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The dyslexic brain may have problems in forming perception categories for// printed letters and sounds, says a new study. This may lead to the dyslexics finding it difficult to filter out visual disturbances that may obscure the pattern of letters in front of them.

The research by the scientists from University of Southern California, US, brings out a new dimension in the nature of the workings of a dyslexic brain.

Dyslexia is a learning disorder in an otherwise healthy person. A dyslexic child may have the condition lifelong, although trained helpers may help the child to some extent in coping with classroom work.

The study had found that dyslexic children and normal children perform equally well when there are no visual noises to distract them. This shows that the dyslexic children have difficulty in setting their visual filters to ignore the visual distractions and concentrate on the letters in the front of them. The main problem of dyslexic children, said the study, is in focusing on what is relevant by ignoring the rest in their visual periphery. This theory raises doubt on the previous magnocellular hypothesis that held that dyslexics had inability to process rapidly passing visual signals.

The research is published in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience.

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Re. brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

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"John Knight" <jwknight at> wrote:
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>There are NO genetic diseases like this in the Caucasian Race, and only ONE
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McLEOD, PETER, timber contractor; b. c. 1807 most likely in Chicoutimi, Lower Canada, eldest son of Peter McLeod and a Montagnais woman; m. according to the custom of the country first Josephte Atikuapi and secondly Bélonie Siméon; two sons were born of these unions; d. 11 Sept. 1852 in Chicoutimi.

Except for a brief period of study, Peter McLeod spent his early years helping his father in the trade of various king’s posts, where he later served as a clerk from 1834 to 1836. His father, who was born in Scotland around 1784, had settled in the Saguenay region and then on the north shore of the St Lawrence at the outset of the 19th century. Engineer, surveyor, and officer in the British army, he entered the service of the North West Company, and on its merger with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 he became the confidential agent of William Lampson, the lessee of the king’s posts. He occupied this position until 1831, when the HBC secured the leasing rights.

It was during his time as Lampson’s agent that McLeod Sr became interested in lumbering in the Charlevoix region. Acting virtually as a timber contractor, he built sawmills for rental in La Malbaie, served as a timber supplier, and obtained felling rights. From 1827 to 1836 he became one of the principal sources of timber for William Price*, who was then established at La Malbaie. In September 1836 he entrusted his eldest son with the responsibility for his facilities and commitments. But Peter’s assumption of control evidently did not produce very satisfactory results. From 1837 to 1842 the McLeods’ debts to Price continued to grow, and by the end of the latter year had reached £2,200. It is in the context of indebtedness, and also of Price’s desire to be the first timber contractor established as far up the Saguenay as Chicoutimi, that the partnership between Price and the McLeods must be seen.

Price could not himself acquire the felling rights and the letters patent on mill sites or on land in the region because of the prerogatives over this territory granted to the HBC until 2 Oct. 1842, and its antagonism towards him. He therefore proposed to use McLeod Jr to push farther inland along the Saguenay. With the help of the Société des Vingt et Un [see Alexis Tremblay], McLeod had established himself between Tadoussac and Grande-Baie by 1837. Since, as a Montagnais on his mother’s side, he had natural rights to circulate freely among the king’s posts and to settle there, Price would be able, through him, to thwart the HBC and achieve his goal of exploiting the region’s rich pine stands. This prospect prompted the agreement between Price and the McLeods.

The terms of the contract concluded before notary Laughlan Thomas Macpherson on 7 Nov. 1842 reveal a good deal about the intentions and interests of both parties. The assumption by the younger McLeod of managerial responsibility would discharge part of the debt he and his father owed Price. To wipe out the rest of it, Price agreed to purchase 20,000 deals from the McLeods’ sawmill on the Rivière Noire for £1,200 and then to acquire the mill. McLeod Jr was to receive a £2,000 advance in equipment and cash, so that he could lay the foundations for sawmills on the Rivière du Moulin and the Rivière Chicoutimi. McLeod undertook to acquire from the crown the property rights at the entrance to these waterways and on their banks. The agreement specified that the new facilities were the joint property of the McLeods and Price, with profits and losses to be shared equally.

McLeod never managed to get title to the two mill sites, despite a request on 26 Oct. 1842 to Sir Charles Bagot* – the matter would not be settled until 1862, ten years after McLeod’s death, when in the absence of a will or legal heirs, his estate passed to Price. But his lack of success did not stop him from setting himself up on the Rivière du Moulin and at Chicoutimi, and from launching the timber industry and settlement on the Saguenay. In August 1842, relying on his natural rights and eager to take advantage of the good season, McLeod, his wife Josephte Atikuapi, and his son John had left the Rivière Noire with 23 men to begin construction on the Rivière du Moulin. The following winter he had the “building yards going,” and he wrote to Price that lack of snow was delaying the transport of logs; he also explored Lac Kénogami and asked his partner to send him an engineer as well as equipment for building the conduit and the dam. By May, Price had met his request, and at the same time had sent him supplies for the store. A few months later, during the summer, as settlement proceeded on both banks of the Saguenay, McLeod gave permission for large areas to be cleared in the vicinity and on the slopes overlooking the settlement of Rivière-du-Moulin. He was thus able to begin sowing in the first year of his operation.

In 1844 McLeod shifted his attention to the Rivière Chicoutimi, to the west of the Rivière du Moulin. Better supplied with hydraulic power and better placed for harbour facilities, the Chicoutimi would accommodate a grist-mill and a sawmill, the first on the eastern slope and the second, set slightly back on the opposite slope, near the HBC trading post. The rivalry between the two companies and the proximity of their installations soon led to tension and clashes. Hence, to answer the HBC’s claim that the lands were an integral part of its territory, McLeod wrote to Governor Charles Theophilus Metcalfe* on 27 March 1844. His petition explained that when he arrived in the area no use was being made of these lands, and that surveyor Duncan Stephen Ballantyne, under government orders to prepare the land register, had assured him personally that they were crown lands and would be divided up for occupancy. In conclusion, McLeod informed the governor that on the strength of these arguments and of his pre-emptive right, to which he added mention of his natural privileges as an Indian and his application to purchase in 1842, he intended to remain where he was and to continue the work already begun there.

The following month Price wrote to Sir George Simpson, the HBC governor, defending his partner and asking the company to end its opposition to the plan for the sawmill. Confronted with the swift development of this establishment, which was to become the major industrial centre of the Saguenay region and indeed one of the most important in Lower Canada, the HBC was forced to give in.

Through Ballantyne’s report, drawn up in 1845, the progress of settlement and the detailed layout of the Price–McLeod establishments can be ascertained. At the Rivière du Moulin were clustered a sawmill, a wharf, a chapel, Peter McLeod’s house, the general store, stables, and the smithy, and some 20 small log houses belonging to the company. At the Chicoutimi site were a sawmill, a wharf, a three-storey warehouse, a dozen resident landowners, the foundations of a grist-mill, some properties under cultivation, a dam, and the conduits for the mill-race to power the sawmill.

These establishments were designed to be self-sufficient. At a site called La Ferme, cattle, pigs, and poultry were raised and the grains to supply the lumber yards were processed. The one general store sold everything from flour and clothes to rosaries and lumbering tools. Every Saturday the settlers-cum-lumberjacks shopped for the basic needs of their families. From 1839 to 1878 merchandise was paid for with the customary tokens (a purchasing coupon issued to the bearer and exchangeable only at the store or in the company’s office) or charged to the individual’s account. The system of payment not only made it easy to run into debt and enabled the company to strengthen its hold on the local community, but also facilitated a double form of exploitation to the extent that the employer himself determined both the salary he paid and the price of goods. As manager of the Saguenay region, McLeod made sure that the system was applied and saw that his partner’s instructions were obeyed, both in regard to tree felling and to discipline in the lumber yards.

An illustration of how rigorous the working conditions were is provided in McLeod’s letter of 3 Dec. 1846 to Damase Boulanger, one of his foremen. After outlining at length the clauses concerning the hiring of workers, McLeod gave his agent directions as to the policy to be applied in the yards: “My orders are to charge those who lose time inopportunely on account of illness five shillings per day on amounts credited [to them]. . . . Any man who disobeys the orders of the one who is paid to direct him, [and] who does not give satisfaction, shall be dismissed immediately, and shall not receive a penny of his wages. . . . I want it also to be clearly understood that any repairing . . . shall be done in the evening, after the day’s work is done. . . . Working time shall be from dawn until nightfall; the men must leave the yard before daybreak in order to be at their site as soon as it is light enough to work, and they shall not leave the site until it is too dark to continue.”

It was precisely to improve the living conditions of these men and fight the stranglehold of Price and McLeod on the local population that Jean-Baptiste Honorat*, an Oblate priest, took up the cudgels for freedom. Given responsibility by his superiors to carry out missionary work in the Saguenay, he arrived at Grande-Baie on 15 Oct. 1844. In the first two weeks he had occasion to visit Rivière-du-Moulin where, to make possible his ministry to the approximately 600 residents, he advised the settlers to build a school, which could also serve as a chapel until a church was erected. Since McLeod had planned to make this place a Protestant fief, and had engaged the services of a pastor, he naturally took a determined stand against the notion of putting up buildings. At a public meeting in December he attacked Honorat and the settlers, threatening them with reprisals if they persisted.

On 4 Jan. 1845 McLeod reversed his position. He offered to rent to Honorat and the village trustees for a five-year period the site chosen by them for the building, and quite unexpectedly even contributed £10 towards construction. An explanation for McLeod’s volte-face emerged in the ensuing months. Informing his partner of the disturbing attitude of Honorat towards the power they had acquired at Chicoutimi, McLeod asked Price to approach the archbishop of Quebec, Pierre-Flavien Turgeon*, with a request to send secular priests to take the place of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and to allow the chapel at Rivière-du-Moulin to be replaced by a real church to be built midway between the two settlements of Chicoutimi and Rivière-du-Moulin; this site would, he thought, encourage the influx of new settlers and the development of a single village. In the spring of 1845 Price hastened to have a meeting with Turgeon on the matter. On 24 Feb. 1846, after negotiations with Honorat’s provincial, Father Joseph-Bruno Guigues*, the archbishop gave his agreement to the request of Price and McLeod.

Honorat decided, in the face of the tactics being used to dislodge him and his community from the Saguenay, to “liberate” the settlers from the iron rule of Price and McLeod by giving them access to landed property. In May 1846, relying on European experience, he founded the mission of Grand-Brûlé (Laterrière). The plan to set up a free agricultural colony on the Saguenay quickly attracted the attention of the settlers and at the same time aroused the apprehension of Price and McLeod. The scheme contravened the interests of the two men because it involved displacing the population, was based on both agriculture and lumbering, and cut off the sawmills of the Rivière du Moulin and the Rivière Chicoutimi from their natural sources of timber. Since their monopoly in the Saguenay region would likely be jeopardized, they reacted swiftly.

On 3 March 1849 McLeod drew up a protest against Honorat before a notary, accusing him of having diverted some settlers of Grand-Brûlé from the contracts they had entered into with him. Subsequently, Price and McLeod developed a strategy designed to oust Honorat permanently from the Saguenay region. They also claimed that his undertaking was competing with their business and was leading the Oblates to certain failure. They accused him of taking too much interest in social questions and causing his community, the clergy, indeed the entire church, to be disliked because of his lack of consideration for the local Protestant élite. Thus they forced his superiors to recall him. In August 1849 Honorat quit the Saguenay in despair, leaving the people to the mercy of Price and McLeod.

Having no legal or political means to make themselves heard, the settlers were once more submitted to McLeod’s yoke. From 1848 to 1850 he maintained his control of the timber trade and devoted some of his energies to amassing wealth in the form of land. In return for mortgages on the settlers’ lands, he advanced to them equipment and provisions from his general store; he used the law to expel settlers from the land they had cleared and sown when they did not hold a location ticket. On 29 Sept. 1849 McLeod’s special attorney went before the government investigator, Jacques Crémazie*, to explain these dispossessions. In his report of 20 Feb. 1850 Crémazie pointed out the tactics used by McLeod, and made recommendations to correct the situation. These recommendations were not, however, put into effect until the next decade.

During the years 1849 and 1850 the Canadian timber trade enjoyed a strong recovery after the 1846 crisis precipitated by Britain’s abolition of the tariffs protecting the colony, and by the slump in the market. On his partner’s behalf, McLeod set up new sawmills as he took the first steps towards the conquest of the Lac-Saint-Jean region. But Price was alarmed about McLeod’s health, and no longer felt that the 1842 contract was a sufficient guaranty, since there were no title deeds to the Rivière-du-Moulin and Chicoutimi establishments. Thus he decided in 1848 to undertake nothing further with McLeod unless a notarized contract was signed every autumn. On 21 Oct. 1850 Price submitted a request that the partnership with the McLeods be dissolved. On 2 November, as their debt to him was estimated at £4,520, he took a mortgage on the sawmill on the Chicoutimi and on the lands attached to it. When McLeod died suddenly on 11 Sept. 1852 and the legitimacy of his two sons, 16-year-old John and 5-year-old François, could not be established, Price, as creditor and trustee of the estate, became the sole owner of the establishments in the Saguenay and the largest timber merchant in Lower Canada.

Peter McLeod’s acts of generosity, particularly towards Indians, which are occasionally noted in archival records, should not be forgotten. Nor should his influence and hold on the local population be underestimated. None the less, despite the legend surrounding him, he remains the figurehead of William Price, the partnership of 1842 condemning him to play second fiddle. Disadvantaged by the agreement that joined him to Price, he died more in debt than ever, leaving to his partner a booming industry and a region rich in resources to be developed.

Gaston Gagnon

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The transient loss of consciousness, generally caused by global cerebral ischemia

Syncope is the medical term for fainting or a swoon. Possible causes of syncope are related to the general cerebral ischemia, which may then be caused by an abrupt lowering of blood pressure (hypotension), failure of the cardiac systole, hypoglemia, emotional distress, lack of sleep, and deglutition (i.e. swallow syncope).

Prior to fainting or syncope, some of the signs include dizziness, temporary loss of hearing, transient loss of sensation (e.g. pain), temporary loss of vision, nausea, muscular weakness, sweating, and palpitations. This stage prior to the actual fainting is called presyncope.1

There are different forms of syncope. Fainting associated with swallowing is called swallow syncope. Fainting associated with micturition is referred to as micturition syncope. Syncope associated with paroxysms of coughing is called tussive syncope.

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Endothelial cells are protected against phagocyte-transmitted Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections by laminar shear stress Gueinzius: Shear stress protects from C. pneumoniae infection.
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The respiratory pathogen Chlamydophila pneumoniae can be detected in atherosclerotic vessels, but the mechanism of dissemination from lung to vasculature remains unknown. Disturbance of vascular shear stress is a risk factor for atherosclerosis. We investigated whether polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) might serve as carriers, transmitting C. pneumoniae to endothelial cells and how this is affected by shear stress. PMN were prepared from blood and incubated with C. pneumoniae. Real-time PCR and Pathfinder staining showed that after 1h, 20% of C. pneumoniae were ingested and started to form inclusions. When infected PMN were co-incubated with HUVEC for 96h, 10% of PMN-ingested C. pneumoniae were transmitted to HUVEC as shown by PCR and confocal microscopy. Infection of HEp-2 cells with C. pneumoniae harvested from HUVEC resulted in C. pneumoniae replication and confirmed that the bacteria remained infective. Exposure to laminar shear stress in a rotating cone-and-plate apparatus did not affect the transmission of C. pneumoniae from PMN to HUVEC, but led to a 75% reduction of inclusion formation. This can explain the focal distribution of C. pneumoniae in the vasculature and links two risk factors of atherosclerosis, i.e. the lack of laminar flow and infection.
Katja Gueinzius; Astrid Magenau; Sonja Erath; Vanessa Wittke; Carmen Urbich; Elisa Ferrando-May; Stefanie Dimmeler; Corinna Hermann
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Title:  Atherosclerosis     Volume:  198     ISSN:  1879-1484     ISO Abbreviation:  Atherosclerosis     Publication Date:  2008 Jun
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Nlm Unique ID:  0242543     Medline TA:  Atherosclerosis     Country:  Ireland
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Biochemical Pharmacology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
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Cells, Cultured
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Chlamydophila pneumoniae / immunology*
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Further analysis of the short-term inhibition of food intake in humans by the dipeptide L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester (aspartame).
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It was reported previously that the dipeptide sweetener aspartame suppresses food intake in humans by a postingestive action. The present study examined the hypothesis that this is due to an effect of phenylalanine, one of the primary breakdown products of aspartame (phenylalanine is a potent releaser of the so-called satiety hormone cholecystokinin, CCK). Capsulated aspartame (400 mg) administered to human volunteers reduced food intake by 15% (253 kcal) in a lunchtime test meal begun 1 hour later. However, neither phenylalanine (200 mg) nor the other constituent amino acid of aspartame, aspartic acid (200 mg), altered intake compared with placebo. Despite the large effect on food intake there were no treatment differences in pre- or postmeal ratings of motivation to eat. This suggests that aspartame may act to intensify the satiating effects of ingested food. Although high doses of phenylalanine reduce food intake, an individual action of phenylalanine cannot account for the potent anorexic effect of aspartame. In discussing alternative mechanisms it is noted that the amino acid sequence of aspartame (Asp-Phe) is the same as the C-terminal dipeptide of CCK. A direct action of aspartame at CCK receptors appears to be unlikely; however, aspartame might act as CCK releaser. Further studies are required to elucidate the mechanism of aspartame's anorexic action and perhaps to evaluate its therapeutic potential as an antiobesity agent.
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Consumer Sciences Department, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading, United Kingdom.
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Aspartame / pharmacology*
Aspartic Acid / pharmacology
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Double-Blind Method
Feeding Behavior / drug effects*
Hunger / drug effects*
Neural Inhibition / drug effects*
Phenylalanine / pharmacology
Satiety Response / drug effects*
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22839-47-0/Aspartame; 56-84-8/Aspartic Acid; 63-91-2/Phenylalanine

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Measurement of dietary intake in children.
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PMID:  10946797     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE
When children and adolescents are the target population in dietary surveys many different respondent and observer considerations surface. The cognitive abilities required to self-report food intake include an adequately developed concept of time, a good memory and attention span, and a knowledge of the names of foods. From the age of 8 years there is a rapid increase in the ability of children to self-report food intake. However, while cognitive abilities should be fully developed by adolescence, issues of motivation and body image may hinder willingness to report. Ten validation studies of energy intake data have demonstrated that mis-reporting, usually in the direction of under-reporting, is likely. Patterns of under-reporting vary with age, and are influenced by weight status and the dietary survey method used. Furthermore, evidence for the existence of subject-specific responding in dietary assessment challenges the assumption that repeated measurements of dietary intake will eventually obtain valid data. Unfortunately, the ability to detect mis-reporters, by comparison with presumed energy requirements, is limited unless detailed activity information is available to allow the energy intake of each subject to be evaluated individually. In addition, high variability in nutrient intakes implies that, if intakes are valid, prolonged dietary recording will be required to rank children correctly for distribution analysis. Future research should focus on refining dietary survey methods to make them more sensitive to different ages and cognitive abilities. The development of improved techniques for identification of mis-reporters and investigation of the issue of differential reporting of foods should also be given priority.
M B Livingstone; P J Robson
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Type:  Journal Article; Review
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society     Volume:  59     ISSN:  0029-6651     ISO Abbreviation:  Proc Nutr Soc     Publication Date:  2000 May
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2000-11-15     Completed Date:  2001-03-22     Revised Date:  2005-11-16
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Nlm Unique ID:  7505881     Medline TA:  Proc Nutr Soc     Country:  ENGLAND
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  279-93     Citation Subset:  IM
Northern Ireland Centre for Diet and Health, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, UK.
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Age Factors
Child, Preschool
Diet Records*
Diet Surveys
Eating / psychology*
Energy Intake*
Energy Metabolism
Mental Recall
Obesity / psychology*
Reproducibility of Results

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Treatment of Epulis Fissuratum with carbon dioxide laser in a patient with antithrombotic medication.
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PMID:  22460320     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review
Epulis fissuratum is a pseudotumor growth located over the soft tissues of the vestibular sulcus caused by chronic irritation from poorly adapted dentures. Treatment indication for these lesions is surgical excision with appropriate prosthetic reconstruction. The hemostatic capacity of carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is well described in the literature as a useful tool in oral surgery, especially in patients with clotting disorders. This paper presents a case of a 72-year-old female patient referred to the 'Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Valongo Hospital' at Porto, Portugal, with a massive growth of vestibular oral mucosa in the mandible and maxilla associated with ill-fitting dentures, suggestive of epulis fissuratum. The patient was taking antithrombotic medication. The lesions were excised with CO2 laser, and no significant complications, such as hemorrhage, pain, swelling or infection, were recorded. Twenty days after surgery, both areas were completely reepithelizaded. Prosthetic rehabilitation and function were achieved with the fabrication of new maxillary and mandibular dentures. Follow-up 1 month and 1 year after treatment revealed the areas free of recurrence. The use of CO2 lasers is currently the gold standard in the excision of this type of lesion, especially in patients with hemorrhagic diathesis or under antithrombotic therapy.
Luís Silva Monteiro; João Mouzinho; Ana Azevedo; Marco Infante da Câmara; Marco André Martins; José Maria La Fuente
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Type:  Journal Article
Journal Detail:
Title:  Brazilian dental journal     Volume:  23     ISSN:  1806-4760     ISO Abbreviation:  Braz Dent J     Publication Date:  2012
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Created Date:  2012-03-30     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -
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Nlm Unique ID:  9214652     Medline TA:  Braz Dent J     Country:  Brazil
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Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Department, Higher Institute of Health Sciences, Paredes, Portugal.
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Study Evaluating Intravenous Progesterone Formulation BHR-100 Aims to Bring First-Ever Approved TBI Treatment to Market; Patient Enrollment Set to Complete in 2013

HERNDON, Va., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BHR Pharma, LLC announced today that the 1,000th patient has been enrolled in its SyNAPSe® clinical trial, a global phase III study evaluating the effectiveness of its proprietary intravenous progesterone infusion agent, BHR-100, to treat severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). BHR Pharma is sponsoring SyNAPSe with the intent to bring the first-ever approved TBI treatment to market.

This milestone patient was randomized at University of Louisville Clinical Research Center in Louisville, Ky., USA. The SyNAPSe trial currently has 154 participating sites, including U.S. Level 1 and 2 trauma centers, in 21 countries worldwide. Enrollment is expected to complete in 2013 with a target enrollment of 1,180 severe TBI patients.

"This is an exciting milestone for the SyNAPSe trial as we continue to develop this first-of-its kind treatment for a condition with no currently approved therapies," said Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop, M.D., Ph.D., BHR Pharma Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Research and Development. "As we complete patient enrollment this year, we are one step closer to bringing BHR-100 to market, giving hope to TBI patients with few treatment options."

BHR-100 was granted Orphan Drug designation in Europe earlier this year and in the United States in 2009. In addition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed the drug on Fast Track status designed to accelerate its potential approval. In January, BHR announced the trial's independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) interim analysis found no safety issues, indicating there was no reason to stop the study for futility and the trial could continue towards its intended completion.

Building on the promise of the SyNAPSe trial, BHR plans to initiate a phase I clinical trial for BHR-310, an intranasal progesterone powder, as a potential treatment for wounded warriors or athletes with TBI to be administered at the site of injury. Previous studies have shown the dry powder formulation to be highly efficient for targeting the brain, with very rapid absorption in the systemic circulation and even more so in the actual brain tissue.

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TBI is a serious public health problem about 3.5 million Americans have a traumatic brain injury. Once a TBI occurs, medical treatment focuses on preventing further injury and promoting rehabilitation. TBI can have a debilitating impact on a person's life, and may require daily living assistance. Despite significant efforts and more than 75 clinical trials over the past 20 years, there is still no approved treatment for TBI. Previous research has shown progesterone exerts its neuroprotective effects in a TBI by protecting or rebuilding the blood-brain barrier, decreasing development of cerebral edema (brain swelling), down-regulating the inflammatory cascade and limiting cellular necrosis and apoptosis (programmed cell death).

About BHR Pharma

Founded in January 2008, BHR Pharma, LLC (www.bhr-pharma.com) is a pharmaceutical research and development company located near Washington, D.C. BHR is committed to bringing to market specialty treatments that employ non-oral delivery systems, with an emphasis on unmet and underserved medical needs. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Besins Healthcare SA (www.besins-healthcare.com), which markets progesterone, estrogen and testosterone therapy products in 93 countries.

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SkyePharma Inc. (SKYE) Ceases Commercialization of formoterol Certihaler(R) in the United States
12/19/2008 6:41:35 AM

LONDON, UK, 19 December 2008 -- SkyePharma PLC (LSE:SKP.L - News) announces that discussions about commercialising the approved formoterol Certihaler® in the United States in 2009 have ceased. This follows last week's recommendation by the Joint Advisory Committees to the Food and Drug Administration that the benefits did not outweigh the risks in the current asthma indications for Long Acting Beta Agonists (LABAs) administered alone.

Cessation of production for formoterol Certihaler® will result in asset write downs and a related non-cash charge estimated at GBP7 million to GBP8 million. This is likely to be charged in the 2008 results.

Dr. Ken Cunningham, CEO of SkyePharma said, "It is disappointing that formoterol Certihaler® is unlikely to be commercialised, but we remain confident of the prospects of our other pipeline products including FlutiformTM which remains on track for filing in Q1, 2009."

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One can get coffee from an evergreen bush found in the tropical regions of the world. The height till which the coffee shrubs can grow to is 15 feet. Coffee is made from Coffea- shrubs that flower and give the seeds of coffee beans. The two species that help in the coffee-making process are Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora (i.e. the Robusta variety) [1].

1. For more than 11 centuries coffee has made its presence felt all over the world.

2. The International Olympic Committee includes caffeine in the 'banned' substances list (up to 12ugms of caffeine per ml of urine is permitted for athletes at the time of testing).

3. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark are the biggest per capita coffee consuming countries in the world.

4. Previously, coffee used to be called Arabian Wine in Europe [2].

5. In the US, the only state that grows coffee on a commercial scale is Hawaii (Kona coffee) [3].

6. The most expensive coffee in the world is made from the excreta of Sumatran wild cats [4]!

7. In 2001, Brazil circulated a coffee scented postage stamp [5].

8. Researchers in 2002 established that spreading ground coffee all over the garden prevents snails from coming inside [6].

9. All over the world, the 7th largest coffee producing country is India [7].

10. First food item that was freeze-dried: coffee [8].

1. Prevention of the following diseases:

Cancer- The cancer preventive properties of coffee are balanced out in the body. It brings down the occurrences of colorectal, liver and breast cancer due to the antioxidant substances that limit oxidative cell damage. But these same antioxidants can also act as catalysts in causing pancreatic cancer.

Parkinson's disease: One doesn't see the occurrence of Parkinson's disease in men for a long period of time. The positive effects of Parkinson's disease prevention is seen more prominently in men than women.

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2: Polyphenols (antioxidants) found in coffee decreases the incidence of diabetes mellitus type 2 in adults.

• Coffee also does not allow the formation of gall bladder stones in the body.

2. Occurrence of Alzheimer's disease can be prolonged: Coffee prevents the occurrence of short-term memory loss as well as dementia in persons whose age is more than 65 years [9].

3. Coffee used as an enema: Coffee in the form of an enema came into existence in 1917. It is mainly used to stimulate the liver and not to aid the intestinal functions. Dr. Gerson and his team of researchers noted that all the pain-killers could be done away with, once the patients were put on coffee enemas. Two constituents present in coffee, kahweol and cafestol palmitate, act as catalysts for the enzyme system, glutathione S-tranferase- this enzyme removes the carcinogens from the blood stream [10].

4. Greek coffee and an improved cardiovascular system: Greek coffee has a twist- it is boiled compared to the usual method of brewing coffee. Greek coffee is full of constituents that protect the heart: chlorogenic acid, polyphenols and lipid-soluble substances. It particularly benefits women, protecting them from endothelial cell dysfunction- a disease that affects the blood vessels of the heart [11].

5. Coffee in beauty treatments: As coffee has anti-inflammatory properties, it can also be used in the form of body scrubs. The constituent present in coffee, caffeine, is anti-aging agent. It can bring down the number of wrinkles that are usually seen, as a person ages and also in suppressing the pigmentation of the skin [12].

1. Coffee as fuel: Oil present in coffee grounds is usually derived from triglycerides. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are trying to convert these oils into biodiesel which is much cheaper and cleaner than the fuel we usually use [13].

2. Coffee to bring down the levels of prostate cancer recurrence: Constituents in coffee such as caffeine, cafestol, kahweol and chlorogenic acid can start apoptosis, suppress the growth of cancer as well as DNA methylation. Randomized clinical trials are yet to begin regarding the anti-carcinogenic properties of coffee in cases of prostate cancer [14].

3. Coffee and prevention of HCV (Hepatitis C Virus) infection: Studies were carried out at Padua University (Italy) to observe the effects of coffee on patients suffering from liver injuries caused due to the HCV virus. All the patients were given Arabica coffee which was 100% pure. The study had some drawbacks:

a. The time period over which the trial was conducted was too small.

b. There was no independent confirmation of patient's adherence to the study protocol
Similar studies will have to be conducted on a much larger scale and the time period of the study will have to be extended. Coffee cannot be a replacement for medical assistance that is required by patients of HCV-related liver injuries [15].

1. http://www.longbottomcoffee.com/index.php/coffee-101/the-coffee-bean/pit-of-a-coffee-cherry.html

2. http://www.missmaud.com.au/Coffee/LittleKnownCoffeeFacts.aspx

3. http://likes.com/misc/12-awesome-facts-about-coffee?page=2

4. http://coffeeloversunited.com/17-fun-facts-about-coffee-some-weird-interesting-untold-coffee-facts/

5. http://www.nescafe.com/coffee_facts_en_com.axcms

6. http://www.express.co.uk/fun/top10facts/432503/Top-10-facts-about-coffee

7. http://www.coorgcreek.com/coffeefacts.htm

8. http://visual.ly/coffee-facts-2

9. http://www.culinaryarts360.com/index.php/medicinal-uses-of-coffee-185/

10. Premier Research Labs. The Coffee Enema: Its unique history and amazing detox properties. 2006.
Website: http://www.wellnesspathways.com/handouts/coffee_enema.pdf

11. http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/heart-protecting-super-powers-greek-coffee

12. http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/12590/1/The-Beauty-Secrets-of-Coffee.html

13. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/09/cars-future-could-run-viscous-coffee-oil/6848/

14. http://www.fhcrc.org/en/news/releases/2013/08/coffee-keep-prostate-cancer-away.html

15. http://www.thebodypro.com/content/72738/hepatitis-c-unexpected-results-from-a-clinical-tri.html

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Don’t miss out as the spots are filling up quickly!  Register by June 1 and receive a discount.  Follow this link to the camp website  If you have any further questions, contact Heather at 232-0660 or

Dear Birchtree Families,
Sadly, our instructor Sarah Peyton must cancel the nonviolent communication seminar scheduled for April 25,26,&27 due to a family emergency. We hope to reschedule this seminar in the Fall.
Our thoughts are with Sarah during this difficult time.
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Above: Scene of the stabbing

A man who was repeatedly stabbed in a street attack in Birmingham is reported to be on the mend.

The 34-year-old victim of the incident in Eastwood Street is now said to be in a stable condition after suffering multiple stab wounds at around 9.40am on Wednesday.

The man, who has not yet been named, was left fighting for his life but his condition has improved significantly overnight.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said the injuries were “no longer life threatening.”

Roads around the scene - close to Edgbaston cricket ground - were closed for several hours on Wednesday following the attack .

A police investigation is underway, but no arrests have been made.

Residents were shocked when they discovered Eastwood Street and neighbouring Willows Crecent and Edward Road sealed off by police .

The cordon has now been lifted.

One person, who did not wish to be named, said: “It’s a big shock when you see the tape and all the police cars because your first thought is that it could be something to do with your house.

“When I left for work this morning nothing was going on at all.

“It’s a real shame because it’s a really nice street to live on.

“Everybody tries to look out for each other and since the Jubilee we have been holding street parties every year.”

Detectives are appealing for anyone who knows anything about the attack to get in touch.

Anyone with any information should call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”


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ROBERT Koren is confident Albion's win at Norwich City will kick-start a good run of form for Tony Mowbray's men.

The Baggies are in fourth spot but, realistically, are now jockeying for position in the play-offs.

Even if Albion were to win all of their remaining games, automatic promotion would become an impossibility should second-placed Derby take two wins from their final four games.

Monday's display at Norwich was regarded as one of Albion's best for some time and Slovenian Koren hopes it will set down the marker for the final games of the campaign.

"We played really well," said Koren. "We showed we are a good team and deserved to win. Our confidence is up now as a result but we have to show that in our remaining games."

Albion still have doubts over Neil Clement (heel), Sam Sodje (knee), Jason Koumas (foot) and Sherjill MacDonald (knee) for Friday night's game against Sheffield Wednesday.

Kevin Phillips should return after missing the trip to Norfolk because of a bug which has already struck a number of Albion's first-team squad, including Diomansy Kamara.

The Senegal international is once again being touted around by his agent Fabrizio Ferrari.

Kamara's outspoken representative claims that his client has opportunities to move to the Premiership and Italy's Serie A.

"There has been a great deal of Premiership interest in Diomansy," said Ferrari. "Of course he would like to play there again, but he will wait until the end of the season to assess his situation. Likewise with the interest from Italy."

Kamara's lack of English means he has not spoken to the local press to clear up the speculation over his future - most of the reports so far have been originating overseas.


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Avec, Chicago – Well Worth the Visit (…and the Wait)

August 14, 2009

I made a date to return to Avec, as soon as I knew I was heading to Chicago for the BlogHer conference last month. I had been before, but used any excuse to return this time with my camera in hand so  I could share photos.

Avec is a wine bar located next door to Blackbird, where I’ve eaten a couple of times (both owned Paul Kahan). I’d go back to Avec every time I’m in Chicago, but not  Blackbird.

There are no reservations at Avec; you sit at communal tables with many others. Aptly, Avec means “with” in French.

Each time I’ve befriended (and sometimes even shared food with) the others at my table. Its a fun place to dine, whether alone or with a group. The friends I was this time had been there the previous night, but told me that “the food is so good that I could eat there every night.” I could too. That is if I lived in Chicago.

Everything we tried on this Mediterranean menu was not only delicious, but an unusual explosion of flavors. The restaurant offered more than a dozen “small plates” and numerous “large plates.”

We started with their deluxe decadent focaccia filled with Taleggio cheese, truffle oil, and fresh herbs ($14.50) and shaved Brussels spouts with fennel, dill, shaves of Parmesan, red onion and a brown butter vinaigrette ($9), which we washed down with a bottle of Saladini Pilastri ($32) — Rosso, Piceno, Marche, a blend of sangiovese and montepulciano.

We followed that with La Quercia prosciutto with grilled fresh peaches, George Rasmussen’s fresh ricotta, arugula and a vinaigrette ($20.50), and the night’s special salad of fresh golden beets in an orange vinaigrette ($9). We also had to have what’s almost become the signature dish of chorizo-stuffed dates. Rich, decadent, satisfying. Sadly, we had no room for more.

I must add, Avec has really good service too (other than a curmudgeonly hostess who needs to find another job!) Miss attitude plus!

That woman aside, I’d highly recommend Avec to anyone to enjoy the creative cuisine of chef de cuisine Koren Grieveson, who works in collaboration with chef/owner Paul Kahan. This past year, Koren was nominated for Best Chef 2009 Great Lakes Region by the James Beard Foundation.

My advice, if you don’t like to wait, is to dine really early (we got there at 5:45pm!) or very late so the wait isn’t long (late as in Barcelona-style late, or 11 pm!). This is one place well worth the wait.

Avec Restaurant
615 W Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60661
(312) 377-2002

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June 25, 2012

BLUMER: USAT’s Jackie Kucinich treats her readers as stupid

Ohio’s improvement is in spite of and not because of Obama.

Note: This post went up here at Watchdog.org earlier today.

Jackie Kucinich seems to think that her readers are dumber than a box of rocks.

In her coverage last weekend of Mitt Romney’s campaign, the USA Today reporter asserted that the Republican presidential candidate’s contention that President Obama’s economic policies have seriously harmed the country and obviously held back its recovery won’t be seen as valid by many voters because so many states he is visiting have seen their economies improve.

Specifically, she wrote from Newark, Ohio that “(Romney’s) message comes at an inopportune time in a state where the latest employment numbers show the jobless rate dropping from April’s 7.4% to 7.3% in May, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.”

By Kucinich’s “logic,” since Ohio’s unemployment rate is below the national average and continues to go down as the state reportedly continues to add jobs, Mitt Romney should pack his bags and go elsewhere, because in the Buckeye State, Obama’s policies must be working pretty well.

Give me a break, Jackie. Ohio’s unemployment rate is almost a point below the rest of the nation because since January of last year its state government has been doing the exact opposite of what the federal government has done since Obama took office.

Instead of running annual trillion-dollar deficits, Ohio under Governor John Kasich stared down a projected two-year, $8 billion budget deficit with targeted cost-cutting, overall spending control, no tax increases, and no talk of “a balanced approach” — which in Washington really means, “Let’s raise taxes and make promises to cut spending which we’ll never keep.” After seeing the Buckeye State’s credit rating downgraded in January 2011 as former Democratic governor Ted Strickland was leaving office, Standard & Poor’s upgraded it from “negative” to “stable” in July. A month later, S&P downgraded the debt of the U.S. government.

Though it obviously beats the national rate of 8.2 percent, since when is Ohio’s 7.3 percent unemployment rate acceptable? Kasich and his administration certainly don’t believe it is. He and other Midwestern governors like Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Rick Snyder in Michigan, and Scott Walker in Wisconsin are doing the best they can in difficult circumstances because, like the rest of the nation, they have been dealt really bad hands by the Obama administration.

Ohioans are anything but satisfied with a 7.3% unemployment rate, but they also know it would be much worse if it weren’t for what Team Kasich has done. Other states dealt essentially the same cards aren’t doing so well. As I noted earlier in a previous post, the worst underperformers — California, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and New York) have governors who are Democrats or who might as well be Democrats. Imagine that, Jackie Kucinich.

Romney and the GOP’s congressional candidates are promising to apply approaches similar to those seen in Ohio and other legitimately improving midwestern states to Washington. Romney should have a good chance to win the state because its residents have seen what is working first-hand — and it’s certainly not the result of anything the Obama administration has done. The idea that we might instead get four more years of the alternative — “stimulus” which stimulates nothing, regulatory overreach, and ruinous deficits without end — is almost too much to bear.

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What began as an inauspicious comeback has turned into familiar fare for Southern California jockey Garrett Gomez.

The 32-year-old jockey is winning on a regular basis again after being sidelined almost two years battling the demons of substance abuse. He won two races Wednesday, giving him six for the meet and at least one on each of the last four days, tying him for fifth in the standings.

"I'm excited being back in the mainstream," said the Phoenix native. "I was out from Dec. 12, 2002 until Sept. 10 of this year when I started back at Fairplex Park. I had taken off before in my career for about nine months in 1994 or 1995, but this go-round, as far as what I went through, has been very beneficial. Now I can identify with myself a little more and I'm learning about myself. Some things I do seem normal to me but they really aren't so normal."

Gomez's ballooned 30 pounds over his riding weight during his rehabilitation.

"I got up to about 147 pounds," Gomez said. "I wasn't doing anything, just lying around, and when I stepped on the scale and saw that number I kind of freaked. I had never been that big in my life. I was going through depression and experiencing mood swings, so I would eat. Coupled with not exercising and not getting on any horses, I had no life, really. I wore pants so big I never dreamed I would wear anything that size.

"Once I started moving around and exercising and being a member of society again I dropped down to about 130 pounds quick. Then I slowly got down to my riding weight and breathed a big sigh of relief."

"The first day I rode again I stepped on the scale and did 117," he said. "The scale hit exactly where I had hoped and that was without riding a race yet."

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"He's really doing well right now," Baffert said. "He ran really hard in that allowance race earlier this year to Atswhatimtalknbout (in January) and it took him a little while to come back. But he's as good as he's ever been right now. We thought he'd crush in that race at Churchill, but he probably wasn't back to himself yet."

The Jim Dandy is a 1 1/8-mile main track event worth $500,000 that is expected to attract, among others, Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner Empire Maker. Baffert said that Hall of Famer Pat Day will be aboard During for the traditional Travers Stakes (gr. I) prep and that the colt will be shipped from Baffert's Del Mar base to New York on Wednesday.

During earned his first stakes victory in the Swaps and owns a record of 8-3-2-1, $345,670. He finished second in the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico in May and third in the Northern Dancer Stakes at Churchill Downs last month.

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Kessler Restaurants, LLC owns and operates Burger King and Friendly restaurants in New York. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in Rochester, New York.

410 White Spruce Boulevard

Rochester, NY 14623

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Founded in 1975

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Age: 74
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Vaillant GmbH develops, manufactures, and sells heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning products for domestic and commercial applications. The company offers brine-water heat pumps, mini-combined heat and power systems, gas-fired condensing boilers, condensing boilers and wall-hung gas-fired boilers, hot water generators, room thermostats, ventilation systems, hot water heat pumps, radiators, heating appliances, hot water cylinders, wireless and programmable room thermostats, air heat pumps, and air-conditioning systems. It provides its products through suppliers. The company was founded in 1874 and is based in Remscheid, Germany with manufacturing plants in Europe and China. It also has ...

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Vaillant Launches China Headquarters and Core Business Divisions in Shanghai

Vaillant announced that it launched China headquarters and core business divisions in Shanghai and establish Vaillant (China) Heat Supply and Refrigeration Environment Technology. The new business is a wholly-owned subsidiary Vaillant owns in China and will take on business development in the country. Vaillant will also continue to raise investment in Chinese market and aims to build Vaillant China into a regional center in Asia Pacific.

Vaillant GmbH Announces Executive Changes

Vaillant GmbH has appointed Andree Groos as a managing director of the company's sales, marketing and service, effective October 1, 2015. Dr. Groos will take over Group-wide responsibility for Sales, Marketing and Service from Dr. Carsten Voigtlander, who has led these divisions since 2011 in addition to his tasks as CEO. Dr. Voigtlander will in future concentrate even more strongly on the further development and implementation of the corporate strategy and the central company divisions for which he is responsible. With this step, the Management Board will as planned consist of four members in future. Until he assumes his new position Dr. Groos will continue to carry out his tasks as Regional Director Sales, Marketing and Service Central Europe and Managing Director Vaillant Germany. In his current area of responsibility, Dr. Groos will on 1 October 2015 be succeeded by Dr. Tillmann von Schroeter, who to date has been responsible as Regional Director Sales, Marketing and Service for the Eastern European markets of the Vaillant Group. Dr. Andree Groos began his professional career in 2002 as Assistant to the Vaillant Group Management Board. In 2004 he took over as head of Group-wide Quality Management. In 2007 the economics graduate switched to the Marketing Department.

Vaillant Group Announces Executive Changes

Vaillant Group has appointed Norbert Schiedeck as managing director. As successor to Dr. Carsten Stelzer he will take over with effect from 1 April 2014 the Technology Division of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning specialist. since 2007 he has been responsible for the central departments Technology, Sales and Human Resources. Dr. Carsten Stelzer, who has been Vaillant Group Managing Director Technology since 1 September 2011, will leave the company by amicable mutual agreement with the Partners Board and the Supervisory Board on 31 March 2014.

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Developing an ALM data model for OSLC

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OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration), a set of open specifications for integrating different tools, is a very welcome initiative and the news that IBM has just transferred its management to OASIS (an independent open-standards organisation) is very welcome. Perhaps more non-IBM tools vendors will now support OSLC and there will be less need for Enterprise Development ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) "rip-and-replace".

However, is there something missing from OSLC? Shouldn't there be a data model for ALM behind OSLC? So that when you mine the data that ALM processes should produce (to track defects reducing over time, perhaps; or to asses the effectiveness of various tools at finding defects; or anything else associated with "fact-based" management of the ALM processes), you are using constant terminology and aggregating consistent entities.

Unfortunately, a formal ALM data model appears to be the missing part of OSLC, according to Dave West (once a Forrester analyst and now Chief Product Officer at Tasktop), and he's trying to do something about it, assisted by Tim Mulligan (ALM Architect, Fidelity Investments - and that's a novel job title). Both presented at the lifecycle management track at Innovate 20113 and seem to have a little "special interest group" going (which NOT an OSLC development group) - contact Dave West at to join. West is actively pushing for the ALM data model to become an official part of OSLC at OASIS.

According to Martin Nally (once Rational CTO and now working on delivering a new product for IBM), OSLC is founded on a data model. In my opinion, it's just that it's not one that is terribly useful for analytics across ALM processes/tools.

The OSLC data model is RDF (this lets it create Linked Data), although OSLC only uses a subset of the RDF model; this is all about the internal structure of OSLC and its operation. This is only one of the possible OSLC data models; it doesn't really help you make sense of analytics against ALM processes across different ALM tools linked via OSLC. If I type "OSLC data model" into Google, by the way, all I get is some documents from the EU Cesar project ("CESAR" stands for "cost-efficient methods and processes for safety relevant embedded systems"; it's a European funded project which meets similar issues to those addressed by OSLC)

This, it seems to me, all represents an example of a common standards issue - standards often allow tools to communicate or interoperate, even though the semantic results of this communication may not make sense - further "semantic standards" are needed. The example I usually use is "customer data" - there are lots of standards that allow different databases collecting to customer data to interoperate and even combine datasets. However, if process A defines "customer" as "a defined legal entity with which we have an audited commercial relationship including credit ratings and so on" and process B defines "customer" as "anyone who logs into our website and gets a password by typing unverified information into our 'customer account' form", any analytics program that operates across the consolidated "customer database" from Process A and Process B will deliver very misleading results.

OSLC, it seems to me, has a similar issue. It allows tools to interoperate, in a way that is useful to people who know what they are doing and understand the semantics of the different interoperating tools. However, if you want to run smart analytics against the whole ALM process, running on tools linked by OSLC, then you need something more (probably the ALM data model Dave West talks about) if the smart analytics are going to make sense. The view of IBM's OSLC team seems to be that the OSLC "data model continues to be enhanced, and all parts of the OSLC community are encouraged to help in this; Dave West's activities can be seen as part of this". Which is fine, as that is how standards are supposed to evolve, but is does suggest that there is room for another OSLC data model.

Success for a new ALM model that is useful to users of OSLC-connected tools, will come, I think, if or when it delivers tangible benefits for organisations exploiting ALM data for analytics-based insights into the whole of the ALM process they use. across projects. According to Dave West, "without an ALM Data Model,  each project's implementation of its own model makes the value of a cross project data view almost pointless. I believe that the data model will come out of the need for reporting/data warehouses and that will lead us to a consistent lexicon for ALM"

And, I think, that's really just enabling another Big Data project and, as usual, Big Data is more about finding people with the creative insight to exploit radically different data sources than it is about having more data (and the metadata needed to make sense of it) provided by some new tool. Nevertheless, I think that exploiting the data associated with the systems development lifecycle across ALM tools will be found worthwhile - and that then the availability of a formal ALM data model may make all the difference to practical applications.

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OK, well let's speculate as to what the redemptions could be. You're obviously looking at something better than a standard piece of clothing, so I'm thinking maybe props? While I think it might be a tough piece to land, maybe one of Rick's hats? Bullet casings? Zombie teeth?
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people factor shipping charges into total purchase price and bidding IMO it matters not if shipping i free or $10, but also factoring shipping costs into starting price if doing free or lowering does not ALWAYS work. I have studied this and tried it for a full 30 days on over 6,000 listings. Items I listed for 99 cents with $2.99 shipping got bids and the exact same items that were $3.99 with free shipping did not...much of that has to do with so many just looking at bid price and folks searching by lowest price or the mentality that the starting price is lower...also ebay searches sometimes favor the free shipping items but others favor the lower priced in the best match, which is a calculated formula

I think free shipping makes more sense on higher end priced items for sure, but my experiment convinced me, not to mention if you have a $9.99 item and want to move it to say $12.99 with free shipping then you are also paying higher starting price fees if running auction style

BUT everyone should try what works for them, problem is so many have too small sample sizes and opinions on the matter rather than running tests/experiments or looking to terapeak data or those with high qty selling experience IMO, because the answer is clear IMO, and again I have been at $2.99 for 16 years on ebay and that is back when it cost 50 cents postage to send a card but supplies were higher

again, those throwing out prices to ship make lots of assumptions about where people buy supplies and the bulk that they buy them in, plus again it throws out fact that ebay/pp charge you on your shipping charge, not saying pass along fees from auction to buyers, but if post office charges you $1.64 for a card, and you pass that along, then if ebay and pp charge you 40+ cents when you charge $3 shipping then isn't that a 'cost' of shipping? Not trying to nickel and dime, but sellers get nickel and dimed as well plus have overhead costs and charge backs, lost packages, etc...
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Trivial Confessions Not Required – FCA publishes final guidance on its competition powers

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has now published its:

  • guidance on its competition enforcement powers;
  • guidance on its market studies and market investigation references;
  • views on the responses to its consultation on earlier drafts of its guidance; and.
  • final amendments to Chapter 15 of the FCA’s Supervision Manual and Handbook, including new notification requirements for infringements of competition law, which will take effect from 1 August 2015.

The FCA has clarified several issues arising from its earlier consultation:

Compulsory disclosure of competition infringements

  • Firms will now be obliged to self-report to the FCA only “significant” infringements of competition law, not any infringements of competition law. We welcome this change, which we proposed in our response to the FCA’s earlier consultation, so that firms are not obliged to report trivial or technical breaches. In determining whether a matter is “significant”, a firm must have regard to the actual or potential effect on competition, any customer detriment, the duration of any infringement and implications for the firm's systems and controls;
  • The obligation to disclose infringements of competition law will apply only to infringements by regulated firms, so firms will not need to notify the FCA of infringements by other group companies unless such breaches affect the regulated firm;
  • The disclosure obligation applies to “any applicable” competition law, not just UK or EU competition law, as breaches of competition law of other jurisdictions “may be relevant” and are “potentially within the scope” of the disclosure obligation.

Interaction with leniency applications

  • The FCA expects leniency applications to be made to the CMA in most cases, as the CMA can (unlike the CMA) prosecute and grant immunity for individuals from the criminal cartel offence.
  • The FCA says it seeks “neither admissions nor confessions as part of a disclosure under Principle 11. We expect to be notified of the facts and circumstances that indicate that an infringement has or may have occurred.”. The FCA requires “prompt notifications under Principle 11 regardless of whether a firm is considering applying for leniency.”
  • In contrast, leniency is a voluntary process; the FCA says firms can “meet the requirements of both regimes if they act promptly”. If firms are concerned about the interaction of notifications under Principle 11 and the CMA’s leniency regime, they should contact the CMA and FCA, who will “work together and discuss how to proceed” based on the circumstances of the case.

Use of information received by the FCA

  • The FCA and CMA have agreed that leniency information passed by the CMA to the FCA may only be used by the FCA to apply and enforce competition law, unless the leniency applicant agrees otherwise. The FCA can however use that information to “remind” firms or approved persons of their disclosure obligations under the FCA’s Handbook.
  • The FCA says: “there is nothing to prevent us from using information properly obtained under one set of powers for our functions under another”. So, for example, disclosures to the FCA of infringements of competition law could be used by the FCA to take action under FSMA.

Timetable for market studies

  • The FCA will retain an “indicative timetable” of 12 months for a competition based market study conducted under FSMA, rather than adopting the statutory timetable which applies to market studies conducted under the Enterprise Act 2002.
  • Firms must now bear in mind that their obligations under Principle 11 will include disclosure of significant infringements of competition law. Fortunately, the FCA’s changes and comments address many of our largest concerns about its original proposals.

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The Rich Do Very Well When the Middle Class is Helped by Tax Cuts

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently published a short paper High-Income People Would Benefit Significantly From Extension of “Middle-Class” Tax Cuts (or 8-page PDF here).

The paper notes

A fact generally overlooked in the debate over whether Congress should extend the high-income Bush tax cuts — i.e. those targeted exclusively at couples making over $250,000 and single individuals making over $200,000 — is that these households will still receive substantial tax cuts if Congress extends the so-called “middle-class” Bush tax cuts while letting the high-income tax cuts expire as scheduled.

This is because the 2001 tax law’s reductions in the lower tax brackets benefit not only people whose incomes fall within the lower brackets but also those whose incomes exceed those brackets. In fact, high-income people actually receive much larger benefits in dollar terms from the so-called “middle-class tax cuts” than middle-class people do.

It's yet another reason why Congress should allow the Bush-era tax cuts that benefit only the wealthiest Americans to expire as scheduled.

UPDATE: See Paul Krugman's column Now That's Rich.

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    This issue is so cut and dry simple, I don't know why there is any debate about it. Let them expire for the wealthy. Keep them for the people who really need them, the middle class.

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    I personally think all the cuts should be allowed to expire. The bottom line is that government needs the revenue, and needs it to be stable. Everyone uses the services. I don't think we can afford Obama's plan.

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    Top 1% $410,096 40.42 Top 5% $160,041 60.63 Top 10% $113,018 71.22 Top 25% $66,532 86.59 Top 50% $32,879 97.11 Bottom 50% <$32,879 2.89

    Here are the fed income tax numbers from 2007. The top 1% paid 40% of the taxes. Just what do you want them to pay, 60%? The top 50% of wage earners pay 97% of the fed income taxes. If you think there is revenue problem (not spending) you are basically living in a dream. The real question is how much money do you think can be sucked out of an economy before you harm it permanently? The above graph takes on a different meaning if you label it with percentages like taxes are levied. Tax benefits then become: 10k would be 0.53% of income 20k 1.92% 30k 2.57% 40k 2.24% 50k 1.83% 75k 1.5% 100k 1.9% 200k 1.88% 500k 1.34% 1Mil 0.67 % 1+mil 0.63 But that would be making a different point, right Chuck? I guess giving those ugly, greedy, rich folk a 1% break when they are paying 40% of the tab is whack. But then, we wouldn’t want anyone’s tax rebate related to the actual tax they pay would we?? As far as govt NEEDING revenue Theresa, please feel free to send them YOUR revenue. Feel free to be liberal, WITH YOUR OWN MONEY.

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    The middle American family earns around $50,000.
    I find it amazing that the middle class now evidently extends up to $200,000-250,000. Since the only Bush tax cuts that seem likely to be allowed to expire are those for the "wealthy, defined as individuals with taxable income of over $200,000 and families with taxable income over $250,000." While those for the "middle class" will likely be extended.

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Isildur1 wins seven figures from durrrr

Monday, 9 November 2009

Isildur1 continued his epic upswing tearing through the bankrolls of high-stakes players as he played a huge heads-up PLO and NLHE session with Tom Dwan, earning over $1,220,000 throughout the course of the night.

Three of the biggest hands from this session topped $500,000 with the largest – a $574,000 monster – seeing durrrr get it in with a pair and flush draw on the turn against top set, failing to hit his seven outs and losing his $286,000 stack.

The session ended with both players – each apparently believing themselves to have a large edge against the other – making arrangements to play again:

Isildur1: ok im done i can hardly see my cards
durrrr: huh
durrrr: rly?
Isildur1: yes
durrrr: sweet
Isildur1: i play u every day
Isildur1: pls
durrrr: ok
Isildur1: im not running u
durrrr: lets play tomorrow
Isildur1: yupp
durrrr: will u quit
durrrr: if ur playing someone else
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Christmas Tree "Discussion"

Submitted by want2cbetter on Thu, 11/23/2006 - 12:21am

Please help me with something.  Because of allergies that some of my children have, we have an artificial Christmas tree.  For the first 15 or so years that we were married, it went up on December 1st (putting it off until then at my urging).  My wife is the kind of person who starts listening to Christmas music sometime around Feb-March.

Well, around three years ago, I gave in.  I agreed that we could put it up the day after Thanksgiving.  Guess what?  I am in bed with Bronchitis (2nd time in two months) and she just put it up (thus violating our agreement -lol).  It seems she puts it up earlier and earlier each year.

Well, I need your help in my discussion with her - when do you put your tree up?  And just as important - when do you take it down?