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Esther Damaser
Hope is an emotion greatly valued, and I would say even necessary, in the cancer community. But hope is something doctors were, and are, unable to give me. How I found hope on my own is my story.
In 1980, when I was 45, I was diagnosed with Ocular Melanoma. Yes, cancer in the eye (in my case the back part of the eye). I had never even heard of such a thing, which is not surprising since it occurs only in 6 out of 1 million people, and is considered an orphan disease. The diagnosing doctor said the standard treatment is to take out the eye, and asked whether the next Thursday would be a good day to do it.
No options, no hope. Thus began my new career of dealing with cancer. I refused the doctor's offer of an appointment, and instead, my husband and I went to the library. After a great deal of library research, and consultations with other doctors, I discovered that no treatment could promise a "cure" (prevent metastasis), I refused the standard care, and decided to do a treatment that was considered experimental (photocoagulation—a form of laser). All was quiet for a while, then 8 years later, the tumor started growing again, and taking the eye out was once more recommended, this time strongly so. I updated my research only to reaffirm that no treatment guaranteed anything, and so I selected a different experimental treatment (brachytherapy—a form of radiation). Ironically, now that is accepted as one of the standard treatments. The tumor in the eye is either dead, or has remained dormant since 1988. I saved my eye, although my vision in that eye is severely compromised. Nevertheless, it was the realization of a hope to keep my eye, never offered to me by that doctor.
No doctor suggested or advised that I be followed carefully for the rest of my life for metastasis. I, on my own, reasoned that there must be a danger of the cancer spreading. I went to a medical oncologist to ask that this be done; he agreed, and I was scanned annually. Once again I made my own medical decisions, this time on the basis of common sense. Twenty-two years later cancer was discovered in my liver as a result of one of these scans. This event immediately rendered me Stage 4 with a six-month prognosis. That was in 2002. Obviously, I have survived a good deal longer than 6 months.
One year after this I was diagnosed with a Cutaneous Melanoma, another primary, independent of Ocular Melanoma. It was excised, and as far as I know, has not metastasized.
About 50% of Ocular Melanoma primaries eventually metastasize to other places in the body. When that happens the outlook is grim. Not only is there no cure, there is no accepted treatment, certainly no effective treatment. In my search for help, I have several times been turned down by doctors who say, "Yes I can do this procedure [surgery, radiation, etc.] but I won't, because it won't cure you," even though it might prolong my life. A further denial of hope.
Staying alive has been an uphill battle, but I am very much still alive. I feel pretty good; I do whatever I need to do (which, since I am retired, isn't too demanding) and almost anything I want to do; I enjoy my husband, my children, and my grandchildren; I enjoy gardening, movies, books and friends. I am living a life alongside fighting cancer.
Since there is no protocol for treating Ocular Melanoma metastasized, there were, and still are, no "rules" to follow. Seeing that my doctors had no idea what to do, and that some of them thought it wasn't worth doing anything at all, I took matters into my own hands. I started to collect as much information as I could about my disease, joined a listserv of people with OM, searched the medical literature, became familiar with relevant experimental research, perused available clinical trials, and obtained consultations with researchers in this field.
I soon realized that no one physician or researcher is familiar with all the different pioneering efforts going on, but each is an expert in his/her own area of investigation. It became, and still is, incumbent upon me to sort these out while seeking advice from these experts, to assess which is the best treatment for me to seek next, then to find a physician who has the expertise and willingness to treat me. In this way I have taken control of my own medical care in the area most threatening to my life.
I now have tumors in many parts of my body—liver, lungs, peritoneum, abdominal wall, etc. I have had a multitude of treatments--surgery, immuno-embolizations, Cyberknife, vaccine, anti-angiogenics, immune-stimulants, and more--most, but not all, in the context of clinical trials. Usually the treatment slows down the pace of cancer growth, or halts it for a while; sometimes the tumors even shrink a bit, but eventually the cancer starts growing again, and I am off researching my next step.
Since I have been doing this for almost 9 years, I find it is impossible to constantly sustain the level of raw fear for my life that accompanies a cancer diagnosis. Instead, this fear, anxiety, panic emerges only sporadically: when I await scan results, and after I get bad news. In between, the fear lurks at a subterranean level, allowing me to enjoy and treasure the life I have. Thus cancer has become, for me, both a chronic disease, and a job to which I must pay close attention from time to time when choice points arise.
Hope is certainly vital when dealing with cancer. When doctors could not extend hope to me, with the help of others, I have created my own hope.
Re: Esther Damaser(2/3/2012 - 11:46pm)
Hi Esther, your long story of fighting melanoma in the past 9 years really encouraged me a lot. May I know your age now and where you live? I live in the southern part of Fujian Province in China. My sister was diagnosed with vaginal cutaneous melanoma back in Dec 2009 when she was only 44. For the past two years, she's gone through 3 surgeries, including one major (in which her uterus and vagina were removed and vagina rescontruction), and countless cybles of chemos. Those treatments are really tough to get through and I wonder whether or not they would prevent metatasis. It's like a never-ending uphill battle and my sister, who's now on another cycle of chemo, is in deep depression and despair. Sometimes she really wants to give it up and quit the battle. I quite understand her feelings and I know she's suffered a lot mentally, physically and financially. The word "HOPE" in your story rekindles my hope for my beloved sister and I would like to tell her about your bravery and persistence and optimism. Wish you all the best, Esther. I do believe in your case, melanoma is treatable and curable. You have worked a miracle and set a great example for all of us. If you have any good experience to share with me, please feel free to contact my at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Re: Esther Damaser(3/10/2013 - 3:58am)
Esther... thank you!.. your amazing strength provides hope to us all that it is possible to sideline the panic and fear which I am so scared will colour the life I have to live. Thank you so much for your sensible and truely fantastic worldly wise words and outlook.


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I am Werner Vogels, a long time technologist and internet citizen. For the past 5 years I have been CTO at Amazon.com. The information on my Wikipedia page is relatively accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Vogels but there are probably other pages out with more information.
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the logo is to replace my current one on twitter (http://twitter.com/werner) and for use on my secondary websites like http://werner.ly
First and foremost it needs to look good as a twitter logo. Both on the twitter website as well as in the most relevant twitter applications.
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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — If you're into the NBA's most devastating dunks, we've got you covered over at the new and improved Dunk HQ. But because we're the All Ball blog and we like to look at the NBA from nontraditional angles, we will focus on the flip side of the NBA's best dunks: Who got got?
So welcome to volume one of The All Ball Posterized Poll. We will check in from time to time and examine the worst of the best, and use a highly scientific polling method to determine which NBA player got dunked on (a.k.a. posterized) the most egregiously. And at the end of the season we will determine who it is that most belongs on a poster.
To start us off, we have four nominees from the first few weeks of the season, and we checked in with NBA.com's own slam dunk specialist, LeMont Calloway, for his informed perspective on the matter. "What I'll say most about these defenders is that at least they're trying to show help-side D," LeMont notes. "There's a defender or two around the league who wouldn't even dare, let alone probably couldn't even make the proper rotation. (Calling you out Boozer!) But, it's like Bill Walton used to say: What are big men doing trying to take charges anyway?"
1. Marvin Williams (as nominated by JJ Hickson)
LeMont's Take: "Personally, if you ask me, is this the one? This is the one! The way Marvin falls reminds me of a video game animation. Hands down, one of the nastiest falls after getting dunked on that I've seen in a while."
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2. Jason Maxiell (as nominated by Jeff Green)
LeMont's Take: "Jeff has had a knack for kicking off seasons lately with a poster. Remember, he got Al Jefferson good last November."
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3. Jeff Withey (as nominated by Xavier Henry)
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LeMont's Take: "Blake's just running out of league casualties that he's got to turn to his own team now? Hilarious!"
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Republican Rep. Robin Weisz is a farmer who grows corn, beans and wheat. He describes himself as coming from a "very conservative background." And on Feb. 27 he cast a vote to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Weisz doesn't come from Maine. He lives in Hurdsfield, N.D., and for 18 years has served in the North Dakota Legislative Assembly, the last three sessions as chairman of the Human Services Committee. Three-quarters of the House are Republicans. The Senate is 70 percent Republican. The head of the state is Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who supports expansion.
For the North Dakota House, which voted to expand coverage to people not traditionally covered under the public health insurance program, the decision was less a question of politics and more one of economics. Weisz said he never liked the idea of the Affordable Care Act, but the state would lose more by not participating in expansion.
"It doesn't matter what I think of the act. I have to do what's best for my constituents and the state," he said in an interview.
It's a sentiment that could spread to the Republican Party in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage strictly opposed Medicaid expansion in public statements until this week when his office said it has started talking with the Obama administration. Beginning a dialogue is far from supporting expansion, but it is a first step.
North Dakota would pay more during the next decade if it extends Medicaid to able-bodied parents and adults without children who earn up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. But it would also receive much more from the federal government. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, the state would likely pay 3.9 percent more for Medicaid but reap a 28.4 percent increase in federal funding.
Based on the same Kaiser study, Maine would be one of 10 states to see the amount of money it spends on Medicaid actually decrease during the next decade — by 3.8 percent; the federal share is projected to increase 11.4 percent.
The U.S. Supreme Court said expansion was optional for states when it ruled the health care law constitutional in June. Weisz's advice is for Maine to determine how expansion would affect the cost of premiums, to talk to hospitals and find out how their bad debt levels would change, and to figure out costs connected to the required health-care exchanges — marketplaces formed under the Affordable Care Act where people can buy an insurance policy and receive income-based subsidies to help pay for it.
"You've got to put those numbers together and decide whether it makes sense," he said. "It was the numbers that made the difference."
For some, the decision will also be rooted in a desire to improve people's health and quality of life. This week, Maine Sen. Tom Saviello, R-Wilton, said that Maine should expand Medicaid. He's the first Republican legislator in Maine to take that public stand.
"The argument comes back to health care," he said.
He represents people in rural Franklin County who are not insured and sometimes wait until a condition becomes severe to seek medical help. Then they must rely on charity care at Franklin Memorial Hospital. If people have insurance, he said, they are more likely to take preventative care, leading to savings for hospitals — and premium holders — and a healthier population.
Saviello said he is willing to sign on to legislation sponsored by Rep. Linda Sanborn, D-Gorham, which would have Maine participate in the expansion.
"I do what I think is the right thing, and this is after talking to a number of people and a lot of self-reflection," he said.
It's wise for Maine leaders to study the issue. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will have to make sure it can logistically support expansion; and lawmakers should insist that hospitals move toward a system where they are paid for the quality, not quantity, of care provided. There should be a clear, transparent way to track the effects of Medicaid expansion.
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Agents of the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force say they made two arrests and seized drugs and drug paraphernalia when they carried out a search warrant Wednesday afternoon at 1009 South Foster Avenue.
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EU Justice Commissioner Reding challenges business leaders to increase women's presence on corporate boards with "Women on the Board Pledge for Europe"
Following meetings today with business leaders and social partners on women in decision-making (see IP/11/242), EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding challenged publicly listed companies in Europe to sign a "Women on the Board Pledge for Europe" by March 2012. This pledge represents a voluntary commitment by publicly listed companies to increase women's presence on corporate boards to 30% by 2015 and to 40% by 2020 (see Annex). It is open for signature by all publicly listed companies in Europe.
"I had a first constructive discussion with business leaders to hear their views on increasing female participation in Europe's boardrooms," said Vice-President Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "While some business leaders consider regulatory intervention – as seen in Norway, France and Spain – as indispensable, others pointed to promising self-regulatory initiatives. Discussions between my services and representatives of the social partners showed similar positions."
"Enhancing women's participation in boardrooms can make companies more profitable and trigger sustainable economic growth."
"For the next 12 months, I want to give self-regulation a last chance. I would like companies to be creative so that regulators do not have to become creative."
"What counts for me is the outcome. My goal is to bring women's presence on the boards of the major European publicly listed companies to 30% in 2015 and to 40% by 2020."
"I call on publicly listed companies from all over Europe to sign the 'Women on the Board Pledge for Europe' and to develop their own credible way to get more women into top jobs."
"A year from now on International Women's Day (8 March 2012), the Commission will assess whether there is significant progress and whether credible self-regulatory initiatives were developed to enhance women's participation in decision-making. If this has happened by March 2012, I will congratulate the European business world. If it has not happened, you can count on my regulatory creativity."
European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding and Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank chaired today's meeting between the Commission and business leaders – chief executives and chairs of boards – and social partners. The meeting is the first step towards a better gender balance in boardrooms and senior management at Europe's biggest companies. New Commission figures presented today show that only 12% of board members at Europe's largest companies are women and in 97% of cases the board is chaired by a man. Progress over the past years has been very slow: the share of female board members in the EU has increased by just over half a percentage point per year over the last seven years. At this rate, unless action is taken, it will take another 50 years before there is a reasonable balance (40% of each sex) on company boards. In the meantime, public-listed firms in the EU keep losing out on female talent.
Member States and companies have taken various measures to address the situation, ranging from "soft measures" such as corporate governance codes and charters to legislative measures, such as gender quotas.
The "Women Boardroom Pledge" is available on Vice-President Reding's website. It will help monitor how companies are working towards getting more women in top jobs. Every publicly listed company can sign the pledge and lead with a good example. In one year's time the European Commission will re-asses the situation and decide on the next steps.
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Planète énergies – learn about and understand energy
Energy is central to many of the challenges that lie ahead, such as growing demand, climate change and scientific progress. Against this backdrop, we are all seeking to form our own opinions. That is why in 2005, Total created Planète Énergies, an educational initiative aimed at providing as many people as possible with the keys to understanding all aspects of energy. With a firm international focus and a close eye on the latest developments, Planète Énergies provides a diverse range of tools, including a website, teaching kits, lectures and a stand.
Conference on energy supplies for a secondary-school audience – April 2014
Planète Energies stand at the Paris Science Fair in October 2015 (Fête de la Science – Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie)
Guide des Energies (energy supply guide), a joint-publication with publishing company PlayBac available in several languages
A unique approach
With the Planète Énergies initiative, Total is one of the only companies in the sector to raise awareness of all energy forms, including those the Group is not involved in. This educational brand is part of its commitment to promoting knowledge and is founded on three core beliefs:
- Knowledge and research drive progress.
- Energy is precious, so we must use it wisely.
- Energy is central to human development.
For over ten years, the Planète Énergies team has been developing a diverse range of content and distributing it as widely as possible, in particular on the website planete-energies.com.
This site, published in English and French, offers explanations, reports, infographics and videos on the subject of energy. In addition, games are also now available. Since June 2017, Internet users can test their knowledge online with the Incollables® energy quizzes, available in French and English.
The educational content is accessible to all but aimed in particular at younger generations (schoolchildren aged ten to eighteen), their parents, and all curious minds interested in energy. Jean-François Minster, president of the Planète Énergies editorial board, reminds us of his ambition for the site: "I want planete-energies.com to be the educational reference site for energy."1
In its educational work, Planète Énergies emphasises the importance of a balance between all energy sources, whether primary or secondary, old or new. The site covers all energy sources: fossil fuels, renewable energy sources like solar and wind, and nuclear. Planète Énergies explores the history of energy through background reports produced in partnership with specialist magazines. There is also content exploring the impacts and applications of energy: daily life (the home, transportation, consumption), technological innovation, economic balances, the environment, climate change, and the development of emerging countries.
An editorial board meets twice a year to decide on the main directions and content for the site. It is made up of experts from other energy companies, academia and energy institutions, and guarantees the quality, accessibility and neutrality of the editorial content.
An increasingly diverse initiative
The Planète Énergies initiative, originally conceived as a web-based energy encyclopedia, has gradually become more diverse.
The content, intended for students, is available online for teachers. It comes mainly in the form of educational kits that follow the French school curriculum, and also includes an energy guide available in four languages (French, English, Bulgarian, Arabic) for many other countries.
As well as content available online, Planète Énergies works directly with teachers:
- Experts give free lectures in elementary, middle and high schools. Since 2005, 55,000 pupils have attended lectures in France. This initiative is now being expanded globally: around one hundred pupils have already benefited in Gabon.
- Planète Énergies is partnering with France's Ministry of Education on the Geoscience Olympics. This contest, for high school students specialising in the sciences, aims to get them thinking about geoscience-related issues.
Lastly, Planète Énergies participates at both external public events and events at Total's industrial sites where a 30 m2 stand gives the public a fun opportunity to learn more about energy.
Total, through the many initiatives linked to its educational brand, Planète Énergies, is helping everyone to improve their understanding of energy.
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Sunkiss Nursery are located East of I -95 at 2101 N Dixie Highway, south of Copans Road. We have been in the nursery business in South Florida for 35 years. Our new location opened in 1991 with just two rows of plants and now has grown into a full service nursery with a wide variety of landscape materials.
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Key Brockton project begins
A formal groundbreaking was held in Brockton last week for one of several redevelopment projects that city officials hope will begin to breathe life back into their city's downtown.
Capstone Communities LLC is budgeting $9 million to transform the Knight building on Montello Street into Station Lofts, consisting of 25 mixed-income residential apartments, said Jason Korb, a principal with the company. He said there will be surface and garage parking, a fitness center and storage for residents, and on-site management.
The former industrial building, located one block from the MBTA commuter rail station, will be rehabilitated in accordance with Massachusetts Historical Commission and National Park Service standards, he said. The Knight building, vacant for more than a decade, is the former home of the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Co., where it is believed the first baseball catcher's mitt was invented.
Korb said he secured financing last month for the project from a mix of public and private sources, as well as the use of housing and historic preservation tax credits. It is expected to create 46 jobs.
"I am proud to consider myself a property owner in Brockton,'' he said.
Mayor Linda Balzotti said Station Lofts is an important investment in the redevelopment of Brockton's downtown.
"And it's been a textbook example of the benefits that communication and collaboration can have,'' she said.
Close by, another historic building at the center of Trinity Financial's $100 million redevelopment project has not fared so well. Demolition on the 122-year-old Gardner building began recently, and a new structure with features of the old one will be constructed to anchor a mix of apartments, retail, and commercial space, and a 325-space parking garage.
On Tuesday Keith Construction Inc., the construction management company for the Station Lofts project, will host a job fair for construction trades needed for the project from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the basement function room at St. Edith Stein Church, 71 East Main St., Brockton. Applications are being accepted for jobs in all construction trades, including laborers, carpenters, painters, floor layers, plumbers, and electricians.
The Canton-based company is encouraging local residents to apply but has said the final application review and selection will be conducted by subcontractors working on the project.
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Snowboarding Nemo
I awoke on this past Friday morning at about 10:15 a.m., and was alerted by a weather notification that informed me of any decent-sized storms happening around the U.S. Two days prior, I had to postpone a trip to Japan, and I was upset about the missed opportunity. But with news that the New York City region was in for a blizzard, I felt some urgency to take a look at some flights. So I rang So-Gnar's marketing correspondent, Gracie McGuire, for some help tracking down flights. The results were unaffordable. We found that the flight into NYC was going to cost me just about as much as a flight to Tokyo would have. There was no sense in me spending this kind of money on a flight. I had a major hurdle in my plans.
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If we were riding in the mountains, early morning powder would be our favorite thing to wake up to. This is not a bad way to kick off your morning in the New York City area. Pat Milbery with a pow slash.
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So I got out of bed and stumbled into the kitchen to make coffee. As I took my first sip of coffee, my phone rang with Gracie's number. Her grandmother Marilee had served Frontier Airlines for 20 years as a flight attendant and had earned flying perks, known as buddy passes, that extended to her family. Gracie said, "I just scored us tickets to NYC for $55.92 round trip."
My jaw dropped. I have been waiting all my life to jib, create and snowboard around New York City and the opportunity had just arrived. The flight was in 3½ hours, and my house to the airport is a 40-minute drive without traffic. So I packed up the essentials, and headed to NYC to snowboard.
As we arrived at the counter to check in, we were immediately bummed -- Frontier canceled our flight and didn't notify us. There were no more flights to NYC or anywhere nearby headed out of Denver International Airport that day. The only flight left was into Washington, D.C., about five hours away. We looked at each other and said, "Let's take it!" And we were off, to a city nowhere near New York, but nothing a rental car or train ride couldn't fix. On the walk to our gate, I called everyone on the East Coast I knew to see if they wanted to shred, if they were in town for the weekend or if we could crash on their couch during our stay.
I have been waiting all my life to jib, create and snowboard around New York City and the opportunity had just arrived.Pat Milbery
Out of the 12 contacts I had, zero of them were going to be around. Then all of a sudden, I remembered my friend Kyle Arcomano, who had a great position at Red Bull as an event car driver and winch operator. He was based out of New Jersey. Kyle and I had met in Wisconsin during my So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour. After ringing Kyle, he was down to link up, and bring the MXT and winch to charge the storm. Shortly after updating my Facebook and Instagram status, I got a phone call from one of my favorite lighting photographers in the game. He is from Florida and his name is Chris Garrison. Chris wanted to head up to document the storm. He found a flight up the same evening and the crew assembled.
When you think of New York City during the winter months, you typically think about cold weather, gray skies and the bitter windchills that pierce through your layers of clothing with ease. New York has yet to be blanketed with a healthy coat of snow on any sort of consistent basis through the 2012 and 2013 season. So anytime the city receives snow, it seems like the residents either rejoice or lament the snow's arrival.
Snowboarding in the Big Apple is a foreign concept, and we were easily able to observe the reactions we received from passerbys as we walked through the city with snowboards, shovels and film gear in our hands. We fielded a lot of questions of confusion and disbelief about snowboarding in the city. There has been little to no snowboarding documented in and around the city. I remember the Forum Crew jibbed the streets during a freak blizzard a handful of years ago and was able to document a few spots around this gigantic city. We decided to document urban snowboarding in an iconic manner, an approach that had not yet been seen in snowboard media or any mainstream media coverage to date.
Our focus was to incorporate snowboarding into the world's most recognizable iconic landmarks, skylines and bridges utilizing the resources in the environment around us. With the assistance of our good friends at Red Bull, we were able to accomplish everything from hand plants to pow slashes to quarter pipe fence stalls with the use of a winch. Special thanks goes out to Officer Louis Mecka and his dog Froto, Eric, Kyle, Nick, Gracie, Chris and especially grandma Marilee.
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Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
Brandon Knight scored 23 of his career-high 30 points in the second half to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 104-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.
Tayshaun Prince had 14 points and Rodney Stuckey and Jason Maxiell added 10 points apiece for the Pistons, who snapped a two-game skid.
"Brandon (Knight) kind of carried us on the offensive end in certain parts of the game, which was huge for us," Prince said.
Jeremy Pargo dropped in 24 points and Anderson Varejao added 16 points and 13 boards for the Cavaliers, who have dropped five straight and nine of their last 10 overall.
Charlie Villanueva's 3-pointer with six minutes left put the Pistons up 94-80, but Cleveland used a 14-5 run to pull within 99-95 with just 41.5 seconds left.
Stuckey then buried a jumper with just over 18 ticks showing, but Varejao answered back with a layup to pull within four once again. Detroit, however, scored the final three points of the game to seal the win.
"Offensively we just have to keep moving the ball a little better, be a little crisper with our passes and not turn the ball over as much," Cavaliers center Tyler Zeller said.
The Pistons led 25-22 after the first quarter. Prince poured in eight points in the period and Greg Monroe added five in the frame.
Cleveland used a 14-4 run to go up 46-36 with just under 3 1/2 minutes left in the second period, but Detroit closed the half on a 13-6 burst to go into the break down 52-49.
The Pistons shot a blistering 64.7 percent from the floor — including a perfect 3-for-3 from behind the arc, to go up 76-70 after the third. Detroit held the Cavs 33.3 percent shooting in the frame.


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text: On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 p.grimshaw at virgin.net wrote: > > Hi, I am new to Beowulf and have some questions, > > 1. Does anyone know if I am able to run a beowulf cluster with > different types of clients, i.e I have a load of pentium 100s > and some p2 500s which I would like to use together. Is this > possible? Sure, lots of ways. On embarrassingly parallel applications it is just the total available CPU that counts, see e.g. the SETI or RC5DES projects, the Stone Soupercomputer, and other heterogeneous efforts. For other parallel applications that do involve a moderate degree of synchronicity and communication, such a system can still be useful as long as the slower machines don't act as a brake on the faster ones, This generally means that you have to partition the work proportional to the speed of the system and its capacity to communicate. For some kinds of problems this is really not that difficult -- you just measure the relative speed of the P5 at 100 to the P6 at 500 on your parallelized code chunk (probably around 1:10) and give the PII's 10 times as much to do between communication barriers (when everybody communicates). Fine tune to correct for differential network speed and the larger communications from the PII chunks (if any). The programming IS more complex if the systems are heterogeneous, though, as the balancing and tuning will likely have to be done "by hand". You also have to have a really BIG load of P5 at 100's to make it worth the hassle when one P6 at 500 (current cost of a 500 MHz Celeron node is maybe $500-$600) can do the work of ten of the old Pentia. Just the cost of the extra electricity (maybe 1-1.3 kilowatts times the time of operation) can pretty much buy you the Celeron node over a year. It's like paying to run a 900 Watt space heater in an air conditioned space -- you pay twice. The space requirements, the extra switch/hub ports required, and the extra human labor for maintenance and installation all have to be considered as well. Finally, there is the inevitable drop off in parallel efficiency as a job is distributed to more nodes. Add this all up and you are probably better off economically NOT using the Pentia and buying cheap but technologically current nodes of equivalent total power by the time you factor in all of the real costs. Still, there can be lots of circumstances that do make such a cluster worthwhile -- low-budget/hobby beowulfs, beowulfs in schools with strictly limited computer budgets (but somewhat elastic electricity/AC budgets:-), clusters composed of your mix of Pentia and PII's sitting on desktops and being ALSO used as workstations (somebody else pays for the electricity and cooling and whatever is left of the CPUs is truly "free computing power"). Hope this helps, rgb > > Regards, > > Paul Grimshaw. > > ----- > Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) > The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list > Beowulf at beowulf.org > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Likewise. He's good with a more "painterly" style, a lot of his Persona art is like anime pop art.
As far as SMT artwork is concerned I am far more enticed by the Soejima side of the coin, as opposed to the Kaneko. While I feel Kaneko's work stylistically offers a great deal more "character" than Soejima's, I am just a sucker for the lush color anime work Soejima has cranked out in recent years. However I certainly am not turned off by either artist and I will totally give credit where credit is due.... Kaneko is responsible for the visual direction of my absolute (new) favorite protag. ever- Tatsuya from Persona 2. Kaneko seems to work in a very signature palette of sorts. That, coupled with his distinct "style" of drawing, makes his work recognizable from a mile away. Having that strong of an "identity" to your art, is what makes a stellar artist in my book. And that is all I have to say about SMT artwork... now back to my grind through p2EP... I'll be back in a week or two when I'm finished-LoLEDIT: On the note of Eternal Punishment... I am floored with the amount of optional content in this game. I can't imagine how long it would take if I really wanted to get to most of the optional stuff. With so much other stuff on the shelf calling my name (coupled with the fact that I haven't played ANYTHING other than SMT/Persona stuff for the last 2 months) I am ready to move on but damn I wish I had the time/wherewithal to manage to get some of more rare persona and whatnot. At 60 hours in, with a tentative 10-15 to go (I imagine) I can easily see how this game could demand 100+ hours and still leave you with a great deal to do if you so desired... I wish I discovered this when it came out in my childhood/teen years... this could have been a whole summer vacation worth of gaming-LoL
I...used a walkthrough.THE SHAME.The shame.
Pretty sure the fastest way to rack up the coins is bingo.
If it was in the game I would probably think the game was balanced around that being in mind, so I would use it. Since it's DLC I know it's not necessary and thus I won't use it.
So there is day 1 DLC guys. http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/23/shin-megami-tensei-iv-dlc-makes-leveling-up-easier/Its kind of an extra dungeon if you really really really suck at the game, you go their, kill them, and they drop experience point boosts. This sounds like a cool thing for beginners, but...WHY ISN'T IT JUST IN THE GAME?
Unlike FE: Awakening, this DLC doesn't sound that needed. It's like the Super Guide in NSMBW.


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It is one hour and 33 minutes by JetBlue from Pittsburgh to JFK. I am boarding such a flight with my wife and about 100 other passengers, a crew of five and two pilots and a navigator, and at 9:20 a.m., right on time, we back out of the gate and head out to the end of a runway. This takes the normal 15 minutes. At the end of the runway, the pilot turns around and, as sometimes they do and sometimes not, he revs up the engines while still in neutral. I am all strapped in, of course. On screen, I am watching an interview with Mike Nichols. I am looking forward to New York. But I hear something funny.
Or I think I do. It is an old sound coming from one of the engines, the sort of thing you hear in cars from long ago when you have to rev it up, blow the gunk out of an engine that's been sitting awhile until a burst of black smoke backfires out the back and the engine runs smoothly. This jet engine is making that sputtering noise. Once. Twice. That's how it seems to me. Mike Nichols is making a point.
But then I think that kind of sputtering noise is not how modern engines work today. I drive a new Tahoe. When the transmission seemed to hesitate when it shifted gears, I called Buzz Chew and told them about it. Maybe the tranny was loose. Maybe it needed a new set of transmission bands. They told me it's all done by computer now. The whole car is run by computer. All the old car routine references are wrong now.
Well, after a time testing the aircraft engines, the plane starts down to what we think is another runway. Damn these airports. One line is too long, now we go to another line. Instead, out the window, we see we are approaching the gate.
"Uh oh," my wife says.
What is happening? A security threat? An important passenger? Finally, a steward gets on the microphone.
"The tower has ordered us back to the gate," the steward says. "We'll let you know why as soon as we know."
Now the pilot gets on the microphone. He actually comes out of the cockpit to talk to us. He's a thin guy, about 35, nice looking, hair over his forehead.
"We've got a problem with the aircraft," he says. "My first concern is for your safety. I won't fly an airplane that has something wrong with it. So we have to find out what it is.
Meantime, I want everybody off the plane. Get all your possessions. I'll see that we give you updates every 20 minutes or so."
And so we do that. This is going to be a nightmare, somebody says. At the gate, a pretty hostess was completely unhelpful. She didn't know anything, either. But there was another flight out at 2:30 p.m. There were five seats left. But she counseled waiting.
We also learned about JetBlue policy. If we wanted to get another flight with another airline to make sure we got where we had to go we could do that, but we'd have to pay that other airline.
Also JetBlue would not only NOT refund our money, they would charge us $100 a passenger additional to leave our current flight. Even if the plane is broken? I asked. Yup, even that. And will they refund us the money if the plane doesn't go? No, but they would give us money if we waited for hours, she said. That's why I counsel waiting.
There are floor-to-ceiling windows looking out from the gate to the runway and, between us and the runway, right in front of me, is our aircraft, nose in, with the accordion thing still attached to the entry door. I decide to watch to see what develops.
Another passenger, a woman, joins me. My wife has gone to get us coffee.
We talk to one another nervously. Getting off the plane with all the possessions is the big signal, someone had told her. This was going to take FOREVER. After about 10 minutes, though, a blue van with the words JETBLUE on the back pulls up alongside the plane and three mechanics get out. We can see them less than 50 yards away. One carries a black bag that, it seems to me, must contain tools. Another carries a flashlight. They open a hatch just under the cockpit and they peer inside. One of them holds up the flashlight. Another takes a long metal tool that looks like a screwdriver out of the bag. He leans in, looks close to something and turns the screwdriver counterclockwise. Then he hits the end of the screwdriver with the heel of his hand. The two other mechanics watch with interest.
"Am I seeing what I'm seeing?" I asked the woman.
"I guess so."
One of the other mechanics hoists up the black bag—its zipper is open on top—and sets it down inside the hatch. Then they all stand back and look at whatever it was they did, and then they turn around and walk to the van, get in, and drive off.
"They left the door open," the woman said.
"That's really a good sign," say I. "It means they are coming back. They've gone off to get a part. And they think they can fix it right there on the runway. They won't have to have it towed back to the shop."
At this point, my wife comes back with coffee.
"I think you're right," the woman said. "You don't just leave the door open when you drive off."
Twenty minutes later, the woman at the gate makes an important announcement. They've got whatever it was fixed. We will commence reboarding in five minutes. Make sure you have your boarding pass handy.
Everybody starts talking to one another. Somebody says they were told it was a computer malfunction. Another person says yeah, right. Another person says they sniffed a burning smell when we were out at the end of the runway. Still another person says I didn't smell anything.
As we are waiting in the line to board, I look out the window. The hatch under the cockpit is still open.
As we get on the aircraft, I pass the smiling stewardess.
"The hatch on the other side is still open," I said. "And there's a black zippered bag in there."
"Oh, they took that out," the stewardess says. "There was one of us who decided not to get back on. They took her bag out."
As I am waiting in the aisle as other passengers are, once again, stowing their bags up above in the bays up there, I see the woman I was standing by the window with.
"Were they taking that black bag out?" I asked. "Or were they putting it in?"
"Putting it in," she says.
So what happened? I don't know. Maybe it was a loose distributor cap, or some carbon inside the carburetor or a loose spark plug wire or some other little thing that when you give it a whack with the back of your hand it fixes it.
Twenty minutes later, we are back out at the end of the runway. The pilot revs up the engines again. They sound smooth as
silk. Not only that, but they sound so powerful that after the pilot lets them quiet down, shifts into first and puts his pedal to the metal, I wouldn't want to be out front watching it
come at me.
Now we are up in the sky, we're free to use our electronic devices and so, as we head to New York, uh, I am writing this story.


text: Esquire has the first excerpt from Scott Raab's The Whore of Akron, on sale Nov. 15. We'll have more later in the week. For now: "Lord. This is where LeBron James wants to play basketball, in front of sun-dried cretins who must be bribed to act as if they care about the game and the team. ... For as long as I've been a fan, I've rooted hard against certain teams and players, but never have I hoped to see a career-ending injury—until tonight." [Esquire]


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A fifth-grade teacher at Hoover Elementary School died in a hospital Sunday (Jan. 30) after cold- and flu-like symptoms developed into a severe infection, school district officials said.
George Flath, a teacher at Hoover since 1994, was 43. He taught his class as usual Friday (Jan. 28) and was hospitalized during the weekend.
A cause of death has not been determined, but school officials said tests were underway to explore the possibility of meningococcal disease.
Some members of the Hoover community were taking antibiotics as a preventive measure. Representatives from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department held a meeting at the school Monday afternoon.
A health department physician said few members of the Hoover community had the type of contact with Flath that would put them at risk for acquiring the meningococcal bacteria.
However, prophylactic antibiotics were offered "out of an abundance of caution," and most parents of Flath's students took them for their children, a health department spokeswoman said.
"Mr. Flath was an uplifting, vibrant teacher who cherished his work here," Hoover School Principal Susanne Scott said in a letter to the Hoover community.
"His sense of humor added to the joy and enthusiasm in his work with students. He will be missed by all of us."
School district staff and Hoover School parents were notified of the death in an e-mail, Assistant Superintendent Scott Bowers said.
Students were told about it, class by class, Monday morning, with counselors on hand, Bowers said.
School psychologists and staff from the grief counseling organization Kara were available to support staff members and students, Scott said.
Meningococcal disease comes from a bacterium that can cause both meningitis, inflammation of brain and spinal cord tissue, or sepsis, a severe infection of the blood, according to Sara Cody, a physician and communicable disease control officer with the health department.
"There are very few people in the Hoover school community who may have had the type of close contact that would put them at risk of acquiring the bacteria," Cody said in a memo to Hoover staff members and parents.
"The Public Health Department is working with the school to identify those individuals, and out of an abundance of caution, will recommend preventive antibiotics for them while we await further information on the cause of death."
While meningococcal disease is contagious, Cody said "it is not easily spread from person to person."
Meningococcal bacteria are "not as contagious as things like the common cold or the flu, and they are not spread by casual contact or by simply breathing the air where a person with meningitis has been...
"For those with casual contact, preventive antibiotics are not recommended," Cody said.
The bacteria can live outside the body for only a few minutes, and do not live on environmental surfaces or in the air, she said.
At Monday's meeting with Hoover parents, students and staff, public health officials offered prophylactic antibiotics to those who wanted them.
"Most of the parents did end up taking them for their children," health department spokeswoman Joy Alexiou said.
"But it's extremely unlikely that anybody else will get sick."
Symptoms of meningococcal disease may develop within several hours or over a period of one to two days, and include high fever, severe headache, stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, discomfort when looking into bright lights and mental confusion.
A friend of Flath's, Lewis Weaser, said the teacher, who lived in San Francisco, was socializing with friends Saturday afternoon.
"A group of five of us had dinner plans on Saturday night when he started to mention that he wasn't feeling well," Weaser said in an e-mail Monday.
"That was around 6:30, before dinner."
Weaser said he received word about noon on Sunday that Flath was in the emergency room of Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco.
Flath's family was at his side in the hospital, school officials said.


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HANG TIME, Texas — Close your eyes and think of those days when the Bulls were a mean, snorting threat to win it all. Try to remember way back when they took the floor with their heads down, horns sharp, pawing at the dirt, ready to challenge LeBron James and the Heat for Eastern Conference supremacy and make a run at their first championship since the Jordan Era.
Was it just three months ago?
From the moment Derrick Rose crumpled in a heap at the end of the playoff opener against Philadelphia, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, it was obvious that 2012-13 was going to be a different kind of season in Chicago.
But this summer has been more like Extreme Makeover: Lake Michigan Edition.
Kyle Korver has been shipped off to Atlanta. C.J. Watson is now in Brooklyn. Omer Asik is the latest to hit the door, landing in Houston when the Bulls chose not to match a three-year, $25.1 million offer sheet.
As noted by our well-respected friend Rick Telander in the Chicago Sun-Times:
A Bulls team that last offseason seemed so improved, so solid, so primed to take on the Miami Heat and go for the NBA crown, with fine starters and a feisty Bench Mob, isn't exactly a memory, but it's a fading vapor.
Even as the Heat celebrates and LeBron James says ''uh-huh'' to all his doubters, the Bulls seem to be saying, ''Huh?''
The team is built around beloved homegrown point guard Derrick Rose. Last season, there was tall Joakim Noah to rebound and defend, big Carlos Boozer to score and rebound, lithe Luol Deng to do everything, slippery Rip Hamilton to receive assists from Rose and Rose himself to be a rolling hand grenade. And then the Mob would descend on foes like a plague of locusts.
That was the plan. That's how it worked — for a time.
Then came chaos.
Noah, Boozer, Deng, Hamilton, and Rose are still here. But who is healthy? Who is certain? What is there to stand in the way of a possible Heat dynasty?
The Bulls did welcome guard Kirk Hinrich back into the fold. But these days he is best cast in the role of a reserve.
Other summertime additions have been Nazr Mohammed, Marco Belinelli, and Vladimir Radmanovic while second-year swingman Jimmy Butler showed positive signs in Las Vegas. All told, that is hardly a five-some that is going to make LeBron and Dwyane Wade do much more than yawn. Not when the Heat have supplemented their roster with Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis.
So what in the name of Benny the Bull is going on in Chicago? General manager Gar Forman said on draft night last month: "Our decisions this summer will be basketball decisions, not financial decisions."
Yet the trade-offs from Asik to Mohammed and Korver to Radmanovich have certainly come with cheaper price tags, as pointed out by K.C Johnson in the Chicago Tribune:
In the wake of Derrick Rose's knee injury, the Bulls have made their decisions. Whether they are interpreted as basketball or financial is in the eye of the beholder.
On the one hand, the Bulls will enter luxury-tax territory for the first time in franchise history. But they will do so after letting Asik walk for nothing, an asset Forman repeatedly said he would match any offer for throughout last season.
Plus, the team's biggest star beyond Rose in posting the NBA's best record in back-to-back seasons was its depth, its Bench Mob. That unit, save for Taj Gibson, whose extension is next on the docket, has been dismantled.
Management will say its financial decisions are cloaked in basketball reasons. With Rose out until likely March, next season is a treading-water season. So instead of depth being the secondary star, the Bulls hope to add a legitimate one alongside Rose.
With Hinrich, Belinelli, Radmanovic and Mohammed all signing short-term deals, the plan to clear major salary-cap space in 2014 will remain intact. That's also when Luol Deng's contract expires, Nikola Mirotic could come over from Real Madrid and Carlos Boozer likely will be a victim of the amnesty provision.
On the one hand, it would seem to make sense for the Bulls to tread water while Rose is on the mend and try to keep their options open for the future.
But if their superstar can make a complete recovery and be back at full strength next spring by the time the playoffs start, wouldn't it be nice to have a supporting cast that is just as strong as the one he left?
For a team that's had the best regular season record in the league the past two years and appeared prime contenders, things are definitely, uh, different in Chicago these days.


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A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take out a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up, not to rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty it was. She then told them to tell it they're sorry. Now, even though they said they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bullies another child, they may say they're sorry, but the scars are there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her the message hit home. Copy and paste this if you are against bullying.
Let's see who will actually re-post this. This is a test to see who's paying attention. This is a test to see how many people list actually pay attention. Copy and re-post in your own journal. Let's see who the real people are. Re-post this if you care about this kind of situation. Don't reply... just copy and paste this in a new bulletin as "Fake Deviants"


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A team of mothers,writers and artists have put together the very first kid yoga application for the iPad. Based on the original yoga lesson plan written by Rachel Glowacki (M-HYI), children can learn and practice yoga at their own pace. In this fast growing tech world, it's an engaging tool that helps guide children toward making healthy physical choices as they grow older. If you have children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren or any relationship with a child, download and try out this app. Various studies around the world have shown us that exercise not only improves our physical health, but our mental health too. If we can help children form positive exercise habits at a young age, when they become adults it won't be necessary to fall into harmful damage control diets and fads. Talk with children about the importance of being healthy as they grow, and how yoga can benefit them at all ages. Visit www.kidsyogajourney.com to read more about the creators of this fun pocket yoga app available on Apple's iPad and iPhone/iPod, the Android, and now Barnes & Noble's NOOK color Reader's Tablet.


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The Dolphins have apparently found their next tackle, and that will require another one to move.
According to a tweet by his agent Chad Speck, the Dolphins are signing former Falcons right tackle Tyson Clabo today.
That means last year's second-rounder Jonathan Martin will be playing left tackle this season, and presumably kills the possibility of a Branden Albert trade.
The Dolphins invested heavily in receiving targets for Ryan Tannehill this year, and now they've stabilized his protection a bit.
Clabo's been a solid and dependable starter for the Falcons, but how Martin holds up in pass protection remains to be seen, and will be a key to the Dolphins' success this year.


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All is love in your presence, all is held and whole and perfect. I Love you beyond the beyond, into the depths of truth and joy into heaven on earth.
Thank you for all your blessings and all the right minded joy you have brought into my life.
"May the stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. Where everything is gone except the truth." — ACIM
Welcome to the presence of Love.
Congratulations on your commitment, on your integrity of self and you full knowing of the experience of love.
The power of God and all His Love, without limit, will support you as you seek only your place in the plan of Atonement arising from His Love. ACIM
Much grace and ease and smiles. Enter the vision of now, in truth with Love.
You still see with the body's eyes and all that they can report is separation. But you have asked for and received another Vision. You share the Holy Spirit's Purpose now so you also share the Holy Spirit's Vision. The Holy Spirit's ability to extend Love everywhere is yours now, too. The Holy Spirit does not see separate selves; only One Holy Self everywhere. The Holy Spirit does not see fear; only Innocence shining Peacefully on Everything that the Holy Spirit loves.
Look with a different Vision on your Holy relationship. You have forgiven your Christ Mind your illusions and yet your Christ Mind cannot use your Love while you do not see It. You cannot use What your Christ Mind gives to you unless you choose to use Itwith your Christ Mind. The Holy Spirit's Vision is not an idle gift to be played with for a while and then tossed aside. Listen carefully: Don't think that the Holy Spirit's Vision is an illusion, a careless thought to play with, or a toy to pick up from time to time. If you do, this is what It will be to you.
You have the Vision now to look past illusions. It has been given to you to no longer see fear, separation, or obstacles to Peace. Your fear of God is nothing to you who can now see your Christ Mind in place of the personal mind's projections on the other. With your Christ Mind in your awareness your Vision has become the greatest Power for the undoing of illusions that God can give. What God gives to the Holy Spirit you receive. Your Christ Mind looks to you for release because you have asked for the strength to look on the final obstacle of your fear of God and to no longer see fear or death.
The Home that you have chosen is beyond the veil of your fear of God. It is ready to receive you. You will not see It with the body's eyes, yet all that you need to see It you already have. Your Home has called to you since time began and you have never failed to hear It. You just did not know how or where to look for It. Now you know. In you, God lies ready to be unveiled and your awareness of God is ready to be freed from the terror that has kept God hidden from you. There is no fear in Love. Easter is a symbol that Christ was never crucified. Lift your eyes with your Christ Mind, not in fear but in faith that only God is Real. There is no fear in your Christ Mind because your Christ Mind's Vision does not see illusions, only a path to Heaven, your Quiet, Gentle, Peaceful Home.
The Holiness that you extend in your perception of the other in your Holy relationship will lead you Home. The Innocence that you extend will light your way, guiding you and protecting you, shining from the Holiness that you extend in your forgiving your illusions. Let your Perception of the other in your Holy relationship be your Savior from illusions as you look on them with the new Vision that looks on Love and that brings you Joy. With your Christ Mind you go beyond the veil of fear. The Holiness that leads you is within you, just as your Home is within you. You will find What God means for you to find.
This is the way to Heaven and the Peace of Easter. Join your Christ Mind in the glad awareness that you have risen from the personal self's past to awaken to the present. Now you are Free and Limitless in your Oneness with All that is within you. Now is your Innocence untouched by guilt and perfectly protected from fear and the belief that separation from God is real. Your extension of Love to your relationship saves you from pain and fear, and your Christ Mind, Which you see in it, is the Strength that guides you through and beyond fear. Walk in your Holy relationship rejoicing because your Christ Mind has come into your awareness to save you from your illusions and to lead you Home.
The Christ that you see in your Holy relationship is your Savior and your mind is released from crucifixion through your Vision of Christ in all that you perceive. In your pain your Christ Mind will not leave you, who are One with Christ. With your Christ Mind you will gladly walk the way of Innocence as you behold the open door of Heaven and recognize the Home that has called to you. Joyously extend your Freedom and your Strength to lead you Home and to replace the world in your mind. Extend your Holiness, Where Strength and Freedom are, to receive the awareness that leads you Home. Christ is in you and in your mind's perception and your Christ Mind will lead you past fear to Love.
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The brain is highly dynamic, always reorganizing, and it can be shaped — for good or for bad. —Dr. Paul Nussbaum
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jane Blume was part way down a building, rappelling for charity, when her exhausted body temporarily gave out. She dangled briefly, resting. At 70, she pushes her limits — she takes dance classes, volunteers, runs a public relations firm and is rehearsing for a flash mob. She walks at least a mile a day.
Her full life is also one of preventive braintenance — providing feeding and care to her brain so it stays as agile and healthy as possible.
Brain care should be a "lifespan issue, from womb to last breath," said Dr. Paul Nussbaum, chairman of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's Prevention Advisory Board, clinical neuropsychologist and founder and president of the Brain Health Center, opening in Pittsburgh this fall. "The brain is highly dynamic, always reorganizing, and it can be shaped — for good or for bad."
While even youngsters know they need to exercise, eat well and stay fit to be healthy, helping the brain is often overlooked, said Alvaro Fernandez, co-author and CEO of "The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness," a market research firm that tracks brain science.
Those physical things are crucial to brain health. But the brain needs more. It wants to be challenged and entertained, amused and frustrated, soothed and loved. A healthy brain lifestyle, said Nussbaum, covers five bases — nutrition, physical activity, mental stimulation, socialization and spirituality.
Work in progress
Not all efforts at improving brain health are created equal; there are critics and advocates galore. Individual programs that claim results may be inconsistent in quality and result. "Some work well, some are a joke," Fernandez said.
Still, no one disputes the brain can be improved at any age, even with dementia. Putting in as little as 20 hours can help. Evidence is so compelling, some schools offer students working-memory and brain-targeted programs, Fernandez said. AARP in some states has a program to improve cognitive abilities for safe driving, which decline after 50. It's becoming well-accepted that Alzheimer's symptoms may be delayed, Fernandez said. Stimulating development of lots of neurons provides some protection.
Brain health has spawned an industry, from companies like Fit Brains and Lumosity that offer games and exercises to stimulate the brain to books on staying or getting sharp. Many are written by researchers, programs often designed with universities.
Lumosity's vice president of research and development, Joe Hardy, said his company has 38 university-based research collaborations at top universities and has amassed "an enormous database of human cognitive performance, the result of having 40 million-plus users on our site."
Concern about maintaining mental agility has never been greater, fueled in part by the fact that a huge segment of the population, baby boomers, are now in or entering their senior years. At the same time, more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and one-third of Americans will die with it or another dementia. It's a huge financial and emotional toll on individuals and families. At the same time, medicine now allows people to live longer with various conditions that would otherwise have killed them, so maintaining mental fitness is crucial. That need to stay sharp is one reason Blume found herself dangling off a building; she saw her father, a physician, retire and decline rapidly.
The database has not only helped Lumosity figure out how the brain works and which exercises help, but tasks and times. They know intense concentration is easier in the morning, creative tasks best done after noon for most. As the evening passes, "performance of every type drops off. Midnight is the low point."
Mix it up
Building up the brain requires novelty, effort and challenge.
A first crossword or other puzzle probably did great things for your brain. If you can now zip through, the effect diminishes. Fernandez likened a 100th crossword puzzle to only exercising your right bicep. People who have struggled with and mastered a task must move on to other challenges to reap brain-enhancing benefits.
Scientists also know a lot about what tears a brain down — poor nutrition, stress, physical stress, disordered sleep, even dehydration.
One goal is to make the brain adaptive so you can take what you learn in one situation and apply it to another, said Phillip Tomporowski, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Mississippi who just co-wrote the second edition of "Exercise Psychology."
When researchers did a major review of interventions two years ago, physical activity — good old exercise — consistently provided long-term benefits for the executive functions, which include planning, keeping things in memory and adapting. "That's not to say it's a cure-all, but it shows more of an effect than computer-based mental games," Tomporowski said.
Good health and lifestyle habits matter. For instance, habitual running helps the brain. Variety in where you run, how fast and with whom boosts the impact, he said.
Physical exercise helps every age, starting with children's brain development. The impact is not just from moving, Tomporowski said, but moving with intention. "When it gets repetitive, it needs to be changed." He said kids are built to move in "bursts of activity." They benefit from games that are "intrinsically interesting and motivating." Loving physical activity can build strong brains as a lifelong process.
Mental stimulation
Not everyone's convinced all online games and puzzles touted as brain builders work. Still, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a psychology professor who directs the Office of National Scholarship Advisement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said games and video games "absolutely can make a difference." Some claim only first-person shooters are effective. She and colleagues found that even games as gentle as mah-jongg had a small benefit for the brain. Some games provide social connection, also important to brain health.
Young people have opportunity to counter things that weaken the brain, Whitbourne said. "A job that has a high degree of engagement will keep your intellectual function in better shape, whether there's a lot of complexity, decision-making, a certain amount of autonomy." If your job's not like that, find leisure activities that provide what's missing.
Cognitive strengths come from a mix of executive functions, like being able to think and plan, speed and mental agility. Knowledge is something you get from exposure to information, like reading a newspaper. There are different aspects to intelligence. You need a diet of mental exercises, said Whitbourne, who writes a blog on PsychToday.com.
Researchers seek many ways to help the brain stay healthy. A recent clinical trial at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center tested the NeuroAD medical device. It uses non-invasive electromagnetic stimulation of the brain along with cognitive training on a computer. The stimulation and the exercises together target specific brain regions affected by neurodegeneration. It agreed with trials in Israel that showed significant cognitive improvements.
Folks worry every memory slip spells disaster, Whitbourne said, but everyone has lapses. Instead, focus on keeping your mental abilities sharp. Since even those with severe dementia can improve, it's a good idea to never give up, she said.
Several experts described autopsies that clearly showed the shrunken brain, amlyoid plaques and ragged tissue left by Alzheimer's in individuals who didn't have a single symptom. You can delay the disease's effects.
Helen Mendes Love, 78, from Humble, Texas, knows stress and anxiety are bad for the brain. "Instead of worrying about money, or my health is going to be bad, I pray and trust God, and that puts less stress on my brain." Research confirms that approach. Prayer and meditation have significant stress-reducing properties, helping the brain.
She taught social work at the University of Southern California and directed social work for undergrads at Pepperdine and knows memory is enhanced when you care about what you need to remember, she said. She eats well for health and to show respect for God. When she reads about a problem, she considers how she can address it. She could not help the children massacred in Newtown, Conn., or the young man who killed them, by all accounts a disturbed, isolated person. She challenged her seniors church group to identify people in their environment who appear lonely and think through how to help them.
"When we are engaged with others, we stay more involved in life, and that affects our brain." She watches "Jeopardy" with her husband. If there's a TV whodunit, they debate who committed the crime. She learned French and some Spanish as a brain exercise, too. That helps when she travels — and travel is brain-friendly, too.
Mental muscle
Fernandez said he would bypass supplements and focus on building neurons. Forceful exercise, like fast walking and climbing stairs, all enhance the rate at which neurons form.
Then, they must be stimulated or they'll die. The key is mental and physical exercise that brings into play elements of novelty, variety and challenge. With that, neurons can survive for years, Fernandez said.
While stress can boost alertness and focus, too much thwarts neuron creation. If you're stressed for the 10 minutes each day it takes to get the kids off to school, it's no big deal. If you are stressed for weeks and months, it damages the brain. Taking a memory class will be much less helpful than learning meditations or yoga or biofeedback to regulate stress, Fernandez said.
While scientists search for a cure for degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer's, people can improve outcomes now. Learn new things. If they're hard, great. If you have no aptitude, keep working on it, experts said. The struggle may offer the greatest benefit.
Fernandez emphasized that lifestyle has more impact than genetics. Stay challenged, look for novelty and choose diverse activities. Your brain will thank you.
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With 15 dining rooms on campus, Smith offers lots of dining options and plenty of variety. The dining rooms offer different menus, themes and types of food, and no matter which house you live in, you may choose to eat wherever you wish.
Dining at Smith combines many unique traditions with a relaxed, accommodating atmosphere. All meals are prepared onsite by staff employed by the college. The dining staff are experienced in culinary production and are committed to providing you with high-quality and nutritious food. All residential students are on a full board plan, which entitles students to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. A weekly tea is provided in every house and is a popular way to end the week and socialize with members of your house.
Many students have dining rooms in their houses, but all students have the flexibility to choose to eat any meal in any of the dining rooms. You might meet with friends from across campus at a dining room convenient to your late-morning classes, then try another house's vegan, Asian or "healthy options" dinner.
A "grab and go" feature allows students who might miss lunch because of other commitments to obtain a portable meal, and a salad bar is available in each location. In addition, the college makes every effort to accommodate special dietary needs whenever possible.
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The match kicks off in seven hours. The gamesmanship has already begun, with Jürgen Klinsmann publicly casting a side-eye toward FIFA's choice of an Algerian referee for today's USA-Belgium clash.
Speaking at yesterday's press conference, Klinsmann had the most passive-aggressive of praise for Djamel Haimoudi.
"We hope it's not a concern. We know that he did already two games so far and he did them very well. We wish that he continues his refereeing the perfect way he's done so far."
And then, to the potential issues:
"Is it a good feeling? No, because he's coming from the same group as Belgium and Algeria — which deserves a huge compliment for going through to the next round. He's able to speak French with their players on the field, not with us. And it's the country that we beat in the last second in the last World Cup. So sometimes I don't understand FIFA. It's difficult obviously to choose the right referees for the right games and it's always been kind of tricky for FIFA, but it is what it is."
Yes, the U.S. beat Algeria in the group stage four years ago. (Wasn't that wonderful? Let's relive that.) But as big a moment as that was for us, it's not particularly memorable for the Algerians—even without Landon Donovan's stoppage time winner, a draw would have put Algeria last in the group. If Haimoudi were some grudge-holding fanboy, he'd likely be more upset with Belgium, who beat Algeria two weeks ago.
Haimoudi's selection is "awkward," said USSF president and FIFA exco member Sunil Gulati, but what is FIFA supposed to do? With most of the listed referees hailing from soccer nations, it's near impossible to make assignments without invoking some historical result. It's also insulting to assume that Haimoudi can't simply be a professional because of his nationality. C'mon, Klinsy; be better than Mexico, who at least waited for iffy calls before complaining about a Portuguese ref.
The language thing has more heft. The lingua franca of international soccer is English, but Algeria's colonial past means that most Belgian players, and coach Marc Wilmots, can communicate with Haimoudi beyond the ken of Americans. (There are many multilingual players on the USMNT, but no Francophones—with the possible exception of Alejandro Bedoya, who played in Ligue 1 this past season.) But, whatever. Speaking English as a first language gives the Americans that nebulous communications edge in every other match ever, so this is a non-issue. "A referee is not there to talk," Wilmots said, "but to referee."
So—what do we actually know about Djamel Haimoudi? The 13-year vet has refereed two Africa Cup of Nations, an U20 World Cup, a Confed Cup, a Club World Cup, three World Cup qualifying matches, and was named the 2012 CAF referee of the year.
In two World Cup matches so far this tournament, Haimoudi has gained a reputation as a disciplinarian, quick with the whistle but reluctant to give cards. Players tend to like this—he keeps things under control, and nips bad situations in the bud before they get ugly. (In an extremely chippy Netherlands-Australia match, Haimoudi called a tournament-high 43 fouls yet handed out just two yellows.)
Klinsmann's game here is obvious: to let everyone know (especially Haimoudi himself) that the ref is going to be receiving extra scrutiny, so he needs to be extra-sure before making any close calls. Is that fair? All's fair in soccer, and Klinsmann is a devoted believer that half the war is psychological. Belgium is the better team, so there's no harm done in making the ref hypervigilant of making calls in their favor.


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1. Go to www.ntpnow.com 2. Enter your NTP Login ID and your password Click on Proceed button. 3. Click the 'Reports' button To see the individual transactions, please Click the Transaction report button. 1. Choose the Start and End dates 2. Choose your restrictions if necessary, ie credit card type, transaction type, member name, or last 4 digits of the card number 3. Then click the View Report Button. The NTP or Elavon list of payments can be matched to a report in ITRegistrar. 1. Login www.itsportsnet.com/admin/v21 2. Report, then choose Financial Reports 3. Click on [Registration New Payment Report] 4. The Payment Report -- Invoice List appears 5. Match the transactions in the New Payment Report to the NTP or Elavon list of transactions to ensure you have received payment for each invoice. Note that the Invoice ID toward the left edge of this report corresponds with the Order Number in the NTPNow Report or Elavon Report so the transactions can easily be matched up. Note that voided invoices are listed separately. 6. Match the total of each batch of transactions to you bank statement to ensure the correct amount was deposited to your bank account by Elavon (transactions are listed by date deposited and can be added up, if using the Elavon report). Remember to include voided invoices that have payments attached when you do your reconciliation. Voided invoices with payments attached have authorization codes - this is how you can tell if the voided invoice was processed as an on line credit card transaction. Voided invoices are accessed by clicking on the [Voided invoices] line on the bottom of the Payment Report page. Also, if you have done returns associated with the voided invoices these will have to be included when reconciling to the cash you receive in your daily bank deposits. There is a timing difference between when a transaction occurs and when you will receive the funds deposited into your account. NTP provides the following advice on matching the dates of your reports from NTP to the batch deposits. This information is also on the batch deposit reports screen (under reports) in NTP: To determine the transactions that make up the batch please run a transaction report. Set the starting and ending dates to reflect the previous x number of business days. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays are not business days. For example a previous batch report run on a Monday will include transactions from the previous Friday. A batch report run on Tuesday will include transactions from Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Visa and MasterCard transactions are deposited together in 2 to 3 business days. You may also receive detail of your batch deposits in Elavon by logging in at www.merchantconnect.com. Batch deposit reports can be downloaded from this site. You will need your Elavon merchant ID and your chequing account number to register. Once you are registered at this site you will be able to access deposit reports from the reporting menu as well as your Elavon statement.