Corbin's films include Urban Cowboy and WarGames.
"An award like this is a once-in-a lifetime deal because it is recognition from my people," Corbin said. "A lot of these awards are for saying lines good."
Both Jones and Corbin were in the 2007 best-picture Oscar winner No Country for Old Men and In the Valley of Elah, as well as the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove.
The other 2009 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees: Tyler Magnus, a nine-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier and former winner in team roping who stars in his own TV show; Rope Myers, a former Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world champion steer wrestler; Ken Welch, a former champion saddle bronc rider; and the late Jim Bob Altizer, a former Rodeo Cowboy Association calf-roping champion and Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and National Cowboy Hall of Fame member.


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Pacman Jones Arrested for Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest
While players remain locked out by NFL owners, Adam "Pacman" Jones spent part of the weekend on lockdown.
The Cincinnati Bengals cornerback, whose well-documented legal troubles have resulted in league suspensions and criminal charges, was arrested Saturday night for disorderly conduct while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
According to WKRC-TV, Jones was repeatedly asked to leave a bar in Cincinnati for rowdy behavior and when police arrived, he resisted attempts to arrest him.
The 27-year-old veteran denied the allegations during an interview with WCPO-TV after he was released from jail Sunday morning.
Jones appeared in five games last season after signing a two-year deal with the Bengals in May 2010.


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How To Know When You Are Circling The Drain Of Social Relevancy
If above is a picture of your motorized scooter, you are circlng.
If you feel the need to dress up before going to a high falutin' store like Walmart, you are circling.
If you take and appreciate fashion advice from your MIL, you are circling.
If your big night out on the town means you'll be asleep by 10 pm, you are circling.
If you give a speech on Global Warming in New York on the coldest day in decades during an exceptionally brutally cold winter, you are circling.
If you buy your lingerie at Odd Lots, You my dear are circling.
If you have convinced yourself that it is okay to wear black socks with sandals, you are circling.
If you have never actually met any of your friends, you are circling.
If you still wear your PJ's in public(and are over age 17), thinking you look hip and stylish enough to go to the Walmart, you are circling.
If you sport a Ralph Nadar yard sign in the lawn, you are circling.
If you are Michael Moore, you are circling.
And finally the number one red flag that you are circling the drain of social relevancy ...........Drum roll please..................................:
If you enjoy funerals because they are the best cocktail parties you get invited to, you dear are circling.
I myself, fall into the guilty catagory on one of these. Can you guess which one? Are you circling?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Public Service Anouncement
9 comments:
- Cheffie-Mom said...
How funny! I know you don't buy lingerie at Odd Lots- from a previous post. LOL! I'm guessing that is your motorized scooter! Just kidding! LOL!
- September 22, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- terri said...
I'm guessing you (like me) fall into this category most weekends:
If your big night out on the town means you'll be asleep by 10 pm, you are circling.
I went to have beers with the neighbors on Saturday. I went in when I was tired. Looked at the clock. 10 pm. I suck.
- September 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- Mike said...
I agree, its the 10 p.m. curfew for you. I don't have the energy to stay beyond the evening news...
- September 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Tom said...
We've already completed the circle and am actively in the pipes. Why fight it. Technically, where we are is basically a new sort of social relevancy, just not a very happy one.
- September 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Darrin said...
Oh thank GAWD I'm not circling. Although.. I'm fighting on a couple of these. (especially the 10:00 pm one)
- September 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM
- Mrs4444 said...
Hm...I'm guessing I'm circling, given that men still check me out, but it only takes the young ones (under 35 or so) a millisecond to move on. Ouch. On the other hand, I still give dirty old men a thrill...sad.
- September 22, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- Jenny said...
Ok........I didn't even read this post because I'm in a hurry and I have to go shower because I stink. BUT. I am going to find something to giveaway every month so I can read your comments and laugh at stories about potato dolls. :)
I'll be back to actually soak in the wonderfullness that is you.
- September 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM
- Melissa said...
Uh oh, I think I just found out I'm circling. Cripes!
I just followed Melisa over here. Looks like I'm going to have to work on a trade soon!
- September 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Michelle said...
I knew I shouldn't have come. I saw Melissa's post on the tradeup and you and the Chicago suburban thing and ... I decided to check you out. And now I'm hooked, dagnabit. I don't have time to read more blogs! Could you just be a little less funny, please?
- September 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM