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(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding Cuba's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:
"I am relieved that the State Department spokesman stated today that it is not true that Cuba is being considered to be taken off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. The Castro brothers align themselves with the likes of Ahmadinejad of Iran, al-Assad of Syria, Qaddafi of Libya before his death, along with terrorist groups, such as the FARC and the ETA. Just this week, Ali Saeedlou, Vice-President for International Affairs for fellow State Sponsor of Terrorism Iran, is in Cuba visiting the Castro brothers to expand its collaboration between these pariah states.
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STAMFORD -- A 25-year-old Greenwich woman took the crown of Miss Connecticut Sunday night at the Marriott Hotel, while the runner-up was a Fairfield woman recently named to the New York Jets cheerleading squad.
As Desiree Perez received the crown from the reigning title holder, Erin Brady, she hinted that she wanted to follow in her footsteps. Brady went on to win Miss USA and placed in the top 10 in the Miss Universe pageant Nov. 9 in Russia.
"I'm thinking back to back baby, Connecticut," Perez said, with a laugh.
Perez wowed the judges in a sparkling gold dress and tugged at their heartstrings, with her touching story about suffering from a tumor in her jaw and having to undergo reconstructive surgery to her face. The beauty queen said she's tried to bring inspiration to others through her hardship.
"It was the only thing I could do at the time," she said.
Of the 35 contestants in the pageant, Fairfield County dominated the competition by taking all of the top five spots. Along with Perez, there were women from Fairfield, Redding and Bridgeport. The fifth woman was from New Milford.
The pageant began Saturday, with a total of 65 contestants -- 30 competing for Miss Teen Connecticut and 35 competing for Miss Connecticut. They underwent the swimsuit, interview and evening gown portions, before being pared down to 15 women.
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For a slideshow of photos from the pageant, visit greenwichtime.com
On Sunday, the final 15 contestants marched onto the stage in their evening gowns and were introduced to the crowd. Among the group, five finalists were named and each had to answer a few questions.
As the panel of judges made their decision, Brady took the stage to a round of applause and the announcer said, "She made everyone proud."
The 26-year-old walked the stage for the last time as Miss Connecticut, as a tape of her voice played in the background. She thanked her grandmother, sisters, parents and fiance, saying she can't wait to spend the rest of her life with him.
"So take the reins and run with it because it is the opportunity of a lifetime," Brady said to the women, as they stood waiting for results.
Fourth runner-up went to Ranya May Rasamny, of Redding, who said she was an English major who wants to inspire people through her writing. Third runner-up went to Jessica Bouwman, of New Milford, who works for Hearst Publications and is also a belly dancer/instructor who finds dance routines for people of all shapes and sizes.
Second runner-up was Tiffany Teixeira of Bridgeport, a nurse who said she doesn't mind the "blood and guts." She also said she wants to break the stigma attached to coming from the inner city that "you're from the ghetto and you're going to end up pregnant."
"I'm street smart, but I'm poised," Teixeira told the crowd.
First runner-up was Nikki Delventhal, of Fairfield, a model and dancer who said having a good body image is important. Wearing a flowing black dress, she told the judges that she's been a competitive cheerleader her whole life and recently won a spot on the New York Jets cheerleading squad.
"In a few days, I pushed myself and I made it and my dreams came true," Delventhal said, of the grueling try-outs.
After the competition, Perez stood on the stage for several minutes, taking pictures with Miss Teen Connecticut, Sydney West of Vernon, and some others.
Perez said she grew up in New York City and moved to Greenwich two years ago. She still works in the city, running a marketing company that endorses products through social media.
Since discovering she had a tumor in her jaw at age seven, Perez said she's had to receive treatments for many years. Though the tumor was benign, it required a series of operations.
"My last surgery was two years ago, but I'm healthy now," she said.
Because she's of Venezuelan descent, Perez said it's natural that she's competed in pageants her whole life. She took fourth runner-up in this competition last year and wanted to give it one more shot.
"I saw it, I believed it and I think I owned it," she said of the night. "This was my last time competing in a pageant."


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Despite the debut of former Earthquakes midfielder Richard Mulrooney, acquired to play outside back for the Dynamo, Houston fell to a 1-0 road defeat on a second-half goal from teenager Jozy Altidore that came despite a man advantage after a red card to New York's Clint Mathis.
Houston Dynamo (1-1-1) vs. New York Red Bulls (2-0-1)
April 21, 2007 -- Giants Stadium, East Rutherford NJ
Scoring Summary:
NY -- Jozy Altidore 2 (Hunter Freeman 1) 60
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Kelly Gray, Ryan Cochrane, Eddie Robinson, Wade Barrett, Brian Mullan, Ricardo Clark, Dwayne De Rosario, Brad Davis (Richard Mulrooney 70), Alejandro Moreno (Brian Ching 69), Paul Dalglish (Chris Wondolowski 73).
Substitutes Not Used: Stuart Holden, Patrick Ianni, Craig Waibel.
New York Red Bulls -- Ronald Waterreus, Hunter Freeman, Carlos Mendes, Jeff Parke, Todd Dunivant, Dane Richards (Seth Stammler 54), Dema Kovalenko, Claudio Reyna, Dave van den Bergh (Joe Vide 91+), Jozy Altidore (John Wolyniec 74), Clint Mathis.
Substitutes Not Used: Jon Conway, Sal Caccavale, Tim Regan, Sinisa Ubiparipovic.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Dwayne De Rosario (caution; Intentional Handball) 10
NY -- Clint Mathis (ejection; Serious Foul Play) 36
NY -- Jeff Parke (caution; Dissent)
HOU -- Eddie Robinson (caution; Pushing) 63
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants: Greg Barkey; Peter Balciunas
4th official: Mark Geiger
Attendance: 12,481
Weather: Clear-and-74-degrees
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After 15 hours straight of answering emails and pressing "refresh", I have made it through day 1 of Tor.com. What this does to The Art Department, I'm not sure. I would like to keep both running without too many posts being a simple redirect, but in the beginning the balance will be a bit off.
So, playing catch up, here are a couple of part related posts over there:
A quick interview with Dice Tsutsumi on the Totoro Project: "Our first goal for this project was, of course, to raise funds to help save the Sayama Forest, the birthplace of our beloved Totoro. However, this event has had huge symbolic meaning for us as well. It has been thrilling to see so many people come together, united by their admiration for Hayao Miyazaki's work, and to see how much art and artists can contribute to the material improvement of our shared world."
A quick post about a cool online vide game gallery: Into the Pixel
Adam Rex on Frankenstein Takes the Cake
Pablo Defendini promises a series of book cover design critiques.
Soon there will be Dan Dos Santos' art and sketches for a new Tor cover.
Lastly, wallpapers galore! For one week we are reoffering all of the books and wallpapers given out during our pre-reg promo. If you missed any, you have until next Sunday to grab 'em.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The "Other" Site
After 15 hours straight of answering emails and pressing "refresh", I have made it through day 1 of Tor.com. What this does to The Art Department, I'm not sure. I would like to keep both running without too many posts being a simple redirect, but in the beginning the balance will be a bit off.
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- ces said...
Yes, today was a good day!
Not only is it the second successful day of tor.com, but I received some cd's I ordered & had been been somewhat patiently waiting for!
And although tor.com is perfect, the cd's aren't. Well, the music is perfect, even though it's all in French (which I knew when I ordered them as the singer is French) but everything else is in French also - the covers, the inserts, even the printing on the cd's. And, yes, they're imports, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Well, so it goes. Is the site going to be updated with what you're doing at ComicCon Irene? And are the demos going to be taped & available?
- EL GRANDE said...
Dear God, You've got to see this blog.
Joe y Elio
- Lana Gramlich said...
Why not just make this blog part of Tor.com?
- Irene Gallo said...
Ces: tor.com will be heavily covering ComicCon, including some short video of teh demos. I'll also be chiming in both here and there.
Lana: Well, the advantage there is that it's a much larger population, and it's people that may not have thought about illustration much — hopefully we can open some eyes.
The advantage here is that it's 100% illustration friendly. And I get to post pictures of dogs and beaches.
Eventually I'll find a balance between the two.
- Unknown said...
Please don't close the art department! It's a resource on illustration that just doesn't exist anywhere else.
- ces said...
And we like pictures of dogs and beaches!
Having your blog here makes it feel like we are talking to Irene, the person, not Irene, the Tor employee.
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PARIS, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A French bank apologized after posting a photo on Facebook of a squirrel caught hanging upside down by his testicles on a bird feeder.
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If your vehicle has been snowed upon or has ice on it, make sure you clear the entire vehicle, not just a portion of the windshield. Your visibility decreases dramatically if you can't see out of your other windows, so make sure they are all clear, as well as the roof and hood of the car – you don't want snow blowing onto a window to obstruct your view. Also make sure your headlights are clear; they'll illuminate the road better. Most of this is common sense, but how many drivers really do it?
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Answer: Today's vehicles have a firm ride. The ride in the DTS is smoother than the STS. Your 2002 Deville suspension had six years of wear and tear and would be softer. You can make a tire size change to a larger sidewall. This will require a smaller size rim. You want to acquire the same overall tire diameter of the original tire.
-- Junior Damato, Talking Cars columnist
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Sticking to the speed limit likely will save you money at the pump. According to FuelEconomy.gov, gas mileage generally decreases rapidly once you top 60 mph. The numbers they give is that every 5 mph over 60 mph costs you about a quarter more in fuel costs.
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I've been working with Greenpeace for more than 20 years and until now I had never been deported from any country. Until last week, that is, when I tried to enter Indonesia to spend time with our staff in Jakarta in support of their work against deforestation. During my visit I was due to meet with a number of government officials, the UK ambassador, and one of the country's largest palm oil producers. I was also planning to bear witness to the deforestation caused by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Sumatra for myself. I had the correct visa, issued from the Indonesian embassy in London, but apparently that doesn't count for much when you are part of an organization fighting against companies who have powerful connections in government. After getting off the plane in Jakarta I arrived at immigration and was informed I am on a 'red list', banned from the country. No official explanation was provided.The day after I received my business visa from the Indonesian embassy in London the warning bells started to ring. Articles in the Indonesian media suggested I had already tried, and failed, to gain entry to the country for a Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) conference on deforestation. During the conference Indonesian President Yudhoyono pledged to prioritise rainforest protection for the rest of his presidency.Greenpeace supports President Yudhoyono's position and is horrified to see his work undermined by the business-as-usual approach from companies like APP. It would have been an honour for me to hear his speech in person but I had other engagements in London at the time, which meant I was unable to travel to the country in time for the CIFOR conference. I made no attempts to attend the conference, so why on earth was the Indonesian media reporting I had arrived and been refused entry when I hadn't even left the UK yet? Where was this information coming from? I made enquiries with the UK Ambassador in Jakarta and the Indonesian Ambassador in London. The UK Embassy told me that they could get no official answer or explanation about my status. In London the Indonesian embassy informed me that yes, I had the right visa, but that didn't guarantee entry. No one could give me a clear response about whether I was on a 'banned' list. I have been a visitor to Indonesia many times and even got married in Bali. Why was this happening now? I was making this visit to Indonesia to support Greenpeace's work there and to spend time in a country that means a great deal to me. After extensive consultation with our office in Jakarta we decided that I should proceed as planned. Our work against deforestation has reached a critical stage: we want to support the agenda of reform in the forest sector and want APP to make strong commitments to protect forests, just as their sister company within the Sinar Mas Group, Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has already done. Greenpeace welcomed these steps forward by GAR, steps that have now resulted in the company winning back contracts with companies like Nestlé. APP can take similar actions to change its business, actions that can win back the trust of major international corporations that have stopped their orders with the company. These are companies like Mattel, Kraft, Adidas, Nestlé, Auchan, Carrefour, Tesco and many others. And let's be clear, these international brands are suspending orders because of APP's continued reliance on deforestation and their deeply flawed PR efforts to hide their tracks. APP is selling an image to the world that is built upon distortion and fabrication. The company has become an embarrassment for Indonesia. I was told, informally, that I am a risk to Indonesia, that I could cause disruption in the country. I am a member of an organization that works peacefully in support of the Indonesian President's stated commitments to stop deforestation. What message does it sent to the world when I am banned from the country? We see no evidence of the 'disruption' caused by APP being stopped or impeded. The company is linked to corruption, illegal logging scandals and community conflicts but it appears to operate with impunity. I still hope to return to visit our office in Indonesia one day soon - and in the meantime our efforts to stop deforestation continue.
Above: Greenpeace Indonesia 'Tiger's Eye Tour' activists bear witness to deforestation in Sumatra. Greenpeace is urging the government to review existing concessions and protect carbon-rich peatland and rainforests - and urges industries to implement a zero deforestation policy in their operations. Image: Ulet Ifansasti


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Tara: This is David Solomon, one of the founders of Peachtree Audio, and he's going to tell us a little bit about his company and how you all got started.
David: First off, even with all of the cool products that we've got these days, actually came from this little box. And seven years ago when we were carrying this thing around, people just looked at us like we had, you know, six eyes. It was just the most different, it was the most different thing that they had ever seen because it wasn't just an integrated amplifier that we were carrying around. It was something that we felt that people were starting to use their computers more and more for music and it was, we had the hair-brained idea that at some point CDs would just go away.
Well, we would come and tell people that owned stores this, and it was just they would look at us like the CD is never gonna go away. And we're going, "Well it is, or at least we think it is, and this is the kind of product that's gonna end up taking its place." Although it's, you know, kind of ugly, it actually really sounded very good. And what made it different than anything else that was on the market at the time or anything that any of the other big companies were showing is that it actually handled what we thought would become what people would listen to more than CDs. It had a USB input. It had an optical and a coax input. You had to switch it like this.
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While tempted to think a state attorney and a county sheriff went too far in busting a woman for frolicking at the beach with a manatee, I asked a Save The Manatee Club scientist about it.
I was thinking that the one-time frolicker, Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 52, had been clearly delighted by her unexpected manatee encounter, and had simply enjoyed playing with them in the surf at Pinellas County's Fort DeSoto Park.
When she crawled onto the back of one manatee, the animal could have tossed her but expressed no objection.
Some beach-goers did. One snapped photos and turned them over to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff, and later the state attorney, saw a violation of a state law that makes disturbing or harassing manatees a second-degree misdemeanor.
That can mean a fine and up to six months in jail. A federal law is even more severe.
The sheriff called her behavior "one of the most egregious cases that we'd ever seen of just an absolute disrespect for wildlife."
One of the most egregious? Is he kidding?
I know some things about manatees I didn't learn from reading or listening to tour guides or to a sheriff absurdly overstating a case. I've had manatees approach me when I was swimming in a local bay, where I had no idea a manatee was nearby until one came face to face or side to side with me.
Each time I was startled, but the manatees were calm and showed every indication of wanting to play or be petted or something of the sort.
Those were nice and memorable encounters, and I didn't do anything illegal, as far as I know. I'm not sure if I was restrained by caution, or awareness of the law, or by being busy messing with my boat. But I could easily have played and petted and so become a criminal, it seems.
So maybe I'm biased.
But Katie Tripp, director of science and conservation for the Save The Manatee Club, told me that prosecuting the woman is appropriate and called for.
And no, the law shouldn't be changed to make such frolicking a civil infraction, like most driving violations.
When I called her club, I first heard a taped greeting from singer Jimmy Buffett, who almost seemed to know why I called. Buffett warned against doing anything that makes aquatic mammals lose their fear of humans.
When Tripp got on the phone, she made the same point more adamantly. Manatees are more prone to get into danger from boat propellers and mean people if they lose their fear of us, she said. And ignorance of that problem, and of the law, is no excuse.
"This woman is being used as an example," Tripp told me.
She meant that as a good thing. Most violators are never caught, she said, but this one was and her prosecution will be a good warning. Though the woman may have had good intentions when she played with those manatees, "it's illegal, and it should be illegal."
So write her a ticket. Give her a severe warning. But why overdo it? Inter-species cuddliness is more like a violation of manatee-lover etiquette than actual crime. How about we reserve criminal charges for clearly harmful acts and flat-out mean-spirited ones?
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Stubby is the name given to a mode of using getdns which enables it to act as a local DNS-over-TLS stub resolver. It is recommended to use the latest release of the 1.1 version of getdns to have the most up to date version of Stubby.
In this mode Stubby (getdns) does several things
In this mode, the only dependency is OpenSSL (version 1.0.2 or later is required for hostname authentication to be supported). If this is installed in a non-standard location on your system use the --with-ssl option to configure below to specify where it is.
It may be necessary to install 1.0.2 from source for most Linux distros.
It is recommended to install OpenSSL using homebrew, in which case use the following in the configure line in step 1.3 below:
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> git submodule update --init > libtoolize -ci > autoreconf -fi > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure --prefix=<install_location> --without-libidn --enable-stub-only > make > sudo make install
Stubby will use the config file at /etc/stubby.conf by default if it exists, or the config file location can be specified on the command line using the '-C' flag. [Note: With no config file stubby will use UDP to the default nameservers for queries).
Changes to the config file require a restart of Stubby.
The config file below is an example that will configure Stubby to:
{ resolution_type: GETDNS_RESOLUTION_STUB , dns_transport_list: [ GETDNS_TRANSPORT_TLS ] , upstream_recursive_servers: [ { address_data: 184.108.40.206 , tls_auth_name: "getdnsapi.net" , tls_pubkey_pinset: [ { digest: "sha256" , value: 0x7e8c59467221f606695a797ecc488a6b4109dab7421aba0c5a6d3681ac5273d4 } ] } ] , tls_authentication: GETDNS_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED , listen_addresses: [ 127.0.0.1, 0::1 ] , idle_timeout: 10000 }
Additional privacy servers can be specified by adding more entries to the upstream_recursive_servers list above (note a separate entry must be made for the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of a given server. More DNS Privacy test servers are listed here.
It is recommended to use more than one upstream for increased performance and reliability. This config files uses Strict Privacy to all the current test servers that support this over both IPv4 and IPv6: stubby_all_strict.conf
Simply invoke Stubby on the command line. By default it runs in the foreground, the '-g' flag runs it in the background. The pid file is /var/run/stubby.pid
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A quick test can be done by using dig (or your favourite DNS tool) on the loopback address
> dig @127.0.0.1 www.example.com
Once this change is made your DNS queries will be re-directed to Stubby and sent over TLS! (You may need to restart some applications to have them pick up the network settings).
You can monitor the traffic using Wireshark watching on port 853.
For Stubby to re-send outgoing DNS queries over TLS the recursive resolvers configured on your machine must be changed to send all the local queries to the loopback interface on which Stubby is listening. This depends on the operating system being run. It is useful to note your existing default nameservers before making this change!
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Add the following (only add the IPv4 address if you don't have IPv6)
nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ::1
From the command line you can do the following to set the local DNS servers on, for example, your 'Wi-Fi' interface (first line clears all servers, second line adds localhost):
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi Empty sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 127.0.0.1 ::1
If you want to reset, use something similar to the above to specify your default servers.
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It's pretty easy to find Nick Saban's height: Saban was a defensive back for the Kent State Golden Flashes for the 1970, 1971, and 1972 seasons and also played for the baseball team in 1972. Every year and for both teams, his height and weight were listed at 5-foot-6, 185 lbs. So he's about three and a half inches shorter than the average American male—ha ha, Nick Saban is short.
But here's where the plot thickens: Saban sure doesn't look 5-foot-6 when he's photographed next to other, taller people. There have long been rumors that Saban wears shoe lift inserts, the monument to male vanity that is to shortness what toupées are to baldness: people joke about it on Twitter, people have reported it from in-person interactions, and some people have even been fooled by the maneuver.
So let's go to the tape. It's tough to find images where both parties are standing to their full height—I don't think I've ever stood to my full height in my life—but with a little margin for error, it looks as though Saban's lifts give him about 3 inches, in line with the tallest you can buy.
For example, if Roger Goodell is a couple inches shorter than Robert Griffin, that puts him at around 6-foot:
Nick Saban looked almost as tall as Goodell here, and he's farther away from the camera:
President Obama is six-foot-one; when the University of Alabama football team visited the White House after their National Championship victory, Saban sure didn't look seven inches shorter than the Commander-in-Chief:
And here he is looking, oh, six or seven inches shorter than the six-foot-four Dont'a Hightower:
While you might note that some of the boost comes from normal shoe height, everyone in all of these pictures is wearing shoes. The verdict? Nick Saban—fearsome intimidator, coaching impresario, unmatched innovator—wears some big-ass lifts when he makes non-game public appearances. For the record, he looks about five-foot-six on the field (here, Les Miles, who is reputed to be no more than five-foot-eight, looks down at Saban during their post-game handshake), so he doesn't let his vanity get in the way of running up and down the sideline and making terrifying faces.
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2013 was the year Amy Black really burst into the forefront of New England's most compelling musical performers. She celebrates her latest studio album, "This Is Home," which was released Tuesday, with a weekend of shows at Johnny D's in Somerville.
2013 was the year Amy Black really burst into the forefront of New England's most compelling musical performers, with a string of galvanizing shows all over the country, a live album recorded at Johnny D's in Somerville, and recognition by some of the leading lights both in Americana circles and Nashville's country music royalty.
This weekend marks another milestone for Black, as she celebrates her latest studio album, "This Is Home," which was released Tuesday, with a weekend of shows at Johnny D's. Black, in fact, has a bunch of local gigs coming up including March 1 at Circle of Friends Coffeehouse in Franklin, March 8 at Chan's in Woonsocket, and May 2 at the Narrows Center in Fall River.
There must be something in the atmosphere around the Boston area, for Black is merely the latest area performer to forge a path in the national musical consciousness after a mid-life career correction. Much like her friends and inspirations, Mary Gauthier and Lori McKenna, Black was sailing along in a nice career at about age 35, when she decided music was calling her. Since Black, like Stoughton's McKenna, and former Boston resident Gauthier, is a songwriter of stunning power, most observers would agree that it was a wise career change.
Black had grown up in Alabama and Missouri, and came to Boston to study at Northeastern, graduating with a degree in marketing and soon entering the business world. While she had always loved and enjoyed music, she was a good decade into her career, working for non-profits, when she just came to the conclusion cubicle life was not for her.
"As of January 1 I am a fulltime musician, for the first time in my life!" Black exulted when we caught up with her from her Somerville home. "I had put in almost twenty years, was supervising four other people, and was still working about 32 hours a week until December."
"Mary Gauthier was my first inspiration, because she started her music career at about 35, same as I did," said Black. "It was similar for Lori, and when I was talking about that with Mary, she said "we all got hijacked by music." You do those internet, Facebook things about finding your true profession, right? One of my pals got surgeon, but I got 'writer,' so I figure that's pretty accurate. I just know I was not born to spend my life in an office."
"I am glad I have the business skills to help me," Black added. "But I feel like I had never had a chance to blossom. I spent time sitting in my kitchen thinking, and I knew I wanted to get out there and sing. I had written a couple tunes in college, played them for my friends and so on. But I had never thought of myself as a songwriter, so it's been an interesting thing so far."
When Black began singing in public, she did rock and country covers with a band, and their 2009 album "Amy Black & the Red Clay Rascals" was all cover songs. But eventually, after meeting and talking with Gauthier and McKenna, Black began writing her own songs. By 2011 the result was her solo debut, "One Time," with nine of its dozen songs originals. Not quite folk, not quite country, it was well crafted roots music marked by the simple honesty of its lyrics and Black's pure alto vocals.
"When I had met Lori, and her guitarist and fellow songwriter, Mark Erelli, I had asked them to suggest a producer for me," Black recalled. "That's how I got Lorne Entress, who'd done Lori's previous album, and did such a good job on my first one."
Black's first solo effort earned her lots of attention, and plenty of gigs opening for touring national acts like Chris Isaak, Rodney Crowell, and Emmylou Harris. She was also a hit at the 2013 International Folk Alliance Showcase in Toronto. Last year's live album was a logical next step, a warmly down-home performance before a receptive local crowd.
If the live album presented Black's music in a bit more casual setting, looser and more spontaneous than her first studio record, it suggested a path for the next album. Black went down to Nashville and interviewed prospective producers, before settling on Lex Price.
"When I met Lex, he told me he thought my last album was really beautiful," said Black. "But he wanted to 'dirty it up' a bit. I loved that idea. My first album had a real clean sound, which was fine, but he wanted more grit, a looser feel. I'm actually drawn to that type of music, like Buddy Miller--I think he dirties it up a lot."
"I loved that gritty soul sound--I love to feel stuff in my music," said Black. "I just got a new turntable, and hearing those old Ray Charles vinyl records is incredible. I like stuff that moves you emotionally like that, but still lets you get up and dance."
The new record includes a notable band, including Will Kimbrough on guitars, Oliver Wood of the Wood Brothers on guitars, Josh Range from Sheryl Crow's band on pedal steel and piano, Ian Fitchuk on B-3 organ, and Price on bass and guitar. Black, who realized later in life she'd spent some of her childhood years close by Muscle Shoals, also wanted to explore more of her r&b potential, and her love of gospel.
"I love that more upbeat, funky vibe we got on 'Nobody Knows You," said Black. "That second guitar solo is Oliver Wood, who really muddied it up. Oliver spent a day with us, when we were doing the more bluesy stuff. We definitely got pretty funky--the cut "Layin' It Down" was even more funky, and Lex had to tame it down a bit."
If the new album contains a bunch of songs where the joy of living and loving is palpable, it also includes more serious fare, like "Hello," which depicts the pain of a parent slipping away from dementia, or Alzheimer's Disease. It's a poignant but loving portrait that resonates.
"That song is coming from a real place," said Black. "We've had that experience in my family. I had seen a movie with an Alzheimer's theme, and it ripped my heart out. I wrote that song when I stopped crying, and shared it with my mom, whose father had Alzheimer's. People go through it, and maybe this song helps express what they're feeling. And, if people want to hear it once, and then never again, I'm okay with that. But we never had any qualms about including that song, and I have no apologies for writing it--it was something I needed to do."
Another notable cut on the new album is Crowell's paean to second chances, "Still Learning How to Fly," and it's no accident, since Crowell has become a friend and long-distance mentor.
"That song touched me deeply the first time I heard Rodney do it, solo and acoustic, the first time I opened a show for him, in Maine," Black noted. "It's a very moving song, admitting I still have my challenges, but I'm still learning and moving forward. I ended my album with that song for a reason, because I wanted people to see this is me, and that song is inspiring to someone like me."
"Rodney Crowell has been a great help to me," said Black. "We exchange emails, and his emails and coaching are as well-written as his songs. It's all about writing from the heart, and he wanted me to tap into some pain with these new songs, and be able to take my music down some darker paths. It's been incredible that someone like him believes in my songwriting so much."
Black explored another aspect of her musical heritage when she went to Muscle Shoals to record a four-song EP of classic R&B covers. That CD was released last fall.
"My musical path has been pretty interesting the past year," Black chuckled. "I loved just digging into that music. Even though I grew up close to the Fame studio, I never knew about it until much later. My grand-dad, who lived nearby, had just died and I wanted to do something in his honor. I had a really nice time at Muscle Shoals, with guys like Spooner Oldham helping us out. I'm going to be doing a few shows of that music, a Muscle Shoals Revue, with Sarah Borges later this spring."
Black had previously lived in the Lowell area, but not long ago she and her husband Ryan Black moved to Somerville, partly because it made more sense for her musical career. These two nights at Johnny D's are thus like unveiling the new record at her home base, but Black has an ambitious 2014 mapped out.
"My husband has been incredibly supportive, and Friday is our 15th anniversary," said Black. "Me, my husband and our dog--that's Team Black. He's a schoolteacher, so he can tour with me in the summer. I'm going to South by Southwest this year, doing a showcase in Austin, and also the Folk Alliance Festival in Kansas City. I really want to get out there, and we're hoping for a big year."
Both the Friday and Saturday shows at Johnny D's start at 7 p.m., with Shannon McNally opening, and all tickets are $15.


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Bang & Olufsen's stylish AV gear usually gives the impression of wealth and affluence, but having just been revealed by the FCC, its new wireless AirPlay speaker comes across as looking just simple and quaint.
The perforated grill that wraps all the way around the Beolit 12 makes it look like a wicker picnic basket, and the leather carrying strap on top only adds to that effect. Instead of Bluetooth, which has been the theme for today, the speaker goes the Wi-Fi route, making it compatible with AirPlay capable iOS devices and computers.
According to details on the FCC site, the Beolit 12 also has an ethernet port, presumably for configuring AirPlay, and a standard 3.5mm line in jack for connecting older audio gear. There's no word on when it might be available, but given it's been given the A-OK by the FCC, there's a good chance you could find one under the Christmas tree this year, from your very, very rich uncle. [FCC via Wireless Goodness]


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FREELAND — They started about five years ago as public school students with an interest in science.
Now, south Whidbey Island's Atlantis Inc. ROV Team is preparing to test its underwater robotics skills against students from around the world. The group of five middle- and high-schoolers won a spot in the international contest by placing first in a May 11 regional competition.
"They really enjoy making things," said mentor Ashley McConnaughey, whose two daughters are on the squad. "They started about five years ago just being a science club."
The next step is a competition scheduled Thursday through Saturday at King County's Aquatics Center in Federal Way. There, the south Whidbey students are set to face teams from Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, Japan, Scotland and elsewhere.
The local team members are: Derrick Riley, 18; Austin Drake, 17; Hannah McConnaughey, 16; Chris Wilson, 16; and Haley McConnaughey, 13.
Their homemade robot, dubbed ROVBOTNICA 2, cost $544 compared to the $4,000 to $17,000 some other teams shelled out. They spent months to engineer and build it, puzzling over trigonometry problems to determine features such as the best pitch for their aquatic vehicle's propellers. "Our bot didn't look like anything else there," Riley said.
The competitions are overseen by the MATE Center — the acronym stands for Marine Advance Technology Education. The goal is to promote the STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math.
Competitions focus on real-life scenarios. Past examples have included the 2010 BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico and searching WWII ship wrecks. Competitors are from community colleges and universities as well as K-12 schools.
The Atlantis Inc. ROV Team also has been selected to collaborate on two free June 9 workshops on Whidbey Island as part of the Seattle Science Festival, which produced by the Pacific Science Center with help from some of the state's top tech companies.
The first program is the Intro to Underwater Robotics, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's limited to the first 24 applicants who register at www.seatlesciencefestival.org.
The second event is the Underwater Robotics Showcase and Demonstration from 2 to 4:30 p.m.
The venue for both programs is the is the Island Athletic Club, 5522 Freeland Ave., Freeland.
The MATE International ROV competition is June 20-22, at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, 650 SW Campus Drive, Federal Way. Go to www.marinetech.org/ rov-competition for information.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
I would like the logo designed in 2D with very clean and recognizable features. The logo may depict a god, character or any other RPG element.
Napster.com is a perfect example of the style I am looking for. (I love the negative space)
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is a dessert for apple lovers who want to spread their wings. The addition of dried apricots adds a hint of tartness that helps to balance the sweetness of the apples and the streusel topping that are used in the pie. This is not a sweet dessert. I suspect that those of you who are fond of barely sweet European pastries will enjoy this, but if you crave sweets you'll probably be happier with an old-fashioned apple pie. This is an easy pastry to make, but the streusel topping is not the type you fling over a filling. It is more cake-like and must be chilled before it is pinched into small pieces that are used to cover the apple and apricot mixture. I cut my apples into 12 segments and I've found that that is a perfect thickness for the slices used in this pie. At the end of an hours baking, they'll be fork tender and juicy but will still retain their shape. I do hope you'll give this recipe a try. If you are not so inclined, I hope you'll at least throw some dried apricots into your favorite apple pie and see what transpires. In the meantime, here are the instructions for this pie.
Apple and Apricot Pie with Streusel Topping...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
Pastry for single crust pie
Crumb Topping
6 tablespoons butter, room temperature
1/4 cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
1 egg white, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
5 large apples (2-1/2 pounds), such as Granny Smith— peeled, cored, quartered and thickly sliced
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup diced dried apricots (2-1/2 ounces)
1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into small dice
1) Roll pastry to fit a 9-inch pie or quiche pan. Refrigerate until ready to fill. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2) To make streusel: Combine butter and sugar in a small bowl. Blend with a fork until creamy. Mix in egg white and almond extract and stir until incorporated. Sift flour and salt into butter mixture and stir to combine. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
3) To make filling: In a bowl, toss apples with sugar and apricots, zest, cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of flour. Scrape apples into pie shell and dot with butter. Crumble topping over apples leaving some fruit showing so steam can escape as pie bakes.
4) Bake pie in lower third of oven for 10 minutes, then reduce temperature to 400 degrees F. and bake until topping is nicely browned and filling is bubbling slightly, about 1 hour. If topping becomes too dark, cover with foil during last 20 minutes of baking. Let pie cool completely before serving. Yield: 8 servings.
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i didn't see a lot of them. thanks!
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Kanzaki, two questions for you.
1) I suppose I should be the one to do something more permanent like that since I hold the originals. Is mediafire the best way of doing that then?
2) Why are you named 'Kanzaki'?
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1) Yes, I believe that Mediafire is safe these days. You can make a password for the files if you wish to.
2) You don't like it?
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Man that Higashino Dokkiri was awesome.
Haven't seen it before, thanks a lot.


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Reflecting on 3 years at the helm of what has become a dynamic international organisation, the series presents an 'insider' look at the Greenpeace of today, highlighting some of the more surprising aspects of our organisation, from the well known protest actions, to our people, and volunteers.
In episode one Kumi reflects on his first contact with Greenpeace, and the need for greater participation in activism.
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Patrick Ewing's career can only be defined by his failures at the hands of Michael Jordan. Be it college or the pros, Ewing has never been able to reach the ultimate success in his profession because Michael was always in the way. And now, ever nearer to the pinnacle of his post-playing career—an actual head coaching job—once again Ewing runs into Jordan saying "Not on my watch."
Yahoo reports that Jordan informed Ewing he's no longer in the running to be the next Bobcats coach, probably via a phone call in which MJ had to bite down on his knuckles to keep his glee from being audible in his voice. He then lit a thousand-dollar cigar with a hundred dollar bill, and shot a shitty round of golf while making sure Stu Jackson put the Bobcats lottery envelope in the freezer. "Patrick, you know how historically awful our team is, and how they have little hope of getting better anytime soon? Well, it's still better than you deserve. But buck up! Maybe next time you'll make it to the second round of interviews before getting turned down."
Charlotte won't begin that second round of interviews until they find out where they're going to draft. Which means there was no particular reason for Jordan to break the news to Ewing now, except maybe that Jordan is physically nourished by the humiliation of others.


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Did y'all see this?
Maybe you CAN blame being fat on your genes. But there's a way to overcome that family history — just get three to four hours of moderate activity a day.
Seriously. Just exercise moderately for three to four hours a day, and you won't be fat! LIKE MAGIC.
The best part is where they tell us that that's really not as much as it seems, and offer the same old list of ideas that's offered in every article exhorting us to just get twenty minutes of exercise a day, or half an hour, three times a week, or one hour, five days a week — whatever the hell the recommendation du jour is.
Instead of watching TV for a few hours at night, take a brisk walk, he suggested. Or use stairs instead of elevators, walk instead of driving, or take up a structured exercise such as swimming.
Or, you know, just park your car farther away from the mall! Like, 15 miles away!
Seriously, we're supposed to walk briskly or take the stairs for three to four hours? I have walked briskly for three to four hours on occasion, but only on occasion, because it's a fucking huge time investment. People are supposed to work at least eight or ten hours a day, then go home and say, "Hi, family, lovely to see you, off for my brisk walk now! You'll be in bed when I get back, so see you in the morning!" And that's without getting into the fact that a whole hell of a lot of people in the U.S. don't live somewhere where they could take that long a walk if they wanted to — unless they just did hundreds of laps around their backyards or living rooms. Today, theoretically, I could walk over to the lakeshore path and take it downtown, then turn around and come home, and that would be just about four hours of brisk walking. But when I was growing up in the suburbs, my only path from home to anywhere involved highways and no sidewalks. Also, fuck if I'm going to take that walk every night of my life, throughout the Chicago winter and the Chicago summer, instead of actually spending time with Al and friends, unwinding from writing all day. And I love walking!
Fortunately, though, the article also offers another way to get your three to four hours a day: become Amish. The study of this particular genetic variant — thought to affect 30 percent of people of European descent (so I'm not sure if people of color are off the hook or expected to exercise even more) — focused on an Amish community in Pennsylvania, where the lack of cars and modern technology means folks are pretty active in their daily lives. In that context, people with the genetic variant in question often were getting three to four hours of moderate exercise every day, and they were no more likely to get fat than people without it.
Which… bully for them. There's a lot to be said for that lifestyle. But most of us aren't fucking living it.
Study co-author Dr. Soren Snitker of the University of Maryland acknowledged that it's unrealistic to expect most people to shun modern conveniences and return to a 19th century lifestyle for the sake of staying trim.
Ya think?
Look, I'm a fan of movement. I don't own a car and live in a pedestrian-friendly city. I have a flexible schedule and am not working multiple jobs. But I'll be damned if I'm going to devote three to four hours of my day to exercise unless somebody starts paying me for it. The idea that I should be doing that — that 30 percent of white people should be doing that — solely to avoid being fat pisses me off like nothing has pissed me off in… I don't know, at least 45 minutes or so. I cannot fucking believe that instead of writing the obvious story — i.e., "people who have this genetic variant would have to do a tremendous, totally unrealistic amount of daily exercise to be thin" — they went with "people who have this genetic variant can be thin if they just work in three to four hours of daily exercise — easy peasy!" Seriously, you guys! It's not as bad as it sounds! Just break it down to 48 five-minute sessions throughout the day!
There was one thing that amused me about this article, right at the end:
Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, a genetics and obesity researcher at Children's Hospital Boston, said people should not interpret the study to mean, "I don't have this gene variant so I don't need to be physically active."
I love it. It's the flipside of the inevitable, "People shouldn't take this as a license to eat whatever they want!" that ends every fucking article suggesting that fatness is not a death sentence. What the hell is up with this assumption that everyone, fat or thin, reading articles about THE OBESITY CRISIS BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA is really just looking for permission to lie in bed all day or eat "forbidden" foods? Is that really the American dream? No movement at all and a steady diet of (baby-flavored) Krispy Kremes?
The thing that really pisses me off about this particular motif in TOCBBB articles is that it just reinforces the idea that exercise is onerous and eating veggies is gross, so the only reason any sane person would do either is to be thin. Which may have been how I felt when I was about 6 (not counting running around the backyard, tree-climbing, dance class, or swimming as exercise, of course, because those things were fun and even then I knew that Exercise Is Not Fun), but I eventually grew out of that mindset. I kinda think most people eventually do. And if they don't, it's probably because of the kabillion fucking articles propagating the notion that exercise and veggie-eating are miserable burdens one must undertake to avoid the dreaded sin of fatness. Way to promote "health" there, media.


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Reversal of Obese/Diabetic Cardiomyopathy After Gastric Bypass Surgery (DRTC)
|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: NCT01067209
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : February 11, 2010
Last Update Posted : May 1, 2019
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Diabetes is a major risk factor for heart failure. Moreover, patients with diabetes and heart failure have a worse survival than those without diabetes. We know that patients with diabetes have altered heart metabolism, structure, and function. It is unclear if these alterations can be ameliorated with weight loss. We would like to learn whether cardiac metabolism, structure, and function in diabetic patients with heart failure symptoms can be improved with marked weight loss after gastric bypass surgery.
Study Day 1. Screening. We will screen subjects with known diabetes or those with a high likelihood of diabetes who will undergo gastric bypass surgery. We will approach all patients at the Bariatric Surgery clinic regarding enrollment in our study. If they agree to participate, they will answer simple questionnaires re: medical history, obesity information, and MRI/MRS exclusion (see Appendices). We will obtain their permission to review their medical charts.
Study Day 2. Screening will include a physical examination and phlebotomy for a complete blood count, oral glucose tolerance test, & comprehensive metabolic profile and a screening rest and stress echocardiogram. The rest and stress echocardiogram will be used to exclude cardiac abnormalities other than diastolic dysfunction. Optison™ or Definity will be used as needed for the echocardiograms. We will determine the subjects' fat and fat-free mass using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) imaging at the Center for Applied Research Sciences unit.
Study Day 3. Baseline Imaging Studies. Subject preparation. We expect 30 subjects to complete our study's screening tests and meet our study criteria. The evening before imaging Study Days 3 & 4, subjects will be admitted to The Center for Applied Research Sciences Intensive Research Unit in order to standardize their metabolic milieu for their myocardial fat imaging studies. At 1800, subjects will ingest a standard meal containing a total of ~700 kcal for the subjects. Carbohydrate, fat, and protein will represent 55, 30, and 15%, respectively, of total energy intake. At 2000, subjects will ingest a defined liquid formula snack containing 250 kcal, 40 g carbohydrate, 6.1 g fat, and 8.8 g protein (Ensure, Ross Laboratories, Columbus, OH). After this snack, all subjects will fast until completion of the study the following day. Subjects will be given a lunch after completing their imaging studies. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Subjects will be placed in the gantry of the scanner. Examinations will be performed on the 1.5T scanner using ECG gating, breath-hold, and a chest array coil This same scanner will be used for 1H-Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). The MRS protocol is based on a free-breathing, point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) sequence with both ECG and two-dimensional respiratory gating optimized for accuracy and robustness. Subject care. All subjects will be given a lunch, prepared at the Intensive Research Unit after imaging is completed. All imaging should be completed by 12PM. If the physician monitoring the subject determines that the subject would benefit from furosemide 20mg, p.o. x 1, or KCl, p.o. - a 10 day course may be provided (with a follow-up K+ check). Patients' physicians would be notified of any changes. We request subjects stay on their same medical regimen throughout the testing period. We recognize that this may not be possible for all subjects.
Gastric bypass. Subjects will undergo surgery after Study Day 3. The same surgeon (J.C.E.) will perform all bypass procedures using standard techniques. Briefly, a small (~20 mL) proximal gastric pouch will be created by stapling across the stomach, and a 150 cm Roux-Y limb constructed by transecting the jejunum 30cm distal to the ligament of Treitz and creating a jejunojejunostomy 150 cm distal to the transection.
Study Day 4. Imaging Studies - 3 months after surgery. Subjects will undergo the same imaging studies under the same conditions and in the same order as on Study Day 3 except that subjects on Day 4 will also undergo a resting echocardiogram for diastolic function.
|Study Type :
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|45 participants
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|Reversal of Obesity- and Diabetes-related Cardiomyopathy in Patients Who Have Undergone Gastric Bypass Surgery.
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|December 2019
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|December 2019
Diabetic/Obese Gastric bypass patients
Subjects with obesity including those with known diabetes or those with a high likelihood of diabetes who will undergo gastric bypass surgery.
- Primary outcome measure: cardiac function, myocardial fat deposition [ Time Frame: the time frame of the study ]
- Plasma lipidomics, liver fat deposition [ Time Frame: the time frame of the study ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- All subjects will have type 2 diabetes or be at risk for type 2 diabetes and have a BMI>30kg/m2.
- Subjects must be between the ages of 35 and 70 years, in order to limit the confounding affect of age on our endpoints.
23 Subjects must also meet the following definition of diastolic dysfunction:
- 1) meet Framingham criteria for heart failure (see Appendix),
- 2) have an ejection fraction >45% based on the rest portion of the screening echocardiography,
24 To determine if potential subjects meet these criteria, they will
- 1) be interviewed,
- 2) their clinical charts reviewed, by the research study coordinator and/or the PI, and
- 3) undergo a history and physical by the PI (Study Day 2) and undergo screening studies.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects who are <35 or >70 years,
- current smokers, not obese,
- unstable,
- not able to lie flat for the imaging studies,
- not ambulatory,
- unable to give informed consent,
- pregnant, lactating will be excluded.
- Those who have a condition that may masquerade as diastolic heart failure (e.g. constrictive pericarditis) will be excluded based on the screening echocardiogram;
- those who have atrial flutter or fibrillation,
- evidence of other major systemic diseases (e.g., cancer),
- an ejection fraction <45%, >class I hypertension or who are taking more than 1 medication (other than a diuretic) for hypertension will be excluded.
- We will not exclude patients with sleep apnea because data suggest it does not affect left ventricular (LV) diastolic function, but we will ask about it on a questionnaire for better phenotyping of the subjects.25
- We will exclude patients with significant pulmonary hypertension (peak artery pressure>55mmHg), since most patients with diastolic dysfunction have a pressure lower than this, and a pressure greater than this may indicate other cardiopulmonary pathology.
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): NCT01067209
|United States, Missouri
|Washington University School of Medicine
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
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|Linda R Peterson, MD
|Washington University School of Medicine
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|February 11, 2010 Key Record Dates
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|May 1, 2019
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Reversal of Obesity-related and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Diabetic Cardiomyopathies
Heart Diseases
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The West Indies returned to winning ways in the shortest variety of the game, defeating England by 27 runs in the first Twenty20 International of a three-match series at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown on Sunday.
Marlon Samuels, the star when the Caribbean side defeated Sri Lanka in the final of the last World Twenty20 in Colombo 17 months ago, led the home team's effort with an unbeaten 69 as the West Indies totaled a competitive 170-3.
Samuels finished off a good afternoon's work in front of a celebratory full house with two wickets to seal the man-of-the-match award.
Wrist-spinner Samuel Badree put the tourists on the back foot early on with three wickets and although all-rounders Tim Bresnan (47 not out) and Ravi Bopara (42) made useful contributions, England were always struggling to keep up with the required rate and were restricted to 143-9.
"We didn't get going today, but that's something that can happen in Twenty20 cricket, especially when you're chasing a decent score," England captain Stuart Broad said. "It's certainly not something to panic about."
For the West Indies, the celebrations over a victory that sends a message to all challengers for their world Twenty20 title in Bangladesh later in the month would have been tempered by concerns over the fitness of ace spinners Sunil Narine and Badree.
Narine only bowled two overs and left the field after jarring his right knee trying to make a save on the boundary, while Badree, who claimed three for 17 off his allotted four overs, injured the fingers of his bowling hand attempting to take a return catch just before completing his spell.
"He'll be going for a scan this evening, so hopefully he'll be OK," West Indies captain Darren Sammy said, in commenting on Narine's injury. "We're already without Kieron Pollard so we can't afford to lose another key player so close to the World Cup."
Injury has also limited Chris Gayle's appearances for the West Indies over the past two months, but he returned on Sunday, contributing a typically robust 43.
However, it was his opening partner Dwayne Smith who stole the show at the very start, hoisting the first delivery of the match off Broad out of the ground and taking 19 runs off that opening over.
Smith eventually was first to go for 27, one of two wickets for Bopara who, together with the spinner James Tredwell, were England's best bowlers.
Samuels' 46-ball innings (10 fours, one six) was not without moments of good fortune. Missed on 37 by a leaping Eoin Morgan at backward-point off Broad, he had even greater luck when Tredwell dropped a chance at extra-cover off Jade Dernbach at the start of the 18th over.
As if to rub salt in England wounds, the Jamaican right-hander smashed the next five deliveries for boundaries.


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Disney, News Corp. Discuss Hulu's Future
News Corp and Walt Disney Co. have begun discussions about resolving uncertainty over their jointly controlled online video site Hulu, with one possible outcome being that one or the other company sells their stake.
The two companies, which each own about a third of Hulu, have each indicated at different times over the past few months their willingness to buy the other out, the people say. There is also the possibility both companies will decide to sell to an outsider, the people said.