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Effect Of An Integrase Inhibitor On The Latency And Reservoir Of HIV-1

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00807443
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 12, 2008
Last Update Posted : February 1, 2013
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Study Description
Brief Summary:

The presence of a pool of cells latently infected by HIV-1 in patients taking HAART and with a viral load below 50 copies/mL is the main limitation to eradication of the virus from the body. This viral reservoir prevents antiretroviral therapy from being interrupted; therefore, patients are obliged to continue with treatment for a period calculated to be greater than 60 years.

Despite the important advances in knowledge of the biology of this reservoir, we still have no real knowledge about its dynamics. The opportunity to carry out a clinical trial for the first time with an integrase inhibitor is exceptional, since the results could provide important information on the nature of this reservoir.

If maintenance of the reservoir is a dynamic process, inclusion of an integrase inhibitor is expected to lead to a reduction in the size of this reservoir. This effect could be critical when including IAT (viral reactivation), since, in theory, it would be necessary to act on a smaller reservoir. Current consensus is that it would be necessary to act on almost 100% of the viral reservoir (approximately 1,000,000 cells).

The study has also been designed to enable us to understand the biochemical and molecular mechanisms by which certain drugs can induce viral reactivation in vitro as a previous step to a clinical trial aimed at reactivating viral latency and eradicating HIV-1 from the body.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
HIV-1 HIV Infections Drug: Raltegravir Phase 2

Study Design

Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 10 participants
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Official Title: Pilot Study Of The Effect Of An Integrase Inhibitor On The Latency And Reservoir Of HIV-1 In Patients Taking Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
Study Start Date : September 2009
Primary Completion Date : December 2011
Study Completion Date : December 2011

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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
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Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Raltegravir Drug: Raltegravir
Raltegravir (INN), 400 mg tablets, developed and supplied by Merck Sharp & Dohme. A dose of 400 mg will be administered every 12 hours

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. To evaluate, by means of a clinical trial, the effect of therapy with an integrase inhibitor (Raltegravir) on the cell reservoir of HIV-1 on patients taking HAART [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Senior)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Inclusion Criteria:

  • After receiving information on the design and objectives of the study, the possible risks involved, and the fact that they can refuse to collaborate at any time, patients will give their informed consent to participate in the study and agree to provide material for the cellular and molecular studies.
  • Aged over 18 years.
  • Chronic HIV infection
  • Antiretroviral therapy with at least 3 drugs for at least 2 years and with no modifications expected during the study. Antiretroviral drugs can be switched due to intolerance as long as plasma viremia remains controlled.
  • Undetectable viral load determined by ultrasensitive techniques (<50 copies HIV RNA/mL) for at least 2 years.
  • CD4+ T lymphocyte count above 350 cells/mm3.
  • Understand the objective of the study and be available to make frequent visits to the hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Previous failure of antiretroviral therapy, understood as a rebound in viral load that can be detected after having reached undetectable levels. Low-grade increases (<200 copies of HIV RNA/mL) and transitory increases (blips) resolved without modifying antiretroviral therapy are excluded.
  • Proven resistance against the antiretroviral drugs under study.
  • Planned interruption of antiretroviral therapy.
  • Taking immunosuppressive or immunostimulating medication of any type, including valproic acid.
  • Taking a fusion inhibitor (enfuvirtide).
  • Pregnancy or intention to become pregnant during the study.
Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00807443

Hospital Universitario Ramon Y Cajal
Madrid, Spain, 28034
Sponsors and Collaborators
Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Principal Investigator: Santiago Moreno Guillen, MD,PhD HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RAMON Y CAJAL. MADRID
More Information

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00807443     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: ERRADVIH-02
First Posted: December 12, 2008    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: February 1, 2013
Last Verified: January 2013

Keywords provided by Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal:
integrase inhibitor (raltegravir)
the cell reservoir of HIV-1
treatment experienced

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
Integrase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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Menus from the Museum

By Phil Greene

This is the first of what I hope will be many blogs showcasing vintage cocktail menus, fabled old venues, classic old drinks and the great old drinkers.

Today I’ll look at a couple of vintage menus from the old Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans. One, resembling the Ramos Gin Fizz itself, is dated 1951, while the “Bar… Suggestions” menu is likely pre-WWII. A Ramos Gin Fizz for 30 cents! A Martini for 25 cents! If there were ever a good reason to perfect time travel, this is it.

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. This classic drink is tailor made for sipping on those easy summertime days – it comes from sub-tropical New Orleans, after all – e-a-s-y, as long as someone else is makin’‘em, that is. In truth, the Ramos Gin Fizz is worth every minute of building and shaking that goes into one. Minutes? Yep, according to Stanley Clisby Arthur’s 1936 book, “Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Make ‘Em,” the Ramos “needs a long, steady shaking…until the mixture gets body – ‘ropy’ as some experienced bartenders express it.”

What’s “ropy?” To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of obscenity, I can’t define it, but having made many Ramos Gin Fizzes, I know it when I see it (apologies are offered to my former law professors at Loyola New Orleans, but I’m sure they understand).

The Ramos was invented by a guy named, you guessed it, Ramos (RAH-mose). In 1888, Henry Ramos (his friends called him Carl) purchased a New Orleans saloon called the Imperial Cabinet, where the drink was likely born. In 1907, Henry moved to another New Orleans bar, the Stag, on Gravier near St. Charles. The drink became so popular that during the 1915 Mardi Gras, the Stag employed 35 “shaker boys” behind the bar. If a shaker boy tired, he’d toss his shaker to the one behind him to carry on. Whole lotta shakin,’ indeed.

Prohibition came in 1919, and the honorable Henry Ramos closed his bar, unlike most Orleanians, who scoffed at the Volstead Act. Indeed, New Orleans held a dubious distinction in the eyes of Prohibition agent extraordinaire Izzy Einstein. Einstein traveled the country searching for speakeasies and other scofflaws, and would record the time it took for him to procure illegal hooch. In D.C., it took an hour; in Atlanta, 17 minutes; and in Pittsburgh, it took only 11. In New Orleans? 35 seconds. Izzy got off the train, hopped in a cab, asked where he could get a drink, and the obliging cabbie produced a flask. You see, New Orleans’ legendary status in the hospitality field is not a recent invention, it’s hard-wired.

Henry Ramos died in 1928; the Noble Experiment still had another 5 years to run. But while he closed his saloon, he published his secret recipe, as a gift to the ages, or perhaps his own method of civil disobedience? So, when Prohibition ended in 1933, New Orleans’ bartenders knew how to make the previously proprietary drink. Which brings us to the Roosevelt.

The Ramos Gin Fizz was one of several “house” drinks at the old Roosevelt Hotel Bar in New Orleans back in the day. The Roosevelt made a practice of “adopting” great old New Orleans drinks that had lost their home, another example being the Sazerac (invented by my ancestor Antoine Peychaud in his pharmacy, probably in the 1850s, and perfected at the Sazerac House in the 1870s). The hotel, originally called the Grunewald, opened in 1893, and featured a subterranean-motif nightclub called “The Cave” (quite possibly America’s first nightclub). It became The Roosevelt (named for Teddy) around the time of WWI and in 1965, the Fairmont New Orleans (One of many Katrina casualties, it is currently closed).

While the Ramos does contain quite a few ingredients, they’re standard: lemon juice, lime juice, cream, gin, egg white, sugar, seltzer. And then there’s orange flower water, easily available at, among other places. The orange flower water offers a floral bouquet not unlike that found in a glass of viognier wine. Indeed, its inclusion in a Ramos has prompted the classic line, “It’s like drinking a flower!” Whether or not you add vanilla extract is up to you – Orleanian bartenders have long debated the use of “the twin drops of extract wrung from the heart of the vanilla bean,” as Arthur called it. Like the issue of shaking or stirring a Martini, or crushing or merely bruising the mint in a julep, this is yet another controversy in the hornet’s nest that is mixology.

The Louisiana Kingfish

Make a Ramos Gin Fizz and understand why the drink became the obsession of the Louisiana Kingfish, Senator Huey Long. Huey loved to drink, but trouble often found him when he did. One evening in 1933, Huey was out with friends at the Sands Point Casino night club on Long Island. With several Sazeracs under his belt, Huey made a spectacle of himself, eating food off other patrons’ plates, dragging women out on to the dance floor, and generally behaving like a dog.

During a visit to the men’s room, unable to find an empty urinal, Huey proceeded to take aim between the legs of one of the men standing before him. His aim was not the best, and it netted Huey a cut above his eye seen in photos that graced the tabloid newspapers for days. So, in hopes of improving his image for the Presidential election of 1936, Huey decided to go “on the water wagon.” But he fell off that wagon during a trip to New York in July, 1935, and it was the Ramos Gin Fizz that prompted the fall.

Huey stayed as he always did at the New Yorker Hotel. Announcing that he wasn’t able to find a decent Ramos Gin Fizz in the city, he arranged to have the Roosevelt’s bartender, Sam Guarino, flown up to New York, to teach the New Yorker’s bar staff. Of course, Huey required a quality control inspection. He sipped it, his first drink in nearly two years, and then ordered another. “Huey wanted that drink so damn bad,” said one of his bodyguards. “I’m merely sampling this to make sure you gentlemen are getting the real thing.” Two hours and five drinks later, Huey solemnly proclaimed, “And this, gentlemen, my gift to New York.”

(This is part one of a two part blog on the Ramos Gin Fizz.)

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2 Responses to Menus from the Museum

  1. Dorian says:

    Hello Phil,In the last few months, you may remember receiving an email
    invitation to become a part of the Foodbuzz Featured Publisher Program. With all
    the recipe-writing and food photography to be completed, we know emails can
    easily get lost in the shuffle, so Foodbuzz would like to re-extend our offer of
    inviting you to be a part of our food blogger network. I would love to send you
    more details about the program, so if you are interested, please email me at Cheers!Shannon EliotEditorial Assistant,

  2. Unknown says:

    Dear Mr. Greene,I know you remember the old Sazerac Bar at the Fairmont. It\’s been decades since the cocktails were any match for the sleek walnut bar and beautiful Art Deco murals, but the Sazerac\’s fortunes may be about to change. The hotel has been bought by the Waldorf=Astoria chain, and is slated for a multi-million dollar renovation. A couple of great bartenders could turn the Sazerac into a first-class destination bar again. (Is it true that Chris McMillian is no longer at the Library Lounge?)I was born in New Orleans in 1951, so am getting a kick out of the Roosevelt\’s \’51 drink menu. Thirty cents for a Ramos….hooo-wee! Yes, indeed: Let\’s get cracking on that time machine!Really enjoyed this piece. Thanks so much.Brooks Baldwin

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Hogwarts Express!

My lifelong dream of being whisked off to Hogwarts finally (almost) came true.  Although we didn’t make it to the school itself (my letter just got lost in the mail – I swear!), we did get to make the journey through the Highlands.

After arriving in Fort William the night before, we woke up bright and early and READY TO RIDE THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!

Before boarding, my mom and I walked down the platform to get a good look at the train.

We stopped in the gift shop on the train, which had a few movie-related items. I feel like they could have added a lot more souvenirs and taken advantage of all the fans on the train. I was expecting more Bertie Bots and Chocolate Frogs! We did end up buying a terrific book though, which has turned out to be a great read:

Unfortunately, the first class seats were a bit too expensive, and had already sold out by the time I ordered tickets. The seats did look cozy though!

I was simply thrilled to have a seat at all, so I wasn’t too envious (although I was jealous of the complimentary cookies they got). After walking to the back of the train and finding our seats, we were off!

I bought a souvenir map for a pound, and was fascinated to learn about the places we were going to be passing.  The train departed from the station at Fort William, and ended a little over two hours later in the small fishing town of Mallaig.

The best place to be if you’re looking for that iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct shot is at the back of the train.  It comes up within the first half hour, so move towards the back early to claim a spot! The conductor will announce when the train is approaching the viaduct, so if you’re not paying attention you still won’t miss it!

The best place to sit on the train is on the lefthand side, since that is where most of the views are!

My mom and I were all ready and poised to get the perfect picture and….it began to rain as we approached the viaduct. The rear window didn’t open, so I got a bit of a foggy/rainy view.

As seen in the Harry Potter movies!!!!

Can you see the beginning of the train?

Never fear though! I ended up getting my “perfect shot” on the way back, so keep reading to see the money shot!  Luckily it stopped raining right after we crossed the bridge.

The scenery was captivating, just like the rest of the Highlands. The weather was constantly changing; one moment is was sunny and gorgeous, the next cloudy and threatening. It kept me on my toes!

The first stop was shortly after the Viaduct.  We had about 15 minutes to get off the train and explore the area.

There was a gift shop, which unfortunately I didn’t have time to look in. They also had a mini train museum, with a conductor showing how they switch the train tracks for multiple trains. It looked a bit complicated and like it would be hard work!

They also had an old dinning car that served lunch.  Since we had such a short amount of time, I didn’t get to see the inside.  It reminded me of the old Boxcar Children book series that I read in elementary school!  Those books made me want to live on a train and travel the country.

Once that excitement was over, we had over two hours to sit back and relax. Because our seats were facing backwards and my mom and I both get motion sickness and need to be facing forward, we stood near the windows and had a perfect view.

See the pink phone case sticking out? That’s my mom, one compartment up!

Nearly lost an eye, hand, and at one point my head by breaking the rules and leaning out the window for this shot.  Worth it.

And then the sun finally came out, and it was gorgeous the rest of the way!

I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that Scotland actually has some wonderful beaches.

When we finally reached Mallaig, it had turned into a sunny (albeit chilly) afternoon, although that did not last long.  When I had booked the Jacobite train tickets, the return tickets had already sold out, so unfortunately I had to book us on a different train back.  This meant that we had four hours to kill in Mallaig.

After eating the best shrimp of my life and taking a waterfall-filled walk, we were back on a train to Fort William!

This time, I had much more luck crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct!

There may be a stairway to heaven, but I think I prefer the train ride to Hogwarts.  On my tombstone, I want them to write, not that I was a good friend or daughter or mother, but that I RODE THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS!

Peace out Muggle World. I think I may have reeked myself out to death.  Is that a thing? Or did I just invent that?

My favorite picture of the day:

We’ll take the lot!

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Give people ‘the finger’

We all like to think we’re in charge of our own behaviour but that isn’t always the case. The reason is – our brain. Our brain is filled with specialised circuits that do all sorts of things for us. Some of those circuits are called ‘mirror circuits’. The job of mirror circuits is called ‘interpersonal limbic regulation’ and they prompt us to respond to other people’s emotions and behaviour in kind. These mirror circuits are located in the limbic cortex, our ‘Caveman Brain’.

Some mirror circuits give us empathy for others – we see someone looking sad and our mirror circuits fire off sadness, so we sort of know how they feel. Or we see someone laughing and happy and we smile and feel happy, too.

Our mirror circuits fire off when someone treats us kindly, too. We want to return that kindness. That’s why being nice spreads around to others, like dropping a little pebble in a puddle – the ripples spread.

And here’s the rub. Our mirror circuits fire off when someone is rude, too. Here’s an example. I don’t know about the drivers where you live but I do know about the drivers in Adelaide. Lots of them are pretty rude. For instance, when you pull over to let someone through on a narrow street or in a car park, 49 out of 50 of them don’t lift a finger to say ‘Thank you’.

On Kangaroo Island, on the other hand, every driver lifts a finger to say ‘Hello’ to everyone they pass, never mind to say ‘Thank you’. So when you drive around Kangaroo Island, it only takes a couple of cars going by and lifting the ‘Hello’ finger before you’re lifting the ‘Hello’ finger too. Mirror circuits. People are friendly and you want to be friendly back.

And in Adelaide, when you’ve pulled over to let another driver through and you don’t get the finger-lift ‘Thank you’, the temptation is after one or two times, not to do the finger-lift ‘Thank you’ to the next driver who pulls over for you. That’s the temptation, thanks to those mirror circuits in our Caveman Brain.

Now of course, you know what’s coming, don’t you. Sometimes, we need to over-ride those mirror circuits so that other people don’t dictate our behaviour when that behaviour is rude or anti-social in some other way. We want to use our ‘Thinking Brain’ to tell our ‘Caveman Brain’ to pull its head in, so to speak. That way, we can be pleasant and polite even when someone else isn’t.

And to my mind, that makes for a better place to live, to shop, to drive and to work. Because giving people ‘the finger’ is catching. So give people the ‘Thank you’ finger and the ‘Hello’ finger every chance you have. Niceness is catching and we all want to live and work in a nice place.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA: poet Barbara Moore

Your move

I tread water

in this undirected

acquacade of death

you never seem

to tire of

You swim forward

plucking seaweed

from a siren’s braid

You hum her song

urging me to join in

“It’s myth or me,” I cry

over the cymbal clash

of waves laughing

I roll into shore

without looking back

© august 7, 2011 barbara moore

Interview by Emeniano  Acain Somoza Jr (EASJR)  with Barbara Moore (BM)

EASJR:    You are well known, at least in our circle, as that poet with barb-sharp wit writing cynical anthems…

BM: Heh! I’m down with the “barb-sharp wit” and  “anthem” parts. Very pleasing to see myself described in these terms. Humor is my favorite tool. I find it far more effective than preaching at people. What I attempt to do is paint psychological word pictures with which people can identify without feeling called out or criticized. The readers are given the option to make their own sense of what I have written and draw their own conclusions at the end of my poems, some of which are stories, others character studies, and still others brief observations. What most of them have in common is a little sting, usually at the close of the poem. I don’t identify much with “cynical” though. Like everyone else, I have faced and survived disappointments, but I would hate to think I have succumbed to cynicism. To me that suggests defeat. I might be cautious, but I am as trusting as reality allows, and I do believe in the power of love. I don’t believe it’s all we need (sorry Beatles) but without love in action, we have absolutely nothing. At least that’s the way it seems to me.

EASJR:  What is your definition of humankind? Who is your ideal kind of human?

BM; Good question. I would like more emphasis on the “kind” in humankind. I think we have it in us as human beings to be truly magnificent, but our desires for immediate satisfaction and domination over others sidetrack us too easily. I see humankind as tiny specks in the universe that need each other in order to survive but are often repelled by each other at the same time. What is needed is a greater sense of cooperation. My definition of idealized humankind would be a people possessing imagination, intelligence, compassion and humor in degrees that varied enough to keep life interesting. I don’t know that I have a particular person I look to as an example of an ideal. I tend to idealize my best personal friends, who shall remain nameless. They know who they are.

EASR: Where do you think are you in the evolutionary process of the human mind?

BM: I see myself a scrape on a scab, as far as this is concerned. I think that is the most any of us are at this point, although there are some would-be pontificating emperors running around with too few clothes on.

EASJR: Your portraitures/caricatures of human characters are so full-bodied and thoroughly fleshed out, I look for them in the crowd. How much of your “characters” do you (have to) know before you write about them?

BM: In each portraiture lives a part of me or a part of someone I have known. The bare bones of these characters live in my head. I have an active imagination, maybe from growing up as an only child.  One of my favorite pastimes is observing people sitting cross from me on a bus and composing entire histories and futures for them. The experience of creating stories from whatever memories I have stored in my brain, coupled with the mind snapshots I take of actual living breathing individuals I see before me, can provide an incredible head-rush. The idea of you looking for my characters in the crowd is a delight to me.

EASJR: Write to laugh, or laugh to write?

BM: I would have to say both, and laughter is almost interchangeable with living to me. Many times I write with the hopeful expectation of getting the readers to laugh along with me at some of the absurdities in life.

EASJR: You hate readings, yes? Which (a) philosopher, (b) spiritual leader, (c) actor, (d) poet, dead or alive, should do readings for you?

BM: Who would I like to do readings for me? Myself — with the ease I now lack but aspire to gain. Until that time, the living actor Laura Linney would do just fine.

EASJR: So much going on these days – sociopolitical uprising, economy, terrorism – name one that you find as way absurd beyond human comprehension.

BM: My most recent jolt came from what I saw in The Whistleblower, a film about human trafficking in post-war Bosnia. It was based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac during her time as a peacekeeper there. I have never been able to process the reality that there is a market for people-property-sex slaves. The absurdity beyond human comprehension was heightened by the fact that the guilty parties were discovered but went unpunished due to diplomatic immunity. Any situation pitting the powerful against the powerless causes my eyes to spin around in my head.

EASJR: I am a spy watch camera in your wrist of which you have no idea. What do I see on a day-to-day basis?

BM: Ha! You would get bored very quickly and ask to be relocated to someone else’s wrist. Seriously. Not much excitement going on that doesn’t involve screens – the computer screen, the television screen, and movie screens. There are books, there is music, there is eating good food.  There are long walks. There are rides on the bus and the subway. Oh, can you hear me also? Lucky you, because I sing all the time. Are you still here?

EASJR: If poetry were a human being, who do you think would fit the definition? What is the true essence of a poet.

BM: I could say that I see poetry as a crowd of international circus performers eager to impact lives or merely entertain themselves through their idiosyncratic tricks of the trade. But, truth be told, show me a human, and I’ll show you a potential poet. There are as many essences of a poet as there are poets, and there are as many poets as there are people. We are all poets. Some of us don’t know that yet, and sadly some of us will never know that.

EASJR: Really what’s laugh got to do with it?

BM: Laugh has everything to do with it. The ability to laugh — to find humor in even the most wretched of circumstances is paramount to our survival as a species. When we are able to laugh at ourselves and recognize how absurd we sometimes can be, we are freed up to make changes in our individual lives that impact those whose lives we touch, that impact those whose lives they touch…

The words want out

like a thirsty dog

at the back door

with a full bladder

© 2011 barbara moore

I hear your familiar knock

long short short long

and I know

how it would be

if I removed the chain lock

You would see me

as you always did

but I am legerdemain

impervious to your touch

immune to your beguilement

in a loved-out house

still standing

© 2011 barbara moore

The open book

She was an open book

with a broken binding

Many hands had held her

re-reading favorite passages

splitting her open wide

looking for something new

But there was nothing new

Merely the simple truth

told over and over

Only the syntax changed

© 2011 barbara moore

A moment

I am in a moment

I am in an isolated moment

I am staring across the subway car

at a woman falling out of her bathing suit top

She has a cross tattoo on her upper right arm

Her nose is pierced. Her bottom lip too

She is snuggling, burrowing really,

into her boyfriend’s neck with her head

He is dressed in L.L. Bean

He is reading The New York Times

I am in a moment

I am in a solitary moment

The subway stops. The doors open

A woman glides in and sits down

next to the bathing suit woman

She is dressed in a sari

She is wrapped up like a present

Her hands are naked, folded

The women sit side by side

They are in a moment

They are in a conjoint moment

They are staring across the subway car

They are staring at me

© 2011 barbara moore

What is

with this

so much,

very much

about love?

We love

or we

from loving

© august 14, 2011 barbara moore

About Emeniano Author of:’A Fistful of Moonbeams’, Kilmog Press 2010, hardback
ISBN 9780986456794Also published here:• Everyday Poem: Every Writer’s
>• Fogged Clarity, An Arts Review
>• Haggard & Halloo
>• Barnwood Poetry International
>• Moria Poetry Journal
>• Gloom Cupboard
>• Philippines Free Press
>• Troubadour 21

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Hello all. I have been having a problem with act for a number of weeks and can't seem to find a solution.

When loading outlook, I get the message:

"The ACT! Address Book service is not properly configured, or the configured database *name* is locked. Do you want to configure it now?"

This error also comes up when a 3rd party program tries to send an email for hte first time after a computer reboot.

In addition, when loading ACT!, it always comes up with an error that port 1434 is closed (it isn't), but manually selecting a database .pad file opens correctly.

Currently, NO emails are being attached to ACT history because of the Address Book problem. Re-configuring the ACT Outlook integration has resulted in no effect, even deleting the Address Book link, rebooting, and re-configuring has had no effect.

Running a DB repair has similarly had no effect.

In addition to all of that, my salesman is unable to configure ACT in order for his emails to attach to the ACT contacts, so his 12 months of email history is inaccessible through ACT.

Currently running Act Pro V16.1.207.0 Hot Fix 2 and Office 2013 with off-line install on Windows 7 SP1. ACT database is hosted on a central server for access by our 2 main computers.


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I've been looking online for some guides and info about the game, but saddly it seems there doesnt seem to be much of a following for the game at all, even the RPG version is quite hard to get info on. Do you guys know of any youtube vids or guides for the game. The instructions are very shallow and I always find it easier to watch someone play first to learn.

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LaunchPad > Accessibility Services: LaunchPad Accessibility Standards

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Our Present

Screen Views and Settings: LaunchPad is designed to honor high-contrast settings a user has set on their system. Additionally, custom style sheets can be used to alter both text and colors on the website. Text can be resized using both browser zoom and text resize functions to make the on-screen text easier to read. We do not use any ‘blinking’ functionality in the product, so that won’t be an issue. We do use alt-text for many photos in the book-specific content that appears within our digital products.

Captioning Content: The text of our books can generally be read aloud by screen reading software such as JAWS. The majority of our videos include captioning and, upon request, we can usually make a script available for the videos.

Assignment Settings:  The system is designed to allow instructors to give individual students or groups of students unique assignment settings, such as a quiz with no time constraints, that differ from the assignment settings of the full class. You can adjust these settings by student and by assignment for maximum flexibility.

Our Future

Navigation: Many elements in the LaunchPad product cannot currently be accessed using only the keyboard or by users that depend upon screen reader software (such as JAWS or VoiceOver).

Screen Views and Settings: LaunchPad uses alt-text for many pictures within the book-specific content; going forward, as new editions are released, we plan to have all the images have alt-text and have that text be both accurate and useful for someone who is unable to see the basic image; this will be an ongoing effort on our part.

Captioning Content: Although the text of our books can generally be read aloud by screen reading software such as JAWS, the ordering of the content on the page doesn’t always match the intention of the author. Additional multimedia, however, such as animations and PowerPoints may not include captioning or voice-overs; that will depend on the title in question, so please ask us for more information regarding a specific book’s LaunchPad.


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i>clicker 6: Why do some of my student’s remote IDs not match the IDs that I see in the iClicker and iGrader software?

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Each i>clicker remote contains a unique remote ID that the i>clicker and i>grader software use to identify the remotes. Until recently, each i>clicker remote contained a unique 21-bit ID, which allowed for roughly 2 million unique ID combinations. There are now more than 2 million clickers in the market and in 2010 we ran out of 21-bit IDs. In order to address the issue, our newest remotes now have a 24-bit remote ID which allows for roughly 16 million unique ID combinations and will keep us going for many years to come.

The original i>clicker base was designed to receive 21-bit remote IDs only. Therefore, when the i>clicker base receives a vote from a remote with a 24-bit ID, the base translates that ID into a 21-bit ID. Technically, everything works fine, except that the ID in the i>clicker and i>grader software does not exactly match the ID on the student remote. This is why the remote ID in your software (the 21-bit ID) does not match the remote ID on the student remote (the 24-bit ID).

The difference in the IDs does not impact your student voting data or grades. You can use the new 24-bit ID student remotes with the old bases. Even though the old bases work with the new 24-bit ID remotes, beginning in 2011 we will start replacing all old bases with updated bases that more accurately recognize the 24-bit remote IDs. The new base will work seamlessly with the 21-bit ID remotes and the 24-bit ID remotes. The new base will also work with your existing student and class data. You will simply remove the old base, plug in the new base, and get back to teaching.

NOTE: If you have a base with firmware v03.03 or newer (see sticker on bottom of base), you will not experience this issue. All bases with firmware v03.03 and newer have been updated to recognize the 24-bit remote IDs.


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Saving the Smallest Species

Your contributions help Como Zoo protect and save some of the earth’s smallest –and most vulnerable– animals

At first glance, the Wyoming toad on display in Como’s “Ribbit Zibbit” may not appear as dazzling as the colorful poison dart frogs nearby, but to zookeepers committed to amphibian survival, it may be even more beautiful.

Declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s, this critically endangered species is coming back from the brink thanks, in part, to an aggressive species preservation project taking place in the basement of Como’s Visitor Center. There, in a behind-the-scenes bio-secure room, several breeding pairs of Anaxyrus baxter are producing tadpoles and toadlets that are released every summer in the Laramie Basin.

“It’s a slow process, but it’s had some successes,” says John Dee, animal curator at Como Zoo, one of several partner institutions involved in saving the Wyoming toad and several other amphibian species. While amphibians don’t command headlines like Kemala the orangutan, Prince the giraffe, or other furry zoo babies do, their survival is just as important. “Every animal plays an important role in the ecosystem, and big animals can’t exist without small animals,” says Dee. “Small animals can be difficult to take care of, but we like the challenge of it, and Como has a lot of institutional knowledge that has value in the zoo community.”

In fact, as nearly half of all known amphibian species now face the risk of extinction, zoos like Como are playing a growing role in preserving and protecting some of the earth’s smallest animals. Here’s a look:

Poison dart frogs:
With their brilliant day-glo colors, Dee describes Como’s poison darts as “frog jewelry—they come in flashy colors, which makes them great animal ambassadors.” Like all amphibians, they’re considered an “environmental indicator species” because their permeable skin makes them particularly vulnerable to water pollution and environmental changes.

Dusky gopher frogs:
 Commonly referred to as the Mississippi Gopher Frog, scientists estimate there are fewer than 250 mature animals left in the wild, making the frog one of the top 100 most endangered animals in the world. Last year, Como Zoo became just the fourth zoo in the country to successfully breed Lithobates sevosus through in vitro fertilization.

Did You Know?

  • Environmental changes affecting toads, frogs and other “indicator species” can affect other animals higher up the food chain—humans included.
  • Every summer, one of Como Zoo’s trained keepers travels to the Laramie Basin to assist researchers working to repatriate Wyoming toads to their native habitat. The toadlets arrive by FedEx.
  • Como Friends’ Animal Sponsorship program is a great way to help Como Zoo continue its conservation efforts for endangered amphibians.

Panamanian golden frogs:
Como Zoo has been the home to a Panamanian golden frog breeding program for more than a decade, since the animals were wiped out in the wild by the spread of chytrid fungus—a disease that threatens many amphibian species. While the smaller breeding species live behind-the-scenes in Como’s Animal Support Building, the larger variety are on display in the “Ribbit Zibbit” in the Leonard Wilkening Children’s Gallery.

Red-eyed tree frogs:
As a long-time leader in amphibian breeding, Como Zoo often sends amphibian offspring to Association of Zoos and Aquariums partners to augment collections around the country. In fact, Como Zoo’s most recent red-eyed tree frog offspring already have a waiting list of zoos eager to welcome the tadpoles once they’re fully grown. Como Zoo’s animal registrar packs and ships more than a thousand amphibians every year.

Wyoming toads: Como Friends’ contributions made it possible to purchase a “hibernaculum,” a state-of-the-art refrigeration system that recreates the just-right climate conditions and dormancy period that Wyoming toads need to breed successfully.

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Aap Ki Adalat is the longest running talk show in the history of Indian television. In this show, the anchor, Mr. Rajat Sharma has grilled over 500 personalities on various sensitive and personal issues. We would like to put the key members of the jQuery Foundation through a similar session, where participants will ask them hard questions around various technical and non-technical choices made by the Foundation and the future direction of the foundation.

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We will also cover how we are integrating the Atlassian JIRA into the vxVistA.org site for community logging and tracking of issues/bugs. This is Phase II of our roll-out of the vxVistA.org site, originally released in late 2009, with our eventual goal of creating a shared development and code management environment for both GUI development and CHUI development.

vxVistA.org is sponsored by DSS, Inc. and Open Health Tools. During the design and development phase of this project, experts in collaboration from all around the world including USA, Argentina, Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany, England and Netherlands, joined forces to support this effort. Companies and Individuals donated their time and software licenses to make this happen.

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Deanne Clark is the Product Manager for DSS Commercial VistA system. She has over 8 years of experience in project management and product management for all phases of the electronic health record software life cycle from charter, to prototype, to testing, documentation, implementation, and support for clinical, administrative, and fiscal modules within VistA in the VA and the commercial vxVistA System.

For the last four years, Ms. Clark has overseen the development of an Open Source commercial VistA offering for use in non-VA health care environments including medical schools, ambulatory care clinics, and inpatient mental health facilities. Her focus remains on developing solid user-driven enhancements in clinical decision support, reporting, and fostering meaningful use of the VistA EHR system while expanding its user base beyond the VA and expanding its patient base to be more inclusive of women’s health and pediatrics.

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Have worked over four years at DSS in the implementation, customization and configuration of vxVistA and vxCPRS. Also provided training and consultation for end-users. Have managed the vxVistA staff for three years, developing staff and promoting methodologies to ensure optimal customer satisfaction with all implementation and end user support.

Years of hands-on experience as a Clinical Application Coordinator and as a Mental Health ADPAC (Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator). This experience has resulted in developing a skill set for configuring, customizing, implementing, and training in vxVistA/vxCPRS. I am also skilled at communicating with others, both within DSS as well as external customers.

Oversee implementation, configuration, customization and training of vxVistA/vx CPRS at various sites.. Be one of the points of contact for all communication between DSS and it commercial customers. Directly supervise the Project Managers for all implementations.

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J.D. Keith comes from a background in network computing, telecommunications, and ERP applications and support. I joined DSS in the Spring of 2009, after serving for 3 years as the IT/ERP Support Manager at Nicklaus Golf Equipment Company in West Palm Beach, FL. Extensive experience in IT and Systems Computing/Management across many platforms from Mainframe Systems and Wide Area Networks to Desktop/PC and peripheral support, along with extensive IT procurement and budget management, experience in selection and implementation of both hardware and software systems across many industries and management methodologies.

Among my hallmark projects I can count both forklift and upgrade implementation projects from 5 to 50,000 users and have successfully managed groups and teams in completing projects of varied size and complexity.

My nearly two decades of systems analysis and direct experience with a broad spectrum of hardware and software species enables me to assess situations and circumstances quickly in order to properly design and configure network computing systems to support scalability and operational efficiency, as well as to manage and maintain a budgetary constraint perspective when necessary for providing cost effective solutions in systems implementations.

Extensive research, reading, and daily interaction with staff members at DSS have enabled me to assimilate volumes of information specific to Health Care IT in order to support vxVistA-OS EHR systems, assist Research and Development in resolving ongoing issues, and establish procedures for regular management, support, and maintenance of the hardware and software used in delivering vxVistA-OS for clients hosting their own vxVistA-OS platform and vxVistA ASP hosted services.

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Greg Dicum is a technologist and journalist (New York Times, The Economist). As the founder of MondoWindow, the first ever web property for the connected air traveler, Greg is using location to disrupt the $6 billion in-flight entertainment space.

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The rapid penetration of in-flight wifi is initiating a disruptive cycle in one of the last unconnected pockets of consumer technology. By using this developing infrastructure to bring location to the air traveler, MondoWindow turns the plane into a browser and turns the moving map into the foundation for a new kind of in-flight entertainment. Read more.
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Yesterday, Minn. Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota held an impromtu conference call with reporters. The gist was to remind markets of the gravitational pull of the ZIRP. As we proposed last week, we feel the markets are adjusting to a Quantitative Easing Big Bang of real rates, dollar carry trades and international FX reserve flows. This complex and violent adjustment has been neatly packaged as the "tapering boogeyman." Kocherlokota put it this way, "We must bring that point forward and hammer it every time we talk about policy." "That point" was/is that the Funds rate would remain 0-25bp long after LSAPs not just tapered but ended.

We believe the unwind of several years of dollar carry has mostly taken place. We are watching China closely because we believe their cash crunching shadow banking (tipped by rising real yields here) was a precursor to floating the Renminbi. Contrary to Congressional calls of "manipulation", after some volatility, we think the Yuan would fall. (Since the 90's the Chinese have been very cognizant that floating the ccy was more a banking system risk than a trade flow risk.)

The credit component in money markets perked up yesterday as seen in Eurodollar strips. Five contributing banks raised their setting. Meanwhile, CME Group raised margins on the complex and the growing cleared swap contracts. The system is already burdened with collateral obligations and BBG reported chatter that the Euros were considering restricting bank rehypothication activities. Financial System 2.0 appears to go into lock-down mode quickly.

If the ZIRP gravity has any strength left, then  rates markets need to respond through the new (and considerably higher coupon) supply. Beyond that is a Holiday week and an employment report long over due for an upside outlier. In monetary policy, gravity's more of a guideline than a law.

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Unis’tot’en solidarity

In case you somehow hadn’t noticed, heavy shit is afoot. Worldwide, the continued ravenous exploitation of the land proceeds apace, largely unchallenged and almost universally unchecked. The increasing thirst for resources means that our civilisation is turning to more and more desperate measures to supply the goods. One such demand is for energy – without new energy supplies, the whole precarious house of cards is going to come tumbling down faster than you can say Peak.

If you’re not familiar with them, the Unis’tot’en camp in British Columbia is worth taking a few minutes to acquaint yourself with. In the many, long struggles that there have been – and will continue to be – against the march of the Machine, their contribution stands out. The energy companies want to lay pipelines on their land to transport fracked gas and tar sands oil. The Unis’tot’en have vowed that the energy companies will not lay pipelines on their unceded territories – to back up their words, they have set up camp and maintain a strict  border control on those lands. Last week, the stakes of their struggle were raised when they evicted surveyors from the land and confiscated their equipment. Now, they have called out for expressions of solidarity and any assistance that the wider community can offer. This Tuesday, 27th November, is a day they are asking for a wide show of action in support.

The stance of the Unis’tot’en camp is uncompromising and I, far away and with little to offer, can only add my voice to the chorus of support. This is their land and they are devoted to protecting it. They know the forces that are arrayed against them, but they also have many examples of what happens to land that energy companies defile. I believe the Unis’tot’en camp to be the shape of things to come. If we do not defend what we love against the monster we have created, what is to stop it devouring the Earth entirely?

If you would like to know more, you can go here: Call for solidarity actions on Tuesday November 27th or watch a subMedia.tv video about their struggle here. Please take a moment to click the links and be inspired – you can also donate to their cause here.

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Introduction to Special Issue on China and the Environment

Written by Martin Thorley.

The question of China’s natural environment has the potential to become the country’s defining issue over the next years and decades. Previously dismissed as a non-mainstream concern, the rapid deterioration of the environment has forced the issue to the top table and it is now considered a topic that has bearing on questions surrounding economic development and even the Chinese model of governance. Over the course of this week, contributors will explore the environment in China from a number of different standpoints.

Han Zhaoqing offers background by considering the evolution of environmental history in China as a subject. Matthew Currell offers a closer look at China’s groundwater woes, suggesting that the issue has ramifications that go far beyond China’s borders. Sarah Rogers offers us insight from her work on the Loess Plateau, investigating adaption strategies in rural regions in the face of climate change. Kevin Deluca and Elizabeth Brunner consider the arena of social media in terms of environmental protests. They extrapolate their findings to ask pertinent questions of the relationship between activism and the online sphere. Judith Shapiro offers a timely review of the state of ENGOs given the changing environment in which they operate. And finally, Xinsheng Liu and Ren Mu assess changing public attitudes toward the environment in China and ask what this means for the future.

We hope that you enjoy this special issue of CPI: Analysis. You can follow us on twitter or facebook to keep up to date with news from CPI: Analysis.

Martin Thorley is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham and an editorial assistant for the CPI: Analysis blog.

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The Best Chocolate Cookies! (DF/GF)

Hello Everyone,

I really wanted to make some big, chocolate cookies that were DF/GF and this is what i came up with!

These can come up pretty dry, thats why I recommend adding in as much milk as you think you need. I’ve written half a cup of milk, but you may need more!

Hope you enjoy them, let me know if you’ve made them!

Love B x

Makes 11 regular size cookies, or 8 large ones

You will need:

  • 200g of butter (or a substitute, such as olive oil based)
  • 1/2 cup of caster sugar (can always add in 1 cup if you want it really sweet)
  • 2 Tablespoons of maple/golden syrup
  • 1 egg (or chia alternative)
  • Vanilla Extract
  • 275g of self raising GF flour (or regular)
  • 60-75g of cocoa powder (really chocolatey go for 75)
  • 1/2 cup milk of your choice
  • Large bar of the chocolate of your choice (Dairy free, or regular); I like using white, milk, and dark chocolate for the variation 🙂

Let’s go…..

  1. Start by preheating your oven to 200 c
  2. Cream your butter, sugar, and maple syrup in a big bowl
  3. Add in your egg, and stir until well blended
  4. Add 1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
  5. Stir in the sifted flour and cocoa, and mix until well combined (sometimes easier to mix with your hands!)
  6. Add 1/2 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon at a time until you get your desired consistency
  7. Add all of your chosen chocolate to the cookie mix, and mix until all chocolate is dispersed evenly (I used 70% dark cocoa chocolate)
  8. Line two baking sheets, and roll out your cookies with a good gap between them on the tray
    15034437_10211546091674713_1310111726_o (as you can see, I left my mix in big pieces, I would recommend flattening them down a bit before baking)
  9. Cook in the oven for 10-11 minutes
  10. They may not look done, but trust me. Take out the cookies, and leave them on the baking trays for half an hour until cooled. Enjoy!

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Welcome to my Craft Room

Hello and welcome to Crafty Kayes Room. I enjoy cardmaking, scrapbooking, off the page and miniatures. I would like to share some of my projects with you. I hope that you enjoy your time here and will visit again soon.

Monday, October 31, 2016

Whizz Kids Cards

Some children's cards today using the fabulous Whizz Kids range of papers from Blue Edge Crafts.
The first is an easel card.

I have used some of the cute die cuts and bows from the pack for my second little girls card.

A couple of cards for the boys.
I have used the papers , die cuts, flags and tags from the Whizz kids pack.

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Loz said...

Fantastic cards and images kaye. i Love the design of the first easel card..loz


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In this day and age, people have become accustomed to multitasking. This especially holds true in the corporate world where there is a misconception that it is better to multitask to be more efficient at work. I myself have become a victim of this unhealthy practice. I was a workaholic before and I got used to multitasking because in a fast-paced corporate world, that’s what was expected from everyone.

But over time, I came to experience the side effects of overworking and multitasking. I suffered from creative burnout and my brain wasn’t as sharp anymore as it used to be. My energy levels dropped and I felt mentally exhausted most of the time. I even tried taking vitamins to keep my energy levels up. But it wasn’t as effective as I had hoped.

It’s been years since I had a long relaxing vacation. I’ve been missing out on so many things. And last year, my life was so toxic that I had to cleanse my mind from all the negativity and bad vibes. One day I gave myself a break. I went to the park and allowed myself to relax and enjoy my surroundings. But I know I need more than that.

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Lately, I’m thinking of starting to live a balanced lifestyle. I plan to give more time for myself and enjoy life. I always believe in living in the moment and taking time to appreciate the simple things in life and be one with nature. But certain obligations and limitations prevented me from doing just that.

This year, I am hoping that I will have time for that, and that it will be the start of a long-term balanced lifestyle.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Snowflake Friends

Hello Crafters!

Longtime no see right?!
I have really missed being over here on the Create A Smile blog with you all! Today we are going to be making a super easy but really pretty snowflake background.

Ready? Let's do this!

I really wanted to use the gorgeous colors that are in the sequin pack from the latest kit. I thought it would be awesome to create a fun winter background that I could pair with just about any sentiment.

I couldn't come back and not bring a video. Pssht. Please. You can check it out below ;)

Don't be afraid to mix up your colors and build those layers. This is the type of background that could easily be recreated with flowers or leaves no matter what the season!

Thank you so much for stopping in today!
It truly is lovely to see you guys again xoxo

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Christmas Shaker Ornament

Hi everyone! Raluca here with a new Christmas project!!!

The moment I saw the die included in the "Frosty Fun" winter kit I thought that it will look absolutely gorgeous as a Christmas tree ornament!

* I die cut 3 times the die, twice from white cardstock and one time from blue glitter paper.
* I added 2 layers of foam tape so my shaker mix would have enough space to move around.
* I glued the bottom piece of the die inside the shaker and I added the sequins.
* On a strip of white cardstock I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark and added silver embossing powder.
* I adhered the sentiment on the ornament and my project was done.

With Candles and glitter

Frosty Fun Kit

If you love Instagram like I do, you can follow Create A Smile using the name @createasmilestamps and if you have any questions about card making, techniques or products or if you want to share your creations with Create A Smile fans join us on our Facebook group Create A Smile - Friends & Family :).

Have a lovely Tuesday!
Thanks for stopping by,

Monday, November 28, 2016

Merry christmas.......

Hi there it's Anja again with another christmascard to show you.

As you already may have noticed create a smile stamps has a new kit, the frosty fun kit and believe me it's an awesome new kit. Perfect for the Christmas and holiday cards but also for a lot of other cards.
For today I wanted to share a christmascard with you.

I started with a topfolded white cardbase and used the stencil from the kit to get a vague background.
I used the adorable dieset from the kit but only the inner part.
I sponged the upper part with distress ink, glitterspary and some water.
The bottom part I colored with some copics to get some shadow.
I adhered it to the card and made the sentiment by using the letterstickers from the kit.
Rounded the corners of the card and some twine at the top and my card was finished.

Frosty fun kit

To create a vague background use a light ink color and only sponge part of the pattern.
If you want to line up the letterstickers to form a word place them onto a ruler and positioning the word onto your card and you can easily place them.

Visit us on a regular base to get lots of inspiration and please join in the fun for the new challenge to come.

Have a great week;
Hugs Anja

Traditional Christmas cards by Terhi Koskinen

Hello Create A Smile fans!

Terhi here today, with Christmas cards. Yes, as a scrapbooker I went far away from my comfort zone and created simple Christmas cards.

The basic idea was to create as simple cards as possible. I'm the kind of person who get bored fast, so I wanted to create something my daughters can re-create and be inspired by if they want to. They are passionate little crafters and always copying my samples, so this time I actually took advantage of it. I made these six, they made lots more.

In order to craft with kids, let them be creative! I made the sample, left all material for them but I didn't give them specific instructions how to do it. Rolling die cutting machine is exciting for them (well, for me too :D) so they did that by themselves as well. It's not that serious if the frames aren't even, or there is glue all over. It's fun, it's handmade and it's creative!

Stamps: Make A Wish

Did you notice our newest kit? It's called 'Frosty Fun' I highly recommend you to take a look - it's amazing! You'll find it here.

Have a great week!

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Christmas Card with New Kit!

Hi Everyone! If you didn't already know this, Create A Smile has released a brand new kit! And don't worry, this kit is not only for Christmas cards but it's versatile. I will share some non-Christmas cards ideas next time but for today, I couldn't resist to make some christmas cards.

As you might have guessed, I used the stencil! I coloured my white texture paste with a bit of red to create this soft pink. I used my red distress ink (Barn Door). You can add more ink or less to make the colour for vibrant or muted.

I've also embossed the big sentiment on vellum with Gold Embossing powder and finished the card with some sequins that you can also get from the kit.

Follow Create A Smile on Facebook keep yourself updates on all the happenings and if you're an Instagram addict like I am, you can follow Create A Smile using this name : @createasmilestamps ! :)

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God is returning community to ministry. The way it began in the book of Acts in the Bible. Actually, in Genesis. If you look at it, God always began with an individual or a family; Abraham, Noah. A community of people or person who loved and served Him. With these, He would change the world!

Ministry was never meant to build empires but people. Your ministry heading or vision may be “nations” but the intent is not to conquer…not even for God, but to build (Isaiah 61: 1-4).

1“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.

Not to make celebrities of ourselves but become servants of all. Slaves; to use Jesus’ term (Matthew 20: 25-28).

The deepest soul need of mankind, other than regeneration is community, connection and purpose fulfilled in serving within that community. This is God’s design- He is building us into a “house” not an empire or a business, but a house. And what resides in a house, but a “family”? 1 Peter 2:5, Ephesians 2:19-22

Let us return to Jesus’ model of 12 friends, doing life and changing the world. I have seen this model with my own eyes. I have witnessed the power of it to transform a generation and bring life to all who are touched by it! Matthew10: 5-8

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done. On earth, as it is in heaven.”  Matthew 6:10

If you want to learn more about living the Kingdom life, I would love to help you!      540x293_20121001_d149731f399549ce1cf41528fc30ccd5111_jpg

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Denver Area’s First Bitcoin ATM And Educational Kiosk Is Now Open – Hidden Bitcoin Promotion Begins Wednesday, July 30, Two Bitcoin Up For Grabs

XBTeller, a Denver based digital currency services company, today announced their plans to launch a network of bitcoin kiosks at locations around Colorado.prrwadvert The company’s first kiosk is now open for business, hosted at The Big Tomato, a long-standing hydroponics and organic garden center in Aurora, CO.

Bitcoins a Mile High – Colorado will soon be home to a number of bitcoin ATMs and educational kiosks, aimed at giving residents an opportunity safely buy and sell the digital currency, or simply to learn more about bitcoin. “The Bitcoin protocol may be the most significant invention of our time – a grand experiment and global phenomenon based on free will and math; we are thrilled to be apart of it,” says XBTeller CEO, Noah Berger. The company is hoping to get people in the Denver area excited about bitcoin by giving some away. Hiding it, actually.

Taking a page from the HiddenCash playbook the company is celebrating their opening with a weeklong Hidden Bitcoin promotion in the Denver area. Starting Wednesday, July 30th twitter followers will receive clues pointing them to bitcoin paper wallets containing prizes ranging from 0.1 XBT up to 1 XBT (currently about $60-$600). ‘XBT’ is the proposed ISO currency code for bitcoin. Follow @XBTeller on twitter for clues and updates.

XBTeller kiosks provide a safe and convenient place to buy and sell bitcoin for dollars without long delays or costly international wire transfer fees. Customers can buy just $5 worth of bitcoin from a bitcoin ATM manufactured by Lamassu. An XBTeller attendant will assist customers looking to sell their bitcoin for cash. XBTeller charges a flat 5% commission for their nearly instant peer-to-peer service.

The company is largely focused on exposure and education. They aim to teach consumers more about digital currencies like bitcoin, and demonstrate the many ways it can be used alongside the legacy financial system. XBTeller says they will do that by building an interactive content network and by staffing their kiosks with bitcoin experts to assist newcomers, answer questions, and provide customer service.

“The majority of people haven’t heard of Bitcoin. Of those who have, many are misinformed about its purpose and potential, and only a tiny fraction actually own or use it. We aim to change that by building an experience that targets the 99 out of 100 people who don’t have a bitcoin wallet on their phone yet,” Berger says. “I think that experience starts best with a conversation and an opportunity to ask questions. It’s hard to walk up to an ATM and feel a personal connection, so we’ve added the human back into the process.” Berger sees the attended kiosk model his company is testing as a transitional step to be gradually phased out as the general public becomes more familiar with bitcoin.

The company says their kiosk attendants are ready to help throughout the transaction process. That includes clearing up common misconceptions surrounding bitcoin, and explaining security risks; even sending a micro transaction to a new user’s wallet demonstrating the ease and speed of transactions on the bitcoin network. Also, according to Berger, “the opportunity to gain direct feedback from new or potential users will be invaluable to refining our education efforts. We hope to share that insight with other companies in the bitcoin space building user-centric platforms.”

One promising use case for bitcoin is in the $15billion remittance market currently dominated by Western Union and Moneygram. But even bitcoin’s greatest supporters would admit that the network doesn’t yet have enough participants to make it practical in all situations. “Risk tolerant investors have totally different goals than a typical remittance customer or a couple interested in setting up a multi-signature ‘joint savings account.’ We want to make sure everyone understands what bitcoin allows for right now and what its current limits are. For most people, bitcoin is probably best viewed as an experiment they can participate in voluntarily, not as an investment,” Berger explains.

XBTeller was founded in January 2014 with the goal of making bitcoin more accessible to newcomers, while still providing a useful service to veteran users. By eliminating many of the risks and delays involved with using overseas exchanges, XBTeller wants to help those interested in cryptocurrency test the waters at a comfortable pace. XBTeller hopes to prepare the people of Colorado for the future of money as they see it. In service of that goal, they plan to install additional bitcoin ATMs in Denver, Boulder, Blackhawk and Breckenridge before the year’s end.

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A downloadable game for Windows

So Ludum Dare's theme was "Entire Game in one Screen". I figured "Entire Game in one Scream" was an apt compromise.

Necromancers are beings whose powers over the living and the dead hold almost no limits. In fact, the only real limit is that they can only cast one spell a day.

Meet Lilith. She found a loophole. She just casts very long spells after taking a very deep breath.

Inhale deeply, enthrall the populace, challenge authority, and find out if you're a bad enough dudette to kill President Derek.

-WASD/Arrow keys to move
-Left click to fire
-Space to breathe
-Esc to quit
-F4 to fullscreen
-F9 to screenshot

Finished 6th overall, 7th in fun, 9th in audio for Ludum Dare 31, in spite of having a part about mashing the space button.

Published Feb 14, 2015

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

I travel to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming on a semi-regular basis to visit friends and relatives and to try and lasso an elusive trout or two.  The Hills are also a wonderful place to collect mineral specimens from some of the numerous pegmatites.  Campgrounds are abundant and the geology is well-exposed.

Generally speaking the Hills are cored by Precambrian rocks, both of Archean and Proterozoic ages, and their exposures create some of the best known attractions, i.e. the Needles Highway and Mt. Rushmore.  It is interesting to note that these same Precambrian rocks are perhaps 15,000 feet below the surface in the Williston Basin to the immediate north of the Hills.  A very long (time-wise) unconformity separates the Precambrian rocks from the overlying Paleozoic rocks---usually the Deadwood Formation.  At some meeting I attended (my mind fails at attempting to recall which meeting) the speaker threw out a time gap of about one billion years plus.  The Deadwood represents the transgressive phase, shoreline and shallow marine, of the early Paleozoic seaway.  As this seaway moved from west to east (today’s direction) the shoreline sandstone ranges in age from Early Cambrian (southern California), late Early Cambrian [Pioche Formation, western Utah], early Middle Cambrian [Tintic Quartzite, central Utah] (Hintze and Kowallis, 2009), early Late Cambrian [Sawatch Formation, Colorado] (Myrow and others, 2003) to latest Cambrian-Early Ordovician Deadwood Formation (Sokoloski, 2005).  All of these sandstones are termed Cratonic Quartz Arenites and are sheet-like in nature.  These rocks represent a classic example of marine waters slowly encroaching onto the Precambrian rocks of the Craton (the central stable part of the continent).

Diagram of the Black Hills uplift by A. N. Strahler but taken from Trimble, 1980.
The remainder of the Paleozoic in the Black Hills is represented by sandstones, shales and carbonates related to numerous transgressions and regressions of marine waters; unconformities are numerous.  Perhaps the best known Paleozoic rocks are the Mississippian Pahasapa Limestone (Madison Formation), home of Wind Cave, and the Pennsylvanian Minnelusa Formation (home of Teepee Canyon Agates and ultimately Fairburn Agates)---see blog posting8/18/12).

The Triassic-Jurassic starts out with the redbeds of the Spearfish Formation (forming the racetrack around the Hills), transforms to marine carbonates and shales and ends with deposition of the non-marine, dinosaur-bearing Morrison Formation.

Marine waters again invaded in the Cretaceous period; the rocks are represented by sandstones, shales and carbonates deposited during four marine transgressive-regressive phases.

Cenozoic non-marine rocks may have, at one time, been present in the Black Hills.  However, physical outcrops do not remain.  There seems not to be evidence of Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the Hills.
The doubly plunging anticline representing the structural feature of the Hills is Laramide in age (the Rocky Mountains uplift orogeny), probably beginning about 62 Ma (Cretaceous) and continuing into the Eocene (Redden and Lisenbee, 1996).

A domed Spearfish Peak, elevation 5796 feet, rising from Northern Black Hills south of Spearfish, South Dakota.

Tertiary phonolitic rocks moving down slope (gravity) on the southeast flank of Spearfish Peak.  The Junior Geologist for scale.
During my last few trips exploring for minerals I have been fascinated with tracking down a few of the Tertiary intrusives (Eocene) that dot the landscape both within the Hills (i. e. Crow Peak---see blog posting 8/14/12) and on the Plains (i.e. Bear Butte---see blog posting 6/10/12).  The best known of these intrusive structures is probably Devil’s Tower situated in Wyoming west of the Hills about 35 miles.  Most of the intrusives are laccoliths although a few are sills.

Geologic Map of the Black Hills near Spearfish, South Dakota.  Spearfish Peak, mapped in red as Tp (Tertiary Phonolitic Intrusive Rocks), dominates the skyline south of Spearfish “city”.  Map from DeWitt and others 1989.
Saw-cut surface of phonolite with massive nephaline and black sprays of aegirine-augite.  Note a feldspar lathe towards upper right corner.  The "light-colored" specks are probably nosean.
During my last trip in summer 2013 I had the Junior Geologist haul me up some back country roads to a locality termed Spearfish Peak.  This mountain dominants the landscape south of the town of Spearfish (northern Hills) yet is somewhat difficult to locate on the USFS roads.  However, it was worth the drive as the exposed rocks of the Mountain are sort of “different”, at least to me!  Roberts and Rapp (1965) described the intrusive rocks at Spearfish  Peak as a phonolite with aegirine-augite, nosean, sodalite, and nephaline.  Pretty interesting!  DeWitt and others (1989) mapped Spearfish Peak as “phonolitic intrusive rocks of Eocene and Paleocene age” and part of a group of sills and laccoliths occurring from west of Lead to near Galena.  The mineralogy seems complicated with numerous feldspathoid minerals, aegirine-augite, biotite and sphene along with feldspars and others.  They also noted that the phonolites were characterized by anomalously high concentrations of barium and strontium.  Unfortunately I have neither a polarizing microscope nor an XRD nor an XRF to confirm this analysis.

Phonolite collected on Spearfish Peak.  The dark mineral sprays are aegirine-augite.  Width of rock ~11 cm.
 However, there are quite interesting macro-crystals in the phonolite that are visible to the eye and especially impressive as seen with a binocular microscope.  Very large crystals of aegirine [NaFe3+SiO2O6] or perhaps aegirine-augite are scattered on the surface almost as radiating sheathes. I really never understood much about aegirine until my friend Pete at the USGS gave me a crash course on some of the pyroxenes.  That information is present in a blog posting on 3/17/13.

Photomicrograph of Spearfish Peak phonolite showing Aegirine (A), Nephaline (N), and possibly Nosean (?). Width ~1 cm.

Photomicrograph showing possible Nosean (?).  Width of photo ~1 cm.
Using a binocular scope it appears that I can also identify nephaline [(NaK)AlSiO4] and nosean [sodalite group Na8(Al6Si6O24)(SO4)-H2O].  I could not locate the described sodalite.

Whatever the case, this field trip to Spearfish Peak was exciting and I was able to collect a somewhat uncommon rock—phonolite--- with some uncommon minerals exposed in an interesting laccolith.

DeWitt, E., J.A. Redden, D. Buscher, and A.B. Wilson, 1989, Geologic map of the Black Hills area, South Dakota and Wyoming: United States Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1910.

Hintz, L.F. and B.J. Kowallis, 2009, Geologic history of Utah: Brigham Young University geology Studies Special Publication 9
Myrow, P.M., J.F. Taylor, J.F. Miller, R.L. Ethington, R.L. Ripperdan, and J. Allen, 2003, Fallen arches: Dispelling Myths concerning Cambrian and Ordovician paleogeography of the Rocky Mountain Region: Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Redden, J.A., and A.L. Lisenbee, 1996, Geologic Setting, Black Hills, South Dakota, in C.J. Patterson and J.G. Kirchner, eds., Guidebook to the Geology of the Black Hills: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Bulletin 19.
Roberts, W.L. and G. Rapp Jr., 1965, Mineralogy of the Black Hills: South Dakota Schools of Mines and Technology Bulletin 18.

Sokoloski, W. P., 2005, Sedimentology and ichnology of Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician sandstone in the Deadwood Formation, Northern Black hills, South Dakota, and Southeastern Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming: MS Thesis, University of Toledo.

Trimble, D.E., 1980, The geologic story of the Great Plains: United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1493.


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A| 04.14.15 |Tuesday (2nd year)

  • CCV GD1/GD2/DIM students: project check-in with an instructor
  • Print your resume and place in hand in box. Due EOD Today
  • Meg meet with instructor to review LSC portfolio requirements

Projects/Assignments/Client Work:

Bookjacket Project. ALL

  • update authors bio: replace existing authors bio with Shauna’s on all
  • art direction: see comp and make revisions
  • Comps due before break

10589 Dental Thank you cards. Keana

  • waiting on client response

10586 EHS Prom tickets. Meg

  • waiting on client response

10580 VT Phil Spring. Chad

  • have client OK, print’em
  • Do not submit for grading until program is complete

10579 Natural Resources Maple Syrup Sticker. Meg

  • Meet with instructor to explain revisions. Spellcheck. Make revisions then send first proof to client.

10567 GD Recruitment cards Chad

  •  PC #3 build comp. For images Use PS, IA Wacom tablet, digital camera icons Text; should include a quote (something about taking the first step) Due EOD ToDAY

10573 CTE Logo Rebrand Meghan

  • continue to work on comps

10558. Girls Rock Vermont promotional postcard. Client: Linda Bassick. Shauna

  • see email from Samara she has sent another logo. Check to see if this logo has better resolution. If so, switch logo
  • see email from Linda, add:address, phone and website under contact info.
  • We still need quantities from Linda

10508. Recognition Wayfinding Signage for Rink (large format). Client: Bob Travers. Meg***

  • see Mr. Travers this morning bring a pencil, pad and measuring tape

10583. Recognition Invitation. Client: Bob Travers. Meg

  • check postcard size & if an envelope is needed.
  • send revised postcard and ticket to client for approval

10525 LF Prints. Sarah Knight. Meg

  • See client email; one new quote and two small corrections

10504. Pro Foods Rebranding. Client: John Barton. Logo due Q1. Chad.

  • style guide – waiting for instructor to proof
  • duplexed leave – place new imagery and get instructor feedback.
  • menu template – continue refining design as a InDesign file. Once you have approval from teacher, build interactive PDF.

10514  Winooski Valley Park District posters. Meg

  • waiting client feedback (see email)

10513. Education Consulting Logo/Identity. Client: Mike Deweese. Keana

  • Waiting on Village copy for revised estimate
  • waiting on estimate from Pop Color (Mike) envelope: 250, letterhead 1500, BC 1000.
  • make a word template- see Ms. V

10550. CNS Print Materials. Client: Scott Fay. Shauna.

  • waiting on client response
  • Deanna, get estimate from Creative label

10502. BT Trailer Decals. Client: Jim Gilmartin. Chad.

  • waiting on estimate from Yipes, send reminder email

10503. Non Trad Poster. Client: Lynn Vera/Bob Travers. Due date TBDKeana

  • smooth out selection on Karissa, re-color background on Kodi. Print and show to instructor
  • We need to print/frame copies for the models.

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