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For the 2011-Q1 bracelet competition we have received a broad range of high quality entries. The jury consisting of Bart Ruijpers (Product Design Director of Karim Rashid), Frederik Roijé and good-old Janne Kyttanen have selected 'Spring bracelet' by Jan Kocha?ski as best design of this competition.
This is what the jury had to say about 'Spring bracelet':
"The design has an elegant complexity, in which we can see a similarity to the sensual and ornamental works of Karim, yet with a personal interpretation. The functionality of the stretching spring is nicely 'hidden' in the overall design and a good way to take advantage of the properties of the material and manufacturing method."
Jan will receive 250 Euro in prize money and a free 3D printed copy of his design. Furthermore his design will be commercialized together with 'Mbracelet' by Ionut Predescu. Both these Talents will receive 5% royalties on the turnover generated with their design. As of today both bracelets are for sale in the FOC online store for €87.


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Kudos go out to all who participated in Clean Gloucester Day earlier this month, when volunteers spread out across the county on March 9 and put the hurt to trash and litter.
Volunteers collected approximately 11.1 tons of trash, according to Clean Community Committee figures. In addition, volunteers collected 30 tires, several wheel rims and wheel covers, a bicycle, wood pallets, scrap lumber and metal and smaller auto parts.
The number of volunteers and trash collected exceeded last year's numbers, in which 8.6 tons of trash were collected. The largest amount of trash of collected was by a group from Morning Glory Baptist Church and BridgePoint Church working together on Davenport and Woods Cross Road. The groups collected 114 bags of trash and six tires.
The Clean Community Committee extended a special thanks to:
--VDOT for supplying the orange bags and collecting bags left on the roadside;
--Waste Management for supplying dumpsters at the two staging areas;
--Home Depot for supplying buckets and gloves;
--Sherwin-Williams for supplying buckets;
--Mobjack Bay Coffee Roasters for supplying coffee;
--Marsha Weatherwax Allstate Insurance for donating "litter grabbers;"
--Phillips Energy, Lighthouse Worship Center, Walgreens and Dan's Auto Service for donating signage.

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A jazz festival held annually in La Honda California. Good music, good dancing, good times. La Honda is town that see many artists and also a popular travel destination for touring motorcycles. Taken with a Nikon D70 with 10.5 mm lens on a Nodal Ninja pano head.
The Bay Area is renowned for its natural beauty, affluence, diversity, and progressive thinking new age reputation. Lots of ammenities, tours and hotels can be found all around the area.San Francisco is the cultural and financial center of the Bay Area, and has the second highest population density of any major city in North America after New York City. It is also a major tourist destination, and transport and accommodation is plentiful, ranging from luxury hotels to cheap accommodation. San Jose is the largest city in terms of population, land area, and industrial development, and is the center of Silicon Valley, a well-known high technology region. Oakland is a major manufacturing and distribution center, rail terminus/hub, and has the fourth largest container shipping port in the United States.Largely because of San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Bay Area presently ranks second only to the much larger New York City region in number of Fortune 500 company headquarters (April 2010 Fortune Magazine). source: wikipedia


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The areas of activity of your business
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Ants Code at Heart are leading specialists in IT recruitment. We help companies in Stockholm attract, evaluate and employ specialists in the fields of IT development and operations. We are driven by a cristal clear mission: to reduce the shortage of skilled IT specialists, which currently slows down the global technological development. Our success in recruiting has made us an obvious solution for companies that need IT skills in Stockholm today.


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Is it possible to have a line go through two coordinates and then extend until it intersects with another line? The line in question is not horizontal nor vertical (otherwise I could use the
perpendicular coordinate system).
My current code is
\coordinate[label={left:$(x, y, z)$}] (w) at (-6,2);
\coordinate (c) at (0,0);
\coordinate[label={right:$(x,y)$}] (b) at (3,-1);
% I want to avoid hard-coding this coordinate
\draw[ultra thick,-stealth] (w |- c) -- (w);
\draw[ultra thick,-stealth] (c -| b) -- (b);
\draw (c) +(0,1.5) -- ++(0,-1.5);
\draw[dashed] (w |- c) -- (c -| b);
\draw[dashed] (w) -- (c); % Currently two paths to emulate the result
\draw[dashed] (c) -- (b);
So, what I'd like is to specify a path that goes through point
w and
c and extends until it intersects with the (imaginary) vertical line at
(3,y). I don't want to hardcode the position of point
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In Queensland, we showcase world-class global events in the most dazzling destinations. Whatever your passion, you'll find an event to suit right here in Queensland.
From epic endurance races to gourmet food festivals, blockbuster sporting events to world–class exhibitions, culturally immersive Indigenous experiences to electrifying country music celebrations, our calendar embraces art, culture, music, food, wine, sport - and everything in between.
Experience Australia's best live events in Queensland.
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CompStLouis needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Computer St. Louis
Computer St. Louis is an IT solution provider that has a wide range of products and services, scaling from the individual consumer on our retail storefront, all the way up to the 1,000+ seat enterprise level customer with our business solutions team.
We are proud to be locally owned and operated for over 14 years. Computer St. Louis goal is to serve all of our clients with the right technology to make them more profitable, more efficient, more productive, and in general make their jobs and lives easier.
Computer St. Louis dedicated team is always looking for new ways that technology can be put to work for you. With new product launches, and new certifications being added faster than ever in our history, we are working hard to gain your trust and business.
This is going to be targeted to Small to Midsize Businesses who rely on technology to run their business.
I just want a simple, professional looking brochure. I've attached our logo, a PowerPoint on the information and then the brochure that I created. Obviously I do not like this one but this is the content. Questions are welcomed!


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By actively educating our children in the essential values of sound nutrition and balanced eating, we can set the stage for life-long healthy behaviors and student achievement. Collectively, we can assist in making Healthy for Life™ an achievable outcome for all.
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Titleist AP1 714
Average: 3 (1 vote)
Year Introduced: 2014
Type: Iron set
Head material: Stainless Steel/Tungsten
Home » Golf Equipment » Titleist » Iron set » Titleist AP1 714
Features & Benefits
- Forgiveness from a deep undercut, dual cavity design with very dense tungsten weighting. Maximum ball speeds across the face from a high MOI design.
- Solid feel throughout the set from the progressive CG location, lower in the long irons and slightly higher in the scoring irons.
- Smooth turf release from the camber sole with beveled leading edge.
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bkw11 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Energize Northern Westchester
Energize Northern Westchester County is a program to help homeowners reduce energy waste and increase home energy efficiency. The program encourages community members to conduct home energy assessments and follow through on energy upgrade recommendations (retrofits) to achieve substantial individual and collective energy reductions and lower the CO2 emissions from their homes. The homeowners save money and help the environment.
The program will be piloted in Bedford, NY, under the name Energize Bedford. After a successful pilot, the program will be rolled out to 13 other cities and towns across Northern Westchester County under the auspices of the Northern Westchester Energy Action Coalition (NWEAC). Each participating community will have its own customized program name (i.e Energize MY TOWN), so the logo will have to be adaptable to accommodate a wide range of town names.
Homeowners in 14 towns in Northern Westchester County in New York, generally 35-54 years old.
In general, these homeowners are motivated to action by three main ideas:
1. Saving money on utility bills
2. Creating a more comfortable home
3. Being part of a community effort
The logo that wins this contest will:
1. Convey "smart, professional and helpful";
2. Relate to home and/or community;
3. Have a clean, modern look;
4. Not be overly reliant on embedded text (see item 6);
5. Be just as applicable to print collateral materials as it is to social media and web applications;
6. Say "Energize Northern Westchester" BUT will be easily adaptable to multiple iterations in multiple communities. We should be able to quickly and easily edit text on/beside the logo to go from "Energize Northern Westchester" to "Energize Bedford" or "Energize Newcastle," for example. This will unite all individual town campaigns under one program look and feel.
We would like to see how the logo looks with both "Energize Northern Westchester" and "Energize Bedford."
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Stop the December 28-29 Salmod, Idaho Coyote and Wolf "Derby"
Please join Project Coyote in protest of an indefensible coyote and wolf killing "derby," ironically scheduled on the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act, our nation's safety-net for wildlife, that brought wolves back from the brink of extinction. It is imperative that everyone speak out against this atrocity scheduled in less than two weeks. Time is critical.
Sign the petition here
Predator derbies are a shame to this great nation. We made a mistake with wolves before and now we are doing it again. Have we learned nothing from our past? Don't let a small minority decide the fate of America's wild predators.
Please contact the following individuals to voice your opposition:
Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Virgil Moore, Director
600 S. Walnut, Boise, ID 83720
(208) 334-2920
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Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Will Naillon, Salmon Region IDFG Commissioner
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Idaho Fish and Game Commission
Bob Barowsky, Chairman
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter
P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720
(208) 334-2100
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Salmon Valley Chamber of Commerce
Charleane Hermosillo, Executive Director
Phone: (800) 727-2540 or (208) 756-2100
Email: email@example.com
Idaho Outfitters & Guides Association, Boise
John May, Executive Director
Phone: (208) 342-1438
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IOGA represents all outfitters in the state of Idaho. If you use Idaho outfitters for white water rafting, camping, backcountry skiing – please mention this and urge IOGA to speak out against having their members participate in a predator killing contest.
Shane McAfee
Idaho For Wildlife
Salmon Idaho Chapter Chairman
phone (208) 756-2548
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Specific details about the contest hunt:
What: "1st Annual 2-Day Coyote & Wolf Derby" brough to you by Idaho for Wildlife, Salmon Chapter, Sportsman Group
Where: Salmon, Idaho
When: Dec. 28th & 29th, 2013
Wolf Coyote Derby Salmon Idaho Dec.2013
A wolf tag can be purchased for as little as $11.75, permitting each hunter to shoot 4 to 10 wolves (depending on region). 154 wolves have been killed in Idaho since hunting season opened on August 30th. Idaho is showing the nation what happens to wolves following the removal of federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
This is not hunting but a gratuitous massacre that is legal in Idaho and across the country. Prizes will be offered to contestants who kill the largest wolf and the most female coyotes. Children as young as 10 are encouraged to compete, with prizes being offered to youth from the ages of 10-14.
These competitions are ethically indefensible and ecologically reckless, as well as a public safety risk, as shooters fan out across the landscape, trying to shoot large numbers of coyotes and wolves.
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org
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Ciao e benvenuto or hello, and welcome to InterNations Florence! As the premier, social hub for expats around the world, InterNations is here to make sure that your relocation to Florence (or anywhere else around the world) goes as smoothly as possible. So if you don't know your Piazza del Cure (suburban neighborhood to the north of the city) from your panzanella (traditional Tuscan bread salad), want help finding the best schools in Florence or are just curious as to what expat life would be like in this beautiful Italian city — why not join InterNations today and let our helpful community of expats be your guide?
With InterNations, you never stand alone. Whether you move to another city or go on a business trip somewhere — our communities are there to make you feel at home wherever you are in the world. Feel free to also check out our other vibrant InterNations Communities like the ones in Singapore or Hong Kong.
Attend our monthly events and activities for Florence expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
Get trustworthy advice and local insights from fellow members in our Florence expat forums.
Florence is a truly beautiful city, with winding cobbled streets and a richly historical feel. As the birthplace of the Renaissance and famously associated with many of historical Europe's most highly regarded painters, scientists and philosophers, life in Florence comes with quite a bit of prestige. Although a famous and busy city, with literally hundreds of thousands of tourists flocking to visit each year, big business and industry aren't that prominent in Florence. Instead expats are likely to find employment in the tourism, fashion, arts and other creative or service sectors. That said, the job market in Florence is pretty strong so there will be economic opportunities available for expats with the right skill set. You should, however, be reminded that car transport is not practical in or around the old city center, and by far the most efficient way of getting around Florence (like in many European cities) is by bicycle. For tips like this (and more), InterNations and its members have you covered, so if you like the sound of relocating to this historical city, then why not join our network today?
InterNations is the largest global network for expatriates, with communities in 420 cities across the globe. Get to know fellow internationals in your city, before you're moving, or when traveling somewhere and never feel like a stranger. InterNations makes it easy for you to stay in touch with your expat friends, both online and offline, so you can grow your network of friends and contacts from all over the world. Whether they live in Dubai or Riyadh, InterNations allows you to be close to them even if they are miles away.
As with many countries around Europe, life in Italy can prove somewhat of a culture shock for international expats. For example, Italians love to siesta (between 12:00 and 15:00) and also put much stock in formality and traditional greetings in different circumstances. A change of culture after any relocation abroad can leave many expats overwhelmed and homesick, but luckily InterNations is always on hand to help. With a friendly and helpful international community of expats available to meet, greet, socialize and learn from, whether through our online platform or at one of our many social events in Florence, you can sit back and relax in the company of like-minded expats. From language exchanges and business networking (probably the best way to further your career in Italy) to hiking trips, photography clubs and coffee evenings, there is literally something for the expat of any persuasion in the InterNations Florence Community.


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San Jose City College went into lockdown Tuesday evening after reports of a gunman on campus.
Officials canceled classes, the police closed Moorpark Ave. to traffic and some students and faculty were stuck inside buildings for two hours or more as police officers conducted a floor-by-floor and room-by-room search for the gunman.
They didn't find one. No one was reported hurt or injured. And despite the disruption, classes will resume Wednesday on their regular schedule.
The hullabaloo followed a call placed to 911 around 4:30 p.m. warning of black male dressed in a white T-shirt and carrying a gun, according to police officials. The gunman was reportedly in the Technology Center, a building in the northwest side of the campus, which borders Moorpark.
College officials immediately sent out text and phone alerts to lock down the campus, said Dr. Rita Cepeda, chancellor of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District. Although some parts of the campus were subsequently evacuated, the Technology building remained on lockdown until 7:30 p.m. while police searched the building looking for the gunman. College police officers were joined by San Jose Police in the search.
In the end, police neither found a gunman nor the person who reported the incident, Ray Aguirre, the college district's police chief, said.
Percy Carr, the longtime coach of City College's basketball team, said he spent the lockdown in the gym with 16 other people, including all the players on the team. The group wasn't cleared to evacuate until around 6:40 p.m., after about an hour and half in lockdown.
The order to go into lockdown was initially unsettling to Carr and the team.
"In light of all the events that happened (recently), nobody was at ease about what was going on here," he said. "We heard all the helicopters and saw all the red lights."
But after a 30 minutes or so in lockdown, people started to relax, he said. "We felt safe," he said.
Staff Writer Nhat Meyer contributed to this report. Contact Troy Wolverton at email@example.com or (408) 840-4285. Follow him at Twitter.com/troywolv


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Users can now find the latest news about upcoming features and discuss their favourites on the new UEFA Training Ground Facebook page.
The page offers a forum for fans of the website to get together and share their comments about everything concerning grassroots football – including their own experiences in the grassroots game and how useful they find the skills and drills videos on the UEFA Training Ground.
With grassroots activities taking place over over Europe the whole year round, we would love to hear about events that you have taken part in and about your grassroots club.
Sign up to the UEFA Training Ground Facebook page by clicking 'like' here.
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MapThe New England coasting pilot from Sandy Point of New York, unto Cape Canso in Nova Scotia and part of Island Breton : with the courses and distances from place to place, ... Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. The year of publication has not been established conclusively. Cf. Le Gear, Clara Egli. "The New England Coasting pilot of Cyprian Southack." Imago mundi xi (1954): 137-144. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy has title altered with manuscript notation in ink to read: The New England coasting pilot...
- Contributor: Southack, Cyprian
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
The Mobile-Finance Revolution
Foreign Affairs
The roughly 2.5 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day are not destined to remain in a state of chronic poverty. Every few years, somewhere between ten and 30 percent of the world's poorest households manage to escape poverty, typically by finding steady employment or through entrepreneurial activities such as growing a business or improving agricultural harvests. During that same period, however, roughly an equal number of households slip below the poverty line. Health-related emergencies are the most common cause, but there are many more: crop failures, livestock deaths, farming-equipment breakdowns, even wedding expenses. In many such situations, the most important buffers against crippling setbacks are financial tools such as personal savings, insurance, credit, or cash transfers from family and friends. Yet these are rarely available because most of the world's poor lack access to even the most basic banking services.
Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets
BBC Technology
Mozilla has shown off a prototype for a $25 (£15) smartphone that is aimed at the developing world. The company, which is famed mostly for its Firefox browser, has partnered with Chinese low-cost chip maker Spreadtrum. While not as powerful as more expensive models, the device will run apps and make use of mobile internet. It would appeal to the sorts of people who currently buy cheap "feature" phones, analysts said. Feature phones are highly popular in the developing world as a halfway point between "dumb" phones - just voice calls and other basic functions - and fully-fledged smartphones.


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Disney Launches New Children's Magazine
Disney Publishing is launching a new bi-monthly magazine for young people aged 6-12 called FamilyFun Kids.
Welcome to Inkygirl: Reading, Writing and Illustrating Children's Books (archive list here) which includes my Creating Picture Books series, Advice For Young Writers and Illustrators, Writer's and Illustrator's Guide To Twitter, interviews, my poetry for young readers, #BookADay archives, writing/publishing industry surveys, and 250, 500, 1000 Words/Day Writing Challenge. Also see my Inkygirl archives, and comics for writers (including Keiko and Will Write For Chocolate). Also check out my Print-Ready Archives for Teachers, Librarians, Booksellers and Young Readers.
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Flutists Stephen Schultz and Kathie Stewart and cellist David Ellis, performing as The Bach Project, played as a trio for only the opening and closing works on their Saturday night program, presented under the auspices of the Bach Sinfonia at Montgomery College's Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring. These two works, however, were two of the four London Trios for this unusual combination of instruments by none other than Franz Joseph Haydn. (No, not a Bach, but too good to leave out, obviously.)
Big Papa Haydn's keen understanding of the timbres and capabilities of the instruments allowed him to constantly play with the light textures of the combo while still packing the trios full of the kind of witty, elevated invention we have come to call Haydnesque. Schultz, Stewart and Ellis, playing Hadyn-period instruments in the historically informed style (this was a Bach Sinfonia concert, after all), gave a performance where the music sprang to life from the first notes with the kind of carefree joy that comes to audiences only from the previous hard work of performers.
It was all the more surprising, then, that later in the program Stewart announced that Schultz would skip his scheduled performance of a solo flute fantasia by Georg Philip Telemann because he had a bad head cold. I am not a professional flutist, but it seems to me that breathing is an important part of playing the flute; it's tough to imagine how good he must sound when his various respiration-related passages are not obstructed. Thankfully, he was able to play everything else as scheduled on Saturday, and I hope he recovers soon.
Stewart covered for him by playing the first movement of a flute sonata by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Like a lot of C.P.E.'s music, it can be heard as a young man's rebellion against his famous papa, with phrases twisting up from their obvious conclusions into harmonically outré questions, moods changing seemingly bar-by-bar, and long pauses to make everyone think hard about the goings-on. Stewart committed fully to the ride, playing up the contrasts and wringing lots of drama out of her fermatas. Hearing the last two movements of the sonata after intermission allowed the first to hang in the air for a while like an unanswered question — an effect not inimical, I would guess, to C.P.E.'s intentions, and certainly a fun effect on Saturday.
Those of you not steeped in 18th-century musical lore may be wondering how the Bach Project could gin up an entire program of music for flutes. If you guessed "Some guy with a lot of money and/or power played the flute," you are of course right: That person was Frederick the Great, German potentate and skilled amateur tootler. Besides C.P.E.'s opus (his only work for solo flute), F.d.G. likely played two other works on Saturday's program, duets by C.P.E.'s bro Wilhelm Friedemann and the king of the Baroque flute, Johann Joachim Quantz, who conveniently had the king who played the Baroque flute as his patron.
On Saturday, W.F. Bach's "Duetto" in E minor mostly sounded dour; Schultz and Stewart made fetching noises, but W.F. did not vary those noises enough to avoid monotony. Quantz came off much better in his D major Duetto, which showed a command of the various means of combining two flutes to imply harmonies that can only come from high-level familiarity. S&S made cool, poised work of the minor-key Mesto ("sadly") slow movement, finding a kernel of real emotion, then swept all that away with a glittering fast finale. Jacques Hotteterre attained prominence as a flutist and composer similar to that of Quantz, and his suite for two flutes had similar fluency in the instruments and vivacity in the music.
Like most people, I was not super-familiar with the literature for two or fewer flutes and no other instruments before this concert, so the only music on the program with which I was intimately familiar was the second suite for solo cello by the Bach from which the Sinfonia got its name. In his Haydn performances with Schultz and Stewart, Ellis provided a firm rhythmic underpinning, hitting his notes at just the right time to keep the melody aloft; playing by himself, he took a much more mercurial approach, sometimes burying the dance rhythms on which the suite draws in expressive gestures, sometimes accelerating or decelerating at unexpected times.
The constant gear-shifting made the opening movements feel a bit aimless, but in the "Sarabande" Ellis shaped the phrases so they sounded organic, like breathing, a striking effect. He also dug into the rhythms a little more in the final two dances, which made their effect stronger (for me, anyway). And throughout, his cello sounded lovely, rich and warm but with the occasional rasp and whisper that make the period cello such a captivating instrument. It was good to have all three performers on stage for the Haydn that closed the concert: we got to hear Schultz and Stewart back on classical flutes, along with Ellis — hearing, one last time, these instruments so well-played and playing so well together was a final treat in a concert full of them.
For this concert, Stewart not only wrote the program notes (which were engaging and lucid – professional program note writers should take heed) but also provided some intro remarks before most of the pieces (except Ellis' solo). In one of these interludes, she mentioned that she is from Silver Spring (a graduate of Northwood HS) and that Schultz also has family in Silver Spring and in Rockville. It just goes to show – people from Silver Spring do great things. Or start blogs about other people who do great things.


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Salmon Arm became a city on May 15, 2005, its 100th birthday of incorporation. It is the seat of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District.
Salmon Arm is located on the shores of Shuswap Lake, where the Salmon River empties into the Salmon Arm reach of the Shuswap Lake.
The Shuswap Lake is one of the most popular recreational destinations in BC. The 400+ kms of shoreline contains 22 Provincial Parks and offers unlimited water related recreational opportunities.
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True Story of Landlord-Tenant Dispute
by Jason Dean
This past Wednesday, I had to go to court. It was my first ever experience with the legal system, and yes, I was very nervous. I was being sued by my old landlord in small-claims court, and even though I knew I was in the right, I assumed the judge would have a bias against me, as the tenant, and that I would probably end up being ordered to pay money I didn't really owe. I even considered just blowing the whole thing off and not showing up — good thing my wife talked me out of that!
I took a job in 2006 with a stock-brokerage firm that required me to move — quickly. Thus, my wife and I put our house on the market and looked for an apartment to rent. We couldn't be too picky — we only had six weeks until I started my new job. So when we found a gorgeous, newly built, modern-architecture duplex, with a wicked cool dvr security system and we took steps to secure it as quickly as possible.
At first, we were overjoyed with the place. Yes, it was a step down from home ownership, but our new apartment home was stunning. But it didn't take long for serious problems to surface. In fact, it was the first day that we noticed a horrible creaking whenever someone walked on either of the bedroom floors. "Creaking" isn't really the right word for it — it sounded like the Jolly Green Giant twisting a tree in mammoth hands, hooked up to a megaphone. And worst of all, the sound was even louder in the other parts of the house when someone was walking in the bedroom!
A couple of days later, the previous tenant of the apartment stopped by to pick up a package that had been delivered to his old address (our new one). I took the opportunity to ask him about the creaking.
"It's horrible isn't it?" he said. "I woke up my wife every night when I got up to use the bathroom."
"The landlord told me it was due to the humidity. Does it get better when the humidity dies down?" I asked.
"Is that what he said? Let me tell you something; that guy is a crook. I'm taking him to small-claims court to get my security deposit back. He nickel and dimed me to get the whole security deposit, not a penny more."
Fast Forward 11 Months Later
We've had tons of problems by now, and we're planning on finding a new place when our lease is up. But one day in late April, we reach our breaking point. It was one of the first nice days of the year in Michigan, so we took our baby daughter out to play — for the first time ever, mind you. My wife noted that the grass was "kinda sticky," but I didn't seem to notice.
We came inside after about an hour, and then my wife went out to the store. Upon arriving home, she was freaking out. "Call the landlord, right now!" she demanded. On either side of our driveway, at least fifty feet away from our apartment, there were little white flags indicating that the lawn had been sprayed with pesticides. There were no signs in the backyard. Our daughter, just eight months old at the time, had ingested harmful chemicals.
I called up the landlord and berated him. "Are we supposed to look out the front window every time before we use our backyard?" I asked. Yes, we were, according to him. I hung up on him and went on to compose a letter informing him we would be out of the apartment by June 1st, and that we would not be paying rent for the month of May. I requested that our security deposit, equal to one month's rent, be applied toward the rent, and gave him a forwarding address to reach me at with any damages that could be negotiated. I wasn't going to let him steal my security deposit as he did with the previous tenant! Also critical: I told him to contact me if he had any problem with this. He didn't.
We moved out on the last day in May. During our packing, I put a hole in the wall trying to move my computer desk, and we were unable to move a glass tabletop and a couple of broken shelves. I took full responsibility for the costs associated with fixing the hole and getting rid of the junk items, leaving my landlord a handwritten letter that said, "Here is a check for $75 intended to be settlement in full. If this $75 is not sufficient, do not cash this check, and instead, return it along with an itemized bill of damages. By cashing this check, you agree that settlement has been made in full."
He cashed the check, and I thought I was pretty slick. Case closed! He only got $75 of my money, which he deserved — not $850 that he didn't. But then about a month later, I got an itemized list of damages and a demand to pay or "face legal consequences." The list included:
- $220 for a pair of sliding doors that were broken when we moved in
- $89 for a water bill that I had already paid
- $20 for the dishwasher and garbage disposal, both in need of repair, but which were his responsibility, not ours
- $30 for "cleaning cat hair, despite the fact that pets are prohibited by the lease" — there was no cat hair — we had the apartment professionally cleaned before moving out — and he had agreed to let us have a cat… This was just a shady trick to make us look bad in front of a judge, if it got that far
- $36 for repairing the hole in the wall (fair)
- $20 for getting rid of the shelves and the glass tabletop (fair)
- Worst of all: A $180 "late fee" for "not paying rent" in May: We paid May's rent with our security deposit!
All in all, it added up to $595 minus the $75 check he had cashed, for a balance of $520. I thought the whole thing was so ridiculous that I wadded up the letter, threw it away, and promptly forgot about it. But then another month later, I had a knock at the door — it was the Sheriff's Department serving me with papers! I was being sued for $520 and I needed to show up for court at 8:30 A.M., August 22.
The first thing I did was go to my online banking and try to print a copy of the check my landlord had cashed — the one for $75 that said "payment in full" in the ledger. It was nowhere to be found. Had I hallucinated that he cashed it? I assumed I had. Now I realize I should have gone to the bank and asked about it, but at the time, I assumed I was wrong and that he hadn't cashed the check.
Court Day
The only evidence I had was the letter I wrote to my landlord in late April, and a receipt from the water company indicating I had paid long ago. He came to the courtroom with a binder full of papers. We actually made small talk before our hearing, and I asked him if he had been through this before. "At least once a month," he said. Oh no. I was up against a pro.
"You know, I really wish we could have worked this out outside of the courtroom," I said.
"You know, Jase, I tried to be fair. But you just cannot alter the terms of the lease. The lease is the law," he said.
Finally, at around 9:00 A.M., we were called into the courtroom. Since this was a small-claims case, we didn't actually have a judge, but a magistrate — small claims also means there are no lawyers. The magistrate asked me if I agreed I owed the money. "No sir, it is in dispute," I said, not knowing whether to call him "your honor" or not. With that, he sent me and my landlord back outside for one last chance to reach an out-of-court settlement.
As we exited the courtroom, my landlord had a smirk on his face. "There's no way I'm going to settle with you," was what he was saying, non-verbally. But I decided to use my words: "What I really object to is this $180 late fee," I told him.
"Hey, it's right here in the lease," he said.
By now I was getting really frustrated. "Okay, look — if the magistrate awards you $520, I'm not going to pay you. You will have to fight me, at your own expense, to ever see a dime, and I'll make it as difficult for you as I possibly can. Alternatively, I can give you this check for $251. That's everything, minus the $75 I've already paid, the $89 for the water bill I've already paid, and the $180 for the late fee which I don't really owe. I shouldn't have to pay for those doors that were broken when I moved in, or the 'cat-hair removal' that was non-existent, but I'm willing to settle with you."
He thought for a minute. "Okay, I'll meet you half-way on the late fees. Make me out a check for $341."
I was tempted to take the offer, but by now I was fuming mad. I refused.
"Well," he said with another egotistical smirk, "we'll just see what the judge says."
Back in the Courtroom
Upon re-entering the courtroom, the magistrate asked for our stories. For the most part, there was no disagreement. Yes, I had been a tenant. Yes, I had moved out prior to June 1. Finally, the dispute — did I or did I not pay rent for May?
As "evidence" against me, my landlord supplied a copy of the letter I had written in late April. The magistrate read it in its entirety and then said, "I'm going to throw out the $180 late fee." My landlord was shocked! The magistrate explained: "The defendant asked you to apply his security deposit towards his last month's rent, and asked you to contact him if you had a problem with that. You didn't contact him. No late fee."
Next was the water bill. I supplied my receipt. Now we were down from $520 to $251 — exactly what I had offered my landlord outside.
Then came a list of charges I did not dispute: The hole in the wall and the removal of junk. "In fact, I took full responsibility for those items. I left Mr. Landlord a check for $75 along with a handwritten letter apologizing for the damage and the inconvenience and asking him to accept the check as payment in full," I said.
The magistrate's eyebrows raised. "Do you have a copy of the check?" I didn't. But by now I knew that my landlord had cashed it — he had admitted so outside. "How about the letter?" the magistrate asked.
Then, to my complete and total surprise, my landlord provided the magistrate with a copy of the handwritten letter that clearly stated the $75 was to be considered "payment in full." The magistrate read the letter and said, "I'm going to have to dismiss the case."
My landlord was outraged! He had turned down an offer of $251, and now he was going to get nothing. In fact, he was so mad that he actually tried to argue with the magistrate — as if he was going to change his decision!
I exited the courtroom feeling like I was the hero of a John Grisham novel, winning the biggest case in the history of the legal system. My wife and I went to Chilis to celebrate.
Lessons Learned
If you're a tenant:
- Don't let your landlord bully you — know your legal rights and don't be afraid to use them
- Get everything in writing. Make sure you get a copy of your lease, for example. And document any complaints you make against your landlord. Save all receipts!
- Be a little pickier when it comes to choosing your apartment or house!
If you're a landlord:
- Just because you're a landlord, it doesn't mean the law is on your side. Your lease can be overridden by subsequent "contracts" — including cashing a check clearly intended to be settlement in full
- If your tenant proposes something you're uncomfortable with — such as using his security deposit as last month's rent payment — notify him that it's unacceptable and let him know what the penalties will be. You cannot try to bill him for late fees after the fact!
- Do not take cases to small-claims when your time is more valuable than the money you hope to recoup, and make sure you actually have a case before wasting your own time. Will you be able to collect even if you win? If not, then why bother?


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Freshman Taylor O'Leary earned her first career Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week honor for her performance in the 4-0 women's soccer victory over New Hampshire on Sunday, the league announced Monday.
In just her second collegiate appearance, O'Leary came off the bench to score the first goal of her career against the Wildcats and help notch the Blue Devils' first win of the season. The win also earned CCSU the tournament Champion title at the University of Vermont tournament this weekend. O'Leary finished the game with two shots and two points.
O'Leary came to Central from Hertford, England where she played soccer for Simon Balle School and Oaklands College. She was honored with Sports Woman of the Year, Managers' Player and Players' Player titles and helped her team win the FA Women's Reserve League and the FA Reserves Cup.
The Blue Devils will take the field again for their first home game on Sunday, Sept. 2 at 1 p.m. against Providence.


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Student or Learner
Dear all,
In the sentence below, which do you think sounds better, what or who?
My father made me [ what / who ] I am now.
Thank you!
Note that you don't need to put a space either side of a slash (/).
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Hello, I believe that you can also say:
My mother made me the person that I am today.
My mother made me the person I am today.
BUT: you cannot say: My mother made me the person who I am today.
Why? Well, one scholarly book (among many) explains: "Who cannot be used in the predicative (because predicatives are felt as neuters)."
I cannot explain to you what he means, for I have no idea what he is talking about!
I am 75 years old. I am not the man (that) I used to be.
Reference: Otto Jespersen, Essentials of English Grammar (1964 reprint by the University of Alabama Press), page 363.


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My aunt brought home one day a whoopee cushion she bought for me. I carried it to school. Two of my friends and I had a ball with it in phys ed. The coach took it away from me.
Later in the day on the PA system I heard the assistant principal call my name and my two friends that were playing with the Whoopee Cushion – we were to report to the office, which we did.
The assistant principal, Lloyd Cox was his name, lined all three up and suddenly pulled his hands out from behind him and squeezed the poo poo cushion and it made its usual loud blasting fart sound. We all cracked up laughing.
"What is so funny about that?" Mr. Cox demanded. We giggled more, but tried to hold it in, which made it even more of a spontaneous thing – the more you try to keep from laughing, the harder it is.
Mr. Cox gave us a long serious lecture and told us we would have to spend that period and the last period in detention, which was a room next to his office.
So, it wasn't a bad punishment. He stayed gone most of the time and we just got to hang out and talk and cut up a little and go through the drawers of the desks. It was also the room for the counselor's desk and the truant officer's desk.
When the last bell of the day rang we got up to leave. Lloyd Cox was out of his office, probably overseeing people leave the campus, to make sure they either left safely or left without trouble, like fights after school happened often. "Meet me after school!" was a common challenge.
So, we were fairly certain we could prowl through his desk and find the Whoopee Cushion without being caught. We found it. One of us, blew it back up and put it on his seat of his chair.
I expected we woould jerked out of class the next day, but in this case, silence is golden - and after he sat down I bet he felt the same. I don't know why our deed went unpunished.
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We might have fought over it, at the time. Sometimes, we fought bitterly. At Gallipoli, we lost; but we were on the right side of history, and we found a blood-coloured poppy, like a heartbeat in the dust. Later, it would dawn on us: this is who we are, New Zealand.
Last month, business force-for-good Pure Advantage launched their latest Green Race paper. "A race has begun, and we are in it," they said, and they showed a short film.
It was like an old home movie, or a dream. Jack Lovelock was there, and Mr Hillary - Sir Ed to you - knocking the bastard off. In 1917, when Ernest Rutherford split the atom, a big nuke muscle man towered over the world. Seventy years later, New Zealand would vote to ban it.
In 1970, in a vignette that makes me smile, encyclopedia of New Zealand Te Ara shows staff of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society stacking Save Manapouri petition boxes, piled above the heads of the women in heels beside it.
In the Maruia native forest Declaration - which, circulated as a petition, topped 340,000 signatures - Gwenny Davis of Nelson, and 341,159 others declared "that the wholesale burning of indigenous forests and wildlife has no place in a civilised country".
Later, this groundswell from the 70s would spark political change in the Lange-Palmer government, which established Conservation and Environment ministries, passed conservation laws, drafted the Resource Management Act, and set aside public conservation lands.
This is your life, New Zealand. Look at your own plain-spoken, stubborn, self-deprecating, plucky little country: coming from behind, rising above all odds, making choices and winning battles that now define us.
We lost the Rainbow Warrior, but we won that battle for a nuclear-free Pacific and New Zealand on the world stage, and continue to.
We fought bravely, lost heroically, at Gallipoli; but every year, Anzac Day is one of our times to stand together, remember, and say: never again. There is a better, kinder way than this.
In 1981, we tore ourselves apart. Rugby, our icon, met that other part of the Kiwi psyche about fairness, and fighting for the underdog, against apartheid. "In one sense they were fighting over what it meant to be a New Zealander," writes Te Ara.
We were on the right side of history, as we were leading the world with votes for women, standing up for gay rights.
I believe it was the same spirit, the same sense of self, when 50,000 people filled Queen St in defence of our national parks: not mine, ours.
All of them are times when we stood up, passionately, for New Zealand values, and won. We were standing against bullies, for someone (or something) oppressed.
Rachel Stewart is a columnist for the Taranaki Daily News. "All I know is I used to be so proud to be a New Zealander. Now, environmentally in particular, I am simply, and very sadly, devastated," she tweeted yesterday, @RFStew.
This week, she'd had two death threats, and a dead possum in her letterbox, for writing this.
John Hart @farmgeek answered: "How did we become a New Zealand where scientists get shouted down and journalists get death threats for speaking out about the environment?"
But I look at the 80s, when we were at civil war - spitting at one another and calling people traitors - and I think: here we are, again. A battle for our soul.
In time, I hope we can look back and say: we remember what we stood for, that day. We stood up and fought for this thing - for this country of ours - and won.
Happy Christmas, New Zealand.
But my prayer for 2013 is this. Perhaps, it's not so much of a prayer as a love letter:
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc (YUM.N), the largest foreign fast-food chain in China, is strengthening its media strategy in the country in a bid to win back customer loyalty after a series of food scares that decimated sales this year.
State media and social web sites criticized Yum's response to charges in December that there were too many chemicals in chicken dishes at its KFC restaurants. An avian flu scare earlier this year and reports of false mutton being sold in China have affected both its KFC and Little Sheep chains.
Same store sales in China have dropped sharply since the start of the year and Yum now expects April sales, set to be announced later on Friday, to decline an annual 30 percent.
U.S.-listed Yum, which has over 39,000 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in more than 130 countries, has launched a campaign called "Operation Thunder" to reverse the loss of confidence in China, its biggest market.
It also appears to have a tie-up with Shanghai-based consultancy CIC, one of the largest social media management firms in China that harvests over 100 million consumer comments online every month from a range of Chinese social media sites.
Sam Flemming, the chief executive CIC, told Reuters he could not comment on Yum's media strategy because of a "client relationship" between his firm and the U.S.-listed chain.
In March, Flemming told trade journal "Ad Age" that after a slow response late last year, KFC has taken on a more active approach to social media.
A U.S.-based spokesman for Yum said he had no knowledge of the relationship with CIC, but said the firm was "in the process of implementing" a cutting-edge social media monitoring and analysis system that should be up and running by early June.
That would support Yum's drive to boost its social media prowess in the region, particularly in china, where industry insiders say word-of-mouth marketing plays an unusually large role in consumer choice.
Yum's chief executive David Novak has also changed tack. In February, he said spending on marketing could mean "wasting a lot of money". More recently, on an earnings call in late April, he revealed Yum had significantly "beefed-up" its social media monitoring systems.
Yum's troubles in China began in December when it was accused of selling chicken laced with excessive chemicals. It was cleared of any wrongdoing and publicly apologized over its handling of the affair, but that did not spare it being accused of "arrogance" by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Since then it has suffered from the impact of an avian flu outbreak that hit chicken sales in China, and more recently an official report on fake mutton threatened to embroil Yum's Little Sheep hotpot chain in a fresh scandal.
Yum said there was no truth in the mutton allegations and the Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Committee said on Thursday that while investigations were ongoing, there was currently no evidence that Little Sheep had used fake mutton.
Food safety is high on the agenda in China and consumers make steep demands of foreign brands, meaning they can easily come under attack if there is any suggestion of malpractice.
"When there was an issue with the chickens, it was linked to KFC, now that there's a lamb problem, there are ties with Little Sheep. Yum, what's going on?" wrote one user on China's popular Twitter-like Weibo.
However, chatter on the miroblog has dimmed since a peak in December, with mentions of "KFC" falling to a year-low in April.
Market watchers, critical of Yum's initial response to setbacks in China, said the chain needs to revamp strategy for it to return to the rapid growth it once enjoyed in the region.
"If the response was more orchestrated, sustained and structured, they would absolutely have been able to deal with this crisis a lot better," said U.S.-based Ragy Thomas, CEO of social media management firm Sprinklr.
"Companies can actually mitigate and be prepared for these events and deal with it before it becomes a fire."
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NSA nabs American phone call records. Swallow defends self to House GOPers. Lee meets with House conservatives.
Happy Thursday. The National Security Agency has been secretly grabbing telephone records of Verizon customers in the United States under a special court order, the Guardian newspaper reports. The order, from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, allows the NSA to snatch up records of all phone calls originating in the United States and specifically mentions local calls that have nothing to do with foreign persons. [Guardian] [WaPost] Read the court order here: [Guardian].
Topping the news: A new report shows the BLM should be using birth control to manage the wild horse population in the United States instead of rounding up and selling them. [Trib] [DNews]
-> Following interviews with the FBI, AG John Swallow offers his side of the story to Republican lawmakers who may play a part in deciding whether he is impeached. [Trib]
Tweets of the day: From @KJinDC7: "Is this John Swallow thing going to be the only time that people care what @paulmero has to say?"
From @Timodc: "Her fitness for office aside, "SAMANTHA POWER" is really the best name out there right now. I just want to keep saying it. SAMANTHA POWER."
Attention women: The U.'s Hinckley Institute will hold an all-day, nonpartisan training session on Saturday, June 15, designed to help women get engaged in running and serving in political office. Speakers include SLC Councilwoman Jill Remington Love, the Utah Pride Center's Megan Risbon, VoterWorks' Kim Coleman and former Rep. Jackie Biskupski. More info at http://www.realwomenrun.org/training-event.
In other news: Sen. Mike Lee joined a private meeting of more than 100 Senate and House conservatives Wednesday to discuss immigration issues, concluding that border security should come before any proposed reform. [Politico]
-> National parks nationwide will beging this summer to offer more healthy food options. [Trib]
-> Mitt Romney's son, Josh, will once more campaign on behalf of GOP congressional candidate Mia Love but is not ruling out running for office himself some day. [DNews]
-> Tune in to CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" and "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" later today to hear an interview with Mitt and Ann Romney in Utah about the future of the Republican party. [CNN]
-> The deadline to file as a candidate for the Salt Lake City Council is Friday at 5 p.m., with four district seats up for grabs. [Trib]
-> Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, joined the voices calling for Swallow's resignation. [Fox13]
-> Peg McEntee says Rep. Spencer Cox is right to be calling for impeachment hearings. [Trib]
-> Nearly 40% of Utah's Latino population doesn't have medical insurance, prompting Latino-focused insurance companies to offer subsidies to help low income families. [ABC4]
-> Former state Rep. Fred Cox says Utah's caucus system keeps power at the grassroots level and avoids the money equals power concern. [DNews]
-> Think you know Utah politics? Utah Political Capitol tests your political IQ. [UtahPoliticalCapitol]
Nationally: President Barack Obama was back in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, this time announcing that U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan E. Rice will replace Tom Donilon as national security adviser. Obama also nominated Samantha Power to replace Rice as ambassador. [NYTimes] [Politico]
-> Rep. Jason Chaffetz blasts Rice as the nominee, arguing that she lied about the Benghazi attacks. [DailyBeast]
-> U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded guilty to the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in March 2012, a move that may spare him the death penalty. [NYTimes]
-> In an order dated April of this year the National Security Agency demanded that Verizon provide them with records of all phone calls made in the U.S. on a daily basis. [WaPost]
-> Vice President Joe Biden gave a humorous and heartfelt tribute to Sen. Frank Lautenberg, calling him the man who "never gave up." [Politico] [WaPost]
-> Two IRS officials learned the hard way that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel placed them on administrative leave for ordering free food to their hotel suites during a conference in Southern California in 2010. [WaPost] [Politico]
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Rep. Rob Bishop meets with Rocky Mountain Power, holds a hearing for the Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee, meets with representatives of the Airline Pilots Association and chats with officials from Overstock Inc.
Rep. Chris Stewart sits down with officials from Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp and Mid-American Energy Holdings Company, talks with the ambassador of Egypt and attends a public lands committee hearing.
Gov. Gary Herbert tours the Springville plant of radar system manufacturers IMSAR and dedicates a new veterans home in Payson.
SL Co. Mayor Ben McAdams meets with the Salt Lake County Board of Health, the Joint Policy Advisory Committee and the Council of Governments.
SLC Mayor Ralph Becker meets with the Salt Lake Chamber's Lane Beattie and attends a Salt Lake Council of Governments meeting.
WVC Mayor Mike Winder attends a Joint Policy Advisory Committee meetings at the Utah Transit Authority and then heads to the Salt Lake County Council of Governments meeting.
President Barack Obama travels first to North Carolina to visit Mooresville Middle School as part of his "Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour" before moving on to San Jose to attend Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee meetings.
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Autonomic Failure Patients for RNA Blood Sampling
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00742586
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 27, 2008
Last Update Posted : October 18, 2016
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The purpose of this study is to identify 15 patients with autonomic failure and obtain blood samples for RNA from those participants and 15 control subjects within the same age range. The stabilized blood samples, along with a limited data set, will be shipped to Western Michigan University where the actual laboratory analysis (a separate study) of the samples will take place.
Unique genetic inscriptions, called gene expression signatures, are currently being identified for many diseases, including neurological diseases. The secondary goal of this study is to support the research being done at WMU and they try to look for MSA-specific signs are present in whole blood samples of MSA patients at late-stages of the disease. This is a pilot study that has a long term goal (through additional studies) a MSA-specific gene expression signature for the development of a diagnostic test for this disease that can be used in the future. Other patient groups with autonomic failure, characterized by significant drop in blood pressure on standing, will also be included in this study, to look for similar genetic inscriptions.
This pilot study is expected to last for 2 years. The investigators at WMU will need some de-identified health Information about the subjects, including their age at diagnosis, age (when sample drawn) and list of their medications
|Condition or disease
|Pure Autonomic Failure Multiple System Atrophy Parkinson's Plus Syndromes
Patients with one of the following autonomic problems will be recruited to participate in this study: multiple systems atrophy (MSA), pure autonomic failure (PAF) or Parkinson's Plus. The study consists of drawing 15 ml of whole blood for RNA. The blood is drawn in special collection tubes to stabilize the RNA material in the blood. The samples will be frozen and shipped to WMU for analysis.
The patients will also be asked to provide the current list of their medications, their age and the age when they were first diagnosed with their neurologic or autonomic disorder. This information will be de-identified and sent to the investigators at WMU as a limited data set.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Official Title:
|Identification of Autonomic Failure Patients, Controls and Blood Sampling for Pilot Study
|Study Start Date :
|July 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2009
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Non-Probability Sample
15 patients with diagnosis of autonomic disorder characterized by orthostatic hypotension, Pure Autonomic Failure, Multiple System Atrophy or Parkinson's Plus.
15 controls without a neurological disorder
Inclusion Criteria for patients:
- presumed or probably diagnosis of autonomic disorder characterized by orthostatic hypotension
- age between 50 - 75 years
- Male or female
- Able and willing to provide consent
Inclusion Criteria for controls:
- Absence of neurological disorder
- age between 50 - 75 years
- Male or female
- Able and willing to provide consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- inability to provide consent
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00742586
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|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|Principal Investigator:
|David Robertson, MD
|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|David Robertson, Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurology, Vanderbilt University
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|NCT00742586 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|August 27, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 18, 2016
|Last Verified:
|October 2016
Gene Expression Changes in Blood Cells
Pure Autonomic Failure
Multiply System Atrophy
Parkinson's Plus
Multiple System Atrophy
Shy-Drager Syndrome
Brain Diseases
Pure Autonomic Failure
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Primary Dysautonomias
Autonomic Nervous System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
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40 Greatest Chemists of All-Time
1.Dmitri Mendeleyev - Russian - Devised the Periodic table of elements. Predicted that several more elements would be discovered.
2.Antoine Lavoisier - French - Showed that air is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. Disproved the old Theory of phlogiston and determined the nature of combustion. Lavoisier wrote the first modern book on chemistry and explained the law of conservation of matter.
3.Henry Cavendish - English - Showed that water could be produced from two gases. Discovered hydrogen.
4. Amedeo Avogadro - Italian - First to distinguish molecules from atoms. Developed Avogadro's Constant (The number of particles of a substance in a mole). Studied the effect of combining volumes.
5. Jons Jakob Berzelius - Swedish - Developed the symbols for many of the chemicals. Calculated the atomic weights accurately of many of them and discovered Selenium, Silicon and Thorium.
6. John Dalton - English - Developed an atomic theory of matter and explained the laws of partial pressure.
7. Robert Boyle - Irish - Studied gases and showed how Pressure and volume at constant mass were indirectly proportional to one another.
8. Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Jacques Charles - Both French - Studied gases. Showed that gas volume at constant pressure increases with Temperature.
9. Friederich Wöhler - German - Father of Organic Chemistry. He was the first chemist to synthesize an organic compound, Urea.
10. Carl Scheele - Swedish - Co-discover of oxygen with Joseph Priestley. Also discovered chlorine, manganese and molybdenum.
11. Marie Curie - Polish - Isolated radioactive elements radium and polonium.
12. Josiah Gibbs - American - Founder of Chemical Thermodynamics.
13. Jacobus van't Hoff - Dutch - Thermodynamicist. He was one of the earlier chemists to speak about the 3-D nature of molecules.
14. Frederick Sanger - English - Biochemist. Revealed the Amino sequence for insulin. Worked out methods for determining the molecular structure of nucleic acids. Two time Nobel Prize winner.
15. Humphry Davy - English - Showed the connection between electrochemistry and the elements. Discovered the elements Potassium, Sodium, Barium, Calcium and Magnesium amongst others.
16. Joseph Priestley - English - Oxygen co-discoverer. See Scheele.
17. Henri Le Chatelier - French - Developed principle that every change in a stable chemical equilibrium will result in a shift in the direction of the equilibrium to reduce the effects of the change.
18. Frederick Soddy - English - Introduced the isotope theory of elements.
19. Svante Arrhenius - Sweden - Established modern electrochemistry.
20. Germain Hess - Swiss/Russian - Introduced Hess's Law for determining the heat of reactions.
21.Wilhelm Ostwald - Latvian - Discovered Dilution law. Invented process to make nitric acid by oxidizing ammonia. He also developed a theory of colour.
22. Daniel Rutherford - Scottish - Discoverer of Nitrogen.
23. Friederich Kekulé - German - Organic Chemist. Described the ring structure of benzene.
24. Stanislao Cannizzaro - Italian - Established the use of Atomic weights in Chemical formulas and calculations.
25. Linus Pauling - American - Applied Quantum Theory to determine Chemical Structure (especially of proteins). Showed how electrons effect the formation of molecules.
26. Johannes Brønsted - Danish and Thomas Lowry - English - Independently introduced the Brønsted - Lowry definition of an acid as something that donates a proton and a base as something that accepts a proton.
27. Leo Baekland - Belgian/American - Father of the Plastics Industry.
28. William Ramsay - Scottish - Co-discovered Argon with Lord Rayleigh. Was first to identify, helium, neon, krypton and xenon.
29. Henri Moissan - French - Isolated fluorine. Invented the electric furnace. Discovered carborundum and produced artificial diamonds in a laboratory.
30. Theodore Richards - American - Performed extensive work on atomic weights to reveal the existence of isotopes.
31. Dorothy Hodgkin - English - Crystallographer. Used x-ray crystallography to reveal the structure of such molecules as penicillin and insulin.
32. Thomas Graham - Scottish - Developed Graham's Law of Diffusion. Founder of Colloidal Chemistry.
33. Fritz Haber - German - Invented the process to make ammonia from nitrogen in the air. Known as the Haber process. Invention allowed Germany to continue making explosives after World War I ban in spite of the blockade on the importation of nitrates.
34. Irving Langmuir - American. High Temperature chemist. Work lead to the development of the tungsten lamp. Also studied gases. Research in this field would have practical implications with respect to the use of atomic hydrogen in welding torches.
35. Peter Debye - Dutch - Worked as well on molecular structure. Pioneered x-ray powder photography.
36. Harold Urey - American - Isolated Heavy water and discovered deuterium.
37. Paul Flory - American - Leading figure in the field of Polymerization. Studied properties of plastics, ribbers and fibers.
38. William Perkin - English - Chemist noted for his work on dyes. Invented mauve.
39. George Washington Carver - American - Agricultural chemist. Research involved the synthesis of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans.
40. François Raoult - French - Developed law which relates vapor pressure of a solution to the number of molecules of solute dissolved in it.
11 comments:
- R. said...
Gilbert Lewis should be added to your list..
- Anonymous said...
Robert Burns Woodward
- Venki said...
Robert Burns Woodward should definitely be included in the list. He is one of the greatest synthetic organic chemist.
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for sharing this list of chemists. I really need this for my homework.:)
- Anas Imron said...
Niels Bohr should be added...
- Anonymous said...
Walther Nernst and Gilbert Lewis should be added.
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for the list.
may I add Dr. Robert S. Langer of MIT.
- Anonymous said...
What about Moseley? Bohr? Hevesy?
- Anonymous said...
I agree about including Woodward.
I would also include Faraday. He discovered benzene, founded the electrochemistry...
- Anonymous said...
Jabir Ibn Hayyan should be on there. He's not the greatest of all time but he certainly deserves to make the list.
- Anonymous said...
Nice list


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