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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study aims to determine the population impact of changing strategies for prostate cancer control, by linking trends in disease incidence and mortality with trends in screening and treatment. The advent of PSA screening has transformed the way in which prostate cancer is detected and managed in the US. Today, the majority of prostate cancers in this country are screen-detected and localized. Increasing numbers of newly-diagnosed cases are being treated with hormone suppression therapy (HT), which has traditionally been reserved for advanced tumors. Cause-specific survival among prostate cancer cases has increased dramatically, but the real increase in life expectancy during the PSA era remains unclear. How have advances in screening and treatment contributed to prostate cancer death rates that have fallen by almost 30 percent since the early 1990s? And can racial disparities in patterns of care explain why mortality declines among African Americans are, only two-thirds of those among whites? We will use surveillance modeling to address these questions, building on our previous CISNET work, which modeled PSA screening. Our methods will combine simulation models and maximum likelihood analysis to address the following Specific Aims: (1) Estimate the real improvement in life expectancy among prostate cancer cases during the PSA era; (2) Quantify the contributions to mortality declines of PSA screening and HT, and evaluate whether the benefit of screening given growing use of HT exceeds the benefit that would be expected under standard therapies; (3) Determine whether racial differences in PSA screening and HT can account for the different mortality declines experienced by whites and African Americans; and (4) Address whether disease natural history differs according to race, by estimating lead times associated with PSA screening that are consistent with incidence trends in whites and African Americans. Our models will require reliable estimates of trends in screening and treatment, which we will obtain using SEER-Medicare data, as well as patient claims data from a large HMO based in Northern California. Through this work, our study promises to shed light on two of the most active controversies in prostate cancer research: the value of PSA screening versus advances in prostate cancer treatment, and the link between disparities in care and racial differences in prostate cancer outcomes.
Is prostate cancer screening cost-effective? A microsimulation model of prostate-specific antigen-based screening for British Columbia, Canada.
Authors: Pataky R, Gulati R, Etzioni R, Black P, Chi KN, Coldman AJ, Pickles T, Tyldesley S, Peacock S
Source: Int J Cancer, 2014 Aug 15;135(4), p. 939-47.
EPub date: 2014 Feb 4.
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Comparative effectiveness of alternative prostate-specific antigen--based prostate cancer screening strategies: model estimates of potential benefits and harms.
Authors: Gulati R, Gore JL, Etzioni R
Source: Ann Intern Med, 2013 Feb 5;158(3), p. 145-53.
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Limitations of basing screening policies on screening trials: The US Preventive Services Task Force and Prostate Cancer Screening.
Authors: Etzioni R, Gulati R, Cooperberg MR, Penson DM, Weiss NS, Thompson IM
Source: Med Care, 2013 Apr;51(4), p. 295-300.
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Long-term projections of the harm-benefit trade-off in prostate cancer screening are more favorable than previous short-term estimates.
Authors: Gulati R, Mariotto AB, Chen S, Gore JL, Etzioni R
Source: J Clin Epidemiol, 2011 Dec;64(12), p. 1412-7.
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How does early detection by screening affect disease progression? Modeling estimated benefits in prostate cancer screening.
Authors: Wever EM, Draisma G, Heijnsdijk EA, de Koning HJ
Source: Med Decis Making, 2011 Jul-Aug;31(4), p. 550-8.
EPub date: 2011 Mar 15.
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Prostate-specific antigen screening in the United States vs in the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer-Rotterdam.
Authors: Wever EM, Draisma G, Heijnsdijk EA, Roobol MJ, Boer R, Otto SJ, de Koning HJ
Source: J Natl Cancer Inst, 2010 Mar 3;102(5), p. 352-5.
EPub date: 2010 Feb 8.
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Lead time and overdiagnosis in prostate-specific antigen screening: importance of methods and context.
Authors: Draisma G, Etzioni R, Tsodikov A, Mariotto A, Wever E, Gulati R, Feuer E, de Koning H
Source: J Natl Cancer Inst, 2009 Mar 18;101(6), p. 374-83.
EPub date: 2009 Mar 10.
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Effect of population trends in body mass index on prostate cancer incidence and mortality in the United States.
Authors: Fesinmeyer MD, Gulati R, Zeliadt S, Weiss N, Kristal AR, Etzioni R
Source: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2009 Mar;18(3), p. 808-15.
EPub date: 2009 Mar 3.
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Studies of prostate-cancer mortality: caution advised.
Authors: Etzioni R, Feuer E
Source: Lancet Oncol, 2008 May;9(5), p. 407-9.
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Estimating lead time and overdiagnosis associated with PSA screening from prostate cancer incidence trends.
Authors: Telesca D, Etzioni R, Gulati R
Source: Biometrics, 2008 Mar;64(1), p. 10-9.
EPub date: 2007 May 14.
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An ecologic study of prostate-specific antigen screening and prostate cancer mortality in nine geographic areas of the United States.
Authors: Shaw PA, Etzioni R, Zeliadt SB, Mariotto A, Karnofski K, Penson DF, Weiss NS, Feuer EJ
Source: Am J Epidemiol, 2004 Dec 1;160(11), p. 1059-69.
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Prostate-specific antigen testing in black and white men: an analysis of medicare claims from 1991-1998.
Authors: Etzioni R, Berry KM, Legler JM, Shaw P
Source: Urology, 2002 Feb;59(2), p. 251-5.
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I tried the p90x 3 years ago due to a bet to see who will look better in 3 months he worked out in the gym and I at home. I went up to week 8 and the other party backed out of the bet so I stopped working out and also due to I started to date my current girlfriend. I'm sure I would've won because I know proper form and how to properly lift and keep the muscle flex during the lift for greater muscle hypertrophy. In the eight weeks I dropped 20lbs went from 250 to 230 and the cut in the middle of my chest was about halfway down. That also included to me adding 20 minutes of cardio on the treadmill after the workouts and doing the weight lifting workouts mon-wed, thursday kenpo x which I thought was pretty gay, friday do a full body workout heavy 8-10 reps 2 sets each which consisted of standing barbell military press, barbell curls, squats, flat bench, skull crushers and weighted dips.
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Maurice E. Scanlon Sr. 65, of Sixth Ave. died Friday at Trinity Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was the husband of the late Ellen M. (Wiberg) Scanlon.
Born in Franklin, MA he was a son of the late William and Marie (Morse) Scanlon.
Mr. Scanlon was a security guard for Tech Industries for many years. He was a US Navy Veteran.
He is survived by two sons Maurice Scanlon Jr. of Burrillville, and Matthew Scanlon of Woonsocket, three daughters, Laurie Scanlon, Christine Garcia, and Jennifer Scanlon all of Woonsocket, eight sisters, Carol Tyler of Milford, Suzanne Power of Woonsocket, Cindy-Lou Fitzgerald of Smithfield, Annette Fitzgerald of Manville, Michelle Roberts of Idaho, Sheryl Kephart, Vicki Plante, and Renee Bordes all of Nevada, and fourteen grandchildren. He was also the brother of the late William Scanlon.
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Please can we have a Windows Binary for 5.34.1 which runs on 64 bit machines. With the current one maxima.exe just halts with no explanation or anything.
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More stable than Maple!
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Americans are some of the cleanest people on earth with constant hand washing and cleaners. Introduce people that don´t wash their hands, including some doctors, and what do you get ?BTW The local hospital is not the cleanest place or has the best standards.
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After an acquaintance was treated for MRSA, which they are believed to have contracted in the hospital, the doctor told their family that "MRSA is everywhere now. You can´t depend on avoiding it."
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Hmmm, northern Manhattan and the Bronx. I always knew NYC was a cesspool. This article proves it.
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I do not get medical advice from publications like Salon.There are two types of MRSA. Best to familiarize yourself from a medical site:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that´s become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections.Most MRSA infections occur in people who´ve been in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. When it occurs in these settings, it´s known as health care-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). HA-MRSA infections typically are associated with invasive procedures or devices, such as surgeries, intravenous tubing or artificial joints.Another type of MRSA infection has occurred in the wider community — among healthy people. This form, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), often begins as a painful skin boil. It´s spread by skin-to-skin contact. At-risk populations include groups such as high school wrestlers, child care workers and people who live in crowded conditions.Read more here:http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mrsa/basics/definition/con-20024479Those admitted to our hospital are tested for MRSA with nasal swobs. (Did you know staph lives in your nose?) If MRSA is found, the patient is isolated. Because it can be spread by a sneeze or a cough, Caregivers must wear protective gowns, masks and gloves when in their room. And the patient must wear a mask when outside the room.
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That should have said "nasal swabs".
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"ALL government actions create unintended effects." I offer this proposition as Blundell's Law: "All political innovations achieve the opposite of their official purpose." I claim this is a universal law of bureaucracy and legislation. Last week's discovery that many GP practices in the UK were stopping patients making appointments earlier than 48 hours ahead to fulfil bogus National Health Service (NHS) targets is a perfect example of my law. My greater example of the moment is inheritance tax.
The MPs who voted for this fiscal impertinence supposed they were creaming off the very wealthy and leaving those of modest or middling incomes untouched. The Treasury enunciates the same one dimensional falsehood. Their stated aim is to harvest from those with "unearned income". Most commentators concur in this naive assessment. It is easy to follow the thought processes. It is little more than expropriation sanctified by references to "equality" or "social justice".
Yet what happens when the Treasury says all family assets above the threshold of £275,000 (E404,000, $525,000) will be taxed at 40%? The truly affluent take evading, sorry avoiding, advice from lawyers and accountants. Inheritance tax makes the very wealthy wealthier. Their assets are hidden and protected where the benign effects of compound interest accrue. The cadres of expertise also grow and prosper. There are some fairly straightforward strategies to avoid inheritance tax hitting you and your family. Perhaps the most obvious one is to be reconciled to your mortality and to consign assets seven years before you expire. The sophisticated tax lawyers and accountants contrive ever more elaborate wheezes to cut the liability. The Treasury calls these "loopholes" and is forever trying to close them. It is worth adding that trusts are themselves derived from ingenious efforts to avoid the Tudor Crown's seizure of the assets of its dead subjects. King Henry VIII offered no humbug about redistributing the cash. He wanted it for his military adventures and other state follies.
According to the government's own figures on inheritance tax the average estate being levied is £400,000. Is this really the mark of a wealthy man or woman? We can all see it is no more than a middle market home supplemented by a few life insurance policies. The words and the reality have diverged. It might be better termed the "Crush the Middle Classes Tax" or perhaps even more accurately "Creaming from the Elderly". In the majority of cases those incurring this tax have taken no professional advice to deflect the death penalty on their assets. It seems many have no perception of their status as wealthy by the criteria of the Inland Revenue as they are merely sitting on their family home from which children and spouse have gone.
Perhaps I am not alone in being baffled at the timidity of the Conservatives in not scrapping this iniquitous tax. They had almost two decades in power and did nothing but creep the threshold up with inflation - that is to say preserve it. In Opposition they could have offered the bold and simple promise to abandon a tax that is repugnant and feeble as a source of revenue. Former Tory prime minister Edward Heath did hint at abolishing this levy before winning power in 1970 but the idea was not applied in office. It is worth noting the threshold for the tax then was £12,500.
At a superficial level inheritance tax hints at the breaking up of large accumulations of wealth. It achieves precisely the opposite unless the rich person is entirely negligent about his affairs. Inheritance taxes pretend to tax the person expiring. In reality they dent the heirs of those of modest means who are usually oblivious of the tax burden they will inherit. The Inland Revenue offers a leaflet that guides the wealthy in how to cut their tax prospects. It is called "Reliefs". They exclude working farmers and landowners. Providing they have


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After Factory Layoffs, Struggling To Stay On The Economic Ladder
Lynn Eldredge has had six different jobs since he was laid off from a tractor manufacturer in 2000. Fourteen years later, he makes the same amount of money at his current job that he did back then.
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The World Customs Organization, an international association of customs and law enforcement agencies, is out with its annual report on seizures of illegal goods and counterfeiting.
The product most likely to be counterfeited or illegally traded last year was pharmaceuticals, at a whopping 76 percent of all seizures.
The most counterfeited brand, on the other hand, was Nike. Followed by Apple, Rolex, Samsung and Adidas
Kinder Morgan deal lays groundwork for more pipelines
Kinder Morgan oversees a vast network of oil and gas pipelines in North America. It's actually a family of companies and now they're consolidating. The "why" is complicated but the upshot isn't: the new corporation wants to spend more money acquiring even more pipelines. Because, it turns out, there's a shortage.
Kinder Morgan already operates or owns a piece of some 80,000 miles of pipelines in North America. Barbara Shook says its founder clearly wants more.
"Mr. Kinder kept talking about acquisitions and acquisitions and acquisitions during the conference call with analysts this morning," says Shook, senior reporter-at-large with the Energy Intelligence Group. Disclosure: Shook owns shares in one of the Kinder Morgan companies.
She says the corporate restructuring will make it cheaper for Kinder Morgan to borrow money. That's money Kinder Morgan can use to buy a precious commodity: other pipeline companies.
"We were caught short in terms of our transportation infrastructure for energy," says Bob McNally, president of the Rapidan Group. He says the U.S. oil and gas boom changed everything – both the scale of the boom and where it's happening.
"The parts of the country where we're increasing production of oil and gas are not areas where we produced oil and gas before," he says.
Think of all that natural gas in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Think of the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Montana.
Paul Sullivan, an energy security expert at Georgetown University and the National Defense University, says there aren't enough pipelines to move it all.
"I think the proof that there is need for more is the amount of oil that is moving by rail," he says, adding that so much oil is moving by rail that corn and other agricultural goods are getting squeezed out. Plus, derailments have a devastating effect.
"Moving oil by rail is more expensive and it's also less safe," Sullivan says.
Which is why companies like Kinder Morgan want to lay the groundwork for more pipelines.
Why BuzzFeed might be worth $850 million
BuzzFeed, the website that blessed us with the listicle revolution, just raised $50 million from some very prominent venture capitalists. That investment values the company at an estimated $850 million. To put this in context, the Washington Post recently sold for $250 million dollars. So, how did that valuation happen?
For one thing, BuzzFeed boasts that 150 million people visit it every month. By contrast, the New York Times gets 53.8 million visitors, according to comScore. But it's not just the number of visits that's valuable, it's who those visitors are. Paul Sweeney, an analyst at Bloomberg Industries, said most of BuzzFeed's audience is 35-and-under, a demographic that's catnip to advertisers.
"It's been harder and harder for advertisers to reach a younger demographic," Sweeney said. "The younger folks are the ones who are spending more time on the Internet, more time off of traditional media like newspapers, magazines or television."
A lot of BuzzFeed's traffic comes from people sharing its stories on social media sites. Sweeney says that's a risky strategy. BuzzFeed's audience would be decimated if social media sites excluded its content.
But investors are betting that BuzzFeed will grow beyond listicles, said Ethan Kurzweil, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners. He said investors expect BuzzFeed to become a go-to-platform that offers all kinds of content from video to news and who knows what else.
"I assume they're betting on a modern media tech company," Kurzweil said. "Sort of a modern People Magazine, ESPN all in one, all in one, all in one property."
In fact, BuzzFeed is using its newest round of funding to expand into movies, said Rebecca Lieb, an analyst at the Altimeter Group. She says don't expect BuzzFeed to compete with 20th Century Fox or Paramount by making traditional films.
"I really don't think that's going to be the case," she said.
Lieb predicts BuzzFeed will redefine movies and create ones that cater to its digital-first audience.
It's Amazon vs. Disney in a new pricing dispute
There's a new front in Amazon's battle with its vendors. Because of a reported pricing dispute, some of Disney's DVDs and Blue-rays are no longer available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Book publisher Hachette is in a similar position. Its spat with the e-commerce site has become highly public, with each company publishing scathing letters about the other side. (Amazon's here, Hachette's here, and a group of 900 authors supporting Hachette here).
If this were a Disney movie, some would cast Amazon as the bad guy, like the evil fairy Maleficent (OK, she's less evil this time around, but still). Others would say it's a Captain America-esque hero, fighting for lower prices for consumers.
Physical discs of both new Disney films are currently unavailable for pre-order on Amazon, though they are available for pre-purchase through the company's instant video service.
But, says Ed Brodow, the author of Negotiation Boot Camp, Amazon's tactics aren't good or bad – they're business. Amazon, like all companies its size, is flexing its muscle to get the best deals possible.
"That's what people do in negotiation all the time, they use their leverage," says Brodow. "Amazon has a tremendous amount of leverage."
Wal-Mart employs similar muscle, says Michael Pachter with Wedbush Securities.
"Wal-Mart pays as low a price as anybody wholesale for any product that it sells, and it's able to do so by exercising its market muscle," he says. "Amazon is trying very hard to be Wal-Mart-like."
Pre-orders are important for Disney because it will impact their first-day sales rankings, but Pachter doubts customers will miss the option much.
Not everyone agrees.
Amazon's aggressive tactics risk its reputation with its customers, says Michael Norris, an independent publishing and media consultant.
"It's really remarkable to me that a company that claims to be very consumer-centric finds absolutely nothing wrong with inconveniencing millions of consumers," he adds.
As humanitarian crises grow, so does the aid industry
The U.S. government is reportedly weighing options to evacuate thousands of civilians from Iraq's Yazidi religious sect, who are trapped in barren mountains in northern Iraq without food or water, imperiled by advancing Islamic State fighters. The crisis has put the Yazidis out of reach for humanitarian aid workers, who typically provide food, water and shelter to vulnerable people.
The humanitarian aid industry is growing, fueled by large-scale conflicts and natural disasters. Last year it took in a record $22 billion from donor governments, foundations, corporations and individuals. It employed more than 250,000 people.
Margaret Aguirre, the head of Global Initiatives for International Medical Corps, is one of them. The non-governmental organization moved offices recently, in part to save on rent, and Aguirre spent part of a recent day peeling layers of bubble wrap from framed photographs that will hang in her office. One, taken in South Sudan in 2012, showed a cluster of women, some with frightened children peeking from behind their backs, outside of an International Medical Corps clinic. Their homes had been bombed.
"It's said all the time, it sounds like a cliche, but when your home is bombed, you run," Aguirre said.
International Medical Corps' growth mirrors the growth of the aid industry. In 1984, when the NGO started work, it was comprised of a handful of volunteer doctors and nurses who traveled to Afghanistan to treat the wounded. Now, it employs nearly 5,000 people in 30 countries and will implement $300 million in program services this year alone.
Aid work as a growing profession
There are roughly 5,000 non-governmental organizations, according to Humanitarian Outcomes, a firm that researches humanitarian assistance. The sector is rapidly professionalizing.
"You can even get masters degrees in humanitarian assistance," said Abby Stoddard, a partner with Humanitarian Outcomes. "These could be technical specialists in water and sanitation or food assistance, logisticians, financial analysts. There's a whole raft of careers in international humanitarian aid."
Even so, aid work is often misunderstood as volunteer or charity work. Jessica Alexander, who has two masters degrees, and has done everything from managing camps for displaced people to working with former child soldiers, wrote a book called "Chasing Choas: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid", in part to clear up some of the misconceptions.
"People have come up to me at this point in my career and said, 'gosh, how can you afford to keep volunteering?'" Alexander said. "What they don't understand is this is very much a career and we're paid, and we're paid well, and we're paid with benefits."
As with any field, there's even a kind of career ladder, says William Easterly, who teaches economics at NYU and wrote the book "The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor." Easterly says he has seen a "huge increase" in the number of his students interested in pursuing careers in aid. Many of them will start in NGOs, where salaries are relatively low.
"They are small and operating on a pretty limited budget," Easterly said. "There's also a big phenomenon in NGOs of unpaid interns. Part of this is just supply and demand. There's a huge amount of young people who want to work in development and that's great, but there's just not enough jobs for them."
However, working for an NGO can offer young people a foothold to advance to the United Nations or World Bank, where salaries are higher.
An industry based in crisis
There is one large difference between humanitarian aid and other growth industries: An increase in the number of jobs, the amount of donations, and the demand for services usually isn't a good thing. It means more crises.
In addition to Iraq, there are humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan, the Gaza Strip and across Central Africa. There is even, according to the U.S. government, a humanitarian crisis on our border with Mexico, sparked by children and families fleeing Central America.
"We've been doing this for thirty years and I can honestly say there are more crises, there are more conflicts, there are more disasters," said International Medical Corps' Margaret Aguirre. "There are a lot of people in peril. It seems like there's a crisis everywhere."
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The start to the school year in New Orleans offers a landmark moment in U.S. education. For the first time, a major urban school district will operate entirely with charter schools.


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Super Bowl 2014 events for kids at Toys R Us in NYC
As you're gearing up for Super Bowl 2014, the Toys R Us Times Square flagship store in Manhattan is kicking off family-friendly events for football fans of all ages. Here are some of the highlights:
Play games
Tomorrow through Saturday, Toys R Us will host product demos of Madden NFL 25 by EA Sports on Xbox One kiosks, NFL sticker album collections by Panini and NFL RUSH ZONE "Kickoff" Trading Card Game by PAMCO Studios, LLC.
Enjoy sweets
Kids can decorate football-themed cookies and take pictures with Geoffrey the Giraffe tomorrow through Saturday. Scoops R Us, the store's in-house ice cream shop, will offer ice cream flavors inspired by the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks throughout the week as well.
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Test your football knowledge
On Friday from 3-5 p.m., football buffs can participate in trivia games hosted by Topps. Sports fans will answer questions about past and present NFL players and notable games with the opportunity to win prizes.
Get creative
Crayola is hosting an event where kids can make their own rally towel to cheer on their favorite team using Crayola Marker Airbrush and Crayola Fabric Markers on Friday from noon-2 p.m.
Visit with a New York Giant
On Friday at 4 p.m., New York Giant John Conner will meet with fans and sign autographs.
Meet Todd McFarlane
On Saturday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Todd McFarlane, best known as the creator of "Spawn" and the founder of McFarlane Toys will meet with fans of the artists's popular collectible figures. The first 400 customers to purchase either the exclusive McFarlane Toys Joe Namath NFL Legends or Eli Manning NFL Super Bowl figure at the store will obtain a ticket to meet McFarlane, while supplies last.
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"2009 Flight Test Nation" Air Show & Open House - Edwards AFB, CA
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You guys already know about old beer, but a refresher: Kegs aren't immortality chambers, beer expires, and air is bad. But today I'm going to tell you that beers can be ruined before they even see the light of day. Yes, there are steps in the brewing process that can easily turn a beautiful brew int ... More >>
How we drink, from best (Santa Ana) to blurst (Villa Park)
See Update No. 3 on Page 2 with arrest totals countywide through the first week of the summer DUI crackdown. Update Nos. 1-2 on the next page are about checkpoints in Placentia and Santa Ana. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 23, 7:30 A.M.: The Orange County law enforcement mobilization against drugged or drunke ... More >>
See Update No. 3 on Page 2 with results from the first weekend of the "Avoid the 38" campaign against drunken driving through Labor Day, plus Costa Mesa's checkpoint plans. Update Nos. 1 and 2 were on past sobriety stops in Irvine and Seal Beach. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 16, 8 A.M.: There was a brief lu ... More >>
[Editor's Note: We all know local music and dive bars go hand-in-hand. So in the interest of merging the two together on Heard Mentality, we bring you our newest nightlife column Dive, Dive, My Darling. Read as our bold web editor, Taylor "Hellcat" Hamby, stumbles into the dive bar scene every week ... More >>
Updated, with new info on the bottom...ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 8, 8 A.M.: All right, gentle readers: it's time for our next Happy Hour in conjunction with KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman, and we're going to do something different for the next one, which is February 7. Instead of flooding an a ... More >>
[Moxley Confidential] Did Fullerton cops kill the schizophrenic homeless man because he annoyed them?
See the update at the end of this post about a commenter to our original post being correct about the checkpoint location being in a minority neighborhood and stats from the police department.ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 5, 6:09 A.M.: Sobriety checkpoints: they're not just for weekends and holidays any more. ... More >>
Poor, dumb Kenneth Lyle Spangle.Spangle dreamed of being a successful bank robber.But he's terrible at the crime and should have found another line of work to screw up.Nabbed within minutes of his August 12, BB-gun robbery by on-the-ball Placentia cop Jason Reger, Spangle planned the Bank of America ... More >>
Wow, who knew Placentia could be so interesting? For the second time in less than a week, police in Orange County's least interesting city--La Habra lost that honor thanks to Octomania--have made a major pot bust. The first one last week involved an electrical wiring problem that led to a fire, and ... More >>
See end of post for details on Fourth of July holiday DUI arrests, injuries and deaths so far, and a new checkpoint announced in Villa Park.ORIGINAL POST, JULY 3, 9:38 A.M.: Orange County law enforcement has big plans for the Fourth of July as it is anticipated fireworks won't be the only thing lit. ... More >>
For those avoiding the traffic this hump day holiday, may we suggest cooling off in Placentia. Why? There's upwards of 40 reasons, and they all taste like beer.The need to expand was inevitable-- especially after four years of growing success. Fortunately, The Bruery's landlord was on board with the ... More >>
Do you know what the Orange County Vector Control District (OCVCD) does? Neither do I. But it's one of those agencies whose board of trustees is staffed by councilmembers looking to add an easy laurel to their resume, and easy bucks to their coffers.One of those trustees is Chad Wanke, whose politic ... More >>
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UPDATE, JAN. 11, 6:23 P.M.: An autopsy determined that 49-year-old homeless man Antonio Ruiz Martinez, whose body was found Monday morning in Santa Ana, next to an auto shop's pickup truck with a large amount of blood inside, died as a result of "gastrointestinal issues," according to police. ... More >>
UPDATE, JAN. 2, 10:32 A.M.: The transient whose body was discovered Wednesday along the Santa Ana River Trail near the 91 freeway in Anaheim Hills has been identified as 42-year-old Lloyd Middaugh. The last known address for Middaugh, who was stabbed to death, was in Yorba Linda, but authorities ... More >>
The body of a homeless man was found near a puddle of blood at the base of a Yorba Linda Public Library stairwell Friday evening, and Brea Police homicide investigators believe 57-year-old Paulus Cornelius Smit was murdered.Cops were called out to a 5 p.m. report of a man down in an area behind t ... More >>
UPDATE, DEC. 22, 4:46 P.M.: Placentia Police identified the homeless man found stabbed to death as 53-year-old James MacGillivray, who beat officers knew slept in a camp at the north end of a strip shopping center where his body was found Wednesday morning. Thanks to surveillance cameras, cops al ... More >>
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I mean, it's not like your favorite outpost of alternative newsiness is bastardizing the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, with "Cinco de Drinko" listings. Er, check that.Anyways, in other Cinco de Drunk Tank news, the countywide "Avoid the 38 ... More >>
If Costa Mesa is the county's epicenter for the noveau pizza movement best exemplified by Pizzeria Ortica, then North County is the land of the dinosaur joints, where places like Cortina's in Anaheim and Placentia's Tony's Little Italy haven't changed their pie recipe in decades, if ever. Fast-fo ... More >>
Almost two months after Los Angeles County Coroner's officials removed the bones of missing Fullerton College student Lynsie Ekelund from a shallow grave in Santa Clarita, a memorial service was held today for the 20-year-old Placentia woman. Ekelund left her mother's Placentia home on ... More >>
Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentChris McAmis, accused of murdering Fullerton College student Lynsie Ekelund in 2001, this morning waived his right to a speedy arraignment at the Whittier Superior Courthouse. His arraignment was rescheduled for Jan. 20. Police say McAmis, now 31, str ... More >>
Flickr user mandyxclearWhat do you MEAN, I don't get a bottle of Black Tuesday?Last year, the Bruery's release party for Black Tuesday was so insane that after two-plus hours in line, I hadn't moved; the line wrapped around behind the building and back, and while patience was the rule, it was hug ... More >>
Toni Blay on flickr, Creative Commons.We already warned you about DUI checkpoints to be held in Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Westminster this weekend. If you saw that post and thought "Merry me, I don't live in central county so I can go crazy with the hard cider in my hatchback tonight"... we've got ... More >>
It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--actually the Weekly's TWO weekly round-up as an attempt is made to make up for lost vacation time.Left courtesy of E! Entertainment, right courtesy of Orange Police DepartmentRyan Seacrest (left) gets paid another visit from his No. 1 Army spe ... More >>
The BrueryMama always said for you to eat your vegetables. She didn't say they couldn't be in your beer.Today is Black Tuesday at the Bruery, the craft beer mecca in Placentia. They'll be releasing this year's Black Tuesday Imperial Stout at a special event at the brewery.
Jennie WarrenTo anyone who says Twitter is horrible, consider the following. Where else would you find out about the greatest threat facing Orange County voters in today's special election -- bees?Six hours ago, the Twitter account of OC Registar of Voters Neal Kelley alerted us that his office was ... More >>
Yesterday, I gave a tour of Orange County's endangered Chicano murals to Carol Wells, head of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and Timothy Drescher, one of the preeminent mural scholars in the United States. Wells got in contact with me at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books after ... More >>
Wondering about that sorta creepy neighbor who's still talking about last summer's SoCal wildfires? The guy who barbecues outdoors a whole lot more than seems normal? Pretty soon, you should be able to go online and see if he's among the arsonists registered with Orange County police depart ... More >>
Let's hope the Orange County Register offers a fuller obituary for Placentia resident Alfred Aguirre than the two-byline rush job they printed today. Reporters Eric Neff and Heather McRea covered the main facts--Aguirre was indeed Placentia's first Latino councilmember (and the third in Orange Count ... More >>
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Scott Walker betting against his state's voters
Hours after quietly signing a law that will restrict early voting in his state and make it harder for many to get to the polls, Gov. Scott Walker is off to Las Vegas to court big donors. Did he think we wouldn't notice, nice try, but we gotcha.


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The Claremont McKenna Adult Tennis Camp combines excellent weather at a convenient destination with top notch coaching. Join Paul and Kathy Settles, coaches for the CMS men's and women's tennis teams, for an exciting adult tennis camp this summer. Campers have the option to stay overnight in the dorms on campus or depart after tennis daily.
We've designed our adult tennis camp program to address your specific needs... to increase knowledge of the game and to move you to the next level without forcing you to make radical changes. You will hit a ton of balls, improve, work hard, meet new friends, and laugh a lot. After this adult tennis clinic, you will have a renewed enthusiasm for tennis, vastly improved skills, and greater self-confidence!!
Located 30 miles east of Los Angeles, Claremont is best known for its tree-lined streets, historic buildings and college campuses. The camps will be held at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center, a 2010 USTA Outstanding Facility award winner. The Biszantz Family Tennis Center features 12 Plexipave hard courts with lighting and permanent seating on each court, a team room, locker rooms, and shaded observation deck, making the site ideal for a Nike Tennis Camp. This is a great environment for kids of all ages and abilities.
In his ten seasons, Coach Paul Settles has established CMS Stags Tennis as one of the very elite in Division III. In the past five years, the Stags have earned top five year-end national rankings, and have been top three in two of the last three years. The Stags have won 49 consecutive conference matches and five consecutive outright conference titles, both program bests.
Paul Settles is a USPTA certified P1 professional and a graduate of the USTA High Performance Coaching Course. In December of 2008, Settles was named coach of Team USA in the International University Challenge, leading six top collegiate American players in an eight team international competition in France. Settles also serves as a coach for the Southern California Maze Cup Team (Boys and Girls 16s and 18s) against Northern California and is a member of the Player Services staff for the LA Open, an ATP World Tour event.
Settles has served as a volunteer member of two USTA national committees, the Collegiate and Adult & Senior Competition Comittees. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and is co-chair of the ITA Small College Operating Committee and task force on NCAA Legislative Issues. In 2006, Settles was named the USPTA Collegiate Coach of the Year by the California division, and in 2009 he was named West Region ITA Coach of the Year.
Before coming to CMS, Paul Settles served as Director of Player Services of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the governing body of men's professional tennis. At the ATP, Settles' wide range of responsibilities included supervision of the Player Services Department, staff liaison for the ATP Player Council, Player Leadership Committee, and Board of Directors; and serving as founding committee member of the ATP Medical Services Committee.
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Authors: Stanley, Mandy
Title: Lettice the dancing rabbit
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002, c2001.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Characteristics: 1 v. (unpaged) :,ill. ;,26 cm.
Content Type: text
Media Type: unmediated
Carrier Type: volume
Local Note: 2 7 8 9 10 11 14 15
Statement of Responsibility: Mandy Stanley
Subject Headings: Ballerinas Juvenile fiction. Rabbits Juvenile fiction.
Topical Term: Ballerinas
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Needed a better ironing board
The area and suit were great, great location and clean, awesome gym and pool.
The staff were rude to us upon arrival and not very friendly or accommodating. It needs to be made clear on the website that guests at this location must be 25 or older, an email or tick box would be ideal. We paid and arrived before finding this out and ended up paying extra for a smaller room (witch would be fine, our mistake not reading everything, but they were extreamly unhelpful and rude to us during this fairly minor complication).
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great location
room advertised as queen studio, yet only had a double bed. People using the hot tub and yelling at 1:30 AM, could not sleep, very disappointed.
Good space, comfy bed and pull out sofa bed, big fridge, nice shower, quiet location
Poor heat on the hob, few dirty areas but overall ok, pool and jacuzzi is basic,
Room was clean, had TV, kitchen facilities, small balcony overlooking pool (and trees, so many trees), good location and generally quiet at night.
The alleged 'fitness facilities' was poor. A squeaky cross-trainer and a bike. Old school weight machine and that was it. Disappointed with the view, bearing in mind the Hotel promote their views as a selling point which is completely false. I love trees but that's all I could see, would've been great to see the mountains from the balcony.
couldnt get into underground parking and no one at front desk to help had to go to underground parking to let my wife in to park twice in one day. deposit policy was a joke wanted to use cash for deposit so they decided it would be double than if i used credit card.
Only the lady that was cleaning the entrance and had to do reception which somehow doesn't exist as the alpenglow tries to make maximum money with zero employees
The beds are a horror. Cheap as it can be pull outs. Redicilous for people like us. The whole place Stanley like old food. The room stank from old cigarette smell. We should have gotten reimbursed but they didn't even answer our phone calls Valuable photos were left behind by accident and we were told they were not found. Of course they were thrown away. The poorest service ever.
Staff were good and just everything was ok
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fire place did not work, check out at 10am
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Boo to me! - Solo Halloween PTR 10/22-29 - Link to TR posted!
So I just posted on my other PTR that our big trip was postponed. So I'm starting a new one, because I'm going on a solo trip in October and meeting up with some fellow Disers!
I'm the tall one
I'm Dana, I'm 26, and I was born and bred in Chicago. However, I feel like I belong in Orlando. I work full-time night shift as a CNA at a supportive living facility (basically an assisted living facility, but we get funding from the state of Illinois and our residents are able to use Medicare). I'm a former CM. I did the College Program twice, although one was technically an alumni program, and then I stayed on after to work seasonal, as that was all they had available. I would've stayed full-time if they had it, but this was when the economy took a downturn, so all they had was seasonal. Then they cut my hours and I was unable to find another job, so I wound up back in Chicago. I was considering going into nursing, but I've decided that I'm instead going to go for a business degree and then move back down to Orlando and work for WDW.
Why: For about the last year, my best friend and her husband and I have been planning a trip to WDW in January of 2011. About a week ago, Jacquie (the best friend) told me she'd blown out her knee again. She's been having trouble with her knee since sophomore year of high school, so I suggested she go see a doctor. She went this week and was referred to an orthopedic surgeon The surgeon then told her that she most likely needed a surgery, and had her take an MRI and told her to come back on Friday (which was today). I called her about an hour ago, since we'd discussed it and decided that if she needed surgery, we'd postpone the trip. Well, we're postponing it until probably November of 2011. She has three options for the surgery, but she's already excluded one of them because it wouldn't really fix the problem and she'd likely still need another surgery down the line anyway. The other two options are ACL reconstruction with donor tissue or with her own tissue.
Soooo.... I love Halloween at Disney. I love the parties and the Boo to You parade. I found out that one of my friends here on the Dis might "not" be going in October, so I started chatting with her about how awesome it would be to meet up. I was originally thinking about just going down for a few days in addition to the January trip, but then this surgery thing with Jacquie came up. So PrincessInOz and LuvChefMic and I started seriously talking about it. Then I made ADR's. And last night I decided, oh why not, and booked the trip. I figured that if I talked to Jacquie and her doctor had said that she'd be good to go by January, I could cancel it, but it turns out that her surgery won't happen for at least a couple months. If she goes for the surgery with donor tissue, there's really no telling when it would become available.
So I'm going on a solo trip in October to my favorite place in the world
When and where: I'm going to be there from October 22-29, 2010. I'll be flying down from Chicago early on the 22nd and flying home late on the 29th, most likely on Southwest. I'll be staying at Pop, and I'm on the basic dining plan.
I'll be posting the rest of my plans later tonight, since I have to run the dog around the block and then leave for work. Yay for night shift, right?
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Some things I bought and some airline discussion.
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by: Roger C. Sherman, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief
Today, Chairman Wheeler circulated a proposal to open new opportunities for small and growing businesses in the mobile marketplace. Although the proposal may sound technical - updating the Commission's approach to small business participation in wireless auctions- the purpose is simple: To provide innovative, smaller companies the opportunity to build wireless businesses that can spur additional investment and bring more choices to consumers.
Think about the wireless industry today. Consumer demand is exploding, data usage is growing exponentially, and faster 4G networks enable even more data services. That kind of growth should naturally lead to more opportunity for more businesses to serve more consumers.
But current FCC rules stand in the way. The current rules are a by-product of an earlier time- before data services became ubiquitous, before Congress instructed us to make more spectrum available to wireless networks, and, equally important, before consolidation in the wireless industry accelerated.
When the rules were first written in the 90s, we believed that bidding credits for spectrum auctions should be used only to acquire licenses by companies that would engage exclusively in building their own networks to provide retail or wholesale services - often referred to as "facilities based" service. That made sense when the wireless industry was in its infancy.
But today the standard for economic opportunity should take a broader, and longer, perspective. Considering the significant challenges new entrants face in building wireless networks, we can and should provide smaller businesses- including enterprises owned by women and minorities - a better on-ramp into the wireless business. Here's one way: smaller companies may want to leverage business partnerships with larger companies through more flexible leasing arrangements to gain access to capital and cash flow, not to mention operational experience. Allowing structured entry into the wireless business make sense, especially given the billions of dollars it would take to build a new national network from scratch. With experience in operations and investment, smaller networks will have the prospect of progressing into more robust, facilities-based competition, which has been, and remains, a critical goal of the Commission.
Thus, the NPRM being circulated today proposes to update our rules in a way that recognizes - and confronts - the challenges new entrants face in entering the wireless industry. Challenges like raising funds to compete in an auction, finding a revenue stream to support business expansion, or developing a business model based on market needs rather than regulatory mandates. Perhaps most importantly, the NPRM recognizes the challenge of entering into a marketplace in which more than 95 percent of existing customers are served by the top four providers.
Of course, this policy will have to be policed. Some may try to take advantage of this flexibility to gain a discount for large incumbents, which we will not allow. We will be on the lookout for such abuse and enforce our rules vigorously.
Protection will come from the proposal's focus on who is "calling the shots." The small business entrepreneur must exercise independent decision-making authority. If the small business is a stalking horse for another party, then the bidding credit will be lost.
The proposal addresses another important issue - also linked to the trend towards consolidation in the wireless industry. We must make sure that the biggest providers are not able to limit broad participation in the spectrum auction. As promised in the Mobile Spectrum Holdings Report and Order, we now seek comment on whether and how we should restrict the ability of wireless companies to combine their bids during an auction.
Our goal is to promote the participation of as many parties as possible in the auction. If two of the largest companies are able to bid as one combined entity in the auction, their combined resources may have the effect of suppressing meaningful competition. Therefore, the item tentatively concludes that joint bidding arrangements between nationwide providers should not be allowed. It also asks questions about such arrangements between providers of different sizes.
The Chairman's goal is to have common sense rules in place before the Incentive Auction, and we hope all stakeholders will offer constructive suggestions so we can work together to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs to participate in the spectrum economy.
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an electronic router for forwarding the electronic message to the human operator when the classifier indicates that a response to the electronic message requires assistance from a human operator, the router delivering the predetermined response to the source when the human operator deems the response appropriate.
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During the pre-appointment phone call, I asked why it was necessary to drive down from San Francisco to Mountain View at all for this.
After all, the original Explorer program email said there was the option that Glass could be mailed in the case that the participant couldn't make it.
There were incentives offered about visiting in person, including meeting other Explorers as well as Google Glass team developers -- not to mention valet parking and champagne as some luxe perks for springing for a $1,500 pair of shades.
Explorers have five hues to choose from when picking out Glass: Charcoal, tangerine, slate, cotton, and sky. (These shades are also known by the names black, orange, gray, white, and baby blue).
Glass buyers are asked to choose which palette they'd like during the pre-appointment phone call, but I was asked again in case I'd like to change my decision last minute.
I still went with what I think is the cleaner, more modern (yet futuristic) look: "Cotton."
There are a few steps to take care of ahead of in between the scheduling call and the Glass fitting itself.
For starters, explorers are asked to set up Google+ accounts -- if they haven't already. (It might be shocking if someone in this program didn't already have one considering the test pool is made up of Google fanboys -- or at least tech nerds who are likely social media savvy and must have set up a Google+ account, even if it's not active anymore.)
The Google+ account is considered vital to the Glass experience because users can share photos and videos recorded on Glass with their Circles and "the world."
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