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An out-of-pocket Mainzeal Property and Construction subcontractor estimates the builder could record $50 million to $100 million of losses and says a group class action to get money back could be worthwhile - but only if it stands a good chance of success.
Phil McConchie, co-owner of scaffolding and propping business Camelspace, which had $1 million of gear on the twin-tower leaky Hobson Gardens' site, predicted Mainzeal accounts would reveal huge losses and this would have widespread repercussions for his sector.
"My guess is $50 million to $100 million because I've lost $300,000, another company is owed $500,000, another Wellington company $100,000 and I estimate another scaffolding company is owed $500,000. That's well over $1 million and those are just some of the people [mainly] in Auckland," he said referring to around 40 sites where the builder was active throughout New Zealand.
Receivers PwC have not given any estimates yet but could present an initial Mainzeal report by the end of this month and are still auditing sites.
Even its first report could be scant on financial details of the complex business - New Zealand's third-largest builder after Fletcher and Hawkins.
McConchie said he might be keen to talk to other subbies about taking legal steps to get money back but would need to know more.
"There would have to be a point to it, not just getting involved in proceedings. I don't want to throw bad money after good," he said.
He predicted a big group of subcontractors could fail in the next month, causing widespread damage to the building sector, vital to Christchurch's reconstruction and to Auckland which desperately needs thousands of new residences.
He also questioned the role of ex-director Jenny Shipley, saying she had duties to perform in her role with Mainzeal. Bill Ralston, Shipley's spokesperson, said yesterday she was not speaking about Mainzeal.
McConchie said the repercussions of Mainzeal's fall for the multi-billion-dollar building sector were significant. But he predicted new businesses might rise and margins could improve, providing better and more secure income to many sub-trades.
"I think it's going to have a big effect," he said.
But he hit back at comments from NZ Strong's Shane Brealey that Mainzeal subbies were too slack and had let bills mount up, saying although payments to Camelspace were outstanding for 38 days, this was not uncommon in the construction sector.
"We weren't too lenient. Of the $300,000, $70,000 were retentions," he said, referring to the system whereby Mainzeal would retain 10 per cent of each payment to secure itself against the failure of a subcontractor or a problem on the job.
Christchurch plumber Peter Diver wants subbies to boycott and picket Mainzeal sites where jobs are taken over by other companies who do not pay the existing claims.
About 1000 subcontractors are thought to have been working for Mainzeal.
Engineering and contracting firm Aquaheat is owed money on a number of contracts with Mainzeal and Rob Tait, chairman of parent Horizon Energy, said the impact of the receivership was being assessed by Aquaheat's management.
Experienced liquidator and receiver Steve Lawrence of PKF Corporate Recovery & Insolvency (Auckland) said subcontractors suffering from Mainzeal's fall should get legal and financial advice if they were struggling financially.
Receivership or liquidation were not the only options and they might consider a creditors' compromise, scheme of arrangement with creditors or voluntary administration as alternatives, he said.
Receiver Colin McCloy from PwC said the financial standing of Mainzeal was still being assessed, "so it is far too early to speculate on the final outcome of the receivership".


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A smarter supply chain, enabled with AI and blockchain, gives you unmatched visibility and insights so you can make informed decisions and mitigate disruptions before they impact your ability to deliver business results.
" IBM Supply Chain Business Network processes billions of documents a year. "
— John Del Pizzo, Program Director, B2B Cloud Services, IBM Watson Supply Chain
Deliver a seamless omnichannel customer experience and optimize order fulfillment across every location in your supply chain.
View all relevant transactions from a single dashboard to quickly pinpoint and assess issues allowing resolution in minutes not hours.
Predict, quickly assess and effectively mitigate disruptions and risks to optimize supply chain performance with AI-powered capabilities.
Automate point-to-point file transfers reliably in a security-rich environment for high-volume delivery within and among enterprises.
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Microsoft to Reveal Next Gen Xbox May 21
(NEW YORK) -- The next Xbox is coming, or at least some information about it is. On May 21 at 1 p.m. ET -- exactly three months to the day after the PlayStation 4 was detailed by Sony -- Microsoft will hold a press event to reveal the "new generation" gaming system. The unveiling will be held at Microsoft's Xbox campus in Richmond, Washington.
Larry Hryb, director of programming for Xbox Live, also penned a blog post with a countdown clock and a promise to reveal more of the game line-up at E3, a large video game conference held in June in Los Angeles. The event will also be live streamed on Xbox LIVE, Xbox.com and on Spike TV, according to Hryb's post.
So what will the next Xbox look like? Recent reports say the console will put connectivity front and center and focus not only on games but on media content. According to The Verge, the box will look to take over the jobs of your cable box or at least integrate with it. Other rumors have said that the console will have voice recognition capabilities, or require constant Internet connection.
The Xbox 360 was launched in 2005.
The console wars are going to heat up in 2013. Nintendo released its Wii U at the end of 2012 (though sales in the United States have been disappointing so far,) and PlayStation is gearing up to launch its PS4 before the end of the year.
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Simeone and Martino proud of performances in opening leg
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone was proud of his players after they battled to a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona at the Nou Camp.
Atletico survived the loss of their top-scorer Diego Costa, who left the pitch when the game was just half an hour old with a hamstring injury, to take the lead 11 minutes into the second half when the forward's replacement Diego Ribas unleashed a rasping drive into the top corner.
Neymar equalised for the Catalans in the 71st minute and from then on Atletico were hanging on, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois making three vital saves from Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi before the final whistle sounded.
"I'm very happy with this team, this was the most decisive game of the two years I've been at the club and we are still going, showing enormous heart, and the way we fought makes me so proud, and I'm sure the fans are proud too," Simeone told the post-match press conference.
"I'm delighted we were able to compete with Barcelona, you don't earn the right to do that in a day, you earn it with hard work and today we showed we can compete with them."
The coach admitted Atleti were made to suffer in the final 20 minutes, but added: "This is the history of Atletico Madrid, always suffering, playing with their heart, never giving up, always keeping going.
"This group of players has huge heart. More than the result, here or in the return leg, this is what makes me proud."
Simeone could not give details on the extent of Costa's injury, but defended the decision to play the forward, who cut a training session short the day before the game after just five minutes.
"The injury he received wasn't the one he had before, he received so many knocks it's difficult to know where it came from," he said.
But the former Atletico midfielder spoke of his delight for Diego Ribas, who before the match had had an uneasy two months since returning to the club on loan in January.
"I was in a perfect position on the touchline and when he took the shot I knew it was going in. I felt pure joy," said Simeone.
"The team needed Diego to demonstrate what he is worth and he did that, and he also needed to demonstrate his worth to everyone else.
"I'm delighted for him because he's been working so hard in silence and today was an example that hard work always pays off in football."
Meanwhile, Barca coach Gerardo Martino joked: "When I saw the ball go in I almost wanted to celebrate it, it was a tremendous goal."
The Argentinian also insisted he was pleased with his team's performance.
"The way Barca played fills me with pride," he said. "Sometimes it paid off, other times it didn't, but if we keep playing this way we will have every chance of success.
"I'm very happy with how we played, we deserved to score another goal. We maintained intensity over the 90 minutes and we didn't allow Atleti to play in space, we created more chances and their only chances came from a bad pass and a goal from 35 metres."
Midfielder Xavi, though, was less optimistic, telling Television Espanola: "I think that we deserved more and created more chances but they also played well.
"We struggled to create chances and we will have to try and score goals there [in Madrid] but this is not a great result for us."
While Atletico are likely to be without Costa for the return leg, Gerard Pique is certain to miss out, Barcelona confirming that the defender will be out of action for a month after suffering a hairline hip fracture during the game.


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OWASP Boston
Welcome to the Boston chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Jim Weiler
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
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To find out more about the Boston chapter, just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.
Boston Application Security Conference 2011 --- FREE
Boston Application Security Conference 2011
Boston Application Security Conference 2011 - Call For Papers
Local Chapter Information --- Our Seventh Year
The chapter shipping/mailing address is:
OWASP Boston 35 Wachusett Dr Lexington, MA. 02421
Past Conferences
Boston Application Security Conference 2010
Upcoming Meetings
We usually meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH (Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.
Information for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can also be found at BostonUserGroups.
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month (Unless a speaker can only present another night). We usually meet at 6:30 pm in one of these two locations:
Microsoft Waltham -- the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.
From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.
Microsoft NERD Cambridge -- the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
Directions and information: http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Upcoming Meetings
December 7, 2011, CANCELLED
December 13, 2011, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge, Horace Mann Room
Jeremiah Grossman – Founder and CTO WhiteHat Security
Directions: http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Past Meetings
September 14 2011
Dinis Cruz - OWASP O2 Platform
The O2 Platform is focused on automating application security knowledge and workflows. It is a library of scriptable objects specifically designed for developers and security consultants to be able to perform quick, effective and thorough source code-driven application security reviews (blackbox + whitebox).
September 7 2011
Adriel Desautels – Differences between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning
July 2011
Anurag Agarwal, the founder of MyAppSecurity
Session 1 - Managing Risk with Threat Modeling Threat Modeling can help by guiding the Application Development Teams to ensure your Security Policies get properly coded into the Applications at time of Development. By creating pre-approved methods of coding for your development teams, and applying them in a repeatable and scalable process, you can assist your development teams in building a secure application easily and effortlessly.
Session 2 - False Positive, False Negative and False Sense of Security This interactive session will talk about the pros and cons of using black box testing tools and discuss their effectiveness in building a mature software security program.
Thursday June 2
Location - Microsoft NERD - http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Topic - Bringing Sexy Back: Defensive Measures That Actually Work
Presenter - Paul Asadoorian, Founder & CEO, PaulDotCom Enterprises
There is a plethora of information available on how to break into systems, steal information, and compromise users. As a penetration tester, I have performed testing on a regular basis that reveals severe security weaknesses in several organizations, and many of my peers have reported on the same. However, once you "own" the network and report on how you accomplished your goals, now what? Sure, we make defensive recommendations, but consistently it has been proven that security can be bypassed. Not enough focus is given to what works defensively. We have a lot of technology at our disposal: firewalls, intrusion detection, log correlation, but it provides little protection from today's threats and is often not implemented effectively. This talk will focus on taking an offensive look at defense. Applying techniques that are simple, yet break the mold of traditional defensive measures. We will explore setting up "traps" for attackers, slowing them down with simple scripts, using honeypots, planting bugs, and most importantly tying these methods to "enterprise security". This talk will also include real-world examples of the techniques in action from a live, heavily attacked site. Topics will include:
- Using wireless "attacks" on the attackers
- Implementing the Metasploit Decloak engine to find the attackers
- Setting traps to detect web application attacks
- Integrating results into your enterprise log management tool
The goal of this talk is to make defense "sexy"…
Presenter Bio
Paul Asadoorian is currently the "Product Evangelist" for Tenable Network Security, where he showcases vulnerability scanning and management through blogs, podcasts and videos. Paul is also the founder of PaulDotCom, an organization centered around the award winning "PaulDotCom Security Weekly" podcast that brings listeners the latest in security news, vulnerabilities, research and interviews with the security industry's finest. Paul has a background in penetration testing, intrusion detection, and is the co-author of "WRT54G Ultimate Hacking", a book dedicated to hacking Linksys routers.
Thursday May 26
Location - Microsoft Waltham (201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA)
Topic - OWASP Top 10 issue #4 – Insecure Direct Object Reference
Presenter - Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels and President of OWASP Boston
Jim Weiler will discuss threat models, risks and various remediations of issue #4 in the 2010 OWASP Top 10 – Insecure Direct Object References.
Topic - A Web-Application Architecture for Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing
Presenter - Arshad Noor, StrongAuth
The emergence of cloud-computing as an alternative deployment strategy for IT systems presents many opportunities, yet challenges traditional notions of data-security. The fact that data-security regulations are developing teeth, leaves information technology professionals perplexed on how to take advantage of cloud-computing while proving compliance to regulations for protecting sensitive information.
This presentation presents an architecture for building the next generation of web-applications. This architecture allows you to leverage emerging technologies such as cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management (EKM) to derive benefits such as lower costs, faster time-to-market and immense scalability with smaller investments - while proving compliance to PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH and similar data-security regulations.
Presenter Bio
Arshad Noor is the CTO of StrongAuth, Inc, a Silicon Vally-based company that specializes in enterprise key management. He is the designer and lead-developer of StrongKey, the industry's first open-source Symmetric Key Management System, and the KeyAppliance - the industry's first appliance combining encryption, tokenization, key-management and a cryptographic hardware module at an unprecedented value. He has written many papers and spoken at many forums on the subject of encryption and key-management over the years.
Topic – Secure Application design and Coding -- CANCELLED
Presenter - Josh Abraham, Rapid 7
Speaker Bio
April 2011
Ed Adams Security Innovation -- the new OWASP Exams Project and the work being done by the OWASP Academies Working Group
March 2011
Josh Abraham, Rapid 7
Owning the world, one mobile app at a time, and web services pen testing.
Febrary 2011
Rob Cheyne, CEO of Safelight Security -
Security Leadership series: Delivering a successful security presentation
December 2010
Application Architecture Security Assessment - Second session
Rob Cheyne, CEO SafeLight Security Advisors
November 2010
Open SAMM – Software Assurance Maturity Model
Shakeel Tufail is the Federal Practice Manager at Fortify, an HP company.
October 2010
Rob Cheyne, CEO SafeLight Security Advisors Overview: In this highly interactive two-part workshop, Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security will show you the basics of conducting a real-world architecture & design review. This workshop draws from Safelight's Security Architecture Fundamentals training course, a two-day course frequently used to teach Fortune 500 companies how to look at their system architectures from both the hacker's and the designer's point of view.
July 2010
Lightning Talk – Rob Cheyne, CEO Safelight Security Advisors In this installment of the Safelight lightning talks series, Rob will present the basics of a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF).
Main Presentation - Drive-by Pharming with MonkeyFist
Joey Peloquin - Director of Application Security, Fishnet Security
June 2010
Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - topic to be announced
Main Presentation - Ryan Barnett The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a Web Application Security Consortium project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security incidents. Ryan Barnett is director of application security research at Breach Security where he leads Breach Security Labs.
May 2010
Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - SQL Injection
Vinnie Liu - Data Exposure, New Approaches to Open Source Intelligence Techniques, and Incident Handling
April 2010
Dan Hestad Security Innovation Dan will be talking about his experiences with PCI and web applications, and answering questions about do's and don'ts of acceptable PCI practices in web applications.
March 2010
Zack Lanier - Disclosure Samsara, or "the endless vulnerability disclosure debate"
http://n0where.org/talks/samsara_20100310.pdf (very large PDF)
February 2010
Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security Advisors; New Technology, Same Old Vulnerabilities
January 2010 at Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Josh Abraham, Rapid 7 Technologies
December 2009
Eric Bender, Cenzic
November 2009
Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels - Web Application Vulnerability Scanners
Mush Hakhinian, Leader, Application Security Practice, IntraLinks - Secure coding with no money down using SONAR: unleashing the power of open-source code analysis tools
October 2009
Paul Schofield, Senior Security Engineer, Imperva - From Rivals to BFF: WAF & VA Unite
September 2009 at CORE Technologies, Boston
Paul Asadoorian, Pauldotcom.com
Alex Horan, CORE Security
May 2009
Joey Peloquin, Fishnet Security, Secure SDLC: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presentation pdf
March 2009
Sabha Kazerooni, Security Compass - Exploit Me tools; Framework Level Threat Analysis
Framework Level Threat Analysis document
Meeting Pizza Sponsor - Arcot
Arcot is a leader in online fraud prevention, strong authentication and eDocument security. Arcot's solutions are easily deployed, low-cost and extremely scalable, allowing organizations to transparently protect their users from fraud without changing user behavior or requiring expensive hardware.
Arcot can be contacted thru Michael Kreppein, email@example.com, 617-467-5200
December 2008
Brian Holyfield, Gothem Digital Science
Tamper Proofing Web Applications http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2008/12/04/
June 2008
Jeremiah Grossman; Founder and CTO, Whitehat Security
Appetizer - Hacking Intranets from the Outside (Just when you thought your network was safe) Port scanning with JavaScript
Main Topic - Business Logic Flaws: How they put your Websites at Risk
March 2008
Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode
Description – Attacking crypto in web applications
December 2007
Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital
Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security
November 2007
Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs
Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles
October 2007
George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP
An Introduction to Threat Modeling.
September 2007
Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"
June 2007
Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries
Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire
Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies
March 2007
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO Whitehat Security: Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006
January 2007
Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC: encryption case studies
November 2006
September 2006
Mike Gavin, Forrester Research: Web Application Firewalls
June 2006
Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool
May 2006
April 2006
Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking
Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
October 2005
Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges
Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
Boston OWASP Chapter Leaders
- Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
Program Committee
- Mark Arnold
Communications Director
- Yolanda Liu


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Safety and Efficacy of Albiglutide in Type 2 Diabetes
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00849056
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 23, 2009
Results First Posted : July 1, 2014
Last Update Posted : January 9, 2017
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|February 19, 2009
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|February 23, 2009
|Results First Submitted Date ICMJE
|April 24, 2014
|Results First Posted Date ICMJE
|July 1, 2014
|Last Update Posted Date
|January 9, 2017
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|January 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Change From Baseline (BL) in Glycosylated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]
HbA1c is a form of hemoglobin that is measured primarily to identify the average plasma glucose concentration over a 2- to 3-month period. The BL HbA1c value is defined as the last non-missing value before the start of treatment. Change from BL was calculated as the value at Week 52 minus the value at BL. Based on analysis of covariance (ANCOVA): change = treatment + BL HbA1c + prior myocardial infarction history + age category + region + current antidiabetic therapy. The last observation carried forward (LOCF) method was used to impute missing post-BL HbA1c values; the last non-missing post-BL on-treatment measurement was used to impute the missing measurement. HbA1c values obtained after hyperglycemic rescue were treated as missing and were replaced with pre-rescue values. One Intent-to-Treat (ITT) participant (par.) had all post-BL HbA1c measurements occur after hyperglycemic rescue. This par. is included in the ITT Population counts but did not contribute to this analysis.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|HbA1c change from baseline [ Time Frame: one year ]
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00849056 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Safety and Efficacy of Albiglutide in Type 2 Diabetes
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Multicenter Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Albiglutide When Used in Combination With Pioglitazone With or Without Metformin in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to determine the safety, tolerability and efficacy of albiglutide in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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|Study Phase ICMJE
|Phase 3
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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|Home PD, Ahrén B, Reusch JEB, Rendell M, Weissman PN, Cirkel DT, Miller D, Ambery P, Carr MC, Nauck MA. Three-year data from 5 HARMONY phase 3 clinical trials of albiglutide in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Long-term efficacy with or without rescue therapy. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2017 Sep;131:49-60. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2017.06.013. Epub 2017 Jun 15.
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|January 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|India, Korea, Republic of, Peru, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
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Loretto Dennis Szucs
Loretto Dennis ('Lou') Szucs, FUGA, holds a degree in history, and has been involved in genealogical research, teaching, lecturing, and publishing for more than thirty years. Previously employed by the National Archives, she is currently executive editor and vice president of community relations for Ancestry.com, Inc.. She has served on many archives and genealogical boards, and was founding secretary of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Currently, she serves as a director on the Board of the Federation of Genealogical Societies.
She has edited newsletters and quarterly journals for several genealogical societies, including the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Forum. She authored The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy (with Sandra Luebking), as well as They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins; Chicago and Cook County Sources: A Genealogical and Historical Guide; Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway; The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches (also with Sandra Luebking), and Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records (with Matthew Wright). Lou was also the executive editor of Ancestry magazine.
Since 1980, Lou has lectured at numerous genealogy workshops and national conferences. She has presented at the American Library Association conference and has been interviewed for the Ancestors series, ABC News, CNN news, and most recently on ABC television show, The View. In 1995, she was awarded the designation of fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association and has received numerous other awards.
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It was that kind of day. I won't go into the details and the steep downhill slide that comes with reading his school communication log and then trying to do homework with him every day. All I will really say is that the end of this school year cannot come fast enough. I will miss my mid-day alone time, but I know at least one kid who is badly in need of some time off from all responsibilities and stress.
Hint: It's Jack.
Because I'm not going into all of that, I'll just point you to my White Knuckle Parenting column wherein I wrote about letting your children fail.
That was a really bad segue. The post is actually about some stuff going on with Sam.
If you want something that is not all about failure, Team Stimey was featured in Autistic Globetrotting's Mother's Day Celebration. There are a lot of fantastic posts there about traveling with autistic kids, including my contribution about how I prepare my kiddos for outings.
Anywho. I'm hoping to be rehired tomorrow. We'll see. The interviewer is erratic but seems to like me. Most of the time.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A day after no-hitting Wentworth, pitching was the story again Thursday, as UMass Boston (17-14-1) struggled to put anything together against MIT (20-14) in a 3-1 loss at Briggs Field. The Beacons managed just five hits against K.J. Parent and Aric Dame, as the duo combined to strike out seven Beacons batters and allow just one unearned run.
Sophomore Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.) led the Beacons offense with the Beacons only extra-base hits, two doubles, to extend his hitting streak to 18 games. First baseman Matt Consiglio (Southbury, Conn.) added a ninth-inning single to keep his hitting streak alive at 14 games.
Senior left fielder Mike Mattei (Spencer, Mass.) added a single and a run, while right fielder Charles LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) reached base twice with a single and the team's lone walk of the day.
Lucas Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) was the hard luck loser for the Beacons, allowing three unearned runs over six innings. Relievers Tyler Kane (Wilbraham, Mass.) and Jeff Thomas (Redwood City, CA) each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Beacons.
MIT raced out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first with both runs scoring with two outs. Ilges retired the first two batters on groundouts to Moquette but gave up a single to MIT's leading hitter Creed Mangrum to start the rally. The next batter hit a chopper to third that Collin Keefer (Charlotte, N.C.) couldn't handle and it would prove costly. With runners on first and second and two outs, MIT followed with consecutive singles to score both runners and grab the 2-0 lead after one.
The Beacons stole a run back in the top of the third inning. Mattei hit a flare down the right field line that the second baseman bobbled, allowing Mattei to reach first. Bryan Failla (Torrington, Conn.) followed with a sacrifice bunt and with two outs, LaPaglia knocked a hard grounder to first that the first baseman let go by to score Mattei from second.
Both teams settled in over the next few innings, with neither team scoring until the bottom of the sixth. Ilges once again retired the first two batter but Sean Karson singled and stole second base and Consiglio couldn't handle a grounder putting runners on first and third with two down. The Engineers executed a double steal with Mangrum swiping second and Karson easily beating the tag at home.
UMass Boston put two runners on in the top of the seventh with a LaPaglia walk and a Mattei bunt single, but the Beacons struggled to hit with runners in scoring position. Failla grounded out to second base to end the seventh and the Beacons would put just one runner on base the rest of the way.
On the day, UMass Boston hit into two double plays and failed to record a hit with a runner in scoring position.
Saturday the Beacons will return to the diamond for a road Little East Conference doubleheader at Plymouth State University. First pitch of the first game is set for Noon.


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NAME | Synopsis | Description | Options | Extended Description | Examples | Exit Status | Attributes | See Also
install-path/dsrk6/bin/authrate [options]
The authrate command measures the rate at which a given bind DN can authenticate to an LDAP directory. As with all measures of performance, results depend on many factors, including what options you pass to the authrate command, and also how the directory service itself is tuned.
The command uses LDAP v3, and cannot be used to authenticate to an LDAP v2 directory not supporting LDAP v3.
The authrate command supports the following options:
Display the specified number of results messages before exiting. Results messages appear by default as output on standard out, similar to the following:
Avg r=2584.00/thr (516.80/sec), total= 7752
This shows output for three threads authenticating for five seconds. The average bind rate per thread is 516.80 per thread per second for the interval measured. The total shown for all threads is 7752.
Default is to continue iterating until the command is interrupted.
Use the specified bind DN to authenticate to the directory.
If the bind DN is not specified, the authrate command attempts anonymous authentication.
Connect to the directory on the specified host.
Enclose IPv6 addresses in brackets ([]) as described in RFC 2732.
Default is to connect to the local host on the loopback address, 127.0.0.1.
Use the file specified to read bind DNs and passwords at random.
Refer to Random Bind DN Syntax and Random Bind DN Substitution for details.
Display results each specified number of seconds.
Default is to display results every 5 seconds.
Keep connections open, measuring only the time required to perform the bind operation.
Default is to measure both the bind and unbind time as part of the authentication sequence.
Perform no more than the specified number of binds per thread.
Default is for each thread to continue iterating until the command is interrupted.
Connect to the directory on the specified port.
Default is to connect to the default simple authentication port for LDAP, 389.
Run in quiet mode, not displaying results.
Default is to display results every 5 seconds, which you can adjust using the -j option.
Use the specified maximum to determine the range for random numbers replacing %d formatting specifications when authenticating with random bind DNs and passwords.
When you use this option twice, the first occurrence generates random numbers in the range [0,maxRand1–1] for the first %d, the second [1,maxRand2] for the second %d.
Use the specified seed, an unsigned int, for random number generation.
Default seed is 0.
Use the specified number of the threads to connect to the server.
Default is to use one thread.
Do not unbind as part of the authentication sequence.
Default is to unbind as part of the authentication sequence.
Display verbose output.
Read the bind password from the specified file.
Use the specified bind password to authenticate to the directory.
Prompt for the bind password so it does not appear on the command line or in a file.
The authrate command repeatedly initializes a connection and binds to a directory server, without performing any other operation. Threads may be configured to keep open connections and perform LDAP binds repeatedly. The command-line options let you specify the bind credentials.
The command uses LDAP v3, and cannot be used to authenticate to an LDAP v2 directory not supporting LDAP v3. Furthermore, the authrate command uses simple authentication, not secure binding.
By default, the authrate command attempts to bind indefinitely, displaying results periodically, and displaying any errors encountered as well without interrupting operation.
To simulate real use conditions and reduce any artifacts due to the repetitive nature of the tests, the authrate command provides a mechanism for generating a random bind DN for authentication.
Include randomly generated numbers by specifying %d and %s placeholders in the bind DN and the bind password. These placeholders are then replaced according to the following rules:
Replace this placeholder with random integer values depending on the maxRand parameter to the -r option.
The -r option may be used at most two times to generate random bind DNs. When used in the bind DN, replacement values for the %d placeholder range over [0,maxRand1-1] for the first use of the -r option, and over [1,maxRand2] for the second.
The %d may be used up to eight times to generate a random password. When used in the bind password, replacement values for the %d placeholder range over [0,maxRand1-1] for each use of the -r option.
When the the number of %d placeholders exceeds the number of -r options, only one value for each use of the -r option is generated. Each %d placeholder is replaced with a generated value.
Replace this placeholder with random strings from the file specified using the -i option.
Replacement values for this placeholder are randomly selected lines of the file specified.
The authrate command requires that you apply the following rules for substitutions, displaying an error message when the used incorrectly:
Use only one type of placeholder, either %d or %s, per invocation of the authrate command.
Use %%d and %%s to specify literal strings %d and %s, respectively.
In order to use this random authentication mechanism, you must populate your directory accordingly. For example, you can measure the authentication rate using the following command:
$ authrate -D "uid=test%d,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com" -w "auth%d%d" -r 100
In order for the authrate command to bind effectively, your directory must contain entries corresponding to the following LDIF excerpt:
dn: uid=test0,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth00 dn: uid=test1,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth11 dn: uid=test2,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth22 … dn: uid=test10,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth1010 … dn: uid=test99,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth9999
Examples in this section use the following conventions:
The authrate command is found in a directory present in the PATH used for the examples.
The directory server is located on a system named host.
The directory has been configured to support anonymous access for search and read. Therefore, you do not have to specify bind information.
The directory server listens on port 389, the default for non-SSL connections.
The following command performs anonymous binds until it has displayed five results messages. Notice that each line concerns only the elapsed interval.
$ authrate -C 5 Avg r=1952.00/thr (390.40/sec), total= 1952 Avg r=1937.00/thr (387.40/sec), total= 1937 Avg r=1938.00/thr (387.60/sec), total= 1938 Avg r=1921.00/thr (384.20/sec), total= 1921 Avg r=1921.00/thr (384.20/sec), total= 1921 All threads exited
Notice also that a result message provides the following items of information:
The average rate of authentication per thread of execution
The average rate of authentication per second
The total number of authentication operations performed during the interval the results message concerns
The following command performs anonymous binds until it has displayed five results messages, using three threads to bind. Notice that each line concerns only the elapsed interval.
$ authrate -C 5 -t 3 Avg r= 300.00/thr (180.00/sec), total= 900 Avg r= 300.00/thr (180.00/sec), total= 900 Avg r= 299.67/thr (179.80/sec), total= 899 Avg r= 298.00/thr (178.80/sec), total= 894 Avg r= 299.33/thr (179.60/sec), total= 898 All threads exited
Here the average per thread, approximate 300 binds, is shown for each interval of three seconds. The averages given in parentheses, approximately 180 per second, represent the average bind rate over the interval. The totals shown represent the total number of binds over the interval.
The following command applies the mechanism described in Random Bind DN Substitution, performing full authentication (open, bind, unbind, close) with randomly generated bind DNs and passwords.
$ authrate -D "uid=test%d,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com" -w "auth%d%d" -r 100 -C 5 Avg r=1301.00/thr (260.20/sec), total= 1301 Avg r=1307.00/thr (261.40/sec), total= 1307 Avg r=1281.00/thr (256.20/sec), total= 1281 Avg r=1316.00/thr (263.20/sec), total= 1316 Avg r=1313.00/thr (262.60/sec), total= 1313 All threads exited
The following command applies the mechanism described in Random Bind DN Substitution, keeping the connection open and binding repeatedly with randomly generated bind DNs and passwords.
$ authrate -D "uid=test%d,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com" -w "auth%d%d" -r 100 -k -C 5 Avg r=2584.00/thr (516.80/sec), total= 2584 Avg r=2603.00/thr (520.60/sec), total= 2603 Avg r=2592.00/thr (518.40/sec), total= 2592 Avg r=2613.00/thr (522.60/sec), total= 2613 Avg r=2560.00/thr (512.00/sec), total= 2560 All threads exited
The authrate command returns the following exit status codes.
Successful completion.
An error occurred.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Zip distribution only
Stability Level
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Botha and Beast miss out on Boks' squad
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Props BJ Botha and Tendai Mtawarira have missed the cut for the Springboks' vital Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand in Soweto on August 21.
The duo missed out on coach Peter De Villiers' 24-man squad for the fixture, which will take place at FNB Stadium, the venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup final. The Springboks are currently bottom of the Tri-Nations table after back-to-back defeats to the All Blacks and a Brisbane loss to Australia.
Also omitted from the squad are suspended Stormers centre Jaque Fourie and Sharks No.8 Ryan Kankowski, who is injured.
Racing Metro fullback Frans Steyn is absent from the panel due to injury, with the tug of war over his services having been a major headache for the selectors in recent weeks. Bulls No.15 Zane Kirchner has been recalled as a result, having start his club side's Currie Cup loss to Western Province last weekend.
The Springboks are monitoring injuries to Kirchner, flanker Dewald Potgieter and lock Danie Rossouw prior to the game. Rossouw has a hip flexor injury and is expected to be available while Potgieter has a whiplash injury after turning out for the Blue Bulls last weekend.
Kirchner twisted his knee against Province and is the major worry. He is awaiting scans to determine the extent of his injury and should he be ruled out then Gio Aplon will be the sole fit fullback in the squad.
Skipper John Smit is included and will win his 100th Test cap, while Francois Hougaard and Ricky Januarie will compete for the No.9 jersey after Sharks utility Ruan Pienaar picked up a shoulder injury while on domestic duty.
South Africa:
Backs: Gio Aplon (Stormers), Juan de Jongh (Stormers), Jean de Villiers (Western Province), Bryan Habana (Stormers), Francois Hougaard (Bulls), Butch James (Bath), Ricky Januarie (Stormers), Zane Kirchner (Bulls), Wynand Olivier (Bulls), JP Pietersen (Sharks), Morne Steyn (Bulls)
Forwards: Schalk Burger (Stormers), Jannie du Plessis (Sharks), Francois Louw (Stormers), Victor Matfield (Bulls), Dewald Potgieter (Bulls), Chiliboy Ralepelle (Bulls), Danie Rossouw (Bulls), John Smit (Sharks, capt), Juan Smith (Cheetahs), Pierre Spies (Bulls), Gurthrö Steenkamp (Bulls), CJ van der Linde (Cheetahs), Flip van der Merwe (Bulls)
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Tips for merry holiday season travel
Traveling during the holiday season can be fun, but it also offers its fair share of anxious moments, stress and expense. This year, between Thanksgiving weekend and New Year's Day, an estimated 100 million Americans will travel by car, train or air to visit family or go on vacation, based on forecasts issued in previous years by the American Automobile Association (AAA). The key to avoiding stress and potential legal issues during the busy travel season is planning.
(BPT) – Traveling during the holiday season can be fun, but it also offers its fair share of anxious moments, stress and expense.
This year, between Thanksgiving weekend and New Year's Day, an estimated 100 million Americans will travel by car, train or air to visit family or go on vacation, based on forecasts issued in previous years by the American Automobile Association (AAA).
The key to avoiding stress and potential legal issues during the busy travel season is planning, according to FindLaw.com, the nation's leading website for free legal information.
Here are some additional tips from FindLaw.com to keep your holiday travel plans safe and stress-free:
* Be sure you have all necessary travel documents. A valid ID, such as a state-issued driver's license, is necessary beyond the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at the airport, and will certainly be essential if you want to rent a car at your destination. If you plan to leave the United States, you must have a passport. According to the State Department, "all minors regardless of age, including newborns and infants, must have their own passport when traveling internationally by air." FindLaw advises that you apply for your passport at least six weeks before your trip. Also, make photocopies of all travel documents – the front and back of your license, or the information pages of your passport – and store them in a safe place in the event that your wallet or purse is stolen, or your luggage is lost.
* Don't advertise your trip on social media. Posting your travel plans online such as on social media sites is an open invitation to thieves. Contact your local law enforcement agency and notify them of your travel arrangements – they can offer you tips, help assess the risk of crimes in your neighborhood or add your property to a "watch list" if you are gone for an extended period. Also, make sure your neighbors are aware of your travel plans so they can watch for suspicious activity. Save the social sharing for after your trip.
* Pack smart and carefully. Avoid packing items that cause delays at airport security checkpoints. Ship gifts ahead of time and pack electronics and liquids as directed by the TSA (www.tsa.gov). For liquids, gels and aerosols, use the 3-1-1 rule – 3.4 ounce bottle or less, by volume; placed in a 1 quart-sized clear, zip-top plastic bag; 1 bag per passenger. Carry all prescriptions in their original, clearly labeled bottles. Carefully follow all TSA rules pertaining to metal objects, including unloaded firearms, which must be declared at time of check-in.
* Check your insurance coverage. If you're going to take an extended trip overseas, consider upgrading your insurance to ensure you have proper coverage. If you rent a car, have copies of your auto insurance card and information on hand. Carefully check your personal policy for rental coverage to make sure you are covered. Consider travel insurance to reduce the financial blow if you are forced to cancel or interrupt your trip. Read the insurance policy carefully before accepting and only go through a respected insurance provider.
* Check your cell phone plan. Don't assume your cell phone will work in another part of the country or overseas. Check with your provider to see what kind of coverage you will have at your destination, and if you'll need to upgrade to use your phone. If you travel out of the country, research local calling procedures before you leave home. Learn, for example, how payments are handled, country calling code, etc. Avoid the helpless feeling of trying to operate a payphone; operator assistance and automated instructions may come in a language you can't understand.
* Plan for an emergency while you are gone. Make sure your trip is fun and carefree by planning ahead for the worst. Check weather forecasts and set your travel schedule accordingly to avoid potential setbacks. If you are traveling overseas, or in an area you are not familiar with, check the State Department website for updated travel warnings and current credible threats, and determine the location of the U.S. embassy or consulate where you will be travelling. Always, be knowledgeable of local laws and customs.
To read more about how to travel safely this holiday season, visit FindLaw.com.


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We're half an hour away from USA baseball's second game in the World Baseball Classic, facing Jason Bay and some other Canadians. (We're really enjoying the Cuba-Panama game that's on right, now, by the way.) We're fully aware that seeing Alex Rodriguez in a United States uniform makes most of you consider rooting for Canada, by the way; sorry about that.
Anyway, as if the U.S. didn't have enough advantages, Baseball America points out that Team USA has had decidedly better access to scouting reports on other nations.
We find this curious — we think it's probably better for the long-term health of the WBC if someone other than the United States wins — but not all that surprising. What is interesting is wondering what scouting reports other countries have on the U.S. team. Our guess:
Chipper Jones: Spends all his spare time at Hooters.
Roger Clemens: Don't worry; he'll end up switching teams halfway through the Classic anyway.
Alex Rodriguez: Has tendency to cry.
Of course, they'd be in Spanish, but you get the idea.
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copyright, Annie Leibovitz.
Annie and Keith go way back. Way back. She toured with the Stones in their heyday and shot some pretty amazing imagery. With only about 10 minutes to work with Keith, Annie went old school with her lighting. Simple. Moody. Elegant. And somehow made Keith look (dare I say) "good," with only one light.
To see a higher res version of the shot click here.
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark III with 24-70mm lens, handheld six feet back. Shot at 1/60, f5.6, ISO 200.
Lighting: The key light is an inexpensive Photek Softlighter at f5.6 handheld on a boom by an assistant. It's four feet to camera left and eight feet high. Though the lamps and light behind the door appear to be strobes, the light was amplified in post.
Comments: Both avid potholers, Annie and Keith spent a good part of the shoot discussing their favorite secret caverns, halogen vs. LED helmet lights and whether a figure-of-eight knot was stronger than an alpine butterfly. All of which helped distract Keith from the fact his cup of tea (English Breakfast) had been empty for minutes.


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Supreme Court Poses Tough Questions in Affirmative Action Case
(WASHINGTON) -- At the Supreme Court Wednesday, the conservative justices had questions for a lawyer defending the University of Texas' plan that takes race into consideration in the admissions process.
One of their main concerns goes to the heart of the case: at what point does the court stop deferring to a university's judgment that the consideration of race is still necessary?
"I understand my job under our precedents is to determine if your use of race is narrowly tailored to a compelling interest," Chief Justice John Roberts said to Gregory Garre, a lawyer representing the University of Texas. "The compelling interest you identify is attaining a critical mass of minority students at the University of Texas, but you won't tell what the critical mass is. How am I supposed to do the job that our precedents say I should do?"
It was only recently, in 2003, that the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the limited use of race in public universities in a decision called Grutter v. Bollinger. The 5-4 opinion was authored by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who said that diversity was a compelling government interest.
In the Grutter decision, O'Connor said that the University of Michigan Law School could use race in a "flexible non-mechanic way" as one factor among many in an effort to assemble a student body that is diverse in ways broader than race. "We expect," O'Connor wrote, "that 25 years from now, the use or racial preferences will no longer be necessary."
Garre said that Texas had closely followed Grutter when it implemented its own program with a goal of assembling "a broadly diverse student body."
Chief Justice John Roberts broke in: "Should someone who is one-quarter Hispanic check the Hispanic box or some different box? "
As Garre tried to explain the various boxes that students check on their own determination, Roberts pressed on.
"What about one eighth?" Roberts was getting to the issue of race and building toward his central question and his frustration with a definition for "critical mass."
"What is the critical mass of African Americans and Hispanics at the university that you are working toward?" Roberts asked.
Garre responded that there was no hard number.
None of this was a good sign for the University of Texas plan, which is being challenged by Abigail Fisher, a white Texan who was denied admission to the school in 2008. She argues that she was subject to unequal treatment in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The liberal justices seemed more accepting of UT's plan. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, "This program is certainly no more aggressive than the one in Grutter; it's more — in fact, more modest."
Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out how recently the court upheld Grutter. "Grutter said it would be good law for at least 25 years, and I know that time flies, but I think only nine of those years have passed. "
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Professional documentary and multimedia producers Ann Michel and Phil Wilde have been named Internship Coordinators for the 2011 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.
As a key part of the festival team, Ann Michel and Phil Wilde will run the FLEFF internship program, which includes the FLEFF Practica courses for interns and the FLEFF Practica for team leaders for the 2011 festival.
Ann Michel and Phil Wilde bring deep, expansive professional media experience to FLEFF that spans the commercial and nonprofit media worlds. They have wide-ranging management and producing background in arts, music and film festivals.
Michel and Wilde have produced award-winning film, video, interactive, and digital media for three decades. They are the principals of Insights International, a media production firm that specializes in science and educational nonfiction media for international clients, with offices in Ithaca and in New York City.
Insights International's groundbreaking use of media has been widely recognized for bringing the real world into the classroom and the classroom into the real world.
They have produced media for major museums such as the American Museum of Natural History and the National Gallery of Art and for educational institutions across the United States. They have produced and directed media for a variety of organizations as well as professional and scientific associations such as the National Science Foundation and the United States Departments of Agriculture and the US Department of Energy, and corporations such as FinnAir. In the commercial sector, they have also worked with the BBC, NBC and the Discovery Channel.
Most recently they were awarded the blue ribbon for educational aids competition from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. They serve as technical consultants for the Light in Winter Festival, an annual festival in Ithaca that links science and the arts. They have been involved with the prestigous Robert Flaherty Film Seminars, the longest running nonprofit international forum for documentary film, for three decades.
Since 2006, Michel and Wilde, through their company, Insights International, have served as festival producers for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival's special commissions of live music for silent film, frequently in collaboration with the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution. They have also produced and directed the FLEFF trailers. See their work for FLEFF 2010 here.
Currently, Ann Michel serves as president of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminars and International Film Seminars Board of Trustees. Phil Wilde has wide-ranging experience in the nonprofit media arts center. He has served on the New York State Council on the Arts grants review panels, on the board of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminars, the board of Light in Winter, and provided hospitality for the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City.
Michel and Wilde write a popular blog for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival on film/media/new media production called Creating Spaces.
For applications for 2011 FLEFF Internships or FLEFF Team Leaders positions, download here.
For more information on the 2011 FLEFF Internship and Team Leader positions, contact Tom Shevory, codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, at firstname.lastname@example.com
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A University of Maryland graduate student opened fire on his two housemates in an off-campus residence then turned the gun on himself, Prince George's County Police said.
Police identified the suspected shooter as Dayvon Maurice Green and said he had purchased the gun legally about one year ago. Police said Green had been suffering from an unspecified mental illness before the shooting.
Green was studying computer science at the University of Maryland and had completed an undergraduate degree at Morgan State University.
Police said that shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday, he set a fire in the basement of his rented home. As his two housemates ran outside and confronted him, he opened fire, according to authorities.
Green then went to the rear of the house and killed himself, police said.
One housemate, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, ran to a neighbor's house for help. The other victim later died at a local hospital.
"All I heard was about six to seven shots going, 'pop pop pop,' and then about 15 minutes later, we saw the cops," neighbor Jithin George told NBC's Washington TV station News4.
The identities of the victims -- both male University of Maryland students -- have not yet been released. It is unknown whether they were graduate or undergraduate students.
The university sent an alert to students around 1:15 a.m., warning them that a shooting had been reported off-campus.


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Having seen the candidate the press corps so obviously favors perform poorly while his opponent shined, Ron Fournier at National Journal, an Associated Press alum, dove so deeply into excuse-making that I half expected him to claim that the dog ate President Obama's debate prep.
The primary culprit, according to the forlorn Fournier, is something over which Obama has no control, as seen in the following excerpt from the 11:30 p.m. version of his dispatch. The report has an accurate headline admitting to something Fournier wouldn't directly acknowledge, namely that Romney won the night (bolds and numbered tags are mine):
Incumbent Debate Curse: Barack Obama Falls to Mitt Romney
Call it the curse of incumbency. Like many of his predecessors, President Obama fell victim Wednesday night to high expectations [1], a short fuse, and a hungry challenger.
If Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn't win the first of three presidential debates outright, he more than covered the spread. He was personable, funny, and relentlessly on the attack against a heavily favored Obama.
The president looked peeved and flat as he carried a conversation, for the first time in four years, with somebody telling him he's wrong. [2]
... Privately, some Democratic strategists said the challenger got the best of the president. "We got our clock cleaned," said a Democratic strategist who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution. The Democrat had reviewed results of polls and focus groups of the debate.
To be fair, the deck was stacked against Obama, who came into the debate with a lead over Romney plus the baggage of incumbency. [3]
First, voters expect sitting presidents to win debates and, indeed, polls showed that Obama was favored Wednesday. That benefits a challenger like Romney who grows in stature simply by standing next to the president.
Second, challengers have more time to prepare than do busy presidents. [4] Romney was ready. Finally, incumbents aren't used to being challenged. Obama's thin skin showed more than his Hollywood smile.
[1] -- The press and Democratic operatives (but I repeat myself) have spent the past several days trying to tamp down expectations for Dear Leader, thereby trying to create a scenario where a slight Romney outperformance would have meant nothing. Epic fail.
[2] -- Y'know Ron, a big reason, arguably the big reason, why Obama hasn't had somebody telling him he's wrong for four years is that the press hasn't been doing its job covering him since he declared his candidacy in early 2007.
[3] -- Well, if Obama had the perceived lead, it's because the press's cooked polls have artificially created that situation. As to the baggage of incumbency, it's real name is "awful four-year performance."
[4] -- Awww, Mr. 100 Rounds of Golf and Endless Campaign and Fundraising Stops didn't have enough time. Boo freaking hoo, Ron.
As to "the curse," Fournier cited Bush v. Kerry in 2004 (at best, a Kerry squeaker), Bush 41 vs. Bill Clinton in 1992 (yes, Clinton took that one), and Carter v. Reagan in 1976 (Reagan had a win going in because the press had decided that Reagan wouldn't be able to put three coherent words together). He could have added Reagan v. Mondale in 1984 (Reagan had a bad night, but he cleaned Mondale's clock in subsequent debates). But he conveniently forgot that Clinton easily fended off Bob Dole in their first 1996 debate.
Curse, schmurse, Ron. Your guy proved, as million-dollar Obama SuperPAC contributor Bill Maher tweeted Monday evening, "that Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter." I would have omitted "looks like he" from that sentence.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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As a big time smartphone user, I wanted to let my fellow bloggers know about a cool app that I've been using a lot recently. It's the WordPress app, and it makes running and updating your blog a lot easier.
Let's say you want to edit a blog entry because you made a mistake. Or, you could even be at a ballgame and editing/updating your blog as the action is unfolding in front of you. You just have to click the entry you want to work on, and from there it's easy.
Simply type away, like you would do if you were at a keyboard. You can do pretty much everything that you could do on a computer, even put in pictures and all that jazz. If you have an Iphone 4S, you can just dictate your text and the phone will do everything for you.
One of the chores of running a blog is keeping up with the comments. Its really tough to write daily and respond to comments all the time, and lots of time, comments need to be approved if the commenter is posting from a new IP address or is a first time commenter. You can easily read and respond to all comments on this app too:
The other thing I love about this app is the ability to monitor your site stats. Sure, you can do it on the computer too, but if you just want to do a quick check of how your blog is faring , just click the stats in the toolbar at the bottom.
You can see monthly:
Weekly (runs Monday to Sunday on the app):
You can also see you daily views as numerical data:
You can also see what your most popular posts have been over the past 7 days. For me, my divisional previews have been big time view builders for a few weeks now:
You can also check out your referrers to see what sites are sending your blog traffic, as well as what search terms people are using to land on your blog.
It's a useful too, so if you're a blogger, I suggest you check it out.
There's only 5 more days until Opening Day. Wow. It's the end of March. Time has flown. Tomorrow I'll be giving away this Andrew McCutchen shirt, and I'm thinking about doing a tournament to give it away. Check back for details soon!
By the way, the Opening Day forecast is looking good. It'll likely be a bit chilly during BP, but I'll take it if there's no rain:


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Transparency Market Research Add New "Endoscopy Devices Market - Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis And Forecasts 2012-2018" Market research report To It's a Database.
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/05/2012 -- ccording to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Endoscopy devices Market - Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast, 2011 - 2017," the global endoscopy devices market was worth USD 6.2 billion in the year 2011 and is expected to reach USD 10.8 billion by 2017, growing at a CAGR of 9.7% from 2011 to 2017. Flexible endoscopes formed the largest category in the overall endoscopes market, contributing about USD 2,201 million for the year 2011.
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Endoscopic accessories and flexible endoscopy devices are the leading product segments prevalent in the global endoscopy devices market. The endoscope accessories market is expected to show the highest growth rate at 15.7% CAGR from 2011 to 2017. Globally, the market of rigid endoscopy devices segment has reached its maturity; however its market will experience a slow but steady CAGR of 2.6% for the forecasted period.
Major drivers in the global endoscopy market are high level of technical advancement; increase in the buying capacity and improvement in standard of living. Other growth factors for the global endoscopy devices market include increasing healthcare awareness in developing economies, improving healthcare facilities, and adoption of high end healthcare services. Endoscopes are used not only for diagnostic but also for therapeutic purposes and thus they deliver good therapeutic solutions by facilitating close monitoring of the body as well as internal organs.
The introduction of highly innovative techniques like HD systems in diagnostic instruments, HD cameras and HDTV three chip systems have triggered the demand for advanced endoscopy devices and this will continue in future. The demand for technically innovative devices is relatively higher in the U.S.
North America occupied a major share in the global endoscopy devices market in the year 2011. It is expected that the same trend will continue till 2017. Emerging markets such as China and India is expected to grow at a relatively higher rate. The major market players which have been profiled in the report include names like Olympus Corporation, Given Imaging Inc., Arthrex Inc., Hoya Corporation, Karl Storz GmbH, Fujifilm Holdings Corporation, and also Advanced Sterilization Products Services Inc.
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