The year has seen exceptionally high numbers of many fungi species particularly in late summer and early autumn and whilst many of the larger species such as the Boletes have finished fruiting, we were able to see such interesting species as false chanterelle, amethyst deceivers, clouded funnels and wood blewits. It was really encouraging to see the enthusiasm for spotting fungi shown by many of the younger members on the walk, as they would frequently dive into the bushes to find something that had caught their eye.
At the end of October I checked the bat boxes at Kelling with the help of Sam Phillips from the Norwich Bat Group (who is a licensed bat handler). We found 20 individuals from 4 species including the Natterer's bat, which is a new record for Kelling. Our best haul was a box with 13 individuals within! Most of the bat boxes have been in place for many years and credit must go to the people who made them as most were in really good condition. We intend to check the boxes again in the spring and hope for some more surprises!
We plan to introduce wildlife photography courses for visitors next year and I have been investigating wildlife photographic opportunities around the park with my colleague Mike Powles. The results of the wildlife surveys I have carried out this year indicate just how diverse the wildlife is a Kelling so we are looking forward to some interesting wildlife opportunities.
On the 1st of November I saw Common Hawker Dragonflies still egg laying in the conservation pond and peacock and red admiral butterflies feeding on some late nectar. What with the buzz of honeybees collecting nectar from the Ivy flowers it could almost have been summer!
The winter migrant birds have arrived at Kelling in the shape of fieldfares and redwings feeding on hawthorn berries and large skeins of Brent geese flying over the site. I have not seen any waxwings at Kelling yet but a number have been seen locally and already more have been seen in Britain than during the whole of last winter. Their presence in high numbers in this country usually is a result of low food supplies in Scandinavia. They are a really unmistakable bird with a large crest, plump and short tailed in appearance with a generally pinkish brown colour and a high-pitched sreeee call. Certainly this is a bird to look out for feeding on berries.


Do your kids love to help prepare for Thanksgiving dinner? Why not get them in on the decorations and table decor!
Becca from CraftCreateCalm is joining us today and sharing her Glitter Turkey Craft that are simple enough for preschoolers to make and interesting enough to keep grade-schoolers entertained.
I know my kids enjoy spending the weeks leading up to the big family dinner making crafts that can be included in our fall table décor. This year we're making a simple Glitter Turkey craft that can be kept on display with our fall mantel decorations until they make their big debut on our Thanksgiving Day tablescape.
Kids will love to see their Glitter Turkey sparkling on the Thanksgiving table, or tucked into your seasonal mantel!
About Rebecca: CraftCreateCalm is Rebecca's journey towards creating a family life that feels less stressful. You'll find all kinds of crafts for both kids and adults, at home learning activities to grow your child's mind, tips to fill your home with order and beauty, aromatherapy to fill your body with relaxation, and a few extras for inspiration. You can read more from Rebecca on CraftCreateCalm.


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Gary Cooper, Ed Sullivan, Humphrey Bogart, Guy Marks
Comedian Guy Marks imitates Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart.
#13819: JOEY BISHOP SHOW, THE
Joey Bishop, Abby Dalton, Guy Marks, Joe Besser
September 20th, 1961-September 5th, 1964 (NBC)
September 27th, 1964-September 7th, 1965 (CBS)
A 30-minute sitcom not to be confused with Joey Bishop's later effort as an ABC late-night talk show host to compete with Johnny Carson.
In this show's first season, Bishop was seen as Joey Barnes, an unmarried publicist. For the second season, a new format for the show was developed and was retitled "The New Joey Bishop Show." Here, Bishop kept the name Joey Barnes but was a nightclub comedian and talk show host who was now married to Ellie, played by Abby Dalton. Also, starring was Guy Marks as his manager, Freddy, and Corbett Monica who replaced Marks. Joe Besser who was on season 1 of the Abbott and Costello television series and for a brief period one of the Three Stooges, played Bishop's landlord. On September 27th, 1964, the show moved to CBS where it finished its run on September 7th, 1965.
Julie London, Mahalia Jackson, Dean Martin, Eddie Albert, Phyllis Diller, The Swingle Singers, Guy Marks
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974. A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
Liberace, Dean Martin, Guy Marks, Dorothy Louden, Phil Crosby
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974. This was the final broadcast of the season. A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Buddy Hackett, Rowan & Martin, Dorothy Provine, Guy Marks
Dupe Of # 1886. Repeat Of 9-15-66.
Arthur Godfrey, Sid Caesar, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Joey Heatherton, Guy Marks, Leonard Barr, Claudia Martin
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974.
A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
Bob Newhart, Dean Martin, Caterina Valente, Dom DeLuise, Guy Marks
Bob Newhart, Dean Martin, Caterina Valente, Dom DeLuise, Guy Marks, Dean's Girls
Phil Harris, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, George Gobel, Guy Marks, Eddie Foy
#4795: THAT'S LIFE
Paul Lynde, Robert Morse, Liza Minnelli, Jackie Vernon, Guy Marks, E.J. Peaker
September 24, 1968-May 20, 1969. This was the "Twas The Week Before Christmas" broadcast. Television's only musical comedy series. "That's Life" starred Robert Morse and E.J. Peaker. Also featured were Shelley Berman and Kay Medford.
Frank Sinatra Jr., Victor Borge, Bing Crosby, The Temptations, Guy Marks, Gary Crosby
Ed Sullivan, Joel Grey, Beverly Sills, Brascia & Tybee, Vikki Carr, Richie Havens, Guy Marks, The Baja Marimba Band, Scoey Mitchell
Ed Sullivan, The Muppets, John Davidson, Lainie Kazan, The Jackson 5, Guy Marks, Ed Sullivan Singers, El Conquistador Violinists
#4839: THIS IS TOM JONES
Leslie Uggams, Tom Jones, Guy Marks, Joe Cocker, The Grease Band
February 7, 1969-January 15, 1971. This program is a repeat. Tom Jones hosted his own musical variety hour, which also featured Big Jim Sullivan and The Ace Trucking Company.
Ed Sullivan, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Michaels, Guy Marks, Bobby Sherman, The New Seekers, Les Ballets Africains
#5197: DEAN MARTIN SPECIAL
Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Foster Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Cassidy, Guy Marks, Georgia Engel, Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Nancy Reagan
Dean Martin Special.
#7982: DEAN MARTIN SPECIAL, THE
Dean Martin, Foster Brooks, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Cassidy, Guy Marks, Peter Graves, Freddy Fender, Jessi Colter
Dean Martin returns as the owner - host of Dean's Place, a plush night spot showcasing new talent. The show features Jack Cassidy as the club's maitre d', Vincent Gardenia as its chef,
Foster Brooks as a tipsy customer and Guy Marks as a bartender. Guests include Peter Graves, singers Jessi Colter who sing, "What Happened to Blue Eyes?" and Freddy Fender who sings "Before the Next Teardrop Falls."

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Lantana, Florida, in Palm Beach County, is a waterfront city of just over 10,000 people (on about three square miles) that still retains a great deal of small-town charm while being just a short drive from some of South Florida's fastest-growing cities. With Lake Worth to the north, Boynton Beach to the south and the equestrian mecca of Wellington to the West, Lantana is also near the shopping, culture and dining opportunities of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. The Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean form the city's eastern border.
Like much of South Florida, Lantana experienced a building boom after World War II, and this growth continues to this day. The completion of Interstate Highway 95, which runs through the city, brought new commercial development in the 1970s. With its balmy, subtropical South Florida weather, Lantana is a popular winter destination, as reflected in the city's seasonal population growth.
With a diverse mix of residents whose ancestral origins span the globe from Finland to Haiti, Lantana remains committed to preserving its small town atmosphere, and a great deal of effort is made to make sure all residents' needs are met. Recreational facilities include an eight-acre municipal beach with 745 feet of ocean frontage, seven parks and a state-of-the-art sports complex. Lantana is also committed to making environmentally conscious choices and being a green city. In addition to outdoor space and recreation, Lantana offers several waterfront restaurants and plenty of shops and services, with the museums, galleries, shopping and dining attractions of West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Delray Beach and Boca Raton nearby.


Where Are All Those Miracles I Was Expecting ?!
The latest light waves have left many in either a blissful state of being or a miserable state of mind. There have been many talks about September 28th, from conspiracy theories to other sensational stories. The miserable state of mind comes from fear or expectations that lead to dissappointment, it's pretty much the same. Also, from placing our focus outside of ourselves.
Many talk about not seeing things happening, or not happening as fast as they want to, or exactly how they planned it in their minds and then get frustrated with themselves or start blaming the government or God or whoever, but forgot that they, themselves, are creators of that which they experience. And we are also responsible for the way we respond or react to everything.
But, you see, all these important powerful events, all this light coming in is destined to bring great change and it is so, however they will not bring change FOR you, but THROUGH you. The dissappointment comes from expecting miracles outside of yourself, or passivity. That is a choice. There is also the choice of not only participating in the change, but proactively create it. The highest most profound way of participation is through your BEINGness, with your aware divine human state of being, your authentic Soul essence self – simply being yourself. The proactive creation is when you let that Soul essence emerge to the surface and completely unify with your human self, with each and every atom of who you are now – letting your essence reflect in all your actions. The harmonious balance of that is called being an ascended master. Only an overall blissful state of being can come as an outcome of that balance.
All choices, decisions, ways of being are respected and honoured, it is just a matter of taking responsability for your own, discerning which ones are most suitable to you and really simply becoming clear with what you want to create for yourself and how you want to create yourself. The Path of the Heart is about divine remembrance, self-discovery, but also about creating ourselves as human beings through the essence of our Soul.
As always, it all begins within. You might have to reflect on whether or not you are loving yourself enough to become the highest aspect of yourself you can be, in the highest state of being. I say that because only when we truly love ourselves, we want what's best for us. It takes commitement, dedication and a genuine self and selfless sense of divine service. As contradictory as that might sound, there needs to be a balance between self and selfless service, going to the extreme of either one of them is unhealthy.
The miserable state of mind, some are experiencing as a result of so much light coming in, could also happen because of what many call "shadow work" , " dark nights of the Soul" moments/ releasing density. This is either triggered by ourselves or through our relationships, which are at the end of the day an extension of ourselves, mirrors.
Know this is a necessary process that serves us well, it is as normal as it can be and you are not alone, many are being asked to embrace, love, accept and transcend the "shadow self. " and all aspects of ourselves that have not yet been merged within ourselves.
However, is important not to attach ourselves to this shadow work process, let it unconsciously define who we are in the Now and hold us stuck in the miserable state of mind. Instead learn to flow through it with grace, by adopting a childlike attitude. I have written about adopting a childlike attitude before, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I feel very much guided to remind us of this approach. Because, when we adopt a childlike attitude, "shadow work" becomes a child's play, literally. When you lose some of the seriousness, it is so much easier to just flow with grace through anything you choose to experience and grow from, no matter how serious it might seem in the moment.
Seeing the bigger picture will also help, but the childlike implies a lot less overthinking and overanalyzing and a lot more acceptance and surrender to what is. The childlike aspect of ourselves is the purity and grace of the Higher Self.
Practice patience by being in the Now. In the Now we can only be patient, because we are not waiting for anything, we are not waiting for the future, we are not placing our focus on future events, because we know the Now is all there is, we know we can only create in the Now. Things are not happening as fast as we might want in the outer, but exactly how they should, when they should and for many reasons and they all lead to yours and All's highest outcome. Just think about how chaotic everything it would be if everything in the outer would change in the blink of an eye. Everything would be a lot more chaotic and we would've missed the point. The point is that it is not where we are headed, it's about how we get there and what we are experiencing.
Bottom line is: don't expect miracles – create them and be One. Allow them to reveal themselves to you and be open to seeing them. They are everywhere around us.


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Saturday Conference News
Addiction Performance Project set for 6:30 tonight
The National Institute on Drug Abuse will present the Addiction Performance Project, featuring actors Harris Yulin and Blythe Danner, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Jefferson Room on Concourse Level.
In Addiction Performance Project, the actors perform readings from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about one family's struggle with alcoholism and prescription drug abuse. Then, a multidisciplinary panel briefly shares responses to the performance, relating their experiences caring for patients with substance abuse and addiction, followed by a facilitator-guided audience discussion using the play's key themes to focus on the experience of addiction from patient, caregiver, and societal perspectives.
The Addiction Performance Project is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Mobile App Developed for Journal of Addiction Medicine
Members of the American Society of Addiction Medicine may access Journal of Addiction Medicine articles from their mobile phones, thanks to this service from journal publisher Wolters-Kluwer Health, a unit of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All ASAM members need to do to is access their mobile application store, enter "search," type in "Unbound Medicine" and then select the Journal of Addiction Medicine from the various health and wellness titles Wolters-Kluwer offers. ASAM members will need to submit their subscription log-in information, which is the same one members use to access the journal's website. (Activation of an ASAM members subscription online requires the 12-digit code that is on your mailing label.) Once on the Journal of Addiction Medicine, access the article of your choice and read it from the convenient portability of your mobile device.
Chapter Meetings Scheduled for Saturday
You are invited to attend a meeting of the members in your chapter area during the conference. All meetings will be in the Gunston Room on the Terrace level, except where otherwise noted. This is the meeting list as of Saturday.
GASAM, 10 to 11 a.m.
NNESAM, noon to 1 p.m.
OHSAM, 1 to 2 p.m.
New Members Have Opportunity to Win iPad at ASAM Booth
There are plenty of good reasons to join ASAM, but here's one more: Everyone who becomes a new member or renews their existing membership will be entered into a drawing for an iPad.
Stop by the ASAM Exhibit Booth (No. 303) during normal exhibit hours to enter.
ASAM is the leading professional society actively seeking to define and expand the field of addiction medicine. Members get free subscriptions to the Journal of Addiction Medicine and ASAM News, and discounts on courses, conferences, workshops and other publications. They are also able to access online job boards and provided with the opportunity to participate in the ASAM Mentoring Network and other networking opportunities with members.
Discounted memberships are also available for medical students and residents.
Print Out CME Certificates Using ASAM Live Learning Center
Handouts, brochures, business cards. There is plenty of paperwork to deal with after attending a conference. Thanks to the ASAM's Live Learning Center, Medical-Scientific Conference attendees have one less thing to worry about when they get home.
By logging into the Live Learning Center, users will have a chance to see what CME credit they earned at the conference and print out the certificates from work or home.
"This is a great, simple process," said Lisa Watson, ASAM director of meetings and conferences. "While members are at the conference they should keep record of which courses they have attended. Then they can either come by the ASAM Exhibit Booth (No. 303) where we'll have computers available for them to log their hours, or log them on their own computer."
The Live Learning Center will be available about six weeks after the conclusion of the Medical-Scientific Conference through a link on the ASAM home page (www.asam.org).
Sign up to Receive ASAM Weekly, all the Society news
Stay up to date on all the news in the Society by receiving the ASAM Weekly by email.
If you are not receiving ASAM Weekly, stop by the ASAM Exhibit Booth (No. 303) to sign up.
All Conference Attendees Registered for PCSS-M and PCSS-P Projects
All Medical-Scientific Conference attendees are automatically registered for ASAM's Physician Clinical Support System-Methadone (PCSS-M) and Physician Clinical Support System-Primary Care (PCSS-P) projects. Look for your confirmation email with opt-out instructions when you return home from the conference.
Be a participant in ASAM's Patient Placement Criteria research study. Visit the ASAM Exhibit Booth for more information.
ASAM Merchandise
Purchase your "Treat Addiction – Save Lives"TM merchandise at the ASAM Booth. Proceeds benefit Chapters Council programming.
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ASAM Spearheads New Primary Care Addiction Programs
Related Sessions Presented Saturday
Two related sessions about integrating addiction medicine into a primary care practice will be presented Saturday.
• 10 a.m. to Noon: Workshop C: How to Establish and Integrate Addiction Medicine into an Existing or New Family Care, Internal Medicine Practice, in the Georgetown East Room on the Concourse Level
• 2 to 4 p.m.: Symposium #10: Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care and the Patient Centered Medical Home, in the Jefferson Room on the Concourse Level. Among the speakers will be Edwina Rogers, executive director of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a group of 700 medical groups, including ASAM, as well as insurance companies and major businesses that are supporting the patient-centered medical home concept.
Health care reform is driving many changes in medical practice, with primary care physicians being a focal point in the development of the patient-centered medical home. The role of addiction medicine in these changes was discussed in a Component Session Thursday night.
Among the topics addressed in "Addiction Medicine and Primary Care: Recent Positive Developments" were the training of primary care physicians in addiction counseling, a training program to screen for substance abuse, and the role of a private group in moving addiction medicine into primary care.
"Those are exciting things ASAM is involved with to get patient-centered medical homes and primary care physicians to address substance use disorders and provide help in education," said Norman Wetterau, M.D., FAAFP, FASAM, who led the discussion. Dr. Wetterau is also the ASAM liaison to the Physician Clinical Support System for Primary Care (PCCS-P).
Many positive developments are happening in this area because of increased federal support, including grants for these primary care goals, he said. First among them is the PCSS-P, a mentoring program to provide support to primary care physicians (see related story on page 7).
PCSS-P is funded by a grant administered by ASAM and funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Under the program, primary care providers can gain access to clinical resources, information, and materials about managing substance abuse. Resources include addiction clinical experts serving as mentors and providing education about managing substance abuse via phone or email. These mentors can also assist primary care physicians in incorporating substance abuse screenings, brief interventions, and treatments into their practices.
ASAM has also just launched a new online skills training for primary care providers on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). www.SBIRTTraining.com is a NIDA-funded program that is being conducted in collaboration with one of ASAM's leading institutional partners, Clinical Tools. The program offers training for primary care physicians to improve their skills for screening for substance abuse and work with substance abuse specialists.
SBIRT offers screening tools for tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse; teaches implementation of brief interventions and other treatments; explains referral and follow-up processes; and offers case-based learning with patients.
Another facet of the cooperation with primary care is the development of COPE — the Coalition on Physician Education in Substance Use Disorders — a not-for-profit group. It is dedicated to training physicians to prevent, identify, and provide specialty-appropriate interventions for patients who use tobacco or illicit drugs, or are involved in the unhealthy use of alcohol or non-medical use of prescription drugs.
Also discussed during the session was Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, which got its start during an ASAM conference two years ago. The group will have a conference in two weeks with a focus on helping family practice residency faculties teach addiction medicine training to trainees.
Prescription Drug Abuse Examined from Different Views
The speakers at Friday's symposium on prescription drug abuse discussed the outlook and challenges from the federal, state, and individual physician's perspectives.
Timothy Condon, Ph.D., Science Policy Advisor, Office of National Drug Control Policy, opened the session by reviewing a set of troubling prescription drug abuse statistics, followed by a description of the Obama Administration's Prescription Drug Abuse Action Plan, which will be released April 19.
He said the plan would focus on education for parents, patients and prescribers, as well as monitoring programs, medication disposal, and enforcement.
Prescription drug abuse is a big problem with teens. Studies show they think prescription drugs are safer, less addictive, and less risky than street drugs. Six of the top 10 abused substances by high school seniors are prescription drugs. And in what Dr. Condon called "the most disturbing data," new initiates to psychotherapeutic drug use exceed those for marijuana in 2008 and 2009.
Education is also an issue for doctors. "You all know that in medical school little attention is paid to substance abuse," said Dr. Condon. "So we need to do a better job."
Because painkillers and anxiety prescription drugs are often dispensed in quantities greater than necessary, the leftovers end up sitting in medicine cabinets — thus the disposal issue.
"We need to change the norm, we need to actually make this like recycling, where we safely dispose of prescription drugs. You can't just take them back," said Dr. Condon. The Drug Enforcement Agency will have a national medication take-back day every six months; the next one is April 30.
Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., Secretary of Health, Maryland, noted that take-back programs collected 121 tons of prescription drugs in 2010.
Seven million Americans reported non-medical use of prescription drugs in 2009, Dr. Condon said. The consequences for the nation are huge in terms of emergency room visits — which almost doubled from 2004 to 2008 — drug-induced deaths, and economic costs — which were estimated to be $53 billion in 2006 due to opioids taken for non-medical use.
Then there are the deaths. Since about 2006, drug-induced deaths actually outnumbered suicides, firearm accident deaths, and homicides. In 17 states and the District of Columbia, drug-induced deaths outnumber those from motor vehicle accidents.
Dr. Sharfstein lamented that drug overdose death rates have never been higher. "We're talking about more than 11,000 unintentional deaths (per year) — really tragic," he said.
Regarding prescription drug monitoring, Dr. Sharfstein said that when pushing for legislation to create such a system in Maryland, "We explained this was a very big public health problem, not a law enforcement issue."
"I think there's a tremendous opportunity for public health and addiction medicine to work together to save a lot of lives," he said.
Herbert Malinoff, M.D., FACP, FASAM, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, said physicians who have access to an automated prescription service, like the one in Michigan, should use it. – See more at: http://asam-365.ascendeventmedia.com/Highlight.aspx?id=2756&p=261#sthash.6MHLZ9vB.dpuf
Symposium Addresses Naltrexone Indications
Symposium #1, "Naltrexone: New Formulations and Indications," drew an overflow crowd Friday morning as attendees found room on the floor to hear presentations.
Oral naltrexone had once been viewed as a magic bullet because it is highly selective for opioid receptors, but the major clinical obstacles for this agent occur in the induction and adherence phases. This was a conclusion presented by Sandra D. Comer, Ph.D., one of 13 speakers to address attendees of the Friday symposium "Naltrexone: New Formulations and Indications."
In her presentation "Oral Naltrexone for Opioid Dependence," Dr. Comer said that naltrexone completely antagonizes opioid effects, is orally bioavailable, and reaches peak blood levels in one hour. Naltrexone has a half-life of four hours compared with 6-B-naltrexol, which has a half-life of 13 hours.
"Nevertheless, daily dosing with naltrexone is possible," said Dr. Comer, Professor of Clinical Neurobiology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute. "Naltrexone is primarily metabolized by the liver and reaches target plasma concentration of 1 to 2 ng/ml, providing good clinical benefit. Antagonist effects don't appear to diminish over time."
With oral naltrexone, two different dosing regimens are used: 50 mg daily or 100-100-150 mg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Naltrexone is also safe to administer over long periods, Dr. Comer noted. Treatment with naltrexone begins after initial detoxification with first an induction and then a maintenance phase.
"Our group has found that the use of supplemental medications is really critical during detox," she said. "Buprenorphine, clonazepam, and clonidine are useful supplemental medications during detox. It's also important to start with small doses of naltrexone at 3 mg or 6 mg."
During the maintenance phase, adherence is the major obstacle to naltrexone treatment, Dr. Comer said. No consequence comes from stopping naltrexone, so discontinuing the medication is easy for patients.
"The biggest risk with discontinuance is that they will resume heroin use and overdose," she said. "Pain relief for the patient who has an acute medical condition requiring opioid agonist treatment can be an issue and tricky to manage."
The clinical experience with naltrexone is that the outcomes are clinically poor primarily because of poor medication adherence, Dr. Comer said.
"Nevertheless, the drug can be effective in highly motivated individuals," she said. "Behavior therapy has been shown to improve outcomes as well."
Good candidates for naltrexone are those with high motivation for abstinence, while poor candidates are those with a history of overdoses especially following detox. Also poor candidates are those who need opiate agonists to feel normal, those in chronic pain requiring chronic opioid treatment, and those with severe GI or cardiovascular disorders exacerbated by opioid withdrawal or abstinence.
"A possible solution to the obstacles in the induction and adherence phases may be the sustained release formulation naltrexone," Dr. Comer concluded.
In his presentation "Opioid Modulators: Future Research Directions," Elliot Ehrich, M.D., Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Medical Officer, Alkermes Inc., said that opioid receptors may be good targets for drug development. He set the stage by describing receptors in the endogenous opioid system, including the G-protein coupled receptors of Mu, Delta, Kappa, and nociceptin (NOP). These interact with opioid peptides and cause signaling. Receptors differ in their actions, depending on where they are located. The Mu and Kappa opioid receptors, for example, are largely located in the limbic system, including the hypothalamus, which is part of the reward system.
"As we begin to understand more about the opioid receptor, we have the potential to develop a variety of therapies to target different parts of the body with different specificity," Dr. Ehrich said. "There is the ability to leverage our knowledge of opiate receptor systems, particularly the Kappa and the NOP receptors, to develop new, improved therapies for addiction."
Heroin-Assisted Treatment Model Discussed
A refractory heroin-dependent patient can expect to lose 25 years of life expectancy as a result of the addiction, a stark statistic presented by Wim van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D., during Friday's symposium "Innovative Models of Addiction Treatment from the International Context."
During "Heroin-Assisted Treatment for Treatment of Refractory Heroin-Dependent Patients," Dr. van den Brink, Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research, Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam, reported on a possible treatment approach in light of a troublesome U.S. study published in 2001. These data showed 48 percent of heroin addicts from an average age of 24.5 to 57.4 had died during the 33-year course of follow-up data.
"Heroin addiction is a chronic, relapsing, and potentially fatal disease," he said. "Over the long term, only 20 percent achieve stable abstinence. Things could look very differently in terms of morbidity and mortality with more effective treatment."
While methadone is the most effective in terms of treatment retention and reduction of heroin use, clearly the approach has effectiveness limits, as does treatment with buprenorphine, Dr. van den Brink noted. That led addiction experts in the Netherlands to consider an alternative approach — heroin-assisted treatment.
Two randomized, controlled trials were conducted from 1998 to 2002 in the Netherlands using the experimental treatment of oral methadone in combination with heroin in inhalable or intravenous doses. At the end of 12 months, noticeable improvements were seen in reducing heroin use and in study participants' physical health and mental status. Quite telling is what happened when participants came to the end of the study a year later and returned to more traditional approaches to their heroin addiction. Eighty-two percent deteriorated significantly after discontinuing heroin-assisted treatment, Dr. van den Brink said.
"Heroin-assisted treatment is an effective additional treatment option for chronic treatment-refractory cases," he said. "It is also effective, safe, and cost-effective with positive long-term outcomes. Still, nearly 50 percent of patients are not responding to this approach. Additional treatment and care options need to be developed for these patients."
Also addressing Friday's symposium was Steven Gust, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse International Program.
"Drug use is reported in every country of the world, and it has a huge impact in the health sector as one of the top 20 health risk factors globally," he said. "Injecting drug use is reported in 151 countries, and the United Nations has estimated that drug abuse costs can equal up to 2 percent of the gross domestic product. "
A recent Institute of Medicine report recommended that the U.S. government scale up existing interventions; generate and share knowledge; invest in people, institutions, and capacity building; increase U.S. financial commitments to global health; and engage in respectful partnerships, Dr. Gust said. The National Institutes of Health supports $600 million a year in global health research.
ASAM Launches Physician Clinical Support System for Primary Care
More patients are confiding in their primary care physicians about their addiction problems, and helping these doctors help their patients will be the American Society for Addiction Medicine's newest mentor network, the Physician Clinical Support System for Primary Care (PCSS-P).
"Increasingly, primary care physicians are faced with the complications of substance abuse disorders on their patients' medical outcomes and may be limited in training and tools to evaluate and treat these problems," said a PCSS-P medical director, David A. Fiellin, M.D., professor of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. "The increased prevalence of addiction issues makes it necessary for primary care physicians to address these cases directly."
The PCSS-P is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and is administered by the ASAM, with the New York Academy of Medicine providing the evaluation component. Through the PCSS-P, participating primary care providers may access clinical resources, information, and materials, and link up by phone or email to addiction clinical experts who will serve as mentors in providing education about managing substance abuse. Mentors can also assist primary care physicians in incorporating into their practices substance abuse screening, brief intervention, and treatment.
"The important message is for primary care physicians to identify those patients for whom they can provide direct care and those patients in whom it is best to refer to specialty treatment programs," Dr. Fiellin said. "Part of the strategy is to make effective referrals and motivate patients to seek outside support in a way that increases the likelihood that they will receive the assistance they need."
Primary care clinicians may sign up with the PCSS-P by calling the warm-line service 877-630-8812, sending an email to PCSSproject@asam.org, or visiting the website www.pcssmentor.org. (Warm line means a reply within 24 hours.) Additionally, the NIDAMED website www.drugabuse.gov/nidamed provides a compilation of evidence-based tools and resources for managing substance abuse in a primary care setting. One particularly useful screening tool, NIDA Med ASSIST, helps primary care physicians in developing a recommended plan of care in substance abuse cases.
The PCSS-P was created to increase the use of these tools in clinical settings and to advise NIDA on the ways in which these tools can be made more useful for practicing primary care clinicians, Dr. Fiellin said. The structure of PCSS-P is modeled after the recent Physician Clinical Support System for Buprenorphine coordinated by ASAM that resulted in a successful six-year run. Other key elements of the PCSS-P include oversight by two leading addiction experts, Louis E. Baxter, Sr., M.D., FASAM, and Dr. Fiellin, as medical directors, and counsel provided by the Clinical Advisory Committee of family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine leaders.
"The goal will be to work as much as possible with major medical organizations that serve primary care physicians to promote the services of the PCSS-P," Dr. Fiellin said. "We anticipate that our clinical advisers will conduct brief sessions at local, state, or national meetings to go through the tools available from the NIDAMED website, get direct feedback from primary care clinicians about how useful they find these types of resources, and what they would like to see in future versions."
It was a natural role for ASAM to serve as a coordinating partner with NIDA in bringing the PCSS-P services to primary care physicians.
"Because we are a leading organization in the field of addiction medicine with many physicians trained in primary care specialties," Dr. Fiellin said, "we are particularly sensitive and aware of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to address substance use and addiction in primary care settings."
Medical Marijuana Hot Issue at Chapters Meeting
The Chapters Council meets four times a year, but three of them are conference calls. The chance to discuss topics and interact face-to-face with colleagues makes the Med-Sci Conference Council an important annual event.
Thursday evening's meeting included discussions on medical marijuana, potentially broadening ASAM's membership requirements and reports from state chapters.
"It is always good to hear what new and different things other states are doing to recruit, retain and educate members," said Richard Soper, M.D., J.D., M.S., FASAM, Chapters Council chair.
Medical marijuana has again become a contentious issue. Eighteen additional states have approved use of medical marijuana, while Montana, which had approved its use for the past six years, repealed its consent. Regardless of its legislature's stance, every state chapter has been affected by this matter, and members weren't shy about voicing their thoughts and experiences.
"The discussion wasn't to take a position on the issue, but to talk about the science and policy behind it," Dr. Soper said. "We as physicians do not condone inhalant use of other substances, yet turn around and say OK to the use of something even less standardized. It's a thorny dichotomy."
In some states, such as California, patients need only to call their doctor to get a prescription for medical marijuana.
"There was an interesting discussion about physicians being asked to provide a prescription for something with no continuity of care," Dr. Soper said. "What are the ramifications of certifying a prescription for a patient you've never had an encounter with?"
Adding to the discussion, Andrea Barthwell, M.D., FASAM, and ASAM past-president, presented an update on the ASAM medical marijuana white paper.
Another lively dialogue focused on expanding ASAM's membership standards.
"There has been a lot of push in medicine over the last 20 years to have a more collegial, team approach to patient care. Nurse practitioners, physicians, PhDs and pharmacists now all work together to inform the process," Dr. Soper said. "This is a good conversation that arises every few years, and it's always an important one to have."
Although no formal votes were held on any of the topics, he said he felt the evening was worthwhile.
"Everything discussed was for informational purposes," Soper said. "I thought we had some good give-and-take. It was a productive meeting."
Parity to Bring Change and Opportunity
Changes brought on by two federal acts will bring immense opportunities for addiction medicine specialists to practice in holistic ways for the benefit of Americans needing treatment.
The possible upshot and positive outcomes of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, were addressed Thursday evening during Component Session VII, "Parity and Health Care Reform: Changing the Way Addiction Treatment Providers Do Business." Summarizing the major issues discussed during this session was moderator A. Kenison Roy, III, M.D., FASAM, founder and Medical Director of Addiction Recovery Resources Inc., New Orleans.
"The main sense of what we talked about is that change is coming," he said. "The practice of medicine, particularly addiction medicine, will not be the same. The opportunity is for us to resume the role and function of physicians to lead, teach, and manage the treatment of patients with addiction."
Newer models of addiction medicine will no longer involve just seeing one patient right after the other as the practice has often been for many addiction specialists. The older model restricted these physicians to the one-dimensional prescription practice rather than the holistic patient care model, Dr. Roy said. The new role will evolve to include a nice mix of responsibilities — partly team manager, partly team leader, and partly face-to-face patient care.
The newer models will expand opportunities for physicians to participate in ways unlike ever before and will include structures, such as the patient-centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and larger groups formed by independent practice associations of smaller practices. Dr. Roy said these new models would be part of relationships being incentivized with hospitals and a wider spectrum of the health care delivery system to integrate addiction care in every aspect of that whole spectrum. The newer models will also require the use of electronic health records, new payment and delivery models, new billing and reimbursement practices, and quality reporting bonus payments.
"There are millions more patients who will not only have resources for care, but also be educated that they need the care," he said. "It is a recognition that it is a rare addiction patient who doesn't have medical and psychiatric co-morbidities. Those co-morbidities need to be identified and medically addressed, not to mention the fact that addiction in (and of) itself is a medical illness that needs to be managed by physicians."
The newer models will actually save money by addressing illness (addiction) that has previously gone unrecognized or untreated, which has driven up health care costs rather than kept them down, Dr. Roy said. Historically, insurance companies have functioned in silos and consequently sought to reduce costs simply through lack of treatment of addiction or other illnesses. By integrating addiction care through the spectrum of medicine, current estimates are that this move will reduce insurance costs by $55 per person each month.
With new regulations pending and the passage of parity, addiction medicine will be on a different playing field, he said.
"The recommendations that came out of this session were for physicians in addiction medicine to be proactive in this process, to think it through, and to be deliberative," Dr. Roy said. "The more we advocate for our patients, the more healthy our business plan will be."
Vets Battle Modern Issues When Returning Home
Michael Kilpatrick discusses the Millennium Cohort Project during 'Treatment of the Returning Military Veteran' Friday.
In this era of the modern military, with females in combat theaters and multiple deployments to combat zones, veterans face new issues as well as long-established challenges when leaving home and returning. Speakers at a symposium Friday focused on those issues and data now being collected to develop treatment strategies.
Symposium #2, "Treatment of the Returning Military Veteran" featured a detailed presentation about how combat in the Middle East has affected members of the military and their families, as well as efforts to learn more about the long-term effects of combat.
Offering the perspective of a health care professional, as well as personal experience because her former fiancé served in the Middle East, was Susan A. Storti, Ph.D., RN, CARN-AP. Dr. Storti is an investigator at McLean Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, and a research associate at Brown University Medical School.
"You need to look at them from a holistic perspective," she said of returning military members. "They could not only have wounds from combat, but there could be issues in the home that play a role in alcohol abuse or psychiatric disorders."
Of the 2.2 million military members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, 52 percent are ages 18 to 25, and 24 percent are ages 25 to 30, Dr. Storti said. While effective treatment for these traumatized veterans should require 12-16 sessions, "this group will not stick around," she said. "They will have two or three sessions, then disappear."
Military members and their families face an emotional cycle of deployment that includes:
• Initial intense fear and worry
• Detachment and withdrawal as deployment nears
• Loneliness and sadness soon after the military member leaves
• An adjustment period
• Reunion issues
• Effects of pre-existing difficulties
Instead of getting closer to their family and friends as they near deployment, military members often become more solitary, which causes more problems when they return home if issues already exist, especially in a marriage, Dr. Storti said.
During deployment, family members must cope with limited communication and frightening news reports, she said.
When the military member returns home, everyone must learn to adjust to a changed family structure — from spouses to children to parents. Mothers returning home from duty increasingly find that their children act out, sometimes leading to legal issues, Dr. Storti said.
Other factors to consider when treating returning military members are that they feel out of place and often translate their coping techniques from combat to their homes. In addition, individuals also face physical problems, such as loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, loss of hearing, musculoskeletal disorders, combat trauma, and stigma.
"Military members are often afraid to seek assistance, especially if they want to make the military a career," Dr. Storti said.
Complicating readjustment can be abuse of alcohol, narcotics, benzodiazepines, marijuana, stimulants, and steroids, she said, adding that more military members now use "spice," a chemically treated herb that is legal and similar to marijuana.
Dealing with these issues may eventually improve because military and political leaders are finally recognizing the need to collect data and develop plans to help these returning veterans.
Michael Kilpatrick, M.D., FACP, a longtime member of the military and now a civilian, has studied deployment issues for the past 10 years. Veterans are now being surveyed in-depth three to six months after returning home, instead of answering a few questions immediately after returning home.
In addition, the Millennium Cohort Study is examining the long-term effects of military life on service members. The study began in 2001 and new members are enrolled every three years, so more than 150,000 have been sampled.
"This data will provide important indicators that will lead us to understand what other studies need to be done," Dr. Kilpatrick said. "It is fertile ground for more research."
Plenary Focuses on Recovery, Education
(From left) H. Westley Clark, Penny S. Mills, R. Gil Kerlikowske, Louis E. Baxter, Sr., Pamela S. Hyde, Howard Moss, Nora D. Volkow, and Donald J. Kurth.
A group of addiction medicine leaders emphasized recovery, workforce development, and education in lectures Friday at the Opening Scientific Plenary and Distinguished Scientist Lecture.
Renowned researcher George E. Vaillant, M.D., received the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award and closed the session with his presentation "Using Occam's Razor on Dual Diagnosis."
The session began, though, with remarks by outgoing President Louis E. Baxter, Sr., M.D., FASAM, followed by a series of short addresses from R. Gil Kerlikowske, M.A., Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Pamela S. Hyde, J.D., Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration; Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; Howard Moss, M.D., Associate Director for Clinical and Translational Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; and H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., FASAM, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Kerlikowske, who became Drug Czar in 2009, said, "One area I'm particularly proud of was to open up an Office of Recovery, to have people think about recovery. So we're not just about addiction and (drug control)." He noted the new version of the federal Drug Control Program comes out next month. "It has your voice in it. It's an excellent document," he said. "It will include issues dear to your heart, such as (treatment of) college students and military (personnel)."
Addressing substance abuse means confronting many tough realities, said Hyde, including rising prescription drug use in all populations; disproportionate numbers of uninsured among people with mental or substance abuse disorders; and a $2.2 billion drop in mental health funding by the states.
However, she remains confident. "We can treat it and people do recover," Hyde said.
Noting that "we have a much more challenging disease on our hands than other fields," Dr. Volkow said this is "a period of extraordinary opportunity and responsibility for all of us. We need to build the blocks to treat substance abuse; we need education in medical schools and specialties."
Dr. Clark told the audience, "You can function as a linchpin" for mainstreaming addiction medicine. "It's about making the health care field aware of addiction. Health care reform cannot progress … without addressing substance abuse disorders.
"I applaud ASAM for providing physician education," he said. "I always like to point out that when funds were being made available for the Recovery Act, behavioral health didn't get any money. We are the orphans of the system, but we will prevail with your help and that of organizations like ASAM."
Dr. Vaillant's lecture focused on whether alcoholism is the cart or the horse for depression. "Occam's razor is a fancy way to say the bumper sticker, 'Keep It Simple,'" he said, admitting it was impertinent for him to recommend simplifying such a complex condition. "It's a very tough disease and I'm going to try to make it simple, which you can do from a lecture podium, but is extremely hard to do in real life."
The simplest dual diagnosis is depression and alcoholism. "Alcoholics who go to AA and recover tend not to be depressed," Dr. Vaillant said. "Careful work … has shown that alcohol and depression certainly are genetic illnesses, but don't overlap."
He presented results from his 60-year Harvard study, showing AA meeting attendance correlates with abstinence. Subjects who achieved abstinence from alcohol had attended more than 100 — in some cases 140 — AA meetings. The study also showed a 20-year period before people became abstinent.
"You don't tell someone to stop drinking on a dime," Dr. Vaillant said. "To stop an addiction you've got to have a competing behavior. You've got to have some way to boost a person's hope and self-esteem. You've got to have some kind of supervision, because alligators don't come when they're called. And you've got to have a new source of love. You need a new trusting employer or a new person to love you, who doesn't remember what a jerk you were — and AA is a source."


Newmarket Racecourse features two courses – the July Course and the NatWest Rowley Mile Course. The Rowley Mile has been home to the 1000 Guineas since it was first run in 1814.
Newmarket racing history spans all the way back to the early 1600s, making the racecourse one of the oldest known sites for horse racing that's still in use. The town of Newmarket itself dates back to 1200 and has a history inextricably tied to horse racing. In the 1700s, King Charles II watched the races at Newmarket from the now-famous "Bushes", still on the Rowley Mile Course today about a furlong-and-a-half from the winning post.
Newmarket Racecourse now boasts world-class facilities and three main enclosures.
The Premier Enclosure provides the best views of the winning post, as well as access to the Grandstand and the other two enclosures. Annual badge holders, as well as race goers who buy Premier Enclosure badges, have access to this enclosure. A strict formal dress code is enforced.
In 2000, the Queen officially opened the Millennium Grandstand. This and the Paddock Enclosure provide good views of the Rowley Mile Course, the parade ring and the winners' circle, as well as access to the Garden Enclosure. A smart to casual dress code is encouraged.
The Rowley Enclosure provides views of the Rowley Mile but not of the winning post or the parade ring. Stands in the enclosure are temporary. The Rowley Enclosure includes tote betting outlets, mobile catering units and a playground for children. No dress code is enforced.
Bookmakers at Newmarket Racecourse are situated in both the Paddock and Rowley enclosures. In 2007, a £10-million redevelopment project set to provide improved facilities in the Premier and Grandstand & Paddock Enclosures was initiated. For more information about facilities at the course, visit our Newmarket Racecourse facilities page.
Visit our 1000 Guineas tickets page for information about tickets for any of the three enclosures.


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Consensus candidate: Niger Governorship aspirant says, he will abide by any decision taken by APC
A governorship aspirant in Niger State, Alhaji Umar Sanda Abdullahi, has said that he will abide by any position taken by his party, All Progressive Congress, APC as regard to consensus candidate.
Alhaji Umar Sanda, noted that the party is greater than an individual, stating that if the party decided that consensus candidate should emerge, he will for the success of the party, abide by the position of the party in the overall interest of the APC at the general elections.
Addressing Journalists at a press conference in Minna, Niger state capital during the weekend, the governorship aspirant maintained that he will not hesitate to go by the party's decision.
Sanda said his declaration to aspire to the governorship position of Niger State was his desired to reposition and harnessing the agricultural potential abound in the state and to improve the revenue base as well.
According to him, "Niger State deserves a highly committed governor that is both willing and able to mitigate the current difficulties and move the state forward agriculturally and developmentally towards improving the revenue base of the state and create job opportunities for the teaming unemployed graduates in the state."
And to be able to accomplish this, he said the leadership must have a good background and genuine interest in Agriculture to cash in on the agro- allied competitive advantage, leverage on it to propel the economy to prosperity.
"In addition to this premium quality, the state also desires a leader that posses vast experience in entrepreneurship, a cognitive understanding of the plight of the rural dwellers and a genuine acquaintance with contemporary urban renewal concepts and communal governance" he asserted.
He observed that Niger state is richly endowed with both industrious human and Abundant natural resources "and going by the enormous goodwill and authority therein the office of the governor, it will take one's ability and sincerity of purpose to galvanize necessary resources and institutions to propel the state to the path of sustainable development".
He noted that with the shackle of poverty among the vast majority of the people both in the rural and urban settings was duty- bound on him if voted into office in 2023 to stem the ugly trend, stressing that he will bring to bear his entrepreneurial experience to enhance both individual and collective welfare and prosperity of the people in a well secured environment.
He insisted that with his conviction, he decided to engage in a wide and lengthy consultations with citizens of different backgrounds, experiences and opinion over a period of times, stating that "the encouragement and frank submission that came out of the consultations has further strengthened my determination to actually come out to offer myself in service to my people and my land".
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Our weekly summary of new and newsworthy transportation projects worldwide.
One of those who testified lends extra credence to the report: Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Ted Houghton said that service could commence in as little as seven years from now.
This confirmation should please more than just Dallasites, Houstonians and Aggies, for it, along with the Dallas-Fort Worth connection the commission proposes, serves as the base for possible future extensions along the I-35 corridor northward to Oklahoma City and southward to Austin and Mexico.
Sometimes, it doesn't require a super-fast train to revolutionize transportation. In some instances, especially in the developing world, just a faster one will do.
Case in point: the 483-km (300-mile) journey between the Kenyan capital of Nairobi and its principal port city, Mombasa. Currently, it takes passengers 15 hours to complete this trip on a decrepit narrow-gauge railroad completed in 1901 by Britain's colonial government. Freight takes even longer to get from port to capital — up to 36 hours.
A new Chinese-built rail line will put an end to all that. According to the Global Post, work is set to begin in October on the line, whose route will be longer than the railway it replaces — 609.3 km (378.6 miles) — but whose speed will be significantly faster; it is designed to allow passenger trains to operate at 120 km/h (75 mph) and freight trains at 80 km/h (50 mph).
At these speeds, the travel time for passengers between the two cities will be slashed by more than two-thirds, to 4.5 hours. Freight trains will see a trip time improvement of more than 80 percent as they will complete the journey in just eight hours.
The China Exim Bank is picking up 90 percent of the cost of the standard-gauge rail link's construction, a figure CNN pegged earlier this year at $5.2 billion. The government of Kenya will cover the remaining 10 percent. The line is the first phase of a longer rail link that will ultimately replace the entire narrow-gauge railway, much of which is dilapidated, connecting Mombasa with Uganda's capital city, Kampala. State-owned China Road and Bridge Corporation is building the line.
And speaking of China, two of that country's newer metro networks are being put on a fast track to rapid expansion.
The Asian Public Transport Newschannel carried two items recently reporting on plans to add 10 new or extended metro lines in two Chinese cities, Wuhan and Nanjing, over the next six years.
Both cities' rapid expansion plans have received the blessing of China's National Development Committee.
Under the expansion plans, Wuhan's system would grow from its current extent of 79.1 km (49.2 miles) to a total of 385 km (239.2 miles), including lines currently under construction as part of the system's second phase of expansion. Nanjing's current three-line, 98.45-km (61.17-mile) system would grow to a total of 215.7 km (134 miles) when all work is complete. Nanjing's expansion plans also include new suburban rail lines that had originally been part of the city's master metro plan.
Wuhan became the fifth city in China to have a metro system when its first line went into service in 2004. Service started in Nanjing the following year; its system is currently the fourth-most-extensive in China.
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Common Core assessments: Parents opt out, schools cop out
James V. Shuls Director of Education Policy, Show-Me Institute
I love standardized tests. As a teacher, I loved the information they provided about my students' progress. As a parent, I love the statistics that tell me how my child is doing relative to others. As a researcher, I love the data that allow me to conduct research projects.
But as someone who believes in individual liberty, I love freedom more, and that includes the freedom to opt out of state standardized tests.
There has been an opt-out undercurrent for some time, led mostly by individuals and organizations such as The National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest), which questions the validity of standardized tests. With the advance of the Common Core State Standards and Common Core aligned tests, however, this small chorus of voices has been joined by an ever-increasing number of conservative parents concerned with the tests. From coast to coast there have been stories about parents choosing to opt their children out of state tests.
So I became immediately interested when a parent contacted me and asked whether it was possible to opt out of Missouri''s state standardized tests. I set out to find the answer. First, I contacted my local school district. They pointed me to the district policy, which states: ""All students will participate in statewide assessments"…" (emphasis mine). A district official informed me that if a child was not present for the testing day, but returned during the testing window, which is nearly seven weeks, they would be compelled to make-up the missed test.
According to the school district official, the district was handcuffed by state law. Therefore, I contacted the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Communication's Coordinator informed me that there was no state policy to opt out, but pointed me to a state statute. The statutes say nothing about requiring students to take tests, but instead refer to the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Desiring to get to the bottom of the issue, I contacted the U.S. Department of Education. Their reply offered little clarity:
"The issue of whether a state assessment is mandatory for students is not addressed in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESE). This is up to your state. The ESEA requirements are directed at the state, district and school, not the individual student. The statute requires schools to be able to demonstrate at least 95% participation rates on the assessments in order to make adequate yearly progress (AYP)."
The school district says their hands are tied by the state, the state says their hands are tied by the federal government, and the federal government says it is up to the state. Technically, all are correct. The federal government requires 95 percent of students to be tested. States could develop opt out policies, but they have every incentive to make sure kids take tests. Therefore, states push the 95 percent testing burden onto local school districts. This leads school districts to develop policies that make no exceptions for individuals and require all to take state exams.
While I was on this fact finding mission, the parent who had contacted me was having more meaningful discussions with his school district. They were able to work out an agreement and he will be allowed to opt his child out of the state tests.
Some might say this is not good and that there should be no option for parents to opt their children out. Indeed, Chester Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently argued that opting out is "not a legitimate form of civil disobedience." In his mind, public school students are receiving a public good with the support of public dollars. Therefore, the public has the right to know how well students are doing. If you don't like it, Finn says, "put your money where your mouth is and stop asking taxpayers to educate your children." In other words, if you don't like it, you can get out!
(Of course, you can''t get out with a voucher or other form of state supported private school choice, because Finn and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute would like to mandate state testing for those private school choice programs as well.)
I probably love testing data about as much as Chester Finn, but unlike him, I''m not willing to sacrifice the freedom of individuals for the cause of public information. Kudos to the parents that hold to their convictions and opt their children out and kudos to the school districts that don't choose to cop out by saying their hands are tied.
James V. Shuls, Ph.D., is the director of education policy at the Show-Me Institute, which promotes market solutions for Missouri public policy. Follow on Twitter @Shulsie
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Email marketing, yes, good old-fashioned email, is still a vital tool in engaging customers and in converting sales. There is lots of data to back this up. This article lays out a lot of the strategies you should be employing.
Show Notes for Episode 22: "TEM Short: Load The Bus First"


We are pleased to announce the release of ShareFile Web Application v19.15, which includes the following changes. These changes will be available to all customers in the coming week.
To increase user security, failed sign-on attempts are limited to five. After five failed attempts, users are prompted to reset their password.
Both users and administrators are now notified when users are forced to reset their passwords.
When attempting to sign on with too many failed attempts, the error message shown is more descriptive of the issue.
The branding for signing into RightSignature now matches the rest of Citrix Workspace.
An outdated notification system has been removed.
Users can now sign on with Citrix Workspace credentials to access legacy ShareFile applications.
Files might be deleted after users are reassigned.
The storage zone shown in the webapp and the database for the account might not match.
The NotificationSweeper app might consume an excessive amount of CPU.
User roles might not be set during validation.
Sync might mistake the master administrator for a client user, pausing Sync.
When a DS group is added to a workflow, the workflow cannot be edited.
Adding a new client user might not create an activation token when using a Citrix Workspace account.
When attempting to move or archive a file using the ShareFile Desktop App for Windows, athe following error message appears: "You are not authorized to perform this operation."
Links sent with ShareID might redirect to the dashboard rather than to the downloadable file.
Encrypted emails sent to email addresses beginning with "g" might not be sent.
Help links were gray on a dark background, making them difficult to see.
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The notification center has been removed to comply with legal rulings.
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Challenge: Wisconsin dairy worried about losing too much equity from forecasted low milk prices.
How We Helped: We had in-depth discussions with this client to learn their goals and establish objectives. This client already believed that price risk management was not an option, but a necessity to protect and improve the equity position of their farm. We worked with them to establish a marketing program for both milk and feed during 2017. Following this conservative marketing program utilizing a combination of futures, options, and forward contracting established an average Class III price of $17.50.
Value to Producer: Following this plan resulted in a gain of $1.25 per cwt (net after fees) over the average Class III price for the year. Protecting one million pounds per month resulted in a milk income gain of around $12,500 per month and a total of $150,000 for the year.
Challenge: Large California dairy seeking input on growth and profitability strategies.
How We Helped: Genomic technology was introduced as a potential high return investment. Our team brought in resources including technology review, education, financial return, best practices, and personnel training for proper implementation.
Value to Producer: The owner made the informed decision to begin full-scale genomic testing on all cows and heifers. Results from the first batch of 100 animals led to identification of extremely high genetic merit individuals with breeding right contracts signed. The income from those first contracts returned 10:1 profits. The dairy continues to benefit by retaining the highest value animals while breeding the lower value animals to beef breeds.
Challenge: A 2,500 cow Midwest dairy with the problem of high turnover in their first-time managers (mostly promoted from within). Within 6 months or a year these people either weren't working out, or the new manager asked to return to their old position because they didn't like managing their past coworkers.
How We Helped: We started by working with the owner of the dairy to define the management roles in their company and clarify the expectations of each role. This information was used to create simple job descriptions for each management role. Those allowed us to define the skills the new manager would need to be successful, and to develop tools to help them learn the new skills. We also helped the dairy implement a program where each new manager was paired with a mentor to help them transition into the role. Also, the old "annual review" process was eliminated and replaced with an "immediate feedback" process. Each manager was asked to look for opportunities every day to give feedback on what they saw as their team members did their job.
Value to Producer: The owner soon noticed that people being promoted truly understood what managing people was about, and were more likely to be successful in their new role. They also saw that all employees were more engaged because of the ongoing effort to "catch people doing things right" and reinforcing those behaviors with quick feedback sessions.
These changes led to: less frustration for the owner and managers; a great amount of time saved moving people in and out of manager roles; an overall increase in "happiness" on the dairy.
Challenge: A small Minnesota dairy considering their future. Do they expand or stay the same size? If they expand, how big should they/can they go?
How We Helped: We began by discussing objectives: What did they hope to accomplish? Why are they considering expansion? What are their attitudes towards risk? What did they hope to improve? We then moved to calculating their current profitability, cash flow, and equity positions. Using our best projections of future milk prices and production levels, feed costs, and costs of capital improvements we projected multiple growth and timeline scenarios. We also looked critically at potential impacts on owner equity.
Value to Producer: The owners decided to remain at the same size as all potential scenarios put their equity at unacceptable risk. It was clear that the way forward was to re-evaluate existing practices, products, and vendors with the focus on per cow profitability. They protected a life time's worth of equity.
Challenge: A large dairy faced community opposition throughout their expansion project.
How We Helped: It's important for every business to tell their story and for every business to have a brand that reinforces their beliefs, their values and their pride. We began by taking professional photography and video of the dairy showcasing their animal care and sustainable farming practices. Using these, we created community outreach materials including a quarterly newsletter, website, YouTube channel and Facebook page. We worked with them to set up speaking engagements, farm tours with influencers, media stories and a high school scholarship program. Their story reached community members and the agricultural community. Two years later, we organized a press conference at the farm regarding their permit renewal which gathered 100 allied industry, neighbors and area farmers to show their support.
Value to Producer: When searched online, positive stories are ranked first on Google. Community support grew. Their permit was renewed. Sharing their story allowed the dairy to focus on growing milk production, managing regulations and planning for the future.


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What are travelers saying about Jerez?
Jerez is a lovely town to wander around and soak up the atmosphere. There is a large and fascinating indoor food market in the mornings and a bustling shopping area, which is not too overwhelming. The old town can be discovered just off the main shopping street where there are narrow streets with many bars and restaurants with lots of delicious tapas. Visit a bodega to find out about the different sherries produced in the area. There is the cathedral and the alcazar to visit too. The railway station and bus terminus are a short walk from the centre and have good links to surrounding areas.
Jerez, the city of the good wines and spanish horses. Stroll the city and its monuments, stopping to rest in the old bars or visiting one of the ancient fine wineries like Tio Pepe, near the arab fortress in the city center. You can reach Jerez in a 10 minutes train trip, from our attic palace house in El Puerto de Santa Maria.
Maybe even five-stars. The outskirts don't prepare you for the fine historic centre with grand buildings in styles from Renaissance to Art Deco. Foodies' paradise. Tours of sherry bodegas. Camera obscura (very weird experience - a sort of panoramic early CCTV).
Beautiful historic place and excellent dinning experience. Stayed here whilst watching the 2014 Moto GP with my wife.
When is the best time to book a hotel in Jerez?
The least expensive month is April, with an average of $62 per night. The most expensive month to stay in Jerez is August, with an average price of $93 per night.
What is the average price per night in Jerez in April?
What is the weather like in Jerez?
In Jerez, the expected average temperature in April is 16.1°C/61.0°F. The warmest month is typically July, which averages 34.0°C/93.2°F. The coolest month is January, with temperatures averaging 5.1°C/41.2°F.
What airports are the closest to the city center in Jerez, Spain?
The nearest airport to Jerez is Jerez (XRY) (5.94 miles).


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Where Do Llamas Live?
Llamas are a common sight in the Andes Mountains such as at Peru's Machu Picchu.
Llamas are the domesticated camelids which the Andean cultures used as pack animals and for meat during the Pre-Columbian period. Llamas are the South American cousins of the camel which do not have humps. They are social creatures which prefer living in herds. Llamas originated from the central parts of North America over forty million years ago and migrated to South America during the Great American Interchange.
Llama Size and Appearance
A fully grown llama is about 5.9 ft tall and weighs about 440 lbs while a cria (baby llama) weights approximately 31 pounds. Llamas have longer ears which are curved inwards and narrow feet with their toes being more separated than the camel's toes. They have short tails and vary in color with a majority of them being brown, black, grey or white. Llamas are neither pseudo-ruminants nor ruminants; they have a unique stomach with numerous compartments which allows them to eat high cellulose and lower quality foods. Llamas have a lifespan of between fifteen to twenty years, but some can survive for over thirty years.
Even though their natural geography stretches across the Andes Mountains, their present scope extends far beyond this region. In South America, they are in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. They can also be found on other continents like Australia, North America, and Europe. They reside in mountainous and temperate regions which are over 7,500 ft above sea level. Llamas can also be found in ranches and farms all over the world. Currently, about 168,000 llamas are in Canada and the United States. The use of llamas as guard animals began in North America during the early 1980s. Americans living in the western parts of the United States used them to guard the other livestock like cattle and sheep from predators.
Natural Habitat of Llamas
These herbivores originated from the rugged mountainous regions of western South America, particularly in mountains and plateaus which are over 10,000 ft above the sea level. They prefer open grassy landscapes. Since their habitats have very low oxygen concentration, these animals have high levels of red blood cells which help them survive in this high altitude areas.
History of Llamas
Numerous scholars like Alex Chepstow-Lusty have always argued that the usage of llama dung as manure made it possible for the early man to switch from the hunting and gathering lifestyle to agriculture. The Moche community used to place parts of llamas in the grave of important individuals as an offering. Llamas were the only beasts of burden in the Inca empire, and a majority of the communities associated with the Incas had an extended tradition of herding llamas. The llama was of symbolic importance to the Inca nobility, and they were buried with a symbol of these animals. Currently, people keep them for meat and fiber production and the beast of burden. These sturdy animals have been used as pack animals for centuries. They would carry about 75 pounds for over 20 miles in a day. The pack llamas train (which had numerous animal) used to move heavy goods over the rough terrains of Andes.
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Jolien D'hoore (Mitchelton-Scott) won an incident-filled 2018 edition of the women's Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde in Belgium on Thursday.
The Belgian road race champion took the bunch sprint, but had to check with other riders after crossing the line that she had actually won, as she thought a remnant of the day's break had got there first.
Chloe Hosking (Ale-Cipollini) placed second with Christine Majerus (Boels-Dolmans) completing the podium positions in third.
The 151.7km race was punctuated by numerous crashes, mechanicals and splits in the peloton caused by earlier rain and blustery conditions.
The day started under falling rain in Bruges. As the peloton rolled out, they soon had to stop at a level crossing – but once they had restarted the speed picked up.
It wasn't long before the peloton started to break apart in the crosswinds, with led to the formation of a leading group of around 15 riders after 20km.
Inside 100km to go, the lead group's advantage over the chasing bunch was not huge – only around a minute and a half. At this point the group consisted of 13 riders: Eva Buurman (Trek-Drops), Gracie Elvin (Mitchelton-Scott), Jelena Eric (Cylance Pro Cycling), Sheyla Gutierrez (Cylance Pro Cycling), Romy Kasper (Ale Cipollini), Lisa Klein (Canyon-SRAM), Mieke Kröger (Team Virtu), Christine Majerus (Boels-Dolmans), Emma Norsgaard (Cervelo-Bigla), Kasia Pawlowska (Team Vitru), Monique van de Ree (Waowdeals), Abi Van Twisk (Trek-Drops) and Moniek Tenniglo (FDJ).
Majerus was the first to get dropped out of the break after suffering from a flat tyre, and quickly put herself at the front of the chasers to work for Boels-Dolmans, who no longer had a rider in the lead group.
More crashes assisted in splitting up peloton as it wound its way through the windswept countryside before hitting the streets of De Panne to navigate the finishing circuits.
Disaster soon struck for Tenniglo in the break with 27km to go, as she was one of a number of riders to fall victim to tram tracks. Several riders in the following peloton also fell on the same stretch of tracks.
Evidently paying for her efforts in the break, Eric suffered from cramp and was forced to sit up out of the escape with 24km to go. Van Twisk, too, was dropped.
Into the final 20km, Team Sunweb and Ale-Cipollini led the pace-setting of the chasing peloton with only eight riders left in the escape group.
Kröger attacked out of the break with 10km, putting in an impressive effort to distance her former escape companions. She tucked into an aero position on her bars with only Elvin giving chase.
However, Elvin could make no headway into getting back in touch with Kröger, who passed under the kiloemtre-to-go banner with a slim advantage. Heartbreakingly, she was caught in the final few hundred metres as the peloton wound up the pace for a sprint.
Ale-Cipollini led into the finish, with Hosking opening up her effort early but D'hoore was just that bit stronger and was well ahead by the line.
As she rolled along after the finish, she asked her fellow riders "Did I win?!" She had – and the overhead footage confirmed she had done so by a convincing margin.
D'hoore moves up to fourth in the UCI WorldTour ranking behind leader Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM).
The women's 2018 UCI WorldTour continues on Sunday, March 25, in Belgium with Ghent-Wevelgem followed by the Tour of Flanders on April 1.


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Dell Flight Strip  is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Dell, in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. It is owned by the Montana Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division and provides general aviation service.

History
The airport was built by the United States Army Air Forces about 1942 as an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights.    It was closed after World War II, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA).

In 1988, the airport "teetered on the verge of abandonment" until Leon Hirsch, an executive at United States Surgical Corporation, purchased a nearby ranch, and paid to upgrade the airport so he could land his Learjet.

Facilities and aircraft
Dell Flight Strip covers an area of  at an elevation of 6,007 feet (1,831 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,000 by 70 feet (2,134 x 21 m). For the 12-month period ending September 25, 2009, the airport had 950 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 79 per month.

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"This cemetery dates back to the 1850s and has gone by a bunch of different names, including the Van Fossen cemeter, Rodenbaugh Cemetery, the Old Adel Cemetery, and the "official" name recorded by the state, the Gibson Cemetery. Along old highway 6, the cemetery is sometimes just called the Bilderback Cemetery, after the massive headstones that mark the graves of two of the town's founders.
The cemetery has no gravel path marking access and is pretty hidden. The sign has also been covered by overgrown trees, making it difficult to see. But away from the road and behind the brush, with an honest to goodness large pumpkin patch growing on the farm next to the cemetery; you'll find the graves are well manicured and clean, even if most are long forgotten. A handful of the stones may show a solitary flag marking a veteran, or slowly decaying flowers left after a quick visit for a long dead ancestor.
The graveyard had become a hangout spot for local teens and they damaged some stones and committed acts that should never take place among graves. The police began patrolling and trying to chase the teens off, but the teens would run to the woods and would come back once the police left.
As remembered by some of the residents of Adel, the carousing among the graves ended after May 11, 1983. A group of teens including an Iowa State astronomy freshman had gone to the park to watch comet IRAS make it's closest approach to the Earth. After carousing in the dark for a few hours, they began to notice the night was unusually quiet. No crickets, no owls, no noise. Then under the stars and the glow of that strange, cloud-like comet, they noticed tiny sparks of blue light dancing on top of the two massive Bilderback graves. At first they thought it was a trick of the starlight, but the flecks became bigger and brighter until they looked like dim flashlights jumping around on top and between the stones. After that the teens simply took off. Whether the lights were ball-lighting on a clear night, will-o-wisps, or just a bad case of too much Thunderbird, the cemetery got a reputation that kept the teens away after that night."
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The horses are well and have landed in Hong Kong
Among these sixty-three horses are a lot of the international show jumping circuits' great stars, such as Ayade De Septon*HDC with whom French champion Kevin Staut will attempt the double in the Longines Speed Challenge after their victory in Paris. There's also Basta, the stallion with whom Hong Konger Jacqueline Lai, who is Asia's best chance at this Longines Masters, was selected for the Tryon World Equestrian Games.
Frédéric Pignon's dancing horses, Iberians Phoebus De Barral and Talento De Courenne will be on the same plane to present the AsiaWorld-Expo audience with a moment of equestrian magic that only this French trainer, accompanied by his wife Magali Delgado, is able to offer.
Seven horses from the Ecuries d'Ecaussines were also on board for the flamboyant HKJC Race of the Riders and the Asian Junior Challenge. Most of the infrastructure, the same as in Paris, arrived a few weeks ago by sea freight so that the assembly of the magnificent installations that are the hallmark of this Longines Masters series, as well as a few tons of equipment such as a thousand bales of wood chips for horses bedding, one hundred and fifty bales of hay and even 1.2 ton of sand to finish the grounds, could be completed in time.
Edwina Tops-Alexander forfeits
The Australian rider, who was in the race for the Grand Slam Indoor of Showjumping, unfortunately had to forfeit act II of Season IV. Vinchester, the Grand Prix horse she was preparing for this event has experienced a slight drop in form and she felt that he would not be fit enough to take up the challenge at the Grand Slam. These are the risks high-level riders deal with. However, the quality of the Longines Masters Hong Kong line-up remains high with three former World No. 1s, Olympic or World Games medalists and other European champions.
Asia Horse Week, second edition!
The second edition of Asia Horse Week, from February 14 to 16, will be held as an opener to the 2019 Longines Masters of Hong Kong. Two days of discussions and conferences reflecting on different themes completely on topic for today: breeding, sport, horse education and welfare.
This year, the FEI (Fédération Equestre Internationale) partners with this unique event in Asia to present its "Clean Sport" seminar. A perfect opportunity to familiarize everyone and raise awareness among Asian equestrian industry professionals and the equestrian community of the ethical, regulatory and best practices possible to promote healthy and responsible equestrian sports.
This Asia Horse Week is driven by Christophe Ameeuw and his EEM teams' persistent desire to develop the equestrian world in the Asia-Pacific. This exceptional event is being organized in partnership with the Hong Kong Jockey Club and with the support of the Hong Kong Tourism Board and the Wall Street Journal.
The conferences will be moderated by renowned speakers, such as Ingmar Devos, FEI President, Dr. Yasuhiko Haruta, Advisor to the Japan Equestrian Federation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Professor Cesare Galli, founder and director of Avantea, Dr. Anthony W K Chow SBS JP, the new Chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and Alex Hua Tian, Olympic Event Rider.
This second edition of Asia Horse Week will conclude with the first auction of high-end genetic embryos, composed of the world's top performers: The Auction, a partnership between EEM and the prestigious equine auction house, Arqana.
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Phileas Fogg, as self-composed as if the judgment did not in the least concern him, did not even lift his eyebrows while it was being pronounced. Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, "I offer bail." Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. Eleven o'clock was striking; Mr. Fogg was an hour in advance of time.
The rascal is off, after all!" he exclaimed. "Two thousand pounds sacrificed! He's as prodigal as a thief! I'll follow him to the end of the world if necessary; but, at the rate he is going on, the stolen money will soon be exhausted. The detective was not far wrong in making this conjecture. Since leaving London, what with travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way.Phileas Fogg, as self-composed as if the judgment did not in the least concern him, did not even lift his eyebrows while it was being pronounced. Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, "I offer bail." Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. Eleven o'clock was striking; Mr. Fogg was an hour in advance of time.


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