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ST. LOUIS (AP) - At Rick Majerus' final stop, the lone concession to the coach's health woes were the footstools stationed at each corner of the practice court.
Close by anytime he needed a breather. Close enough, too, to jump up for some hands-on assistance with the proper stance or to lead a quick walkthrough.
The jovial, basketball-obsessed coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA final and had only one losing season in 25 years with four schools, died Saturday. He was 64.
Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman, th e coach's longtime friend, confirmed in a statement released through The Salt Lake Tribune that Majerus died of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital. The coach had been hospitalized there for several months.
Players remembered Majerus, who got his start as an assistant under Al McGuire at Marquette, as a coach who was exacting and perhaps a bit unorthodox at times, but always fair. Majerus was known for assembling rosters with an international flair, and his final team at Saint Louis had players from Australia and New Zealand.
"It was a unique experience, I'll tell you that, and I loved every minute of it," said Saint Louis guard Kyle Cassity, who was mostly a backup on last season's 26-win team after starting for Majerus earlier in his college career. "A lot of people questioned the way he did things, but I loved it. He'd be hard as hell on you, but he really cared."
At the postgame news conference following Saint Louis' four-point loss to top seed Michi gan State in the NCAA West Regional, Majerus and his players wept.
"Coach has done so much," Brian Conklin said back then. "Being his first recruiting class, he told me that we were going to help him build something special here. He's a great coach. I couldn't imagine playing for a better coach, a better person. He doesn't just teach you about basketball, it's about life."
Saint Louis athletic director Chris May said in a statement that what he would remember most about Majerus "was his enduring passion to see his players excel both on and off the court."
"He truly embraced the term 'student-athlete,' and I think that will be his lasting legacy," May added.
The school announced Nov. 19 that Majerus wouldn't return to Saint Louis because of the heart condition. He ended the school's 12-year NCAA tournament drought last season, and bounced back from his only losing season, with a team that won its opening game and took top regional seed Michigan State to the wire. The Billikens were ranked for the first time since 1994-95.
Majerus was undergoing evaluation and treatment in California for the ongoing heart trouble and the school announced he was on leave in late August.
"That's a tough one for me," Boston coach Doc Rivers, a former Marquette star, said after the Celtics' loss in Milwaukee. "He's the one that gave me my nickname. I knew before (the game) that he wasn't going to make it through the night. I don't want to talk much about it."
San Diego State coach Steve Fisher first met Majerus at a camp when Majerus was a graduate assistant at Marquette and Fisher was coaching at the high school level in Chicago.
"Rick would hold court at night with a case of beer in the basement," Fisher said. "Phenomenal coach, a better person, cared about family, cared about people. He will be missed by everyone."
Loyola of Chicago coach Porter Moser, an assistant under Majerus at Saint Louis from 2007-10, tweet ed, "RIP to my friend and mentor Coach Majerus. I learned so much about the game and life. We lost One of the best! My heart is heavy tonight."
Missouri coach Frank Haith said it was a "sad day for all of college basketball."
"Coach Majerus was a tremendous coach and one of the all-time great personalities in our profession," Haith said. "Our hearts and prayers go out to Rick's family and friends and all the wonderful student-athletes and staff at Saint Louis University."
Majerus had a history of heart and weight problems dating to 1989 that persisted despite a daily constitutional of a mile swim. He had a stent inserted in August 2011 in Salt Lake City and missed some games in the 2011-12 season after gashing his leg in a collision with players.
He backed out of a commitment to coach Southern California due to heart problems.
Majerus was 95-69 in five seasons at Saint Louis and had a 25-year record of 517-216, with 15 20-win seasons and two 30-w in seasons. He had his most success at Utah, going 323-95 from 1989-2004. He was at Marquette from 1983-86, and Ball State from 1987-89.
Ball State was 29-3 in 1988-89 under Majerus, including the school's first NCAA tournament victory. At Utah, Majerus produced 10 conference championships in 13 seasons.
"Rick left a lasting legacy at the University of Utah, not only for his incredible success and the national prominence he brought to our basketball program, but also for the tremendous impact he made on the young men who were fortunate enough to play on his teams," Utah athletic director Dr. Chris Hill said in a statement.
"His standard of excellence extended beyond the basketball court and into the academic and personal success of his players. He will be deeply missed and we grieve for his family and all of his friends."
Majerus took 12 teams to the NCAA tournament, winning at least one game in all but one of those appearances, with the 1998 Utah team losing to Kentucky in the NCAA championship game. He led four teams to the NIT and took Saint Louis teams to the CBI tournament final in 2009-10.
"It's a sad day for college basketball," UNLV coach Dave Rice said. "Certainly one of the great college basketball coaches. He took talent where they were most effective. When you went up against Coach Majerus and you won you knew you did something special."
Gonzaga assistant coach Donny Daniels spent a decade as an assistant under Majerus.
"He was a caring man, a gracious man, giving of himself," Daniels said. "He did so many nice things for me. He taught me how to coach and how to be efficient."
Arizona coach Sean Miller coached against Majerus when he was at Xavier and Majerus was at Saint Louis.
"We've certainly lost a member of the coaching fraternity that all of us respect," Miller said. "It became very apparent when you prepared for his team and watched him coach against your team that there are very few coaches that are more prepared, more detail-oriented that knew the game comprehensively than Rick Majerus. You could also sense that basketball, the game, the love of the game was really part of his life."
Majerus as a mentor to Ben Howland during the UCLA coach's days at UC Santa Barbara and Northern Arizona.
"He was a great coach and a really, really good person" Howland said. "It's a sad day for basketball because he was a brilliant man."
Majerus was openly critical of Saint Louis' affiliation in the Atlantic 10, complaining that the travel demands made it too hard to succeed academically. Yet he coached two academic All-Americans at Saint Louis, Conklin and Kevin Lisch.
Majerus was born in Sheboygan, Wis., 60 miles north of Milwaukee, and earned a spot on the freshman team at Marquette. He didn't make the varsity under McGuire, who instead hired him as an assistant coach in 1971.
Majerus' ties to Wisconsin included a one-year stint as assistant coach with the
's Bucks in 1987-88.
"He's done so much for basketball at Marquette and all through the state of Wisconsin," Bucks assistant coach Jim Boylan said. "For me personally, he's always been there. He's one of those guys who, if you don't see Rick for a while and when something was going wrong and you needed help, boom, he'd be there. He'd basically give you the shirt off his back, if that's what you needed."
Three of Majerus' players at Utah were first-round NBA draft picks. Keith Van Horn was No. 2 overall in 1997, Michael Doleac 12th in 1998 and Andre Miller eighth in 1999.
Saint Louis is 3-3 this season under interim coach Jim Crews, who joined the staff last season. The Billikens were picked to finish second in the Atlantic 10 but have struggled without point guard Kwamain Mitchell, sidelined probably until January with a broken foot.
"Nobody loved basketball and teaching kids more that Rick," Crews said. "His passion for the game and the coaching profession was unparalleled."
Majerus' father, Raymond, died of a heart attack at 63 in 1987. He was a former secretary-treasurer of the United Auto Workers. Majerus was devoted to his mother, Alyce, before her death in August 2011.
He was briefly married from 1987-89. He is survived by sisters Jodi and Tracy.
The portly coach was unabashed in his love of food, always quick with a restaurant recommendation for whatever town his teams were playing in.
His autobiography, "My Life On a Napkin," came out in 2000.
By R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer
AP Sports Writer Beth Harris in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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MELT 6 oz. chocolate as directed on package; cool. Meanwhile, beat dressing, brown sugar and 2 tsp. vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Beat in eggs and melted chocolate. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add to chocolate mixture alternately with boiling water, mixing well after each addition.
POUR into 2 parchment-lined 9-inch round pans sprayed with cooking spray.
BAKE 30 to 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 10 min. Remove from pans to wire racks. Immediately remove parchment. Cool cakes completely.
MEANWHILE, microwave remaining chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 to 1-1/2 min. or until butter is melted, stirring every 30 sec. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Cool.
ADD powdered sugar, milk and remaining vanilla to butter mixture; beat until blended. Use to fill and frost cake layers.


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2010 Census Mail Participation Rates in New Orleans Behind Rest of the Nation
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Census Bureau Director Robert Groves noted today that some areas are lagging behind the rest of the country in terms of mailing back their 2010 Census forms. With Census Day on April 1, New Orleans still has one of the lowest rates of mail participation. Nationally, 46 percent of households have mailed back their forms so far. But in New Orleans, the mail participation rate is significantly lower, at 24 percent.
"We're concerned about the relatively low response from New Orleans," said Census Bureau Director Robert Groves. "Every household that fails to send back their census form by mail must be visited by a census taker starting in May — at a significant taxpayer cost. The easiest and best way to be counted in the census is to fill out and return your form by mail."
The emphasis on encouraging mail participation in the census is a practical one. For every percentage point increase in mail response, taxpayers will save an estimated $85 million in federal funds. Those funds would otherwise be required to send census takers to collect census responses in person from households that don't mail back the form. After the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau was able to return $305 million in savings to the federal Treasury because mail rates exceeded expectations — a move the Census Bureau would like to repeat in 2010.
"The 2010 Census is easy, important and safe," Groves said. "It's only 10 questions and should only take about 10 minutes to complete."
In 2000, 58 percent of New Orleans households returned their census form by mail. The national rate in 2000 was 72 percent.
The Census Bureau is urging communities nationwide to take charge of their census mail participation rates. Anyone can visit the 2010 Census Web site to see how well their state, county or neighborhood is participating in the census. From the same interactive rate map, anyone can also embed a Participation Rate Tracker "widget" on their Web site that will display an area's latest participation rates.
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The railway station of Camlik had been built in 1856 by the Britains. It's on the way from Izmir to Aydin. Not far away from the station there was a tunnel that broke down. This caused a diversion of the railroad and a new station. A railway enthusiast made it possible to get the old broken locomotives and establish a museum. ( By the way: the museum is promoted as the biggest European locomotive museum, although it's geographically in Asia. That tells a lot about the way how Turks feel: as European.)
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Modern civilization began right here in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley. Also known as the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia, this is the place where, six thousand years ago, agriculture, writing and mathematics were brought into widespread use.The term "Middle East" comes from the British navy, which used it to describe the countries on the trade route from Europe to India and China. Everything from Afghanistan to Morocco may possibly be classified as "middle eastern", depending on whom you ask -- and when.Only a partial list of past Empires in the middle eastern territory includes Sumeria, Babylonia, Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire!When northern Europe was still lurking about in slimy cold stone castles playing chess, the Middle East was enjoying the flowers of poetry, luxurious craftsmanship, music and literature. In fact, the Renaissance in Europe was partly inspired by stories brought back from the middle east by travelers along the trade route.Strategic location, religious history and the world's largest supply of crude oil have kept the Middle East at the center of world activity for centuries. The saga continues.Text by Steve Smith.


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Iwakuma takes mound to open three-game series in Seattle
The Mariners will look to ride a recent offensive hot streak into their series opener vs. the Blue Jays at Safeco Field. Seattle hit .289 during its six-game road trip, including 10 home runs and 32 RBIs, averaging 5.33 runs a game.
Among the suddenly hot hitters was Michael Saunders, who went 4-for-10 during their three-game set in Baltimore, including three home runs and eight RBIs. It's a big difference for the Canadian outfielder, who raised his batting average nearly 40 points to .235 over the last seven weeks.
"Something wasn't working for me, and I didn't know what it was," said Saunders of his early-season struggles. "It's a game of having to adapt. I was missing balls that I should have been driving, and that was a tell-tale sign for me. So I was trying to make it a little simpler and get back to basics. It just happened kind of naturally, really."
The 26-year-old said he stumbled into a slight change in his hitting approach shortly before the All-Star break, moving his hands less and simplifying his stroke, and the results have been noticeable.
"I can't really explain it, but it felt natural to me and I started doing it a couple series ago in Anaheim," Saunders said. "I wasn't always getting my hits, but I felt like I was getting good at-bats and that was my main goal. They've started dropping for me a little more of late. I dug myself a deep hole for a while there, but I feel good now."
However, Saunders and the Mariners offense will be up against something they don't typically see: R.A. Dickey and his knuckleball.
Dickey will be on the mound for the Blue Jays, and he is coming off a solid outing vs. the Athletics in which he threw six shutout innings and struck out eight.
"He had a good knuckler today and he changed speeds on it, and we didn't get too many good swings on it," A's manager Bob Melvin said of Dickey.
He'll be opposed by Hisashi Iwakuma, who took a no-decision in his last start against the Red Sox in which he allowed two earned runs over 5 2/3 innings.
The effectiveness of the outing was impressive, considering the 32-year-old right-hander was hampered slightly by a knot in his left shoulder that affected his command.
"I'd been having a minor pain in my neck since my last start," Iwakuma said. "It's been bothering me, but nothing major. It did affect my pitches, because I couldn't command to both sides of the plate, but I was able to pitch inside to a lot of the hitters."
Mariners: Wedge waiting until he's 100 percent to return
• When the Mariners return home for a six-game homestand Monday, one familiar face will still be absent: manager Eric Wedge.
Wedge has been sidelined for two weeks after suffering a minor stroke July 22, and the 45-year-old isn't quite ready to return to his club, according to general manager Jack Zduriencik.
"I don't think Eric will be with us this week," Zduriencik said prior to Sunday's 3-2 victory over the Orioles. "I know he has a couple appointments ongoing. He's got something midweek where he's going to sit down with doctors.
"He's doing well. I talk to him every day and he sounds normal and he's excited to get back here. He wants to get back. But when Eric gets back, you want him to be back. His anxiousness to get back here in the dugout is one thing, but this is a life-long health issue for him. When he gets back managing this club, we want him to be here. You don't want him to come in here and be here for two or three days."
Zduriencik said that he'll know more midway through the week, but at this point in time with the demands of Wedge's role, it wouldn't be fair to him or the Mariners if he returned before he was 100 percent.
"The stress of a ballgame, the length of time a manager has to put in and the way he is -- he comes early and leaves late -- from our standpoint, they just need to sign off and say you're 100 percent ready to go so we don't have a bump in the road where he's out here 3-4 days and then has to take a step back. That's not fair to Eric or fair to the ballclub. I think we'll just wait and give it a little more time."
Blue Jays: Johnson's spot in jeopardy
• Josh Johnson is scheduled to take the mound Tuesday against the Mariners, but his role is not secure after a string of tough outings.
Johnson has allowed 25 earned runs over his past 16 innings and has come away with a loss in six straight decisions.
"Right now he's scheduled to make his next start, but there's no question it's been about six starts where he has been getting hit," general manager Alex Anthopoulos said. "I know he's working hard and he's not making any excuses at all, he continues to battle. But it's something we continue to talk about.
"We have to look at alternatives at some point if this continues, it's really start-to-start at this point, it's really the only way to characterize it. Right now, he's going to make one more start and we'll see how he does but we'll continue to evaluate it each time."
If the Blue Jays do seek alternatives, they have several options at their disposal. Prospects Marcus Stroman, and Sean Nolin are in the mix, while rehabbing right-handers Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison aren't too far behind in their return from last year's Tommy John surgeries.
Worth noting
• Kendrys Morales became only the second Mariners player in club history to have back-to-back four-hit games Thursday and Friday, joining Ichiro Suzuki. He's gone 2-for-9 since.
• Iwakuma is 2-0 with a 3.38 ERA vs. the Blue Jays in three games, two of them starts. He won his only start against them at Safeco Field on July 30, 2012, when he allowed one earned run over eight innings with 13 strikeouts.
• The Blue Jays avoided a four-game sweep Sunday against the Angels. Toronto notched four runs in the final two innings to win the series finale, 6-5.
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @EvanPeaslee. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A few weeks ago, I wrote about terminal cancer and grief. Let's continue the discussion by talking about the idea of a bucket list. The term is based on the 2007 film "The Bucket List," featuring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men who went off on an adventure to fulfill a list of things they wanted to do before they died.
It's important that we all create a list of the things we'd like to either experience or accomplish in our lives (terminal diagnosis or not). These are the things you've always wanted to do, but for some reason never did. It's a life experience list.
Create your own bucket list and make plans to fulfill them one at a time. Begin with simple items that might be fairly easy to accomplish, and move on to others that might take some time and support to accomplish. It might help to share your list with a close family member or friend. Talking about what you want to accomplish can help you begin to fulfill your dreams and give you a sense of pure joy and happiness.
As a cancer survivor, you may have changed your life priorities, goals and important items on a life experience list such as this. Please share your ideas about a bucket list. If you don't have a bucket list yet, this is your invitation to start one.
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Hey all, I am very new to this. I was diagnosed with Hairy Cell Lukiema this year and went through 8 days of chemo. I feel ok now, but my family, especially my wife, is not doing well with it. She has slowly pulled away from me. But I am working on that. Why I am posting this is I want to try and create a "family" style bucket list. Any ideas? I need to draw my family closer together to each other. I am 42 with 3 beautiful girls and a very beautiful wife. I am sure someone out there has had a similar situation. Being in Law Enforcement, my job is very stressful and of low pay. So I am looking for advice.
gist This is very informative blog and i am very glad to read it..thank you for writing such a great blog.
My longtime Husband lost his Job & our insurance 2 3/4 years ago! In 2010,I got Triple Negative Breast Cancer! Going without is how our life goes. Those months of 3 different Chemo were Disabling! I have little quality of Life & NO income! But I have this list! I know I'm alive for a reason! My Gift after Treatments were to Drive past & Dream of The New Remakes, Dodge Challengers! How I Dream of one! So I'm still Hoping! I hope for a Honeymoon finally after over 31 Years of Marriage! I want a real Diamond Ring. A Pink one! I guess my Ebay one I ordered isn't coming from Hong Kong! I hope to make memories with my Husband Children Grand children and Meet my Cyb er/internet Friends! I hope one Day meet Celebrity! See & touch a ocean and some Sand! I hope to see prevention & The Cure for All Cancer! I hope to one day be able to earn a income again. I hope we won't lose everything we have since we're down on our Luck! I hope to prove to my oncologists all of these I'm dealing with aren't permenent! I hope to never Get Cancer Again! Or see anymore Loved ones of mine die from it! Thought they are now painfree! I hope one day for our starter home to get needful repairs! Like a working Furnace! But until then my Hot flashes Help! Replace our old cupboards & flood damages. I hope to one day be able to Trust & Use my Body. I hope to always be a good earth angel and Help others! I'm here for you as long as I'm breathing! I hope to one day see your dreams fu
On April 25, I would be 1 year cancer free. Having been diagnosed with double primary endometrial and ovarian ca at 36, I felt I was just too young for this. The movie was just so inspiring I had to do one. Some of the items on this list I've done already and I've started working on the "wish list" for my teenage son- but his list included a long life for me which I have relabeled to be quality life. Thanks Sheryl, this is the site that I have been searching for, for quite some time now.
A year ago I was told I was terminal, but am still here. A stem cell transplant was cancelled due to poor response to chemo that was needed to proceed. I have since had radiation where I had a good response, only to have my cancer return 3 months later in September. Radiation followed with a more recent good response. I really don't know how long I'm going to be here so....I'm making the most of it. I have done a few bucket list items. I recently took a Caribbean cruise and am now going to visit a friend who has a home in the tropics on the ocean. All this sounds glamorous but what really tops my list is enjoying my husband, friends, and dogs. I enjoy nature and the simple things the most. The cruise was nice and I was able to see places I have never seen before--some beautiful rainforest gardens etc. However, if I hadn't gone and had just stayed home it would have sufficed. The rollercoaster of poor response to tx.- then having a good response is a challenge at times. However, my motto is be kind to others. Love the people in your life and enjoy simple pleasures and most of all trust in God. Be thankful for everyday and try to do something positive in each day.
reading others' comments is gratifying. The courage of people is endless, I am grateful for the healing staff of Mayo and now I am grateful to know and admire the heroic cancer patients. thank you.paphye
Thank you, Kathryn, for suggesting we call our list a "Life List". That is something I can live with; bucket list sounds downbeat to me. My husband and I both have cancer; his is severe. We treasure every day. I'm also glad to be reminded of the value of a Life List, to keep a bigger perspective and focus on possibilities beyond our day to day concerns. My husband and I have always been adventurers and we do our best to approach our cancer treatments as adventures with their own set of challenges and opportunities. I hope we can do so to the end of the trip.
I do not have cancer or another terminal decease, but I think i tis something we all need to do is to make that bucket ( wish) list and put our hand in God,s hand and take him with us to enjoy every sunshine, rainy day, friendships that never fail, job opportunities, children, grandchildren, helping others, seeing places, opening our eyes to all that is beautiful, and finding the beauty in all that is ugly, because we do not know when our day comes when we are needed in the paradise. I hold you all in my Prayers, and these positive comments have made my day complete, may your bucket lists always have a challenge
Yes I have a bucket list. Trips to places I have only read about until now. I have had the chance to do most of these so I am very lucky. I am also blessed to have my husband of 44 years by my side. If I had a choice of going or doing things or having my husbamd with me I would definitely pick my husband. Cancer has blessed me with another chance to love my husband, appreciate my children, but most of all to know what real friendship is about. May each of you that are struggling with a terminal disease be able to enjoy a realistic bucket list and smile and be smiled at each day. Don't forget to put a hug from a friend or family member on your list, or a call from a grandchild, or helping someone that is just starting on the road you are traveling. You can ease their pain. May God bless each and everyone of you. I am now having a recurrence of Stage IV Metastic lung cancer. Yes I am Struggling with cancer more than the first time around, even though I know I am terminal and it will come back time after time. Again I have put myself in the Lord's hands and know that His will be done. Gloria
This is my fisrt time to see this add. I have a comment. I also have had lung cancer, 4-14-06, will be 5 yrs. They took out my whole left lung. I stayed cancer free till 10-13-10, double mesectomy! (ductale & lobular) There where 4 small cells in lymphnode. So they say i have a15% chance of it spreading some where eles. Cant dwell on that! I have learned in the last five yrs. that our lives are too short! I made my piece with God 5yrs. ago. I smile more, forgiven all, and say "I Love You" a whole lot more. I've learned that wakeing up in the morning is a blessing in it's self! Itake more time to look at sky, clouds, and the beautiful flowers all around us all. Don't get me wrong, I do get in that corner from time to time, but I don't stay there long. I get up, dust myself off, and say "look out world, here I come!" I while not let this cancer get me down. And...if it does, I'll be smilling!! My bucketlist is short, just enjoy what you already have, like the smell of coffee in the morning,the beautiful sky or the failing rain. My children and my grandkids, and all my great friends. I ain't got time to worry about bieng sick. I wish each and every one out there the best with your situation. As for me, I'm going to enjoye my life as long as I can. God Bless All,Linda
I am a cáncer survivor and yes, having constantly had for some years now a list of the things, trips that I want to enjoy now That I can, has been a ver y important guide to Live each Day fully and mindfully, Lorraine from Mexico City, reading Thich Nhat Hanh's books has been ver y inspiring
Twenty eight years ago I had a mastectomy and the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes. The oncologist said "probably five years if you are lucky". Well I decided to live my life to the fullest and went 22 years before a recurrence. Now I am 75 and refuse to lay down and give up. I got married last year and this year I am going to see a gr granddaughter, another grandaughter graduate college and a grandson marry. While all this is going on, I will be praying for my grandson who is in the middle east and getting ready to go on a cruise to the Panama Canal with one of my 4 daughters and my husband. Drug side effects get me down at times (femara) but I keep pushing to enjoy how ever much life I have left. I have completed most of my bucket list and just keep adding to it!! Prayer and meditation help too. I have lived to see all of my grandchildren and three gr grands--an important part of that list!!
Bitterness... or hope..? Which shall I express here? The above comments help me learn how fortunate I am by comparison to other cancer survivors... I am grateful. I have no one filling the role of spouse/significant other in my life. Dealing with these issues alone is a hardship. I guess I just learned what needs to come first on my own "life/bucket list."
I too was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age 59 - last year. I had a autologous stem cell transplant in Aug 2010, and had a complete response. My bucket list does not include fancy trips to foreign countries or beautiful clothes and a wrinkle-free face; just time with God, time with my 3 new grandbabies (born in 2010 also) and with family and friends, an extra cup of hot coffee in the morning, contributing at work (I work part-time now), and leaving a legacy of kindness and courage to the people I love. I will not let this cancer define me, but will "live my life," even as I know it will contain relapses and more therapy. Each day is so precious, which sounds trite; but after the initial devastation of finding out I had incurable cancer, I have come to realize that I hadn't "stopped to smell the roses" much the last few years...so that's my gift to myself each day. God Bless each of you.
I have always subscribed to the fact that you live in balance; take time to work and take time to enjoy life. My uncle died from cancer a number of years ago, 6 months from retirement and months from fulfilling a lifelong dream of going to Hawaii. This has always stayed with me. Having survived cancer myself (proton beam treatment), I am glad I took this lesson to heart.
My auto-stem cell transplant a year ago only gave me 12 weeks multiple myeloma-free, instead of the 2-3 years projected. My relapse seemed to destroy my doctor's orders to become a person instead of a patient. Now I am in a second remission and emerging toward maintenance treatment. It's another "Mayo Miracle." My financial adviser said to make a "wish list" and prioritize. I like the idea of a wish list which includes finally holding my second granddaughter and spending time with my 90 year old Mother I haven't seen in a year and a half, except on Skype video. Continuing the remodeling of my home is second to a cruise in Europe. I am blessed to have been given a third chance on life and living. God-willing, it will all happen in spite of the chemo effects that seem to drag me down right now. Sunni, it's finally great to "meet" a woman with MM. It feels good to dream again, even though I don't know for how long.
I thought I would get resistance from my husband on filling out a "Life List" (a better name than "Bucket List", don't you think?). So I brought up the subject on a long ride to the Mayo Clinic, when I was driving, because he could not. He was a captive audience. I handed him a pencil and spiral notebook. He was very receptive, and began writing a list. His enthusiasm and the length of the list surprised and delighted me! And all items are doable, and practical! Nothing crazy or put of our budget! Now, a month later, he is working on it, and periodically, adding to it!
Having a bucket list is fine for those who are mobile...my husband is paralyzed from prostate cancer that has metasized to the bone/spine all this after a remission of 12 years.
I just found out I have my third recurrence with inflammatory breast cancer over a six year period and I am devastated. Losing my husband suddenly when I had my second recurrence was bad enough. How do I cope for the third time. I have no control over this and pray that I may live to see my grandchildren.
Great idea. I am on in years, 79 and there is so much yet to do. I will start prioritizing them right now.
I loved that movie. It really made me think about doing one myself especially after my diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma. Having rec'd a stem cell transplant, it seems life is starting anew! There's so much I want to do now.
Nice way to put this Sheryl. If more people did this, their lives would be so much less stressful. Thanks for the post.
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Yes, the mortarboards have been booming and the students profiting, yet there is still a crucial question here left unexamined: academic results. How, exactly, is this greatly expanded Brazilian university population doing, in terms of... well, the basics, let's say the three Rs -- readin', writin', 'rithmetic? One word: pathetically.
Instituto Paulo Montenegro has an ongoing, decade-long study, the last installment of which they have just published. They placed Brazilians into four groups, according to the measured literacy and math levels of each individual. The lower three levels go from illiterate to rudimentary to basic. What really counts is the top level, labeled "full", which any 8 year old (or even younger child) should be able to reach: it only requires you to read a short text and to write up a summary of it.
But, well -- guess what? A staggering 38% didn't reach the "full" level. What's worse, we're not talking about the population at large here -- this was the fail rate at the universities!!! Let me repeat that: almost two out of five Brazilian university students CAN'T READ AND WRITE (fully).
This should not be surprising. Year after year, Brazil gets one of the lowest scores in the PISA test, which is a proxy for an IQ test. And when straightforward IQ tests have been administered to Brazilians, we have clocked in at an average of a measly 87. This is almost a full standard deviation below American and European IQ scores.
One needs an IQ of about 115 to go to college and do well -- this number is roughly two standard deviations above the Brazilian mean. With a population of about 200 million, Brazil at any one time would thus have a total of only 4 million (2%) people who have that type of brain power. And some have put the Brazilian student university population at 6.5 million, a number much greater than the one shown on the Economist's table above. What it boils down to is this: there are already millions more students going to a university in Brazil than are reasonably capable of doing so. The degree they eventually get does in no way translate into real cognitive capacity nor into an increase in work productivity.
But Brazilians will never admit to any of this for we are masters at attempting to shut out the sun with a sieve -- a surefire way of letting the cow, once and for all, wander off into the swamp.
The economist failed to mention which race group actually pays the taxes to fund the university and what taxes would be paid by the white students in the future.
There are two ways for equal access to quality education. One is that it should be a public concern. The other is to paid upon completion. Education is a service that someone has to pay, but when you pay the restaurant?, After each meal or at the end? When we pay the taxi? Education can be a very profitable business if the contract provides that after the completion education, percentage of the income of young professionals to be premium to company.
Maybe my comment has not much to do with the subject treated on the article, but it's about Brazilian Universities. I saw a comment bellow saying that if a rich Brazilian has enough money to send his son to a University in US or UK, why would he choose a Brazilian University? Honestly, this kind of comment is ridiculously wrong.
Even though Brazilians Universities aren't well ranked on the world's best Universities ranks, made by American Colleges by the way, some of the Universities in Brazil are as good as any one in North America. The rank of bests Universities takes in consideration all the aspects of the school, from education to cleanliness on the walls, and I'm not exaggerating. If you take examples like USP or UNESP, public Universities in Brazil, they are way better than a lot of school in US. Even if they don't have fancy classrooms or fancy high-tech labs, the education provided by them are also very great. Those two Universities are, as I said, public, managed by the government, corrupt, unfair, egocentric and selfish. With all the corruption taking place in Brazil, those Universities don't have the money they should have, or in other words, don't have the money that they deserve to have.
If you go to US you have to pay extremely high amounts of money to study in a good school, in Brazil is the opposite. The better Universities are the public, because everyone, rich and poor, can access and the concurrence is very big. Private Universities in Brazil are also very expensive, but honestly, they are not that good compared to the publics.
If you want to see another light comparison between US Universities and Brazilian ones, let's look on the admission requirements. In the US, you have to score points on your S.A.T., an English and Math test… In Brazil, you need to score points on your "vestibular", the Brazilian S.A.T., but with the simple difference that it is not a Portuguese and Math test, it is about ALL the subjects, and the questions I can say are very, very hard.
I always say, those who have a lot gained in life, can't understand the lower people. Indeed, North Americans will always say that their Universities are better, I've heard that a thousand times. Unfortunately, they are wrong, but there is no way that they will see that. I could bet anything, a regular American student wouldn't survive 5 min on his "vestibular".
I agree with you that there are some bias towards the ranking of American universities but I must disagree that any (public) Brazilian university is as good as any American university. I did a year at UNESP and then got accepted at Yale, and I am sorry to say but there was no comparison. We have good universities in Brazil but we will have to invest a lot more money into our university system if we want to one day compare to an Ivy league American university. They just have more resources (which when you are doing cutting edge research is essential) they have better professors, and their educational system is based on not only producing a well-prepared professional but a well-rounded individual, that is they require more of their students than just passing an exam.
In regards to your comment on the S.A.T., the test is not looking for content, they are looking for how well is the student prepared to interpret and rationally solve the problem presented to him or her, which is an essential skill for a student and a better measurement rational thinking and how prepared this student is to face challenging class work. So if Brazil wants to keep up with the Ivy league schools, the government will have to invest a lot more money on both the public university system and the public middle schools and high schools (which we all know it is disgrace).
I agree with you, the problem is that the Brazilian governement will never treat public Universities as they deserve. Of course you cannot compare UNESP to Yale, but I bet you can compare Yale to INSPER, FGV, etc. Why? Because they are not public and they are not managed by the State. If the federal government wants to develop good schools, they can. My point is, for what they recieve as development-help, compared to what American Universities recieve, they are all tied.
I do agree with you in that point, and that is why we need a society that is willing to demand their right (not just for the Class A but also to citizens of Class B and C) and make the government accountable for their failure in our public school system. Unfortunately, the status quo benefits the students from the Class A and B and most of those citizens are not willing to fight for the rights of their fellow citizens. So maybe the privatization of education in Brazil might be a solution even though they have such low reputations.
The whole educational system should be deregulated. This is the ultimate solution.
That's not the answer. Such an approach was followed in the 1990's in Brazil and the results were tragic: today, 50% of Law colleges in the WORLD are Brazilian. Deregulation tends to destroy the quality of education. Free market works well in most realms, but education is not one of them.
It depends on the rules. If education is paid after graduation, the school will be interested the student to be a good specialist who is sold without a problem in the labor market.
While I agree with the introductory argument to this article – that Brazilian higher education is hugely regressive and elitist – I would strongly differ with its conclusions. As the author notes, the private sector is dominated by night-school courses offered by for-profit institutions, including U.S.-based Laureate and DeVry, which have been lambasted in a new U.S. Senate education committee report for lying to students about their future job prospects and investing far more in dodgy recruitment strategies than in teaching, among other abuses. To say, as the headline does, that students "benefit" from such a system is cynical at best.
Nor is it surprising that an OECD analyst would oppose racial quotas at public universities, given that the organization is openly campaigning for greater involvement of the private sector in higher education. But in the Brazilian case, the private sector is clearly not of the same quality. Furthermore, while Marcelo Knobel acknowledges the difficulty of getting public school graduates up to speed for the U. of Campinas, other universities – as the author notes – have found no difference in the performance of their quota students.
There are also factual problems with the article. To call the USP "Latin America´s sole star in international rankings" is misleading. While it is true that USP has lead the region in the past couple of years in the majority of rankings, until about 2007, the top-ranked Latin American university was the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which tied with the USP in last year´s QS international ranking. Other public universities that frequently figure in the top 300 are the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Chile. USP´s recent rise is due to the Brazilian government´s strong investment in science and technology research – which is by far the largest in the region, as a percentage of GDP, and which is the area that carries the strongest weight in the rankings. That investment that has increased dramatically during the leftist governments of Lula and Dilma Rousseff.
Marion Lloyd,
Project coordinator, Office for Institutional Evaluation, UNAM
Thank you for pointing out the factual inaccuracy that calls USP the only Latin American star in international rankings. Not only are USP and UNAM tied in international rankings (including the US News and World Report's "World's Best University" rankings), but they both rank on par or above well-respected and well-established universities in Europe and the United States (e.g. Georgetown University, Tufts, Notre Dame, and Wageningan, to name a few). I venture to say that few (except for the most jaded ivory tower intellectual) would dismiss any of those quality US & European universities as second-rate.
Factor in the presumptive annual cost of USP, UNAM, and similarly situated Latin American universities, and I imagine quite a few aspiring college students from OECD countries would prefer to attend some of the top Latin American universities if they had the opportunity. Having had the good fortune to attend both a top US university with a long "tradition" of excellence as well as a top Latin American institution, I can say that my education, the quality of my professors, and the intellectual curiosity of other students differed not one iota.
I appreciate the Economist weighing in on the issue and (as always) providing strong insight into an issue. I would hope, however, that they would check their euro-centrism at the door.
I'm poor, have never been to private schools (but universities), have never been to english courses. Today I study Business and Design Technology in Denmark, where I was accepted for my skills. And by the way, I'm black... and ashamed of these racial quotas.
While I believe that it is the government's role to guarantee equal opportunities, I predict racism turmoil in the near-feature.
Like people opting for a white oncologist with a pompous, European surname instead of a black one only because . . . Of course! The black one couldn't have gotten his diploma without the government's supposedly patronizing help.
Reverse discrimination may poison Brazil.
So true, and I completely agree.
It seems that there is a necessity to stir the racial question up.
True, there is silent discrimination as much as there is desire and as much as there isn't ambition, but still.
Any chance some Semionato ECards covering the topic will be published anytime soon :) ?
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I'll do my best, Hank. But I'll surely be grilled by hordes of deeply unpleasant people!
It is outrageous to give 50% to poor students
The best should go to universities, not the poorest
And I am qualified to say that...my parents were very poor..all my education was in public schools...and i passed very dificult exams to go to USP, where I graduated in Engineering
Govenmnet must invest in basic education..like the one I had many years ago
Now I will invest about half a milion dollars in my son education and he will have 50% less chance to get into an a good university
I will get out of this disgusting country as soon as I can
The leftist in power are worse than the military...."Brazil, love it or leave it". That was the say at that time....it is back now...corruption all over, benefits for civil servants, money for unions..
There is no future here
What a pathetic comment.
Yes, I agree that the goal it should be to improve the basic education, such as elementary and high school. Nonetheless, people like you forget that quotas are a short term response to a secular problem in Brazil.
If it wasn't for the "leftists" we wouldn't have ProUni, for example. Not to mention the ridiculous educational system and "improvements", if there is one, left by Fernando Henrique Cardoso and PSDB. A government that had not shown any concern with the education of poor and black people.
We live within a system that always produce the same results over and over again, therefore, the quotas are the answer to our problems now, not the solution for the problem, but the exit suited for the moment.
If you do get out of the country, let me know, it would be one less conservative, widow of the military dictatorship to deal with. It will get a lot easier to deal with Brazil's problems.
The future is being built, whether you want it or not.
Half a million dollars will buy your son a good education in UK/USA-why would you want to send him to a Brazilian University when you can afford a much better one ?
I think you don't get the point of the article...
The issue is not solely how smart a student is, but a key point is that the Brazilian society "pays" for the college education if the student goes to a public university.
Check the prices for MIT or Harvard or Caltech...about USD50K/year.
The best should go to the best universities if the university is non-public or at least they pay for it like they do with the public universities in the US. If the university is a public entity, funded by tax payers, it makes no sense to pay your tuition (specially if you are "rich" and "white").
If you invested a lot in your son's education, as you say, why you want society to pay now for your son education? What reason should be free for him?
Brazil clearly overspends on universities and under-spends in basic education (like you say).
The problem is: the way the Brazilian educational system was until now, you can afford to invest half a million dollars in your son's education - i.e you are a high middle class citizen - and then, years later, your son will have 80%-plus chances of getting to a Public University that 100% of all Brazilians - 50% of whom poor - are paying for.
It is not very difficult to notice the problem here: most Brazilians can't pay the best education for their children, but 100% of them will pay (through taxes) the good education the children of Brazil's richer families will have. I'm not for racial quotas because of their complete subjectivity and possibly negative, unintended consequences, but Brazil did need social quotas to establish a basic rule: at least part of our "free" Public Universities must attend the educational needs of the most prepared poorer youngsters.
They may not be as well prepared, initially, as those who studied in private schools - especially because the exams for the universities are full of what we call "decoreba" (questions that don't measure knowledge, but rather good memory and directed preparation to the exams, something very questionable). But they must have better chances to try to get higher education, and 50% may perhaps be too much, but we'll see. What was a total absurd was that those that come from the richest families afford the best high schools and then go to the best universities for free (by the way, that is my case, but I'm critical enough to know how absurd it is, though I'd have passed the exams anyway because of my good scores in the exams). Come on, that we call "moleza" in Brazil. LOL
Ok, Ygor, but why quotas for "blacks"? lets do quotas for poor people instead. Who is 100% white in Brazil? We will need those Mengele's measures to know who is white and who isnt. That's a shame. I heard that there will be a "race comission" that will judge if you are black enough for the quotas. the nazis would be proud.
I agree. I'm not for racial quotas because of both its objective and subjective problems. Although the quotas will be established only according to each state's percentages of Blacks and Browns (mixed-race), so that theoretically the Whites won't be absolutely without chances (they will have guaranteed for them the same percentage that they have in the total population). However, the problem is: how do you measure who's Black or Brown? In Brazil, that is made through self declaration, so it is useless, because two people may have the same ancestrality and the same problems with racism in everyday life, but they may declare themselves differently. Besides, other people can't define other peoples' colors - that is ludicrious, indeed -, and if they do it will be totally subjective and will create lots of judicial contestations. I'm sure the best way was to introduce social quotas. After all, most poor people in Brazil are Brown and Black, so they would be favored anyway.
Before introducing quotas, you need to have the quota-benefited students that would be able to attend a school like USP. We are talking about 12 years of basic educational deficit to be bridged, not just one or two years. Public basic education must be the first priority of Brazil.
Introducing quotas now will only decrease the absolute number of capable people that graduate from these universities. Which in the longer term will be more damaging to Brazil.
USP, UNICAMP and UNESP are still successful public university in part because they are rigorous when admitting students. They should continue to do it by solely considering test results that indicate preparedness to attend the courses.
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