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Volunteering in honor of Mandela
18 July is Nelson Mandela International Day, a day when thousands of people in South Africa and across the world will give their time to volunteer to help others.
July 18 is the birthday of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela. In 2009 the United Nations declared July 18 International Mandela Day, aimed to get people all over the world to volunteer for good causes.
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67 minutes represent the 67 years Nelson Mandela spent, first as an activist, then as a political prisoner and finally as the first democratic president of South Africa fighting for freedom and equality for all people. On this day, schools, companies, individuals, even motorcycle clubs show their commitment to helping others by giving 67 minutes of their time to volunteer for charity. They build schools, clean up parks, help neighbors and raise awareness, using whatever skills they have to help others. In some parts of South Africa, individuals will be spending the day helping out those whose homes were recently destroyed by snow and heavy rains
July 18 2012 is expected to be the biggest Nelson Mandela International Day yet and its not just in South Africa. Events are planned as far afield as New York, London, Iceland, Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Australia and the Philippines. The Mandela Day team tracks these events and offers advice and support to people wanting to honor Mr. Mandela by helping others.
Helping others also goes beyond one day. The theme of Nelson Mandela International Day is Make Every Day A Mandela Day. Five minutes a day can change the lives of others. Nelson Mandela once said, I have always admired men and women who use their talents to serve the community.
You can help
This year give 67 minutes to spread the word about the challenges of poverty and hunger faced by communities in South Africa and around the world. Visit a charity in your community and give a little time to help those less fortunate. Give five minutes every day to make every day a Mandela Day.
For more information about volunteering with Heifer in South Africa, contact Heifer International South Africa.
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference" - Nelson Mandela
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These sensors are protected to IP-67, immune to interference from other light sources, resistant to high shock levels and protected against the effects of electromagnetic radiation. The stainless-steel, high-performance sensors are ideal for processes such as welding where fumes, soot and sparks create a hostile environment and yet it is necessary to verify certain key components are present and correctly assembled. With a sensing-beam diameter of less than 1 mm, they can be used to detect small objects accurately at a distance where the process emissions do not affect the device.
Using a pulsed laser, it is a simple process to line up and set the fine through-beam to detect the target. Detection is confirmed by a yellow LED, while a green LED confirms there is sufficient light for reliable operation. This diagnostic system also continuously monitors for dirt buildup or any misalignment that may occur during operation.
The sensors have an operating supply voltage from 10 to 30 V DC, a 5-kHz switched output frequency and a current rating of 200 mA. In addition, the sensing range is stable from -25 to +55 C and they are short-circuit and inverse-polarity proof and overload-protected.
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49ers re-sign Carlos Rogers, defense stays intact
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Cornerback Carlos Rogers, the 11th and final piece to the puzzle, signed a four-year, $31.3 million contract Tuesday to stay in San Francisco, the NFL Network reported.
With Rogers returning, the Niners will have all 11 starters back from a defense that ranked second in points allowed and fourth in total yards during last year's 13-3 season. In 2012, Rogers will come in particularly handy: San Francisco will face the top five quarterbacks in passing yardage from last year, a quintet that includes Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, New England's Tom Brady and New Orleans' Drew Brees.
In his first season in San Francisco, Rogers, the ninth overall pick in the 2005 draft, had a career-high six interceptions and earned his first Pro Bowl berth. Rogers, who will turn 31 in July, said after the season he was seeking a four- or five-year contract.
Earlier in the day, signs suggested that Rogers might not remain in San Francisco.
A few hours before free agency began Tuesday afternoon, the Niners signed former Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox. After the free agency kicked off, they were reportedly pursuing Lions cornerback Eric Wright and Chiefs cornerback Brandon Carr.
With Rogers and Tarell Brown locked into starting spots, Cox will settle into a backup role after sitting out last year. A fifth-round pick of the Broncos in 2010, Cox was released by the team following his arrest in December 2010 on felonious sexual assault charges. Cox was acquitted of those charges this month.
In a statement, general manager Trent Baalke indirectly addressed the questions Cox's signing were sure to inspire. Baalke said the team did its "due diligence" and was confident Cox would be a "positive contributor to the 49ers, as well as our community."
At Oklahoma State, Cox was a finalist for the Thorpe Award given the nation's top defensive back and finished his career with the third-most kickoff return yards in FBS history.
"That's not me," Cox said of the sexual-assault charges. "I'm not that type of guy. To prove that, I'll show the community and the coaches and the team what type of guy I am and can be. From here on out, I'll show it."
Also on the first day of free agency:
-- Former 49ers wide receiver Joshua Morgan signed a five-year contract with the Redskins. The first three years of Morgan's deal could be voided, but it is worth $12 million over the first two years, with $7.5 million guaranteed.
-- Blake Costanzo, 27, a special-teams standout in 2011, signed a two-year contract with the Bears. Costanzo, who ranked second on the team with 17 special-teams tackles, did not receive a contract offer from San Francisco.
"They've had some of the top special teams in the league, too, so we've been in contact with them," Costanzo said in a phone interview with The Chronicle. "They made me an offer and wanted to make me part of their team for the next couple of years. It was a good opportunity for me and my family. I decided to jump on it."
-- The 49ers signed inside linebacker Tavares Gooden, 27, to a one-year contract. Gooden ranked third on the team with 12 special-teams tackles last year. He is the team's only backup inside linebacker under contract behind Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman.
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Ultimately, when all else is quiet, you'll need to breach the northern door into the kitchen area from the large room on the far side of the first floor. You could alternately access the kitchen via the corridor on the other side of the locked door we alerted you to earlier, but this is a safer and more straight-forward approach. There should only be a couple of enemies in total in the kitchen. Once they're killed, you'll find the missing deputy. Release him and speak with him. You may be able to get him to join you, but then again, you may not. Either way, it won't affect the rest of the mission at hand. Before heading towards the building's second floor (where you can access the hotel), be sure to grab some Purified Water, Stimpaks and more in the kitchen.
Whether you decide to go to the second floor via the elevator (which must be repaired) or the nearby stairs that also head to the second floor, that's the next place you're going to want to explore. As soon as you're upstairs, you'll find a locked door wedged in between the stairwell's location and the elevator's location. Pick it open easily to find some curative items within, including a Doctor's Bag and some Buffout. All of this activity will likely draw at least one hooligan your way, so be prepared to battle as well.
Speaking of activity drawing out enemies, expect the first gunfight with an enemy on this floor to draw all of the rest of the half-dozen or so enemies on the floor towards your location. If you sit and are quiet, you can hear them scurrying towards you. Taking on these enemies in such a constrained location (spatially) can be a real challenge, so try to funnel them towards you in such a way that you can shoot them as they cross a door jamb. With all of them all tied up in a stagnant location, it'll be like shooting fish in a barrel (especially if you choose to use that aforementioned flamethrower). Scour all of these bodies for goods you may need when all is said and done.
With all of the enemies on this floor eliminated, you're free to explore. You'll find that there are a couple of forks in the hallways all around you, but you shouldn't be too confused as to how to advance. Many of the rooms you can explore here will be full of debris. Other rooms will have unimportant items to find. However, there are a couple of notable exceptions. One of these exceptions is a locked room on the far end of a hallway from a door that leads back outside. If you can pick the lock open here, you'll find plenty of illicit items within the room on the other side of the door, including Med-X, Jet and Psycho.


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Gianfranco Casati is group chief executive – Growth Markets, responsible for overseeing Accenture's business in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. In this role, he works closely with the company's five operating group leaders to ensure that Accenture is well-positioned for continued growth in each of these key markets. He is also a member of Accenture's Global Management Committee.
Prior to assuming his current role, Gianfranco was group chief executive of Accenture's Products operating group, which serves clients in the air, freight & travel services; automotive; consumer goods & services; industrial equipment; infrastructure & transportation services; life sciences; and retail industries. Before that, Gianfranco was managing director of the Products operating group's Europe operating unit. He also served as Accenture's country managing director for Italy and as chairman of Accenture's geographic council in its IGEM (Italy, Greece and emerging markets) region. In addition, he led Accenture's Electronics & High Tech industry group in Europe. Among the many global clients he has served during his career with Accenture are Pirelli, Alcatel, Siemens and Sony.
Gianfranco joined Accenture in 1984 after practicing as a certified public accountant, and he became a partner in 1994. Prior to the company's transition to a corporate structure and IPO in 2001, he served as a member of the Accenture Board of Partners and led a global program aimed at redefining the partner compensation and career model. Gianfranco holds a degree in economics from Pavia University in Italy.


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The Hammerhead Bundle from Indie Royale is now live, and it contains Primordia, Pressure, Forge, Richard and Alice and Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage. Those who pay $8 or their currency equivalent will also receive MY OK BBS's chiptune album: It's Not Great in MP3 and FLAC format. All are DRM-free and Windows only, and available […]
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The complex is located just east of the freeway in the Doherty district of San Fierro, San Andreas. Its large reddish-brown brick buildings are easily spotted alongside the freeway, and its two smoke stacks are visible from a distance. A small office complex is also present in Dillimore.
Solarin Industries is known as Shady Industries in the PS2 version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a reference to a building appearing in a video by the rap artist Eminem (also known as "Slim Shady"). Carry-over from the PS2 version is evident, however, in the PC version, where Bensons sporting the Shady Industries logo can still be seen roaming San Andreas.
The name "Solarin" is most likely taken from Toks Solarin, a character designer for Rockstar Games.
Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
After discovering the truth behind the Loco Syndicate and locating its leaders in San Fierro, Carl Johnson sets out to take down the syndicate once and for all. After gaining the trust of Jizzy B. and T-Bone Mendez, Carl meets the man pulling all the strings, Mike Toreno, after rescuing him from an ambush at Easter Bay International Airport. Carl begins performing tasks for the syndicate's leaders while in San Fierro in a ploy to destroy the organization from within. One of the missions Carl is asked to perform is to protect a van making a delivery to the syndicate's drug factory in Doherty. In order to do so, Carl first meets up with Toreno and Mendez at the Xoomer gas station in Easter Basin before continuing to Solarin Industries, where the van and some helpful weapons are waiting for Carl. From here, Carl must destroy roadblocks situated at certain points along the van's route in order to provide it safe passage to the factory.
- Body Armor - At the very north end of the main building, just at the bottom of the grassy hill next to the freeway.
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text: 3-D printers are an exciting technology, but another hot new tool may have just as significant of an impact in real-world projects. Laser cutters were invented almost 50 years ago, but only became part of the home workshop in the past few years. In that short time, however, the maker community has embraced the machines with creative enthusiasm. While these 2-D cutters don't produce sweet 3-D Yoda heads at the push of a button, they do bring impressive versatility to a wide range of applications. If makers want to experiment with creative ideas that need to be produced with engineering-grade plastics, wood, leather, metal, or even food, laser cutters are often the only appropriate tool. Most laser cutters, and their beefy plasma cutter brethren, can produce objects much larger than standard 3-D prints in a much shorter time, and usually for a significantly lower cost. One forward-thinking cafe in Japan has even installed a cutting system so makers can laser cut parts while sipping a latte — whereas waiting for a 3-D printout would require a seven-course meal. Laser cutters can produce parts cheaply and quickly enough to fit in at this Japanese coffee shop. Photo: FabCafe Lasers haven't sparked so much creative thinking since Luke Skywalker inspired a generation of kids to pretend that broomsticks could be lightsabers. These following 10 examples show some of the many ways lasers are being used in new ways on DIY projects. Above: Architecture One of biggest difference between lasers and 3-D printers is, well, bigness. 3-D printers can produce amazingly detailed sculptures, but most max out at objects the size of a loaf of bread. When architectural fabrication firm Eventscape needed to fill out an office lobby with panels of custom paneling, lasers were the smart, scalable solution. Many laser cutters can cut square feet of material in the time it takes a 3-D printer's build platform to warm up. Photo: EventscapeLaser Sushi Unlike 3-D printers that use nasty chemicals and "it's probably safe" plastics, lasers bring designs to life using heat — which makes them the most impressive, overpowered, and expensive kitchen gadgets imaginable. Hungry hackers have used lasers to make Spirograph pancakes, perfectly prepared bacon, and even etched eggplants. To a laser, the only difference between fabricating a brace for a new Subaru and customizing a sheet of seaweed is Otaku bragging rights. Photo: I&S BBDOFashion Alexander McQueen was the most avant of avant-garde fashion designers before his untimely passing in 2010, but the house that bears his name has been able to spark creativity in mass market (or, the portion of the mass market that can pay $5,000 for a dress) by leveraging industrial laser cutters. McQueen's team isn't alone; laser-cut garments are becoming a fixture in runway shows and have been featured in collections of high-end couturiers like John Galliano and John Paul Gaultier, as well as more humble, ready-to-wear offerings from brands like Burberry. Photo: Matches FashionFurniture Lasers can cut through wood, metal, fabrics, and often multiple materials at once. This light fixture was created by cutting a bespoke material made from a 2-millimeter-thick walnut veneer bonded to a fabric substrate. The laser was able to cut cleanly through both materials where light was intended to pass, while just cutting the wood layer elsewhere. This allowed the slightly singed fabric to be folded up like a piece of origami while the wood panel provided structure. Horm, the firm that manufactured the lamp, was even able to get a patent based on the novelty of the approach. Photo: HormLight The ability of laser cutters to work at a large scale and with a variety of materials gives designers the flexibility to impact an environment in bright new ways. This table pairs translucent acrylic sheets and an opaque plastic barrier to create a surface that interacts with a light source in a stunning fashion. Other designers have taken advantage of "edge lighting" to create an illusion of depth or added an interactive element to their projects. Photo: CutLaserCutElectronic Housings Lasers will never be able to produce parts that mimic the sinuous curves of an Yves Behar industrial design, but these high-temp cutting tools do give hackers a tremendous amount of flexibility to create enclosures for their projects in a way that off-the-shelf solutions never could. They may not be the prettiest, but they're perfectly suited solutions that can be produced in short sessions. Photo: Crash SpaceReviving Old Technology Wood block printing is as charming as it is expensive. As cool as it looks, hand-carving fonts from blocks of wood to capture a rustic vibe doesn't make a lot of economic sense in the world of Photoshop filters. However, modern designers paired with high-tech tools can inexpensively revive a pioneer-era process. Fabrication consultancy CutLaserCut fed graphics files that would normally drive a laser printer to a laser cutter, cost-effectively carved new fonts, and easily dropped them in to an antique press. Photo CutLaserCutArt Laser cutters provide the control the most obsessive designers crave, the freedom to experiment with materials, and the capability to manufacture art in one high-wattage package. In this case, cunning cartographers made multi-level models of ocean typography by cutting wood profiles, added color for effect, and produced artwork that would impress the saltiest of sea captains and cruelest critics alike. Photo: Below the BoatArchitectural Models Architectural modeling is still an important part of the building process even in an age of omnipresent CAD software. The computer models that architects produce can be 3-D printed, but the laser allows creators to work with multiple materials, that can better approximate the actual elements that will be used in the structure. This is an especially important consideration when optical properties are in play. The quick turn nature of lasers and the use of standard sheet materials in the construction also make it easier for designers to tweak designs quickly, without having to reprint an entire model. The process is like sketching, but using an overpowered death ray instead of a pencil. Photo: Addie WagenknechtProduct Embellishment Laser etching is an industrial process used in high-volume manufacturing processes for products like Dyson's new faucet/hand dryer. What makes lasers great is that the complexity of the design is basically "free," so whether it's etching a simple sans serif logo or a Mary Blair-inspired pattern, designers can experiment with designs and customize offerings without incurring additional cost. Photo: CutLaserCut


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Hooray! More Moore! Ron D. Moore's latest thriller series Helix has received a straight-to-pilot order on Syfy! THR is reporting that we're going to get 13 episodes (the perfect number) of Helix which also described the series as:
A thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak. There, they find themselves in a terrifying life-and-death struggle that holds the key to mankind's salvation or total annihilation.
Moore is on as executive producer with Lynda Obst from Contact and Steven Maeda from Lost. Cameron Porsandeh wrote the pilot. Production will start in 2013.


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Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00678821
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 16, 2008
Last Update Posted : July 17, 2019
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This study will determine if a rehabilitation exercise program can help people with pulmonary hypertension (PH) increase their physical activity. Patients with PH have an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary blood vessels (artery, vein or capillaries) that leads to shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting and other symptoms.
Healthy volunteers and people with pulmonary hypertension between 21 and 75 years of age may be eligible for this study.
All participants undergo the following tests and procedures:
- Medical history and physical examination
- 6-minute walk test: Subjects walk as fast as they can for 6 minutes on a walking track to determine their ability to participate in physical activity.
- Questionnaires: Subjects complete nine questionnaires related to their fatigue, daily physical activity, mood, and so forth.
- Maximum treadmill test: The exercise begins at an easy level and gradually increases until the subject says he or she can no longer continue or the investigator decides it is not safe to continue. Subjects are fitted with a mask, electrodes and light sensors to measure how well the heart is working and how well the muscles use oxygen.
Patients with pulmonary hypertension undergo the following additional procedures:
- Activity monitoring: Patients wear a monitor for 3 days that measures movement and heart rate.
- Group assignment: Patients are randomly assigned to Group 1 (education plus aerobic exercise) or Group 2 (education followed by exercise).
- Group 1 patients will attend classes three days a week at either Inova Fairfax Hospital Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center or The National Institutes of Health for 10 weeks. Two sessions a week will include a 1 hour education session as well as a 30-45 minute track or treadmill exercise session. The third session will only include exercise. During the education patients will learn about a healthy lifestyle with pulmonary hypertension. After the 10 weeks of education and exercise, subjects repeat the 6-minute walk test, maximum treadmill test and questionnaires.
- Group 2 patients participate in 2; 1-hour educational session at either the Inova Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center or The National Institutes of Health for 10 weeks. After the classes, they repeat the 6-minute walk test, maximum treadmill test and questionnaires. The following 10 weeks will consist of 3 days a week of 30-45 minute track or treadmill walking at either Inova or NIH, after which they again repeat the questionnaires, treadmill and walk tests.
|Condition or disease
|Pulmonary Hypertension Interstitial Lung Disease
|Other: Aerobic exercise
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We propose a randomized trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of aerobic exercise for patients who have primary pulmonary hypertension (PH) or PH secondary to interstitial lung disease (ILD). This project will be the first in a series of studies aimed at establishing exercise prescription and general rehabilitation guidelines for patients who have advanced lung diseases.
An essential treatment for almost all cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders is aerobic exercise training. The effectiveness of exercise rehabilitation has been established and exercise rehabilitation has become a standard of care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, fundamental information about the mechanisms underlying exercise training and its therapeutic benefits remains lacking for patients who have advanced lung disease in general and specifically for those with PH.
Subjects will be over the age of 21 years. The patients will be enrolled from sites within a reasonable travel distance from the greater Washington area and will receive their exercise training at Inova Fairfax Hospital or at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus. Exercise-based rehabilitation is already common for patients who have PH at the Inova Fairfax Hospital. Their pulmonary rehabilitation program is well established, and their staff is experienced in providing exercise therapy for patients with PH and advanced lung diseases. The Rehabilitation Medicine Department (RMD) at The NIH Clinical Center has established a pulmonary rehabilitation program for this protocol as well as to provide rehabilitation services for NIH clinic patients.
There will be two primary treatment arms. Patients with PH will be randomized to either aerobic exercise training plus education (AET) or education only (Ed-only) treatments. A comparison group of patients with ILD who do not have secondary PH (ILD-only) will also undergo the AET arm. Exercise training will consist of a 10-week regimen of supervised treadmill or over ground walking three times a week. Exercise session duration will be 30 minutes and will progress to 45 minutes per session over the 10 weeks. The intensity of the exercise will be between 70 and 80% of the heart rate reserve.
There will also be two secondary studies. First, the subjects with PH initially randomized to the education only arm will complete an aerobic exercise training program after participation in education. In addition, we will also compare baseline tests among patients with PH, patients with ILD-only and healthy controls.
The study outcome measures will be assessed at NIH, RMD. These will include pre- and post-exercise training comparisons of symptom limited treadmill exercise tests to assess heart rate, pulse oximetry, EKG, maximum oxygen consumption, bioelectrical impedance cardiography, and near infrared spectroscopy measurements of muscle oxygenation. We will also assess accelerometry based activity, 6-minute walk distance, and a number of other quality of life and functional measures questionnaires including: International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Fatigue Severity Scale, SF-36v2 Health Survey, Human Activity Profile, Stages of Exercise Change, Exercise Self-Efficacy, Profile of Mood States, Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review.
This study represents a unique opportunity to assess the effects of exercise on patients with advanced lung disease and may open up valuable new treatment options for these patients.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|97 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Single (Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|The NIH Exercise Therapy for Advanced Lung Disease Trials: Response and Adaptation to Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension: Initial Studies for Establishing Guidelines
|Study Start Date :
|May 13, 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 23, 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 23, 2015
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Patients with PH will be randomized to either aerobicexercise training plus education (AET) or education only (Ed-only) treatments
Other: Aerobic exercise
Supervised aerobic exercise and educational lectures for 10 weeks
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A comparison group of patients with ILD who do not have secondary PH (ILD- only) will also undergo the AET arm
Other: Aerobic exercise
Supervised aerobic exercise and educational lectures for 10 weeks
- Pre and post exercise training CPET [ Time Frame: 10 wks ]CPET variables
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- 6 minute walk distance [ Time Frame: 10 wks ]total meters walked in 6 minutes
- Quality of life and functional measures [ Time Frame: 10 wks ]self-report questionnaires
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.
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PH and ILD-only Groups: Subjects of this study will include individuals with ILD and PH who are referred for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Patients with ILD, PH or PH comorbid with ILD will be included. The following list provides more specific inclusion criteria:
- Between age 21-82 years
- WHO functional class II or III, will accept WHO functional class I and IV based on 6 minute walk test results (less than or equal to 400 meters for Class I and greater than or equal to 50 meters for Class IV)
- No recent syncope or significant chest pain
- No prior Pulmonary Rehabilitation received within the last 6 months.
- Physically inactive, no participation in a structured exercise program 3 or more days a week for over 30 minutes at each session including pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance within the last 6 months.
Patients may qualify if they have any one of the following conditions:
- PAH diagnosed by right heart catheterization defined as resting pulmonary mean arterial pressure equal to or higher than 25 mmHg
Interstitial lung disease, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), non-specific pulmonary fibrosis (NSPF), sarcoidosis or other form of chronic lung fibrosis will be based on clinical context via clinic note from primary pulmonologist and an echo within one year of enrollment showing an RVSP <40mmHg.
- If RVSP is lower than 40mmHg patients with interstitial lung disease will be enrolled without the need for a right heart catheterization.
- If RVSP is indeterminate on an echo procedure performed within a year of enrollment, the patient will undergo another echo test at The National Institutes of Health, Echocardiogram Laboratory.
- Only if RVSP is unable to be estimated on an echo at NIH, the absence of the following abnormalities on echo will be used: right ventricular enlargement, right ventricular hypertrophy, paradoxical movement of interventricular septum and/or altered pulmonary flow velocity. If RVSP is unable to be estimated and these abnormalities are absent on echo, the patient will be enrolled as an ILD-only patient. If any of these echocardiographic abnormalities are present the patient will not be enrolled until the results of a right heart catheterization can be obtained to verify the absence of pulmonary hypertension.
Healthy Controls: The controls will include individuals who have never been diagnosed with primary or secondary PH and are apparently healthy. Controls will be matched to the PH cohort for age, gender, and body mass.
- Between 21 82 years
- Physically inactive, no participation in a structured exercise program 3 or more days a week for over 30 minutes at each session.
- No cardiorespiratory or pulmonary disease
- No other diseases of the neurological, metabolic, renal, or musculoskeletal system
- No medications that would influence aerobic capacity or treadmill performance
Since the goal is to examine exercise responses and adaptations as affected by PH, patients will have no other (except the primary disease in those with secondary PH) medical conditions that would impair aerobic capacity or the ability to engage in physical activity. These conditions would include any of those affecting the cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, neurological, or musculoskeletal systems. Specific exclusion criteria for the PH and control cohorts are:
- Significant Restrictive or Obstructive Lung Disease with a FEV1/FVC ratio less than or equal to 65 percent
- Diagnosis of ischemic heart disease
- Left ventricular dysfunction with the ejection fraction less than 40 or a documented pulmonary capillary wedge pressure greater than or equal to 18 mmHg.
- Acute cor pulmonale
- Dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Non-idiopathic cardiomyopathy
- Significant hepatic or renal dysfunction
- Metastatic cancer with a life expectance of less than 6 months
- Disabling stroke
- Active substance abuse
- Severe psychiatric disease
- Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy
- Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus with a history of DKA
- Mitochondrial disease
- Pregnancy
- Ongoing tobacco use
- Children: Individuals younger than 21 years will not be included in the protocol because reference ranges for normative aerobic capacity and aerobic fitness have not been established for these age ranges.
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): NCT00678821
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|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|Leighton Chan, M.D.
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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text: Hey Dan, I've been enjoying your blog very much and I had an idea for something I'd love to see you post about. It's been great reading about your journey and I've learned a lot that's helped with mine. I've also started trying to record my thoughts as I go (not yet as a blog but as a private journal record) less for posterity and more as another learning tool. The self dialoge is very helpful but feels sub-optimal. I'd love to see you blog about how your blogging/journaling process has impacted your decision making and such - with some advice on how best to make it useful / where to focus. I know it's a bit 'meta' but you've also been a. very thorough, b. diverse in your approach (like the data that went into your fundraising infographic), c. consistent and d. inclusive (interviewing people and such). That's impressive. How do you find the time and energy to do this at the end of a long day and what do you feel the impact of making it a public blog has on your process?


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You might think Auburn Tiger fans would have been miserable this off season after Alabama won the BCS Championship, but the excitement on the Plains has been hard to contain.
After a surprising nine win season a year ago and a stellar recruiting haul in February, Auburn has high hopes in 2010.
Who is going to run Gus Malzahn's offense? Why will the defense be better? Can the Tigers win the West?
To get some answers to these questions I contacted Kevin McGrady, an Auburn FC here at BR for his insight.
Q: Despite Alabama winning the national title, it seems Auburn has just as much momentum going into this year after the recruiting haul in February. What is the overall mood of the fan base going into the season?
A: The Auburn fan base is as excited as I ever remember them being to start a season. They showed up in droves for the spring game and fan appreciation day in August. Most of them are looking forward to an exciting and enjoyable season.
Q: Does Cam Newton have the job locked down at QB?
A: Cameron Newton will certainly be the starting quarterback. The team is behind him being the quarterback. That being said, Gus Malzahn has commented that this year is the best quarterback situation he has ever had. He thinks there are four quarterbacks on the roster that can do well running the offense.
Q: Who steps up and takes over as the lead back now that Ben Tate has departed?
A: Senior Mario Fannin will be the leading running back this year. He will be followed by sophomore Onterio McCalebb and freshman Michael Dyer. This is a very talented and effective backfield combination.
Q: Receiver was a very weak spot for the Tigers last year. Who could have a breakout year here?
A: Darvin Adams, Terrell Zachery, and Mario Fannin the three lead receivers in 2009 combined for a disappointing 1,887 yards total. Auburn is looking for help from players like senior Quindarius Carr, sophomore Emory Blake, and sophomore Philip Pierre-Louis to help pick up the slack.
Freshmen Antonio Goodwin, Shaun Kitchens, and Trovon Reed have all been complemented on their preseason performance as well.
Q: What do you think it will take for SEC fans to accept that OC Gus Malzahn's offense is not a gimmick offense?
A: For the Gus Malzahn offense to be totally embraced, consistency is the key. For the most part, Auburn fans were pleased with the offensive progress, but offensive draughts in big games is an area of concern.
Q: The defense was the weak link last year. Tell me why it will be better this season?
A: The Auburn defense was snake bit with injuries in 2009. There were seven players that were either starters or high in the playing rotation that missed all or several games with injuries. All of these players return healthier this season.
Q: How much respect is Clemson getting as an opponent from the ACC?
A: Auburn fans see Clemson as a formidable foe. They will certainly be the most difficult out of conference game this year. The return of quarterback Kyle Parker only emphasized this feeling.
Q: Can Gene Chizik get Auburn over the hump and start to turn the Georgia series back in the Tigers' favor?
A: Even if Auburn wins the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" this year, the jury will be out on that. Georgia is in a state of flux while changing to a new defensive scheme. This is an answer Auburn fans will have to wait a while longer for.
Q: Who are some of the freshmen that are likely to contribute?
A: Defensive tackle Jeffrey Whitaker has shown promise in camp. He will play in the game rotation. Defensive end Corey Lemonier has drawn much praise from the coaching staff. He is expected to make the playing rotation. Linebacker Harris Gaston has been mentioned for playing time this year. Trovon Reed, Antonio Goodwin, and Shaun Kitchens have all drawn attention as receivers. They look to contribute this year. Michael Dyer and Ladarious Phillips hope to contribute early and often this year.
Q: Describe a successful season. Describe a disappointing one
A: Eight wins in 2010 would be terribly disappointing for Auburn fans, they expect improvement over 2009. Most fans would be content with nine or 10 wins. A successful season would mean serious contention for the SEC western division at a minimum.
Q: What is your prediction for this season?
vs. Arkansas State 85 percent chance of win
at Mississippi State 80 percent
vs. Clemson 65 percent
vs. South Carolina 65 percent
vs. Louisiana-Monroe 85 percent
at Kentucky 80 percent
vs. Arkansas 50 percent
vs. LSU 50 percent
at Mississippi *
vs. Chattanooga 95 percent
vs. Georgia 50 percent
at Alabama 50 percent
SEC Championship making 30 percent
That makes five likely wins, two probable wins, and three tossups. My overall prediction is a 10-2 season with a slim chance at an appearance in the SEC Championship Game.
My Take on Auburn...
I will admit I was off on how Gene Chizik would do in his first year. I thought they would sneak into a bowl, but eight wins and nearly beating Alabama was off the radar.
The receivers and offensive line should be better this year. If Cam Newton can keep his head on straight all year they will be better on offense.
Defensively, I see an improvement in terms of depth, but they still have a ways to go to be a top SEC unit. But if they can be 25 percent better then it will take pressure off the offense to feel the need to score every time.
Auburn gets Georgia and South Carolina from the East at home while having to travel to Kentucky, whom they lost to last season.
They face an early SEC West test in Starkville in Week 2 on a Thursday night.
The week after they host Clemson in an ACC vs SEC matchup.
I can see the Tigers going undefeated at home this year and that could give them a chance to play for the West title in Tuscaloosa the last week of the season.
9-3, second SEC West
Thanks again to Kevin for his insight.
This and other SEC Team Previews are also featured on The ACC and SEC Blog
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Is there anything more lowbrow than trot music, a form of Korean traditional pop music? Jang Joon Hyeon (Ji Hyun Woo), who considers himself a serious singer-songwriter and a genius musician, certainly doesn't think so. But when he is suddenly hit with a sex scandal that brings his successful career to an abrupt standstill, President Jo (Yoon Joo Sang) of his management company gives him one chance to redeem himself and restart his career – mentor Choi Chun Hee (Jung Eun Ji), a young woman who is desperate to take care of younger sister and repay loan sharks after her debt-ridden father disappears, to become a successful trot singer. President Jo takes a personal interest in Chun Hee, the daughter of a former trot singer, although she has never entertained thoughts of following in her mother's footsteps but is under tremendous pressure to make money quickly. When President Jo also takes a leave, entrusting the company to his son, Jo Geun Woo (Shin Sung Rok), the son also develops more than just a professional interest in Chun Hee. But can Chun Hee survive in the cutthroat music industry, especially when other trainees like Park Soo In (Lee Se Young) compete with her for both work and love? "Trot Lovers" is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Jae Sang and Lee Eun Jin.
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Bill O'Reilly is Right About Gay Teens
Dr. Warren ThrockmortonDr. Warren Throckmorton's Weblog
- 2005 Oct 16
Bill O'Reilly is Right About Gay Teens
Warren Throckmorton, PhD
Is there a battle over gay teens? If you can believe a recent Time Magazine cover story, war is on between gay activists and social conservatives over adolescents who are declaring gay and lesbian identities at early ages. Bill O'Reilly, host of the number one cable news show, the O'Reilly Factor recently interviewed the author of the Time article, John Cloud about the issue. Both men expressed differing views on the matter and as I explain below, I believe Mr. O'Reilly to be closer to the correct view.
Central to the dispute is the impact of self-labeling. Is the proper response to same-sex feelings experienced by youth to come out as gay or lesbian or is it to wait for more mature times to declare a sexual identity due to pliability of sexual feelings and general adolescent confusion? A related issue takes us into the consequences of adolescent choices for public policy. Is the increased emphasis on gay acceptance in schools creating pressure on confused teens to declare early and become militant about gay rights to meet adult expectations?
The Time article leaves no question that teens are experiencing same-sex attraction earlier now (boys,10; girls, 14) than in the 1960s (boys, 14; girls, 17). Whatever one thinks about the origins of homosexual attractions, there can be little debate that the rapid increase in school based clubs called gay-straight alliances has had an impact. Whereas in past years, young people might have been willing to take a wait and see attitude about same-sex attractions, now they are encouraged to find a label for themselves among an ever growing batch of terms. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, and questioning are identity designations that students as young as middle school are having modeled through gay-straight alliances and popular fiction books, such as the Misfits.
On his show, Mr. O'Reilly questioned whether such early labeling was a good idea. In a cordial exchange, Mr. Cloud and Mr. O'Reilly traded perspectives.
O'Reilly: But there's a problem here. No. 1, I think almost every teenager gets confused about sexual identity at some time. OK? So, you know, rushing out to declare yourself one thing or another, I think, is foolish. And in my book, which is better for kids than a Simon and Schuster book, I say, don't define yourself that way…Whose business is it if you're 13, 14, 15?...Am I wrong?
Cloud: Well, I think, you know, kids face the assumption that they're straight, basically. So if they're gay and they want to do something about that assumption, the only choice is to tell people that they're gay.
Is coming out the only choice? While it is one choice, it certainly is not the only choice. Unless of course, you want to feel a part of an adult social movement.
Although the ages of coming out are dropping, when to have sex and with whom are generally considered to be decisions requiring an adult level of maturity. Declaring a gay identity long before reaching the necessary level of maturation to engage in adult sexuality requires the teen to either experiment sexually or predict what his sexual attractions will be in the distant future or both. Instead of expanding their possibilities, teens can feel cast into a social role. A case can be made that teens are less likely to explore their options if such a role is adopted and lived out in an environment that encourages solidarity to a political cause.
In his recent Time article, Mr. Cloud provides evidence of just the kind of social influence I refer to. He describes pressure experienced by gay students to embellish their applications for college scholarships with tales of victimization for their gay identity. One such benefactor, the Point Foundation exclusively awards college funds to gay students who have demonstrated scholarship and gay activism during their high school years. Thus, students are competing via how much they have done to further adult political objectives during their formative years.
Perhaps reflecting his own homosexual proclivities and his sunny outlook on the status of gay teens, Mr. Cloud further opines, "a lot of these kids aren't necessarily interested in gay politics or gay culture as gay activists that formed it." I tend to agree and this is precisely why schools should not promote activist events such as Day of Silence, where students are expected to not speak for an entire day in sympathy with a gay rights program.
So in this case, Mr. O'Reilly really is looking out for teens who need time, not Time, to sort out their feelings without activists organizing among them.
Warren Throckmorton, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy in the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City (PA) College. Dr. Throckmorton is past-president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and is the producer of the documentary, I Do Exist about sexual orientation change. His columns have been published by over 70 newspapers nationwide and can be contacted through his website at www.drthrockmorton.com.


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Six years too late, George W. Bush has finally acknowledged that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were citizens of the U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia:
From 2003 to 2007, the number of people who believed Bush's lie dropped from 70 percent to 33 percent. Bush will never recover from the anger felt by the 37 percent of Americans who came to the realization that they had been lied to by their president.
"There's a lot of really good people here [in Saudi Arabia]. Look, you can't deny the fact that some, a majority, of the terrorists came from Saudi, but you should not condemn an entire society based upon the actions of a handful of killers."
It would have been nice if the interviewer, ABC's Terry Moran, had gotten Bush on the record about the Middle Eastern nation whose citizens were not represented among these 19 mass murderers.
The breakdown was 15 Saudis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese and two from the Union of Arab Emirates (UAE).
None were from Iraq.
Despite this fact — and the fact that Saddam Hussein was a secular despot who was despised by Osama bin Laden, a right-wing religious fanatic — a poll two years after the attacks, and six months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The fact that a solid majority of the public was misinformed was not an accident. It was a result of a propaganda campaign deployed from the Bush White House:
- "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September 11, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America. Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there's a reason."
– Bush in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, 2002 (It was this speech in which the CIA forced Bush to remove a claim that Saddam had tried to purchase Nigerian uranium. The claim was reinserted as the famous "16 words" in Bush's State of the Union speech the following January. When Amb. Joe Wilson called Bush on this lie, Cheney conspired to reveal the secret identity of Wilson's wife and thus betrayed a clandestine U.S. government operation that tracked the WMD black market. Cheney's man Scooter Libby took the fall for this treasonous act, apparently on the assurance that he would be pardoned for the crime before Bush leaves office.)
- "But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associated in collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida lieutenants…" And… "We are not surprised that Iraq is harboring Zarqawi and his subordinates. This understanding builds on decades long experience with respect to ties between Iraq and Al Qaida…" And… "Some believe, some claim these contacts do not amount to much. They say Saddam Hussein's secular tyranny and Al Qaida's religious tyranny do not mix. I am not comforted by this thought. Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and Al Qaida together…"
– Former Sec. of State Colin Powell, in his presentation to the UN Feb. 5, 2003, the majority of which, including the connections between Iraq and al Qaeda, has been discredited
- "Before September 11, 2001, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents and lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons, and other plans – this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take just one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known."
– Bush in his Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union speech
- "And for America, there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 — to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."
– Bush in Sept. 7, 2003, address to the nation
- "If we're successful in Iraq … we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."
– Cheney on Meet the Press, Sept. 14, 2003
- "[Saddam Hussein posed a risk in] a region from which the 9/11 threat emerged."
– National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, Sept. 2003
- "[Saddam Hussein] had long established ties with al Qaeda."
– Cheney, campaigning for reelection on June 14, 2004
- "The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September the 11th, if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi, and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden."
– Bush, June 28, 2005
- "That's right."
– Dick Cheney, on "Meet the Press," Sept. 10, 2006, when asked by Tim Russert, "Well, I asked you. I said, is there a connection between Saddam and 9/11 on September '03, and you said, we don't know."
But if you thought the case against Saddam's masterminding of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, has been resolved, think again. Just four months ago, in September 2007, a staggering one-third of Americans still say they believe the Iraqi government was behind the attacks.
Over the four years between these two polls, the number of people who believed Bush's lie about Iraq dropped from 70 percent to 33 percent. The anger, betrayal and embarrassment felt by the 37 percent of Americans — roughly 111 million people — who came to the realization that they had been lied to by their president is now and will forever be the defining element of George Bush's legacy. In our country's short history, no disinformation campaign by our government has been costlier in American blood and treasure.
They will never forgive him, and nor should they.
Interestingly, the number of Americans who still believe the lie that Saddam caused 9/11 coincides precisely with a poll released yesterday by ABC that found that about one-third of Americans (32 percent) still approve of George Bush's performance on the job.
Update: As a commenter below correctly pointed out, there was a misattribution of a quote by Bush to Colin Powell in the source article from the BBC from which the quotes were taken. The phrase about the polling attributed Powell was inserted inadvertently. We apologize for the latter, and have vetted each of the quotes from the BBC article and sourced all of them to the White House, except for Rice's statement, which she made in an ABC News interview and was widely reported, including the reference here in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. (We also added three more quotes, two sourced to the White House and one to a "Meet the Press" transcript.)
This does not change in even the slightest way the thrust of this article — that there was a concerted disinformation campaign by Bush officials to convince Americans that Iraq was behind 9/11. The proof of the theory was, and is, the result: In 2003, 70 percent of Americans believed this lie and, as recently as last fall, about one-third still do.


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Fostering the idea that children should be offered/presented with a "spherical view of reality" rather than just being stuck with a 'faith label' from birth. Against the insidious practice of filling the young with religious dogma. Citizens. Against. Literalistic. Intellectual-Incest. Breeding. Rabid. Egomaniacs. An attack on narrow minded, biased, bullying, self proclaimed or institutionally supported 'truth-peddlers'.


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Oracle has kicked off the first full day of its Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne exhibition with a series of announcements including news of new Oracle Fusion middleware applications. The company has described this product family of modular applications as 100 percent open and standards-based.
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Subdivision 10 features Switzerland, Korea, Turkey and Mixed Group 4.
The Swiss women would love a repeat of their effort at the European Championships in May, when they qualified for the team final. Switzerland continues to improve under new coach Zoltan Jordanov, who moved with wife Sznezsana to Switzerland after many successful years coaching the British team.
The Bulgarian-Hungarian-British Jordanov replaced ousted coach Eric Demay, who moved back to France after accusations of cruelty leveled by Swiss star Ariella Käslin. (Despite the controversy, the French nevertheless hired Demay as their new coach.)
The sessions featuring Switzerland are always memorable at worlds, with the long-standing tradition of Swiss fans ring cowbells and chanting "Hopp Schwiiz!" in unison.
Switzerland: Vault
The Swiss begin on vault, where Käslin is the defending silver medalist. But the Swiss star has been struggling to regain form after falling ill with a virus several months ago. Her training disrupted, Käslin competed simple vaults in September. With a slim field of vaulters in Rotterdam, the Olympic finalist has a good chance of reaching the final if she can perform her higher-level vaults.
The Swiss were 17th in 2006 and 18th in 2007, and a top-15 finish in Rotterdam would signify their improvement.
Korea: Uneven Bars
Despite the success of their male counterparts and northern neighbors, the Korean women have routinely failed to impress. The team was a forgettable 23rd at both the 2006 and 2007 World Championships.
The women's program has tried to boost its team by bringing in foreign experts, including Leonid Arkayev several years ago. Arkayev returned to Russia after a brief run, but his former coaching partner, Marina Bulashenko, remains with the South Korean squad.
Turkey: Balance Beam
With a limited history of success, the Turkish women have slowly been showing improvement over the past several years. Goksu Uctas is the team standout, and medaled at two Category-B World Cups in 2010. Her best result was at last month's World Cup in Ostrava, when she won the gold on floor exercise and silvers on vault and beam.
Mixed Group 4: Floor Exercise
Mixed Group 4 features one gymnast each from Bulgaria and Slovakia. Bulgarian women's gymnastics has reached an all-time low as for the first time they're unable to field a full women's team. Ralitsa Mileva is the only gymnast in Rotterdam, as a few other team members are injured or decided to quit. But the program is in desperate need of CPR. A top six team in the 1980s and early 1990s, Bulgaria was dead last at the 2007 Worlds. Nearly all the qualified coaches and former top gymnasts have emigrated, and despite funding for facilities or travel, the same equation remains: No coaches means no gymnasts.
The Slovakian entrant is 23-year-old Maria Homolova, who won three bronzes at the World Cup in Ostrava.
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Country music promises to set the tone for the 2013 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (Feb. 10), as Taylor Swift will be the first artist to take the stage. Swift kicks off the 8PM CBS broadcast, but like so many of the other performances what shell sing is still a mystery.
Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert will team up for a special collaboration, while Zac Brown will join an all-star lineup to honor the late Levon Helm. Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are also scheduled to sing (presumably as solo artists, but one can never be sure until the performance begins). Hunter Hayes has also been announced as a 2013 Grammys performer.
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My 9 year-old son, Kevin is wearing this Lego mini-figure costume. I love the creative challenge of Halloween and decided to take on his request to be a Lego man. I decided to paper mache the head. We started with ordering an inflatable Socker Bopper off Ebay as that was the head shape that I wanted. A lot of how-to sites have people making the head out of carved foam but I decided to attempt the paper mache instead. Once the head was dry, I covered it with light coat of wall spackle then sanded for smoothness. After I used a Dremel to cut out the eyes and mouth it was ready for paint. We covered the eye/mouth openings with a piece of screen which could also be painted. His body is folded cardboard painted with the Lego man graphics. I used foam can cozies to make the distinct Lego-man hands. Unfortunately it rained on Halloween and the Lego-man had to wear a clear poncho to stay dry!
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In about 100 days, nearly 1 million people were slaughtered during the Rwanda genocide in 1994. More than 30 years of political and ethnic tension between the minority Tutsi and the majority Hutu tribes finally combusted following the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Rwandan government estimates that there were about 10,000 murdered every day, 400 every hour, seven every minute.
It was later learned that the government had planned the genocide and the attempted mass extinction of the Tutsi people.
It would take hours, weeks, months, maybe years to study and understand the socio-political factors and the government-bred tension that led to the genocide. But lost among the statistics and talking points are the stories of the Rwandan people who lived and died during this time.
Immaculée Ilibagiza is a Rwandan genocide survivor. She and seven other Tutsi women spent 91 days huddled silently in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor's house during the killings. She entered the bathroom a vibrant, 115-pound university student with a loving family and emerged weighing just 65 pounds to find that a brother studying out of the country was the only member of her family to survive.
She taught herself English while in hiding, using only a Bible and a dictionary. Once freed, her English skills landed her a job with the U.N. and she now lives in New York. Her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, came out in 2006 and became a New York Times bestseller. Ilibagiza is the subject of the documentary The Diary of Immaculée and she has signed a contract with MPower Pictures to produce a movie about her story.
Ilibagiza, who will be speaking at Cal Lutheran University this Friday, at 7:30 p.m., discussed with the VCReporter, this week, life in Rwanda, genocide and learning how to forgive.
VCReporter: From your perspective, how do you retell the Rwandan genocide?
Immaculée Ilibagiza: It can be complicated for people outside to hear and understand but in some ways, really simple. It wasn't as simple as ethnic cleansing. It was rooted in hatred. It was rooted on a program created long ago. . . . When they, Belgium, came into the country, they decided to create two main tribes and divided the shorter people in one tribe [and the taller people in another and so on] . . . to the point where some people from the same family were put into different tribes. Why did they do it? It shows how easy it is to create hatred and hatred can easily become real to the point of killing people. . . . It was a political way of saying how can we (Belgium) divide and conquer and how can we stay here? We'll create these tribes and get them to fight in some ways. Inside the country, the people really love each other to this day, and it's crazy today to think this happened there because there is such a culture of helping each other, but from that thing the colony built a power fight between these two tribes they created. . . . It took 30 years to build what happened in 1994. Tribes introduced in 1933. [Actually] It probably took us 60 years to build that much hatred (from the original Belgian colonization and division in power between the Tutsis and the Hutus.)
At what point in this buildup did you know it was turning deadly or possibly leading to an extinction of a people?
The first war in 1959, people were scared to kill. By 1994 there was an army of Tutsi refugees outside of the country pushing to come back into the country because they were forced outside and weren't allowed to come back. So in '94 they were coming back with force. We knew they'd come back, and as they started pushing, the country said, "You push by force so we're going to kill your brothers and sisters inside the country." They called the United Nations and said, "Help us. We just want to come in peace and if they don't let us, we're going to come in by force." This was in 1990 and that was when I said, "Oh, my god, this is going to be bad." Took four years for people inside the country who literally planned, Tutsi by Tutsi, the addresses where we are, and it was so detailed and well-planned. In '94 when the president's plane crashes and he dies, the reign of terror was beginning to form and now a little signal was all that was needed to open the gates of hell. You definitely just felt it.
How old were you when in hiding?
I was 23. The day the president died, it was such an excuse. It had been so well prepared. No one could go outside. They stopped schools, banks, public transportation. . . . The only thing that started was the killing of people, family by family. On the second day my father asked me to go hide.
Is there a generational divide that now exists? Survivors have had children that are young adults now. Eventually, they must have learned that their peers and families were at war with each other not long ago.
The number one thing that has helped us is the strong culture of remembering we are not different from each other. This is just something the Belgians did. . . . I tell people when I'm speaking, "Please be careful of the intention of your actions." One bit of hatred can breed such a thing as genocide. It takes good leaders. Today the government that is there is asking people to put this behind. All my life I said, "Who is worse, a Hutu or Tutsi?" Today we are all one. No one is called Hutu or Tutsi. This was hard for many people. . . . We're not going to be called this anymore. We are going to be called Rwandans. The country is trying to tell people to end the cycle. Of course, there is still anger, wounds are still open. People lost people. I went through my own journey to understand this thing. There are people, though, that are emotionally wounded and can't control the action of what is going on. Some are in prison because they haven't adjusted. . . . Imagine, in a school today in Rwanda they still don't know history of the genocide because they don't know how to teach it. They just want kids to know they aren't determined by a tribe.
What was the first step in your recovery? Forgiveness?
Forgiveness is equal to understanding. It's a perspective through the eyes of love and through the eyes of a good citizen, eyes of faith and the eyes of goodness. I can call it forgiveness but you have to also understand that people process things differently. We are one family, but we can process it wrong and hurt ourselves. It is a madness somewhere you are competing with. . . . There is a lot of understanding but the understanding couldn't come until there is perspective of God, or of life. Life ends no matter what, whether it is by genocide or by natural causes. We all go sooner or later. It's not like I'm excited to live forever but what matters is how we live. So understanding life through the eyes of faith, and if I die, my life is not over, but continues. That helped me later.
Given your experience, how do you see America today?
I worry and pray for America as any American who was born here. I truly think we are citizens of the world. I pray for issues here. This is my home. When I visit my other home, I remember what happened and I don't know many people there now. I know more people here. My heart is here and I'm so grateful to what this country has offered me. I tell people that the O.J. Simpson case was going on the exact three months the genocide was going on. If people in America would have seen on TV what was going on in Rwanda, it would not have lasted as long as it lasted. People have heart here and get it. . . . I see goodness in this country and lots of humanity here with people trying to help, also everywhere in the world.
Were you hoping or assuming help from the U.S., the U.N or from other countries?
I hoped and prayed so much that they would come. I was mad at the whole international community. There were ambassadors everywhere in the country. The U.N. was in the country with guns and cars, and the moment the genocide started, they pulled away. There was a lot of false hope they gave to the country. They left the day it started. The embassies closed, too. Why were you here and why are you leaving now? This was something I had to work through and has taken many years to understand how the world works. I was hoping the world would care and help. … I met President Clinton and he said it was one of his greatest regrets. But you learn from your mistakes. And what I have in my life today is my helping from what I know and learning from that past.
Where, today, do you see something similar happening as it did in Rwanda?
Sudan. Congo. The world just wants to progress and progress, and when something bad is happening, sometimes we just don't want to hear it. We want to hear something good. There are many people helping as much as they can. But the truth is, genocide can happen anywhere because of hatred, because we can lose our humanity.


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For those who are not aware of Acharya S (The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ, and Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection) she has just put out article on Free Thought Nation. Please check it out
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After receiving my master's degree in business, I decided that finally it was time to accept my calling become pastor and save the world one soul at time. (Doctorate in African studies and Religion) Now before increasing my already out of control student loan bill, I decided to first see why other religions and or cultures did not like Christianity what was wrong with three GODS IN ONE I believed in.
Now most people ask if you were studying word, on journey to preach the word to the…Continue
Yeah, I am fairly well versed in the Bible, as well. Due to my short lived Pentecostal background. lol.
For me, I try not to ever get on a topic of religion with any religious person. I have Muslim and Christian friends. When talking to a Christian friend, I cannot even discuss the Bible. If I try to offer any historical facts, or any Biblical texts to validate my standing. They begin to get angry. Every time!!! If not angry, the become extemely aggressive, and I don't have that to do. Not when it comes to religion. Not anymore anyway.
Almost 98% of my friends are Christian. And devout ones at that. One of my besties is a minister! We talk about everything but religion. Tho, they throw in religious analogies, here and there. But, I just don't pay it much mind. lol.
When I say I prefer to work with those who have dropped religion like it's hot, I mean this: When it comes to bettering oneself, I prefer to deal with a person who will not be offended when I say " u control your life". I don't want to have the debate over Jesus and his divine plan, yada yada yada...
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WALTHAM, Mass., July 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and American allies will soon be able to obtain deployment-ready ballistic missile defense radars.
The first cooling equipment unit for the AN/TPY-2 radar has been delivered by Raytheon to the MDA 14 months early and more are on the way.
The CEU is a key element of the AN/PY-2 system and when combined with Raytheon's logistics support will allow the agency to operationally deploy the radar system and to shift assets around if needed to meet warfighter needs.
"Raytheon's AN/TPY-2 radar is a critical element in defending against the growing ballistic missile threat," said David Gulla, vice president of Global Integrated Sensors for Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business. "Giving MDA the flexibility to quickly deploy an additional, operationally-effective AN/TPY-2 is an important step toward meeting the growing demand for this vital radar."
The AN/TPY-2 is an integral part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. It is a mobile, X-band phased-array radar that searches, acquires and tracks ballistic missiles. It can be deployed globally in either terminal or forward-based mode.
In terminal mode, the AN/TPY-2 serves as the search, detect, track, discrimination and fire-control radar for the THAAD weapon system, enabling the THAAD missile to intercept and destroy threats. In forward-based mode, the AN/TPY-2 cues the Ballistic Missile Defense System by detecting, discriminating and tracking enemy ballistic missiles in the ascent phase of flight.
In other company developments, Raytheon and its British partner Chemring are finalizing plans to conduct a live missile firing of Chemring's multi-role CENTURION naval launcher at the Defense Training Estate on Salisbury Plain.
The launcher, using various Raytheon missiles, would be used to counter fast inshore attack craft.
"This progression towards integrating CENTURION with Raytheon missiles to deliver a low-cost, effective and versatile solution to increase naval platform protection is a significant milestone," said Mark Papworth, chief executive of Chemring Group. "This multi-mission, single-launch platform solution can be installed on a wide variety of surface ships and provides defensive protection in both blue water and the littorals, contributing to the layered defense philosophy against a wide range of threats."
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