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The Italian composer, Ennio Morricone, has suffered a back injury that has forced the postponement of his Los Angeles concert to June 15 at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE.
Morricone has undergone an operation to repair a slipped disc, and his doctor has advised him not to travel long distances for a period of time to ensure a full recovery. Morricone said, "It saddens me deeply to have to postpone this concert. I am very much looking forward to my first Los Angeles performance. Hollywood has been instrumental in bringing my work to American audiences, and my 2007 performance in New York was one of the high points of my career to date. I'm grateful and sorry to my fans for having to delay this show. I look forward to seeing you in June."
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The Journey Abandoned by Lionel Trilling
The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
by Lionel Trilling
Columbia. 256 pp. $26.95
Although his name no longer commands the recognition it once did, and although the critical principles that motivated his life's work have largely fallen out of fashion, Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) remains a singular and powerful figure in the intellectual life of 20th-century America. He was, famously, the first Jew to have received a permanent appointment in the English department of Columbia University, where over the decades he trained generations of students in the subtleties of literature and, more consequentially, the intersection of literature with moral thought and with the recalcitrant facts of history and politics. The same wide-ranging preoccupations imbued his own writings with a complexity and richness rarely equaled even among the endlessly gifted members of his milieu, the group now known as the "New York intellectuals." Out of fashion though Trilling's corpus may be, it remains a testament to an era when serious intellectual and ideological debate still enjoyed high billing among the thinking classes.
It was the singularly capacious form of the novel that served Trilling as a special point of fascination and the occasion for some of his most penetrating insights into society and culture. And, like many impassioned students of fiction, from Edmund Wilson to James Wood, he also attempted to write his own. In addition to his early and formidable reputation as a critic, he established a name for himself as a writer of stories, the best-known (and best) of which is the academic parable "Of This Time, Of That Place" (1943). In 1947, he published The Middle of the Journey, a novel notorious for its fictional portrayal of Whittaker Chambers, the former Communist—and acquaintance of Trilling's—who in the following year would emerge to testify against Alger Hiss and thereby inaugurate one of the most bitterly contested political debates in postwar American history.
The Middle of the Journey is a book eerily prescient of that still-reverberating struggle: a book concerned with the fatal delusions of utopian radicalism and, no less, with the related delusions of what Trilling called the liberal imagination. This, in his definition, was a sensibility properly dedicated to the enhancement of political freedom and the human spirit but cripplingly unmindful of the tragic limitations inherent in every human institution and indeed in human existence. The Middle of the Journey took as its test case the nexus of attraction between Stalinism and fellow-traveling liberalism.
After the publication of The Middle of the Journey, Trilling devoted himself with even greater fervor to his pursuits as a critic. His first and perhaps most influential collection, The Liberal Imagination, was published in 1950; it had been preceded by books on Matthew Arnold and E.M. Forster and would be followed by a study of Freud and by an outpouring of essays, including in this magazine, collected under titles like The Opposing Self (1955), A Gathering of Fugitives (1956), Beyond Culture (1965), and the posthumous Speaking of Literature and Society (1980). But no further fiction appeared in his lifetime.
Now a previously unknown work has appeared. Its title, The Journey Abandoned, a clever play on The Middle of the Journey, has been bestowed by its discoverer, editor, and annotator, Geraldine Murphy, who has published widely on Trilling and other members of his circle. Thanks to her labors, we have been given a window both onto Trilling as a working artist and onto what may have led him to leave off the writing of fiction.
The Journey Abandoned, which Murphy dates to the late 40's and early 50's, comprises 24 chapters running to 153 pages in print. It follows the fortunes of Vincent Hammell, a shabby-genteel young writer from the Midwest who is attempting to scale the heights of literary accomplishment. Vincent is hampered in this quest by a premature feeling of sterility, by an inescapable attachment to bourgeois life, and by the suspicion that his talent is unequal to his ambitions. But he has nevertheless attracted the attention of Harold Outram, a once-brilliant critic and upscale journalist now occupying a prestigious post as a grants administrator. Outram offers Hammell a project: serving as biographer to the reclusive Jorris Buxton, another ex-literary man who is now (improbably) a world-renowned physicist.
What follows are the opening skirmishes of a murky battle over Buxton, into which Vincent learns he has been conscripted in order to immortalize the old man while at the same time safeguarding the comfort and peace of his seclusion. Against him in this enterprise are arrayed a woman named Geraldine Post and her protégée Perdita Aiken. (From his notes on the work, also uncovered by Murphy, it would appear that Trilling was intrigued by a similar entanglement that had beset the 19th-century British poet Walter Savage Landor.) But just as the machinations surrounding Buxton begin to reveal themselves to both Vincent and the reader, Trilling's manuscript cuts off.
It is tempting to ascribe this abrupt termination to a simple loss of authorial steam. But a closer look at The Journey Abandoned—and at Trilling's own running commentary on it, which Murphy has included—suggests deeper roots. Near the beginning of the novel, Vincent parts ways with a close friend who has made a sarcastic remark about Vincent's alleged moral purity. The narrator reads his hero's mind:
What a year ago would have been kidding, now reverberated as malice. They would meet again, but the friendship was finished. Vincent did not reply. He was too concerned with the meaning of the moment. He understood it fully and he marked it to himself by thinking in clear, articulate words, "My youth is over."
This passage is itself clear and articulate; but do we, its readers, experience Vincent in the act of thinking, or is the author doing all the thinking for him? Similarly, here is Vincent enduring his mentor Outram's pitiless dissection of an essay he has prepared on the duties of the writer:
[A] wave of misery swept over Vincent. Yes, all the irony and all the magic had gone from his poor little essay. He had been dealing, after all, with facts. The man across the table was taking them as facts. Indeed, the man across the table was living proof of the reality of facts. "No," Vincent heard himself saying, "I am quite a common type, really quite ordinary. I want to live the life, not be the thing."
Again well said; and again the same question obtrudes. An unwillingness to let his story and characters speak for themselves pervades even those scenes in which Trilling catches Vincent playing tennis, or swimming, or drinking cocktails. The flesh-and-blood figure into whose mind and heart we are meant to look as into a crucible of moral conscience comes to us missing both flesh and blood; he is merely a place holder.
In his notes, Trilling seems indeed to be holding a conversation with himself, half pep-talk, half chastisement, about the progress and the defects of his incomplete manu-script. "Up to now," goes one such note,
though reasonably dramatic, the story has been going along the ground. So long a stretch of taxiing must argue a long novel. We have to face up to this: the pace of what has occupied us until now can be the introduction only to a long story. We must give up all craven hope of making it short. If it is to be short, it must begin with Vincent's arrival at Outram's. But that isn't what you want. So best make up your mind to length.
This is a rare spectacle: a critical intelligence of the first rank turned in upon itself, examining, in a mixture of ruthlessness and self-defense, the product of its own exertions. Trilling's eye is so acute that it discloses not only the weakness at the core of his novelistic conception but also the probable cause of its abortion and, it may be conjectured, of his decision not to try his hand at fiction again.
The entirety of Trilling's work as a critic suggests he possessed a mind too fine for false comfort to violate it. But the failure—there is no other word for it—of The Journey Abandoned does offer an instructive instance of how different are the real talents of the critic and the novelist. One is analytical, the other synthetic; one is exigent and refining, the other generative and messy. For this reason, though it seems paradoxical, Trilling's admirers can take heart from this dispiriting book. Though he failed as a novelist, he failed for the best possible reason, leaving The Journey Abandoned among his papers without further comment. That long silence itself constituted an act of the most discerning criticism.


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DepEd to implement K to 12 program next school year
Starting next school year, the Department of Education (DepEd) will implement the first phase of the Aquino administration's K to 12 basic education program.
The DepEd said the additional two years in high school will be used for in-depth specialization, depending on the career track students wish to pursue.
The K to 12 program includes kindergarten, six years of elementary education (grade 1 to 6), four years of junior high school (grade 7 to 10), and two years of senior high school (grades 11 and 12).
The DepEd said the additional two years in high school will be used for in-depth specialization, depending on the career track students wish to pursue.
In an interview aired over GMA News TV's "Balitanghali," DepEd assistant secretary and spokesman Tony Umali said they will start implementing the program for the School Year 2012-2013.
He noted, however, that they will only change the curriculum of the first and seventh grades for now.
"Next school year ang sinasabi nga po natin ay ang curriculum palang po ang ating ipatutupad," he said.
Umali explained that the curriculum, which uses the so-called "spiral progression approach," aims to teach students more upon entering high school.
He cited as an example Mathematics, which high school students learn one by one through the years (that is, general Mathematics in first year, Geometry in second year, Algebra in third year, and Trigonometry in fourth year). But under the K to 12 curriculum, those in first year (seventh graders) would have a taste of all mathematics subjects right away.
"Generally, parang ganyan. 'Yan po ang usual na ginagamit naman pong uri ng curriculum sa ibang bansa," he said, adding that school hours for first graders would be cut down to four hours.
Umali noted, however, that they won't have any 11th and 12th graders until 2016.
"So mahaba pa po ang panhaon ng ating paghahanda," he said.
He added that they are still coordinating with private institutions on how to implement the program in their schools.
"Pinag-uusapan pa po namin ano ang gagawin, kailangan rin po kasi i-adjust ang curriculum nila," he said. — Kimberly Jane Tan /LBG, GMA News
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Mary and rosary — not for us?
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"Why do only Catholics believe in the Virgin Mary and the rosary?" — Sergio from Idaho
Rosanne: While it is true that Lutherans do not believe in and venerate — revere or worship — Mary in the same manner as the Roman Catholic Church does, we, nonetheless, believe that Mary was "Theotokos" (Greek for "God-bearer"). We honor her for her willingness to allow herself to become part of God's work in the world. The origins of praying the rosary as a devotional practice and the beads as a way to do so are unclear, but it became part of the devotional practices in the veneration of Mary that began in the Middle Ages. The rosary was intended to allow the faithful to participate in the life of Mary whose focus was always upon Christ. The rosary was supposedly used to help the faithful remember the components and sequence of prayers, and meditate during the prayers.
Since Lutherans do not venerate Mary in the same manner, we do not have the practice of praying the rosary. However, there are some in the Lutheran church who use prayer beads — like a rosary — as a tactile way to focus their attention as they pray for the needs of the world, the church, their communities and families. I do.
Brian: All Christians who subscribe to the creeds believe in the Virgin Mary. Most non-Roman Catholics, however, do not pray to Mary to ask her to intercede with (talk to) God on their behalf. For Lutherans, Mary holds a special spot because of her model of faithfulness and obedience. We don't invoke her help — nor that of any other saints — because we don't find scriptural support for that notion.
Do you have a question you'd like answered by an ELCA pastor? Email your question to us as at firstname.lastname@example.com and you might see it answered by one of our pastors. You can also find out more about our pastors on our "Bios" page. LivingLutheran.com offers a platform for ELCA members to share their diverse experiences of what it means to live Lutheran.
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HENLAWSON, W.Va. — Ramona Jean Carper, 84, of Henlawson, went home to be with the Lord Monday, July 1, 2013.
Born February 15, 1929, at Henlawson, she was a daughter of the late Alderson and Zella Hale. Also preceding her in death was her husband, Robert Carper; one son, Bobby Carper; five sisters, Thelma, Rebecca, Betty, Arbutus and Linda; five brothers, Ralph, Paul, Bill, Tommy Joe and A.D. Hale, and two granddaughters, Wendy Jean Morgan and Kristi Dawn Conley.
Ramona was a loving mother and grandmother who will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Those left to cherish her memory include three daughters, Joyce Carper, Marsha Morgan and Terri Turner, all of Henlawson; two sons, Chuck (Dollie) Carper of Logan and Brian Carper of Henlawson; one sister, Naomi (Harold) Ward of Henlawson; one daughter-in-law, Sandra Carper; four grandchildren, Larry (Lisa) Conley, Tommy (Val) Carper, and Leah (Wendell) Knight, all of Charleston, and Jason Carper of California; 13 great-grandchildren, Chance, Kya, Alexis and Michael Morgan, Brandon, Mollie, Maggie and Madeline Conley, Reece and Declan Carper, and Calla, Cailyn and Payden Knight; a special niece, Debby Morgan, and a host of additional nieces, nephews and friends.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 5, at James Funeral Home with Pastor Rocky Chafin officiating.
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STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) A judge is expected to decide what evidence to have tested for DNA ahead of the trial of the man charged with killing famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
State District Judge Jason Cashon has set a 10 a.m. Tuesday hearing in the case of Eddie Ray Routh. The 26-year-old Routh is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Chris Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield.
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CloudOn briefly offers Microsoft Office to iPad users with full Dropbox support, then disappears
CloudOn, a free iPad app that offered Microsoft Office functionality with Dropbox support, appeared briefly in the App Store yesterday before going up in a puff of smoke a short time later.
CloudOn has responded saying their app has "sold out", but we think this may have had something to do with server overload.
Thanks for your support of CloudOn! We're currently sold out. We look forward to the feedback we will receive as we continue to support the many users that have registered in this first phase.
The fact that CloudOn came with full Dropbox support for storing and managing office files on-the-go was a great idea for power users, and the overall offering is unique in respect to beating Microsoft to the punch at their own game. This could be another reason the app is no longer available, as Microsoft could have called shenanigans if CloudOn didn't go through the appropriate channels before release.
I gave it a quick whirl when it was actually up and running, and noticed the app was somewhat sluggish from the get-go (probably due to how much it relies on the cloud backend to get things done paired with the influx of users hammering their servers).
We'll let you know as soon as CloudOn is back in the App Store. In the meantime, here's its description:
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CloudOn briefly offers Microsoft Office to iPad users with full Dropbox support, then disappears
I assumed they "sold out" to Microsoft. That Microsoft had made a quick purchase....
Well, if they are offering real Office then the only way they could do that is via some sort of remote session. If that's the case then they would need a license for every potentially active session running on their server. Plus there's also the actual server load to consider for running all those sessions.
I got the app before it "sold out(?). I have to say, though, I'm really impressed. It worked perfectly for me right away. There is a bit of lag at times when scrolling a document, but overall, it's a very Office-like experience - but neater. If CloudOn is smart, they'll get this app back on the market ASAP! They've beaten M$ to the market with a better product, I'd bet.
The app is back online, I couldn't find it searching from my ipad but the cloudon website has this link. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudon/id474025452?mt=8
I work for Johnson Controls. Microsoft office is one of many productive tools many fortune 100 companies such as mine uses. I been trying to get my company to look into using iPads for sometime. I think Cloud On will be the key app to make that a reality.
Office was always the show stopped, now was Cloud On you can manage and edit your files in one place, work directly in Microsoft Office, changes are saved automatically. Edit Word documents, tracking all of our changes, manipulate pivot tables in Excel and in PowerPoint, use all of the cool animation transitions and charts. Wow, I can't wait to spread the word.
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More transparency on federal agency Web sites may lead to increased public trust in government, but it hasn't happened yet, according to two related surveys out today.
The results of one report, which may be the first to measure government's online openness, indicate that transparency is a key driver of user satisfaction with federal agency sites. What's more, "highly satisfied" users -- those who rated a site at 80 or above on a 100-point scale -- are 49 percent more likely to trust the corresponding agency.
"Transparency is kind of a means to the end" of citizen satisfaction, said Larry Freed, CEO of ForeSee Results, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company that conducted the transparency survey as well as another study measuring user satisfaction with government sites.
The transparency survey measured 2,000 citizens' experiences with five sites, while the other survey -- which ForeSee has conducted every quarter since 2003 -- measured satisfaction with 105 federal agency sites. Overall user satisfaction -- a score of 73.6 out of 100 -- was unchanged from the first quarter.
"We think this is the first time that there's really been any metric around how well we are doing from a transparency perspective," Freed said. "Our hope is that a quarter from now we're measuring between 50 and 100 different sites along those lines of transparency." ForeSee defines transparency as how thoroughly and quickly the agency discloses its activities online, and how accessible the information is to the public.
Online transparency is a signature initiative for President Obama, who, during his first few days in office, sent a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies saying that his administration "is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."
Generally, users scored the government well on transparency, Freed said, noting that the average transparency score for the five sites was 79 out of 100. The Web sites measured in the transparency survey included those belonging to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, NASA, and the U.S. Geological Survey, said Freed, who would not give additional specifics at the request of client sites.
But the relatively positive ratings may not remain that way forever.
"As more topics come up, more information comes up and more discussion about transparency happens, citizens are going to expect more," Freed said.
Alongside transparency, improving site search was the other top priority for government agencies looking to increase satisfaction, according to ForeSee's report. "Highly satisfied" users, in addition to trusting the agencies more, were also 77 percent more likely to use agency sites as a primary resource and 73 percent more likely to collaborate on agency wikis or blogs.
Of the top 10 best-rated sites in the satisfaction survey, four each belonged to the Social Security Administration and the Health and Human Services department. The Web site that allows citizens to apply for Social Security benefits online received a satisfaction score of 91, the highest of all sites surveyed.


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Employers should be careful when using information obtained from social networking sites in employment decisions. First, be aware that some web postings on social networking sites may not have been created by the person being sought. It is not uncommon for disgruntled individuals to create negative fake web postings about someone else. Also, know that mistaken identity can occur with common names and employers may not have enough information to determine if the person the employer is searching for is the same person who is the subject of the web posting.
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Jim Anderson, a native Cincinnatian, studied at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the past 30 years he has toured and performed with artists such as Nat Adderley, Ernestine Anderson, Art Blakey, Hank Crawford, Frank Foster, Eddie Harris, Johnny Hartman, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Della Reese, Woody Shaw, Clark Terry and Bobby Watson. He also played and toured as part of the Art Farmer/Clifford Jordon Quintet and the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet. Locally, Jim has been a co-leader of the highly esteemed Cohesion Jazz Ensemble and is continually in demand to perform in local and regional groups.


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NEW YORK Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the worlds most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter.
Apple Inc.s stock has been on the decline since the companys quarterly earnings report Wednesday suggested that its fast growth phase, rare for a company of its size, may be coming to an end.
Apples stock fell 2.4 percent to close Friday at $439.88 for a market capitalization of $413 billion. That followed a 12 percent drop on Thursday, the biggest one-day percentage drop for the company since 2008.
Exxon Mobil Corp. gained 38 cents Friday to $91.73 for a market capitalization of $418 billion.
Apple first surpassed Exxon in the summer of 2011, displacing the oil company from a perch it had held since 2005. The two companies traded places through that fall, until Apple surpassed Exxon for good in early 2012 at least until Friday.
Chinas largest oil company, PetroChina, could lay claim to having hit a market capitalization even higher than either Exxons or Apples, but only based on prices on the Shanghai stock exchange, which is isolated from the rest of the financial world because of Chinese laws on foreign investment. PetroChinas shares also trade in Hong Kong and on the New York Stock Exchange. Based on prices there, its market capitalization never went as high as $500 billion.
Apple and Exxon are among only a half dozen U.S. companies to have ever reached $500 billion in market value. Apple and Microsoft Corp. are the only ones to have ever hit $600 billion.
Apples stock price peaked in September at $705.07 on the day the iPhone 5 was released. Exxon, in the meantime, has been trading steady. Its business oil seems less prone to stock market ups and downs than the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech darling.
Exxon, which is based in Irving, Texas, set a record in 2008 for the highest quarterly earnings by any company. In the first nine months of 2012, Exxon earned nearly $35 billion, or 10 percent more than the same period in 2011, on revenue of $367 billion. Results for the fourth quarter are due Feb. 1.
Exxon, the biggest investor-owned energy company in the world, predicted in December that oil will continue to be the most important source of energy. Thats because cars, trucks, airplanes, trains and ships will still depend heavily on oil-derived fuels such as gasoline and diesel.
This year, investors seem unforgiving with Apple, looking for perfection and punishing the stock for anything less. The companys stock price slipped below $500 for the first time last week, as investors saw signs that the iPhone 5 was falling behind competition from phones running Googles Android software, especially those from Samsung Electronics Co.
The latest quarterly report added to the concerns. Apple warned that its revenue growth, which had been running at a speed more reminiscent of promising startups than multi-national corporations, is slowing down considerably.
A big reason: It has been nearly three years since a new product has come from a company still seen as the embodiment of innovation. That last product, the iPad, came in 2010, when its CEO Steve Jobs was still alive. Some analysts question whether Apple can keep growing by just releasing new versions of its old products. The long-rumored Apple TV, is still just that, a rumor.
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Jing Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
|University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, MD, Medicine
|University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Madison, WI, PHD, Role of EGFR in Cell Adhesion and Motility
|University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, China, BS, Molecular Biology
Honors and Awards
|Resident Research Award, Sino-American Network for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (SANTRO) Symposium
|Award for Excellence in Quality of Life Research, 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology
|Herman and Gwen Shapiro Senior Research Award, University of Wisconsin
|Lewis E. and Edith Phillips Scholarship, University of Wisconsin
|Dr. Otto Mortensen Scholarship for Excellence in Gross Anatomy
|Summer Scholarship for Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians
|Merit Scholarship, University of Wisconsin
|NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, NIH
|NIH Predoctoral Research Fellowship, NIH
|Dean's List, University of Science and Technology of China
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
|Tsai J, Wang Y, Allen PK, Mahajan A, McCutcheon I, Maor MH, Chang EL, Brown P, Li J. Outcomes after Surgery and Radiotherapy for Spinal Myxopapillary Ependymoma: Update of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience. Neurosurgery. e-Pub 5/2014. PMID: 24818785.
|Li J, Wang M, Won M, Shaw EG, Coughlin C, Curran WJ and Mehta MP. Validation and simplification of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group recursive partitioning analysis classification for glioblastoma multiforme. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81(3):623-630, Nov 1, 2011, 11/2011. PMID: 20888136.
|Li J, Dabaja B, Reed R, Allen PK, Cai H, Amin MV, Garcia JA, and Cox JD. Rationale for and preliminary results of proton beam therapy for malignant mediastinal lymphoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81(1):167-174, Sept. 1, 2011, 7/2010. e-Pub 7/2010. PMID: 20643518.
|Li J, Bentzen S, Li J, Renschler M, Mehta MP. Relationship between neurocognitive function and quality of life following whole brain irradiation in patients with brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(1):64-70, 5/2008. PMID: 18406884.
|Li J, Bentzen SM, Renschler M, Mehta MP. Regression after whole-brain radiation therapy for brain metastases correlates with survival and improved neurocognitive function. J Clin Oncol 25(10):1260-1266, 4/2007. PMID: 17401015.
|Li J, Huang S-M, Armstrong EA, Fowler JF, Harari PM. Angiogenesis and radiation response modulation after vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR2) blockade. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 62(5):1477-1485, 8/2005. PMID: 16029810.
|Huang S-M, Li J, Armstrong EA, and Harari PM. Modulation of radiation response and tumor-induced angiogenesis after EGFR inhibition by ZD1839 (Iressa). Cancer Research 62(15):4300-4306, 8/2002. PMID: 12154033.
|Huang S-M, Li J, and Harari PM. Molecular inhibition of angiogenesis and metastatic potential in human squamous cell carcinomas after epidermal growth factor receptor blockade. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 1(17):507-514, 5/2002. PMID: 12479268.
|Li J, Kim N-Y, and Bertics PJ. PDGF-stimulated migration of murine fibrolasts is associated with EGF receptor expression and tyrosine phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 275(4):2951-2958, 1/2000. PMID: 10644765.
|Li J, Lin M-L, Wiepz GJ, Guadarrama AG, Bertics PJ. Integrin-mediated migration of murine B82L fibroblasts is dependent on the expression of an intact epidermal growth factor receptor. J Biol Chem 274(16):11209-11219, 4/1999. PMID: 10196208.
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text: Alicia Keys – Brand New Me (Video Teaser)1 Comment Concreteloop gives a sneak peek of Alicia Keys' upcoming video 'Brand New Me' which was written by UK artist Emeli Sandé. The Diane Martel directed video will premiere on Monday on BET 106 & Park. AK's #1 album Girl On Fire is in stores now.


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By: Steve Tressler
DJIBOUTI – Everyone knows that with military deployments come hardships to service members and their families. No one truly knows how tough it can be unless they've been there themselves. Sometimes, just the absence of the routine with a parent gone for a year, can be especially hard on the children.
Never mind the fact that 'deployment', at least for reservists, more than likely means….war.
What you don't hear though is that sometimes deployments bring you face-to-face with people you wouldn't normally have an audience with.
For example, in 1993 the former President of the United States George H.W. Bush, sat and ate lunch from me a few seats away aboard the USS Tripoli in the Indian Ocean. I shook hands with the Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps at that time, Harold G. Overstreet from my fighting hole outside Mogadishu on Christmas eve (lucky me). I was featured on the NBC today show from Somalia with one of the best reporters I have ever seen, the late David Bloom.
While deployed last time, to Iraq in 2007, I was able to meet country music star Kellie Pickler, UFC Champion fighter Tito Ortiz, and even made it on an episode of the Fox network's 'Geraldo At Large' after meeting Geraldo Rivera in the chow hall in Baghdad, the day after my beautiful daughter Kenadee was born.
I don't say this to impress you, but to impress upon you that you never know who supports the troops until, well, they support the troops!
Such is the case for several members of the Kentucky National Guard's Task Force Longrifles, who recently found themselves 'Skyping' with none other than University of Kentucky Head Men's Basketball Coach, John Calipari.
Among the many things asked of Coach Cal was; how good can this year's team be? Are you hiding the fact that the class of 2013 is really good? Are you enjoying the process of recruiting and coaching at UK?
The Coach was promised he would be sent a 'platoon shirt' by one Soldier and Task Force Commander Rob Larkin also thought a battalion 'coin' was in order for his efforts. Everyone agreed that would be great.
Coach Calipari, flanked by the Adjutant General of Kentucky Edward W. Tonini, answered all the questions with his usual confidence and cool.
He went on to say that 'what you guys (Servicemembers) do for this country every day, to me, is incomprehensible. I am so grateful for you guys, thank you.'
He then made a promise of his own, 'I'll be sending you guys something special as well' and then Coach Calipari held up a huge poster of Doron Lamb's last shot versus Louisville in last year's Final Four matchup that sent Louisville packing and Kentucky tracking their 8th national title.
The poster is icing on the cake, because for these blue-blooded Kentucky Soldiers, just talking with Coach Cal was more than enough.


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Visceral Games Producer, Yara, has tweeted out stating that Battlefield Hardline has been in development at Visceral for over 18 months.
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CDA Will Auction Residential And Commercial Plots
CDA is auctioning residential and commercial plot, economy flats, filling stations and other plots of different sizes and categories in developed sectors of Islamabad, today.
The commercial plots will be presented for auction tomorrow, on 20th November, 2012. During the two days auction, 22 residential and commercial plots will be offered for auction, including plot no 15 Northern Strip, E-11 (2,184 square yards. which meant for filling station), Plot no 2 & 3 of Northern Strip (4,833.33 square yards), and plot number 5 and 6 of Blue Area F-8/G-8 of (2,666.3 square yards).
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Monsoon Masala: Indian Immigrant Community of Seattle
Priyanka Joshi writes about the Indian immigrant community and how people, fueled by Microsoft and other tech gigs in town, have landed in, and adapted to Seattle food wise, climate wise, and a "whole other culture" wise.
Monthly Archive for February, 2011
Meeting an Icon
Folks, I'm up to my eyeballs with work but just had to write about my recent, exciting afternoon, so this post, very quickly: I recently met Bill Zinsser, journalist, writer, teacher, author, icon, in New York. A life long journalist, a Master of writing at Yale in the 70s, and author of blockbusting classic, "On […] [Read More]
Job Opening @ Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
This from my friends at IFFLA. The 9th annual IFFLA is scheduled for April 12-17, 2011 at ArcLight Hollywood: Job Opening: Grant Writer The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is looking for a Grant Writer. The ideal candidate for Grant Writer has strong written and verbal communication skills, pays attention to details, is highly […] [Read More]
Aaina: South Asian Festival on March 25
This just in: 6th Aaina: A South Asian Women's Focus 2011, celebrates the artistic work of or about South Asian women through film, visual and performing arts, and conversations. It is presented by Tasveer in collaboration with the Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas at the Seattle Asian Art Museum from March 25- 27. […] [Read More]


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TOM BRADSHAW: Gary Gold departure is an ugly business for Bath Rugby
Posted: December 11, 2013|
Exactly a year ago, Brad Davis began a chapter of his life that he would later describe as a "dark period".
For three months, the then Bath Rugby first-team coach was in a state of lawyer-inspired limbo as he and Bath decided how exactly they would end a relationship that appeared from the outside to have broken down in spectacular fashion.
Twelve months on, history appears to be repeating itself at Farleigh House, only this time the departure has been more decisive and brutal. Another coach has left the club in completely unsatisfactory circumstances. The curtness of the statement announcing Gary Gold's exit – no doubt concocted by club lawyers – reeked of pin-striped coldness and was an insult to supporters and Gold alike. Not even a formulaic "thank you and best wishes". It read as though Bath were doing Gold a favour by dispensing of his services, less than half way through his three-year contract.
I'm making no claim to total knowledge of this incident. I've spoken to people connected to the club in one way or another and heard a fistful of speculative accounts of what's gone on, but legal niceties require discretion.
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But however you dress things up, this looks an ugly business. And Gold will be hurting, just as Davis was last year.
The news on Monday afternoon that Gold had left the club with immediate effect set a lot of hares racing on social media. One tweet from a club employee requested that a fan be less "aggressive" on Twitter. But aggression wasn't the word that summed up the mood among Bath supporters on Monday. The prevailing attitude was one of mystification, bemusement and frustration. And sadness, too.
Sadness that a club that's riding high in every competition appears to have given the flick to the man that's helped get them there.
When Gold arrived at Bath in the summer of 2012 as head coach, he inherited a squad with considerable holes and inadequate depth. He leaves it in rude health and a genuine force to be reckoned with.
I understand that Gold was less than pleased at being kicked upstairs to his director of rugby role over the summer. He no doubt imagined he'd be marginalised if the team succeeded but carry the can if things went poorly. And so it seems to have come to pass.
Gold had become steadily less visible at The Rec. Arguably, by assembling such a crack team around him, he's been garrotted by his own success.
Ruthlessness is a key attribute in achieving sporting success, and perhaps time will prove that the Bath management displayed far-sighted ruthlessness in sacking Gold. But the burden of proof lies with the club.
Since the club changed hands in April 2010, there have been seven occasions when there have been either sweeping changes or tweaks to the first-team coaching set-up. That's a change every six months on average. By that logic, the current bunch of coaches should be anticipating another reshuffle in June.
It's accepted by most that you can't make an omelette without cracking eggs. The question that Bath fans are still trying to digest is whether the sweet taste of success is worth this number of flying eggshells.


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As the weather warms up and plans are made to enjoy the sun, are you also planning to mix some reading into your routine? Reading can be an excellent activity for children and adults alike. Reading with our children bridges the gap between school years, increases vocabulary and is an excellent bonding opportunity between parents and kids.
More and more studies emphasize the importance of reading for pleasure and for educational and personal development value. The studies show that promoting reading can have a major impact on both children and adults. For children, evidence suggests that reading for pleasure not only improves reading skills, but also increases general understanding, knowledge of other cultures, decision-making ability and community participation. In adults, reading has been shown to combat feelings of loneliness.
At Parkview, we host a quarterly book club for our leaders. Participating leaders select each book from a list of books featuring biographies and profiles or topics focused on service excellence, innovation, leadership and health-related issues. When the group decides on a book, we spend the quarter reading, then come together for a discussion on whether or not the book was enjoyable, whether it offered new insights and how gleanings from the book can be applied professionally and personally.
If you find yourself looking for a good book this summer, our group has expressed interest in the following books that you may also find worthwhile:
- Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, by Dr. Ken Robinson
- The End of Illness, by Dr. David Agus
- Immunity to Change: How to overcome it and unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lakow Lahey
- Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, by Howard Schultz
- Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow, by Tom Rath, Barry Conchie
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How, by Daniel Coyle
- Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues, by Jake Breeden
Participating in a book club is an excellent way to foster community, expand your reading interests and benefit from the perspective of others. As you're making your summer plans, will a good book or reading discussion be on your calendar? Let us know what you're reading!
Links to booksellers are neither recommendations to purchase the books nor endorsements of the booksellers. The links are provided for quick access to additional information about the books that might be helpful.


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Sheriff's deputies in Genesee County have arrested a Batavia man who was wanted in Nevada on charges of sexually assaulting a child.
Deputies say they pulled over 27-year-old Kevin J. Bacon II after they saw him driving his vehicle without headlights or taillights in Batavia. During the traffic stop, they learned that Bacon was wanted on a charge of sexual assault of a child under the age of 14 in Las Vegas, Nev.
Bacon was taken into custody and was arraigned at the Batavia Town Court. He is currently being held without bail in Genesee County Jail.