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By A. R. Yesterday, with four days to go until their fight on Friday, Librado Andrade joined Lucian Bute at his InterBox gym for the customary public workout session. The Champion received his challenger with a big smile, shook hands and hugged him like a brother. Travelling together to promote their upcoming bout throughout the St. Lawrence Valley, they had become friends - unsurprisingly, for two such genuine, warm-hearted people..
When Librado Andrade fought Mikkel Kessler for the WBC and WBA titles in Copenhagen eighteen months ago, he lost a very wide decision but won a friend in the likable Viking Warrior, not to mention thousands of Danish fans, impressed by his courage, tenacity, and graciousness in defeat.
We live in an age where mismatches are sold by trash talk and where disrespectful young champions make a name for themselves by ducking their dangerous mandatory challengers to beat up shot legends instead. It's a lifeline for boxing when you get fighters who respect each other as human beings and who act like gentlemen, outside as well as inside the ring. After all, with two top, prime, hungry, well-matched fighters ready to give their all to win, tickets sell by themselves; already, 15,000 have booked their seat to watch Librado Andrade give his all to conquer Lucian Bute's IBF super-middleweight world title.
Friends they may be, but Bute is not taking Andrade lightly. He will have heard Andrade talk about how much he wanted to win the title. He will have heard him say, (quietly and modestly, of course) he thought he was ready to be a World Champion. He will have heard Andrade say he wanted to prove he was one of the best and that his lack-lustre performance against Kessler shouldn't be used to define him any longer as a fighter. Not least, Bute will have been impressed by the improvements in defence and technique his challenger has displayed since that loss, as he has matured into a better, more effective, and more confident and ambitious fighter.
On Friday night, on Showtime, boxing fans will not enjoy a simple bull-fight, cooked up to make Bute look good. Sure, Andrade is tough and strong, iron-chinned and lion-hearted, and dangerous, but he is far from predictable, one-dimensional, or easily infuriated and outwitted.
In his last fight, against two-time IBF world title challenger Robert Stieglitz, Andrade threw as many as one hundred and thirty six punches per round, with a connect percentage of thirty six, most of them power punches. As per usual, Andrade didn't follow a fixed game plan, but instead adapted constantly to gain an advantage over his opponent. His instinctive, unbridled, confident and relentless style, which won him comparisons to fellow Mexican Antonio Margarito, is in truth quite unique in boxing. Andrade's movements might not be sharp or fast, but they are fluid and continuous. His combinations might not be orthodox, but his upper body sways ceaselessly, allowing him to punch from many different angles, time after time. The Mexican's defence might not be tight, but he is a master of rolling with the punches to the head, protecting his body with his long arms and not getting hurt. Andrade might not have one-punch-KO power, but his accumulation punching will break most world class fighters down eventually. He might not be fast, but his timing is very good. He might not be a great tactician either, but he is an aggressive, opportunistic finisher with a highly developed sense of when and how to strike.
A fighter like Librado Andrade cannot be beaten by a game plan, because he doesn't follow one himself. He cannot be intimidated or inhibited, because he is confident, brave, adaptive and instinctive. He cannot easily be hurt or stopped in his track, because he has an iron chin, rolls with the punches and protects his body with his arms. His rhythm cannot be broken, because it is fluid. He cannot be frustrated or unnerved either, because he is fully committed and possesses the emotional fortitude and persistence of a saint. Such a fighter cannot easily be beaten...
Lucian Bute must know that a safety-first approach, a slow start, the over-analysing of his opponent, and the constant pausing to admire his own good work, faults he got away with so far against Bika and Berrio, could this time, against Andrade, lose him the fight. He must know that his superior speed, movement and tactical awareness will not be enough of an advantage if he is not also adaptive, fluid and uninhibited. So, yes, Bute must know that he will be forced to prove much more than toughness and stamina against Andrade.
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10.09.09 - By Harry Summers: Watching Chris John train in Big Bear, California I have noticed there is a change in a matter of urgency in the way he deals with his sparring partners and even the heavy bag and speedball. I have also noticed the tone of his coach, urging him to hurt him, hit him harder, this is a lot different from the other camps Ive been to, why?
Harry Summers - Why is there a different atmosphere in this preparation than other previous training camps?
Craig Christian - Well Im glad you noticed, so we must be getting the result we are looking for. Look, Chris must knock Juarez out to win this fight, we are fighting him on Mexican Independence Day, it will be worse than in Texas.. 20,000 Mexicans cheering every time Juarez throws a punch whether he lands or misses by 6 inches the Judges will be influenced by the crowd they are only human. We will not get a decision in Vegas we must win by KO. This is make or break for Chris John we have discussed this and we agree the judges will not give us a decision, KO it must be. So aggression, strength and power is what we have focused on in training.
HS - After the last fight many boxing experts and public opinion all concurred Chris John won the fight, surely the Judges couldnt be biased again?
CC - They are only human beings, you have 20,000 people in the stadium all supporting Juarez, he throws a left, right and misses, to the people in the back and maybe the middle it looks like theyve landed, theyre cheering. Juarez throws another combo and lands, the people in the front, middle and back are screaming for Juarez either way all he has to do is throw. All the noise is for Rocky, hit or miss just throw and believe me if you havent been there they are loud, you cant even yell instructions, no way your fighter can even hear you, its that loud man. You tell me the judges are not influenced by the crowd, man theyre only human, Im not saying they cheat or anything like that but I do say they will be influenced by the crowd we must KO Rocky to silence the crowd and take it out of the judges hands.
HS - An interesting theory, do you think Chris John can do this? Out of his 42 fights, he has only won by KO on 22 occasions and Rocky Juarez has never been KOd
CC - Well thats what we decided and we have been training for the KO for 8 weeks now and Im pleased with where Chris John is at, I think Chris can will stop him, it could be early, it could be late. If he catches him with the punches we have been working on it will be over for Rocky.
HS - Who will you next fight be?
CC - The only thing we have been focused on is Rocky Juarez if we dont win, Chris will be back fighting for Daniel Bahari on Indosia Tv Station at 1 Oclock in the morning for 500 Thousand Rupiah, About 100 bucks a fight so theres no next until we win this.
HS - Ok thank you and good luck we dont want him to lose then.
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DEL MAR Gary Stevens is in the zone.
The Hall of Fame jockey, who returned this year from a seven-year retirement, is tied for second in the riding standings with Martin Garcia after the first seven days of the 37-day meet. With eight wins each, they trail Rafael Bejarano, who has 14.
Stevens, though, isn't racing as much as Bejarano (18 mounts to Bejarano's 52), and he has won two races on each of the last three racing days.
He continued his streak Thursday with wins on Irish Surf ($11.20) in the sixth race and No Silent ($23.80) in the seventh.
"Things have gone very good," Stevens said after leaving the winner's circle with No Silent. "My agent, Craig O'Bryan, has done a great job, and the trainers and owners have put me on the best horses. I'm very appreciative of the opportunities I have been getting.
"I've ridden some good ones, but I've really just been pointing them in the right direction."
Said O'Bryan: "He didn't have a bad Hollywood Park (meet), either. He won a lot of stakes, but right now he is riding great."
And things only figure to get better for Stevens because his main horse, Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow, is running Sunday in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.
"I'm excited," Stevens said of the $1 million race. "Wayne (Lukas, trainer) gave him a 50-day freshening, and I think he is ready."
O'Bryan said he or Stevens has been in contact with Lukas at least once a week about Oxbow since the horse's runner-up finish to Palace Malice in the Belmont Stakes.
"Wayne said he is doing great," O'Bryan said.
Surprisingly, Oxbow isn't the favorite in the Haskell. At 2-1 odds, he's second behind Pegasus Stakes winner Verrazano (9-5), who finished six lengths behind Oxbow in the Kentucky Derby.
"I'm not surprised," Stevens said. "There's been so much hype around Verrazano. People still don't believe in Oxbow."
The son of Awesome Again, Oxbow drew the No. 5 post in the field of seven 3-year-olds.
"The five is fine," Stevens said. "It really doesn't matter because he will be forwardly placed."
That could set up a match-race situation, as Verrazano has done his best running on the front end, too.
Others entered in the Haskell are Vyjack, Pick of the Litter, Golden Soul, Power Broker (trained by Bob Baffert) and Micromanage.
As for the rest of the summer, Stevens won't win the riding title at Del Mar because he picks and chooses his mounts carefully these days. But he will follow Oxbow, probably to the Travers, and he will also captain a team in a European jockey competition next month.
"I think we'll have some good things the rest of the meet here," O'Bryan said.
Trainer John Sadler will decide this morning where to run Kettle Corn, who finished second to Game On Dude in the Hollywood Gold Cup. Kettle Corn is entered in today's Grade III Cougar II Handicap, in which he is the high weight at 122 pounds going 1½ miles on the Polytrack. Kettle Corn is also entered in Saturday's San Diego Handicap, and scheduled to carry 118 pounds over 1 1/16 miles on the main track.


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Celebration of the World Science Day for Peace and Development 2012
Global Educators for All Initiative and the Millennium Development Ambassadors joined UNESCO to commemorate the World Science Day for Peace and Development 2012 with a special in-house seminar for science educators and scientists as a demonstration of our commitment to make the day a truly worldwide celebration. We invited science educators, scientists and science students as well as other well-wishers to join us in celebrating the day and to learn about our initiatives to promote science education and our work on unified science education and the complementary role of interreligious education for peace and sustainable development. The World Science Day for Peace and Development was proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference (Resolution 31C/ 20) in 2001, to be an annual event all over the world to recall the commitment made at the UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science (Budapest 1999).
According to UNESCO, "the purpose of the World Science Day for Peace and Development is to renew the national, as well as the international commitment to science for peace and development and to stress the responsible use of science for the benefit of society. The World Science Day for Peace and Development also aims at raising public awareness of the importance of science and to bridge the gap between science and societies". The theme for 2012 is Science for global sustainability: interconnectedness, collaboration, transformation. The UNESCO Director General message calls ".. on governments, civil society, public and private actors, well beyond scientific circles, to mobilize so as to release the full potential of all sciences for development and peace, which are inseparable and essential for the future that we want."
The commemorative seminar featured the message from UNESCO Director General, special presentations on "The Universal Principles of Science Education for Peace and Sustainable Development". The presentation also exposed the commonalities in scientific researched observation and religious revealed revelation and the need for cooperative perspective between religion and science in building a culture of peace and in achieving sustainable development through the Millennium Development Goals. Participants had the opportunities to interact, reflect and share ideas on utilizing scientific knowledge and skills in peacebuilding and development.
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Reflection on UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development and the new for Unified Science Education
By Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko
November 10, 2012 is the UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development. I am delighted to be part of this celebration and will like to share a few ideas on the history, present challenges and new future of science. I will like to use this opportunity to congratulate and thank all science educators; scientists as well as students of sciences in all the efforts that they have been making to bring about a globally developed world. Science has a lot to offer humankind in our quest for world peace and development. Our world cannot make any meaningful result without science. Science began in the process of human search for peace and development but has unfortunately become the major source of war and destruction in many ways. The reality of science today is far away from the ideal of the founding of science. This is an issue that I feel very concerned about as we commemorate this day.
Despite the huge potentials in sciences, we are still confronted with the divide within science and between science and religion. There are several conflicting denominations in science that are seeking a common goal with conflicting expressions. This has led to the crisis in the use of science and scientific knowledge. If science will contribute significantly to peace and development, we must resolve the conflict within science and between science and religion. To do this, we must understand very clearly the origin and mission of science.
Even though there are hundreds of various aspects or denominations in science today, we must realize that all branches of science have a common origin and purpose and therefore need to work together to guide human beings into a clear understanding of the world. Due to the human ancestor's fall in the process of education for self-realization and understanding of the world, science became an aspect of the expression of truth needed to dispel human ignorance. Science came as a result of human desire for happiness in life which has been unrealized due to human ignorance of the world. To dispel human ignorance that resulted from the human fall and to develop human potentials to understand and utilize the resources in the world for the well-being of all, science originated as an expression of truth from God.
Therefore, God is the origin of science and for this reason God is omniscience or original scientist. The mission of science is to dispel human ignorance of the physical world and guide us to understand the physical laws that govern the world. Also, science came from God to collaborate with religion, which deals with internal/spiritual truth from God to produce a complete human being who is both spiritual and physically sound.
Unfortunately, science has been misused since it became disconnected from its origin and instead of being a tool for peace and development, science has become a tool for wars and destruction and an opposition to religion, its founding partner. Our challenge today and from now is to work toward a new expression of science that will create harmony among the many fields of science and bring them to work together for peace and development with religion. We need a movement of educators for a Unified Science that can offer clear hope to the present and future generations. The new unified science must recognize God as its origin and guide human beings to observe the universal characteristics in all creation.
The unified science must seek to embrace and observe the consistency in religious principles and revelations and work together to advance a realm of technology that can connect the physical and spiritual world. In this age of unified science, we need to see the advancement of science into technology in a way that communication between the spiritual and physical worlds should be very normal as we currently do within the physical world. I believe that if unified science can reconnect human beings to the origin of science, we shall be able to have media stations broadcasting from heaven to the earth; we shall have telephone lines that we can communicate with the saints and sages in heaven and even our ancestors. In this way, the present confusion among human beings on the teachings of the past shall be clearly confirmed by the teachers. The secrecy of the last days and all such issues shall be resolved and a world of peace and development can be achieved.
I am hopeful that on this World Science Day for Peace and Development, we can begin to examine the call for a new expression of science, the Unified Science, which recognizes God as its origin and parent, appreciate religion as its brother/sister and work to bring all people to achieve one global family under the Creator. I pray and teach that all people living on earth should come to the realization of the need and urgency of Unified Science as we seek to live in peace and achieve sustainable development. Congratulations on this world science day. In 2013, I will devote efforts to periodic Conferences on Unified Science and Unification of Science Educators. The convening of the Global Educators' Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (GECUS) shall be given central attention. The GECUS has begun in 2012 with a modest 20 participants who gathered in Abuja to commemorate the 2012 UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development. GECUS 2012 sought to provide a global view of the origin of science and the role of science, science educators and scientists in increasing human understanding to achieve peace and sustainable development. The conference committed to providing a new educational order to improve human knowledge and the resolution of conflicting perspectives within science, between science and religion and the utilization of scientific principles in technological tools. The conference also seeks to look into the Moral Dimension of Science and delegates reflected on the need for a new expression of science under the subject of Unified Science Education. The 2012 conference has truly challenged science educators and inspired the creativity of the scientists and scholars in educational institutions.
May God bless UNESCO and all people of the world as we welcome unified science as the tool for peace and development.


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Australian Tolgay Ozbey gave Mohun Bagan the lead in the 52nd minute, but Shillong responded immediately through Boithang Haokip in the 53rd minute.
The visitors showed fine resilience in levelling again when substitute P.C. Lahimthara cancelled out Manish Maithani's 60th minute goal. Bagan, with 10 points from 17 outings, continued to remain at the bottom while Lajong FC tallied 21 points from 22 matches.
Lajong FC, which was strengthened by the inclusion of the 18-year-old Portuguese striker Edinho Junior on loan from the Blackburn Rovers, found some openings in the first half but failed to convert them.
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World Trade Center is back on top in NYC
Yet, in many record books, the two skyscrapers are separated by just 50 feet.
That's because the tall, thin mast on top of the Bank of America building isn't an antenna but a decorative spire.
Unlike antennas, record-keepers like spires. It's a tradition that harkens back to a time when the tallest buildings in many European cities were cathedrals. Groups like the Council on Tall Buildings, and Emporis, a building data provider in Germany, both count spires when measuring the total height of a building, even if that spire happens to look exactly like an antenna.
This quirk in the record books has benefited buildings like Chicago's recently opened Trump International Hotel and Tower. It is routinely listed as being between 119 to 139 feet taller than the Empire State Building, thanks to the antenna-like mast that sits on its roof, even though the average person, looking at the two buildings side by side, would probably judge the New York skyscraper to be taller.
The same factors apply to measuring the height of One World Trade Center.
Designs call for the tower's roof to stand at 1,368 feet - the same height as the north tower of the original World Trade Center. The building's roof will be topped with a 408-foot, cable-stayed mast, making the total height of the structure a symbolic 1,776 feet.
So is that needle an antenna or a spire?
"Not sure," wrote Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the building.
The needle will, indeed, function as a broadcast antenna. It is described on the Port Authority's website as an antenna. On the other hand, the structure will have more meat to it than your average antenna, with external cladding encasing the broadcast mast.
Without that spire, One World Trade Center would still be smaller than the Willis Tower in Chicago, formerly known as the Sears Tower, which tops out at 1,451 feet (not including its own antennas).
Debate over which of those buildings can truly claim to be the tallest in the U.S. has been raging for years on Internet message boards frequented by skyscraper enthusiasts.
As for the Council on Tall Buildings, it is leaning toward giving One World Trade the benefit of the doubt.
"This is something we have discussed with the architect," Hollister said. "As we understand it, the needle is an architectural spire which happens to enclose an antenna. We would thus count it as part of the architectural height."
But, he noted, the organization has also chosen to sidestep these types of disputes, somewhat, by recognizing three types of height records: tallest occupied floor, architectural top and height to the tip.
Hollister also pointed out that, technically speaking, One World Trade Center isn't a record-holder in any category yet, as it is still unfinished.
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This weekend I had the pleasure of attending a 3 day scrapbook retreat at a rustic ranch an hour outside of town. In between the great food, detoxifying saunas, "slush" drinks, reading & naps....I was able to complete over 40 pages in scrap-speed style. I have decided that the only way I will ever 'catch up' is if I toss the idea of 'every event needs a 12x12 layout' and scrapbook with simple 6-up photo sleeves. It worked well...I like the result and it motivates me to move forward with getting pictures out of nicely labelled storage boxes and into a format I can live with.
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Indeed, eastern Astoria has become a wonderland of Balkan food and culture since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the cessation of Bosnian hostilities in 1995. The corner of 42nd Street and 30th Avenue is a particularly rich hotbed of transplanted culture. Black Bull Meat Market (42-10 30th Avenue) anchors the neighborhood, and it's just the sort of butcher shop my friend was talking about, displaying homemade sausages and smoked meats in the refrigerated window case. Best of all is suho meso, a baseball bat of soft beef jerky rimmed with yellow fat, used most prominently to season a mellow stew of white navy beans.
The same corner also hosts a pair of restaurants, and I hope I'm not betraying the spirit of my friend's remarks by telling you they're owned by Bosnians, for whom the memory of massacres in places like Srebrenica must still be fresh, though not spoken of to outsiders. Stari Most was once a regular neighborhood tavern, an old-fashioned bar with a brass rail that runs along one side of the room, and seating at red-leather banquettes and couches on the periphery, all in pristine condition despite their age. The name means "Old Bridge," referring to an elegant 16th-century span erected by Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent. Long a famous trysting spot for courting couples, the bridge once spanned the Neretva River in Mostar, BosniaI say "once" because it was destroyed in 1993 by the Croatian militia, after also having been shelled by Serbs in 1991.
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But the bridge lives on in a gray 3D recreation that surreally arches over the barroomwhere no alcohol is served, though you can regale yourself with a selection of fruit nectars ($2). The rudimentary menu is limited to grilled meats, salads, and bureksthe round, flaky pies of the Balkans. Foremost among viands is pljeskavica ($9), an onion-laced hamburger that the menu rather imprudently (and anachronistically) boasts as being "as big and round as a phonograph record." Really, it's more of a hubcap on a small imported car. Nevertheless, the patty is smoky and ultra-flavorful, especially when smeared with the trio of sides: a red-pepper paste called ajvar (pronounced "eye-var"), a homemade clabber of milk called kimek, and chopped white onions. But the show is almost stolen by the bun. Called lepinja, it's like a pocketless pita inflated with a bicycle pump.
Despite the excellence of the burger and other flame-grilled meats, Stari Most's bureks sometimes taste reheated and a bit damp. You might just dash around the corner to Ukus ("Taste"), where the bureks are baked to order, or at least reheated in a pizza oven rather than a microwave. (When former Yugoslavians first arrived in Astoria, they often took over pizza parlors, partly because they could use the ovens to make bureks.) Ukus's $4 wedge of cheese-and-spinach burek is thrillingly crisp, with feta adding a subversively sharp note under the bland crunchiness of the pastry. Also desirable is the rarely seen cabbage burek, where $4 gets you a pie coiled like a garden hose. It's an affirmation that not all bland food is boring. For dipping pieces of burek, a coffee cup of homemade yogurt ($1) is compulsory.
The grilled meats at Ukus include much the same cavalcade as Stari Most's. The cevapcicilittle skinless sausages, nine to an orderarrive stuffed in an identical lepinja. But don't try to eat them like a burger, or they'll shoot out the sides of the bun like shrapnel, and you wouldn't want to lose a single wonderful bite. Ukus also provides a handful of full-blown entrées ($9), including cabbage leaves stuffed with finely shredded beef, and the bean stew called grah, featuring the aforementioned beef jerky.
On our visits, we took to trooping between the two restaurants. While Ukus doesn't usually have desserts on its menu, Stari Most offers a fine selection, including the chocolate-drenched crepes called palacinke ($4). Make sure you finish up with a brass pitcher of the excellent Bosnian coffeeand no, you're not supposed to eat the mud in the bottom of the cup.
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HANOVER TWP. — Superintendent Andrew Kuhl commended the district's Board of Education, administration, faculty and staff Thursday for helping to make the first day of school, which was also Thursday, a success. He also thanked the students and parents for their cooperation with the district's new dress code.
"Parents, you should be proud," he said. "Your children looked magnificent today. You have helped us to instill a sense of pride and belonging into our community and a feeling of safety in our buildings. It is this cooperation and understanding that over the long term will guide our children toward great accomplishments."
Several parents argued the dress code is too restrictive and disagreed with Kuhl that it will promote a safe environment and cut down on bullying. One mother pointed out that kids who bully other kids because of their clothes will notice when students wear Kmart polo shirts, rather than Hollister. Most of the parents argued that khaki pants won't last as long as jeans and that the required clothes are too expensive and difficult to find in special sizes.
A mother of an eleventh-grader yelled at the board from the back of the auditorium that she paid $100 for two pairs of pants that she had to special order because her daughter is tall. "This irks me big-time," she said. She admitted that something had to be done about students going to school with holes in their jeans and dressing inappropriately, but that the rest of the students shouldn't be punished.
An elementary school teacher, who didn't want to be identified, said her students were "proud and excited" about how they looked on the first day of school. She suggested starting a "uniform exchange" program to save parents money.
Kuhl said the dress code isn't set in stone and that ia student advisory board will make suggestions. He received "dozens of calls" from parents in the last few days supporting the dress code and three calls criticizing it, he said. "This is a 'living policy,'" he said. "We'll be balancing the opinions of all."
Concerned about the increase in violent crimes in Wilkes-Barre, one father asked the board what efforts have been made to ensure the student's safety. Kuhl said the district went through a safety audit during the second semester of last year and several changes have been made, such as changing the position of the surveillance camera.
He added that several faculty members are also part of a countywide security team. "A plethora of information is being shared behind the scenes and a tremendous amount of work is being done by faculty, staff and administration," he said.
In other business, the board honored Linda Cywinski and April Grosky as the most recent "Excellence in Teaching" recipients.
The board also honored the following district retirees: Joette Anthony, 36 years of service; Janet Babskie, 26 years; Randy Carlo, 35 years; Marie Davis, 23 years; Paul Martinez, 37 years; Palmira Pavlico, 25 years; Mary Richelmi, 37 years; and Patricia Sirak, 35 years.


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Keith H. Markwardt, 75, Mason City, Iowa, died Monday, May 19, 2014 at the Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa. A funeral service was held on Friday, May 23, at Wesley United Methodist Church, Mason City, with Rev. Steve Hansen officiating. Interment was at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Swaledale, Iowa. Memorials may be given to Wesley United Methodist Church.
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Glaucoma surgery is intended to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) when the target IOP cannot be reached with medications. Due to complications with established surgical approaches such as trabeculectomy, alternative surgical treatments such as transluminal dilation by viscocanalostomy and canaloplasty are being evaluated for patients with glaucoma.
Surgical procedures for glaucoma aim to reduce IOP resulting from impaired aqueous humor drainage in the trabecular meshwork and/or Schlemm's canal. In the primary (conventional) outflow pathway from the eye, aqueous humor passes through the trabecular meshwork, enters a space lined with endothelial cells (Schlemm's canal), drains into collector channels, and then into the aqueous veins. Increases in resistance in the trabecular meshwork and/or the inner wall of Schlemm's canal can disrupt the balance of aqueous humor inflow and outflow, resulting in an increase in IOP and glaucoma risk.
Surgical intervention may be indicated in patients with glaucoma when the target IOP cannot be reached pharmacologically. Trabeculectomy (guarded filtration surgery) is the most established surgical procedure for glaucoma, allowing aqueous humor to directly enter the subconjunctival space. This procedure creates a subconjunctival reservoir with a filtering "bleb" on the eye, which can effectively reduce IOP, but is associated with numerous and sometimes sight-threatening complications (e.g., leaks, hypotony, choroidal effusions and hemorrhages, hyphemas or bleb-related endophthalmitis) and long-term failure. Other surgical procedures (not addressed in this policy) include trabecular laser ablation and deep sclerectomy, which removes the outer wall of Schlemm's canal and excises deep sclera and peripheral cornea.
More recently the Trabectome™, an electrocautery device with irrigation and aspiration, has been used to selectively ablate the trabecular meshwork and inner wall of Schlemm's canal without external access or creation of a subconjunctival bleb. IOP with this ab interno (open angle glaucoma) procedure is typically higher than the pressure achieved with standard filtering trabeculectomy. Aqueous shunts may also be placed to facilitate drainage of aqueous humor. Complications of anterior chamber shunts include corneal endothelial failure and erosion of the overlying conjunctiva.
Alternative nonpenetrating methods that are being evaluated for glaucoma are viscocanalostomy and canaloplasty. Viscocanalostomy is a variant of deep sclerectomy, and unroofs and dilates Schlemm's canal without penetrating the trabecular meshwork or anterior chamber. A high-viscosity viscoelastic solution, such as sodium hyaluronate, is used to open the canal and create a passage from the canal to a scleral reservoir. It has been proposed that viscocanalostomy may lower IOP while avoiding bleb-related complications.
Canaloplasty was developed from viscocanalostomy and involves dilation and tension of Schlemm's canal with a suture loop between the inner wall of the canal and the trabecular meshwork. This ab externo procedure uses the iTrack™ illuminated microcatheter (iScience Interventional) to access and dilate the length of Schlemm's canal and to pass the suture loop through the canal. An important difference between viscocanalostomy and canaloplasty is that canaloplasty attempts to open the entire length of Schlemm's canal, rather than one section of it.
Since aqueous humor outflow is pressure-dependent, the pressure in the reservoir and venous system is critical for reaching the target IOP. Therefore, some procedures may not be able to reduce IOP below the pressure of the distal outflow system used, e.g., below 15 mm Hg, and are not indicated for patients for whom very low IOP is desired (e.g., those with advanced glaucoma). Health outcomes of interest are the IOP achieved, reduction in medications, ability to convert to trabeculectomy if the procedure is unsuccessful, complications, and durability of the procedure.
Regulatory Status
The iTrack (iScience Interventional) received 510(k) marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004 as a surgical ophthalmic microcannula that is indicated for the general purpose of "fluid infusion and aspiration, as well as illumination, during surgery." In 2008, the iTrack received FDA-clearance for the indication of "catheterization and viscodilation of Schlemm's canal to reduce intraocular pressure in adult patients with open angle glaucoma."
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Medically Necessary
BCBSMT may consider canaloplasty medically necessary as a method to reduce intraocular pressure in patients with chronic primary open-angle glaucoma under the following conditions:
Viscocanalostomy is considered experimental, investigational and unproven.
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NOTE: Tensioning devices are only able to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) to the mid-teens, and may be inadequate when very low IOP is needed to reduce glaucoma damage.
A 2010 meta-analysis by Chai and Loon compared the safety and efficacy of viscocanalostomy with the gold standard of trabeculectomy. Ten randomized controlled trials with a total of 458 eyes (397 patients) with medically uncontrolled glaucoma were included in the analysis. The number of eyes in each study ranged from 20 to 60, with follow-up ranging from six months to four years. The majority of eyes (81%) had primary open angle glaucoma, while 16.4% had secondary open angle glaucoma, and 1.7% had primary angle closure glaucoma. Meta-analysis found that trabeculectomy had a significantly better pressure-lowering outcome. The difference in intraocular pressure between the treatments was 2.25 mm Hg at six months, 3.64 mm Hg at 12 months, and 3.42 mm Hg at 24 months. Viscocanalostomy had a significantly higher relative risk (RR) of perforation of Descemet membrane (RR: 7.72). In contrast, viscocanalostomy had significantly fewer postoperative events compared with trabeculectomy (hypotony RR: 0.29, hyphema RR: 0.50, shallow anterior chamber RR: 0.19, and cataract formation RR: 0.31). Trabeculectomy had a greater pressure-lowering effect. Although viscocanalostomy had a better risk profile, most of the adverse events associated with trabeculectomy were considered to be mild and reversible.
One of the studies included in the systematic review was a randomized trial with four-year follow-up by Gilmour et al. from 2009. Patients (n=43) with open angle glaucoma were randomized to viscocanalostomy (25 eyes) or trabeculectomy (25 eyes) and prospectively followed at regular intervals for up to 60 months. A successful outcome was defined as intraocular pressure (IOP) less than 18 mm Hg with no medications; a qualified success was defined as IOP less than 18 mm Hg with or without topical treatment. One patient in each group was lost to follow-up. At baseline, patients had a mean IOP of 25 mm Hg and were using an average of 1.4 medications. At mean follow-up of 40 months (range, 6 to 60 months), 10 patients (42%) in the trabeculectomy group had achieved success compared to five patients (21%) in the viscocanalostomy group. Although 19 patients (79%) in both groups achieved qualified success, fewer trabeculectomy patients required additional topical treatment (50% vs. 83%, respectively) to achieve qualified success. There were more early postoperative complications in the trabeculectomy group (e.g., hypotony, wound leak, choroidal detachment), but these did not affect the outcome. At one month, conjunctival blebs were observed in 19 (79%) of the trabeculectomy group and 16 (64%) of the viscocanalostomy group. At 12 months, blebs were observed in 19 (79%) of the trabeculectomy group and 14 (56%) of the viscocanalostomy group. The proportion of patients with conjunctival blebs at final follow-up and the statistical significance of these differences were not reported. It was reported that more bleb manipulations (7 vs. 1) and antimetabolites (5 vs. 1) were needed in the trabeculectomy group. The three patients who required cataract surgery were all in the viscocanalostomy group.
In 2003, Kobayashi et al. reported a within-subject safety and efficacy comparison of trabeculectomy (with mitomycin C) and viscocanalostomy in 25 patients with bilateral primary open-angle glaucoma who had IOP greater than 22 mm Hg under medical therapy. Patients were randomly assigned to receive trabeculectomy in one eye and viscocanalostomy (with removal of the internal wall of Schlemm's canal) in the other eye. Follow-up was performed at one and three days, one and two weeks, and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 12 months after surgery. Throughout follow-up, the mean IOP decreased significantly more in trabeculectomy-treated eyes (e.g., from 24.8 to 12.6 mm Hg at 12 months) than in viscocanalostomy-treated eyes (from 25.0 to 17.1 mm Hg). At 12 months, significantly more trabeculectomy-treated eyes achieved an intraocular pressure less than 20 mm Hg without medication (88% vs. 64%, respectively). The mean IOP reduction was 48.9% in trabeculectomy-treated eyes and 30.5% in viscocanalostomy-treated eyes. Overall success, defined as IOP less than 20 mm Hg and IOP reduction greater than 30% with or without glaucoma medication, was not significantly different between the two groups (96% for trabeculectomy and 92% for viscocanalostomy). Although trabeculectomy had a greater IOP-lowering effect, there were fewer complications with viscocanalostomy (one microperforation of Descemet's membrane compared with four cases of shallow anterior chamber and five cases of hypotony with IOP < 4 mm Hg).
In 2007, Lewis et al. reported interim data analysis from a company-sponsored multicenter (15 centers) safety/efficacy study on canaloplasty using the iTrack microcatheter. Catheterization of the canal was achieved in 83 of 94 patients enrolled (88%); tension sutures were successfully placed in 74 patients (79%) with a mean IOP of 24 mm Hg. At three-month follow-up, 57 patients (77% of 74 implanted) had an IOP of 16 mm Hg, and at 12 months, 48 patients (65%) had a mean IOP of 15 mm Hg. Ten ocular adverse events (11%) were reported, including hyphema (3%), elevated IOP (3%), Descemet's membrane detachment, hypotony, choroidal effusion, and exposed closure suture (1% each). Eleven patients (12%) had a subconjunctival bleb, six of which resolved by three months. The study design included five-year follow-up. These results were limited by the lack of randomization and high loss to follow-up.
Lewis et al. reported two-year and three-year results from the multicenter study in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Enrolled in the follow-up study were 157 patients with a diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma, pigmentary glaucoma, exfoliative glaucoma, and a baseline IOP of 16 mm Hg or higher before surgery, with a historical IOP of 21 mm Hg or higher. Exclusion criteria were neovascular disease, uveitis, peripheral anterior synechiae, angle recession, and developmental or secondary glaucoma (except for pigmentary and exfoliative glaucoma). At baseline, the mean IOP was 23.8 and patients were on an average 1.8 medications; 21% of eyes were on three or more antiglaucoma medications, and 12 eyes (7.6%) were on no medications. Twenty-five eyes (15.9%) were pseudophakic. Canaloplasty (with or without cataract surgery) was successful in 133 eyes (85%). Eyes that did not have placement of a tensioning suture were viscodilated to the extent possible by catheterizing the canal from both ostia. At three years postoperatively, 134 study eyes (85% follow-up) had a mean IOP of 15.2 mm Hg and mean glaucoma medication use of 0.8 medications; four eyes (3%) were on three or more antiglaucoma medications, and 66 eyes (49.3%) were on no medications. Another seven patients (4.4%) had additional glaucoma surgery. Six eyes lost two or more lines of corrected visual acuity related to glaucoma progression. With qualified success defined as achieving IOP of 18 mm Hg or lower (with 0 to 2 medications), success was achieved in 69 of the 89 eyes (77.5%) that had successful suture implantation alone and 24 of the 27 eyes (89%) with successful suture placement combined with phacoemulsification. Early surgical/postoperative complications included microhyphema (12%), hyphema (10%), elevated intraocular pressure (6%), Descemet membrane detachment (3%), suture extrusion (1%), and hypotony (1%). Late postoperative complications included cataract (12.7%), transient IOP elevation (6.4%), and partial suture extrusion through the trabecular meshwork (0.6%).
Interim one-year results from a company-sponsored multicenter study were reported in 2008 for 40 patients who had combined canaloplasty and cataract surgery (potential overlap in patients from the study described above). Inclusion criteria included: a glaucoma diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), pigmentary glaucoma, exfoliation glaucoma, or POAG with narrow but not occludable angles after laser iridectomy; a treated IOP of 16 mm Hg or higher at baseline; and a historical untreated IOP of 21 mm Hg or higher. Of the 54 eyes enrolled, successful circumferential catheterization was achieved in 44 eyes (81%), and sutures were successfully placed in 40 eyes (74%). The 14 eyes (26%) that did not have sutures placed were due to the microcatheter entering a collector channel or meeting other resistance during catheterization; successful suture placement was reported to increase with surgeon experience. Two eyes were considered failures, with one conversion to trabeculectomy. Clinical results were reported for 25 patients (46% of 54) who were both due for and reported for 12-month follow-up. Of these, three eyes (12%) had low subconjunctival blebs at 12 months. No case of suture erosion through the trabecular meshwork or sclera was noted during follow-up. IOP was reduced from a mean of 24 mm Hg to 13 mm Hg at six months (reported for 42 eyes; 40 were reported to be successfully treated) and remained under 14 mm Hg in the 25 patients who were evaluated at 12 months. The number of antiglaucoma medications decreased from a mean of 1.5 medications to a mean of 0.1 at one month and 0.2 at 12 months. This trial is ongoing, and longer follow-up on a larger number of patients is needed.
Koerber et al. reported on 15 of the patients who participated in the multicenter trial described above who had bilateral POAG and received canaloplasty in one eye and viscocanalostomy in the contralateral eye. Qualifying preoperative IOPs were 18 mm Hg or greater with historical IOPs of at least 21 mm Hg. For the canaloplasty eye, the baseline IOP averaged 26.5 mm Hg on 2.1 medications. All patients had successful suture placement. Follow-up at 18 months showed IOP of 14.5 on 0.3 medications. For the viscocanalostomy eye, the baseline eye averaged 24.3 mm Hg on 1.9 medications; follow-up at 18 months showed an average IOP of 16.1 on 0.4 medications. The reduction in IOP from baseline was significantly greater with canaloplasty (12.0 mm Hg) than with viscocanalostomy (8.2 mm Hg). There was no loss in visual acuity and no adverse events from either procedure. The authors noted that this study effectively compares the additional effects of the two major additional maneuvers associated with canaloplasty: first, 360 degrees viscodilation of Schlemm's canal, as opposed to partial dilation achieved with viscocanalostomy, and second, prolonged opening and tensioning of Schlemm's canal with suture placement.
Grieshaber et al. reported a prospective series of 60 consecutive black South African patients with POAG who underwent canaloplasty. The mean preoperative IOP was 45 mm Hg. At 12 month follow-up, the IOP was 15 mm Hg (n=54), and at 36 months, the IOP was 13.3 mm Hg (n=49). Eleven patients (18%) were lost to follow-up at three years. With qualified success defined as achieving IOP of 21 mm Hg or lower (with or without medications), success was achieved in 40 of 49 patients (82%). When defined as an IOP of 16 mm Hg or less without medications, 47% of eyes met criteria for complete success. There were no severe complications in this series.
Mosaed and colleagues published a comparative effectiveness review of newer (Trabectome and canaloplasty) and older (trabeculectomy and Baerveldt shunt) surgeries for glaucoma in 2009. Twelve-month outcomes (intracocular pressure adjunctive medications and complications) were compared after glaucoma-only and combined glaucoma-phacoemulsification surgeries. The review found that Trabectome and canaloplasty provided modest IOP reduction (to about 16 mm Hg) with minimal intraoperative or postoperative complications. Results of Baerveldt glaucoma implant IOP reduction were comparable to trabeculectomy (about 12 mm Hg), but typically this shunt required more postoperative IOP-lowering medication (average of 1.3 vs. 0.5 medications, respectively) to achieve a success rate comparable to trabeculectomy. Patients treated with Trabectome required more medications (average of 1.5) to control IOP than patients treated with canaloplasty (average of 0.6). The authors concluded that Trabectome and canaloplasty are reasonable surgical therapy choices for patients in which IOPs in the mid-teens seem adequate; although trabeculectomy remains the most effective IOP-lowering procedure, it also has the highest serious complication rates.
Ongoing Clinical Trials
A search of the online site: ClinicalTrials.gov in August 2011 found two randomized trials comparing canaloplasty to trabeculectomy. Both studies (NCT01228799 and NCT00854256) are expected to enroll 60 subjects with completion in 2012.
2010 Preferred Practice Patterns on primary open-angle glaucoma from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) states that glaucoma surgical procedures currently under evaluation are canaloplasty with a tensioning suture (Prolene [Ethicon Inc., Somerville, NJ]), ab interno trabeculotomy using the Trabectome (NeoMedix, Tustin, CA), trabecular meshwork bypass stent, and the Ex-PRESS mini glaucoma shunt (Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Ft. Worth, TX). The AAO considers laser trabeculoplasty as initial therapy in selected patients or as an alternative for patients who cannot or will not use medications reliably due to cost, memory problems, difficulty with instillation, or intolerance to the medication. The AAO considers nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery to be an alternative to trabeculectomy, although the precise role of nonpenetrating surgery in the surgical management of glaucoma remains to be determined. Nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery avoids a continuous passageway from the anterior chamber to the subconjunctival space, reducing the incidence of complications such as bleb-related problems and hypotony. The nonpenetrating procedures have a higher degree of surgical difficulty compared with trabeculectomy and require special instrumentation. The two main types of nonpenetrating glaucoma surgery are viscocanalostomy and nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy.
The 2008 guidance from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) stated that the current evidence on the safety and efficacy of canaloplasty for primary open-angle glaucoma is inadequate in both quality and quantity and that this procedure should only be used in the context of research or formal prospective data collection.
NICE and the National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care published guidance on the diagnosis and management of chronic open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension in 2009. When comparing penetrating surgery (trabeculectomy) with non-penetrating surgery (deep sclerectomy and viscocanalostomy), the evidence review found moderate quality evidence that trabeculectomy is more effective than non-penetrating surgery in reducing the number of eyes with an unacceptable IOP but was more likely to cause cataract formation and persistent hypotony at 12 to 36 months' follow-up. There was very low quality evidence that trabeculectomy is more effective than non-penetrating surgery in reducing IOP from baseline at six and 12 months' follow-up, but the effect size may be too small to be clinically significant. The guidance recommended offering information on the risks and benefits associated with surgery and offering surgery (type not specified) with pharmacological augmentation to people with chronic open angle glaucoma who are at risk of progressing to sight loss despite treatment.
Recently, positive two- to three-year outcomes have been reported for canaloplasty, along with a systematic review that found that Trabectome and canaloplasty provided modest IOP reduction (to about 16 mm Hg) with minimal intraoperative or postoperative complications. When combined with clinical input, evidence is sufficient for canaloplasty to be considered medically necessary in the subset of patients for whom medical therapy has failed to adequately control intraocular pressure and in whom other surgical procedures (e.g. trabeculectomy or a glaucoma drainage implant) are contraindicated.
A number of small randomized trials have been conducted that compare viscocanalostomy with trabeculectomy. Meta-analysis of these trials indicates that trabeculectomy has a greater pressure-lowering effect than viscocanalostomy. Although trabeculectomy is associated with greater postoperative risk, most of the adverse events are mild and reversible. Reduction in IOP has also been shown to be greater with canaloplasty than viscocanalostomy in a small within-subject comparison. The clinical input for viscocanalostomy was mixed. Overall, evidence is insufficient to evaluate health outcomes with this procedure in comparison with currently accepted alternatives. Therefore, viscocanalostomy is considered experimental, investigational and unproven.
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