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Montage screenwriting software for OS X
You've heard of Final Draft. You've heard of Movie Magic Screenwriter. If you hang out at one or more screenwriting fora around the Intardweb, you may have even heard of the multiplatform, free screenwriting application called Celtx, which trumps the others in cost, as it's free.
I use Final Draft 6. Final Draft 7 had some problems, at least on the OS X platform, but I've found Final Draft 6 a dream to use. I really don't need much more than automatic formatting and field completion (for slug locations and character names), although I do make use of the software's script note tool, as well.
Even after the demise of Netsurfer Digest, I try to stay abreast of software development, so it surprised me to learn that there was another screenwriting software development out there that I hadn't heard of. It's called Montage, and I put it through a trial this weekend.
Montage claims it can open Final Draft documents with an easy drag-and-drop, but I had to use the Import command with in the application to get it to read my Final Draft documents. Having done that, I could read the document in Montage, but as soon as I started to edit it, Montage crashed. It is a beta, so I can't expect to work flawlessly, especially with third-party document formats.
So, how does the software work on its own documents? Montage tries to be more than Final Draft. It includes the ability to write scene outlines on index-card-like windows. You write them in the Scenes function, then click on Outline to rearrange them in new orders. While this feature can be useful for some writers, when I use index cards, I prefer to lay them out all at once. In Montage, you can rearrange your "cards" by scene title only, so you don't get as broad a view as you do when you can place and replace real, whole index cards. I had trouble getting used to how Montage links the outline with the screenplay content, but that may be a matter more of familiarity than of poor utility.
Montage goes even further and builds marketing function right into the software, and this is where it shines. Start with the Tasks window, which lets you set personal deadlines, for writing, for queries, for whatever. The Contacts features ties in with OS X's native Address Book and lets you build a database of contacts specific for each script. In Queries, a separate word processor gives a five-minute lesson on how to write query letters ("Don''t ask for pity") and provides two sample queries.
Montage allows for lists of characters and locations as well as Final Draft. It's title page is slightly different in format – the writer's contact info goes to the lower right side where Final Draft puts it in the lower left – but that's functionally irrelevant.
Perhaps because this is still a beta, or maybe because I'm more used to the quirks of Final Draft, Montage didn't work as smoothly as Final Draft does. It autocompletes when I don't want it to. It doesn't move "widowed" slugs to the next page to accompany the beginning of the scene proper. These are small bugs which should be squashed in early versions, possibly by the 1.0 release. You can save your scripts in Montage's native format, as a Word doc, RTF, or the ubiquitous PDF.
The nice thing is that Montage is as intuitive as Final Draft most other places: a tab turns into a character slug; paragraphs after slugs are action by default; etc. Another advantage, perhaps, is that Montage allows the writer to select a number of different formats. You can write with colour-coded text (red for slugs, brown for action, blue for characters, etc.), or you can select formats specific to Warner Brothers or the BBC. Montage doesn't tell you what Warner does different, and I don't know either – but the ability to choose the studio's format is there if you need it.
By far, Montage's biggest asset is price. You can buy it at a pre-release price of $100 (later to rise to $140), and it has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Even better, you can try the beta right now. (Used copies of Final Draft go for about the same price on eBay; a new copy will cost $230 more or less.)
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101, old chap, you should drop by my blog sometime; I gave Montage a good old pimping back in Feb, and have been part of the beta programme since.
In all that time, I haven't been able to get much work done on it – like you say, it's beta – but I have been incredibly impressed by the dev's ability to quash bugs and add and refine features.
I have some issues with the direction they've taken the scene view as of beta 7, but in every other respect, Montage looks like it's going to be a great piece of software. Have you played with the smart views yet? Genius idea.
Can't wait for Wil to come to town! :)


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Internet Troll Jailed In The UK For Being A Jerk Online
from the 4chan-/b/-just-got-worried dept
This is troubling on any number of levels. Most specifically, it's exceptionally worrisome when you base punishment on how someone responds to speech made by someone else. Yes, the comments were obnoxious and totally classless and uncalled for. But, whether or not they cause "distress" should not be the basis for judging whether or not they're legal. There are lots of things that someone can say that would cause distress, but that shouldn't make it illegal to say them. This certainly opens up a can of worms over just what kind of speech is so distressing that it gets you jail time. Either way, if you're from the UK, be careful what you post in our comments going forward. It apparently could get you jail time.

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With a peplum flare that starts right under the bust, a sharp deep neckline and a spring-ready sleeveless cut, this bebe top is sure to be the default to plenty a new-season bottom. Try it with a printed skinny jean and a pair of sky-high-or-die sandals for an instant weekend look.
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Certain crimes in Connecticut are punishable by death, though the state has executed only one man -- Michael Ross -- in the past 50 years. The 2007 murders of the Petit family have cast a giant shadow over recent legislative discussions on capital punishment. A repeal bill cleared the General Assembly in 2009 but was vetoed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Last year, a repeal effort fell apart after two key senators said they could not support it in light of the Petit murders. Opponents of capital punishment recently vowed to press on with their cause, though getting controversial legislation passed in an election year presents an additional complication. Connecticut has 11 people on death row -- including both men convicted of the Petit murders. Click here for more about the death penalty.
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Destructoid - For all its faults, Dungeon Siege III was something that I immensely enjoyed to button-mash my way through on my own. The camera annoyances found in co-op were not really an issue while playing solo, although the AI's tendency to just leave you for dead more than made up for it.
Treasures of the Sun, the first big DLC expansion, doesn't just add a good amount of new content to the hack & slash-a-ton, but also gives players a number of new tools to make their lives a lot easier on the whole.


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UCLA researchers find grassroots approaches to curbing the spread of HIV in China and Vietnam.
The Golden Triangle contains border regions of Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southeastern China. UCLA Professor Roger Detels said that the "extraordinary valley" was one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen.
"But they have a huge drug problem," Detels explained. And with that drug problem has come a rampant spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Detels, a former chair of UCLA's Department of Epidemiology, spoke Nov. 8 at a colloquium put on by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. It was the first of two UCLA events in two days about interventions designed to curb the spread of HIV in China and Vietnam.
In a Nov. 9 presentation sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Sheng Wu and Stephanie Sun, researchers at the UCLA Semel Institute's Center for Community Health, explained that the stigma attached to HIV infection in China made it even more difficult to address the problem. The Chinese government reports that, in the whole country, 840,000 people live with the virus, a number that could grow to 10 million by 2010, according to some experts.
In a one-year span in the late 1990s, high rates of HIV infection spread from the southern part of Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City, to the north and across the Chinese border. The epidemic was striking younger victims, particularly male injected-drug users (IDUs).
Although Detels would move on to Vietnam, at the time he was refining his strategies in the southeastern Chinese province of Yunnan. His 1998–99 community intervention study was based in China's portion of the Golden Triangle, one of the first places to see HIV spread by syringes.
Intervention in drug use has taken many forms, including rehabilitation and chemical replacement, or the weening of IDUs off injections and onto pills in order to reduce the chances of spreading the virus. Detels' study focused on the effectiveness of education and community involvement. "One thing China does well," he explained, "is imposing the will of the community on the individual."
Detels and his team watched two villages, one as a control for comparison. In the other, Detels worked with village leaders to educate the community about curbing the use of injected drugs. He brought together healthcare leaders, workers' leaders, teachers, and police, telling them, "We understand that you have a problem."
Then Detels and his team simply listened. The leaders began to open up about HIV in their village. For two hours, they talked about not having enough resources and support from Beijing to combat the problem. Then one woman, Detels recounted, said, "These are our kids. We should do something for them."
"When she said that, I knew [the intervention] would work," said Detels. "We had overcome the first and the most important step in any community intervention. We had gotten the community to accept the responsibility to do something about this problem."
The team then set out to develop culturally appropriate intervention methods with the leaders' help. Members developed videos and posters, meetings, and discussion programs. They performed skits and engaged youth groups. They got young villagers to perform service such as repair work and to build a recreation center with ping pong tables.
"I think that the impact of that wasn't so much what they did, but the fact that they did it and had a visible impact gave them self-esteem," said Detels. "And I think self-esteem is a very key factor in trying to reduce problems like drug use."
Village leaders even introduced an elementary-school program that discussed HIV and drugs, a novelty in their culture. The program reached students in a village where children often do not attend high school. It was "a little too successful," Detels said facetiously. The control village, which was not supposed to have any intervention, found out about the curriculum and adopted it in their own schools.
A year and a half later, Detels conducted a retrospective survey. He found that in the village with purposeful intervention, the incidence of new drug users went down significantly in men, particularly among people 15 to 19 years in age (a 4.8 percent reduction), illiterate villagers (over 6 percent), and in an ethnic minority known as the Jingbo (about 3 percent).
One of Detel's former students, now an epidemiologist at the Hanoi Medical School in Vietnam, found out about what his teacher had accomplished in Yunnan. The Vietnamese government soon asked Detels to do for the northern Vietnamese city of Halong—also part of the Golden Triangle and also hugely affected by the spread of HIV through injected-drug use—what he had accomplished in China.
"I must admit that I had some misgivings," said Detels. "I didn't think the communes [of Vietnam] had the same sense of community" as Yunnan villages. Halong was much more urban than the village of his last study.
Nonetheless, Vietnam's need for intervention was as dire. By 2002, the country had 45,000 known IDUs and over 45,000 people living with HIV, mostly young men and largely in the 15- to 25-year-old age group.
Detels approached his work in Halong with the same strategy he had used in Yunnan. Most enthusiastic about taking on the problem, recounted Detels, were the police and Communist Party and Social Evils Department representatives.
These leaders, like those in Yunnan, came up with intervention strategies. The idea was to change community norms, to reduce the stigma associated with drug use and HIV. "Instead of looking down on drug users, the community is trying to do something to solve the problem," Detels said.
He recalled a skit the Halong group put together. A poor, young man and his sweet girlfriend were approached by a drug pusher who was wearing a tall black hat and a handle bar moustache. "It was hysterical. And it was really overacted," Detels laughed. But it was also effective: The audience cheered the young man's resistance and booed the drug pusher away.
"Here you are on a Saturday morning listening to La Traviatta"—Detels is an opera fan—"and you come up with this idea. Three years later, here you're seeing a hysterical play that's a product of your idea," Detels recounted. "And to see it actually come to life 8 or 10,000 miles away is extremely exciting."
Although the follow-up survey to measure the impact of intervention in Halong will not happen until next year, Detels has already seen improvements. Community leaders asked him to start replacing injected drugs with oral pills, a pragmatic program that they were initially against.
Semel Institute researchers Wu and Sun are taking note of cultural mores that hinder efforts to curb the spread of HIV in China.
Discrimination against people living with HIV is prevalent in China, said Sun, making it difficult for patients to get effective care. The National Institute of Mental Health funded Wu and Sun's three-year study of how this stigma affects healthcare workers in Yunnan province. Their research group has interviewed 1,100 healthcare workers from provincial, city, and county hospitals, as well as township and village clinics, to collect data about how stigma comes about and what effects it has on the quality of health care.
Now the team, at UCLA and in China, is designing its intervention plan based on the data.
Sun said the study so far has shown that "family is very important in helping HIV-positive individuals to deal with the disease."
The pair's other study in China is informed largely by Detels' work. With funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, Sun and Wu are measuring the effectiveness of intervention by people identified as leaders of community opinion in reducing high-risk behaviors, such as unprotected extra-marital sex. The work is being carried out in the southeastern Fuzhou province.
Sun describes Fuzhou's capital as a developing city that combines older structures with modern buildings. The research group, which began its work in 1999 in collaboration with the Research Triangle Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, focuses its work on markets. Team members are collecting information from 4,500 stall workers, 15 percent of whom they identified, with locals' help, as community opinion-makers. Sun, Wu, and their colleagues taught this smaller group about safe sex, open communication, and the importance of regular health checkups.
"The layout of the market allows frequent interactions between people, among people," said Sheng, "and so they have conversations every day working in the market."
The intervention seeks to change attitudes through these conversations, with the leadership group influencing others' behaviors. The opinion leaders also initiate social events to encourage discussion and act out scenarios in skits. One skit showed a market worker expressing anxiety about his extra-marital unsafe sex and a community leader telling him he should be checked at a clinic and use condoms. Sheng said that such interventions are effective in reducing high-risk behaviors because "friends influence friends" more successfully than outsiders judging or preaching.
Sun and Wu are still collecting data from markets they have added to their study, going back to the sites about every two months. The results will be analyzed when that project concludes in 2007.
Published: Friday, November 18, 2005
UCLA Fights HIV/AIDS in AsiaIn much of Southeast Asia, China and India, the fight against HIV/AIDS is being led by UCLA alumni — trainees sent here to learn from the best
Combating TB Is Central to the Fight Against HIV, WHO Doctor WarnsDr. Marcos Espinal calls for uniting anti-HIV and anti-TB programs to stem the health crisis in Africa, India, China, and the former Soviet Union.
U.S. Needs Partnership with Africa to Stop Spread of AIDS, Former Zambian President Kaunda Tells UCLA MeetingKenneth Kaunda, founding president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991, made an impassioned call for international solidarity against the "scourge of HIV/AIDS" February 27.
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Giant Recreation World to Open New Fla. Store
January 8, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Giant Recreation World to Open New Fla. Store
Giant Recreation World in Winter Garden, Fla., will open a new "satellite store" in Palm Bay, according to a press release
The new dealership, expected to open by fall, will sit on 24 acres of land allowing for the display of over 300 RVs. The location will offer RV sales and service and is visible from Interstate 95, providing customers convenient access to the dealership.
Giant Recreation World COO Larry McNamara noted, "Our new location will have 50 full-time employees and easy access to serve the sales and service needs of our customers."
Founded in 1976, Giant Recreation World's 90-employee work force provide sales and service from three Florida locations: Winter Garden, Palm Shores and Ormond Beach.


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Clifton Moody, a World War II veteran, has done the Big O three times, the first loop at age 88.
Mike Beigel, 65, is riding his bike and working out to build up his stamina so he can keep pace with his hiking partner -- 96-year-old Clifton Moody -- in the 109-mile "Big O" hike around Lake Okeechobee next month.
Moody, a World War II veteran, has done the Big O three times, the first loop at age 88. He has walked across Florida and tackled the Appalachian Trail, Florida Trail and Florida Scenic Trail. Most of his hikes are made with a 25-pound backpack and ski-pole like walking sticks.
The Big O hike is made on the Herbert Hoover Dike, which surrounds the lake. The hike averages 10 miles for 10 days.
"I don't know if I can keep up with him. He also wants me to go to on a field trip to Alaska," Biegel said.
The two men are neighbors in the Oak Run community in Ocala. This is the first organized hike for Biegel, a retired salesman.
Thomas "Pete" Fambrough, 80, of Belleview will join the two on the trek.
"We've made the Big O hike before and we celebrated Clifton's 94th birthday on the Appalachian Trail," Fambrough said, describing Moody as a "peppy walker."
In October 2007, Moody, at age 90, hiked across the state from Flagler Beach to the west coast of Florida with a group of hikers 80 and older. "Our group included Ken Smith, who blazed the Florida Trail through the Ocala Greenway area," he said.
Moody, a native of Pelham, Ga., was born in 1917 and "worked in a cotton gin after eighth grade," he said. At 17, he tried to join the Civilian Conservation Corps but couldn't because of the age limit of 18, so he joined the Navy instead. He was stationed in Honolulu when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and the U.S entered World War II.
"I served as a submarine radioman, first in the S-47 before names were used, and then on the USS Cuttlefish in the Pacific. First we had sonar and by World War II we had radar," he said.
Moody served for more than 21 years.
In 1957, he moved to Gainesville, where he studied at the University of Florida and became a registered pharmacist. He operated McCollum's Drug Store in Gainesville until 1972.
In 2004, when Moody was 85, his wife of 66 years, Odessa, passed away. At age 88, he decided to "try hiking." He soon moved to Ocala to be near family members and began hiking in earnest.
"My doctor said I had no structural damage, and some trouble I had with one leg never reoccurred after I started hiking," he said.
"I walked on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Once, on a break, some other hikers thought I was injured and I was 'rescued' by a group," he said with a smile.
About five years ago, Moody met his second wife, Lucille, through friends.
"I'm very happy for him, but I don't join in the hiking. My walk is about out to the mailbox," Lucille said.
Paul McCathan, 78, and Rudy Chop, 86, recently joined Moody at Oak Run for a friendly game of pool.
"He is an inspiration to us," McCathan said.
Chop described Moody as a hard worker with a fantastic memory.
Moody's daughter, Linda Howlett, of Pickens, SC, said she admires her dad for having a "never quit" outlook."
"I believe he set an age record in his first Big O hike and he may be trying to maintain that. Although he's getting a little delicate, he's still like the Energizer bunny," Howlett, 66, said.
Lucille Moody has volunteered with Hospice of Marion County for about 15 years and Clifton Moody for about six. "My dad wanted to give back after hospice helped when my mother passed away," Howlett said.
The Big O hike starts Nov. 23 at Pahokee, with a stop in Clewiston for a Thanksgiving dinner, and then wraps up back near Pahokee on Dec. 1.
There is a shortened "wimp walk" at the start of the event and "no backpack necessary" group camping arrangements and hotels available.
"The hike is also sort of a social thing," Moody said.


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The baptistery or baptistry (Latin: baptisterium, from Greek: βαπτίζειν), in Orthodox Christian practice, is a structure (building) or room in a building wherein people ritually become members of the Church of Jesus Christ through the sacrament of baptism.
As the singular symbol of membership in the Orthodox Christian Church, the sacrament of baptism has been of central importance in the Church.
The baptistry may be located within the main structure of a church or as a separate structure located adjacent the church. Commonly, the sacrament of baptism for those becoming Orthodox Christians is conducted in the nave of the church, generally in portable pools or fonts. In some churches the font or baptismal pool may be "built-in". Baptistries were found in many early churches in Asia Minor and Italy, as illustrated in the third century in the Church at Dura-Europus[1]. A sixth century example can be found in the Great Church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in present day Istanbul.


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Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, famous for its neolithic stone circle. The henge and stone circles are thought to date from about 2500 BC to 2000 BC and are roughly contemporary with the more famous Stonehenge 20 miles to the south. The circular bank and ditch, which is almost a mile in circumference, encloses a much later mediaeval village, with a Saxon church and Elizabethan country manor. Many of the stones are missing or buried, having been considered evil by the local farmers during mediaeval times, they were toppled or broken up, many of which to be revealed and restored in the 1930s by the famous archaeologist Alexander Keiller. The village and henge lie at the centre of one of the most exciting megalithic landscapes in the world, with the remains of two prehistoric processional avenues of stones leading from the circle, leading to other nearby prehistoric points of interest such as West Kennett Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
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By car
Avebury lies at the heart of the Wiltshire Downs, accessible easily from the M4 motorway, and is located about 6 miles west of Marlborough, along the A4 (Bath Road) at the junction of the A4361 and the B4003. Local signposting directs visitors to the official tourist car park which is situated just south of the circle itself off the A4361. There is a local village car park located in the centre of the village, but this has restricted parking for non-residents during daylight hours.
By train
The nearest train stations are 10 miles away in Pewsey or 11 miles in Swindon.
By bus
Swindon, as well as being on the main line to London, has a good selection of local bus transport, and local buses which pass Avebury on their routes include Stagecoach in Swindon/First 49 Swindon-Trowbridge; Wilts & Dorset 5, 6 Salisbury-Swindon.
Get around
Avebury village can be best explored on foot, though access to the henge itself requires some climbing and walking over rough grassland, and may not be suitable for all. Apart from the driest seasons of the year, it is advisable to have waterproof shoes or walking boots, since the grass can be wet and muddy, and the exposed chalk on the slopes of the henge can become slippery when wet. Two roads bisect Avebury, splitting the massive circle into 4 'quadrants' and each quadrant is fenced separately with sprung gated access. In some seasons, parts of the henge may be roped off to prevent erosion, so please observe the signs and help keep this monument for future generations. At certain times of the year, one or more quadrants may have sheep grazing the grass and care should be taken to avoid letting any out, and dogs should be kept on a leash. The east-west road is the village High Street to the west and Green Lane to the east and is generally much quieter to cross than the main north-south road which is unfortunately the main road to Swindon and thus carries a fair amount of fast moving and heavy goods traffic. This main road takes a double hairpin bend at the centre of the circle, where it joins the High Street, and much care should be taken in this area. It is possible to walk to the other related local sights which make up the Avebury landscape, but in less favourable weather, car transport is advisable.
For a unique view of Avebury and nearby Silbury Hill, Long Barrow, the Sanctuary and several of the local White Horses go by air. Local flying school G S Aviation (01672) 515535 can organise a 20min Trial Flight which takes in all of these sites. You can take your camera and will even be given the chance to fly the aircraft for part of the flight.
The henge itself is the main attraction of Avebury and each of the four quadrants can be visited one after the other in a single circuit of the circle. Many people prefer to go around twice, once close to the stones, and once right up on top of the henge bank, where there is a good path.
South West Quadrant
From just west of the Henge Shop on the High Street, you can enter the south west quadrant through the sprung gate and are immediately presented with an impressive arc of re-erected stones, starting with the misshapen 'blacksmiths' stone - this one was located by Keiller in the cellar of a blacksmiths where a 17th century antiquarian had noted it being toppled and used as building material. The 6th stone in from the road is the famous Barber Stone - when Keiller lifted this stone in the 1930s, the skeleton of a mediaeval Barber-Surgeon, with an intact pair of scissors, was revealed underneath, crushed by the falling stone.
South East Quadrant
After crossing the busy main road which goes south out of the village, the path leads you directly to one of the largest stones in the complex (about 60 tonnes) - the Devil's Chair - which has a small ledge on the outside edge where you can sit and make a wish. This quadrant also contains the remains of the inner stone circle and a central marker stone erected by Keiller to take the place of a much larger obelisk which stood there until the 17th century. At the exit of this quadrant, there is a huge sprawling beech tree on the henge, which reputedly JRR Tolkein used to sit under, and the exposed root system is certainly very Middle Earth.
North East Quadrant
Crossing Green Lane into the north east quadrant, there are very few stones revealed in this sector, mostly because Keiller ran out of money and this area was never excavated - you can be sure that many stones lie undiscovered under the grass. This sector does, however, contain the Cove stones, which are two huge flat stones perpendicular to each other - a third long lost stone once formed a three-sided 'cove'. It is interesting to note that while one of the stones is smooth, the other is very rough.
North West Quadrant
Crossing the busy main road into the north west quadrant, this sector is once again heavily reconstructed and as well as another impressive arc of re-erected stones, contains the single largest stone of the site - the Swindon Stone, which marks the way to Swindon. The exit from this quadrant leads you out to the courtyard where the Barn Museum, Tea Room, WC facilities, the Keiller Museum, St. James Church, and Avebury Manor gardens are all situated.
Other Avebury Sights
There are several shops in the village, as well as souvenir shops in the museums.
The Red Lion pub serves a wide menu of meals and snacks in its two indoor restaurants, and is open all day. The pub has bench tables out in front which can be pleasant to drink at in summer, but are too close to the busy road to make eating pleasant.
The tea room located in the courtyard beside the Great Barn Museum is open seasonally and sells sandwiches, buiscuits and teas, and has an indoor and outdoor seating area.
Many of the houses in Avebury village offer B&B accommodation.
Get Out
Avebury is best combined with a trip to the other famous stone circle Stonehenge, or the medieval city of Salisbury.


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Sachin Tendulkar to retire after his 200th Test, gives his fans two more games to watch him
The 200th Test against West Indies will ring the curtain down on the career of the most prolific batsman since Don Bradman - scoring 15,837 runs in 198 Tests. Not for nothing did Wisden call him contemporary cricket's most 'wholesome' batsman. Sanjjeev K Samyal reportscricket Updated: Oct 11, 2013 23:14 IST
The news of Sachin Tendulkar's retirement was expected for some time, but when it did come, there was a sense of numbness. And, that is how it would be felt across India and the rest of the cricketing world. Hailed a genius on his international debut, his achievements with the bat and fame have transcended the game.
That is because ever since he burst on to the scene as a 16-year-old in 1989, he has entertained cricket fans like few others have. In return, the cricketing world, from Sydney Cricket Ground to Sabina Park, have loved him like one of their own.
Across nations, his runs were celebrated and strokes applauded. The rousing reception the announcement of his name elicited was not restricted to hometown Mumbai – they were equally thunderous in England, Australia or South Africa.
The crowd reaction settled all debate as to who was the greatest – for no one else in this generation commanded such popularity. When it came to Tendulkar nationality never mattered.
Read more: A 100 Hundreds and Counting
Read more: Full text of Sachin's letter to BCCI
The 200th Test against West Indies will ring the curtain down on the career of the most prolific batsman since Don Bradman - scoring 15,837 runs in 198 Tests at an average of 53.86. Not for nothing did Wisden call him contemporary cricket's most "wholesome" batsman.
If Bradman's average of 99.94 made him beyond comparison, Tendulkar is the only batsman to score 100 international hundreds. Neither feat is likely to be bettered.
"All my life, I have had a dream of playing cricket for India. I have been living this dream every day for the last 24 years. It's hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it's all I have ever done since I was 11 years old," Tendulkar said in the release issued by the BCCI.
Tendulkar was omnipresent at the Saurashtra Cricket Association, stadium, where India played Australia in a T20 game on Thursday evening.
Read more: The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar
Read more: Sachin's 100 milestones
A tinge of sadness engulfed the arena. At the entrance to the stadium, his biggest fan Sudhir Kumar, the bald man who is always in the stands with his bare body painted in white with Tendulkar's name on his chest, had the message: Miss u Tendulkar.
Tendulkar, for India, was beyond numbers. The entire nation celebrated and cried with him. If he was doing well, it lifted the mood of the nation. When he failed, everyone sulked.
When he came to the crease, the nation ground to a halt. As Ramachandra Guha wrote in A Corner of a Foreign Field, when Tendulkar batted against Pakistan, India's TV audience exceeded the population of Europe.
Any cricket fan younger than 24 cannot imagine Indian cricket without Tendulkar. The vacuum in their lives will be incredible. It won't be any better for those who are older, those who have been watching, entranced, his career, for nearly the past quarter of a century.
PHOTO GALLERY: Sachin calls it a day
The excitement of waiting for an India game with Tendulkar to bat - the straight drives, pulls and flicks lit their lives.
His form in Tests has been poor since January 2011. There was speculation that the Indian cricket board would push him into retirement.
N Srinivasan had clarified that he had no such intention. Good for the Board chief that he did so on time, given the sentiment Tendulkar evokes all across the country.
Tendulkar had always said he will retire when he feels it's time.
He was not known to be contemplating immediate retirement, but something while playing the Champions League Twenty20 seems to have helped him firm up the decision.
He did not wait long. His close friends were immediately informed (a couple of days ago).
We have two more Tests in which to watch him. Till his 200th – cricket's currently most anticipated and momentous event – takes place in an as yet unknown city in India.
That will be all. The memories will last us a lifetime. But those won't fill the void he will leave behind.
Sachin Tendulkar's retirement: from a cartoonist viewpoint
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Happy that Sachin is retiring on his own terms: Achrekar
Political class wants Sachin to now attend Parliament
Cricketers pay glowing tributes to Tendulkar
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The 15th Annual Voorhees Business Conference featuring supply chain management experts from around the nation will take place on Friday, March 23, in the Scheman Building at the Iowa State Center.
Long-time ISU prof establishes chemistry professorship
Long-time ISU chemistry professor John D. Corbett has established a professorship in the chemistry department. "This is designed to reward outstanding faculty members," said Corbett, a Distinguished Professor of liberal arts and sciences.
ISU educational leadership chair addresses today's underserved students
Laura Rendon, professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State, identified four categories of underserved students in her recent paper for the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative titled "Reconceptualizing Success for Underserved Students in Higher Education."
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The Institute for Physical Research and Technology will get its own director, John Brighton, ISU vice president for research and economic development, said recently. Tom Barton, director of both IPRT and the Ames Laboratory, has returned to the ISU faculty, and the search for an Ames Lab director already is under way. The search for the new IPRT director will focus on internal candidates. IPRT is a network of scientific research centers at ISU.
Iowa State MBAs aim to be Big 12's best
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ISU anthropologist's study is first to report chimps hunting with tools
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jill Pruetz led a study finding chimpanzees in Senegal are regularly making and using spears to hunt other primates -- making it the first to report habitual tool use by non-humans while hunting other vertebrates.
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ISU study finds discrimination leads to greater drug use in African-American teens
Research led by psychologists at Iowa State has found that incidents of racial discrimination are the strongest predictors of subsequent drug use among African-American teens.
Funds for new endowed chair boost software engineering program
A $1.5 million commitment from Iowa State alumnus Long V. Nguyen and his wife Kimmy of McLean, Va., will create an endowed chair in software engineering in the department of computer science. "Iowa State University is committed to leadership in this exciting discipline," said ISU President Gregory Geoffroy. "This chair will help us recruit an established star in software engineering to support these efforts."
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ISU prof finds laparoscopic surgeons improve speed, accuracy by playing video games
A study co-authored by Iowa State University assistant professor of psychology Douglas Gentile and published in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who previously played video games made far fewer errors and were considerably faster than their non-playing colleagues when participating in a top laparoscopic training program.
Book chronicles life and times of Iowa State
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Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons
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Research led by ISU anthropology professor Jill Pruetz finding that chimpanzees in Senegal have been fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the hand-crafted tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans -- is featured in a story by Rick Weiss.
Hunting chimps may change view of human evolution
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i dont get wat u mean????xplain it more wit less detail....
new photo
yeah i think that sawada really likes yankumi for real but i think yankumi doesn't like him in "that" way... poor sawada.T_T
Inoue WHORIHIME must DIE
what gives???no pictures???
Here's the latest take on the manga version....Sawada Shin really falls for Yamaguchi Kumiko and she has strong feelings for him..remember the time she sees him on a date and she practically shouts at him? I think this was after he saved her and they meet outside the Tanukibara meeting or somehting. Another thing that sort of leads me to believe that she is developing strong feelings for him in the manga is when she breaks down and asks her grandfathe rfor help in looking for Shin when he gets kidnapped by another Yakuza group. The Fundoshi moment is also another thing that shows she is attracted to him and that she treats him in a different manner compared to the other boys in her class.
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I also read in a forum that after Shin graduates from Shirokin (in the manga) he manages to save her again and tries to kiss her. Unfortunately, it was interrupted!
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In the drama version, Sawada Shin gives Yankumi long, (dare I say it!) loving looks when she is not watching. This is evident in the episode where they caught the arcade manager mugging people, whom they thought was Uchiyama. While Shinohara was presenting the certificate, he was looking at her getting all excited. He is happy when she is happy. In another Episode, where the school nurse's son visits, Sawada Shin gets this look when Yuta (the son) runs to the three girls calling "Mama". It's like he doesn't want Yankumi to be the mom of the little boy. During the confrontation between the students and the head teacher, Sawada Shin also said that he can open his heart to his teachers...this may seem like a stretch but I'm hoping he was implying somthing here. In the end of the drama, when Shinohara tells Tetsu that he won't give up on her, and Tetsu agrees, the other cop also says he likes her and Sawada Shin says to count him in. Yankumi drama version does not show any romantic interest in Sawada Shin at all.
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my all time fave on screen pair..
Guess who's back?
btw... does anybody here know about the apparent MatsuJun - Yukie rumor just after airing Gokusen?
Guess who's back?
is it true that there will be a movie?
if it's true i wish shin will be there to confess to yankumi
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is it true that there will be a movie?
if it's true i wish shin will be there to confess to yankumi
Really?! Where did you hear this? I hope it's true...and same as you, I hope shinkumi finally gets together.
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jun matsumoto doesnt appear on gokusen 3..and i guess,yankumi and shin has a feelings for each other but not yet discovers..And why would Shin makes an effort to support Yankumi,i mean a simple encounter can make an impact towards another person..i believe that there is some romance for this series,but as the series focuses on the school and friendship issue thats why its not seen as it is..But if u realy wacthed it closely,u will feel in ur heart that there is something between Shin and Yankumi..
watching Mei-chan Shitsuji
Umm, even though I knew that they were strictly teacher and student, I think he would have been a better love interest for her than that cop guy she liked.... I kinda wanted them to end up together.... Like they first post said, it was a cute and quirky girl and a tough guy with a soft heart.. i love that pairing! >_<
but alas, i knew it would be too awkward of a thing to happen....
I'm no longer the one I was...
i want yankumi and shin to get together..that would be hella cute. I dont know why she likes the Lawyer dude in the manga..he's ugly. the drama ending was cute when Tetsu and the police guy were sorta fighting over her....then Shin popped in saying he wasnt gonna give up either
Ok...to everyone who hasn't read the manga's special chapter that was released this year . Shin and Kumiko are now an official pair.
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The manga's special chapter concludes with them kissing.
Supposed to be studying but as u can see...I'm not!!
Although I wish they'd make a special episode on the manga's special chapter! here's the link for those who want to read it-
enjoy reading! As for a Jun-Yukie rumor, I did hear one about them going out after which they broke up and about Jun not having moved on after it. It seems they don't even want to work with each other because of that . Even during the promotion of NHK's charity show which was aired on 31st October, Jun and Yukie sat way apart from each other. They spoke only because it was a formality since they were acquainted with each other.Because of Jun and Yukie's reported fight, even Oguri Shun, who happens to be one of Jun's good friends, isn't on good terms with Yukie. I wish Jun and Yukie would get married in real life though. i think I'd be the happiest girl on earth then!
This is a rumor that I heard so please don't screw me if I'm wrong!
Supposed to be studying but as u can see...I'm not!!
i really want to see shin and yankumi together again as well as jun and yukie...i hope jun will be on the movie....
it would have been really interesting if they had a relationship between them.
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Australian Trade Minister Says That Releasing IP Enforcement TPP Treaty Text Would Be 'Problematic'
from the for-whom? dept
And yet, TPP negotiators are doing the exact same thing. A few years ago, you may recall, that US Trade Rep Ron Kirk dismissed calls for transparency in ACTA negotiations by claiming that it would be problematic in that some of the participants might walk away from the table if they had to tell the citizens they represented what they were actually negotiating. Of course, later in the negotiations, when some countries pushed for transparency and openness, it became clear that it was the US -- who really kicked off ACTA -- that was the driving force behind the unprecedented level of secrecy.
Now, with TPP, it appears they're making the same totally unsubstantiated claims. Glyn Moody points us to a letter sent by Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson, which pays lip service to "transparency," but when it comes down to the key question of opening up what's being negotiated, says that's not really possible:
Your suggestion that draft negotiating text and position papers should be made public is understandable but problematic. First, this would only be possible if all parties agreed. Many negotiating parties would consider releasing the text as a breach of confidence. Second, negotiating text really has no status until it is agreed by all parties. I am not convinced that exposing contested text, potentially including ambit claims, would assist informed public debate on the issues.Almost none of that makes sense. First, the claim that it would only be possible if all parties agree should not be a stumbling block. The simple response is that all parties should agree. This is a treaty that will likely have significant impact on people in all these countries. Why shouldn't it be discussed publicly? The "breach of confidence" claim is meaningless for the same reasons. These are about laws and enforcement that will impact citizens. There shouldn't be anything "in confidence" going on here. That the document has "no status" until it's agreed upon certainly sounds like "hey, please don't complain about the document until it's all done and we've agreed to what's in it." Talk about missing the point. The reason people want the negotiations to be open is to stop bad and damaging things from being in that "agreed" upon resolution.
Finally, the last claim is the most ridiculous. How can a more informed public not assist in informed public debate? Seriously. It takes amazing hubris to try to claim that keeping a document secret leads to greater "informed public debate" on the subject.


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Blog News: Silencing the Critics
We accept that your comments are not always going to be positive, but it helps if the comments are constructive when being negative.
CCSVI trending downwards
CCSVI as monitored with Google Trends
"The Google trend data on CCSVI continues to show a downward trend. The majority of hits are still from Canada, Italy and Serbia; a very interesting regional social phenomenon."
"When the dust settles on CCSVI it will be worth a detailed analysis to see if we can learn any lessons to prevent this from happening again."
"Too much money, energy and most importantly human life has been wasted on this issue. Not to mention the impact it has had on the relationships between patients, patient advocates and healthcare professionals."
Natalizumab PML Update - 181 cases as of 1st Nov
- 38 patients have died (21%); most of the deaths have occurred within approximately 2 months after PML diagnosis
- 143 patients are alive (79%), it is too early to draw conclusions about the outcomes of patients who develop PML while on natalizumab treatment.
"It is clear that Natalizumab is associated with a risk of getting PML that varies depending on JC viral status, previous exposure to other immunosuppressive drugs and duration of treatment. Knowing these risks will allow you and your neurologist to make an informed decision on what to do with your treatment."
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CoI: Multiple, please note that all the data in this post has been supplied by Biogen-Idec as part of their "monthly natalizumab safety update and PML risk stratification programme".
Basic Science: More clues for targets for remyelination
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Research:Iron deposition elevated in MS
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It is well known that patients with MS tend to have abnormal iron deposition in and around the MS plaques in the brain. In this study, we quantify iron content in patients with MS and healthy volunteers.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty-two patients with MS were recruited to assess abnormal iron content in brain structures involved in movement. One hundred twenty-two healthy subjects were recruited to establish a baseline of normal iron content in deep grey matter structures.
RESULTS: A clear separation between iron content in healthy subjects versus patients with MS was seen. For healthy subjects 13% and for patients with MS 65% showed an iron-weighting factor greater than three standard deviations from the normal mean (P < .05). Standard deviation is a measure of variability around a mean (average. middle point). 1.96 standard deviations would be expected contain 95% of the results and >3 standard deviations only less than 0.5% of results would be expected to occur at this level if it occured by chance. So the chance result would occur in 1 in a thousand times you do the experiment but would occur 650 times in a thousand (65%) so these results are unlikely to be a chance result. The results for those patients younger than 40 years are even more impressive. In these cases, only 1% of healthy subjects and 67% of patients with RRMS showed abnormally high iron content.
CONCLUSIONS: Iron-weighting factors in the brain appeared to be abnormal in roughly two-thirds of patients with MS
Brain atrophy in benign MS
OBJECTIVE: To compare brain atrophy rates in patients with long-standing benign MS vs typical early MS.
PATIENTS: 39 MS'ers with clinically defined benign MS and an age-matched group of 40 MS'ers with early RRMS.
RESULTS: The mean (SD) annualized brain atrophy rate in MS'ers with benign MS (-0.16% [0.51%]) was lower than that in patients with early MS (-0.46% [0.72%]) (P = .02). The difference remained significant after controlling for age, sex, and treatment (P = .04).
CONCLUSIONS: Serial magnetic resonance imaging revealed a low 2-year rate of brain atrophy in MS'ers with clinically benign MS, suggesting a less prominent degenerative component in its pathogenesis than in patients with typical early MS. Identification of patients with a low rate of brain atrophy may indicate a benign course.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Natalizumab in SPMS
A Clinical Study of the Efficacy of Natalizumab on Reducing Disability Progression in Subjects With SPMS (ASCEND in SPMS)
- Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 58 Years
- Genders Eligible for Study: Both
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
Major Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to understand the purpose and risks of the study and provide signed and dated informed consent and authorization to use protected health information (PHI) in accordance with national and local subject privacy regulations.
- Be between the ages of 18 and 58, inclusive, at the time of informed consent.
- SPMS defined as relapsing-remitting disease followed by progression of disability independent of or not explained by MS relapses for at least 2 years.
- EDSS score of 3.0 to 6.5, inclusive.
- MS Severity Score (MSSS) of 4 or higher.
- Documented confirmed evidence of disease progression independent of clinical relapses over the 1 year prior to enrollment as defined in the Study Reference Guide.
- RRMS or primary progressive MS as defined by the revised McDonald Committee criteria.
- Clinical relapse (within 3 months) prior to randomization.
- T25FW test of >30 seconds during the screening.
- Any value below the lower limit of normal for blood levels of leukocytes, lymphocytes, or neutrophils.
- Considered by the Investigator to be immunocompromised based on medical history, physical examination, laboratory testing, or any other testing required by local guidelines, or due to prior immunosuppressive or immunomodulating treatment.
- Subjects for whom MRI is contraindicated (i.e., have pacemakers or other contraindicated implanted metal devices, are allergic to gadolinium, or have claustrophobia that cannot be medically managed).
- History of any clinically significant (as determined by the Investigator) cardiac, endocrinologic, hematologic, hepatic, immunologic, metabolic, urologic, pulmonary, neurologic (other than MS), dermatologic, psychiatric, and renal, or other major disease that would preclude participation in a clinical study.
- History of malignant disease, including solid tumors and hematologic malignancies (with the exception of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin that have been completely excised and are considered cured).
- Known history of or positive test result for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
- Positive test result for hepatitis C virus (test for hepatitis C virus antibody [HCV Ab]) or hepatitis B virus (test for hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] and/or hepatitis B core antibody [HBcAb]).
- History of transplantation or any anti-rejection therapy.
- Presence of any infectious disease (e.g., cellulitis, abscess, pneumonia, septicemia) within 30 days prior to screening.
- History of PML or other opportunistic infections.
- Any prior treatment with cell-depleting therapies, including total lymphoid irradiation, cladribine, rituximab, alemtuzumab, or bone marrow ablation.
- Any prior treatment with natalizumab.
- Treatment with mitoxantrone, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, azathioprine, methotrexate, mycophenolate mofetil, T cell or T cell receptor vaccination, fingolimod, daclizumab, or cytapheresis within 6 months prior to randomization.
- Treatment with IV or oral corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), or plasmapheresis for treatment of MS within the 3 months prior to randomization.
- Treatment with glatiramer acetate or any interferon beta preparations within 4 weeks prior to randomization.
- Treatment with 4-aminopyridine within 30 days prior to randomization, unless a stable dose has been maintained for at least 30 days prior to randomization and will be continued for the course of this study.
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Survey results: Big Pharma
"I don't find this result surprising given the current reputational issues Big Pharma have with the general public.However, I disagree with these results. If it wasn't for Big Pharma we wouldn't have DMTs for MS or the exciting pipeline that currently exists."
"MS'ers may be surprised but there are currently two PPMS and one SPMS trial recruiting sponsored by Big Pharma. The anti-Lingo trial that is targeting remyelination is also a Big Pharma project. All these have been profiled on this blog in the recent past."
"What is worrying however is the bad publicity "big money" brings to the field."
"It is also becoming increasingly difficult to get investigator trials sponsored, for example funding for a recent vitamin D trial was turned down in the UK. We are not sure why as the trial was well designed, the case for vitamin D is compelling and the study was powered to be definitive. May be next time?"
"We are about to submit a grant to test an anti-EBV drug in MS. Again the case is compelling for this trial. Let's hope the reviewers' and funders' think the same."
"I wonder if Danone and/or Nestle would be interested in funding a probiotic trial in MS? Please complete the new poll to let us know. You never know your response may be the beginning of a powerful lobby."
MS Market to worth $15.8 billion by 2015?
Saturday, 26 November 2011
New survey: probiotics
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What are probiotics?
Probiotics are live microorganisms thought to be beneficial to the host organism. The currently adopted definition by FAO/WHO, probiotics are: "Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host".
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and bifidobacteria are the most common types of microbes used as probiotics; but certain yeasts and bacilli may also be helpful. Probiotics are commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures; such as in yogurt, soy yogurt, or as dietary supplements.
(For more on probiotics please see Wikipedia entry)
"Who knows your vote may be the beginning of a new form of lobbying to get trials of this sort done in MS."
Probiotics work in EAE
BACKGROUND: Certain intestinal microflora are thought to regulate the systemic immune response. Lactic acid bacteria are one of the most studied bacteria in terms of their beneficial effects on health and autoimmune diseases; one of which is MS. They investigated whether the lactic acid bacterium Pediococcus acidilactici, which comprises human commensal bacteria, has beneficial effects on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of MS.
CONCLUSIONS: An orally administered single strain of P. acidilactici R037 ameliorates EAE by inducing regulatory cells. Their findings indicate the therapeutic potential of the oral administration of R037 for treating MS.
Optic Neuritis: Testing for Neuromyelitis optica
|Spinal cord lesion in NMO
CONCLUSIONS.: The testing for NMO-IgG antibodies is important for distinguishing ON in NMO from multiple sclerosis in cases of ON refractory to steroid treatment. These cases suggest that testing for NMO-IgG antibodies should be performed in comparative trials on a larger series.
Friday, 25 November 2011
Motor imagery as a treatment for fatigue
The objective of the study was to treat fatigue in MS'ers by a neurocognitive rehabilitation program aimed at improving motor planning by using motor imagery (MI). 20 MS'ers complaining of fatigue were treated for 5 weeks with exercises of neurocognitive rehabilitation twice a week. MS'ers were evaluated by Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS), MSQoL54, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), and MS Functional Composite (MSFC).
Myelin imaging
The mammalian nervous system is characterized by myelination, a fundamental biological process that protects the nerve processes of axons and facilitates the transmission of electrical pulses.
Research: BoTox for Bladder problems
Purpose: Neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO. The muscle controlling bladder contraction is over active = urinary incontinence) is common in patients who suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS). When the usual pharmacological treatment fails, botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A=Botox) injections can be proposed. The safety and efficacy of this treatment are already well known, but only a few studies focus on its use in patients with MS.
Materials and Methods: Seventy-one patients with MS underwent their first BTX-A injection for refractory (doesn't respond to therapy) NDO. They had bladder function assessed before and three months after injection. The patients were divided in three groups according to treatment efficacy: full success (total urinary continence, no overactive detrusor), improvement, or total failure (urge incontinence and overactive detrusor = when you've gotta, you've gotta go).
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Results: 77% of the patients had clinical improvement or full success of the treatment with a reduction of their urgency and incontinence. Significant urodynamic improvement after treatment was shown on different parameters: volume at first involuntary bladder contraction (p = 0.0000001), maximum vladder capacity (p = 0.0035), maximum detrusor pressure (p = 0.0000001). 46% of the patients were in the ″ full success ″ group. 31% of the patients had a partial improvement. 23% of the patients had no efficacy of the treatment. Duration of MS was a predictive factor of treatment failure (p = 0.015).
Conclusions: Despite that a full success was obtained in 46% of the cases, BTX-A injection therapy failed to treat refractory NDO in 23% of patients suffering from MS. Duration of the disease was a predictive factor for an inefficient treatment. The injection therapy should be considered as soon as oral anti-cholinergic (inhibit acetyl choline that is a nerve transmitter chemical) drugs fail to reduce NDO.
More confirmatory evidence for the value of Botox...its not just about fixing foreheads but it can be a valuble medicine. Please leave a look at previous posts
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Thanksgiving Cheer
MouseDoc: "So when and why are you going to shut it down?"
Prof G: "I was having one of those days when I made the comment, but with the amazing response we've had, we've just got to keep it going!"
After G gets over another strenous week, we will digest your suggestions (thank you) and have a chat about how we juggle things.
So Happy Thanksgiving from Dr & Ms. Mouse (My American Other half) enjoy your Turkey (Nut Loaf for the Veggies) and see you over the weekend or next week!
Team G: Top Tips for Excerise
The folks at Shift MS offer up Dr M&M on top tips for excersiceIf you don't want to see, don't press the link
Research:Immune attack of myelin may play a small influence,
Menge T, Lalive PH, von Budingen HC and Genain CP Conformational epitopes of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein are targets of potentially pathogenic antibody responses in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuroinflammation 2011, 8:161 (17 November 2011)
BACKGROUND:Myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is a putative autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS). Establishing the pathological relevance and validity of anti-MOG antibodies as biomarkers has yielded conflicting reports mainly due to different MOG isoforms used in different studies. Because epitope specificity may be a key factor determining anti-MOG reactivity we aimed at identifying a priori immunodominant MOG epitopes by monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and at assessing clinical relevance of these epitopes in MS.
METHODS:Sera of 325 MS patients, 69 patients with clinically isolated syndrome and 164 healthy controls were assayed by quantitative, high-throughput ELISA for reactivity to MOG isoforms, and quantitative titres correlated with clinical characteristics.
Structure of MOG
RESULTS:In the majority of human samples anti-MOG levels were skewed towards low titers. However, in 8.2 % of samples high-titer anti-MOG antibodies were identified. In patients with relapsing-remitting MS high-titer anti-MOG IgG correlated with disability (EDSS; Spearman r=0.574; p=0.025).
CONCLUSIONS:Thus high-titre reactivity likely represents high-affinity antibodies against pathologically relevant MOG epitopes, that are only present in a small proportion of patients with MS.
"MOG is one of the few myelin targets that is available to attack by antibodies. In animals immune responses to this protein can drive relapsing neurological attacks and antibodies can induce demyelination. This study suggests that such antibodies present in MS could contribute to problems. However, that these antibodies are not ubiquitous (common to every one) suggests that autoimmunity to this protein cannot fully account for the problems of MS. However it should be said that other studies have reported a higher incidence of anti-myelin antibodies. It is feasible that different people will react to different myelin proteins, as is known and is likely to occur. However, it may suggest such that antibodies can be produced as a consequence of other damaging entities that could trigger this autoimmunity
Do I think that antibodies that react with targets within the CNS are a problem in MS. Well yes I do and I'm pretty sure of that because we can take antibodies for MSers and inject them into animals and see undesirable effects.


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The approach of the April 15 filing deadline for filing federal income taxes has tax scammers popping up in larger numbers online even as a new phishing trend called long-lining is starting to pick up steam.
The Internal Revenue Service has already put scammers on notice: "As tax season begins this year, we want to be clear that there is a heavy price to pay for perpetrators of refund fraud and identity theft," Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller said in a statement. "We have aggressively stepped up our efforts to pursue and prevent refund fraud and identity theft, and we will continue to intensely focus on this area."
[See also: South Carolina faults weak IRS standard in massive data breach]
Those efforts are part of a year-round campaign by the IRS to attack tax fraud. For example, the number of identity theft probes by the agency tripled to 898 in 2012, from 276 in 2011.
Sentencings of identity thieves during the period also jumped -- to 223 in 2012, from 80 in 2011 -- as did jail time for persons convicted of ID theft. Those convicted were sentenced to serve an average of 48 months in prison last year, four months more than in 2011.
Online scams this year are similar to those in the past, according Cameron Camp, a senior researcher with Eset, of San Diego, Calif. "There isn't much variation on existing scams," he said. Fake tax preparation, bogus problems with tax returns and identity theft with intent to file a fake return are some of the common scams.
There's no relief after the tax deadline passes, either, he said. "After the April 15 deadline, you'll start seeing a raft of emails saying there's a problem with your return; you need to send us $500 to fix it,."
While tax scammers are recycling old material, they appear to be changing their proclivities, according to Don Jackson, a senior security researcher with Dell F-Secure in Atlanta, Ga. "The big difference this year is we're not seeing as many exploits," he said. "They're not using vulnerabilities in browser software as much as they have in the past. What we're seeing is more social engineering attacks."
He explained that messages will contain links to online forms where scammers hope to harvest information from a target or to a PDF version of a form that contains an information-stealing Trojan.
Tax scams, though, aren't the only ones phisher have latched onto; a new technique called "long-lining" is growing in popularity, too.
Long-lining combines the credibility of a spear phishing attack with volumes of a generic spam campaign. Unlike conventional mass phishing exploits, the 'hooks,' or email messages, used in long-lining are highly variable rather than identical, making them largely undetectable to traditional signature and reputation-based security gateways.
The messages are typically varied by IP address of origination, subject line and body content.
The body content also includes multiple mutations of an embedded destination URL, which typically leads to a site with a positive reputation that's been successfully compromised prior to the attack. The compromised Web destinations are loaded with hidden malware either before, during or sometimes after the attack wave has begun.
"Each 'hook' looks individual to each phish; they don't see the large campaign," Kevin Epstein, product vice president for Proofpoint in Sunnyvale, Calif. said. Because the emails look so credible, people are clicking on the links in them at an astounding rate -- on average 10%.
"That's staggering," he said. "Any legitimate marketer would be thrilled to have a 10% click-through rate on a marketing campaign."
Security experts continue to urge people online to be highly skeptical of links that appear to be from trusted sources, co-workers and even friends and family members.
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Aromas, Prayer, Meditation and Gratitude
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Aromas, Prayer, Meditation and Gratitude
Contributed by Candace Newman
Throughout the history of spiritual practice, fragrance is repeatedly associated with the Divine. Aromas are an invisible expression of love and spirit. Aroma, prayer, and meditation are all cross-cultural and languages of no words...and move us to a place of stillness and solitude. It is no wonder we find them together since the beginning of time. As we all yearn to commune with God and place ourselves in the presence of the Divine, combining our concentration with a sense of wonderment can be greatly assisted by fragrance and aroma. We strive to transcend our worldly concerns, be still, and find the Holy Joy of the innocent. It is by grace that we are given these momentary releases from restlessness and the mundane.
Since flowers are among the elements of enlightenment, it only makes sense that they are here to guide us into what Eckhart Tolle calls "our own inner flowering". He goes on to say that aroma taps into an inner opening that connects to the realm of spirit. In my own work, I am always in awe of how genuine aromas seem to open the heart and call in the spirit...and settle us reverently with our soul. There is a sense that the soul recognizes all soulful elements. Our hearts know the pure aromas of the flowers and plants of nature, and it feels like home.
In times of prayer and meditation, we look to shift our emotional state, and move to a spiritual place of quiet. Historically, aromas have been used in religious and spiritual practices to induce and enhance this desired contemplative and transcendent state of being. My year in Saudi Arabia, with side trips to Cyprus and Thailand, showed me the strong reverence for aromas in their ancient cultures. Frankincense and Myrrh were burned as Holy incense. Jasmine and Rose petals were laced into necklaces. The spirit of joy and the sacredness of these precious gifts from nature permeated your being, as did the aromas. There was an immediate sense of the ancient and the holy.
One time when passing a lady of the market in Thailand our eyes met over a rose. There was an aromatic glance, a recognition, a silent nod. There are certain soulful elements that bring us together in stillness and silence....no matter the age, condition, language or culture.
The transcendent vapors from pure and genuine essential oils perform like an alchemist, shifting us from the ways of the heavy body to the lightness of spirit. Aroma knows no boundaries and goes beyond the veils, blessing us with an aromatic glimpse, and transporting us into the field of our soul. Here we can rest in the presence of God.
It is this joy and gratitude that we all seek in our meditative times. Having precious aromas with us throughout the day can gently remind us of this inner garden. I spent a month above the cloud line in the Andes of Ecuador with an Incan Yachak (translated as "the one who knows") and several of his apprentices. Aromas played an integral part in their prayers and celebrations. They breathed in and honored the aromas of nature, to connect with God. This was done with great joy and a reverent sense of gratitude for Mother Nature.
Being in awe of the mystery is a wonderment that we must hold sacred in our hearts. Einstein stated: "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavor in art and in science."
Many essential oils and their aromas assist your prayers and meditations to quietly bring you home to your heart with gratitude as this reverent time of year.
Love starts in the Heart...
The Place where God always is...
Patiently waiting for us...
To quietly...come...home.
Some Essential Oils that were traditionally used historically for Prayer and Meditation are Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Rose, Jasmine and Sage.
Important note: Sandalwood is listed as and endangered species and many of the Frankincense species are listed as threatened on the Cropwatch website's database. To learn more about endangered and threatened species that effect aromatherapy please visit www.cropwatch.org for more information.
Click here to purchase a CD Recording of Candace's Tele-conference presentation.
Candace Newman, MAT, LMT, The Oil Lady®, has practiced Aromatherapy for 18 years. She is the founder of The Good Medicine Tin®, Oil Lady Aromatherapy®, and the Touch With Oil® Hand Massage. She and her husband, John, own The Good Medicine Tin Company LLC. www.GoodMedicineTin.com 866.304.3451.
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"Jurassic Park Builder"
Available on iOS devices
Score: 4 out of 4
"Jurassic Park," a film now 20 years gone by, is well-trodden territory for video game adaptations. The original concept, brilliantly adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, has become so familiar that it almost feels like someone should've created a real-life dinosaur park by now.
In that timespan, nobody has successfully extracted dinosaur DNA from fossilized amber, but several attempts have been made to simulate the experience, the best of which is "Jurassic Park Builder" for iOS.
The genre of park-building "Tycoon"-style games rarely needs another entry. The advent of the casual social-mobile platform has been a breeding ground for hundreds of God's eye-view strategy games. However, "Jurassic Park Builder" justifies its existence in that the film is by far the most famous property based on actual theme park creation. Talk about synergy!
This style of gaming often falls into the trap of being too simple for strategy fans or too complex for a small mobile device. "Jurassic Park Builder" balances the tension well, providing a straight-forward touchscreen interface that still allows a good view of what's going on. The game isn't prohibitively complex, but it does offer a satisfying depth through customization options for the player's park.
As with much of the genre, the game can be socialized by visiting other players' parks and working cooperatively, although this feature does require a Facebook account. Mercifully, the game allows one to play as a guest without logging in through Facebook, thus advertising they are spending a workday waiting for shipments of Pteranodon food to arrive.
What ultimately sets the game apart is that it balances sandbox play with meaningful assigned tasks and it doesn't skimp on the content below the paywall. Patient players willing to work hard and chase down experience points are rewarded as equally as someone who wants to throw real life money at their park.
The icing on the cake is the authenticity and reverence for the original movie. Let's face it, the sequels to "Jurassic Park" weren't spectacular and the rumored "Jurassic Park IV" sequel isn't anything to pin one's hopes on. "Jurassic Park Builder" gives the people what they want and brings in all the elements that made the original film so special. The game features characters with real actor likenesses, sound-alike John Williams music, the classic iconography of the park's main gate and those green and yellow Ford Explorers.
Until somebody (finally) builds a real theme park with reconstituted dinosaur DNA, "Jurassic Park Builder" will do just fine.


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MassDOT Secretary & CEO Richard A. Davey today announced that ADG Scotia II LLC has been designated as the developer of Air Rights Parcels 12 and 15, located above and along Interstate 90 at the intersection of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston's Back Bay. ADG Scotia is a joint venture of two Boston-area developers – Samuels and Associates and Weiner Ventures.
The ADG Scotia proposal will cover two open air rights parcels in the Back Bay. On Parcel 15, a 400-foot high-rise hotel and residential building will be set back from Boylston Street, with a low-rise retail building along the street. On Parcel 12, a mid-rise residential building will be located on Boylston Street and a two-floor retail building will cross the Turnpike along Massachusetts Avenue. The $360-million project will create a total of 230 residential units, a 270-room hotel, and 50,000 square feet of retail space.
"We believe the ADG Scotia proposal provides the best overall value and long-term benefit to the City of Boston by transforming this critical Back Bay intersection along the Turnpike," said Secretary Davey. "The proposal's rent offer also provides the best financial benefits to the citizens of the Commonwealth. I want to thank the Boston Redevelopment Authority and an engaged Citizens Advisory Committee for their diligent work and assistance in making this important decision."
The 99-year lease agreement with ADG Scotia covering Parcels 12 and 15 will provide to the Commonwealth a present value of $18.5 million in rent for the two parcels in the form of fixed payments early in the lease period combined with annual rent payments.
The criteria used in making the decision included: the proposed land use and project design; community benefits; community and City input; and the developer's financial proposal, capacity, and experience.
The decision was made following a deliberate, thorough, and transparent process with significant involvement by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and a Citizens Advisory Committee, as well as members of the general public and Back Bay neighborhood. The process began in 2008 but was put on hold during the financial crisis and restarted in 2011.
The designation of ADG Scotia is now subject to negotiation and execution of development agreements and leases with MassDOT. ADG Scotia will pursue project permitting and design review.
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Dooney, Perrella Seek All-Region Honors
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After having many of their runners sick at the Heptagonals Championships two weeks ago, the Bulldogs look forward to racing healthy this Saturday. They will head to Boston, Mass., for the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships, hosted by Boston University at Franklin Park.
All of the Ivy League schools from Heptagonals, except Penn and Princeton, will also compete at the regional meet. Head coach Dan Ireland said the Bulldogs would like to get another race with them with the Bulldogs at their peak potential.
"We had a number of individuals that did not perform up to their potential because of illness at Heps," Ireland said. "This is a chance for us to run what (we're) capable of doing."
The Bulldogs will run juniors Matt Bogdan, Jeff Perrella and Max Walden and sophomores Conor Dooney, Jake McKenzie, Nathan Richards and Julian Sheinbaum. Coach Ireland said he has high hopes for Dooney and Perrella, who have the potential to make the All-Region team this year. The top 25 finishers earn All-Region honors.
The Bulldogs have tested out the course at Franklin Park before at the Harvard-Yale dual meet earlier this year, but the regional venue will involve a much larger field of runners. The Northeast Regional is the largest region in the NCAA with 43 schools competing. The Bulldogs placed 11th last year.
Iona, which is currently ranked number one in the northeast by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, looks for a second regional title. No. 2 Syracuse, No. 3 Providence and No. 4 Columbia will also be chasing after the Gaels.
As the season nears its end, the Bulldogs will try to make the regional meet a springboard into next year.
"We want to end on a positive note," Ireland said.
The men's 10K race will kick off at 2:30 p.m. and results will be posted on Yalebulldogs.com and directathletics.com. The top two teams and the top four individual finishers automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships on Nov. 23 in Terre Haute, Ind.
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BBC World Service commissioned MacArthur grantee the Migration Policy Institute to study the effects of the global recession on migration to help inform a month-long series. For its report (PDF), MPI gathered and analyzed reports and data from leading researchers and governments around the world to support the news organization's broadcasts and articles.
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Don Grolnick's second and final Blue Note CD picks up where Nothing Personal left off, utilizing identical instrumentation but with mostly different players. Bass clarinetist Marty Ehrlich offers an Eric Dolphy-inspired solo in the pianist's wild setting of the standard "What Is This Thing Called Love?," which begins in a leisurely Afro-Cuban manner before taking off into post-bop territory at a brisk tempo. The remaining tracks are all originals, where Grolnick demonstrates his gifts as a surprisingly original arranger, utilizing the horns and reeds in unusual ways in the eerie "Heart of Darkness." The introspective "Nighttown" suggests a late-night cab ride on a nearly empty Manhattan street, highlighted by Randy Brecker's memorable muted trumpet. "Blues for Pop" is a strong finale, showcasing bassist Dave Holland at length, with potent contributions by the leader and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano as well. Later reissued with Nothing Personal as a two-CD set, this worthwhile release has long since lapsed from print. ~ Ken Dryden


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Tamil Aunty Video Details/Biography
Tamil may refer to:
Tamil language, one of the Dravidian languages primarily spoken in India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia
Tamil script, primarily used to write the Tamil language
Tamil people, an ethnic group native to Pondichery, Tamil Nadu, India and northern Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Tamil people, those Tamil people native to Sri Lanka.
A member of a people inhabiting parts of southern India and Sri Lanka.
• AUNTY (noun)
The noun AUNTY has 1 sense:
1. the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
Familiarity information: AUNTY used as a noun is very rare.
The sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
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Nouns denoting people
aunt; auntie; aunty
Hypernyms ("aunty" is a kind of...):
kinswoman (a female relative)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aunty"):
grandaunt; great-aunt (an aunt of your father or mother)
maiden aunt (an unmarried aunt)
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2. Television: a star of stage, screen, and video.
3. A videocassette or videotape, especially one containing a recording of a movie, music performance, or television program.
4. A music video.
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Tree dedicated in Massapequa Park
As part of Earth Day, the Udasin family purchased a tree in memory of Marvin Udasin. Mayor James Altadonna and Trustee Harry Jacobson are shown with members of the Udasin family at the Tree dedication at Brady Park.
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