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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Will lawmakers raise taxes on casinos?
It's being considered by one legislator who requested an overall study of the gaming industry in hopes of putting more money into state programs.
Rep. George Flaggs, Jr. of Warren County, home to four casinos, requested a comprehensive review of the state's gaming industry.
John C. Stennis Institute research analyst Judith Phillips presented an overview comparing Mississippi to other states with commercial casinos like Louisiana and Illinois.
Mississippi casinos have a 12% tax rate, eight percent goes to the state while local governments receive four percent.
Louisiana has a 21.5% tax rate, in Illinois it's 20%.
Rep. Flaggs, a Gaming Committee member, maintains that increasing gaming taxes could fund more state programs, especially Early Childhood Education.
"This state can not continue to fund education at its level, community junior colleges or support Early Childhood Education and Medicaid and other health care unless they look at some alternative means to generating some revenue," said Flaggs.
Last year the state's 30 casinos brought in $2.46 billion and tax revenues were $296 million.
That's down 9.4% from 2008-2009.
The analyst listed the downed economy, Hurricane Katrina, and the Gulf Oil Spill as factors in the decline.
The State Gaming Commission opposes a tax increase.
Commission Executive Director Larry Gregory said the state's free market system shouldn't be compared to other states with limited licenses and different tax structures.
"I think right now the industry has put billions of dollars in infrastructure, provided 25,000 jobs for the state and for the tourism side of it, and provided a good stable market for this state," said Gregory.
Some lawmakers believe with casinos like Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and others coming to the coast, momentum could shift and growth could be stalled.
"If Mississippi jumps out and raises taxes we won't be one of the states under consideration when people do get ready to spend money or spend more on renovations," said Gaming Committee Chairman Representative Bobby Moak.
The report ranks the state as having the fourth highest gross casino gaming revenues among 12 states.
Rep. Flaggs said he has no intentions of introducing any bills to raise any taxes this year, but suggests a casino tax hike should be a consideration for future legislative sessions.
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The Education Department's Deborah Temkin is fighting a bullying epidemic in American schools. But she will not fight bullies. "We try not to call the kids who are bullying others 'bullies.' That says they cannot change," says Temkin, who remembers her own encounters with bullying in middle school.
One thing that can change is the government's attitude toward bullying, and that's where Temkin has taken the lead. After she joined the department in 2010, a rash of teen suicides drew national attention to the issue. Since then, Temkin has had a hand in just about every government initiative addressing the problem—from the StopBullying.gov website to outreach efforts with Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation.
As research and policy coordinator for Bullying Prevention Initiatives, Temkin helps Education reach out when cross-agency expertise is needed. To combat the rise of cyber bullying, for instance, she worked with the Federal Trade Commission to produce parental toolkits addressing the issue. But ultimately there is only so much government can do in the schoolyard, and Temkin emphasizes that everything comes back to a joint effort.
"We will never be able to really address bullying if we don't all work together," she says. "It's not solely the school's responsibility or the parents' responsibility or even the community's responsibility. Everyone needs to be working together, sending the same messages consistently, letting kids know that bullying is not OK. Only then will we be able to actually combat bullying."
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How Bad Will an Obama Loss Be To the Dems
by hddun2008, Thu Oct 11, 2012 at 02:04:12 PM EDT
Please put down the shoe and let me explain why an Obama loss might not be the end of the world for Democrats.
After the first debate with Rambler Romney, Obama was criticized mightily for his detachment and for his world inside the White House bubble. I submit that Obama's detached persona goes all the way back to the months immediately following his win in November. He came away from his winning campaign somehow convinced that he would go to the Republicans in the Democratic controlled Congress (which was in place since 2006 before his election) and make the GOP members "his friends" and colloborators. Never mind that everyone outside his bubble knew the GOP hated him for many reasons -- mainly he had deposed them from the White House and perhaps because he was a black man. Obama never realized he was attempting to make friends with a pack of rattlesnakes. That is inexcusible since he had served for several years in Congress upon his assention to the White House. Obama taking his cue from something in his inner self was convinced not to be mean to the GOP. First off, he deserted the Democratic candidates who were in hard runoff campaigns. Martin in Georgia and Al Franken in Minnesota. Obama had a huge campaign organization and money but he not once even tried to get these two men elected. It would have been decisive. Here in Texas we were moving in the Progressive direction. In 2006 and then in 2008, the former Republican stongholds in Dallas and Houston threw out a slew of longtime GOP judges and other officeholders including District Attorneys who vowed to stop the wholesale practice of their Republican predessors which sent first time and minor offenders to long jail terms in "Prison Industrial" confinements for such offenses as a single marijuana cigarette or disorderly conduct at a football game. All that came to an end even before Obama.
Upon his election Mr. Obama decided the best things were to make nice to the Republicans and stop campaigning against them and to CLIMB INTO THE WHITE HOUSE BUBBLE. For a Harvard professor this is an amazing development. When I was in college political science classes the professors time and again would discuss how presidents get cut off from dissention by the "bubble". Even more amazing for Obama, he had just gotten elected by hammering George Bush for being in an iron clad bubble (GWBush believed any story from his neocon advisors that had Saddam owning WMD's or nukes). Obama often used that as his rationale for election.
As a Democrat officer in Texas I watched in horror as Obama went further and further into the "bubble". No single payer healthcare because the GOP would block that, no big stimulus because the GOP would not go along, etc. And as to the Democrats out here in the states he told us to "go to hell" and made a point of cutting us off from any help. The first elections Franken won with no help from the Obama team, MARTIN LOST because Obama refused to go to Georgia and turn out the black voters who could have made the decision in a tight race.
Then Ted Kennedy died. His seat went open. Did Obama run his team in to help out the Democrats in Massachuetts to keep the seat that had been Democratic since the Stone Age--NOPE--Obama made one campaign trip there in the entire election period and the GOP seized the seat. I WAS SHOCKED.
Oh well, 2010 is coming and surely Obama will launch his team to help out the Democrats WHO HAD HELP HIM PASS OBAMACARE....NOPE AGAIN, he was nowhere to found on the campaign trail. We got slaughtered. In Texas we lost over 100 seats to the GOP in 2010. Nationwide the same problem---Obama was missing and we got hammered.
Now, its his turn. Well, maybe he wins or maybe not. Either way I'm thinking that since he never shows up for local Democrats, they will not show up for him. I don't worry about it. If Rambler Romney wins then the GOP has a good chance to get two more conservatives on the SCOTUS so that is bad otherwise I cannot see much difference between Obama and Rambler anyway.
A good example of the distrust that even blacks have for Obama is in the 2011 election for local officials in Texas. Time was before Obama that the Dems could look for over 2 million voters. In 2011, we barely had 900,000 vote. What a shame.
So in conclusion I must say that if Obama wins narrowly, then he must live in the house THAT HE BUILT. My prediction is that since he like Bill Clinton did not attend to local party building at the local level, Mr. Obama will have to face a GOP Controlled House and its Tea Party members will seek to impeach him. The legacy of Barack Obama's second term is that he will be hounded by the GOP and Tea Party as was Bill Clinton that he will have NO TIME TO BUILD A LEGACY! His "bubble" will burst in January of 2013 when Ken Starr's team show up at the White House with subpeonas to review all of the records of the Obama team for the last four years.
As for me. I'm going to start fresh in 2013 with energy devoted to undoing the damage that was done to local Democrats over the last four years.
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I am not a big donor or even a medium size one. I am just (or at least until this year) an anonymous season ticket holder – one of the tens of thousands that form the solid core of Longhorn Fandom. I am not someone you have to listen to or placate but I do have something to say. Mack it's time to go.
Other smarter people than me have written about what's wrong with the team, about the Xs and Os, and the waste of talent. I can't claim to add anything of much value to that conversation but I know enough about jobs to recognize when someone can no longer do theirs.
The most important ability to have in any job is to be able to recognize what's good and bad. Without this you cannot succeed. Without this you get this
I bring this up because for months before the season the messages coming out of the Belmont bunker was that the team was finally ready and that after 3 years of wandering the wilderness we had crested the last hill and were ready to look down upon the promised land. Instead we got this.
Taysom Hill - 2nd Quarter 20 Yard Rushing TD vs. Texas (via BYUtv Sports)
When you can watch a team practice for weeks on end and cannot honestly assess the quality of that team you are no longer capable of doing the job. When you somehow build a culture where your highly paid assistants lack the skills to identify and fix problems or where they are somehow prevented from doing so you are no longer capable of doing the job. When the team you lead thinks it is okay to do this
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Still searching for "the" lemon cookie for big bday celebration, thanks for all the suggestions, tried a couple but found this one and I made it but didn't quite understand what to do
"Beat the butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high heat until smooth."
I took this to mean to use a double boiler, but maybe they mean use a pan? I have made a lot of cookies in my day and this is a first, made lots of frosting this way but cookies?
That said it is a great cookie!! I am now testing it plain, with the frosting, and with frosting with sanding sugar. So far cookie with frosting is no.1.
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It's a typo they meant to type beat not heat.
It said "on medium high heat." That can't be a typo.
Since there is mention of using a mixer, I say they meant to type "speed", not "heat".This message has been edited. Last edited by: nettiejay,
It's a typo. Further down the instructions it says, ("The creaming is important to get a great texture so don't skimp here.")
You can't get "creaming" when beating it over heat.
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/rec...dex.html?oc=linkback"
Medium - high - refers to SPEED of the mixer.
Duh, why that didn't occur to me, I'll never know. Of course it means medium high speed.
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Christmas at the Sheppard house could not begin until the sounds of "O Tannenbaum," played on a piano, signaled the time for the children to come downstairs and gather around the tree.
Mary Sheppard DeArmond recalls what then always seemed like an endless wait.
"My mother was a musician and was German, so she would play the song on the piano, and my brother and sister and I would come tearing down the stairs," DeArmond said. "Even my father would have to wait until mother had summoned us."
The year was 1929, and the Christmas morning ritual was long a part of DeArmond's family traditions. In her stocking that year, DeArmond would find an orange and very little else under the tree. Almost two months before — on Oct. 29, 1929 — Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded about 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost. What followed would be known as the Great Depression, which lasted until 1939 and remains the longest-lasting economic downturn in America.
In Butler, where DeArmond grew up before moving to Lamar and later to Joplin, the steady stream of men who would come knocking on the door looking for a hot meal or some work seemed almost commonplace. The family lived close to the train tracks, and DeArmond said her mother and grandmother, who lived with the family, would feed many in their kitchen. Her father, an attorney, labored to keep that food on the table.
"We lived on a tree-lined street," DeArmond said. "We were insulated, I suppose, from what was going on in the nation. I never knew the troubles my father was having, making a living. I never felt deprived."
Now 92, the daughter of a small-town lawyer describes her Christmases during the 1920s as simple, traditional and almost idyllic.
At age 7, little Mary Sheppard was enthralled by the silent movies that played on the silver screen and was able to read the subtitles to her younger brother, John. Because of her mother's reputation as a musician, when the "talkies" came to town, the Sheppard family was given the bass drum that had been used in the theater during the silent movie days.
She and her older sister, Betty, learned to dance the Charleston in the living room of their home during the Roaring '20s.
"We learned crazy little songs and danced until we couldn't dance any more," she said. "We were children and thought everything was fun."
DeArmond's father had a car, but no money for gas or travel. One of her fondest Christmas memories was a train ride to Kansas City, where she and her family would see the Christmas parade.
"One of my father's clients was Missouri Pacific," she said. "That was what enabled us to make that trip. It was so exciting for us kids."
The Presbyterian Christmas program included a visit from Santa. He would call out the names of the children, and each would receive a brown paper sack with some ribbon candy, peanut brittle and chocolate-covered candy.
"I never really knew what they called those chocolate things," DeArmond said, laughing. "But, we always hoped we would get an extra because they were so good."
Then, on cue, DeArmond said, a big window would come down, and what appeared to be the head of a real deer poked its way through, signaling an end to the Christmas Eve program.
"Santa would say that he had to go," she said. "I always thought it was a real reindeer, although I'm sure it was nothing more than a stuffed head of one."
DeArmond, after she married, went to business school and worked as a legal secretary for several attorneys. At the age of 50, she decided she would go back to college and eventually received her degree from Missouri Southern State College, now known as Missouri Southern State University. She then received her master's degree at Pittsburg (Kan.) State University and returned to MSSU, where she taught in the English department until she retired.
"My Christmas memories are not about the gifts, because whatever we might have received was usually something homemade and small," she said. "No, I remember the wonderful traditions that surrounded our holidays. That, I think, is what Christmas was about."
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"I'm still having a lot of reservations about raising the debt limit for three months clean. It's a hard thing to do and I think what the problem is, if you're willing to raise the debt for three months unconditionally, why wouldn't you raise it for six months unconditionally? Or if you've raised it for three months unconditionally, three months from now what principles to you stand on to keep you from raising it again?" he said.
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REUTERS — In a speech today, President Stebila re-iterated — and strengthened — MathSoc's position on Iraq. Stebila assured students that they will continue to work through the Feds Council, but that if a reasonable scenario has not evolved by early December he warned reporters to be ready for a unilateral invasion on Iraq.
The MathSoc position on Iraq has hardened in recent months, with the Hawks clutching victory in the mid-term elections with Yolanda Dorrington and Craig D'Amelio both being elected to the Orientation Directorships. The election of Louis Mastorakos though, was seen by some as evidence of voters' reluctance towards a campaign and a personal victory for Colin Davidson, the Chief of Education and the loudest opponent of the war within the president's close circle.
In a recent press conference, Davidson had noted "I respect [Chief of Finance Kevin] Wong's noble intentions towards the removal of Saddam Hussien, but re-enforcing cross-campus reproach will hurt us economically." Davidson pointed out that 85% of Math students take courses from other faculties. There has been strong disapproval from Engineering in particular.
"Engineering has always been a bunch of whiners," noted veteran correspondent Aaron Klotz. "Frankly, if you complain about everything, people just can't take you seriously." He did express reservations though, especially that Iraq's army, devastated by Desert Storm I, would still present a formidable opponent for the Math Faculty.
If Stebila does intend to attack, Engineering holds a key veto on Feds council and their support will be crucial to Feds authorization of the campaign. Many observers have dismissed the recent language as another ploy by Stebila to distract students from the fact that he squeaked into office with a mere 573 vote lead. Other MathSoc watchers assume this is largely a smokescreen, and the invasion will proceed in mid-December, in the depth of Final Exams when students are less likely to notice. Some members of the ruling body feel that even this route is misguided.
"We're a student society. Iraq is a sovereign state, and that can't been taken lightly." Representative Paul Ulrich (D-CS) elucidated, "Also, we don't have any weapons or anything; maybe we should focus on math-related stuff." Ulrich went on to promote his domestic agenda, including co-op reform and a Women in Math in Miniskirts committee.
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There's an Associated Press report today out of Utah, looking at EnergySolutions and the company's political donations, etc., and the plans to import radioactive waste from Italy. The report is filed by AP writer Brock Vergakis:
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah-based nuclear waste disposal firm fighting to allow the continued importation of foreign radioactive waste for disposal here has chosen who it is backing in the state's crowded Republican field for a U.S. Senate seat.
EnergySolutions Inc.'s political action committee has donated $9,000 to Sen. Bob Bennett's re-election campaign this year, snubbing fellow Republican Mark Shurtleff, who received a $10,000 donation from the company last year on his way to winning his third term as the state's attorney general.
Bennett is seeking his fourth term.
"EnergySolutions' PAC is funded by EnergySolutions employees and we are a very strong supporter of Sen. Bennett," said company spokeswoman Jill Sigal. "The EnergySolutions PAC supports pro-nuclear members of Congress and pro-nuclear candidates."
EnergySolutions is a major political player in the state, where it operates the country's largest and only privately owned lo w-level radioactive waste disposal site.
For years, the company has used an army of lobbyists and large campaign contributions to make state law more friendly to its interests. But many of its upcoming battles are on the federal level, including an attempt by U.S. Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste.
Their bill, which has a companion version in the Senate sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is in response to the company's efforts to import up to 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear power program through the ports of Charleston, S.C. or New Orleans for processing in Tennessee.
After processing, about 1,600 tons would be shipped to Utah for disposal in the desert about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City.
Small amounts of radioactive waste have been imported in the past, including from Canada, but the Italian waste is the largest single amount the Nucle ar Regulatory Commission has ever received an import license application for.
Bennett has not signed on as a co-sponsor to Alexander's bill.
Messages left with Bennett's campaign office and spokeswoman were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Messages left with Shurtleff Wednesday also were not immediately returned.
Democratic challenger Sam Granato's campaign manager, Rob Miller, said Granato is opposed to importing the Italian waste, but hasn't decided yet whether a federal ban on importing all foreign radioactive waste is necessary.
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Adjuvant High-Dose Thiotepa and Stem Cell Rescue Associated With Conventional Chemotherapy in Relapsed Osteosarcoma (OSII-TTP)
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Approximately 150 new cases of osteosarcoma are reported each year in France, of which 15 to 20% are metastatic.
Further to the initial standard care, about 45% of the patients relapse within a median duration of 20 months.
Result of the OS94 study results and of the investigation performed within the CRLCC, indicate that 25 to 30 patients (children and adults) experience an osteosarcoma relapse each year in FRANCE.
According to several studies, the 5-year overall survival rate of patients in first relapse is 23-28%,with a median post relapse survival of 10 to 17 months. Multiple relapse cases are also reported in the COSS study, with a median time to second relapse of 0.8 year.
At present, there is no reference treatment for the standard care of osteosarcoma relapse in FRANCE.
Thiotepa is known for its antitumor effect in numerous malignant tumors. In 2007, a study from our institution reported that about 35% of all osteosarcoma relapses are treated with a high-dose thiotepa while the efficacy and tolerance of this therapeutic strategy have never been assessed.
These results highlight the need to the evaluate the efficacy and tolerance of this high-dose of thiotepa within a clinical trial and its inclusion in the standard care of the osteosarcoma at relapse.
Drug: Thiotepa
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Efficacy and Tolerance Adjuvant High-Dose Thiotepa With Peripheral Stem Cell Rescue Associated With Conventional Chemotherapy in Children and Adults With Relapsed Osteosarcoma
- Estimate the overall survival rate [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Estimate overall survival after relapse diagnosis [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Estimate the survival free progression after randomization [ Time Frame: 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Evaluate the tolerance profile of experimental treatment (hematologic toxicity) [ Time Frame: every 3 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Estimate the rate of tumor response to treatment as assessed by conventional CT-scan [ Time Frame: at inclusion, day 14-day 21 after the 2nd chemotherapy cycle, before randomization, day 14-day 21 after the 4th chemotherapy cycle, after thiotepa cure and 8 weeks after the end of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Estimate histological response to treatment on surgical tumor samples [ Time Frame: If surgery is applicable, a few weeks after thiotepa cure (12 to 17 weeks after inclusion) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Study of biological and genomic properties and analysis of angiogenic markers correlated with relapse (optional) [ Time Frame: At inclusion,at surgery , and at the end of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: experimental arm thiotepa
4 courses of conventional chemotherapy followed by high-dose Thiotepa with peripheral stem cell rescue. Surgical resection of all tumor masses will be performed as soon as possible.
Drug: Thiotepa
Thiotepa 8-12mg/m²/day/injection Total dose for one cure:15-50mg.
Other Names:
Reference arm
4 courses of conventional chemotherapy. Surgical resection of all tumor masses will be performed as soon as possible.
Drug: Thiotepa
Thiotepa 8-12mg/m²/day/injection Total dose for one cure:15-50mg.
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
Despite the absence of tumor registry, approximately 150 new cases of osteosarcoma are reported each year in France (100 cases per year in children and 50 cases in adults), of which 15 to 20% are metastatic. The standardized impact rate in the world population is estimated at 3 per million inhabitants per year.
Further to the initial standard care, about 45% of the patients relapse within a median interval of 20 months (range 3 months - 10 years).
Results of the OS94 study and of the investigation performed within the CRLCC indicate that 25 to 30 patients (children and adults) experience an osteosarcoma relapse each year in FRANCE.
Results of the five major published series indicate that the 5-year overall survival rate of patients in first relapse is between 23 and 28%, with a median post-relapse survival of 10 to 17 months. Multiple relapse cases are also reported in the COSS study, with a median time to second relapse of 0.8 year.
At present, there is no reference treatment for the standard care of osteosarcoma relapse in FRANCE.
Some recommendations have been given in the OS94 protocol, but they are generally not followed or they are implemented in a heterogeneous manner.
Thiotepa (N N' N'' triethylenethiophosphoramide), an alkylating agent of the chemical family of ethylene-imines, is known for its antitumor effect in a number of malignant tumors.
Its efficacy in osteosarcoma has been reported in the literature. A retrospective study of the SFCE (French Society for Childhood Cancer, results not yet published) in 45 patients presenting with refractory osteosarcoma or relapse has shown a radiological reaction rate of 30%.
Moreover, a preliminary investigation performed by the CLB in 2007 within the framework of the SFCE study explored all relapse cases diagnosed between the beginning of 2004 and the end of 2006. Results showed that about 35% of the patients with osteosarcoma relapses are treated with high-dose thiotepa while the efficacy and tolerance of this therapeutic strategy have never been assessed.
Altogether, these results led the SFCE osteosarcoma group to propose the evaluation of the efficacy and tolerance of this high-dose thiotepa chemotherapy within a clinical trial and to include the drug in the standard care of osteosarcoma in relapse.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year to 50 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age > 1 year and < 50 years
- First osteosarcoma relapse, either local or metastatic, or second relapse after exclusive surgery NB: Whenever possible, only patients with histological evidence of relapse will be included.
- Indication for chemotherapy confirmed by a multidisciplinary committee.
- Surgical resection of all tumor sites must be possible, either as first-line therapy or after chemotherapy.
- Lansky score ≥ 60%, or ECOG Performance Status ≤ 2
- ≥ 21-day interval after first-line chemotherapy
- Blood tests, renal and liver functions within the normal range for age with, in particular, 7 days prior to study entry, blood or serum values as follows:
- blood: neutrophil count > 1 G/L; platelets >100 G/L
- renal: serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN depending on age; patients with serum creatinine values > 1.5 x ULN are eligible if creatinine clearance is > 70 mL/min/1.73 m²
- liver: total bilirubin < 2 x ULN; ASAT and ALAT ≤ 5 x ULN
- cardiac: isotopic or echographic Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction > 50 %.
- Signed written informed consent; for children, signed consent from the patient (depending on age) and from the parents or legal representative is mandatory
- Documented negative serum βHCG for female patients of childbearing age
- Affiliation with health insurance.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with multiple relapses for whom surgical resection seems impossible, even after chemotherapy.
- Patients already treated with high-dose chemotherapy regimens
- Patients with a contra-indication to the treatment proposed
- Patients not eligible for leukapheresis
- Two-year follow-up impossible due to social, family, geographic or psychological reasons
- Patient included in another protocol of clinical research
- Pregnant or lactating women.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00978471
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Keywords provided by Centre Leon Berard:
Conventional chemotherapy
Peripheral stem cell autograft
Surgical resection
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms, Bone Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Myeloablative Agonists
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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For the longest time, Microsoft Exchange and network-attached storage (NAS) have been like oil and water, thanks to a Microsoft policy prohibiting the support of the combination.
It's not that Exchange wouldn't work over NAS, says Randy Kerns, senior partner with the Evaluator Group, "but if you have a problem, the MS Exchange group probably will only support you so far." Despite that, Kerns believes NAS is "a great option that requires less administrative efforts than the alternatives," and "translates to a lower cost of ownership and fits better into environments that don't have specific storage administrators."
Still, "people avoided doing [Exchange on NAS] because they wanted to avoid issues of finger pointing," says Tony Asaro, senior analyst with the Enterprise Storage Group. But this spring, Microsoft announced that it will in fact support Exchange on NAS, provided that the NAS device is based on Windows Storage Server 2003, plus a recent Feature Pack, for environments up to 1,500 seats.
Where does that leave iSCSI, seen by many as the middle ground between direct-attached storage and a full Fibre Channel fabric? "You'll see both NAS and iSCSI," says Marcus Schmidt, Microsoft senior product manager for Windows Storage Server, as iSCSI storage is able to scale beyond 1,500 seats.
Already, EMC is promoting its latest NAS device, the NetWin 110, for Exchange environments of up to 500 seats. "The combination of NetWin and Windows Storage Server
ESG's Asaro believes that EMC's NetWin will be very attractive to large organizations with branch offices, and limited IT expertise. "A Celerra [EMC's proprietary NAS offering] just doesn't make sense in these environments."
For more information:
Article: What NAS can do for Microsoft Exchange
Article: Microsoft chases NAS tail
About the author: Alex Barrett is Storage Magazine's trends editor.
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Series Preview: Yanks at RaysBy
To preview the upcoming series against the Rays we've set up a Q&A with R.J. Anderson of The Process Report and FanGraphs. If you're looking for a take on the Rays' side of things, definitely give The Process Report a read. R.J. and Jason Collette have been doing this at other places for a while.
Wade Davis had a rough time from late May until late June, either giving up a lot of runs or throwing a ton of pitches in not so many innings. Has he made any adjustments since then?
Is anything missing from his repertoire that is causing his strikeout and whiff rates to come in so low after being pretty high throughout the minors? Or does his stuff not forecast a high strikeout total in the majors?
Davis' issues seem married to his usage patterns. He'll use his fastballs to get ahead – like you'd expect – but instead of letting his plus breaking stuff take over and finish batters, he'll go into a fastball fury, trying to blow the hitter away and do all the work himself. This leads to lengthier at-bats and some forced location that results in home runs. The lacking whiff rates seem to be a mixture of predictability right now more so than an inherent flaw in his stuff.
What's the main difference between the B.J. Upton of three, or even two, years ago and the B.J. Upton of the last two years? What will it take for him to get back on track offensively?
Also, does he figure to play this weekend?
Hard to say with Upton. He's played better than his raw numbers show and he's murdering left-handed pitchers. It seems to be a BABIP issue, but the organization is obviously a bit frustrated with his progress nevertheless. The prognosis has been two-to-three days all along. During Wednesday night's game, he stood in the dugout swinging a bat and Thursday morning he did some running. Joe Maddon remarked that he could be used later in the game if need be, signifying he should be good to go for the series.
One thing I admire about Joe Maddon is that he doesn't hammer the idea of roles into his players' heads. Do you think that plays a large part in the bullpen's success? Or do you think it's just that they have good pitchers and the Maddon storyline is just an interesting narrative?
Well, it goes beyond the bullpen. Ben Zobrist recently spoke up in defense of Maddon's shuffling of positions and lineup slots. J.P. Howell has spoken in the past about how it's their job to be prepared, whether they have to pitch in the sixth or the ninth. I'm not sure how much it really plays into the success because I think – with the exception of Rafael Soriano, who is often in the dugout until right before being called upon – the relievers assembled are good and Maddon places them in good situations.
Moreover, they still have roles to a degree. If I'm Randy Choate, and I know the it's the 6th or 7th inning with a lefty coming up soon in a tight game, I'm probably getting mentally prepared to enter. You know? Maybe the mindset plays a marginal role, but it's hard for me to credit that entirely to Maddon, despite him being very good at his job.
We've seen a considerable spike in James Shields's strikeout and home run rates this year. Are they connected? His BABIP is way up, too. Do you think this is mostly poor luck, or is he doing something different this year that's causing such a change in numbers that had been pretty consistent over the past few years?
I think it's mostly poor luck. Shields has a stubbornness when it comes to walking batters. He'd rather challenge them in the zone than put someone on base. In a way that's a good thing, but it also comes with the consequence of home runs. It's worth noting his home run rate is well inflated over his norms between 2006 and 2009. He's generating about the same number of swinging strikes as he did in years past, so I'm not entirely sure where the extra strikeouts are coming from.
Shields is such a weird case. You're talking about a guy with maybe the best changeup in the American League who says and does intelligent things all the time; I would not be shocked to see him become a pitching coach down the line because he helps teammates with mechanical issues and philosophical talk. He seems to understand game theory and he's even said this season that he likes it when team's ambush him and figure him out. Presumably so he can mix things up. You can see that attitude prevalent in his arsenal too. He could probably just throw the changeup all day and night with good results – ask Nick Swisher – but he goes to a cutter, he goes to a curve, and sometimes maybe he outthinks himself. Joe Magrane used to say he gave the hitter too much credit by not throwing his change more often and maybe he had a point.
John Jaso: catcher of the next few years?
At least for the near future. The team reached an extension with Kelly Shoppach shortly after he arrived that probably implants him in the lineup against lefties for the next year. Dioner Navarro probably isn't coming back anytime soon. Jaso's skill set is interesting, though, and watching how he ages is going to be a mixture of curiosity and concern. He's a decent baserunner for a catcher – probably the best at advancing on passed balls and wild pitches on the entire team – but he's mostly a guy who will stand at the dish and take as many pitches as possible before either walking or putting the ball in play. That's fine, except his power display to date has been limited. Will pitchers eventually just feed him strikes until he proves he can beat them, or can this sustain? I don't really know the answer.
After the top, the organization has a dearth in catchers. The top prospects – like, the ones that have a shot at being major league regulars, not the Nevin Ashleys of the world – are Luke Bailey and Justin O'Conner; a pair of high school catchers drafted within the past two seasons.
Will we see any new players in a Rays uniform before the series is over? Anyone who might start the series with the team and end elsewhere?
It's impossible to say at this point. The team shopped B.J. Upton around while asking for a lot and that seems unlikely to turn into anything at this point. Matt Garza's no hitter and presence in the rotation probably means he won't be seriously considered for a trade until the offseason. The most realistic scenario is Dan Johnson joining the team and someone like Gabe Kapler going on the disabled list. They like Kapler quite a bit and want him in the organization even after his playing days are over, so it would be awkward to designate him for assignment.
Final question: Will we see Jeremy Hellickson this season?
Most likely in a Price circa 2008 role.
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The Rays are convinced that the Yankees will acquire Dunn, Peter Gammons told WEEI.com. Gammons suspects that if the Nationals trade Dunn, the Yankees will acquire him. The Rays haven't given up hope, since they have had a special assignment scout watching Dunn all week, according to Ed Price of AOL FanHouse (Twitter link).
There's an off topic thread linked above to talk about this.
And there's an ON-TOPIC thread immediately below this one, as well:
Shit, there's like 7 different trade deadline threads up today. This series preview is the only one that's not.
To be fair, it is about the Yankees and Rays. So not totally off-topic.
Exactly. It's highly likely Dunn will be wearing a Tampa Bay or Yankee uniform before this series ends. But you guys are right, guess I shouldn't have posted it here.
Thanks for being a sport about it.
8 comments on this thread and 7 are related to an off-topic comment. I blame you, TSJC.
I blame Lady Gaga.
Was there a reason that they took Hellickson out after 3 innings yesterday?
Supposedly just an innings limit thing.
(Please please please have them trade Hellickson. For some reason, that guy terrifies me.)
Jeremy Hellickson has a real potential to be Andy Pettitte Pt. Deux. That's why he scares you.
What makes you say that? When I think Pettitte, I think of a solid, durable lefty, not necessarily anything spectacular in any one year (well, when I think of Pettitte's career, ahem). Hellickson is a righty, right? And I feel like his peak could be a lot better than Andy's.
Just messing with you.
Am I that obvious ;_; (yes)
In all seriousness, I've heard Andy Benes as a comp.
I'm going with Alan Benes.
Zobrist was a bit banged up with a sore back too right? With him and BJ not at 100% hopefully their lineup is a big easier to navigate. Pena has been hot though, gotta keep him in check…


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SOMERVILLE – Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, the Somerville Office of Commissions and the Somerville Public Schools announce the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration event, entitled, "A Call to Action." The 2012 event will be held, for the first time, at the Somerville Theatre on Monday, January 16th from 11am-1pm, and will include a keynote speech by Chief Legal Counsel for Governor Deval Patrick, William "Mo" Cowan, live music by JG & the Megatones, a display of Somerville student essays in response to the 2012 theme "A Call to Action," and an award presentation to community members who exemplify MLK's legacy in the Somerville community. The event is free and open to the public.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Straight stealing ideas and making them fit your needs is an even higher form. Obviously. So in the vein of Stuff Black People Like and Stuff White People Like, I bring you Stuff Swedish People Like (in alphabetical order):
ABBA – Because they put Sweden on the map. Despite what anyone might tell you about the Swedish Model.
Alcohol – Because it gives them something to drink. This might become a recurring theme.
Candles –Because it is dark. All winter.
Christmas – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Crayfish – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Donald Duck – Because otherwise Christmas would just be another day.
Earplugs – Because tinnitus will get you if the horn is too loud at the hockey game.
Escalators – Because it helps you identify true Swedes. If you're standing still on the left-hand side… you're not a true Swede.
Fermented fish – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Fika – Because it gives Swedes an excuse not to work.
Glögg – Because it gives them a reason to drink. And it is, in fact, a drink.
Going Dutch – Because the guy paying for a date is sexist. And sexism is wrong.
Ingmar Bergman – Because he explained Sweden. Or at least the gloom that can be Sweden.
Jantelagen – Because that way, no one is better than anyone else. Despite evidence to the contrary.
Ketchup – Because it tastes good. On everything.
Lagom – Because, well, it just feels right.
Meatballs – Because they are sold at IKEA for next to nothing.
Midsummer – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
New Years – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Other countries – Because they have cheaper alcohol. And getting there gives them a reason to drink.
Public Transportation – Because they can get away from the sambo and kids and finally get some peace and quiet.
Sambo – Because actually getting married is just too much work.
Santa Lucia – Because it gives them a reason to drink. And maybe argue about the hair color of Lucia.
Saturdays – Because it gives them a reason to eat candy. And it gives them a reason to drink.
Schlager Music – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Socialdemokraterna – Because they're just kind of there. And change is scary.
Sports – But only when Sweden wins.
Sunlight – Because it gives them a reason to drink.
Systembolaget – Because they don't trust themselves to drink responsibly. So the government keeps the tax high and the hours tight.
Taxes – Because it makes them feel superior to have "free" health care and education.
Tetra Pak – Because if Tetra Pak can't hold it, nothing can.
The Twenty-Fifth – Because it's pay day. And it gives them a reason to drink.
Tjuvlyssning – Because, since no one actually talks in public, when someone does, everyone needs to eavesdrop.
Tomten – Because he's not fat. Like Swedes.
Valborg – Because it gives them a reason to drink
Welcome to Sweden. And Stuff Swedish People Like. Feel free to add more in the comments below.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Stuff Swedish People Like
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Straight stealing ideas and making them fit your needs is an even higher form. Obviously. So in the vein of Stuff Black People Like and Stuff White People Like, I bring you Stuff Swedish People Like (in alphabetical order):
Posted by Hairy Swede at 10:07 AM
53 comments:
- SwedishJenn said...
OMG! I just got the whole candy on Saturday thing. I thought I was just imagining things but turns out, i'm quite perceptive...ha! I've noticed on my weekly grocery expeditions the run for "goodis" seems to occur on Saturdays. So I guess it's a THING then?
And yes, Swedes sure do love to drink in mass quantities. fun post!
- July 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
1....coz it gives them a reason to drink
holly ! so how does this contry run ,for god sake!
certainly i agree with that eavesdroping thing, i've noticed when on occasion i have to speak(in english)it's like turning an electronic magnet on!once i almost had a blond whisker in my eye ;)
good job!
just a fraud could stop you of being the best blogger!haha
- July 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Ugh, this is true, and kinda sad... really gives me a reason to drink, absolut.
- July 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM
i have a few friends here and i've seen them in both cases(sober and drunk)and i've got to say they're more lovely when they 're drunk ;)
- July 28, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Smek this! said...
Sounds as if you had something against drinking, LOL! Danes drink more, and finally this year the Finns topped Denmark in drinking alcohol. I only did my portion but still. Swedes don't drink that much because they get drunk quite easily. So they just try and try to do better. Almost feel sorry for those poor bastards. Any good Swedish drinker has Finnish roots. Not saying it's a good thing to drink though.
- July 28, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Nikki said...
I've just discovered your blog and spent the past 1½ hours reading. You're such a good writer! And funny. A wonderful combo. Congrats and I voted for you!
- July 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Volvo - So Swedes can transport alcohol out to their summer houses and drink.
- July 28, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Laura said...
For some reason, I assumed a Swede would laugh at all the Americans lined up to eat cheap meatballs at their local IKEA. Some things are universal, I guess.
And is drinking really that big there? From this list, I would imagine the Swedish spend an enormous amount of their free time getting drunk. Which seems kinda sad, really.
And, what is a sambo? I can't imagine the word has the same meaning it has in the US.
- July 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Coming out as a teetotaller in Sweden is like coming out as an atheist in the Vatican. I know, because I'm trying to. :)
- July 28, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Hairy, keep on writing! I would love to publish your book. I prefer to remain anonymous here. In case you have a public email address or something, let me know.
- July 28, 2009 at 4:49 PM
- Montastic said...
Looks like Swedes need a reason to pretty much anything.
How very Swedish of them.
- July 28, 2009 at 5:06 PM
- Walk On Boy said...
Damnit. I've been composing a stuff Swedish People Like list. Snus was on top of the list as well as booze cruises {It gives them a reason to get shit-wasted for dirt cheap.} and standing eyes closed face toward the sun while waiting at a public transport stop. White wine. Horrendous black licorice candies covered in salt. White wine. And staring in the subway, but avoiding eye contact at all costs on the street.
Hairy, someone sent me your blog after your DIFAF post. Thanks for coming, hope you enjoyed it. I'm an American joker living a fairy tale life during the summers in Sweden.
@Laura. Sambos are live-in significant others. They may have children together, they may not. There is no set limit to how long they have to be dating. Basically a step above boyfriend/girlfriend and below husband/wife.
- July 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Hi! I just recently discovered your blog (genom tjuvlyssnat faktiskt) Anyway, I think you're awesome! You're fun and insightful... and even though I'm born and raised in Sweden, I think that what you write is very funny, and I really don't take offence. Those who do probably just have no humor, whatsoever. And most of what you write is pretty much true anyways, so...
Tack för en underbart rolig blogg!
- July 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Kalles! You can't forget Kalles Caviar! After all, they need to have Kalles on bread to help absorb some of the booze.
- July 28, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Haha! I dont think we drink that much more than any other country. We just got more holidays where drinking is acceptable etc :)
Fun list though. I love reading your blog :)
- July 28, 2009 at 7:13 PM
- Néstor said...
LOVE IT! I think that some of these could also apply to us here in Canada...especially the alcohol part. What is it about northern countries and heavy alcohol consumption. We live for our weekends!
- July 28, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- eklandisk said...
Great list!
The only one I'd dismiss is the one about escalators. It's a big city thing. People standing to the left in escalators are from the countryside.
- July 28, 2009 at 11:19 PM
- terander said...
Come on, surely we don't drink THAT much? Do we? But ok, if we do, you should've added that it in turn is just to give us an excuse to sing. Because we'd never sing around other people unless we were drunk.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:48 AM
- Francis S. said...
Ha! But I gotta agree with Eklandisk on the escalators - having lived in DC for 15 years before moving to Stockholm, it was always tourists who stood on the left blocking the way and gawking on the subway escalators, tempting Washingtonians to kick them out of the way...
- July 29, 2009 at 6:34 AM
According to WHO Swedes drink 6.8 litres of alcohol/person a year. Compare that to Americans (8.5), Canadians (8.2), Brits (10.3), Danes (11,9), French (13.5) or why not the Irish (14,4) or the Luxemburgians (or whatever you call them...17.5)? Sweden is one of the countries in Europe with the smallest alcoholconsumtion, together with Island (5.7) and Norway (5.8).
- July 29, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- T. AKA Ricky Raw said...
When I first visited Stockholm, I arrived at night. I was shocked at how outgoing, adventurous and uninhibited Swedish people were. Totally unrepressed.
Then I woke up the next day and walked around. I thought "Are these the same people?" Totally repressed, introverted and uptight sticks in the mud. That's when I realized this is how they were sober and the night before was how they were when they got themselves ridiculously drunk in order to become social.
- July 29, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Laura said...
@Walk On Boy - Thanks! I suspected as much. I suppose it's a Swedish acronym. You're playing American football in Sweden!!! Who knew there was such a thing. Sounds like lots of potential for amusing stories. I'm going to have to hop over to your blog and surf around some more.
@Ylva - Very interesting! Nice to see one Swedish stereotype shot down. Perhaps Swedes aren't as shy as people say, either.
- July 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Swedes dont really drink more then in any other country. The thing is just that when Swedes drink, they drink to get drunk. The more social drinkingthing togheter with good food, something that is very common in Francen, does not exist in Sweden.
- July 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM
I think that the amount of alcohol consumed by Swedes on boats to and from Finland, purchased in Denmark, consumed in Mallorca, would increase the per capita volume by a MASSIVE amount
- July 29, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
@SwedishJenn – it is a thing. An amazing thing that I still remember from being a kid.
@Persian Guy – it's not that they drink all the time, its just that when they do drink they drink massive quantities. Of course, sometimes I wonder…
@anonymous – that's the spirit!
@Persian guy – you are definitely not the first person to notice that. Sadly.
@Smek – not at all. I quite like the drinking. And I love the shot at the nordic neighbors. Well done.
@Nikki – Thanks! I appreciate it, glad you've been enjoying it.
@An American Girl – ooh good call. I like it.
@Laura – Swedes do enjoy the meatballs.
And in terms of the drinking, its not so much that they drink a lot, its that when they do drink they get really drunk.
And sambo is a lovely Swedish word. If you're living with your girlfriend or boyfriend but aren't married you are sambo. Sam being short for samman, together, and bo being short for boende, accommodation. So you live together.
@anonymous – that does take guts. Good luck!
@anonymous – just shoot me an email at aswedishamericaninsweden at gmail dot com.
@montastic – Swedes fear change. And spontaneity.
@Walk On Boy – oh those are glorious as well. Im pretty sure this list could end up filling up its own website.
Glad you got a chance to read the post. I definitely enjoyed the game. Even managed to help out a bit at the game so I felt halfway useful.
@Sophia – Thanks! Glad you take it all with a grain of salt. And I have to agree with you, clearly those who are offended have no humor.
@anonymous – oh you're right! Or instead of kalles it could have been tubes. Caviar in tubes. Mustard in tubes. Cheese in tubes. Flavored cheese in tubes.
@anonymous – I think you're right. And when it is time to drink, the Swedes go big.
@Néstor – Maybe it's the darkness. Or the cold.
@eklandisk – that could be, but you've got to admit. Its pretty impressive watching everyone stand off to the right.
@terander – you're absolutely right about the singing. Or maybe it's the other way around. Singing gives the Swedes an excuse to drink.
@Francis – damn those tourists. I suppose Ive never really lived anywhere else that has as many escalators as Stockholm.
@Ylva – true, although I did see some other stats that said Swedes were over 10%. But this is one of those things where anecdotal evidence says otherwise. But I think that's just because the drinking is done in such binges.
@T. AKA Ricky Raw – aah alcohol, the favorite social lubricant of Swedes everywhere.
@Laura – unfortunately, without they alcohol, many of them are…
@anonymous – exactly!
@anonymous – oooh… a great point. Well played.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Daniel said...
Good stuff, and a bit sad. :) or :(. Can't make my mind up.
Néstor: they don't call it the liquor belt for nothing!
But Swedes also don't have what they have in England for instance, which is a 'couple' of pints, every day, every day. It's planned drinking, like, 'on saturday we're gonna party!!'. But not today, because today (and tomorrow) we are working.
Anon.: We DO have what they have in France, at least in some circles. It is not correct to just drink on christmas etc. You drink snaps with certain courses, and you have different flavours that are good with different dishes (Like OP Andersson with crayfish and strong cheese).
Hairy: You forgot the most important one: Swedes drink, because it gives them an excuse not to be so reserved and, for lack of a better word, virtuous the rest of the time!
We also like the five weeks minimum holiday law, because...
- July 29, 2009 at 6:49 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
I might just have to do a part two incorporating some of these ideas from everyone. because the vacation and drinking ones are also really good.
- July 30, 2009 at 12:54 AM
oh, oh you forgot about snus! unforgivable ;(
- July 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
Ill blame it on the fact that I dont use it. But you're right, I dropped the ball.
- July 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- Garrett said...
not just vacationing... but camping. gotta love the right to access law. might also add the maypole: gives us something to drink around. and små groderna: gives us something to do/sing while drinking. perhaps even queuing: because swedes are so patient and reserved. once we're in line, we stick it out. great list. i lolled many times.
- July 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM
so true.. :D /swede
- July 31, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
@garrett - a good call on the right to access. just a glorious law that I have taken advantage of.
the more I think about this, the more I realize I really do need to start another list. a part två if you will.
@anonymous - agreed!
- August 1, 2009 at 11:27 AM
By the way, I wonder how Hairy Swede's Swedish sounds like. Can he distinguish an "i" from a "y", or a "y" from a "u" when he pronounces them? ("y" is kind of inbetween a Swedish "i" and a Swedish "u" and that sound doesn't exist in English.)
fåra - furrow, groove
fora - plural form of "forum" (?)
fura - a pine tree with long pines
fyra - four
fira - celebrate
pytt - mix of finely cut meat and potato
pitt - slang for penis
ny - new
ni - you (plural)
sura - mope
syra - acid
While I'm at it, here are a few more sounds that one might need to be careful with:
dörrar - doors
dårar - fools
ficka - pocket
fika - a small meal between meals, typically consisting of sandwiches or cookies, and something non-alcoholic to drink
dam - lady
damm - 1) dust or 2) pond
lam - lame
lamm - lamb
håra - loosing hair (a dog for instance)
hora - hore
Here is an interesting one: banan. If the emphasis is on the first "a" AND it is long, then it means "the track"; if the emphasis is on the second "a" AND it is long, then it means "banana".
- August 7, 2009 at 6:32 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
I'm fluent.
- August 8, 2009 at 4:29 AM
How about full= drunk and ful=ugly. As in....Jag är full och ful. I am drunk and ugly. That's my pickup line here. Here's another good blog on Sweden...
- October 9, 2009 at 3:47 AM
- Hairy Swede said...
I suppose my question would have to be how often that has worked. Because I might start using it myself.
- October 12, 2009 at 3:25 PM
I can understand the drinking thing- Sweden is truly a depressing place to live, especially in the winter, but really anytime of the year.
- November 21, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
well the winter is rough, but the summer is hard to beat.
- November 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM
- LostInTraslation...Literally said...
swedes mate, they just LOVE to perpetually drink don't they.
- November 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
they do manage to put away a decent amount of alcohol.
- November 29, 2009 at 5:09 AM
You forgot Herring - Because it gives them a reason to drink.
- December 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Hairy Swede said...
youre absolutely right
- January 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Old-Wizard.com said...
As a proud Swedish American, I love ABBA:
Swedish is the undisputed master of pop music.
- March 22, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Hairy Swede said...
that is just glorious.
- March 26, 2010 at 2:01 AM
Salty liquorice! bluuurrghhh
- April 1, 2010 at 5:10 AM
OH and the Swedish Chef!
They gotta love that!
Swedish Chef's latest tweet
"I likey zee culd vedder becoose I'm frum Sveden but ven zee snoo is gooing side-a-weyz I vuld radder be inside-a makeeeng my meetballs! BORK"
What's not to love?
- April 1, 2010 at 5:14 AM
- Hairy Swede said...
@anonymous Priscilla - yeah, the salt licorice is an aquired taste I think. and one I have not acquired.
oh the poor swedish chef. I dont even know how many swedes actually acknowledge the existence of the swedish chef.
- April 10, 2010 at 4:06 AM
- ayenenay said...
helt sant!
- October 20, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- crystalwheel said...
Don't forget Roxette!
- March 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Linn said...
I don't know if you've ever thought about this Hairy, but I really think that the Swedish chef sounds more Norwegian than Swedish. I think I heard somewhere that the inspiration for him actually was a Norwegian guy. Not sure if that's true though... But come on, we can't sound like that, can we?
/Linn The Pink (Swedish) Viking
- August 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Hairy Swede said...
@ayenenay - tack tack
@crystalwheel - ah of course!
@Linn - he does sound way more norwegian, I like it. Swedish is obviously so beautiful that no muppet could ever mock it.
- August 18, 2011 at 1:39 AM
- Linn said...
@Hairy Swede:
Aaaaw you just secured a place in my heart with that comment <3 Good boy :)
- August 18, 2011 at 6:44 AM
- Hairy Swede said...
@Linn - its the boyish charm.
- August 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM