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Politics aside, the combination of the events surrounding the inauguration of President Obama for a second term and the celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. symbolized, for many, that this is a country of hope and courage.
It also sends a message about the importance of preparedness and character-building. And, while President Obama stood and accepted the oath to lead this country, the influence of Dr. King was clearly evident, even if his message was not the dominant focus of Monday's historic events.
What was evident was the realization of part of Dr. King's vision for a country where one's character would be the standard, rather than the person's racial identity.
Events such as these on the national stage tend to give us chance for pause and reflection, but the reality is that what matters most is what's being done in our communities.
On Sunday, the Tallahassee chapter of The Links held its annual program, which focuses on young men in this community who have shown early potential to be leaders.
The organization, whose members have demonstrated track records of success, is giving back to this community by teaching these 10 young men the ideals of leadership, development and character.
By doing so, they are serving a broader purpose. They are working to make sure that the dreams of Dr. King and other national leaders won't be deferred because people in communities such as Tallahassee didn't take time to prepare those with potential to become tomorrow's leaders.
The 10 students participating in The Links program are embarking on a six-week journey that teaches them leadership, cultural development and the importance of higher education in their lives.
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There's a concentrated push recently by animal activists and PETA to convince the poultry industry to change over from electronic stunning to controlled atmosphere killing. Spin doctors from both sides of the issue have added their two cents, both claiming the advantages to their side. The truth of the matter is, unless you're a chicken whose days are numbered, you won't ever know for sure if being stunned and having your throat slit is better than being atmospherically smothered. But let's look at the facts of these two choices of death for birds raised for food.
Electronic Stunning
Step 1 : The bird is yanked from its crate by its feet by a poultry worker who is (after a length of time) indifferent to any stress, pain, or injury caused to the bird.
Step 2: The bird is shackled by its feet upside down on an assembly line. Stress and injury are ignored.
Step 3: The bird is dunked into a tank of electrified water meant to stun it. The purpose is to render it senseless to pain, causing paralysis.
Step 4: If the stunning works properly (and there is a percentage of the time it does not), the bird is conveyed down the line where a blade will sever the artery in its neck and it will then bleed out.
Step 5: The dying bird (sometimes the bird manages to avoid the blade by twitching) is dunked into boiling water to de-feather it. If the bird avoided the blade, it is dunked alive into the boiling water where it will surely die.
Controlled Atmospheric Killing
There are two ways in which this is done in the few plants in Europe that actually use this method.
Step 1: While still in their crates, the chickens are placed in a room where the atmosphere (the air in the room) is modified to reduce the oxygen to 2%. The birds suffocate within minutes.
Alternate Step 1: Some plants lead the birds (sans crates) into a room to feed, where they readily follow, under no stress, and the room is closed off, oxygen reduced until the birds take their last breath.
The pros of Electronic Stunning: The only pro I can list here is that this method is already in place and left as is, would not change the monetary bottom line for the plant.
The pros of CAK: CAK takes away the stress endured by the birds from being handled and hung upside down. It also eliminates (notice I said "eliminates" and not "reduces") injury to the birds, and also to the employees who must handle these birds to take them to the next step of bleeding out and de-feathering. Without feeling stress, the birds won't defecate on themselves so the meat is cleaner. Without hearing birds in distress, the employees are also less stressed. CAK is a death without violence.
The cons of Electronic Stunning: The stress caused by stunning the birds makes them act out which results in the birds often suffering broken legs, defecating on itself caused by its fear, and also injury to the bird handler. The bird suffers, albeit shortly, unnecessarily. The squawking of the distressed birds has a relative effect of causing stress to the employees handling them. It takes five steps to complete the process of electronic stunning versus the three steps it would take to employ CAK.
The cons of CAK:
Proponents of keeping the old system of electronic stunning in place argue that there is no further humane advantage to switching over to CAK. Their view is that death is death and no matter what, it's inhumane. Well, I can't disagree, but a violent versus a non-violent death is a no-brainer!
In addition, there is a cost absorbed by the slaughterhouses that would be passed onto consumers if they change over to CAK. The question is, are consumers willing to pay a slightly higher price for their chicken for the peace of mind of knowing that the bird didn't die in stress and violence? I'd pay it.
PETA announced that "chicken suppliers Bell & Evans in Pennsylvania and Mary's Chickens in California are switching from the standard method of chicken slaughter described above (electric immobilization) to controlled atmosphere killing (CAK), becoming the first U.S. chicken suppliers to do so. This is a true milestone in the fight to help animals who are raised for food."
Advocates are now actively pushing to get the nations largest chain restaurant, McDonald's, to change from its current chicken suppliers to ones who utilize only Controlled Atmosphere Killing. This is a moment in which McDonald's can choose to be a leader in the humane treatment of animals; a time where they can put up or shut up!
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How Good Can Vinyl Sound?, Anyone got some sample clips?
How Good Can Vinyl Sound?, Anyone got some sample clips?
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I do not own a turntable and have never heard the "great vinyl sound" coming from a good turntable handled correctly. I am however sligltly interested in purchasing one, as there are some interesting albums out there unavailable on CD.
Recently I found a small clip on the net: A lossless needledrop of Santana's debut album on the MFSL label. Since I own the CD on same label I had something to compare with: I was very disappointed with the needle drop. There were no pops or clicks, but the sound was dead.
Can anyone provide some sample clips of very good needle drops?
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Basically these sound great, but I think there's something very strange in the higher frequencies on some of them. I see part of the problem is a ~15kHz tone on some of the LPs - but there's also an 18kHz resonance or harmonic or something on the first sample, and other strange (though inaudible) things on the others e.g. strong ultrasonic tones on Gremlins, weak 17kHz on Enya, etc.Thank you very much. I know about these strange high tones. Most of these tone can be found on the originals also (especially with the track from Enya). And the mastering for the Enya track was only partially digital: the Uilleann pipe was recorded analogue. You can´t see that anymore but I saw it before I applied the RIAA frequency curve. But I have to admit that this could also be some distortion introduced by the cartridge. In case of the Ofra Haza track the high tone was so very strong that I used a notch filter to lower it. Quite successfully, I might add.
It could all be on the original recordings, but on the ones I can hear, it sounds weird to me. It makes my ears ring.
I suspect that you're getting far more information from these LPs than was ever intended! e.g. on the Enya one, you can clearly see it was mastered from a 44.1kHz digital recording, because there's nothing above 22kHz.
Apart from this(!), I think your transfers are stunningly good.
EDIT: Which Algorithmix declicker did you use? Or was it mostly iZotope RX Advanced?? (Which costs more than most turntables!)
Strange that you can hear these tones at all. I tested the tracks with several playback equipment (they had to sound good on every one of them) and I couldn´t hear them, not even with my Sennheiser HD-600 - and I can hear up to 19 kHz. Your hearing must be fantastic, I envy you. Or, it could be that the compression of the AAC codec kicks in and disturbs the tones when transients are encoded.
I also have to say that the E-MU 0202 wasn´t completely free from tones itself. I still did not find the reason. I used the Algorithmix ScratchFree for the automated declicking & iZotope RX for manual declicking (on distorted s-consonants I used spectral editing because Algorithmix introduced some noise-like artifacts during declicking)
... and yes, it is an expensive hobby.
If someone is interested... here is the mastering technique I suspect that was used which could be observed very good before applying RIAA:
HIStory, Michael Jackson (rest his soul): digital mastering with 48 kHz
Im Nin' Alu, Ofra Haza: partially digital
Theresa, Jan Hammer: digital
Little Lady, Aneka: analogue
Miles Away, Madonna: seems to be partially digital (some synths reach up to 30 kHz)
Gremlins, Jerry Goldsmith: orchestra: digital. synths: analogue
Smaointe..., Enya: partially digital, Uilleann pipe reaches up to 33 kHz
The Empire strikes back, John Williams: analogue
Viva La Felicita, De-Phazz: digital
Woman in Love, Barbra Streisand: analogue
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Chapter 1: Question
Question; what would you do when there's a knock on your door, and when you open it, you get a huge, big-ass gun pointed in your face? And what would you do, if a soldier grabs you by your arm and pushes you in front of you, forcing you to walk down the stairs? You hear screams and loud BOOMS coming from outside, like the people of Runem started their own war, and see lightings and explosions. You have no idea what the fuck is going on. Tell me, what would you do? I'll let you think about it.
In the main time, I'll tell you what I did. I walked forward as the soldier forced me to do. I lived on the 5th floor, so I had to walk a lot of stairs. My poor legs. I wasn't the athletic type of guy. I was a candy-lover and a regular at the local fast food- restaurant. My hair was brown and my eyes had a strange, gold/brown colour. I was wearing a blue shirt and baggy jeans. I wasn't fat, not at all. I just liked candy, OK?
I asked the soldier what was going on, but he only told me there was a national evacuation going on, that there's no time to pack my bags and I should stay calm. I asked again what was happening, but still; "I advise you to stay calm sir."
Wow, that's very helpful sir, but that's not what I asked.
I walked down the stairs till I got to the main entrance. There were a lot of other people from this flat standing there, all panicking about what is happening and what not. I just lived there, so most of the people were strangers to me. Lucky for me, Michelle from the 4th floor, a pretty blonde girl I met in the elevator, and Nora from the 2nd floor, an old lady that made me a pie when I first got here. They were standing close to the stairs, and Michelle seemed relieved to see me.
"Aiden! Thank god you're OK!" she said, smiling at me. (NO, there's not going to be a romance between us, she has a boyfriend, you idiot.) "What's going on?"
"Some kind of national evacuation." I turned to Nora. "How are you doing miss Glass?"
"I'm fine, thank you. I only wish you would call me Nora, instead of miss Glass" she said with a smile. "I hate my last name."
I laughed at her, but my smile faded away when I saw soldiers standing at all the entrances, even the emergency exit on the left. They stood there with those big-ass guns and poker faces.
Yeah, that's how you calm down the people. Great job, guys.
"Why are they guarding the exits?"
"I don't know dear, there like statues. Not moving, no talking, nothing."
I sighted. On my only free night, something like this happened. I swept the sweat of my forehead. It was in the middle of the summer, and we had the hottest one in the history of Runem. I had seen some shit on the news, about a national disaster in the U.S. An infection or something. We probably got it too. Well, that means we're fucked. Or maybe not. The military seemed to be prepared, if you look at the soldiers. Well-equipped and they seem to know what to do.
We heard a shot, coming from upstairs. I lived long enough in this neighbourhood to know what a gunshot sounds like. The people got silent for about ten seconds, and then they started shouting and pushing.
"Let us out! Let us out!" The soldiers didn't move a muscle.
Michelle's eyes widened and she started to breathe real fast.
"Michelle, are you OK?" I questioned. She shook her head.
"Can't… breathe…"
Nora pushed me aside. She held Michelle's head in her hands and looked her in the eyes.
"In through the nose, out through your mouth. Like that, yes."
Yeah, I'm not good with that. That's a girl-thing. I stand there a bit awkwardly, patting Michelle on her shoulder. Good job, dude. Superman would be proud.
"What's going on in your head, dear?" Nora asked Michelle. It seems only women can see when something's wrong with other women.
"It's Tyler. He's still at work. In the Centre." Michelle's voice sounded really scared. The Centre was in the middle of Runem, it's like New York. Almost everyone who lived in the area worked there. Most of the people who lived here too. They lived in shitty, cheap apartments, which were built especially for the employees of big businesses, so the Centre wouldn't be overwhelmed with homeless.
Tyler was Michelle's boyfriend, they lived together.
"He's OK, trust me" Nora said. "If the army-boys are already here with the evacuation, they have already done the Centre. You'll see him again, at the shelter."
Michelle seemed to calm down by the words of the old lady. I wish the other people in the hall would too. They were still shouting, and now they were throwing things at the soldiers. Little things, like pencils, keys, books, things they carried on them. Suddenly, a big man stepped forward. He walked towards the soldier and held up his fist.
"I ain't playing games, son" he said. The soldier held up his gun, like that was going to protect him from this giant.
Suddenly, there was a gunshot from upstairs. The hall got silent, there was no sound for about 10 seconds. Then, the panicking started. The people pushed each other to the doors, sandwiching the soldiers against the walls. I stand before Michelle and Nora, walking back, towards the stairs. It was a huge chaos in the hall. Everyone wanted to get out of this mess, which I found quite stupid, because the situation wasn't any better outside. There were still screams, BOOMS, fires and smoke. We were right in the middle of the shit.
Suddenly, I heard a scream behind me. It was Nora, who got grabbed by her shoulders by a man. The man looked pale, his eyes had no pupils, and his cheek looked chewed off, like his dog was really hungry. He made a weird sound, like a dying animal, before he planted his teeth in Nora's shoulder. Nora screamed of pain and tried to get the man of her.
"Help, help me!" she screamed. I wanted to do something, but my legs were stuck in the ground. I couldn't move, I was frozen. In shock. The man was eating her, like dinner. Like a real predator. Blood was all over the place. I could only look at his hungry eyes and teeth in flesh.
When I finally found the courage to move, someone pushed me a side. A soldier. He held up his gun and shot. It was so quick, I couldn't even understand what was happened. Nora's body fell on the ground, and the man next to her. Nora's left cheek was almost gone, completely blown off. Her eye was just a black hole, her lip was burned away and I could see her teeth. The man next to her was shot in the right side of his face. This was also exploded. I was stunned to see him getting up again. He stood up, like nothing happened. He reached out his arms, trying to get the soldier in his ugly fingers. The soldier held up his gun again, and without hesitation, he shot the man through the head.
"Let's go" he said to his men. "It's time." He colleagues who were still guarding the doors, nodded and opened it. The people ran out, like they were kept prisoner for a hundred years.
I was still shocked. Nora was dead. Nora was dead. Michelle grabbed my hand and pulled me away from the corpses. The picture of Nora's exploded face would always be in my mind.
Outside, the chaos was still on. For the first time in my life I saw a tank, which was riding towards the highway. On the highway I saw people running away from their cars and other people who were walking slowly, like they had all the time of the world.
A soldier pushed us out the door, forcing us to run and get back to the group. They were leading us to the local supermarket. Everywhere around us, I saw normal people being eaten by the strange looking people, like the one that "ate" Nora. When we walked by, a couple of them looked up to us, and wanted to get closer, but its body fell down the ground when a bullet went through its head.
The supermarket was filled with scared people. They were sitting everywhere in the store.
Michelle still hold my hand, but didn't say anything. She stared into nothing. I led her to the fruit department, there was a nice smell there that calmed me down. We sat down against some boxes.
I held my head in my hands. Nora is dead. Nora is dead. Holy shit. Nora is dead. Nora is dead. This isn't real, is it? Is this a joke? Is someone messing with me? Is this a dream? Am I really here?
"Wake up, you idiot. Wake up!" I whispered to myself. A few soldiers walked by. I looked up and saw them disappearing through the back door of the store.
"Uhm, hi" said a manly voice. I turned my head and saw Caesar, a man who lived at the 2nd floor of the flat.
"You're Aiden, right?"
"Yes, and you're Caesar" I said. Another couple of soldiers walked by. They too disappeared through the mystery door.
"May I?" He asked me if he could sit down.
"Yeah, sure go ahead."
He smiled grateful, like I had given him a gift or something.
"I…I'm sorry for what happened to Nora. She…was a nice lady" he said. I bowed my head.
"Yes, she sure was."
A few army men walked by, looking worried. I watched them go through the back door.
"It's weird, huh?" Ceasar said. "Those crazy army people, just taking us away from our homes. Crazy, I tell you."
I watched the door the soldiers had gone through, they could be back any minute. More soldiers ran by and go through the door.
"Where do you think they're going?" I asked Ceasar.
"The back of the store of course" he answered, like I was some kind of idiot.
"I know that's the back of the store, but why aren't they coming back?"
Ceasar laughed. "There probably just debating about what to do next."
Another group of soldiers came by.
"Excuse me, sir" Ceasar asked nicely. They looked at him and walked through, ignoring him.
"Well, there not very polite, are they?"Ceasar said, a bit offended. Another group walked by, and another one. I stood up and watched them disappear through the door. Where were they going? Instead of walking to the backdoor, I walked towards the front door. I heard Ceasar stood up as well and followed me. I stopped at one of the pay desks. I looked at the glass doors and saw hundreds, maybe thousands of bite-things, slamming at the glass and screaming like hungry cats. I stepped back. Suddenly a few cracks appeared in the glass. They slammed and more cracks appeared. More people started to notice and started running to the back of the store. Everywhere I looked, on every meter of the glass, there were those things. Monsters slamming on the glass. Creepy as fuck.
"We gotta get out of here" I said to Ceasar. "Now!" I started running, back to the fruit department, back to Michelle. She was standing up as she saw me running towards her. Her eyes looked brighter than before, like she could think again. I grabbed her arm.
"We have to go." She understood and walked with me. At that moment I heard the glass break. I didn't turn around to see it, but I could imagine what it looked like; millions of tiny glitters flying through the air, the monsters pushing and pulling, trying to get into the store. Their jaws clapping and arms cracking. People started screaming again and ran through the backdoors. Many didn't realize what was going on and sat where they sat. It was too late to save them
I ran to the doors at the back of the store. We came to a loading area of the shop. There, I saw an army truck that drove off, leaving all these innocent people behind. I stood still, listening to the footsteps of the monsters, attacking the people that couldn't make it towards the doors. Hearing them raised my heartbeat. I closed my eyes for a second, trying to think.
"Aiden! Aiden!" Ceasar screamed. He smiled as he held up his arm. In his hands, he held a carkey.
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Justice used its speed midway through the second half to pull away for a final score of 68-54.
IP&E exploded from the tip-off, taking a surprising 11-1 lead just five minutes into the game. Francis Benitez and Derrick Royster looked possessed, scoring nine of the first 11 points for IP&E. Justice's Reggie Rechebong, however, remained calm and answered with 13 points before halftime, cutting the lead 30-25.Momentum swing ...


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Negotiations delayed
The next step in the negotiation process between the Eudora National Education Association and the Eudora USD 491 Board of Education has been postponed until October.
The two groups were originally scheduled to meet with a mediator Sept. 19, but the meeting was delayed because of illness.
As part of the mediation process, a third-party provided by the state will work with both sides to help them come to terms on a contract for both the 2007-08 school year and the 2008-09 school year.
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Van Tasell, a sophomore from Pella High School, turned in a career-best 80 in a dual with William Penn University Sunday at the Pheasant Ridge Golf Course in Cedar Falls. Van Tasell sliced five strokes off her previous best and finished tied for third in the individual race, just one shot behind co-medalists Natalie Booton and Demi Coertze.
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I love this series by Ms. Bang. The cast of characters has grown over the years but she somehow still manages to weave incredibly tight, compelling, stories with new occupants who are drawn to the Castle. The other thing I love is that they never feel repetitive. She keeps the things that enhance the stories and gives all the new stories their own distinct quirks. Murmur is a great character. I love the battle he's waging both internally and externally and his developing relationship with Ivy is equally as captivating. They both have their own trust issues and yet they can't help the draw that's pulling them together. And boy, when they get together do they have some spicy chemistry. Besides, who in their right mind can resist reading more of the relationship between Sparkle and Ganymede, not to mention when you throw Asima into the mix! And finally yes, this can be read as a completely stand alone book, but just be warned, most people I know who read these books get completely hooked and can't stop at just one!
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Intel asks, "What News Vacuum?"
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On August 22, 2003 @ 10:06 am In Finance | Comments Disabled
Intel raises revenue guidance for the Q.
So much for the quiet news day; Usually, it takes a little longer to prove me wrong. What was that, sumpthin like an hour and twenty minutes? Cheesh
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Seattle loves its food and prides itself on its variety of restaurants and the seriously innovative chefs that make a name for themselves in town. In fact, you can get a great idea of what food Seattle has to offer just by staying in the Bell Town and Pike Place neighborhoods.
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ASU Women's Track
Belles honored with 11 on academic team
Eleven members of the Angelo State women's track and field team were honored Wednesday by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association by being named to the 2012 Division II All-Academic Track and Field team
Chrystal Ruiz earned a spot for the second straight year from her performance during the indoor season. She was joined on the team for the second consecutive year by Kati Holly, Cathryn Rittenberry, Summer Sutherland and Kimberly Williams, who collected the accolades based from outdoor track.
The 11 student-athletes for ASU were tied for second-most on the list with Winona State and the University of Mary. Grand Valley State led the way nationally for the third straight year with 24.
This is the fourth All-Academic team that Rittenberry has been named to and the third for Ruiz. Rittenberry also was named the 2011-12 Lone Star Conference's Scholar-Athlete of the Year and is a two-time LSC Track and Field Academic Athlete of the Year.
Over 300 student-athletes representing 82 institutions were honored by the USTFCCCA. To qualify for the team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade-point average of 3.25 and have reached a provisional or automatic qualifying standard for the NCAA Championships in either indoor or outdoor seasons.
Area baseball
Sonora, Wall earn all-state recognition
Sonora and Wall were well represented on the 58th Annual Texas Sports Writers Association/Collin Street Bakery Class 2A All-State Baseball Team, which was released Wednesday.
Sonora's Imoni Cross had the highest honor as he was named to the first team as an outfielder. Wall's Collin McCrory had the top honor for his school with a second-team selection as an outfielder.
Sonora's Davis Jimenez was named to third team as a third baseman, while Wall's Peyton Brown earned third-team laurels as a pitcher/third baseman.
Earning honorable mention were Sonora's Clayton Parks and Ryan San Miguel, along with Wall's Jake Rollwitz, Chad Kellermeier and Jason Dickens.
San Angelo Colts
Colts trade Poole, sign catcher Janssen
The San Angelo Colts announced Wednesday they have traded outfielder Lyndon Poole to the McAllen Thunder in exchange for future considerations, and signed catcher Collin Janssen.
Poole signed with San Angelo on July 19 and played in three games. In that brief time, he went 1-for-9 (. 111) with a pair of walks. Poole, 25, is in his sixth professional season. He has a .253 career average with five home runs and 47 RBIs.
"Lyndon has the opportunity to play every day in McAllen," Colts manager Doc Edwards said. "He is a great and eager outfielder, and it does not make sense to keep him on the bench when another team can start him."
In addition to trading Poole, the Colts also got a new catcher in Janssen to back up Michael Pair. Janssen played his college ball at Division III Concordia University in Austin.
Janssen hit .331 with five home runs and 36 RBIs in 47 games this spring. In 2011, he finished second on Concordia with a .377 average in 47 games. Janssen helped lead Concordia to back-to-back 30-plus win seasons, hitting .354 with seven homers and 65 RBIs in his two seasons there.
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Jonesboro left fielder Cameron Jones and shortstop Nick Brown converge on a fly ball during the Ricemen's 6-5, 10-inning loss to Bryant in the Arkansas American Legion Senior State Tournament Tuesday at Lester White Field.
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The Jonesboro Ricemen saw their second rally of the game come up just short on a play at the plate, suffering a 6-5, 10-inning loss to the defending state champion Bryant Black Sox Tuesday in the losers' bracket final of the Arkansas American Legion Senior State Tournament at Lester White Field at Cooper Park.
After all of Monday's games were played as seven-inning contests, Tuesday's games went back to nine innings.
The Ricemen - trailing by as much as 4-0 in the game - took full advantage by scoring a pair of runs in the eighth inning and once in the ninth to force extra innings. ...


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What is at stake is the character, meaning and quality of life as such, inclusive, above all, of Sunniism and the integrity of its own nature and traditions. It is one of the key teachings of the Abrahamic faiths (and beyond, for example, in the Indic concept of karma) that what is of equal concern in acts of injustice and violence is the impact they have on one's own soul. This cosmological insight is also at the origin of the philosophical tradition where, in Socrates and Plato, virtue is cultivated in the care of one's own soul. Both rest on one fundamental: the most basic, enduring pleasure of life—the ground and potential of all other pleasures—is the pleasure of one's own soul. Simply put, one cannot be a scoundrel to others without becoming a scoundrel to oneself. It cannot be denied that there are pleasures to be experienced in the ego of the scoundrel, but their destitute and transient quality is a common experience. The extreme survivalism of capitalist-nationalist society has worked to suppress this basic truth: it is quite possible to survive, to live a long life (even one endowed with wealth, power, status) and yet never to experience the reality of life. Indeed, without the enlivenment of the soul, even if one survives, one might as well be dead—indeed, our present condition increasingly resembles rotten death, not ripened life.
Most immediate to the question of 'minorities', the ricocheting impact of violence on the soul of the perpetrator is evident in the rapidly declining quality of the life of Sunniism itself—in the everyday evacuation of Sunni piety of its ethical content, in the menacing quality of its sanctimoniousness. The disclosure that the Christian child Rimsha Masih's accuser, Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, a mosque-imam, had himself planted "blasphemous" material to get the child caught was most revealing. Chishti—a stain he is upon the exalted name of South Asia's largest Sufi silsila—may be a particularly egregious scoundrel, but the twisted disposition of his piety is by no means devoid of affinity with the emergent character of the society of his co-sectarians.
It is hardly a contentious claim that Sufism, or tasawwuf, has since almost its origin—an origin shared with Shiaism, above all in the person of Imam Ali, to whom almost all Sufi silsilas trace their beginnings—been the heart and life of Sunni Islam. (Without it, it would appear historically to be merely a doctrine of the legitimation of de facto order and power.) Far from being some minor 'sect' or 'mystical cult'—modern categories that correspond little to our historical, religious experience—Sufism has in fact pervaded in innumerable ways the everyday social space of Sunni Islam, existing as the enlivening articulation and inheritance of its aesthetic, ethical, philosophical and spiritual content. Coinciding with the Platonic teaching of theosis, or "becoming like God", tasawwuf has been the kernel of Sunni Islam, proceeding from the Prophet's injunction to "cultivate the ethos of the Divinity".
Thus, the destruction of 'minorities' (including, massively, of the Shia) coincides logically with an unprecedented assault on Sufism—and not just in the heretofore inconceivable, physical attacks on the millennial graves of its greatest exemplars, the literally and metaphorically suicidal attacks on the sanctuaries of its saints. It is mirrored, spectacularly, in the daily erosion of the expansive ethos and sublime conceptual world bequeathed to us. What we are witnessing is the disinheritance of the vast treasures historically given in Sunniism, which is fast becoming a monstrous shadow of itself.
We may survive the destruction of our minorities, but without the soul that makes life worth living, the soul that makes its deepest, highest and ownmost pleasures possible. And without this life of life, we might as well be dead. In fact, for the most part, we evidently already are: with our pleasures increasingly those of the living dead, the infernal pleasures of vampires.
(The writer, a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, is an assistant professor at Habib University, Karachi. He's a recent convert to Shiaism.)
Apropos Nauman Naqvi's piece Soul Suicide (Oct 15), sometimes there is more earthy wisdom in a single Sufi song comprehensible to a wood-cutter than in a whole book of scripture that needs interpretation. I speak as a recent discoverer of the magic that is Begum Abida Parveen's rendition of Sufi songs.
Thank you to all those who have taken the trouble to read the article and share their thoughts. Out of the arguments made here, there are two that perhaps need answering. So here they go.
1. The first part of the article compares outcomes (relative percentages of population of the religions concerned) irrespective of the process that led to those outcomes - whether immigration, relatively faster population growth or conversions. This was for two reasons. One, to put the figure of 2.3 per cent in "numerical perspective", as the article itself explained. The second reason was that outcomes are ultimately what the crux of debate is about. The rest of the article in any case dealt with process - or conversions in this case, from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
2. Some commenters have tried to cast doubts on the reliability of Census 2001. Those who do this should bear in mind that Census 2001 was conducted by a BJP government. Considering the extreme importance that BJP gives to this issue, it would be reasonable to expect that IF it had perceived a problem with the methodology that was distorting the numbers, it would have fixed it. As the article mentioned, BJP or BJP-supported governments have been in power for 10 of the last 40 years, or about a quarter of the time, and the only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at is that any misreporting of numbers, real or perceived, would be marginal and hence, not of importance.
To all other arguments made, my answer is the following: Please read the article again, with particular focus on the quotations of Vivekananda and Monier Williams, and the history of the missionary efforts in Bengal and their outcome.
Niranjan Rao,
>> in matters of re-interpreting Islam, so as to make it consistent with human values of modern times such as tolerance , liberalism, broadmindedness and a spirit of give and take.
That would not be a re-interpretation. It is more a matter of which parts of the scriptures one focuses and expands on. The mullahist Islam, favored also by anti-Islamic Zionist and Sanghi propagandists, is not the Islam of Sufis nor of other moderate/progressive Muslims. This can be seen in a host of recent speeches, publicatons and internet websites. However it has to contend with some very powerful antagonists, the main one being petro-dollar Wahabi Islam. Let us see what this century brings.
Ref : ANWAAR
I have already said in my previous post that ,"....(B)oth religious ideology as well as the way it is interpreted by its followers do matter ".
And in matters of re-interpreting Islam, so as to make it consistent with human values of modern times such as tolerance , liberalism, broadmindedness and a spirit of give and take, Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism are far far ahead of it and its followers. Let us be aware of the vicious grip the conservative and fanatical preachers have on the minds of the ordinary Muslims in the Indian Sub-continent. The near mortal punishment which a poor ragpicking Christian girl escaped from recently --all because of the vicious machinations of a Mullah in Pakistan is fresh in our memory.
Belif in God is a matter of Faith. One can neither conclusively prove nor disprove the existence of God. If there is a God, He/She/It can only be a single Entity. A Hindu may call It Bhagawan, a Muslim- Allah and a Christian Yahova or Jesus. Does it really matter which name we give to this Entity or the rituals we follow in our prayers ?
I am a Hindu . My prayers are more spiritual than religious. I do not at all believe in the mumb- jumbo of Hindu religious rituals . I do not follow them at all. I am not a temple-goer either. Along with a Christian friend, once I prayed in a Church. I was immensely impressed by the serenity that prevailed there . I have a soft corner for Jesus, who spread love, peace and brotherhood. But I am totally against the concept of religious conversion. And incidentally the pace at which Hindus are converting to Christianity in Andhra Pradesh is unbelievable !! Some of my close relatives did so. I do not approve ot it . Why should one convert ? If there is a God, it should be only one Entity. So why change your religion ? I do not mind worshipping in a Church/ Mosque or a Temple. Does it really matter what you call your God or how you worship the Almighty ?
We all know that all religions are man-made. Hence, logically there should be scope for continued interpretations of religious scriptures to make them consistent with changing times and emerging human values. It is here that Islam and Muslims lag behind .
Religions shoud exist for the Spiritual Wellbeing of Humanity and NOT the other way round.
>> no religion other than Islam can be brought in to justify killing of an apostate.
The Bible says, "And he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, .....and you must stone such one with stones and such one must die." This is from the Book of Deuteronomy which is sacred for both Jews and Christians. The Quran prescribes no punishment for apostasy, but some Hadiths do. Hadiths often support Judeo-Christian traditions. Moderate/Progressive Muslims oppose any punishment for apostasy.
>> "Even the most conservative and reactionary Hindu cannot now swear by Manu's harsh interpretatons of Caste system among Hindus in modern India."
So it is not the scripture that makes the difference, but how much a society has been able to ignore or re-interpret the scripture. This is an area in which Muslims still have a lot of work to do. The following article addresses some of these points:
Ref : Anwaar
Prof Reza Aslam's argument that there are no religions but only followers of these religions who have to be blamed... that religions on their own do neither good nor bad to humanity, and it is the followers who do it is amusing and unconvincing.
Normally in modern times religious texts have the flexibility to be interpreted either in the interests and welfare of humanity at large or made to justify divisive, hateful and violent behaviour among its followers. In this context, it is Islam which has a greater flexibility to be harshly interpreted or misinterpreted, as comparedd to the other major religions.
For istance, no religion other than Islam can be brought in to justify killing of an apostate. Can any one quote any religious sanctity either in Bible, Hindu religious texts or Buddha's preachings for punishment to its former followers ? Or take the case of punishment to people who go astray in their personal lives, such as adultry. Do religious texts of Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism prescribe stoning of the culprit, like Islam does ? Is there any ambiguity in Islam on this punishment ? Does not Islam sanctify stoning ? Who has to be blamed for this inhuman punishment to the unfortunate victim? Islam or its followers --Muslims ?
Yes , interpretation of religious preachings and sanctions does matter. And many religions have reformed their inhuman aspects . Even the most conservative and reactionary Hindu cannot now swear by Manu's harsh interpretatons of Caste system among Hindus in modern India. Even in ancient India the athiest Charvakas enjoyed freedom of speech and went unpunished by the Hindu religious Orthodoxy. Now a Hindu or a Christian can openly say that there is no God. Can a Muslim say it openly and survive in the Wahabi-dominated lands?
So both religious ideology as well as the way it is interpreted by its followers do matter.
>> I was talikg about the present times..not about past.
You are right. Prof. Reza Aslam addresses the same question in an article in the New York Times: "Here is the simple, unavoidable truth: there is no such thing as Christianity, Judaism, Islam. There are only Christians, Jews, Muslims. Religion promotes neither love nor hate, neither war nor peace, neither democracy nor fascism. People do those things, and in religion they will find the justification for any and every answer to whatever question they ask. So, the question is not whether Islam promotes democracy. The question should be: "Do Muslims promote democracy?" And the answer is some do and some don't, as is the case with followers of every religious tradition on earth."
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Here's how it all began…
After I wrote the article, Hottest trend on the airplane since the mile high club, something odd happened. Readers began emailing photos of themselves in the lav! Of course that prompted me to write the article, Laviators Unite -Mile High Headshots! in order to share the official laviators photo gallery (where all the photos eventually end up)
(Hey look, that's me, yours truly, laviating in the photo)
And then something truly amazing happened! One of my readers from Romania, George, created the official laviators music video …
MSNBC, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, and FROMMER'S followed up with stories of their own about the Laviators. I couldn't believe it! You can Click here to listen to Frommer's Sr. editor, David Lytle, interviewing me about the laviators (and life in the sky). By the way, that's David over there on the right looking quite dapper in the lav.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Michelle (pictured below), actually managed to get the word into Urban Dictionary!
And then Michelle one upped herself and made the laviator video featured at the top of this page! (I do hope she's begun a new trend.)
Interested in joining the club? Click the link and download your photo to the laviators flickr group…
http://www.flickr.com/groups/laviators/. (Don't be afraid to get creative!)
I'll feature the best of the best here! And you, too, can proudly wear a laviator T-shirt designed by Windtee, maker of aviation T-shirt art.


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Newsletter - May 2013
World Cord Blood Inventory 2012
According to the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) 2012 annual report, as of 1 Jan. 2012 the world inventory of cord blood in public banks was 591 thousand. By comparison, the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation finds that as of 31 Dec. 2012, the world inventory of cord blood in family banks was over 2.47 million.
The Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation inventory is based upon confidential interviews with the management of family cord blood banks in our world database. The Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation also maintains an accompanying database of case histories of patients who received therapy with cord blood stored in family banks, and the total number of cases is now close to one thousand. Information from the bank and patient databases are only released in aggregate formats, to preserve both the confidentiality of the bank business information (unless it is already public knowledge) as well as the privacy of the patient medical histories. The only person who has ever seen the raw contents of either database is Dr. Frances Verter, and the databases are stored on encrypted hard-drives. A report on the bank and patient data was presented as poster #63 at the 2013 annual ISCT meeting.
The map above shows some breakdowns of cord blood storage by geographic region. Our database is accurate for the regions of USA and EU, but incomplete for the regions of South America and Asia. Cord blood banking started in the USA, where the world's largest public bank is the NY Blood Center (current inventory over 60,000) and the world's largest family bank is Cord Blood Registry (current inventory 425,000). In the WHO European region, the WMDA reports a net inventory of 207,385 among public cord blood banks, whereas the family bank trade association Cord Blood Europe reports a net inventory of 500,000 among its member family cord blood banks as of Oct. 2012. Whereas the WMDA finds the net inventory in public cord blood banks in the WHO Western Pacific region to be 151,700, by comparison the largest mixed public/family bank in Korea, Medipost, exceeds that with an inventory of 162,429 as of Feb. 2013. According to our database, Medipost is currently the world's 5th largest cord blood bank of any type, and the largest outside of the US and EU. The only country in the world that has slightly more cord blood in public banks than in family banks is Japan, where both inventories are close to 30 thousand.
Obviously, the slow growth of public cord blood banking for unrelated transplants, which is usually dependent on government and charitable funding, is completely dwarfed by the successful business model of family cord blood banking as a form of health insurance. It is in the best interests of public health, at a global scale, to bring the operating standards of all family banks up to the public bank level and harness more of their storage for therapeutic purposes.
It has often been suggested that public cord blood banks should adopt a "hybrid" business model, in which the same bank offers both public and family banking, as a path to economic viability. Yet most cord blood banks around the world continue to operate predominantly in either the public or family mode of banking. Instead of economic forces driving bank practices, a new trend is that new clinical applications of cord blood are pushing banks towards hybrid behavior.
Consider clinical trials for cerebral palsy and similar acquired neurological conditions as an illustration of shifts in cord blood banking practices: The use of cord blood as therapy for these conditions was pioneered by Dr. Kurtzberg at Duke University Medical Center in 2004, and was initially only available to children who had their own cord blood privately banked. Since then, about 300 clients from family banks have gone to Duke to receive their own cord blood for acquired neurological conditions (Ref: PGCB patient database). But recently over 60 children have entered clinical trials (NCT00593242, NCT01445041) at Duke by relying on the university's public cord blood bank to provide personal storage for regenerative therapy. Meanwhile, in Korea, a couple of recent clinical trials (NCT01193660, NCT01528436) have treated over 50 children for cerebral palsy with matched donated cord blood units. In each of these cases a public bank is providing cord blood not for transplants but for regenerative therapy, in one case autologous and the other allogeneic.
Another example of changing paradigms can be seen in India, a country that does not have a national network of public cord blood storage, but does have a robust private banking sector. In recent years dozens of children have received sibling cord blood transplants for thalassemia, a treatment option that would not have been available to them without family cord blood banks.
The common theme in all of these cases is that cord blood bank practices are moving away from the silo concept that public banks only provide transplants and family banks mainly supply regenerative therapies. We are seeing more public banks facilitating regenerative therapy, and in some parts of the world patients must rely on family banks for transplants.
Brain Injury Association of America
Every 18.5 seconds, someone in America suffers a brain injury. Across the US, 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Another 795,000 individuals sustain an acquired brain injury (ABI) from non-traumatic causes each year. A brain injury can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone � a brain injury does not discriminate. In the blink of an eye, a brain injury changes the way we think, talk, move and feel.
Brain injury is not an event or an outcome. It is the start of a misdiagnosed, misunderstood, under-funded neurological disease. Individuals who sustain brain injuries must have timely access to expert trauma care, specialized rehabilitation, lifelong disease management and individualized services and supports in order to live healthy, independent and satisfying lives. Currently more than 3.1 million children and adults in the US live with a lifelong disability as a result of TBI, and an estimated 1.1 million have a disability due to stroke.
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), founded in 1980, is the country's oldest and largest nationwide brain injury advocacy organization. The mission of BIAA is to advance brain injury prevention, research, treatment and education, and to improve the quality of life for all individuals impacted by brain injury. BIAA is dedicated to increasing access to quality health care and raising awareness and understanding of brain injury. With a network of state affiliates, local chapters and support groups, BIAA is the voice of brain injury.
The 2013 Bowling for Brain Injury event is an inaugural event for the Brain Injury Association of America. Five pilot states: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska and New York will launch the event between March and June 2013. Teams of six will register. Each member of the team will create an individual webpage that can be used to email friends and family...asking for their support of your efforts. Bowling for Brain Injury is a fun and easy way to support a cause that impacts millions of Americans.
Developing new treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is considered to be a major cause of disability and death worldwide, especially in children (as a result of falls and playground injuries), soldiers (from blasts and accidents), and the elderly (falls and stroke). The incidence of TBI is 235 per 100,000, with a worldwide mortality of about 1.5 million per year, and in the USA more than 5 million people are coping with disabilities from TBI at a cost of $60 billion a year.
Symptoms of TBI are dependent on the type of TBI (diffuse or focal), the part of the brain that is affected, and the injury's severity. Briefly, the symptoms can include loss of consciousness, headache, vomiting, nausea, dizziness, balancing difficulties, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, bad taste in the mouth, fatigue or lethargy, and changes in sleep patterns. Cognitive and emotional symptoms include behavioral or mood changes, confusion, and trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking.
In addition to the damage caused at the moment of and in the days following the injury, brain trauma causes delayed secondary events, including: initiation of an inflammatory cascade, blood-brain barrier disruption, degradation of lipids in the brain by oxidation, and degeneration of neurons. These series of events lead to the development of various neurological deficits.
The best treatment for TBI is prevention. Once brain injury does happen, the treatment depends on the recovery stage of the patient. In the acute stage, the primary aim is to stabilize the patient and focus on preventing further injury. Rehabilitation is then the main treatment for the sub-acute and chronic stages of recovery.
Currently, there is no actual designated treatment for TBI, or for preventing the progression of secondary degeneration from TBI. Despite promising pre-clinical studies, over the past decade, 30 phase 3 clinical trials have failed to show significant results at reducing secondary injury following TBI. Halting the secondary degeneration requires an intervention that simultaneously targets multiple factors which contribute to the progress of the neuro-degradation in the brain.
In recent years, stem cells have been embraced as a therapy for TBI. Stem cells can halt brain damage and promote healing by migrating to the site of injury where they reduce inflammation and have a tissue-protective effect. Pharmacological pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that treatment with autologous stem cells administered immediately after trauma may aid in reducing the immediate cognitive defects of TBI (1). Clinical studies in patients with TBI have demonstrated that neurologic function was improved at 6 months after cell therapy (2). Currently, there is an ongoing phase 1 clinical trial where children with TBI receive stem cells from cord blood.
At MediCortex USA Ltd., we are developing an alternative treatment that simultaneously targets multiple processes in TBI. The company has designed a family of chemically verified small molecules, called New Chemical Entities (NCEs) that aim to decrease levels of circulating toxic metal ions in the brain, as well as minimize oxidation by free radicals. The NCE�s, each with the ability to cross the brain-blood-barrier, have at least two more active sites that exert neuro-protective functions, such as free metal ion binding, anti-oxidation, anti-inflammation, and/or anti-bacterial (see the diagram). At present the molecules are being tested in pharmacological pre-clinical studies.
If successful, small molecules have many advantages over stem cells as emergency intervention for TBI patients. Only TBI patients whose parents stored their cord blood and cord tissue would have their own stem cells readily available for treatment. Otherwise, TBI patients pursuing stem cell therapy must undergo an invasive stem cell harvest or obtain donor stem cells. If an enhanced MSC population is desired, it takes about 2-3 weeks in the laboratory to culture the cells. It is possible that an off-the-shelf stem cell product could be developed based on donor MSC, but it would carry high production costs. By comparison, a TBI therapy that relies on small molecules, such as the NCEs, can be on the shelf for immediate treatment with no dose limitations, at a much lower cost of production, and with easy administration.
Since TBI is a complex multi-system condition, treatments are needed that target simultaneously various biochemical pathways that occur at different time points post the initial brain injury. A combination therapy is most likely to be successful at attenuating and even preventing secondary TBI-associated neuronal death and neurological dysfunction (3).
- Nichols JE, Niles JA, Dewitt D, Prough D, Parsley M, Vega S, Cantu A, Lee E, Cortiella J. Neurogenic and neuro-protective potential of a novel subpopulation of peripheral blood-derived CD133+ ABCG2+CXCR4+ mesenchymal stem cells: development of autologous cell-based therapeutics for traumatic brain injury. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2013 4(1):3.
- Zhang ZX, Guan LX, Zhang K, Zhang Q, Dai LJ. A combined procedure to deliver autologous mesenchymal stromal cells to patients with traumatic brain injury. Cytotherapy. 2008;10(2):134-139.
- Harel A., New approach to brain trauma by chemical combination, 2nd international conference: Neurology & Therapeutics, 2013, Chicago, USA poster


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Harvest Napkin Rings
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Looking for a way to keep the kids entertained when you prepare for Thanksgiving? Kids crafts to the rescue! These Harvest Napkin Rings from Crystal Donnelly will keep the little ones occupied and will come in handy when you set the kids table!
- One cardboard paper towel tube
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- Tacky Glue
- Embossed felt
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- Ruler
- Autumn Felt shapes, available at craft stores
- Fall leaves, purchased in craft stores
- Clothespins (optional)
- Measure and cut four pieces off the cardboard tube to 1 ½" lengths. Trim the rings evenly around.
- Measure a piece of felt 1 ½" x 6". Cut four.
- It is a good idea to put two fingers inside the ring to hold it while you are gluing. Spread a generous amount of glue all over the outside of the ring. Attach the felt piece working around to cover. Overlap and glue the ends. Let dry. Trim the felt to the edges of the cardboard. Ring base is made.
- To decorate the rings, glue pre-cut shapes over the seam line to cover. A faux fall leaf looks great under a felt shape. Use clothespins to hold the shapes on until completely dry.
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It's tax day, and although we try, I must admit that my husband and I are not early filers. Somehow, each year, tax time gets away from us and we have to stare down yet another deadline.
This year, I sat down with the latest edition of TurboTax, a bag of survival Skittles and a giant mug of coffee, as the helpful folks at Intuit took me through an entire series of deductions that I'm not entitled to take (if only I had started a vineyard in our apartment last year!).
But they also gave me a few ideas. Given all the talk about the need to reform the U.S. tax code, I would offer up a few tax tweaks of my own.
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Fox Chase Cancer Center and Russian Cancer Center Form Relationship
PHILADELPHIA (November 3, 2000)—Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Irkutsk Regional Oncology Center in Irkutsk, Siberia Russia solidify their clinical and research relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding when leading Russian oncologists visit Philadelphia on Monday, November 6, 2000. The signing takes place at 1:45 p.m. in the Reimann Building room 243.
Victoria Dvornichencko, M.D., chief of the Irkutsk Regional Oncology Center, will spend one day at Fox Chase Cancer Center in preparation for the signing. She will be joined by Galina Kalenaeva, a Russian advisor from the United Nations Development Program. The group will finalize the goals for the relationship which include surgical training, collaboration on patient diagnosis, courses in radiation treatment, physician educational exchanges, and treatment at Fox Chase Cancer Center for Irkutsk private patients interested in traveling to Philadelphia for therapeutic interventions.
"Our objective is to improve the level of care in the Irkutsk region by establishing a multi-dimensional program for cancer treatment and professional medical education," explains Paul F. Engstrom, senior vice president of the Population Science division of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Earlier this year, Engstrom was a signer of the Charter Against Cancer, a document signed in Paris, France by world leaders in oncology. The Charter pledges international support for cancer treatment to all patients.
"The mission of Fox Chase Cancer Center is to reduce the burden of human cancer. That statement doesn't exclude people living outside America's borders," adds Engstrom. A medical oncologist, Engstrom has completed two trips to Russia and most recently met with the chief oncologist from the Health Ministry of Russia and visited two leading cancer centers in Moscow.
"These physicians are gifted, but the extent of the care they can offer is limited because not enough money is provided for infrastructure development," says Engstrom.
Several activities are planned for the Fox Chase visit on Nov. 6th leading up to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. The delegation arrives at 10 a.m. to meet with the Robert C. Young, president of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Following a tour of the center, the Russian visitors will meet with physicians who have already committed to participation in the program. Then at a 1:00 p.m. luncheon, the leaders of Fox Chase Cancer Center and Irkutsk Regional Oncology Center sign the Memorandum of Understanding.
Fox Chase Cancer Center, one of the nation's first comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute in 1974, conducts basic and clinical research; programs of prevention, detection and treatment of cancer; and community outreach. For more information about Fox Chase activities, visit the Center's web site at www.fccc.edu.
Fox Chase Cancer Center, part of the Temple University Health System, is one of the leading cancer research and treatment centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as one of the nation's first cancer hospitals, Fox Chase was also among the first institutions to be designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1974. Fox Chase researchers have won the highest awards in their fields, including two Nobel Prizes. Fox Chase physicians are also routinely recognized in national rankings, and the Center's nursing program has received the Magnet recognition for excellence four consecutive times. Today, Fox Chase conducts a broad array of nationally competitive basic, translational, and clinical research, with special programs in cancer prevention, detection, survivorship, and community outreach. For more information, call 1-888-FOX CHASE or (1-888-369-2427).


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A recent headline said that our state Legislature wants to do something about treatment for mentally ill inmates. Why? A ruling by a state judge in a lawsuit. A lawsuit that has been winding its way though the courts for seven years.
Sen. Mike Fair says we can't wait. Rep. Murrell Smith says we have to get out in front of this problem. Rep. Bruce Bannister said it came out of left field. Sen. Thomas Alexander wants more information. Do we see a trend here?
Our Legislature has ignored the mentally ill for decades. And now we are paying a handsome price for it. What they have failed to understand is the extreme cost of failing to provide access to quality mental health care.
I suppose it's easier to do what's right when a judge forces you to do it. Shame on us for allowing this to happen.
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ABC apologizes for raunchy football opener
Nov. 16, 2004: ABC-TV was forced to apologize for a raunchy intro segment to a "Monday Night Football" broadcast.
The feature, meant to spoof the ABC's hit show "Desperate Housewives," shows Philadelphia Eagles' Terrell Owens in an empty locker room with Nicollette Sheridan, who stars in the show, wearing only a towel.
Sheridan provocatively asked Owens to skip the game for her. After she dropped her towel, he agreed to be late for the contest and hugged her.
"We have heard from many of our viewers about last night's MNF opening segment and we agree that the placement was inappropriate," ABC said in a statement. "We apologize."
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On the eve of ICAST, manufacturers show off their latest and great products in hopes of getting the eye of buyers and the media. Here's a look at some of the products we saw.
On the eve of ICAST, manufacturers show off their latest and great products in hopes of getting the eye of buyers and the media. Here's a look at some of the products we saw.
New shirts are hung as if you are in a store, but you'll get in trouble if you try to take one.
The crowd gravitates to the hard and soft baits, which line the walls of the area.
It's a pretty impressive amount of new products each year.
Most baits are out of the package so you can get a good look.
This Combat Frog from Lunkerhunt is ready for action.
YUM's new "Bad Momma".
Interesting looking Beaver Craw with changeable components.
The ShadTeez 27cm from Fairpoint has a double coating to give it a fish slime look.
The Funka Frog from Gary Yamamoto.
Lots of baits to look at in the coming days at ICAST.
Baiwa's Divinator X is designed for finding fish in deeper water than other baits.
New footwear from companies like Sims and Columbia.
Every kind of product you can imagine is on display.
Tackle management from Allen and Sims.
New all weather gear on display.
B.A.S.S. Communications Manager Helen Northcutt is not half shark, which is fortunate for her coworkers. These buffs were colorful and very intense.
B.A.S.S. Social Media Editor Tyler Reed prefers the "shade for shades", which gives you protection from the sun by attaching to your eyewear. It's called a Sun Mullet!
This backpack from DryCase keeps your stuff dry and has suction cups allowing you to attach it to hard surfaces.
New Raymarine electronics look very sharp.
Many new reels on display.
Always a full eyewear section in the New Product Showcase.
These new Costas have a distinctive design on the side.
Small watercraft makes up a section of the New Product Showcase.
Like this Bote stand-up paddleboard called a Rackham.
An affordable angler's knife featuring a guy you may have heard of- Kevin VanDam.
New pliers from Sims.
Kids' rod and reel combos like these Zebco Splashes were also on display.


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Hunter 1084-3 Derringer Holster with Suspenders Leather Chestnut
Product #: 692138 Hunter #: 1084-3 UPC #: 021771108436
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This rig consists of embossed bridle leather suspenders complete with a derringer holster. It is made to fit most double barrel derringers up to 3" barrel lengths (will not fit the Bond Arms). Holster may be removed to use suspenders alone. Ambidextrous. Chestnut.
Technical Information
Material: Top Grain Leather
Fits: Most Derringers with up to a 3" barrel length.
Suspenders made of embossed bridle leather
Holster will not fit the Bond Arms Derringer.
Holster may be removed to use the suspenders alone.
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Material: Top Grain Leather
Fits: Most Derringers with up to a 3" barrel length.
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