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Study of Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers -Educate Nurture Advise Before Life Ends (ENABLE III) (ENABLE III)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01245621
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 22, 2010
Last Update Posted : January 3, 2014
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ENABLE III is a randomized clinical trial that evaluates a phone-based palliative care intervention designed to improve quality of life, mood, and symptom management for patients with an advanced stage cancer and their caregivers.
The primary aims of this clinical trial are to determine whether a palliative care intervention (introduced immediately or 12 weeks after diagnosis) can improve survival, quality of life, mood, symptom intensity and end-of-life care.
|Condition or disease
|Advanced Cancer
|Behavioral: Later entry group Behavioral: Early palliative care intervention
|Not Applicable
In 2008, cancer claimed more than 565,000 American lives -1,500 people a day. Palliative care strives to improve quality of life (QOL) and to prevent "bad deaths" by providing expert, interdisciplinary care to manage the effects of disease and treatment. Effective end-of-life (EOL) care depends upon proactive, patient-centered interventions to prepare patients and families for the challenges of terminal illness. We were able to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of a concurrent oncology palliative care (COPC) intervention in improving quality of life and mood in our previous studies ENABLE I and ENABLE II; however, a number of gaps in our knowledge remain.
Patients will be randomized to begin the intervention either immediately or 12 weeks after a new diagnosis of advanced or recurrent cancer. This phone-based intervention consists of: 1) an Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nurse Interventionist instituting 1a) a 6-session manualized patient curriculum- Charting Your Course (CYC), 1b) a 3-session manualized, caregiver curriculum- the Creativity Optimism Planning Expert information (COPE) program, and 1c) on-going patient and caregiver follow up; and 2) Palliative Care Team Comprehensive Assessment & Management.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|360 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Early vs. Later Palliative Cancer Care: Clinical and Biobehavioral Outcomes
|Study Start Date :
|October 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2013
Active Comparator: Early entry group
Early entry group will begin the intervention at time of diagnosis of advanced cancer
Behavioral: Early palliative care intervention
Active Comparator: Later entry group
Later entry group will begin the intervention 12 weeks after enrollment in the study.
Behavioral: Later entry group
- Change in patient's quality of living over time [ Time Frame: baseline, 6,12,18,24,36 and every 12 weeks until death or end of study ]
Quality of living assessments will include quality of life (QOL), mood, and symptom intensity measures using the following measures:
- Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal):
- Quality of Life at End of Life (QUAL-E).
- Center for Epidemiological Study- Depression (CES-D).
- Quality of end of life care [ Time Frame: chart review at time of death and caregiver proxy interview 2-3 months after patient death ]
End of life (EOL) Care Data Collection Form: This form is used to collect information about the quality of EOL care and circumstances surrounding the last 48 hours of life for patients who die in hospital, nursing home, or home.
Quality of Dying and Death Measure (QODD). The QODD is a structured interview conducted with a caregiver to measure the quality of a patient's last week of life. The interview assesses the caregiver's perception of patient symptoms, preferences, and satisfaction with care.
- Estimate and compare the hazard ratios and median survival before and after 1 year from enrollment [ Time Frame: From enrollment until patient death or end of study ]We hypothesize that Early entry patients will have longer overall survival at one year compared with Later entry patients.
- Change in caregiver quality of life, burden and grief over time [ Time Frame: baseline, 6,12,18,24,36, and every 12 weeks until patient death or end of study ]
Caregiver burden and QOL will be measured using:
- Quality of Life- Cancer- a self-report measure of QOL for caregivers of patients with cancer.
- Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale -a self-report measure of caregiver burden.
- Center for Epidemiological Study- Depression CESD is a measure of depressive symptoms.
- Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Module (FACIT-Sp) - a measure of spiritual well-being developed for persons with chronic illness.
- Prigerson Inventory of Complicated Grief-Short form (ICG-SF) embedded in the Quality of Death and Dying (QODD).
- Mediating mechanisms and moderators of the concurrent palliative care intervention. [ Time Frame: baseline, 6,12,18,24,36 weeks and every 12 weeks until death or end of study ]
Mediating mechanisms measured will include patient activation, decision support, goal setting, problem solving, care coordination.
Moderators measures will include: decision control and treatment goals, self-efficacy, optimism, coping style, social support.
- Determine feasibility of enrolling less common solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. [ Time Frame: Estimated recruitment period of 2 years ]ENABLE II recruited patients only with lung, breast, GI, and GU tumors. We will attempt to also recruit patients with less common "poor prognosis" solid tumors (e.g. brain) and hematologic malignancies and their caregivers for this concurrent oncology palliative care intervention.
- Explore patterns of stress (diurnal salivary and plasma cortisol) and immune biomarkers (lymphocyte subsets and cytokines) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12, and 24 weeks ]
We will explore patterns of stress (diurnal salivary and plasma cortisol) and immune biomarkers (lymphocyte subsets and cytokines)at baseline, 12, and 24 weeks after intervention in a subset of 50 patients with breast, lung, GI, and GU cancer.
We hypothesize that stabilized or improved biomarkers of stress and immune function will be evident after Early and Later entry intervention participation.
- Examine the relations among quality of life, mood, symptoms, survival, stress and immune biomarkers. [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12, and 24 weeks ]We hypothesize that higher quality of life,mood, lower symptom intensity, and longer survival will be associated with stable or improved stress and immune biomarkers (e.g. normal plasma cortisol and diurnal salivary cortisol variability, lymphocyte subsets and cytokines
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:
- Able to speak and understand English
- Over age 18
- NEW diagnosis, recurrence, or progression of an advanced stage cancer within THIRTY days of the date the patient was informed of the diagnosis by his/her oncology clinician.
- Estimated survival of 2 years or less
Diagnosed with an advanced stage cancer such as one of the following:
- Lung Cancer: Stage IIIB or IV non-small cell, or extensive stage small cell
- Breast Cancer: Stage IV with poor prognostic indicators including but not limited to: a) >2 cytotoxic regimens for MBC; b) diagnosis of MBC less then or equal to 12 months since completion of adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment; c) triple negative disease (ER/PR - and Her 2-);d) parenchymal brain mets and/or carcinomatous meningitis
- Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers: Unresectable stage III or IV
- Genitourinary (GU) Cancers: Stage IV (for prostate cancer inclusion is limited to persons with hormone refractory prostate cancer)
- Brain Cancer: Unresectable, Grade IV
- Melanoma, Stage IV
- Hematologic Malignancies -Leukemia (e.g. acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) - advanced stage, treatment refractory, poor prognosis cell type or chromosomal abnormalities, "older age" -Lymphoma- Stage IV or treatment refractory Hodgkin's disease or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -Multiple Myeloma - elevated β2-microglobulin, albumin <3.5, PCLI >1%, CRP >6µg/mL, elevated LDH, plasmablastic morphology, abnormal. chromosome 13.
- Completion of baseline interview
1. Only patients with lung, breast, GI, GU cancer are eligible
- Able to read and understand English
- Anyone identified by the patient as "a person who knows you well & is involved in your medical care".
- Dementia or significant confusion (Impaired cognitive status as indicated by a score of 3 or less on the Callahan six-item cognitive screening tool 18)
- Axis I psychiatric diagnosis of severe mental illness (DSM-IV) (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or active substance use disorder)
- Patients will not be excluded if they do not identify a caregiver
- Prior involvement with palliative care service within the last year
- Minimum predicted survival of less than 12 weeks (3 months)
- Receiving chronic steroid hormones or unable to schedule specimen collection distant from chemotherapy from steroid pre-medications
- Unable to come to Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) for specimen collection times.
1. Unwilling to participate in study.
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): NCT01245621
|United States, New Hampshire
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon
|Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic - Manchester
|Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03102
|St. Joseph Hospital
|Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, 03060
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock NCCC Nashua
|Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, 03063
|United States, Rhode Island
|Providence VA Medical Center
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02908
|United States, Vermont
|Mountainview Medical
|Berlin, Vermont, United States, 05061
|Veteran's Administration Hospital
|White River Junction, Vermont, United States, 05001
|Principal Investigator:
|Marie A. Bakitas, DNSc, APRN
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
|Study Director:
|Jennifer P. Frost, RN, MS
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01245621 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01NR011871-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|November 22, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 3, 2014
|Last Verified:
|October 2013
Keywords provided by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center:
palliative care
end of life care
quality of life
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1. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 5:57 AM (in response to davidc1815)
Without a lab full of monitors that represent the mix of hardware your viewing audience out in the world might have, it's really not possible.
You can easily see what it will look like on YOUR monitor without color-management. Just choose View - Proof Setup - Monitor RGB. Uncheck View - Proof Colors when you want to return back to managed color.
2. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 6:00 AM (in response to davidc1815)
Thinking a bit on your goals...
Honestly, I'd just publish the images tagged with the sRGB profile and let the people with uncalibrated / oversaturated color just deal with them. If you desaturate your own images to anticipate that situation (someone viewing non-managed color on a wide-gamut display) then you'll just be a) making your images look less "vibrant" than other peoples' images to those folks, and b) making them look desaturated on monitors that ARE well set up.
Taken to a logical conclusion, you'd only want to publish in grayscale. I don't think that's attractive.
I think web publishers have to assume that, however much Microsoft drags their feet, sooner or later web browsers that do full color management will become ubiquitous. Firefox is already there, Safari is almost all the way there, IE stopped (ridiculously) halfway there, and Chrome is, well, Google software (they may get a clue one day).
3. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6c.pfaffenbichler Jul 12, 2012 6:06 AM (in response to davidc1815)
Can anyone tell me please if it is possible to see in Photoshop what an image will look like when it is out in the un-colour managed world?
Your query seems peculiar – as Noel pointed out you can circumvent Color Management and view the image on your screen unmanaged-ly (Edit: in Photoshop), but why do you assume that would have relevance for the millions of other screens that are out there?
How familiar are you with the concepts of Color Management?
4. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 6:19 AM (in response to davidc1815)
One other point: How are you anticipating publishing these images so that those "out in the world" will see them?
If you really are talking about your images being seen with a web browser, then there really is no one right answer. The percentages of web browser use are spread across all the browsers I mentioned above reasonably evenly... So you just can't know how well color-managed your image will be. No one can say whether IE "gets it close to right" more often than Firefox or Safari. How many people have wide-gamut monitors vs. those with older "standard" gamut displays that more closely match sRGB?
Plus I'd wager a majority of people don't have their systems set up with a monitor color profile that actually matches their monitor.
You start to see why folks who understand color-management shake their heads sometimes.
5. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6davidc1815 Jul 12, 2012 7:06 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)
But I ask again, if my monitor is hardware calibrated and set to sRGB, why do sRGB tagged images look oversaturated outside Photoshop (on my display, of course).?
6. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 7:12 AM (in response to davidc1815)
I'm going to make a good guess at the context of your question...
You're looking at the images in Internet Explorer, right?
Internet Explorer only does HALF the job of color-management. What it does is transform the colors from any given image in any color space to sRGB - meaning it assumes your monitor has the gamut of sRGB no matter what the reality.
In short, it IGNORES your monitor color space and assumes it's an sRGB monitor.
This is likely the root of the problem you're seeing. The problem is with Internet Explorer not doing proper color-management!
I know that there are people who care about color have switched to Firefox or Safari because of this.
7. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6davidc1815 Jul 12, 2012 7:31 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Thanks. No. I'm not looking at the oversaturated images in Internet Explorer, or not just in IE9. I'm viewing in other non colour managed applications like FastStone Image Viewer (an image organiser). It is also true that when I preview the images in IE9 in the Save for Web window in Photoshop I see the same oversaturation. I am concerned because the magazine that publishes my images uses Apple Macs which have sRGB equivalent displays (I understand) and I would like to feel confident that what reaches them and is published, is the image that leaves me looking as I want it to..
My difficulty seems obvious to me. When I have effectively shrunk my display's colour gamut to that of an sRGB display, why do images still look oversaturated on it? I understand that there is a colour management jungle outside the civilised domains of Photoshop etc but when I used my (near) sRGB display (a NEC 2490/2) I never had this over saturation problem.
Could Windows colour management be messing up the colour management achieved by my display in some way?
Still baffled.
8. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6gator soup Jul 12, 2012 8:59 AM (in response to davidc1815)
>> Can anyone tell me please if it is possible to see in Photoshop what an image will look like when it is out in the un-colour managed world?
i didn't read this entire thread but that is a very easy answer in theory
Photoshop: View> Proof Setup: Monitor RGB
that "Soft Proofing" maneuver will pass your Photoshop RGB straight through to the monitor unaltered (the same as unmanaged apps do)
though in context to your last post — "I am concerned because the magazine that publishes my images uses Apple Macs which have sRGB equivalent displays (I understand) and I would like to feel confident that what reaches them and is published" — i don't think the question was asked succinctly because you probably don't want to attempt to circumvent color management when handing off your file for print production
the best chance you have is to hardware profile your monitor (so you get an 'accurate' monitor proof), and use and embed ICC profiles
hopefully your people downstream will use your embedded profile in their print production and convert to their printer profile...
9. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 10:07 AM (in response to davidc1815)
I don't know the FastStone viewer at all, but there's a reasonable possibility it's not color-managed. I'd say more applications are not color-managed than are.
Gator soup makes the very valid point that the ONLY way to maximize the chance that what you're sending to other people will be properly interpreted is to:
- Calibrate and profile your display.
- Trust what you're seeing in Photoshop as the correct color.
- Tag your images with your working profile when you save them.
- Trust that your recipients know enough about color-management to get it right, or in a pinch, find out what profile they specifically need, and go back and convert your images to that profile and repeat step 3.
Color-management is not something you can ignore/avoid/wing it with. If you want to make the right choices for your settings you need to understand color-management, be sure you've gotten your color right on your setup, and provide others with properly tagged images.
10. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6davidc1815 Jul 12, 2012 11:09 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Thanks, Noel. I have re-checked and I see that colour management can be enabled on FastStone viewer.
I seem to have solved the problem. I uninstalled the European Profiler 5 software and installed the US Spectraview II software. I re-ran a calibration/profile and the colours now seem to work ok. That is to say - the whole display is not as saturated in sRGB emulation mode as it was in sRGB emulation mode in Profiler 5.
I have no idea what has happened. But I can now see an image that looked oversaturated outside PS as OVER saturated IN PS which is excellent as I can desaturate the image to taste and save it, and that image now looks correctly saturated outside Photoshop in both colour managed and non-colour managed environments.
Thanks for all the advice.
11. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 11:18 AM (in response to davidc1815)
Glad to hear things are making more sense to you now.
I don't have a lot of experience with different calibrator/profilers, but I have heard that the results can differ between different models. Everything is not all as perfect as you might be led to believe by advertisements.
Given that the result of a calibration/profiling operation is twofold - creating a calibration (gamma, etc. curves) for the video card, and a profile for fine tuning by the applications, I suppose it's not difficult to think that the two parts could be somewhat different from different devices, though saturation isn't really something that can be changed by gamma curves, so that's still a bit of a mystery to me.
For what it's worth, in my own case I have "standard gamut" monitors and I have calibrated them to emulate sRGB very well, so I use the bog standard sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile for my monitors. The upside is that IE is perfectly color-managed for me, and other applications that display sRGB images without color management are also right. And of course Photoshop is right. I have specific reasons for having done this, to support my development work, and it has worked out very well for general use. But I don't have a strong need to produce wide-gamut imagery (I don't do much printing, for example, and for what I DO do, my printer wants sRGB).
12. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6davidc1815 Jul 12, 2012 11:52 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)
I think you are very wise t have x2 sRGB displays. If a large sRGB display had been available I would have bought it.
Could you bear to help me with another - display issue,please?
As part of the work I do I have to make screen recordings of images being produced for the magazine. I use Camtasia for this and they insist on a 1024x768 resolution. This has been no problem in the past with my standard sRGB display (NEC 2490/2) because the aspect ratio was right for it.
The aspect ratio was not right for the Spectraview display (2560x1440) so I used the original 2490 also attached to my graphics card to make the recordings at 1024x768.
Now, something has changed in the arrangements and when I set the 1920x1200 display to 1024x768 the image stretches as if it were in the wide display. I am defeated as to why the standard display can no longer show 1024x768 at the correct aspect ratio.
I am not aware of having changed any W7 settings - both displays are recognised. Though I do notice that under the "advanced settings for the W7 resolution window, and under the "Monitor" tab, the 2490 is not available - only the wider display (271) - here is an image that shows this:
When you open the "Colour Management" tab all the resolutions are available for the 2490/2 but as I said, when you select the 1024x768, it appears as it would (and does) on the wider display.
Can you suggest what I've done wrong and how I might fix this, please.
13. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 12:02 PM (in response to davidc1815)
Do you need the entire screen to be in the display? I ask, because when I have recorded Camtasia videos I have just used the upper-left corner of one of my displays. This has the added advantage that I don't have to hide everything on my desktop, it's just out of view below or to the side.
But to answer your question, you might want to try a reboot with the second monitor attached. That might clear up the disparity in the settings. I don't really know what could be causing your software to be out of sync with the hardware; I haven't encountered that.
14. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6davidc1815 Jul 12, 2012 4:56 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Briliiant Noel, thanks. Rebooting didn't work but powering down the second monitor did. I wouldn't have thought of that so, thanks. Phew - that was going to be a real headache.
I did try using just an area of the big display for 1024x768 delineated by Camtasia and squeezing CS6 into the space. The problem is that all the menus extended way beyond the boundaries of the recorded area. What was your procedure?
15. Re: How to mimic non colour managed environment in CS6Noel Carboni Jul 12, 2012 5:11 PM (in response to davidc1815)
For what I did the menus all happened to fit. I used a VMware virtual machine and it was configured quite simply, which suited what I was showing.


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How Technology Will Topple the World's Biggest Drug Cartel
After El Chapo's capture, the nation's financial intelligence agency faces a key IT upgrade.
An upgrade of the information technology systems running the nation's financial intelligence wing -- set to finish this year -- should bolster efforts to dismantle the Sinaloa cartel, now that authorities have captured the enterprise's leader, former top U.S. officials say.
Mexican authorities over the weekend announced the arrest of narcotics kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who helmed what has been described as the world's largest drug-trafficking business. He had been on the run for 13 years.
"The extent to which we're seeing greater activity and ideally greater effectiveness in our targeting is clearly going to be in part due to improvements in IT," Chip Poncy, the Treasury Department's director of strategic policy for terrorist financing and financial crimes until last spring, said during an interview.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has been undergoing a computing overhaul since 2010. According to FinCEN officials, the project will "provide a modernized IT foundation to collect, store, safeguard, analyze, and share data collected," in compliance with privacy regulations to, among other things, dethrone drug lords.
The $120 million software and hardware overhaul is on budget and expected to be finished later this year, according to a September 2013 Treasury inspector general report.
Poncy pointed to a recent, in his words, "huge" development with Mexico that will hinge upon IT.
In October, Treasury officials announced a memorandum of understanding between FinCEN and Mexico's National Banking and Securities Commission to share supervisory information on money laundering and terrorist financing activities.
To the extent that "they are looking at the Sinaloa cartel -- and you can bet they are, through the reporting coming from Mexican financial institutions -- and they are able to share some of that with FinCEN analysts and vice versa, well all the information that we're looking at just got doubled," Poncy said.
Authorities must still get a handle on the remnants of Guzman's empire, which is expected to survive under partners like Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
Guzman reportedly had used loopholes in FinCEN procedures and other financial-tracking policies to make dirty money look legitimate.
With the help of FinCEN's new IT backbone, Treasury last year successfully targeted members of the Sinaloa organization, including Guzman's father-in-law, to unravel the cartel's holdings and support structure, officials say.
As FinCEN's technology infrastructure advances, intelligence reports are transforming from essentially annotated search results to real analyses, Poncy said.
Prior to the technology upgrade, in a rough sense, "we looked in the database, and we used the term 'Sinaloa,' and we found 300 reports. Two hundred were from banks, 170 were from last year," Poncy said. "You get sort of an annotated list. It doesn't really help you a lot."
Now, the IT setup can synthesize information from multiple sources to provide leads: "We conducted analysis based upon the following methodology -- we did a search along these lines; we did link analysis; we integrated that with other information we were getting from our interagency colleagues; and based on that we're looking at these dots, put together in a sort of a network, that has identified the following seven individuals of primary concerns," he said. "That's a totally different report."
Frank Cilluffo, director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute, said the agency, going forward, should visualize how a transnational enterprise moves its products and functions as an organization.
"I think FinCEN can play and probably has played a significant role in putting together those snapshots," he said. "What I think the role that FinCEN and others can play is to try to get the equivalent of your 10-K filing, what we have for legitimate companies, but in this case illicit companies, and from there once you kind of have that greater snapshot you can identify areas that law enforcement" can exploit.
FinCEN spokesman Stephen Hudak declined to comment on any potential or pending investigatory actions or methods.
"The criminal activity Guzman allegedly directed contributed to the death and destruction of millions of lives across the globe through drug addiction, violence, and corruption," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "We are pleased that we were able to work effectively with Mexico through the cooperative relationship that U.S. law enforcement agencies have with their Mexican counterparts. We look forward to ongoing cooperation, and future successes."
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Crown International was recently named first runner-up for the U. S. Senate Productivity Award for 2003. The award is given annually and is sponsored by U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Manufacturers Association (IMA), and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). The award recognizes outstanding productivity gains or methods, which may be utilized by other Indiana companies to improve Indiana's overall productivity. Larry Coburn, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing for Crown commented: "We are very proud to have received this award. This recognition by our peers in the Manufacturing community is extra special because they understand the hard work we have done to improve our processes and products."�?
As a result of their efforts toward productivity improvement, Crown was able to cut fabrication and board assembly aggregate lead times by 90 percent, increase line efficiency by 30 percent plant-wide, reduce inventory by 20 percent and free 32,000 square feet of floor space. "These changes have also improved the work environment for our employees, by helping us better provide a clean, safe place to work," noted Coburn, who will be awarded with the runner-up plaque and will present Crown's success story at a public forum held by the IMA in October in Indianapolis.
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Baruch College Hosts 12th Annual Financial Reporting Conference
Speakers include SEC Chief Accountant Paul Beswich, FASB Chair Leslie Seidman and PCAOB Board Member Jay Hanson
NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2013 � The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity� at Baruch College will host the 12th Annual Financial Reporting Conference for accounting, business and media professionals. The day-long event will enable professionals to interact with policy setters from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board. It is scheduled Thursday, May 2, from 8:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., in the Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, located at 55 Lexington Avenue.
Speakers include SEC Chief Accountant Paul Beswick, FASB Chair Leslie Seidman, and PCAOB Board Member Jay Hanson, who will deliver the keynote address. Other professionals will discuss critical financial issues including revenue recognition, leases and financial instruments, current developments at the SEC and in the private sector and GAAP for non-public companies.
7:30-8:15 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast
8:15-8:30 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction: Mitchel Wallerstein, President, Baruch College; Norman Strauss, Ernst and Young Executive Professor-in-Residence
8:30-9:15 a.m.: Paul Beswick, Chief Accountant, Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC; Leslie Seidman, Chairman, FASB
9:15-10:45 a.m.: Panel 1:� The Big Three Convergence Projects � Revenue Recognition, Leases and Financial Instruments: �Paul Beswick,� Chief Accountant, SEC; Katherine Gill-Charest-Controller, Viacom; Jan Hauser, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP; Mark LaMonte, Managing Director, Moody's Investors Service; Leslie Seidman, Chairman, FASB.
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11:00-12:30 p.m.: Panel 2: Current Developments at the SEC featuring the latest concerns of our regulators in Washington. Craig Olinger, Acting Chief Accountant, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC; Howard Scheck, Chief Accountant, Division of Enforcement, SEC.
12:30-1:15 p.m.: Lunch
1:15-2:00 p.m.: Keynote Address, Jay Hanson, Board Member, PCAOB
2:00-3:30 p.m.: Panel 3: Current Developments in the Private Sector by leaders in accounting and financial reporting. Susan Cosper, Technical Director, FASB; Jackson Day, Partner Ernst & Young, LLP; Robert Laux, Senior Director of Financial Accounting and Reporting, Microsoft, Inc.; Richard Paul, Partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
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A bench trial was held Wednesday morning for serial killer Anthony Sowell.
The 51-year-old was convicted of murdering eleven women and burying their bodies in and around his Imperial Avenue home.
He is eligible for the death penalty.
Wednesday's bench trial covered some specifications from the indictment that need to be addressed. This proceeding handled matters that Sowell waived his right to have a jury determine; this waiver occurred earlier in the case.
Sowell's lawyers asked the court for permission to lead Sowell through an unsworn question and answer during mitigation. The judge allowed the motion, to which prosecutors objected. Judge Ambrose told them he has allowed it in the past.
"He really does need the guiding hand of counsel, so to speak, to make sure he hits on all the topics to assist in making this a more efficient and comprehensive presentation to the jury," said Sowell's Attorney John Parker.
"Since the defendant in Ohio has the right to testify on the stand under either the guilt phase or penalty phase, he does not have that right to have counsel guide him through the question and answer period," said Asst. County Prosecutor Lauren Bell.
Sowell was also labeled a Tier 3 Sexual Offender.
No proceedings anticipated until Monday, August 1st. That is when jurors will begin deliberating the death penalty phase.
19 Action News has learned prosecutors are trying to unseal secret court records from earlier in the case when the defense lawyers went to the judge asking for more money to build their case.
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Restarting the Conversation on HIV/AIDS in the United States
An Interview With Susan Koch and Jose Antonio Vargas of The Other City
April 29, 2010
There's an HIV/AIDS epidemic raging in the U.S., though we can perhaps forgive people for having no clue that it exists. After all, you can't learn about it by picking up a newspaper or flipping on the television; it's not the kind of topic mainstream media is generally comfortable covering, perhaps because of the frank, complex discussion of human sexuality and social inequality it would entail.
HIV/AIDS activism and awareness peaked in the U.S. during the late 1980s and early 1990s. But then came combination HIV treatment, which essentially commuted the death sentences of hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive people. The rage and passion of those earlier years simmered down. Even though HIV rates are currently on the rise among many groups in the U.S., there's no panic among the general public, and little awareness that there's even a problem to be concerned about.
For HIV educators in the U.S., this has become the great conundrum of our time: how to make the virus relevant again. How to not only get the message out, but get it to sink in to the minds of millions who think it's a problem for Africa, for homeless people, for injection drug users -- for anyone but them.
Enter documentary filmmaker Susan Koch and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. In 2009, they teamed up with co-producer Sheila C. Johnson and a talented crew to put together a stark, honest, up-front film about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Washington, D.C., where infection rates rival those in some developing nations. The resulting 90-minute documentary, The Other City, premiered on April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
TheBody.com caught up with Koch and Vargas a few days before the film's premiere to talk about the documentary, the people they met while filming, and how the movie might help fix the lack of HIV/AIDS awareness that runs rampant, like an infection itself, among the U.S. public today.
Myles Helfand: Washington, D.C., is home to some of the most powerful people on the planet. This movie is about that city. So why is the title of the movie The Other City?
Susan Koch: We called it "The Other City" in the sense that in every city there's another city that many people, especially tourists, rarely see. I think that Washington, D.C., is especially that kind of city. I grew up in Washington. I've lived in the Washington area most of my life. And I was always struck by this idea of two Washingtons. It's a very divided city, and often the two cities don't have much interaction at all.
That's really how the film came about. I was looking at a way to tell the story of the other Washington. In the course of doing that, I was reading Jose Vargas' articles in the Washington Post and I realized that the epidemic really was so representative of what was going on in this other city.
Jose Antonio Vargas: I first got to D.C. in 2003 when I was a summer intern for the Washington Post. I told this story to Susan and she was cracking up. I had just been there for like two weeks from San Francisco, the Bay Area, and the editor said, "Go to the National Mall and cover this rally on Constitution Avenue." I get to the Mall and I thought, "Oh." I was looking for, like, the Gap. I was looking for stores. I didn't know what the National Mall was.
For a lot of people who don't live on the East Coast or don't know D.C., you just think it's like West Wing [the TV series], right. You think Georgetown, Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, the White House, the museums, the monuments. You don't think the other D.C. I guess, because I kind of knew of all those monuments, I was more attracted to the other part of D.C. Within the first month of being an intern, riding the bus, and actually talking to people, it fascinated me.
When I got back home, I was describing D.C. to my family -- I'm Filipino -- and I remember saying to my grandmother that I thought I was back in Manila, because there were a lot of slums. Ward 7, Ward 8, across the river Anacostia -- Susan shot a lot in that area. It reminded me of being, seeing the slums in Manila. In terms of the nature of it and also the fact that there's a neighborhood in D.C. where there isn't even a grocery store.
Susan Koch: I just want to add one thing. People who are thinking of official Washington call it Washington. People who live there call it D.C. So even the name itself, there are two names. We didn't call it "The Other D.C.," because we wanted it to be broader than that in the sense, as I said, that in every city there's another city. So, yes, it happens to be taking place in Washington, D.C., but it's also taking place in cities all across America.
Myles Helfand: All right, so with that in mind, how would you summarize what this movie is all about?
Jose Antonio Vargas: Well, the movie is in many ways inspired by this series that I did back in 2006, basically getting a hold of the epidemic in the city, how to explain how the face of AIDS demographically has changed. You can see that in D.C. You can see by the types of populations that are being infected by this. A lot of people don't know that D.C.'s a predominately African-American town. There was a time in which D.C. was 70 percent African American. Now it's about 55 percent or so. It's a town that has a pretty sizeable gay population. There's a running joke when I was in D.C. that gay people run Capitol Hill. A lot of the staffers, certainly. Also, there's a high illiteracy rate, a high incarceration rate, a high poverty rate.
"We interviewed quite a few experts, and when we came to looking at the first cut, we realized they were great interviews, but really the people themselves told the story through their own lives. So this film just tries to show it like it is. We're not commenting on it. We're not being judgmental. We're just really letting you into people's lives so that you can witness what they're going through and who they are. They're very extraordinary ordinary people, I would say."
-- Susan Koch
Susan Koch: High drug rate.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Oh yes. The movie crosses, and I think in a very compelling way tells the story of, all these different demographic groups. A piece around perspective, that's how I like to explain it. But go ahead, Susan.
Susan Koch: The drug use obviously being significant because of the injection drug users who become infected through dirty needles. It's the story of people. We started out not knowing that it was just going to be about people. We interviewed quite a few experts, and when we came to looking at the first cut, we realized they were great interviews, but really the people themselves told the story through their own lives. So this film just tries to show it like it is. We're not commenting on it. We're not being judgmental. We're just really letting you into people's lives so that you can witness what they're going through and who they are. They're very extraordinary ordinary people, I would say.
Myles Helfand: Tell me about some of those people.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Actually, one of the first people that I met in D.C. was Ron Daniels. I met him when he was 46 years old. He was, at the time, the only guy running a needle exchange program off this RV [recreational vehicle]. Basically, he would drive around town all day collecting dirty needles and giving clean ones to drug addicts. In 2004, I spent three, four months with him just reporting the story of why is this guy doing this. It's a very controversial thing, at least for a lot of people. "Why should you hand clean needles to drug addicts?"
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Bill Hume of E.I. DuPont & De Nemours Co. has been chosen as 2007 chairman of the Western Plant Health Association.
Hume was selected to replace Zoë Henderson of Dow AgroSciences, elected 2007 chairwoman during WPHA's annual meeting in October who received a company promotion requiring her to move to the United Kingdom in January. Subsequently, she stepped down as chairwoman.
Hume started in the crop protection industry 20 years ago, working for companies FMC and Griffin LLC. When DuPont purchased Griffin LLC, Hume remained with the company as its regional sales manager in Fresno, Calif. He was raised in a farming family in Dos Palos, Calif.
"Seldom do we get to volunteer with an organization that is so closely tied to the industry we work in and the people we work with," Hume said. "I am fortunate to have the opportunity to serve as chairman this year."
WPHA is a nonprofit trade association that represents crop protection and fertilizer manufacturers, biotechnology providers, and agricultural retailers in California, Arizona, and Hawaii.


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Brenda Bird, 63, of Centerville Road passed away, September 13, 2012 at the Home & Hospice Care of RI.
Born in Plattsburg, NY she was a daughter of the late Ernest and Loretta (Malark) Bird.
Brenda was the loving sister of Nancy A. Cotton, Patricia Pagels, Gary Bird and the late Linda Bird. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Her visitation will be held Saturday, September 15, 2012, 2-4 p.m. in the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave. Burial will be in Plattsburg, NY.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to the J. Arthur Trudeau Center3445 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886, will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com.


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On Monday, August 12, 2013 I was pleased to be contacted by M. Fabien Lengellé, Director General, Content Access Branch of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) who was very happy to answer questions about the release of the 1921 Census of Canada raised by members of The Ontario Genealogical Society. I shall try to summarize his information below:
Why did LAC go to an outside source and eventually select Ancestry to manage this project?
Going to an outside provider:
- Freed up LAC staff and funds for other important digitization projects such as the upcoming First World War commemoration project and the microfilm reel project with Canadiana, including the Upper Canada Sundries now available at: http://heritage.canadiana.org.ca/
- Offered a fully bi-lingual solution, a robust IT platform and almost no production delays;
- Was financially neutral to both users and the public purse – free access to the documents online; no staff time, effort or project coordination; no IT staff support; and, no cash investment from LAC;
- Provides a broad network of free distributors across Canada – municipal libraries — which are covered by Ancestry province-wide licenses. This provides free access almost everywhere and promotes libraries, which is one of the LAC mandates.
- LAC retains all rights to the 1921 Canada Census and, after three (3) years, will get a copy of the index produced by Ancestry;
- LAC will then publish the index on their own website through their recently redesigned census platform;
- Other organizations are welcome to consult the census on the Ancestry site and prepare their own private index should it better meet their needs than the one created by Ancestry.
- LAC has a microfilm copy for preservation purposes only;
- The free online images are a much better dissemination vehicle as they require no shipping and are available worldwide instantly.
- Go to: http://www.ancestry.ca/cs/ca/census; scroll down to the 1921 Census icon and click "Start browsing";
- Take a moment to read about the census, especially the questions asked;
- Click "Start browsing" again;
- On the right, choose a Province from the drop-down menu and a District. Then scroll through the Sub-Districts below to find the description of the one you seek;
- A screen saying "View Free Records with a Free Account" will appear the first time if you do not already have an Ancestry subscription. This is not the same as a trial subscription;
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Providence, R.I. – MIT was able to upend Dartmouth College 15-12 on Saturday afternoon to earn a victory at the Northeast Fencing Conference's second meet of the season. The Engineers returned from Brown University with a 1-4 record.
Tech fell to Boston College by a 16-11 final, and then lost by the same score to the Tufts Jumbos before they turned things around and took care of their Ivy League competitors. MIT was unable to capitalize any further, however, falling 19-8 to hosts Brown and 20-7 to the Vassar College Brewers.
The Engineers used a 5-4 victory from its foil team and 6-3 win by sabre to advance past Dartmouth, who won a slim 5-4 advantage in epee. Senior Maximillian Brand won all three of his bouts for the sabre team, while Alexis Hakimi added two wins in the match. Daniel Levine swept his bouts in the foil division, while Jackson Crane went 3-3 in epee bouts.
Crane won 9 of the 12 bouts in which he competed for the epee team, who compiled an 18-27 record over the course of the meet. Crane swept not only the match against Dartmouth, but also the Engineer's match against Boston College.
Foil fared the best of the three weapons, winning 20 of their 5 bouts. Benjamin Nield swept his three bouts against Tufts en route to winning nine bouts on the afternoon. Sabre picked up 14 bout victories, led by Brand, who finished the meet with eight victories.
The Engineers will fence again at home on February 6th, when they host the Eric Solle Invitational. Fencing begins at MIT at 8:30 AM.


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A Deadly Shade of Gold
In keeping with my recent tradition of naming my new tequila cocktails after the 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald. I have named this cocktail after the fifth book in the series, A Deadly Shade of Gold. I have always liked the Travis McGee novels, and I believe that most of the titles for these novels make great names for cocktails.
A Deadly Shade of Gold
1 1/2 oz Anejo Tequila
3/4 oz Southern Comfort
Angostura Bitters
lime slice
First fill a suitable glass with cubed ice
Add the Anejo Tequila and the Southern Comfort
Add a dash or two of Angostura Bitters
Stir gently
Garnish with a lime slice
Note: If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!


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Anna SuranyiGuest
I am the adoptive mother of two Haitian young men. Wesly is now 20 and Sebastien is 12. They have been in this country for 7 years and although much of what I have read specifies 5-7 years to reach grade level (80%), I am uncomfortable with my youngest son being placed in that time frame.
My oldest son was raised for the first nine years with his natural mother and placed in an orphanage from age 10-13. He had transfer knowledge when he came to this country and actually could carry on a limited conversation in English. He just graduated from high school last June--barely. I would say he almost reached grade level (75% rather than 80%).
My younger son was brought from the hospital at birth to the orphanage, not nurtured, held when fed, talked to, etc., and was there for the first 6 years of his life. He has ADHD, which was diagnosed two years after he arrived in the US. The first year he was here was spent overcoming fears--like dogs (most are wild in Haiti), policeman (not seen as community helpers in Haiti, and large buildings (the only large building he had ever been in was a hospital where he received his immunizations for the adoption). He also spent that first year bonding, learning how to eat at a table with silverware--SO many things. He had no print recognition whatsoever and had a limited vocabulary in French-Creole. He is presently two years below his classmates. I find that since the seven year mark has come he is simply seen as learning disabled. I don't agree because of the variables impacting his situation.
Any thoughts? I am a teacher--sixth grade previously and kindergarten presently. I have five children and feel I have some valid insights that are being ignored because I am the parent. Sad but true.
I would love to read some research that involves adopted older children, w/out transfer knowledge and deprived Early Childhood.
I'm afraid I teach adults, so it's not my area. Does this site help? http://www.bgcenter.com/ It has some articles- http://www.bgcenter.com/language.htm


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Ice, ice baby — It's the season finale, and Tila wants to kick off the show by letting us know that she means business! Tila tells us, "I haven't shown them my talents, like, what I do." She wants them to see what a day in the life of Tila T. is like when she isn't refereeing testicle-eating contests or giving lap dances to dirty old ladies.
In fact, you may not even know about Tila's "talents" aside from being the star of A Shot at Love. If that is the case, then please allow me to enlighten you. In addition to being a professional bisexual bachelorette, Tila is also an entrepreneur, model, actress and singer.
Actually, she's a musician. She tells us: "I'm a musician; I write my own lyrics; I'm in the studio. I want someone who can handle that."
Perhaps you've heard tracks from her debut album, or The SEX EP? Maybe Dani and Bobby will spend some time at the recording studio with Tila providing backup vocals to songs like "Stripper Friends" or "I Love You." Both songs sound pretty romantic, but here's a sample of some of her lyrics from "I Love You" (the song she plays for them in the studio):
She brings Dani and Bobby to the studio and is excited to introduce them to her brilliant engineer, who has worked with other big-time musicians like Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. "But most importantly," she tells them, "Tila Tequila."
She laughs, therefore forcing them to do the same, but I wonder if Dani noticed that Tila is now speaking about herself in the third person, just like Bobby does. Ew.
Tila tells them to write lyrics to the tune of "I Love You" and sing them to her. She doesn't specify that the song has to also be about her, but I think it goes without saying. Bobby isn't confident that he can pull it off, but Dani is. After all, she's a lesbian, which means she has an inherent ability to compose love songs and play the acoustic guitar. She grabs the little composition notebook and starts emoting up a storm!
Bobby is up first. Tila joins him in the studio, gives him a rappy introduction and then unleashes him on the microphone.
It is really bad. So bad that it makes me wish the real Bobby B. was there instead, singing "My Prerogative." Or "Don't Be Cruel." Jesus, at this point I'd even hold up my lighter and beg for "Roni." Beg.


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People who chose star tattoos have different reasons. For some people, they only like the appearance of star tattoos on one particular part of their body. For others, they relate themselves or their lives to the meanings of star tattoos.
One basic meaning of star tattoos is that the wearer wants to achieve something, like a goal, and the tattoo is a reminder that he should never give up to get what he wants. It shows the wearer's determination to reach his goals.
Another very basic meaning is the wearer's interest in anything related to astronomy. The wearer must have been very interested in this subject that he wants other people to identify him as someone who likes to know about the heavens and heavenly bodies whenever they look at his tattoo.
Also, star tattoos could mean a very significant point or event in the wearer's life. Maybe the wearer joined a new religion, got married, decided to change his ways, and so on.
These are some basic meanings of star tattoos. Now, if you want to get one for yourself, here are some star tattoo ideas that you can use for your own tattoo.


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July 30 marks the 49th anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare, healthcare programs enacted to provide America's seniors with reliable medical coverage.
Today many seniors fear losing their healthcare benefits. Tens of millions of retirees like me who worked decades for a single employer, taking a lower salary in exchange for guaranteed retirement benefits, have had their benefits reduced or canceled.
New federal legislation, the Bankruptcy Fairness and Employee Benefits Protection Act, was just introduced in the Senate. SB2148 would make it more difficult for companies to reduce or eliminate earned benefits and wages that were promised to former employees.
The bill also would require that participants of any health plan be properly informed of a modification or termination of benefits and creates a legal presumption that promised healthcare benefits cannot be reduced during retirement.
With too many companies looking to duck out on their fiduciary commitments, America's retirees must urge federal elected officials to co-sponsor SB 2148 and protect seniors' healthcare, as occurred 49 years ago when Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law.
I urge my fellow retirees to join the nonprofit ProtectSeniors.Org.


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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
The markets pushed higher on Friday as traders hoped disappointing economic data could set the stage for a dovish Fed move next week.
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Today's Markets
As of 3:05 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 67.6 points, or 0.44%, to 15368, the S&P 500 gained 3.9 points, or 0.23%, to 1687 and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 4 points, or 0.11%, to 3720.
The broad S&P 500 snapped its seven-day winning streak on Thursday in fairly tepid trading. Action was still light early Friday; however, a round of data on the U.S. economy could provide more direction.
The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 0.2% in August, missing expectations it would rise 0.4%. Excluding the auto segment, sales rose 0.1%, shy of expectations of a 0.3% increase.
A gauge of consumer sentiment from Reuters and the University of Michigan checked in at 76.8 in early September, falling short of expectations it would fall to 82 from 82.1 in late August.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported wholesale inflation rose 0.3% in August, compared to expectations it would rise 0.2%. Excluding the food and energy segment, producer prices remained unchanged from July, while economists expected it to rise 0.1%. The more closely watched Consumer Price Index is due out next week. Recently, the risk of deflation, or expectations of lower prices, has actually posed a bigger threat than inflation.
In corporate news, micro-blogging site Twitter filed a confidential filing for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) was said to be the lead underwriter on the much-awaited IPO, according to multiple media reports. The investment bank declined a FOX Business request for comment.
In commodities, crude oil futures fell 78 cents, or 0.73%, to $107.81 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline rose 0.42% to $2.774 a gallon. Gold plummeted $17.40, or 1.3%, to $1,313 a troy ounce.
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The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.07% to 2860, the English FTSE 100 dipped 0.2% to 6576 and the German DAX rose 0.07% to 8500.
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Gill v. American Express Company et al
Plaintiff: Leon S Gill, Sr
Defendant: American Express Company, American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. and American Express Centurion Bank
Case Number: 5:2011cv03170
Filed: August 31, 2011
Court: Alabama Northern District Court
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County: Madison
Presiding Judge: Abdul K Kallon
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- Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy--the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a devoted wife and mother, and Malcolm is a man everyone admires. On the eve of Teddy's disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when Teddy is kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. But as the search for Teddy widens, even Marielle is scrutinized by the FBI and special agent John Taylor. Suspicions and accusations mingle with terror and heartbreak as every threat, every failure, every fear, is remembered, examined, explored. During Charles Delauney's trial, a series of revalations begins to unravel the about Marielle, Charles, and Malcolm, uncovering the motives and passions controlling their lives. Vanished is a tale of guilt, desire, suspense, and of people drawn inexorably together, seeking the child who... vanished.From the Paperback edition.
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Student Housing Services History
The Student Housing program at UH Manoa began in 1922, when "Hale Aloha" was built. The original Hale Aloha was a wooden building which was located between George Hall and University Avenue, and it housed women only. It was commonly called "The Chicken Coop," and was in use until the (first) Frear Hall was built in 1952.
During the 1920s and 1930s, men were housed in "Hawaii Hall Annex #1," and this dormitory was affectionately called "The Boiler Factory," presumably because it could get quite warm inside.
Sometime in the 1920s (exact date unknown), the original Hale Laulima was built. It was located on Dole St, ewa of University Ave. This dormitory was a cooperative – the students did all the housekeeping and cooking. "Laulima" means "many hands" in Hawaiian.
In 1952, Mary Dillingham Frear Hall was built on the same site as the current Frear Hall. It originally housed 144 women, and was named after Mary Dillingham Frear, who served on the Board of Regents for 23 years. It was in use until the early 2000s, then sat empty for 3‐4 years before being demolished in 2006. In 2008, a "new" Frear Hall opened on the same site as the "old" Frear Hall; the new hall is coeducational and houses 810 residents.
John Alexander Johnson Hall was constructed in 1957 and still stands today. It originally housed 195 men, and is named after a former UH student who was killed in action while commanding the 100th Infantry Battalion in Italy in World War II. Johnson Hall was taken offline for renovations in December of 2010 and reopened on August 2011.
International Gateway House was constructed in 1962 and houses 208 residents. It was the first co‐ed dormitory at UH, and was originally designed to house graduate students in a suite‐style setting (2 rooms with an adjoining bathroom). Gateway House was taken off line in September 2011 for renovation and reopened on August of 2012.
Hale Kahawai was built in 1964, and originally housed 140 women. "Hale Kahawai" means "house by the stream" in Hawaiian. After some re‐models, it now holds 156 residents and is a co‐educational facility.
Hale Laulima was built in 1968 and replaced the original Hale Laulima. It has always been a coeducational facility; and currently houses 160 residents.
The Hale Aloha towers are each named after the official flowers of the four most populous Hawaiian Islands. Each tower is co‐educational and holds 260 residents:
- Hale Aloha Lehua was built in 1970; the Lehua is the official flower of Hawaii Island.
- Hale Aloha Ilima was built in 1970; the Ilima is the official flower of the Island of Oahu.
- Hale Aloha Mokihana was built in 1971; the Mokihana is the official flower of the Island of Kauai.
- Hale Aloha Lokelani was built in 1971; the Lokelani is the official flower of the Island of Maui.
- Ilima and Mokihana were taken off‐line for renovation in 2008, and re‐opened in August of 2009.
- Lokelani and Lehua was taken off‐line for renovation in 2009, and re‐opened in August of 2010.
Hale Noelani was built in 1977, and houses 524 residents in a co‐educational setting. "Hale Noelani" means "House of Heavenly Mist" in Hawaiian.
Hale Wainani was built in 1978, and houses 650 residents in a co‐educational setting. "Hale Wainani" means "House of Beautiful Water" in Hawaiian.
Hale Anuenue was built in 1978, and originally served as housing for the Rainbow Warrior football team. It was originally paid for by the football booster club, and was originally managed by the Athletics Department. It was turned over to Student Housing Services in the early 1990s, and currently houses 42 residents in single rooms. "Anuenue" means "rainbow" in Hawaiian.
Extending the Student Housing Legacy
Student Housing Services began a rapid modernization of it's program in 2008. A comprehensive "Residential Learning Program" model was implemented, the Residential Life program was modernized, professional Residence Directors began replacing student Hall Directors, and facility renovations began to occur at a rapid rate. New offices opened for the Residential Life and Operations sections in 2012. Student Housing will continue to modernize services, complete a plan to replace Wainani and Noelani low rise buildings with new apartment complexes, and continue it's legacy of providing quality experiences for residents.