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President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural speech as Bill Tandy of Price looks on from the crowd.
William Tandy and his wife Rajeanna stand with the other individuals selected to join the event due to the excellence of their essays.
Marine One carries outgoing President George W. Bush away from the inauguration ceremonies following Obama's oath and speech.
After following the 2008 presidential campaign closely and receiving electronic correspondence from both sides of the isle, Price resident Bill Tandy became aware of an essay contest through an email sent out by Barack Obama's camp.
Thinking more about showing his appreciation than winning, Tandy sat down and wrote a short, two paragraph letter detailing his support for the newly elected president.
Several weeks and two telephone calls later, the Price resident was on his way to Washington, D.C.
"I heard about the essay contest because I got regular emails from both sides of the campaign as I searched for information about each candidate," explained Tandy. "I got an email detailing the contest and thought, why not. I didn't expect to win, I just wanted to give my support. I got a call on Jan. 13 telling me I was a finalist and was asked for further information about myself so that the secret service could conduct a background check. Then on Jan. 14, we found out for sure we were going."
The retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel's essay was one of 10 selected from more than 250,000 submitted and it earned him a trip to see the 44th president of the U.S. inducted into office. The Price resident and his wife had all major expenses paid for their attendance at the Sunday concert, several dinners, the parade, the inaugural event and the neighborhood ball.
"We stayed right downtown near Capital Hill," he said. "They really treated us well every step of the way. In fact during the inauguration we were sitting no more than 35 feet from the podium where the president gave his address. We could see him very well."
Prior to the inauguration, Tandy and the other essay winners were given seats at the concert presented on behalf of the then president-elect at the Lincoln Memorial.
"That was the first event on Sunday and, then on Monday, we went around town a little, explained Tandy. "We were invited to a dinner for Vice President Joe Biden on Monday night and I was excited to hear that, during the dinner, Obama was already working on a reconciliation with John McCain. They are working on doing things together already and that gives me great hope."
"Every time Obama spoke, he wanted to make sure that the country's citizens knew this would not be a partisan presidency. He promised that during his campaign and, so far, I have seen him stick to it," continued the Carbon County tesident.
According to Tandy, the entire group of essay winners were given excellent seats at all of the events.
"They gave us some nice gifts including a signed photo of the Obama and Biden families. However the logistics of the events were a nightmare. I don't know how they pulled it off," said Tandy. "They reported that were 2 million people on the mall but that wasn't counting the side streets. I would estimate that there was closer to 3 million in attendance."
Tandy reported that if there were any demonstrations at the inauguration he didn't see them.
"I think the people were just there to see a needed change that has to happen for this country," he said.
The only complaint Tandy had about the whole situation was the weather. "It was so cold," he said shivering at the thought during an interview in the Sun Advocate's offices on Friday. "I was so cold I didn't thaw out for six hours following the inauguration."
A recurring theme in the comments made by Tandy as he recounted his experience for the paper was the overwhelming feeling of brotherhood and humanity displayed at every event he attended.
"The most important thing was the hope that everybody felt," he said. "That is what mattered. One reporter made comments about vulgarities being screamed at President Bush and that was not the case. When the helicopter flew away everyone said goodbye and good riddance. We have suffered more than 20 years of lackluster presidents in the country. The Presidents that stick out in my mind are Kennedy and Reagan. I think Obama is going to be a President to remember.
Tandy moved back to Utah after finishing his military service, where his wife ReJeanna finished her teaching degree at BYU and now educates local youth at Mont Harmon Junior High.
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I am not the least bit troubled* that Travis L. Wright absconded with $145 million of investors money (who thought their lucre was being poured into real estate) to make Candwich a success. The investors will get paid in free canned lunches. Money line goes to Michael E. Hines, from the New York Times article: A lot of 401(k)s have become 201(k)s. (Alternative money line, completely made up: Candwich really opened a can of worms with their creative funding.)
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CANTON They may be sitting around a table instead of trodding onstage, but members of Cantons Shakespeare reading group still are whisked back to the Renaissance by the words of the Bard.
The group was founded in September by Morgan E. Hastings of the Grasse River Players. Its members meet once a month, scripts in hand, to read through an entire Shakespeare play over the course of about two hours.
Mr. Hastings took up acting after moving to Canton from San Francisco about a year ago.
People always said Im a ham, he joked.
He created the reading group as a way to bring a bit more culture to the area, and the clever language of historys most famous playwright made Shakespeare an obvious choice.
Its just so fast and witty that you automatically become more intelligent, he said.
On Sunday the group met at Canton Free Library to read Twelfth Night, a comedy of mistaken identity. The famous quote Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them comes from this play.
Weve been keeping it really light so far, sticking to the comedies, Mr. Hastings said. I want to get the group a little more settled first before we try something really dark, like Hamlet or Macbeth.
The atmosphere is informal. The reading pauses occasionally as people chuckle at a clever line or stumble over an especially antiquated turn of phrase. Most of the group members found out about the readings through the Grasse River Players or by word of mouth, although recently the group began advertising with posters and radio announcements.
Its fun to gather around and divvy up these parts in the beginning, then read through them, said Grasse River Players member Jennifer L. Freego, Canton.
New members always are welcome, either to read along or simply watch. Those interested can contact Mr. Hastings by email at email@example.com.
Arthur L. Johnson, Potsdam, said the readings give him the chance to learn more about Shakespeares work.
Ive always enjoyed Shakespeare, but I had not read much of these, he said.
Some may not enjoy the thought of spending hours reading antiquated language, but Mr. Hastings said that once the readings begin, the time flies.
At the end we feel like weve really accomplished something, he said.
He said that some day, the group might attempt a full-fledged production, but for now will stick to readings. Members will be reading through The Tempest in February as part of Cantons Winterfest celebration.
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With a home meet early in the season, the Carbon High girls golf team was looking to make a statement as a team to be reckoned with in Region 12 competition.
But cold and windy weather conditions put a damper on things as teams, including Carbon High, struggled to play through the elements.
Carbon High head coach Kenji said the Lady Dinos finished in third place with 105 points total behind first place Delta with 112 points and second place Spanish Fork with 109 points.
"Overall we did okay," said Otani. "We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to win the match because it was our only home match of the season."
Hailey Kirkwood, a junior, led the Lady Dinos with 31 points on the day. Junior Katie Felice had 29 points and sophomores Braxton Gibson and Kaycee Gilson added 23 and 22 points respectively.
Otani said the experience of playing in tough weather conditions should help the team as the season progresses. The team will travel to Delta on April 4 for a three school cup involving Delta, Vernal and Carbon High.
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The founder of the Japanese Program at Hunter, Professor Kawashima obtained her BA and MA at Columbia University and is a PhD candidate also at Columbia. Her area of concentration is Western and Japanese Art History. She has been teaching Japanese at Hunter College since 1988 to present. Her publications include A Dictionary of Japanese Particles published by Kodansha International and Oxford University Press (1999), which enjoys the reputation as one of the "Best Five" Japanese language textbooks in Japan; A Doctor in Your Pocket: Basic Medical Terms in English and Japanese co-authored by John J. Olichney, MD published by 3A Corporation (2000); Medical Communication in English and Japanese published by Nitto Sho-in (2002); and A Girl's Record, Around That Time-1935-8/15/1945 and 9/11/2001 published by Kodansha (2006), which is a World War II memoir based on her real-life experiences.
She has given lectures on world peace at Lehman College in New York, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and various other cities throughout Japan. She has served as a Committee member to select candidates for the JET (Japanese Exchange & Teaching) Program, a Japanese-government sponsored program that sends English-speaking college graduates from throughout the world to teach English in Japan.
In 2013, Professor Kawashima was awarded a Commendation by the Consul General of Japan, Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki, for her outstanding contributions to the field of Japanese Studies and the development of cultural exchanges and friendship between Japan and the United States.
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Applications Available for Eurasia Program Fellowships11/02/2011
From Lezlie Kinyon:
Eurasia Program Fellowships The deadline is ASAP and it is very competitive - Supporting and sustaining American expertise on and within this critical world region
Open for applications, next deadline is November 15th 2011.
The Eurasia Program offers three types of fellowship support in 2011, providing financial and academic support to graduate students in the early stages of dissertation development, Ph.D. candidates near completion of their doctoral programs in the social sciences and related humanities, and young scholars within five years of the completion of their Ph.D.
The funding for this fellowship program is provided by the Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Outreach Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union). One of the goals of the Title VIII program is to support and sustain American expertise on the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This program also works to support outreach; build relationships between the policy community and the academic community; help build national capability by engaging diverse experts in the exploration of new ideas and perspectives; and create new knowledge and research.
Position Available as Psychologist Research Coordinator University of Rhode Island11/01/2011
Psychologist Research Coordinator
South County Child and Family Consultants/LearningWorks for Kids is looking for a unique individual who can combine clinical, research and managerial skills. This will be a half-time position that combines conducting clinical work at South County Child and Family Consultants, joining our multidisciplinary research team and supervising a team of interns from the University of Rhode Island through LearningWorks for Kids. The position is ideal for a recent Ph.D who needs clinical supervision hours for licensure, would like to publish, and has an interest and expertise in education and business development.
The clinical portion of the job will consist of conducting psychological evaluations with children and working as part of a larger clinical team that develops recommendations for children with learning, attention, and executive-functioning difficulties. The clinical position will require basic familiarity with a range of psychological test measures, including the WISC-IV, WAIS-IV, and some common neuropsychological measures. Additional training and supervision in the area of testing will be available. Psychologists do not need to be licensed for this position, as they will be closely supervised by the clinical director of South County Child and Family Consultants. Weekly supervision by a licensed clinical psychologist will be provided in order to assist the person in moving towards licensure.
The research and managerial component is through LearningWorks for Kids, an educational consulting company that develops curricula for teaching children executive-functioning and academic skills through their involvement with video games and other digital technologies. This position requires good organizational skills, the capacity to multi-task, and excellent interpersonal skills. The research coordinator will supervise approximately 10 undergraduate and graduate students from The University of Rhode Island and become part of a management team that is taking LearningWorks for Kids to market. The successful applicant will need to have a level of interest and expertise in digital technologies. Applicants do not need to be avid video-game players but should be well-versed in using a variety of digital technologies, including cell phones, iPods, and the Internet. This is a great opportunity to join a very active research team in an emerging area of study, with numerous publication opportunities and possible evolution into a full-time position.
The research component will include participating in a series of studies that are exploring the role of video games and other digital technologies with children who have attentional, learning and social/emotional difficulties. We have 2 ongoing studies of assessment tools that have developed to examine executive functioning skills in children. We also have many ongoing projects that require data analysis and discussion to get them ready for publication and presentations.
Compensation for this position is in the mid $20K range based upon experience, degree, and hours. The individual selected for this position will also have an opportunity to have additional earnings through involvement as a start-up member of the LearningWorks for Kids team.
The setting: South County Child and Family Consultants/LearningWorks for Kids is located in coastal Rhode Island, approximately 10 minutes from the beach.
Visit our sites at: www.southcountychildandfamily.com and www.learningworksforkids.com.
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Project Manager/Researcher Position: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing11/01/2011
Project Manager/Researcher Position: Advancing Interdisciplinary
Research in Singing -(AIRS) University of Prince Edward Island
Applications are invited for the position of AIRS Project
Manager/Research Associate (or Project Manager/Research Scientist -
depending on qualifications). The position is based at the University of
Prince Edward Island, Canada and is available immediately. It offers an
exciting opportunity for someone with a unique combination of
technical, management, and research strengths, and interests in music,
culture, cognitive social science and digital communications. A
doctorate in a relevant field (e.g., linguistics, social sciences,
cognitive science, music information retrieval, etc.) is preferred as is
7 or more years of experience, although more junior or more senior
candidates will be considered. Salary is commensurate with experience
(within the University context).
Please see http://hr.upei.ca/125E11 for a more detailed job posting and
send a resume, letter of application, and names of 3 referees (will not
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quoting the position number: 125E11.
AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing) is a leading
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singing develops, how to teach singing and use singing to teach, and
how singing impacts on well-being broadly defined. The project is also
developing a digital library using Drupal and Fedora to support the
research. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of
Canada is funding the project for 7 years, and the project is in its
3rd year of operation. Approximately 60% of the researchers are from
Canada and the remainder represent 15 other countries on 6 continents.
see http://www.airsplace.ca for information about AIRS.
The position of Administrative Assistant for the AIRS project is also
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AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing) is a leading
edge major collaborative research initiative focussing on singing: how
singing develops, how to teach singing and use singing to teach, and
how singing impacts on well-being broadly defined. The project is also
developing a digital library using Drupal and Fedora to support the
research. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of
Canada is funding the project for 7 years, and the project is in its
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Audio of Alumnus Marc Seifer, Ph.D. '86 Biography of Nikola Tesla is Now Available11/01/2011
The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
By Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. '86
Narrated by Simon Prebble
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla's creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls.
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Job Opening – Program Director of Clinical Psychology, Psy.D. Program, California School of Professional Psychology11/01/2011
Job Posting – Program Director of Clinical Psychology, Psy.D. Program
The CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (CSPP) at Alliant International University
We are seeking an innovative and proven academic and administrative leader for this APA-accredited Clinical PsyD program. This is a full-time position where one-quarter time is spent in teaching and mentoring of students. The Program Director reports to the Dean of CSPP. Responsibilities include: 1) ensuring delivery of a quality academic program, including curriculum development and evaluation; 2) oversight of program faculty and staff recruitment, hiring, development, and retention; leading a collaborative process with the faculty and its committees, executing its decisions effectively and ensuring that everyone is informed of critical developments in a timely and effective manner; 3) Working collaboratively with the Office of Professional Training to ensure high quality student clinical field training; 4) ensuring program continuity through collaborative work with admissions and enrollment management personnel; 5) working collaboratively with student services personnel to ensure that registration, student orientation, financial aid, and other student services are responsive to student needs; 6) handling student complaints according to university and program student evaluation and review procedures; 7) developing an Annual Operating Plan and Annual Budget Plan and ensuring implementation of and adherence to same; 8) ensuring that tasks related to WASC and APA accreditation are implemented, including developing and writing self-study reports and responses and submitting annual reports, and 9) working with the Dean, CSPP faculty, and other program directors to develop and implement strategies for innovation in the education of psychologists for professional practice.
Candidates must have a Doctoral Degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology (Licensed or License eligible in California), and 1) academic administrative experience, and knowledge of and/or experience with the APA and WASC accreditation processes, 2) experience in teaching and mentoring within a graduate psychology program,3) a record of achievement in the field, 4) all candidates will have demonstrated an understanding of diversity issues, clinical expertise in providing services to diverse and underserved populations and a commitment to productive scholarship, and 5) candidates also should have demonstrated competency in training students to work with multicultural and/or international populations and/or conducting culturally relevant research.
Application materials including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, and contact information for three current references should be sent to Erica Holmes, Psy.D. at firstname.lastname@example.com (subject line: PsyD PD search) office number 626-270-3352.
Alumna Myrna Araneta, Ph.D. '09 Presented Paper at the People Management Association of the Philippines Conference, October 12-14, 201111/01/2011
Alumna Myrna Araneta,Ph.D.'09 Presented: How can Leaders and Managers create an environment for People Engagement and Internal Change? at the:
People Management Association of the Philippines Conference
October 12-14, 2011
Drawing from business and new scientific (physics) research, this session unpacked these strategic questions:
1. Why leaders/managers need to engage the "same people" to do business differently in this global economy?
2. What is Employee Engagement, what is at its core?
3. Under what conditions do people become "engaged" (commit) to a course of change and action?
4. What is internal change and why this is needed to succeed in transforming our contributions to succeeding in this global economy?
Practical Implications for revising our current business paradigm that tries to change business outcomes by changing physical actions through reengineering, motivating employees and other means of optimizing processes or cutting prices of products may not be sufficient to get us the results we desire.
In this session, the urgency to embed this core scientific research into the heart of our culture was emphasized.
Myrna Araneta, M.A., Ph.D.
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Early Career Fellowships Available at The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies11/01/2011
A wonderful opportunity:
Through its Jean Monnet Fellowship Programme the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) offers fellowships to post-docs in an early stage of their academic career. During their stay at the RSCAS, fellows work on a research topic that fits well in the overall research profile of the RSCAS and participate in the academic life of the Centre and of the EUI. Each fellow is assigned a professorial mentor.
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) is devoted to inter-disciplinary, comparative, and policy research on the major issues on the European integration process.
In addition to its own faculty, the Centre hosts a large post-doctoral fellowship programme, academic and non-academic visitors, and it is committed to enhance the dialogue with the world of practice.
Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D. '05
Opening at Cherry Hill Seminary For Chair of its Pastoral Counseling Department.11/01/2011
Dear Friends,
Cherry Hill Seminary needs a chair for its Pastoral Counseling Department. Attached are the particulars. Please consider applying for this position, and/or share this message with any colleagues you consider to be qualified and who might be interested. This is a unique opportunity to help build and shape a solid Pagan culture within the overculture. Feel free to post this notice on bulletin boards in appropriate venues.
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A Plea from the Ethical Coalition of Psychology to Get Psychology Out of the Business of Torture11/01/2011
Help sign on to get psychology out of the business of torture.
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Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, The University of California
Professor, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
Dear Colleagues,
The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology is spearheading a call for annulment of the American Psychological Association's deeply flawed 2005 Presidential Task Force Report on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS).
The key conclusion of the PENS Report – despite clear evidence to the contrary – is that psychologists play a critical role in keeping national security detainee interrogations "safe, legal, ethical and effective." The PENS Report continues to be used as an authoritative document today, especially in national security contexts. Leading human rights groups and professionals from a range of fields – including psychology, medicine, law, military, and intelligence –have therefore joined together in this important annulment effort.
Below is the brief petition statement, along with the names of organizations and individuals that have been "early signers" to the call. A background statement with detailed documentation is available online at:
We are now reaching out to professionals from a variety of disciplines and the general public because we believe this is a critical human rights issue with ramifications that extend far beyond psychology alone. We hope you will join this initiative, and there are two valuable ways that you can contribute:
1. Please add your name to the annulment call at www.ethicalpsychology.org/pens
2. Please share this email and accompanying information with your professional colleagues through listservs and personal correspondence, so that they too have the opportunity to sign on.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Roy Eidelson, on behalf of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Alumna Angel Ryono, M.A. '11 will be speaking at the International Studies Association Convention in April 201211/01/2011
Alumna Angel Ryono, M.A. '11 will be speaking at the International Studies Association Convention in April 2012. She will be talking about how the conditions that facilitate social media will impact peacebuilding in Cambodia.
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BEAVER FALLS Beaver River Central School District taxpayers will be asked if they would like a side of artificial turf with a $10.52 million proposed capital project.
We will find out if the community wants to consider turf, Superintendent Leueen Smithling said.
Residents will vote on a $10,523,185 project that would include renovations to the kindergarten and first-grade wing, agricultural classroom and athletic fields and conversion of a steam heating system installed in 1959 to a more energy-efficient hot-water system expected to save about $100,000 per year.
Then, in a second proposition, they will be asked if they favor an artificial turf field over a grass field for an additional $726,000. The turf option will be contingent on passage of the initial capital project proposition.
The vote will take place from noon to 8 p.m. June 6 in the high school library.
An informational session on the proposals has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium.
District voters handily rejected a $12.5 million project in December 2008 that was to include a turf field.
Residents in May 2010 approved a scaled-back, $2 million project that included auditorium repairs and other upgrades. However, that didnt address problems with the athletic complex, including those that have prevented the school from hosting a track meet for the better part of a decade.
Because of the 2008 vote, district officials werent even going to consider turf in the new plan, Mrs. Smithling said. However, at a series of planning meetings, parents and other attendees requested that a turf option be provided, she said.
Despite a higher initial cost, officials project that over the course of 15 years, the cost would be only slightly higher, with $748,500 for artificial turf and $692,000 for sod. The latter figure would include $9,000 for field rental and busing during the initial two growing seasons when the sod field could not be used and $402,500 for maintenance fees, including an additional laborer.
The turf field would cost only $22,500 for maintenance over the 15 years, officials project.
Mrs. Smithling said those estimates dont include development of an additional practice field, which would be needed if a sod-based field is chosen.
Also, a grass field could handle only about 50 events per year, while an artificial turf field essentially would have unlimited use and could be used longer in the spring and fall, she said.
State building aid is expected to cover 82.1 percent of capital project costs, and district officials are proposing to cover part of the local share with $1.75 million from their unreserved fund balance.
A bump in state aid because of redesignation as a high-need district, ongoing belt-tightening measures and the pending payoff of debt from a past project should make that dip into reserves possible without imposing long-term fiscal harm, said Randolph M. Myers, business manager.
Thats the number we felt was available, he said.
That would leave an additional cost to district taxpayers of about $36,000 annually over a 15-year period, Mr. Myers said.
District officials anticipate the cost for the owner of a $100,000 home to be about $8 per year, while the turf option would bump that figure up to about $11 annually.
The project is being designed jointly by Bernier, Carr & Associates, Watertown, and Appel Osborne, Syracuse. Construction Associates, Phoenix, N.Y., would manage construction.
If voters approve the project, district officials hope to begin construction by late June 2014.
Addressing all deficiencies identified by a recent building condition survey and suggested program improvements would have cost $23 million, but district officials chose to handle only the most pressing problems with the project to keep the price tag down, Mrs. Smithling said.
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2010. China. Directed by Zhao Dayong. Written by Dayong, Li Qing. With Qui Hong, Liu Yanfei, Dian Qui. In the slum district of Guangzhou, Jian Ming, the proprietor of a disreputable employment agency, becomes acquainted with 18-year-old Xiao Ya when he places her in a seedy hair salon. Dian Qui, a middle-aged guard (and aspiring poet) in a Guangzhou prison who forces his detainees to read his poems aloud, shows his softer side through his affection for a young woman who is convicted for working in a nightclub to support her family. Though these two narrative strains hardly intersect, they inform and echo each other in their explorations of power and imprisonment. Dayong, director of the acclaimed documentary Ghost Town, uses his extraordinary skills of observation to fashion a bleak and tender portrait of a town with many faces. In Chinese; English subtitles. 96 min.
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Detection of breast cancer as early as possible is an ongoing imaging challenge.The purpose of the current study is to assess the clinical performance of the new scintigraphic technology, a dedicated breast gamma camera composed by the new generation of CZT detectors,for assessment of breast pathology specifically in women where current imaging techniques, mainly mammography are suboptimal. These cohort are patients with dense breast tissue and patients who are at high risk for breast cancer by a combination of other metrics, including family history and genetic testing. BRCA (breast cancer susceptibility gene), is particularly a relevant health problem among Ashkenazi Jews in Israel.
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|Molecular Breast Imaging: A Novel Technology for Detection of Malignant Breast Lesions.
- Detection of unexpected malignant lesions. Ruling out malignant lesions in case of equivocal lesions identified by clinical examination, mammography, US and/or MRI. [ Time Frame: 6 mounth post scintigraphy ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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Women in high risk for Breast Cancer. Including patients with genetic high risk and/or strong family history.
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Recently, a breast-dedicated gamma camera has been used for assessment of breast malignancy in over 1000 women in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI), which utilizes a Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CZT) gamma camera for scintimammography, has been shown to have a high sensitivity (91%) for the detection of breast lesions > 5 mm in diameter and 69% for tumors smaller than 5mm.
In Israel , genetic high- risk for breast cancer is highly relevant. We will offer the new imaging technology, to a wide patients population/group from all over Israel , in which the referring physician and/or the breast-imaging physician will look for additional imaging modality. Therefore this stage will include:
- Women with equivocal findings on Mammography, US and/or MRI
- Women with discrepancy between CBE(clinical breast examination)and breast imaging
- Women with dense breast
- Women in high risk for Breast Cancer
Before the imaging procedure each woman will need to fill detailed questionnaire, specific for the study, that will include information on her medical history, family history, gynecology information, menstrual phase, use of hormones etc.
The images will be correlated with other imaging tests including mammography, US and MRI. We will follow up the women for at least 6 months, including biopsy findings and or other clinical and imaging exams.
This phase will include 500 women.
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A wide COHORT from all over Israel , in which the referring physician and/or the breast-imaging physician will look for additional imaging modality. Women with equivocal findings on Mammography, US and/or MRI. Women with discrepancy between clinical examination and conventional breast imaging. Women with dense breast. Women with genetic and/or family history high risk for Breast Cancer
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- Age over 25.
- Equivocal breast lesions.
- Dense breast tissue.
- High-risk for breast cancer
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- Age under 25.
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- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon ground fennel
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Preheat the oven to 450°F. Drizzle the olive oil into a 9�13-inch baking dish and use your hand to evenly coat the entire surface. Set aside.
Combine the ground beef, ricotta, eggs, bread crumbs, parsley, oregano, salt, red pepper flakes, and fennel in a large mixing bowl and mix by hand until thoroughly incorporated.
Roll the mixture into round, golf ball-size meatballs (about 1 1/2 inches), making sure to pack the meat firmly. Place the balls in the prepared baking dish, being careful to line them up snugly and in even rows vertically and horizontally to form a grid. The meatballs should be touching one another.
Roast for 20 minutes, or until the meatballs are firm and cooked through. A meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meatball should read 165°F.
While the meatballs are roasting, heat the tomato sauce in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring often.
When the meatballs are firm and fully cooked, remove them from the oven and drain the excess grease from the pan. Pour the tomato sauce over them. Return the meatballs to the oven and continue roasting for another 15 minutes.
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Lauren Deen is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cook Yourself Thin series and Kitchen Playdates. She is an Emmy awardand James Beard award winning television producer and director. She is currently executive producer of food(ography) on the Cooking Channel.
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POTSDAM Clarkson never has to fear in late stages of games because Allan McPherson is there.
For a second straight game, McPherson scored a late game-winning goal, this time with 37.3 seconds left in the third period to give the 11th-ranked Golden Knights a 3-2 win over Cornell before 2,923 in an ECAC Hockey game at Cheel Arena Friday night.
There were two minutes left in the game last Saturday when McPhersons goal gave Clarkson a 2-1 win over Harvard.
Both times guys made great plays, McPherson said. In the last game (James de Haas) was throwing the puck on the net and I got a stick on it. Tonight, Jeff DiNallo put it out front and I got two whacks at it and the second one went in. Guys around me are just making plays and Im putting them in.
Just like last Friday, in a 3-2 win at Dartmouth, Clarkson had a two-goal lead and saw it vanish before rallying to produce a win.
Its a big win, we responded well in the third period, said Pat Megannety, who assisted on Clarksons first two goals. Weve been showing that a lot lately. Any time you can come back strong like that, after a tough third period, thats big for us. A lot of people have been saying weve been showing a lot of confidence in late game situations. Were always ready to respond and make a big play.
Clarkson (10-2-1 overall, 4-1 ECAC Hockey) started the game strong and scored the first goal just 45 seconds into the game.
Ben Sexton, who scored the game-winner last Friday, scored on a rebound of a shot by Megannety to give the Golden Knights the early lead.
(Cornell goalie Andy Iles) is a good goalie and he always makes that first save, so we know we have to crash the net, Sexton said. We know there was going to be loose pucks if we got it in his pads and we got a couple goals off that tonight. It definitely gets the fans into it early on. You get the hometown crowd onto your side and it gains momentum.
Clarkson dominated the Big Red (3-3-1, 1-3-1) in the first period, holding Cornell to only two shots.
The Golden Knights extended the lead to 2-0 at 5 minutes, 9 seconds of the second period on McPhersons first goal of the game. A shot from Megannety hit a skate and came to McPherson, who was in the circle, and he put the shot in before Iles had time to react.
Hes a good goalie, McPherson said. We know we need second-chance opportunities because hell make that first save. But hes pretty acrobatic with his second saves, so you have to get on the rebound quick and try to put it past him. I tried to shoot it quick, so he couldnt really get set.
Coming into Fridays game Cornell has scored on 28.1 percent of their power plays and the Big Red, who struggled to get shots on goal the entire game, used the power play to get back into the contest.
Cornell cut the deficit to one goal with a power-play goal at 10:39 of the second period by John McCarron, and the Big Red tied the game 2-2 at 12:37 of the third period on a power-play goal from Brian Ferlin. Cornell finished 2-for-4 on the power play.
Its just one of those games where we persevered, Clarkson coach Casey Jones said. Weve responded to negative things that happen in games really well, so that shows some maturity as a team. I thought we stayed calm. We felt we were playing well and we stayed the course.
Clarkson has answered almost every time its been in a tense situation late in games, improving to 7-0-1 this season in games decided by one goal or less.
Were giving ourselves a little bit of a heart attack on the bench, Sexton said. But were confident. I thought we controlled the game, for the most part, from start to finish. Were getting more and more confident in these tight games, nobody is panicking on the bench.
For Cornell, the loss extended an early-season winless streak to four games (0-3-1).
Im at a loss for words about whats going on with our guys and their energy level and their intensity and their decision-making and their confidence, Big Red coach Mike Schafer said. There are a lot of issues weve got to look at with our team.
SUNY Buffalo 3, SUNY Potsdam 2: In Buffalo, team captain Mike Arnold helped boost the Bears to a 2-0 lead before they faltered down the stretch and fell to the Bengals in an ECAC West encounter.
Sophomore forward Billy Pascalli (Deer Park ,N.Y.) added to the lead at 12:12 in the first period on assists from junior defender Erick Ware (Huntsville, Ala.) and senior forward Adam Place (Scarborough, Ontario). It was Arnolds 32nd career goal in 66 games.
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POTSDAM Winters approach wont mean the end of the season for the Potsdam Farmers Market.
For the second year, the market will move to an indoor winter location, but this time it will be in a bigger space with more than twice as many vendors.
Starting Nov. 2, one week after their last Saturday outdoors at Ives Park, the vendors will operate out of Clarkson Universitys Cheel Arena.
Were working in conjunction with Clarkson for the community to have more sustainable local food throughout the winter, said Marie L. Cook, manager of the Potsdam Farmers Market.
The market will be open in the arena from 8:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday until it moves back outside in the spring.
Up to 13 vendors will sell local meat, winter vegetables, maple syrup, wine, baked goods and crafts.
Last year was the markets first experiment with winter hours. Five vendors sold their wares from the Potsdam Veterans of Foreign Wars building.
We really appreciated it, and it worked out well, but there were two problems, Mrs. Cook said.
The first was space. The limited size meant only a few vendors could fit in the building.
The second problem was time. The market was not able to start selling out of the building until nearly two months after its normal season ended.
We lost that momentum, Mrs. Cook said.
This years expansion into Cheel is part of a yearlong focus on growth that has led to an explosion of participation at the market.
In 2012, it was rare to get even 14 vendors at the market at the same time. This year, 36 vendors peddled their wares.
The market actively recruited farmers over last year and Mrs. Cooks son, Garrison M., helped advertise the market as part of his Clarkson University internship.
Mrs. Cook said there is one goal: turn the farmers market into a destination rather than an errand.
The community itself is very invested in buying local and spending their money to help the local economy, she said.
The market implemented new features and programs over the last year to boost its expansion, such as a machine to allow vendors to accept payment from debit cards and electronic benefit cards.
Live music and regular events were created to draw in shoppers and keep them around.
The market maintains a strict rule that at least 50 percent of the vendors must be farmers, with crafts and baked goods taking up the remainder between them, to keep the focus on farm-fresh food.
Were very optimistic about how this is going to go, Ms. Cook said.
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(This is the second of two articles on Carbon School District's Crisis Response Team and death in the ranks of school students and staff).
If ever there was an ugly word, the word suicide is it.
And it is an even worse word when another word, teen, is added to it.
While many people try to overlook the problem of teen suicide because it is difficult to think or talk about, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that the trend of teens taking their own lives has grown over the years. While the trend dipped a little in the late 1990s, it has increased again as the country moves into this new century farther and farther. More importantly, death among preteens due to suicide has jumped considerably more.
The reasons for youth suicide is complex, and that is important to note, because simplistic explanations can just complicate the situation. The CDC reports that 60 percent of high school students have thought about suicide at one time or another and that nine percent have actually tried it. The agency also says it is the third leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 24. Only accidents and homicide rank higher. And for children between 10 and 14 it is the fourth leading cause of death.
Social media and the web have also not helped the growth of suicide amongst youth. At times they have created an atmosphere that glamorizes it. The news media can also create problems by making suicide seem like a way out of life that is viable. In fact reporting the suicide of children improperly can actually create more thoughts about it in the heads of other kids.
It is a problem for crisis response teams throughout the nation. And it is no different for those that are on the team at Carbon School District.
"We don't memorialize suicide," said Judy Mainord, secondary supervisor for the district and one of the team members. "We don't want kids to see suicide as a solution to their problems. We do want them to know that we loved that student, but in no way that we condone what they did."
Unfortunately, suicide can beget other suicides, particularly when the details and stories of one death are passed onto others inappropriately. When dealing with a teen suicide, facts are important. Often the news will focus on the positive side of the person who killed themselves, without revealing the troubling aspects of their lives.
There is also a gender gap when it comes to suicide. Based on studies girls actually think about it more, but boys are four times more likely to die in the attempt to do it. The reason for this may be due to methods each gender considers an appropriate way to end it all. Females will take pills or even cut themselves. Males tend to use quicker and more powerful means to end their lives, like firearms. Sixty percent of the suicides in the United States are committed using guns.
The vast majority of those that commit suicide have deep depression. This can be due to a lot of different kinds of situations, but the pressures of being a teen in today's world are greater than ever.
When a suicide happens involving a student in Carbon School District, the watch is on. The team needs to not only respond to the death that has taken place, but to the possible consequences of that death in relation to "suicide clusters." To some who study suicide, clusters are a contagion, almost like any other disease that can be passed from person to person. Usually clusters show up in a specific geographic area, and/or in an accelerated time period. Groups of people related in some way by group or activity can also be included. It is a crisis response teams nightmare. But they do have ways to work toward preventing such behaviors. Counselors and others must keep an eye on students that were in groups affiliated with those who died.
"Follow up is very important," said Karee Hunt, who works at Wellington Elementary and the Lighthouse. "We want to see how other students are doing. We will often call homes to make sure parents are aware (of the situation and what happened)."
When there is thought to be a problem with possible clusters the school district uses a plan for prevention and containment of suicide clusters that has been put forth by the CDC. In addition the training for counselors and others that have to deal with teen suicides is intense. They have on-going information as well attending a week long conference on suicide at BYU each year. Information about teen suicide changes and keeping up with what researchers are finding about suicide is very important. All teachers in the district must also have training on suicide prevention and how to deal with students when suicides do take place.
"Staff members are asked to look for kids that might need mental health evaluations both before something happens and then for those that might need help after a death," said Mainord.
That means being vigilant about any student that might show signs of strain, depression or odd behavior.
Karen Kone, who works at Sally Mauro Elementary says that each situation brings new insights, and contact with every student and their family is important.
"Each time we have a death we learn a little more about what to do," she said. "One of the things we now do is to call the home of each student in the grade level where the death occurred."
Depending on the situation at times they also conduct home visits with students and parents as well.
The trauma of death and suicide is not relegated only to students. Staff members often have a hard time dealing with the death of a student or another employee of the distirct. All team members agree that traumatized staff is a problem too. In fact members of the team have admitted that they had to have people come in for them in certain instances because they were too close to the situation.
The CRT core group meets with the entire team once a year to stay in contact. Those involved include mental health organizations, law enforcement, the health department, the hospital, juvenile court and youth organizations, along with those from the school district that have responsibility in the areas involved.
The core team says that they usually average three to four meetings a year and then of course they meet before responding to any crisis that arrives on their doorstep. It is something they do not relish.
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However, keep in mind that, even if your garden is "allergy free," many of the pollens that affect you can travel to your yard from other gardens in the neighborhood or even from as far away as the next state. But there are intelligent and create ways to make sure you minimize the allergens growing right in your own back yard.
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Among these types of plants are several bright colored flowers, fruit trees and shrubs. Ask any nursery expert or a local horticulturalist to help you identify these types of plants and make a list of those you'd like to see in your garden plan.
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