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DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit City Council members say Gov. Rick Snyder and the city's emergency manager have struck a deal to have the state run Belle Isle.
The Detroit News says council members discussed it during a public meeting Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from Snyder's office. A spokesman for emergency manager Kevyn Orr says an announcement is in the works.
The 985-acre island is a city park in the Detroit River. Detroit has struggled to maintain it because of poor finances.
Council President Saunteel Jenkins says she was informed of the deal Monday.
The governor and Mayor Dave Bing had an earlier plan to lease it to the state and operate it as a state park, but council members said no.
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DETROIT – Belle Isle could soon become Michigan's 102nd state park under a planned partnership between the city of Detroit and state of Michigan. The signed lease, a 30 year-term with two 15-year renewals, will relieve city financial pressures, revitalize the island park and improve the quality of life for city residents.
"One way to revitalize Detroit is by revitalizing Belle Isle, one of Detroit's most iconic places," said Gov. Rick Snyder. "This state-city partnership will provide a clean, safe park environment and enhance Belle Isle for citizens while still allowing the city to retain ownership of one of its jewels. This lease will save Detroit much-needed funds as the city emerges from financial crisis and will generate economic development and neighborhood revitalization that are core to Detroit's comeback."
The lease was signed by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, Keith Creagh, director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and Kirk Steudle, director of the Michigan Department of Transportation, on Monday, and then by Gov. Snyder today, Tuesday, Oct. 1. The lease was then transmitted to the city of Detroit. Under Public Act 436, the law governing emergency financial managers, the City Council has 10 days to approve or disapprove the lease. If the Council rejects the lease, it has an additional seven days to advance an alternative that would save the same amount of money or more as the lease.
"Detroit's current financial condition prohibits the City from investing in the much-needed restoration of Belle Isle," said Mayor Dave Bing. "As I stated last year when a proposed lease
agreement was developed, my administration strongly believes the state park structure is the best option for managing and maintaining the island and restoring it to its grandeur."
Under the lease terms, the city will maintain ownership of Belle Isle, while the Michigan DNR will assume responsibility for managing Belle Isle according to the standards of other Michigan state parks. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will assume responsibility for roads and bridges on Belle Isle.
Under the lease, a 90-day transition period will follow, after which the DNR would assume management of the park. The DNR will begin to improve the park immediately following that 90-day transition period based on a detailed one-year phased management plan that is included in the lease.
State management of the island will save Detroit a minimum of $4 million a year. In addition, the state will invest in the island through a variety of sources, including grants, bonds and donations from private organizations willing to partner in the park's revitalization. State investment will amount to between $10 million and $20 million in the first 18-36 months of state management.
A 7-member advisory committee will advise the state on improvements and master planning for the park. The advisory committee will consist of three representatives appointed by the governor; one representative appointed by Detroit City Council; two representatives appointed by the mayor of the city; and one representative to serve as chair jointly appointed by the governor and mayor. At least three members of the committee must be residents of the city of Detroit. The state will work cooperatively with the Belle Isle Conservancy and other partners, in collaboration with the advisory committee, to develop and improve the park.
The Recreation Passport, which offers access to all Michigan state parks and recreation areas across the state for an entire year, will be required for entry to Belle Isle beginning Jan. 1, 2014. The Passport, which currently costs $11 for Michigan residents, is a per-car charge. It does not apply to individuals. Pedestrians, bicyclists and those using public transportation can enter the park for free and will not need the Passport.
Park revenue from permit fees, rental fees, special events, grants, endowments and other sources that derive from Belle Isle – excluding Recreation Passport revenue -- will be placed in a special sub-account in the Department of Natural Resources State Park Improvement Fund to administer, maintain and improve the park. The balance of that sub-account will transfer to the city upon termination of the lease.
The state will provide the mayor of Detroit and Detroit City Council with annual reports updating them on management of the park. The city or state can terminate the lease for cause if the other party fails to fulfill the terms of the lease. The parties can terminate the lease by mutual agreement at any time.
The DNR's Law Enforcement Division and Michigan State Police have collaborated with the Detroit Police Department to ensure a security plan is implemented in an effective, community oriented fashion to ensure a safe and pleasant experience at Belle Isle Park. That includes use of effective community outreach, use of community oriented policing principles and effective environmental design security measures. With the DNR and State Police assuming security responsibilities for the park, Detroit Police will be able to redeploy up to 22 officers to mainland responsibilities.
Belle Isle will operate according to rules consistent with other state parks to ensure the safety of visitors and the quality of the experience. However, the DNR has the ability to tailor these general park rules to the needs of those who use Belle Isle to accommodate the park's unique circumstances.
Under terms of the lease, the state will develop an outreach plan to local training agencies and schools to increase the potential for hiring qualified Detroit residents for jobs on the island. The DNR will collaborate with the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation to develop pre-bid workshops for Detroit businesses to help them engage in the state bidding process for contracts on Belle Isle.
"This lease preserves ownership of one of city's crown jewels with Detroiters and creates a partnership with the state to improve and invest in Belle Isle," EM Orr said. "This is yet another example of how the restructuring of Detroit is continuing to improve services for the city's 700,000 residents."
According to DNR Director Keith Creagh, the lease will extend the state's investment in Detroit that includes managing Milliken State Park, providing grants for the Detroit riverfront and transforming the Globe Building into an Outdoor Adventure and Discovery Center. "Together, these attractions will create a gateway to Michigan's world-class natural resources for Detroit residents and all citizens of Michigan."
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Max Boot is one of America's leading military historians and foreign-policy analysts. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Boot is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications.
Boot's newest book, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, was released in January 2013 by W.W. Norton & Co./Liveright and immediately became a New York Times Bestseller. It was acclaimed as "enormous, brilliant, and important" (Michael Korda, the Daily Beast) and "thoughtful, smart, fluent, with an eye for the good story" (Michael Mazower, New York Times Book Review, front page). John Nagl wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "Mr. Boot's impressive work of military history is destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest as well as the hardest form of war."
His previous book, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham Books, 2006), has been hailed as a "magisterial survey of technology and war" by the New York Times and "brilliantly crafted history" by the Wall Street Journal.
Boot's first book of military history, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Basic Books) was selected as one of the best books of 2002 by numerous newspapers, won the 2003 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the best nonfiction book pertaining to Marine Corps history, and has been placed on Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy professional reading lists. More than 150,000 copies of his books are in print.
He is now writing two books for Norton/Liveright: a biography of Ronald Reagan and a biography of General Edward Lansdale, the legendary Cold War counterinsurgent.
Boot has served as an adviser to U.S. commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007–2008 and a defense policy adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign in 2011–2012.
Boot is a frequent public speaker and guest on radio and television news programs, both at home and abroad. He has lectured on behalf of the U.S. State Department and at many military institutions, including the Army, Navy, and Air War Colleges, the Australian Defense College, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, and West Point.
In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of "the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy." In 2007, he won the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, given annually to a writer who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
Before joining the Council in 2002, Boot spent eight years as a writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal, the last five years as op-ed editor. From 1992 to 1994 he was an editor and writer at the Christian Science Monitor.
Boot holds a bachelor's degree in history, with high honors, from the University of California, Berkeley (1991), and a master's degree in history from Yale University (1992). He was born in Russia, grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in the New York area. He has three children: Victoria, Abigail, and William.
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Gates, Panetta, Petraeus, Clinton, Mullen and Jones have given way to Biden, Hagel, Kerry, Rice and Brennan. In response to criticism of American foreign policy from former Defense Secretaries Gates and Panetta, Max Boot explores the causes and implications of the post-Bin Laden shake-up in Obama's foreign policy team.
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Max Boot reviews Rick Perlstein's book, 'The Invisible Bridge' which describes the rise of the modern conservative movement.
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In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Max Boot advocates for a prudent and limited deployment of American trainers, special operators, air controllers and intelligence agents to mobilize indigenous opposition to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Max Boot argues that the U.S. needs special operations forces on the ground to call in airstrikes and advise Iraqi security forces. At the same time, President Obama must pressure the Iraqi government to make more inclusive reforms.
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Boot and Doran argue that there is more to Iran's relationship with ISIS than meets the eye, and that cooperating with Iran to defeat ISIS would in fact further the goals of the U.S.'s long-time enemy.
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Mosul has fallen, and al Qaeda is on the march towards Baghdad.
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Max Boot reviews Carlotta Gall's new book The Wrong Enemy about the role Pakistan has played in the war in Afghanistan.
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Max Boot argues that the new defense budget unveiled by Secretary Hagel in February would cripple the U.S. military.
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Max Boot argues that the White House should take a lesson from the situation in Iraq in deciding how many troops to commit to Afghanistan next year.
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Max Boot reviews the former defense secretary's controversial memoir of his service in the Bush and Obama administrations.
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This is an idea first proposed by Vice President Biden in 2006 when he was a senator. It was a non-starter then and it won't work any better today. While the Kurdish region in the north is already almost an independent country, neither Shiites nor Sunnis are interested in splitting up the rest of Iraq—something that would be hard to do, in any case, because the two sects are intermingled in Baghdad and other areas. Just as the solution to Iraq's last major bout of bloodletting, in 2003-2007, wasn't partition, so it isn't today.
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Max Boot writes that Obama's Syria policy has contributed to what may be the worst humanitarian crisis in two decades, and that the U.S. could do far more short of sending in ground troops to ameliorate the situation.
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Max Boot argues that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's sectarian politics and the early withdrawal of American troops have fueled Al Qaeda's rise in Anbar province.
"Mandela's example is a ringing endorsement of what is derisively known as the "great man school of history"–the notion that influential individuals make a huge difference in how events turn out," writes Max Boot.
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Max Boot argues that Tehran has shown no sign it is willing to end its cold war with the West.
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Max Boot reviews the new book by military historian Max Hastings on the first year of World War I.
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Max Boot reflects on the death of Tom Clancy and the current state of the military his novels celebrated.
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This unit examines the nature of marketing management from a marketing planning perspective. The focus of discussion is the coordinated activities of the network of producers of goods, services and experiences which seek to satisfy their customers. Emphasis is placed on marketing strategy formulation and the use of strategic marketing mix elements in developing and maintaining a market orientation and assessing organisational performance. Such aspects of marketing as marketing research, customer behaviour, product innovation, and marketing communication are also examined.
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Community Hospitals Focus on Advanced Cancer Care
NCI has launched the pilot phase of its Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), an initiative that aims to bring the latest advances in cancer care to patients where they live. The project will focus on underserved communities and groups that are disproportionately affected by the disease.
Over the next 3 years, 16 community hospitals will work together and with NCI to identify the best strategies for delivering state-of-the-art cancer care in community hospitals. A successful pilot could lead to a national network of community cancer centers that would benefit patients and researchers alike. Read more
Challenges in Cancer Prevention
Despite many decades of investigation and progress that's been made in early diagnosis and treatment, the exact causes of most cancers remain unknown. For most of the cancers we treat, there exists a heterogeneous mix of genetic changes and numerous potential environmental influences that challenge the development of simple prevention strategies.
This has resulted in a level of frustration by the public regarding the primary prevention of cancer, including scientifically based recommendations for diet and lifestyle interventions. In recent years this public frustration has included the development and testing of targeted preventive oral agents that have often carried significant risk of causing a shift to other diseases or compromising daily quality of life. Our patients have clearly told us they are unwilling to trade healthy lives for these risks, even in the face of a risk of cancer. Read more
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Over the next 3 years, 16 community hospitals will work together and with NCI to identify the best strategies for delivering state-of-the-art cancer care in community hospitals. A successful pilot could lead to a national network of community cancer centers that would benefit patients and researchers alike.
Yesterday, NCI Director Dr. John Niederhuber welcomed the leadership of the geographically diverse hospitals for 2 days of talks at NIH. The initiative is broad in scope, ranging from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and care for survivors.
The pilot study is intended to define the critical factors that will allow community cancer centers to provide patients with advanced care. "In the next few years, we hopefully will learn what we can accomplish and what is realistic," said Dr. Niederhuber.
NCCCP could extend the reach of NCI programs into local communities. At the same time, a national network of physicians and cancer patients could be a valuable resource for developing and testing experimental therapies.
The goals of NCCCP are to reduce cancer health disparities, increase enrollment in clinical trials, develop biospecimen resources, and evaluate electronic medical records. The project complements current NCI efforts in community cancer care, while establishing a framework for studying the topics together and in community settings.
The topics often go hand in hand. For instance, more studies are needed to learn why certain groups have an increased incidence of cancer. But it can be difficult to recruit patients for such studies if the individuals lack access to care. Expanding access in community settings could help both patients and researchers.
The 16 sites represent a cross section of the country's population, including rural and urban, and its health care systems. Each offers multidisciplinary care (medical, surgical, and radiation oncology); manages 1,000 new cancer cases each year; enrolls patients in clinical trials; and takes part in outreach to underserved populations.
Collaboration is central to the project. The sites will work with each other and with the 63 NCI-designated Cancer Centers, which are mostly based at major research universities. The Cancer Centers are the source of many innovations in cancer care, but the vast majority of patients in the U.S. are diagnosed and treated in community hospitals.
The pilot program may help researchers learn how best to conduct clinical research in the community setting and whether early-phase clinical trials can be done in community hospitals. The sites will also explore ways of sharing medical information electronically as a way to improve patient care.
The pilot study will evaluate the feasibility of implementing the "NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources" guidelines in the community setting. A network of community cancer centers could potentially provide essential high-quality biospecimens for genomics and proteomics studies.
The NCI Cancer Centers program has put cancer on the leading edge of medical research and care in the United States, said Dr. Niederhuber. The challenge now is to use NCCCP to make this care available to patients wherever they live.
"The community's response to this project has been tremendous," he noted.
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Challenges in Cancer Prevention
Despite many decades of investigation and progress that's been made in early diagnosis and treatment, the exact causes of most cancers remain unknown. For most of the cancers we treat, there exists a heterogeneous mix of genetic changes and numerous potential environmental influences that challenge the development of simple prevention strategies.
This has resulted in a level of frustration by the public regarding the primary prevention of cancer, including scientifically based recommendations for diet and lifestyle interventions. In recent years this public frustration has included the development and testing of targeted preventive oral agents that have often carried significant risk of causing a shift to other diseases or compromising daily quality of life. Our patients have clearly told us they are unwilling to trade healthy lives for these risks, even in the face of a risk of cancer.
As was discussed in detail in a recent special issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin, we are beginning to view our approach to prevention research differently, and it's an approach that NCI hopes will lead to more dramatic advances. This approach is defined by the use of advanced tools and technologies - such as those employed in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics - to pursue the molecular events associated with the mechanisms and early signs of cancer development.
Cancer prevention is complex. It will require our understanding of germline abnormalities, compounded by somatic mutations throughout our lifetime, defined by protein expression patterns and cellular function. These events will be further impacted by the need to understand pharmaco-genomics, environmental exposures, and lifestyle factors. All of these layers point to the difficulty of finding effective, nontoxic preventive agents.
Part of the solution involves identifying biomarkers of risk, such as ongoing efforts to identify epigenetic changes like hypermethylation that are linked to cancer risk, as well as genome-wide association studies, such as the recent studies, including those led by NCI's CGEMS program, that identified new genetic variants significantly associated with breast and prostate cancer risk.
Prevention also is about detecting disease in its earliest stages, and NCI's Early Detection Research Network is supporting researchers who are making important inroads in this area, including, for example, promising preliminary work on an early detection assay for pancreatic cancer.
NCI's cancer prevention research program has generated some remarkable success stories, including the dramatic drop in smoking rates over the past two decades, as well as the approval of tamoxifen as the first and still only drug approved by the FDA for the prevention of breast cancer.
And even as our interest in molecular prevention grows, we continue to support research into lifestyle and environmental factors that influence cancer risk. That includes anti-obesity programs aimed at minorities conducted under the auspices of the Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics in Cancer program, as well as the development of new chemopreventive agents, including a novel class of chemopreventive agents called triterpenoids being led by Dr. Michael Sporn and colleagues at Dartmouth University.
Clearly what is being presented here represents a new paradigm for cancer prevention. It will also ensure that we can achieve the greatest risk reduction at the lowest possible safety risk, something that must and will always be our guiding principle.
Prevention is and will continue to be an integral part of reducing cancer's burden, and it's something to which NCI is deeply committed.
Dr. John E. Niederhuber
Groups Say Common Symptoms May Indicate Ovarian Cancer
A new consensus statement recommends that women who experience any of several common symptoms for at least several weeks see a physician, preferably a gynecologist, because these might be indicative of ovarian cancer.
Released by the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO), and the American Cancer Society, the statement lists four symptoms, 1) bloating, 2) pelvic or abdominal pain, 3) difficulty eating or feeling full quickly, and 4) the sudden urge to urinate or frequent urination, that studies indicate "are much more likely to occur in women with ovarian cancer than women in the general population." Research also indicates, the statement continues, "that even early-stage ovarian cancer can produce these symptoms."
A recent case-control study, published in January in Cancer, found that this "symptom index" - based on retrospective symptom surveys - had a sensitivity of approximately 57 percent for detecting early-stage disease and approximately 80 percent for advanced-stage disease, with slightly better specificity for women under 50 - 90 percent vs. 86.7 percent for women over 50.
"Although proof that earlier recognition of symptoms improves outcomes does not yet exist, there is little to be lost and much to be potentially gained by increasing awareness of ovarian cancer symptoms that might lead to earlier medical evaluation and intervention," SGO President Dr. Andrew Berchuck explained in a statement.
Ovarian cancer patients who report having these symptoms prior to diagnosis often say they experienced long delays in getting doctors to evaluate them "or even think about ovarian cancer as a possibility," says Dr. Ted Trimble from NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. "From that perspective, this statement is part of an educational process that is timely and appropriate."
Dr. Robert F. Ozols, senior vice president at Fox Chase Cancer Center, said he would like to see a stronger evidence base, including prospectively collected data, before making such a recommendation. He also had concerns about just what the symptoms really mean.
"The big question, given the natural history of this disease, is do we expect earlier stage diagnosis based on these symptoms?" he asks. Most of the symptoms, he says, "are sort of mass effects, which would suggest late-stage disease."
The consensus statement, notes Dr. Trimble, reflects the frustration that "all too often, when this disease presents, it's already advanced." A number of ongoing studies hold promise for identifying ways to improve the early detection of ovarian cancer, he continues, including the NCI-funded PLCO Screening Trial and the UK Collaborative Clinical Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening, as well as other NCI-supported research programs.
Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Patients Not Offered Surgery
The first comprehensive, nationwide review of treatment of patients with stage I pancreatic cancer who are candidates for surgery has found that nearly 4 in 10 are not offered the option, even though it has a demonstrable survival benefit.
To conduct the study, the research team analyzed data on all patients with pancreatic cancer listed in the American College of Surgeons' National Cancer Data Base between 1995 and 2004. The database captures 76 percent of all pancreatic cancers diagnosed in the United States. They identified 9,559 patients with stage I disease.
Overall, only 28.6 percent of patients with stage I disease underwent surgery, Dr. Mark S. Talamonti and colleagues from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine reported in a June 14 early online release from the Annals of Surgery. But after excluding patients who did not receive surgery because of factors such as comorbidities, age, or procedure refusal, they found that 38.2 percent of patients were not offered surgery.
Several factors were associated with not being offered surgery, such as being older than 65, African American, on Medicare or Medicaid, and being treated at lower volume or community hospitals.
Also, patients whose tumor was located in the head of the pancreas - a location that requires a surgical procedure commonly called the Whipple procedure - were less likely to be offered surgery. This has historically been considered a challenging surgery with high mortality rates, says study co-author Dr. David Bentrem. But over the past two decades, he continues, the safety of the procedure has improved dramatically.
Remedying the problem of underutilized surgery is a difficult task, admits Dr. Bentrem.
"Some groups have advocated regionalizing care," he adds, arguing that it could be beneficial for more complicated cancer surgeries, such as those for pancreatic and esophageal cancers. "But even for those, if we can get bigger and smaller centers working more closely together, that would help to ensure patients are getting the best care."
Unrelated Cord Blood Matches Bone Marrow Transplants for Children
The first-ever study in children with acute leukemia directly comparing unrelated cord blood transplants with bone marrow transplants has found that cord blood can be just as good, and maybe better under some circumstances. The results were published June 9 in The Lancet.
Researchers used data from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the National Cord Blood Program of the New York Blood Center, representing 503 children under the age of 16 who received cord blood transplants and 282 children who received bone marrow transplants.
Relapse rates were similar between cord blood and bone marrow recipients, except that patients who received cord blood that was mismatched at two antigens actually had a lower rate of relapse, which is consistent with a more potent graft-versus-leukemia effect.
Cord blood patients also had similar mortality rates to bone marrow patients when the cord blood was matched or the cell dose was high. The rates of 5-year leukemia-free survival were 38 percent with matched bone marrow, 37 percent with mismatched bone marrow, 60 percent with matched cord blood, 36 percent with low-cell-dose cord blood that was mismatched at one antigen, 45 percent after high-cell-dose cord blood mismatched at one antigen, and 33 percent after cord blood mismatched at two antigens.
Recurrent leukemia was the most common cause of death in both the cord blood and bone marrow groups, but it was proportionally lower among two-antigen mismatched cord blood recipients. Other causes of death included graft-versus-host disease, interstitial pneumonitis, infection, and organ failure.
Noting that the retrospective, nonrandomized nature of this study is a weakness, the authors pointed out that a clear association between cell dose, antigen match, and time to marrow recovery and survival can be used to determine the best transplant source for children with malignant disease when donors are limited. "Our findings support the need for even greater investment in cord blood because of the importance of HLA matching and cell dose on survival," they wrote.
Annual Mammography Reduces Mortality in Older Breast Cancer Survivors
Annual mammography screening for breast cancer survivors older than 65 dramatically lowers their risk of death from breast cancer, whether by recurrence or another primary tumor. Results published early online June 4 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that each successive annual mammogram reduces a woman's breast cancer mortality risk by about 31 percent; by the fourth year of compounding that reduction, their cumulative risk has been cut by 88 percent.
Dr. Timothy L. Lash of Boston University was the lead author of the cohort study, which identified 1,846 breast cancer patients from 6 Cancer Research Network (CRN) sites chosen to maximize ethnic and geographic diversity. All women were diagnosed with stage I or II breast cancer between 1990 and 1994, and were designated as "survivors" for the purposes of the study 90 days after finishing their initial breast cancer treatment. The 178 women who died within 5 years were closely matched to 634 controls. Protective effects of annual mammography were found to be the strongest among women with stage I disease, those who had received mastectomy, and those older than 79.
In an editorial, Dr. Jeanne Mandelblatt from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC, commended "this high-quality observational research" that emerged from CRN, an NCI-funded collaboration between 12 large managed care systems. The large cohort study provides the best data likely to be developed on this question, because a clinical trial that randomized women to "no mammography" would disregard current guidelines, which recommend survivors receive annual surveillance mammograms.
Frontiers in Preoperative Chemotherapy
Preoperative chemotherapy for breast cancer first emerged as a method to shrink advanced, inoperable tumors enough to allow for successful mastectomy. The effectiveness of this technique led researchers to test preoperative chemotherapy in women whose tumors could be removed by surgery.
Today, after several large-scale clinical trials have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of preoperative chemotherapy for breast cancer, "anyone who will require [a] therapy in question" is a candidate to receive that therapy before surgery, stated Drs. Julie Gralow, from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and Eric Winer, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, at the NCI-sponsored conference "Preoperative Therapy in Invasive Breast Cancer: Reviewing the State of the Science and Exploring New Research Directions," held March 26 and 27 on the NIH campus.
Now, as discussed at the conference, clinical trials hold the promise of personalizing breast cancer treatment in the future. "When a drug is given preoperatively, you have access to the tumor as it's being perturbed," explained Dr. Jo Anne Zujewski, a breast cancer specialist with NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. In the preoperative setting, researchers can measure the immediate response of individual tumors to new therapies, and correlate that response with the molecular characteristics and genetic mutations found in those tumors. The ultimate goal is to improve outcomes for patients by targeting the therapy to the specific tumor type. In addition, because smaller tumors often require less extensive surgery, cosmetic outcome may be improved with a potential for decreased surgical morbidity.
The understanding that breast cancer is not a single entity, but a diverse set of diseases driven by different mutations that respond differently to therapy, revolutionized both the treatment of breast cancer and the research into new, targeted drugs. Doctors routinely administer estrogen-blocking drugs such as tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors to women whose tumors overexpress receptors for estrogen, and the drug trastuzumab to women whose tumors overexpress the tumor marker HER2. By testing new drugs before surgery, where there is an opportunity to correlate response to treatment with common tumor characteristics, "we may be able to individualize the care of future patients off trials to an even greater extent. The hope is that we can subdivide tumors and patients to maximize effectiveness and minimize toxicity from therapy," said Dr. Winer.
In addition to using preoperative therapy to better define subgroups of breast cancer that might respond to new treatments, researchers hope that a new generation of trials can better define how to treat patients whose tumors do not respond to traditional chemotherapy. Currently, when chemotherapy is given preoperatively, investigators can see whether the drugs have an effect on the tumor. However, if a tumor does not respond, switching to another chemotherapy regimen mid-treatment hasn't been shown to make a difference.
"It seems that with chemotherapy, tumors either respond or not. You either have a chemosensitive tumor or a chemoresistant tumor," said Dr. Gralow. New trials will look at whether targeted biological drugs such as antiangiogenesis agents can help women whose tumors are resistant to preoperative chemotherapy.
One caveat stressed by participants at the conference was that "there is an incredible need for multidisciplinary care of patients and multidisciplinary involvement in research," due to the complexities that arise from using therapy that can cause a tumor to shrink or disappear even before surgery, explained Dr. Winer. "You can't provide optimal clinical care unless you have medical oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, radiation oncologists, breast imagers, and oncology nurses all working very closely together. And you can't pull off the research unless you have all of these clinicians plus a dedicated group of basic and translational scientists, and we should never forget the critical role played by our colleagues in biostatistics."
The conference videocast, including the statement of the science, is available at http://videocast.nih.gov. To download podcasts from the conference or PDFs of the slide presentations, visit the conference Web site at http://ctep.cancer.gov/bcmeeting.
— Sharon Reynolds
Following are newly released NCI research funding opportunities:Advancing Novel Science in Women's Health Research
Announcement Numbers: PAS-07-381 and PAS-07-382
Application Receipt Dates: New Applications: Oct. 16, 2007; Oct. 16, 2008; and Oct. 16, 2009.
Resubmission Applications: Nov. 16, 2007; Nov. 16, 2008; and Nov. 16, 2009.
AIDS Applications: Jan. 7, 2008; Jan. 7, 2009; and Jan. 7, 2010.
This funding opportunity will use the R03 (PAS-07-382) and R21 (PAS-07-381) award mechanisms. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3737. Inquiries: Crystal Wolfrey - firstname.lastname@example.com.
NINR Nursing Science Research on Interventions in Chronic Illness
This funding opportunity will use the P01 award mechanism. For more information, see http://cri.nci.nih.gov/4abst.cfm?initiativeparfa_id=3739. Inquiries: Dr. Ann M. O'Mara - email@example.com
For comprehensive information about NCI funding priorities and opportunities, go to http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding.
Comparing Radiation Therapies for Prostate Cancer
Name of the Trial
Principal Investigator
Why This Trial Is Important
Some studies suggest that a conventional 8- to 10-week course of radiotherapy may not be the most effective or economical way of treating these patients. Consequently, researchers are studying whether increasing the dose of radiation during each day of treatment and delivering the total radiation dose over a shorter period of time (called hypofractionated radiotherapy) may be an equally effective approach to treating prostate cancer.
In this trial, men with favorable-risk, localized prostate cancer will be randomly assigned to receive conventionally fractionated radiation therapy over the course of about 8 weeks (41 daily treatments) or hypofractionated radiotherapy over a 5-and-a-half-week period (28 daily treatments).
"Previous studies of hypofractionated radiotherapy were not designed to tell us if the technique works as well as conventional regimens in terms of helping patients live longer without recurrence of their cancer," said Dr. Lee. "This trial is designed to answer that question."
"If we determine that we can deliver radiation over a shorter period of time with similar efficacy, we may realize benefits in terms of cost and convenience for patients as well."
Who Can Join This Trial
Study Site and Contact Information
An archive of "Featured Clinical Trial" columns is available at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/ft-all-featured-trials.
NCAB Meeting Held
Milner Receives Career Achievement Award
Two DCTD Staff Retire
Dr. Daniel Sullivan, associate director of NCI's Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, will also retire from NCI at the end of this month. Under Dr. Sullivan's leadership over the past 10 years, CIP has been responsible for developing the field of molecular imaging into an important component of cancer diagnosis and therapy. These achievements include initiating a collaborative national network for cancer imaging clinical trials, developing novel imaging technologies, and creating image-guided interventional therapies.
Dr. Sullivan will leave NCI to serve as a senior science advisor for the Radiological Society of North America, where he will oversee efforts to develop imaging as a quantitative biomarker. He will also serve as a senior strategic advisor for imaging to the dean of Duke University School of Medicine, where he will help the university plan for a major reshaping of imaging facilities across the campus.
Standard Specimen Reference Sets Available
SSRS are deposited at NCI Frederick and advertised in appropriate journals. Details on all SSRS are available on the EDRN Web site at http://edrn.nci.nih.gov/resources/sample-reference-sets.
NCI Divisions Update Web Sites
Meeting on Cancer and Inflammation Set for October
New Community Partnership Increases Clinical Trials Enrollment
If Memory Serves...
An important part of the National Cancer Institute Act was the authorization to design a program that would increase physicians' abilities to diagnose and treat cancer. It provided "traineeships" to young doctors who had graduated from medical school and completed 1-year internships, and who pledged to devote themselves to the specialty of diagnosing and treating cancer. (Read more)
For more information about the birth of NCI, go to http://www.cancer.gov/
In 2006, NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR) was approached by a local clinical practice to increase communication about early-phase clinical trials for which their patients might be eligible at the NIH Clinical Center. The Clinical Center only admits and treats patients enrolled in clinical trials, distinguishing it from other hospitals in the United States. While this specialization allows an absolute dedication to clinical research within the Center, it lacks a built-in base of patients receiving standard treatments who might be interested in participating in clinical trials.
Physicians at Associates in Oncology/Hematology (AOH), a private practice in Rockville, MD, were seeking to expand the clinical trial options available to their patients. "We've been committed to clinical trials in our practice, and we participate in cooperative group trials and pharmaceutical trials," explained Dr. John Wallmark, one of AOH's seven oncologists, "but we felt that there was a need to continue to expand the options for our patients. As our patients got further along in their illnesses, a lot of times innovative clinical trials weren't available, and clinical trials in oncology are extremely important to incorporate into your treatment options."
Three AOH physicians had received training at NCI. This experience and the group's close proximity to the NIH campus led AOH to propose a pilot partnership: CCR would identify an onsite research nurse with experience in early-phase trials to screen patients in the community receiving primary cancer care at AOH, and AOH would refer eligible patients to CCR trials by the end of 12 months.
By May 2007, the pilot project had met its accrual goal, almost half a year ahead of schedule. Out of 109 patients referred to CCR by AOH, 20 have started treatment on clinical trials, with 26 additional enrollments pending. Importantly, patients enrolled through the partnership retain the patient/caregiver bond with their primary oncologist, and NCI physicians supply the AOH oncologist with regular updates on the enrolled patient.
The success of the pilot program has led to plans for expansion. The partners hope to begin several early-phase CCR trials based at AOH and the Clinical Center. "Patients want to remain in the community, and doctors like them to remain in the community," said Dr. Wallmark. "A big barrier to enrollment in these studies is the fact that most patients don't want to leave the setting in which they are comfortable - it's very daunting."
"I think this partnership is exciting," said Caryn Steakley, deputy clinical director of CCR. "It's something new and different for CCR to be doing, and I think it has a lot of promise for other groups or institutions interested in this kind of partnership."


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Pieces selected for the audition should demonstrate technical facility and musicality.
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Participating in an on-campus audition is highly recommended, especially if a student wishes to be considered for a scholarship. If a student is unable to attend a regularly scheduled audition, it is possible to request a Special Audition (see Application/Audition Request Form). If distance prohibits a student from coming to campus for a live audition, a CD or DVD may be submitted by mail in addition to the online Application/Audition Request Form.
All CDs (or DVD's) should be submitted by mail, with a listing of the program performed, in addition to a completed online Music Application/Audition Request Form. Please send the CD or DVD to John Huling, Director of Admissions, Music & Dance Dept., 271 Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst, Amherst MA 01003. Call 413-545-6048 or email firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
The Department reserves the right to require a live audition in addition to a recording before granting final admission to any degree program.
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For Voice applicants: Pre-screening materials are required. Please send a link to the materials listed below to email@example.com (preferred) or send a CD/DVD to the Department (Director of Admissions, 271 Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst, Amherst MA 01003) at least 3 weeks prior to your requested audition date for review. You will then be notified as to whether the faculty would like you to perform a live audition.
Pre-screening materials for Voice: Two songs (both with piano accompaniment), one of which should be sung in a foreign language (i.e. French, German, Italian, etc.)
A - Repertoire
Three (3) songs memorized, selected from the art song, Lieder, oratorio, opera or folk ballad literature demonstrating more than one language. (An accompanist will be provided.)
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Students will be asked to perform melodic and rhythmic sight reading as well as tonal memory exercises.
Professor Nadine Shank, email@example.com, (413) 545-0053
If applying for the Jazz Piano program, click here. Jazz Piano applicants are not required to perform a classical piano audition.
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B - Technique
Professor Nadine Shank, email@example.com, (413) 545-0053
If applying for the Jazz Piano program, click here. Jazz Piano applicants are not required to perform a classical piano audition.
A - Repertoire
B - Technique
Professor Ernest May, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-0624
B - Technique
Major and minor scales and arpeggios (two octaves) for both keyboard and pedals.
Professor Christopher Krueger, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-2918
A - Repertoire
One or more movements each, from three different works demonstrating fast playing, slow playing, and articulation abilities. These works should be in different historical styles. For example: a fast movement from a Mozart Concerto, a slow movement from a Bach Sonata, and a modern work such as Varèse, Density 21.5. One of these movements may be an etude.
B - Technique
Major and minor scales, arpeggios and chromatic scales throughout the practical range of the instrument.
Professor Fredric T. Cohen, email@example.com, (413) 545-4688
A - Repertoire
B - Technique
Major and minor scales, arpeggios and chromatic scales slurred and with standard articulation throughout the practical range of the instrument.
Professor Michael Sussman, email@example.com, (413) 545-4776
Professor Stephen Walt, email@example.com, (413) 577-2347
Professor Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, email@example.com, (413) 545-2810
Jazz: Professor Felipe Salles, email@example.com, (413) 545-6051
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B - Technique
Major and chromatic scales throughout the practical range of the instrument.
Professor Eric Berlin, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 577-1582, Trumpet Studio website
Jazz: Professor Jeffrey W. Holmes, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-6046
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A - Repertoire
A piece such as Barat's Andante et Allegro, a sonata by Galliard, Marcello's Sonata in G Minor or Ropartz' Andante and Allegro.
B - Technique
Major and chromatic scales, played to demonstrate the candidate's range on the instrument.
Professor John Bottomley, email@example.com, (413) 577-2346
A. Two contrasting movements or single work with contrasting material from standard repertoire. Examples:
1. Barat- Andante & Allegro
2. Galliard- Sonatas
3. Ropartz- Andante & Allegro
4. Guilmant- Morceau Symphonique
B. One etude from:
1. Bordogni (Rochut)- Melodius Etudes Vol. 1
C. Scales
1. All Major scales- Two octaves
2. Two octave chromatic scale
A. Two contrasting movements from the standard repertoire. Examples:
1. Hindemith- Sonata
2. B. Marcelo- Sonatas
3. Haddad- Suite for Tuba
4. Barat- Introduction and Dance
B. One etude from either:
1. Bordogni- 43 Bel Canto Studies (Robert King)
2. Blazhevich- 70 Studies for Tuba (Robert King)
C. Scales
1. All Major scales- Two octaves
2. Chromatic scale- Two octaves starting on low Bb
Professors Ayano Kataoka, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-3258 and
Thomas Hannum, email@example.com, (413) 545-6060
If applying for the Jazz Drum Set program, click here. Jazz Drum set applicants are encouraged to, but are not required to perform a classical percussion audition. Contact: Professor Thomas Giampietro, email@example.com, (413) 577-1709
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B - Technique
Professor Elizabeth Chang, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-0023
Link to Violin Studio webpage
B - Technique
A three-octave scale in any key
Professor Kathryn Lockwood, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-9457
Viola Studio website
B - Technique
Professor Astrid Schween, email@example.com, (413) 545-9646
A – Repertoire
Two (2) contrasting selections that best represent your level of performance. One selection should demonstrate tone quality and control; the other should feature left hand technical facility.
B – Technique
Major scales in three (3) octaves
Professor Salvatore Macchia, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 545-6053
If applying for the Jazz Bass program, click here. Jazz Bass applicants are not required to perform a classical bass audition, but are required to study on upright bass for two years.
B - Technique
Two- and three-octave major and minor scales
Jazz Voice
Professor Catherine Jensen-Hole, firstname.lastname@example.com, (413) 577-2459
Please note: For Vocal Jazz Major/Minor auditons you do not need to send in a pre-screening CD nor do you have to prepare any classical repertoire.
Audtion process:
1. Prepare three stylistically different tunes from the standard Jazz repertoire. These should include a medium tempo jazz selection, a jazz ballad, and the third song can be blues based, a bossa, samba or contemporary jazz song. Lead sheets should be prepared in your own key.
2. Improvisation on one tune is encouraged but not obligatory.
3. Scales: one octave ascending and descending chromatic scale
4. Sight Reading: un-pitched jazz rhythmic sequences in swing feel.
An accompanist (piano) will be provided.
Professor Jeffrey W. Holmes, email@example.com, (413) 545-6046
Professor Jeffrey W. Holmes (Coordinator), email@example.com, (413) 545-6046
Professor Salvatore Macchia (Bass), email@example.com, (413) 545-6053
Professor Jeffrey W. Holmes (Coordinator), email@example.com, (413) 545-6046
Drum Set faculty: Professor Thomas Giampietro, email@example.com, (413) 577-1709
Please note: All Drum Set auditionees may also prepare a percussion audition to include snare drum and mallet selections. Please see Percussion requirements above. Make sure you identify on your audition application whether you will be preparing a percussion component.
Professor Jeffrey Holmes, email@example.com, (413) 545-6046
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Do any of you have any homemade cleaner "recipes" to share?
I generally try to stick to Vinegar, Baking Soda, Water and Lemon Juice for cleaning. Basically, ingredients that are non-toxic and non-lethal for my children, just in case they ingest it.
Grout cleaner:
3c baking soda mixed with 1c warm water to make paste. Rub into grout with toothbrush. Squirt lemon juice over, wipe off.
All purpose cleaner:
1 tsp super washing soda & 2c hot water mix in spray bottle. Spray and wipe as you go.
For most cleaning I use my 50/50 vinegar/water spray or the all purpose recipe above.
I have a homemade furniture polish, but stupid me didn't write the recipe down on paper or on the bottle so I can't tell you exactly what it is... I think it has olive oil, vinegar, maybe some lemon juice...
And if anyone needs it, my bug spray... I call it...
Bug Die!
2 parts water
2 parts alcohol
1 part soap (any liquid dish soap)
Mix in squirt bottle, shake and spray desired bug.
I use this on black widows around the house with success. It does leave a soapy residue, I use it outside around doors where it doesn't need to be rinsed off and can form a barrier.
I know this is a different type of "cleaner", but its nice! You can make a nice facial scrub with common kitchen items. Chop oatmeal until it is in small pieces and add a little milk, honey, and maybe plain yogurt. It acts as a nice facial and is great to exfoliate. You can also combine sea salt or Epsom salt with olive oil and a few drops of essential oils for an inexpensive spa style body or foot scrub. : )
I just use water, vinegar, and baking soda, in various combinations.
Wondering if anyone has a good recipe for getting staining out of a toilet bowl? The staining's been there ever since we moved in because the place was empty for a year or more but the water was left on.
When we first moved in I used bleach with success on the parts it touched, but I ran out and don't plan to buy any more.
It's not all the way around, just follows the trail where water would run. Kind of orange-ish?
What is oxygen bleach? I've never heard of it.
Hi All I lurk here and I have some questions:
Do you use white vinegar or cider vinegar or does it matter?
What do you use for cutting grease on stoves, cabinets and a good cleaner for white formica countertps. They show everything. I use cloroc clean up to get out any countertop stain but wouold love a more natural cleaner.
Eta: duh, it's in my post above... the all purpose cleaner.
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What is the super washing soda?
I have found the oxi-clean leaves a slippery residue(There is that chance I am mixing it wrong too)
Super Washing Soda
Yeah, Oxi-clean does that. I don't use it for cleaning purposes too much, but it is in my arsenal *just in case*.
Great thanks!
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this might be a dumb question but this is all new to me. are these natural cleaners cheaper than store made ones? also, bugs aren't attracted to the ACV? Do you need to rinse the area with water after or just spray it down? I'd love to incorporate more natural things into our way of living but I don't know anyone who has done this so any thoughts are helpful.
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02/03/2014 - phillipebrown
Bought a Single Family home in 2013 for approximately $175K in Otego, NY.
Lynn was our realtor for almost a year during our home buying process and she was a great help to us as we were first time home buyers. She was patient and showed us a number of properties during our search. She also took numerous inspectors to houses for us when I was not able to go myself. She is a genuine person and I would recommend her to anyone wanting to purchase a home as she takes into consideration your needs and is not pushy.
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10/02/2013 - Scole10173
Bought a home in 2013.
Lynn was a tremendous help as I was buying a home! She looked out for my interests and helped connect me with a home inspector and an attorney. I highly recommend Lynn whether buying or selling.
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02/25/2013 - user2721604
Bought a home in 2012.
Lynn was excellent. She easily dealt with the difficulties of helping an out-of-state buyer (me). She was always positive and helpful, and patient when interstate issues made us start the mortgage process all over again. She kept our seller informed and interested until the paperwork could be worked out.
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10/15/2012 - user0202808
Bought a Single Family home in 2012 for approximately $100K in Oneonta, NY.
Lynn helped my husband and I find our first home. She was extremely helpful, and she was almost always available, she always got back to us in a timely fashion. We are very happy and satisfied with our wonderful new home. Thanks Lynn so much for all you did to help us. I would recommend to anyone looking for a real-estate agent to go with Lynn, she's the best. Thanks again!!!!
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06/21/2012 - user056302
Bought a home in 2012.
Lynn did a fantastic job for me. I was her very first client and in that time she was not only able to get me out of a bad deal but she also got my deposit back!. She also helped me find the perfect home for my family and I.
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11/21/2011 - Smiley6269
Showed home in 2011 in Schuyler Lake, Otsego, NY 13348.
Lynn was very attentive to our needs. We told her what we were looking for and she managed to make the most of our time with our limited time. We will definitely continue to use her. Update to our original posting. Lynn helped us find our dream house. We closed on our house October 2012. Lynn was extremely patient with us. It took almost a year until we found the perfect house. We've been in our house five months now and we are so happy. We thank Lynn for all she did for us.
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11/02/2011 - Robert Lesperence
Sold a home in 2011.
I have several properties listed with Lynn and Coldwell Banker Bordinger Realty and have recieved outstanding service! Lynn and the staff are highly professional, knowledgeable and easy to work with. I enthusiastically recommend them to anyone looking to purchase or sell real estate in the Oneonta, NY area!
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06/11/2014 - user6758185
Showed home in 2014 in Delhi, Town of Delhi, NY 13753.
Lynn has been so patient and helpful with our decision to list our home, and to look at other homes. She is thoughtful and considerate to our needs and takes the time that we have needed to make our decision. We would definitely recommend Lynn to others in this area and we look forward to looking for a new home, and to find a new home owner for our existing home.
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05/20/2014 - chris karges711
Showed home in 2014 in Cooperstown, NY.
Lynn was very helpful in getting us in to see places last minute. She gave us all the information we needed when we needed it. She had a very good understanding of the Oneonta area and Cooperstown surrounding areas.
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12/03/2013 - user85673806
Bought a Single Family home in 2013 for approximately $400K in Otego, NY.
I was looking to move upstate New York from Long Island. I found Lynn through Zillow. I wanted to place a bid on two homes, but Lynn told me that it was not permitted, so I only placed an offer on one. Lynn offered to find me a home inspector, and an attorney. The home inspector picked up a mouse issue, of which Lynn never relayed to me. She was supposed to tell me had he found anything. As part of the realtor contract, I agreed to the home inspection under Lynn's advice. She told me it was not the norm to have pest inspection, so I waived that and was told that if the home inspector found any pests, she would let me know. She failed to do so. There were mouse droppings all over our 4200 sq ft home. When I called Lynn about it, she offered to remove two mattresses the previous owner left behind (which she had told me were in great condition) because they were covered in mouse droppings. She said her husband and her would come "burn them." The lawyer she suggested never asked about the property condition disclosure at the closing (which was concealing major issues, to the tune of over $50,000) nor did he ask about the walk through. Paper work was just signed, funds electronically transferred, and all parties got up from the closing table, and Lynn never relayed the troubles discovered during walk through at the closing. The real mess began when I began moving my belongings into our new home. I was not aware of any problems until after the closing. When I arrived at my new home, I found it was infested with mice. The driveway had suffered a collapse, which Lynn never checked into, nor did the lawyer. Had I been made aware of the mouse infestation, and the driveway collapse involving the town, Army Corp of Engineers, and the DEC, I would have picked the other house. But Lynn gave me disinformation when she told me I was limited to making only one offer. Based on my experience, I would NEVER recommend Lynn, as she should have known more about the property, as she should have been more acquainted with the terrain. It became apparent that the commission was the goal, NOT assisting me in my purchase. I felt pressured and misled, and now have to face tremendous hardships as a result of not having her represent my best interests. I hope this satisfies your request for details. Respectfully submitted, a disappointed client, Martha Nassauer Otego, NY
Response from Lynn on 12/20/2013
I have contacted the reviewer off-line to address any concerns she has had with my service, and I was under the impression that she was satisfied. Real estate transactions are complex, all are emotional, and some can be downright challenging. While I see what happened here very differently than the reviewer, I do appreciate all feedback from my clients. Thanks, Martha, for taking the time to write the review - I truly regret that you remain dissatisfied.


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It's five in the morning - the sun has yet to rise on the frigid Canadian city of Toronto. You're awake. You're energized. You're bored. Your dreams are plentiful, but your options are few. Luckily for all those who find themselves in this situation from time to time, rapper Drake has offered a handy new means of passing the time: Volleyball.What's so special about volleyball? you ask.Well, it's beach volleyball.
In Toronto?Indoor beach volleyball.
You mean like in a gym, or something?Indoor warehouse beach volleyball.
At 5 AM? Isn't it too dark to see?Black-lit indoor warehouse beach volleyball.
Okay... So you just get a bunch of friends together and play?You don't play.
You watch?Nope. You sit at an adjacent lawn table and abuse narcotics.
So then who plays?Scantily clad professional hip-hop dancers.
Do people actually do this?Nope. Just Drake. But it'll catch on.
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I used to stay up until 5 am with my mom playing PaperBoy! as a kid and it's still one of my favorite video games of all time. Now it looks like we might get a virtual reality version of it in the future!
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