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Which rounds will be up top vs down under? I don't know about everyone else, but I feel like the top divisions (MPO, MPM, MA1) would definitely prefer to play Down-Under 1st, and finish up top.Also, I feel like we had this exact discussion last year.


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- Canon T2i
- Ikelite housing
- 8 inch dome
- Tokina 11-16mm 2.8
- Equinox Red Filter
Now for my question. If you take a look at the red filter that I am using, in the description on B&H it states that it will work in "up to 70ft of water." So what happens to your colors after you pass 70ft? I am not using a light, so I am wondering if I should just shoot the Duane without this red filter and without a light. I mean, what are my options? And what is the smartest way to go?
I've been shooting on the shallow reefs of Key Largo, and I must say the red filter (with no lights) does do the job well, giving me nice color. I just don't have any experience shooting in the depths below 70ft. And I really want to know why this filter says it's only good for 70ft...
Thanks for any help.
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Fox continues to attack unemployment insurance
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Fox & Friends continued to attack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement that unemployment insurance stimulates the economy and advanced the false claim that unemployment insurance is a disincentive for people to look for jobs. In fact, economists agree that extending unemployment insurance has a strong stimulative effect on GDP and employment and does not discourage recipients from seeking jobs during a recession.
Fox & Friends continues to attack unemployment benefits as nonstimulative and discouraging job hunting
Fox hosts guest to deny that "unemployment check[s] creates jobs." On the July 15 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade hosted Partnership Staffing Inc. CEO Bill Auchmoody, who claimed that unemployment benefits prevent unemployed workers from searching for jobs. During the segment, Kilmeade played Pelosi's comments and asked Auchmoody to comment. Auchmoody stated: "I don't know how an unemployment check creates jobs. You know, businesses create jobs. The economy and the government getting out of the way, in my opinion, helps create jobs."
Kilmeade: "Maybe" eliminating "unemployment benefits will get people to sober up" and get jobs. Referencing Senate Republicans who have blocked extending unemployment benefits, Kilmeade concluded the interview by telling Auchmoody that "maybe" the elimination of "unemployment benefits will get people to sober up and take some of your offers."
Economists agree unemployment benefits not a disincentive to search for work during economic downturn
Krugman: Charge that extending benefits makes unemployment worse during a recession is "dead wrong." In a July 4 op-ed, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that some "honestly misinformed" people "who believe, for example ... that extending benefits would make unemployment worse" hold a belief that is "dead wrong." Krugman explains that although "it's a real effect when the economy is doing well ... it's an effect that is completely irrelevant to our current situation" because there are fewer available jobs. According to Krugman:
When the economy is booming, and lack of sufficient willing workers is limiting growth, generous unemployment benefits may keep employment lower than it would have been otherwise. But as you may have noticed, right now the economy isn't booming -- again, there are five unemployed workers for every job opening. Cutting off benefits to the unemployed will make them even more desperate for work -- but they can't take jobs that aren't there.
Labor economist Lawrence Katz says possibility of unemployment benefits extending joblessness isn't currently a concern due to the scarcity of jobs. In an August 2009 New York Times article, Harvard labor economist Lawrence Katz said that the claim that unemployment benefits prolong unemployment "should not be a concern now because jobs remain so scarce." From the Times article:
Traditionally, many economists have been leery of prolonged unemployment benefits because they can reduce the incentive to seek work. But that should not be a concern now because jobs remain so scarce, said Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard.
For every job that becomes available, about six people are looking, Dr. Katz said. "Unemployment insurance gives income to families who are really suffering and can't find work even if they are hustling to look," he said.
With the economy still listing, he added, a temporary extension can provide a quick fiscal stimulus. And, Dr. Katz said, when people exhaust unemployment and health insurance, many end up applying for disability benefits, which become a large, unending drain on the Treasury.
MarketWatch chief economist Irwin Kellner: "[T]here are now more than five applicants for every job. Clearly, this is not caused by more benefit checks." In a July 13 MarketWatch op-ed, chief economist Irwin Kellner wrote:
To the extent that duration of unemployment and benefit checks move together, it is a spurious correlation, like electric motors and school grades. Both may appear to correlate, but in actuality they are related to something else.
In the case of the duration of unemployment and number of benefit checks, both are really determined by the lousy economy!
Specifically, I am referring to the after-effects of the bursting of the housing bubble, the financial crisis and technological change, which resulted in the worst recession in 70 years and the highest overall jobless rate since the 1930s.
As a consequence there are now more than five applicants for every job. Clearly, this is not caused by more benefit checks.
Washington Post: Unemployment benefits are "probably not discouraging many people from accepting available work," because in "reality ... jobs [are] scarce." A July 13 Washington Post editorial also pointed out that low job openings make the argument that unemployment benefits keep workers from finding jobs irrelevant: "In theory, longer periods for drawing benefits reduce recipients' incentives to find work. In the current reality, with jobs scarce and unemployment benefits hardly lavish, the program is probably not discouraging many people from accepting available work."
Alan Greenspan: "When you're in a period of job weakness ... then obviously you want to be temporarily generous." In 2003, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said to the Joint Economic Committee:
Unemployment insurance is essentially restrictive because it's been our perception that we don't want to create incentives for people not to take jobs. But when you're in a period of job weakness, where it is not a choice on the part of people whether they're employed or unemployed, then obviously you want to be temporarily generous. We ought to be temporarily generous.
And I think that's what we have done in the past and it has worked well.
I think that because it is stringent in normal periods, that one should recognize that people who lose jobs not because they did anything and can't find new ones, you have a different form of problem, which means that you have to allow the unemployment system to be much broader and, indeed, that's what we need to do.
Economists agree that unemployment insurance has strong stimulative effect on GDP, employment
Krugman: "Aid to the unemployed creates jobs quickly." In his July 4 op-ed, Krugman wrote:
One main reason there aren't enough jobs right now is weak consumer demand. Helping the unemployed, by putting money in the pockets of people who badly need it, helps support consumer spending. That's why the Congressional Budget Office rates aid to the unemployed as a highly cost-effective form of economic stimulus. And unlike, say, large infrastructure projects, aid to the unemployed creates jobs quickly -- while allowing that aid to lapse, which is what is happening right now, is a recipe for even weaker job growth, not in the distant future but over the next few months.
CBO scores "increasing aid to the unemployed" as the highest-scoring policy proposal to stimulate economy. In a January 14 report on "Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011," the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) stated:
Policies that could be implemented relatively quickly or targeted toward people whose consumption tends to be restricted by their income, such as reducing payroll taxes for firms that increase payroll or increasing aid to the unemployed, would have the largest effects on output and employment per dollar of budgetary cost in 2010 and 2011.
According to a table in the report, CBO estimated that increasing aid to the unemployed would have the greatest effects on GDP per dollar of budgetary cost and the second highest cumulative effect on employment of the policy options considered.
Elmendorf: Policies such as unemployment insurance "have a significant impact on GDP." In January 2009, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf testified:
Transfers to persons (for example, unemployment insurance and nutrition assistance) would also have a significant impact on GDP. Because a large amount of such spending can occur quickly, transfers would have a significant impact on GDP by early 2010. Transfers also include refundable tax credits, which have an impact similar to that of a temporary tax cut.
A dollar's worth of a temporary tax cut would have a smaller effect on GDP than a dollar's worth of direct purchases or transfers, because a significant share of the tax cut would probably be saved. The nonbusiness tax cuts in H.R. 1 would reduce revenues much more in calendar year 2010 than in calendar year 2009 because much of the reduction in taxes would be realized by households when they filed their returns in 2010.
Zandi estimated that extending unemployment insurance benefits provides significant stimulus. In his July 24, 2008, House testimony, Mark Zandi, Moody's Economy.com chief economist and a former adviser to John McCain, rated "Fiscal Economic Bank for the Buck," defined as "One year $ change in real GDP for a given $ reduction in federal tax revenue or increase in spending." "Extending UI Benefits" was the second-highest of 13 policy options, behind "Temporary Increase in Food Stamps." The Economic Policy Institute created the following graphic based on Zandi's figures:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: "The money gets spent fast and its effects spread through the economy." From an April 16 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities document:
Temporary increases in unemployment insurance benefits score high in "bang-for-the-buck" calculations of their economic impact as stimulus. The money gets spent fast and its effects spread through the economy. As a result of such policies, local businesses are less apt to lay off workers and cut back on orders from their suppliers during a downturn; and in the early stages of a recovery, they are more apt to hire additional workers and step up their orders. Policymakers have always ended these emergency UI benefits once a strong and sustainable economic recovery is underway.
Joseph Stiglitz: Stimulus "should begin by strengthening the unemployment insurance system." In a January 23, 2008, op-ed, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz wrote that "America's economy is headed for a major slowdown" and that "[t]he country needs stimulus." Proceeding to describe the "optimal package," Stiglitz recommended: "We should begin by strengthening the unemployment insurance system, because money received by the unemployed would be spent immediately."
Blinder: "Extending unemployment benefits is one of the best forms of stimulus we know." On July 2, NPR reported that former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and Clinton economic adviser Alan Blinder "supports the effort to extend expiring unemployment benefits." NPR quoted Blinder as saying: "Extending unemployment benefits is one of the best forms of stimulus we know."
Martire: Stimulus from unemployment benefits "greater than any other fiscal action government can take." In a June 30 piece in the State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability Executive Director Ralph Martire wrote:
As for the contention that extending UI encourages people to avoid finding jobs so they can stay on the public dole -- well, it's just plain goofy. In May 2010, the private sector created only 41,000 jobs. That's 72,000 less than what's needed to keep up with the demand generated by natural work-force growth, much less creating the positions needed for the unemployed to find work. No one's thumbing a nose at getting hired to live in luxury eating government cheese -- there simply are no private sector jobs available.
Perhaps the hawks have forgotten that consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation's economy. The best consumers are low- and middle-income folks, who don't earn enough to save, so they spend their paychecks. That is, when they have paychecks. See, if they've lost their jobs and the private sector isn't creating jobs and the feds cut off unemployment benefits, their ability to spend drops to, well, nil. Which is why the amount of private sector economic activity stimulated by unemployment benefits is greater than any other fiscal action government can take. In fact, dollar-for-dollar, it's five times more stimulative than the Bush tax cuts.
Sure, the long-term deficit has to be dealt with -- but honestly and responsibly. Short-term, deficit spending -- particularly on things like unemployment insurance, food stamps, housing assistance and the like -- is creating jobs and saving the U.S. economy from disaster.
EPI's Mishel explains why unemployment insurance is "such good stimulus." In a June 10 hearing before the House Ways and Means Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee, the Economic Policy Institute's Lawrence Mishel testifed:
As I have explained, the only real option for increasing economic activity and consumer demand for goods and services is federal government intervention in the economy, specifically through more deficit spending. The safety net programs are a vital part of this picture.
The reason extending unemployment insurance is such good stimulus is that it gets money to people who are the most likely to have depleted their savings and thus tend to have no choice but to quickly spend essentially every dollar they receive on necessities found in their local economy. In other words, virtually every dollar spent on extending unemployment insurance benefits goes directly, and immediately, toward the purchase of local goods and services, providing an extremely efficient demand boost. Not only is extending and expanding UI benefits the right thing to do for the people hurt most by this economic downturn, it is also excellent economic policy.
CEPR's Schmitt: Unemployment insurance helps "sustain a community." In an April 28 article, McClatchy Newspapers reported:
And allowing workers to fall off the unemployment insurance rolls can have negative ripple effects, said John Schmitt, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
"It hits individuals hard, but it also hits their communities, and more broadly the country," Schmitt said. "Having unemployment insurance benefits can help sustain a community through a very difficult time."
Fox correspondent agreed with Pelosi that in economic downturn, unemployment insurance "is a job creator"
Garrett: Unemployment insurance is "a job creator when there are no other job creators out there." In a July 2 segment on Fox & Friends, guest co-host Alisyn Camerota asked Fox News senior White House correspondent Major Garrett, "[Pelosi]'s basically saying it injects cash into the economy. That is true. But it's a job creator?" Garrett responded:
GARRETT: It's a job creator when there are no other job creators out there. ... When you have a climate where pervasive attitude among potential job hirers, meaning employers, is that we're just going to hold pat, then you really have nothing else to do to fuel the economy other than provide stimulus. And if you give cash to unemployed workers, at least that's cash they can spend in their local economy. So from that limited perspective, if you have no other alternatives and no one is hiring, or hiring is very, very low or slack, then unemployment benefits do provide ready cash at the local merchants to keep those businesses afloat.
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Jarryd Hayne In Hot Water Over Alleged Bikie Video
Jarryd Hayne is to be investigated by the NRL's integrity unit after being filmed handing an accused Hells Angels bikie enforcer a $5000 wad of cash.
News Corp Australia has obtained footage of the Gold Coast star joy-riding around the glitter strip with bikie and former Titans under-20 player Chris Bloomfield after his side's finals loss to Brisbane on Friday night.
NRL launch investigation after @JarrydHayne filmed allegedly giving $5000 to accused bikiehttps://t.co/Xq1R4M4o6t pic.twitter.com/1ozajC1GMR— 7News Yahoo7 (@Y7News) September 12, 2016
"Haynsey just gave me five grand," the alleged bikie standover man says grinning to the camera while holding up a giant wad of cash.
Hayne responds by shrugging his shoulders and saying: "Cash money fam, cash money. Give me a f ... ing cigarette."
The Titans have confirmed they have been in contact with the NRL's integrity unit over the footage, which also includes St George Illawarra-bound winger Nene MacDonald.
"The Gold Coast Titans and the NRL Integrity Unit have been made aware of a video that is circulating which features Titans player Jarryd Hayne and briefly Nene Macdonald," the club said in a statement on Tuesday.
"We are liaising with the Integrity Unit and the players over the matter and have no further comment until those discussions are completed."
NRL sources reportedly confirmed Hayne has been previously warned by the Integrity Unit about associating with known and accused criminals.
Bloomfield is facing extortion charges at Southport Magistrate Court and said to be a Hells Angels bikie according to detectives from Queensland's Taskforce Maxima.
The images come after the NRL has repeatedly warned players this year not to consort with bikies and known and accused criminals.
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Tribe adds four Minor Leaguers to 40-man roster
On Tuesday's deadline day, the Indians chose not to take any chances with four of their Minor League players: Chen-Chang Lee, Trey Haley, T.J. House and Tim Fedroff. The Tribe added that group to the club's 40-man roster, removing them from the pool of players teams can draw from during the upcoming Rule 5 Draft.
Cleveland purchased the contracts of Lee and Fedroff from Triple-A Columbus and did the same for Haley and House from Double-A Akron. To clear room on the roster, the Indians sent first baseman Matt LaPorta and utility man Brent Lillibridge outright to Columbus, and designated right-hander Fabio Martinez for assignment. Cleveland's 40-man roster is currently at capacity.
LaPorta, who is out of Minor League options, can't refuse the assignment since this is the first time in his career he has been outrighted. Lillibridge has the right to decline the assignment in favor of electing to become a free agent.
The Rule 5 Draft is scheduled to take place on Dec. 6 during the final day of this year's Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn. Selecting a player in the Major League phase of the Draft costs $50,000, and the player must remain on the acquiring team's 25-man roster for the entire regular season. If the club wants to remove him from their roster, he must be offered back to his original team for $25,000.
There are two types of non-roster players who are eligible for Rule 5 selection: those with at least five years of Minor League experience who were 18 years old or younger when they signed, or those with at least four years of Minor League experience who were 19 years old or older when signed.
The 26-year-old Lee missed most of the 2012 season due to a right elbow injury which required Tommy John surgery. Despite missing time with the injury, he was considered nearly Major League ready. With a low arm angle, a fastball that has been clocked around 92-96 mph and a strong slider, Lee was viewed as a realistic option for the Indians' bullpen prior to his injury.
Lee might not be deemed ready for game action until late May or early June, but he could be stashed away on the 60-day disabled list while rehabbing, if he were selected by another team. Cleveland could take the same approach, while keeping a valuable relief prospect in its system.
Last year, Lee joined the Indians in big league camp for Spring Training and then posted a 2.57 ERA with eight strikeouts and one walk over seven innings with Triple-A Columbus prior to his injury. In 2011, when Lee was Cleveland's Minor League pitcher of the year, the right-hander went 6-1 with a 2.40 ERA and 99 strikeouts in 71 1/3 innings between Double-A Akron and Triple-A.
Haley, 22, is viewed as one of the most promising young arms within Cleveland's system and he could figure into the big league bullpen picture at some point during the 2013 season. Haley spent time in Class A last season, but Cody Allen's rise from Class A to the Majors last year showed Cleveland's willingness to reward performance with rapid ascension.
In 25 games between Rookie League Arizona, Class A (high) Carolina and Double-A Akron, the right-handed Haley went 4-1 with a 2.33 ERA. Haley, who missed roughly two months due to a sports hernia procedure, piled up 49 strikeouts against 19 walks in 38 2/3 innings. His fastball can hit triple digits and he also features a curveball and sinker.
The 23-year-old House went 10-5 with a 3.56 ERA across 27 starts between stints with Class A Carolina and Double-A Akron last season. Over 149 1/3 innings, the lefty struck out 116 batters and issued 50 walks.
Had Fedroff, 25, been on the 40-man roster last season, he might have made his big league debut down the stretch for the Indians. If the young outfielder's performance in 2013 is similar to last year's showing, that step in his career could come at some point this summer.
Last season, Fedroff hit a combined .316 with an .879 OPS in 123 games between Double-A Akron and Triple-A Columbus. The center fielder churned out 12 home runs, 23 doubles, 10 triples, 14 stolen bases, 54 RBIs and 79 runs in the process.
Fedroff's production was consistent at both levels, too. In 54 games at Double-A, the lefty-swinging Fedroff hit .305 with an .839 OPS. In his 69 games with Columbus, he increased his pace, posting a .325 average to go along with a .910 OPS for the Clippers.
LaPorta, 27, hit .241 with one home run and five RBIs in an abbreviated stay with Cleveland this past summer and is currently working his way back from left hip surgery, which was performed in October. In 101 games with Triple-A Columbus, he hit at a .264 clip with 19 homers, 19 doubles and 62 RBIs for the Clippers.
The Indians acquired Lillibridge in a trade with the Red Sox on July 24, but the versatile fielder hit just .216 in 43 games with the Tribe down the stretch. Lillibridge hit a combined .195 in 102 games with the White Sox, Red Sox and Indians last season.
Lillibridge, 29, is eligible for arbitration for the first time this winter and would be a candidate to be non-tendered by the Indians if he chose to accept his Triple-A assignment.
Martinez, 23, went a combined 0-7 with a 10.24 ERA in 16 appearances (eight starts) for Class A Inland Empire (Angels) and Class A Carolina (Indians) this past season. Cleveland claimed Martinez off waivers from Los Angeles in August. The team now has 10 days to either trade or release Martinez, or to assign him to a Minor League affiliate if he clears waivers.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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Texas A&M has faced adversity time and again in the past month – and prevailed. The Aggies figure that's about to pay off in the College World Series.
"There's not an awful lot that we haven't had to come through in order to continue to play," A&M coach Rob Childress said.
The Aggies needed to salvage the series finale against rival Texas to claim a share of the Big 12 regular-season title, and did. They had to defeat Missouri in a final contest to earn the Big 12 tournament title in Oklahoma City, and did.
They prevailed in an NCAA tournament regional finale against Arizona, and again in a winner-take-all super regional Game 3 at Florida State.
"We've had our backs against the wall in Austin, in Bricktown (in Oklahoma City), against Arizona and then again at Florida State," Childress said. "These guys can't have any more pressure on them than they've already had, and I know they'll play well."
The Aggies, the only road team to prevail among the eight super regionals, will face defending national champion South Carolina starting 6 p.m. Sunday in the opening round. The Aggies and Gamecocks have never played in baseball.
"They're no stranger to Omaha," Childress said of South Carolina. "Coach (Ray) Tanner has done an amazing job, and we'll have our hands full. But I don't think there's an easy draw once you're playing this time of year."
Childress will turn to Ross Stripling (14-2) in the opener over Michael Wacha, considering Stripling has two more days rest than Wacha. Either one could qualify as A&M's new ace in the absence of John Stilson, who was diagnosed with a torn labrum just prior to the NCAA tournament.
"It's just a rest thing," Childress said. "Wacha did a great job for us on Monday (at FSU), but Ross has the most rest and he's also got 14 wins. It's a pretty easy decision starting him in Game 1, and he matches up pretty well with South Carolina."
Stripling will face Gamecocks ace Michael Roth (13-3) in the new home of the College World Series, with either Virginia or California waiting on Tuesday in the double-elimination format.
"It's one thing all eight teams will be able to say 50 years from now, that they were one of the first teams to play in the College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park," Childress said. "It's just going to be a great experience."


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Steven Van Zandt's gig on "Not Fade Away" began with a disappointment.
The first feature from "Sopranos" creator David Chase, the film follows a group of New Jersey high-school kids as they put together a garage band in the wake of the British Invasion. Chase hired Van Zandt, whom he'd cast as Silvio Dante on HBO's mob series, to oversee the film's music — "to design what the band sounds like as they go from 1962 to 1968, and to have that be authentic," as Van Zandt put it recently in an interview at Hollywood's ArcLight Cinema.
"So, immediately I said, 'David, before we even get started, please do me a favor and get musicians who can act.'" He laughed. "No chance. David tried — he talked to a lot of people. But in the end he said, 'I'm sorry, the acting's gotta come first.'"
Chase probably felt confident that his actors — some of whom had never before touched an instrument — would be in good hands: Beyond his film and TV work, Van Zandt, 61, is revered by rock fans for his longtime role as a guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band; he also hosts a popular radio show heard on Sirius XM and on terrestrial stations such as 100.3 the Sound in L.A.
For "Not Fade Away," which Chase based in part on his own adolescent experiences, Van Zandt submitted lead actor John Magaro and the rest of the film's band, the Twylight Zones, to three months of what he called "musical boot camp." By the end, he added with a grin, "they'd learned how to play."
Indeed, some of the most endearing scenes in this remarkably heartfelt movie depict that effort, particularly one in which Magaro's character attempts to master the foundational Bo Diddley beat behind the drums.
As music supervisor, Van Zandt had to master some maneuvers of his own to license a number of period songs — including some by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — for use in "Not Fade Away." (The film opens with the unmistakable guitar riff of "Satisfaction.")
Chase's reputation with "The Sopranos" is one reason rights holders returned his calls, Van Zandt said. "But it helped that I happen to know a couple of Beatles and a couple of Stones."
Van Zandt estimated that 10% of the movie's budget went to licensing fees for approximately 50 songs — a "ridiculous" number, he said, compared with the 2% most movies spend.
As with everything in Chase's on-screen world, though, the accuracy of the details was essential to the project.
"His use of music is so integrated into the emotional story line," Van Zandt said. "And people notice that. It's like, 'This whole scene is based on this song.'"


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Johnny O'Hare: New Mid Missouri Credit Union CEO
There's a new CEO in town for Mid Missouri Credit Union! Johnny O'Hare has been named CEO, replacing retiring executive Sharon Ichord.
"Sharon's departure after such a long and illustrious career will leave a tremendous personal and professional void. We feel most fortunate to have acquired the services of Johnny O'Hare as our next president/CEO and are confident he has the necessary education, experience and personal qualifications to continue our trend of growth and prosperity in the future," said Chairman Jim Woods of the Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.-based credit union.
O'Hare comes to Mid Missouri from Fort Campbell Credit Union in Clarksville, Tenn., where he served as chief financial and chief information officer.
"I'm truly honored and humbled by the opportunity to join Mid Missouri Credit Union. As our current CEO Sharon Ichord steps down, I look forward to both the challenge of continuing her great legacy of success, and the opportunity to partner with my Mid Missouri teammates as we approach our 60-year anniversary."
O'Hare has been working within the financial institution industry for over 30 years. He attended college on an Evans Scholarship from the Western Golf Association, graduating with a bachelor's degree from Marquette University. He is a CPA, and holds a diploma from the Graduate School of Banking at LSU.
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Adam Ludwin sees a lot of startups as a principal at RRE, a venture capital firm that's invested in companies like Moda Operandi, Makerbot, Braintree and Business Insider.
As such, he sees broad trends in entrepreneurship; he knows what every founder is working on, which spaces are the most crowded, and which types of startups investors are looking to financially back.
Two of the biggest trends right now are:
- Social photo and video apps -- Think Viddy, SocialCam, Cinemagram and Snapchat. All emerged as Instagram was getting acquired for $1 billion and Pinterest was receiving a billion-dollar valuation.
- Reinventing the iPhone's default apps -- Instagram re-invented the Camera app and found success. Spotify is often used instead of Apple's "Music." Evernote is a good alternative to "Notes," the new Mailbox app is preferred to "Mail" and apps like Sunrise and Fantastical are better than "Calendar."
Ludwin founded two companies prior to joining RRE, and now he's trying his hand at another one. He's co-founding an iPhone app with a friend from Los Angeles, Devon Gundry.
And guess what?
- It's a social photo app called Albumatic
- It's trying to smother one of Apple's default apps, "Photos."
"I really don't want to like another photo app," I told Ludwin as I looked at the app. He laughed and said, "Neither do I."
But as I stalked recent photos of CrunchFund's MG Siegler on a trip to Cabo with his girlfriend, I found myself warming to Albumatic.
Albumatic is a social, beautifully-designed alternative to Apple's "Photos," an album app most people forget they have on their iPhones. Ludwin calls Albumatic an "organizational layer" for photos, separating them by event, location, and featured people.
"There were seven or eight of us all taking photos of Devon's new baby," Ludwin explained Albumatic's origins. "All together we had taken 100 photos, but they were all siloed in each others' devices. There are endless places to share photos -- via text message, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter -- but there's no good, social way to bulk combine camera rolls and image galleries."
When you join Albumatic, it helps you find other users on Facebook, in your contact list, or nearby via the iPhone's GPS. From then on, when you and a friend are near each other, you can create and join albums together.
No invites codes are sent back and forth; friends see albums as you create them through push notifications, and they can either "watch" it if they aren't nearby, or they can join the album if they're witnessing the same event. Like Instagram, people can favorite or comment on photos.
Like Path and Foursquare, each user has a profile page that displays their albums, photos and activity. Here's what it looks like:
Only your friends can watch/subscribe to your albums, so strangers won't be able to creep into them (I was only able to "watch" photos of MG's trip to Cabo because Ludwin is friends with him. I wouldn't have been able to do that on my version of the app).
Albumatic could be good if you want to witness a friend's spring break trip you can't make, or a wedding you weren't invited to. Subscribing to an album is like being there in spirit, and you can watch the event unfold in real-time without having to wait for Facebook uploads after the fact.
It's also good for weddings you are invited to, where every friend has a camera and is snapping their own shots. Instead of uploading and tagging each camera roll separately on Facebook, you can join forces and see everyone's photos at once on Albumatic.
Here's what the album view looks like in the app:
One problem with Albumatic is, if events are too big (think South by Southwest), it's possible to have too many people join a single album. If a bunch of friends of friends of friends are at a concert or event together, they could all end up joining the same album and contribute thousands of photos that the album creator never cared to see.
Ludwin calls this idea "album hijacking" and admits it could be a problem. He and Gundry have contemplated capping the number of people who can join albums. He says Siegler has already hijacked one of his from a San Francisco trip.
Here's a view of all the people that have joined or watched an album:
Also, there's no way to remove or "untag" a photo of you once it's in Albumatic, and anyone who's subscribed to the album can see it. Ludwin says the only current solution is to ask the poster to take down the image.
Here's what the group camera roll looks like in Albumatic:
For now, Ludwin will remain at RRE and involved in companies where he's on the board: HowAboutWe, Moda Operandi, Kik Interactive, Paperless Post and VYou.
RRE will also be investing in Albumatic, although a round of financing hasn't closed yet.
Ludwin realizes photo-sharing is a packed space, but after months of mulling it over and researching Albumatic's competitors, he's confident in his startup.
When asked why he picked such a crowded space he replied, "Simple: the problem was still unsolved!"


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Please join Connecticut Votes for Animals. http://www.ctvotesforanimals.org/
I'd never heard of it until a few days ago and once I found out they not only are trying to change the laws -- they actually have some legislators on their side -- I joined. They fight BSL, mills, unreasonable confinement, cruelty of all types and are very pro-pit bull.
I found out about it through a series of emails about a couple who had to take their dying cat (it was in an accident) to the vet that a town shelter uses. They were treated horrifically, the cat stripped from their arms and euthanized behind closed doors while they were trying to figure out how to pay the extra fee for the privelege of being with their beloved pet while it was being euthanized. Apparently nothing can be done about this type of abusive behavior unless it is addressed legally and there is no law. So, people are banding together to write one and get it passed. If you want change you have to work for it. It won't just come to you.
See you on proactive side.
Jane and the Gang


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Last week, I attended the OmsocomBB workshop in Berlin. Harald Welte was an excellent host and c-base was a fun venue. I got a chance to put faces to some of the names I see in email and got a much better picture of who is doing what in the world of open source cellular. I got to see Dieter Spaar show his work on writing his own RNC software for UMTS Node B equipment. It was like the early stages of OpenBSC all over again (except that the nauseating complexity of UMTS makes GSM look quaint). I finally met the Alexander Chemeris in person. And I got to spend a week in Berlin, one of my favorite cities.
One the last day of the workshop, H-Online published this article about the OpenBTS and OpenBSC, the two well-known public-release GSM projects. I assume the timing was coincidental (or maybe Jungian synchronicity?), but it was an appropriate terminus for the event.
By chance again, when I returned to California, I had a meeting with a former executive from a major cellular carrier, a big European carrier with a global reach. He told me horror stories about IMS complexity and licensing fees. He pointed me to this article about how big web service providers are buying "raw" network equipment, built to spec in Chinese factories, and then loading that equipment with their own firmware and software, usually a mix of open-source and in-house applications. This executive sees the same thing in the long-term future of telecom: commodification of hardware all the way down to the RAN head, networks based mostly on open source software and a core network protocol based on SIP but a lot simpler than current IMS attempts. In his mind, this is the inevitable "terminal state" of the telecom industry, an inevitability in which the current generation of NEPs have no place. It is a market that will be served by companies that look and work a lot more like Red Hat than like Nokia-Siemens. I see that vision too, and I see products (not projects, products) like OpenBTS and OpenBSC and yate having comfortable places in that world. If we are correct about this vision of the future, then that small gathering of hackers, freelancers and entrepreneurs in Berlin last week may have held the seeds of a revolution that will fundamentally change a multi-trillion dollar industry. That might sound very ambitious, but the software industry has seen revolutions from modest beginnings before and the telecom world is begging for this kind of disruption.
(David Burgess is a lead developer in the OpenBTS project and one of the founders of Range Networks.)


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Hello! I have decided to come back to RMD after a very long hiatus *cough* several years... *cough*. I used to come on here quite often and now that have some time off of work and college, I think I might get back to doing some drawings here.
First Name: Nina
Nickname: neena, neenarooni (my usual gamer tags)
Age: 23
Personality: Adjectives that describe me- Introverted, Quiet/Shy (until you get to know me), Proud Nerd/Geek, Bookworm, Daydreamer, Empathetic, and a little Eccentric. My Myers Briggs personality type is INFJ/INFP, my Keirsey Temperament score is Idealist Healer, and my Enneagram personality number is 9 (the Peacemaker) - I'm a psychology nerd.
Favorite color(s): That blue you can only see in the deepest parts of the ocean, so dark it's almost black, but when you shine a light through it, you see the most radiant hues of aqua and yellow-green.
Likes: art, psychology, reading, writing, helping others, old school nintendo games, mmorpg games, harry potter FOREVER!
Dislikes: bullying, social stigmas, and celery. I hate celery.
pet(s): I am the owner of the cutest dog on earth.
Other: Don't ever be afraid to talk to me about anything. I try to be as understanding as possible.
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Oookie, I guess I'm posting here as well ^_^
I'm ten :?
I've been for almost 2 years C: and after over almost a year and a half I discovered Forums...XDD
My personality, hmmm, almost like you, Day_dreamer! XD Yeah I do the same thing. :S
I like reading manga, watching anime..:DDD and uhhh, of course, drawing!
Other things I like to do is play around the computer and sometimes outside. :U
I've been procrastinating for a bit, so i might as well update this! [cries]
Nickname: Now Hypertuna!
Age: 13
Personality: much like the old one with some kooky!
How long you've been on RMD: Now 5 years!
Favorite color(s): Blue, Rainbow
Likes: drawing (duh), watching anime, reading manga and webcomics, writing, [iforgottomentionshirtlessmen]
Dislikes: procrastinating
Other: I procrastinate, A LOT
First Name: Sam`
Nickname: Blazehound (I guess?) Spam, Dork, nerd
Age: 18
Personality: Quiet to many, loud and obnoxious to the few who are close to me
How long you've been on RMD: Since 2007, I first got on here when I started Jr High and now I'm a freshman in college, thinking about it is crazy!!
Favorite color(s): Red, White
Likes: Video games, art, photography, youtube, guitar, Game of Thrones
Dislikes: Smelly Stuff
pet(s): One small dog named Bandit back home with my mom.
Other: I leik pie.
Real Name: Ronda
Age: 51
Nickname: Agyla, Mom
Personality: Dry humor Loves music and art
How long you've been on RMD: About 2 years
Favorite color(s):teal and purple
Likes: drawing, painting, reading,writing, playing instruments, singing, and learning new things.
Dislikes:Prejudice, inaccuracies to push an agenda, bad manners.
pet(s):3 dogs(Gracie, Dax, Snowflake) and 2 cats(Electra, Rogue)
Other: I am soo Eclectic
I've been a member for a long time, not a regular but you know, sporadic XD
Neat thread, appreciate the whatchamacallit...stamp...generic fill in form idk lol
First Name:
kiss my *** LOL
ugh 20 something XD
Random, it changes, depending but I can be a nut, I can be open, I can be reserved, I can be fun, I can be boring, irritated, cute, cool, mean, kind etc. it all depends and this is not meant to be an essay hehe
How long you've been on RMD:
First account, mafeya0291, made in 20/07/07 so...5 years approx.?
Favorite color(s):
I don't have favourite colours...I think but I like the red...maybe pfft black is nice too
I like to doodle, I like cute things and I can't generalise a lot of the time so I'll tell you my favourite childhood food? ...SPRINGROLL! Omg, drool...
Stubborn or insincere people...and apart from people...when my software won't work smoothly )': stupid lag of life
I have cats but I'm curious about dogs ^^;
Other: idk, please don't give me the other option D': I get indecisive or blank like this XDDD Can I have some noodles please??
Abby, Abacus, Hey you over there
16, soon to be 17!
Uhh... I like the internet? I don't know much about my personality XD
Since 2007! I've been here for 6 years! Holy smokes!
Aqua, Turquoise, Black and Royal Purple
Manga, family, friends, God, Being homeschooled XD
Annoying people! Especially the ones that BEG you to do something for them in a demanding tone.
3 cats, Salem, Piper and Rogue, 2 Dogs, Buckshot and Lady
I have a frog on my window, I call it Frankie.
Nickname: Space!
Personality: I am funny, nice, and laid back.
How long you've been on RMD: I have been here since April 15, 2011.
Favorite color(s): I love every color, especially any shade of blue.
Likes: Listening to music, drawing, reading, playing almost any game, video games, singing, and trying new things.
Dislikes:Taking tests, smell of fish, mint chocolate, and some T.V shows.
pet(s): I don't have any D:
Other: O.O I like pie
that's all for now...
Anniebee wrote:
First Name: Annmarie
Nickname:Annie, Ann, AnnieB
Age:51 yeah I'm old but... you will be too some day
Personality: I like to kid around and goof off
How long you've been on RMD: about 4 years
Favorite color(s): electric blue and toxic green
Likes:I like my grand kids, art, music from the 50's,60's and 70's
Dislikes: cruel people ,rude people, war
pet(s): I have a German Shepard named Luigi, because I'm Italian and German so is he *LOL* I feed him spaghetti so he gets some Italian in him I also have a black cat named Baby,,, because she is my baby...and that is the only name my grand daughter could say at 2 yrs old
Other:Ill go by and rate and comment on yours if you rate and comment on mine. I love to see what others are drawing...but don't have a lot of time so I rate those who are on my friends list and then I check out and rate the most recent draws and then I check out the top draws of the day. and I also check out anyone who rates and comments on my draws
I would love a German Sheperd, and a husky I guess too,
oriental-blossom wrote:
Age:11 (I'm 12 in a few weeks, woohoo for the 20th of September XD)
Personality: Even I'm not quite sure of that... but I'll try So, I suppose I'm a little bit shy at times, I can be a little bit random if i'm nervous, but if i'm normal then I like to have a laugh, my humor is mainly dry, I love to stay in bed and have a few minutes or hours if i'm luck of extra sleep, I do enjoy sports (from loving to sleep to this, it seems a little ironic) I'm not going to carry on because I cant really describe my personality very well(Despite the fact I got a lvl 6. in English- I dont mean to sound like a show off if I do) and well, If you want to know what my personality is like, it'll explain itself if you get to know me c:
How long you've been on RMD: 1 year, its my 2nd year on the 11th of Jan
Favorite color(s): Blue, Turquoise, purple, red, ahh stuff it, Ima go with a rainbow too
Likes: Flying Marshmallows - I'm dominating the world with them Drawing, fashion, music, mafia's, 1930's-40's, I find WW2 pretty interesting as well,
Loves:HETALIA <3
Dislikes: Madonna, I'm not so sure about Niki Minaj, she's alright but meh. The cold when it's overly cold e.e, umm I might come back to this one later...
pet(s): A Dwarf lop rabbit called Toffee, no prizes for guessing what color he is...
Other: , I play piano I love Italian food I enjoy cooking, all forms of art really
A lot has changed with me, wow, I'm surprised,
Personality: Serious, can be an OCD freak at times, dry humour, tomboyish
How long you've been on RMD: 3 years (I think...)
Favorite color(s): Blue, Red, turquoise
Likes: Still find WW2 interesting, running (Sprint, I'm still human, I hate 3 laps of the cross country feild just as much as anybody else) training (Learning to be a bada.ss) drawing, writing, Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, Alyona Shishkova, Angelina Jolie, Adriana Lima, Emily Browning (Babydoll Sucker Punch) Hetalia characters: Japan, China (aru), Italy, Romano, Ze AWESOME Prussia (Eventhough he's a dummkopf, he's apparently - according to himself- awesome....sure....) Hungary and her frying pan, Russia, Belarus, England, Eh I guess I can add Spain too, I suppose I'll need to add Austria otherwise Hungary will try to kill me,
Loves:Germany (But I refuse to be one of those pervese fangirls that draws him half naked, because I think I would be sick -no offense- and I know he's fictional or whatever, but I find it kind of degrading for me too,) The Actual Country, and in Hetalia, he's my favorite, because if you were put on some random island then he would keep alive, so all you'd need to do is copy what he did, right? Plus, he's not weak, and is probably the only sane one there, along with Japan, ( I would add China, but I remember that his boss is a Dragon or something...) And he could train me to be a bada.ss too! I love the snow, my friends think that I'm weird because I prefer the snow to the sun, oh well, they're not ones to talk, they probably talk to flying mint bunny.
Dislikes:Yaoii fangirls when they feel the need to share their love with the world, Hetalia characters: PEPPY LE PEU (A.K.A Frogface, do I have to spell his name out? Fine, France,) Soppy girly stuff, crying, being weak, Taylor Swift songs drive me insane, she's a nice enough person, but how many songs can you write about heartbreak, geez.
pet(s): Still got that damn Rabbit that makes me clean his hutch out everyday thouroughly because he decides to 'ruin' everywhere, even where he sleeps, even where he eats, and for an OCD freak like me, I can't let him sleep in that.
Other: I found out some pretty interesting stuff the past 2 years, I'm half German (And no, I'm not making that up, it's a coincidence that Germany is my favorite Hetalia character) And If I would've been born on my due date(October 3rd), I would share my birthday with Germany from Hetalia, now that Prussia, is what's Awesome.
(P.s Does anybody else think it's ironic that, Germany is my favorite character, but Romano and Gilbert follow,)
Nickname: keith. but I'm not a guy.
Age: fifteen
Personality: ...uh? I'll avoid this.
How long you've been on RMD: sometime in 2009? this is a new account though.
Favorite color(s): orange.
Likes: japanese food. unsurprisingly, anime + manga. japan. kyary pamyu pamyu. vocaloid. cosplay. jfashion. of monsters and men. coldplay. perfume (no. not the stuff you put on yourself). vlogbrothers (john green, hank green).
Dislikes: people. school. or maybe people at school.
pet(s): a bird
Other: I cosplay in my free time.
First Name: Annmarie
Nickname:Annie, Ann, AnnieB
Age:51 yeah I'm old but... you will be too some day
Personality: I like to kid around and goof off
How long you've been on RMD: about 4 years
Favorite color(s): electric blue and toxic green
Likes:I like my grand kids, art, music from the 50's,60's and 70's
Dislikes: cruel people ,rude people, war
pet(s): I have a German Shepard named Luigi, because I'm Italian and German so is he *LOL* I feed him spaghetti so he gets some Italian in him I also have a black cat named Baby,,, because she is my baby...and that is the only name my grand daughter could say at 2 yrs old
Other:Ill go by and rate and comment on yours if you rate and comment on mine. I love to see what others are drawing...but don't have a lot of time so I rate those who are on my friends list and then I check out and rate the most recent draws and then I check out the top draws of the day. and I also check out anyone who rates and comments on my draws
Long time since I've posted anything on the forum. AAAAND, I have never introduced myself on any thread. (Or well, atleast as much as I can remember). So I might aswell do that now.
First Name: Jessica
Nickname: Online -> Jaoosa, Jao IRL -> I don't have any freaking nickname, but people call me Julia by accident all the time.
Age: 16
Personality: Pretty tomboyish, fun-loving, a bit paranoid, easily stressed, a bit loud according to others, I'm also really shy to new people, or people I don't know that well, perverted, very lazy when it comes to cleaning and stuff my parents tell me to do. And schoolwork.
How long you've been on RMD: Since 2009, I forgot about my account though and were inactive for 1 year. Then I rediscovered RMD and found out I already had an account here, and then the story continues...
Favorite color(s): Red, and blue
Likes: Drawing, music, games, cartoons, "stalking" fictional people, cats, anime and manga and all kinds of other stuff. The list would be too long if I listed everything.
Dislikes: Dogs, when people smoke inside the house (my parents ;c), temperatures over 20°C, cows. Gamer girls who has to tell everyone that they are a girl all the time (nobody cares omg)
pet(s): My fatass cat named Mr.X who jumps around like a fail ninja.
Other: One of my life goals is riding on a moose, I like to keep my hair very short, I am terrified of swimming water with living things in them, I got chased by a moose once ( I still want to ride one though), Where I live we still have to go to school even if it's -30°C outside and I know for a fact that unopened ketchup bottles can EXPLODE when you drop them from experience...
First Name: Brittany
Nickname: Britt, Hey you, Britt-tawny
Age: 24
Personality: crazy cool I guess lol...
How long you've been on RMD: since 2011ish
Favorite color(s):all blues, hot pink and lime green
Likes: mac and cheese, art, music, singing
Dislikes: mean ppl, rice, running into walls
pet(s): none atm..but I might get a kitty soon <3
Other: Add me!! I love looking at anyone's art and would love to see yours
Supposed to be doing homework but oh well (✿◡‿◡)
First Name: Jade
Nickname: aphey, aphe, kitty
Age: 16
Personality: shy around strangers; kind of crazy around friends; sarcastically mean to everyone //kicked; random; perfectionist
How long you've been on RMD: a bit more than three years but have not been active for 1+ years so far |D
Favorite color(s): verte et bleu et noirr
Likes: anime, manga, cats, foxes, cute/ fluffy animals really, reading, drawing duh, foood, sleeping
Dislikes: most people jkjk I love people u w u
pet(s): none //sobs
Other: I'm not a nice person yeah; befriend me at your own risk; srsly tho
anywayss aphe out ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ
I'm back. xD I don't know why I do this every year, I guess I like to.
Nickname: I still don't have one.
Age: 17
Personality: I can be shy at times but I try to be nice.
How long you've been on RMD: 3 years and 7 months (already?)
Favorite color(s): Purple, especially lavender
Likes: Drawing, writing, video games, making up my own characters and stories, my favorite video game characters (especially Kirby right now x3)
Dislikes: Mean people, people who try to change my (or others') opinions, when I don't get any thanks for complimenting drawings, when my drawings don't turn out right
Pet(s): Still none, although I would like to have one
Other: I make animations sometimes. My favorite holiday is Christmas; I just love everything about it. x3
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Over three years ago, I did a blog post about successful self-published authors, and how many of them tried out self-publishing because they read my blog.
I ended the blog post with this offer:
You hear that, NY Publishing? You truly want to slow the growth of ebooks?
Shut me up.
I'm willing to be bought off. Pass around a collection envelope, like you do for employee birthdays. For a million bucks, I promise I'll never blog about ebooks, or help another writer, ever again.
Since that post I've written several hundred more, encouraging authors to self-publish while explaining, in excruciating detail, why legacy publishing wasn't a wise choice.
I'll never know how many people I've impacted with this blog, but more and more authors continue to leave legacy publishers behind and find success on their own. NY Publishing knows this. So now, after I've likely done more damage to the legacy industry than any single person in history, they've finally decided to pay me off.
You read that right. Several large publishers have acknowledged the irreparable harm this blog has caused them, and they've given me one million dollars to stop blogging.
Since I'm a man of my word, I have no choice but to comply.
I shall blog no more forever.
I'll miss posting my numbers, and fisking legacy pinheads, and extolling the virtues of self-publishing. But a deal is a deal, and a million bucks ain't chump change.
A portion of my windfall will go to my favorite charity, MechaDogs.com, a non-profit organization that makes robotic tails for dogs who have lost theirs in skiing accidents. The rest will go towards beer.
It's been a good run, and I want to thank all of my blog readers for making this blog such a harmful weapon against the idiocy of legacy publishing.
Part of the deal includes me deleting all of my previous blog posts, so if you have any favorites, you have 24 hours save them via cut and paste. Then I'm erasing everything.
Thanks for reading, and goodbye.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
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Auction set for gold coins found in Carson City recluse's garage
A state judge in Carson City has scheduled a Feb. 26 auction to sell off part of $7.4 million in gold coins found in the home a recluse who died last summer.
The money raised will be used to pay $800,000 in inheritances taxes due in March.
The Las Vegas Sun reported the rest of the estate will go to Arlene Magdanz of San Rafael, Calif.
A substitute teacher, Magdanz is the first cousin of Walter Samaszko Jr., who died in May at his home in Carson City at age 69. His body was discovered a month later.
During a cleanup of his house, nearly 2,700 gold coins were discovered in boxes in the garage, among cartons of tuna.
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This homemade costume for babies entered our 2015 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Beth, the 'Chuck E. Cheese' costume creator:
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Small Space Solution: Wall Mounted Landing Strips
We're big proponents of the landing strip around here. Having a space by the front door where you can immediately drop mail, keys and other essentials is a quick and easy way to keep clutter to a minimum. If you don't have space for a table in your entry, perhaps one of these wall mounted options will work for you.
• Loll Wallbanger from Horne Although intended as a bar, at only 6.25"D this piece would be perfect for a small entryway. Plus, with the flip-down door, it would give you a place to stash keys, the dog's leash and other entry essentials. $399
• Clever Wall Hanger from Manufactum This clever shelf/drawer gives you a surface for immediately dropping your keys when you walk in the door plus a place to stash other supplies out of sight. €125
• Slice Wall Mounted Storage Shelf from CB2 The flip down door on this mint colored shelf (also available in grey) creates a hidden cubby while the top provides a surface for keys. $149
• Kellan Wall-Mount Bin Shelf from Pottery Barn This two-sectioned bin could keep your keys, hats and even a small bag or wallet right where you need it – by the front door. $99
• WonderWall Desk from Blu Dot Although marketed as a desk, this wall mounted unit would make an ideal landing strip. $499
• EKBY ALEX from IKEA At almost 47" wide this unit would require a lot of wall. But with two drawers and a large top surface, it would be very handy in an entryway. $54.99
• Duoplan CD Shelf from Offi Designed for CD storage, this colorful shelf would be equally welcome as a landing strip by the front door. $99
• Floating Shelf with Sliding Doors from Common Type Furniture This handcrafted shelf provides a small top surface plus sliding aluminum doors for hidden storage. $170
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And this is where I'll be.
April 77 jeans will be 77 bucks! And they are rad jeans. While there enjoy a drink while you customize your jeans with bleach, studs or whatever else your heart desires. Or just come, hangout and eat some Mexican food (The Smile will have a truck outside!) before you head out to Rogan for some Cold Cave beats.
See you there :)


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A 4th of July Picnic Menu: Gluten free Vegan Sorghum Brownie Recipe
Gluten-free Flax seed, Beet puree, and Agave sweetened brownies, from left to right.
This 4th of July I had one goal. I hadn't had a good brownie since I went dairy, soy and egg-free after Baby Yum was born, and I was determined to make a vegan brownie that would pass a glutenoid taste test and satisfy pesky chocolate cravings. It is easy enough to make a good brownie with butter and eggs and lots of melty, milky chocolate, but how about without those things? How could you compensate for their absence? As I researched, I found that the real sticking point was the absence of egg. Luckily, vegan bakers are extraordinarily creative, and have come up with all kinds of substitutes, including flax seed, applesauce, and even beet puree. Another sticking point was the chocolate of course. I wanted these brownies to be safe for me and my highly soy-sensitive friend (who avoids even soy lecithin), so I had to find safe chocolate for us. I found baking chocolate (melt in the microwave and add agave or other sweetener to taste), Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips, and cocoa powder (Penzey's) to be my salvation. I knew a vegan brownie that would pass the glutenoid taste test would be a challenge. And when it comes to that, I'm not a huge brownie girl, either, so it would be tough to find one I liked myself. I like fudgey brownies, not cake-like or bread-like brownies. To find the perfect recipe, I decided to make three recipes, adapted from those above. I called the first recipe "F" for flax seed, the second "B" for beet puree, and the third "A" for agave. Note that except for the applesauce recipe, the recipes linked above are not gluten-free, but of course my versions were. Anyway. Then I lined up my testers. You all (may) know my friend JM, who has inspired many allergen-sensitive recipes here on the Book of Yum. She is free of gluten, potato, soy, avocado, and dairy. Her partner in crime, M, is an adventurous glutenoid who has patiently tried many gluten-free experiments over the years at gluten-free potlucks and the like. Then there was me, gluten, soy, corn, potato, etc. free. And finally, there was my glutenoid DH who loves chocolate and has also been the guinea pig for many recipe experiments over the years.
First: the flax seed recipe. I am a recent convert to this egg substitute, so I had high hopes for this recipe. However, I'm afraid I was disappointed. It had a heavy, vegan brownie feel and the DH condemned it as "Tasting gluten-free." Darn it. Unexpectedly, our tester M chose it as his favorite, perhaps because he likes that type of texture in his brownie and felt it was closer to a traditional brownie. JM and I gave it a resolute thumbs down.
Second: the beet puree recipe. I had a sneaking fondness for this recipe because I liked the novel idea of adding beets to chocolate, AND it had coffee, which just makes me happy. JM said it had an "earthy" aftertaste and M said it was his least favorite. The DH shrugged and said "well, it's chocolate" and ate it. I might make this recipe again, actually, perhaps with some modifications. The lack of sweet chips (its chocolate was provided by agave sweetened baker's chocolate and cocoa powder) may have made this less popular than it would have been otherwise. -I liked its deep dark chocolate flavor and earthiness, personally, but it isn't for milk-chocolate lovers.
Third: the agave sweetened brownie recipe. This was the only recipe that started out gluten-free, but I had to radically change the flours to accommodate our various intolerances. JM, I and the DH all chose this recipe as our favorite, making it a clear winner. It was the only recipe that wasn't lowfat as it actually contained oil, which might have helped its cause. The texture was also nice, having an appealing fluffy lightness not often found in gluten-free, vegan recipes. It might not have screamed brownie, but that made me like it a little more, and it was sweet (without being too sweet) and nice and chocolate-rich thanks to the generous amount of chocolate chips it called for.
And so, our gluten-free vegan brownie taste off ended with success and an empty box of brownies. Even the brownies that we supposedly didn't like vanished from our picnic basket. After all, they were all chocolate, and were all pretty tasty, judging aside. Here's our favorite recipe to share with you, and a few more gluten-free recipes I found online that I would love to try when my diet includes things like nuts and eggs again. Have any favorite gluten-free brownie recipes? Share the link in the comments and I'll add them to my list!
If you can have nuts and eggs, try Elana's Almond Butter Brownies
No eggs, and prefer the raw foods approach? Try Elana's Chocolate Espresso Power Bar Recipe
Eggs are Ok and you want dairy-free dark chocolate? Karina's Rich Dark Chocolate Brownie Recipe may be the ticket!
Just for fun, here is a pictures of Baby Yum taken on her first 4th of July. We had a lovely family picnic with friends and were all set for her to see the fireworks- but literally minutes before the show began she decided to nurse and didn't so much as peek at the show as she fell fast asleep mid-snack. Better luck next year. I can't believe my baby is almost one!
Gluten Free Sorghum Vegan Brownie Recipes
Spectrum Palm Oil Shortening or mini cupcake liners
1/2 cup your favorite oil (I bet coconut oil would be really yummy, but I used canola)
3/4 cup plus 4 tablespoons sorghum flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons arrowroot starch
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Penzeys Dutch)
10 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons agave nectar
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 tablespoons vanilla
1/2 cup brewed coffee or espresso (I use decaf)
2 cups dairy-free and soy-free chocolate chips (Enjoy Life)
Special equipment: 2 Mini muffin tins or mini donut molds, although they are a bit delicate for the latter.
Preheat oven to 325. Either line mini muffin tins with mini cupcake liners or baste with shortening.
Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl, mix, and set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients. Gently fold in dry ingredients. Fold in chocolate chips.
Fill each mini muffin cup (or mini donut mold etc) with 1 tbsp. batter. Put in oven and bake until a toothpick inserted into
Gently remove mini muffins or mini donuts (the latter is more challenging) and serve. Yummy!
A light and delicate chocolate feast, winner of our vegan brownie taste-off!
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Standard ECMA-165
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN)
- Generic Functional Protocol for the Support of Supplementary
Services - Inter-Exchange Signalling Procedures and Protocol (QSIG-GF)
4th edition (June 2001)
This Standard defines the signalling protocol for the control
of Supplementary Services and Additional Network Features (ANFs)
at the Q reference point. The protocol is part of Private Signalling
System no. 1 (PSS1), known informally as QSIG. The Q reference
point exists between Private Integrated services Network eXchanges
(PINXs) connected together within a Private Integrated Services
Network (PISN) and is defined in ECMA-133.
Detailed procedures applicable to individual supplementary services
and ANFs are beyond the scope of this Standard and will be specified
by other standards for those services which are standardised and
by individual manufacturers for proprietary services using the
capabilities defined in this Standard.
Standard ECMA-143 defines the Layer
3 protocol for circuit-switched call control at the Q reference
point. This Standard defines additional protocol procedures, to
be used in conjunction with those defined in ECMA-143
for the control of supplementary services and ANFs.
Typical examples of the application of these generic functional
procedures to some supplementary services are provided in annex
C, for explanatory and illustrative purposes only.
Specific supplementary services and Additional Network Features
may require additional information transfer mechanisms which are
service or feature specific and are beyond the scope of this Standard.
The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the PSS1
protocol (informally known as QSIG).
The following file can be freely downloaded:
This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 11582.
The previous replaced "historical" editions of this Ecma Standard are available here.


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Steve and Kathy Helmich of Graettinger, Iowa proudly announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Gretchen, to Cory Sutton. Cory is the son of Gary and Kim Moodie of Storm Lake and Doug and Carla Sutton of Newton.
Gretchen is a 2003 graduate of Graettinger Community High School and 2008 graduate of Buena Vista University. She is currently employed at Ameriprise Financial.
Cory is a 1996 graduate of Storm Lake High School and is currently employed at the Storm Lake Water Treatment Plant.
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Gretchen and Cory
The couple resides in Alta and will be united in marriage on Aug. 10, 2012 in Storm Lake.


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In order to deploy websites and services onto Amazon EC2 everyone needs the same components, so we're building them. One of the most requested and most critical pieces is a good database setup, and MySQL is clearly the highest in demand. Not that a good PostgreSQL or Oracle setup wouldn't be of interest or wouldn't be equally possible, just that more people are asking us (and paying us) for MySQL.
What we've built is a MySQL master/slave setup with backup to Amazon S3. The setup consists of one MySQL master server which is the primary database server used by the application. We assume it runs on its own EC2 instance but it could probably share the instance with the application. We install LVM (Linux volume manager) on the /mnt partition and place the database files there. We use LVM snapshots to back up the database to S3; this means that we get a consistent backup of the database files with only a sub-second hiccup to the database.
Snapshots for backup are actually more complicated than that. We have to acquire a read-lock on all tables, and this could block things if there is a long running query ahead of us. So there's a timeout and retry loop that needs to balance off locking up the database and getting the backup done.
Using the snapshot backup we set up a slave instance which then starts replicating in real time from the master. This means that all changes to the master are propagated with milliseconds of delay to the slave, so should the master instance fail, there's an up-to-date backup. On a master failure we promote the slave to master and set up a fresh slave. Note that in most databases the slave lags extremely little behind the master. The main situation where the slave starts lagging is when there is a lot of write activity going on in the master. Under heavy write load the slave is slower at applying the replication to its copy than the master on the same hardware because the slave uses only a single thread to apply all changes while the master has one thread per client connection, so it can overlap network communication, CPU processing, and disk I/O using multiple threads.
Periodic backups are taken off both the slave and master instances. There is little penalty for acquiring a read lock on the slave and performing the snapshot and subsequent backup, so it can be done every few minutes without any real impact (unless the slave has trouble keeping up as described above, in which case it's probably time to move to multiple slaves). We also take infrequent backups on the master, say once a day, in order to guard against any problems introduced by replication.
While the MySQL replication is well proven and used by many large sites in heavy production, there are failure scenarios. First of all, the application should use innodb tables exclusively because myisam tables are not transactional and have a number of scenarios where replication fails. Even with innodb tables failures are possible. For example, it is possible to write non-deterministic queries in SQL, and since MySQL uses logical replication the slave re-executes the query, and it may end up using a different execution order than the master, resulting in different data in the database. Ouch. One example is a create table with an auto-index key using a select from an existing table. The insertion order and hence the keys in the new table depend on the order in which the select is executed, and if it's executed in a different order in the slave from the master you will end up with an unusable slave DB! (Been there, done that, it still hurts.) Thus: do back up your master every now and then to be able to recover from such problems. (If you're paranoid, fire up an instance every few hours, load up a backup, and run a few consistency checks - it'll cost you less than a buck a day to ensure the database backup is good. That's cheap insurance.)
All the goodies described above are controlled through the RightScale web interface. Want a new slave? Just press the "set up slave" button! Want a backup? Press "backup" on the master or on the slave. The list of functions we have now includes:
- launch database instance
- restore from S3 backup and configure as master
- configure as slave, using DB transfer from master for initial state
- promote slave to master
- backup to S3
- daily backups to S3 from master
- 10-minute backups to S3 from slave
We obviously still have a lot of work ahead of us to improve the flexibility of the setup. One thing to note is that you are in control of what is executed on the database servers, so they are not opaque virtual appliances. If you need to tweak our database install, slave setup, backup, or other code, it's all available in scripts that you can modify. (Of course the more you modify the less we can help when things go wrong.) Also, currently all these functions are "automated" in the sense that you make a decision, push the right button, and things happen. We are adding monitoring and we will add triggers that will cause master-slave failovers automatically.
If you are interested in using our MySQL master/slave set-up, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. This stuff is not available with the free RightScale accounts.
Archived Comments
Pete Any plans on making this available as a feature you can pay for without signing up for one of those expensive packages?
Thorsten Pete, thanks for the interest. Obviously "expensive" is in the eye of the beholder. After having spent the days putting all this together, I would rate the price as really low. Together with the help you get to put it all into operation, it's probably too low to make a profit. Maybe a bit down the line when we have it fully automated and cookie cutter we can reduce th price. When I started using EC2 I realized that it's really easy to blow any savings away in sysadmin time. You end up launching and installing servers at an insane rate, because you can, and because it brings sooo many side-benefits. You can do things you didn't even conceive of before. But someone or something has to install and manage all these servers. If it's "someone" then that's really expensive really fast. Hence "something" = RightScale. I hope that when you sum it up at the end of the month the sysadmin you didn't need to hire thanks to RightScale saves you much more money than the check you write us. YMMV of course.
dennis I think the prices are great for established businesses, but I think that the smaller startups (who are doing the sysadmin stuff on their own time) would love to be able to launch some of the database stuff as part of the free account…
Paul Nice use of LVM for the snapshots, just be mindful that long running queries can cause the read lock to take ages to be in the place and have the database in a consistent state. Pete Zaitsev mentioned in one of his cookbook presentations that using FLUSH TABLE is a way to speed the process up. I am also reviewing the mysql-table-checksum from the MySQLtoolkit as a way to make sure the master and slave remain completely in sync. Interesting set of tools as well. Have Fun Paul
Thorsten Paul, thanks for the pointers. Yes, we understand that long running queries can delay the read lock. And if you're not careful, your read lock request can block a pile of other queries behind it, so it's not good to just sit there and wait for the read lock to go through. We use a relatively short timeout on the read lock and try again, and again.


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NASD Reminds Member Firms of Their Obligations to File Certain Financial Reports
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 17a-5 requires broker-dealers to file certain financial reports with NASD within a specified number of days following the end of the period for which the report is filed. This Notice to Members reminds members that such reports must be filed on a timely basis and that requests for extensions of time for filing may only be made in exceptional circumstances. Moreover, any request for an extension of time for filing must be submitted, in writing to and received by, the appropriate District Office no later than three business days prior to the due date of the report. Failure to file such reports by the due date, or the revised due date if an extension has been granted, will result in a late fee of $100 per day for a maximum of 10 days, as described in Schedule A of NASD's By-Laws, as well as possible disciplinary action. This Notice to Members also reminds members that all reports will be considered timely filed only when received at the appropriate time and at the required location.
Questions regarding this Notice may be directed to the Department of Member Regulation by contacting Susan DeMando, Director, Financial Operations, at (202) 728-8411; or Vicky Berberi-Doumar, Senior Attorney, at (202) 728-8905.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 177 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
New Approach School for Jewelers
The most advanced jewelry school you'll find anywhere. Located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, our students learn from the best at New Approach School for Jewelers with instructor Blaine Lewis. This is a jewelry school like no other with long and short programs available. Our classes offer a very unique approach that accelerates our students' learning curve giving them an essential understanding and a competitive edge.
Also, please, please watch our new YouTube video. It should give you a pretty clear idea of what we do. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETuPCnSogA
We target students and experts that would like to refine their skills in the jewelry industry. Mr. Lewis truly offers a unique advanced approach in his teaching. Our goal is to convey the hi-def technology he and our teachers use to demonstrate their techniques to our students. Our students grasp the concepts much better than our competition accelerating their learning curve and giving them the edge in the market. Please see YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETuPCnSogA
We would like a clean and sophisticated look. We have a logo (see newapproachschool.com or attachment), yet we would like it to be more understated than it currently is – meaning not on every page or not in the same place on every page; not as large, prominent, etc. We want a more elegant and less clumsy look. However, if it is possible to convey our technically advanced school in a design that would be great.
We would also like a look that will not become outdated. So, I guess, avoid any fads including colors that may get dated like our current yellow.
Besides the homepage we need a class description page, a class calendar, and testimonials. Bios, location, videos, and fees can use one of those templates. Please refer to http://www.newapproachschool.com for content.
Please refer to http://www.newapproachschool.com for content only. We are looking for something completely different and perhaps something that does not get dated. We believe the look of our current website is very dated. Please avoid the yellow color in our website.
http://www.gia.edu has a nice sleek look but we do not want ours to look like it. But, if you could take the simplicity and elegance and create something new and uniquely us that would be what we are looking for.


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I'm the Vampire, That's Why
Author: Michele Bardsley
Series: #1 in the Broken Heart Vampires series
Ebook provided by the author
Book Description:
Broken Heart is the city with the highest rate of divorce and highest percentage of single parents in Oklahoma. And I, Jessica Matthews, have been a member of that club ever since my husband dumped me for his twentysomething secretary and then had the gall to die in a car accident.
Now I'm not just a single mother trying to make ends meet in this crazy world….I'm also a vampire. One minute I was taking out the garbage; the next I awoke sucking on the thigh of superhot vampire Patrick O'Halloran, who'd generously offered his femoral artery to save me.
But though my stretch marks have disappeared and my vision has improved, I can't rest until the thing that did this to me is caught. My kids' future is at stake…figuratively and literally. As is my sex life. Although I wouldn't mind finding myself attached to Patrick's juicy thigh again, I learned that once a vampire does the dirty deed, it hitches her to the object of her affection for at least one hundred years. I just don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment….
So, funny story how I came to get an ebook copy of this. I had seen it reviewed on Goodreads by a friend of mine and was intrigued, so I went looking. I saw that Amazon had later books in the series as ebooks, but me with my OCD likes to read all books in a series in the same format. So I emailed the author to ask her. she was super-nice, but told me that her publisher hadn't negotiated ebook rights – however, she had a PDF of the book for her followers and would happily send it to me – I jumped on the opportunity. That was two years ago…somehow, the file got lost in the magical world that is my gmail account…and then a couple of weeks ago, I was searching for another email and came across the file – and decided what the heck and read it (plus it fit into like 3 reading challenges that I was doing).
I think there were several times where I about pee'd my pants, I was laughing so hard at Jessica's (mis)adventures of becoming a vampire. The idea of blood being able to be flavored as chocolate was funny – I wonder if beer or coffee would work equally as well, if you like those? Guess it goes to prove that because of the amount of chocolate I eat, my blood probably would taste like it.
The conflict between the Vampires and the bad guys were interesting – but a bit more history would have been nice. I got to the end of that and was like, oh, i'm done…then realized I was only at the 60% point, so I knew that there was much more that was going to happen. But towards the end it started to get silly – it was like sequence after sequence of something bad happening…you would finish one part, think all was good, and then something else would happen. And the whole book took place over like a 2 week period (I think)…but that being said, I am intrigued enough that I am going to check out the second book, but I will likely get from the library, rather than buying. 3 stars overall.


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Study of Hsp90 Inhibitor AUY922 for the Treatment of Patients With Refractory Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
|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: NCT01404650
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 28, 2011
Results First Posted : October 4, 2016
Last Update Posted : October 4, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
|Drug: AUY922
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|25 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Hsp90 Inhibitor AUY922 for the Treatment of Patients With Refractory Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
|Study Start Date :
|December 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2015
|Experimental: AUY922
Drug: AUY922
AUY922: 70 mg/m2 IV over 60 minutes on Days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle. Treatment cycles will be repeated every 21 days. Patients will be evaluated for response at 6 and 12 weeks and then every 9 weeks (i.e., every 3 cycles) thereafter. Patients may continue treatment until evidence of disease progression.
- Progression-free Survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: At 6 and 12 weeks then every 9 weeks thereafter until progression or intolerable toxicity, up to 4 years. ]Measured from time of randomization until objective tumor progression or death; assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1 criteria. Progressive disease (PD) defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest (nadir) sum since the treatment started, or the appearance of one or more new lesions.
- Response Rate (RR) [ Time Frame: At 6 and 12 weeks then every 9 weeks thereafter until progressive disease or intolerable toxicity, for up to 4 years. ]Defined as the proportion of complete and partial responses, assessed per RECIST v1.1. Complete response (CR) defined as a disappearance of all lesions; partial response (PR) defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking the baseline sum LD as reference. Stable Disease (SD) defined as neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR, nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease, taking as reference the smallest (nadir) sum LD since start of treatment.
- Overall Survival (OS) [ Time Frame: Every 3 months until patient death or lost to follow-up, for up to 4 years. ]Evidence of survival was obtained by clinic visit or telephone contact from the time of first dose until death from any cause.
- Number of Patients With Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: Days 1, 8 and 15 of each 21-day cycle plus 30 days after treatment discontinuation. ]Worst toxicity grades per patient were tabulated for select adverse events according to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) v 4.0
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pts with histologically-confirmed metastatic or unresectable GIST who have progressed on, are intolerant of, or are not a candidate for imatinib and sunitinib therapy. Pts must not have received prior treatment with Hsp90 inhibitors.
- Must have an ECOG Performance Status of 0-1.
- Must have a life expectancy of ≥3 mos.
- Must have at least one unidimensional measurable lesion definable by MRI or CT scan. Disease must be measurable per RECIST v1.1.
- Must have normal serum phosphorus and magnesium ≥ the lower limit of normal prior to trial entry.
- Normal bone marrow function defined as: ANC ≥1500/μL Hgb ≥9 g/dL Plt ≥100,000/L
- Adequate hepatic function defined as: AST or ALT and ALP must be 2.5 x ULN, or ≤5 x ULN in pts with liver mets Total bilirubin ≤1.5 x the institutional ULN
- Renal function defined as: Serum creatinine ≤1.5 x ULN or 24-hour CrCl 50 mL/min
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test performed ≤7 days prior to start of treatment.
- Must be accessible for treatment and follow-up.
- Must be able to understand the investigational nature of this study and give written informed consent prior to study entry
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently receiving or have received cancer therapies ≤21 days of initiating study therapy. For pts receiving small molecule targeted therapy, study treatment may begin ≥21 days after last dose or ≥5 half lives of previous treatment, whichever is shorter. The patient must have recovered from or come to a new chronic stable baseline from all treatment-related toxicities.
- Use of any non-approved or investigational agent ≤30 days of administration of the first dose of study drug. Pts may not receive any other investigational or anti-cancer treatments while participating in this study.
- Uncontrolled brain mets. Pts with treated brain mets (resection or radiotherapy) are eligible if brain mets have responded to treatment as documented by CT or MRI scan obtained at ≥2 wks after completion of RT, neurologic symptoms are absent, and steroids have been discontinued.
- Treatment with therapeutic doses of coumadin-type anticoagulants (maximum daily dose of 1 mg allowed for port line patency permitted).
- Impaired cardiac function with any one of the following: History (or family history) of prolong QT syndrome. Mean QTc ≥450 msec on baseline ECG. History of clinically manifested IHD ≤6 mos prior to study start. History of heart failure or any history of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (LVEF ≤45%) by MUGA or ECHO. Clinically significant ECG abnormalities including 1 or more of the following: left bundle branch block, right bundle branch block with left anterior hemiblock. ST segment elevation or depression >1 mm, or 2nd (Mobitz II) or 3rd degree AV block. History or presence of A-Fib, atrial flutter or ventricular arrhythmias including ventricular tachycardia or Torsades de Pointes. Other clinically significant heart disease. Clinically significant resting bradycardia (<50 beats per minute). Currently receiving treatment with any medication which has a relative risk of prolonging the QTcF interval or inducing Torsades de Pointes and cannot be switched to an alternative drug or discontinued prior to commencing AUY922. Obligate use of a cardiac pacemaker.
- Known diagnosis of HIV, Hep C virus, or acute or chronic Hep B infection.
- Concurrent severe, intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Any condition that would prevent patient comprehension of the nature of, and risk associated with, the study, and the inability to comply with study and/or follow-up procedures.
- Other malignancies ≤3 years, with the exception of adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or localized prostate cancer with a current PSA of <1.0 mg/dL on 2 successive evaluations, at least 3 mos apart, with the most recent evaluation no more than 4 wks prior to entry.
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): NCT01404650
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale School of Medicine
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
|United States, Florida
|Florida Cancer Specialists-South
|Ft. Myers, Florida, United States, 33916
|Florida Hospital Cancer Institute
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32804
|Woodlands Medical Center
|Pensacola, Florida, United States, 32503
|Florida Cancer Specialists-North
|St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, 33705
|United States, Missouri
|Research Medical Center
|Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64132
|United States, Nebraska
|Nebraska Methodist Hospital
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68114
|United States, Tennessee
|Tennessee Oncology
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|Study Chair:
|Johanna Bendell, MD
|SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
|Responsible Party:
|SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01404650 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|July 28, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|October 4, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|October 4, 2016
|Last Verified:
|August 2016
Keywords provided by SCRI Development Innovations, LLC:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases


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Photo: Ben Lowy
On November 19,2012 Foley Gallery will be hosting a benefit to support relief efforts for those in the New York City area that have been most affected by Hurricane Sandy. Orgainzed by Michael Foley and photographer Wyatt Gallery and curated by Jun Lee, the event will include iPhone photographs from renowned contemporary photographers Ben Lowy, Ed Kashi, Wyatt Gallery, Stephen Wilkes, Ruddy Roye, Hank Willis Thomas, Michael Christopher Brown, Craig Wetherby, Sam Horine, Stanley Lumax, Erica Simone, Nicole Sweet, Dylan Chandler, Yosra El-Essawy, Brent Bartley, Lyle Owerko, Duffy Higgins, and Varenka Ruiz. Photos will be sold for $50 with all proceeds going to benefit Occupy Sandy and Alison Thompson's Rockaway Relief Center. More details can be found on the Foley Gallery Facebook page.
Handmade digital prints were generously provided by Gotham Imaging. Other sponsors include Calumet, Hipstamatic, Naneu Bags and PDN.
Photo: Hank Willis Thomas
Photo Wyatt Gallery
Photo: Michael Brown
Photo Ruddy Roye
Photo: Nicole Sweet