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In support of the University's effort to maintain and foster safety and security of students, faculty, and staff, the University requires pre-employment Level 2 criminal background checks, pursuant to the procedure in section 435.04, Florida Statutes. This includes fingerprinting, through a vendor selected by the University, for all prospective faculty and staff including student employees who are hired to perform positions designated as a Position of Trust. In some unique cases volunteers may be required to undergo a successful background check before being permitted to perform services on behalf of the University. Additionally, any current employee who occupies a Position of Trust as defined in this regulation, will be required to successfully undergo a Level 2 background check as a condition of continued employment in such a position. II. STATEMENT OF REGULATIONA. Pre-employment Background Checks. All prospective faculty and staff, will be offered employment contingent upon completion of a successful Level 2 background check. Student employees will generally not be required to undergo a pre-employment background check unless they are hired to perform a position designated as a Position of Trust. For purposes of this regulation, the term "student employees" refers to any individual at the University whose primary status is that of a student including graduate assistants, graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants. The background screenings will check seven (7) years of history for the applicant and will provide the University with critical information to make the best and most informed hiring decisions. All background checks will be centralized and funded through Human Resources unless otherwise specified by Human Resources. Determination of the type of background checks to be conducted will be made by Human Resources in conjunction with the hiring department. For example, credit checks may be required depending on the position's job duties. B. Background Checks for Current Employees. Employees who were hired by UNF prior to the implementation of this regulation or did not undergo a UNF pre-employment background check at the time of hire and have a change in status, for example moving from OPS (temporary employment) to USPS or A&P (regular employment) will be provided this change in status contingent upon completion of a successful background check. Likewise, current employees who are promoted or who are reassigned to a position of trust or other position requiring a background check by law, will be offered the promotion or reassignment status contingent upon completion of a successful background check that is appropriate for the position's new duties. Persons who are reassigned but do not successfully pass a Level 2 background check, may be subject to termination of their employment. C. Positions of Trust Employees occupying Positions of Trust must undergo a successful Level 2 background check every five (5) years. Positions with the following types of duties have been determined to be Positions of Trust:1. Working with children/minors OR access to vulnerable populations: responsibilities require unsupervised or significant access to vulnerable populations.For purposes of this policy, a minor is a person under the age of eighteen (18) who is not enrolled or accepted for enrollment at UNF. Examples of settings with vulnerable populations include child care centers, summer camps for minors and pre-college or enrichment programs. This category also includes employees who are not directly working in those units, but have unsupervised access to the unit when the vulnerable population is present. This category does not include faculty or instructional academic staff performing regular teaching, service, and research responsibilities unless these responsibilities include unsupervised or significant access to vulnerable populations.2. Accountable or who have access to cash, credit card sales or management of credit card processing, and demand deposits;3. Access to campus buildings, including residential housing facilities (assigned building master keys);4. Access to surplus property;5. Ability to complete final processing of payroll or payroll corrections, investments, security access transactions or purchase orders;6. Ability to process a payment, print or distribute checks;7. Ability to update, prepare, generate or enter a transaction (refund, wire transfer, automatic clearing house transaction, vendor add/change or vendor address change);8. Ability to access underlying codes/processing protocol supporting the University's ITS applications or complete, ITS security access transactions.9. Executives, those holding regular or interim positions to include Provost, Dean and VP.D. Additional Positions Requiring a Successful Level 2 Background CheckThere are other positions where Florida law requires employees or volunteers to undergo a fingerprint ("level II") background check based on the nature of services performed and/or with whom the individual works. These positions include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Persons working with minors in summer camps; 2. Persons working in a childcare center;3. Persons working in a school system/district; and4. Persons working in the UNF Police Department.E. Background Check Process. The University may collect background information, including credit information for specified positions, on applicants consistent with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). In order to obtain a credit report, FCRA requires organizations, including the University, to obtain a candidate's written authorization before obtaining a credit report. When doing this, the University must: 1. Certify to the consumer-reporting agency that the employer is in compliance with the FCRA and will not misuse the information it receives.2. Disclose to the applicant or employee, on a separate form, its plans to obtain a consumer or investigative consumer report and that the information received will be used solely for employment purposes. 3. Obtain written authorization from the applicant or employee. 4. Inform the individual of his or her right to request additional information on the nature of the report and the means through which such information may be obtained. 5. Inform the applicant that the report will include information about the individual's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, etc. 6. Provide the individual with a summary of his or her rights under the FCRA.If the results of the background/credit check(s) are negative, the Office of Human Resources will comply with the required FCRA notification, ensuring that the applicant is provided with a Statement of Consumer Rights; provide the opportunity for the individual to review a copy of their background/credit report(s); and advise of their rights to dispute inaccurate information. F. Request for Reconsideration of Background Check Decisions.An applicant, through the Office of Human Resources, may request reconsideration of a decision not to hire the individual based upon the results of a background check. A request for reconsideration will only be granted when the background check results are in dispute. Current employees who occupy Positions of Trust may also request reconsideration of background check results through the Office of Human Resources. The request for reconsideration process can be reviewed on the Office of Human Resources website at (insert web link).G. Background checks may include criminal records (County and State Criminal Felony and Misdemeanor, National Criminal Database, Federal Criminal), national sex offender registry check, social security and name verification. Positions that require operation of a motor vehicle may include a driver's license/motor vehicle record check.H. When a Background Check will not be Required. 1. Persons who undergo a UNF pre-employment check and have a change in status, for example from an OPS to USPS or A&P position and maintain continuous employment with UNF, will not have to undergo another background check prior to the change in status unless the new status is considered a "position of trust" as described in section II, B above. 2. Promotions of faculty from assistant professor to associate professor and associate professor to full professor are not considered a change in status where a background check is required. Similarly, if an in-unit faculty member is promoted to a faculty administrative position, no background check will be required unless the new status is considered a "position of trust" as described in section II, A above. 3. If a current employee separates from UNF but resumes employment within less than one (1) year, the person will not have to undergo a pre-employment background check. 4. The results of each background check will be reviewed with the following considerations and in accordance with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines, to determine whether the records are grounds for denying employment:a. The nature and gravity of the offense; andb. The time period that has elapsed since the conviction; andc. The nature of the job for which the applicant is applying (i.e.–those who apply for a position requiring operation of a vehicle, may not be considered based on a poor driving record or DUI conviction): andd. Reoccurrence and pattern of criminal behavior; ande. Truthfulness of the applicant in disclosing the offense(s) behavior (i.e – those who are not honest in disclosing criminal histories will generally not be considered for employment); and f. Information supplied by the applicant about the offenses(s).An unfavorable background check for one position will not prohibit applicants from applying for and being considered for other positions at the University. 5. Information gathered as a part of the background check, other than exempt information by law, is public record. 6. Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Sexual Predator and Sexual Offender RegistryThe FDLE sexual predator and sexual offender registry can be accessed to obtain sexual predator and sexual offender public information. You may access the database through the UPD website (http://www.unf.edu/upd) or the FDLE website (https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/offenderSearchNav.do?link=advanced) or by calling 1-888-FL-PREDATOR (1-888-357-7332).NOTE: As set forth in the Code of Conduct and Ethics, 1.0020P, all faculty and staff are required to report alleged violations of law including arrests by a law enforcement official that could impact the individual's temporary or continued performance of their job duties. References: Florida Board of Governors Regulation 1.001(5) and relevant Collective Bargaining Agreements ; History: NEW 2-1-06; Repealed 6C9-4 Adopted by the University of North Florida Board of Trustees as part of the University's Personnel Program on January 26, 2006. 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ROCHESTER — Rochester Main Street volunteers are looking to find out who bakes the best "Mile High Apple Pie" at the upcoming October Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6 on Hanson Street, in Central Square and Factory Court from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Just bring your best pie effort to the Main Street Booth by 11 a.m. for judging and a chance to win $25, a medal, and the title of Best Apple Pie In Rochester! October Festival is sponsored by Service Credit Union and celebrates fall in New England with children's games, music, food, crafts, demonstrations, pumpkins, apples and more.
The MetroCast Stage on Hanson Street will feature dance performances by Studio 109, Corinne's School of Dance and Right Attitudes Dance Studios along with demonstrations by Happy Times Squares and Mr B's Tae Kwon Do. At 1 p.m. there will be the traditional whoopie pie eating contest for adults sponsored by JD's Sweet Dreams Bakery and the winner gets a five lb. whoopie pie!
Children will enjoy the pumpkin patch in Central Square with free pumpkin painting and the Barnyard Zoo sponsored by Holy Rosary Credit Union. Throughout the day at special times there will be a milking demonstration and the children will be allowed to help bottle feed the goats milk to a newborn calf.
Downtown businesses are also participating with a game and candy giveaways at the Masiello Group on North Main Street, Sidewalk Sale at the Jenny Wren Gallery, and a special 1 p.m. Bridal Show at Victoria Reeds with free wedding toys for children and discount coupons on wedding preservation packages. This is also a great chance to visit the Rochester Historical Society Museum on Hanson Street.
With music in Factory Court and other businesses having special activities, it will be a great time to spend the day in downtown as October Festival is followed by the monthly downtown Art Stroll from 5-7 p.m. and an opportunity to visit the Rochester Museum of Fine Art at 1 North Main St. above Citizens Bank. Lastly, don't forget the Super Secret Project performance at Rochester Opera House at 8 p.m. that benefits downtown activities of the Rochester Main Street volunteers.
Rochester Main Street is still accepting booths for the October Festival, and if you are looking for more information you can check them out on Facebook or at www.rochestermainstreet.org or contact the office at (603) 330-3208.
October Festival in Rochester features apple pies and lots more
ROCHESTER — Rochester Main Street volunteers are looking to find out who bakes the best "Mile High Apple Pie" at the upcoming October Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6 on Hanson Street, in Central Square and Factory Court from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

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Hi there - I'm in a wee bit of a problem, and I was wondering if anyone could help me.
Well, my video footage was shot in a "raw DV" format (or a format with a .DV extension) and I wanted to know how I can (or if there are any available progams for this) convert a raw DV formatted video into a quicktime format (or an MPEG one for that matter). You see, when I open my video files in the "raw DV" extension format in Final Cut Pro (this would be on my apple computer), the program doesn't recognize the file at all, or it just opens as a corrupt or distored video file (a.k.a the video shows nothing but mixed colors). I want to convert this format into a quicktime or MPEG format so that when I open the file in Final Cut Pro, it can open smoothly and I could edit it without any problems.
Please reply ASAP anyone..I'd greatly appreciate the help!
If anyone has any questions about my operating system that would help him/her answer this question in a better way, let me know.
Thank you so much!
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Can you open it in VirtualDub? You may need to install a DV codec like the Pansonic DV codec first. If so, you could frameserve it to a MPEG encoder like TMPGEnc or similar. Or possibly to QT pro, though I don't know if that will work.
Alternately if VD can open it, you could convert to regular DV. How did you obtain 'raw DV'? And you may need to convert it to/from Type1<>Type2, depending on what FC pro can use. There are converters in our DV Tool section: https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/dv
And welcome to our forums.
Thank you for the welcome. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Well, I successfully installed the panasonic DV Codec onto my computer so it could play the DV files normally like you said, but for some reason the files don't want to open in VirtualDub. I've tried everything; VirtualDub seems like it doesn't support the format, so it doesn't open it (in other words, it gives me an error everytime I try to open it in the program.)
The DV formatted videos aren't ".dv AVI" by the way. They are just simply raw footage or "Raw DV". The person who was shooting the videos for me made a careless error and put the camera to this format when he went to shoot the footage. What I want now is to simply open the .dv files effectivily in a converter program so that I can actually see a video of whatever footage I took and not just a bunch of scrambled colors and audio. Once I could see the video, I would next want to convert it into a quicktime format or an MPEG format so that FC Pro would finally recognize the program once I open it.
I'm not really skilled with this type of thing, so please bear with me! ^^;
Here's a screenshot of how the raw DV file looks like when it's opened in Quicktime Player (with the DV codec installed of course):
What should I do?! Help!
there is no raw dv. there are different formats such as dvcam, or dvcpro, but you are not going to get them to work on a home computer. if it was shot on a non-pro level cam on miniDV tape, you either have a dv avi (type I or II) or an HD file. or possibly he blew it completely and you have nada.
try gspot and see if it can identify the mess.--
"a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
It looks like what you have is a Quicktime DV file. Not so easy to convert with a PC apparently. It looks like you can play it back with Media Player Classic like this: Media Player Classic options -> Player -> Formats -> scroll down to 'QuickTime file' -> add '.dv'
It looks like MediaInfo may be able to give you information about the file. I'm not sure how to convert it. Maybe Quicktime Pro. The only other possibility is maybe transcode it with VLC. It lists Raw DV as being able to play and has a transcoding feature that might work.
Sorry, maybe someone here has some ideas.
Try Mpegstreamclip. Fantastic app. Versions available for OSX and Windows. That should allow you to convert to many different formats and Quicktime flavors
Any other ideas?
avid express pro is what i would try using. handles almost any "non-defective" input. last resort - as it is slow.--
"a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
I'll try those programs out and see if they work or not.
Well, I have a little more information that maybe could help my problem.
A "raw DV" format is actually a digital video format with absolutely no codec on it. It's like Raw footage.
I hope this could help!
Similarly as this file?
File Type: Raw DV - IEC 61834 (.DV)
With FFmpeg or MEncoder i'm can change this file to DV-AVI or recompress to other.
Or check trial FireStore DV File Converter.
Originally Posted by Placio74
Those programs look pretty good..especially the last one. The only problem is that I'm using my Mac computer right now. Is there any downloads for those programs that are avaible in MAC OSX download?
I'm don't used Mac, but... maybe check ffmpegX and other related projects fo Mac OS X on MPlayer site.
And... of course MPEG StreamClip (but, my Windows version not read some .dv files).
Originally Posted by Maiden
One possible clue: How big is the file and how many minutes do you think the file contains?
DV format will be ~ 13GB/hr.
Uncompressed will be on the order of 70-160GB/hr depending on format and bit depth.
what camera was it shot with and how exactly was transferred to your computer?--
"a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
Originally Posted by aedipuss
The footage was transferred from Firestore 100 directly to the computer.
Hope this helps!
No, no, no. You guys are confusing the issue. I've worked with the Firestore and similar devices (many times before) that allow you to set the kind of "format" the DV is going to be saved as: RAW, QT, AVI, MXF, others.
Maiden is right. This probably is a RAW DV file (DV codec, raw interleaved V+A streams) without the usual Multimedia Container filetype (QT, AVI, WMV, MPEG, etc).
The EASIEST thing to do is to open up with QT Pro (the one on the Mac--I'm pretty sure the PC doesn't have this option) and save as DV-compressed QT .MOV. Then, it'll open up fine in FCP. (This is a lossless conversion, BTW--just wraps the container around the DV stream after checking the stream's settings and mirroring them in the container's settings. And, no, you especially don't want to convert it to some other codec, or you'll get loss) You'll need the pro version, or you won't be able to export/save to anything.
Raw .DV files -are- using the DV codec to encode and decode. The 1st encode was in the camera.
You could also use that Firestore DV converter (as it does just that), or a few other utilities out there, but QTPro is actually cheaper than all those.
Originally Posted by Cornucopia
I just have a couple of questions though..I want to try that method you just mentioned with QT pro, but the thing is..how do I locate the QT pro program itself on a Mac computer and open it up? I've already purchased the registration key for QT Pro just now and I've inputed the key and my name into the System Preferences>Quick Time thing. I've even downloaded QT Player 7 just to be sure I'm on the right track, but I can't seem to locate the program anywhere.
Is QT Pro 7 within the Quicktime Player itself, or is it found as a seperate program? If it IS within QT Player, how do I know for sure that the additional features that come with QT Pro is downloaded and already listed within QT player?
QT Pro is just the "unlocked" version of QT player (for that version # only). The registration key is the thing that unlocks it. Same player. Just that now you can save/export/edit/adjust with it. If you did the registration thingy alright, you won't have any "greyed out" menu items anymore.
Originally Posted by Cornucopia
Ah, I see now! Thank you very much! ^_^
I just want to know now. How do I exactly save the file as a DV compressed QT. MOV? I tried "Save as" but that didn't give me much. Should I export the file once I open it or..?
Originally Posted by Maiden
is there an option to save as dv avi type I or II? those are the standard "containers" for working on a microsoft platform. your "raw" dv will just be put into a form usable by windows applications. it will still use exactly the same codec as it did before, just in a more user friendly format. type II is generally preferred, but there are programs to change from one to the other.--
"a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
Originally Posted by aedipuss
All I want to know is how to save the file as the DV compression type QT MOV thing, so I could see if it works or not. I have QT Pro downloaded, registered, everything.
The Panasonic HVX200 can record in any of several formats on the Firestore FS-100.
If DVCPro50/DVCProHD it probably has a .mxf extension.
DVCPro/DV formats can be type 1 or type 2 DV-AVI or Quicktime or several others including RawDV.
RawDV is the data as transmitted over IEEE-1394 or stored on tape (including metadata) and can be saved to a file with a .dv or .dif extension.
(scroll down and select DV-data capture)
This format convert utility "DV Converter 2.3" claims to do the conversion of RawDV to DV-AVI or Quicktime.
I haven't used it. Let us know if it works.
1. Open .dv in QT
2. "Export" [Movie to Quicktime Movie]
3. Settings: Video=Apple DV/DVCPro NTSC (assuming you're US), Best qual, 29.97fps, Audio=None (uncompressed), 16bit, 48kHz (probably), stereo
4. If "Allow Transcoding" isn't greyed out--Make sure Check is Marked.
That should be it.
(Just tried it on my system, worked for me. I'm a little worried that you couldn't see the movie in QT the 1st time, as my older copy could see a .dv just fine, even in Windows--maybe there are some other troubles we don't know about)
if you get back on your windows machine, download the free vlc video player and try your file. vlc will play .dv files. about the only ms platform app that will. if it still doesn't play you probalby have a bad video.--
"a lot of people are better dead" - prisoner KSC2-303
Once you stray outside OHCI compatible Windows DV-AVI (Type 1 or Type 2) the compatibility issues abound. Quicktime software is supposed to handle the Quickcam style RawDV to Windows DV-AVI conversion. The software I listed above is claiming wider support for various DV format conversions.
Originally Posted by Cornucopia
Hmm..that's weird. I've tried to play the dv file many times with quicktime player on both my Windows PC and Mac OS - both of them end up opening the file as a video with a bunch of mixed colors and messed up audio. I wonder what's wrong..
If you didn't see the screencap from earlier, this is how a dv video file opens up on QT player on my Windows PC (Mac is the same as well):
Is there any information that you need to know about this? Maybe there's something I missed that's vital to the solution of this problem.
Originally Posted by aedipuss
I also tried transcoding it to different formats, but that didn't seem to work as well either. The CLOSEST I've gotten to solving anything on there though is when I transcoded it into a MPEG-4 video with MPEG-4 audio..it gave me a video with either messed up colors or nothing at all (the first one had a different video format - the colored one) and an audio that was ALMOST fixed (I could hear and understand what people were saying, but it was still a "bumpy" and cut off between every sound beat - I hope you understand what I mean! ^^; )
So I have no clue what's going on..maybe there's some vital information I've missed here or something.
Originally Posted by edDV
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Last week while we were buzzing with our Disney trip preparations all Paige could talk about was "I think the Haunted Mansion might be too scary for me", "I want Dumbo to be our first ride", and "I can't wait to see Cinderella!".
Her lunch that Sunday:
Across the top row:
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So I wrote up this post from the comfort of my big brown couch in Tennessee. But at the time it pops up online we should be in Disney World having a blast. :) If we stick to my schedule, and if I manage to post this in time for Muffin Tin Monday, we will actually be at Epcot today. Soarin' and finding Nemo and touring the World Showcase. Speaking of, I can't wait to scout out the Japan Pavilion and see if they've got any bento goodies. Maybe I'll bring back souvenirs to share. :)
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First, I want to thank everyone who submitted a prompt to the Memphis Fast Fiction project. It is because of you that I was able to finish this bit of insanity.
And finish I did. Three hundred and sixty five stories about Memphis, all with in the calendar year of 2011.
Where do we go from here?
Well, the first step is to let my brain re-congeal after that final sprint to the end, then I start editing.
I'm conflicted a bit on how hard to edit. Cutting to deeply after the fact might change the nature of the project. I knew there were going to be bad stories because I was writing every day. Making them into good stories to assuage my own ego after the fact seems wrong.
But, then again, no one wants something they are embarrassed of printed.
After that, I go looking for a publisher. If I don't find one, then I put the book up on the print-0n-demand services and Amazon.
I'll be slightly archiving the project in a few weeks, and by that I mean limiting the number of stories you can access at once time. I'll have the home page pull up 5 random stories each time you load it, but I won't let you go cruising through the archives. Gotta have a reason to buy the book, after all!
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This photo, of two unidentified people (apparently) making out on the street surrounded by riot cops, is just about the only good thing to emerge from Vancouver's intense hockey riots, which erupted last night following the Canucks' Stanley Cup loss.
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from the not-your-next-nicknack deptFor our latest awesome stuff post, I thought perhaps we'd look at a few more "ambitious" projects. Many crowdfunding projects are really effectively "presales" of something that people might want: a gadget, an album, a book, a movie, an accessory, etc. However, there are some projects that are more ambitious in some sense. They're much more along the lines of getting people to support and donate to a vision. As such, they may be long shots, and those who support them might not get very much back in exchange, but it's neat to see people chase various dreams.
- First up, we have + POOL, Tile by Tile, a crazy ambitious project to build a giant floating "pool" in the river off of Manhattan, which actually acts as a giant strainer for the river. In other words, you are in a pool, and the water is actually river water, but it's been cleaned and filtered. You have to see the photos to realize just how ambitious this project is. Here's one, but the project has many more.
- How about bringing together a group of experts -- one in artificial intelligece, one in robot designs (making them look human), one in consciousness, one in biomorphics -- to build a better, futuristic, human-like robot. I have no idea if any of these experts really are as impressive as they claim to be, or if they'd be able to actually build this "Robot Adam Z1" to the point that (as they claim) it's the equivalent of a 3 year old child, but it certainly is ambitious.
- Finally, we head back to a project for the open waters, where the makers of the world's largest amateur-built submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, are asking for help to get the sub back in the water. It's been taken out of the water for necessary maintenance, and they're looking for some funding to help. Just the fact that some folks built their own damn submarine is impressive already, and the video definitely makes it look pretty cool.
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Ankle Sprain Rehabilitation With the Wii Balance Board
|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: NCT01449760
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified December 2014 by Lara Allet, University Hospital, Geneva.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : October 10, 2011
Last Update Posted : December 9, 2014
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Physical activity and in particular sport is beneficial to health. Nevertheless, some of these activities may create a risk of injury. Ankle sprain is the most common sport related injury. Sports that are causing the highest number of ankle sprains are: football (30%), handball-basketball-volleyball-rugby (24%), gymnastics sports (6%), skiing (6%), cycling (6%), athletics (4%) and contact sports (4%). A recent study in the Netherlands identified a total of 1.3 million sports injuries. 47% of these patients required medical care. The total costs (direct and indirect) were assessed 84.240.000 EUR per year.
Prospective studies demonstrated that athletes with a ankle sprain have a twofold risk of re-injury during the first year after the trauma, and in half of patients with an ankle sprain recurrence this could lead to instability or chronic pain of the ankle.
The Wii Balance Board ® is a tool that is increasingly used in the field of health. In some hospitals, therapists are beginning to use it for the rehabilitation of patients after surgery, fractures or strokes.
Patients are asked to complete their physical therapy session by practicing "sports" via video games such as skiing, bowling or hula hoop. Currently, there are no randomized controlled studies that publish on the effectiveness of this tool. Recently, a study investigated the efficacy of the Wii Balance Board ® to improve balance, strength, joint mobility and level of physical activity. After 10 weeks of training, people an increased strength and balance was found. However, these results still require statistical confirmation. Thus this objectives of this study are
- To assess the efficacy of exercise training with the Wii Balance Board ® Platform
- To evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy (based on current guidelines)
- To compare these two types of care (conventional physiotherapy versus Wii) to a control group (non-treatment).
|Condition or disease
|Ankle Sprain
|Other: Physical Therapy Other: Wii Balance Board
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|90 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Study Start Date :
|March 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|March 2015
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|July 2015
|No Intervention: No treatment
|Active Comparator: Physical Therapy
Other: Physical Therapy
These patients have a standardized conventional therapy (i.e. 9 sessions of physical therapy over 6 weeks)
Other Name: physiotherapy
|Experimental: Wii Balance group
Other: Wii Balance Board
These patients get an instruction about how to install and use the Wii Balance Board ®. After the instruction they get the equipment for 6 weeks.
- Change in the balance performance(COP displacement in ML and AP direction) [ Time Frame: 6 Weeks after the ankle sprain occured, after treatment (6 weeks) and in a 6 month follow up ]Change in the range of COP displacement during a single leg stance of 30 sec Change in the velocity of COP displacement during a single leg stance of 30 sec
- Change in several functional parameters [ Time Frame: 6 weeks after ankle sprain, after treatment (6 weeks) and 6 month follow up ]
- pain (VAS)
- delay in return to work
- delay in return to sport
- passive joint mobility of the ankle in flexion and extension
- isometric strength of the inverters and evertors, plantar and dorsal flexors
- functional ankle instability evaluated with FAAM questionnaire
- gait parameters (kinematics and electromyographic activity of peroneus, gastrocnemius and tibialis anterior)
- performance during a forwrd jump "monopodal": distance and time to stabilize the ankle
- incidence of recurrent sprains side: 12-month prospective follow-up
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 64 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with an ankle sprain (grad 1 or 2), between 18 and 65 years old,
Exclusion Criteria:
- The subjects will not be included in the study if they are under 18 years
- They have other neurological or orthopedic disorders
- If taking medications (other than analgesics +/- NSAIDs prescribed during a sprain) that may influence the measurements.
- The patients with recurrent sprain of the ankle which was less than 12 months or who require surgery were also excluded.
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): NCT01449760
|University Hospitals Geneva
|Geneva, Switzerland
|Responsible Party:
|Lara Allet, Principle investigator, University Hospital, Geneva
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01449760 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|October 10, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 9, 2014
|Last Verified:
|December 2014
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Clive Barker - bestselling novelist, film-maker, playwright, photographer and artist
The Clive Barker Archive collates Clive's works in all media, including his working notes, papers and sketches for hundreds of projects – both published and unpublished – dating from the mid-1960's to the present day.
Launched in 2016, the Clive Barker Archive offers a unique insight into the creative workings of a multi-media artist.
With plans in hand to create a permanent public gallery space in London, sections of the archive will also be presented online. The Clive Barker Archive will continue to create texts and publications exploring Clive's work, documenting previously unpublished material and celebrating his influence on a generation of creative film-makers, artists and writers.
Phil and Sarah Stokes – authors of the Memory, Prophecy and Fantasy series and the Revelations website – are Clive's long-time archivists:
"Phil and Sarah understand me better than almost anyone on the planet. They have an encyclopaedic knowledge of who I am and what I've done. My relationship with them is one of the great friendships of my life and the permanent placing of my archive with them is a natural culmination of this great, long relationship. They will display many of my works, including handwritten manuscripts, original art and much more. I am moved beyond words, and I'm pleased to no end to be able to make this announcement here and now."
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Electrophysiologic and Morphologic Assessment of the Substrate to Guide Implantation of Defibrillators in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (EMOSIDD)
|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: NCT01378572
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified June 2011 by Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 22, 2011
Last Update Posted : June 22, 2011
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|Condition or disease
|Dilated Cardiomyopathy Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
A correct identification of patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death is crucial for a rational clinical management, since the demonstrated effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators on the reduction of sudden cardiac death. Basing on the results of multiple clinical trials, left ventricular systolic function, measured as ejection fraction, is currently the only recommended tool to identify patients at higher risk of sudden death that would benefit from a prophylactic defibrillator. However, the systematic implementation of current recommendations results in a substantial number of inappropriate defibrillator implantations, while failing to prevent the majority of sudden deaths occurring in the general population. Unfortunately, at present time we have no other way to identify patients at higher risk of sudden cardiac death, since other proposed risk markers have not been consistently demonstrated of incremental value. Recent data suggest that several substrate markers, either assessed morphologically with magnetic resonance imaging, or electrophysiologically with invasive mapping procedures, may be helpful to identify subgroup of patients at higher arrhythmic risk. However, previous studies have been largely conducted on few patients, most were retrospective or with short follow-up.
We will submit patients with dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing implant of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to a morphologic and electrophysiologic substrate evaluation including cardiac magnetic resonance with gadolinium contrast-enhancement study, and electroanatomic mapping with bipolar electrogram voltage and morphological analysis. The electroanatomic mapping and cardiac magnetic resonance will be repeated at the time of the first arrhythmic event.
We expect to define the role of anatomical and electrophysiological substrate abnormalities in determining malignant ventricular arrhythmias in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, thus allowing a better risk stratification and prevention of sudden death.
|Study Type :
|Estimated Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Observational Model:
|Case Control
|Time Perspective:
|Study Start Date :
|November 2009
- Arrhythmic Event [ Time Frame: 2 years ]ICD shock on rapid sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation or effective antitachycardia pacing.
- Change in Arrhythmogenic Substrate [ Time Frame: 2 years ]Change in the arrhythmogenic substrate in patients who will experience an arrhythmic event compared to a matched control group who will remain free from arrhythmic event.
- Heart failure events [ Time Frame: 2 years ]Hospitalization for heart failure events
- Death [ Time Frame: 2 years ]All-cause mortality
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males and females ≥18 year-old with full capacity.
- A New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II or III chronic, stable congestive heart failure (CHF).
- A left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of no more than 35 percent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age <18 years or diminished capacity.
- Patients with LVEF ≥ 35% or asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction.
- Patients with NYHA class IV CHF.
- Patients with history of ventricular arrhythmias causing pre-syncope or syncope, cardiac arrest or a spontaneous episode of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) (≥30 seconds at rates of >100 bpm), unless these occurred within 48 hours of a myocardial infarction.
- Females who are pregnant or have childbearing potential and are not using reliable methods of contraception.
- Patients with history of restrictive, infiltrative, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; constrictive pericarditis; congenital heart disease; surgically correctable valvular disease; and/or inoperable obstructive valvular disease.
- Patients with reversible nonischemic cardiomyopathy such as acute viral myocarditis, alcohol-induced cardiomyopathy, peripartum cardiomyopathy, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
- Patients with mechanical or biologic prosthetic cardiac valves.
- Patients with history of a major psychiatric disorder, active alcohol/drug abuse, or noncompliance.
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention (balloon and/or stent angioplasty) within the past 90 days prior to enrollment.
- Myocardial infarction within the past 90 days prior to enrollment.
- Angiographic evidence of coronary disease sufficient to be a candidate for coronary revascularization and likely to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery and/or percutaneous coronary intervention and likely to undergo such a procedure in the foreseeable future.
- Presence of any disease, other than the patient's cardiac disease, associated with a reduced likelihood of survival for the duration of the study, including but not limited to cancer, uremia (blood urea nitrogen >70 mg/dl or creatinine >3.0 mg/dl), respiratory failure, hepatic failure, etc.
- Contraindication to cardiac magnetic resonance evaluation
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): NCT01378572
|Contact: Pasquale Santangeli, MD
|United States, Texas
|Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center
|Active, not recruiting
|Austin, Texas, United States, 78705
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01378572 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
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It might have been the holiday spirit, or a twist on the theme of the movie Pay it Forward. But at Caffe Vita on Seattle's Lower Queen Anne Hill today, there was more to warm the soul than coffee.
Standing in line waiting for a quick one to go as I headed to work this morning, a tall woman dressed stylishly for today's unusual Seattle snow paid for her own coffee and then handed the barista an extra $5 bill to buy coffee for the woman behind her in line — a stranger she didn't know.
The day before, she explained, the woman in line in front of her — someone she didn't know — bought her coffee. This morning, she repaid the favor to yet another stranger.
The young woman who was to benefit from her generosity was taken aback by the kindness and handed the barista another $5 and told her to continue the gift and keep the change as a tip.
Was it the snow? Or the spirit of the season? Whatever the motivation I found such an unexpected act wonderfully encouraging about, well … about us.
I couldn't help but hope that people across the city who get stuck in cars, or for whom the weather's oddity brings some dire consequence, encounter such generosity and warmth in strangers.
Anyone else witnessing unexpected kindness of strangers today?


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Something is Very Wrong with the Bin Laden Kill Story
Bin Laden "was used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilize the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified through a narrative that Bush junior created and Cheney created about the world of terrorism." — Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik
With the (at least second) death of Usama bin Laden now creating a tsunami of feelings and frothy nationalism, millions of people are finding a sense of emotional closure, some stitches to help seal the wound, the fear and confusion of 9-11-2001.
But something is very wrong with the administration's slip-sliding story of midnight heroics executing the bad guy behind 9-11, then disposing of his body so no one could verify the alleged DNA match and saying "Just trust us" – as though many people do.
Surface irregularities
The photo of President Obama and a roomful of his advisers apparently watching the operation go down (recorded by helmet-cams worn by the SEALS) turns out to be a picture of them watching … something else. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta acknowledged that the helmet-cams were not on during the operation, and were off for 25 minutes (others say 35) after the SEALS entered the compound.
And that million-dollar mansion in which bin Laden lived? Well, no. Property records showed that the land was worth $48,000 when it was purchased in stages in 2004 and 2005, according to the Associated Press.[i]
Initially, the story was presented as a vicious firefight against an armed compound, where bin Laden used his wife as a human shield, firing at the invaders from behind her. Now it seems that bin Laden was not armed, was not using anyone as a shield, and was in his pajamas when shot.[ii]
Salon's Glenn Greenwald cut to the chase in his May 3rd column: "In bin Laden killing, media – as usual – regurgitates false Government claims":
"Yesterday [May 2, 2011], it was widely reported that bin Laden "resisted" his capture and "engaged in a firefight" with U.S. forces…. It was also repeatedly claimed that bin Laden used a woman — his wife — as a human shield to protect himself, and that she was killed as a result. That image — of a cowardly though violent-to-the-end bin Laden — framed virtually every media narrative of the event all over the globe. And it came from many government officials, principally Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan."
All major media dutifully reported this made-for-movie story. But by the next day it was obvious that almost all of the key dramatic elements in the story were completely false: fictions for the masses, facts be damned. Greenwald:
"No matter how many times this happens — from Jessica Lynch's heroic firefight against Iraqi captors to Pat Tillman's death at the hands of Evil Al Qaeda fighters — it never changes: the narrative is set forever by first-day government falsehoods uncritically amplified by establishment media outlets, which endure no matter how definitively they are disproven in subsequent days." [iii]
This is the psychology of the "Big Lie": we tend to swallow wildly exaggerated stories more than little lies, because we assume that others would not use that degree of dishonesty. It's playing to car-crash journalism, and our love of a simple and pure story of vengeance by the Good Guys over The Forces of Evil. We love good theater.
Who benefits from this Kabuki Theater story? Well, when Obama met for a chat with firefighters from Engine 54 in lower Manhattan, he assured them – and, through the media, the rest of us: "You're always going to have a president and an administration who's got your back."[iv]
Deeper misdirection
If this shifting story were no more than politics as usual in a propaganda-driven world, we could swallow it – at least as well as we've swallowed the earlier untrue and manipulative stories about Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman. But there are enough stories from then-reputable sources indicating that the bin Laden kill story's Big Lie goes much deeper: frighteningly deeper. These more disturbing stories indicate that Usama bin Laden was not even connected to the events of 9-11, let alone their "mastermind" — and that he died in 2001.
Usama bin Laden is a red herring
On November 13, 2002, just fourteen months after 9-11, a blogger contributed this to Buzzflash (www.buzzflash.com):
For your amusement and future reference, here's what Bush has said about bin Laden at various points in time, depending on how he was trying to spin things:
"The most important thing is for us to find Usama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
– G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
"I want justice…There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
– G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
"…Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open — we just don't know…." – GW Bush, remarks in an open meeting with the Press Travel Pool at Bush's "ranch" in Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on the official White House site.
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority. I am truly not that concerned about him."
– G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02) [v]
This last quote was the statement – made just two and a half months after Bush swore to find bin Laden and bring him to justice – showing that even GW Bush didn't consider Usama bin Laden an essential part of the story for which our soldiers – and perhaps millions of citizens in Arab countries – have shed so much blood and so many life-altering injuries.
Usama bin Laden cannot be connected to 9-11
What did Usama himself say about 9-11? In a Sept. 28, 2001 interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, bin Laden is reported to have said:
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."[vi]
FBI admits they have no evidence connecting bin Laden to 9-11
According to the FBI "Wanted" page[vii]: "Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."[viii]
When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI's web page, Rex Tomb, the FBI's chief of investigative publicity, is reported to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."[ix]
In fact, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Vice President Dick Cheney both admit there is no evidence linking bin Laden to 9-11. On March 29, 2006, on The Tony Snow Show, Vice President Dick Cheney stated: "We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."[x]
At the end of their Top Ten list, the FBI notes that bin Laden "is left-handed and walks with a cane."
This last comment is important because there are reports of the CIA creating fake bin Laden videos – at least one with a right-handed actor looking to be 80-100 lbs. fatter, and with a much fatter nose, than Usama bin Laden — which have been embarrassingly easy to spot as fake.
Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video
Steve Watson, PrisonPlanet,Tuesday, May 25th, 2010:
"Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence officers dressed up as Usama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the Middle East.
"The details are outlined in a Washington Post article by investigative reporter and former Army Intelligence case officer Jeff Stein."[xi][xii]
Could the CIA group of "dark skinned actors" have been behind the infamous December 2001 "Fat nosed" Bin Laden video, that was magically found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in?
The tape featured a fat Usama laughing and joking about how he'd carried out 9/11. The video was also mistranslated in order to manipulate viewer opinion and featured "Bin Laden" praising two of the hijackers, only he got their names wrong. This Usama wrote with his right hand (the real Usama was, as the FBI site noted, left-handed). The actor playing Fat Usama in the December 2001 staged video, also wore gold rings: a practice totally in opposition to the Muslim faith.
Despite the fact that the man in the video looks nothing like Bin Laden and is right-handed, the CIA stood by it and declared it to be the official "9/11 confession video".[xiii][xiv]
Bin Laden died in late 2001
— A Google search for "bin Laden died in 2001" brought up 31 pages of stories. Here are a few representative stories from mainstream sources, including one that may – if true — be a "smoking gun" from a top government insider:
1. "Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December 2001, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
About 30 close associates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some "Taliban friends," attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final tribute to the "great leader." December 26, 2001.[xv]
2. Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper: al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol. 15 No. 4633
Islamabad — A prominent official in the Afghan Taliban movement announced yesterday the death of Usama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that bin Laden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, stated to The Observer of Pakistan that he had himself attended the funeral of bin Laden and saw his face prior to burial in Tora Bora 10 days ago. He mentioned that 30 of al-Qa'da fighters attended the burial as well as members of his family and some friends from the Taliban. In the farewell ceremony to his final rest guns were fired in the air. The official stated that it is difficult to pinpoint the burial location of bin Laden because according to the Wahhabi tradition no mark is left by the grave. He stressed that it is unlikely that the American forces would ever uncover any traces of bin Laden.[xvi]
3. "Usama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's former president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Usama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Usama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.
"With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Usama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?"[xvii]
4. "The Bin Laden Scam is One of the Most Shameful Acts Ever Perpetrated…"
By Gordon Duff, Veterans Today, December 5, 2009
"Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and that Senator Kerry's claim that bin Laden escaped with Bush help was a lie. Now we know that Pappas was correct. The embarrassment of having Secretary of State Clinton talk about bin Laden in Pakistan was horrific. He has been dead since December 13, 2001 and now, finally, everyone, Obama, McChrystal, Cheney, everyone who isn't nuts is finally saying what they have known for years.
"We know this: Bin Laden always denied any ties to 9/11 and, in fact, has never been charged in relation to 9/11. He not only denied involvement, but had done so, while alive, 4 times and had vigorously condemned those who were involved in the attack.
"This is on the public record, public in every free country except ours. We, instead, showed films made by paid actors, made up to look somewhat similar to bin Laden, actors who contradicted bin Laden's very public statements, actors pretending to be bin Laden long after bin Laden's death."[xviii]
5. Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died in 2001, 9/11 A False Flag
The most recent (4 May 2011) story is – if true – perhaps the most damning and explosive, from a man who was appointed to sensitive and influential positions in the Secretary of State and Defense departments by five presidents going back to Richard Nixon. This story deserves an extended citation (link to full story at the end):
"Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Usama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job.
"Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist". He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT.
"Recruited by Lawrence Eagleburger as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Management, Pieczenik went on to develop, "the basic tenets for psychological warfare, counter terrorism, strategy and tactics for transcultural negotiations for the US State Department, military and intelligence communities and other agencies of the US Government," while also developing foundational strategies for hostage rescue that were later employed around the world.
"Pieczenik also served as a senior policy planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W. Bush's election campaign against Al Gore. His record underscores the fact that he is one of the most deeply connected men in intelligence circles over the past three decades plus.
"The character of Jack Ryan, who appears in many Tom Clancy novels and was also played by Harrison Ford in the popular 1992 movie Patriot Games, is also based on Steve Pieczenik.
"Back in April 2002, over nine years ago, Pieczenik told the Alex Jones Show that Bin Laden had already been "dead for months," and that the government was waiting for the most politically expedient time to roll out his corpse. Pieczenik would be in a position to know, having personally met Bin Laden and worked with him during the proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the early 80?s.
"Pieczenik said that Usama Bin Laden died in 2001, "Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome," adding that the US government knew Bin Laden was dead before they invaded Afghanistan."
Marfan syndrome is a degenerative genetic disease for which there is no permanent cure. The illness severely shortens the life span of the sufferer.
"He died of marfan syndrome, Bush junior knew about it, the intelligence community knew about it," said Pieczenik, noting how CIA physicians had visited Bin Laden in July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai.
"He was already very sick from marfan syndrome and he was already dying, so nobody had to kill him," added Pieczenik, stating that Bin Laden died shortly after 9/11 in his Tora Bora cave complex.
"Pieczenik explained that he was not a liberal, a conservative or a tea party member, merely an American who is deeply concerned about the direction in which his country is heading."
(The website Above Top Secret is now running the story of a nearly complete media blackout relating to Dr. Pieczenik's story.)[xix]
Most of this information is known to Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the administrations of both the GW Bush and Obama. If the subject were less emotional and complex, hoardes of reporters would already have torn the official version to shreds. But the way Obama's administration packaged and released the stories was meant to – and did – plunge all of us into the fiery picture of bloody heroics in the made-for-movie saga of a continuing fight for Good against Evil. The high temperature of the story directs us toward uncritical acceptance, along with admiration and gratitude for the courage of both our Navy SEALS and – not incidentally – President Obama.
With our leaders operating within the supercharged atmosphere inside the Beltway, they live in a setting of secrecy conducive to creating True Believers. The danger of such closed circles was perhaps put best by Albert Speer, who was the only Nazi to confess, then to write clearly and forcefully just how the process worked. This is not meant to compare our government with the Nazis – just to say the presence of so much secrecy easily traps the key players inside a hall of mirrors:
In normal circumstances, people who turn their backs on reality are soon set straight by the mockery and criticism of those around them, which makes them aware they have lost credibility. In the Third Reich there were no such correctives, especially for those who belonged to the upper stratum. On the contrary, every self-deception was multiplied as in a hall of distorting mirrors, becoming a repeatedly confirmed picture of a fantastical dream world, which no longer bore any relationship to the grim outside world. In those mirrors I could see nothing but my own face reproduced many times over.[xx]
Our whole country is now engulfed by an incendiary story that reeks of dangerous propaganda. It's time we stopped shouting "Fire!" and began shouting "Theater!"
[i] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-goes-silent-on-bin-laden-raid/2011/05/04/AF1v87rF_story.html?nl_headlines
[ii] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383934/Usama-Bin-Laden-dead-Obama-DIDNT-Al-Qaeda-leader-killed.html#ixzz1LVoUY11h
[iii] http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/03/propaganda_bin_laden)
[iv] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/analysis-in-aftermath-of-daring-raid-obama-reintroducing-himself-to-nation/2011/05/06/AFgmgP5F_story.html?nl_headlines
[v] http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/11/13_Laden.html
[vi] copied from the website of journalist Robert Fisk, http://www.robert-fisk.com/usama_interview_ummat.htm
[vii] fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden
[viii] http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten
[ix] http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/16-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-9-11/
[x] http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/0608-BinLaden.html
[xi] http://www.infowars.com/former-cia-officials-admit-to-faking-bin-laden-video/
[xii] http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=288:cia-admits-bin-laden-videos-are-fake&catid=58:the-911-event&Itemid=115
[xiii] http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-cia-officials-admit-to-faking-bin-laden-video.html
[xiv] http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/war/gordon-duff-years-of-deceitus-openly-accepts-bin-laden-long-dead.html
[xv] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
[xvi] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
[xvii] New York Times. July 11, 2002
[xviii] http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/12/05/years-of-deceit-us-openly-accepts-bin-laden-long-dead/
[xix] The topic started on May 6, 2011 @ 12:12 PM by monkeySEEmonkeyDO:
"I have been noticing a complete media blackout with the ULIMATE 911 whistleblower, Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, and I attempted to search through the MSM's websites for ANY record of his name. Here is a small, yet powerful, list of major news networks who REFUSE to acknowledge this brave and honest man:
AP.org (Associated Press)
HOWEVER… I did find one major news network that did post this story. The brave and daring washingtonpost.com posted the ground breaking story but posted it under the "lifestyle" section which is right next to the home garden and travel sections… LOL.. I can NOT make this stuff up". (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread699847/pg1)
[xx] Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) – Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, 2007, p. 65
AUTHOR BIO: Davidson Loehr is a former musician, combat photographer and press officer in Vietnam, owner of a photography studio in Ann Arbor, then a carpenter. He holds a Ph.D. in methods of studying religion, theology, the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, with an additional focus on language philosophy (The University of Chicago). From 1986 to 2009, he served as a Unitarian minister, and has been a Fellow in the Jesus Seminar since 1992. He is the author of one book, America, Fascism & God: Sermons from a Heretical Preacher, (Chelsea Green, 2005). Davidson is now retired, living in Austin, TX.


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Friday, April 12, 2013
The National Quality Forum (NQF) announced April 12 that it will fully endorse Massachusetts General Hospital's Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), a screening questionnaire used by pediatricians to improve the recognition and treatment of psychosocial problems in children.
The NQF is nonprofit consensus standards-setting organization that relies on input from a number of diverse professional and community organizations to evaluate standards through an open and transparent process. The organization has only endorsed nine projects measuring mental health for children.
The checklist was created in 1982 by Michael Jellinek, MD, the former chief of child psychiatry at Mass General and current chief clinical officer of Partners HealthCare, and has been validated over the last 30 years by Jellinek and Michael Murphy, EdD, a senior psychologist in the outpatient child psychiatry service. The checklist is a 35 item parent questionnaire used to measure overall psychosocial functioning in children from 4 to 16 years old. Available for free on the Mass General website, the form comes in more than two dozen languages and pictorial form. The site also offers a youth self report and a brief 17 item version for parents and children.
The checklist is already endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is one of a handful of measures required for the state's Children's Behavioral Health Initiative. The governments of Chile and Australia also use the checklist as part of their national mental health screening programs.
The announcement comes on the heels of a paper published in the March issue of Pediatrics showing that the checklist is one of just nine children's mental health measures recommended for use in evaluating new national and state health care programs.
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PHILADELPHIA - Chase Utley spent his Monday morning doing radio interviews, his afternoon answering questions in the Phillies' clubhouse and his evening trying to think about what he will say Tuesday in a Twitter chat.
He did all that? The second baseman who always appeared more interested in playing than in talking about playing? The one who has been around for 2003 and never really showed a desire to be a one-man media circuit?
'Just passing by,' he said, with half a wink.
Utley doesn't just pass through a ballpark, not without trying to create a victory, sliding in head first if necessary. And that's why the only-a-coincidence proclamation was half fun and all flimsy, even if he had made the odd offseason tour once or twice in the past.
No, he is around for a reason.He is around to clean up what scalpels and budgets, the ones the overwhelmed Phillies front office would be unable to. He is around to help heal the Phillies from within.
'It's not about me,' he said. 'It's about all of us coming together.'
Utley talked for 17 minutes Monday, not including his radio chats. And nothing he said was as significant as that plea for team harmony. For while the Phillies will be happy to stress that injuries best explained their 89 losses last season, there were deeper problems.
Only five years removed from Utley shouting out six syllables to celebrate a world championship, it was the Phillies' workplace body language that turned vulgar last season. Charlie Manuel, oddly permitted to begin the season with an expiring contract, was gone before Game 121, his message having fizzled. Jonathan Papelbon, rarely running a reason-to-be-grumpy deficit, snarled that he didn't sign up for so much losing. And at the top of the offseason, Cole Hamels ripped the hitters and the clubhouse atmosphere in Philadelphia Magazine.
Ryan Howard's knee is rumored to have been cured on an operating table. Surgery, medication and rest may have straightened Ben Revere's fractured ankle.
But only a veteran of Utley's status - a fringe Hall of Fame candidate, a demonstrated worker, a ring-bearing winner - can begin to soothe those infected feelings.
'I definitely believe we can swing the bats better,' Utley said, nodding in awareness of the Hamels blasts. 'There are a lot of things you can look at and point to last year. But overall, when we lost, it wasn't just our hitting and it wasn't just our pitching. Overall, we just didn't get it done. We have to improve in all aspects. Definitely hitting. I think we can pitch better. And we can play better defense.
'We have that attitude that we want to improve. But it's not a game of finger-pointing. It's a game of working together and trying to improve. And I think we'll do that.'
Ryne Sandberg, who demanded more serious pregame workouts among other shifts from the exhausted Manuel era, could help. He has Hall of Fame status and, with that, an option to demand better, at least for a while.
Larry Bowa is back on the staff, and don't tell anybody but he might not look the other way if some in-house malcontent acts up.
It's possible the Phillies could improve - likely, even. Howard and Revere will return. Marlon Byrd will provide right-handed power. Sandberg will have a full offseason to prepare. Hamels and Cliff Lee can still be a historic front-of-the-rotation force.
It's January. It's OK for fans - and mandatory for the players - to expect better.
But none of that will matter if a starting pitcher snarls every time the Phillies go three innings without scoring, or if the hitters make faces at the relievers every time a late lead is wasted.
'I think last year was an awkward situation for everyone,' Utley said. 'It wasn't just the coaching staff, and it wasn't just the players. It was just different. We had a lot of new faces. And there was the Charlie situation, then Ryne. It wasn't the best thing for a winning atmosphere.'
No, it wasn't.And it is why Utley was doing more, much more, Monday than only passing by.