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We all know how much I love to masturbate, and it's usually just the clitoral area that gets the most attention. However sometimes when just playing around there I get a really strong urge to have a large penis inside me. Unfortunately having a real life penis in my bed all the time isn't the case these days. So I thought to myself what could I do to fill that void. I have a few internal toys but nothing like what I was craving, a penis.
I took this as a sign to get my first dildo. I have always thought about getting one, since I am surrounded by them all day long at work and even have had a few thrown at me. (ahem Brandon) There are many to choose from but I wanted a really good one that looked and felt realistic. There are cyberskin ones but those are so porous and don't last that long. I wanted something that was going to stick around for a lifetime.
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Right of the bat I knew I wanted one from Vixen who has a line called Vixskin. This line is still made of their 100% platinum medical grade silicone but feels amazingly realistic. Non- porous, dishwasher safe and heats to body temp nicely. After careful consideration and mulling over a few different choices I decided on the Bandit. It's so pretty and one of their top selling toys.
The Bandit is one of the larger ones that they make, go big or go home I say. At 7" long and 1 5/8' wide I was very satisfied. While it's feels soft like the real thing it has a hard inner core which I like. It would work great in a harness because of it's base, but I don't know if I will ever put that aspect to use. Plus Vixen offers a lifetime guarantee on all products. The one thing I do not like is that there is no suction cup base so if I wanted to stick it on the wall I would have to get creative. But I was not about to go with a crappy rubber dildo just for that advantage, I made it work.
I really wanted to ride the hell out of this thing so I played with my options. First I stacked my pillows on top of on another and tried sitting on that. That didn't work too well because it was too soft and I couldn't really get the results I wanted. However the Bandit felt amazing. It was the perfect size and girth. Riding a penis like this is one of the ways I get off and not quite getting to that point because of the pillows made me want more.
I took the advice of Brandon from The Inqueery and found a harder surface that was easier to straddle. He suggested I used the side of my bathtub which worked wonders. I got quite the thigh workout too bouncing up and down on that thing. I was amazed at how like the real thing it felt. It did move around a little bit because I couldn't strap it down so I had to hold it at some points while riding it. Seriously me and my vagina were extremely happy with the results after that.
It was a little strange at some points because while I was enjoying it so much I felt kind of a void because it was only a fake penis. I missed having a hot guy attached to that penis. That thought slipped my mind when I was cumming but still made me wonder. This just proves my point that toys will never replace real men, how else will I have bite marks the next day.
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Washouts of railroad track after heavy rains and revenue lost because of idled trains are likely to cost the Alaska Railroad more than $1 million, a spokeswoman said Monday.
"We're still tallying the costs," said Stephenie Wheeler, corporate communications officer. "We expect it to be in the seven figures, but we don't know yet how much it's going to be. It could be $1 million, $2 million. We're just not sure yet."
Trains between Anchorage and Fairbanks have not operated since Wednesday. That means no tank cars carrying petroleum from the North Pole Refinery or coal cars from Usibelli Coal Mines at Healy north of Denali National Park.
The railroad, like much of southcentral Alaska, has been hard-hit by a pair of rainstorms that poured moisture on already saturated ground, National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Stricklan said.
Talkeetna has received 8.4 inches of rain in the past 10 days. Its September monthly average is 4.1 inches. The daily record of 2.3 inches was matched Thursday, and another 1.4 inches fell Friday, Stricklan said.
Railroad track and bridges were hardest hit in a 70-mile stretch between Willow and Gold Creek.
High water 35 miles north of Talkeetna left 500 feet of mainline track dangling Saturday just south of Gold Creek. The washout is in a section accessible only by rail.
Crews worked round the clock from both ends of the washout over the weekend to make repairs. By Monday morning, they had dumped about 20,000 cubic yards of material to replace washed-out rail bed, with another 5,000 yards to go, Wheeler said.
The railroad is watching track along the Nenana River, which flows from Denali National Park to the Tanana River at the city of Nenana.
"The river has crested in that area, and we're keeping an eye out for any additional damage," Wheeler said.
Multiple areas along the railroad have minor erosion problems.
"None of those erosion problems prevent rail traffic, but they need to be fixed," Wheeler said.
At the south end of the Alaska Railroad, the line was intact, but the city of Seward continued to experience problems. The city announced that Lowell Point Road, leading to its southernmost neighborhood, would remain closed until further notice. Residents who need transportation from their homes to Seward Harbor were told to contact a water taxi.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation again warned Matanuska-Susitna residents to be aware that flooding could contaminate wells and drinking water.
The Department of Natural Resources closed most of the Kenai River, from the Cooper Landing Bridge to four miles above the mouth, to boat traffic because of flooding.
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As is usual for me, my day comprises working on digital heritage projects, as in my previous Days of Archaeology (2011a, 2011b, 2012, 2013 and 2014). So no archaeological features were harmed in the making of this post!
Although on one current project, my GSTAR doctoral research, I am indeed working with archaeological excavation data from the archives of Wessex Archaeology combined with museums collections data from Wiltshire Museum and also heritage inventory data from the Wiltshire Historic Environment Record. This project is nearing completion (thesis due for submission April-ish next year!) and having already shown that geospatial information can be published and used in Semantic Web / Linked Data contexts through the integration of ontologies, I'm currently building demonstrators to show how data can then be used to undertake archaeological research through framing fairly complex archaeological research questions as spatial queries asked across the range of resources I've included.
Today however, I'm working mainly on Archaeogeomancy commercial projects as I do one day a week. And thanks to the wonders of digital technologies, I'm working out of Bristol for a change; my first Day of Archaeology away from Salisbury. It's been a busy week this week, clocking up quite a few miles, as Monday and Tuesday were spent at the Pelagios Linked Pasts event held at Kings College London where a diverse group from across the world spent a very productive couple of days talking about Linked Data with particular emphasis on people, places, space and time.
This morning's tasks focussed on an automation project involving planning applications. I'm building a system which consumes planning data collated by Glenigan, classifies it according to type of project (as defined by the client) and then pushes out regional and property specific maps and summaries on a weekly/monthly basis for a list of properties which may be affected by these planning applications. This allows specialists in each region to assess each planning application and make recommendations regarding any responses needed. So whilst not the shiniest and most academically interesting of projects, it is the kind of GIS based systems development and automation that can really make a difference by freeing up staff time from the mundane production of such maps and reports.
This afternoon's tasks will focus on another system I'm developing, this time to assist with the analysis and interpretation of LiDAR data. I'm building a toolkit which incorporates a select range of visualisation techniques requested by the client including Local Relief Maps, Principal Components Analysis and the usual hillshades, slope, etc. The toolkit is to be deployed to users who are not necessarily experts in the analysis and interpretation of LiDAR data or GIS so needs to be simple to use with many variables preset and also needs to be integrated within their corporate GIS solution rather than be a standalone application. The first batch of tools mentioned above are all complete and working nicely; this afternoon's mission is to wrap up the Openness and Sky View Factor visualisations.
Indeed, it's been great working with LiDAR data again lately. When thinking of a suitable image for this year's Day of Archaeology post, the one shown above immediately leapt to mind. It shows a screenshot of the output of the Local Relief Model (LRM) tool I built draped over the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for a rather lovely hillfort as viewed on Sketchfab. I mention this because disseminating informative views of LiDAR data has long been problematic, but platforms such as Sketchfab allow us to composite 3D and 2D products and then share them in an interactive way with anyone who has a web browser and an internet connection without the need for any specialist software at all. Nice.


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Bortezomib, Sorafenib Tosylate, and Decitabine in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01861314
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : May 23, 2013
Last Update Posted : September 16, 2020
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|Condition or disease
|Acute Myeloid Leukemia Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|Drug: Bortezomib Drug: Decitabine Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Other: Pharmacological Study Drug: Sorafenib Tosylate
|Phase 1
I. To identify the biologically effective and tolerable dose (BETD) of the bortezomib/sorafenib (sorafenib tosylate) combination in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with biological activity defined as the dose(s) that induce a 100% increase (i.e. a doubling) in the level of microRNA-29b (miR-29b) in bone marrow (BM) after bortezomib/sorafenib treatment from pretreatment levels in at least 5 out of 6 patients at a given dose levels.
II. To recommend a dose level for a Phase II study using this agent combination in patients with AML.
III. To define the specific toxicities and the dose limiting toxicity (DLT) of bortezomib in combination with sorafenib and decitabine.
I. To determine the overall response rate (ORR) of this combination. II. To determine the rate of complete remission (CR) of this combination. III. To conduct pharmacodynamic studies by measuring the effect of this chemotherapy combination on the micronome, kinome and epigenome.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of bortezomib and sorafenib tosylate.
STEP A: Patients receive bortezomib subcutaneously (SC) on days 1 and 4, sorafenib tosylate orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-14, and decitabine intravenously (IV) over 1 hour on days 5-14.
STEP B: Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 4, and 8 or 1, 4, 8 and 11, sorafenib tosylate PO BID on days 1-14, and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 9-18 or 12-21.
STEP C: Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 4, and 8 or 1, 4, 8 and 11, sorafenib tosylate PO BID on days 1-14, and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 5-14.
Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 4 courses in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients achieving complete response (CR) or incomplete CR (CRi) receive maintenance therapy comprising decitabine IV on days 1-5. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for at least 30 days.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|15 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase I Study of The Combination of Bortezomib and Sorafenib Followed by Decitabine in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|Actual Study Start Date :
|July 3, 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 6, 2015
Experimental: Treatment (bortezomib, sorafenib tosylate, decitabine)
STEP A: Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1 and 4, sorafenib tosylate PO BID on days 1-14, and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 5-14.
STEP B: Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 4, and 8 or 1, 4, 8 and 11, sorafenib tosylate PO BID on days 1-14, and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 9-18 or 12-21.
STEP C: Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 4, and 8 or 1, 4, 8 and 11, sorafenib tosylate PO BID on days 1-14, and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 5-14.
Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 4 courses in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients achieving CR or CRi receive maintenance therapy comprising decitabine IV on days 1-5. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: Bortezomib
Given SC
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Drug: Decitabine
Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies
Drug: Sorafenib Tosylate
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- BETD of bortezomib, sorafenib tosylate, and decitabine using National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4 [ Time Frame: 28 days ]Analysis will include summarization of the toxicity and tolerability by dose level. Frequency and severity of adverse events and tolerability of the regimen in each of the dose levels will be collected and summarized using descriptive statistics.
- CR rate [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days ]Will be correlated with miR29b levels at baseline and day 5 (or days 9 and 12). Assessment of clinical response will be made according to International Working Group criteria.
- Change in miR-29b expression in blood and bone marrow [ Time Frame: Baseline to up to day 12 of course 1 ]miR-29b expression as a continuous measure will be summarized quantitatively and graphically by dose level in addition to the assessment of the ability to achieve a two-fold change in this expression from baseline at each of the dose levels.
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 and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria in the blood and/or marrow AND age >= 60 and not candidates/refuse standard induction treatment OR who have one of the following: poor risk cytogenetics, AML following antecedent hematologic disorder, or therapy-related AML
- Patients with relapsed or refractory AML age >= 18 years are also eligible for treatment; patients may have been treated for antecedent hematologic disorder with myeloid growth factors, recombinant erythropoietin, thalidomide, lenalidomide, 5-azacitidine or the 5 day schedule of decitabine; patients who have received the 10 day schedule of decitabine for treatment an antecedent hematologic disorder or AML are not eligible
- If the patient has co-morbid medical illness, life expectancy attributed to this must be greater than 6 months
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2
- Total bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dL
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transferase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transferase [SGPT]) < 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal
- Creatinine < 2.0 mg/dL or creatinine clearance (CrCl) >= 60 mL/min
- Prothrombin time (PT)/international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring, < 1.5 x institutional upper limits of normal
- Both women and men must agree to use adequate contraception (barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; if the patient does not agree, the patient is not eligible
- Ability to understand and willingness to sign the written informed consent document
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 2 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study; hydroxyurea may be administered for count control both pre-treatment and during cycle 1 only
- Patients receiving any other investigational agents or patients that have received other investigational agents within 14 days of enrollment
- Patients with active central nervous system disease or with granulocytic sarcoma as sole site of disease
- Patients with a history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to sorafenib, bortezomib or decitabine that are not easily managed
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, serious cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements; as infection is a common feature of AML, patients with active infection are permitted to enroll provided that the infection is under control; myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to enrollment or has New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure, uncontrolled angina, uncontrolled hypertension, severe uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmias, or electrocardiographic evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities
- Patients with serious medical or psychiatric illness likely to interfere with participation in this clinical study
- Patients with pre-existing grade 2 or higher neuropathy or other serious neurologic toxicity that would significantly increase risk of complications from bortezomib therapy are excluded
- Patients with a known confirmed diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who are taking chronic anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) are ineligible if there is a potential for drug-drug interactions with the chemotherapeutic agents; patients with a known confirmed diagnosis of HIV infection who meet standard eligibility criteria and are not taking HAART with a potential for drug-drug interactions are eligible
- Patients with advanced malignant solid tumors are excluded
- Patients with known impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of sorafenib
- Patients who are taking concomitant medications that in the investigator's opinion are strong inducers of the cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (CYP3A4) enzymes and therefore likely to interact with the study agents, will not be eligible
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): NCT01861314
|United States, Ohio
|Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|Principal Investigator:
|Alison R Walker
|Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2013-00999 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
OSU 11186 ( Other Identifier: Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center )
9422 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
P30CA016058 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
R01CA158350 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U01CA076576 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
UM1CA186712 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|May 23, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 16, 2020
|Last Verified:
|June 2020
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Slidell police: 5 arrested in connection with killing, attempted cover-up
The Slidell Police Department says five people have been arrested in connection with a Saturday slaying.
Police say 20-year-old Felix Adams, Jr., 20-year-old Bobby Isidore and 19-year-old Trenton Johnson have been booked on a charge of first-degree murder.
Additionally, 17-year-old Ki-Shon Griffin has been booked on a charge of principal to first-degree murder, and 20-year-old Darion Causey has been booked on a charge of accessory to the fact to first-degree murder.
Adams was the first of the group to get arrested.
Police say 23-year-old Leighton Powe, Jr. was shot in the rear parking lot of a store on Robert Boulevard.
Through an investigation, police say the shooting was a result of a botched, premeditated robbery.
Police sat Griffin orchestrated a plan to rob Powe of his marijuana, and he sent Adams, Isidore and Johnson to commit the robbery.
After the robbery went wrong, Adams shot Powe once in the head with a .38 revolver, according to police.
Griffin, Adams and Isidore then burned Powe's truck and dumped his body on Javery Road in an attempt to destroy and hide the evidence, police say.
Police say Johnson reported the truck stolen, and Causey assisted in destroying the evidence.
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When puzzling out the rights and wrongs of the Middle East conflict, it's helpful to pose two questions. Question one: If Israel stopped attacking Hezbollah, would Hezbollah stop attacking Israel?
The clear answer is no. Hezbollah rockets attacks and cross-border guerrilla raids had been going on for years before the current hostilities broke out, and they would certainly start up again sooner or later even if Israel ceased firing and swore never to venture into Lebanon again. The last time Israel pulled back, when it ended its 18 year occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah hailed it as a great victory, rushed to rearm and started to strike across the border at Israelis.
If Hezbollah stopped attacking Israel, would Israel stop attacking Hezbollah?
Question two turns things around. If Hezbollah stopped attacking Israel, would Israel stop attacking Hezbollah? Just as clearly, the answer is yes. If Lebanon ever managed to do what the United Nations has demanded and took control of the south away from Hezbollah, neutralizing it as a threat to Israel, the Israelis would have no motive for any kind of military action in Lebanon. Israel has no quarrel with its neighbor to the north: no claim on its territory, no animus against its people. It simply objects to seeing southern Lebanon turned into a launching pad for attacks on Israeli citizens by a militant group that swears to seek its destruction.
Were Hezbollah to proclaim tomorrow that it was giving up its armed struggle against Israel, this conflict would be over. Were Israel to say, on the other hand, that it was giving up its fight against Hezbollah and withdrawing all its forces from the border zone, the conflict would surely continue as an emboldened Hezbollah pressed home its victory.
This little exercise of the two questions may help sort out who is really to blame in this conflict. Hezbollah says it is firing rockets at Israeli population centers in answer to all Israeli "aggression" against Lebanon. No. Oxford defines aggression as "the actor of practice of attacking without provocation esp. beginning a quarrel or war." That is exactly what Hezbollah did when it crossed the UN-certified border into Israel, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others, setting off the current fighting. Israel did nothing to deserve that attack except (in Hezbollah's eyes) for being Israel. Israel's counterattack wasn't aggression; it was simple self-defense. When Hezbollah cries "aggression," it is like a thug who chucks a brick at a cop and then yells "police brutality" when the cop whacks him with a baton. It's the oldest trick in the revolutionary handbook, and the world should be able to see through it by now.
The idea that Hezbollah is somehow defending Lebanon's national sovereignty forma an imperialistic Israel would be laughable if it were not so widely believed in the Arab world. It is Hezbollah itself that has diluted the sovereign power of the Lebanese government by setting itself up in southern Lebanon as a militant state within a state beyond the power of Beirut. And it is Hezbollah that has put Lebanon's sovereignty at risk by attacking Israel and hijacking the country's foreign policy.
But wait, Israel's critics will say. Hezbollah had a good reason for attacking Israel's ongoing occupation of Arab land. Every people has the right to resist a foreign occupier and Hezbollah was simply exercising that right when it went on the attack.
That argument might have carried water at one time. Not any more. Far from swallowing up the Arab land, Israel is pulling back. It pulled out of Lebanon six years ago. It pulled out of Gaza a year back. Its current government won election in March on a pledge to leave most of the West Bank too -- a withdrawal that might leave some territorial disputes in its wake, but would represent a substantial move all the same. Apart from the Golan Heights, there is no other Arab land occupied by Israel, and successive Israeli governments have indicated they would support some form of withdrawal even from the strategic Golan in return for reliable peace agreement with Syria and a deal on demilitarizing the heights.
If the Arab world came to accept the existence of a Jewish state in its midst, there would be no reason for Israel to employ its armed might against its neighbors
Yet Israel's enemies keep on attacking. They attacked after Israel signed the Oslo accords that let Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization set up shops in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1990's. They attacked after Prime Minister Ehud Barak sketched out the most sweeping concessions to Palestinians from any Israeli government in the Camp David talks or 2000. They attacked when Israel made its boldest territorial concession by withdrawing from Gaza -- packing up all its settlers, withdrawing all its soldiers and handing the whole place over to the Palestinian to govern as they wished (only to find Israel being bombarded by rockets based in Gaza). And now they attack from southern Lebanon, which was handed over in its entirety in 2000, and held until then only as a defensive buffer.
Is it any wonder Israelis feel beleaguered? Is it any wonder they took so long to accept turning over the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinians, considering the threat it might pose to their security? If these relentless attacks stopped, if the Arab world came to accept the existence of a Jewish state in its midst, there would be no reason on Earth for Israel to employ its armed might against its neighbors as it is doing now with such devastating effect.
Which brings us back to those two basic questions. If Israel's enemies stopped attacking Israel, would Israel stop attacking them? Certainly. If Israel stopped attacking its enemies, would they stop attacking Israel? Sadly not; at least not yet. And that is why the Arab-Israeli dispute drags on.


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Simply titled Paterno the biography of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno hit store shelves Tuesday.
Joe Posnanski's book follows Paterno in the months leading up to and after the Jerry Sandusky Scandal led to Paterno's firing.
NBC10 purchased a copy of the book at Target in Bala Cynwyd Tuesday afternoon. It wasn't as easy to purchase a copy at the Penn State campus bookstore where copies of the new book sold out in just hours. How the book is received in other areas still isn't clear.
Posnanski started working on the book months before the Sandusky allegations of child-sex abuse surfaced and was given access to Paterno all the way up to his death in January.
An excerpt from Paterno:
This is the story of a man named Joe Paterno, who in his long life was called moral and immoral, decent and scheming, omniscient and a figurehead, hero and fraud, Saint Joe and the devil. A life, of course, cannot be reduced to a single word, but Joe Paterno had something bold and soaring in his personality that attracted extremes. That boldness compelled him to do remarkable and unprecedented things. That boldness also led people to say that, at the end, his failures destroyed whatever good he had done.
Posnanski claims the book gives Paterno's point of view and reaction as decades of coaching at Penn State came to a quick end.
"I thought it was really important to put his words out there and let people decide for themselves," Posnanski said Tuesday morning on Today.
According to the book Paterno told his son, "I didn't hear anything, why are you badgering me? What do i know about Jerry Sandusky? I've got Nebraska to think about, i can't worry about this."
He never got to coach the Nittany Lions against the Cornhuskers. Paterno was fired just four days before the Nov. 12 game. He died two months later at 85 years old. Sandusky, Paterno's former assistant, was later found guilty of 45 counts of abuse against 10 different children.
Excerpts from the book published by GQ include Paterno breaking down and crying the day after he was fired.
"My name," he told Jay, "I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone."


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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness is publishing a special issue in 2014 on the role of communication in public health preparedness measures and response to pandemics, with particular reference to infectious disease outbreaks.
A call for papers was launched and its deadline, which was June 30 has been postponed to August 22. Aim of this issue is to bring together the most relevant research from two EU-funded projects – TELL ME and Ecom@EU – that are currently investigating the factors that impact on communication strategies and their relative effectiveness during a pandemic.
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From the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room at the University of Houston's William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library comes Moderner Volkskunst Zierat (Modern Folk Art Ornaments). This undated German volume features 18 vivid color plates. Designed for use as templates in the decoration of household items (furniture, ceramic ware, and the like), these bold, ornamental motifs offer a unique glimpse of the vernacular aesthetic found in early twentieth-century German home décor.


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Judging from the new anthology of African-American folklore, From My People— published by Norton and edited by Richmond scholar and UVA alumna Daryl Cumber Dance— black people in this country have traveled through the last 400 years with laughter and tears, art and vision, humor, perspective, and song. This book has it all, 700 pages worth, from Nat Turner and Zora Neale Hurston to De La Soul and "yo mama" jokes.
Many of these gems speak a world of truth in a few words: "Our father, which art in heaben / White man owe me leben an' pay me seben. / Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, / If I hadn't took that, I wouldn't git none."
Others seem unfathomable, like the Harlem rent party invitations collected by Langston Hughes: "Fall in line, and watch your step, For there'll be / Lots of Browns with plenty of Pep At / A Social Whist Party / Given by / Lucille & Minnie / Saturday Evening, Nov. 2nd 1929."
All through this long, hard passage, as Dance shows in her book, story and song, dance and rhyme have buoyed the Black American spirit. This collection includes firsthand memories of a slave ship from an anonymous passenger— "In our extremities the captain and people told me in jest they would kill and eat me, but I thought them in earnest and was depressed beyond measure, expecting every moment to be my last."
It cites Harriet Beecher Stowe's impressions of the great anti-slavery advocate, Sojourner Truth: "I do not recollect ever to have been conversant with any one who had more of that silent and subtle power which we call personal presence than this woman." It contains ringside boasts by Muhammad Ali, speeches by Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X, and sermons by Richmond's legendary Reverend John Jasper. It offers song lyrics we all know— "Jimmy Crack Corn" and "We Shall Overcome"— and lyrics known by fewer— "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues" and "I Ain't No Ice Man."
Dance's wise and circumspect comments guide readers through these cultural treasures. Even in 1971, finishing her UVA Ph.D. in English, Dance was on this track, writing a dissertation on Wit and Humor in Black American Literature. Since then, she has become a professor of English at the University of Richmond and, in the words of one critic, a nationally recognized "Dean of Folkculture." Many contributions to this anthology (from antique folktales collected in Richmond to recent Virginia State step dances) remind us that from this Virginia homeland spring many black riches.
Dance will share African American folklore from her book at Barnes & Noble in the Barracks Road Shopping Center on Tuesday, February 26, at 7pm. 984-0461.


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Animal Rescue – THE BEACH DOGSKeepitreal
Noi's story
In April of this year myself, my friend Miranda and her eight year old son Jordan visited Koh Tao. On our second day we met a small black mongrel that we later called Noi - which is Thai for little one. She had been rejected by the pack because she had weak back legs and a clubfoot, she was starving and infected by maggots. We fed her up and managed to enlist the help of the pharmacist to procure some anti-biotics from the nearby Koh Samui island. After I jabbed her she ran off and we didn't see her for three days. We thought she was dead. Then one evening when we were walking along the beach in the sunset she appeared from nowhere. At first we weren't sure if it was the same dog because she looked so much better. She followed us around faithfully from then on and spent the nights on our balcony. By now we were completely hooked and wanted to take her home with us but it seemed impossible. We would have to leave her behind.
When we came back to the UK we couldn't stop thinking about Noi. I discovered that there was a Dog Rescue Centre on the nearby Koh Samui island and we made contact with Bridget and her husband Hans who run the centre. After another month of deliberation we decided that the only thing to do was to go back and get Noi. Bridget put us in contact with another Brit who had done the same thing - Roger Cooper. Roger had had a similar experience with his dog Gypsy. He had become attached to her during a holiday and when he and his family returned thirteen months later the dog recognised them instantly. The clincher was when they got into a taxi for a sight seeing trip and the dog ran after the taxi for a mile and a half and then sat in the road howling.
Miranda can speak fleunt Thai which was to be a great help. When we arrived there we took the photo we had taken of Jordan and Noi around to the different restaurants but no one had seen her. There were a few heart stopping days when we thought she was dead. Then she suddenly turned up but she was in a pretty bad state. She was sicker than before and was covered in mange and wouldn't eat. Over the next few days we fed her up and gave her some anti bioitics and Vitamin C. But now there was another problem. Whilst they were looking for Noi another outcast had attached himself to us another black mongrel who we called Star. Since we'd first met Star someone had thrown stones at him and he was now hobbling on three legs. We decided that we would take him with us to the vet at the dog's home in Koh Samui, fix him up and return him to the island.
The only way from Koh Toa to Koh Samui is by speedboat and it's a pretty rocky journey. The journey by jeep to the jetty and then the crossing to Koh Samui with two dogs, a kid and luggage was a challenge particularly as the dogs wouldn't walk on leads and had to be carried. But probably most challenging of all was the continual vomiting of little Star on the speed boat that reached such a pitch that we wanted to throw him overboard!
Arriving at Koh Samui we were met by the motorbike and sidecar from the dogs home. The dogs were loaded up and Star howled all the way the rescue centre. We had to go between two different vets to get the dogs injected, get their vaccinations and get Star's leg fixed and then take them back to the rescue centre. By the time we arrived our hotel we were exhausted. We stayed on Koh Samui for the next few days visiting Noi and Star and generally helping out at the rescue centre. By now we had another dilemma. Star was really attached to us how could we take him back to the life of a beach dog where anything might happen? After much soul searching we decided to bring Star home.
To prepare for the next leg of the journey - the flight from Koh Samui to Bangkok, the airline had insisted that the dogs be sedated until they were asleep. The quarantine kennel here in the UK had expressly said not to sedate them because of the danger of hypothermia. A double dose of tranquilliser was administered to Noi because the first one didn't seem to work.
When we arrived at Bangkok the dogs were actually sent out on the conveyor belt with the luggage!!! Miranda and I went off to sort out some documentation and whilst we were away Jordan, thinking that Noi didn't look too good, put his hand into the cage and in her drugged state Noi bit him and wouldn't let go. He started screaming. It took a security guard to prise her off. We came back to find Jordan in tears and blood all over the floor. We had to bundle the two dogs, still in their cages, Jordan and the luggage off to the nearby private hospital where Jordan had to have rabies and a tetanus injection and get his wound cleaned and his arm bandaged. We dropped the dogs off with Tai - the contact in Bangkok that Bridget from the rescue centre had arranged and dragged ourselves off to the hotel.
At nine o'clock the next morning Tai rang the hotel. There was a problem. The excessive dose of the tranquilliser may have caused Noi to go blind. We rushed to Tai's. Things didn't look good. Noi's eyes were completely blue. Thankfully over the next few days her sight returned.
Noi and Star came out of quarantine in February and there were quite a handful - to say the least! But now they are house trained and understand basic commands. Star is very nervous of other dogs and this makes him quite aggressive to them but both of the dogs are great with humans. Soon they are going off for an intensive four week live in training course with Brian from Just For Dogs. He has a fantastic reputation for non aggressive training methods with amazing results.
This experience has led me to start a charity the Noistar Thai Dog Rescue to help the hundred of dogs still on the island. The Noistar Thai Dog Rescue intends to introduce a neutering and education programme to bring the dog population under control and thereby improve the quality of life for both the humans and the canines who inhabit the island. We will involve local people directly in this programme as well as targeting tourists to act more responsibly.
There will be a clinic on the island, which is already running with a bare staff of volunteers, this will be the focus for the medical and educational activities.
Koh Tao should be a refuge for the beach dogs that live there. With help they would be able to exist in harmony with the islanders and the many thousands of visitors that go there each year. We may not be able to change the world but we can change an island.
If you are interested in helping out contact Laura at email@example.com


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Juan Rivera submitted some information to us recently about the release of the latest version of VS.PHP, the PHP IDE for Visual Studio, now in version 2.3.
Key features are:
- Support for remote server projects. Edit remote files like they were local
- Support for Windows Vista, Visual Studio SP1
- Support for Ftp over SSL
VS.Php 2.3 comes as a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 or as a standalone edition.
You can get complete information on this new update from the press release posted on the software's official website.


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Best story of NFL season? Try Chuck Pagano, Bruce Arians and the incredible Colts
INDIANAPOLIS – On his darkest, sickest days, when the cure burned like poison through his body, Chuck Pagano kept a sheet of paper taped to the wall beside his hospital bed. The paper had a list of names and numbers that a football man would recognize as the depth chart of the Indianapolis Colts. And as the chemotherapy did its best work in fighting Pagano's leukemia, the depth chart became his constant connection to the life he once had as the Colts' head coach. The one he refused to give up, the one to which he was determined to return.
And whenever Colts general manager Ryan Grigson visited with news or updates or stories to tell, Pagano nodded toward the chart on the wall.
"Grigs does it look right?" Pagano would ask.
"Um no," Grigson replied, scratching out a name and writing a new one. "This guy's on IR."
But as the weeks went by and more strange, handwritten names appeared on the paper, it was clear to Grigson that the chart had become something living – an inspiration pushing Pagano toward returning to his players before season's end. And yet how could the coach know, as he lay on the bed, that he was the one inspiring them?
There is no better story in the NFL this year because who could have imagined this? How could the Colts, one of the league's most stable franchises for the past 15 years, blow up the structure: dump its face (Peyton Manning) and architect (Bill Polian), fill the locker room with new faces (including rookie quarterback Andrew Luck), lose its new coach to something called acute promyelocytic leukemia and still be 9-4 and on the verge of the playoffs?
There is little statistically to say Indianapolis should be doing this. Aside from total offensive yards and passing yards, the Colts are outside the top 10 in most categories, and they have 16 more turnovers than their opponents. The roster is filled with a bunch of unknown players, many of whom are rookies or castoffs or guys no one else discovered. This mixture is more befitting of a team 4-9, not 9-4.
Explaining this is difficult.
"I still don't know who we are really," says longtime Colts quarterback coach Clyde Christensen. "We just do our job for 60 minutes."
[More: Josh Brent's blood alcohol level more than twice legal limit after fatal crash]
They say this has everything to do with the man who isn't here. They say Pagano left such an inspirational foundation of unity before he fell ill that they play for the coach who they never see save for home games when he can be spotted in a luxury suite beside Grigson or owner Jim Irsay. They say this has given them a purpose, an adversity through which to fight. Many imply it is the best season of football they have ever had.
And so earlier this week, interim coach Bruce Arians leaned against the hallway wall at the Colts headquarters, thought about Pagano and gave a slight smile.
"I think as long he overcomes it and gets healthy and goes back to being himself, it has galvanized this football team," Arians said. "In a weird way maybe it has helped this franchise take a bigger step forward."
The best story in the NFL is a tale of perseverance and determination; of a team that fights to pull out victories in games even it didn't expect to win.
And it began with a ringing telephone.
Not long before noon on Sept. 30, the last day of the Colts' bye week, offensive coordinator Arians was preparing to leave his Georgia vacation house and fly back to Indianapolis when Pagano called. This in itself was not unusual; he and Pagano had been friends for years, they talk or text all the time. Arians knew Pagano had not been feeling well and had been to see a doctor a few days before. However, Pagano began the conversation in his usual, confident tone so Arians didn't ask about the coach's health as they chatted for a time about other things.
Suddenly Pagano's voice changed.
"I have leukemia," he said.
Then he added: "Mr. Irsay wants you to coach the team."
Arians was stunned.
The next hours were a blur. Arians, who had prostate cancer in 2007 and spent that year's NFL draft wearing a catheter under his clothes, fired off questions about Pagano's treatment. Did he have a plan? When did he start chemotherapy? Once satisfied that Pagano had good care, Arians ended the call and left for the airport.
On the flight back to Indianapolis, Arians scoured his iPad, searching for anything he could about Pagano's illness. How serious was it? Treatments? Recovery rates? The last thing he thought about was football. He didn't worry much about the speech he would make the next morning to the team.
"I don't plan stuff," he says. "I shoot from the hip"
In deciphering this season, trying to grasp how the Colts could thrive as their inspirational coach has been away, much of the credit goes to Arians, known not as "Coach" but rather "B.A." He brought an easy, calming personality to the team. At the time, the Colts were 1-2 and the year could have easily tumbled into turmoil. Instead, Arians spoke quietly, carrying out Pagano's initiatives while at the same time pushing the team to improve.
"He's ultra confident in what he does and [the players] are not going to buy in to what they don't believe," says Grigson, who along with Irsay knew immediately he wanted to make Arians the interim coach when Pagano informed them of his illness. "But when the man talks he backs it up, he's got the track record. It's been an extension of Chuck. Then you bring in his offensive expertise. When he coaches, it's a brash strong, in your face style but then it has some light-hearted moments but not enough where he is bringing someone down."
[More: Roger Goodell, NFL considering playoff expansion]
The thing that impresses Grigson and others in the organization most is how personal Arians made Pagano's absence, letting the players feel as if their coach was with them, never acting as if he had been made the head coach himself. It is a fine line to walk; commanding the respect of being a head coach while at the same time letting everyone know you are merely a caretaker for someone who will return. Many coaches wouldn't have been able to handle this, given the temptation to create their own legacy.
"He never lost sight of the fact his buddy is sick," Grigson says. "When you see him with his actions every day, you know there's never been a time when he hasn't let his team know that his buddy is out sick and fighting for his life. To me that is the human side of this."
At the first practice without Pagano, Arians stood before the team. He reminded the players that after every practice or locker room huddle, they always ended with a chant that began "1-2-3" and ended with a keyword or two like "finish" or "work hard." Weren't all those things Chuck?, he asked. They nodded. And so there, on the field, he created a new tradition. Whenever the team gathered and then broke apart they would yell: "1-2-3 Chuck."
From there everything seemed easy. Nobody had to force the idea of "team." There was now something different to pursue, something bigger. A name. A face. A missing coach.
If there is a most important moment of this Colts season, it might actually have come back in January with a missed field goal in a stadium halfway across the country. Grigson had been on the job for a week when he sat in his office at the Colts headquarters and watched the AFC championship. On his desk sat a list of assistant coaches he still wanted to interview for the open head-coaching job, but couldn't contact yet because their teams were still playing.
Pagano, the Baltimore Ravens' defensive coordinator, was at the top of the list. The year before, when Grigson was the Philadelphia Eagles' player personnel director, he tried to help the team hire Pagano as its defensive coordinator. He still keeps the roster for that year's East-West Shrine Game on the back of which he took notes about what other coaches said about Pagano.
The coach always struck Grigson as a leader despite being 52, which is old for a first-time head coach. Pagano's résumé read like that of a diligent football lifer, who had been an assistant at 10 places ranging from UNLV to the Oakland Raiders, rather than a promising, young head coach teams typically hire. Yet there was something appealing about him. He had a presence that so many of the great head coaches have.
Pagano was still distraught about the Ravens' AFC title game loss when Grigson called the following morning. He wasn't sure he wanted to leave Baltimore after just one season as coordinator. Grigson understood, but also needed a coach. He kept pushing Pagano to come to Indianapolis for an interview. "This is what you have worked your life for," Grigson said.
Pagano stalled. He wasn't sure. Maybe the timing was wrong. Finally he said: "My suit is dirty, I don't think I have a suit to wear to an interview"
"Just bring your soul, man!" Grigson said.
A few days later, Grigson's heart raced as he interviewed Pagano. The coach was everything he hoped: a strong, enthusiastic presence. At one point Grigson showed his yellow legal pad to the teams' longtime COO Pete Ward. On it he wrote: "Players will run through walls for this guy."
During a break in the interview he turned to Pagano and said: "How pumped up are you?"
Pagano looked taken aback. But Grigson was sure he had already found his head coach. And there Pagano was, three days after the Patriots loss, telling Grigson he was taking the job for which he wasn't sure he wanted to interview.
"Let's hunt," Pagano said before hanging up.
This became a phrase Pagano used constantly around the team, one of many he used to bring together a disparate roster of unknowns that Grigson kept finding. Signs appeared around the locker room reading "Team Team Team." He talked constantly of playing for each other and not for themselves.
[More: Eagles' Andy Reid isn't ready to throw in the towel]
Such phrases are common around football teams, all of whom put up signs with slogans that are designed to inspire and create unity, but there was something different about the way Pagano delivered his words.
"It's just his charisma," says Colts defensive end Cory Redding, who had played for Pagano in Baltimore. "He has an ability to bring people together. He will make the smallest person in the building feel like the most important person in the building. If that guy is a janitor, he will make that janitor feel like he's very important."
"I don't think he's had a bad day in his life," backup quarterback Drew Stanton says.
They knew something was wrong when they gathered in the auditorium for their regular Monday 8:30 a.m. meeting and every team employee was in the room. When 8:30 came and went and the always punctual Pagano didn't appear they looked around nervously. Then Irsay stepped to the podium and delivered the news that their coach was sick.
It's hard to say how much Pagano's leukemia has inspired them to win eight of 10 games in his absence. "To every guy it's different in this locker room," Luck says. "I do think it's something that has brought us together."
If nothing else, it gave them something in common, an emotional link around which to build. Then came the first game, at home against the Green Bay Packers, when the Colts fell down 21-3 in the first half and Arians would later say he was afraid they would lose 50-3.
"Our coach was in the hospital fighting cancer. We could have laid down and nobody would have said anything," Grigson says. Instead, cornerback Jerraud Powers intercepted an Aaron Rodgers pass in the third quarter to set up a touchdown and Luck completed pass after pass, many to receiver Reggie Wayne and they had an unimaginable 30-27 win that seemed to ignite something in the team.
Soon there came the texts, dozens of them from Pagano, who was still lying in the hospital, trying desperately to keep up with practice films sent daily to his iPad. Week after week, as the team won, players' phones buzzed. Running back Vick Ballard got several "congratulations" after big runs. Other players got quick coaching suggestions that Pagano picked up on the practice films. Even the phone of Chandler Harnish, a practice squad quarterback from Northern Illinois, beeped one night when his school was playing on television. "I'm watching your boys tonight," Pagano wrote.
Harnish laughs as he recalls this.
"We don't want to disappoint him," he said.
And yet where would they be without Luck?
Perhaps out of duty Grigson went through the process of evaluating both Luck and Robert Griffin III when choosing the successor to Manning. He was intrigued by the great mix of speed and arm strength that RG3 possesses, but there never was much doubt about who he would choose with the No. 1 pick.
"You know what it really was?" Grigson asks. "There was no gray area with Andrew. I needed a guy who we could plug in and play."
[More: Reporter goes too far in RG3 race rant]
Still, there is a difference between inserting a rookie quarterback into the lineup and expecting him to lead a team to the playoffs. Those around the Colts say Luck has a remarkable ability to absorb a lot of information and decipher it quickly. The quarterback himself jokes that Arians "threw the whole kitchen sink at me." But he also believes that the pressure to learn made him better.
Arians has always believed in giving his quarterbacks great leeway in running a team. When things break down, the quarterback has to be able to improvise. And so many times this year, as the Colts trailed in a game and needed something big to happen in the fourth quarter, it has been Luck who has delivered the necessary plays.
"He's got a will to win," Arians says. "All the great ones have that. But you can't measure it. Coaches will tell you that [when scouting him] but there's no test for it. You can see how high they jump or how fast they go but there is no test for the heart muscle."
The irony is that even though Luck has led Indianapolis on late drives in six of the Colts' nine victories, his statistics say this should be a disaster. He has 18 interceptions, far more than Griffin or Seattle's Russell Wilson. His passer rating is a meager 74.5. There have been many mistakes.
Arians shrugs. Sometimes interceptions happen. The two he had in Sunday's 27-23 win over Tennessee, one the interim coach blamed on the receiver and the other came when Luck was scrambling, trying to avoid a sack and was hit in the leg. Since Arians wants Luck to make big plays when things are falling apart, he was hardly going to criticize the second interception.
"Andrew is a great forgetter," Christensen says.
Instead Luck is unburdened by his failures, which the coaches are convinced, allows him to attack at the moment they need him most.
"He's got that God-given ability," Arians says. "Go play ball. Don't worry about it."
Then came Nov. 4 and another of these crazy, late-game victories, when Pagano – ecstatic over the win – stood up in the luxury box, turned to Grigson and said he wanted to talk to the team.
This was not a simple task because Grigson had made himself what he likes to call "The Steward of Chuck's Health." There were medical concerns with taking a patient undergoing chemotherapy into a locker room. By nature, such places are festering with germs. Grigson had to call Pagano's doctor to get permission. When it was finally granted and Grigson and Pagano walked through the door, the players, gathered in a circle, turned and stared at the gray, weakened man who had been their coach.
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Then slowly they moved back. "Like the parting of the Red Sea," Grigson says.
When Pagano spoke of living to hoist a Super Bowl trophy with the Colts and dance at his two daughters' wedding – a clip played repeatedly for several days – everyone could see what the players had felt all those weeks before he got sick.
"It's amazing how in your weakest state you're your strongest," Grigson says. "Because as weak as he was, what he said touched the entire world."
A few days ago the Colts announced that Pagano is expected to return for the regular-season finale. How fitting it will be if the players and team employees file into the auditorium that Monday beforehand and right at 8:30 a.m., the door opens and Chuck Pagano steps back onto the stage?
Only then will the best story in the NFL seem complete.
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