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HIV Prevention and Trauma Treatment in Men Who Have Sex With Men and Who Have a History of Sexual Abuse
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00797654
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 25, 2008
Last Update Posted : August 9, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Risk Reduction
|Behavioral: Information-motivation-behavior skills and cognitive processing therapy Behavioral: Pre and Post HIV-Test Counseling
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) represent the largest group of new HIV infections. Rates of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in MSM have been estimated to be higher than in the rest of the population, with some researchers estimating that 37% of all MSM have experienced CSA. CSA in MSM is associated with both higher rates of HIV risk behavior and higher rates of HIV infection. Treatments for preventing HIV are also less likely to be effective in MSM with a history of CSA, and these individuals tend to have higher rates of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. This study will create and then test a new HIV prevention therapy that addresses both HIV risk behaviors and the co-occurring psychological health problems in MSM with a history of CSA.
This study includes a pilot phase and an experimental phase. In the pilot phase, the therapeutic treatment will be developed based on elements of successful interventions for reducing sexual risk-taking behaviors and PTSD symptoms. Information-motivation-behavioral (IMB) skills training for sexual risk reduction will be the basis for one of two treatment components, and it is expected to last for two 50-minute sessions. This intervention will include addressing knowledge about issues surrounding sexual risk, using motivational interviewing to address goals and self-efficacy, and providing strategies for behavioral change. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for CSA will be the basis for the other component and is expected to last for eight 50-minute sessions. Elements of this intervention will include identifying sexual abuse events, learning how to identify cognitive distortions, and learning processes to challenge and process these distortions.
During the pilot phase, approximately 10 participants will undergo the new treatment. After completing the treatment sessions, participants will undergo exit interviews, in which researchers will solicit feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of the treatment. This feedback will be used to fine tune the treatment.
During the second phase of the study, approximately 50 individuals will be randomly assigned to receive either HIV testing with pre/post-test counseling alone or in combination with the newly developed treatment. The experimental, integrated treatment will be administered over 10 individual therapy sessions comprised of sexual risk reduction counseling and cognitive therapy.
All participants will undergo assessments at enrollment and after treatment (or approximately 3 months after enrollment in comparator group), and at follow-up visits 6 and 9 months after enrollment. These assessments will measure sexual risk behaviors, PTSD symptoms, distress, social support, and substance abuse. Brief questionnaires about sexual behavior and measures of distress will be administered during the integrated treatment sessions.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|46 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Integrated HIV Prevention and Trauma Treatment in MSM With Sexual Abuse History (Project THRIVE)
|Study Start Date :
|August 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2011
Experimental: 1
Participants will receive pre and post HIV-test counseling and an information-motivation-behavior skills training combined with cognitive processing therapy
Behavioral: Information-motivation-behavior skills and cognitive processing therapy
Treatment will include elements from effective interventions for reducing risky sexual behaviors and reducing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.
Behavioral: Pre and Post HIV-Test Counseling
Treatments are aimed at assessing and reducing behaviors that put participants at high risk of HIV infection.
Active Comparator: 2
Participants will receive pre and post HIV-test counseling
Behavioral: Pre and Post HIV-Test Counseling
Treatments are aimed at assessing and reducing behaviors that put participants at high risk of HIV infection.
- Self-reported sexual risk taking [ Time Frame: Measured pre- and post-treatment and after 6 and 9 months ]For both the Treatment (Cognitive Processing Therapy with Information Motivation Behavior) and Control arms, participants will self-report sexual risk taking at baseline, 3-month post baseline, and at 6 and 9-month follow-ups (after enrollment).
- Reductions in negative effects of trauma, with cognitive and behavioral variables tested as potential mediators of treatment outcome [ Time Frame: Measured pre- and post-treatment and after 6 and 9 months ]As with the baseline assessment, the Davidson Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder scale, and the MINI Neuro-psychiatric Interview for PTSD will be administered by an Independent Assessor who will be blind to participant group assignment.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Identifies as a biological man who has sex with men
- Reports history of childhood sexual abuse (sexual contact before the age of 13 with an adult or person 5 years older or sexual contact with the threat of force or harm between the ages of 13 and 16, inclusive, with a person 10 years older)
- Reports unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse within the past 3 months
- HIV-negative serostatus
- Able to understand English
Exclusion Criteria:
- All episodes of unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse occurred with only a single, primary HIV-negative partner
- Significant mental health diagnosis requiring immediate treatment, such as acute major depression, panic disorder, or any psychotic disorder
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): NCT00797654
|United States, Massachusetts
|Fenway Community Health
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|Fenway Health
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|Principal Investigator:
|Conall M. O'Cleirigh, PhD
|Fenway Community Health
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Conall O'Cleirigh, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Fenway Community Health
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00797654 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R34MH081760-02 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
R34MH081760-02 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|November 25, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 9, 2016
|Last Verified:
|August 2016
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Frankie Laine: Big Voice, Big Heart
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When Frankie Laine released his first big hit song in 1946, he was at the forefront of a whole new genre of music. In an age when crooners carried the day, Laine – who would have turned 100 today – injected jazzy rhythm into his singing voice, moving away from a smooth croon and toward something that would, in the decade that followed, come to be known as rock 'n' roll.
From today's perspective, "That's My Desire" doesn't sound a whole lot like rock music. In fact, it doesn't sound drastically different from the music of the crooners that came before it. But the spark of something new is there, with Laine sounding a little less like Sinatra and a little more like Elvis.
Within a few years, rock 'n' roll was becoming the hottest new fad, and Laine – unlike other popular singers who made their mark in the 1940s – liked what he heard. But rather than become Bill Haley's biggest competition, Laine went in a fairly unexpected direction. He became a cowboy singer.
Laine's 1961 album Hell Bent for Leather was a compendium of western classics, sung in his signature style. The pairing was so successful that Laine was asked to sing the theme songs to a number of cowboy TV shows, eventually becoming closely associated with the genre. In fact, the association was so strong that when Mel Brooks made the movie Blazing Saddles in 1974, Laine was the obvious choice to sing the theme song. When he made the recording, Laine wasn't aware that the movie would be a comedy – and he sang with all the serious intensity he would give to any other good cowboy song. The result was absolutely perfect.
Laine was too versatile to be fenced in by any one style of music. While he continued to sing country and western, he also recorded jazz, blues, pop, and anything else that suited his fancy. And he charted, too – a full two decades after his first hit single.
Frankie Laine died in 2007, 93 years old and at the end of a fantastic career that refused to quit. As late as 2002, Laine was still recording – his "Taps/My Buddy," produced shortly after 9/11/2001, was dedicated to the New York City firefighters, with all proceeds going to them. A singer with a great voice and a lot of heart – that was Frankie Laine.
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"American Pie" actor Chris Klein is extending his stay in the Utah alcohol rehab facility he entered after getting a DUI last month.
"Chris, along with his support team, has decided to extend his treatment," his rep Jaime Primak told People magazine. "He is doing fantastic and is optimistic about his future. He thanks everyone for their continued support."
Klein entered the Cirque Lodge in Utah June 21 after he was arrested for his second DUI on June 16 in Los Angeles. He was stopped by the California Highway Patrol after being seen weaving westbound on the Hollywood Freeway.
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They filled box after box, bag after bag: Sodden shoes, Marathon medals and bibs, Mylar blankets, rosary beads, police patches, holy water, photographs of the dead.
They wore gloves and worked in the half light of dawn, untying shoelaces and bits of string.
Into bags went the accumulations of two painful months.
A toy stuffed leopard, Japanese candy, musical scores, sunglasses, pinwheels, shells, rocks, children's sandals, a plastic sword — mementos put there by thousands from Boston and around the world whose ultimate tribute to the horror and heroism of April 15 was to leave behind a piece of themselves.
The makeshift memorial appeared in Copley Square after the bombings and grew to become a worldwide symbol of Boston's ground zero. The hand-scrawled notes, the kaleidoscope of flags, and hundreds of running shoes tied to metal stanchions were the raw and unscripted vocabulary of hope and defiance amid the destruction. It was toured by heads of state and broadcast around the world.
But now some dozen volunteers were taking it down. A scattering of early risers came to silently watch. Some were relatives of victims. Some had run the Marathon that day or had been on Boylston Street when the bombs blew.
"It's really hard to watch them doing this," said Gina Gallagher, a 32-year-old from Quincy who ran the Marathon and was stopped near Massachusetts Avenue, unaware until later of the destruction at the finish line. She had tears in her eyes.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, in a letter to victims' families, cast the moment as a way to help "us all look to the future." A Remembrance Committee will work toward a permanent memorial, possibly in Copley Square, he said.
But it seemed also a funeral, a hard passage out of a time when Boston's pain was shared by the world and into a period when the city must cope alone with its wounds.
"It's still so confusing, so hard to explain," said Patricia Campbell, whose daughter, Krystle, was killed and who came to Copley Square for the first time Tuesday. "I'm still in shock about this whole thing. It's beautiful what people did here."
She and her husband, William Campbell Jr., drove from Medford wearing Boston Strong shirts in the blue and yellow Marathon colors, the name of each victim printed on the back.
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"I just had to be here to see it off," Patricia Campbell said.
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They saved until last four white crosses at the center of the memorial. Each went into its own box, labeled by name: Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, and Sean Collier, all of whom died.
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How Much Pay Are You Really Worth?
Once you've nailed the job interview, you still have to negotiate a salary. That can kill the deal if there's a big gap between what you think you're worth and what your employer has in mind. But there's help, as MarketWatch's Jim Jelter reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
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I ... rumors ... switching jobs making a big career move ... to negotiate a pay check with your new boss ... Reuters a good question ... how much are you really work ... by Amgen Jelter MarketWatch and this is precisely the question that Andrea Coombes resumed her calling ... working retired ... so once you've nailed the job interviews still have to negotiate a salary this can literally kill the deal if there's a big gap between what you think you're worth ... and what your employer has ... but there's hell ... several Websites actually strive to give you a reasonable clue about what you're worth two was prospective employer ... so we ducked on Glassdoor dot com ... PayScale but come and in the ... Dodd Kong are among the sites out there designed to help it safely over this critical hurdle but ... as Andrew points out her column the same so it's probably shouldn't be seen as the final word ... that's because that is very different sets of data to work out pay scales ... for example some of them try to work out what a competitive salary isn't worsening ... you would probably have a right to expect a bigger pay package and ignore it then and for example Waco ... at the same time ... salary data might be slow or nonexistent in smaller cities some of the science base their estimates on interviews with employees to get a good idea for what certain companies are paying for certain positions ... as is usually a pretty accurate indicator at the same time some of those interviews might be a bit outdated ... in a hard job market that continued shortchange yourself that if the markets going cold ... it could be in for a major disappointment other sites such as PayScale dot com compiles salary data provided by millions of other people who share their salary profiles ... in return for a report that gives them a fair idea what others with similar job skills are getting paid but if you bring skills to the jobs that don't easily fit into one of his skills fourteen thousand job categories it's gonna be hard to figure out what you really were ... so why all these sites offer rough guidelines ... none are going to be able to tell you exactly what you should be paid at the day-to-day that's going to be decided in a negotiation ... and that includes ... salary but all the perks that may ... or may not come with the job ... and remember once you're in the door ... those negotiations can be reopened ...


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Color wheel - A color wheel is a visual representation of color theory. A color wheel shows the relationship between primary colors, secondary colors and tertiary colors. Tertiary colors are the colors formed by mixing a primary and secondary color.
A color wheel is useful for identifying harmonious colors for a particular context. The most common version of a color wheel contains 12 colors based on the red yellow blue (RYB) artistic color model: primary (red, yellow and blue), secondary (green, orange and purple) and tertiary (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green).
Many variations of the traditional RYB color wheel concept exist. Another popular color wheel is the red green blue (RGB) or red green violet (RGV) wheel with the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow as secondary.
A wheel can also be a useful visual representation or analogy for poverty. The wheel's hub represents absolute poverty. The wheel's spokes represent the different needs of those living in poverty, and the rim of the wheel represents enough.
The "Poverty Color Wheel" plays off these two wheel analogies to illustrate that the presence of poverty doesn't mean dignity is absent.
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The color wheel is a visual representation of color theory, first proposed by Sir Isaac Newton in the 18th century. More a color chart or color scale than anything else, a color wheel shows the relationship colors have to one another.
The most common version of a color wheel is based on the red yellow blue (RYB) color model. In this model, the primary colors of red, yellow and blue are placed opposite their complementary secondary colors (green, orange and purple) and next to their tertiary color variations (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green).
If we take the color wheel premise, along with a few conceptual liberties, and apply it to the context of poverty our newly created "poverty color wheel" vividly illustrates that the presence of poverty doesn't mean dignity is absent.
Red symbolizes life. It asserts itself with boldness and daring and expresses itself with pioneering spirit. Red represents the strength and determination of a child fighting the lies of poverty.
Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy. It's an optimistic color, one that communicates a brighter future for children in poverty.
Blue symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth and heaven. It is the color of the sky. And it is the color of Compassion. It represents the unlimited potential of the children we serve.
Green is the color of nature. It represents balance and symbolizes self-respect, growth and harmony. It also symbolizes freshness, like a fresh opportunity, a chance to succeed and break the cycle of poverty.
Orange is a bold invigorating color suggesting strength, endurance and success. It represents enthusiasm, encouragement and determination. It is the banner of success carried by children released from poverty in Jesus' name.
Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes wisdom, nobility and ambition. It communicates wealth and extravagance. But it's also the color of dignity – something you're helping give to children in poverty.
Pink is associated with purity, love and compassion. It communicates gentleness and freshness. Pink represents good health and life, which you offer to children in poverty.
White symbolizes goodness, innocence and purity. It's the color of perfection and safety. It's the color of light — the Light of the World we share through our ministry.
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New downtown restaurant serves slices of Japanese cuisine and culture
Photos by Christian Knight
Justin Williams serves up a plate of nuts and bolts at Sushi Okalani, which is scheduled to open next week in the New Yasui Building at First and Oak streets. Below, Amy Williams shares a laugh with the couple's daughter Brooklyn.
By JANET COOK
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July 16, 2005
Justin and Amy Williams are about to make sushi lovers all over the Hood River Valley swimmingly happy.
The Williamses will open Sushi Okalani next week, bringing an authentic Japanese restaurant to Hood River for the first time in more than a decade. The restaurant is located in the New Yasui Building at First and Oak streets.
"This is our dream," Justin said. "We are so excited."
The dream of Sushi Okalani has been percolating in Justin's mind for years, and practically everything he's done during that time has moved him toward it. A native of Portland, Justin became enamored of Japanese culture as a child when his grandparents hosted a Japanese exchange student. In high school, while his peers took Spanish or French, Justin studied Japanese.
As a student at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., he spent a year in Japan as an exchange student and graduated with a degree in sociology and Japanese. After college, he got a job as a sushi chef in order to hone his Japanese for what he thought would be a career in international business. It turned out that the combination of interacting with people over a sushi bar, cooking (a life-long passion) and fish were the ingredients of his dream job.
"I was hooked," Justin said. After a three-year apprenticeship at Koji Osakaya, one of Portland's premiere sushi restaurants, Justin spent the next few years perfecting his skills at sushi restaurants in Sun Valley, Idaho, and Hawaii before returning to Portland where he landed a job at an Asian supermarket. Amy was working there as a fish cutter while taking a break from her nursing career. She herself was recently returned from three years living in northern Japan.
"I don't know what he saw in me," Amy said, laughing and recalling being covered head-to-toe in fish guts. "But fish is the language of love in Justin's world." In three months they were engaged and within a year after getting married, their daughter, Brooklyn Okalani, was born. (Okalani means "of heaven" in Hawaiian.)
Amy, who had fallen in love with the culture and cuisine of Japan while living there, was as enthusiastic about the dream of opening a sushi restaurant as Justin was, and the two have worked together for the past few years to make it happen. While working at various sushi restaurants, including the popular Southeast Portland sushi bar Saburo's, Justin met several Hood River residents and eventually wound up serving sushi during and after the Gorge Games last year from the River City Saloon. Along with falling in love with Hood River, the couple also met Maui Meyer, who told them he had the perfect space for a sushi restaurant in his new building.
The opportunity seemed a perfect fit and the Williamses never looked back.
"Every single time we took a step, a door opened," Amy said of the couple's path to realizing their dream in Hood River. "We knew it was the right direction." Because of Justin and Amy's love of Japanese culture, they want to create more with Sushi Okalani than just a restaurant.
"We want to make it a Japanese hub," Justin said. The couple were thrilled when they learned the history behind the New Yasui Building, which sits on the site of the Yasui Bros. Co. Store, a Japanese mercantile established around 1908 which was a focal point of Japanese life in Hood River for 30 years.
"For us to be there, it's such a great confluence of circumstances," Justin said. Tatami rooms in the restaurant provide space for private meetings and social gatherings. Amy hopes to eventually offer traditional Japanese tea ceremonies. Justin wants to teach Japanese and the couple plan to get involved in the Hood River-Tsuruta sister city organization.
"We want to offer a full package of 'community' as well as food," Justin said.
For now, they are focusing on the restaurant's opening. Sushi Okalani — which, along with being their 3-year-old daughter's middle name, is meant to evoke an island influence — will feature traditional sushi and sauces, as well as entrees like filet mignon for those who don't like sushi. "Aloha Nights" held weekly will feature island favorites like pulled pork, tuna poke and Spam musubi.
But, true to the Williamses' dream, traditional Japanese fare will be the restaurant's highlight. Justin will work his magic behind the sushi bar and Amy will help with the myriad of other tasks it takes to run a restaurant. And Brooklyn Okalani will surely be sighted frequently at her namesake — she's already a sushi lover, according to her mom.
"We really feel privileged," Justin said, "to be in a community where we can open a traditional, family-style Japanese restaurant."
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With six games of the Ligue 1 campaign remaining, there is little doubt that PSG have reached the domestic pinnacle. Having only been knocked out on the away goals rule by Barcelona in the Champions League, les Parisiens are also establishing themselves as a major force on the European scene.
The high-profile signings have been important in the success, but the existing players have also had a major role to play, with Salvatore Sirigu, for example, keeping more clean sheets (20 in Ligue 1) than any other goalkeeper in Europe's major leagues.
Below, in alphabetical order, are Goal.com's three nominees for PSG's player of the season, based on their club performances in all competitions.
PSG scored a major coup last season when they claimed the signature of Ibrahimovic from AC Milan. A proven goalscorer, the Swede also brought with him the reputation of being a serial winner.
He may be a frustrating presence at times due to his languid style and egocentric nature but there can be little doubt the 31-year-old remains a player of genuine world-class ability. At times he has looked far too good for Le Championnat, in which he has struck nine times more than any other player (Saint-Etienne's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is his closest contender on 17) in notching 26 goals in 28 appearances.
Critics may point to a lack of similar production in the Champions League, yet even here Zlatan has been a vital component of PSG's side. He may not have found the net easily but he has readily laid on goals for others, tallying a competition-high seven assists to the quarter-final stage.
For a great deal of this season former Saint-Etienne and Troyes midfielder Blaise Matuidi was regarded as an unheralded star of this PSG side, though in recent months he has started to be recognised as one of the outstanding midfielders in Europe.
France great Luis Fernandez argued earlier in this campaign that Matuidi is just as important to PSG as Lionel Messi is to Barcelona, and while this may be laced with a touch of hyperbole, there is a strong case to suggest the France international is now an indispensable member of this side.
A player with boundless energy, the 26-year-old is key to the destructive side of PSG's midfield as he tackles hard and makes many interceptions. What he has added to his game this season that has seen him catch the eye to a greater extent is a more dynamic offensive threat, boasting a career-high seven goals, including one against Barcelona, having managed only eight in total in his previous eight seasons.
Billed as the world's best centre-back when he arrived in Paris last summer from AC Milan, Thiago Silva is a player who has certainly lived up to his €42 million price tag.
His season initially started slowly as he was on international duty with the Brazil Olympic side but he has since gone on to become the keystone to the PSG defence and arguably the most important player in their entire side, having taken over the responsibility of the captain's armband.
Against Barcelona in the Champions League he really showed his class, particularly in the first leg at Parc des Princes, where he gave a defensive masterclass. The 28-year-old has, however, performed to a remarkable level all season and is a major reason that they have kept more clean sheets than any other club in an elite European league. He has been a model of consistency and an outstanding asset to this ambitious side.
For the latest in its series looking at all of Europe's top clubs, however, Goal.com has narrowed down the candidates for PSG's Player of the Season to just three names. Look them over and leave a comment if you disagree!


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- Tensions between state regulators and a company that wants to put an open pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin could be a sign of more conflict yet to come.Gogebic Taconite and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources got into a public dispute last week.They argued over how much regulatory authority remains in the agency's hands.That's after a 2013 law rolled back environmental restrictions to make mining easier. The dispute over what is allowed and what isn't under the mining law may be a preview of what is to come when the company seeks a permit for the mine.Company spokesman Bob Seitz says rounds and rounds of questions from an overzealous DNR have delayed the process.(Copyright 2014 Associated Press - All Rights Reserved)
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Tuesday January 8, 2013
British musician icon David Bowie has come out of retirement - releasing a new single on the day of his 66th birthday.
Rumours of a new single emerged on the social networking site Twitter on Monday night, but were regarded by many as wishful thinking after the singer's ten years of musical silence.
It was revealed on David's website a few minutes past midnight on Tuesday, however, that the artist has released a new single, and will be releasing a new album in March, to the excitement of his global fan base.
David's film maker son Duncan Jones also broadcast the news of his father's new material on Twitter. "Would be lovely if all of you could spread the word about da's new album. First in ten years, and its a good 'un," said the director.
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|2'0" (60 cm).
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| Robbie Shapiro (sometimes)
Sinjin Van Cleef
Tori Vega
André Harris
Beck Oliver
|Tori Vega (former crush)
| Cat Valentine
Jade West
Trina Vega
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|Making Fun of Robbie
|"Student" at Hollywood Arts High School
|Being Mean To Robbie
| Trina Cooking His Foot (The Wood)
Jade Ripping His Arm ([[The Diddly-Bops]])
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Matt Bennett (controls him mostly)
Christopher Cane (self-proclaimed by Cane in Blooptorious)
"Heheh, you've been Rex-ed."
Rex Powers is Robbie's ventriloquist dummy (it is not 100% proven that Robbie controls Rex). Since Robbie is too shy to speak for himself most of the time, he talks as Rex. He is Robbie's possible cooler alter ego, in fact. Rex has no filter. He does not like to be called a "dummy" or "puppet", possibly because he isn't one. He says what's on his mind and doesn't hold back or beat around the bush. He hits on every girl at Hollywood Arts but claims he never hits on Cat because she is weird, for example, calling her "still a mess" in Beck's Big Break. This is odd because Robbie is claimed to like Cat. Rex also claims he never hits on Jade because she's scary, although he has hit on her a couple times. In the episode Rex Dies, he gets sucked into a wind machine and is taken to the hospital. Rex is shown to have a huge crush on Tori and constantly hits on her, although she is annoyed by this. In Sleepover at Sikowitz's, Tori kisses Rex when he hits on her. Rex is sometimes seen slightly moving or talking when not being held by Robbie, hinting he may not be a puppet. An example is in The Birthweek Song, Tori is trying to find her sister a birthday present and Rex shouts from inside Robbie's book bag, "Just get the girl the massage helmet!". Tori quickly responds by kicking the bag and Rex yells in pain, "Ah, my ribs!", but that may just be a ventriloquist trick. Another example is in Beck's Big Break when Robbie is going to get him out of the drawer in the guidance counselor's office and he shouts from inside the drawer, "Hey, don't you knock?". He's known to annoy most of the gang, except Robbie. Rex is voiced by Jake Farrow, who is uncredited for the role (all puppetry is still done by Matt Bennett). Rex has appeared in every episode to date, except the second part of Freak the Freak Out, in Car, Rain, and Fire, How Trina Got In, The Blonde Squad, Wanko's Warehouse, The Hambone King, Opposite Date, Tori Fixes Beck and Jade, One Thousand Berry Balls, The Bad Roomate, and Brain Squeezers. In "Blooptorious", he claims to be "Christopher Cane", a British actor. Interestingly enough, the only girl he hasn't hit on was Cat, who is Robbie's main love-interest.
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- Rex often says, "You don't know what I got!" when he gets offended or to state he is male-like, as opposed to Robbie.
- He is annoyed at places that don't sell anything his size, Robbie has to take him to the Small & Short Store. On TheSlap he also posted as his status that he was annoyed that they didn't make urinals in his size as well.
- In Pilot, Rex's head was bigger and his neck doesn't appear until The Bird Scene.
- Rex can actually go to the bathroom when Sikowitz said it doesn't need to (see The Bird Scene and Prom Wrecker).
- He has his own profile on TheSlap.
- He appears in every episode with Robbie, except for Part 2 of Freak the Freak Out, Car, Rain & Fire, How Trina Got In, The Blonde Squad.
- Lately, Rex's appearances seem to be shorter than they were in earlier episodes, and similar to that of Klaus from American Dad! Rex will appear for a few scenes towards the beginning of the episode, but be absent for a while towards the end.
- Also, in Freak the Freak Out, it is shown that Robbie treats Rex as if he were a person. The DJ calls what they were doing a ventriloquist act. They respond (Robbie) "Ventriloquist?" (Rex) "What's he talking about?".
- In the promo of Pilot, his voice was higher.
- He makes a cameo on the Sam & Cat episode MommaGoomer, in the cut scene.
- As said on a picture on TheSlap.com, Rex sleeps for 12 hours.
- Rex's screen name is RexAndTheCity, a play on a real TV show, Sex and the City.
- So far Jade and Trina have ripped off Rex's body parts. Jade tore off his arm in The Diddly-Bops and Trina removed his foot and deep fried it in The Wood.
- Tori kissed (or made out with) him in Sleepover at Sikowitz's.
- It is shown in Beggin' On Your Knees that Rex is straight and secure with his sexuality when he states that Ryder is "hot," and then replies to his friends, "Stare all you want, I'm secure."
- His name is a parody of Max Powers.
- Rex is voiced by an uncredited Jake Farrow according to Ariana Grande.
- He is scared of tofu.
- Most of the time Rex claims that he's not a puppet. However, in iParty with Victorious, he tells Sam "Lets see if you can beat this puppet, Puckett!", he later says that "it's okay if I say it" meaning only he can call himself a puppet, and in Who Did It to Trina?, Rex says "no one ever suspects the puppet." Whenever someone calls Rex a puppet, Robbie gets upset and tells people to not call him a puppet and he doesn't like that term. Rex sometimes tells Robbie to calm down. This could mean Robbie is sensitive.
- He is friends with Sinjin, despite him making fun of him.
- He watches Fox News (most likely Republican) and believes that global warming is bogus.
- He seems to be dating or at least frequently consorting with female students from Northridge, as they have been mentioned or appeared in at least three episodes so far and he goes to their prom. He also suggested to build a parade float of Northridge girls in Terror on Cupcake Street.
- Rex has called Jade "the Wicked Witch" (Beck Falls for Tori) and "intense and scary" (A Film by Dale Squires).
- One interesting thing to note is that even though Robbie is presumably controlling Rex and talking through him, no one ever blames Robbie for it.
- He makes a cameo on the Game Shakers episode Tiny Pickles, when he run over Matt Bennett (who make a guest star in this episode).
- In Tori Gets Stuck, Rex sent a text to Lane that said, "There's a car parked in Robbie's butt."
- In Locked Up!, Rex appeared in a couple of scenes but in part 2 he is only in the final scene where you can see Sikowitz holding Rex right when the gang arrives at the Duck Truck. This is because Robbie did not bring Rex with him to the chancellor's office, and therefore did not have him when sent to prison.
- The only time he hits on Trina is in Who Did It To Trina where he was about to say his 2 favorite things about her, probably trying to flirt with her until she hit him.
- It could be possible that Robbie has low-self esteem, since Rex is always insulting him.
- He thinks Robbie had a Bat Mitzvah (for girls) instead of a Bar Mitzvah (for boys).
- He stated in TheSlap post that "My grandma was recycled years ago. She's now part of an outdoor dining set."
- He usually makes fun of all the gangs problems.
- He celebrates Hanukkah with Robbie.
- He unfollowed Robbie on Twitter. (See IParty with Victorious).
- He creates a persona called Christopher Cane which he uses to frame the interview show in Blooptorious and iCarly's second blooper episode iBloop 2 - Electric Bloopaloo.
- Apparently, Rex needs to go to the men's room. When Tori comments that puppets can't pee, Rex says "You don't know what I got!"
- It would appear that Rex is the only item the gang took back with them during their escape from Yerba, seeing as Sikowitz brought him per Robbie's request and there was no other luggage seen in the Duck Truck.
- Rex has his own video segment on TheSlap called "Rex Sings", where he sings songs from previous episodes, claiming that his voice is better than that of the original singer. Usually, Sinjin will be dancing in the background.
- In Pilot, you can see that Rex is not an average ventriloquist's dummy, as in a picture of Matt Bennett holding him, you can see Rex's back is torn open to control him, and his body is stuffed. However, in all the episodes following, he is a standard ventriloquist's dummy with a hollowed out torso, which his shirt is not a part of.
- Despite being Robbie's puppet, he has more fans than Robbie on TheSlap.
- Rex's immediate response to Sikowitz's dare in Victori-Yes is, "I'm in. Jade, will you kiss me on the mouth?"
- It has been hinted that Rex is a human being many times on the show he has moved when no one is hold him.
- It is stated in The Breakfast Bunch and TheSlap that he loves meat.
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When Karl Lagerfeld arrived at Chanel in 1983, the label had degenerated into a glorified fragrance business. But during his tenure, he's turned Chanel into a global force and ushered in a new era in fashion. This "Lazarus movement" has inspired dozens of others to try reviving old-fashioned labels with new designers. Here are a few of them, along with what the labels were known for when they were founded, and what they are known for today.
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We're a young but experienced team of entrepreneurs who are getting ready to launch a new side project called "Crocodoc". Crocodoc makes it insanely easy to upload a PDF or other document through our home page, and get back a short URL that can be shared with others. Recipients can use the URL to view the document online and highlight text, and add notes, comments, and other annotations. All notes are shared between recipients, so everyone can see everyone else's annotations.
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Social enterprise to provide 10 million with access to renewable energyMay 23, 2012
New York – Ten million low-income people living in rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, will gain access to low-cost solar energy by 2015, in part due to a commitment made by solar energy provider Barefoot Power to the Business Call to Action (BCtA).
The BCtA is a global initiative that encourages private sector efforts to fight poverty, supported by several international organizations including the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
The Australia-based social enterprise Barefoot Power aims to expand access to its high-quality, energy efficient, affordable light-emitting diode (LED) lamps, home lighting systems and phone chargers, to more off-grid communities with expansion in Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria and India as a focus by 2015. The company has already captured the majority market share in East Africa.
Through the commitment made to BCtA, the company estimates that the 10 million consumers will reduce kerosene consumption by 100 million liters and save up to US$600 million in fuel costs by 2015. By then, Barefoot Power expects to help reduce carbon emission by up to one million tonnes.
"We at the BCtA recognize that Barefoot Power's commercially viable business model enables access to affordable solar energy for low income communities, helping to light up Africa in an environmentally sustainable way," said Business Call to Action Programme Manager Susan Chaffin. "These are precisely the types of inclusive business initiatives that serve as best practices as we approach the Rio+20 UN Sustainable Development Conference being held in Brazil in June."
More than 80 percent of low-income communities in rural sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity and depend on expensive, dirty and dangerous fuel sources such as kerosene, charcoal, animal waste or wood. According to the World Health Organization household air pollution from the use of biomass fuel annually causes 2 million premature deaths across the globe.
Barefoot Power aims to reduce the lack of energy access for millions of people by bringing its durable solar-powered products directly to low-income consumers through a variety of distribution channels such as import companies and local micro entrepreneurs.
The micro entrepreneur programme includes a "business in a bag" training, meaning that entrepreneurs are trained in business best practices, solar technology and how to develop sales channels in order to create income generating energy franchises. Innovative financing mechanisms are also offered to assist importers with up front capital requirements.
"Barefoot Power's award winning Trade Financing Fund has revolutionized the business. Importers have access to funding for ordering Barefoot Power products and can overcome the capital constraints in order to meet the increasing demand in the communities." said Rick Hooper, CEO of Barefoot Power.
Since its launch in 2005, Barefoot Power has helped to train over 2000 entrepreneurs and technicians in rural communities with financial support from the European Union. These entrepreneurs help make Barefoot Power's products accessible to all communities, while the technicians help to uphold the Barefoot Power post sales product guarantee.Contact information
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A new study conducted by the University of Birmingham has found Premier League referees are 'more likely' to book players from ethnic minorities that those with English backgrounds.
Diving in football has been thrust into the spotlight in the last few weeks thanks to incidents involving a number of high profile players, including Liverpool's Luis Suarez and Tottenham's Gareth Bale.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers insisted last night that Suarez gets a rough deal from Premier League referees – a sentiment Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard echoed - after he was denied a clear cut penalty against Norwich and was seemingly stamped on by Stoke's Robert Huth on Sunday, which went unpunished.
Earlier today Stoke's Michael Kightly responded to Rodgers's complaints about Suarez by claiming the Liverpool forward's actions are 'not good for the game', while Potter boss called for the FA to hand Suarez a three game ban after he seemingly threw himself to the ground in the Stoke penalty area on Sunday.
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero admitted he felt as though foreign players get the short end of the stick when it comes to referees decisions earlier this month, something that Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson refuted soon after.
Asked if he felt as though he was less likely to get a decision than a British player, Aguero said: "Maybe, yes. It can happen, but I don't think it does here. If it does, it's not good for anyone.
"Here in England, there are almost as many foreign players as English players and it's not right that some have a privilege that others don't."
Now a report from the University of Birmingham has backed up Aguero's claims.
The study, which analysed 760 Premier League fixtures between 2006 and 2008, used Opta data, and demonstrated what Dr James Reade from the University of Birmingham called a 'clear' pattern that showed referees were 'more likely to book foreign players who are from the same background as the most sizeable minority groups in the UK' - although he insisted this was not a sign of 'deliberate discrimination'.
"The results of the analysis were very clear that referees are more like to book foreign players who are from the same background as the most sizable minority groups in the UK," Dr Reade said.
"We analysed a huge range of factors taking into account the player's style, age and position as well as data about individual matches. This means we are confident this is not the product of playing style but other factors.
We do not believe that this is deliberate discrimination on behalf of referees indeed they are probably completely unaware that this issue exists.
"Instead this comes from the unconscious mental association between members of a social group and a negative attribute."
The study also showed that the level of 'implicit discrimination' increased when a referee was forced to make a decision quickly, and also when a decision is more subjective, unlike say, when a yellow card is issued to a player for removing his shirt while celebrating a goal.


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It's hard to say who provided the best cartooning material during the 2012 Republican primaries. The lunatic fringe voters, the ones who turn out for these events, dutifully produced a rich, colorful succession of front runners; Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Paul, Trump and—one of my favorites—Herman Cain.
There's no question that Michele Bachmann was the most fun to draw. Those manic eyes—with the whites showing all the way around the irises—were practically all you needed for a decent caricature. Herman Cain, though, had something special. Sure, the others could match him quote for quote with well-crafted absurdities, but the man could also sing.
He didn't just think he could sing, like Mitt Romney (who could ever forget Mr. Romney's cringeworthy America, the Beautiful?)—he actually could, and did. Newt Gingrich tried to one-up him by giving press conferences in zoos, but those were cheap stunts, and a little weird at that. And then there was the soothing, mantra-like refrain of Cain's "nine-nine-nine" slogan. At first, I thought it was a German riff on Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No," but then I realized I wasn't supposed to know what it meant, because neither did he. It was designed to stick in my head, like an annoying commercial.
I was sorry, for professional reasons, when the Hermanator dropped out of the race. I wish him success in his new career crooning to the faithful on Fox News.
The poet Juvenal said: "Give them bread and circuses." As the Roman emperors knew—and Mr. Cain's new boss, Roger Ailes, knows—the key to enduring power is to keep the mob entertained.


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GREENCASTLE, Ind. – The MIT women's track and field team traveled to DePauw University over the weekend for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship and came home with a 10th-place showing out of 61 scoring teams, the best finish in program history at the National Championship. The Engineers secured four All-America nods, as three individuals and one relay made it to the awards podium. Portia Jones and Hazel Briner each had an individual All-America performance in addition to their part on the 4x400 relay team and Karin Fisher also finished among the top eight in the pole vault.
Jones was a very busy competitor all weekend, as were many of her teammates. Seven Tech women were entered in five individual events and two relays and four athletes were competing in at least two events. Jones had a very strong showing in the 400 meters, an event in which she owned the fastest time in the country coming in. Jones won her heat of the prelims with a time of 56.82 seconds, a personal best on a flat track. She followed that up with a fourth-place finish, running 56.72 in the finals. Teammate Jamie Simmons came up short of the finals of that event.
In the 55-meter hurdles, Jones placed fifth in her heat (8.33) but missed out on the finals by just one one-hundredth of a second. Jones and Simmons were then joined by Marth Gross and Briner on the 4x400m relay quartet that finished in fourth-place with a time of 3:54.84 in the final event of the meet on Saturday afternoon.
Briner was also entered in the pentathlon and pole vault, events that were each being conducted simultaneously on Saturday morning. The junior started off with the first event of the pentathlon, the 55HH, finishing in fifth with a personal best of 8.73 seconds. She followed that up with an 11th-place showing in the high jump (5-0.50 feet) while also moving over to the pole vault at the same time. A fifth-place result in the shot put (35-1.00) and 11th in the long jump left Briner in fifth overall headed into the final event, the 800-meter run. Saving her best for last, Briner won the 800 to move up to third overall while setting a new MIT record for total points (3391).
In the pole vault, Briner was able to secure a 10th-place result while Fisher matched her personal-best by clearing 12-4.00 feet to earn MIT's fourth All-America honor with a sixth-place finish.
Brooke Johnson was unable to make the finals in the mile run, completing her preliminary race in 5:03.89. The Distance Medley Relay of Johnson, Gross, Simmons and Alina Gatowski also finished just off of the All-America stand, taking ninth place with a time of 12:07.20.


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Cherry-Evans to step up after Cronk injury
The understudy tag sat well with Daly Cherry-Evans.
But if Queensland are to bounce back and seal a ninth straight State of Origin series win, the youngster must embrace the role he appeared destined for - the Maroons' star halfback.
Nothing would dull the devastating news that No.7 Cooper Cronk had suffered a suspected broken arm tackling NSW second-rower Ryan Hoffman in the 10th minute of Origin I in Brisbane on Wednesday night.
Especially after Queensland lost 12-8 in Origin game No.100 that also honoured the Maroons' late, great Artie Beetson.
"Cooper will be in hospital tonight. If it is a broken arm - and I am pretty certain it is - it will be operated on tomorrow so that is disappointing for Coops," Queensland coach Mal Meninga said.
But Meninga could at least see a silver lining in the dark cloud that threatened to envelop the Maroons dressing room after the heart-stopping loss.
Considered the form NRL's halfback, Cherry-Evans was unlucky to be relegated to the bench for the recent trans-Tasman Test.
Cronk's form resurgence for Melbourne ensured the Maroons selectors' famous loyalty would not be tested.
Cherry-Evans made all the right noises throughout, saying he would relish what appeared a long apprenticeship under Cronk.
At times he seemed bedazzled when thrust into the Origin limelight on Wednesday night but was not alone as Queensland rued missed opportunities in a hectic finish.
But overall Meninga liked what he saw.
"We are lucky that we had Daly," he said.
"It (Cooper's injury) did throw us off, it takes your bench to three, but that is not an excuse.
"I still thought we did enough to win that game.
"But to NSW's credit their defence was outstanding, kick chase was excellent and they came ready to play."
Queensland captain Cameron Smith - nursing a "dusty" ankle complaint - tried not to give too much away on how much it hurt losing his Melbourne teammate Cronk.
"It's always hard losing a player to injury especially a halfback," he said.
"But that is no excuse - we have a pretty capable replacement in Daly.
"I thought he did a good job. Unfortunately we didn't take our opportunities to score and possibly win the game."
Asked if Queensland were an easier side to stop without Cronk on Wednesday night, NSW captain Paul Gallen said: "You guys watch that game?
"Cherry-Evans was bouncing forwards off. He's in great form."
Smith did not have to be told how hard it would be to bounce back in Sydney in Origin II in three weeks but refused to lose faith in his all-conquering side.
"We can be better," he warned.
"We have been in this situation before, we are no stranger to being 0-1 down."
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Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban - Emmys 2012 Red Carpet
Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban hit the red carpet together at the 2012 Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday (September 23) in Los Angeles.
The 45-year-old actress is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her work in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn.
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Previously, the company issued external hard drives to select employees and relied on employees to perform backups on their own. Since this approach leads to spotty and unreliable backup coverage, Agilysys looked to Mozy for a hands-free, reliable and affordable alternative. "To protect against data loss, we wanted to take the backup decision out of the user's hands," said J.D. Shane, Desktop Support, Agilysys. "Instead of each user controlling when and how often they backed up, Mozy ensures constant coverage."
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As an IT administrator, Shane is impressed with Mozy's powerful administrator controls. Because Mozy's cloud-based interface is updated with no need to deploy cumbersome software upgrades, new features and functionality are easier to embrace. "Recent improvements in the administrator console have made my job easier, such as a report listing the users who have not connected to back up in a week," stated Shane. "Mozy alerts me when I need to contact those users, or make administrative changes to their accounts."
After a successful pilot program with corporate managers, Agilysys performed a worldwide rollout, bringing its European and Asia-Pacific users into the secure Mozy cloud. As computers come off of lease and are replaced, Mozy is a key component of the core software on new computer models. The company's long-term goals involve refining user training to encourage more self-service recoveries and to increase awareness of the ability to recover earlier drafts of documents for comparison purposes.