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My favorite thing to watch are NASCAR races. (It's my favorite sport ) Especially if my driver is in 2nd or 3rd place coming towards the lead, I run really fast (as if my speed will somehow transfer over to him, ha!)
Definitey agree about watching the Biggest Loser on the treadmill. I can't watch comedy shows, all the laughing throws off my breathing. (And I probably look like a crazy person to other people in the gym)
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I can't seem to fallow any story line while on the treadmill, so I tend it watch one of three things. The news, the weather channel and/or music videos. If my son wants to be in the room with me we tend to switch to cartoons.
Football, you feel like you're running with your team, the more excited you get, bump up the speed. Just dont get too carried away cheering, I get funny looks sometimes. Oh well.
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3/13/10 JJ Mahoney's St. Patrick's Day 5k, Redmond, WA //25:26
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6/26/10 Bridle Trails 5k Trail Run, Kirkland WA// This will be my anniversary of running!
7/31/10 Sefair Torchlight Run (8k) Seattle, WA//
Even though I would rather poke my eyes out than run on the treadmill, if I have no choice but to get on that bleepin' thing I usually watch something on the travel channel. For some reason (maybe where my treadmill is in the room) I feel a little unstable if I stare at the tv too much so watching a favorite show would be out of the question. Maybe I'm just uncoordinated but I kind of act like I'm outside and just mostly stare straight ahead so I dont fall off. (one of the endless reasons I hate that thing) I wear my ipod and just occasionally look at the screen and imagine I'm in whatever fun place is showing on the tv. Unfortunately I've seen quite a bit of travel channel this week and the weekend isn't looking good either....booooo.......
You all are awesome! I love hearing what gets other people through their runs. I hate the treadmill too, but I once did a 20 miler on one, and I've done MANY between 10 and 15 miles. When I do a long run I usually just put on an action movie and try to forget the time. I've also watched a few horror films (Paranormal Activity, Feast, The Strangers). I just pop those in and pretend I'm running from the ghost, the monster, or the killers. Works for me.
Kimberly Bogin
When I was watching the Tour De France on TV a while ago, I would try and be like the guys trying to run after the bikes
Action movies/shows are my favorite to watch to take away the distraction of the treadmill.
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Interesting. Since I do my TM training at the gym it depends on the time of day. My favorite is music videos but if I can't find those, I usually end up watching court tv shows like Judge Judy. But if I'm doing intervals, like tonight, I shut it off and instead focus on getting through them. Sometimes I find TV an annoyance if I'm at my threshold for pain.
I tend to ignore the TV and just people watch. People at the gym are usually really entertaining!! If I do adjust the tv, I end up watching realtv or truetv or whatever that channel is...because they always have POV car chases (I dont think they ever show anything else?) and often they are on fast forward. It reminds me of Dumb and Dummer when Lloydd says he's running at and incredibly fast pace and makes me laugh. I listen to my IPOD rather than the show's audio.
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About the only time I watch TV on the treadmill is in hotel gyms. My gym back home doesn't have TV's (it's a university facility) and besides, I usually run on the roads. But if there's a TV in the hotel gym, I'll take ESPN SportsCenter any day. Often I'll use the iPod in parallel to distract both my eyes and my ears.
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The Biggest Loser is by far my favorite show to watch while either running or riding my trainer. Sometimes I catch myself wanting to stop early or complaining that I'm tired but that all seems some irrelevant when you watch what these contestants must put themselves through each and every day.
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Analysts Smell a Charlie Ergen Tactic in Dish Offer for Clearwire
Dish Network has launched itself into the latest telecom merger agreement by offering to strike a deal with Clearwire at a higher price than the deal Clearwire and Sprint have signed.
So far Wall Street has ascribed several motives to Dish's move, but no analyst seems to think the offer is actually about buying Clearwire or has a chance. Instead most are attributing the "offer" to Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen's mercurial negotiating tactics and desire to find a partner for his spectrum holdings — ie. his target is Sprint not Clearwire. One even suggests plain revenge is behind it after Sprint tried to block approval of Dish's spectrum.
So far, investors appear to be in accord on the chances of a Dish victory. Clearwire shares are up 7% to $3.13 in recent trading, below the $3.30 Dish has indicated it would offer. But Sprint shareholders are a bit nervous, perhaps wondering what losing Clearwire could mean to Sprint's own deal with Softbank or worried about whatever Ergen drags out of Sprint, and its shares are down 2.4% to $5.83.
Here are some of the analyst reactions to the Dish offer:
Raymond James — Hey Sprint, want to deal?: "DISH has been actively trying to find a wireless carrier to partner with to deploy this spectrum and we believe Sprint was one of the more likely candidates … We believe the proposal by DISH to acquire Clearwire assets could be a move to get Sprint back to the table to negotiate a hosting and commercial partnership with DISH, as we believe it makes far more sense for DISH to partner with a large, existing carrier and incorporate [its] spectrum into that network architecture than to build an entirely new greenfield wireless network from scratch."
J.P. Morgan– An unlikely deal that smells of revenge: "We believe that DISH is asking to buy some of Clearwire's best spectrum – the owned BRS spectrum rather than the leased – which should receive a substantial premium rather than a discount. Second, we believe that Sprint, as a 51% holder, can block any sale of all of Clearwire as well as the sale of 24% of the spectrum … Additionally, DISH could be looking to use this as a lever in a negotiation with Sprint, and thereby T-Mobile as well, on a network sharing agreement, though we believe DISH has been wary of dealing with Sprint in the past and this seems like a bad way to start a long term agreement. Finally, if DISH's offer doesn't go through, if nothing else it will have the side benefit of repaying Sprint for interfering at the FCC with its terrestrial waiver last fall."
More In Clearwire
- Dish Deal For Sprint May Leave T-Mobile On Hold
- Dish Bids for Sprint: Telecom Merger Mania Continues
- Clearwire Shareholder Makes Own Offer to Provide Funding
- Clearwire Taps More Sprint Funds
- Dealpolitik: Game Theory Behind Clearwire's Move
- Dealpolitik: Will Looming Deadlines Push Parties to a Clearwire Deal?
Wunderlich Securities — A Dish upgrade: As Wunderlich raised its rating on Dish to buy from hold and boosted its price target to $42 from $29, it called the Clearwire bid "Classic Ergen" and "more of a nuisance" than an attempt to win Clearwire. The analyst said a win was "quite unlikely" and that in general Dish's "Partnership prospects may be fading" adding "there is admittedly a 'does not play well with others' issue."
Wells Fargo — "Does the drama ever stop?": "While we believe Sprint has many strong legal arguments that could block this deal (right of first refusal on spectrum purchases, majority shareholder, etc.), history has shown it is very difficult to fight Charlie Ergen and DISH in court. We believe Sprint wants to avoid this and likely wants to also avoid any delay in closing the Sprint/SoftBank deal … It is difficult to say but Sprint has lost some leverage here in our view. As before yesterday's announcement – it appeared to be highest bidder for this asset, and today it no longer is.
Macquarie — Look out MetroPCS, you're next: In our opinion, DISH appears serious about trying to get Sprint to the negotiating table regarding a spectrum/network JV. We suspect that DISH could try a similar tactic with T-Mo by offering a lowball counterbid on [MetroPCS] .. In our opinion, PCS is the other big winner here. We believe that either S pays up for CLWR or that the deal is held up by dissident shareholders and DISH and Sprint turn to a PCS counterbid as plan B… We would be aggressive buyers of PCS in light of this development."


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The reaction to our post last week on Atlanta Jewish Times owner Andrew Adler's suggestion that Israel consider "order[ing] a hit" on Barack Obama was fast and fierce: After being denounced far and wide and apologizing abjectly, Adler is reportedly stepping down as publisher.
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How Did Hitler Improve Germany?
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Posted 21 June 2007 - 06:49 PM
Recently, the pop-singer Brian Ferry got into hot water for saying that Nazi iconography was stunning - although all he said was: 'the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight... Leni Riefenstahl's movies, Albert Speer's buildings, the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful'.
The truth, however, is that the Nazis did lots of amazing things.
You'll find some of them if you listen to the BBC podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk...rmany_au_nb.ram, which balances good against bad in Nazi Germany.
Another balanced view of how Hitler improved Germany can be found here: http://www.johndclar...snotbutter.html
There is a good debate about Brian Ferry's statement on this forum thread.
Posted 21 June 2007 - 10:01 PM
I reproduce it below - for what it is worth. It is a mass of pasted/copied facts, listed in no real order.
I make no claims for its validity; remember that you cannot really trust ANY 'fact' you find on the web.
And, above all, I stress that these were the same people who developed the gas chambers and race eugenics. It is FAR too early for a 'what did the Nazis do for us' approach to Nazi history.
But - if you were looking to build a list of how Hitler improved Germany - you would find some ideas in the following:
Statements on the Internet on what the Nazis invented/ contributed to the modern world
computer, invented by Konrad Zuse 1941.
Jet plane in 1939 by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke.
The first manned rocket flight in 1945 (unfortunately it lasted only some seconds and pilot Lothar Sieber died)
Nazi doctors, in line with their campaign for public health were the first to write a major scientific paper linking smoking with lung cancer, I believe smoking was even banned, for a brief time in the Luftwaffee.
Nazis invented Nerve gasses Sarin and Tabun.
Invented first effective automatic rifle, single person anti-tank weapons (precursors to RPGs).
You can see some magnificant architecture by Speer that was planned in nearly any documentary on the man.
Stealth technolgy was invented by the Horten brothers during the Reich.
Audio technology using magnetic tape was a Third Reich invention. Copying German tape recorders was how the famous American corporation Ampex got its start. Magnetic tape was also essential later for the video tape recorder. Allies hadn't a clue how the Axis was transmitting speeches and programs hours apart to different locations and having them sound "live." It was top of the list of technologies to capture as the war concluded.
Management systems for keeping massive and complex development programs on track was another "invention" transferred to the US, along with its scientists and project managers. These systems allowed the Germans to have developments underway in numerous categories and perform them remarkably well.
The Wankel engine, which is now referred to as the "rotary engine" was invented during the Third Reich. Mazda uses this engine extensively.
Someone mentioned the Autobahnen as really an idea thought up during the Weimar Republic. Yes, but that brings to light another achievement, and that is simply the will and energy to put unemployed workers to work doing things that needed to be done, something the Weimar government was totally inept at doing. "Parliamentary chaos" combined with acquiescence to WWI reparations were the problems.
Missile technology: Ground-to-ground, air-to-air, air-to-ground, ground-to-air, ship-to-ship, etc., using wire guidance, TV guidance, IR guidance (everything but laser quidance). Most of these missiles were not at the highest form of development, but their work launched and made a bundle of money later on for corporations like Boeing, Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft, North American Aviation (Rocketdyne Div.), etc. All of these companies had their German "Chief Scientist" heading up research and development operations.
The promising IR technologies were mostly all developed during the Third Reich. They had "night vision" devices while the Allies were still wondering if such things were possible.
Modern sewer treatment facilities are all derived from Third Reich technology. You've probably seen them with their settling ponds and huge skimmers.
While the Englishman, Farnsworth, gets credit for the invention of a very rudimentary television, it was the Third Reich that perfected television and conducted the first broadcasting.
Application of geophones for seismic wave detection was used for locating artillary.
The "wishbone cannon" was invented and installed at Calais, France. It was destroyed before it was operable.
The "rail gun" was another significant invention, which the US and SU copied. This weapon employes a series of ring magnets to propell a rail mounted projectile. The significant feature of this "gun" is that it can accelerate the projectile at a speed nearing infinity -- at least in theory. Conventional explosives are limited by their individual, finite rates of expansion and hence constrained in how fast they can make a projectile move.
The intial "invention" of the Third Reich that made everything possible was the breaking away from the international banking system, which made its money on debt finance; i.e., usury. This act was probably the most important event which caused WWII to later occur. In the Thirties the German economy was booming and all sorts of new humane benefits were granted to workers. Elsewhere, deep economic depression was underway, and Roosevelt, for instance, really couldn't get things to moving until we went into a war economy mode.
In all, 300,000 patents and copyrights were expropriated from Germany by the Allies after 1945.
The Fischer-Tropsch process to produce synthetic fuels from coal, which fueled Germany's armed forces throughout the war.
The dicovery of the ingesting of faecal bacteria to cure gut problems
Dr Morell used his Mutaflor to treat Hitler's foul smelling stools. And used today as Symbioflor http://www.biosym.dk..._symbioflor.htm
The chemical enhancing of soldiers' ability to fight
During the Nazi era, German scientists and engineers either developed or greatly improved television, jet-propelled aircraft (including the ejection seat), guided missiles, electronic computers, the electron microscope, atomic fission, data-processing technologies, pesticides, and, of course, the world's first industrial murder complexes. The first magnetic tape recording was of a speech by Hitler, and the nerve gases Sarin and Tabun were Nazi inventions.
Third Reich scientists also performed extensive work in the area of occupational carcinogenesis. Physicians documented the health hazards of asbestos, and in 1943 Germany became the first nation to recognize lung cancer and mesothelioma caused by asbestos inhalation as compensable occupational illnesses.
Nazi Germany also pioneered what we now call experimental epidemiology: two striking papers -- a 1939 article by Franz H. Müller of Cologne, and a 1943 paper by Eberhard Schairer and Erich Schöniger of Jena -- presented the most convincing demonstrations up to that time that cigarettes were a major cause of lung cancer.
Inflatable sex doll - Dr. Rudolf Chargeheimer, a psychiatrist appointed by Himmler to help develop the prototype, wrote that "the purpose and goal of the dolls is to relieve our soldiers. They have to fight and not to mingle with 'foreign women.'"
The opiate drugs methadone (the heroin substitute) and pethidine (a powerful pain killer) were Nazi inventions.
Our society, in fact Western society in general, absorbed as much of the Nazi technology and social control mechanisms as we could lay our grubby hands on. Turbine engines (the kind on airplanes and in powerplants), modern aircraft designs, rockets, superhighways, propaganda techniques, political manipulation, modern insecticides, nerve gas and audiotape are all Nazi inventions. We didn't invent them, and we weren't working on them at the same time. We took them from the Nazis wholesale (and we were entirely right to do so). Oddly, I'm not hearing anyone getting bent out of shape about the existence of freeways. http://billrushing.org/id169.html
Much of what we know about hypothermia (re-warming techniques and cold-water suits) comes, chillingly, from Nazi medical experiments.
Custom-designed, IBM-produced punch cards, sorted by IBM machines leased to the Nazis, helped organize and manage the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even their extermination.
IBM's German subsidiary was Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, known by the acronym Dehomag.
For example, one series of punch cards was designed to record religion, national origin, and mother tongue, but by creating special columns and rows for Jew, Polish language, Polish nationality, the fur trade as an occupation, and then Berlin, Nazis could quickly cross-tabulate, at the rate of 25,000 cards per hour, exactly how many Berlin furriers were Jews of Polish extraction. Railroad cars, which could take two weeks to locate and route, could be swiftly dispatched in just 48 hours by means of a vast network of punch-card machines. Indeed, IBM services coursed through the entire German infrastructure in Europe.
Microwave cooking (necessary for troops in Russia)
Posted 25 June 2007 - 08:52 AM
However there are links at the bottom to some questionable holocaust-denial sites - which opens up another historical debate.
Posted 25 June 2007 - 10:07 AM
Posted 27 June 2007 - 02:01 AM
There may be some useful information in this site's interpretation of Hitler:
However there are links at the bottom to some questionable holocaust-denial sites - which opens up another historical debate.
It upsets me that anyone would make a site called Adolph the Great.
Posted 27 June 2007 - 10:21 PM
Agree 100%.
It upsets me that anyone would make a site called Adolph the Great.
He wasn't 'great' in any sense of the word I'm prepared to accept.
The difficulty, however, is acknowledging that he WAS very clever (in a trickster kind of way), and he WAS a brilliant propagandist and self-publicist, and that there WAS a booming of German creativity in many ways at this time, without appearing to praise him.
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Well perhaps things would have been different now if people had listen to those early warnings for asbestos. Now the number of asbestos victims gets higher and higher as a result of their former work and I find it pretty unfair, these people need serious compensations, which should also be approached legally, not just medically.
Physicians documented the health hazards of asbestos, and in 1943 Germany became the first nation to recognize lung cancer and mesothelioma caused by asbestos inhalation as compensable occupational illnesses.
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The most important figure in the development of the motion picture as an art form was probably D.W. Griffith, but from his debut as a director in 1908 to the premature end of his career in 1931, he remained a child of the Victorian era.
For all of his innovations in film form, his view of the world, as embedded in the sort of stories he chose to tell and the kind of characters with which he populated them, belonged to the 19th century. There isn't much in his work that would have surprised Balzac or Dickens.
After World War I
In a sense, the movies don't really become a modern art until after World War I, when the new medium began to attract creators aware of the new developments in literature and the visual arts -- creators such as Fritz Lang. Born in Vienna in 1890, he studied architecture and engineering at the Vienna University of Technology before he left in 1913 to study painting in Paris, where he became aware of the new currents.
When the Great War came, Lang left Paris and enlisted in the Austrian army, serving with distinction, earning a fistful of medals and citations before his wounds forced him from the field. It was during a medical leave that he began composing scenarios and acting in amateur theatrical productions. Discharged in 1918 with a nervous disorder, he almost immediately began writing scripts for producer Erich Pommer, and a year later made his first film as a director, the "Halbblut" ("Half-Blood"), now lost.
A new boxed set from Kino Lorber, "Fritz Lang: The Early Works," follows Lang through three films from 1919 to 1921, up to the eve of his breakthrough with the international success "Destiny." There aren't any masterpieces here, but seen in succession, the three films give a sense of the incredible speed with which Lang -- and the German cinema in general -- evolved from the moral and psychological certainties of the prewar era toward a new sense of discontinuity, fragmentation and paranoia. Griffith's sunny pastorals give way to an anxious new world of night and the city, the world of future Lang masterworks such as "Metropolis" (1927), "M" (1931) and "The Big Heat" (1953).
Before 'Butterfly'
The 1919 "Harakiri" offers a direct connection to Victorian melodrama. The film is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1898 short story by John Luther Long, "Madame Butterfly," that would be brought to Broadway by David Belasco in 1900 and turned into an opera by Giacomo Puccini in 1904. Lang has made a few cosmetic changes of names and nationalities -- Cio-cio has become O-Take-San (Lil Dagover) and Lt. Pinkerton is now a Swedish naval officer (Niels Prien). But his most conspicuous intervention lies in building up the role of the Buddhist monk (Georg John) into a malevolent manipulator with almost supernatural powers, a gaunt figure who anticipates both F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu and Lang's own Dr. Mabuse, both of whom would emerge in 1922.
Like other German films of the immediate postwar era, "Harakiri" ducks the anarchic social reality of the time by burrowing into an exotic past. With the well-publicized assistance of the Hamburg Anthropological Museum, Lang constructed a Japanese village in a suburb of Berlin where he shot both the exterior and interior scenes, allowing for an unusually tight integration of landscape and drama.
'Wandering Shadow'
Lang continued to work on location with "Das Wandernde Bild" (1920), which Kino has translated as "The Wandering Shadow" for this set but is more usually known as "The Wandering Image." The film was Lang's first with the screenwriter Thea von Harbou, who would become his wife. Shot in the Bavarian Alps, the film is a complex melodrama (made even more so by its fragmentary state -- only about two-thirds of the movie survives) centered on a widow (Mia May) who flees to the mountains to escape the scheming of her greedy brother-in-law (Hans Marr).
The "shadow" of the title is in fact a very solid stone Madonna that stands near the hut of a mysterious hermit, whose unlikely identity is revealed through an extended flashback. Several characteristic Lang motifs emerge -- doubling, disguise, claustrophobic confinement -- during a climax that finds the heroine trapped in the hermit's cabin, buried under an avalanche.
The opening shot of "Four Around the Woman" (1921) seems to announce the arrival of Lang's mature, geometric visual style. The camera circles a circular bar, in a smoky, windowless club room populated by sinister, silk-hatted capitalists straight out of George Grosz. One of them (Ludwig Hartau) is a broker subsequently seen putting on a disguise to buy a stolen gem from a fence (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) in the hopes of placating his neglected wife (Carola Toelle), herself the object of contention between look-alike brothers (Anton Edthofer in a dual role), one a sleek criminal and the other an unemployed ship stoker.
Again the connections between the characters are revealed in a flashback halfway through the film, but the particulars of the far-fetched plot matter less than its eerie symmetries and elaborate parallelism.
In "Four Around the Woman," truth does have a bottom, and the screenplay (again partly written by Harbou) eventually manages to reach it. Lang has yet to make the great, modernist leap of the Mabuse films, with their understanding that form can exist without meaning, that beneath one pattern lies another, and another beneath that -- a conspiracy of infinite regression without a center and without a purpose. But that fatal insight is just around the corner. (Kino Lorber, $39.95, not rated)


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Read Across America Day is meant to show how much fun reading can be.
Students at Parkview Elementary School in Meridian joined others across the country Monday reading books and having books read to them by special guests.
Meridian Public Schools superintendent, Dr. Janet McLin, was one of the celebrity readers at Parkview. She says the ability to read is one of the most important skills to have.
"Reading is the basis of our society," said McLin. "We talk about electronics and a paperless society, but if you can't read you can't do anything on a computer."
But it wasn't about computers at Parkview. Instead, it was all about books, plain and simple.
The goal of a day like Read Across America is to introduce reading into the students' daily lives, aside from normal schoolwork, to make it really become fun.
"If they get interested in books and see that books are fun, and have information that they want, then the children will voluntarily read more,"
said McLin.
Making a program like this work takes a lot of people, effort, and time. Workers like Angela Cole are a part of Americorps, doing the footwork under the sponsorship of America Reads Mississippi in Jackson.
"We are trying to get as many adults into our children's classrooms in one day to show them the importance of it," said Cole.
Read Across America Day falls very near the birthday of Dr. Suess, one of America's most famous and beloved children's writers.
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''Ten years ago, Dr. Seuss took 220 words, rhymed them, and turned out The Cat In The Hat, a little volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop on the weary little world of Dick, Jane, and Spot.'' (Ellen Goodman - November, 1966 - The Detroit Free Press)
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WATERBURY — Mrs. Marie E. (DiVirgilio) Sorcinelli, age 89, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 at Waterbury Hospital. She was the devoted wife of the late Louis M. Sorcinelli.
Mrs. Sorcinelli was born on Nov. 1, 1924 in Waterbury, daughter of the late Donato and Adelaide (Fierro) DiVirgilio. She was a cashier at Everybody's Market for more than 40 years until her retirement and later worked for Town Plot IGA for more than 10 years.
She was a communicant of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and a member of its Ladies Guild. Marie was also a member of the Daughters of Italy. She played a role in starting the first Girl Scout Troop and Cub Scout troops at Merriman School.
Marie enjoyed family gatherings and spending afternoons with her sister Jane and sister-in-law Anna and granddaughters going to lunch, the movies or taking trips to the casino, playing Pokeno and watching Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees.
Marie is survived by her sons, Frederic Sorcinelli Sr. and his wife Carole, of Watertown, with whom she made her home, and Paul Sorcinelli and his wife Teresa, of Prospect; her grandchildren Frederic Sorcinelli Jr. and his fiancée Kacey Jarjura, and Kimberly Sorcinelli and her fiancé Hector Lamonaco, both of Waterbury, Courtney Sorcinelli of Watertown, Tara Sorcinelli, Paul Sorcinelli Jr. and Michael Sorcinelli, all of Prospect; and her great-grandchildren Anamaria and Byran Lamonaco, both of Waterbury.
Marie also leaves behind her baby sister Jane Veillette, of Waterbury and her sister-in-law Anna DiVirgilio, who was like a sister to her, of Naugatuck; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Marie was predeceased by her son, Louis Sorcinelli Jr., her brothers Domenic and Anthony DiVirgilio and her sister Lillian Murphy.
Marie's family would like thank Dr. Paul Fiore, the staff and nurses of Waterbury Hospital's Pomeroy 7 and 9, especially Karen Conway and the hospice team, for their compassionate care shown to their mom.
The funeral will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. from Maiorano Funeral Home, 95 Willow St., Waterbury to Our Lady of Lourdes Church for a Mass at 11:30 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Monday evening from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Product Updates from Montana Mountain Needles, Alsatian Soaps, and Debra's Garden
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It's been a while since we checked in with Sam Bolton, the woodworker who, in 2005, began making hand-turned knitting needles for his wife's yarn store in Montana. Dabbling quickly turned into passion. Sam collected feedback from knitters and made steady improvements to the tip and taper, also adding more exotic woods to the collection.
By the time I reviewed the needles again in 2008, they had matured into high-quality products of consistent construction—still with a loving touch that only comes from the handmade.
Sam recently sent me a new batch of his creations in even more types of wood, including a dense jet-black ebony, a mahogany-hued Bolivian rosewood, a lighter rose-colored kingwood, and a surprisingly bright ivory-colored American holly. They're part of a fun new Needle of the Month program that Sam and his wife are offering.
Here's how it works: You sign up for six or eight-month durations, and you can start any time. You pick the wood category or leave it up to Sam; you also can choose the needle lengths (10" or 14"). The needle size will range from US4 to 11. The price ranges from $138 to $216 depending on wood types and needle lengths. Each month, a new surprise.Alsatian Soaps
When I first saw the knitting-themed Alsatian Soaps and included them in my 2007 gifts round-up, I figured that the knitting "thing" was just a phase for Alsatian Soaps and that they'd soon move on to other markets. I was mistaken. Not only is Alsatian Soaps still working for knitters, the company is expanding its offerings from soaps to skincare products.
Of particular interest is the new lotion bar called Knitters Hands. Here in the northeast U.S., the dry winter air can bring chronic dry-skin problems that are particularly frustrating when knitting, since the cracks and calluses love to snag against yarn. A lot of folks use products with beeswax (especially those from Burt's Bees) or shea butter. The Knitters Hands lotion bar contains the best of both worlds, with beeswax, shea butter, cocoa butter, jojoba seed oil, avocado oil, sweet almond oil, and vitamin E—friendly materials for both skin and fiber.
Knitters Hands is available in unscented form as well as in Tahitian vanilla, apricot, aloe, and apricot freesia fragrances. Each 1.5oz tube retails for $9 (from Alsatian Soaps or Jimmy Beans Wool), while the 2oz tins retail for $9.95. Either should give you several months of steady application. I plan on giving mine a thorough workout this winter.Debra's Garden
The handiest gadget of 2008 continues to get handier, as the Debra's Garden Needle Gauge pendant is now available with both US and metric needle size markings, with an optional US crochet hook sizer (sizes B through O) and—sound the trumpets for fine-gauge knitters across the land—lace and sock gauges (with holes to measure US000/1.5mm to US6/4mm).
The price remains unchanged at $16 (from Dream Weaver Yarns or directly from Debra's Garden). You can get utilitarian needle sizers for less, but they won't give you a tool that doubles so well as jewelry, a key fob, or even a zipper pull; nor will they get you a tool made of a very durable metal that does not warp or crack, which most plastic needle sizers are prone to do.
The first needle gauge pendant that I reviewed in 2008 had US-only markings for sizes 0 to 17. Most knitters may not see a need for the finer gauge markings, since not everybody loves to work with size 000 needles. But the finer needles rarely have markings, and holes for measuring them would need to be extraordinarily precise—which lends itself to a well-made, highly calibrated metal sizer exactly like the one Debra's Garden has given us.Reader feedback
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Snow, cold and clouds maybe returning to Summit County after a week of almost spring-like weather, forecasters say.
While there isn't one strong storm on the horizon, a several-day period of unsettled conditions could bring cooler temperatures and daily dustings of up to a few inches each.
"It's going to feel like winter," National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin said. "Right now, it doesn't look like it comes in one big punch. It's just going to be a few days of continuous clouds and snow showers."
The pending storms, riding into Colorado on a southwesterly flow, which favors parts of the San Juans over the Continental Divide area, are still on track to treat the north-central parts of the state to flurries Saturday and likely continuing every day through Wednesday.
At press time, forecasters were calling for a possible 1-3 inches Thursday night, with sunshine returning during the day Friday. The snow is expected to pick up again on Saturday, with the best chances for accumulations Sunday night and Monday.
Some weather watchers are now looking ahead to Wednesday to be the best day next week for snowfall.
"Tuesday and Wednesday could turn out to be fantastic days for areas from Aspen north to I-70 and Steamboat," meteorologist and weather blogger Joel Gratz posted on OpenSnow.com. "I don't want to get too excited for this Tuesday/Wednesday setup just yet, but the trend is in the right direction. Don't make powder plans for next week, but start thinking about it."
High temperatures, which have hovered in the low 40s this week, are expected to dip back into the 30s and high 20s through the weekend.
Even with a 40 percent chance of snow, Saturday is expected to see the mercury climbing into the high 30s. The temperature may drop off toward the end of the weekend, with Monday's high only in the high 20s.
Temperatures are expected to bottom out in the single digits tonight, with lows of 16 and 15 degrees Saturday and Sunday night.
Weather patterns have been generally unhelpful this season when it comes to long-term forecasting.
Even halfway through a mixed-bag winter in terms of snow, forecasters are still unable to say with much certainty what the remaining three months might hold.
March and April are, on average, the snowiest months of the year for Summit County, but this year weather watchers are following what may be a trend toward warmer temperatures and drier conditions.
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Twitter is ablaze with comments both attacking and supporting the 16-year-old rape victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, case, after Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were found guilty of rape over the weekend.
The case heads into a grand jury investigation set for mid-April over evidence introduced at the trial suggesting other crimes were committed on the night of Aug. 11, 2012.
Blogger Matt Binder collected dozens of tweets and posted them on his Tumblr account. Twitter users have called the victim a "whore" and "some slut;" one tweeted this after the verdict: "Steubenville: Guilty. I feel bad for the two young guys, Mays and Richmond, they did what most people in their situation would have done."
In another instance of online bullying aimed at a young woman bringing rape charges, The Frisky reported that a 13-year-old who says that she was raped by two teenage football players in Torrington, Conn., was also targeted by Twitter users who called her a "hoe" and a "snitch." One message said: "You destroyed two people's life."
Among the Steubenville victim's online supporters are journalists and women's organizations who have criticized CNN reporters for acting like rape apologists in their excessive focus on what the two young men who were found guilty were about to suffer, while passing over the victim's ordeal.
In an exchange between anchor Candy Crowley and reporter Poppy Harlow on CNN's "State of the Union," Crowley told Harlow "I cannot imagine having just watched this on the feed coming in. How emotional that must have been sitting in the courtroom." Harlow responded: "It was incredibly emotional," and added that, "these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched a they believe their life fell apart."
Fellow journalists and activists criticized that exchange on Twitter. Kate Aurthur, chief Los Angeles correspondent at Buzzfeed, for instance, tweeted "Hey, @PoppyHarlowCNN, these young men raped a girl. Why are you so upset on their behalf? Your coverage is bizarre. #Steubenville."
Several of the tweets urged the pair, particularly Harlow, to apologize for their comments. There is also a Change.org petition entitled CNN: Apologize on air for sympathizing with the Steubenville rapists.
The grand jury is expected to decide whether others should be charged in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two Steubenville High School football players. Police are also investigating "information about a juvenile male" who may have harassed the victim, according to Steubenville's Herald Star.
On Monday, two female teens were arrested for harassing the rape victim online. The Cleveland's Plain Dealer wrote that the alleged harassers are 15- and 16-years-old. The article said, "The 16-year-old is charged with one misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing for threatening the life of the victim on Twitter. The 15-year-old is charged with one misdemeanor count of menacing for threatening bodily harm to the victim on Facebook."
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who has called for a grand jury investigation, said in a statement on his website, "Let me be clear, threatening a teenage rape victim will not be tolerated. If anyone makes a threat verbally or via the internet, we will take it seriously, we will find you, and we will arrest you."
A grand jury is set to meet around April 15 to examine evidence and testimonies gathered from 56 interviews, the analytics of 13 phones, 396,270 text messages, 308,586 photos/pictures, 940 video clips, 3,188 phone calls and 16,422 contacts listed in phones.
DeWine said in a statement at a news conference following the verdict on March 17: "We have been involved in an extensive investigation seeking to learn if any other individuals committed any crimes. While we have interviewed almost 60 individuals, 16 people refused to talk to our investigators."
Mays and Richmond were found guilty of rape and received verdicts of delinquency for digitally penetrating the victim. Mays was also found guilty of illegal use of a minor in nudity-orientated material. Both will be committed to juvenile detention facility until they turn 21, The Huffington Post reported.
Victoria Fitzgerald is a freelance writer in New York City.
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- Off-campus housing form (available in the My Evangel portal)
- Parental Endorsement (pdf) if applicable
7. Health Requirements
Completing the following three steps before you arrive on campus will make your registration process easier and help you avoid delays in moving into the residence halls. All students are encouraged to complete their health registration process before coming to campus.
Health Process Steps
1. Download and fill out the Health History and Immunization Form and mail or fax it to campus before your arrival.New students who are enrolled in 8 credit hours or more must complete this form. You can download the Health History Form (pdf).
This form cannot be completed online. It must be downloaded and completed with your handwritten signature (or your parent's signature if you are under age 18). You may mail or fax the form to us after you have filled it out.
Evangel University Wellness Center
1111 N. Glenstone Ave.
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2. Obtain official documentation of your current Tetanus and MMR vaccines and mail or fax them to campus before your arrival.
This could be copies of medical records, school records, official signed immunization cards or insurance receipts. We require the following vaccinations:
- Up-to-date Tetanus vaccine — within the past 10 years.
- Two doses of MMR vaccine — two doses given after age 1, at least 30 days apart.
3. Take the online TB Screening Survey.
This survey is easy to complete. Although your specific answers will not affect the registration process, you do need to answer these questions in order for your Wellness Center information to be complete. The steps, which are listed in order below, should be easy to follow, but don't be afraid to ask us if you have any questions.
- 1. Log into your student portal.
- 2. Near the bottom half of the first page are the words Semesters Open for Registration.
- 3. Underneath this, click on the semester and year for which you are registering – "FA-12 (Undergraduate)" for example.
- 4. That link will open the Registration Checklist page. In the line that says Wellness Center — Incomplete, click on the word View. This will open another page that contains the link to the TB Screening Survey.
- 5. After you complete and submit the survey, you will need to refresh the Registration Checklist page to update your survey status.
NOTE: If you are unable to open the survey link, you may need to temporarily turn off the pop-up blocker on your computer (this it isn't spam or an ad).
If your immunizations are not up to date, you can receive them in the Wellness Center when you arrive on campus. (Cost: Tetanus Booster — Tdap vaccine = $45, MMR = $65.) However, completing this information and receiving the needed vaccines ahead of time will make things much easier for you and save you a great deal of time. If you have health insurance, completing the vaccines with your regular health care provider at home will also be less expensive.
Wellness Center Fax: 417-575-5496 Phone: 417-865-2815, ext. 7280
Adult Studies Admissions Process
New applicant? Please complete the following items:
- Your EU application – apply online today
- Three references (available through your online application by clicking the "References" link):
- One pastor or church leader reference form
- One personal/professional reference form
- This should be from an individual who is able to comment on your Christian character, academic ability and professional qualities.
- Official transcripts from each college or university you've attended
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at (417) 865-2815 ext. 7229, or by email.
Please have your transcripts sent to:
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1111 N. Glenstone Ave.
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Graduate Studies Admissions Process
General admission and degree requirements for graduate studies are determined by a Graduate Studies Council made up of the Dean of Students and various faculty members. Careful consideration is given to all applicants. Our faculty members strive to admit students who will succeed at Evangel in a program that fits their life purpose. Students should address each of the items outlined below.
Students seeking admission to graduate studies must file with the Graduate Admissions Office:
- The completed application online
- A nonrefundable application fee of $25
- References (Please consult with our admission's counselor to determine which of the following references should be issued.)*
- One pastor or church leader reference
- One academic reference
- One professional (supervisor or co-worker) reference
- Note: You can issue your references through your online application by clicking the "Submit References" tab.
- Statement of Purpose (pdf) describing:
- Professional and academic experiences which are relevant to the field of study you have chosen
- Your objective for pursuing this graduate program and your career aspirations
- Your current spiritual growth and church involvement
- Your résumé, outlining experiences relevant to the desired graduate program.
- Any required entrance exam (GRE/MAT/Praxis II)
- Official undergraduate (and graduate if applicable) transcripts
Bachelor's degree must be conferred prior to starting a master's program
Preferred GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Any program-specific requirements
- Psychology: submit an APA writing sample from your undergraduate coursework.
- Secondary Teaching/School Counseling: submit two copies of each official college transcript.
- Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate credit should be mailed to:
Evangel University
Office of Admissions
1111 N. Glenstone
Springfield, MO 65802
- An undergraduate GPA of 3.0 with an earned bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
Advancement to Candidacy Status
Students admitted to a program of study must apply for candidacy after completion of 15 credit hours of graduate course work at Evangel University. Requirements for program candidacy are given in the graduate studies catalog.
For more information on our Graduate Studies program (and answers to any questions you might have), call or email us today!


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BERKELEY -- Police here logged a 95 percent increase in reported rapes in 2012, a spike in cases that has police, victim advocates and educators wondering what happened.
The reports of rape, excluding all other kinds of sexual assault, rose from 20 in 2011 to 39 in 2012, according to a police department crime report presented at a City Council meeting Tuesday evening. Last year's numbers were the highest recorded in five years.
"That's a really huge increase," said Marcia Blackstock, executive director of Oakland-based Bay Area Women Against Rape. "Our standard feeling is there certainly is a possibility that rapes are up because violent crime is up. The more people feel out of control and powerless, the more they respond violently, but that's not an excuse."
The numbers of violent crimes in Berkeley were mixed in 2012, however. Homicides were up from one in 2011 to five in 2012 and rape was up, but robberies and aggravated assaults were down very slightly.
Blackstock, whose organization counsels victims in crisis and has counselors who accompany victims during examinations at hospitals, said another reason the numbers are up could be that victims are more trusting that they won't be blamed if they report an attack.
"In our experience, when police departments prove themselves to the community, and the department is sensitive to sexual assault issues and not blaming victims, reporting goes up," Blackstock said.
Berkeley City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf, who attended the crime report presentation Tuesday, said the number of rape victims probably is much higher than the official number because victims don't always come forward for a variety of reasons.
"I don't think it's that easy to report a rape," Wengraf said. "There's a lot of stigma associated with it. I know it's complicated because it's one thing to report it and another to follow up and want to get an arrest. I think it's pretty alarming in a city like Berkeley to have that number up there. I think it needs to come back on people's radar."
Berkeley police Capt. Andrew Greenwood said the reports of rape in 2012 originated from neighborhoods primarily around the UC Berkeley campus, where approximately 35,000 students live. About half of the cases involve drugs or alcohol, he said, and in almost all cases the victim and suspect know each other. "Stranger rapes" are extremely rare, he said.
"It's impossible to know if this year is an indication of a trend or an outlier year," Greenwood said. "Time will tell and we are monitoring it very closely."
Both Greenwood and police Chief Michael Meehan said the city is interested in working more closely with UC Berkeley officials on prevention and reporting education. UC Berkeley police investigated two rapes in 2011 and two in 2012 on university properties, said spokesman Eric Tejada.
The 2012 numbers of victims reporting rapes were not just up over the year before, they are the highest numbers recorded in five years. From 2008 through 2011 the numbers fluctuated from 20 in 2011 to 27 in 2009, then went up 95 percent in 2012.
A new mandatory training program started in 2011 for all incoming students at UC Berkeley that employs what is called "bystander intervention" for sexual assault, stalking and domestic violence could be a factor in Berkeley's increase in reports, said Allan Creighton, who manages the EmpowerU program at University Health Services at UC Berkeley.
Creighton said about 7,000 students have received the hour-and-a-half presentation since it started.
"The idea is to look at real-life situations that have happened at Cal and other campuses and to intervene when they see it happen," Creighton said. "There are a lot of barriers to reporting (sexual assault), which means only 5 percent of people will tell UC staff but up to two-thirds will tell best friends."
Creighton said the training urges those friends, who have been told of an assault, that they have a responsibility to report or get the victim to report.
"That has meant for UC campuses that there has been a rise in people reporting," Creighton said. "We try to demystify reporting as much as possible and give them the names of people who are very easy to report to. Students become more familiar with what it means to report and who to report to."
Doug Oakley covers Berkeley. Contact him at 510-843-1408. Follow him at Twitter.com/douglasoakley.
To find out more, go to UC Berkeley's health services at www.uhs.berkeley.edu/students/medical/sexualassaultresources.shtml


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As he looked back on the craziest year he could imagine, Bay Area native Jeremy Lin conceded to the truth of hindsight. He did let Linsanity go to his head.
"If I'm being honest, in some ways, yes," Lin told this newspaper. "I fought it every day. But I think subconsciously it had its effect, everyone catering to you. People were saying only good things for so long that when people said negative stuff, it was like, 'Whoa, what's going on?' "
After Lin signed a three-year, $25 million contract with the Houston Rockets, a lot of negative things were said. He's selfish. He's all about the money. His ego is out of control. And, to top it off, many deemed him a basketball fluke who already has maxed out his potential.
But Lin is happy. He said he is thankful for his time in New York with the Knicks, the ride of a lifetime. He said he is eager about his future in Houston and the possibilities with his new team.
And he doesn't seem too concerned with repairing his image or proving himself right. He said too much is going well to be worried about the negative.
"It's not about who's right or who's wrong. I'm going to respond with love," Lin said. "That's why I'm in this position, to show love and become a better person. I'm trying to focus on the right things. I'm thankful for everything that's happened. The Lord has blessed me so much."
A year ago, Lin was in the Bay Area working out as hard as ever, trying to make the NBA his home. Since then, it has been quite the roller coaster. The former Palo Alto High star has experienced the lowest low -- being waived twice and wondering if he would make it in the NBA. He has experienced the highest high -- orchestrating one of the most dominant stretches in basketball memory, posting 20 points and seven assists in seven consecutive games (all wins) and becoming a global star.
An injury reeled him back into the stratosphere as surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee April 2 knocked him out for the rest of the season. But the real humbling came after he signed the offer sheet from Houston. That's when the tide turned.
"It did kind of hurt," Lin said. "I had to remind myself who I'm living for. Do I fear God or do I fear man? I know my actions, and I know I would change nothing if I could go back."
Lin said he expected to -- wanted to -- re-sign with the Knicks. But the Rockets, who reportedly pegged him as a primary target, came after him hard. First, they agreed to a four-year, $28 million offer sheet, paying him about $9 million in each of the final two years. But by the time Lin arrived in Houston to sign the offer sheet, the Rockets -- after reports the Knicks would match -- had pulled the first offer and changed the deal. The new offer sheet was for three years, with a third-year salary of $14.8 million.
"I didn't go back to them and ask for more money," Lin said. "It wasn't like they gave me the choice to sign one of the two and I chose the one that would hurt the Knicks. I had one contract offer. That was it."
With no other offer on the table, Lin signed.
And the debate began about whether the Knicks should match, though that third year could cost New York upward of $40 million because of the NBA's luxury tax. Many said Lin wasn't worth it, that his hot streak was the result of a perfect storm he could never duplicate. Some who thought the Knicks could match the offer saw Lin more as a marketing tool than a player who could help them win.
Reports emerged about Lin having bailed out on the team by not playing hurt in the playoffs, about Knicks owner James Dolan feeling betrayed and deceived by Lin.
"I will always, always have doubters," Lin said. "But I really want to reach my potential to bring glory to God. That is more motivation than haters and doubters. I want to work just as hard, give just as much, whether or not I have haters."
Lin took extra steps to remain the same person he always has been. He turned down multiple late-night talk shows and started limiting interviews. Every news conference, he talked about his teammates, sharing the spotlight. He looked to find ways to serve them -- picking up others' trash on the team plane, volunteering to carry bags, opening doors, sparking conversation.
He even passed up millions of dollars by rejecting endorsement deals. He wound up signing only two, with Volvo and Steiner Sports (he already had a Nike deal). He said he would rather focus on getting better instead of racking up endorsements and spending his time away from the court making appearances and doing commercials.
Even signing an offer sheet with Houston was a financial sacrifice, as Lin walked away from the millions he could get only in the country's top market. The decision prompted a Forbes.com article on how Jeremy Lin May Be The Dumbest Harvard Grad Ever.
But Lin, after the initial shock of it all, said he has regained his center.
"It just comes down to knowing who I am as a person," Lin said. "People who know me know I didn't want all this. I didn't ask for this. It was uncomfortable."
Lin said he isn't concerned with matching the production he managed in New York. Certainly, that would be a tough feat. In 25 starts with the Knicks, Lin averaged 18.2 points, 7.7 assists and 3.7 rebounds. Lin said he doesn't have a guarantee he is the starter, or does he need one. He said what matters to him is the opportunity and that Houston believes in him.
But even if his production doesn't follow him to Houston, he said he is sure the hype and attention will. He said "absolutely" he would love all the hype to end but said there was "no chance" that would happen even though he is leaving the bright lights of New York.
This time around, though, Lin said he will be even more ready for it.
"The only way it will is if I fade out and get worse and worse," Lin said. "But I plan on getting better."


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Kristen Stewart has made a cuckold of Robert Pattinson. But how long was the affair going on before she and Sanders got caught? Sources close to Stewart maintained that it started just weeks ago, but also that she and Sanders had only made out; does this look like the arching back of someone who only just made out? No way.
According to Leopold Ross, brother of scorned wife Liberty Ross, the affair had been going on for about six months. He told UK's The People:
"It was from the last half of filming [of Snow White and the Huntsmen] and all through post-production, clear into last week."
Girlfriend should have taken her own advice (she is supposedly saying, "Stop," to Sanders on the red carpet).
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Personalized Cancer Medicines Helping Patients Live Longer, Healthier Lives
Changing the Way Patients Receive Care
07.01.13 | By
CBS News featured a segment over the weekend on the value of new cancer treatments and how precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is changing the way patients receive care. Not surprisingly, it appears that personalized treatments are becoming a more favorable option for many patients than the traditional chemotherapy route.
Personalized medicine is an emerging field that uses diagnostic tools to identify specific biological markers, typically genetic, and assess which medical treatments will be best for each patient. Personalized cancer medicines target specific underlying causes of the disease and work in the subset of patients whose cancer is driven by that cause.
One particular point that stood out for me was the distinction that was drawn between chemotherapy and personalized medicines. It was described as the difference between using a bomb and using a sniper because you target the precise cells causing the cancer to grow.
I had never heard this analogy before but I thought it was a very astute observation.
During the interview, Dr. Mark Kris, thoracic oncology chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York said, "The best example is a disease called chronic myelogenous leukemia, CML. That disease was treated with a traditional chemotherapy or a bone-marrow transplant, a very large dose of chemotherapy, the bone marrow had to be replaced. People now with that illness are given a tablet, and they take a tablet, and many of these people appear to be cured, not just helped, but cured."
This marks an incredible innovation milestone that demonstrates how cancer care is undergoing a dramatic change from years past and how in many types of cancer, patients are living longer than ever before.
Thanks to advances made in medical innovation, the five year survival rate for cancer patients has increased by nearly 40 percent since 1980. When looking at CML alone, treatment advances have increased the 10-year survival from less than 20 percent to more than 80 percent, according to the American Journal of Managed Care.
Biopharmaceutical research companies are heavily invested in researching personalized medicines. According to a survey from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, 94 percent of biopharmaceutical companies are working on personalized medicine and they expect significant growth in investment in the coming years.
Additionally, more than 3,000 potential medicines in the biopharmaceutical pipeline are focused in the oncology space globally. Among cancer drugs in development, 80 percent are potential first-in-class treatments that may help patients with serious unmet medical needs.
Significant progress has been made to better equip cancer patients in their fight against disease, but at the same time, many challenges remain to better understand and tackle this complex disease.
The path forward is one where collaborative partnerships among various stakeholders in the medical innovation ecosystem can continue to work together to build on the science so that incremental improvements can be made for patients and the entire U.S. health care system.


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ECHO 1 STAG ARMS MOD4 Commando AEG Airsoft Rifle
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- Going Commando The Echo 1 M4 Commando gives you more bang for your buck. It has some metal parts but not many. The plastic that they use is pretty durable though. It has adjustable sights. It also has a functional charging handle.However, the bolt catch isn't so you have to hold it back. When you pull the charging handle, it exposes the hop up which is pretty easy to use. The carrying handle is very easy to remove. And the gun disassembles easily.
Great Internals and Thick Wires
Good Power
Durable Plastic
Quick Disassemble
Functional Charging Handle
Kinda Cheap
Stock has 6 Positions
Not Much Metal
Little Stock Wobble
Some Mag Wobble too
Bolt Catch Not Functional (though most aren't)
Selector Switch Problems
Plastic Hop up
In conclusion, this is a good gun for its price.
- great gungun is awesome
shoots very fast, and accurately. range is very good. forget that guy that said CQB only.
i was playing in the woods and it shot accurately for roughly 50 yards.
an example of accuracy, my brother was standing in the middle of a game not knowing where i was and i put 3 BB's right on top of each-other in the same spot. he was standing about 150 feet away.
i defiantly recommend this gun to anyone getting into the game.
- Crazy AWESOME!This is one great M4. After my DBoys M4 broke, I was on the market for a new M4 because I didn't want to buy all new accessories. This one fit my budget and I got it. When I first opened the box, I immediately fell in love with it. I was surprised at the high metal content of it, and the high attention to detail. After I fired it, I thought how my old M4 didn't stand a chance to this monster.
(out of five)
Overall: *****
Accuracy: *****
RoF: *****
Reliability: *****
If you are in the market for a cheap M4, definitely buy this bad-boy.
Good Luck Soldier
- Worth Buying Well i bought this airsoft gun a while ago, last Christmas (07) and I'll tell you this, it is a very, and i mean VERY nice gun. With my experiences it has shot at a great fps, I even went as far as buying a tri-rail and tactical flashlight for it, which makes it look a bit more "swat-y" Over the course of me having it though, (why i rated it only a 4) it has come across some problems, a couple of which may be my own fault from it's use, one of them would be the selector switch fell/broke off, how it happened, i don't know. Also the second trigger on the bolt-pull broke off as well, although it's not needed, only cosmetic, so it's no big deal really. But overall a great buy ....
Some Stats:
Full metal except for hand guard
High fps, and ROF for that matter
Works well and is very maneuverable
4 pos. stock is handy and tactical
Has good value
Weight could become cumbersome (for smaller people)
Needs a lot of cleaning, and DON'T FORGET OR ELSE XD
Cosmetics/Paint may chip easily
Other than that, definitely worth a buy ...
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- Great gun I got this gun in at the beginning of the summer of 2008 and I have not gotten another AEG since this gun is so great and durable.
some metal
hop up
butt stock
I say the hop up is a con because just by pulling back the cocking lever it accidentally changes the hop up, up over time. The butt stock fell off once but it is easy to repair. I recommend getting this gun!
- FANTASTIC GUN!!!This gun is great and if you are willing to spend the money, you should definitely get it. It is really good. It is also great for cqc!!!! For best accuracy and fps, use .25 gram bbs and really leave a welt on your opponents!!
- decentyo if you guys want a good gun with good accuracy. this is the one you are looking for. it's a small gun for 1 reason and for 1 reason only. CQB
- you'll never find one like this againOK first don't listen to all those reviews on how there is a lot a plastic and all. it really has a lot of metal which includes the trigger,barrel,magazine and much more. one of the things i like about this gun is that it's made for close quarter combat which is really fun to play. me and my team dominate at close quarter combat and i use this gun as my main so if you're looking for a good gun wheel you found it
- good gunPretty good for the price
the fire power is
good and the look is sweet.
I have used this gun in a war and
it works wonders.
Buy and don't look back
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- Great GunThis gun is one of the best guns on the website. its range and fps is amazing. If you are looking to spend an OK amount of money, and you want an aeg gun,then get this gun. For the best accuracy get .25 gram bbs


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Johnny Dawkins will return for his sixth year as Stanford basketball coach next season, but his boss made it clear Friday the Cardinal will be expected to challenge for the Pac-12 Conference title and reach the NCAA tournament after a five-year absence.
First-year athletic director Bernard Muir, in a phone interview from Las Vegas where he is watching the Pac-12 tournament, suggested that another NIT bid next season won't be acceptable.
Stanford also will have junior All-Pac-12 forward Dwight Powell back in the fold, as Powell confirmed Friday he will remain in school rather than enter the NBA draft. Powell scored double figures in every conference game this season and had 23 points in the loss to Arizona State. He'll be one of four starters to return.
Stanford was eliminated in the first round of the conference tournament, losing to ASU 89-88 in overtime on Wednesday and likely will play in the NIT again.
The Cardinal is 18-14 overall after finishing in a four-way tie for sixth place in the Pac-12 at 9-9. Stanford was picked fourth in the conference in a preseason media poll conducted by the Pac-12.
"Johnny's coming back," Muir said. "Johnny and I talked throughout the course of the season. We clearly have set the expectation that we want to be playing this time of the season next year.
"We want to be playing for a (conference) championship. We think we have the caliber of kids who can do that. And we want to play in the NCAA (tournament). The goal has always been and will not change: We want to play well into March on the grand stage of March Madness.
"There's a clear expectation that we can do that next year."
Asked if Dawkins was given a mandate to reach the NCAA tournament next season or face losing his job, Muir said, "Next year is a critical year for us. We've now had ample time for him to really get us to take that next step."
Dawkins has a five-year record of 93-73 at Stanford and a year ago directed the Cardinal to the NIT title. Stanford's five-year NCAA tournament drought is its longest since 1989.
A former star player and assistant coach at Duke, Dawkins has a long history of success in the NCAA tournament. Just not so far at Stanford.
"Johnny has high expectations of himself and his program," Muir said. "He knows we need to make this next step. We are capable."
Muir said he wants Stanford fans, many of whom have reached out to him with concerns, to know he remains confident Dawkins is the right man for the job.
"Next year, there's no reason why we can't get to where we want to be and have the opportunity to make a run in this thing," he said. "Coach is in his sixth year. There's a reason why he was hired to be our Stanford guy, and I have full confidence he can get us there."