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Free fatty acids provide an important energy source as nutrients, and act as signalling molecules in various cellular processes. Several G-protein-coupled receptors have been identified as free-fatty-acid receptors important in physiology as well as in several diseases. GPR120 (also known as O3FAR1) functions as a receptor for unsaturated long-chain free fatty acids and has a critical role in various physiological homeostasis mechanisms such as adipogenesis, regulation of appetite and food preference. Here we show that GPR120-deficient mice fed a high-fat diet develop obesity, glucose intolerance and fatty liver with decreased adipocyte differentiation and lipogenesis and enhanced hepatic lipogenesis. Insulin resistance in such mice is associated with reduced insulin signalling and enhanced inflammation in adipose tissue. In human, we show that GPR120 expression in adipose tissue is significantly higher in obese individuals than in lean controls. GPR120 exon sequencing in obese subjects reveals a deleterious non-synonymous mutation (p.R270H) that inhibits GPR120 signalling activity. Furthermore, the p.R270H variant increases the risk of obesity in European populations. Overall, this study demonstrates that the lipid sensor GPR120 has a key role in sensing dietary fat and, therefore, in the control of energy balance in both humans and rodents.
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Dear Lord, suffer the children to come to you. this young man is one of your most precious children and like a child, he will trust everyone. Please hold him in your hands, protect him from the evil of this world and bring him safely home to his family. Give his family strength and hope and in all things, your will be done. Amen |
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I ask God to bless Guadalupe, wherever he is, and to return him home, safely, as soon as possible. I thank You for all, Lord, Amen. |
Lord,almighty, you are the creator of all human beings, we are weaker and dependent on your mercy and love, Lord show your mercy on Guadalupe and relatives, hear their cry Lord, bring him back home, safe and in good health, |
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Lockheed Martin showcases incredible "HULC"
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Time to Talk about Home Energy Assessments Again!
November 1, 2010 4:22 am | by Energy Savers Blog | CommentsEnergy audits, energy assessments, home energy checkups… They're all the same thing, and we've talked about them quite a lot on this blog already. But whatever you call it, the idea's the same: When you get a home energy assessment, a professional runs a series of checks on your...
This Month on Energy Savers: October 2010
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October 28, 2010 10:35 am | by Edited by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | CommentsOn Thursday, October 28th, Advantage Business Media, ECN's parent company, held its annual pumpkin carving contest. The following is a photoblog of the event. Enjoy!
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I've not edited, but merely appended newer news so the record of what has been posted is complete. The charges for the trial August 8, 2013, have been dropped. There is still the matter of the appeal of the conviction on 6/25 which my lawyer says wont begin until he gets a copy of the transcript in "60 or 90 days". I wont go into my memory of it, which deviates from proper procedure in important ways, but let that ride until I see the transcript. What I recall does not matter, just the official record. You'd think the newspaper would send a reporter to a felony trial going on across the street, but the Van Buren County Democrat has yet to say anything about this process; demonstrating how obsolete that newspaper, and many others, are. "Day Brown" on Facebook has, and will have, postings trying to unravel how its really been working and what to do about it. |
(as of June 29, 2013) Below, you should see the front and back of fliers or other documents I & supporters have distributed in this area bearing on marijuana & the trial now set for August 8, 2013. Somewhat redundant, but I wanted what was posted to completely represent what else had been put out. The latest offer from the court looks very reasonable. But while I was in jail in the fall of 08, not having the bond money, the guards let me into the law library to examine the criminal code. Other prisoners realized what I was doing and came to me with their paper work. I saw how often it was some error in the documentation resulted in them being in the jail or prison. But, as in so much else government does, sometimes the paperwork is not correct and there is very little, if anything, a citizen can do. While the judge and prosecution may want to do the right thing, after they close the case, an error later on results in arrest they may not know anything about. Lawyers and court dockets are so swamped with work nobody with the powre to do anythng about it has the time to correct these problems. The only way I can ensure my rights is to go for a jury acquittal. I was reminded of this going thru the documentation for this latest case in which I see an "affidavit explaining dates filemarked..." that had not been properly recorded. Computer printouts have vastly increased the volume of the paperwork. Just my own case, going on since October 08, adds up to several hundred pages no lawyer, what with the demands of more recent cases, has time to go thru and think carefully about. Sometimes, the logical inconsistencies are only evident in comparing a document with another produced months later, so there may be a hundred or whatever pages of other material between them. My object in seeking acquittal is to get drug cases out of the criminal court and into the civil where families that are harmed by drug use can sue the vendors and supply chain for damages. Just as with alcohol and tobacco, adults able to meet their family responsibilities should be able to decide what recreational drugs they can safely enjoy in their own private lives. The guilty verdict I got instead begs the question of whether a jury of 100% Republicans is a "Jury of my peers". There are also questions about how the prosecution exceeded its allotment of excused jurors. Curious also is why, in a rural district, out of 88 in the Jury pool, only 3 were farmers- all of whom were immediately excused by the prosecution. The flaws in the fair trial model our republic is built on begs an appeal for a writ of mandamus to stop all prosecution of out door manufacture of marijuana until some means of protecting land owner rights because all that is going on now, is not an attempt to control drugs, but asset seizure for the benefit of the state, law enfocement, & the courts. If you read the law, the administrator of Arkansas drug enforcement is spozed to "consider the state of the science in enforcement policy, and with marijuana he clearly has not. I dont really expect the higher courts to obey their own law, but would like to see them on the record fail to do so. If you want to join in a class action suit, and perhaps have a share in damages, lemme know. Below the following fliers, other issues are dealt with. |
THEY ARE RUNNING THE DRUGWAR LIKE A SPEED TRAP! The takeway here is that, for one, have caught them at it. They've been getting away with it because the media loves the sensational drigwar reports that result- build ratings. Whether you think pot should be legal or not, we all agree that if pot use causes problems, the family should have the right to sue the dealer. That is the way the law is. But Google it. Not a single case. The reason is, no matter what the problems were, by the time civil action can be brought, the criminal court already has all the drug dealer assets. Nothing to sue for. Clearly, the solution is to let such civil action go first, but that change will never be enacted because lawyers run all legislatures and it would reduce the incomes of their brothers at the bar, criminal defense lawyers. We need to quit electing lawyers. Since I am post polio, which doctors cant do anything about, I became a herbalist, and marijuana was one of the herbs I found useful. I expected a test case, just not like this, and got it October 10, 2008. Since I didnt trust a lawyer, I defended myself, and would not cop a plea. But they kept setting the trial date up, so I didnt go to trial until Sept 17, 2010, 23 months later. This is a head's up for landowners. These dwarves will sprout and grow among the weeds on a fence line simply by having the seed cast out while driving by. They are too small for the owner to notice, but a drug dog will smell them, and he doesnt know there's a problem til the cops show up- arrest him and seize his land. There's problems for search aircraft also. We've all seen the images in the media of seized pot plants 8-12ft tall. Easy to see from the legal lower altitude limit of 500 feet. But now, they'll be flying right over the roof of your house at treetop level. I know of them hovering so low they blew down a corn field. They prolly thot it was funny, but lodged corn cant be harvested by a corn picker; hasta be done by hand. Trial was delayed 23 months because they were moving people into the district to stack the jury. They did not know an Internet people search would reveal the tampering. The Arkansas court of appeals ordered a new trial, concurred by the Arkansas Supreme court. Now, a year after, and having the court date repeatedly postponed again, trial is set for June 25.... Sort of. There were two more searches after 08. One time they took me to jail to see that I was still out on the appeal bond and immediately released. Both times, they just took the pot, didnt bother searching the house, and left. In neither case did I receive any paperwork. And now, I get an email from my appeal lawyer saying the 6/25 trial is for another charge. I'd show up in court on the 25th ready for the wrong case. No wonder they say lawyers are slick. |
bring whatever he has on Friday, 6/21. I dont think he knows what he has. All the procedural delays and appeals produced too much paperwork for anyone to go thru it all to see what is there. Course, I had more time... doing so, found evidence the prosecutor had withheld. My previous appeal lawyer, Sharon Kiel, told me this other case had been nul processed... ie dropped. Can they reopen it?) I can see how they'd like to convict me on a later case since I have the evidence which the prosecutor withheld from the 08 case. I also have the documentation to show he and his witnesses committed perjury against me. At that trial, Judge Clawson had attorney Mel Jackson sit with me to prevent me from doing anything that might disrupt the process. But when my X said I threatened to shoot her if she pulled my pot plants, this is terroristic threatening, and should have stopped the trial right then to deal with that charge. Mr. Jackson said nothing. He is either a fool who does not know the law, or in cahoots with the prosecution. Apparently, judge Clawson does not know the law either. Whoever is on the jury this time will be identified by friends online. Last time, I asked each juror if they owned property in Van Buren county. Some, it turns out lied. This time, I'll try to be sure to have a jury of my peers, which is rural landowners. If I win, it'll be defacto legalization of marijuana. However, that will not prevent any family which feels pot use created problems from suing me or any other vendor. Such civil litigation has already driven many US businesses into bankruptcy. No matter what the jury & the court does, they dont have the power to take down (http://daybrown.org & http://assetseizure.org, or stop the reporting on Facebook, "daybrown". I contacted the FBI, US Marshal, Arkansas State Atty General, ACLU, NORML, The Van Buren County Democrat, the Arkansas Times, and Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission in Little Rock. I didnt even get a call back- with documentary evidence of felony malfeasance. I'm surprised the AR court of appeals ordered a new trial. They may know of other cases- media hasnt reported- but will be seen on social networks and go into the permanent Internet archive. If the corruption from Main Street all the way to Wall Street & Pennsylvania avenue does not cause a revolution, the record of cases like this will be there to be read by the grandchildren of the public servants involved. Ordinarily, higher courts'd cover for the local boys, they'd send me back to prison, and that would be that. Ordinarily. But if it was that, I wouldda been an ordinary pot grower who would've copped a plea and they could've carried on- However, this will all be posted at http://daybrown.org or FB daybrown. |
a scan of an 1885 one room schoolhouse 8th grade math book.
Really look at whats been found.
The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I.
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The way women will run it.
The way it can be reconstructed.
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by Eric Jackson, largely from other media On July 1 the semi-annual electric rate adjustments are due, and the power companies are asking the National Public Utilities Authority (ASEP, by its Spanish initials) for an increase of about two cents per kilowatt /hour. Present rates, at about 19¢ for most of Panama and 26¢ in Bocas, are already higher than in most countries. The great majority of the electricity used in this country is generated by hydroelectric dams but at peak usage hours thermal generators that burn coal, oil or gas make up the difference between what the dams produce and the country uses. Our government's policy has been to set the price of electricity roughly according to the price of oil, that is, to base rates on the costliest energy that we consume, even if most of Panama's electricity is produced far more cheaply. According to reports in several national media it appears that the Torrijos administration will grant the increase, but that most residential electricity users, who use less than 500 kilowatt/hours of power per month, will receive a government subsidy and thus won't see the rate increase in their bills. The subsidies ensure that Panama won't have electricity riots, but also aggravate other causes of public discontent and political problems for the government. In 2007 subsidies for residential users amounted to $32.4 million and, depending on how one might care to figure, that was added to the national debt or deducted from the national operating budget. A better way to figure it might be in terms of broken sewers not fixed and bubbling smelly stuff onto the streets, broken up roads not promptly fixed and school buildings not maintained. However, because of the subsidies most people don't make such connections. Because of the subsidy the general public isn't inclined to cause trouble for the government and to a certain point it becomes politically easy to approve increases to already high rates. However, businesses pay the full increases and tend to raise the prices of the goods and services they use. Grocery stores, because of the power they use for refrigeration, are among the most affected and if one has attended any FRENADESO marches of late and noticed the changing public responses one will notice that high food prices are becoming a hot button issue capable of causing labor militancy and public unrest. There are relatively few Panamanians who own stakes in this country's power generation business if one doesn't count the government's pieces of that business. Other than utility company executives, people have or hope to have hydroelectric dam concessions and hardcore ideologues who never see a price gouge that they don't like, this country's business community strongly disapproves of the high electricity rate structure. It raises the costs of doing business and, for those living energy intensive personal lifestyles like most higher income Panamanians do, increases household expenses. That this segment of society might be annoyed makes little direct difference when the votes its members cast are counted, but the politicians generally depend on the donations of businesspeople to finance their campaigns and a shift in the business sector's opinions and contributions is normally part of the electoral syndrome that replaces a ruling party with an opposition government. Rate increases with elections less than a year away can't help the PRD's chances in 2009. The big shift in raw votes that's likely to result from the Torrijos administration's energy policy may be seen in the Ngobe-Bugle Comarca, a destitute and swing-voting indigenous region that contains about eight or nine percent of the nation's population. Hydroelectric generating concessions have been applied for with respect to virtually every river in Panama and the ones that are being built are mostly in and around indigenous communities. As was the practice of his father, the dictator General Omar Torrijos, President Martín Torrijos follows a policy of forcible removal and inadequate token compensation for those displaced by hydroelectric dams. Villages that had long existed on fertile soils near rivers are being relocated to barren lands without convenient water supplies. Rural protests against hydroelectric projects, particularly by Ngobe communities that are threatened, have become a common feature of Panama's political scene in the past year or two. Within the comarcas the issue is aggravated because Panama's indigenous nations have never accepted the Panamanian government's claim of ownership of all water and mineral resources, including those in collectively owned indigenous areas. In the most politically cohesive of the indigenous comarcas, Kuna Yala, another part of the Torrijos energy policy is meeting stiff resistance. The proposed electrical connection with the Colombian power grid would be via power lines to be built through the Atlantic side comarca, but in an April 30 letter to the state-owned ETESA power line company the Kuna General Congress noted that the 49 communities of Kuna Yala oppose the power line and warned that if anyone from ETESA or its contractors comes into the comarca to conduct an environmental impact study for the power line they will be expelled and their equipment will be confiscated. The administration is going several steps beyond the hydroelectric projects now under construction by pushing Law 278, proposed legislation now before the National Assembly that would legalize 50-year private concessions over this country's surface and ground water resources. It's being touted as a response to a national energy crisis, and within other more selected circles as a tremendous opportunity to make money exporting electricity as Panama's power grids are connected to its Colombian and Central American counterparts. The more explosive reality will be manifested when communities lose their water supplies to private companies and are forced to move or pay high private water rates, but right now we are seeing a lot of road blocking protests against hydroelectric dams and that sort of chaos is likely to increase. The indigenous and farmer communities that stand to be displaced by hydroelectric projects are being joined in various ways by environmentalist and consumer groups. A small consumer advocacy organization, Consumo Etico, was the first organization to oppose Law 278 in National Assembly hearings and one by one the nation's environmental organizations are also taking stands against water privatization. Most are limiting themselves to public statements or quiet lobbying, but a few of them are physically joining in the indigenous-led protests and some are using international connections to apply political pressures against multinational power generating companies in their countries of origin. To blunt the effect of water privatization for hydroelectric generation, the Torrijos administration has proposed Law 405, legislation that would tax concessionaires and put the proceeds into a fund to develop affected communities. The hydroelectric industry association, the Panamanian Renewable Energy Producers Association (APPER) is vigorously opposing that move. On May 2 the capital and much of the rest of the country saw heavy rainfall and other climatic indicators suggested that after an unusually prolonged dry season our rainy season has begun. That ought to begin the process of refilling the reservoirs behind the existing hydroelectric dams. That, in turn, could relieve an electricity crisis --- real or contrived --- that Panamanians have been seeing in recent months in the form of frequent brief power outages. In late April the government also imposed restrictions on the use of most illuminated signs in Panama City as an electricity saving measure. Mostly these restrictions apply outside of peak electricity usage hours, but the changed appearance of the city skyline might help the Torrijos administration sell another rate increase to the public. Also
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Louisville, Ky. (December 11, 2013) — KentuckyOne Health facilities in Louisville are working this holiday season to build awareness about giving the ultimate gift: the gift of life. Whether it be signing up for the state's donor registry, or participating in a living donation, organ donation can truly give someone a new lease on life. According to Donate Life, every 10 minutes in America, another name is added to the National Transplant List and on average, 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant. More than 120,000 people in the United States are currently on the waiting list for a lifesaving organ transplant. While most organ donations happen after death, Kentucky residents can also make a living donation. Living donors may donate a kidney, or a part of the liver, lung, intestine, blood or bone marrow. About 6,000 living donations take place each year, most commonly when a relative or friend donates to a loved one. Donating to a stranger is more rare. Less than 10 percent of living donations are non-directed. "Organ donation is a very generous gift," said Michael Hughes, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at University of Louisville, director of living donors and transplant surgeon. "Many individuals may not realize that you don't have to know someone in need to be a donor." Before someone makes a living donation, he or she must undergo extensive tests to ensure that they are in adequate physical and mental health, and that the donation will not adversely affect their wellbeing in the long term. Candy Campbell, a Louisville resident, donated one of her kidneys to a stranger in December 2011 at the Trager Transplant Center at Jewish Hospital, also part of KentuckyOne Health. "This was an easy decision for me," Campbell said. "I am healthy and someone else has 15 hours a week of dialysis and does not have the quality of life that I do." Campbell became an advocate for living donation after learning about her co-workers need for a transplant. Two years later, Candy is living a healthy life, with no side effects from her surgery. Hughes conducted Campbell's portion of the transplant procedure. "The kindness of people like Candy allows us to continue our ground-breaking work in transplantation," said Hughes. "Thanks to their generous acts, we can save lives and help more patients in need of a transplant." For Kentuckians, joining the Kentucky Donor Registry is as easy as logging on to the donatelifeky.org or signing up when you renew your driver's license. The donor registry enables your family members to know that you chose to save and enhance lives through donation. About KentuckyOne Health ### |


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Good afternoon, I have a problem with the conversion rules, when I transfer the employee does not take into account any of the scrambling rules, those made by me and with the rules that I copied by CNV_TDMS_HCM_SCRAM transaction. I understand that this conversion is performed in the task to prepare data transfer. Someone can give me an idea that I may fail to do. Somebody has documentation of Scrambling rules? Thanks in advance.
Manuel Campos
Hi Manuel,
was the information sent via mail ok or do you need any additional information ?
Hi Eddy, your information was very hepful for me, if you have more information please sent me. I´m testing TDMS for HCM in a company and my problem is that I created customizing for scrambling with the transaction CNV_TDMS_HCM_SCRAM and I copied the SAP template, but I tried to make some examples but They doesn´t work.
Do you know the program where the scrambling rules are called in TDMS?
Thanks in advance. Manuel Campos
Try running Check Scrambling Rules Consistency (Optional) activity, this activity will suggest you if you have done some mistake while define Scramble rules.
Best regards,
Thank you but I can´t use this activity, when I execute the report a dump appear for this:
Error in the ABAP Application Program
The current ABAP program "CNV_TDMS_HCM_CHECK_SCRAM" had to be terminated
because it has
come across a statement that unfortunately cannot be executed.
The following syntax error occurred in program "CNV_TDMS_HCM_TRANSFER_PA " in
include "CNV_TDMS_HCM_TRANSFER_PA " in
line 1:
"Logical database "PNPCE" is unknown"
This is because TDMS is in a machine that not have HR module.
One question: where is the coding to scrambling? In others words, when I make a scrambling rule, where is the coding who makes the scrambling?
Thanks a lot. Manuel
Hi Manuel,
if you create a scrambling rule an include is created automatically :
Hopefully this was the information you were looking for.
Thank you but my problem it´s not wiht a Z rule, it´s with the standar scrambling rules. Where is the coding for the standar scrambling rules?
Hi Manuel,
have a look at program CNV_MBT_RULES_DEF_46.
This is the master program for maintaining and creation conversions and scrambling rules.
Hopefully this helps.
Thank you, when I execute the program wherever Phase or activity ID that I select, for example PC001_RULES_MAINTAIN
It shows me this:
Rules for packege 90042
Rule Name Status Active
CNV_MBT_BOP red check
INITIAL red check
MOVE red check
01_RVNUM_CK_DGT red check
99_HR_PEVAL2 red check
99_PD_SEQ_NR red check
ADDR_SCRAM1 green check
SAMP_SCR_DOM red check
SAMP_SCR_FIELD green check
In your package appear something like this?
I used transaction CNV_TDMS_HCM_SCRAM to prepare and maintain customizing for
scrambling at project or subproject level. And I made this:
To use the SAP template, choose Copy from other Project. You can now copy a scramble
definition. To copy the SAP template, input the following:
Pack ID: TDHSC
Project: *
Subproject: *
Process Type: R
Select the "Get from client 000" checkbox .
You can use a description prefix, for example SAP_, to easily identify elements. For
example, if you use this prefix and the name of a scramble group in the template is
HCM_DE_01, then after the copy the name is SAP_HCM_DE_01. This is useful for copying
in add-on mode into an existing project, because it helps you to determine what was new
from this copy.
Then I tried to use this scrambling rules copied, but They doesn´t work.
Thanks a lot for your help
Dear Manuel,
For this case we have released the note,
1337253 Dump at step Check Scrambling Rules Consistency (Optional)
This note have to implemented in Control system. During SNOTE
syntax error in source LCNV_TDMS_HCMU01 comes up.
Please ignore this for the control system and activate only
When you define a scrambling rule , No coding will exists, it will be generated at the time of Data transfer.
Best regards,
Krishna Prasad.
Thank you, I have implemented the note in our system, I´m going to make some test, I´ll tell you the results.
Hi Manuel,
I have sent you the step-by-step guide via mail.
Thnak you for your information, it was so helpfull for me; but I still have problems with the standar scrambling rules, As I commented before, I copied they from client 0000 and they don´t work in my package. Do you why It can be?
Thanks, Manuel
Hello, first at all thank you for your help. In any case, I solved my problems with the scrambling of master data, but now I have problems with the scrambling of data from cluster, could you please tell me how could I make it with standar scrambling rules?
Thanks a lot. Manuel
How can I do to copy the Template from the client 000 ? I've execute TR CNV_TDMS_HCM_SCRAM --> Copy from other Project but I don't have the option client. I've HCM SP2 installed.
After that, in the activity "Configuration and Selection" --> "Scrambling Rules" I left the values by default (SAP_HCM_INTERNAL_USE select). It's necessary to select more Scrambling-Groups if I would like to scrambling more data like name, surname, etc.
Do you have any guide to configuring this steps ?
Thank's in advanced
Hi Eddy,
Do you have a lates doc with this instructions for TDMS 4.0? If so can you please send me a copy?
Dear Krishna,
Are you so kindly to send me an example of a scrambling rule? I think that in my system are not working properly.
Thank you so much.
Hi eddy ,
can you send me the information as well?
Thank you very much.
Could anybody who has the said documents also send them to me? \
I appreciate.
My address can be found in my profile.
Hi Eddy
Could you send me the material too?
Many thanks
Hi Odin,
can you send me offline your mailadress ?
Hi Eddy,
This is David. I got your forwarded documents that look very promising. I am going to start off with those. I appreciate your work helping newbies-I would really like to assign some forum points in return, so please feel free to post on my other thread which I would be using to ask questions related to configuration and creating packages.
Hi Eddy,
Could you send me the material too?
Many thanks
HI Eddy,
Could you please send me the scrambling rule document to my Email ID which is in my profile
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Labs came back - she does not have the mutation so there's a 25% chance Tarceva could still help her. Saying prayers & waiting for the platelet count to go up!
Update: whatever the new chemo was, it really knocked her for a loop. I'm taking that to mean it also kicked some major cancer butt too! She had to get fluids for 2 days in a row, platelets at 2 - sent for blood, next day platelets at 0 - sent for more blood. She was only able to work 10 hours last week but I don't know how she pulled that off. They cancelled chemo last Friday. She had an appt. Monday but I haven't been able to connect with her yesterday or today so I don't know what the plan is.
Thanks for the update! Hopefully she will feel better and the chemo will keep working at the same time!
The plan is treading water. Bloodwork every other day. No more treatment until her blood levels get straightened out. She's really not feeling well & hasn't been able to work this week. I'm just saying prayers & waiting for some good news!
Update #2. She was at the doc's Friday for more bloodwork - platelets are at 8. They said there is nothing further they can do & want to set up Hospice. They said she has 2, 3 or maybe 4 weeks. I don't understand what they are basing this on. They did the new chemo 2 weeks ago & have done no further testing other than blood tests so how do they know it isn't working? She has swollen feet/ankles so much that they are shiny (I'm getting worried about cellulitis), water pill isn't doing much, she had been on a blood thinner up until about 1.5 weeks ago (for the previous blood clot in her neck) when they stopped it & she said her stomach & back all looks like severe bruising from bleeding under the skin, the last new thing she mentioned to me is that she's been having some vision problems which concerns me for brain mets. The last PET scan they did they did not include the brain & we don't know why or if that's normal procedure & she was really concerned why they didn't look & probably even more so after getting the results of so much cancer spread/worsening cancer. She has another appointment tomorrow. She's supposed to have made her decision if she wants to set up Hospice or not. What does that mean? If you set up Hospice does that mean you are no longer seeking treatment? Or, does that just mean they help you to be comfortable & you can still get treatment? We did finally talk about a 2nd opinion. She sounds like she wants to do it & her case worker had suggested she go to IU (Indy). So I think that's the next plan. At one point she said, "maybe it's too late" & I said "it's not too late...you're still here & I'm not throwing in the towel"! Thanks in advance... you guys have helped me understand some things, given me hop & a place to talk freely. I appreciate all the responses. Sending prayers for all those in need :)
One other piece I forgot to mention, 2 weeks ago they resent some tissue to the lab from her original biopsy to retest it. They did 2 biopsies initially as they had a hard time determining which type cancer she had. Now she wonders if they misdiagnosed a small cell instead of non small cell since she had so much spread on her last scan. On the other hand, cancer cells multiply so fast & can break off & spread to other parts so who knows until the results come back. Friday when she got the bad news she was talking to the nurse practioner who said she was going to get the doc & be right back. She was gone, came back - no doc & the NP gave my sister the news of nothing more they can do & her 2-4 weeks prognosis. She said she felt like her doc deserted her which is really sad.
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Joey O'Connor has requested a transfer from Ohio State's football program, according to the school.
O'Connor, a star offensive lineman from Windsor, redshirted his freshman year last fall after having surgery on his left knee. He was a member of the 2011 All-Colorado football team [1] and was nationally ranked by every major recruiting service.
In an announcement sent to media covering the program, the school said the 6-foot-5, 305-pound O'Connor "has requested a transfer to be closer to home."
O'Connor's dad, Joe, told MyWindsorNow.com [2] last November that Joey had a difficult first year at Ohio State.
"It was incredibly frustrating for him," Joe O'Connor told the site [2]. "Couple that with homesickness, being X amount of miles away from his comfort zone, it was real difficult the first couple of months. For any freshman, whether they're playing ball or not, I'm sure that's a factor. Couple that with an injury, that just made it ever harder."
Later, Joe O'Connor added: "The change in culture coming from a Colorado small town, you know Windsor and Eaton, farming community to metropolitan Columbus. All the kids that he deals with are not from small communities. They're from Cincinnati, they're from Columbus, they're from Cleveland, they're from Fort Lauderdale. That's basically his biggest challenge is meshing with those metropolitan-type kids. He's listed as the country kid coming from Colorado out west. It was definitely a culture shock all across the board."
Joey O'Connor had a long road to get to Ohio State [3]. He was originally a Penn State commit, but then the child sexual-abuse scandal rocked that program and he reopened his recruitment.
O'Connor was offered by both Colorado and Colorado State out of high school. (CSU is a half-hour from Windsor's campus.) At that time, though, he wanted to leave the state.
"He just really felt that he knew what was in Colorado, and he wanted something outside of that, something beyond that," Joey's mom, Ann, said last January.
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The well-shod heels of luxury and fashion industry luminaries from France, Britain, China the US and Australia stepped into Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art on Wednesday night to celebrate The Australian Financial Review Magazine's inaugural Bespoke conference.
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The hospital is located in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram (BOH'-koh hah-RAHM'), the movement fighting to uproot Western cultural influences from a country shared almost equally by Muslims and Christians.
The records obtained by The Associated Press show the number of detainees who died in military custody more than tripled to nearly 1,800 in June, the first month of a state of emergency in Nigeria's troubled northeast region. That figure is much larger than the estimated number of Boko Haram fighters.
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COLUMBUS-For the first time in school history, the North Platte High School boys' basketball team won the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference tournament on Saturday.
The Bulldogs (7-3) beat Kearney 44-28 in the tournament finals to win the GNAC for the first time since it was started in 2003.
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(LOS ANGELES) -- Kate Gosselin says her eight kids were "extremely excited" to do a TV special about their lives.
Gosselin tells Us Weekly her 13-year-old twins Cara and Mady, and 9-year-old sextuplets -- Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah and Joel -- "cheered like crazy" when she announced they would be doing a one-hour Kate Plus 8 special for TLC.
The 38-year-old reality TV star adds, "It was like I announced that it's Christmas tomorrow. Our crew walked in and it was like they had never left."
Her ex-husband, Jon Gosselin, reportedly isn't thrilled that the kids are returning to TV. A source tells Us Weekly, "He thinks it is a really bad idea for his kids. Jon feels he has his kids' best interest at heart."
The special will look at how the Gosselin family has grown and changed since their reality series went off the air. It will also look back at the family's most memorable moments.
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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Countries worst hit by European crisis are most corrupt, NGO says
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December 7th, 2012 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Does one really reap what one sows? According to non-governmental agency Transparency International, that's apparently so. Greece has scored the worst ranking of all 27 European Union nations in a calculation of perceived official corruption. Greece is among the hardest hit by the ongoing economic crisis, along with Spain, Portugal and Italy. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In a new report this week, Transparency international says that the general perception of these struggling European nations have grown increasingly negative as well. There is widespread anger over governmental graft, as many citizens in these nations struggle to pay their bills.The index from Transparency International measures the perception of corruption in the public sector and not the financial sector. According to the group's Europe director, Anne Koch the results clearly indicate that people in the countries worst hit by the crisis perceive corruption to be widespread. "these four countries has been reflected in the figures," she told the Associated Press. On a scale of 0, which means "highly corrupt" and 100 is "very clean," two-thirds of the 176 countries ranked scored below 50. The group says that this indicates a widespread need for more openness in public institutions and more accountability for officials. "Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all public decision-making," Transparency International head Huguette Labelle says. "Priorities include better rules on lobbying and political financing, making public spending and contracting more transparent and making public bodies more accountable to people." First conducted in 1995, the survey draws on a wide variety of sources that capture perceptions of corruption. These include World Bank and World Economic Forum assessments, the African Development Bank's governance ratings and Transparency International's own Bribe Payers Survey. How did the nations of the world rank in the survey? Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia were ranked the worst overall on this year's list, all tied with a rating of just eight. Denmark, Finland and New Zealand were thought of as least corrupt with scores of 90. Canada scored 84, Germany 79 and Japan and Britain tied at 74. The United States was rated 73, giving it 19th place, and France scored 71. Greece scored a 36, Italy 42, Portugal 63 and Spain 65 at the bottom of western European nations. All four countries are mired in recession, and both Portugal and Greece have received EU bailouts. Koch adds that if the new 2012 methodology is applied to the 2011 results, Greece fell by 14 places. "Greece, of course, at place 94 is the lowest state in the European Union," she said. "It's ranked lower than countries like Colombia, Benin and Zambia ... which gives you pause for thought." Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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Swift Boaters getting to work early on this one. Wait till they talk about the expected candidate's sex life.
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Peel back the label of all the top Democratic presidential contenders, and they want you to see two words in big, bold letters: "Union made."
The candidates weren't soft-pedaling their support for organized labor at the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO convention in Waterloo on Wednesday.
They bragged about marching in picket lines. They each touted the labor movement as the thing that won American workers better wages, shorter work weeks, better working conditions and the like.
In various speaking styles, they pitched a revitalized labor movement as the key to winning reforms on big issues like health care.
And since union workers are a critical constituency for anyone who wants to win the Democratic nomination, they all went out of their way to bash President Bush's record on workers' issues, to call for making it easier for unions to organize, and to pitch ways to fix the country's foreign trade deficit and create jobs.
At times, it was hard to find key differences among the Democratic contenders when it comes to issues affecting American workers.
But national front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did try to reassure union voters who might be skeptical over her trade policies, considering that some union members are still upset over the North American Free Trade Agreement enacted when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president.
Hillary Clinton said people often ask her: "Are you for free trade or fair trade?"
"I say, 'I'm for smart, pro-America trade,'" Clinton said, drawing applause.
Ahead of Wednesday's gathering, Clinton launched television ads touting herself as the candidate for working people.
Former Sen. John Edwards leads the polls in Iowa, where he has aggressively courted the labor vote with a populist message aimed at helping workers and those in poverty.
On Wednesday, he spoke about marching in picket lines — recently and throughout his adult life.
"What has happened is we have a country that doesn't value work anymore — we value wealth," Edwards said.
And Sen. Barack Obama used the event to tout himself as a candidate who would bring new voters into the political process, helping Democrats compete in parts of the country long written off to Republicans.
Obama told the union organizers that in order to get big changes on issues like health care reform, "We've got to strengthen you."
The lineup also included three candidates hoping to break into the top tier of Democratic contenders with the help of labor: Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
Below are brief summaries of their remarks:
Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut
— Dodd said declining wages, health care problems and struggles of average Americans were linked to the decline of the labor movement. He said he was the candidate with the "proven record" of standing up for working people.
— "It's directly related to the decline of union households in our country. . . . Most of all we need someone who's going to stand up, and has the proven record . . . of standing up and fighting for working people."
Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina
— Edwards said that the tax system, trade agreements and the entire economic system these days favor the wealthy over average workers, and he called for bold, across-the-board reforms.
— "What has happened is we have a country that doesn't value work anymore _ we value wealth."
— To bring universal health care coverage, he and other candidates spoke of the need to confront the insurance and health care industries.
— "We'll never see change, we'll never see universal health care, unless we're willing to stand up and fight these people. . . . We have to quit being nice. This is outrageous."
Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware
— Asked to explain the origin of the problems facing working Americans, Biden tied his opposition to the costly war in Iraq with his opposition to the Bush administration's labor policies.
— "Because this president has declared two wars. He declared one in Iraq and he declared another on labor. You are the middle class. If you're going to grow the middle class in America, labor has got to grow."
— Talking about trade issues and China's large investment in America's national debt, Biden drew laughs saying: "We have to get off that sucking off that breast which is China."
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson
— Richardson touted his work as governor in New Mexico, where he helped make union wages into "prevailing wages" across the board.
— He made a bold prediction that his policies would help increase union membership — from the current 7 percent of the private-sector work force — to 17 percent by the end of his first term or 30 percent at the end of a potential second term.
— "I believe being a member of a union is good for American workers and is good for America."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York
— Clinton used her campaign theme that too many average workers have been "rendered invisible" by the government.
— "Productivity is up. Corporate profits are up, but the average family income isn't. . . . What we've got to figure out how to do is making our economy work for everybody again."
— Clinton said the low percentage of union membership "means it's out of balance in America. Part of what we've got to do is get back into balance."
— She bragged that she has one of the country's best political strategists as a spouse (former President Clinton): "We understand how to beat national Republicans."
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois
— Obama said that one of his priorities was to teach Americans — including nonunion members — how the labor movement helps society as a whole by preventing the problems that happen when the middle class shrinks and too many people are left without health care, can't afford higher education and are otherwise left behind.
— Obama said it will take a reinvigorated union movement to bring changes on things like universal health care, and said Republicans tried to destroy organized labor.
— "I look across this room, it's clear they did not succeed."
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(Contact M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News at www.rockymountainnews.com.)
mr. hirsh
Swift Boaters getting to work early on this one. Wait till they talk about the expected candidate's sex life.
There must be a balance between the Corporation Power and the Worker Power. Without that balance, we see the workers' wages stagnate, as they have for the past 20 years or so, and the Corporation's profits soaring to unprecedented heights.
If the Unions are too high and mighty, they can break a company, and vice versa…balance is the key to a healthy society.
The public is the arbiter who cannot allow the Companies to increase prices as they increase wages…instead, the outrageous salaries and unbelievable bonuses they award the top CEOs are the places to trim and put back into research and development of the company, to use to increase wages, not cut wages or increase prices in order to reward those top dogs who should be paid well for doing their jobs, but not at the expense of those who make their company run.
Without workers, there would be no company. Without companies, there are no jobs for workers…there must be balance…and the offshoring and outsourcing must be stemmed in order to see that American workers get those jobs here at home, because the practice that produces goods with the cheapest labor in order to line pockets is not going to keep us on top of the heap as a manufacturing giant for very long, nor sustain those companies when things get tough.
Perhaps crooked Unionism has brought much of these evils upon themselves, but now we are seeing the pendulum swing to the other extreme, equally crooked on the part of the companies.
Put legal safeguards where needed to regulate excesses and crookedness, make them strong enough to be effective, let the companies make a reasonable profit and let the workers make a reasonable wage…Let there be Balance!
Only then will the country begin to recover its former productiveness, if it ever can.