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Steve Schlake is hanging up the keys to his 29-foot Class C motorhome with two slides and a "For Sale" sign in the window. After 19 years of full-time RVing, he is now parked in Idaho's panhandle, closer to his four younger brothers than for any length of time during his adult years, and settling comfortably into the 1,400-square-foot house that was built last year.
He has RV'd or otherwise traveled every state except Alaska. He told me, "I have experienced the diversity of our beautiful country with its deserts, forests, mountains, prairies, lakes, and streams. I've met people from all walks of life and nationalities, and appreciated the camaraderie of the RVing community with its similarity to the military. My parents dreamed of traveling when they retired at 65, but health issues foreshortened their journey. I was determined to experience their retirement dreams. And experience them I did."
Iowa born, Steve spent his early years on a farm. His family later moved to Minnesota, where they tent camped along lakes and streams. While he was in high school, his family upgraded to its first RV, a homemade tent trailer that took them to Washington, D.C. I interviewed Steve by email, and he wrote, "On graduation day I threw my hat in the air; we got into two cars with two trailers and moved to Phoenix, Arizona. While working in the computer industry, I vacationed in the mountains with a tent or a pickup camper shell. After retiring, it seemed a natural progression into a full-fledged RV."
Lifelong Learning
He continued life by degrees—associate degree in applied science, one bachelor's degree in industrial technology and another in computer science, and a master's in business administration. He persisted in the learning process while spending 24 years as an enlisted man in the Navy and later as an officer. He deployed twice to Vietnam. He attended Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as a Navy officer. His penchant for education led him to learn a new computer program before almost anyone knew anything about PCs. He used the program to track all the jobs needed to overhaul his ship, operating with a dial-up connection in a small shack next to the ship's dry dock. After active duty, Steve continued his Navy career as a reservist, retiring as a captain.
Steve is most proud of working with the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps, a federally charted youth group for high school boys and girls. Eventually he became regional director for Arizona and southern Nevada, transitioning into an advisory role.
He taught computer languages at the local community college and while in the Navy reserve began a parallel career with an international electronics company developing engineering software. The design, development, and implementation of software saved the company millions of dollars. The software was owned and patented by the company, but, at the very least, it gave Steve and four colleagues bragging rights.
Going on the Road
Retiring from the computer industry and the Navy at 47, Steve sold his home and became a life member of both Escapees and Good Sam. "I often stayed in Escapee parks to take advantage of member discounts and while in Branson, Missouri, a few years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a four-day reunion with shipmates of the USS Fox, a time I shall never forget."
In the RVing world, Steve taught classes and deserves accolades for his willingness to help fellow RVers. He has often camped at North Ranch and if I emailed him that I was having a computer problem, he responded immediately. He had only to walk in the door and the computer jumped to solve its problem. Fantastic!…but then he laughed…hmmm!
His most challenging computer experience was with a French laptop. "The owner spoke French and broken English. Now, I don't speak Quebec…I don't even speak Paris. We sat with my computer next to his. I had the same software and we scrolled through the windows and menus together. What he saw in French, I duplicated in English. We shortly had the problem solved…and a very happy French camper."
Steve is mostly unflappable but…"It made the national news when the Cedar River and its Iowa tributaries, overflowed bridges or washed out entirely. I was in a county RV park a fair distance from the stream. Before I went to bed, I brought in the slides. By three a.m., the camp host came knocking. The rising stream sounded like a freight train. I quickly unplugged, moved the motorhome, and helped others get out. By sunrise, the electric box post, almost as tall as I, was nearly under water. The stream had risen 20 to 25 feet, but everyone was safe and sound."
Family Story
For as long as I have known Steve, he has researched, photographed, and eventually digitized, his family history. This took him through Midwest churches, cemeteries, genealogy libraries, courthouses, and even a barbershop. "Two Iowa ancestors served in the Civil War and are buried in national cemeteries, one at Little Rock, Arkansas, the other in Vicksburg, Mississippi. I not only relearned things I heard as a youngster but discovered new stories, and corrected others. Personal health, plus care giving and family estate managing, have filled my time, but now I am ready to publish."
Steve's musical interests began with fifth-grade violin, but he switched to string bass in high school. His high school stage band was so good that during his senior year, the band opened for the Miss Minnesota Pageant. He also played with a jazz quintet and loves jazz today, as well as classical, and easy listening. With his other interest, photography, he captures forever whatever wanders through his personal wildlife sanctuary.
Steve was a member of the Escapees lease program, ERPU. "The lot and shed were my home base with a five-year lease at Dream Catcher Park in Deming, New Mexico, where I wintered. After the lease ran out, it was in the back of my mind to hang up the keys. I was tiring of full-time RVing."
Now settling onto his 10 acres of wooded mountaintop, Steve intends to build a woodworking shop for projects around his new home. Asked if he would continue traveling, he said, "I plan to take short trips from time-to-time, maybe to the coast, but more likely to local lakes and streams to go fishing, like I did as a kid."
I asked what his future held. "Sitting back, relaxing, watching the deer graze, listening to the wind rustle the pine needles, and taking time to smell the roses. As I look back on my life, there were a few bumps along the way, but all-in-all, it was one hell of a ride."
Amen and God Bless.
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In 1907, there was scheduled service to the St. Thomas, Danish West Indies by ships, which arrived once a month. A 1907 travel guide outlined the following day trips for tourists to St. John:
"Visitors to St. John would leave Charlotte Amalie at 5:00 A.M. and travel overland to Red Hook or Smith Bay. There they would meet a sloop that had left Charlotte Amalie with their baggage, which was loaded on board the night before. This sloop also carried ice and other cargo bound for St. John.
"An alternative plan for a visit to St. John would be to arrange for a rowboat to take passengers and their baggage across Pillsbury Sound to Cruz Bay.
"Upon arrival the tourists would wait in Cruz Bay for ponies that would take them to Bordeaux. They would return via a dirt path along the St. John's north shore that is now the North Shore Road.
"At the end of the day the visitors would take the downwind trip back to Charlotte Amalie where they would arrive in the early evening."
(From the Short Guide to St. Thomas and St. Jan, written by J.P. Jorgenson in 1907, a travel guide written in English, which was by then the language of the Virgin Islands.)
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March 18, 2018If You Are a Fed Official, Perjury Is 'Lacking Candor'By Clarice FeldmanFriday night was a big night for news hawks. And I'm not talking about the upset victory of the UMBC Retrievers over the they-should-have-been-50-points-ahead UVa Cavaliers. Things like that sometimes happen when skill and determination beat odds-makers and reputation.I'm talking about the firing of Andrew McCabe, who doubtless acted under the impression that rigging things at the FBI for Hillary Clinton was the path to higher office and glory.Late Friday night, McCabe, the former deputy director and then acting director of the FBI, was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a statement that reads as follows:"Lacking candor under oath" is the operative phrase. If it were you or I, the charge by a special prosecutor would be perjury. Ask Lewis Libby or General Mike Flynn.Of note, the President had nothing to do with this; the recommendation came from within the FBI itself based on its analysis of the report it received from the Justice Department's inspector general, an Obama appointee. Bear this in mind when you read McCabe's response and the twist the major media are putting on the firing.Note also "Under oath – on multiple occasions." This suggests but does not prove that McCabe was also interrogated by the outside lawyer the attorney general appointed some time ago to look into the handling of the Clinton email matter by the FBI and Department of Justice officials involved. The inspector general also has the power to administer oaths in the course of his investigation.McCabe was reportedly given a few days' notice of this intended action and was ready to and did quickly release this statement:Let's deal with the operative phrases here:1. "I answered questions as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me."Really, poor soul. Both Libby and Flynn were working on many pressing issues and thought the FBI agents they were talking to were there on other matters, and they were entrapped – even McCabe's underling Peter Strzok said, per James Comey's congressional testimony, that they didn't think Flynn had intentionally lied, and the FBI account by one of the agents who interviewed Libby (Libby lacked the advantage of seeing his contemporaneous notes) was deemed inaccurate by the second agent who'd been there, the first having quickly and inexplicably resigned before the trial.2. "The OIG investigation focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As deputy director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that, it was not secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter."The director at the time was James Comey. I suppose neither Comey nor McCabe were aware that the FBI has a well staffed public affairs office, making leaks to reporters seem unnecessary unless one is trying to manipulate news without being known as the source. In any event, the charge is that he lied multiple times about having directed his public affairs officer to leak.Many other instances of McCabe and his staff's misconduct have been reported and are not included in Sessions's statement, but they seem certain to be revealed when the OIG reports are released.For example, James Comey in congressional testimony indicated that it was his deputy who persuaded him that they should bypass the legal duty to notify the designated congressional leaders of the ongoing investigation of the "collusion" nonsense. Of course, he, too, could just have been "lacking candor."And just as Comey tried to pass the blame for not notifying Congress, McCabe seems to have put a bullseye on Comey's back. Comey, after all, denied to Congress that he had authorized any leaks, something McCabe contradicts in his statement.It was McCabe who directed the work of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who had sent seemingly countless emails to each other revealing their pro-Hillary bias and anti-Trump animus. Just this week, we learned from newly released emails which had been kept hidden from congressional investigators that Strzok had a close relationship with federal judge Rudolph Contreras, who also sat on the FISC. It's not known yet whether he sat on the panel that okayed the fishing expedition into Trump's affairs. Judge Contreras originally sat on the Flynn case until he was recused. The emails showed the two plotting to set up a social occasion with others and for the judge to hide private conversations with him.
Zitat Contreras was appointed to the top surveillance court on May 19, 2016, federal records show. The pair even schemed about how to set up a cocktail or dinner party just so Contreras, Strzok, and Page could speak without arousing suspicion that they were colluding. Strzok expressed concern that a one-on-one meeting between the two men might require Contreras' recusal from matters in which Strzok was involved. "[REDACTED] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting," Strzok told Page. "I'm sorry, I'm just going to have to invite you to that cocktail party." "Have to come up with some other work people cover for action," Strzok added. "Why more?" Page responded. "Six is a perfectly fine dinner party." It is not known whether the proposed party happened as planned. While working as one of the top counterintelligence officials at the FBI, Strzok reportedly took part in the FBI's interview of on January 24. Flynn later pleaded guilty to one charge of providing false information to federal investigators. Strzok later left the FBI to join Mueller's special counsel team, which obtained the indictment of Flynn.
We don't know the identity of redacted, but McCabe was the deputy director and James Comey the director at that time.Then, of course, there's the unseemly payment by Clinton allies of almost $700,000 to McCabe's wife (a physician) when she ran for minor office and lost. He had been warned by the relevant department officials that there was a potential conflict, and he didn't head the email investigation until a few months after she lost the race, but he was still a department official with people beholden to him presumably working on the matter and was seen publicly campaigning for her. It has been reported that Virginia election laws permit a candidate to retain surplus donations for personal use as long as the campaign financial account has not been closed.I'm not sure this is the case, but I'm no expert on campaign laws. Maybe someone with a press badge can seek her campaign records.Brit Hume on Twitter could not hide his disdain for McCabe's response or the reports by The Hill and the Washington Post twisting the story:https://twitter.com/brithume/status/9748...ing_candor.htmlBrit Hume added:https://twitter.com/brithume/status/9748...ing_candor.htmlhttps://twitter.com/brithume/status/9748...ing_candor.htmlWhat's next?Well, this week, General Flynn was in California campaigning for Maxine Waters's opponent. This suggests to many that Mueller's big catch is not afraid of what's to come.Sara Carter asks why Strzok and Page and the DoJ's Bruce Ohr (whose wife, we have learned, was working for the dossier smear merchants) have been silent. She says she doesn't know why, but some have guessed, not without warrant, that they are cooperating witnesses, and if they are, James Comey's book due to come out almost simultaneously – at last report – with the OIG's first report may not be his ticket to ride.John Brennan, who couldn't keep his story to congressional investigators straight, is squealing like a stuck pig:https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/9...ing_candor.htmlThis intemperate outburst prompted this response from Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton:https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/975...ing_candor.htmlI wouldn't put odds on Mueller's investigation continuing much longer with so much of his work having been based on fatally compromised staffers. Adam Housely warns in a series of tweets that McCabe's firing was not political, and neither side should try to make it so, though he notes that this action will encourage others in the agency to come forward with what they know:
Zitat Wray and McCabe's meeting did not go well and it was McCabe who challenged the Director. McCabe stepped down because of this and tried to ride it out until retirement. Truth internally came out before that happened. This has nothing to do with Trumps tweets or Nunes memo I am told yesterday McCabe felt the heat and went to try and save his last two days and even told some he would take people down with him if he was fired. So... let's see what comes of this. I know this... a ton of agents... a ton... were watching this very closely. This was about power by a group within the FBI. A clique. I see Republicans already making this political and tying it in a much different way than it was. Dems tying it to Trump... both would be wrong. This decision will encourage agents to trust coming forward. Others who had during the clique's time in charge got buried and mistreated and it kept agents from coming forward. Again… this began before Trump. It was about control.
It's hard to ignore, however, that this firing and the constant disclosures about those closest to Comey and McCabe likely will lead to a significant restructuring of the FBI. Whether it will restore faith in that corrupted agency remains to be seen.https://www.americanthinker.com/articles...ing_candor.html John Brennan, who couldn't keep his story to congressional investigators straight, is squealing like a stuck pig:
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Although the pandemic is currently depriving us of movie sequels, the professional talents of Ballet Quad Cities are at least ensuring that local audiences get a live one with the company's Ballet on the Lawn: Take Two – a September 20 follow-up to the dancers' hugely successful outdoor presentations of Ballet on the Lawn that took place, as this new one will, at Davenport's Outing Club.
This feature collects articles published online by Quad Cities-area media outlets and by CapitolFax.com and the state-politics sections of the Des Moines Register and the State Journal-Register.
Internationally beloved for his memorable appearances in the seven Police Academy comedies, and a veteran of such other cult classics as Spaceballs and Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, standup comedian, actor, and beatboxer Michael Winslow takes the stage at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room for two performances on September 24, initiating the Davenport venue's 2020-21 comedy series and demonstrating why he's commonly referred to as "The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects."
Occurring in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, a virtual presentation on the Putnam Museum & Science Center exhibit Liberated Voices/Changed Lives will take place on September 17 – a timely and fascinating program hosted by the Bettendorf Public Library as part of its popular Community Connections series.
Outdoor adventurers are again invited to paddle, mountain bike, and run their way to the top in the eagerly anticipated, 15th-annual Taming of the Slough Mississippi River Adventure Triathlon, the River Action-sponsored test of endurance set to take place on Saturday, September 12.
Assage Extradition Trial Day 7: Pentagon Papers' Daniel Ellsberg Testifies No Evidence Anyone Died as a Result of Wikileaks
At no point did the lead prosecutor offer any specific example of a death, and so the record remains as it has been since Chelsea Manning was put on trial. The government has no evidence that anyone was ever killed as a result of transparency forced by WikiLeaks.
There's been much gnashing of teeth since the state announced that just 21 social-equity applicants had qualified for regional lotteries that will award 75 cannabis-dispensary store licenses. The 21 winning entities submitted well over 300 applications for those 75 licenses, which has forced a tie-breaking round.
It was a only a matter of time before the scientific evidence relative to the SARS-CoV2 virus and COVID-19 downgrading its lethality overwhelmed the narratives that continue to perpetuate shuttering businesses and schools.
When Governor JB Pritzker announced the state COVID-19 "mitigation" plan for the Metro East on August 16, he said it was done in conjunction "with local officials in the Metro East region and across the border in St Louis." Last week, though, the governor admitted the cross-border arrangement to try to contain the virus's spread was a "mistake." Man, was it ever.
Reminder: The U.S. Empire Tortures Journalists and Whistleblowers -- Julian Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes September 7
Julian Assange's hearing in the British court to be extradited to the United States is scheduled to resume September 7, 2020. Assange's partner Stella Moris visited him this month with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated noticeably since that time.
We Eat, They Drink, Everyone's Merry: "The Savannah Sipping Society," at the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse through November 7
It's been a painfully long wait, but I finally got to crack open my new notebook and fresh pen for Wednesday night's performance of The Savannah Sipping Society at the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse.
Two powerhouse vocal legends will be celebrated by one supremely gifted Augustana College professor at the Circa '21 Speakeasy on September 12, with area stage performer, director, and instructor Shelley Cooper showcasing the musical talents of her musical idols Mary Martin and Ethel Merman in the exuberant one-woman show Mary & Ethel: How I Learned to Sing.
With its author praised by the New York Times for "his knack for telling stories that, at the very moment when they seem to be settling into predictable paths, throw in a zinger," Jeffrey Hatcher's darkly hilarious Three Viewings enjoys a September 24 through October 3 run at Moline's Black Box Theatre, the playwright lauded by the Los Angeles Times for "his gifts [that] are distinctive, unmistakable, and quite a bit of fun to boot."
Reviews by Jeff Ashcraft, Patricia Baugh-Riechers, Audra Beals, Pamela Briggs, Dee Canfield, Kim Eastland, Emily Heninger, Heather Herkelman, Paula Jolly, Victoria Navarro, Mark Ruebling, Mike Schulz, Joy Thompson, Oz Torres, Brent Tubbs, Jill (Pearson) Walsh, and Thom White.
Hosted by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's music director and conductor Mark Russell Smith, the organization's annual Signature Soirée will take place online this year on September 19, the virtual Moonlight Sonata event boasting performances by the symphony's resident concertmaster Naha Greenholtz and principal cellist Hannah Holman, a live auction, and a three-course dinner, chocolates, and a floral arrangement delivered to ticket-holders' homes.
One of the Quad Cities' most popular jam bands gets to close out the River Music Experience's 2020 "Live @ Five" series in style, with the rockers of The Dawn performing a free courtyard concert in the Davenport venue on September 25.
Rock Island's resident drone/ambient scientist Terry Skaggs seems to drop a new release under his dead lizard grin moniker at the crazy clip of one per month, further populating his bottomless Bandcamp page which now sits at 77 releases (!!!) with exercises in drifting electronic sculpture, neo-classical orchestral textures, and the occasional hushed electronic beat pattern.
On August 27, we celebrated what would have been Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's 83rd birthday. Though she passed away in 2007, the spirit of her music reaches more people now than ever before thanks to a series of high-profile reissue campaigns and dissemination across the Internet.
Radio host, podcaster, and DIY history buff Kristian Day has become a patron saint and detailed archivist of the criss-crossing underground music circuits of Iowa. His podcast Iowa Basement Tapes has logged over 100 shows to date, all of which focus on bands that have essentially been forgotten by time, mostly after years of inaction.
I should preface by saying that I'm terrible at predicting Emmy Award winners. Seriously: I'm terrible.
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Making history this past winter as the first movie to ever receive Academy Award nominations for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature, directors Tama Kotevska's and Ljubomir Stefanov's critically acclaimed Honeyland, from North Macedonia, enjoys a September 20 screening at the Blue Grass Drive-in as a fall presentation in River Action's 2020 QC Environmental Film Series.
Love on the Rocks, Love on the Walls: "The Broken Hearts Gallery" and "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"
As contemporary romantic comedies go, The Broken Hearts Gallery is like something you'd create from a kit. The instructions are easy to follow, every expected piece is dutifully included, and there's no veering from the manual – what you wind up getting looks remarkably similar to what's pictured on the box. (Or, in this case, the poster.) But a pandemic-era lack of cineplex options can make you inordinately grateful for simple, much-appreciated qualities such as charm and wit and personality, all of which writer/director Natalie Krinsky's debut feature has in abundance.
Now playing at area theaters and drive-ins.
Painted on the east wall of the building at 2104 Fourth Avenue in Rock Island, the mural jolts us out of our familiar world – plunging us into an underwater world populated with beautiful, mysterious, mythical, and dangerous creatures.
Held in conjunction with the forthcoming Figge Art Museum exhibition A Visualization of Hope (on display September 26 through December 13), a special Virtual Artist Celebration hosted by Pamela Crouch will take place on September 24, with the Living Proof Exhibit Executive Director introducing the eagerly awaited exhibit that celebrates the creative spirit of those impacted by cancer.
Presented by the area nonprofit Living Proof Exhibit, an organization that celebrates the creative spirit of those impacted by cancer, the eagerly awaited annual exhibition A Visualization of Hope will bring messages of strength and resilience to Davenport's Figge Art Museum September 26 through December 13 (with the exhibit's virtual programming beginning September 24), with Living Proof Exhibit's collection boasting beautiful and evocative works by cancer survivors living within a 200-mile radius of the Quad Cities.
Rarely considered pieces of furniture will be made fascinating in a new Figge Art Museum exhibit, with the Davenport venue, from September 12 through January 17, showcasing fully functional artworks in Seating by Design – an exhibition the museum's executive director Michelle Hargrave says should "inspire ideas and new ways to consider the things that we are sitting on so much. Particularly nowadays while we're spending so much time in our homes."
"Magnetic West: The Enduring Allure of the American West in Photography," June 27 through September 20
Author Wallace Stegner wrote, "One cannot be pessimistic about the West … this is the native home of hope." And images of hope – as well as images of struggle, endurance, triumph, and astonishing landscapes – will be on display at the Figge Art Museum from June 27 through September 20, with the Davenport venue hosting glorious, thought-provoking photographs in the new exhibition Magnetic West: The Enduring Allure of the American West.


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A journeyman soul shouter who enjoyed his greatest success after more than three decades in show business, Lee Fields initially specialized in the taut, gritty funk that James Brown made famous. However, Fields' breakthrough came when he developed a more distinctive and personal style and found a new following in the retro-soul movement. He first made his name among die-hard funk fans with a series of hard-hitting singles recorded for various small labels during the '70s.
Everything about Fields -- his look, his vocals, the grooves on his records -- was so indebted to James Brown that he earned the nickname "Little J.B." Fields never hit it big, but his rough-and-tumble singles became popular collectors' items. After a lengthy hiatus, he returned in the '90s as the leading light of the so-called deep funk movement with 1999's Let's "Get a Groove On," the first in a series of recordings that often equaled, and sometimes outdid, his early work.
Fields released his first single in 1969, "Bewildered" and "Tell Her I Love Her." His work through the '70s didn't sell well and he was quiet through the '80s. Re-debuting in 1992 with "Enough Is Enough," Fields plied his trade on the Southern soul and blues circuit, wearing the glitzy costumes of old and crooning love songs and come-ons to largely female audiences who'd never lost their taste for his style of music. His 1992 album, "Let's Get a Groove On," which stuck to strict adherence to organic, classic-style James Brown funk with no synthesizers or drum machines, put Fields on the map.
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Twitter profile – check
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Grade 3: whole grain rice
Grade 4: canned fruit
Grade 5: canned vegetables
Grade 6: cereal
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Grade 8: pasta sauce
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Field Trip to Burlington Centre for Performing Arts (Mrs. Joudrie)
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Lunch Lady (rescheduled from Wednesday's snow day)
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Beauty and the Beast first break
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Concert Band to Band Extravaganza.
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Beauty and the Beast Cast and Crew…..**Check our website for important information for practices and music clips to extend our rehearsals. https://sites.google.com/hdsb.ca/ropsbeautyandthebeast/home
Coming up:
March 11-15 inclusive: March Break
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March 21: Sr Girls'/ Boys' Basketball games (back-to-back) vs Eastview PS @ ROPS at 4pm
April 9, 10 & 11 Beauty and the Beast Musical
April 25: Multicultural Day and Evening
June 6: Fun Fair
June 12-14: Grade 8 trip to Ottawa
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A paradigm shift occurred in the past decade in the treatment of lung cancer with the use of targeted agents which improved significantly the survival of patients. Major contributor to these changes was the development of molecular classification of lung cancer and of the adenocarcinoma subgroup in particular. In parallel, a quality assured molecular diagnostic system was developed in the majority of countries accompanied by the development of reimbursement schemes. It seems that this development is continuous where each participant from clinicians to the pathologist have to continuously accomodate to new requirements.
Cancer sampling from the point of pathologist
Pathological diagnostics of lung cancer is still based on biopsies or cytology since only a small minority of cases can be surgically removed (20%) (Figure 1). These types of tumor sampling providing small tissues or limited amount of cells represent a major challenge for pathologists and the type of tumor sampling chose by the bronchologists has a major impact on the quality of diagnosis. With recent changes in the classification of lung adenocarcinoma, the required differential diagnostic protocols requires increased amount of tumor tissues for ancillary techniques such as immunohistochemistry (1). The extended use of these techniques on the other hand defines the minimal amount of tissue necessary for diagnosis. Recent guidelines suggest to minimise the use of cytology replacing with biopsies when diagnosing lung cancer which can provide more appropriate material for differential- and molecular diagnostics (2). Single sampling of lung cancer is an insufficient, inadequate mode of sampling. In case of biopsies multiple sampling is the requirement (minimum of 4) while in case of cytology cell-block technique must be applied. It is evident that the application of cell-block technique requires more cells as compared to simple smear but provides more diagnostic opportunities. Sampling of progressing tumor from mediastinal lymph nodes or from pleural or other effusions are more and more frequently possible providing invaluable material for diagnostics where cytology combined with cell-blocks can be appropriate as compared to biopsy. There are two important issues which must be cleared for oncologist and molecular pathologist. There is a predetermined minimal cell number requirement for ancillary techniques [immunohistochemistry, molecular diagnostics, fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH)] and the tumor cell to normal cell ratio of the sample provides a threshold or cut off value for these techniques (3). Accordingly, the primary histopathological diagnosis must provide information for the clinician whether the remaining tissue/cell number is sufficient and/or adequate for further molecular testing.
EGFR/KRAS mutational analysis
The most frequent molecular alterations in lung adenocarcinoma are KRAS- (30%) and EGFR-mutation (10-15%) where the minimally required DNA is 5 ng equal to 1,000 cells (3). It would be optimal to provide FFPE materials right at the primary sectioning of the tumor biopsies but the milieu must be than molecular pathologically strictly defined avoiding contamination, allowing microdissection of tumor area providing nuclease-free environment. Since the sensitivity of the applied molecular techniques is different, the tumor-normal cell ratio is critical (Table 1). Sensitivity of various methods is between 1-20% suggesting the minimal tumor cell normal cell ratio in the sample. The most sophisticated next generation sequencing technologies can go fare bellow the sensitivity of previous techniques but for diagnostic purposes they have to be set for 5% threshold rate. However, guidelines suggest not to do molecular testing below 10% T/N ratio due to the increased chance of false results (4,5).
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ALK/ROS1 translocations
Recent molecular studies identified that ALK translocations occur in lung adenocarcinoma with an estimated frequency of 5% and ROS1 translocation with an estimated frequency of 1%. Both genetic alterations provide a cancer with a constitutively active tyrosine kinase as a driver oncogene. Lung cancers with such genetic alterations are sensitive to ALK or ROS1 inhibitors. Detection of these translocations can be done by using multiplex PCR or sequencing but require fresh samples and RNA. In routine diagnostics of lung cancer these gene translocations are detected by FISH. These tests can be done on FFPE sections which must contain at least 100 cancer cells where the threshold for positivity is 15% (4). These FISH tests are validated for histological sections and not for cytological smears. Meanwhile it can be attempted to perform these tests on cytology samples but the negativity of the result does not exclude the possibility that the tumor contains translocated genes. However, unlike in case of molecular diagnostics of EGFR- or KRAS-mutations, stained cytology smears are not acceptable for FISH testing. Recently various immunohistochemical tests were developed to detect ALK or ROS1 proteins in lung adencarcinoma, which serve as a screening technology for negativity where no further analysis necessary by FISH (4,5). However, none of these immunohistochemical tests are validated on cytology smears.
Sequential testing: pros and cons
An extended molecular diagnostic panel of lung adenocarcinoma is a timely procedure extending the primary diagnosis period considerably. Molecular testing can be only applied on lung cancer when the primary diagnosis is correct. It is another factor that frequently the primary diagnosis of lung cancer and its molecular analysis are performed in different laboratories adding further delay in providing the necessary information for clinician.
In developed countries where the reimbursement and capacity of molecular testing of lung cancer is provided reflex testing is possible cutting back the turn around time significantly. However in countries where the reimbursement is inadequate and/or the capacity is inappropriate sequential performance of molecular testing can be justified. These protocols consider the rank of incidence of various molecular alterations and start it with the most frequent one such as KRAS in Caucasian and EGFR in Asian patients, eliminating a significant proportion of samples from further work-up since driver mutations are exclusive in lung cancer (Figure 2). With such a selection hit rate for EGFR mutation can be elevated up to 20% in Caucasians and hit rate can be doubled for ALK mutant patients. In parallel IHS screening for ALK or ROS1 negative lung cancer can be performed. These three analyses can select out a reasonably low proportion of lung adenocarcinomas where the FISH testing for ALK or ROS1 translocations must be performed. The application of sequential molecular testing of lung cancer can reduce the volume and cost of analysis approximately by 30%.
Unlike in case of most solid cancer types, availability of appropriate tumor tissues for differential diagnosis and molecular pathology examinations is a major limiting factor in lung cancer. Tissue biopsy must be the gold standard in sampling lung cancer excluding cytology as much as possible. The requirements of pathological diagnosis and molecular testings can guide the sampling clinician to provide appropriate tumor tissue where the tumor cell- normal cell ratio could affect the choise of techniques of various sensitivities.
Disclosure: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Daniel Soso is an associate in Weil's Real Estate practice and is based in New York. Mr. Soso participates in the representation of Firm clients on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including the sale, acquisition, development, management and leasing of various types of commercial real estate properties. He also assists with complex real estate financings, including construction lending, portfolio acquisitions, mezzanine loans and equity investments.
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- Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in its $11.4 billion acquisition of Forest City Realty Trust Inc. (n/k/a Brookfield Properties).
- MGM Resorts International (MGM Resorts) in the formation of a joint venture between MGM Growth Properties LLC and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust to acquire the Las Vegas real estate assets of the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay for $4.6 billion and to lease back these assets to subsidiaries of MGM Resorts and in the related $3 billion CMBS financing to support the acquisition by the joint venture.
- MGM Resorts International (MGM Resorts) in its $4.25 billion sale of the Bellagio to a joint venture MGM Resorts formed with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and its leaseback of the Bellagio and in the related $3 billion CMBS financing to support the acquisition by the joint venture.
- Advent International in its acquisition of Definitive Healthcare, LLC.
- Atalaya Capital Management in a preferred equity investment in, and in a $250 million construction loan for, development of a 40-story Ritz-Carlton hotel with residences at 1185 Broadway in the NoMad (North of Madison Square Park) neighborhood of New York by Flag Luxury Group LLC.
- The Blackstone Group in the acquisition by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities of Concert Golf Partners.
- Colony Capital in the enforcement and ultimate sale of a defaulted mezzanine debt on the NoMad Hotel, a 168-key luxury hotel in Manhattan.
- Knowlton Development Corporation (KDC/ONE) (a portfolio company of Cornell Capital) in its acquisition of Benchmark Cosmetic Laboratories, Inc.
- Madison International in its acquisition of a 40% interest in the MarketStreet Lynnfield from ND Market Street.
- The Moinian Group in its $52 million refinancing of an existing loan with respect to The Galleria, a full-service condominium building in Midtown East, Manhattan.
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Margaret Sanger wrote: "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it," She said many things like this, which you can read here.
She said this particular statement in the 1920, just two years after World War I. She died in Arizona in 1966, but Planned Parenthood became the vehicle to push her ideas on American society. These ideas ranged all the way from the extermination of people groups, and the infirm.
Her life spanned two world wars, and she died in the middle of the war with Vietnam. On November 11, we remember many of these soldiers who fought over seas while she was fighting in North America. There are challenges when it comes to the morality of foreign intervention in certain cases, but we can still have a high regard for our soldiers who died to defend the peace of our country. There are a lot more things that we can say about the morality of Sanger's ideals. But what she defended and fought for hits us in the gut a lot harder when we realize that this is an aspect of the "freedom" we are giving thanks for on Remembrance day.
This should bring us to tears.
Abortion has snuffed out millions of little lives, the most helpless lives out there. These babies have been burnt, ripped apart limb from limb, they have had their brains pulled out of their little heads with hospital scissors. And we think we are free?
Dostoevsky's Underground Man writes:
"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then– let it get even worse!"
We call it science, but it is murder. We think we have kept our clinics sterile, but the blood is seeping out into the public square. Our stethoscopes are positioned nicely and our hospital gowns are pretty and white, but our hearts are filthy. We are diseased, and yet we speak blithely and comfortably about some fantasy of freedom.
There is a war being waged at home.
It is a war being waged for the hearts of men and women. We've had enough of formulaic lines and nonsense about being free when we are captivated by the lies of pseudo-science telling us that the fetus isn't a living being, that there are multiple genders, and that it is OK to kill an older person the minute that he/she has a hard time communicating. We are a culture of death, and nice words about soldiers sparing our freedom doesn't change any of that.
But Jesus can change that. We can pursue those headed to death. He died so that we can rise to new life, so that we can be appalled by the massacres around us, so that we can tell that young man and young woman in the church that even though she has a baby in her womb, they can change their ways and live to the glory of God in true freedom and joy. So that we can come alongside the broken-hearted young lady who has murdered her baby, and show her the love of Jesus Christ.
The message of Jesus' death and resurrection has always been a message of hope for a dying world. And so when we see our hypocrisy we can return to Him. When we see the stains of sin in the Church of Jesus Christ, we can return to Him, and pray for His Spirit to bring times of refreshing. And we can pray that this stream of living water would flow out of the church for the world to taste and be refreshed and join us on the highway to Zion.
Come, let us return to the Lord!