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Its been exactly twenty-two days since Anthony Ghiossi's memorial service held at St. Francis Cabrini's church in San Jose, California. It was just prior to that when I started Part One of this blog post. I wanted to write about dark days and more promising light-filled ones.
I thought I had seen clear through to the end of the story but the days have been dragging on…sometimes it's hard to see any rays of light after the trajectory beams of the afterlife have pulled our loved ones from our sight. That scant visibility as it is, obscured by swollen, tear-filled eyes.
It does not feel good being stuck either…unable to move on, move forward, or even move at all. So for the purpose of moving this blog along, I shall try to find words that are luminous.
The Reverend Michael Hendrickson did an excellent job at handling the ceremony, and he tried his best to bring hope to those mourning a very dark day. He spoke of how we humans, despite our best medical interventions and technological advances, still are not infallible beings. We still can not fix everything. We can not save everyone. We can not thwart death. We, quite simply, are just not in control of these things. These things that go awry, those things that delve deeply into the night.
Life is about birth. About living. And, yes, about death. It goes on about this, endlessly…for as long as we have been aware of our existence here on this earth.
There is nothing to celebrate in death. But perhaps were we to be sure of heaven, of endless love and light, we might.
There are however, endless things to celebrate about life, about living.
The Reverend called out to Anthony's two sons, sitting small, and up front. He bade them look around them, take in the entire church full, every last pew full, of people who had loved their father; people who had admired the way he treated life, his loves. He told them to always remember this day, and all of these people who had come to respect their father. For in seeing, and remembering, they could keep that love alive.
For those who must continue on, who need to feel love, who need to see light, and promise, and continued hope in living…it is around us.
I see it in a picture; his two sons, faint smiles while the sun gleams on their blonde heads as they play in the surf at the beach. The waves wash over them, hopefully cleansing them of their sadness…with the salty seawater so similar in composition to our tears.
Thoughts of darkness & light…(Part two)
Its been exactly twenty-two days since Anthony Ghiossi's memorial service held at St. Francis Cabrini's church in San Jose, California. It was just prior to that when I started Part One of this blog post. I wanted to write about dark days and more promising light-filled ones.
Thoughts of darkness & light…(Part One)
This morning I awoke even earlier than usual, at 3 a.m. instead of 4 a.m. A lot of people have been having trouble sleeping, I've noticed…based on my casual interpretations of fellow FB friend's nocturnal musings. There are all kinds of reasons I awake. It's hot. The neighbor's dogs won't shut-up. The pool pump in the adjoining yard just has to come on at 2 a.m. The dream I just had, which re-articulated for me, in great detail, the falling out of my crown, which of course had just occurred that early evening.
There are helpful tips in life of course, how to fall asleep, stay asleep, get back to sleep. But what of the musings which arise in the middle of the night? My emotions these days are pretty stable. Scarily so. Like, I didn't even cry last year at my own daughter's wedding.
I think we, as a society are being numbed so much these days, that we think the real goal is only to fall back asleep. And stay asleep. It doesn't seem to be working for me. So today, I did not worry that I was awake. I stayed awake, thinking thoughts of darkness and light. When I knew for sure that sleep would prove a struggle, I decided to be open to what my mind wanted to think about. And so it thought, and I listened.
It thought about one of my daughter's best friends, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, an aggressive stage two prognosis. Then it thought about other women I follow on FB, and these friends public journeys of battling breast cancer, bravely outlined for us to follow their daily struggles. We are able to assist only on the periphery, by offering words of support and sending out messages laced with love and prayer.
My mind then thought about a very close friend of mine, who lost a son-in-law just a little over a year ago. A young musician away from his family on the road on a musical tour, who never came home, just died in his sleep, leaving my friend's daughter and two little girls, bereft and torn asunder. I had been at the couple's wedding. Later, my friend and I laid on his gravesite, looking up at the clouds…wondering why now, this year, her other son-in-law was diagnosed with cancer. He too, young and vibrant, handsome, intelligent and fit. A wonderful father to his two young sons; a loving husband to his wife, whom I used to babysit when she was only 7 years old. The clouds floated overhead, but gave no answers.
Now my mind wanted to think about things even closer to home. I allowed it. It thought about my step-daughter's husband, who after a bad bout with a VA hospital over an ankle injury, wound up losing a leg. His leg. Not just a leg. There are really no words sometimes. Just gaping holes, just loss. Just dark thoughts…
My own eldest daughter announced this week, after awaiting MRI results, the results still not forthcoming after 2 months of waiting, that she personally thinks the latest brain lesions are indicative of M.S. I denied it of course, telling her that lots of tests would have to sway that verdict, but did say that newer medications were showing amazing promise at halting the progression of this particular disease in this miraculous day and age. I could offer nothing more, so at the time I offered up medical marijuana grown by her step-sister's husband. It seems to have helped him.
I, of course, notice many people's struggles. To not become overwhelmed with grief, I know I have shut down. I have battened the hatches and braced for events, just hoping to ride out the storms. The victims of life's frailties and assaults are of course not the lucky ones. But for the survivors who witness this torment, who endure the torture of sometimes watching their loved ones suffer mercilessly without the divine intercession from a God who seems not to be listening to our whispered prayers, our shouted rage, and then our quiet whimperings in the night…for them, when does this suffering end? Death comes quickly, or slowly, offering a peaceful refuge for those who have suffered so…but it does not provide immediate relief to those living, and still loving, nearby. And now, finally, I cry.
(To be continued)
Creepers…Peepers, where'd you get that Eye?
Last Spring, somewhere near Knoxville, Tennessee, my sister-in-law decided we should go biking. It was an overcast day and scattered snowstorms were forecast for overnight; but getting out of the house sounded fun. I helped to load all of the bicycles into the back of my brother's truck, and we set off.
When we got to Milton Lake, the bikes were quickly unloaded, and Jamie set out down the path with the attached contraption that held my comfortably-seated niece, Liv, 2. Hallie, 7, took off after them on her newly acquired bicycle. She did her best to keep up with her mom. I trailed behind as slow as I could go, not wanting to leave Hallie behind on her own, as she swerved back and forth unsteadily.
We biked along the wind-swept lake, on a wonderfully paved trail that seemed like it could go on forever. We swooshed past ducks, geese, fields-for-play, and a still-wintry landscape. Hallie was quickly getting tired. Her mom decided to hang back, and told me to go on ahead and enjoy myself, full-throttle for awhile.
I was happy for permission to do so, and quickly biked ahead of the now-lagging group. As I continued on deeper into the woods, the scenery took on a surreal hue. Skeletal trees were caught up in each other's arms on the banks of the lake, contorted into anguished-looking beings, as they stretched and competed years, for the sun's light and warmth. The sky overhead was darkening ever so slightly towards dusk. Riding through a semi-clearing, I noticed what could have been the set for 'Friday the 13th', the movie. I chuckled to myself about my imagination, rolling on past the ramshackle cabin and open clearing. A rusty gate once securing the property, now hung slightly open. An invitation, I thought? I continued on.
I finally decided to stop and wait for my kin to catch up to me. I would enjoy some quiet repose before the group caught up.
I parked the bike off the path next to a bench, which faced away from the lake, and sat down. I faced a thicket of trees. I breathed deeply, enjoying the fresh air and view.
No sooner had I sat down though, that sure enough, someone came hiking up the path, using a tall walking stick to guide them surely and quickly my way. It seemed to be a man, seemingly with his full attention fixed upon me…and I begged silently for him to just keep walking past, hoping he would not stop to talk. All I wanted was a minute or two of alone-time. He stopped in the middle of the trail, facing me. I sighed inwardly.
Not wanting to ignore him, as this would seem rude, I said politely, "Hello."
He looked me over, as if determining whether I was worthy of saying hello to…and then came closer, still not saying a word. My high-alert-readiness-mode kicked in just then, and I wondered why, oh why, I always had to meet strange people. He took another step in my direction. Finally, he deigned to speak.
"Look at me!" It wasn't a question, it was an order. I acquiesced quickly, wanting to assure him he had my full attention. I already was taking him all in, looking him over thoroughly for tell-tale signs that I was hopefully dealing with just a regular ol' hiker…and not the type of man he looked like – the guy on the bike who warns those kids in 'Friday the 13th.'
"Can you see it?" he asked, still not giving even the most rudimentary of hello's.
I had still been doing a check…khaki pants, hiking boots…oversized hat, huge sunglasses (even on a day with no sun) which still looked normal…and I was just beginning to breathe comfortably again when he said, "Well, do you see it?"
Just then my attention had been drawn to the end of his walking stick — and the huge spike embedded into the top end. Shit! Was this what he was referring to, did I see this? And was I to take that as a challenge, a threat?
Someone had warned me once to never run from strange animals…so I held stock-still as he leaned another step closer, now taking off his sunglasses. He had a huge black eye, which totally had been hidden by the large sunblockers, and as soon as he lowered these, I understood it was this he was referring to…so I answered quickly to break the tension.
"Wow, that's a beauty…" I whistled appreciatively, as if genuinely both impressed and interested. He stood there, judging my sincerity. I decided I had to go all in. "How'd that happen?" I dutifully asked. He smiled crookedly a bit and stepped back, which I took to be reassuring…for a second, until I noticed it was just for him to be able to bring his walking stick, slash weapon, into nearer proximity to me.
I held my ground, and readied my muscles silently for a quick beat out of there…I was pretty sure I still had game over what appeared to be an old guy in his 70's…but, you never know.
"O.K., so you see this here?"
I guess he had meant to wave it towards me, as he continued doing, brandishing the walking stick.
"Yes," I responded simply, holding my breath.
"So," he said, "I use this for reaching plastic bottles and glass. I stick them like this," and here he made a jabbing motion towards the ground, after he had turned the walking stick around to have the spike fully on display. I nod, thinking to myself…and how does that work on glass?
"I went out on that dock right there," he continued, "because they float up to that place and collect," and he nods in the direction I'm supposed to look, just a bit past us up the path.
There is a dock on the lake, no boats tied up to it; no one sitting at the lone bench attached to it. Just a grey dock, on a grey day.
I look…and I nod for him to go on.
"Well I was reaching, trying to get one…and I slipped, fell, and hit my face right on that dock!"
"Oh, my!" I exclaimed, truly sympathizing.
"Yeah, it was bad! And look! Right here!" He motioned to the right side of his forehead, where I could still see a nasty cut, bruises, and stitches. "Seven stitches! Good thing my son was in town!"
"Oh, my…" I repeated, relaxing into the listening of just a lonely man's tale.
"That is horrible…good thing your son was in town to take you to the doctor's!" I was very relieved he wasn't a complete kook, and listened for awhile as he talked about the lake, his son, and then the weather.
My clan was just cresting a small hill in the path, and I could see that they would be near us, in like, under a minute.
"So, you know all that rain we got last night?" he was saying as my attention drifted back to him. "Yes, that was a killer storm," I answered.
"Well, guess what?" he asked, smiling a little wider now. I was happy for him that his story was no longer dwelling on his injury, so I asked innocently and politely, "what?"
My sister-in-law and her girls were rolling up to us now, and came to a stop.
He lowered his voice just a bit. "My blood is still all over that dock…the rain did not wash it all off yet!"
I took this in, shocked at the change that had come over the man, who now…that an innocent mom and two little girls had shown up, was regressing back into creeper land. Jamie probably thought I was just chatting up some harmless old hiker. I shot my sister-in-law a glance, a glance that I think only moms who have learned to read danger signs, as a result of protecting their brood, could interpret. She understood me immediately, and I was grateful for her intelligence, and quick wit.
Mr. Creeper spoke. "I'm going to go home and get clear pol-y-ur-e-thane…and I'm gonna paint that deck, so my blood is there forever…"
I was done listening and I motioned for everyone to just turn around and start pedalling.
"This is MY park," he said loudly, not liking that he was losing his audience so quickly. "I want my blood to be a part of it!"
We were heading away from him now, me saying "go, just go!" And Jamie saying, "what was that all about?" She pedalled quickly, and I urged poor Hallie, who hadn't got to rest at all, that she could do it. She could make that crest of a hill again. We all pumped our feet faster.
Over our shoulders he yelled now. "Hey," he called, "Hey, look at this!"
I filled Jamie in on what the creeper had said, and we glanced over our shoulders, watching as he walked quickly after us, still yelling, and then ordering, "Hey! Come here!"
Soon we had a good distance between us, and he was left way behind. Night-time was closing in quickly, and we put the girls in the truck, loaded our bikes, and headed for home. We were all thankful to leave the lake, and the creeper, far behind.


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There are many traits I don't share with what many would call, the "typical American guy". I don't watch sports, wear a baseball cap on a date, or purposely burp & fart out loud.
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My current eastside favorite (as if anybody cares) is an enormous carriage house on Morrison that looks sadly underused (sniff).
Also fond of the underground one on that mid-centuryish house on Riverside. And the huge barn-like one on E Main just east of the river. And the rambling white one with the shed-roof carport next to the Kipp parking lot on Waubesa. And the 2-story behind a brick apartment in the last block of N Patterson....
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You finna squop bro?!
by ShHmandala September 20, 2012
To cover an opponent's wink with one's own in a game of tiddlywinks
it's a little gay but, tiddlywink on ya w/my squop
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the movement ommited by a walrus, a word mixture of the words squirm and flop which is what the walrus does.
wow jamie did you see that walrus squop away from the hungry polar bear.
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"this has been a long standing, pressing need. Dental care, access to dental care, is something that's been identified locally and nationally" said Erika Viccellio, the Charlottesville Free Clinic.
More than 30 local dentists have already signed up to see patients in the program.
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Nov 29, 2010It starts out like it is going to be fun but this game is one of the most tedious, repetitive, annoying games I have ever played. Only 5 or 6 areas. No big difference between the 4 players you get to choose from. Just really really annoying and tedious. Especially past level 7. It isn't even fun! The only reason I even went through this hell hole of a game was to get the achievement at the end. The 7 days of hell was The regular game!!… Expand
Aug 27, 2011I think the guys form Left 4 Dead got their dark side, Zombie Apocalypse like Geometry Wars only with blood, humor and well , cool entertainment. For the price , is worth checking it.
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Talk about rubbing their stomachs: 150 people who attended a Mother's Day garden party at a New York Buddhist monastery were take to the hospital with severe food poisoning, reports The Wall Street Journal. The un-Zen eaters were headed from chanting ... to shopping at Woodbury Commons when the stomach problems struck. [WSJ]
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Roasted Carrot, Parsnip, and Potato Coins
Published: December 2009 Servings: 8
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 4 medium carrots (about 1 1/4 pounds), scrubbed, ends trimmed
- 4 medium parsnips (about 1 1/4 pounds), scrubbed, ends trimmed
- 1 pound fingerling potatoes or baby Dutch yellow potatoes, scrubbed
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Nutritional Information
One serving contains the following:
- Calories (kcal) 217.5
- %Calories from Fat 51.5
- Fat (g) 12.5
- Saturated Fat (g) 1.7
- Cholesterol (mg) 0
- Carbohydrates (g) 25.1
- Dietary Fiber (g) 4.4
- Total Sugars (g) 3.5
- Net Carbs (g) 20.8
- Protein (g) 2.2
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Position 1 rack in top third and 1 rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 375°F. Spray 2 heavy large rimmed baking sheets with nonstick spray. Cut carrots and parsnips into 3- to 4-inch lengths. Fit processor with 1/4-inch-thick slicing disk. Working in batches, place carrot pieces upright and fitting snugly side by side in feed tube of processor. With machine running, use plunger to push down firmly on carrots and cut uniform round slices. Transfer carrot coins to extra-large bowl. Repeat with parsnips, then potatoes.
Add olive oil, 2 teaspoons coarse salt, coriander, cardamom, and freshly ground black pepper to vegetable mixture and toss to coat. Divide mixture between prepared baking sheets. Roast vegetables until tender and golden brown around edges, about 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Rewarm in 350°F oven until heated through, about 15 minutes.
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I loved the first one. Hope this win succeeds it.
They just released the first gameplay video today, looks SICK:
I loved the first one. Hope this win succeeds it.
[QUOTE=Dimitri_0515;3980521]I loved the first one. Hope this win succeeds it.[/QUOTE]
All indications point to it being far better. The game is 5 times bigger, you start with all of the gadgets from the first game, the things that worked were improved and the sole criticism (using the Bat X-ray thing too much) has been minimized. The Riddler clues are also more involved:
[I]Riddle me this: What good is an enigma if it can be solved?
The Riddler, the Dark Knight's foe who never showed his face in Batman: Arkham Asylum, is upping his game this fall. His previous tactic of verbally assaulting Batman didn't come to much good in Arkham Asylum and like any worthy criminal, Riddler knows he has to escalate matters. He's raising the stakes in Arkham City and posing a physical threat not only to Batman, but to innocent civilians.
In Arkham Asylum, Riddler trophies were found somewhat easily -- you just found them by spotting question marks painted on walls and ceilings. Things aren't as easy this time around. Though there are question marks viewable only in Detective Mode (Batman's version of x-ray vision), they often point in the direction of informants who know the nearby locations of Riddler trophies.
Find these goons and you can beat the information out of them. But knowing the location of a trophy (which appears on your map) doesn't mean getting it is easy. Many trophies are surrounded by traps or require some ingenuity from Batman to nab. In one early instance, Batman has to guide his remote-controlled Batarang through an electrical current, then carry that charge on the Batarang down a flight of stairs and to a power box. Once the power's on, a door unlocks and allows the Dark Knight access to the trophy.
Collecting Riddler trophies is an optional quest. There's no requirement to find them all, but if you hope to catch the Riddler, that's exactly what you must do. And what true Caped Crusader would allow one of Arkham's inmates to run wild? Besides, innocent lives are in jeopardy. Early on in Arkham City, Batman receives a message from the Riddler showing people precariously hanging above giant sawblades and in other perilous circumstances.
The Riddler wants Batman to come after him oblige.[/I]
The Riddler is confirmed to be in the game:
[I]Destructoid.com give us an insight into The Riddler's role in Batman: Arkham City:
Our demo ended with Batman descending upon a rooftop as his Cyptogram device was picking up a strange signal. He stops in front of a large billboard, the words "Turn on and Tune in Before Someone Checks out - 275.00 325.00" crudely scrawled on its face. The Dark Knight jacks into that particular frequency and we're given our first glimpse at Arkham City's darker, twisted vision of Riddler.
While we didn't see any gameplay in action, the vignette we were shown was meant to give us "insight into The Riddler's state of mind." It's a super grimy minute worth of footage, with dark scenes of horror-like imagery, including a female struggling as she held down by a contraption that looks like something out of a SAW film. The Riddler's voice is the clip's soundtrack, taunting Batman the whole time.
How Riddler encounters and missions will play out is still very much an enigma itself; Ginn would only confirm that he'll be both physically threatening Batman and "the lives of innocent people." From the sounds of things, the critical narrative path will have you dealing with the likes of Two-Face and Joker. But Ginn was hesitant to call Riddler encounters "side missions."
"The Riddler experience is not part of the main story," he confirmed, "but you can see how much work we put into it. It seems to do them a disservice to call them 'side missions,' because we take them really, really seriously." - Destructoid[/I]
New Arkham City Mr. Freeze trailer:
Not the same without Arnold's horrible one-liners.
BTW Rage....anything good coming out this month or September? I have a pretty light semester with school so I was hoping to pick up something new
[QUOTE=Bay Ridge Jet;4110552]Not the same without Arnold's horrible one-liners.
BTW Rage....anything good coming out this month or September? I have a pretty light semester with school so I was hoping to pick up something new[/QUOTE]
Other than Madden, not real sure. I'm personally waiting for AC and Uncharted 3. Check here and it'll give you the schedule for PS3:
What gaming platform do you play on, Rage?
[QUOTE=jetstream23;4110592]What gaming platform do you play on, Rage?[/QUOTE]
PS3, Brah.
.. just beat the first one recently.. cant wait to play this new one... :yes:
I thought U3 was November?
Madden and GOW3 are the big releases of Aug/Sept if I remember correctly...
[QUOTE=RageATL;4110617]PS3, Brah.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Fishooked;4113074]-1 internet point for not using the Hampur Videogame Thread
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In my defense, I started this thread before I started the official HVT, Brah. :yes: :D


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Everolimus in Combination With Cyclosporine A and Prednisolone for the Treatment of Graft Versus Host Disease
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The present protocol is a dose-finding and toxicity study in preparation of a randomised study comparing current standard treatment CSA/prednisolone with the new combination CSA/prednisolone/everolimus.
Graft Versus Host Disease
Drug: Everolimus
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Phase I Dose Escalation Study With Everolimus in Combination With Cyclosporine A and Prednisolone for the Treatment of Acute GVHD After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Drug Information available for: Prednisolone Prednisolone acetate Methylprednisolone acetate Methylprednisolone Prednisolone sodium phosphate Prednisolone phosphate Prednisolone sodium succinate Methylprednisolone sodium succinate Sirolimus Cyclosporine Everolimus Temsirolimus
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Feasibility of oral application everolimus
- Daily dose needed to reach the targeted plasma level everolimus
- Time to reach the targeted plasma level of everolimus
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence and severity of treatment induced toxic events
- Incidence, severity and seriousness of adverse events
- Treatment induced morbidity
- Treatment induced 1-year-mortality
- Efficacy of everolimus/CSA/prednisolone on aGVHD
- Drug interactions between everolimus and CSA
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|September 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2009
The primary objective of the present study is to evaluate the feasibility of treatment with everolimus in combination with CSA/prednisolone in patients with aGVHD after allogeneic HSCT. This evaluation takes into account the following parameters:
- Feasibility of oral application everolimus
- Daily dose needed to reach the targeted plasma level everolimus
- Time to reach the targeted plasma level of everolimusSecondary objectivesThe study will evaluate the toxicity and safety of the treatment with ever-olimus/CSA/prednisolone with regard to
- Incidence and severity of treatment induced toxic events
- Incidence, severity and seriousness of adverse events
- Treatment induced morbidity
- Treatment induced 1-year-mortality Furthermore the study will collect data about
- Efficacy of everolimus/CSA/prednisolone on aGVHD
- Drug interactions between everolimus and CSA
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Written informed consent prior to inclusion into the study
- Allogeneic HSCT from HLA-identical related or unrelated donors
- Clinically confirmed acute GVHD ≥ grade II
- Age < 70 / > 18 years, male or female
- Karnofsky performance status > 60 %
Exclusion Criteria:
- Oral treatment is not feasible
- Severe hepatic impairment Child-Pugh C
- Active cerebral epilepsy
- Renal failure (Creatinine clearance < 50 ml/min)
- Life expectancy < 3 months
- Known hypersensitivity to everolimus, sirolimus or to any of the excipients
- Confirmed pregnancy (serum β-HCG)
- Non-effective contraception for both, male and female patients, if the risk of conception exists
- Patients with limited legal capacity
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Spinal cord ependymomas represent between 5-25% of spinal cord tumors. Although they are one of the more common spinal cord lesions, their overall prevalence is low at 0.26 to 100,000 persons, thus making them difficult lesions to study. Most studies rely on several decades of patient accumulation over a time course where treatment parameters have changed significantly. These lesions have no good chemotherapeutic treatment and instead rely preliminarily on surgical resection followed by radiation as a salvage treatment.
Animal models are limited as these have been based on tumor derivatives from animals instead of human precursors and may not generalize to the human population. In this study we seek to establish neurospheres from human ependymomas. Once these neurospheres demonstrate stability and histological and genetic similarity to known spinal cord ependymomas we can implant them into animal models. Once an animal model that is reproducible and adequately mimics human ependymomas we can use this as a platform to test chemotherapeutic agents and possible delivery systems. Also, as these lesions are close to critical spinal cord tracts and radiation-induced myelopathy, optimizing radiation treatment strategies would lower adverse reactions.


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Hiroyuki KonumaAssistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific
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11-13 May 2010Bangkok, Thailand
Distinguished Participants, Colleagues from AFMA and FAO,Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and myself, personally, to this important technical meeting on market-oriented agricultural extension.
The agricultural environment is changing with unprecedented speed and in very diverse ways as a result of market liberalization and globalization. The urban population in the region is increasing dramatically and this is accompanied by higher incomes and changing nutritional diets leading to greater demand for high-value products. These dynamics affect rural people in all areas of all countries in the region. The future for many small farmers could be bleak unless they can adapt their farming systems and other socio-economic conditions to meet these changes. Indeed, traditional semi-subsistence systems no longer provide a decent living for farmers and the need to engage them in markets has become a reality. Farming in order to survive and prosper requires that it becomes competitive and profitable. These developments pose extraordinary challenges for rural people but also offer opportunities.
Trade liberalization, changing market structures and new supply chains – domestic and international – affect all farmers. But often, it is a small number of the well-off farmers with favourable conditions for production that have been the primary beneficiaries of these developments. Many of small-scale producers have had difficulties taking advantage of available opportunities due to a lack of commercial know-how and information, lack of capital and an inability to take risks because of their small margin for survival. In addition to this there has been declining public investment in agricultural development, and in particular in extension services.
Ladies and gentlemen,
In response to these changes and efforts to link farmers to markets, many developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region have seen significant changes in the content of extension messages to farmers and their mode of delivery. Extension and advisory services are becoming more demand responsive and market-oriented and delivery has become more pluralistic.Many of the constraints facing small farmers are related to a lack of adequate know-how and skills. The majority of the rural producers need to expand their understanding of markets and economic opportunities if they are to achieve more market success. Market-oriented agricultural advisory services can play an important role in helping small farmers overcome constraints, and are an essential component of the wider range of services that are needed to contribute to poverty alleviation. To retain viable livelihoods, small producers need to move from a focus on production for home consumption and occasional marketing of surpluses to production for the market. They have to be better able to respond to the ever increasing demands of the market.
More efforts are also needed in engaging the private sector, farmer organizations and civil society, and this calls for raising the awareness of policy makers, extension managers and farmers about the risks and challenges of the market and developing the skills needed to enable farmers to respond adequately to market changes.
This meeting reflects the needs for changes in agricultural extension and advisory services to facilitate farmers in enhancing their awareness in market changes and in taking full advantages to new market opportunities. This shift is bringing with it new organizational and financing challenges to both national governments and donor agencies.
FAO has been at the vanguard of these changes and has responded by developing training and extension materials in marketing and farm business management as part of a human resources development programme aimed at linking farmers to markets. Additionally, FAO has designed and implemented field programmes and projects and provided programme managers and policy makers with technical support and guidance.
FAO's work on market-oriented advisory services contributes to the Organization's endeavours to achieve Millennium Development Goal number 1 (Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger), which specifically considers poverty and food insecurity as interlinked. Indeed, not only does extension contribute to food and nutrition security, but selling produce in markets also contributes to income generation and sustainable development.
It is for these reasons that FAO's Rural Infrastructure and Agro-industries Division together with the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific has initiated this event. In collaboration with the Agricultural and Food Marketing Association for Asia and the Pacific (AFMA), FAO is proud to have gathered so many participants from within the region to this workshop. It is hoped that this event will be enlightening by raising awareness of the issues facing extension services as well as ways to meet the changing conditions and the challenges that exist. For us at FAO, the objective of this technical meeting is to learn from your experiences and the ways that you are responding to these changes.
I also wish that these deliberations will be used to foster new partnerships and set the ground for follow-up collaborative action as needed. The outcome of this workshop should also help us to develop future programmes in this emerging field.
Finally, we also hope that this meeting will help guide policy-makers towards considering new ways of providing effective and useful advisory support to farmers in their efforts to become more market-oriented.
Before I conclude, I wish to thank the organizers of this event – AFMA – for their efforts in preparing this meeting and to the all participants for your active involvement and participation. I thank you all for coming here to share your expertise.
I wish you a fruitful exchange of ideas and outcome in the following three days.
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Blackmagic Design announced that Fusion 7, the world's most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is now available completely free of charge. Also announced was Fusion 7 Studio, a complete bundle of VFX and motion graphics solutions with collaborative tools and unlimited network rendering for creative teams and larger facilities.
Adobe announces the availability of Lightroom 5.7, Adobe Camera Raw 8.7 and DNG Converter 8.7 as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6. This release corrects issues reported in earlier versions of Lightroom 5 and Camera Raw 8. In addition, raw file format support is added for 24 new cameras...
The Red Giant Universe is expanding once again with the release of Universe 1.3, the latest update to the world's fastest growing visual effects environment for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion, Sony Vegas and now, Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve.
iPi Soft, LLC, developers of the iPi Motion Capture line of markerless motion capture technology, today announced the availability of iPi Motion Capture Version 3.0. The next generation motion capture solution delivers a number of impressive new features that gives even entry level motion capture enthusiasts the ability to obtain quality mocap data easily and quickly.
As a former 3D technical director and visual effects artist in film and games - and later for a number of creative agencies - I have often joked half-heartedly about the number of years of my life wasted waiting for computers to render. Sadly, the joke is on us artists, and our employers.
Sean Wagstaff, ProViz Tech Marketing at NVIDIA
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CL3VER releases it's brand new App that enables immersive 3D experiences on iOS devices. The app is available today at the Apple Store. Once installed, any interactive 3D presentation created with CL3VER can be directly viewed on the iOS device and it is stored allowing a user to view their presentation even when they do not have an Internet connection.
e-on software is pleased to announce that Alabama DOT (ALDOT) has successfully utilized LumenRT 2015 (the leading tool for Immersive 3D Communication and GeoDesign) on the highly acclaimed Mobile River Bridge project. The bridge will span the Mobile River near downtown Mobile with a minimum vertical clearance height of 215 feet making it the second highest clearance bridge in the United States -- just below the famed Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
NVIDIA upgraded their Quadro workstation graphics card lineup. Among the new members are the new Quadro K5200, which replaces the Quadro K5000. I was sent a card to test drive for a while and see what I thought. This review is the result.
Kurt Foster [Modulok] - Staff Columnist
Digital Anarchy announced Flicker Freak, a free filter for adding flicker to video. The lights appear to flicker on and off, creating an effect commonly seen in horror movies. To do this it uses technology found in Digital Anarchy's popular Flicker Free plugin, which removes flicker from video.
Mudbox 2015 is the latest release of this digital sculpting software from Autodesk. In case you don't know, Mudbox is a tool designed to sculpt, paint textures, and add details to your 3D models. Mudbox can be bought as a stand-alone perpetual license, as a standalone application through desktop subscription (for only $10 a month), and also as part of an Autodesk Suite.
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Lenovo currently holds an amazing 14% of the workstation market as of the 2nd quarter, 2014. How did Lenovo accomplish this remarkable growth? After spending a month with Lenovo's new P300 workstations, I believe they accomplished this through committing the company to producing high quality workstations that get the job done.
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LumenRT 2015 contains numerous new features and capabilities including a newly developed real-time rendering platform called Dynamic Immersive Visualization Engine or DIVE™ for short. The DIVE platform delivers exceptional visual performance and realism, handling scenes of enormous complexity and detail.
V-Ray 3.0 for Maya introduces a faster ray tracing core that significantly speeds up a number of calculations for global illumination, lighting, shading and more. For additional speed gains, V-Ray 3.0 also includes an option to enable the Intel® Embree ray caster for static and motion-blurred geometry, proxy objects and instances.
The talk of the gaming world is now production-ready thanks to a few new power packs. With today's highly anticipated release of Substance Painter 1.0, Allegorithmic is bringing a new UI, 4K support, and the ability to load custom shaders to its award-winning, next-gen painting application.
Red Giant today released Offload, a brand new standalone application for reliable backup of footage in the field. Available alone or as part of the Red Giant Shooter Suite, Offload makes the often unreliable and tedious task of backing up files from camera card to laptop and external drives a hassle-free experience.
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The Vote That's More Than a Vote
According to most media sources, Afghan elections in 2014 are the story of 11 men -- or perhaps five, if a few unlikely candidates are overlooked. But while all international eyes are focused on which of the presidential hopefuls will win, for most Afghans this vote signifies much more than selecting a new leader. Scheduled for April 5, the elections will provide communities with an opportunity to renegotiate their relationships to both the national government in Kabul and various political leaders and parties, shaping relationships far beyond 2014. Most importantly, with the upcoming withdrawal of international troops, the polls are a vehicle through which Afghans can consolidate political and economic resources in the face of the potential coming instability.
Despite much of the current fanfare around the presidential campaigns is the fact that, in terms of government policy going forward, it really doesn't matter much which candidate wins. Lost in many of the discussions of the eleven candidates is just how similar they are. All are male from an older generation that came of age before and during the Soviet war. All have been part of Karzai's government at some point and have benefited greatly from the intervention, amassing both wealth and power. All have sought to create tickets that represent different social groups in Afghanistan, selecting vice-presidential candidates of various ethnicities or parties, to promote inclusiveness rather than a unified policy position. Admittedly, some are more technocratically gifted than others, but none have any real incentive to change the current system.
At the local level, this means that provincial and district powerbrokers are less concerned with candidates' promises of reform than with positioning themselves favorably during the broader shift in political and economic conditions that these elections portend; 2014 will be the year that Afghanistan begins to adjust to less direct external funding and a decline in the benefits of the economic bubble that has characterized the international intervention. Communities living close to Bagram Airfield, for example, are seeing a rise in unemployment as jobs on the base dry up, a decrease in community-oriented programs aimed at winning hearts and minds, and a drop in revenue from items that "fall off the truck on their way into the base" (fuel prices have been notoriously lower near the airfield than elsewhere over the past few years). The question for many is not simply "who will the next president be," but rather "how will we make ends meet during the coming period of political instability?"
To answer this question, and in some way compensate for the decline in revenue, local political leaders have been searching for new sources of economic and political power. In some cases, this has involved establishing new businesses, legitimate or otherwise. In others, local brokers have been using elections to consolidate their influence.
Here, the real prizes to be won are seats in the Wolesi Jirga (lower house), where parliamentarians have access to both government revenue and business connections in Kabul. With parliamentary elections currently scheduled for 2015, the 2014 elections are an important preparation ground for future political maneuvers. In many cases, this means carefully negotiating with presidential campaigns, in the hopes of appearing to be on the winning side regardless of who wins.
However brokers are also investing in the provincial council elections, occurring alongside the presidential race this year, but given only scant attention by international media. For those running for parliament, the provincial council elections are an opportunity to begin creating campaigns and political networks to gather votes for next year. Community leaders are even encouraging less influential allies to run. One wealthy young businessman, for example, is having his father run for provincial council in 2014, paving the way for his own parliamentary campaign on a promise of local, family ties between the community and the center. For others, particularly a younger generation of political leaders, provincial council positions are a place to gain some initial political experience, to "increase one's name," in preparation for a career in politics (for more on these stories and the importance of provincial council elections, see USIP's forthcoming Peace Brief "Looking Ahead: Why Provincial Council Elections Matter" available soon at www.usip.org).
For all of these figures, 2014 is not the finish line for a series of political struggles, as the presidential vote is sometimes described in the international media, but an important moment of contestation over what the future of political power in Afghanistan will look like locally.
The good news for many outside observers is that while the elections of 2014 are sure to be corrupt and messy, of the eleven current candidates, none are likely to take to the hills with their militias if they lose. Most leaders at the national, and even provincial, level are invested in the current political system that, while corrupt and patrimonial, is nevertheless a system of sorts. The bad news is that those in power at present seem to have only nominal concern for the wellbeing of the communities that they represent. In an unstable political and economic landscape, the real story when looking back on the 2014 elections will be the way in which political leaders and communities used the vote to either consolidate their power or watch it erode.
Dr. Anna Larson is an Associate Research Fellow at the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York, United Kingdom. She worked in Afghanistan between 2004-2010, latterly leading research programs in governance for the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit.
Professor Noah Coburn is a political anthropologist at Bennington College. He has conducted research in Afghanistan since 2005 and is author of Bazaar Politics: Pottery and Power in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford University Press, 2011).
Their book Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan from Columbia University Press explores the ways in which internationally sponsored elections in Afghanistan have eroded democratic processes.
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"It's never easy to have to tell employees you need to close the facility," said NBTY spokesperson, Andrea Staub.
The future for over 40 employees at NBTY is now uncertain. They are left searching for a job because come August, they will no longer be employed.
"We want to make sure we give them enough notice that we had to close the facility," Staub told WINK News.
The plant in Naples, located on Arnold Road, just off of Livingston, produces liquid products and WINK News is told the need the demand in liquid products just isn't as strong as it has been in the past.
"Unfortunately, the decline in liquid products and the cost to manufacture them there is why we made the decision to close the facility."
So to cut cost, much of the equipment from the Naples facility will be moved to a plant in New York, but, those who buy liquid products will not feel an effect from this shutdown.
"Our liquid products will be something we continue to produce and sell, so customers looking for them will be able to get them at their local realtor."
The company says there are still opportunities for employees who re facing unemployment.
"They can certainly look for another position in our company, we do have other facilities in the Florida area on the East coast."
The plant will close it's doors on August 29th. WINK News asked how drastic the decline in liquid products has been over the last few years, but that information was not readily available.


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Sony Pictures has set a limited release date in the US [October 7, Los Angeles and New York] for Pedo Almodovar's The Skin I Live In aka La piel que habito. Jan Cornet who plays Vicente in the movie is featured in Out magazine photographed by Xevi Muntané. Watch the trailer plus more photos and the two posters of the movie after the jump.
"The Skin I Live In may be the most disturbing and difficult Almodovar film yet. A radical departure from his earlier work, it's his Frankenstein movie seen through a Hitchcock lens. Instead of patching together a new creature from the parts of dead bodies, the sinister plastic surgeon played by Banderas attaches new, genetically engineered skin to a man's body to produce a vision of his dead wife. Cornet's character, Vicente, is slowly turned into Vera, who is then played by the gorgeous Elena Anaya." Read more


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The tainted chemicals have caused considerable financial loss for Spring Green, which has been working for weeks with customers trying to re-seed all the lawns that were damaged.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Rochester police have launched a criminal investigation into who spiked lawn treatment chemicals at Spring Green's company warehouse, a case of malicious tampering that resulted in damage to some 200 lawns in the metro area.
Capt. Brian Winters says Spring Green sent samples for testing to the Dept. of Agriculture and that results showed the sample had chemical elements consistent with Roundup, a herbicide used to kill grass and weeds.
Spring Green owner Ken Brown filed a complaint with police, suspicious that someone entered the warehouse and spiked Spring Green's chemicals some time between last fall to early spring of this year.
"I'm pleased that police are following up on my report," Brown told the NewsCenter. "I hope we get to the bottom of it to reach a conclusion to find out who did it and how it happened."
Brown says he has since taken security measures at the warehouse to prevent it from such a thing ever happening again.
The tainted chemicals have caused considerable financial loss for Spring Green, which has been working for weeks with customers trying to re-seed all the lawns that were damaged. Brown says he sent a follow-up letter to customers he knows have been impacted. He says some have told him that their lawns have responded to Spring Green's efforts to re-seed and repair the damage, but work continues on others.
Back in early June, when KTTC broke the story, Brown told reporter Chris Conte that chemicals that were supposed to promote grass growth had instead done the opposite.
"It will come back, the problem is it's not instantaneous."
Please read the rest of this story at KTTC.
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