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Children, their families, and the congregation learn about Special Olympics and plan actions to support the national organization or local games.
Welcome families and guests. Introduce the Love Surrounds Us program. Explain that the goals of Session 3 include an understanding of our first UU Principle, that each person is unique and valuable. Share the story (poem) "Like Me" and invite participants to respond. You might prompt: What is the speaker in the poem saying to us?
Introduce the visitors. Invite each visitor to share their response to the poem. Then, facilitate speakers, any video presentation you have planned, and questions and answers. Make sure you allow time for the children to ask questions.
If there are local games that the congregation could help support, ask for a small group of volunteers to work with the religious educators or appropriate congregational leaders to develop a plan for next steps. Families may also choose to volunteer on their own, or perhaps work together with local groups (or other nearby Unitarian Universalist congregations). Make sure there are opportunities for the children to be actively engaged in the event.
If there are no Special Olympics games in your area, plan a fundraiser such as a "field day" with games that all ages can play, or a bake sale.
Close the gathering by having the children lead the song "Love Surrounds Me." You may also wish to do the circle game from Session 2, Activity 2 with the song.
Make plans to communicate with families and the wider congregation about next steps and to have participants gather, after the volunteer event, to process and celebrate their experiences. Remember to arrange for volunteers to take plenty of photographs or video!
For more information contact web @ uua.org.
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Driven by consumer demand for convenience, the market for fresh produce packaging will grow 3.3% a year through 2017, a new report about packaging trends estimates.
With produce packaging expenditures expected to top $5.7 billion by 2017, the growth in packaging demand will accelerate faster than expansion in fresh produce output, according to the Produce Packaging study from the Cleveland, Ohio-based industry market research firm The Freedonia Group, Inc. The 324-page study is available for purchase at the company's website.
Besides convenience, produce packaging can also bring advantages in marketing and food safety assurance, according to the study.
Packaging demand for fresh fruit uses, estimated at 3.7% growth per year, will outpace the overall growth rate for produce, according to the study. Expected increases in the availability of ready-to-eat fruit marketed as a convenient, healthy snack option will push fruit packaging demand higher, said Esther Palevsky, analyst and author of the report. The use of packaging for fresh-cut pineapples, berries and other fruit is significant factor in the expected growth of fruit packaging demand, she said.
Meanwhile, Palevsky said packaging growth for vegetable commodities should grow 3.1% a year.
"For vegetables, there are more products that go in bulk form, in a box with a liner or a mesh bag, as opposed to use of plastic containers," she said.
Gains for vegetable applications will benefit from ongoing new product introductions of fresh-cut vegetables in nontraditional categories. Products like green beans, sweet potatoes and squash are seeing more value-added retail packaging, she said.
Growth in packaging for salad uses will be held back by market saturation and price sensitivity among many consumers, according to the study.
"Salad makers are bringing out new products and new blends, but it seems like there is not the kind of growth there was a few years ago," she said.
The study found that the corrugated box category, which represented 38% of the produce packaging market in 2012, should grow at a 2.3% annual rate in the period through 2017. The study found that gains in corrugated sales will be aided by the increased use of more costly box structures such as modular boxes, white top linerboard boxes, high-graphic boxes and moisture-resistant recyclable boxes.
Demand for bags and liners is projected to grow at a pace of 3.5% annually through 2017, according to the study. Greatest gains in the category are predicted for breathable bags for fresh cut produce and display-ready pouches, according to the study.

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In 2005, Joseph Ratzinger - the current "Pope", was accused of OBSTRUCTING THE LAW to cover-up the sexual abuse of 3 minors in the Court of Houston,
Later, in 2005 Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope and asked then-President George W. Bush for immunity against the legal suit in Houston, now that he became President of the country known as "The Holy See (Vatican)". Immunity was granted.
Italy will probably also grant him immunity.
Ever notice the elite always get away with the crime? or they get bailed out...or nothing happens when they commit fraud or steal from the tax payers.
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Those who attended enjoyed an hour or so visiting with friends and greeting those who live away from the community, always the most enjoyable feature of such a gathering. At a brief business session, George S. Moore was re-elected a member of the committee which makes arrangements for the reunion.
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I have visited every nursey and garden shop in High Point looking for a viburnum Chinese Snowball tree. Does anyone know where I can purchase this tree in the Triad area of North Caolina?
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I live in upstate SC and we have quite a few nurseries that stock viburnum macrocephalum 'sterile'. I recently bought two and the priced varied greatly from nursery to nursery. A few places that did not have it told me that they do not get there snowballs in until they start to bloom as the look alone sells them. Maybe the nurseries near you will get them in as the plant blooms. |
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bigbloomers in Sanford has it. Just bought a second. My first is 15 ft tall and all budded out. evergreen. love it. |
Wow, people. GreenfingerGene explicitly asks about where to buy this shrub in the TRIAD of NC...and he gets random lectures from SC and Sanford...neither of which is in the Triad. Gene, call around to nurseries (including big box store garden centers) into Greensboro as ask if they carry the Chinese snowball bush, and ask what size container they are being sold in. Not precise help, but it's more helpful IMHO. I could have told you about lots of nurseries in TN or SE VA that have the shrub, but... |
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It's day 23 in the search for 22 year old Lafayette resident Mickey Shunick.
Over the weekend, a large turnout of volunteer's showed up in force, but still no definite leads
In fact, today the Missing Mickey headquarters has packed up and moved out of Blackham Coliuseum and set up a new location in the South College Shopping Center near the bowling alley.
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Some rules were just meant to be broken. I created a tutorial on some of the top fashion questions i've been asked by my veiwers & readers! Remember there is ALWAYS an exception to every rule & every situation! Enjoy
Dress- Halston
Jacket- H&M
Belt- Forever 21
Shoes- Jimmy Choo
Blouse- Zara
Shorts- H&M
Shoes- Jimmy Choo
Dress (worn as a shirt)- Urban Outfitters
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Bracelets- Free People & Banana Republic Jacket- BCBG
Dress- Elizabeth & James
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Ring- Banana Republic
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Complete list of nominees in 108 categories announced Thursday for the 48th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
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7. Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "Don't Lie," The Black Eyed Peas; "Mr. Brightside," The Killers; "More Than Love," Los Lonely Boys; "This Love," Maroon 5; "My Doorbell," The White Stripes.
8. Pop Collaboration With Vocals: "Gone Going," The Black Eyed Peas & Jack Johnson; "Virginia Moon," Foo Fighters featuring Norah Jones; "Feel Good Inc.," Gorillaz Featuring De La Soul; "A Song for You," Herbie Hancock featuring Christina Aguilera; "A Time to Love," Stevie Wonder featuring India.Arie.
9. Pop Instrumental Performance: "In Our Time," Burt Bacharach & Chris Botti; "T-Jam," George Duke; "Gelo Na Montanha," Herbie Hancock featuring Trey Anastasio; "Agave," Daniel Lanois; "Caravan," Les Paul.
10. Pop Instrumental Album: "At This Time," Burt Bacharach; "Bloom," Eric Johnson; "Naked Guitar," Earl Klugh; "Belladonna," Daniel Lanois; "Flipside," Jeff Lorber.
11. Pop Vocal Album: "Extraordinary Machine," Fiona Apple; "Breakaway," Kelly Clarkson; "Wildflower," Sheryl Crow; "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," Paul McCartney; "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani.
12. Dance Recording: "Galvanize," The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip; "Say Hello," Deep Dish: "Wonderful Night," Fatboy Slim & Lateef; "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," LCD Soundsystem; "I Believe in You," Kylie Minogue; "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion," New Order.
13. Electronic/Dance Album: "Push the Button," The Chemical Brothers; "Human After All," Daft Punk; "Palookaville," Fatboy Slim; "Minimum-Maximum," Kraftwerk; "LCD Soundsystem," LCD Soundsystem.
14. Traditional Pop Vocal Album: "The Art of Romance," Tony Bennett; "It's Time," Michael Buble; "Isn't It Romantic," Johnny Mathis; "Moonlight Serenade," Carly Simon; "Thanks for the Memory ... The Great American Songbook Volume IV," Rod Stewart.
15. Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Revolution," Eric Clapton; "Shine It All Around," Robert Plant; "Devils & Dust," Bruce Springsteen; "This Is How a Heart Breaks," Rob Thomas; "The Painter," Neil Young.
16. Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: "Speed of Sound," Coldplay; "Best of You," Foo Fighters; "Do You Want To," Franz Ferdinand; "All These Things That I've Done," The Killers; "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," U2.
17. Hard Rock Performance: "Doesn't Remind Me," Audioslave; "The Hand That Feeds," Nine Inch Nails; "Tin Pan Valley," Robert Plant; "Little Sister," Queens of the Stone Age, "B.Y.O.B., System of a Down.
18. Metal Performance: "The Great Satan," Ministry; "Determined," Mudvayne; "Mein Teil," Rammstein; "What Drives the Weak," Shadows Fall; "Before I Forget," Slipknot.
19. Rock Instrumental Performance: "Beat Box Guitar," Adrian Belew; "Birds of Prey," Stewart Copeland; "69 Freedom Special," Les Paul & Friends," "Mercy," Joe Perry; "Lotus Feet," Steve Vai.
20. Rock Song: "Best of You," Foo Fighters, (Foo Fighters); "Beverly Hills," Rivers Cuomo, (Weezer); "City of Blinding Lights, U2, (U2); "Devils & Dust," Bruce Springsteen, (Bruce Springsteen); "Speed of Sound," Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, (Coldplay).
21. Rock Album: "X&Y," Coldplay; "In Your Honor," Foo Fighters; "A Bigger Bang," The Rolling Stones; "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2; "Prairie Wind," Neil Young.
22. Alternative Music Album: "Funeral," The Arcade Fire; "Guero," Beck; "Plans," Death Cab for Cutie; "You Could Have It So Much Better," Franz Ferdinand; "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes.
23. Female R&B Vocal Performance: "1 Thing," Amerie; "Wishing on a Star," Beyonce; "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey; "Free Yourself," Fantasia; "Unbreakable," Alicia Keys.
24. Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Creepin'," Jamie Foxx; "Ordinary People," John Legend; "Let Me Love You," Mario; "Superstar," Usher; "So What the Fuss," Stevie Wonder.
25. R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: "So Amazing," Beyonce & Stevie Wonder; "Cater 2 U," Destiny's Child; "If This World Were Mine," Alicia Keys featuring Jermaine Paul; "So High," John Legend featuring Lauryn Hill; "How Will I Know," Stevie Wonder featuring Aisha Morris.
26. Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "Mine Again," Mariah Carey; "Summertime," Fantasia; "A House Is Not a Home," Aretha Franklin; "If I Was Your Woman," Alicia Keys; "Stay With You," John Legend.
27. Urban/Alternative Performance: "SupaStar," Floetry; "Dirty Harry," Gorillaz; "Dust," Van Hunt; "Welcome to Jamrock," Damian Marley; "Ghetto Rock," Mos Def.
28. R&B Song: "Cater 2 U," Rodney Jerkins, Beyonce Knowles, Ricky Lewis, Kelly Rowland, Robert Waller & Michelle Williams, (Destiny's Child); "Free Yourself," Craig Brockman, Missy Elliott & Nisan Stewart, (Fantasia); "Ordinary People," W. Adams & J. Stephens, (John Legend); "Unbreakable," Garry Glenn, Alicia Keys, Harold Lily & Kanye West, (Alicia Keys); "We Belong Together," J. Austin, M. Carey, J. Dupri & M. Seal, (D. Bristol, K. Edmonds, S. Johnson, P. Moten, S. Sully & B. Womack, (Mariah Carey).
29. R&B Album: "Illumination," Earth, Wind and Fire; "Free Yourself," Fantasia; "Unplugged," Alicia Keys; "Get Lifted," John Legend; "A Time to Love," Stevie Wonder.
30. Contemporary R&B Album: "Touch," Amerie; "The Emancipation of Mimi," Mariah Carey; "Destiny Fulfilled," Destiny's Child; "Turning Point," Mario; "O," Omarion.


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Sorry, but no. Sweep is considered an Action. While it does consist of an attack action it is denoted as just an action and does not follow the rule of Frenzy which is to perform an additional attack action ie, a basic attack. If Sweep were a surge ability, then, yes. But, sadly, it is not.
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oval track with 2 straight stretches and similar corners. Weekly Program Day/Time: Sunday Afternoons/Evenings starting at 5:00PM Classes Currently Competing:
Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, Pure Stocks & 4 Cylinder Chargers
run each regular 4-division program weekly. Specials for other divisions
may also be scheduled throughout the year. The point
system that AMR uses has been designed to reward consistency and attendance. Heat Lineup Procedure:
After the completion of all of the heats, the pit steward or attendant will draw pills out of a can containing the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. The order that the pills are drawn will be applied to our 4 weekly divisions in the order that the classes ran their heats. The pill draw # will correspond to the number of positions from the heat finishes that will be inverted for the feature. A pill draw of 1 means a heads up start from heat finishes. The rest of the field is lined up after these cars in the order they finished in their heats. |


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Ellison was incredulous. He went back inside, tracked down the club's manager and part owner, Demetrius Bassoukos, told him there was a young man convulsing outside the club and asked Bassoukos why the club's other staff members weren't calling an ambulance. "I got a very kind of non-response, so I just went ahead and called 911 myself," Ellison remembers.
By the time Ellison got back outside, three or four of the victim's friends were clustered around him. They said his name was Corey and that he'd recently taken a lot of GHB, along with a hit of Ecstasy. "They seemed a little upset that an ambulance had been called, and they kept asking if they could get him out of there and just take him home and put him to bed," Ellison says. "The club personnel told them no, because the ambulance was already on its way."
Besides, Corey didn't look like he was ready for nighty-night time.
"It took about fifteen minutes for the ambulance to get there, and during that whole time, I was helping the doorman try to keep this guy on his feet, and he was spastic and fighting us like crazy," Ellison says. "His eyes were wide and panicked. He would frequently look all frantic, not appearing to register his surroundings."
Such semi-conscious violence is often an initial symptom of a super-severe GHB overdose. A 1999 study by emergency-room doctors at San Francisco General Hospital reported, "One peculiar characteristic of acute GHB toxicity is that the subject often demonstrates extreme combativeness, despite profound CNS [central nervous system] depression."
When the ambulance arrived, Corey did not go quietly. "It took seven people, including the paramedics, about five minutes to get him on the stretcher," says Ellison. "He was thin but really strong."
The paramedics told the crowd that they were taking Corey to the emergency department at Denver Health Medical Center. Denver Health officials refuse to confirm or deny the admission of a drug-overdose victim early that morning. But whichever hospital Corey was taken to -- and Denver Health is the closest to Amsterdam -- he likely wound up with a breathing tube down his throat, perhaps after receiving a shot of a paralytic to quiet his muscles if he was still spastic.
"The only treatment [for GHB overdose victims] really is supportive," says Dr. Stephen Cantrill, associate director of emergency medicine at Denver Health. "There are no drugs to reverse the effects of GHB like there are with opiates. It's just a tincture of time. But if you intubate them and support them and monitor them, by and large, they do very well. You let the body burn off the GHB, and they eventually wake up and you extubate them and they go home, hopefully a little smarter -- though sometimes not, I'm afraid."
Cantrill says it's impossible to know precisely how many GHB overdose cases his department handles, because once the victims regain consciousness, they frequently refuse to acknowledge that they took any illegal drugs. "Some will actually confirm it once they're awake again, some won't," he says. "But when they come in with green hair from one of the clubs downtown and they're comatose, and two hours later they're awake and sitting up and talking to you, chances are very good it was a GHB ingestion."
While Corey was in the emergency room, Allen Ellison was attending what he terms an "after-after-hours party" at a private residence in the 200 block of Monaco Parkway. He says he arrived to find Bassoukos there as well. (Bassoukos did not respond to repeated phone messages and notes left for him at Amsterdam seeking comment for this story.)
"I approached Demetri and expressed my concern at the apparent hesitation of the club staff to call an ambulance," Ellison says. "My concern was that the club hesitated to call 911 for fear of repercussions to the club itself. But in talking with Demitri about it, he explained that the club has a procedure that is condoned by the police department and used by other clubs -- and that is to take a suspected GHB overdosed clubber outside into the cooler air and to closely monitor them while attempting to locate a responsible party, which basically means their friends. And then, if after fifteen minutes the clubber shows no improvement, then the responsible party is encouraged to drive them directly to the nearest hospital, although Demitri said that since most overdoses aren't fatal, many prefer to just take the overdosed clubber home and put damp cloths on their forehead."
(Detective John White, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department, says he's unaware of any such agreement between Denver police and local club owners on the treatment of GHB overdoses. "That sounds a little far-fetched to me," White says.)
After his conversation with Bassoukos, Ellison went home and wrote a two-page, single-spaced open letter titled "GHB Overdoses, Education, and Appropriate Medical Responses," which he then copied off and freely distributed at PrideFest. Ellison says he made sure to put his letter in the hands of "the representatives of every organization with a booth, several state legislators, a city councilwoman and someone from the police department."


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Hi Serkan, On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 16:56, Serkan Kaba <email@example.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06-05-2011 18:10, Kyle Pan wrote: >> Hi Serkan, >> >> During the past few days I was putting my hands to write demos for >> querying java-config vars and here's a issue aroused during finding >> documentation to read I'd like to discuss with you. >> >> I want to make sure that can I base my Java part of work on Jython >> 2.5. Currently, in gentoo portage tree there're three main versions >> of Jython, namely 2.1,2.2 and 2.5.(under dev-java/jython). The current >> marked stable one is 2.2. So at first I intended to base my Java part >> development on 2.2. However, I browsed all around the Jython official >> page(http://www.jython.org/), but cannot find documentation >> specialized to 2.2(even such basic info like which Python version it >> implements , etc). All documentation currently on www.jython.org is >> for 2.5 release. >> According to Jython website, 2.5 is the latest major release and >> highly recommended by Jython project, recognized as a "major leap >> forward"(http://www.jython.org/jythonbook/en/1.0/) and the most >> important is that it is well-documented. Also, It implements Python >> 2.5.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython,Status and roadmap section), >> while currently I cannot find Jython 2.2 implements which version of >> Python. >> >> So I'd strongly prefer to base my Java part development on Jython 2.5. >> Firstly, If I base it on 2.2 , the doc I can learn from and rely on >> would be a big problem for me. I cannot find documentation >> specialized for Jython 2.2 . All well documentation currently I can >> find on Jython website is for 2.5 now. Secondly, compared to 2.5, 2,2 >> is an old release. 2.5 is trend and officially promoted one. >> The only concern about using 2.5 is it is currently marked as ~x86 and >> ~amd64, but I don't think it's a big problem because it's the trend >> and as time goes on 2.5 will be marked stable, and I believe it won't >> take too long to happen. >> >> Of course I will also take it into consideration and try my best to >> make my code work both on 2.2 and 2.5. (That's the best. However, >> since 2.5 is "major forward" to 2.2, the differences between them may >> be not small, so it may be not easy work to make the codes compatible >> with both. ) If this situation happens, I'd prefer guarantee >> compatibility to 2.5. >> >> So If it's acceptable, I start to code using Jython 2.5. However, it >> would always be better to consult you before any decision is made, I >> think:) >> >> Thanks >> > > Hi Kyle, > > It's nice to hear back from you. So I understand that you're making > progress. In my opinion, depending on bleeding edge software isn't a > problem, so go ahead. These 2 versions are in different slots and > considered as 2 different packages (Side note: Think about how to treat > them in your plugin) > > Another thing I want to mention is about communication. It's best to > communicate via our gentoo-java ML instead of personal emails (unless > there's something *personal*). You can find info on how to subscribe in > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Ok. From now on I'll post to/CC gentoo-java when appropriate. > > Did you decide on the name? (I have a suggestion of GenEclipse) I'll > create the SVN tree and get your commit rights setup. Once that's done. > I would like to have your demo codes online as well. They,in the future, > will evolve into the plugin. This also makes your progress visible. Though I had proposed JarImporter, GenEclipse is better , I think. So choose GenEclipse would be ok. > - -- > Sincerely, > Serkan KABA > Gentoo Developer > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk3FCTsACgkQRh6X64ivZaKCggCeNNtHAoZphadv6hWAXHDJsxP1 > N6kAnRJgfAr9xV1FfJ1w1g3acXf2ONHF > =cE6v > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- With Best Regards, Kyle Pan
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Exercise trends come and go. Right now it's all about yoga, all 700 variations of it. Yoga is fabulous, but sometimes it's just too serious. Don't you ever want to make a joke while everyone is in Downward Dog? Don't you ever want to hear some music instead of listening to yourself breathe for 90 minutes? I do. I was hanging out with my brother last night and he reminded me about the exercise craze in our house for the first half of the '80s. Every morning my mother and I used to put on leotards and leg warmers and pop in Judi Sheppard Missett's hour-long Jazzercise workout video. And I'm sure we weren't the only people on the block sweating with Judi. Jazzercise was huge, until it got ousted by step aerobics, which my dad was totally into, by the way. Keep reading »
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[1569] BCL2, BCL6 and MYC Gene Rearrangements and Cell-of-Origin Classification in Primary Testicular Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
King L Tan, Susana Ben-Neriah, David Telio, Kerry J Savage, Tawny Hung, Joseph M Connors, David W Scott, Graham W Slack, Christian Steidl, Randy D Gascoyne. British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
Background: Primary testicular lymphoma is uncommon and accounts for <5% of testicular malignancies and 1-2% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Most cases represent diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL). It has a poor prognosis with a median overall survival of 4-5 years and a continuous risk of relapse, especially in the contralateral testis and central nervous system. We report the frequency of BCL2, BCL6, and MYC gene rearrangements, cell-of-origin classification and correlation with outcome in 85 primary testicular DLBCL.
Design: A tissue microarray was constructed using duplicate 1.0mm cores from diagnostic paraffin blocks of 85 patients with primary testicular DLBCL. For survival analysis, patients not treated with curative intent or were HIV-positive were excluded, leaving 66 patients; 35 treated with R-CHOP and 31 with CHOP-like chemotherapy. IHC for CD10, BCL6, MUM1, GCET1, FOXP1 and LMO2 was performed. Cases were assigned to GCB or non-GCB subtypes using the Hans, Choi and Tally algorithms. FISH was performed using commercial probes for BCL2, BCL6 and MYC. IHC and FISH were scored by 2 independent observers. Survival analysis was determined by Kaplan-Meier method with differences evaluated by log-rank test.
Results: Most primary testicular DLBCL were classified as non-GCB subtype (Table1). There was complete agreement for all three algorithms in 54/85 cases (64%; 6 GCB and 48 non-GCB). BCL2 break-apart was seen in 5/78 cases (6%), BCL6 break-apart was seen in 17/78 (22%), and MYC break-apart was seen in 6/76 (8%). One case showed both BCL2 and MYC break-apart, and 1 case showed both BCL6 and MYC break-apart. No triple-hit cases were seen. There was no significant association for BCL2, BCL6, or MYC break-apart with GCB or non-GCB subtype using any of the algorithms. In the subgroup for survival analysis, 5/57 cases showed MYC break-apart. On univariate analysis with both R-CHOP and CHOP-like chemotherapy together as a single group, MYC break-apart was significantly associated with inferior overall survival (p=0.029) and a trend towards inferior progression free survival (p=0.084). There was no significant association with outcome for GCB vs non-GCB subtypes, BCL2 or BCL6 break-apart.
IHC algorithm | GCB | Non-GCB |
Hans | 35/85 (41%) | 50/85 (59%) |
Choi | 28/85 (33%) | 57/85 (67%) |
Tally | 6/85 (7%) | 79/85 (93%) |


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Formally, I had a Visio TV, a Tivo Box (with cards so that I can record 2 programs at once), and Time Warner cable service. All were hooked up and working properly.
Recently, I decided to add ceiling speakers (getting old and don't hear like we used to) and a Blu-Ray DVD player. So I bought a Sony DH800 Receiver in hopes of eventually using a universal remote. Each manual (TV, Tivo, Receiver, DVD player) shows how to hook up to one or two of the other components, but no manual shows how to hook up all four. I've poured over the instruction manuals. The speakers and the DVD player seem straight forward - just connect them directly into the receiver. 1. First question: Into what do I run my cable wire? It currently runs into my TIVO box. 2. I had one HDMI cable running to the TIVO as well as a second cord with three RCA-looking jacks with red, white and yellow heads running into the TIVO as well. (I seem to remember that the cable guy said I needed the second one to record two channels.)
Honesly, I've tried and tried to figure it all out, but I'm afraid I'll wreck something if I put it in incorrectly. Can anyone help with connections and the proper cords? I would be so greatful. I have construction going on in my house right now and would be able to run the cords in the wall with little problem if I do it within the next few of days. |
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- Posted by duluthjeff (My Page) on Sat, Nov 7, 09 at 18:58
Here is what I would try: If you have them, use HDMI cables from the TIVO, the Blu-Ray player as inputs to the Sony DH800. (otherwise, component cables will work) The Cable TV cable still runs to the TIVO. You shouldn't need the extra set of component cables on the TIVO (where do the connect to?) I can't think of any way you would wreck anything playing around with it. It will either work, or not (but no smoke will appear). If you havent finished the walls yet, I would strongly advise running a CAT-5 or CAT-6 data cable to the area where your receiver sits for future use. There will be a mad scramble for providers of streaming HD programming delivered via the internet (Netflix, Amazon video etc.) Expecting a wireless network to deliver the bandwidth needed to stream an HD picture is usually asking too much. Good luck! |
- Posted by oldalgebra (My Page) on Sat, Nov 7, 09 at 21:01
Thank you so much. I can use HDMI for all the components. I can also run the additional cable you suggested. Is there any reason to pick one over the other (CAT-5 vs. CAT-6)? One more question: Will my television speakers still work even though I've hooked up speakers to the receiver? |
- Posted by duluthjeff (My Page) on Wed, Nov 11, 09 at 21:30
From what I've read, Cat-6 has less "crosstalk" between wires, but if your runs are not several hundred feet, there is no practical difference. You can run your TV speakers at the same time as the amplified wall speakers. You might have to connect more cables from the amplifier to do it depending on your setup. |
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Ancient Battle: Rome Review
Ancient Battle: Rome is a turn-based strategy game that puts players right in the middle of Caesar's successful campaign in Gaul. A Roman based war adventure should be a definite score for Hunted Cow, since it's truly hard to make any kind of Caesar expedition a boring experience. So is this Ancient Battle a fierce enough title to download?
Even for initiates to the genre, turn-based titles are relatively easy to understand. With tablet gaming, all it usually takes is a simple tap on one of your units and a second touch on an empty block to move your troops. The challenge mainly lies in one's strategy. Are you an emboldened warrior who will charge right into the fray? Maybe you're an even minded statistician, preferring to outnumber your opponent and beat them to submission. Ancient Battle: Rome enables you to figure out your own tactical aesthetic, and during your breaks it will also throw down a bit of a historical lesson.
Each stage of a campaign will offer you a couple of challenges which, if you don't meet, results in a loss. If you plan on blindly hitting that breach with your warriors, archers, and legionnaires, that may not work if the goal is to keep 50% of your troops alive by the end of the battle. Since I'm the type of general who incurs heavy losses to reach that proverbial mountain, I've had to change my thought process and flank the living heck out my enemies. My troops below are marked in blue, and thanks to thinking before I strike, these hapless soldiers are down to their final breaths.
If Ancient Battle: Rome was just about cornering your adversaries, monotony would set in by the first hour. Having a wide array of fighters, especially long range troops, keeps the game interesting, but the ultimate coup is the unpredictability of the campaigns. During an early section, it's your job to take out your enemy's camps while not losing 80% of your men during battle. Although I had lost most of my warriors on the field, I still had a few riders left to complete the mission. Since their troops outnumbered mine, the only alternative was to destroy their camps before they invaded my own territory. Thanks to a few evasive maneuvers, victory was mine.
If you're expecting a visual spectacle filled with flashy intros or over the top scenarios, then Ancient Battle: Rome's understated nature may keep you at arm's length. It's a very meat and potatoes experience, and it delivers everything one can expect from a strategy title. The $1.99 price tag is also a pretty solid bargain, as it should take you a good several hours to wade through the campaigns. There are also extra campaigns available for purchase if you're knee deep into Roman warfare, but even if you don't want to spend more than a couple of bucks, you'll still have a ton of ground to cover.
Ancient Battle: Rome isn't going to set the world on fire anytime soon, but it checks all the boxes as a solid turn-based experience. Rome wasn't built in a day, and with the hours I've invested on this iOS wargame, it may take a couple of weeks before the Gallic Wars are completed. My battle days are far from over, and I plan to conquer each campaign one troop at a time. Caesar will just have to wait.
App Store Link: Ancient Battle: Rome iPhone & iPad | By Hunted Cow Studios | Price: $1.99 | Version: 1.0 | 102 MB | Rating: 9+


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Below you'll find a video interview with Noah Hughes, creative director on Tomb Raider at Crystal Dynamics.
In the interview he discusses the importance of the series reboot's setting, the studio's desire to blur the line between myth and reality, and the challenges involved in creating a "fairly open" game while telling a linear story.
"From the beginning we sort of looked at the environment as another character," he told us. "I think it's common for games to give the environment character and personality, but in the context of Tomb Raider we sort of wanted to layer that through time, the idea that it's not just about its current state but it's about its history as an island and that, as you might expect, becomes important.
"We don't want to spoil anything, but one thing that's true about a Tomb Raider game is that it's full of mystery, and as much as we want to make this adventure feel believable, that's different than realism. Part of what we want to do is have Lara pursue mysteries and sort of blur that line between myth and reality."
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My friend and mentor, Don Simborg, MD, has seen a lot and done a lot in healthcare IT. He practiced in internal medicine while he was the CIO at UCSF and his second IT startup was an EHR targeted at oncology. In his so-called retirement he has taken an interest on the issue of the relationship between EHRs and fraud (when he is not taking trapeze lessons). We have gone around on this issue over many a fish sandwich. We don't agree on every specific but we both believe that there is a problem and that IT should do as little as possible to aid those who cheat and as much as possible to assist those whose role is catch them. In light of recent attention being that has fallen this way I asked him to summarize his views. They appear below; in future blogs I hope to deal with reader comments and drill into some of the pragmatic issues that must be solved to make progress. Here's Don:
EHRs have had a bad week. Studies published by both the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit investigative news organization, and the New York Times indicate that billings go up concomitant with a switch to EHRs raising healthcare costs instead of reducing them. DHHS Secretary Sebelius and Attorney General Holder sent a letter to the major hospital provider organizations threatening to crack down on EHR fraud. A New York Times editorial decried the EHR abuse. A full hour on National Public Radio was devoted to this problem. The Center for Public Integrity article indicated that the increase in cost so far is over $11B. The use of the two most expensive E&M codes for emergency room visits increased from 25% to 45% between 2001 and 2008. The New York Times article cited an OIG report showing that in 2010, just 1,700 of the 440,000 physicians added over $100M due to increased E&M coding.
There is a lot that we don't know about these numbers. Were EHRs the cause? Were the increases legitimate or fraudulent? How much of the baseline was fraud to begin with? Estimates of fraud vary widely from as little as 3% of all healthcare transactions to over 10%. The usual figure bandied about for Medicare is $80B/year in fraud. It may be over $250B/year overall. That's well more than the Afghan war has cost us. We could cover most of the uninsured with less than that.
The healthcare IT and provider communities say that the increase in billings with EHRs should be expected and is good because physicians are finally documenting what they do properly and decision support in EHRs prompts physicians to remember to do appropriate follow-ups. At a minimum, EHRs eliminate the fear of an audit, which causes physicians to under code in the paper system. Others say it is bad because it represents fraudulent up-coding made easy by single-click notes, cloning, E&M code prompts and other tools built into EHRs. We don't have any data to distinguish this at present and it is unlikely that we will any time soon. So what to do about it?
I say we should follow the advice given ONC seven years ago by a group of industry experts in an extensive report which warned that fraud will increase in an electronic environment unless we are proactive in putting in safeguards against fraud. The feeling was that we shouldn't wait until EHRs are widely implemented (at the time EHR penetration was less than 10%), as it will be more difficult to alter legacy systems later. It's now seven years later and EHR penetration is already much greater and increasing rapidly. We don't have time to wait for definitive proof, which may never come. We know fraud is occurring. We know some EHR tools, on the face of it, invite fraud. Eliminating or greatly constraining the use of these tools will have little or no negative impact on clinical usability. If fact many physicians argue that encounter notes that contain pages of normal negatives in the PE and ROS produced by a single click are simply not trustworthy clinically. The same has been said of cloned notes.
There are three things that ONC can do now. Investigate for Phase III of Meaningful Use which tools in EHRs should be grounds for decertification. These could include such tools as E&M code prompts that are solely for the purpose of up-coding, cloning and copy-forward, "make me an author", amended report bypasses, single-click encounter notes, disabling the audit log and others. Second, work with OIG and CMS to determine what metadata from EHRs would best help in fraud detection analytics software. Medicare is currently using such software in an attempt to detect potentially fraudulent claims prior to payment rather than the usual "pay and chase" method that is ineffective. After determining the minimal metadata set that would be helpful, then define, standardize, and require that metadata for EHR certification. For starters, define at what level of detail the user/date/time stamp is required. Other metadata that could be considered would be the date/time the claim was produced from an encounter and the method of entry of the data (dictation, default, typing, copy forward, menu selection, etc.). Third, fund a cost/benefit analysis of several possible alternatives for provider and patient authentication at the point of care. Include at least the possibility of a biomarker mechanism independent of the EHR. Such a system would make it much more difficult to fabricate visits which we know occurs. It would help insure that the provider and patient at an encounter are really who they are alleged to be and were present at the time and place alleged.
In summary, fraud is a huge problem. EHRs can be tools to both increase and decrease fraud. ONC is the only agency that can require changes to EHRs. ONC needs to stop giving lip service to "cooperating with other agencies" regarding fraud but to take the lead in seriously looking at how EHRs should be altered to reduce fraud.
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Why can't growers get it right? It's their business, for cryin' out loud. If I had an error rate this high I'd be out of a job. I'm beginning to suspect it is deliberate, that somewhere an employee at Bonnie Plants is cackling with glee that I have waited all year for Soo Yoo cucumbers only to get nasty little pickling cucumbers YET AGAIN. How can you make a mistake like that? You can't. It's not possible. Someone put pickling cucumber seeds in the peat pot labeled Soo Yoos for the second year running. The same goes for the lilies I have purchased from three different growers for the past three years. They grow these things in huge monocultured fields- I have seen the photos. So why are my Orange Electric lilies red? Why are my mother's lilium rubrum species lilies Orienpets in the rust and cream range? Why are my white Navonas yellow? I now understand why the bagged Home Depot and Lowes irises are not what is on the label- the big growers sell their culled and rejected hybrids to the big box stores, which slap random names on the labels to fool the consumer into purchasing them. That mystery solved, and shame on all involved. But I'm still stumped about the cukes. Is there really money to be made by using pickling cucumbers and labeling them as Soo Yoos? And the lilies- Orienpets are expensive. Someone lost money on that one. I'd better not get going on the Gleditsia aurea that doesn't aurate. If it didn't take a whole year to figure out the "mistake" I wouldn't be so cranky. But by the time something blooms or fruits, it's too late to fix it. And the same will happen next year. Okay. I feel better now. Thank you for your time.
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Not really sure what to tell you on the lillies. I am assuming that you planted them from a bulb? We used to grow several varieties of them that were sold through grocery stores etc and got all of our bulbs directly from holland or american growers. Cant recall every having any problems with getting the wrong ones. I am wondering if the supplier buys them direct from the grower splits them into smaller packaging and relabels them for sale..... Probably doing so quite sloppily and hence all the mix ups. Random bulb left on the sorting table gets tossed into which ever bag has not been sealed etc. As a general rule of thumb the bix box stores get what they pay for. We dont sell to them unless the its a choice between throwing thousands of plants in the trash or sending them to HD. If we have plant X which normally sells for $3.75 a pot, generally HD will want to pay $2-something a pot, and at that rate we are losing money when you figure in soil fet man hours etc, but better to recoop 2 dollars than 0 dollars, so they get the stuff that would be going into the trash. They are like walmart... if you send them good stuff 1 time they are never going to pay more for it and then when you send them stuff comparable to the price they are paying for it they will complain, so they consistently get the junk because the people doing the receiving dont know the difference if they have never seen good. |
I would not be happy about the mixup of colors also. But I wish I could get Lilies to even just survive without have to enclose in wire and cages to prevent the squirrels from eating them. I gave up. |
In order for a complaint (rant) to be effective, you need to contact the grower/distributor. |
Neglected to mention: Those companies employ people. People can make mistakes. And do. But not deliberately. |
Only a year to find the mistake? With fruit trees it can take five or more years of loving care to find out the mistake. Plant tags should be secured to plants by the growers in a way to keep them from being switched. They do it with mattresses! Al |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 25, 11 at 13:09
ggarner, that's a good guess on the lily problem. I'll bet you're right. I am going with a new company in Canada this year- I have heard good things about them from friends. I much prefer shopping at nurseries, but Home Depot and Lowe's have driven every one of them out of business in my town. I think that's part of my frustration- HD is happy to refund my money, but complaints don't change their practices. I yearn for the days of yore, when I knew the names of everyone who worked at Ecology Nursery and Enchanted Way. |
There are some old established lily growers out there on the web, like B&D and The Lily Garden. The stuff at HD is hopeless. Always has been. The Dutch bulbs are massively mislabelled, plus you get tulip virus and Narcissus bulb fly. Even the perennials in the cardboard boxes are screwed up. If you're a serious gardener, stick with internet and mail order. |
I have never heard of "orienpets", so I googled it and found this page entitled "Why color can vary in orienpets", so maybe it could be a variation? Regular Rubrum lilies are tied for my favorite flower, their smell is like gold! Carla in Sac |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.thelilygarden.com/pages_lilies/orienpet_1.html
- Posted by peachymomo Ca 8 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 11 at 13:23
I am four years into planting my backyard orchard and the thought of my trees being labeled wrong is horrifying! I bought them all from reputable sources so hopefully I will be lucky. I have had plenty of veggies come out a different color or form than was on the label, but this year is the first time I've been faced with the problem of moving a plant in the landscape because it wasn't what the label said it was. A supposedly dwarf butterfly bush I planted last spring is now over 10' tall and way to big for it's space. If I were you Renee, I would grow my cucumbers from seed next year. I've had trouble growing other veggies from seed but the cucurbits have usually done well for me. That way you should get what you want and not loose precious space in your garden to an impostor! |
- Posted by ocwormgirl (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 11 at 19:11
Hi Renee So sorry you have been sent the wrong seeds. Maybe I can help. I have seed for Satsuki Midori cucumber. I have been told they are the same as the Yoo Soo. They are a long Japanese cucumber that climb. They are super prolific and an heirloom so seed can be saved. They are also super fast so you can still get some if you plant now. I am in Southern California also. Message me you address and I will send you half a dozen seeds. J |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 11 at 14:45
My savior! Thank you, ocwormgirl. I shall grow your delicious cucumbers. And thanks for the advice, peachymomo. I didn't know it was better to grow cucurbits from seed. I will do that from now on. And thank you too, lilydude, for the advice on reputable lily sources in the US. I shall not order from the Dutch companies again. I love this forum. Renee |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 11 at 14:47
ocwormgirl, your member page says I don't have permission to send you a message. Renee |
- Posted by tropical_thought San Francisco (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 11 at 19:15
I had that feeling also over my lemon tree. I invested over two years in it, before I ended up taking a different tree. Two years of care, two of years of seeing everyday outside my window and communing with it. I could not bear to rip it out. I think it's a ponderosa. |
My theory is they just throw in any label which sort of relates that they have lying around, since most shoppers are not discerning. I have bought echinecea in bloom which were mislabeled as a completely different flower. Last fall I bought a 6 pack labeled swiss chard, and it never did develop large ribs. I looked it up online and decided it was a mislabeled swiss chard ,a kind that had small ribs and kept waiting all winter for the leaves to get large. Boy was I surprised when I pulled them out in spring to find humungous beets, if i had known it was beets I would have harvested them in the edible stage. So then I figured I couldn't go wrong with seeds. Well when I did my seed order, I forgot to order lettuce so I picked up a lettuce seed mix from HD . Two sowings so far and it is all kale! Tropical thought, did you check to see if the the root stock took over? |
And......my Japanese Eggplant is not Japanese Eggplant. I truly wonder if these are mistakes, disgruntled employees, or just sticking the Japanese Eggplant label in the pack to fill the order when they really were out of Japanese Eggplant. It's truly hard not to be a cynic..... |
- Posted by tropical_thought San Francisco (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 11 at 13:04
I can't tell if the root stock took over, did you see my collecton of photos? I called the grower and emailed them the photos, but they never contacted me again. But, since I did get a free plant, I am happy. Sorry to take over this thread, the lemons are still the same, it looks like a meyer but the lemons have very thick rinds. I did see a real mature meyer, and mine does look just the same in photos of leaves and everything, but the fruits are not round orange and have thick rinds |
Here is a link that might be useful: my lemon
Once I was in HD and there was a hyper giggling kid running around and when I looked over at him, I saw that he was taking labels from the vegetable pots and mixing them all up! I told an employee who just shook his head and said it happens alot. No wonder my sweet bell peppers were all chiles! So it's not always the growers' fault I guess. |
lol...another interesting thought! Whatever the reason, for me, the mis-labeling means that I won't buy anymore 6-packs grown and distributed by this one company....and perhaps that I won't buy veggie 6-packs from HD either.... |
- Posted by boeremeisie Nor Cal/Sunset 15 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 11 at 18:24
Totally understand you being upset. Same thing happened to me this year with my peppers. Thought I bought all poblanos, only to find half of them were Anaheims. Read the stick on the plant and believed it. Only was to fix is for the future (hopefully), and to let the grower know about their mistake. Not much can be done this year. Glad someone was able to get you the cucumber seeds you needed. |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Sun, Aug 7, 11 at 1:23
And guess what? Today they sprouted! Tomorrow I shall go out and build a little slug and earwig moat until they get big enough to fend for themselves. On the very bright side, a company that sent me two of the wrong irises sent me replacements and two beautiful new irises as freebies. I love small companies. Renee |
Oh, how I feel your pain! My supposed-to-be yellow with red edges gladiolas are orange and my zucchinis are patty pan, planted from from a Sean Conway seed packet. I know that I didn't make a mistake and plant the wrong seeds, because that's what I assumed with the first set of seedlings, so I planted another round and made sure that I had the right packet, but no, patty pan again. Which would be fine if I liked patty pan, but I don't; I like zucchini. :( |
I just noticed in a local hardware store's nursery that they have salvia 'Costa Rica Blue' labeled as salvia canariensis / Canary Island Salvia and it finally hit me...you have a lot of workers who know how to stick labels in pots, but don't have a clue as to whether or not that label and plant go together. |
I kept wondering why my Sweet 100 tomatoes were not getting red, but getting very orange and over ripe. Guess they were Sungold instead. I got them at Summerwinds, just as the plants came off the truck, so kids hadn't had time to mess with the tags. I was feeling sorry for myself, until I saw this thread. Discovering that others have waited years only to have the wrong variety would make me furious!!! -Babka |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Sun, Sep 4, 11 at 1:25
Babka! I have been looking for photos of your spectacular yard. You wouldn't be interested in posting a few for us now, would you? Renee |
I went to Picassa to see yours and I cannot begin to think of posting my weenie yard after seeing your photos. Thank your for the compliment, however. -Babka |
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Boy who died after being locked in cage wrote about his desire to die
BY CHRISTIN NANCE LAZERUS AND RUTH ANN KRAUSE Sun-Times Media June 24, 2011 7:26PM
A woman enters the trailer in the Colfax Mobile Home Park where the body of Christian Choate was recovered from under a shed behind the trailer in Gary, Ind. Thursday May 5, 2011. Acting on a tip, Lake County investigators last week unearthed the body of the 13-year-old boy buried under a concrete slab. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media
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Confined to a cramped dog cage in his family's Gary-area mobile home, 13-year-old Christian Choate would ask why he couldn't go outside with the other kids.
According to documents made public Friday by a Lake County, Ind. judge, his stepmother, Kimberly Kubina instead would give him paper and assign him a topic to write about.
"Christian wrote of why nobody liked him and how he just wanted to be liked by his family. Christian stated that he wanted to die because nobody liked the way he 'acted,'" according to one of the documents. "Christian's writings detail a very sad, depressed child who often wondered when someone, anyone, was going to come check on him and give him food or liquid. Christian often stated he was hungry or thirsty."
Christian's body was recovered last month from a shallow grave in the Black Oak trailer park where his family once lived. Kubina and Christian's father, Riley Choate, are charged with killing him.
Christian lived with 11 other siblings and cousins with Kubina and Choate after his mother, Aimee Eriks Estrada, lost custody of her three children in 2004. According to an internal Indiana Department of Child Services report, there were allegations that his sister and his half-sister were molested by their mother's live-in boyfriend. Aimee Eriks Estrada was cited for neglect and lack of supervision. In February 2005, Christian alleged that his mother may have touched him inappropriately.
The boy, whose body was found May 4 after Lake County police received a tip that he'd been killed two years earlier, wrote of how many times he had to steal food or use the bathroom in his place of confinement. He was "let out" to clean or vacuum but then had to go back to his "place" immediately afterward.
While everyone else was outside playing, he wasn't. When he asked for something to do, he was given paper.
The guardians of Christian Choate were investigated numerous times by Child Services for physical abuse, educational neglect, and molestation. A caseworker last saw him on June 30, 2008.
But little was ever done after the visits, and somehow no one saw evidence of the boy being chained up and kept in a cage.
Choate, 39, and Kubina, 45, of Hammond, have pleaded not guilty to murder, battery, neglect of a dependent, confinement, obstruction of justice, moving a body from a death scene and failure to notify authorities of a dead body.
Christian died of blunt force trauma, the Lake County coroner's office said.
Christian's sister Christina started to reveal the truth in late April to relatives in Kentucky. She told authorities that her father and stepmother often threatened to have the children taken away by DCS. Christina then notified her mother about his death. Eriks Estrada told authorities she hadn't seen her children for six years and didn't know until April 30 that Christian was dead.
Meanwhile, documents show the Lake County Department of Child Services' first involvement with the Choate family came in August 1995, four months before Christian was born, when they were contacted about unsanitary condition of his future stepmother's home. The allegations were unsubstantiated.
In August 2004, Riley Choate was listed as the perpetrator of physical abuse against Christian, who would have been 8 at the time. The allegations were unsubstantiated. That same month, abuse was substantiated against Riley Choate for inappropriate discipline against Kubina's nieces, who lived with the couple off and on for years. Medical neglect also was substantiated against Kubina for two children with severe tooth decay.
Riley Choate gained custody of the children after that. Documents indicate that he may have suffered from a learning disability, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. He did not pass either section of the state standardized tests in third grade, but he did pass the math section in fourth grade.
Christian was absent 28 days in the 2006-2007 school year, so his parents decided to withdraw him from Iddings Elementary School in Merrillville in March 2007. He was supposed to be home-schooled, but there's little evidence that ever occurred.
In April 2008, the family moved to the mobile home park. At that time, Christian was confined in the bathroom except when someone had to use it. Choate and Kubina put a hook-type lock on the door, but Christian managed to flip the lock open with a piece of cardboard and run away. After searching for him and finding him at a nearby drugstore, Choate punched and kicked the boy and then confined him in the couple's bedroom closet.
In summer 2008, the couple started using a dog cage bought from a neighbor to confine him. One witness told police Christian lived in the cage every day for the last year of his life.


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UC Davis one of the "big winners" in composite of five most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S.News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, The Financial Times and The Economist.
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The Graduate School of Management was among the top 50 business school campuses in the world, based on location, facilities, professors, and overall campus culture. This list at MBAPrograms.org includes some of the top MBA programs in country and cites the Graduate School of Management's "give back" culture among students that extends from its academic programs to its extracurricular activities like the popular Big Bang! business plan competition and the Challenge for Charity.
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Agilent Technologies' Electronic Measurement Group is a $3.6 billion business that over the past decade has seen a dramatic shift in its customer base from U.S., and Western European customers to predominantly Asia-based customers. Today, the majority of the division's revenues are generated outside of the U.S., with an increasing concentration in China.
(Davis, CA) — The UC Davis Graduate School of Management's full-time MBA program has been ranked among the top six percent of AACSB International-accredited programs nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report's latest graduate business school rankings released today.
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