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12.06.2012 - FDA approves Roche's antibody pertuzumab (Perjeta). Given together with trastuzumab (Herceptin) it will help breast cancer patients.
Basel/Glostrup/Bethesda – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's drug Perjeta (pertuzumab) as combination therapy of people with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have not received HER2 therapy or chemotherapy before. When administered together with Herceptin (trastuzumab) and in combination with standard docetaxel chemotherapy, Perjeta showed an increase in progression-free survival time of 6.1 months. Data stems from a Phase III study, the treatment of the control group was Herceptin and docetaxel chemotherapy alone.
Both the HER2 signaling inhibitor Herceptin and the HER2 dimerisation blocker Perjeta are humanised monoclonal antibodies. And both target the HER2 receptor, a protein found highly enriched on the outside of cells in a kind of breast cancer aptly named HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. However, both drugs act in a complementary fashion, meaning that they target different parts of the HER2 receptor. Currently, Genentech, the manufacturer of Perjeta, is not able to meet demand. Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said why the approval was given in spite of the shortage: "There's a need for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer and we do not want to delay the drug's availability to patients pending resolution of the production issues relating to further supply."
In March, Roche filed an EU market authorisation application for the subcutaneous administration of Herceptin which is less invasive and takes less time.
On 12 June, cancer diagnostics company Dako Denmark A/S announced that the FDA has granted market authroisation for its HercepTestand HER2 FISH pharmDxKit as companion diagnostics for pertuzumab.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/two-are-better-than-one-for-roche-and-for-patients.html


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"You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth. Thank you for the welcome." -- Pope Francis, addressing the crowd in St. Peter's Square.
Pope Francis is getting right to work. He will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, and will be installed officially as pope on Tuesday, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope -- and he is the first pontiff from the Americas.
He has chosen the name Pope Francis.
Pope Francis has been known for years as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed.
Known previously as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
He has in the past accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
In his first appearance in St. Peter's Square as the new pope today, Francis wore a simple white robe.
A list of popes from the 20th and 21st centuries:
Pope Francis -- March 13, 2013-
Benedict XVI -- April 19, 2005-Feb. 28, 2013.
John Paul II -- Oct. 16, 1978-April 2, 2005.
John Paul I -- Aug. 26-Sept. 28, 1978.
Paul VI -- June 21, 1963-Aug. 6, 1978.
John XXIII -- Oct. 28, 1958-June 3, 1963.
Pius XII -- March 2, 1939-Oct. 9, 1958.
Pius XI -- Feb. 6, 1922-Feb. 10, 1939.
Benedict XV -- Sept. 3, 1914-Jan. 22, 1922.
Pius X -- Aug. 4, 1903-Aug. 20, 1914.
Leo XIII -- Feb. 20, 1878-July 20, 1903.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Catholic church has chosen a new pope.
White smoke is billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave have elected a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
The new pope is expected to appear on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica within an hour, after a church official announces "Habemus Papum" -- "We have a pope" -- and gives the name of the new pontiff in Latin.
The conclave was called after Pope Benedict XVI resigned last month, throwing the church into turmoil and exposing deep divisions among cardinals tasked with finding a manager to clean up a corrupt Vatican bureaucracy as well as a pastor who can revive Catholicism in a time of growing secularism.
The 266th pope has been chosen.
Whoever he may be, he now changes into his papal white cassock, and one-by-one the cardinals approach him to swear their obedience.
He will stop and pray in the Pauline Chapel for a few minutes before emerging on the loggia of the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square.
Preceding him to the balcony is French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the protodeacon, who announces "Habemus Papam!" Latin for "We have a pope" and then introduces him to the world in Latin.
He then emerges and delivers his first public words as the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
It was a fairly quick decision.
In centuries past, conclaves dragged on for weeks and months, sometimes years. During a 13th-century conclave that stretched for weeks, a leading candidate died.
These days the discussions are much quicker. The pope was chosen in five rounds over two days.
The previous conclave that chose Benedict XVI went four rounds over two days before the Latin announcement rang out across St. Peter's Square from the basilica's balcony: "Habemus papam" -- We have a pope!
The longest conclave of the last century went on for 14 rounds over five days, and yielded Pius XI -- in 1922.
One thing is sure -- the new pope will never truly know who voted for him.
Cardinals used to sign their names to ballots, but stopped doing so "due to an old history of intrigues and tensions, when people used to fear the most serious reprisals for their choices," says Michael Bruter, who teaches political science at the London School of Economics.
Even so, factions of cardinals will have made their views known during informal talks between votes.
Romain Lachat, a political scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, says the formation of coalitions -- where voting cardinals slowly rally around a man who may only be their second or third choice -- is inevitable.
There is no formal process of elimination and cardinals can even vote for themselves -- which may explain why conclaves often need more than one round of balloting to produce a pope.
The pope's Twitter account, whose profile was changed to read "Sede Vacante" when Benedict stepped down, now has been switched back to "Pontifex."
No tweets yet.
The new pope can't move into the papal apartment just yet.
He will remain with the cardinals at the Vatican's Santa Marta hotel, an impersonal modern hotel on the edge of the Vatican gardens where they have been sequestered since the beginning of the conclave.
He will spend his first night as pontiff in a room that features a bed with a dark wood headboard and a carved image of Christ's face, as well as a sitting area and a study.
The new pope is expected to stay there for a few weeks until the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace can be renovated. The apartment was sealed Feb. 28, just after Benedict resigned, and cannot be reopened until the new pope formally takes possession.
The pope's new clothes were ready before he was.
The family-owned Gammarelli tailor shop, which has dressed popes for two centuries, had three sets of vestments -- in small, medium and large -- prepared for the naming of the new pontiff.
The papal outfits were on display in the window of the small wood-paneled store nestled in the shadow of the Pantheon, where the family moved in 1850 from the original founded just around the corner in 1798. They were delivered to the Vatican and left in a room next to the Sistine Chapel, ready for the new pope to change into his new clothes.
The pre-made looks haven't always fit. In 1958, the rotund John XXIII appeared on the balcony with safety pins holding together the back of his cassock.
Throngs of the faithful are in St. Peter's Square, ready to cheer the new pope when he steps out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. The vast square in Rome is a sea of umbrellas, flags and chanting crowds.
The Vatican's security force, known as the gendarmerie, is in charge of those inside the square, while Italian police handle crowd control just outside the Vatican's boundaries. Security officers from both forces include plainclothes agents dressed up as tourists, watching for any unusual movement.
A tented field hospital went up near the Vatican before the conclave began.
There have been a few "trial runs" of crowd control. Pope Benedict XVI's public audience drew so many people -- some 150,000 -- that there wasn't enough space for all in the cobblestone square.
Statement from the President on His Holiness Pope Francis
"On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I offer our warm wishes to His Holiness Pope Francis as he ascends to the Chair of Saint Peter and begins his papacy. As a champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us, he carries forth the message of love and compassion that has inspired the world for more than two thousand years—that in each other we see the face of God. As the first pope from the Americas, his selection also speaks to the strength and vitality of a region that is increasingly shaping our world, and alongside millions of Hispanic Americans, those of us in the United States share the joy of this historic day. Just as I appreciated our work with Pope Benedict XVI, I look forward to working with His Holiness to advance peace, security and dignity for our fellow human beings, regardless of their faith. We join with people around the world in offering our prayers for the Holy Father as he begins the sacred work of leading the Catholic Church in our modern world."

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converse 1
verbo[no object]
Engage in conversation: she was withdrawn and preoccupied, hardly able to converse with her mother
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It would be fair to say that, while we conversed amicably for what was a very long session, our views on international politics were not in accord.
- As the lads chatted and conversed in overwhelmed joy, Maria sat in a plastic chair, near the corner of the room.
- Speaking in one voice emphasises the importance of listening when conversing.
confer, parley, consult with each other;
informal chew the fat, chew the rag, gab, jaw, powwow, have a confab
North American informal rap, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull
Australian/New Zealand informal mag
formal confabulate
sustantivo[mass noun] archaic
Conversation: his converse at such seasons was always elevating [count noun]: it will be difficult in these converses not to talk of secular matter
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
- With that he disappeared back into the kitchen and he heard the low tones of converse resume.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- She sat facing the space between the conversers pouring tea for them when their cups were empty.
- He's not exactly the best converser in the world.
- Her converser let out a quick breath, almost a scoff.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'live among, be familiar with'): from Old French converser, from Latin conversari 'keep company (with'), from con- 'with' + versare, frequentative of vertere 'to turn'. The current sense of the verb dates from the early 17th century.
Palabras que riman con converseamerce, asperse, averse, biodiverse, burse, coerce, curse, diverse, Erse, hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, verse, worse
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1A situation, object, or statement that is the reverse of another or corresponds to it but with certain terms transposed: if spirituality is properly political, the converse is also true: politics is properly spiritual
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- The present paper is concerned with the converse: situations in which actions influence the perception of stimuli.
- They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but the converse may also be true.
- Unfortunately for translators, and for readers of Goethe unfamiliar with German, the converse is also true: the poetry of the German language is of the essence of Goethe.
other side of the coin;
Italian per contra
informal flip side
1.1 Mathematics A theorem whose hypothesis and conclusion are the conclusion and hypothesis of another.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Desargues's Theorem and its converse are of the first importance to mathematicians by reason of their complete generality.
- The next year, Littlewood proved a profound converse of a famous theorem of Norwegian mathematician Abel on the summation of series.
- A complete characterization of this quotient ring and a short proof of the converse can be found in.
Having characteristics which are the reverse of something else already mentioned: the only mode of change will be the slow process of growth and the converse process of decay
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- A converse prize for the most catastrophic failure to use force, leading to the greatest net detriment to the human condition, would also be interesting.
- Books reify the converse trend - from private to public goods.
- Nor do I think using the converse argument is a valid point.
clashing, incompatible, in disagreement, disagreeing, conflicting, differing;
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The Chronicles of Amber
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The Chronicles of Amber is a popular fantasy series (consisting of ten books) by Roger Zelazny.
- 1 The First Chronicles of Amber
- 2 The Second Chronicles of Amber
- 3 External links
The First Chronicles of Amber[edit]
Nine Princes in Amber (1970)[edit]
- I was garbed all in white, the color of vanilla ice cream and Moby Dick. Ugly.
- Chapter I
- I saw the Old Moon with the New Moon in her arms, hovering above a row of poplars. The grass was silvery and sparkled. The night was bargaining weakly with the sun.
- Chapter I
- Anyone who tried to hurt me, to use me, did so at his own peril and now he would receive his due, whoever he was, this one. I felt a strong desire to kill, to destroy whomever had been responsible, and I knew it was not the first time in my life that I had felt this thing, and I knew that I had followed through on it in the past.
- Chapter II
- Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least.
- Chapter IV
- The blood billowed above them, and I suddenly realized I had known mad, sad, bad Vincent Van Gogh, and it was really too bad he couldn't have painted this.
- Chapter V
- I had gained a piece of myself.
I saw the paper skins and the knobby, stick-like bones of the dead of Auschwitz. I had been present at Nuremberg, I knew. I heard the voice of Stephen Spender reciting "Vienna," and I saw Mother Courage cross the stage on the night of a Brecht premiere. I saw the rockets leap up from the stained hard places, Peenemunde, Vandenberg, Kennedy, Kyzyl Kum in Kazakhstan, and I touched with my hands the Wall of China. We were drinking beer and wine, and Shaxpur said he was drunk and went off to puke. I entered the green forests of the Western Reserve and took three scalps one day. I hummed a tune as we marched along and it caught on. It became "Auprès de ma blonde." I remembered, I remembered... my life within the Shadow place its inhabitants had called the Earth.
- Chapter V
- The land was known as Avernus, and the assembled troops were not quite men. I reviewed them the following morning, walking behind Bleys. They were all of them around seven feet in height, had very red skins and little hair, catlike eyes, and six-digited hands and feet. They wore garments that looked as light as silk, but were woven of something else and were mainly gray or blue in color. Each bore two short blades, hooked at the end. Their ears were pointed and their many fingers clawed.
The climate was warm and the colors bewildering, and everyone thought we were gods.
- Chapter VI
- I walked among shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably man-like, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice — sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.
- Chapter VI
- My sight was returning to me, that's what it meant — that lovely patch of brightness, off somewhere to my right.
- Chapter IX
- I have transformed the peaceful Valley of Garnath into what it now represented: a symbol of my hate for Eric and for all those others who had stood by and let him get away with his power grab, let him blind me.
- Chapter X
The Guns of Avalon (1972)[edit]
- "Mon Dieu!" he said. "I am pleased never to have had you for an enemy. Are you certain you are not the Devil?"
"Yeah, sure," I said. "Don't you smell the brimstone? And my right hoof is killing me."
He actually sniffed a couple times before he chuckled, which hurt my feelings a bit.
- Chapter I
- "I am told it began as a tiny ring of toadstools, far to the west. A child was found dead in its center, and the man who found her - her father - died of convulsions several days later. The spot was immediately said to be accursed. It grew quickly in the months that followed, until it was half a league across. The grasses darkened and shone like metal within it, but did not die. The trees twisted and their leaves blackened. They swayed when there was no wind, and bats danced and darted among them. In the twilight, strange shapes could be seen moving — always within the Circle, mind you — and there were lights, as of small fires, throughout the night. The Circle continued to grow, and those who lived near it fled — mostly. A few remained. It was said that those who remained had struck some bargain with the dark things. And the Circle continued to widen, spreading like the ripple from a rock cast into a pond. More and more people remained, living, within it. I have spoken with these people, fought with them, slain them. It is as if there is something dead inside them all. Their voices lack the thrust and dip of men chewing over their words and tasting them.
- Ganelon explaining the origins of the Dark Circle of Lorraine, Ch. I
- I smiled. "Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy, and goodness. Trust me in all things."
- Chapter V
- While I had always said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
- Chapter VI
- It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared, and it was as though I had an eternity to ponder the approach of this man who was my brother. His garments were filthy, his face blackened, the stump of his right arm raised, gesturing anywhere. The great beast that he rode was striped, black and red, with a wild red mane and tail. But it really was a horse, and its eyes rolled and there was foam at its mouth and its breathing was painful to hear. I saw then that he wore his blade slung across his back, for its haft protruded high above his right shoulder. Still slowing, eyes fixed upon me, he departed the road, bearing slightly toward my left, jerked the reins once and released them, keeping control of the horse with his knees. His left hand went up in a salute - like movement that passed above his head and seized the hilt of his weapon. It came free without a sound, describing a beautiful arc above him and coming to rest in a lethal position out from his left shoulder and slanting back, like a single wing of dull steel with a minuscule line of edge that gleamed like a filament of mirror. The picture he presented was burned into my mind with a kind of magnificence, a certain splendor that was strangely moving. The blade was a long, scythe like affair that I had seen him use before. Only then we had stood as allies against a mutual foe I had begun to believe unbeatable. Benedict had proved otherwise that night. Now that I saw it raised against me I was overwhelmed with a sense of my own mortality, which I had never experienced before in this fashion. It was as though a layer had been stripped from the world and I had a sudden, full understanding of death itself.
- Chapter VII
- Nobody steals books but your friends.
- Chapter VIII
Sign of the Unicorn (1975)[edit]
- Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose.
- Corwin, Ch. 1
- While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. With me, Corwin, it's drumming, being up in the air, and gambling — in no special order. Well, maybe soaring has a little edge — in gliders, balloons, and certain variations — but mood has a lot to do with that too, you know. I mean, ask me another time and I might say one of the others. Depends on what you want most at the moment.
- Random, Ch. 2
- So Childe Random to the dark tower came, yeah, gun in one hand, blade in the other.
- Random, Ch. 2 (an humorous nod to Robert Browning's famous poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came)
- I played the Shadow game we all learned as children. Pass some obstruction — a scrawny tree, a stand of stone — and have the sky be different from one side to the other. Gradually I restored familiar constellations. I knew that I would be climbing down a different mountain from the one I ascended.
- Random, Ch. 2
- To paraphrase Hamlet, Lear and all those other guys: I wish I had known this some time ago.
- Corwin, Ch. 3
- For a moment I regarded the Pattern — a shining mass of curved lines that tricked the eye as it tried to trace them — imbedded there, huge, in the floor's slick blackness. It had given me power over Shadow, it had restored most of my memory. It would also destroy me in an instant if I were to essay it improperly. What gratitude the prospect did arouse in me was therefore not untinged with fear. It was a splendid and cryptic old family heirloom which belonged right where it was, in the cellar.
- Corwin, Ch. 3
- If you herald some turn in our fortunes, if you bring us some measure of grace — thanks, unicorn," I said. "And even if you do not, thanks for the brightness of your company at a dark time.
- Corwin, Ch. 5
- Life's incessant ceremonies leap everlasting, humans spring eternal on hope's breast, and frying pans without fires are often far between.
- Corwin, Ch. 6
- Yes, but I wondered... I've a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turned out.
- Bill Roth (a minor character who eventually does learn how things turn out), Ch. 8
- How to put simply that which is not a simple thing . . . ? Solipsism, I suppose, is where we have to begin — the notion that nothing exists but the self, or, at least, that we cannot truly be aware of anything but our own existence and experience. I can find, somewhere, off in Shadow, anything I can visualize. Any of us can. This, in good faith, does not transcend the limits of the ego. It may be argued, and in fact has, by most of us, that we create the shadows we visit out of the stuff of our own psyches, that we alone truly exist, that the shadows we traverse are but projections of our own desires. . . . Whatever the merits of this argument, and there are several, it does go far toward explaining much of the family's attitude toward people, places, and things outside of Amber. Namely, we are toymakers and they, our playthings — sometimes dangerously animated, to be sure; but this, too, is part of the game. We are impresarios by temperament, and we treat one another accordingly. While solipsism does tend to leave one slightly embarrassed on questions of etiology, one can easily avoid the embarrassment by refusing to admit the validity of the questions. Most of us are, as I have often observed, almost entirely pragmatic in the conduct of our affairs. Almost. . .
Yet — yet there is a disturbing element in the picture. There is a place where the shadows go mad. . . . When you purposely push yourself through layer after layer of Shadow, surrendering — again, purposely — a piece of your understanding every step of the way, you come at last to a mad place beyond which you cannot go. Why do this? In hope of an insight. I'd say, or a new game . . . But when you come to this place, as we all have, you realize that you have reached the limit of Shadow or the end of yourself — synonymous terms, as we had always thought. Now, though. . .
Now I know that it is not so, now as I stand, waiting, without the Courts of Chaos, telling you what it was like, I know that it is not so.
- Corwin, Ch. 10
- "Why have we been brought here and shown this thing?"
"It does not correspond to the true state of affairs," I said. "It is the true state of affairs."
Ganelon turned toward us.
"On that shadow Earth we visited — where you had spent so many years — I heard a poem about two roads that diverged in a wood," he said. "It ends, 'I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.' When I heard it, I thought of something you had once said — 'All roads lead to Amber' — and I wondered then, as I do now, at the difference the choice may make, despite the end's apparent inevitability to those of your blood."
"You know?" I said. "You understand?"
"I think so."
He nodded, then pointed.
"That is the real Amber down there, isn't it?"
"Yes," I said. "Yes, it is."
- Random, Ganelon, and Corwin, Ch. 11
The Hand of Oberon (1976)[edit]
- About a week ago, brother Caine was murdered, under conditions arranged to show me as the culprit. The fact that I had slain his slayer was hardly satisfactory evidence of my innocence, in that the guy was necessarily in no condition to talk about it.
- Chapter 2
- [A] man should have the right to lead his own life without the meddling of relatives, no matter how well-intentioned.
- Chapter 3
- I closed my eyes, closed them to join her in darkness, to recall for a brief while the world where other messages than light waves took precedence.
- Chapter 4
- "Good evening. Lord Corwin," said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.
"Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?"
"A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful."
"You enjoy this duty?"
He nodded.
"I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here."
"Fitting, fitting," I said.
- Chapter 4
- "Anything you like. Have you any preferences? My flight from Chaos to this small sudden island in the sea of night? My meditations upon the abyss? The revelation of the Pattern in a jewel hung round the neck of a unicorn? My transcription of the design by lightning, blood, and lyre while our fathers raged baffled, too late come to call me back while the poem of fire ran that first route in my brain, infecting me with the will to form? Too late! Too late. . . Possessed of the abominations born of the disease, beyond their aid, their power, I planned and built, captive of my new self. Is that the tale you'd hear again? Or rather I tell you of its cure?"
My mind spun at the implications he had just scattered by the fistful. I could not tell whether he spoke literally or metaphorically or was simply sharing paranoid delusions, but the things that I wanted to hear, had to hear, were things closer to the moment. So, regarding the shadowy image of myself from which that ancient voice emerged, "Tell me of its cure," I said.
- Chapter 5
- I could not be truly harmed because the Pattern protects me, and who but I could harm the Pattern? A beautiful closed system, it seemed, its weakness totally shielded by its strength. ... My blood, with which I drew it, could deface it. But it took me ages to realize that the blood of my blood could also do this thing.
- Chapter 5
- I pointed Grayswandir at his eyes. "Talk is cheap," I said. "Whiskey costs money."
- Chapter 6
The Courts of Chaos (1978)[edit]
- I looked back once to the empty place where my dream had come true. Such is the stuff.
- Chapter 1
- Premonitions played tag in the grottoes of my mind, none of which I would have cared to take to lunch.
- Chapter 2
- Sometimes it's damned hard to tell the dancer from the dance.
- Chapter 5
- Do we make the Shadow worlds? Or are they there, independent of us, awaiting our footfalls? Or is there an unfairly excluded middle? Is it a matter of more or less, rather than either-or? A dry chuckle arose suddenly as I realized that I might never know the answer for certain.
- Chapter 6
- . . .And, as the Pattern in Rebma had helped to restore my faded memories, so this one I was now striving to create stirred and elicited the smell of the chestnut trees, of the wagonloads of vegetables moving through the dawn toward the Halles. . . I was not in love with anyone in particular at the time, though there were many girls — Yvettes and Mimis and Simones, their faces merge — and it was spring in Paris, with Gipsy bands and cocktails at Louis' . . . I remembered, and my heart leaped with a kind of Proustian joy while Time tolled about me like a bell. . . And perhaps this was the reason for the recollection, for this joy seemed transmitted to my movements, informed my perceptions, empowered my will . . .
- Chapter 9
- Good-bye and hello, as always.
- Chapter 13
The Second Chronicles of Amber[edit]
Trumps of Doom (1985)[edit]
- It was a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. But it was April 30, and of course it would happen like it always did.
- Opening words, Chapter 1
- Why couldn't you want a divorce, like any sensible young man?
- Chapter 6
- I shook out my cloak and brushed myself off. I traveled for perhaps half an hour then, leaving the place far behind me, before I halted and took my breakfast in a hot, bleak valley smelling faintly of sulfur.
As I was finishing, I heard a crashing noise. A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys.
I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another.
Blood of Amber (1986)[edit]
- We never used to word "love," though it must have ran through her mind on occasion, as it did through mine. It was, I suppose, that I didn't love her enough to trust her, and then it was too late.
- Chapter 4
Sign of Chaos (1987)[edit]
Knight of Shadows (1989)[edit]
Prince of Chaos (1991)[edit]
- See one coronation and you've seen them all. Sounds cynical and probably is, especially when the principal is your best friend and his queen's your inadvertent lover.
- Opening words, Chapter I
- Every time I complained about politics, here, in Amber, back in the States on the Shadow Earth, there was the automatic corollary of considering the way I'd manage situations if I were in charge.
- Chapter II
- "What brought all this on?"
"The higher order edition of the Pattern I encountered in the Jewel, actually. There were aspects of it I simply could not understand."
"Any conclusions?"
"I am wiser therefor."
"I mean, concerning the Pattern."
"Yes. Either it possesses a certain element of irrationality itself, like living things, or it is an intelligence of such an order that some of its processes only seem irrational to lesser beings. Either explanation amounts to the same from a practical standpoint."
- Chapter III
- I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something — or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
- Sometimes you hear an unlikely thing and that's all it is. Other times, you hear something improbable and it strikes an echo.
- Chapter IV
- I no longer felt my body. Time was an alien concept. The striving was no longer striving, but a form of elemental movement now, beside which glaciers rushed.
- Chapter V
- Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Chapter XI


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- living with the maasai. This series documents one family and its extremely remote village located south east of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. I came across the country to document this families day to day routine, staying with them for 3 days. I was interested in documenting how their nomadic life might be affected by the modern influences that encourage Maasai to abandon their traditions. This family however, kept to their nomadic lifestyle, only encouraging their elder to work selling jewellery in a Maasai market on the other side of the country. She remains as the only source of income. 2008 Digital Photography, Photography, Photojournalism
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- final liberation. This series was shot in 10 minutes as women and photographers are banned from the cremation ghats in Varanasi. With a little persuasion I was given 10 minutes to document the sacred open cremations that take place 24/7 in the holy city of Varanasi. 2008 Digital Photography, Photography, Photojournalism
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The Kibera Slum located 5 km southwest of Nairobi is made up of a number of villages. Together these villages account for 600,000 - 1.2 million people. Kibera accounts for less than 1% of Nairobi's total area but holds an astounding 1/4 of the population. Nairobi is victim to many slums, Kibera, being by far the largest one in the world. The land of the Kibera slums is government owned but provided with no public services. Technically the residents are squatters.
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It was a day of remembering the past.
"It will never leave you, NEVER!" comments Lamar Callahan a World War II Veteran.
"It sort of makes me nervous because it looks like it's never going to end," says Arthur King is a Korean and Vietnam War Veteran.
Like King, for many at the ceremony the "War on Terrorism" is a major concern.
"When you typically think about it," said Captain Jeffrey Dickman, the Commanding Officer at Meridian Naval Air Station, "a third of the Navy, is deployed at all times. Think how many Army and Air Force are overseas, oft times in harsh conditions."
While supporting military personnel now serving, those in attendance agree that much more must be done to help those who served in years past.
"When a veteran applies for anything, it takes a long time to get an answer said Veterans Service Officer Joseph Lemoine. Sometimes it takes four months, five months or even longer in some cases. Either there's not enough people working in administration, not enough doctors, there's something missing somewhere."
"What we need to do is make sure we keep our healthcare clinics, our regional offices, said retired Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery. We need more veterans fulltime workers to help take care of them."
Meanwhile, although a "War on Terrorism," is unlike conflicts from the past, veterans we spoke with say one thing will never change.
"You cannot take the scared out of people. It's going to be there. I can assure you," said World War II Veteran Earl Callahan.
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Police: Local drug trade tied to Mexican cartels
Dealers from big cities, Ohio part of elaborate organizations
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PARKERSBURG —Parkersburg police officers said they have identified several drug dealers in the area within the last five years that have confirmed ties with Mexican drug cartels....
The drug network is bigger than most people think it is. Dope has been around for a long time, and it will probably be around a lot longer. Well, as long as there are idiots who want to take it.
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These top drugs of abuse KILL people. Pot is another problem. People who smoke a lot of it destroy their ability to think and work. They want to lay about eating, giggling and watching thug TV.Don't decriminalize anything; just stop throwing users away in jails and set up mandatory treatment so they can become productive members of society.JMHO
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These drug cartels are likely "Illegal Immigrants" or what our pro-amnesty politicians refer to as "Undocumented Aliens".
There is another attempt in Congress to pass an "Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)". This legislation will include "Amnesty for +/-11,000,000 foreigners who entered country illegally. Previous (IRCA) failed because the Federal Government failed to secure our boeders.
Our system provides "Illegal Immigrants" many of the same benefits as American citizens including: Head Start, Supplemental food programs, Mediacal treatment and labor and delivery service, etc.
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A friend of mine said 'Marijuana is safe and not addictive'. He should know because he's smoked pot for years.
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theblueline: He had a hard time keeping a job and a wife!
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If anyone wants to know how to feel about this or what is right or wrong with America and the world just listen to Denver, he is a genius! Denver, you are my hero!
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there's a reason the one owner of the one mexican eatery was busted for some tax fraud. soon as people really understand that those places are nothing more than money laundering enterprises used by the cartel's, which just happen to operate at a profitt for them too boot. get rid of the illegals and so too will their own special kind of problems disappear.
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Reality,legalize marijuana as a medicinal drug like they have vicodan,xanax and *********and the drug problem will be solved!!! Right!!!! NAH!!!!!
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Wow great job figuring out that one Pkb Police Dept. a month ago I made a statement on this forum about the drug cartels being involved. It really took you guys this long to figure that out?
I also said not to get involve with them as they are very ruthless. Let the FBI handle it.
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I think the problem with pot vs. hard drugs is that pot (I believe this) is a gateway drug, sort of like beer would be a gateway drink.
I've done both. The first thing I ever drank was beer, but then I started to wonder if hard liquor would be "better". So, I tried liquor.
Likewise, when one smokes pot, the question is, would H, coke, meth, ect. be "better" (better meaning more of a high).
I know how lucky I was. I quit drinking because I didn't like it. However, after I tried pot for a little while, I hated it, and I never, ever, even wanted to try something more. I was afraid, thank the Good Lord, to try anything other than pot.
This was 40+ years ago! Right now my only vices are Coca Cola and chocolate. Would I ever drink or smoke pot again?? Not on your life, buster!!
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Blue Pkb does not have as much experience in dealing with these types of drug pushers as the LAPD has These people are branching out to "weaker" enforced areas. We have the Border Patrol, ICE, Sheriff, city and the Highway Patrol. We have weekly wars on our streets and you?
They are going for easy pickings...good luck
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Bake, this blue character that rides around the police force (changing his log on name again) likes to talk tough...no problems as I just got back from surfing in my make believe ocean this morning but didn't drown. Drinking and doing drugs... Not my thing either, just another excuse to do to get rid of boredom. Go to the gym, run in the woods or talk a walk for 30 minutes a day. You will feel better.
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Yak Yak Yak ANY law officer has my thanks.There human an make a mistake once in a while like anyone but they got more guts than most to do there job. THANKS
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Well said "marvin"
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Sadly, as a nation we learned nothing from prohibition. The fastest way to get people to do something is to tell them they can't. Just like drinking, a certain percentage of people will do drugs(legal or not) and a certain percentage won't.Some European countries that have decriminalized drugs have had useage drop, violence related to drugs drop, and revenue for the gov't increase. Maybe we should take note.
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Send them to Mexico they will kill them and we will not have to
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Enhanced process and product understanding are the basic tenets of Quality by Design (QbD). A QbD approach for setting specifications would involve harnessing this understanding not only from clinical and nonclinical data available for the product but also from other similar products. Manufacturing using meaningful, science-based specifications will ensure that we attain the optimal balance between manufacturing flexibility and product safety.
Regulatory procedures that influence specification setting for biotechnology-derived protein products, including the International Conference of Harmonization (ICH) guidelines, have been reviewed in the literature.5,6 In traditional manufacturing, specifications were set based on the small number of large-scale batches that had been manufactured before filing for regulatory approval. Each batch was then tested against those specifications to ensure product safety. In the QbD paradigm, however, prior knowledge can play a major role in setting specifications. This may result in broad specifications for attributes whose relationship to product safety and efficacy is well understood to not be significant through product-specific or platform data and relatively narrow specifications for attributes for which the impact on safety and efficacy is not fully understood or is found to be significant.7,8 Unlike in traditional manufacturing, product specifications under QbD are solely for confirmation of product quality because the process control strategy ensures that the specifications are met.
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SAN JOSE -- There were floats, bands, vintage cars, fire trucks and even an Elvis impersonator. Some of the loudest cheers on this gorgeous Fourth of July were for Polina Edmunds, the local Olympic figure skating standout.
But the star attraction at the Rose, White & Blue Parade was Joe Bell.
A 95-year-old World War II veteran who became a viral sensation earlier this year, Bell sat in the side car of a motorcycle driven by his son, Matt. And he was the only person to receive standing ovations as the parade meandered next to the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. Many applauding spectators got out of their chairs and off street curbs as Bell rode past.
"Thank you," he mouthed to the crowd, over and over, in a scene that captured the true essence of America's birthday.
Bell gained international fame back in March when he stood in front of his Rose Garden neighborhood home in an old uniform, cheering on participants in the 408k Race to the Row event. Mercury News reporter Julia Prodis Sulek captured on video the priceless sight of runners diverting off the course to shake his hand -- and it quickly became the hottest item on the Internet.
Friday was another chance to thank Bell for his service as he was honored as grand marshal.
"I usually just watch parades," said Bell, wearing his now-famous uniform. "But this is a real American way to celebrate, with a parade. It's one of the good things we do on the Fourth of July. We remember."
Across the South Bay, residents reveled in the nation's birthday in all the usual ways with picnics and festivals. Many people, of course, never left their backyards, enjoying frosty beverages and barbecues.
In Los Gatos, the town celebrated at Oak Meadow Park with food, music, games and face-painting for the kids.
"We're going for the family-friendly atmosphere," said Shelayne Hammack, the event coordinator. "We're probably a much different event than other cities because we don't have a parade. We're trying to capture the small-town, hometown flavor."
But it was a perfect day for a parade.
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"It's our birthday, and it's just a great way to celebrate our freedom and independence," said Uncle Sam, dressed in his traditional red, white and blue garb.
OK, when he's not role-playing, Uncle Sam goes by Michael G. Barnaba, 60, a local Realtor and board member of the Alameda Business Association, which sponsored the parade. Barnaba said he believes most people are a little more optimistic on this Fourth of July than in recent years.
"The economy is better and people feel like celebrating," he said. " Even the fireworks are back."
Ah, yes, the other signature event of Independence Day. San Jose's popular downtown fireworks extravaganza marked its return Friday. The event was canceled in 2009 -- an especially symbolic casualty of the recession when financially strapped City Hall even looked skyward to cut costs.
But the Rotary Club of San Jose led the effort to resurrect the aptly named Rotary Centennial Celebration Fireworks. With the club serving as the catalyst, it joined with the city, Santa Clara County and local companies to raise more than $140,000 for the show.
"We live in such a great city with wonderful diversity," said Marianne Salas, the event coordinator and wife of outgoing Rotary president Carl Salas. "We should be able to celebrate what we all have in common -- living in this country."
Residents also did that earlier in the day at the Rose, White & Blue Parade.
On Dana Avenue, across the street from the Rose Garden, Manuelita Casillas-Abud was watching in front of her home with four generations of family members. Her 93-year-old mother watched from the porch while a 6-year-old granddaughter danced around her legs.
"We made a big breakfast before this," said Casillas-Abud, 56. "Then the parade comes to us. So tell me, how much better can it get?"
Edmunds, 16, the figure skater who seemingly skyrocketed out of nowhere earlier this year to finish ninth at the Sochi Olympics, was feeling the same way as she sat on a float.
"It's definitely really cool," said Edmunds, who will be a junior at Archbishop Mitty in the fall. "I'm really happy to be here."
Also in the parade were NHL mascot S.J. Sharkie, a woman dressed as Betsy Ross and ... Santa? Yup. He was aboard the Christmas in the Park float.
"We've got all the elves busy up at the North Pole, so I'm traveling to celebrate the independence days of countries -- preferably in places with the best barbecue," Santa said in a rare interview. "You just can't get good pulled pork at the North Pole."
But even Santa took a back seat to Bell on this day.
"I've never done this before," he said. "It will be something to remember."
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STOCKTON — The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding a Stockton man who has been missing for 10 days.
Robert Picetti, 83, was last seen about 1:40 p.m. Nov. 27 at a Burger King restaurant in Lockeford with a man deputies have identified as Otilio Garcia.
Picetti was wearing a red flannel shirt, blue jeans, a tan and blue Dickies jacket and brown boots, authorities said. He is approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and 160 pounds with brown eyes, gray hair, a mustache and a small beard. Garcia has been questioned and is considered a person of interest, deputies said.
Authorities said Garcia and Picetti's pickup were seen about 6 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Clements County Market in Clements. Garcia was seen talking to an unidentified woman. Authorities have released the woman's photo in hopes that someone will recognize her.
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So he would have joined us except we did not get CL football. For anyone that thinks not getting CL football does not make a difference (although how anyone could think that is beyond me) this says it all.
Whether or not you think Hazzard is a great player is a different matter. The fact is Chelsea paid a fortune for him and he was linked to just about every top class team in the World so there are a lot of "experts" that do think he is that good - and we could have had him if only Arry had not made some bad tactical decisions.
He is the only one that has come out and said what
he has but how many others were there? Just goes to show how even one point can make such a huge difference. Will we get the chance of CL football again this year?? IMO unlikely.
Last point - we looked awful in the first half against QPR as Rambro has pointed out. When, eventually, AVB changed the team to a 4-4-2 and gave Defoe some support did we look like scoring. Why does he insist on leaving shorthouse Defoe on his own? I like Defoe and always thought he should get a decent run to show he is a natural goalscorer (a very rare talent these days) but he can't do it on his own.
When, or should I say "will", AVB stop thinking he knows it all and has some secret tactical superior knowledge and play a team that looks balanced?
IMO he has been lucky so far (we could very easily have lost 3 - 0 aginst QPR at home) and you cant win anything with luck on its own.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
jimmy pearce jimmy pearce Sep 26, 2012 14:05 Flag
I agree with both of you, Joe & SB...I guess we just have to see how this team evolves and be prepared to be flexible home and away...Parker may well be coming to the end of his first choice days, Sandro looks to be learning very fast but yes, we do seem to pick up our share of injuries...not sure how exactly Defoe/Ade will work out, 2 up front or not
Walker def gives us options with his pace from FB - but I love to see Lennon in full flow when he's 'on'!
I could see this working:
Kaboul Dawson Vert
Walker Bale
Sandro Parker
Dembele or Gylfi
Ade Defoe or Dempsey
Our current squad seems to offer many differing options, Maybe AVB will explore these in the weeks to come?
Maybe he'll stick to 4-4-2?
jimmy pearce jimmy pearce Sep 26, 2012 00:48 Flag
I like to play both Lennon and Bale but maybe, wth only one MF postion place up for grabs, Lennon needs to be sarificed and we pay a real front two of Defoe and Adebayor/Depsey...Lennon and Bale are electic but leave us short in the middle sometimes..and Walker can still threaten on the rght
i could have just seen harry going for joe cole over hazard because he is still a triffic player to have!
im a huge fan of sandro. we are very lucky to have 2 top DMs!
livermore is a handy 3rd choice cover. i dont think he will ever be good enough to be a main starter. but good as cover.
the DM role is very physical & tiring. so i think both will parker & sandro will get plenty of playing time.
also they are both bound to pick up injuries considering their type of play. i personally would go dembele & sandro.
against good teams u could go sandro dembele parker.
all good options.
SB Sfer,
Totally agree in your assessment of Jan, he looks to be a superb player. I can see him initiating things from the back as he seems so confident in possesion and moving up the pitch, great to see, delighted we got him.
The Hazzard interview made for dissappointing reading, of what could have been. Sfer, I am yet to read any negative comments about Hazzard, I think he may be a little keen to 'go down easy', I believe he's already won 3 pens?! But his quality cannot be questioned.
Jimmy, I think Sandro has a lot more to offer than Parker. He looks a much more rounded player, whilst Parker will run himself into the ground for the team and tackle anything that moves, Sandro is more complete, has a better range of passing and IMO could be used in more attacking role. IMO a midfield of Sandro, Parker and Moussa D would be efficient against the 'Bigger' teams. Although in general I see Parker being used less and less, as Sandro IMO has been impressive thus far, plus he appears to have formed a good understanding with Moussa.
I have a slight man crush on Dembele, IMO he looks so well rounded and 'elegant' on the ball, Ok I have been critisised for 'emotive' language in the past, so I'll knock it on the head.
jimmy pearce jimmy pearce Sep 25, 2012 18:07 Flag
do you think Parker will get back into this team..not that we're playing great at all, but I can't see him and Sandro together, unless we're away at United for example...can't see Dembele being left out, he's a breath of fresh air
Does that actually work?
I get something like SAOOT, which looks more like an Indian elephant driver to me.
SOT = Self absorbed, Over opinionated, Tw4tt.
yes true. he can also score headers from set pieces too.
i dont think avb likes slow players either. he tryed to get rid of dawson and hudd. the only reason hudd is coming on as sub is because livermore & parker are injured.
& dawsons only here because of kabouls long term injury.
i hope we keep dawson as back up but id like hudd to go.
SOT - Politely? Ho ho ho, you said '...please...'? ;-) Was that between the 'cute' words?
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You've met the right girl, second- and triple-guessed whether she's the right girl, and decided to butcher your savings. The average engagement ring is just over $4,000; be prepared to go higher, but remember that carat isn't the most important of the four Cs. Take her someplace intimate (read: not a sports stadium), look her in the eyes, and — while she gasps — realize you forgot to ask her father beforehand.
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Wise, Va. – Georgetown College scored 59 second half points and overcame a 13 point half time deficit to claim a 94-88 victory at the Prior Center on Monday. Garel Craig scored 26 points and made four consecutive free throws in the final minute to seal the victory for the Tigers.
Georgetown College (14-4, 6-4 Mid-South) shot 55.7 percent from the floor and 46.2 percent from distance to win its eighth game in nine contests. Vic Mosses added 23 points and 12 rebounds on 9-10 shooting. Monty Wilson rounded out a trio of 20 point scorers for the Tigers with 21 points on 7-13 shooting including a 3-5 performance from beyond the three point line.
UVa-Wise (9-6, 5-5 Mid-South) used 24 points and 11 rebounds from Deon Boyce and 21 points from Javon Moore to stay within striking distance throughout the second half. The Cavaliers appeared to be on the verge of blowing the Tigers out of the game in the first half as the host built an 18 point lead with just over three minutes to play in the half. By halftime, Georgetown had cut the deficit to 13.
The Tigers opened the second half on a 6-0 run and tied the game four minutes later with 14:57 to play. Georgetown continued the assault and gained its first lead since the early moments of the contest when Moses connected on a jumper to give his club a 59-58 lead.
The score remained within single digits for the remainder of the contest. UVa-Wise mounted one final run the final 90 seconds, Boyce made two free throws to reduce the Georgetown lead to six. Following a Tiger miss, Jermaine Wright answered with a bucket for the Cavs to make the score 88-84 Georgetown with just under a minute to play. Craig would be the calming answer for the Tigers as he made four free throws in the final minute to ice the game for the visitors.
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These ITS employees are students living in your dorms. They exist only to make your life easier, and they are equipped to handle any situation. Whether you need to set up your email, or if your word document just "disappeared," or even if you need help upgrading your computer, these individuals will be happy to lend a hand. Just give them a call or drop them a line. Anytime, day or night.
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Tallahassee, FL - Tiffany McCarty hasn't played a single minute of her senior year, yet she's still FSU's all-time leading goal scorer. But that accomplishment pales in comparison to what she really wants: a national title.
The taste of last year's Final Four loss is eroding by the day now that soccer practice is underway.
"Maybe just going forward this time, we're gonna put all the pieces right together and hopefully we can get a diffferent result when we go there," McCarty said.
The senior forward is one of seven seniors returning. Last year, they won the ACC tournament for the first time in school history, beating the storied North Carolina program along the way.
"The experience that they've gained over the course of their time here is invaluable and leadership quality is fantastic," Head Coach Mark Krikorian said.
Krikorian says it's not whether the Lady 'Noles have the talent, but it's how they use it.
"Our potential is really high. I think that we have a lot of depth, more depth than we've ever had before and I think the possibilities are really good."
The possibilities are better with the addition of Casey Short, a senior midfielder who was sidelined all of last season due to an injury.
"It is special. I'm used to being one of the younger ones. Now I'm a fifth-year senior, so I'm going to use my experience and be one of the leaders," Short said.
The Seminoles will be without junior defender Kassey Kallman for the first month of the season, at least. Kallman will join the U.S. U-20 World Cup team in mid-August in Japan.


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Our beloved mother Bonnie Marjorie McCaughan Northan passed away peacefully with her son Michael Northan by her side on Monday, November 26, 2012, at 4:55 p.m. in Reno, Nevada. Her unfailing sense of humor and love from family and friends helped her through a long battle with Parkinsons and cancer.
Bonnie, daughter of Edward Pitzer McCaughan and Marjorie Evelyn Roof McCaughan, was born in Oakland, California, on September 16, 1941, and spent most of her life on a peach and walnut ranch in Gridley, California. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a teaching credential from Chico State University. She taught elementary school for more than a decade in the Bay Area and Reno before returning to Gridley and eventually taking over the family ranch and her mother's bookkeeping service.
Bonnie was a generous, loyal, life-long friend to many in the Gridley community, where she was an energetic force in a variety of civic organizations such as Quota Club, Beta Sigma Phi, Tiny Tots, the PTA, Boy Scouts, soccer and any activity involving her sons. She loved trout fishing, baking, Frank Sinatra, and decorating the house for the holidays with an extensive collection of nativity scenes from her travels in Mexico and Europe.
She is survived and greatly missed by her sons Michael Gordon Northan and Brian Edward Northan, their father Gordon Northan, daughters-in-law Corrie Zam Northan and Amanda Johnson Northan, grandsons Caige and Greyson, brother Edward J. McCaughan and his partner John Kaine.
A memorial service will be held at the Presbyterian Church in Gridley on Saturday, December 22, 2012, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., followed by a celebration of her life at the Moose Lodge in Gridley.
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