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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 30, 2008) - Help make history this Saturday afternoon when the ETSU women's basketball team hosts the Kennesaw State Lady Owls at 2 p.m. inside Memorial Center. The Lady Buccaneers are looking to break their all-time attendance mark of 1,117 fans, which was set last season versus
This season the NCAA has challenged all 32 women's basketball conferences to a "Pack the House" night, and the ETSU marketing department and Mountain States Health Alliance have teamed up to create the slogan "02-02 at 2: Two Teams, One Fight...Women against Heart Disease," which aligns with the Lady Buccaneer/Kennesaw State contest on Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. inside Memorial Center.
The competition began Jan. 1 and runs through Feb. 17, and the object is to come up with a creative marketing plan and sellout or increase your previous year's single-game record attendance. The Lady Bucs have registered for the challenge and will look to sellout or break last season's mark of 1,117 fans when they play host to the Lady Owls.
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The special day kicks off with a "Go Red Dress Event" at noon inside Memorial Center (in the BASA Lounge), followed by the tip between the Lady Bucs and Kennesaw State where the ETSU players, staff and fans will be wearing red to show their support for heart disease. After the game, the ETSU women's basketball team will host a free basketball clinic for children in attendance from 4:15 p.m. through 5:30 p.m.
"ETSU is thrilled to have this wonderful opportunity to team up with Mountain States Health Alliance and help with the fight of women against heart disease," added Marketing and Promotions Coordinator Sara Hacker. "We believe this will be a very memorable day as we honor and educate women who have either battled heart disease or known someone that has. This is a perfect way to plan the event with our Lady Buccaneer game against
Below is a breakdown each event:
THE RED DRESS LUNCHEON - The luncheon kicks off the festivities at noon on the floor of
Then, William Walker, MD and cardiac surgeon will give a brief presentation on the subject of heart disease and what people, especially women, need to do to prevent or fight it. Some of the ETSU athletics staff and coaches will be in attendance. Other dignitaries expected include MSHA President and CEO Dennis Vonderfecht and ETSU President Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr. Part of the $15 registration fee (which helps cover the cost of the food) will go towards the purchase of the Automatic External Defibrillators (AED).
During the luncheon those in attendance will be able to buy a hardback cookbook from MSHA which raises also money for AEDs.
THE GAME - Both ETSU and MSHA are helping the Lady Bucs "Pack the House" to set a new attendance record for the women. Every dollar of the $2 admission ticket (keeping that 2 theme going) will go towards the purchase of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). Our goal is to have over 3,000 people to attend and as the Lady Bucs are supporting women in the fight against heart disease, this is one game where they will be wearing red laces in their shoes. The crowd will be encouraged to wear red and will receive a miniature red basketball as a souvenir for the day. During halftime, the models and ETSU men's basketball team will come out onto the court, be introduced to the crowd with a mini version of the "RED DRESS" fashion show, again, raising the awareness of heart disease in women.
AFTER THE GAME - The Lady Bucs will hold a free clinic for children. This FREE clinic is designed to help kids master the skills of basketball with the guidance of their favorite Lady Buccaneer players.
AFTER THE EVENT - The dollars will be totaled to determine how many AEDs can be purchased. MSHA and ETSU will then determine the needy organizations and places for the AEDs. We will hold an event to present those AEDs.
Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on the event and all other Buccaneer athletic news.


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Five Best Places to Retire Abroad
Stable governments, low crime rates, great food and wine. MarketWatch's Matt Heimer looks at the top five most desirable places to spend your later years.
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[Footnote 1: For the New Forest ware see the Victoria Hist. of
Hampshire, i. 326, and Archaeol. Journal, xxx. 319. The Brough
brooches have been pointed out by Sir A.J. Evans, whose work on Late
Celtic Art is the foundation of all that has since been written on it,
but have not been discussed in detail.]
[Footnote 2: Victoria Hist. of Northamptonshire, i. 206-13; Artis,
Durobrivae of Antoninus (fol. 1828).]
[Footnote 3: For the Belgic 'Castor ware' see the Belgian Bulletin des
commissions royales d'art et d'archéologie (passim); H. du Cleuziou,
Poterie gauloise (Paris, 1872), Fig. 173, from Cologne; Sammlung
Niessen (Köln, 1911), plates lxxxvii, lxxxviii; Brongniart, Traité des
arts céram., pl. xxix (Ghent and Rheinzabern). M. Salomon Reinach tells
me that the ware is not infrequent in the departments of the valleys of
the Seine, Marne, and Oise. The Colchester gladiator's urn mentioning
the Thirtieth Legion (C.R. Smith, Coll. Ant., iv. 82, C. vii. 1335, 3)
may well be of Rhenish manufacture.]
[Footnote 4: This, or the corresponding scene of Perseus and Andromeda,
is a favourite with artists in northern Gaul and Britain. It occurs on
tombstones at Chester (Grosvenor Museum Catalogue, No. 138) and Trier
(Hettner, Die röm. Steindenkmäler zu Trier, p. 206), and Arlon
(Wiltheim, Luciliburgensia, plate 57), and the Igel monument. For
other instances see Roscher's Lexikon Mythol., under 'Hesione'.]
[Footnote 1: For the details of the temple and pediment see Vict. Hist.
Somerset, i. 229 foll., and references given there. I have discussed the
artistic problem on pp. 235 and 236.]
[Footnote 1: Arch. Aeliana, 1908, p. 205. I owe to Dr. Chalmers
Mitchell a criticism on the truthfulness of the sculpture.]
[Footnote 1: Michaelis, Loeschke and others assume an early intercourse
between the Mosel basin and eastern Europe, and thereby explain both a
statue in Pergamene style which was found at Metz and appears to have
been carved there and also the Neumagen sculptures. As all these pieces
were pretty certainly produced in Roman times, the early intercourse
seems an inadequate cause. Moreover, Pergamene work, while rare in
Italy, occurs in Aquitania and Africa, and may have been popular in the
[Footnote 2: I have given a list in Archaeologia Aeliana, 1909, p.
420, to which four English and one foreign example have now to be added.
See also Curle, Newstead, p. 319, and R.A. Smith, Proc. Soc. Ant.
Lond., xxii. 61.]
[Footnote 3: I may record here a protest against the attempts made from
time to time to dispossess the term 'Samian'. Nothing better has been
suggested in its stead, and the word itself has the merit of perfect
lucidity. Of the various substitutes suggested, 'Pseudo-Arretine' is
clumsy, 'Terra Sigillata' is at least as incorrect, and 'Gaulish' covers
only a part of the field (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond., xxiii. 120).]
[Footnote 1: The Glastonbury village was excavated in and after 1892 at
intervals; a full account of the finds is now being issued by Bulleid
and Gray (The Glastonbury Lake Village, vol. i, 1911), with a preface
by Dr. R. Munro. The finds themselves are mostly at Glastonbury.]
[Footnote 2: Described in four quarto volumes, Excavations in Cranborne
Chase, &c., issued privately by the late General Pitt-Rivers, 1887-98.]
[Footnote 3: Vinogradoff, Growth of the Manor, p. 39. A parallel to
the non-Roman burials found by General Pitt-Rivers may be found in the
will of a Lingonian Gaul who died probably in the latter part of the
first century. Apparently he was a Roman citizen, and his will is drawn
in strict Roman fashion. But its last clause orders the burning of all
his hunting apparatus, spears and nets, &c., on his funeral pyre, and
thus betrays the Gaulish habit (Bruns, p. 308, ed. 1909).]


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Jamie Chung flexes her muscles while testing out the brand new Reebok ZQuick running shoes on Wednesday (February 5) at the Classic Car Club in New York City.
The 30-year-old newly engaged actress was joined at the event by Olympian Aly Raisman.
Jamie chatted with People at the event and was asked when her wedding to fiance Bryan Greenberg will be.
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I have the honour to lay upon the table the report of a Canadian parliamentary delegation concerning its visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from February 20-22.
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All Christine Stewart wants is a relaxing vacation on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. Then she meets nine-year-old Michael Redfield and saves him from being crushed by a falling piece of Byzantine stone. Invited to spend the rest of her holiday at the luxurious villa where Michael is staying with his family, Christine soon discovers that something is wrong with the Redfield clan. Michael's stepmother is openly hostile, her brother is charmingly...


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Hi gang!
I have been trying to convince my girlfriend to get into photography for a while now and finally she seems to be getting interested. I already have fiber optically triggered strobes from my DSLR that she can borrow (hehe, and no, she cannot borrow my DSLR)
So, I need to get her a nice compact camera and housing, a few criteria:
1: Camera should not be too expensive (about price of the S100-S110, 280-3500us$)
2: The housing should have the option to use wet-lenses but not be too expensive, maybe ikelite?
3: It would be awesome to be able to use the INON UFL M150 (CWFA lens)
Any good ideas? I am guessing the S100 is gonna get a lot of praise?
Thanks a bunch, Morten!
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南宮 那月
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: こころ
Age: 28
Vocaloid(ボーカロイド) Songs/Videos
There is a thread for touhou remixes/musics so why isn't a vocaloid thread present
I'll follow the touhou thread format.
About Vocaloid:
Vocaloid (ボーカロイド, Bōkaroido?) is a singing synthesizer application, with its signal processing part developed through a joint research project between the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Japan's Yamaha Corporation, who backed the development financiallyand later developed the software into the commercial product "Vocaloid".[1][2] The software enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody. It uses synthesizing technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors or singers. To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note. The software can change the stress of the pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice. Each Vocaloid is sold as "a singer in a box" designed to act as a replacement for an actual singer. The software was originally only available in English and Japanese, but as of Vocaloid 3, Spanish, Chinese and Korean will be added.
About the Music:
Vocaloid's music is popular not just in Japan but internationally also, and heck it is the first hologram who have it's own concert (Hatsune Miku). Many songs and videos of these particular program are roaming around the Nico Nico Douga and Youtube and have a hits of over 1m people.
Thread Rules
* If it's Vocaloid related music, you're allowed to post it. This includes MADs, etc.
* Similar songs are allowed to be shared, just try to avoid reposts of the exact same ones.
* Try to be constructive when commenting on songs, try not to flame, avoid posts that are nothing but "WOW! That's so cool!"
* Follow AnimeSuki rules when posting, this one is obvious enough.
* Vocaloid is copyrighted by Yamaha fyi.
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Miku's Ai Kotoba is now include in my most favorite songs. It's keep on repeating in my head so I just had to find the lyrics and translation and here it is!!!
Ai Kotoba
Itsumo boku no kodomo ga
Osewa ni natte iru you de
Kiitetekureta anata kata ni
Kansha , kansha.
Kono goon wo isshou de wasurenai uchi ni
Uchi ni himeta omoi totomoni
Uta ni shite mi mashita .
Ai kotoba ha " Ai ga 10 = Arigatou "
Boku toka, kimi toka, koi toka, ai toka,
suki toka, kirai toka,
Mata utau ne.
Ima kimi ga suki de
Teka kimi ga suki de
Mushiro kimi ga suki de
Konna baka na boku wo kimi ha suki de
Konna uta kiite naitekurete
Itsuka boku no kodomo ga 10 sai no tanjoubi
Mukae tatoki , iwatte kurete 39 mashita
Kono goon ha isshou de kagirareta jikan de
Umareru kyokuto shi ni nosete
Kimi ni todokeruyo
Kore kara mo douka yoroshikune
Boku toka, kimi toka, koi toka, ai toka,
suki toka, kirai toka,
Mada tarinai ? ( warai )
( Kinou nani tabeta?)
( Nani shiteta?)
( Nankai boku no koto omoidashita?)
Konna koto hanashi temiyouka!
( Kimi tabeta. ) … baka.
( Nani shiteta. ) … baka.
( Kimi no koto nanka
wasurechattayo. ) … baka.
Kimi ga suki de
tte iu no ha uso de ( warai )
Honto ha daisuki de.
Kizutsu ketakunakute
Kimi ga suki de
( Konna uta attane ) tte
Kimi to waraitainda
Boku mitai na kimi
Kimi mitai na boku
Niteru kedo chigatte
Chigatteru kara niteru
Sukidayo to iu do ni
Feru suki no kimochi ha
Boku kara takusan no kimi he no
You always took care
of my childish side
For listening to me I'll always be
grateful to you, grateful to you.
Let's not forget about those favors
Whit this hidden thought of mine
I made a song about them.
The Love Words are "Love is 10 = Thank you"
It's about me, it's about you
It's about love, It's about love
It's about like, It's about hate
That I'll sing again.
By now I love you
I deeply love you
I rather love you
And because you love this stupid me
I'll love you too
If you cry hearing this song
Thank you.
One day, that childish side of me will be 100.000 years old
Then I'll meet you, and we'll celebrate it 39 times.
In the time we've been given
I'll put these favors in song and verses
And send them to you
From now on, I'll keep on thanking you
Me, you, love, affection
Like, hate…
Still not enugh?
Well then!
What did you eat yesterday?
What did you do?
How much did you think about me?
Let's talk about things like this?
'I ate you' …stupid.
'I did what.' …stupid.
'I forgot
about you' …stupid.
I love you
But that's not true
The truth is that I really love you.
I won't ever hurt you.
I love you
I'll love you with everything I have
Saying 'Ah, there was also a song like that.'
I want to laugh with you
The me that is like you
The you that is like me
We are similar yet different
But since we're different, we're similar
Everytime I say 'I love you'
My affection grows
I'll send it all to you as lots of
Love words
[IFrom: http://mikudb.com/lyrics/ai-kotoba/[/I]
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Mike Cox was a two-year-old toddler when his father Don grew the Cox family's first Imperial Valley, Calif., cotton crop in 1952, beginning a cotton growing tradition that has continued almost endlessly for more than a half century.
"Almost" only because one year the voracious silverleaf whitefly drove the Cox family out of cotton. However, they jumped right back in when control efforts were developed. Many others never returned.
The Cox family relishes the challenges of growing desert cotton and have grown it well for decades, overcoming adversities that made more than a few of their neighbors sell their pickers.
Mike and his younger brother Larry grew up in a cotton-farming family and as youngsters earned money working on the farm. However, their father "never encouraged" his two sons to go into cotton farming as careers, "but I never discouraged them either," said the 77-year-old Cox.
Times were good in the desert valley made lush by Colorado River irrigation water when the Cox boys were growing up.
"The Imperial Valley is the best place in the world to grow cotton," said Don Cox. "Probably ought to say it used to be the best place to grow cotton — before the insects came in."
First it was the pink bollworm. Before the late 1960s and the first economic flush of pinkies, Don Cox said he yielded 4.5 bales of cotton with "one spray job and even that was doubtful if it was necessary."
Mike grew his first crop in 1972 "I made 4.6 bales on my first cotton crop and did now know anything. I got 80 cents a pound for it, too." recalled Mike. The year before the cotton price was in the 40-cent range.
High price eludes
"I have been trying to hit that combination of high prices and high yields every since," laughed Mike. He has hit those yields, recording 5.44 5 bales two years ago. It is the high prices that have eluded him and all other growers. Mike admits candidly that without the federal farm bill, even high yields would not cover his costs.
"Dad helped me produce my first crop." It was so big, the old John Deere 99 pickers would not make a half mile run — the baskets would not hold the crop. Mike and his dad hand-picked the roadways and then disked down the stalks to shorten the runs for the pickers.
"A passion for growing cotton is the legacy my dad has left me. He is a cotton grower who knows everything about growing cotton and loves it and he passed that on to me," said Cox.
Mike has been well-schooled because he consistently and economically makes high yields and has earned the respect of his fellow growers. That is why Mike Cox of Brawley, Calif., is this year's Farm Press/Cotton Foundation Far West High Cotton Award winner.
Cotton growing was relatively simple for several decades after Don Cox grew his first crop. It is a considerably more formidable challenge today. Proof of that is in the fact that in the mid-1970s more than 120,000 acres were produced in the desert valley. In 2004 there were only 8,600 acres produced. Costs have driven down the acreage with the biggest bill being the one to control insect pests.
Cox has become an Imperial Valley cotton-farming survivor by learning how to control pests economically while coaxing the highest economical yields practical. High yield has been what has kept Cox in the cotton business.
"I have to produce 4.5 to 5 bales of cotton each year just to survive because of the costs we have," said Cox, 54. It is a challenge every year when he plants the seed, but it is one he seizes and faces with zeal.
Mike does not know his final 2004 yields because it has been an uncharacteristic wet fall. He has picked enough to figure he has made his 4.5 to 5 bale target.
For the previous 4 seasons he has averaged 5.38 bales in 2000; 4.7 bales in 2001; the 5.44 in 2002 but dropped off to 2.84 bales in 2003.
Full-season cotton
Last year he planted a full-season cotton he had not grown before on a field he had not farmed previously. "I planted late and in July it was over 110 degrees for three weeks at peak bloom. It threw off every flower and square."
Intense whitefly pressure produced leaf crumple, stunting boll development.
"It was my worst yield in 30 years of cotton production," admitted Cox.
Nevertheless, he bounced back this year because he knows he can grow high yielding cotton.
"Mike loves to grow cotton more than any other crop," says wife Jody.
Silverleaf whitefly actually drove Mike and many desert growers out of cotton in 1992 and 1993, but he jumped back in when abatement strategies were developed and new chemistry introduced to bring the whitefly under control. Before whitefly it was boll weevil, budworm-bollworm and pink bollworm. Today it is lygus.
Mike's passion for the crop does not overshadow the reality that it must make money on his farm. Right now cotton profits are carrying several of his other crops. Besides cotton, Mike also produces sugar beets, durum wheat, Sudangrass, alfalfa, canola seed and seed onions. He farms about 1,000 acres and also farms in partnership with his dad and brother and other family members.
It takes more effort to grow cotton than most other desert crops, but Planters Ginning Co. manager Bob Bedwell says, "Mike always puts in the extra effort with his cotton crop. He does what he is supposed to do when it needs to be done. He is a real hands-on cotton producer."
Herman Meister, agronomy farm advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension and a former independent pest control adviser, said Cox's "hands-on management approach and keen field observations have helped him make the correct decisions on all the crops that he grows." Meister nominated Cox for the High Cotton Award.
Bt, Roundup Ready
Cox was an early adopter of the new Bt and Roundup Ready technology to reduce pesticide use and lower his bottom line, said Meister. His IPM practices include using least-disruptive pesticides to suppress pest populations, and he organizes his alfalfa harvest to mitigate lygus movement out of alfalfa and into cotton.
"IPM strategies and principles form the basis for his weed and insect control practices," added Meister.
Mike has seen several evolutions in cotton production as a youngster growing up in Imperial as well as a veteran producer, but none captured the imagination of producers like the plant growth regulator Pix.
"I have been working with it for 10 years to avoid excessive growth and set more cotton," said Mike. It has also been a contributing factor in spacing plants closer and production practices like planting two rows per bed or ultra-narrow row cotton, a new concept introduced into Imperial by a San Joaquin Valley cotton producer.
Now with Bt varieties to ward off late season pink bollworm, desert cotton growers can stretch the season for higher yields.
Make that stretch the two seasons in one year.
Cox says timely planted and well-managed cotton will set 2.5 to as much as 3 bales early in the season before it goes into infamous cutout when the heat literally suffocates the plants and they stop growing — with many more weeks of growing season left.
Cox encourages that early set with a light (one-quarter pint) of Pix in the spring at early or peak bloom. Then around July 4 high day time temperatures of 110 to 115 degrees and more importantly excessive nighttime temperatures where it never cools down below about 85 degrees shuts down the cotton.
Basically, it is so hot during the day, cotton quits breathing, explains Don Cox.
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Mike Cox restarts the cotton with a fertilizer shot because he is looking for high yields and then "hammers" the crop with one pint of Pix the second or third week of August, compacting the plant and encouraging fruit set, driving toward fall harvest and those 4.5 to 5 bale yields.
Next season he is thinking about borrowing a page from growers in the Blythe area north of Imperial Valley who are compressing the season and avoid two-set cotton. "I hear more and more talk about applying potassium to avoid that hard cutout and put on another bale through what would be the normal cutout period and then terminate the crop in August. I understand it is producing some really good yields.
"I believe that if we can do that here in the Imperial Valley it will allow us to get out earlier; avoid some insect control costs and improve our lint quality," said Cox.
"If Mike can do that, it will make a big difference," said brother Larry, who is primarily a vegetable producer who grows cotton ahead of winter vegetables. He calls himself a low input, short-season cotton producer compared to Mike's approach of maximizing yields.
Cox has switched to planting two cotton rows on a 40-inch bed, copying a technique developed by another High Cotton Award winner, Daniel Burns of Dos Palos, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley.
"Daniel has double rows on 30-inch beds. I tried that, but I could not control the irrigation water on half-mile runs," he said. He first tried double row 40s five years ago, and this year all his cotton is on twin rows on 40-inch beds.
SJV cotton grower Brian Hair ventured into Imperial Valley several years ago planting a large acreage of ultra-narrow row cotton and picking it with stripper harvesters.
Ultra narrow system
"It sure made us look at the way we were growing cotton," said Larry Cox. "There is enough variability in the ground in the valley that an ultra narrow system might just work on some of this ground."
Mike agreed. "That cotton looks pretty darn good at the gin, and it is a lot cheaper to harvest with a stripper than a picker," Mike said.
Hair has cotton planted as close 15 inch rows.
"What I am doing with a double row 40 is the same as planting in 20-inch rows. I think Brian's high density planting has made us look at things differently," said Mike.
"It is refreshing to have people come in and try new things by trial and error. You cannot get in a rut in this business or you will not survive."
To understand the history of Imperial Valley cotton is to appreciate what the Cox family has accomplished to stay in cotton virtually continuously for more than half a century.
It has been a battle against odds only the resilient could beat. Pink bollworm and cotton boll worm-budworm numbers have been so overwhelming in the past, worms were virtually uncontrollable. Synthetic pyrethroids got their start in Imperial Valley trying to control pinkies. Bt cotton has also a key part of the pinkie battle. More than 85 percent of the valley's acreage is in Bt cotton.
"We are spraying for whitefly in our late fields with pesticides that knock down the pinkie that may be developing in the refuges or in the conventional cotton," said Cox.
In the past pink bollworm moths blew into the Imperial Valley from Mexico in mid-August, but Cox has been noticing less of that. Bt cotton is starting to be grown in the Mexicali Valley.
"We are hoping to be included along with the Mexicali/San Luis area of Mexico in the eradication effort that has been successful in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico that hopefully will be expanding into Arizona," said Cox.
Silverleaf whitefly have been so thick they turned cotton plants and lint black with sooty mold only to be turned back by abatement strategies and new insect growth regulators used in a farmer-driven stewardship program.
Challenge grows
"We can still grow tremendous cotton in the Imperial Valley," said Mike Cox. "It is just more challenging than it has probably ever been, but we have been able to meet those challenges so far."
Asked what they would say to someone who wanted to be an Imperial Valley cotton producer, Larry and Mike laughed and said they would suggest: take two aspirins and go to bed.
"You really need to know what goes on here," said Mike."My dad taught me a lot, but very important lessons I'll never forget; one is to understand what is going on under the rows."
Perched, salty water is a yield robber. "You have got to pay attention to the sumps and drainage system. I you don't, you'll pay for it."
Matching fields to crops is the other lesson Don taught his sons.Making the wrong match-up can be costly, said Mike.
Mike says what cotton growing success he has enjoyed has come from the legacy of his dad and the support of his brother.
"The knowledge and love for growing cotton that I gained form my dad has been a blessing, and no one has been more supportive and accommodating than my brother," said Mike.
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WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Rick Santorum implored conservatives Friday not to settle for Mitt Romney's more moderate record, and to instead insist on nominating an unapologetic conservative that "the party's excited about."
Speaking to a packed crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, the former senator tried to capitalize on his surprising victories over Romney in the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses this week. He dismissed the idea of reaching out to moderates, saying conservatives' whole-hearted enthusiasm is needed this year.
Santorum said Romney's record on health care and global warming would make it impossible for him to draw the needed contrasts with President Barack Obama this fall.
Santorum never mentioned Romney by name, but he left no doubt of his intent by criticizing his rival's record as Massachusetts governor. Romney's policy of requiring that state's residents to obtain health insurance is "the stepchild of Obamacare," Santorum said.
He said the Obama-backed 2010 health care law "will crush economic freedom." He urged Republicans not to nominate "someone who would simply give that issue away in the fall."
Santorum suggested it's not enough to defeat Obama. But that might be a tough sell with Republicans who say ousting the president is their top priority.
"We will no longer abandon and apologize for the policies and principles that made this country great for a hollow victory in November," he said.
Santorum, a Catholic with a strong record of fighting legalized abortion, criticized the Obama administration's bid to require Catholic-affiliated employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans. "He's now telling the Catholic Church that they are forced to pay for things that are against their basic tenets and teachings," he said. "It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty."
Santorum spoke before Obama was expected to announce changes to his contraception policy.
In his remarks, the former senator called for far more exploration of domestic energy sources. Throughout the world, he said, "the more energy consumption, the higher the standard of living. That's just the bottom line."
Santorum made no obvious allusions to his other GOP rivals, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.
Romney and Gingrich were scheduled to address the CPAC crowd later Friday. The speeches come the day before Maine's caucus results will be announced.
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Both Italy and France are increasingly chafing at the budgetary constraints imposed on them from Brussels, and policed from Berlin. Mr Renzi argues that Italy's problem is not deficit spending but a lack of economic growth, which is making its debt burden ever more crushing. President François Hollande of France is said to have argued that the EU can have a live France with a deficit of more than 3 per cent of GDP or a dead France that has succeeded in meeting the EU's budget constraints. However, those arguments are unlikely to be met with much sympathy in Germany.
Unfortunately, Mr Draghi has no sway over the Russian government – and not that much influence over the domestic politics of France, Italy or Germany. Yet developments in all of these nations could yet reverse the progress in the eurozone that the ECB president did so much to engineer.
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Wonders of the West "California Migration" Explore the natural phenomenon of migration along the central coast of California as we view migratory birds, visit groves of monarch butterflies and observe elephant seals preparing for the mating season. Learn about the comeback of the California condor and visit an ancient redwood forest. The seafood here is world famous. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Working for Wildlife" Professionals and volunteers are in forests and fields - even cities - throughout Idaho working to increase knowledge about wildlife and its chances for survival. Cameras capture "deer tackling" in eastern Idaho; follow scientists and volunteers through deep snows to radio collar the seldom-seen elusive wolverine; and visit a woman raising orphan bears in her backyard in Garden City, adjacent to Boise.G
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Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Juneteenth Jubilee Production
I am pleased to report that next month, I will be taking genealogy and history to the big stage! Looking forward to using the theater to bring history alive. This is a new "outside of the box" venture and I am thankful that God has given me all the resources I need for this new endeavor.
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- Renate said...
Sounds like it'll be great! Congratulations to you. I'm sorry that I'll miss it, but I'll be on my yearly beach vacation then.
- May 29, 2013 at 10:15 PM
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Alcoa (NYSE:AA), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) will be out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average starting September 23. They'll be replaced by Nike (NYSE:NKE), Visa (NYSE:V) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). It's the biggest shakeup of the 30-stock index in almost a decade.
The changes "were prompted by the low stock price of the three companies slated for removal and the Index Committee's desire to diversify the sector and industry group representation of the index," S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, the company that oversees the Dow, said in a statement.
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While their performance has been mixed this year -- H-P is up more than 50%, while Alcoa is down almost 7% -- all three departing stocks have underperformed the broader stock market in recent years.
Shares of New York aluminum maker Alcoa closed Monday at $8.08, down from $40 as recently as 2007. H-P, the Palo Alto, Calif., computer maker, ended at $22.36, down from $50 in 2010. Bank of America, of Charlotte, N.C., was at $14.48, down from $50 in 2007.
If the changes were made at the beginning of the year, the Dow would be higher by 558 points, according to Charles Brady, senior editor at FOX Business.
Over the last decade, the Dow components have changed seven times. This Dow move is the biggest since April 2004, when American International Group Inc., Pfizer and Verizon Communications replaced AT&T, Eastman Kodak. and International Paper Co.
The Dow index committee said on the conference call explaining the changes that they will "make the Dow a better measure of what's going on in the market," that "typically you may see the three stocks going in get a slight bump up, and the three going out get a slight push down." The Dow index managers also said "those movements will likely dissipate by end of this week, and not have a permanent effect."
Why the changes? "If we only dropped Alcoa, we would have come back and made more changes anyway, better move to do all at once," an index committee official said, adding, "we've been looking at this with some care. We went through a number of scenarios, we considered eight changes, but we considered that overly dramatic."
The official said: "If we took more out, it would have raised concerns to us and a lot of eyebrows also would have been raised if we made even more changes, given the size of the market cap of stocks that could have been replaced." For example, the next lowest-priced stock behind Hewlett Packard is Intel, which has a market cap that is two and a half times the market cap of H-P. The official also said that "putting in Google would completely distort the index given its market cap."
Listing Apple or Google, or any other high-flying stock, in the Dow would be difficult, due to the way the index is calculated. Rather than weighting component companies based on market value, as the Standard & Poor's 500 and most other major indexes do, the Dow weights its 30 components based on the price of their shares.
The way Apple's shares currently trade, it would overwhelm the Dow with about a 25% weighting, double the sway of current Dow component IBM. Apple alone could move the Dow regularly by 100 points or more, given its recent trading swings. And even if Google does a planned stock split cutting its share price in half, it would still command a nearly 20% weighting in the average.
It's been expected for some time that Alcoa, Bank of America and Hewlett-Packard would get yanked. Given Alcoa's share price, it has very little impact on the Dow. A 50% move in Alcoa would push the index up by just a mere 40 points or so.


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House again votes to repeal 'Obamacare'
The House voted Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act, with Republicans using this week's furor over the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative advocacy groups to warn against the power the IRS will have to help administer the health care law's new insurance coverage requirements.
The vote was 229 to 195, with two Democrats crossing party lines to vote with Republicans for the repeal effort.
The two Democrats who voted to repeal the law were Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah and Rep. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, both of whom represent very Republican-leaning districts.
It marked the 37th time the House has voted to repeal all or part of the law, but the vote allowed new members elected last November to take a symbolic stand on the law. The bill stands no chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that repeal of the law would cause an increase in budget deficits of $109 billion over the next ten years. If the law were rescinded, spending would be cut by $890 billion and revenues by $1 trillion over the ten-year period.
Much of the debate Thursday revisited polemical points both sides have made since the law was first debated in 2009 and 2010.
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R- Mich., said the law "puts the federal government precisely where it doesn't belong: between Americans and their doctors. Instead of families deciding what coverage is best for them, or families and employers deciding how much they can afford, this law has the secretary of health and human services and the IRS making those decisions."
But Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, called Thursday's vote "a Republican obsession" and "an embarrassing spectacle that has consumed House Republicans for more than two years, to the detriment of our economy and millions of Americans looking for work."
Other Democrats such as Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D- Mont., an architect of the law, have in recent weeks fretted about the way in which the Obama administration is moving to implement the law, inform the public, and sign up uninsured people.
Baucus told Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius at a hearing of his committee last month, "Small businesses have no idea what to expect ... . I just see a huge train wreck coming ... ."
Sebelius herself has become a Republican target in recent days after the Washington Post reported that she has made phone calls to health industry executives and others urging them to contribute money to nonprofit groups such as Enroll America, which is headed by a former Obama administration official, which are working to inform the uninsured about how to sign up for coverage.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said "Secretary Sebelius's fundraising for and coordinating with private entities helping to implement the new health care law may be illegal, should cease immediately and should be fully investigated by Congress."
He charged that her fundraising circumvents the requirement that only Congress may spend money to implement a law or run a federal program.


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Sonny Gray struggles as A's fall to Rays
Seldom does Sonny Gray have a truly poor start - almost never.
On Wednesday, such a day coincided with yet another rickety Oakland offensive performance, and that math is pretty easy: The Rays salvaged the final game of the series, beating the A's 7-3 at the Coliseum.
"Sonny's command wasn't really there today and he left a couple of pitches where he didn't want to put them," A's catcher John Jaso said. "A lot of times when he was missing, it was down the middle with very little movement. Combined with bloops and errors, it was just a bad mixture, and it all kind of created a bad storm out there. And then we don't help out offensively. There was no momentum out there anywhere."
Gray, who had allowed five runs, total, over his previous six starts and who was the American League Pitcher of the Month for July, gave up a career-high seven runs, six earned. He allowed 10 hits, also a career high, and matched his career high by walking four men. Gray said he didn't think he was missing by much, but he didn't have the extra life on his fastball he usually does.
Over the past eight games, the A's starters are 2-4 with a 5.29 ERA.
Jeremy Hellickson, making his fourth start since coming off the disabled list, went seven innings for Tampa Bay and gave up just two hits. He didn't allow a baserunner until Coco Crisp's leadoff single in the fourth, and didn't allow a run until Eric Sogard's solo home run in the sixth. The was Sogard's first homer since July 21, 2013, a career-high span of 110 games without one.
The A's still lead the majors in runs, but they scored just nine runs in the series against Tampa Bay and they've scored 45 runs over their past 12 games, hitting .225 in the process.
The fact that Oakland traded middle-of-the-order threat Yoenis Céspedes last week makes for even greater scrutiny of the offense, but most of the A's downplayed the idea that losing Céspedes has sent the lineup into a funk.
"We were struggling the week before he was traded," said Josh Reddick, who is the one member of the Oakland lineup hitting recently, .377 over the past 15 games. "A lot of people can lean on that as a crutch, but we're not doing that.
"We know we're a good lineup with or without him. Obviously, we're going to miss that guy, but somebody's got to step up. We just haven't done it yet."
Third baseman Josh Donaldson said every offense goes through this and he is encouraged by the fact that, until Wednesday, the A's have had plenty of runners on base. "More often than not, we're going to come through," he said.
Some key contributors from last month are suddenly in a deep freeze, including Stephen Vogt, who is in an 0-for-23 skid, and Brandon Moss, who is hitless in his past 17 at-bats, matching the longest hitless streak of his career.
"There are a couple of guys, me included, who haven't gotten a hit in a while," said Jaso, in an 0-for-17 slide, "but there's still plenty of time to work out of it. You don't want to jump to (the Céspedes) trade, we're not relying on one guy - that's a really poor excuse, that's looking for something to hang the blame on."
Vogt was batting .361 a week and a half ago, but he's down to .315 after Wednesday's 0-for-3. He's fully aware that when Céspedes was traded, some of the spin was that Vogt and Jonny Gomes could combine to replace Céspedes with potentially better numbers as a platoon tandem. Vogt hasn't had a hit since the deal, and he said he'd be lying if he said he wasn't pressing as a result.
"Anytime you lose a guy like Céspedes, everybody tries to step up more, and I think that's carrying over into our at-bats," Vogt said. "I'm as guilty of that as anybody."
Despite their recent warts, the A's (69-44) have continued to hold down the best record in baseball since June 18.
Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @susanslusser


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This guide provides step-by-step instructions for facilitating a daylong workshop focused on safeguarding children's rights. The workshop is designed for staff members, outreach workers, and others responding to the needs of children and vulnerable young people. Participants can reflect on ethical dilemmas faced in their work and build their capacity to serve vulnerable children and young people. To meet these objectives, the guide includes discussion questions for facilitating reflections, case studies to demonstrate the application of child protection principles, and other workshop activities. It contains additional tools and resources for participants seeking to enhance their understanding of this topic. Included in the appendix are the author's (International HIV/AIDS Alliance) policy on protection of children and vulnerable adults, a child friendly version of this policy, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Hanandel Drobiarz
Born: June 1, 1919
Sosnowiec, Poland
Hanandel was raised with his three brothers and sisters in the town of Kozlow, where his family sold grain and livestock. The family was religious, and they observed the Sabbath and all Jewish holidays and dietary laws. When Hanandel was 5, he began studying Hebrew, the Bible, prayers, and Jewish history.
1933-39: At age 14 I was apprenticed to my uncle in Sosnowiec as a tinsmith. I worked for my uncle during the day and attended trade school at night. When I graduated from trade school I worked full time as a tinsmith. The Germans occupied Sosnowiec on September 4, 1939. Jews were restricted from leaving the town, but since tinsmithing was a needed skill, I had a pass that allowed me to move about freely in order to do my work.
1940-44: In 1942 I was deported to a labor camp [Plaszow], and after the Germans learned what my trade was I was taken to work at an airplane bomber factory in the city of Mielec. By summer 1944 the Soviets were advancing. The Germans, concerned that skilled laborers might be captured, deported us to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The Germans removed our clothes, shaved our genitals, and threw lye on our exposed skin. We were sent to stone quarries to work in the hot sun, stark naked, like animals, for an entire week.
Hanandel was liberated by American troops in May 1945. After the war he immigrated to the United States.


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Katie Holmes: Holmes & Yang To Be Sold At Maxfield
Katie Holmes gets a visit from her husband Tom Cruise and daughter, Suri, while shooting her new movie Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark on Friday (August 14) in Melbourne, Australia.
WWD reports the 30-year-old actress will be selling her "premium designer" line Holmes & Yang exclusively at Maxfield in Los Angeles this fall. Katie and her stylist Jeanne Yang designed the collection, which includes women's and children's wear. (The fashion line was inspired by Suri and Jeanne's two girls Zoey and Sydney.)
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Join Holocaust Museum Houston from March 12-24, 2011 for a Holocaust Study Trip to Germany, Austria and The Netherlands. This study trip focuses on Western Europe and the narratives of Holocaust history and memory. The trip provides a series of in-depth explorations of Holocaust history, suited to those interested in studying and experiencing authentic sites of the Holocaust era. Explorations begin in the city where the Nazis rose to power, Munich. Participants will explore Munich's history through its landscape, architecture and historic sites, learning the storied history of these structures and spaces. From Munich, the tour will take a one-day excursion to Austria to visit Mauthausen and Salzburg and then return to Germany to continue explorations there before heading to The Netherlands. Throughout the trip, participants will study at seven Nazi camps and numerous other sites of learning and remembrance important to Holocaust history. This range of authentic sites will provide a chance to consider each site's history and the way the site has been remembered, narrated and memorialized, increasingly important considerations in the 21st century. Concentration camp sites and memorials to be visited include:
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State officials have some valuable tips for consumers who rely upon heating oil to keep their homes warm through the winter.
Some Diamond State residents have already begun to use their heat given that the chilly nights of autumn have begun to set in.
But state officials have some valuable tips for those who rely upon heating oil to keep their homes warm through the winter.
The Delaware Department of Agriculture, based in Dover, has sent out an advisory that urges consumers to protect themselves against faulty equipment or unscrupulous fuel retailers when they fill up.
"Most problems with fuel measurements are honest mistakes, and most sellers are playing by the rules," Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Administrator Steve Connors said in a press release. "But consumers still need to be vigilant to make certain they get what they pay for."
The state Department of Agriculture's Weights and Measures Section tests all weighing and measuring devices, including fuel truck pumps and meters, used in sales made to the public, spokesman Dan Shortridge. This section's permit stickers are easily recognizable on any gasoline fuel pump throughout the state as part of its regulation.
Consumers of heating oil should protect their billfolds with the following steps:
n Determine the size of their fuel tanks
n Ask the company for a conversion chart
n Measure how many inches of fuel are in the home tank before the purchase
n Determine how many inches of fuel are in the tank after delivery
n Convert the inches to gallons and then compare the number with the amount listed on the sales ticket
Connors said most problems were usually caused by poor equipment maintenance that caused inaccuracies in measurements. But some dishonest sellers could try to take advantage of consumers by pumping some of the fuel back into the delivery truck, he said.
"The ticket may say that 200 gallons were delivered, but only 150 gallons were pumped into the tank," he said. "Consumers should report problems as soon as possible. We will investigate and take steps to correct the problem or order the company to stop selling fuel."
All fuel trucks must provide printed delivery tickets inserted into the metering device after the fuel truck arrives, Shortridge said. The ticket must have a serial number, delivery date, names and addresses of the seller and purchaser, quantity delivered, price per gallon, grade of fuel and the delivery person's name. And the quantity and a sequential sales number must be printed mechanically on the ticket, not handwritten.
The Department of Agriculture inspects each fuel truck annually, Shortridge said. "Inspectors seal each device after testing with a lead wire or plastic security seal, which prevents a vendor from changing the calibration of the device," he said. "A two-inch square seal is then placed prominently on the device so consumers know when it was tested for accuracy."
The Weights and Measures section tested 267 fuel truck meters last year, he said.
The state's inspections notwithstanding, agriculture officials urge consumers to be wary, Shortridge said.
"The process for checking deliveries can sound complicated, but it really boils down to knowing how much heating oil you were given and checking your receipt," he said. "It's nothing more than making sure you've gotten what you've paid for, as with any other transaction.
"And while the vast majority of retailers are honest and above board, consumers should still be on the lookout against equipment malfunctions or those few unscrupulous retailers."


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Bone Mineral Density in HIV+ Patients
|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: NCT01378494
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 22, 2011
Last Update Posted : June 2, 2016
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Utilizing an extremely well-characterized HIV cohort under observation as ART-naïve or since their first exposure to HIV treatment, the investigators will conduct a cross-sectional study with prospectively collected data to determine BMD in 200 subjects. Subjects identified were initially treatment naïve when entering the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) 1917 HIV Clinic between 1999 and 2010; some have been under observation without being treated with ART therapy and others were newly started on ART therapy while under observation. For each subject, the investigators will determine associations between BMD and 1) cumulative viremia, 2) ART duration, and 3) ART type.
Hypothesis 1a: BMD will be lowest in HIV+ subjects with the highest levels of cumulative viremia.
Hypothesis 1b: BMD will be greatest in HIV+ persons with longest duration of ART therapy, after excluding those subjects treated with tenofovir.
Hypotheses 1c: BMD will be lower in subjects treated with tenofovir vs. other ART agents, after controlling for duration of therapy.
Additionally, the investigators will conduct a retrospective study in 100 patients HIV+ and were ART-naïve at the time of entry into the 1917 Clinic in whom the investigators will longitudinally evaluate the relationship between HIV viral load, inflammation, and bone turnover (through the measurement of HIV copy-years viremia, interleukin-6 {IL-6}, tumor necrosis factor alpha {TNF-a}, high-sensitivity c-reactive protein {hsCRP}, osteocalcin, and urine C-telopeptide {CTX}). The investigators will compare HIV patients at a similar stage of their disease who remain treatment naïve (either due to concerns for compliance or sufficient CD4 counts without treatment) (ART-) vs. those newly started on ART (ART+).
Hypothesis 2: Viral load, markers of inflammation, and markers of bone resorption will all decrease in ART+ vs. ART- persons.
|Condition or disease
|Study Type :
|Estimated Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Observational Model:
|Official Title:
|Bone Mineral Density in HIV+ Patients Recently Started on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
|Study Start Date :
|June 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2014
HIV+ patients that entered the 1917 Clinic at UAB as naive to ART
- Bone Mineral Density [ Time Frame: Baseline ]
- Pro-inflammatory and bone turnover markers [ Time Frame: 6-12 months apart ]Change in IL-6, TNF-alpha, CRP, P1NP, Bone specific alkaline phosphatase, Serum NTX, and TRACP 5b at 6 and/or 12 months, as samples allow
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:
|19 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- All treatment naïve patients seen in the 1917 Clinic between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2010 will be identified.
- Of these patients, those who are currently under care at the time of the initiation of the study (>1 clinic visit in the past 12 months) will be eligible (regardless of current use of ART treatment).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a history of chronic renal failure (estimated GFR <30ml/min) will be excluded from the study.
- In addition, patients with a known diagnosis of a metabolic bone disease (i.e. osteoporosis, primary hyperparathyroidism, Paget Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta), multiple myeloma, cancer, untreated thyroid disease, or inflammatory bowel disease, or persons currently treated with or plans to begin an osteoporosis-specific medication (including estrogen) will be excluded from participation.
- Patients treated with oral glucocorticoids and anticonvulsants will also be 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): NCT01378494
|United States, Alabama
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35242
|Principal Investigator:
|Amy H Warriner, MD
|University of Alabama at Birmingham
|Responsible Party:
|Amy H. Warriner, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01378494 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|June 22, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 2, 2016
|Last Verified:
|May 2016
Keywords provided by Amy H. Warriner, University of Alabama at Birmingham:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bone Diseases, Metabolic
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Metabolic Diseases


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Eleanor Erna Olek, 90, entered into eternal rest surrounded by her family members on July 6, 2013.
Born in Holyoke, Mass., at six weeks old, she moved, living her early years in Passaic, N.J. She lived in Wayne, N.J., for 47 years before moving in 2000 to Albrightsville, where she was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
She retired after working 30 years as a waitress for Meyer Brothers and Stern's in New Jersey. During her lifetime, she was a Luther League member, Sunday school teacher and earned her 5,000-hour volunteer pin from Chilton Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Her interests included daily prayer book and Bible reading, latch hooking, baking, doll collecting and raising monarch butterflies. She made a latch-hook rug of our Lord, which hangs in her church.
She was the beloved mother of sons John and Robert of Albrightsville; and her daughter, Linda and her husband, Dennis, of Pequannock, N.J. She was the beloved grandmother of Liana and her husband, George, and Laurie and Kelly. She was the loving aunt, great-aunt and great-great-aunt to many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband, John; her son, Douglas; and her two sisters, Ruth and Pearl.
Visitation will be at noon Friday, July 12, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Old Stage Road, Albrightsville. A church service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, followed by interment in the church cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name may be made to the Endowment Fund of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 200, Albrightsville, PA 18210.
Melber Funeral Home
524 Center St., Jim Thorpe
Eleanor Erna Olek
Eleanor Erna Olek, 90, entered into eternal rest surrounded by her family members on July 6, 2013.


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I sat riveted to my seat for two plus hours watching the prize-winning film by Matteo Garrone, Gomorra. At times I squirmed nervously, viewing some violence or murders in the film. The film which won the Grand Pris at Cannes in 2008 and the European film prize the same year, inexplicably, was overlooked for the Academy Award for best foreign film. In a sense, the cinematic experience is , as one critic put it, like " a snapshot of hell." It certainly lends another and more ominous meaning to the famous epithet, "See Naples and Die."
The film is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Roberto Saviano, the twenty-nine year old who infiltrated into the Camorra, which dates from the early nineteenth century as a crime syndicate in and around Naples and Campania. Like an ethnographic study, the film follows five different foot soldiers in the Camorra network. Interestingly enough (and appropriate for the movie version), the figure of Saviano is left out of the film. There are, in this world, no heroes. Two of the characters in the film implicated in the dirty work of the Camorra, however, are able to extricate themselves from the crime network. One sees the terrible human cost of illegal dumping of toxics. Another flees his work at a Camorra fashion industry to take up driving a truck.
We see a young grocery delivery boy insinuating himself into the crime network. We follow a fashion designer who works for a Camorra dress company. He tries to get extra work with a group running a Chinese sweatshop who try to muscle into the Camorra terrain and he gets brutally wounded for his efforts. We meet a middle aged operative (Dom Ciro) who helps to pay off families of Camorra members who are in prison or have died in internecine gang fights. Unlike the Mafia, the Camorra lacks a single hierarchical authority structure. In this often alien world, we spend time in the movie with two young testosterone-driven males (Marco and Ciro, enamored of the characters in the movie, Scarface) who steal a cache of Camorra arms and end up bullet splayed for their spree. A signature shot in the film shows these two young men in swimming suits wading into Naples bay and shooting machine guns for fun.
Much of the film was shot in a housing complex, Vele di Scampi, near Naples which adds to a claustrophobic feel for much of the movie. The crew could only shoot in the morning there, since by afternoon the crack addicts who live there became more aggressive.
Saviano, the author of the original book, has been under close police protection since the book appeared in 2006 and created something of a sensation in Italy. Part of the power of the book was that it named names of the many legitimate companies (bakeries, high fashion design outfits, companies involved in the disposal of toxic waste) owned and operated by the Camorra. In so doing, the book exposes the many ways ordinary citizens are, indirectly, linked to a world-wide crime syndicate. In recent months, people have gathered in Milan, Messina, Naples and Rome in support of Saviano. A group has created a database which gathers information about the Camorra's activities and their many links to the surface or legitimate economy.
14,000 violent deaths in the past thirty years have been attributed to the Camorra. In March 2009 a large demonstration, estimated at 100,000 demonstrators, was held in Southern Italy to protest the many victims of this violence. Relatives of victims, carrying pictures of their loved ones, led the march where, later, the names of 900 people killed by the Camorra were read out through loudspeakers. The march was organized by a group called Libera. Its president, Father Luigi Ciotti, reminded people, however, that "a day like today is meaningful only if we keep fighting the other 364 days of the year."
Paradoxically, the global economic downturn has allowed the mobsters to tighten their grip on the economy, as they siphon off profits from their illegal activities to buy stakes in the retail, tourism and housing sectors. The Camorra has long flourished amidst a culture of Omerta (silence) for hundreds of years. It has infiltrated or corrupted the ranks of politicians and police officers. The solution, ultimately, would lie in Italy's ability to offer values, education and work opportunities for the generation who turn to the Camorra for protection and privilege and access to the economy. Whether there is the means and will to do so is another question.
Because of a long-standing interest of mine in globalization, I have watched in horror as organized crime syndicates benefit from the myriad opportunities of globalization. There has always been smuggling and prostitution but now they have become globalized and highly sophisticated. Misha Glenny, who has carefully studied the Russian Mafia, argues in his book, McMafia: Seriously Organized Crime, that mafias sometimes serve as a kind of midwife for capitalism in transition economies, performing a valuable role in protecting economic transfers and transactions. They offer a species of governance in failed states or governments. Yet organized crime (as we are now seeing at our borders, as drug cartels threaten to turn Mexico into a failed state) remains a social evil. As one commentator has put it: "Although it is often genuine, mafia protection remains a social evil. In the economic sphere, it promotes inefficiency and reduces competition. A major task of a good Mafioso is to ensure that his clients enjoy market supremacy. By protecting thieves and other criminals, he also promotes further crime. Mafias operate without consideration for justice, fairness or the well-being of society at large." (Federico Varese, " Protected' in Times Literary Supplement February 20, 2009, p. 24).
At the end of Gomorrah, the viewer is reminded that the Camorra has invested heavily in the project to build a replacement for the World Trade Towers in New York. We are also told of the billions of annual profits of this crime syndicate. Clearly, minimally, we need a clearing house which will help consumers see, transparently, the ways crime moneys are invested in and run businesses they buy from. Then, we need boycotts of such blood money capitalism. Achieving these goals, given the sophistication of the new globalized crime syndicates, will be a high order.
John Coleman, S.J.


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Mancho necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
The Armstrong Firm
I'm a graphic designer that has too many projects. I don't have time to design this one, but I'm confident that your design skills can attract an audience in a phone book.
I will assist the project by art directing (telling you what elements, it needs to have, what it doesn't)
These ads will be displayed in a Phone Book in South Texas, commonly called the "Valley". These ads will be seen by predominately low income families and individuals (many times referred to as Mexican-Americans) needing assistance from Attorneys... they might have a divorce, wrongful death, or corporate matter, to criminal representation.
Do not put "stereo typical" icons, like sombreros, tequila or donkeys... this is a professional firm in Brownsville Texas that needs to look able to handle any case... And yes, we will have "Habla Espanol" to indicate to non speaking Americans, or Mexican-Americans that spanish is fluently spoken in the RW Armstrong firm.
There is a limit on the description below, so you can obtain the "correct" logo here: http://tinyurl.com/kkder7
The ad design is for just 1 of the COLOR ADS: "Double Truck" see specs below. I will also indicate the other ad sizes, but you will not be required to "resize" or "redesign" the ads for the smaller sizes.
- See the ads included in the "poorly" designed ads: http://tinyurl.com/lskqoe
- 3 photos of attorneys: http://tinyurl.com/lp65pj
- Bullet point text. Will change,this is what we need to start.
- Phone address and other contact info
- Compelling layout, that speaks volumes of "Professional, Law"
- All words, phone numbers spelled correctly.
- CMYK files.
- Fonts included in project.
- The firm name "THE ARMSTRONG FIRM", (NOT RW ARMSTRONG)
- Describe: Powerful, Strong, Serious, The Law, Professional organization, Years of Experience, Easy to contact, Friendly, Spanish
- Final ad in "Adobe InDesign". Photoshop files, Illustrator files, graphics & anything used in the final product (the double truck ad). You can create this project in Photoshop, provided everything is in easy to identifiable layers and labeled correctly.
These are the ad sizes of the FULL project, but NOT THIS CONTEST. You design the "DOUBLE TRUCK" Ad here:
DTM - "Double Truck, its a spread" (2 pages) – 7.5" w X 9.25"h – each page
Other ad sizes
DCM (1 page) ad – 4.967" w X 9.25"h
TQCM ad – 7.5' w X 2.2375"h
DHCM ad – 4.967" w X 4.575"h
SPINE ad – 6.2"w X 0.625"h


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Iran official says sanctions can't change policy
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's new foreign minister says that Western sanctions can't force Iran to change its policy on its nuclear program, though the administration of the country's new president is taking a new approach in reaching out to the West.
Mohammad Javad Zarif told Iranian state television in an interview aired Thursday night that the new government of President Hasan Rouhani won't give up Iran's nuclear rights in negotiations with world powers.
Western sanctions over targeting Iran's oil and banking sectors have savaged the country's economy.
Zarif is set to lead Iran's nuclear talks with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany. However, he told state television no final decision has been made about who will lead the talks.