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Published: Nov. 16, 2009
Updated: Mar. 14, 2011
By Scott Huler
One morning each week, the waiting room of the Duke Breast Cancer Survivors Clinic fills up with half a dozen women.
They make their way to the blood pressure gauge, pumping, listening, and writing down their own readings. They take their own pulses, check their weight. They even use notepad computers to answer questions about their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.
The one thing the women don't do in that waiting room is wait.
"It's so nice to talk to other people going through similar things," says Martha Hall, who's been cancer-free for four years and recently attended the clinic for her annual checkup.
What's more, after the women fill out their materials, instead of hanging around avoiding eye contact, they meet with nurse practitioner Kathy Trotter -- as a group. They discuss issues they face as cancer survivors: bone density, depression, weight gain, nutrition, exercise, and what they can do to take care of themselves.
The Survivors Clinic represents a new, empowering model of care -- very different from the suspense-filled annual mammogram surrounded by two hours of waiting that most survivors are familiar with.
"The focus is keeping you healthy, it's not 'You're so sick,'" Hall says. It's an affirmation of just how far these women have come -- and of how much things change after cancer treatment ends.
"You've been in the womb of care," says Bebe Guill, director of survivorship programs and services at Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. "You've been encircled by these people who talk to you every day, every week, and all of a sudden they're gone. And you're left with this terrifying fear of, 'Who am I now? What is my life about now? And what happens if this comes back?'"
Add in that you will likely experience physical side effects (which can range from muscle wasting to infertility and even heart disease) or emotional side effects (like anxiety and depression), and a cancer survivor is faced with a new crisis: "The challenge," Guill says, "is finding a new normal."
That goes for caregivers as well as their patients.
Throughout the Duke Cancer Institute, clinicians and researchers are figuring out how care should evolve as more and more people survive cancer longer and longer, creating a new class of patients that once would have been an oxymoron: cancer survivors.
There are now 10 million cancer survivors in the United States, says Tina Piccirilli, director of the Duke Center for Cancer Survivorship, founded in 2005. Trends suggest North Carolina will have more than 60,000 new cancer cases by 2030 -- which at the current five-year survival rate of 64 percent means a good 40,000 new cancer survivors five years after diagnosis.
As the population of survivors has increased, survivorship has emerged as a distinct field of care. There are now a dozen or so cancer survivor centers nationwide, Piccirilli says, and new ones are being created each year.
Duke's program seeks to develop care that meets the needs of survivors -- and conduct the research that will identify just what those needs are.
In the 15 years she has been with Duke, Bebe Guill has seen the shifting tides of survivorship firsthand.
Cancer, she says, "is not a linear process, the way we used to think about it: you get the diagnosis, you get a little treatment, either you're cured or you die. Cancer is becoming a chronic disease."
That's why, Piccirilli says, the Duke Cancer Institute has adopted the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship's definition of cancer survivor: "You're a survivor from the day you're diagnosed -- which is a hugely positive message."
Care is changing to reflect that attitude. At the brain tumor center, clinicians and patients begin creating a survivorship plan from the start of treatment. Caregivers discuss the long-term effects of brain cancer and various treatment options as clinical decisions are made, and offer both medical and psychosocial resources throughout treatment to help patients manage or adapt to those outcomes.
With brain tumors, cognitive deficits are a frequent result of the tumor or its treatment -- the ability to solve problems, to pay attention, to multitask.
"Short-term memory loss," Guill says, "is common in our patients and can make day-to-day life very difficult and frustrating."
So patients need not just medical care but the kind of support services that will help them adjust to changes in their relationships, their earning status, their independence.
This fall, the brain tumor center is launching a new survivorship clinic that will pull together a range of resources to help survivors cope with their changed status.
In addition to offering clinical surveillance and preventive care, and recommending interventions for effects such as neurocognitive deficits, sexual dysfunction, or vision and hearing problems, the clinic will offer guidance for practical concerns -- such as returning to work or coping with an inability to drive -- and connect survivors with wellness resources to aid their recovery.
A key part of that is support from others who are going through similar experiences, says Guill -- so the clinic will incorporate a patient and family support group, as well as a "lunch and learn" group where experts will discuss vital topics such as managing fatigue and depression or coping with behavioral changes.
Other specialized clinics for survivors are also popping up around Duke -- including programs in the works for prostate and other cancer types, in addition to the Breast Cancer Survivors Clinic, launched in February -- to better meet survivors' broad range of needs.
In the action-packed breast cancer clinic, for example, patients benefit from the self-assessment of weight, pulse, and blood pressure, plus facilitated group discussion and education.
Then they go on to individual appointments, whether for mammograms or bloodwork, nutrition consults or physical therapy, or one-on-one time with nurse practitioner Kathy Trotter, where they complete a long-term care plan to share with their primary care physician.
When necessary, they schedule appointments with the oncologist as well. Each woman ends up spending the same few hours she would have devoted to her checkup, but she's seen multiple practitioners and wasted no time.
"This may be the first survivorship clinic in the United States to combine both group and individual support, assessment, and education within a single visit," says Trotter, adding that she hopes it will serve as a national model. "It's designed to empower survivors -- and they love it."
Plus, adds clinic medical director Kelly Marcom, MD, the new clinic benefits women through not just how they spend this time but where they don't spend it: in the oncologist's waiting room.
"Not to sound callous, but if you've been treated for early-stage breast cancer and are hopefully cured, you don't necessarily want to be in a clinic with people who have had a recurrence," Marcom says.
Hall agrees: "I just said to a friend, every time I go in [to the oncologist] I cry -- it just brings it all back like it was happening today."
"It's a symbolic moving on in their lives," Marcom says. "We can overmedicalize their lives -- that's not a good thing."
That is a growing consensus, says Amy Abernethy, MD. Abernethy directs the Duke Cancer Care Research Program, which "tries to move the philosophy of whole-person care into real clinical space" at every stage of survivors' care.
"We are systematically developing new models of care to do a better job of taking care of the individual patient," Abernethy says.
She looks at what she calls the "misery line," a representation of the cumulative effects of cancer and treatment: pain, fatigue, difficulty getting around, nausea. "If you plot this across time, this is a volume of misery, and my job is to decrease the misery line."
The first job is to measure that misery, via clinical trials that focus on quality of life. Abernethy cites as example a trial now under way in the sarcoma clinic, where patients answer a computerized series of questions regarding their physical, psychological, and emotional states:
Are they in pain? Depressed? Functioning poorly or well?
Those data can be tracked over time as they progress through treatment -- and then compared with therapeutic actions taken to see what seems to be working.
"We're just at the starting point of identifying trends in the data, looking at what happens to things like pain or depression over the course of treatment," Abernethy says.
"Then we bundle that information and report it back to the clinicians so they understand what kind of things people are dealing with. And as soon as we've got a sense of that, we can start bringing in new services, new products to help them cope."
This data-gathering helps make a whole of both patients and their care.
"It doesn't really help if I just take care of pain, or of nausea and vomiting. Those are isolated events in a whole person," Abernethy says.
"How do we wrap it all together? That's my ultimate goal."
As survivors pass from active treatment to one, three, five or more years of remission, new concerns arise -- many that might not even be on the patient's radar screen at the time of diagnosis.
Consider oncofertility, the relatively new arena addressing the effects of cancer treatment on fertility.
"When people weren't surviving their cancer, nobody cared whether they would have been fertile," says Susannah Copland, MD, of the Duke Fertility Center. Today, it's a vital question for young people facing a cancer they can legitimately hope to survive.
So Duke oncologists have added a question to their intake survey to trigger the conversation, and if a patient expresses interest in future fertility, Copland is called in to discuss their options before, during, and after potentially damaging chemotherapy.
Male adults face relatively few problems, Copland says: "Sperm freezing is one of the most established methods of fertility preservation." Even if radiation or chemotherapy leaves a man sterile, his own sperm can be collected beforehand for use in in vitro fertilization (IVF).
For women, the obstacles are greater.
"The first question we ask is, do we have time?" Copland says. If a woman has a little time and a partner, her eggs can be gathered and fertilized and the embryos frozen. The largest group of such patients are women with breast cancer who have had surgery and are waiting to heal before they start chemotherapy.
That healing time can be used for IVF, though since IVF raises estrogen to many times its usual levels and some breast cancers are hormonally responsive, Copland works closely with patients' oncologists.
"We can take the medication to a level where the estrogen is only twice the woman's normal level," which oncologists find less worrying.
The embryos created through IVF can then be frozen -- a well-established practice -- until the woman makes her decisions about pregnancy. Some forms of chemotherapy leave women menopausal afterward, so women without partners or donors may consider freezing eggs.
Duke is initiating a clinical trial to offer the investigational procedure, which is newer than embryo freezing and has lower pregnancy rates.
"All those freezing options require time [for stimulating and gathering eggs] and the comfort of her oncologist with increased hormone levels," Copland says. "What does not is freezing ovary tissue. If a woman is at exceedingly high risk of losing ovarian function, we can do a laparoscopic surgery to remove one ovary and freeze it."
Duke is liaised with the National Physicians Cooperative to Preserve Fertility for Female Cancer Patients, a multi-center study of ovarian tissue freezing, which is a more invasive and experimental procedure.
"You are investing in hope," Copland says.
Should a woman who has not chosen any of the freezing procedures turn out menopausal after treatment, she's still not out of options: she can try IVF using an egg donor. "I think for many women it's a relief to hear there are options afterward," says Copland.
Copland and other Duke researchers are also studying the root causes of ovarian dysfunction after chemotherapy. Copland is collaborating on a grant to fund a study to follow patients through their treatment, measuring ovarian function markers to learn more about what's happening to their ovaries.
"That will give us better information than just 'this woman took chemo and didn't get her period back, and this is how old she was.'"
Across the medical center, Pamela Douglas, MD, Ursula Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, is studying heart disease in cancer survivors.
Anthracyclines, used in chemotherapy, cause heart weakening in many patients: "They can damage the heart muscle," Douglas says, "and can also damage blood vessels, leading to hypotension or kidney failure."
Newer targeted cancer therapies such as bevacizumab (Avastin) and trastuzumab (Herceptin) have also been linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Studies have shown that up to 4 percent of breast cancer patients taking trastuzumab have symptomatic heart failure and 10 percent have reversible heart problems.
Douglas is leading clinical studies to better understand the connection between cancer treatment and heart disease. "We have fairly crude measures" of the cardiac effects of chemotherapy, she says. "Heart failure is not the way anyone would like to diagnose a side effect."
So she's testing novel uses of echocardiography -- a noninvasive test that doesn't use radiation -- to see whether it does well at predicting which cancer patients might go on to heart failure.
More general trials include detailed cardiac monitoring of current cancer survivors to build up a database that could be mined for more evidence about which cancer patients develop heart disease and why.
Part of the reported increase in heart disease among breast cancer survivors may be simply a matter of numbers, Douglas believes: "Because the cancer cure rate is so high, people who survive are going to die of the kind of diseases that women who don't have cancer get."
Lee Jones, PhD, co-director of Duke's Tug McGraw Research Center, is studying an approach that could be used to stave off not only heart problems, but the muscle atrophy that often accompanies cancer treatment -- and possibly even cancer itself.
The miracle treatment? Good old-fashioned exercise.
Many cancer patients take catabolic steroids, which cause muscles to waste away, with major effects on their quality of life -- though "believe it or not we haven't got a good handle on how to quantify that," Jones says.
So, in a study funded by the National Cancer Institute, he is conducting strength testing and muscle measurement to study those effects over time among individuals with primary brain tumors.
"The next step will be to do biopsies and genetic screening" to isolate genetic markers for patients most likely to suffer severe wasting.
The data will also show when the wasting becomes most severe: "This will inform the timing and type of intervention that may have the most benefit," says Jones. "Say, we know this patient's going to experience muscle dysfunction, then we can be proactive and intervene before dysfunction occurs."
Regarding the cardiac disease so many survivors get, Jones is collaborating with Douglas to investigate whether exercise can prevent heart damage associated with certain types of chemotherapy and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in long-term survivors of breast and prostate cancer.
In a study funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Jones is also examining the effects of exercise in patients undergoing active treatment for early-stage lung cancer, and says, "They're doing better, and they're feeling better."
The next study will investigate which type of exercise is most beneficial for these patients and whether exercise can impact long-term quality of life as well as overall survival.
But Jones is most excited about whether exercise can itself help shrink tumors: "Put a tumor in a mouse, exercise the mouse, and the biology of the tumor will change."
He's now working with breast cancer patients in a novel study investigating whether exercise can improve chemotherapy's effectiveness in killing breast cancer cells. "This will be the very first study to look at the effect of exercise on the tumor itself in a human," says Jones.
"If exercise can help chemotherapy work better but also protect your heart and the rest of your body from the harmful effects of the chemo at the same time, it would be just fantastic."
It would also be a great example of the direction in which cancer care is going -- with care focused on not only beating the disease, but helping people continue to triumph in the many battles, small and large, they will face in the months and years after their diagnosis.
And as Jones and his fellow clinicians and researchers transform the landscape of care for a new generation of cancer survivors, they are helping patients close in on the goal every one of them has held since the beginning: surviving -- as well and as long as possible.
This article was first published in the Summer 2008 edition of DukeMed Magazine.


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Saint Adomnán of Iona (pronounced Athovnawn) (627/8 – 704) was abbot of Iona (679–704), hagiographer, statesman and clerical lawyer; he was the author of the most important Vita of Saint Columba and promulgator of the "Law of Innocents", lex innocentium, also called Cáin Adomnáin, "Law of Adomnán". In Ireland, a popular Anglicised form of his name is Saint Eunan, from the Gaelic Naomh Adhamhnán. Saint Adamnan is another Anglicised name.
Adomnán was a descendant of Colmán mac Sétna, a cousin of Saint Columba and the ancestor, through his son Ainmire, of the kings of Cenél Conaill. He was the son of Rónán mac Tinne by Ronat, a woman from the (northern) Uí Néill lineage known as the Cenél nÉnda. Adomnán's birthplace is Raphoe, a town in County Donegal in the Province of Ulster. Some of Adomnán's childhood anecdotes seem to confirm at least an upbringing in this area.
It is thought that Adomnán may have begun his monastic career at a Columban monastery called Druim Tuamma, but any Columban foundation in northern Ireland or Dál Riata is a possibility, although Durrow[disambiguation needed] is a stronger possibility than most. He probably joined the Columban familia (i.e. the federation of monasteries under the leadership of Iona Abbey) around the year 640. Some modern commentators believe that he could not have come to Iona until sometime after the year 669, the year of the accession of Abbot Failbe, the first abbot of whom Adomnán gives any information. However, Richard Sharpe argues that he probably came to Iona during the abbacy of Ségéne (d. 652). Whenever or wherever Adomnán received his education, Adomnán attained a level of learning rare in Early Medieval northern Europe. It has been suggested by Alfred Smyth that Adomnán spent some years teaching and studying at Durrow[disambiguation needed], and while this is not accepted by all scholars, remains a strong possibility.
Prior to becoming abbot of Iona, Saint Adomnán had been abbot of Skreen Monastery in County Sligo. The site originally known as Conc na Maoil, which means Hill of Seals, can still be seen this day.
In 679, Adomnán became the ninth abbot of Iona after Columba. Abbot Adomnán enjoyed a friendship with King Aldfrith of Northumbria. In 684, Aldfrith had been staying with Adomnán in Iona. In 686, after the death of Aldfrith's brother King Ecgfrith of Northumbria and Aldfrith's succession to the kingship, Adomnán was in Northumbria on the request of King Fínsnechta Fledach of Brega, in order to gain the freedom of sixty Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid two years before. This Adomnán achieved. Adomnán, in keeping with Ionan tradition, made several more trips to the lands of the English during his abbacy, including one the following year. It is sometimes thought, after the account given by Bede, that it was during his visits to Northumbria, under the influence of Abbot Ceolfrith of Jarrow, that Adomnán decided to adopt the Roman dating of Easter that had been agreed some years before at the Synod of Whitby. Bede implies that this led to a schism at Iona, whereby Adomnán became alienated from the Iona brethren, and went to Ireland to convince the Irish of the Roman dating. Bede's account is however rarely believed by historians working in the area, although it is clear that Adomnán did adopt that Roman dating, and moreover, probably did argue the case for it in Ireland.
In 697, it is generally believed that Adomnán promulgated the Cáin Adomnáin, meaning literally the "Canons" or "Law of Adomnán". The Cáin Adomnáin was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dal Ríatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr. It is a set of laws designed, among other things, to guarantee the safety and immunity of various types of non-combatant in warfare. For this reason it is also known as the "Law of Innocents".
Adomnán's most important work, and the one for which he is best known, is the Vita Columbae (i.e. "Life of Columba"), a hagiography of Iona's founder, Saint Columba. The source is by far the most important surviving work written in early medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, as well as a great insight into the life of Iona and the early medieval Gaelic monk. However, the Vita was not his only work. Adomnán also wrote the treatise De Locis Sanctis (i.e. "On Holy Places"), an account of the great Christian holy places and centres of pilgrimage. Adomnán got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf, who had personally visited the Egypt, Rome, Constantinople and the Holy Land, and visited Iona afterwards. Adomnán thought the work so important that he gave a copy to the scholar-king Aldfrith of Northumbria (685-704). Also attributed to him is a good deal of Gaelic poetry, including a celebration of the Pictish King Bridei's (671-93) victory over the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain (685).
Adomnán died in 704, and became a saint in Scottish and Irish tradition, as well as one of the most important figures in either Scottish or Irish history. His death and feast day are commemorated on 23 September. Along with St. Columba, he is joint patron of the Diocese of Raphoe, which encompasses the bulk of County Donegal in the north west of Ireland. The Cathedral of St. Eunan and St. Columba (popularly known as St. Eunan's Cathedral), the Catholic cathedral in that diocese, is in Letterkenny.
In his native Donegal, the saint has given his name to several institutions and buildings including:
- The Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; the current seat of the Bishop of Raphoe,
- The Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Eunan in Raphoe, Donegal
- St Eunan's College, a prestigious secondary school in Letterkenny,
- St Eunan's NS, a national school in the small village of Laghey, just south of Donegal Town,
- St Eunan's GAA, a GAA club in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
See also[edit]
Secondary sources[edit]
- Reeves, William, and James Henthorn Todd (eds.). Vita Sancta Columbae: The life of St Columba founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of Iona. Dublin: Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association, 1857. Available from CELT
- Sharpe, Richard (tr.). Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba. London, 1995. (43-65)
- Smyth, Alfred P. (1984), Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-0100-7
Further reading[edit]
Primary sources[edit]
- Adomnán, Vita Columbae:
- Anderson, A.O. and M.O. Anderson (eds. and trs.). Adomnán's Life of Columba. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1991. First edition: Edinburgh, 1961.
- Sharpe, Richard (tr.). Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba. London, 1995. (43-65)
- Reeves, William, and James Henthorn Todd (eds.). Vita Sancta Columbae: The life of St Columba founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of Iona. Dublin: Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association, 1857. Available from CELT
- Cáin Adamnáin ("The Law of Adomnán") or Lex Innocentium ("Law of the Innocents")
- Márkus, Gilbert (tr.), Adomnán's Law of the Innocents - Cáin Adomnáin: A seventh-century law for the protection of non-combatants. Kilmartin, Argyll: Kilmartin House Museum, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9533674-3-6
- Meyer, Kuno (ed.). Cain Adamnain: An Old Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.
- Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín (tr.). "The Law of Adomnán: A Translation." Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents, ed. Thomas O'Louglin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 53-68. Translation of §§ 28-53.
- Adomnán, De Locis Sanctis
- Meehan, D. (ed.). Adomnan's 'De Locis Sanctis'. Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 3. Dublin, 1958. 1–34.
- Anonymous, Betha Adamnáin ("The Life of Adomnán")
- Herbert, Maire and Padraig Ó Riain (eds. and trs.). Betha Adamnáin: The Irish Life of Adamnán. Irish Texts Society 54. 1988. 1-44.
- Anonymous, Fís Adomnáin ("The Vision of Adomnán"), 10-11th century.
- Windisch, Ernst (ed.). "Fís Adamnáin." Irische Texte 1 (1880). 165-96.
- Stokes, W. (ed. and tr.). Fis Adomnáin. Simla, 1870.
- Carey, John (tr.). King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998. 263-74.
Secondary sources[edit]
- Herbert, M. Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba. 1988.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Exegetical Purpose of Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis", Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 24(1992)37-53.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Earliest World Maps Known in Ireland", History Ireland 1:1(1993)7-10.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Latin Versions of the Scriptures in Use on Iona in the Late Seventh Century", Peritia 8(1994)18-26.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Library of Iona in the Late Seventh Century: The Evidence from Adomnán's De locis sanctis", Ériu 45(1994)33-52
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán the Illustrious", The Innes Review 46(1995)1-14.
- O'Loughlin, T. ""The Gates of Hell": From Metaphor to Fact," Milltown Studies 38(1996)98-114.
- O'Loughlin, T."The View from Iona: Adomnán's mental maps", Peritia 10(1996)98-122
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán and mira rotunditas", Ériu 47(1996)95-99.
- O'Loughlin, T. "Living in the Ocean: the significance of the patristic understanding of oceanus for writings from Iona" in C. Bourke ed., Studies in the Cult of Saint Columba (Four Courts Press, Dublin 1997), pp. 11–23.
- O'Loughlin, T. "Res, tempus, locus, persona: Adomnán's Exegetical Method", Innes Review 48(1997)95-111; re-printed in: D. Broun and T.O. Clancy eds, Spes Scotorum Hope of the Scots: Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh 1999), pp. 139–158.
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán and Arculf: The Case of an Expert Witness", Journal of Medieval Latin 7(1997)127-146
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Salzburg Fragment of Adomnán's De locis sanctis", Manuscripta 41(1997)32-37.
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán's De locis sanctis: a textual emendation and an additional source identification," Ériu 48(1997)37-40
- O'Loughlin, T. "Celtic Theology: Humanity, World and God in Early Irish Writings" (Continuum [Cassell], London 2000).
- O'Loughlin, T. "Palestine in the Aftermath of the Arab Conquest: The Earliest Latin Account," in R.N. Swanson ed., Studies in Church History 36: The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge 2000), pp. 78–89.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Diffusion of Adomnán's De locis sanctis in the Medieval Period," Ériu 51(2000)93-106
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán: A Man of Many Parts" in T. O'Loughlin ed., Adomnán at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2001), pp. 41–51.
- O'Loughlin, T. "The Tombs of the Saints: their significance for Adomnán", in J. Carey, M. Herbert and P. Ó Riain eds, Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2001), pp. 1–14.
- O'Loughlin, T.'Perceiving Palestine in Early Christian Ireland: Martyrium, Exegetical Key, Relic, and Liturgical Space,' Ériu 54(2004)125-137.
- O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán and the Holy Places: The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Location of the Biblical Drama" (T. & T. Clark, London 2007).
External links[edit]
- Webb, Alfred (1878). " Adamnan, Saint". A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son. Wikisource
- Adamnan (c. 700), Reeves, William, ed., The Life of Saint Columba, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas (published 1874), retrieved 2008-08-09
- St. Adamnan (c. 700), Fowler, Joseph Thomas, ed., Prophecies Miracles and Visions of St. Columba, London: Henry Frowde (published 1895), retrieved 2008-08-09
- Resources for Adomnán
- Bibliography for Adomnán
- http://bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/browseatsources.php?letter=A#ATS7714
- Texts on Wikisource:
- "St. Adamnan". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adamnan". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
- "Adamnan, Saint". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
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11-30-2010, 08:12 PMGuidebooks
Does anyone still use them?
How are the "All you can know" travelers researching trips nowadays? Travel shows, TripAdvisor, Twitter?
For an upcoming trip, I mostly used the internet although I did borrow a guidebook from the library. As it was several years old, it wasn't that much help so I bought a little Frommers guide with a map (and even this was not as current, having been published in 2009).
Hey, exflygirl, we've missed having you in the community for a while. Hope you are doing well and planning some exciting trips.
Re: Your Question! 90% Internet searches these days for current travel information. Still look at travel guides for some baseline data!
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I still reference travel books. Sometimes it is nice to sit in Borders or B & N and just read a little. I also like to bring the book with me as I travel. My last purchase was my "Chile" book (Lonely Planet) last November. I remember when I travelled through Europe in the 80's and "Let's Go Europe" was my friend!
Welcome back exflygirl!
Our local library has oodles of [mostly] updated travel guides. I like Insight and have the HKG issue on my desk right now. I sue Lonely Planet for research prior but don't take them on trip. I wrestle the netbook from hubby to keep up w/tripadvisor and such. Sometimes I take the Insight or Eyewitness but they're so heavy!! (I actually weighed 2 before leaving and took the lightest one--hardly the way to determine how "effective" a guide can be!) I buy books for the cities we frequent or expect to return to, like HKG--gotta love used issues!"wherever you go, there you are"
I usually use the internet but I still love reading through a well written and researched guide book - when I find one, I usually take it with me to the destination
Like others in the community, I use the internet extensively to do research before taking a trip, but I always go to our local public library and take out several travel books (Lonely Planet, Moon, Frommer's, Fodor's, etc.). Our library has a lot of current publications. Since we can take books out for up to three weeks and get three renewals, I always bring at least one book with me on the trip and can renew on the road if need be.
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12-04-2010, 02:46 PMOur inspiration for travel destinations come from various sources; but the internet is where we've been getting the majority of our information when it comes to planning for them. The only exception has been our visits to national parks. We buy the guidebooks for the trail maps and relevant information on the trail and area.
We are headed to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I've spent the most time planning for this than other trips.
Where did you decide to stay in Dubai? I have a good interline contact for a hotel in old Dubai near the canal if you want to send PM. Keep us posted later with results of your trip, please. Shukran!
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Election Could Push Israel Further To The Right
by James M. Wall
Israel's 19th general election, Tuesday, January 22, is almost certain to be won by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
There is no serious Liberal election opposition to Likud. What is serious, however, is the very real possibility that after this election, the Israeli government could turn even harder to the political right.
In the final weeks of the campaign, Likud has been losing votes to a party even more conservative than Likud. The brash newcomer is the previously little-noticed Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party.
The leader of Bayit Yehudi is a 40-year-old charismatic newcomer to Israeli politics, Naftali Bennett (shown above), who has emerged as the hottest new personality on the Israeli political scene.
Bayit Yehudi has languished in the shadows of recent Israeli elections. It currently has three members in the Knesset. Some polls indicate that number could rise to as many as 15 seats, elevating Bayit Yehudi to a third place finish among the 20 parties currently represented in the Knesset. The two leading parties are expected to be the right-wing alliance of Likud and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu.
Joel Greenberg, reporting for the Washington Post, noted the combination of religious and nationalist themes in one Bayit Yehudi campaign event:
It was a mostly young crowd that turned out on a chilly winter night to hear Naftali Bennett, the leader of the religious nationalist party Jewish Home [Bayit Yehudi], deliver an appeal for understanding — not between Israelis and Palestinians, but among Israelis themselves.
"If it's important for you to return to Jewish values, to connect and break down barriers, then you have a home," Bennett told the audience gathered in a neighborhood synagogue. "The minute we lower the level of hate, we can solve many problems."
The appeal was tailored for a society where fierce debate often pits secular Israelis against ultra-Orthodox Jews, ideological settlers in the West Bank against liberals from places such as Tel Aviv, and the political right against the left.
But Bennett's pitch was also unabashedly nationalist, and its popularity — demonstrated by his party's strong showing in polls ahead of the January 22 elections — reflects the rightward drift of the Israeli electorate. Both secular and religious voters have given Jewish Home [Bayit Yehudi] a boost at the expense of the front-running rightist ticket led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
To form a majority in the 120-seat Knesset, Netanyahu may be forced to add Bayit Yehudi to Likud (Netanyahu) and Yisrael Beiteinu (Lieberman).
If Bayit Yehudi does vault from three to as many as 15 Knesset seats, be prepared to hear more from Naftli Bennett. Based on his well-publicized positions, what we hear will not bode well for peace in the Middle East. And it most certainly would not not bode well for a Palestinian population's desire for political justice.
The New Yorker's David Remnick describes Bennett as "a settlement leader, a software entrepreneur, and an ex-Army commando. Bennett is "a man of the far right", who was elected director general of the Yesha Council, the main political body of the settler movement.
Bennett is not a political newcomer. He worked as chief of staff for Benjamin Netanyahu before running into opposition from Netanyahu's wife, a clash that has upended other chiefs of staff for political leaders.
Bennett showed a flare for political leadership that played well in the current restlessness of those Israeli voters weary of being told they have to yield land that many feel "belongs" to them. Bennett developed a strong set of conservative convictions which Remnick explains:
Closer to his ideological core is an unswerving conviction that the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem might as well relinquish their hopes for a sovereign state. The Green Line, which demarcates the occupied territories from Israel proper, "has no meaning," he says, and only a friyer, a sucker, would think otherwise.
As one of his slick campaign ads says, "There are certain things that most of us understand will never happen: 'The Sopranos' are not coming back for another season . . . and there will never be a peace plan with the Palestinians."
Bayit Yehudi's political program unites the settler movement with the religious/nationalist conservatives who share the party's rejection of any further talk of a two-state "solution".
Bennett does not live in a settlement. It is ideology and nationalism, not residence, that unites Bennett to his party. He lives in Ra'anana, a small city north of Tel Aviv that Remnick says is full of "programmers and executives", many of whom share his pro-settlement views.
To Bennett, there is nothing complex about the question of occupation. There is no occupation. "The land is ours": that is pretty much the end of the debate.
"I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel," he said. "I don't think there is a clear-cut solution for the Israeli-Arab conflict in this generation."
During the recent assault on Gaza, Bennett was a proponent of a ground invasion and criticized Netanyahu when he limited the conflict to a week of air strikes.
This kind of talk has apparently electrified younger, prosperous and ideological conservative voters, who embrace the settlements as righteous claimants to the land that "belongs to Israel".
Looking ahead, Remnick reflects on a possible scenario for Israel and Bennett:
If Bennett becomes Prime Minister someday—and his ambition is as plump and glaring as a harvest moon—he intends to annex most of the West Bank and let Arab cities like Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin be "self-governing" but "under Israeli security."
What would Chuck Schumer, the Israeli clearance officer for President Obama's cabinet appointments, think about that development?
The picture above of Bayit Yehudi leader Naftli Bennett, is from the Jerusalem Post. It was taken by Marc Israel Sellem.
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Israel still has to pay for the land they stole from the Palestinians
Joel Greenberg's report on Bennett in the Washington Post quotes Bennett as urging Israelis "to return to Jewish values" and to "lower the level of hate". His words would be most welcome if the Jewish values he referred to were core rather than tribal and the hate he urges lowering was that contained in a blatant racism. These are ominous trends … which remind one, most sadly, of developments in Germany in the 30′s.
"I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel." There you have it: this lust has been the guiding principle for the Zionists ever since they "accepted" UNGA Resolution 181 of November 1947. Via cunning parses of words and relentless action on the ground, coupled with their great success in "entangling" the U.S. in an alliance benefiting one side only with the hapless Palestinians strangled between, the Zionists — whether liberal, center, or fascist right — have made their arrogance and enterprise of domination and control clear to anyone who has a sense of the wholeness of this charade.
Thanks, Jim, as always for keeping your readership current with events.
Thanks, Jim, for exposing Naftali Bennett for what he is..
Naftali Bennett is a despicable "double dip" portion of "Ultra Extreme of Ultra Extreme" category.
Netanyahu is simply a single dip of "Ultra Extreme" flavor.
So, will AIPAC try to spin the Israeli election choices, as choosing the "docile" candidate of the two? Do they want President Obama to support the "docile" candidate?
Israel's "Right-Left- and Center" political leadership wants to take advantage of the destruction of neighboring Arab countries and the collusion of others, in order to grab their "historical opportunity" to complete the ethnic cleansing Holocaust they started in 1947/48/49.
They want it all; have no doubt about it. And the Israeli public is going along, just like the Germans did in World War II.
The only "difference" is that most Israelis do know exactly what is happening. -
Israel will continue to do whatever it wants to the Palestinian people, without an iota of respect for their rights, simply because they are not Jewish. They are persecuting the Palestinians in ways the Nazis persecuted them.
To add insult to injury, the US supports the Israeli persecution of the Palestinians. AIPAC runs our mideast policies, and they are all about what's good for Israel, not the US. It is a national disgrace.
From day one after the famous handshake between Rabin and Arafat on the lawn of the White House it was clear that the peace the Palestinians were yearning for was not the same Peace Israel was planning for. While the Palestinians were taken for a ride by the many concessions that they made for the sake of peace, Israel used that golden opportunity as a stepping stone to the Arab World and for the creation of a new reality in Occupied Palestine, just as it used the Camp David to marginalize the role of Egypt in the struggle of justice for the Palestinians. Naftali Bennet is just the last link to close the circle of Netanyahu, Liebermann and to prove what has become so obvious that Israel is not at all interested in peace. They cannot afford peace because a common enemy is what is holding the country. "The minute we lower the level of hate, we can solve many problems." That was the punch line of Bennet. Dare we hope for some wisdom?


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I am a php developer since last 2-3 yrs.
Should I switch to Ruby?
Can anybody convince me...
No. Just try it out and see if it suits you :)
It's pretty difficult to offer any suggestions without a bit about you—what type of projects do you work on, what development and production environment do you work in, do you enjoy the syntax of PHP, what really matters to you, etc.
I've been a PHP developer for a couple years. I was convinced it was the best thing out there but I find I like Ruby better...but it's really a matter of taste.
What do you like most about PHP? See if similar things exist in Ruby.
One thing that makes me a little weary abotu RoR is how easy it is...you don't have to do much and that puts you in danger of becoming lazy...so if you do happen to switch to RoR, try and find out what happens in the background so that you have a good idea of what's going on because this will also make it easy to catch errors.
I've just started to learn RoR, got a long way to go myself :)
I found this and thought you might find it useful:
I have been a PHP developer for 10+ years. When I discovered Ruby [on Rails], I became completely enamoured with it.
However, based on the project, I still use PHP. I don't dislike PHP just because I am in love with Ruby.
Software development languages are not like a mate; you are not expected to commit to only one!
I've got to admit I am a one tooled guy, I go one way and make it work for my needs. Every web development project can be done in PHP and Ruby, as well as tons of other web languages, and while I agree sometimes a job can be done easier in one language, is it worth using that language for the whole project, just because it makes a single job easier for whatever reason?
Try it, if you like it, use it. If you keep wanting to go back to PHP maybe ruby isn't for you.
Just remember PHP isn't a god of languages and Ruby is just a follower of that god, they are both better than each other in one way or another... :)
Same here, one-tooled guy, and I don't jump on every new thing that pops up like RoR. I choose to design my own frameworks on a per-site basis, but it works, and it's more secure then, say, certain bulletin boards *cough* phpbb *cough*. Also, recall that RoR's fundamentals spell DRYCoC....
Missing a K, perhaps? lol...
I'm a java expert and know some things on PHP. I already payed for an intensive training I'm making this month on RoR.
My question is, I know RoR is all about saving time, frameworks embeded, etc.
But its supported my some hosting companies? It wont take to long to read a page made in RoR compared to PHP or even JSP? Cause if the intention of RoR its only save time to coders I think I prefer to deliver in more time but more perfect jobs (mainly quicker to generate ones).
RoR is supported by quite a few hosting providers. However, when looking for hosting, you will need to read the fine print. You need to figure out how much allocated memory they give you for Rails hosting. Currently, the recommended deployment/hosting approach is Apache set up as a proxy to forward requests to a cluster of Mongrel instances. Mongrel is a HTTP server written in Ruby that's designed to handle Ruby coded apps. Now, those Mongrel instances take up memory and the more instances you have (I would imagine most sites start with three) the better your site will run.
You could also use Apache with FastCGI hosting as an option, but the Mongrel cluster is recommended.
Recently, a company developed mod_rails, an Apache module that makes Rails deployment a breeze. I've never tried, but from what I've read deployment is much better and server setup time was dramatically reduced. A few hosting companies are either supporting it or running a public beta program.
Deployment in Rails isn't one of its finer areas.
What do you mean by "It wont take to long to read a page made in RoR compared to PHP or even JSP?" Are you talking about readability, performance or something else? In Rails, you don't really have pages. You have controllers and views. You'll see that in your training, though.
Hi, thanks for the reply :) on that last part I was talking about the quickness of the pages showing to users.
I have sites that when page takes long that 0,5s users start to complain :(
Yeah, that depends on a lot of things, though. Ruby and Rails performance is one thing, but you also need to consider your server, and media resources (images,css,javascript).
As far as Ruby/Rails performance, there has been a lot of talk about that. Your best bet would be a search on Google.
As sbauer mentioned, the hosting climate for Rails gives you many options. Deployment on Rails is miles ahead of where it was just a year ago now. In terms of performance... I think at this point I don't think language speed is too big of a deal. Ruby's expressiveness does put it at a disadvantage for performance on a strict technical level, but in all honesty you'd be way better off at optimizing on the application level: caching, optimizing your queries, and then going back and repeating those two steps in perpetuum. For the vast, vast majority of web apps you're going to hit much larger bottlenecks by running crappy SQL queries than you would by how fast Ruby reads in a regular expression, for example.
The old adage is usually still relevant: development time is more expensive than processing time.


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Jul 1 2006, 07:53 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 20-April 06 From: Sierra Vista, AZ Member No.: 5865 |
What is a safe comfortable realistic daily travel distance. I know terraine will affect it but I am planning a long trip to the northwest, will wander around a couple/3 weeks and head home.
I am towing a new 25ft 5'er with 2005 Chevy 2500HD gasser. I'd appreciate any and experienced ideas on the subject so that I can plan stops and layovers. Thank you all so much. -------------------- Tate and Becki,
Both US Army Retired Sadie and Blue (Canine Supervisors) |
John Blue |
Jul 1 2006, 09:19 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2174 Joined: 9-November 03 From: Brandon, FL. Member No.: 214 |
We stay under 300 miles or less per day. On some days we travel 100 miles or less. One move in San Antonio was 12 miles. We moved from south side of city on I-37 to park close to downtown with three stops on the way to pick up food and supplies. Tough day for the Blue's.
-------------------- John
Brandon, Fl. FMCA F-248693 Foretravel MH Honda CRV tow |
Big Ben |
Jul 1 2006, 10:35 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 264 Joined: 12-November 04 From: Fultimer winter in Florida Member No.: 1914 |
300 to 400 is a good day for us, and usual take a day or to to stop and look around. we are full timers so there is no rush. Almost always spend a month at a destination.
genestoy |
Jul 1 2006, 10:52 PM
Advanced Member Group: Validating Posts: 44 Joined: 22-May 05 Member No.: 2973 |
We try to keep it at 350-400 miles a day. Just remember that number will decrease in areas like the 101 coast highway in California, Oregon and Washington as a lot of it is 2 lane highway and lots of tourists and sightseeers in the Summer.
Cheryl Fuller |
Jul 3 2006, 12:38 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 506 Joined: 24-June 05 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 3340 |
We do the same as Gene - 350-400 miles per day. One time we had to push it and do 500 and it makes for too long of a day. This trip, we did 320 one day and then 170 the next. Went from home to Jackson Hole and then from there to Yellowstone. Will be leaving Yellowstone later in the week and heading home, which is about 500 miles so we will make it in 2 days. Was planning on going on to Salt Lake City yesterday but decided to spend an extra 5 days here and then head home.
-------------------- Cheryl
Butch |
Jul 3 2006, 07:54 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 508 Joined: 23-July 05 From: New York State--Saratoga Area Member No.: 3801 |
We have a motor home w/toad and we do from 150 to 300 miles a day. Personally 300 miles for myself is a little much. Normally we try for plus or minus 200. As mentioned previously, many issues enter the equation.
Road conditions, traffic, weather, and the need to be somewhere on a given day. Above all, enjoy your trip and your vacation time. Safe travels. -------------------- Butch & Kathy
and "Greta" says, "me too !" FMCA # F412606 |
OldSoldier |
Jul 4 2006, 08:59 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 20-April 06 From: Sierra Vista, AZ Member No.: 5865 |
Thanks gang. About what I expected and have convinced mama also thet we should reduce our expectations and take a more liesurely trip than initially planned.
-------------------- Tate and Becki,
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Judged: 2 1 1 I did post that for you, I would never have expected you to understand a word of it. |
Judged: 2 1 1 Take them worts that live in California. |
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Judged: 1 1 "i assume as smart as you and big dope are that your comment is on cue with the topic of pot." Sweet Jesus, I hope I'm arguing with a child, because if this is what this country has to work with- YIKES! (almost bedtime little d- when you can dream of sugar plums and elves with toys. Wait, is that on topic?) |
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Judged: 1 1 Either Fox or Rush, it's cards they pull when they are stuck on stupid like big dope. |
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Judged: 1 1 I like big dope. He takes a licking and keeps on ticking. He's fun! And he says I'm fun too. He sometimes even says that I'm hilarious! Fun stuff! |
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I believe in personal freedom and responsibility. I just don't believe you have the right to offset mine. second hand smoke kills. we all know that. yet, you would expose me to your smoking marijuana because you care less about my rights? if marijuana is a cure for cancer, why don't you just EAT it? I have no problem with that. EAT IT! a compromise. |
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Judged: 1 pot is against federal law.... people dont smoke weed it in resturants and movie theaters... they rarely ever smoke it outside!! no one knows what the F*%k you are talking about!! |
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Wish this thread would just dry up. The subject surely has; the so-called "discussion" is little more than unwisecracks at this point. Can't get Topix to "untrack" the thread, so I get all these silly comments. Some ppl seem to have very little to do. Cheers!!
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Exactly, most studies have said it's better to take the oil, not smoke it. The truth is most just want to get high but think by making up all the cures it will influence people into accepting it. |
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you two are like the knownothing counsel of non marijuana users... smoking it is MUCH more effective for somethings. eating it is MuCh more effective for other aliments... you can make tinttures and rub it on, which is also effective and non-psychotropic.... when alcohol is compleatly legal.....why are you two so hung up on what other people do to relax?? I agree that ingesting it is better.....as long as you dont ingest the plant matter.. people only truly accept it when they try it and start using it to treat what ails them...everybody else is in the dark... for instance?? I dont know much about ambien or lunesta??? and likeley I never will... because Im turned off in general by synthetics(like most MMJ users) and ill heed the warnings that it causes sudden death or thoughts of suicide...(or dog ears!) MMJ has no such titanic side-effects.. at least not for myself.. havnt you ever discovered a homeopathic cure?? like say?? changing your diet from glutens?? they seem to bother you... time for my coffee!! (hippy speedball) |
do you seriously have a problem smelling second hand pot smoke?? I cant even smell tobacco smoke much anymore since they banned it(finally)! where are you when you and your offspring are being overwhelmed by second hand MMJ smoke? |
I guess anyone who is outa their mind is kinda "fun" to be around. as long as I dont have to actually see or hear him!! that is more or less how I feel about you.... ps: howz the cleanup goin mikey?? |
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