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Trial of TDF/FTC + Raltegravir Versus TDF/FTC + Efavirenz in HIV-1-Infected Women (ICE-002)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00984152
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (Decision not to go forth with study.)
First Posted : September 25, 2009
Last Update Posted : May 6, 2015
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Raltegravir not only has a unique mechanism of action, but may also have other unique effects on suppression of viral replication, viral reservoir, and immune reconstitution in blood and other important compartments. This may in part be due to the pharmacokinetics of Raltegravir in blood and gut tissue. Efavirenz will be the comparator antiretroviral drug in this study, with both drugs being used as part of a three-drug regimen with tenofovir and emtricitabine.
The primary objectives are to determine differences in the effects of 2 anti-retroviral regimens, Raltegravir + Truvada versus Atripla, with respect to:
- Viral load in plasma, genital tract (vaginal secretions), and gut (by in situ hybridization).
- Latent viral reservoir (pro-viral DNA) in the peripheral blood and genital tract.
- Immune effects (CD4/CD8 immunophenotypes) in gut and PBMCs and plasma cytokine profiles.
The secondary objective is to determine the pharmacokinetics of Raltegravir in blood and gut tissue; relative tissue/compartment penetration compared to Efavirenz.
|Condition or disease
|HIV-1 Infections
|Drug: TDF/FTC Once-Daily + Raltegravir 400 mg Orally Twice-Daily Drug: TDF/FTC + Efavirenz (Atripla) Once-Daily
|Phase 3
This is a phase III, prospective, randomized (1:1), multicenter, open label study comparing the effects of two HAART regimens:
- Arm A: Raltegravir 400 mg PO BID + TDF/FTC (Truvada, 300/200 mg) One PO Daily
- Arm B: Efavirenz + TDF/FTC (Atripla) Once PO Daily
The following local sites: Mt. Sinai, Rush University Medical Center, Stroger Hospital, University of Chicago and University of Illinois will work together to enroll 10 eligible women meeting all eligibility criteria (5 per study arm) over a one year time period. These 10 women will be randomized 1:1 to receive either TDF/FTC + Raltegravir or TDF/FTC + Efavirenz (Atripla). There will be 2 baseline evaluations prior to initiation of study therapy. Subjects will be followed for 48 weeks after initiation of study treatment.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Open Label, Randomized Trial of TDF/FTC+Raltegravir Vs. TDF/FTC+Efavirenz in HIV-1-Infected Women: Differential Effects on Viral Suppression/Reservoir, & Immune Parameters in Different Compartments, Including Gut & Genital Tract
|Study Start Date :
|June 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|June 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2013
Active Comparator: 1
TDF/FTC Once-Daily + Raltegravir 400 mg Orally Twice-Daily
Drug: TDF/FTC Once-Daily + Raltegravir 400 mg Orally Twice-Daily
TDF/FTC Once-Daily + Raltegravir 400 mg Orally Twice-Daily
Other Name: TDF/FTC Once-Daily + Raltegravir (Isentress) 400 mg Orally Twice-Daily
Active Comparator: 2
TDF/FTC + Efavirenz (Atripla) Once-Daily
Drug: TDF/FTC + Efavirenz (Atripla) Once-Daily
TDF/FTC + Efavirenz (Atripla) Once-Daily
- Viral load in plasma, genital tract (vaginal secretions), and gut (by in situ hybridization) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Latent viral reservoir (pro-viral DNA) in the peripheral blood and genital tract [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Immune effects (CD4/CD8 immunophenotypes) in gut and PBMCs and plasma cytokine profiles [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Determine the pharmacokinetics of Raltegravir in blood and gut tissue; relative tissue/compartment penetration compared to Efavirenz [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Eligible subjects will be antiretroviral naïve (< 7 days of HAART at any time prior to entry) with plasma HIV-1 RNA > 50,000 copies/mL (obtained within 90 days prior to study entry by any laboratory that has a CLIA certification or its equivalent) and moderate immune suppression within 90 days prior to study entry.
- HIV-1 infected, as documented by any licensed ELISA test kit and confirmed by Western blot at any time prior to study entry. HIV-1 culture, HIV-1 antigen, plasma HIV-1 RNA, or a second antibody test by a method other than ELISA is acceptable as an alternative confirmatory test. Alternatively, if a licensed ELISA is not available, two HIV-1 RNA values >2000 copies/mL at least 24 hours apart performed by any laboratory that has CLIA certification or its equivalent may be used to document infection.
- Female sex, Age > 18 and < 60 years, Pre-menopausal.
- Screening CD4+ T-cell count between 200-350 cells/mm3 obtained within 90 days prior to study entry by any laboratory that has a CLIA certification or its equivalent.
- The absence of exclusionary resistance mutations on a genotypic resistance assay (absence of exclusionary NRTI or NNRTI resistance mutations by genotype testing)
- Antiretroviral (ARV) drug-naïve (defined as 7 days of ARV treatment at any time prior to entry).
Laboratory values obtained within 45 days prior to study entry:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) 500/mm3
- Hemoglobin 8.0 g/dL
- Platelet count 40,000/mm3
- AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), and alkaline phosphatase 5 ULN
- Total bilirubin 2.5 x ULN
Calculated creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min as estimated by the Cockcroft-Gault equation:
- For women, multiply the result by 0.85 = CrCl (mL/min)
Negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 48 hours prior to initiating study medications unless otherwise specified by product labeling.
- Female candidates of reproductive potential is defined as women who have had regular menses over the preceding 24 months
- Contraception requirements for women who have not undergone surgical sterilization (e.g., hysterectomy, or bilateral oophorectomy, or bilateral tubal ligation).
Female candidates of reproductive potential, who are participating in sexual activity that could lead to pregnancy, must agree to the following:
- If the regimen does not include EFV, they must agree to use at least one reliable method of contraception while receiving the protocol-specified drugs and for 6 weeks after stopping the medications.
- If the regimen includes EFV, they must agree to use two reliable methods of contraception: a barrier method of contraception (e.g., condoms, diaphragm, or cervical cap with or without spermicide) together with another reliable form of contraceptive (e.g., a second barrier method, an IUD, or a hormone-based contraceptive) while receiving EFV and for 6 weeks after stopping EFV.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Menopausal (may affect quantity of genital tract secretions) or any serious illness that requires treatment and/or hospitalization until the patient completes therapy
- Any active infection, including co-infection with hepatitis B or C
- Any neoplasm
- Immunosuppressive therapy
- Requirement for any medications that are prohibited by any of the study treatments
- Significant liver or renal dysfunction
Baseline resistance to any of the study drugs by genotypic testing
- NRTI: M41L, K65 R, D76N, T69D, K70R, L74V/I, y115F, Q151M, M184V, L210W, T215any, K219Q/E
- NNRTI:L100I, K103N, V106A/M, V108I, Y181C/I, Y188C/L/H, G190anyA/S
- Alcohol or substance abuse problems or psychiatric conditions that impair the ability of the subject to comply with the study protocol
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00984152
|United States, Illinois
|Mt. Sinai Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608
|Rush University Medical Center
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|University of Illinois at Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center (of Cook County)
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60622
|University of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|Principal Investigator:
|Alan L. Landay, Ph.D.
|Rush University Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Alan L. Landay, Ph.D., Rush University Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Merck IISP #33421
|First Posted:
|September 25, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 6, 2015
|Last Verified:
|May 2015
Viral Suppression
Viral Reservoir
Immune Parameters
Genital Tract
Efavirenz, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Raltegravir Potassium
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Anti-HIV Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors


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Apple is set to launch an updated version of its Apple Store app Thursday, bringing with it two sizable new features: fast in-store pickup and self check-out.
For in-store pickup, the new app will let you buy something on your phone and have it ready for pick-up at a store in 12 minutes flat. That's pretty fast! Of course, once you're at the store it should take less than 12 minutes to find what you're looking for, but you won't have bought it on your phone!
Unless, of course, you bought it on your phone. The other new feature is in-store checkout. Apparently, you'll be able to scan an item with your phone, pay for it with the credit card they have on file, and walk out with it. I'm not sure how they'll prevent people from just walking out with $1,500 laptops claiming that they bought them with the app, but you've gotta assume they've got a plan in place for that.
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Viral Video: R.I.P Larry "J.R. Ewing" Hagman
Well-known Hollywood actor Larry Hagman died Friday in Dallas. It was perhaps apt, since Hagman's most famous role was his perfect portrayal of evil Texas oilman J.R. Ewing in the 1980s prime-time television soap hit, "Dallas."
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Press Release: Berkeley Firefighters To Fill Over 800 Holiday Grocery Bags For Seniors
Berkeley Firefighters and dozens of volunteers will be preparing over 800 Holiday grocery bags this Saturday (Dec. 22). The bags will be filled with chickens, fresh fruits and vegetables, and canned food for Berkeley's elderly, then delivered directly to their homes.
Organizer Dori Tieu, Interim President of Berkeley Firefighters Random Acts, said this annual event would not be possible without the help of the many individuals from the sponsoring agencies: Berkeley Firefighters Random Acts, Berkeley Firefighters Association, City of Berkeley Fire Department, San Francisco Fire Credit Union, Berkeley and West Berkeley Lions Clubs, and the City of Berkeley.
This day is also made possible by the efforts of all the volunteers as well as Ashby Plumbing & Heating Supply, Grocery Outlet, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Monterey Market, Berkeley Bowl, and private citizens for their donations and for supplying food at cost.
"So many seniors in our Berkeley community are in need this Holiday Season," Tieu said. "There are a record number of people who have signed up to have holiday food baskets delivered. We are very happy and excited to be able to deliver food and provide some cheer in over 800 homes this year."
Volunteers will gather at Berkeley Fire Station #2, located at 2029 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, beginning at 8:30 a.m., filling grocery bags with food in the apparatus bay. Once the bags are filled, volunteers will begin hand delivering the bags throughout the community all day long.


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1. Uncle Freddy's All-Stars at Co-Prosperity Sphere
Work by Em'rynn Artunian, Thomas Hagen, and Billy Pozzo.
Co-Prosperity Sphere is located at 3219 S. Morgan St. Reception is Friday from 6-9pm.
2. Uh-Oh It's Magic at Threewalls
Work by Ben Russell.
Threewalls is located at 119 N. Peoria St., #2C. Reception is Friday from 6-9pm.
3. Dawoud Bey: Early Portraits at Stephen Daiter Gallery
Early work by Dawoud Bey.
Stephen Daiter Gallery is located at 311 W. Superior St., #408. Reception is Friday from 5-8pm.
Work by Candida Alvarez.
Peregrineprogram is located at 500 W. Cermak Rd., #727. Reception is Saturday from 1-4pm.
5. Waiting for Daylight at Iceberg Projects
Work by Dana Carter.
Iceberg Projects is located at 7714 N. Sheridan Rd. Reception is Saturday from 6-9pm.
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It was a day to get out. I had spent the morning trying to get the tiller to run again, and I definitely will have to get a new coil. It took time to find that out.
One of the bamboo rods I have had one of the ferrules come loose. I took time to glue that back together. That meant it could travel to the pond with me. I had two rods, the vest and the fish basket to take in, and I also had a pair of forceps in my pocket. I really like them for removing hooks from fish.


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The Legendary Intruders Onstage in Harlem
Friday, December 10, the Legendary Intruders brought the fans to their feet
dancing the night away at the St Marks Church on 138th Street, off
Lennox Avenue in Harlem.
The thrill of hearing the group perform
prompted the ladies in the audience to yell out their names and ask
just to touch their singing idols as Legendary Intruders Mac McKenzie,
Lee Bradley, Jubar Jones and Johnny Waiters (aka LJ) sang their hits "I
Wanna Know Your Name,"Cowboys to Girls," and "I'll Always Love My Mama,"
among others.
Wine, sodas, fried chicken and macaroni and potato
salads graced the tables of audience members who came out to eat and be
entertained and it seemed by their reaction they were sated both
musically and gastronomically.
Three of the four men who now make
up The Legendary Intruders, were hand
picked by their predecessors and original performing founding member of the
Original Intruders, the late Mr. Fred Daugherty. Fred and those he
choice to carry on the Intruder tradition did so until Mr. Daugherty's death. The
Legendary Intruders state that it was Fred who gave them their style,
sound and class as performers. Jubar Jones is the fourth member to
join after the passing of Daughtery.
The Legendary Intruders of today continue the tradition led by Lee Bradley in honor of Mr. Daughtery. Daugherty
brought his cousin Lee Bradley into the group and the group has carried on ever since making sure they lived up to and carried on the legacy and
tradition of the Original Intruders.
So revved up were the Intruders that before the night of
December 10th ended, Legendary Intruder Jubar Jones and Johnny Waiters
bowed to customer requests at the legendary Harlem jazz spot "Showmans"
on 125th Street off Morningside and St. Nicholas Avenues) by singing
"Rainy Night in Georgia" and "Since I Fell For You." In fact, so
impressed were the owners, they engaged the Legendary Intruders to
perform at the club in May 2011.
We may also catch the group at the
world famous Apollo Theatre in May as well.
Fans of the Legendary
Intruders can also catch them at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
on January 15, 2011 at the renowned Paradise Theatre in the Bronx. And, once
the date is confirmed, Boston fans may catch the singers performing
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One of the highlights of the 2013 Ohio River Sternwheel Festival will be the annual fireworks display Saturday night in downtown Marietta.
One of the highlights of the 2013 Ohio River Sternwheel Festival will be the annual fireworks display Saturday night in downtown Marietta.
The Harry J. Robinson Fireworks Display will be presented from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday in the sky over the Ohio River as the fireworks are fired from a barge on the water.
After 30 years under the direction of Robinson, who died in 2011, the fireworks program is in its eighth year under the direction of fireworks chairman Dennis Blauser.
Thousands of fireworks shells will be launched during the fireworks display over the Ohio River Levee. For the past 15 years, Pyrotecnico of New Castle, Pa., has been the fireworks company producing the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival fireworks.
The century-old family business is the fourth largest fireworks company in the nation. Pyrotecnico produces more than 1,500 fireworks displays each year in 38 states and internationally.
As it has in the past, the aerial display will be synchronized with choreographed music which can be heard on WNUS 107.1 FM.
One of the founders of the sternwheel festival, Robinson served as chairman of the fireworks committee since the beginning of the festival in 1975 and was responsible for choosing both the fireworks and the music. At the age of 83, he chose to make 2005 his last year as fireworks chairman, handing the responsibility over to Blauser. The fireworks display was officially renamed in his honor in 2005.
Throughout the history of the fireworks show, Robinson personally chose the music for the radio simulcast. He had a library of thousands of CDs from which he pulled the different types of music he wanted to incorporate, Blauser said.
Blauser is working with Pyrotecnico to jointly develop the musical accompaniment for the fireworks. Blauser recommended tuning in to WNUS at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday so listeners can hear the introduction of the event before the music and fireworks begin.
This year's musical accompaniment will feature music from the 1980s, with a special emphasis on The Eagles and The Police, Blauser said.
"I'm really excited about this year's show," he said.
Blauser said there will be a number of new shells set off by Pyrotecnico for the Sternwheel Festival, along with some special displays during the show that will be synchronized with specific songs in the playlist.
Due to the fireworks preparations, the Williamstown Bridge will be closed to pedestrian traffic from 9 to 10 p.m. during the fireworks display. Vehicle traffic will be not be closed during the show.
The Ohio River will also be closed to river traffic during the fireworks display. The barges used for the fireworks display are provided by Marietta Industrial Enterprises.


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(KBCW) – Sunday was a fun day for Rihanna and her Instagram followers. The self-proclaimed "bad girl" posted a series of shots of her costumes from the forthcoming "Pour It Up" video.
Not surprisingly, the looks are quite racy. Pictured in a fishnet body stocking, the shots included her nod to Madonna's "Justify My Love" era S&M looks.
She also sported a look that seems to nod to the loose ladies' costuming from Boardwalk Empire, a bit of bootleg baby doll in sheer pink chiffon topped with a entire Titanic ship's worth of of jewels and a flapper-styled blonde wig.
The most modern part of that throwback look was the make-up. Rihanna's glam team topped her look off with something off-beat: pink eyebrows.
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The Failure of E-Book Devices
The failure is not the technology. The capacity to download, store, and recall hundreds if not thousands of books is impressive. The ability to replicate the look of font on paper is incredible. Each generation of e-book devices is rapidly outpacing the previous incarnations with additional features such as internet browser, PDF support, wireless updates, subscription support, and multiple e-book file types. The technology in and of itself is grand and a true marvel of the modern times.
The failure is how the e-book reader companies do not consider libraries as a viable customer.
If you read the FAQs or Terms of Service for Amazon, Sony, Mobipocket, and Ebooks, there is a clear indication that you cannot lend an e-book to anyone. Ok, that's not entirely true, since Sony indicates that you can lend an eBook to a friend (gasp!) so long as they are an authorized user of your account (Awww!). Sure, you can authorize a friend, but if you are someone who passes around books to all your friends and family, this becomes an onerous exercise in authorizing and de-authorizing just to share a reading gem. Also, it makes the lending of a Sony Reader with eBooks a circulation nightmare for a library under those 'guidelines'.
Mobipocket stakes dangerous territory by saying that you cannot lend an eBook but you can lend the device. Since they don't make any readers, this could possibly put them at odds with the companies that do make devices that they support. (I'm sure Cybook and iLiad might beg to differ, but I digress since I can't find their positions on it.) This makes the use of Mobipocket books a big no-go for libraries. eBooks mentions that it uses robust software to ensure that only the legitimate owner of the eBook can read it. While it does not outright prohibit lending, it sure as hell probably works to stymy it. I smell a terms of use violation buried somewhere in there like a leftover World War II ordinance in a French farm field. Thus, the libraries are usurped once more.
Out of all of these devices and shops, Amazon has the most frustrating position. With the Kindle, there has been much discussion about whether or not you can lend one. The current Amazon stance is the equivalent of a wink and a nod that you could lend one, but it's against the terms of service. While my first reaction was admiration of shrewdness, it has since evolved into insult. Did Amazon really think that a libraries would not be interested in offering this device to their patrons? Either they are terribly short sighted as to their market or just plain inconsiderate that the well established institution of the library would love to offer a new medium for people to borrow materials.
This simply cannot stand. If this is a product of the electronic industry getting into the publishing business, they need to wake up and smell the pulp. Libraries are not your average customer and we should not be treated as such; for lack of a better analogy, we are the street level dealers to our vast clientele. We deserve to get special treatment.
So, all you e-book reader industry people out there, here's a couple of ideas for you from this librarian.
(1) Write a terms of service exclusively for libraries. Don't leave us in this gray legal area where no one is a winner. We won't want to lend out your product if we feel like we are going to get bit on the ass when you don't support it or repair it (due to terms of service violations) or suddenly decide to sue the crap out of us for lending them in the first place. Stop ignoring libraries and start embracing us for the information and technology educators that we are.
(2) With your army of lawyers (Amazon, Sony, etc.), write a service contract in which you provide us with devices and materials which we can then lend to patrons. (Leave it to us as to how we make them financially responsible to borrowing the readers; we are better in the lost or damage item debt collection field than you are.) For example, a contract that gives us a reader, you stock it with the top 10 or 25 or whatever bestsellers that month, we lend it out, you update it as the month goes on, we send you back the device every year or so (which you can resell as used or refurbished or whatever) for the latest generation, and throw in a service/repair contract on top of that. Make it work so that we can put your devices on our shelves with materials that people will want and we will take care of the rest.
(3) Profit. You profit both literally and through increased exposure for your product to the public who might not otherwise be interested in your e-book reader. We profit with increased patronage, circulation numbers, and overall system usage statistics. It is a win-win-win for us, you, and our patrons. You can't beat that result, not even with a stick.
We are in the intellectual enhancement business, no matter the medium. Libraries are the allies of the e-book reader devices. Start treating us like it.
Cross posted to my personal blog, Agnostic, Maybe.
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Paul Biba
Lending files not devices
I don't think ebooks will truly become integrated into library practice until we have the right to collect ebook files and lend them to anyone who owns a device. Lending the devices themselves is a good idea as an option for those users who don't own a device, but it just doesn't scale to the whole user population. How could own enough of them to meet all reading demand? We need the option to lend files a well as devices.
Steven Harris
Collections 2.0
Libraries are NOT in future plans.
I don't think anyone understands digital technology like the effing librarian. The whole point of all this new stuff is to avoid the mistakes of the past which allowed libraries to get away with lending the same copyrighted materials out to multiple customers over and over again after making the initial purchase. The DMCA is designed to eliminate this freedom.
Digital files: TV, music, books, holographic hookers,... are all going to be controlled by the Creators to keep us from sharing.
When someone on the development or marketing team asked, "What about libraries?"
The answer came back, "What about 'em?"
Trust me: they considered the role of libraries and that's why they explicitly state in their TOS, "no lending."
Libraries DO NOT generate additional income for the Creators, not in any way they appreciate. So if there are ever to be any lending allowances, it will be from libraries purchasing licenses to lend. High demand items will cost us more and be limited to fewer loans.
The freedom of lending a paper copy of a book will *never* exist with digital copies. Never. Ever.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was enacted so as to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty.
The treaty can be found at http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html
It is a little complicated, I would imagine, to interpret away the obligations President Clinton signed the US up to in the 11th & 12th articles of the treaty. The signature, ratification, and entry into force dates for the US can be seen here: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/Remarks.jsp?cnty_id=1085C
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"Never. Ever." Amended.
Unless ebooks and ebook readers fail to turn the expected profit. Then they will pour them on us like rain. Libraries will be filled with free readers as soon as the sales figures disappoint.
Ebooks are like Ejournals
You know, publishers of ejournals offer special subscription services to libraries. We all know that most library ejournal subscription prices are based on many things such as number of users, type of institution, etc.... I see no reason why ebook/ereader publishers couldn't do the same thing.
Public libraries already lend e-books...
through the vendor Overdrive. The books are DRM protected and are unreadable after the loan period. Actually, I don't see any indication that publishers are unwilling to provide downloadable e-books for libraries, particularly academic ones. The issue here will more likely be one of pricing. As mentioned, e-journals have been marketed to academic libraries on term related to number of concurrent users, or size of institution. They've also bundled journals into packages which forces libraries, particularly those in large institutions, to pay a heavy premium for obscure journals they would never think of selecting for their patrons. Downloadable e-books have the potential to completely change the equation. With DRM protection, there is no reason why libraries can't buy single copies of e-books and loan them out on exactly the same terms as print books as per the Overdrive model. But will the big academic commercial publishers like Elsevier and Springer go for this model? These companies have grown extremely profitable under the old model. Librarians should be working together now to ensure that we get the kind of pricing that is fair and sustainable.
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I think you're right on when it comes to the Kindle. As of now Overdrive offers e-books in both Epub and Mobi, so that they can be read on e-book devices like the Sony Ebook Reader that can read Epub, and various mobile devices like cell phones that can read Mobi. The real compatibility issue is with the Kindle since it cannot read Epub. Amazon seem to be going out of their way to ensure that libraries are not able to lend e-books to Kindle owners, just as they are doing everything possible to ensure that they are the only ones able to sell content for the device. This is where libraries could really lose out, not to mention Kindle owners.
I think the Overdrive option is a good start. The eBook lending market is still very young. I think it is just the right time for libraries to get their voice heard and get the notion of eBook lending out there. Since the market is still young, libraries should be able to have their input into molding the lending market.
I think the first hurdle is working to get files that can be lent, with time restrictions, maybe even for a small fee (similar to the Overdrive option). Once you get the files worked out, it would make sense to look at being able to loan readers (doesn't make sense to loan readers when the number of ebooks is limited).
As far as Kindle owners go, if libraries are supporting files available on other readers (Sony's reader as an example), as well as ePub and Mobi formats (which is owned by Amazon), then there may be enough pull to get Amazon to open up their Kindle to ebook loans. It would be better for the libraries to work on getting into the market while it is still early, work on getting as wide an option as possible, and find a way to open the ebook options to their readers.
e-book reader failure has nothing to do with libraries.
"The failure is how the e-book reader companies do not consider libraries as a viable customer."
The failure of all e-book readers has nothing to do with libraries, it has everything to do with price and content control, mostly content control. If I write a book, convert it to .pdf, and would like to read my own content on my own Kindle, I have to pay Amazon for the privilege? Why? Doesn't apply to my PC, my iPod, my DVD player, etc, why would I buy something that deliberately makes it difficult and expensive for me to use it?
Look at the iPod. By your argument iPods should be a "failure" as well. Libraries have circ'd music forever, but Apple sure didn't "consider libraries as a viable customer" when they built the iPod. iPods are a royal pain for libraries to circ.
No, iPods became hugely successful because the consumer could load anything on it. Have a stack of CDs? Apple happily provides the software to convert them all and load them on your iPod. No fees, no fuss, and as a GIGANTIC perk, you don't even have to own the CDs, you can borrow your friend's CDs or just download any music you like and put it on your iPod.
When I can put any text document I like on my own e-book device, easily and without having to pay for the privilege, that's when it will have a chance at success.
The other problem is price, though not as big a problem as content control issues, but e-book readers are way too expensive. For that amount of money, I can afford a good Netbook, which can do everything a Kindle does and so much more. Yes, they are less convenient for reading books, but I've curled up on my couch reading off my MSI Wind just fine.
So don't buy a Kindle. It's
So don't buy a Kindle. It's not the only ebook device out there. I can put any sort of pdf or txt file I like on my reader and I don't pay for it.
I just bought a netbook and thought of using it to read books, but for me it still doesn't work. I want something I can curl up with, use with one hand while hanging on to a pole on the streetcar, while I'm eating lunch... Too much scrolling down involved with using a computer. Plus, I'd get eyestrain too quickly. (Different strokes, though. Obviously it's just fine for you.)
My ereader has also paid for itself since I bought it in October just from the legal, free ebooks I've found online. I wouldn't have owned/read them without the reader.
I have to say the library where I live is kind of useless for Overdrive. I was hoping to use it more to borrow books, but they haven't had any new additions to the fiction section since I started checking 8 months ago. To me that reflects more on the library than my ereader.
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If you want more content for the Overdrive collection, tell your librarian. It may help, it may not, but they will be more likely to add new content if they know that at least one of their patrons wants it.
How does this fit with existing digital libraries?
I read your post with some puzzlement as it seems to ignore the existence of the digital lending libraries run by Fictionwise and Overdrive that are out there now. Books are "lent" for a period of days selected by the user, with DRM that makes them unreadable after the "expiration date." (Here's my review of a couple of these libraries.)
(Of course, these libraries themselves have a fundamental flaw: it's easy to crack the DRM and get free-forever e-books out of them.)
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>these libraries themselves have a fundamental flaw: it's easy to crack the DRM and get free-forever e-books out of them
And any paper book can be dropped on a scanner. Give me any paper book and one hour and I will give you a digital file of the book.
Would take a bit more than an hour…
…to produce something with equivalent quality to the commercial e-books that can be had from libraries. Scanning errors, transcription errors, etc. Not to mention all the effort involved in turning the pages so they can be photographed. (This can be reduced with a bandsaw and sheet-feeding scanner, of course, but not if you're planning to turn the book back into the library afterward.)
On the other hand, it takes considerably less than five minutes to crack the DRM on an e-book. Less than a minute if you've got the software installed already and don't have to Google and download it.
While producing an ad-hoc e-book out of a print book is and will always be possible (barring the invention of ink or paper that explodes when scanned :), the effort-to-quality ratio is a lot more unfavorable than cracking the DRM on a pre-existing e-book. And because DRM systems are by their very nature vulnerable to cracking, this is an issue that "digital libraries" will always have to contend with. At least if someone buys the e-book and then cracks the DRM, the publisher and author got paid for the copy that was sold. A cracked library e-book is just a free e-book.
And to add insult to injury, if you want to read a library e-book on the Kindle, you have to crack the DRM because Amazon won't allow non-Kindle Mobi DRM to be read on its device. If you want to read it on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you have to crack the DRM, because Amazon apparently won't let Mobipocket come out with a Mobipocket Reader for iPhone. (Thanks so much, Amazon.)
Of course, this isn't necessarily bad news for libraries. Publishers and e-book stores appear to be congenitally blind to the easy crackability of DRM, or they would not continue to insist upon this fig leaf that doesn't protect their work and only annoys the consumer. There's no reason to expect that if they honestly think DRM protects their work enough to sell, they won't also think it protects their work enough to lend.
so we all concede the war is over; libraries lost.
Everyone is just deciding to what degree we lost.
Overdrive is the model we can expect in the future: we pay more for high-demand items; and those items are limited by device, like no iPod, limited by number of users, by preset lending periods, or by not burning to CD. All of these options change the pricing of electronic files.
I think Kindle will adopt a library business model. But again, they will control how libraries use the devices and files and charge accordingly.
You will never see the library model of one item (book, CD, DVD), one price, and unlimited use with digital files.
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I think that maybe the original article is looking at the topic from the wrong angle - or rather looking at the wrong suppliers. This has been touched on already, so apologies for any repetition. One of the examples is given Amazon. Now I do not consider Amazon to be an appropriate main supplier for library books. I would only use for one off purchases of difficult to obtain books - partly but not wholly because Amazon is set up for personal buyers, not libraries. If I buy a book from Amazon for my organisation I have to pay for it myself and then claim back the money. Not ideal!
So why should Amazon necessarily be moving into the library market? Dawsons has an excellent facility for e-books called Dawsonera. It works from a website. You pay for each e-book and there is a cap on how many times each book can be lent. If usage goes above this, it is necessary to purchase another copy. Simple! And I do not work for Dawsons by the way. This is a library supplier, providing e-books for libraries. I am sure that there must be other library suppliers out there who provide a similar facility.
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- Q4 Ice Cream And Gelato: Taharka Brothers. Awesome ice cream. You'd know if you had been here. That's one, plus we just bury Levine in snowballs. I'm not saying they're gourmet. I'm saying that a city that pours syrup and marshmallow over ice on street corners will just beat down a town whose ice cream Levine says is "fanciful" "whimsical" and a "great local producer" -- unless we get, say, a two-point safety for my local stand that offers combinations based on nearby high school colors. SF 17. B 12.


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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A girl looked down on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the valley below then gave it the supreme preteen compliment: "This is awesome."
And she hadn't even been inside.
I felt the same way. Although I planned my trip to see the art collection amassed by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, I found myself equally thrilled by architect Moshe Safdie's buildings and the landscaped trails winding through 120 wooded acres.
The little girl and I were awed by the copper-roofed pavilions set in and around two ponds fed by a natural spring. The museum's name is derived from that water source — Crystal Spring — and the bridgelike construction of the buildings.
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My friend and I chose to go backward in time by starting in the 20th-century gallery filled with familiar names: Georgia O'Keeffe, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Grant Wood. Norman Rockwell's iconic "Rosie the Riveter" (1943) hangs back-to-back with Robert Henri's 1908 painting of a woman in a long, high-collared black dress, proving how quickly the role of women in this country changed. Moving on, we found Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, Winslow Homer, the fabulous landscapes of the 19th century, the famous portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale.
"I often hear that the size of the museum surprises people," curator Kevin Murphy said. "It's much larger, as is the collection, than people expect."
Even for those who aren't fans of art museums, the building is worth experiencing. And it won't cost you anything: Wal-Mart gave $20 million so admission to Crystal Bridges would be free.
They seem to have thought of everything: Rooms with comfy chairs and sofas separate the galleries; you can gaze out at nature and architecture while others in your group are enthralled by the art. An activity center stretches the imaginations of young visitors.
Eleven — the restaurant named for the museum's Nov. 11, 2011, opening day — spans the ponds, with glass walls and a soaring arched ceiling of Arkansas pine. We spent an afternoon looking at art, then returned just after sunrise the next day to walk some of the more than 3½ miles of manicured trails. Deer grazed near "The Way of Color," a James Turrell Skyspace. Set in a hillside near the start of the Art Trail, the stone chamber frames the sky during the day. At sunset, a computer-programmed light show dazzles viewers.
If you have time for just a short walk, take the one-third mile paved Art Trail. The youngsters in your group will get a kick out of the bronze bears and André Harvey's "Stella," a large bronze pig. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" is instantly recognizable. Instead of an eye-popping red, green and blue print, this three-dimensional version of rusty-looking steel stands 6-feet high.
We continued up the slightly more challenging Rock Ledge Trail, making our way back to town along the 1½-mile paved Crystal Bridges Trail and pausing at a sobering installation. Commissioned for a wooded site along a creek, "A Place Where They Cried" is a procession of sandstone monoliths. It's a tribute to the thousands of American Indians who died during the Trail of Tears forced migration of the 1830s.
The Crystal Bridges Trail is part of the 36-mile City of Bentonville Trail System and includes an observation deck on a ridge above the museum. I hope the next time I visit in spring: More than 500 dogwood trees are scattered along the museum's mile-long Dogwood Trail.
And I will be back. The permanent collection will rotate; it contains more than 2,000 works. A multiyear partnership with the Louvre, Atlanta's High Museum of Art and Chicago's Terra Foundation for American Art will bring traveling exhibits to Crystal Bridges.


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Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2005, 13:15
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WAG-0.2.2.pup Wireless Access Gadget
Made a few minor improvements over 0.2.1, mainly to make scanning for networks easier. Just two clicks to connect to any open network. The biggest change is installation: I finally got around to making a dotpup that auto-installs to the roxapps folder.
I've been releasing a new version a day, and I think that's over. I'm happy with the interface and everything works. It will be a few weeks until version 0.3.0 comes out.
Has anyone had success with WAG? I know there have only been about a dozen downloads so far, but most of the downloads were the completely broken first version. Kind of surprised no one said anything about it....
Think of it as poor man's NetStumbler
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Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2005, 13:30
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Have placed it here:
Is it some sort of wireless port scanner . . . seems to be. If you have wireless - now is your chance. Show us Puppy connected outside the Sidney Mozilla House (It has been renamed from Opera) . . .
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Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2005, 23:15
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This is exactly what I have been looking for. Now if I could get it to do something. It dosn't seem to want to launch.
Perhaps need to upgrade to 1.0.4?
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 02:51
Post subject: Re: WAG-0.2.2.pup
keenerd wrote:
Has anyone had success with WAG? I know there have only been about a dozen downloads so far, but most of the downloads were the completely broken first version. Kind of surprised no one said anything about it....
There is nothing I can see that says in plain language what it is or what it does or what it's for. Maybe no one has downloaded it because they can't tell they need it.
(Would a small screen shot be enough to sell it?)
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 07:39
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Peppyy, I see no reason why it wouldn't work on older versions of puppy. It should at least load no matter what. Scaning really just comes down to features supported by your wireless card. I assumed you configured as per the instructions in the README?
Shift left click on the WAG icon to open (not run) the Rox App.
Shift left click on the script called AppRun to open in a text editor.
Near the top you will see 'User Configured Data'.
Set CARDSOC to the socket number your Wifi card uses (usually 0 or 1).
Set WLAN to the name of your Wifi card (usually wlan0, eth0, ath0).
If you have to load a (single) module such as ndiswraper, enter its name
in MODDATA.
Set WIFIIP to your preference of IP address. It will be used whenever
Finally, there is a user customizable button in the WAG interface.
When clicked, it will run a script in the WAG directory called 'manuwifi'.
By default the button is called 'User Script' and the script contains a
template for connecting to a single encrypted access point. However, it
can also be used to store a single gateway and DNS configuration.
And here is the section on what to do if it doesn't work:
WAG may not work with you wireless card or drivers. It was written
by one guy with one PCMCIA card and three different drivers, so it is
likely to not work for you. If WAG doesn't work, or presents you with
incorrect diagnostic information, first check to make sure you properly
entered your configuration. You didn't make any mistakes, you'll need to
post some information in the Puppy Linux forum. Tell me what was
supposed to happen and what actually happened. Tell me what you must
type in manually to form a connection. Mention what you have set the user
variables to. What do you have in rc.local to make wifi work? Most
importantly, open the WAG folder and run the 'debug' script. It will
generate a file (debug.txt) that I must have in order to make WAG work
for you.
I did post screenshots, back on the release of WAG-0.2.0, so they are now a little dated. They are still relivant, just not entirely accurate.

The main diagnostic window. Something is not quite right with the card, let's click 'Reseat'

Autoconnection made to my test AP. It's not connected to the internet, but normally you would click 'Dhcp Toggle' next.

Scanning for networks, just click a Cell and go.[/quote]
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 07:47
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Oops. Maybe I should finally register so I can edit mistakes like that. Or use the nifty preview button.
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The main diagnostic window. Something is not quite right with the card, let's click 'Reseat'
Full size:
Autoconnection made to my test AP. It's not connected to the internet, but normally you would click 'Dhcp Toggle' next.
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Scanning for networks, just click a Cell and go.
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 10:52
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This is cool.
But install text has some problems.
First, I think you need to insert lines:
mkdir /root/my-roxapps/WAG
mkdir /root/my-roxapps/WAG/Help
as the first lines of the body of dotpup.sh
'Cause when I first installed the dotpup, I got nothing. I don't think the -f option of cp actually creates the directories if they are not already there.
Second, you need to move the version info from the top of README to the bottom, so that what first pops up are the config instructions. As it is, if you don't know what to look for, that first README screen brought up by xmessage looks like it is complete--until you see the scroll bar on the right side. So you just hit "okay" without figuring out anything! With other dotpups most of us are used to stuff showing up in the Start menu (first place I looked was Start/Network), and we don't know where to look for this. (Can't count on us to go back and read all of the forum posts!) Even better would be to have the install stick an icon in Start/Network, but you might want to wait until it's working a little better first.
At this point, I would alter the README slightly to make things more clear. In addition to moving the version info to the end, how about starting with:
WAG - Wifi Access Gadget
Use on laptops in order to easily insert and eject your wireless card.
Connect to unencrypted networks with two clicks.
If you're tired of typing the same commands
every time you lose your connection, then WAG is for you!
[If you don't know exactly what must be typed in to make you wifi work,
do not use this software yet. Instead, try first to get wireless up using the info here:
WAG MAY NEED TO BE MANUALLY CONFIGURED! Try it out first (by left-clicking on the WAG icon in /root/my-roxapps), but if that doesn't work, come back to this README (/root/my-roxapps/WAG/Help/README) and:
1) Shift left click on the WAG icon to open (not run) the Rox App.
2) Shift left click on the script called AppRun to open in a text editor.
... blah blah blah
You should also put a "README" button on the main screen to make it easy to get back to README.
Whew. And you were worried about not getting any comments yet.
Unfortunately, my neighbor's AP seems to be down right now, so I haven't been able to test other functionality, but it connects me to mine right away. I'll take it out sometime and try some more, but I think it can be a really helpful tool.
Edit: now 3 neighbors have AP's up, but only 1 is open and I'm not getting an IP address. Still, this is good. I'll try some more stuff when I get a chance. Nice work so far, though!
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 15:15
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All I can get no matter how I click on it is the following in beaver.
# If the autowifi script isn't sufficient,
# or you need to run random commands at random times
# then place those commands here
# they will be run whenever you press the custom button
iwconfig wlan0 key *** essid *** mode managed channel **
I downloaded an older version WAG-0.2.1.gz and although it had some errors I was able to get it to start. That one will give me an xmessage box with option buttons and the following.
wireless card not active
wireless card not responding
no module loaded
dhcpcd running
wifi-beta installed
ath0 disabled
no IP assigned to ath0
ap test failure
internet ping sucessful
0 wireless network(s) detected
I guess since puppy sees my orinoco as eth0 it must treat it as a wired network card?
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 16:00
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You can use eth0 with WAG, just have to reconfigure.
Download the new dotpup again.
Don't click on it!!
Rather, first create directories:
mkdir /root/my-roxapps/WAG
mkdir /root/my-roxapps/WAG/Help
Then click. You should end up with files in the above directories.
(Alternatively, just use TkZip to unzip the pup file and put the files where they need to go themselves. The dotpup.sh file tells you where to put them.)
Go into WAG directory (by shift-left-clicking on WAG icon at /root/my-roxapps/ or right-clicking on the icon and selecting "look inside")
You will need to edit the AppRun file as text. Define WLAN = 'eth0" rather than wlan0.
(Now that you have unpacked the files, you should also have access to the readme file, which should help.) Save the AppRun file and click on the WAG icon in /root/my-roxapps. What happens?
Based on your post in the other thread, this IS exactly what you need; just need to get it working!
Post back here once you get the thing unpacked and have started tinkering with the app-run file.
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 16:40
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I've implemented moritzes's suggestions. I'm also working on Bladehunter's recommendation - pulling the wireless interface from /proc/net/wireless
If I can get that to work, this might go without configuration.
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 20:28
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Ok, I created the directorys and ran the latest version. Read the xmessage.
Try running it by left-clicking on the WAG icon in /root/my-roxapps
I did not have a WAG icon. I had AppRun, debug and manuwifi, debug.txt and display.txt in the directory WAG but nothing in my-roxapps eccept the directory I made. I restarted and there it was.
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Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 00:46
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Your "directory" WAG is probably a ROX application. (Right-click the icon and select "info" to check.) It would look like an application if you assign the /root/my-roxapps/WAG/.DirIcon to it. (Don't miss the "." in that address; the icon is hidden.) [Need to fix that in the pupget.sh, keenerd. Nice icon BTW]
At any rate, even if assigning the icon somehow doesn't work, left-click AppRun to run the program. (First modify the AppRun text as mentioned above, of course.) What do you get? If you get an xmessage and some choices, try the scan button and see if you can see all the nearby networks. You are very close, I think.
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Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 07:57
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Wow, I can not make a roxapp to save my life. I (thoroughly!) looked over everything, and the only flaws I could find were making the WAG folder a second time instead of creating the help folder. I also had a typo which excluded the (unused) autowifi script from the dotpup. I had zero trouble with the icon.
Until I learn to take my time, it looks like this will always be a buggy beta.
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Posted: Fri 19 Aug 2005, 10:56
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I must still be doing something wrong or my card is not supported. I tried it on another running ndiswrapper with a linksys, a gigabyte and an oriunoco a/b and I couldn't get it to see those either even though they were connected.
I will check it out some more when I get a chance.
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Posted: Fri 19 Aug 2005, 15:20
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I've made a slew of small improvements. Increased speed, decreased disk access, and a much more user friendly installation process. The wireless interface is detected automatically. There is even an included mini-utility to help determine which socket you are using. Basically, the dotpup does much more handholding than ever before. And the installer is (finally) bug free.
Oh, Peppyy, it sounds like you didn't enter the socket number of your wifi card. Previously, you've said you use socket 1, and the WAG default is socket 0. One other thing: You have three wireless cards!? Could you please run the debug script in the WAG folder once for each card and send me the results? I need to see how a variety of cards function.
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For decades, the 13 blocks that comprised Cherry Avenue SE were the hub of the city's black-owned businesses. Today, virtually nothing remains of the neighborhood, which was demolished to make way for an overpass in the 1970s.
Just hearing the phrase "Cherry Street" can put a smile on the faces of the people in whose memories its Golden Age still lives.
For decades, the 13 blocks that comprised Cherry Avenue SE were the hub of the city's black-owned businesses.
Cherry, say those who remember it, had everything. You could get your hair pressed, your clothes cleaned and your soul saved.
In the days before integration, Cherry was an oasis. Blacks could hail a cab, have lunch at the Tennessee or rent a room at the Hotel Milner with no hassle.
Anyone could get groceries on a tab, find the latest hits at the Record Rack and enjoy a milkshake at Cosey Drugs. You could lay a bet at Beanie's or order a "pony" (pint) of beer from one of the clubs. You could grab a soda at Cox's Corner and head out to the baseball game at Jackson Park.
You could practically live out your whole life without leaving the neighborhood.
It was Canton's unofficial-but-understood discrimination practices that precipitated a flourish of black-owned businesses on Cherry. Today, virtually nothing remains of the neighborhood, which was demolished to make way for an overpass in the 1970s.
Cherry was a neighborhood in which rogues and role models co-existed. Some establishments were mere fronts for such illegalities as the numbers racket, poker and after-hours liquor, said Jasper Harris, whose parents, Odie and Lillian, opened an ice cream shop at 504 Cherry Ave. SE in 1938.
"Everything was wide open," he said. "It was a busy little street."
Click here to see an interactive map with photos.
Cherry ran parallel with Rex Avenue, then the city's red-light district. "We'd make milkshakes and my brother Tom and I would deliver them to the ladies on Rex," Harris recalled with a laugh. "We weren't allowed to go into the houses. We were too young."
His deeply religious mother eventually insisted that his father close the business. (He later opened a garage.) "She'd say, 'Odie Harris, these boys aren't gonna be worth a nickel!' " their son said. "When my mother walked down Cherry Street on her way home, guys fighting on the sidewalk or doing whatever would stop, step off and let her pass. They could tell a lady was coming."
"I can picture it like it was yesterday," Mary Parker says. "Many, many vivid memories of Cherry Avenue SE from East (Tuscarawas) and Cherry, which was called the 'Mason-Dixie Line,' to what was, back in the day, known as Cherry extension or 'Up On the Hill,' as it was lovingly called.
"I was born and raised on Fifth and Cherry SE, right dab in the middle of all the legal and illegal businesses. Cherry Avenue SE was a hub of businesses owned by a lot of different nationalities, not just blacks."
"I remember going to Maggiorie's, where everybody had a tab," said Carolyn Sims, whose father, George Clark, owned several businesses on Cherry Avenue in the 1950s. Clark used a G.I. loan to buy a building at 1021 Cherry Ave. SE that featured a storefront and apartments. He also operated a rotisserie restaurant and later Clark's Record Shop, where he designed listening stations with headphones.
Clark also parlayed technical skills he had acquired in the Navy as one of its first black navigators into operating his own TV and radio repair shop.
Clark's business was a stone's throw from Freeman Wright's Barber Shop at 1011 Cherry Ave. SE.
"My dad was one of the first black barbers in Canton," said Carol Wright-Harris. "He was on Cherry for 40 years. He was definitely a pioneer."
For a time, the enterprising Wright and his wife, Sadie, the parents of 11, also operated a dry cleaning store and a restaurant. Wright also ran a shoe shine and hat stand at 723 Cherry Ave. SE and hunted raccoons, which his wife cooked and sold along with pies and cakes.
"They taught us to not give up, to use perseverance, that you can do anything you want to do," Wright-Harris said.
Deeply religious members of People's Baptist Church, the Wrights counted William Powell, founder of Clearview Golf Club, and Dr. J.B. Walker, the city's first black physician, among their friends. "They were hard workers, and they taught us to love the Lord," their daughter said.
The Wrights lived on 14th Street SE across from the former Lathrop School. Wright-Harris said the youngest children visited the restaurant daily until her 6-year-old sister died as a result of a fire at their home. "My dad closed the restaurant," she said. "They were totally distraught."
Annette Brewer and Donna Brewer-Harris spent countless childhood hours at 503 Cherry Ave. SE. "That was Daddy's corner," said Brewer of her father, Joseph, the city's first black pharmacist.
Brewer owned and operated Southside Pharmacy for 41 years. He had arrived in Canton following his graduation from the University of Toledo in 1931. The sisters worked at the pharmacy, and their mother, Florence, relieved her husband for dinner.
"He taught us how to deal with people, how to accept people the way they were," Annette Brewer said.
"His work ethic was what I learned," her sister added. "He was at that pharmacy 24/7."
They said their father was inspired by Horatio Alger. "He really believed he could do anything," Annette Brewer said. "At 13, he wanted to be a pharmacist, even though they tried to dissuade him in high school. They told him he would never be able to learn Latin. My father knew Latin until the day he died."
Brewer's industry paid off. He purchased a home in Perry Township's Parknoll allotment, once an enclave of black professionals. He also served as Stark's first black foreman of a grand jury.
"He was a good provider," Wright-Harris said. "He tried to give us every opportunity he could."
"He was on his feet 12 to 14 hours a day," Annette Brewer said. The pharmacy was "a state-of-the art place. People used to congregate there. He made his own medicines, you know, with the pestle and mortar. I just thought that was the coolest thing, and he did it with no computers."
Parker recalled the poultry markets where customers picked out live chickens that were then processed and wrapped in paper. "A door or two down was Marsino's, filled with candy and costumes. A few more steps and there was a store front — gypsy fortune tellers, complete with the (crystal) ball.
"A little further down the street (at 324 Cherry SE) was the infamous Mabel's Chicken Shack. White people from all over Canton and Stark Country came there especially on weekends, all hours of the night until daylight, to drink, gamble, eat and just have a good time with their friends. ... Everyone felt safe, and they were. No one got robbed or mugged or killed. When you came to Mabel's, you were family, you were safe. Same with Beanie's, another illegal after-hours speakeasy."
The Clarks lived near the decidedly more sedate Matthews Funeral Home. "Whenever they'd have a body, they'd turn on these globes outside," Sims recalled. "The neighborhood kids would go inside and look at the bodies."
Funeral director Gladys Matthews was a role model for young Kay Averette, a retired librarian who lives in Osnaburg Township but grew up on Lippert Road NE.
"I remember visiting Gladys Matthews," she said. "We would sit and talk for hours. I couldn't believe an adult would spend time like that with me. She was always uplifting, a beautiful woman. She ran the business on her own. She was just an amazing woman to me."
That many parents forbade their children from venturing into certain businesses made them all the more enticing. Sims recalled Nick Butler's bar: "When we'd pass by, we'd always look in.
"We were not allowed on 10th Street, and I never knew why. We weren't allowed on Rex Avenue, and Daddy said he'd better not find out we were down at Beanie's."
Because the Baby Grand nightclub advertised upcoming shows, some of them risqué, on its marquee, "We wouldn't be allowed to walk on that side of the street," Sims recalled, laughing.
"There was a big truck-transfer station right across from Mabel's Chicken Shack," Averette recalled. "That's where we learned what adults (were doing). My father was an associate pastor at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, so you know we couldn't get caught. After choir rehearsal, some of the members would go in Mabel's, but they're weren't like some of the dastardly regular visitors."
"I remember walking up Cherry," Donna Brewer-Harris said. "The pharmacy was some distance from 'the happenings,' but people were very protective of us."
Jeff Sklar, too, has fond memories of Cherry, where his father, Ben, operated a confectionery during the 1950s, offering everything from patent medicine to ice cream and magazines. "It was a community, there," he said. "We were one of the few white families in the neighborhood. People treated us so nice."
In 1955, Ben Sklar received a plaque honoring him as the community's "man of the year."
"It was a real experience for me because I got to know people in the African-American community," Jeff Sklar said. "To this day, there are older people who remember my dad's store."
Melvin "Frog" Howell, who died in 2011, was so enamored with Cherry Avenue that he self-published a book, "Memories of Cherry Street," in 2002. With help from his girlfriend, Jeanetta Roby, Howell amassed dozens of old photographs from people who lived and worked in the neighborhood.
His brother George Howell Sr.'s own memories include Friday night teen dances at Cox's Corner and Kermit Sayles, a massive man whose soul-food restaurant specialized in pigs' feet and neck bones.
"There was a cab company called Southside Cab, but they had so many accidents, we kids used to call it Suicide Cab," Howell said, laughing.
"Cherry was booming when I came up in 1960" from South Carolina, said his wife, Lucille. "Most of the (black) churches were there. It looked like New York City."
John Lucas grew up within walking distance of Cherry and frequented the same places as the Howells. "We all looked out for each other," he said "People had a hand in helping out with kids, anything you needed to be done. I remember that Mildred Clark was one of the first black employees to work in a grocery store — Charlie Strasser's. It was big deal back then."
Lucas and his friends watched the Saturday Night Fights on a TV in the back of the Baby Grand night club — but there was a problem: "Eddie Levert, Walt Williams and Billy Powell (the O'Jays) would be practicing singing in the back. We'd put them out and tell them, 'You guys are making too much noise.' "
George Musica's fondest recollections center on ice cream. The family lived at 1218 Cherry Ave. SE across from Cox's Corner until about 1960. Canton's southeast quadrant was home to many Italian and Greek immigrants, and blacks who came north during the Great Migration.
"When the ice cream man would come, Mr. Cox would let us have the empty drum and let us eat the ice cream left in it," he said.
He and his six siblings also patronized Page's Confectionery at 1016 Cherry Ave., owned by the family of Alan Page, the Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinee and Minnesota Supreme Court justice. "They used to make their own ice cream bars. They were huge and only a nickel then," Musica said.
Musica, the son of Italian immigrants, said the neighborhood was well-integrated and everyone got along. "I remember two black patrolmen, Tut Allen and (James) Calhoun. They would walk by, look at me and my brothers and say, 'Bad, bad boys,' " he said, laughing.
G.P. Sams says it's the music of Cherry that echoes. A retired school principal, Sams is host of "Ricco's Oldies Show" on WDPN 1310 AM radio.
"I remember Southside Cabs, American Poultry and the Milner Hotel, which burned down to the ground in late 1950s; my uncle lived there," he said. "My uncle Sam Spanoles, who was a Greek immigrant, owned ... the Grand View Grill (301 Cherry). He was very good to the community. He let people run a bar tab."
Sams said one of his favorite spots was the Pathfinder Skating Rink, a live-music venue. "The place was huge," he said. "I saw the original Drifters there, with Ben E. King. I saw the Parakeets; the O'Jays went through many times. Count Head was a great, great local jazz group. That place was packed. Most of them were African-American youngsters, but I spent many, many hours there."


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Re: the OPMy husband, who was RC (grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood, parochial schools, almost went to seminary) says that he found the real Catholic Church in Orthodoxy.
Sorry.... I posted this on a seperate topic..but on reflection it probbaly fits here too also...<snip>...I work in a College and the RC Chaplain invited me to a catholic discussion event, he is an active member of Opus Dei. I felt it was only fair to tell him where I had been heading for the past 8 months, the summer vacation had intervened so I suppose he was not au fait with what was going on. I was frankly astonished by his reaction, he repeated 'Wow!' 'Wow!' what a bombshell...oh dear oh dear... this is very very serious indeed ...Are you aware of what you are giving up?....We have kept the faith for centuries and you are giving it all up on a whim really' ...I explained my prblems with the filioque and he seemed to be at the very least less than clear of its significance....He then went on to say that 'if you think paedophilia is a problem in catholicism...then i am reliably informed that homosexuality is rife in orthodox seminaries' an assertion i rejected on the spot as a scurrilous slander....I did not expect him to be leaping cartwheels in joy but I was frankly astonished at the the degree of antagonism he displayed. On a later occasion he was prepared to concede that the eucharist on an orthodox liturgy was a legitimate eucharist....But I really did get the feeling that had I informed him that i was becoming a buddhist or a muslim that the reaction would not have been hostile....is this normal. We are a small community of Orthodox christians here in ireland, but i just wanted to share this to feel less alone. I say our orthodox prayers every day, with incense and candles, and although we can not get Divine Liturgy as often as i would like, i can only say that if it was'nt for Ancient Faith radio and other orthodox Christians I have met in the past 9 months or so I really think that this opus dei priests astonishing reaction may have had the (probably desired effect) of making me doubt my decision....Just wanted to get that off my chest...Responses very very welcome....Finbar"
...Responses very very welcome....Finbar"
I have known many Irish Catholics on this side of the pond who have become Orthodox Christians. Welcome Home. St. Patrick was also very Orthodox.
Even more disgusting, the wording of the Holy Canons of the Holy Catholic Church were changed contrary to the Anathemas issued at Holy Ecumenical Councils and at local councils. Reading back and looking at the book The Church Teaches, which was my college textbook, I saw that these changes were very detrimental, and lead to the deplorable situation of Vatican II. Knowing that the Holy Orthodox Church holds to the Ancient Faith and has not changed these anathemas has given me great peace of mind.
Quote from: Maria on November 27, 2010, 02:44:27 PMEven more disgusting, the wording of the Holy Canons of the Holy Catholic Church were changed contrary to the Anathemas issued at Holy Ecumenical Councils and at local councils. Reading back and looking at the book The Church Teaches, which was my college textbook, I saw that these changes were very detrimental, and lead to the deplorable situation of Vatican II. Knowing that the Holy Orthodox Church holds to the Ancient Faith and has not changed these anathemas has given me great peace of mind.Can you be more specific?And could you provide any source documents? What you're saying is very interesting.
Thank you, Maria! This is some history I was unaware of. Yes, I feel very blessed (and fortunate) to have found the fullness of the Faith in Orthodoxy too! Many Blessings,
I was actually a Byzantine Catholic so the shift to Orthodoxy was not dramatic at all. I still love the Catholic Church, but realized after my years in Byzantine Catholicism that my canonical home was in the Holy Orthodox Church.
Ignore me if you like if this is well off key, but I heard today that fifty Anglican nuns and ecclesiastics are becoming Roman Catholics under the Vatican's new arrangements. Having myself left the Roman church and joined the Orthodox it occurs to me to question why these Anglicans want to join with Rome. I have not heard of then making enquiries of the various Orthodox jurisdictions in the Britiish isles to see whether or not their ministries could eventually continue, or whatever it is they would want.(the Anglican bishops are being ordained as priests soon).Does anyone know anything about this? I asked an ex-Anglican minister now Orthodox lay man what he thought. He put it to a group thinking of going to Rome and as far as he knew they had never considered the option of Orthodoxy.I'm baffled.
i dont know why this has happened to me i just feel the call to orthodoxy i dont like the overexplanations of things by the rcc, i like a simpler way and i have found jesus in orthodoxy where i overlooked him in the latin rite.
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I was raised an Anabaptist but converted to the RCC. I discovered RC and Orthodoxy at about the same time. I chose to be baptized into the RC for liturgical preferences, the Divine Liturgy is beautiful and fulfilling but I love the Mass. It wasn't until the Bishop moved my priest and I was forced to attend the Novus Ordo that I really considered Orthodoxy. Even then it took years of inconsistency, some time with the SSPX and a lot of talks with my Orthodox priest to make me accept that the Latin Church had completely fallen off it's rocker. Fortunately for me the priest is very patient and he helped me through it all.I spent some time as a catechumen and was Chrismated as Ambrose on the Nativity. Could not be more pleased. I still love the Mass but have come to love the Divine Liturgy just as much. Orthodoxy is my home.
Hello. This is my first post on this forum. Suffice it to say that I am a Catholic moving towards Orthodoxy...I am not there yet but I have studied the Orthodox faith quite a bit. For me one of the over riding factors for my eventual conversion to Orthodoxy centers around the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed. I can no long endure the Catholic church's impositions on the Faith once delivered to the Saints. There are many more reasons for my desire to becoming Orthodox...but this is sufficient for now! Looking forward to some fruitful dialogue with all of you. Pray for me! Grace and Peace!
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