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Today in History: February 11
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman,
March 6, 1934.
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
...when a law has outgrown time and necessity, it must go and the only way to get rid of the law is to awaken the public to the fact that it has outlived its purposes and that is precisely what I have been doing and mean to do in the future.
Emma Goldman, Letter to the Press, February 11, 1916.
Goldman Collection, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, presented online in The Emma Goldman Papers (external link), Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE (external link).
Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day, and birth control, was arrested in New York City on February 11, 1916, just prior to giving another public lecture on family planning. She was charged with violating the Comstock Act, an 1873 statute banning transportation of "obscene" matter through the mails or across state lines. At the time, federal courts interpreted the statute as prohibiting distribution of contraception information.
Goldman was born on June 27, 1869, in Kovno, a Russian city now part of Lithuania.Like most poor Russian Jews, Goldman's family suffered under the political oppression and anti-Semitism of imperial Russia. She fled Russia with her sister Helena in 1885, settled in Rochester, New York, and was briefly married to a fellow Russian immigrant. Goldman worked in a garment factory, and disillusioned with working conditions there, she joined the labor movement.
Goldman's political awakening continued. Her acceptance of anarchism--the belief that any form of government is unnecessary and undesirable--grew as a result of the persecution of anarchist and labor leaders of the Haymarket Affair of 1886-87.
Illinois vs. August Spies et al. Trial Evidence Book. Defense Exhibit 1.,
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
Goldman moved to New York City in 1889. Her abilities as a speaker and writer contributed to her prominence among political radicals.
In the 1890s, Goldman worked as a nurse and a midwife among poor immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side. She campaigned for legalized birth control, believing that contraception was essential to women's social, sexual, and economic freedom. Goldman was arrested twice (1915 and 1916) and imprisoned once (1916) for lecturing and distributing material in support of birth control.
Emma Goldman, Facing the Camera,
Chicago, Illinois, 1906.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
A co-founder of the No-Conscription League, in 1917, Goldman was again arrested—this time for speaking against the selective draft law . After two years in prison, she was deported to Russia in 1919. She lived and worked in Russia until 1921, when she left, disillusioned with the Russian Revolution.
Exiled from the United States, Emma Goldman traveled through Europe, delivering lectures as an advocate of anarchism and individual freedom. She lived for a time in St. Tropez, France, and in Canada, where she died in 1940.
- Read Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism, the Terrible Triplets, Connected By the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed From the Same Nursing Bottle (1915) by Benjamin Vestal Hubbard. Chapter V, "Race Suicide-Its Suggestion and Approval," of this anti-suffrage tract contains a section discussing the negative social effects of birth control. Emma Goldman is mentioned on page 192 of this chapter. The document is available through the collection Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.
- Read "The County Health Nurse." This interview with a Depression era public health nurse is one of many perspectives available in the American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940 collection.
- See Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887 for images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair.
- View actuality films from The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 to see commercial activities on the Lower East Side where Goldman was an activist. Search, for example, on immigrants to view life in the city.
- Search on lower east side in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog to view hundreds of images of this part of New York City.
- Additional Today in History features highlighting American radicals include Anne Hutchinson, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.


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Belmont Park will host the inaugural Belmont Food Truck Festival presented by Smirnoff Sorbet Light on Saturday, May 25, giving patrons the opportunity to select from a wide array of enticing culinary offerings.
The food trucks will be open in the Belmont backyard from 11 a.m. until post time for the last race, which is scheduled for 5:49 p.m. General admission into Belmont Park is $3 and grants full access to all of the food trucks. General parking is free.
The following food trucks are scheduled to participate in the festival (subject to change):
Also on May 25, Belmont Park will conduct the Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay for fillies and mares at 1 3/8 miles on the turf and present a $300,000 Guaranteed Late Pick 4. Every Saturday Belmont Park presents a Farmer's Market, with local purveyors of certified organic vegetables and greens, poultry, eggs, bakery items, pickles, and fresh fish and shellfish offering their goods.
The Belmont spring/summer meet runs through July 14. Live racing is generally conducted Wednesday through Sunday. Belmont Park will be open on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, with no live racing on Tuesday and Wednesday that week. Belmont Park will also be closed for live racing on Sunday, June 9, and Wednesday, July 10.
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Annual run benefits families with seriously ill children
The memory of a young Carlsbad man who died in 2008 will be kept alive Feb. 2 in a run that benefits families who have children with serious health issues.
"We've walked the walk and know what many of these families are going through," said Carlsbad resident Beth Thorp, who with her husband, Brad, created the Mitchell Thorp Foundation in memory of their son.
While the couple was caring for Mitchell and desperately trying to find a diagnosis for his head pains, the community held a walk-a-thon to support the family in 2006. After her son died three years later, Thorp said, they formed the foundation to extend the love and support they felt from the event.
The foundation has helped more than 30 families since 2010 by paying various expenses that parents cannot make, often because they are taking time off work to provide round-the-clock care for their sick child.
"There's a lot of nonprofits to raise money for cures, but nothing really goes to the day-to-day needs of these families," Thorp said.
The foundation doesn't provide cash to families, but rather pays for medical equipment not covered by insurance, medical co-payments, hotels, meals, transportation, sibling care, rent and other expenses.
Thorp said last year's "Whole Lot of Hope" 5K run/walk raised $170,000, and this year's event will help pay expenses for 12 families, including two from North County — Rebecca Edgin, 15, a Carlsbad High freshman and cheerleader with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and Amanda Barvinchak, 18, a former track star at Rancho Bernardo High School diagnosed with bone cancer last May, a month before her graduation.
Parents of the youths have had to take time off from work to care for their daughters, and the foundation has helped pay some of their expenses.
"They helped me pay part of my rent for November and December, which is really nice," said Rebecca's mother, Michelle Edgin.
The single mother of three, who is an emergency room nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas, has often missed work over the past few months to care for Rebecca. Unexpected expenses for Edgin in the past month have included chemotherapy, medication and trips to the hospital for her daughter.
Barvinchak's mother, Kim, had to leave her substitute teaching job in the Poway Unified School District to care for her daughter.
"We were really struggling, and the Mitchell Thorp Foundation helped us with a couple of months' rent, which was really great," she said.
Amanda Barvinchak was a track star in high school and was planning to attend the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship when she was diagnosed.
"She wants to get to college," her mother said about how her daughter stays motivated through her treatment. "This has been kind of her carrot."
Amanda is not just determined to attend college, but to run again, despite having her fibula, or calf bone, removed.
"She can't lift her foot, but we're hoping for the nerve graft to take to take soon," Barvinchak said about a procedure done on Amanda. "Her goal is to run sprints again."
Barvinchak said Amanda plans to participate in the walk Feb. 2.
Edgin said her daughter, Rebecca, began getting sick on Sept. 9. A trip to the emergency room found something abnormal on an x-ray, and a CT scan detected a large mass in her chest, leading to the diagnosis of leukemia.
Amanda had been a cheerleader at school, but has not attended class since becoming ill. She was in the hospital for half of December.
Edgin said physicians hope to do a bone-marrow transplant if they can find a donor, and her twin brother and sister are scheduled to have their blood drawn this week to see if they are matches.
Assistance from the foundation may help the family get through the recovery period following the transplant, Edgin said.
"I've tried to continue working, but it's really hard being a single parent living off disability," she said, adding that she is eligible for four more weeks of payment.
The fourth annual "Whole Lot of Hope" 5K run/walk is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Feb. 2 at Poinsettia Park's Thorp Field.
This year's event will feature a kids run, a performance by the Carlsbad High School band, a DJ, cheerleaders, raffle, vendors and other entertainment.
The entry fee is $35 in advance and $45 on the day of the run. Registration materials are available at


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Connecting All the Dots
By templedf on Jan 06, 2009
The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning.
One of the new offerings from Sun is the Sun HPC Software. Beneath the excessively generic name is a complete, integrated stack of HPC software components. Currently there are two editions: the Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition (aka Project Giraffe) and the Sun HPC Software, Solaris Developer Edition. (A Sun HPC Software, Solaris Edition and Sun HPC Software, OpenSolaris Edition will be following shortly.) The Linux edition is exactly what the name implies. It's a full stack of open source HPC tools bundled into a Centos image, ready to push out to your cluster. The Solaris developer edition is a slightly different animal. It is targeted at developers interested in writing HPC applications for Solaris. The Solaris developer edition is a virtual machine image (available for VMware and Virtual Box) that includes Solaris 10 and a pre-installed suite of Sun's HPC products, including Sun Grid Engine, Sun HPC ClusterTools, Sun Studio, and Sun Visualization, all integrated together.
For this demo, I used the Solaris developer edition. The end goal was to produce a version of the virtual machine image that was capable of automatically borrowing resources from a local pool or from the cloud in order to test or deploy developed HPC applications. Inside the developer edition virtual machine, there are already two Zones that act as virtual execution nodes for testing applications. That's a nice start, but what about testing on real machines or a larger number of machines? That's where the resource borrowing comes in. In the end, I had a VM image that was capable of automatically borrowing and releasing resources first from a local pool and later from the cloud, on demand.
The first step was to get the developer edition running as-is. Sounded simple enough. The first wrinkle was that I was doing this demo on a Mac. The regular VMware Player is not available for Mac, so I had to download an eval copy of VMware Fusion. Once I had Fusion installed, I was able to bring up the developer edition VM without a hitch.
Step 2 was to get the VM networked. The network configuration for the developer edition beta 1 is such that the global and non-global Zones can see each other, but nobody can get into or out of the VM. Getting the networking working was probably the hardest part of the demo, and honestly, I can't tell you how I finally did it. Per the suggestion of the pop-up dialogs from VMware, I installed the VMware Tools in the VM's Solaris instance. That changed the name of the primary interface from pcn0 to vmxnet0, but didn't actually help. Solaris was still unable to plumb the interface. After twiddling the VM's network settings several times and doing several reconfiguration boots, I eventually ended up with a working vmxnet1 interface (and a dead pcn0 and vmxnet0). As usual in such adventures, I'd swear that the last thing I did before it started working should not have had any appreciable effect. Oh, well. It worked, and I wasn't interested in understanding why.
Now that I had a functional network interface, the next step was to reinstall the Sun Grid Engine product. The VM comes with a preinstalled instance, but this demo requires features not enabled in a default installation, like what the VM provides. I left the original cell (default) intact and installed a new cell (hpc) with the -jmx and -csp options. -jmx enables the Java thread in the qmaster that serves up the JGDI API over JMX. I needed JGDI so that the demo GUI that I was building could receive event updates from the qmaster about job and host changes. With Sun Grid Engine 6.2, I was unable to successfully connect to the JMX server unless I installed the qmaster with certificate-based security, hence the -csp option. After the installation was complete, I then had to do the usual CSP certificate juggling, plus a new wrinkle. In order to connect to the JMX server, I also had to create a keystore for the connecting user with $SGE_ROOT/util/sgeCA/sge_ca -ks <user>. There's a quirk to the sge_ca -ks command, though. By default, it fails, explaining that it can't find the certificates. The reason is that the path to the certificates is hard-coded in the sge_ca script to a ridiculous default value. To change it to the correct value, I had to use the -calocaltop switch. After the certificates were squared away, I installed execution daemons in both Zones. At least that part was easy.
The next thing I did was to create some more Zones. Yes, I know this demo was supposed to be using real machines from a local pool and the cloud. Because it's a demo on a laptop, the "local machines" had to be equally portable. Because of firewall issues, I also wanted to have a backup for the cloud. In an effort to be clever, I moved the file systems for the two existing Zones onto their own ZFS volumes. I wanted to create the new Zones as cloned snapshots of the old Zones. Unfortunately, it turns out that even though the man page for zfs(1M) says that it's possible, the version of Solaris installed in the VM is the last version on which it isn't possible. After chasing my tail a bit, I decided to just do it the old fashioned way instead of trying to force the new fangled way to work.
Now that I had six non-global Zones running, the next step was to get Service Domain Manager installed. It is neither installed nor included in the developer edition VM, so I had to scp it over from my desktop. Technically, I could probably have managed to download it directly from the VM, but I had already downloaded it to my desktop before I started. For the Service Domain Manager installation, I followed Chansup's blog rather than the documentation. Chansup's blog posts detail exactly what steps to follow without the distraction of all the other possibilities that the docs explain. Following the steps in the blog, I was able to get the Service Domain Manager master and agents installed with little difficulty. The hardest part is that the sdmadm command has extremely complicated syntax, and it took a while before I could execute a command without having the docs or blog in front of me as a reference. To prove that the installation worked, I manually forced Service Domain Manager to add one of the new Zones to the existing Sun Grid Engine cluster, and much to my shock and wonderment, it worked.
The last step of VM (re)configuration was to configure the Service Domain Manager with a local spare pool and a cloud spare pool and a set of policies to govern when resources should be moved around. This step proved about as tricky as I expected. As one of the original architects and developers of the product, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do and how to make it happen, but the syntax and the details were still problematic. The syntax was the first hurdle. The docs have issues with both understandability and accuracy, and Chansup's blog was too narrowly focused for my purposes. After I poked around a bit, I figured out how to do what I wanted, but actually doing it was the next challenge. What I wanted to do was create two MaxPendingJobsSLO's...
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What I wanted to do was create two MaxPendingJobsSLO's for the Sun Grid Engine instance. The first would post a moderate need (50) when the pending job list was more than 6 jobs long. The second would post a high need (99) when the pending job list was more than 12 jobs long. I also wanted to have a local spare pool with a low (20) PermanentRequestSLO and a low FixedUsageSLO, and a cloud spare pool with a moderate (60) PermanentRequestSLO and a moderate FixedUsageSLO. The idea was that when the Sun Grid Engine cluster was idle, all the resources would stay where they were. When the pending job list was longer than 6 jobs, resources would be taken from the local spare pool. When the pending job list was longer than 12 jobs, additional resource would be taken from the cloud spare pool. When the pending job list grew shorter, the resources would be returned to their spare pools. In theory. (The philosophy of setting up Service Domain Manager SLOs is a full topic unto itself and will have to wait for another blog post.)
The first problem I ran into was that Service Domain Manager does not allow a spare pool to have a FixedUsageSLO. An issue has been filed for the problem, but that didn't help me set up the demo. The result was that I had no way to force Service Domain Manager to take the local spare pool resources before the cloud spare pool resources. The best I could do was set the averageSlotsPerHost value for the SLO for the MaxPendingJobsSLO's to a high number so that Service Domain Manager only would take hosts one at a time, rather than one from each spare pool simultaneously.
The nest problem was quite unexpected. With the SLOs in place, I submitted an array job with 100 tasks. I waited. Nothing happened. I waited some more. Still nothing happened. I turns out that the MaxPendingJobsSLO only counts whole jobs, not job tasks like DRMAA would. The work-around was easy. I just had to be sure the demo submitted enough individual jobs instead of relying on array tasks.
The last problem was one that I had been expecting. After a long pending job list had caused Service Domain Manager to assign all the available resources to the cluster, when the pending job list went to zero, the borrowed resources didn't always end up where they started. Service Domain Manager does not track the origin of resources. Fortunately, the issue is resolved by an easy idiom. I created a source property for every resource, and I set the value of the property to either "cloud", "spare", or "sge". I then set up the spare pools' PermanentRequestSLO's to only request resources with appropriate source settings. I also added a MinResourceSLO for the cluster that wants at least 2 resources that didn't come from a spare pool, just to be complete.
With the SLOs in place, the configuration actually did what it was supposed to. When the cluster had enough pending jobs, hosts were borrowed first from the local spare pool and then from the cloud. When the pending jobs were processed, the resources went back to the appropriate spare pools. To make the configuration more demo-friendly, I changed the sloUpdateInterval for the Sun Grid Engine instance to a few seconds (from the default of a few minutes). I also changed the quantity for the spare pools' PermanentRequestSLO's to 1 so that they would only reclaim their resources one at a time, rather than all at once. With those last changes made, I was ready to move on to the UI.
The idea of the demo was to present a clear graphical representation of what was going on with Sun Grid Engine and Service Domain Manager. From past experience building a similar demo for SuperComputing, I knew that JavaFX™ Script was the best tool for the job. (OK. It's not the best tool for the job in a general sense, but I'm a long-time Java™ geek, I don't know Flash, and I didn't have any budget to buy tools. Under those constraints, it was the best I could do.) Before I could get to building the UI, though, I first needed a JGDI shim to talk to the qmaster. Richard kindly provided me with some JGDI sample code, and from there it was pretty easy. The hardest part was figuring out what the events actually meant. In the end, my shim registered for job add events (to recognize job submissions), task modified events (to recognize job tasks being scheduled), and job deleted events (to recognize job completions). It also registered for host added and deleted events to recognize when Service Domain Manager reassigned a host.
With the shim working smoothly, I turned to the actual UI. Given the complexity of the animations that I wanted to do, it was shockingly simple to achieve with JavaFX Script, especially considering that there was not yet a graphical tool equivalent to Matisse for Swing. Every bit of it was hand-coded, but it still was fast, easy, and came out looking great. In the end, the whole UI, counting the shim, was about 1500 lines of code, and about 500 lines of that was the shim. (JGDI is rather verbose, especially when establishing a connection to the qmaster.)
And with that, I ran out of time. The next step would have been to actually populate the cloud spare pool with machines provisioned from the cloud. Torsten graciously provided me a Solaris AMI that included Sun Grid Engine and Service Domain Manager. The plan was to pre-provision two hosts to populate the pool and then create a script that would provision an additional host each time the cloud pool dropped below two hosts and release a host every time it grew larger than two hosts. Now that the demo has been presented, the pressure is off, and other things are higher priority. I do plan, however, to eventually come back and put the last piece of the puzzle in place.
Below is a video of the demo, showing how jobs can be submitted from the Sun Studio IDE, and how Sun Grid Engine and Service Domain Manager work together with the local spare pool and the cloud to handle the workload. The job that is being submitted is a short script that submits eight sleeper jobs. Because the MaxPendingJobsSLO ignores array tasks, I needed to submit a bunch of individual jobs, but I didn't want to have to click the submit button multiple times in the demo.
Filming the video turned out to be an interesting challenge unto itself. I did the screencap using Snapz Pro on the Mac. It has no problem with JavaFX Script or with VMware VMs, but it apparently can't film JavaFX Script running inside a VMware VM. I ended up having to twiddle the UI a bit so that I could run it directly on the Mac. That's why in the demo, when I switch from Sun Studio to the UI, I swap Mac desktops instead of Solaris workspaces. The voice over and zooming effects are courtesy of Final Cut, by the way.


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- We get so many scans at the doctor's and, now, the airport. How worried should we be?
- We get so many scans at the doctor's and, now, the airport. How worried should we be?
- We have a shot to head off cervical cancer. Are more vaccines on the way?
- We have a shot to head off cervical cancer. Are more vaccines on the way?
- Why is breast cancer in young women so much harder to treat?
- Why is breast cancer in young women so much harder to treat?
- How close are we to finding a cure?
- How close are we to finding a cure?
We get so many scans at the doctor's and, now, the airport. How worried should we be?
Probably less worried than we are. It's true, young women are more susceptible to radiation; damage adds up over time, and monthly breast swelling leaves cells more vulnerable to the rays. This is why doctors don't usually suggest mammograms before age 40. But a recent study tracking 130,000 women 40 and older found that when they were invited to have regular mammograms, they had a 30 percent lower breast cancer death rate compared with those who weren't screened, says coauthor Robert A. Smith, Ph.D., director of Cancer Screening at the American Cancer Society (ACS). The number of lives saved by detection far exceeds those harmed by mammography's radiation, he says.
It's important to keep our exposures in perspective, says Richard Morin, Ph.D., chair of the American College of Radiology Safety Committee. "Our everyday dose in general is not zero," he notes. Natural radiation emanates from concrete walls and the potassium in bananas. Because granite contains radon, hiking in the Appalachians would expose you to more rays in 30 minutes than one mammogram would.
Scans add to normal exposures, but some pack more of a wallop than others. A chest X-ray equals about the same radiation dose people receive naturally every 10 days. A mammogram is also fairly low-dose, equaling about what you'd get in three months. But a total body CT, promoted by some centers as a way to check for cancer, exposes you to 100 times as much radiation as a chest X-ray. (As for full-body airport scans, you can relax; a 2011 study in Archives of Internal Medicine calculated that 4,000 of them equal the dose of a single mammo.)
Simple steps can manage your risk. To keep mammogram radiation low, skip thyroid shields. "They often get in the way, and you have to repeat the test," says Chris Flowers, M.D., director of breast imaging at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. If your physician orders a scan you're unsure about, particularly a CT, ask if it's truly needed. Or could she do an ultrasound or MRI, neither of which uses radiation? New lower-dose CTs exist, so see if that's an option. Assuming a scan is warranted, Morin says, "rest assured that the benefit of answering the question, Do you have cancer? is far greater than the risk of the test." —Anna Maltby
We have a shot to head off cervical cancer. Are more vaccines on the way?
Cancer caused by a virus: It sounds scary, but the discovery has already paved the way to better prevention—and not only of cervical cancer. Experts have proven that viruses are culprits in about 15 to 20 percent of all cancer cases. In addition to the link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer, they've tied hepatitis B to liver cancer, Epstein Barr to certain lymphomas and human herpesvirus 8 to a form of soft-tissue sarcoma.
Could breast cancer be next? In preliminary findings presented at the 2011 Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Research Forum, researchers looking for viruses in tissue taken at the time of lumpectomy or mastectomy surgery discovered that bovine leukemia virus was present in 58 percent of samples. (BLV is commonly found in cattle; scientists don't yet know how humans get it but don't urge giving up beef or dairy.)
The presence of the virus doesn't mean it triggers cancer. "We have to look at tissue in women who have never been diagnosed with breast cancer to see if the virus is there with the same frequency," says Gertrude Case Buehring, Ph.D., professor of virology at the University of California in Berkeley and coinvestigator with Kimberly Baltzell, Ph.D., of the University of California in San Francisco. "If it is, then BLV is probably harmless, what we call a passenger virus"—a bug that turns up in tumors but doesn't contribute to disease.
Because so many patients' tissue had BLV, she adds, "if this virus played a causative role, it could be responsible for a large portion of breast cancers and important to study further." It took 20 years to prove HPV strains cause cervical cancer, so answers won't come quickly. But the tantalizing notion of intercepting the transmission of cancer before it happens should keep researchers hot on the case. —Dina Roth Port
Why is breast cancer in young women so much harder to treat?
Breast cancer is less common in young women than it is in older women, but tragically, when young women do get it, they are more likely to die, ACS stats reveal. For one reason, young women are less likely to have had their cancers detected early by mammography. But researchers suspect there's more than mere screening at work—and they are looking deep inside cancer cells for clues.
Three kinds of tumors are more treatment-friendly: those with estrogen receptors and those with progesterone receptors, both of which can be treated with antihormonal therapies, and those that make too much of a protein called HER2, which doctors treat with Herceptin. Young women often develop aggressive tumors without any of these advantageous features, called triple-negative tumors.
By studying triple-negative tumor tissue, scientists hope to ID any genetic errors within and find drugs to fight them. Antiandrogen drugs, used for prostate cancer, might work: About 10 percent of triple-negative tumors have androgen receptors, says Clifford Hudis, M.D., chief of the Breast Cancer Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Researchers also want to know why young women tend to get aggressive tumors in the first place. One intriguing theory is that tumors suppress the immune system. For some reason, this suppression is stronger in younger women, says Virginia Borges, M.D., who runs a young women's breast cancer program at the University of Colorado Cancer Center Clinic. Dr. Borges and her codirector, Pepper Schedin, Ph.D., are also investigating the idea that during breast feeding, the process of weaning and returning the breast to normal can cause tumors to grow faster and become more aggressive. The hope is that scientists could pinpoint drug therapies to reduce this effect and improve outcomes in new mothers with cancer.
We've never been closer to uncovering the secrets inside women's tumors, says Rita Nanda, M.D., a breast cancer specialist at the University of Chicago Medical Center. But if you're a young woman with the disease, scientists can't do it without you. "I always encourage patients to participate in trials," she says. "The more who take part, the more we learn." —Sue Rochman
How close are we to finding a cure?
"Oncologists rarely use the word cure. We joke that it's a four-letter word," says Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer for the ACS. "You can't know if a person is cured unless they live a long life and die of something unrelated." Yet these days, many people with low-stage cervical, breast and lung cancers, as well as lymphoma, go on to do exactly that.
The term cure can also be misleading because "we are really looking for multiple different cures," explains Eric Winer, M.D., director of the breast oncology center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. There are more than 200 kinds of cancer and even more subtypes on a molecular level. "We need specifically tailored treatments to be most effective," says Myra Biblowit, president of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. A genomic test called Oncotype DX, for example, is helping doctors evaluate how responsive to chemotherapy a cancer is likely to be—sparing patients unnecessary misery. For those with chronic myeloid leukemia, the drug Gleevec fights the disease based on the tumor's genetic profile.
More hope: Although select cancers might be cured in the next 15 to 20 years, experts believe we'll eventually consider most cancers to be chronic illnesses. "Ultimately, we'll be able to treat cancer the way we treat diabetes. We can hold the disease at bay and allow the patient to coexist with it and have a good quality of life," Dr. Brawley says.
Still, researchers warn we shouldn't focus so heavily on a cure that we ignore the best tool in our arsenal: prevention. "Once a tumor has formed, we've lost half the battle," says Sara Sukumar, Ph.D., professor of oncology and pathology and codirector of the breast cancer program at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. "If it's never allowed to exist at all, then we've won." —D.R.P.


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Oh. My. God. I adore the story, the characters, the descriptions, everything. Made me laugh and cry. This book tells the story of widowed Heidi who travels with Abbott, her troubled eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. The rundown stone house in Provence has been in the family for generations and the family tells and retells stories of the magical properties entwined around the old stones. But soon Charlotte makes a shocking confession and Heidi learns the truth about her mother's 'lost summer' -- a time Heidi and her sister had learned not to ask about many years ago. And as three generations collide with one another, with the neighbour next door who seems to know all their family secrets, and with an enigmatic Frenchman, they'll journey through love, loss, and healing amid the lavender fields, warm winds, and the delicious pistou soup of Provence. Who could resist? A delightful, heart-warming read.
This book has also been published in the UK under the title 'Fallen Angel', and both are now hard to find, but I'm telling you to track it down wherever you can! A wonderfully thrilling and lush story about journalist Sophie who sets out to research an article in modern-day London and soon discovers herself being drawn into a story of three sisters in 17th-century London, whose love for each other was torn apart by an angel. Not plague, nor Paradise Lost, nor the Great Fire of London can prevent the youngest from trying to save her sisters as they sink deeper and deeper into the angel′s seductions. And Sophie herself passes the point of no return... Wow. Just - wow.
This is a glorious story about history, wicthes, and alchemy. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels... and what happens next? You won't be able to put this book down until you find out.
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, by Linda Olsson.
Gentle, lovely, beautiful beautiful writing. This is a story about Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, who rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel and hide from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who's lived in the village all her life. We see the flowering of their unusual and tender friendship, while the powerful presence of the Swedish landscape measures the progress of the relationship - as the icy winter and bare trees give way to spring and then summer, the women's friendship deepens. As they share the tragedies of their past and hope for the future, they grow closer, and find peace within themselves. Gorgeous.
Another gorgeous lovely book (that seems to be a theme for today!). Set in Paris, it's the story of a group of characters, some who know each other, some who don't, yet they all end up intertwined in the most touching way. I adore this book and was thrilled to meet Marion Halligan a couple of years ago, soon after I'd read it. I don't mind admitting that I went a bit fan-girly and speechless trying to tell her what this book means to me! She's the most charming lovely lady, and talking to her was an honour I think of every time I see my signed copy on the shelf at home.
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Urban Meyer and the hows and "waahs" of recruiting
The Columbus Dispatch - February 02, 2012 11:09 AM
In light of recent comments by Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema – who suggested that Urban Meyer's recruiting tactics were "illegal" -- and Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi – who said Meyer won't be making many friends if he continues flipping recruits to Ohio State – it is instructive to dig deeper into the whole recruiting game.
One thing always to remember is that the vanquished – in this case both Wisconsin and MSU, which both lost highly-touted recruits to the Buckeyes – often become sore losers. The other important part of recruiting is that, like a race, it's not where you start but where you finish.
As OSU athletic director Gene Smith pointed out last July, when addressing worries that NCAA infractions might damage the Buckeyes' recruiting success, "February is signing date. Don't ever forget that."
As I wrote in today's column, recruiting too often gets framed in terms of how schools "did" on signing day, when really the focus should be on whether the high school student made the correct decision for him.
"The reason you have the rules you do (about being able to break a verbal commitment) is to protect the kid," said Big Ten Network analyst Gerry DiNardo. "It would not be fair to deny that kid a chance to change his mind just because he did not think one school was better for him than another at a previous time."
As for coaches swooping in to try to change a recruit's mind, DiNardo said, basically, that all is fair in love and recruiting.
"If Mark and Jim had a gentleman's agreement then I have no problem with that," DiNardo said, referring to Narduzzi's comments that MSU coach Mark Dantonio and former OSU coach Jim Tressel agreed not to contact each other's recruits once the players had committed verbally.
But to insist that such an agreement should occur across the conference is unrealistic, DiNardo added.
"My first year in the Big Ten (at Indiana), some coaches said, 'Hey, by the way, for you new guys, we've all agreed not to call prospects in May.' I'm at Indiana, and I'm not making a phone call to recruits in May? Just because it came down to Lloyd Carr and John Cooper did not want to make phone calls in May? The heck with that. I said, "I have enough bosses on campus, I don't need 10 more.' "
DiNardo summarized the situation of coaches "stealing" other school's recruits this way: "It is a matter of the prospect's integrity. If he or she has the opportunity to make a decision, and at times change his or her mind, that's where the integrity lies. If it's your son or daughter, the reality is that opportunities are different on Feb. 1 (signing day) from what they are on Dec. 1 or Jan. 1. It's the real world."
Before DiNardo moved into television, he coached college football at Indiana and LSU, which gives him perspective on how recruiting works in both the SEC and Big Ten.
"I think there is more of a premium on the ability of the head coach and his staff members to be good recruiters in the SEC than in any other conference," he said, being careful not to single out the Big Ten as being inferior. "The best recruiting in the country is done by SEC rock star recruiters who demand round-the-clock work by their staffs. It's endless, and the competition is fierce."
Ohio State co-defensive coordinator Luke Fickell also chimed in on the issue of whether it is OK for a coach to go after a recruit who already has committed elsewhere.
Fickell explained that relationships don't end just because a recruit chooses a different school. He said he continued to communicate with Dublin Coffman graduate Brady Quinn even after Quinn committed to Notre Dame.
As for the comments by Narduzzi, who Fickell considers a good friend, the Buckeyes coach did not know the particulars of any such agreement between Tressel and Dantonio. But he did stress that recruiting practices under Meyer are no different than they were under Tressel.


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The area making up Coy Pond Gardens covers Coy Pond itself and the open space formerly known as Surrey Road Gardens being, in effect, the uppermost part of the pleasure gardens that border the Bourne Stream on its journey to the sea at Bournemouth Pier.
On 3rd December 1935 the gardens were leased for 999 years from Robert Ives and Frederic Ray Eaton, both of Norfolk. Prior to this not much is written about them. In 1940 they were turned over, in part, to allotments, contributing to the war effort. Permission was granted to return the remaining 18 plots to Pleasure Gardens in 1851. Since then they have provided local people and visitors with a valuable sanctuary, laid mainly to grass and planted with weeping willow and alder.
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As a college junior, I have experienced end-of-semester stress countless times. You know the feeling: Everything piles up until there seems to be more work in the last week of school than in all the preceding weeks combined…
I used to get so overwhelmed that I would chug energy drinks all day and study all night. Come exam time? I'd be too tired to focus.
But no more. I've learned. And you can, too.
Here are seven secrets to taking on finals week and finishing the semester strong.
- 1. Create a to-do list. Include all of the assignments you have to complete. Write assignments down in order of their importance and due dates. Set a goal for how many assignments you want to complete each day. You'll be surprised at how much more effectively you're managing your time.
- 2. Avoid unnecessary distractions. Stay off Facebook, turn off your cell phone, and stay away from the TV. Yes, these are all ways to relax. But they'll derail your schedule, set you back on your school work, and cause you to be more stressed in the long run, not less.
- 3. Stay away from energy drinks. Sure, they may give you a bit of a jolt, but in the end, you'll crash. And then? You've got another stressor on your hands – fatigue.
- 4. Go for a run instead. Running will help get your adrenaline flowing and clear your mind , replacing anxiety and stress with a sense of calm and purpose.
- 5. Eat fresh, nutritious food. Have you ever tried to study while your stomach was growling? Eating well also helps give you the physical stamina and enhanced brain power you need to put in a good day's work.
- 6. Get a good night's sleep. An all-nighter here and there during finals week is not out of line. But while it may seem like a good idea at the time – a reasonable way to get in more study time or complete an extra assignment – pulling an all-nighter is actually counter-productive. Without a good night's sleep, you'll be too tired to perform well on your exams.
- 7. Breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. Relax – you're almost through. If you've paid attention and done well throughout the semester, then finals should be no problem for you. And remember, once all of your exams and projects are done, you'll be free to enjoy your summer.
By Guest Blogger Kimberly Erskine I ROWAN UNIVERSITY:Currently her university's Social Media Coordinator. Near-perfect GPA. Made it to Round Three of Charlie Sheen's #TigerBloodIntern contest. This media-savvy girl – who dreams of becoming a successful writer and has just published her first major article – is seriously cool.


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'Arrow' Recap, Season 2, Episode 7, 'State vs Queen'
Before we get to the "Arrow" recap, I wanted to pass along a quick bit of DC Comics on TV news. The CW and DC have been working toward introducing a new, very famous, superhero to TV. Barry Allen aka: The Flash, is due to make guest appearances on "Arrow" this season. The hope had been that eventually there would be an episode of "Arrow" which would serve as a launching point for a Flash series. The executive producers behind "Arrow" would also be working on Flash. Well, Arrow is doing so well in the ratings and the show is having so much success introducing DC comic book characters that the CW decided there was no reason to take an entire episode of "Arrow" to launch The Flash. Barry Allen, minus his speedster powers, will still show up some this season on "Arrow," but it appears The Flash will have a series all by itself, not launched via an "Arrow" episode.
Whatever… let's get to our Green Hooded archer.
The title of tonight's episode makes it clear that this will be the story of Moira's murder trial for the destruction of The Glades. The episode starts with the events of last season, where Moira told the city about the plot. We see prison guards fleeing the Glades, leaving the prisoners behind. The Count (actor Seth Gabel, of "Fringe" fame) is among the inmates left behind. The earthquake sets The Count free, He lets some other prisoners out too.
Back in the present, Oliver and Thea show up for the start of Moira's trial. They are mobbed by the media as the DA, Adam Donner, and Laurel, his co-counsel, look on. Donner smiles because he has something that will prove Moira's guilt.
Flashback to the island, five years ago. Oliver has been led by Ivo's men to the hideout he shares with Slade and Shado. He yells a warning to his friends as Ivo's men begin shooting up the hideout. Neither Slade nor Shado were inside. Ivo and his men set explosives to blow up the hideout. It turns out Slade and Shado were hiding inside. They disarm the explosives and set off to rescue Oliver, even though Slade looks like half of his body is covered in burns.
At the courthouse, Digg seems to be sick. Oliver tells him to rest. The trial is ready to start. The opening arguments make it clear that the case will hinge on whether Moira was threatened – whether her family was threatened – by Malcolm Merlyn. In other words, was she acting under duress the whole time?
As Felicity watches the news, there is a throwaway report about the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator that will soon be turned on. There is lots of speculation on the internet that an accident involving the accelerator will be the thing that turns Barry Allen into the Flash. But, that is for a different episode.
Felicity turns off her newscast in time to catch Digg, who collapses from some mystery illness.
Somewhere in the city, a scientist brings something to The Count (probably some new version of The Count's drug, Vertigo). The Count poisons the doctor with Vertigo and mentions that he can't wait for the entire city to beg him for mercy.
Oliver goes to check on Digg. Felicity tells them that Digg has trace amounts of Vertigo in his system. They figure out that The Count escaped. Oliver wants to know how Digg got Vertigo in his sytem.
At the trial, ADA Donner is questioning Thea. He points out that Thea took five months to visit her mother in prison because Thea blamed her for the quake. It looks bad. As Donner finishes his questioning, he collapses. I bet he has Vertigo poisoning too.
Back on the island, Oliver leads Ivo and his men to the WWII Japanese bodies. Ivo searches everywhere but cannot find "The Hosen," a special arrowhead that was supposed to be with the bodies. Ivo's men are about to shoot Oliver when Shado and Slade get the drop on all of them.
At the courthouse, an ambulance takes Donner away. The Count is driving the ambulance. That night, The Count hijacks the airways to show the ADA as his captive. The Count points out that people all across the city are feeling unexplainable pains. He tells the city there is a simple cure for their pain – Vertigo. He gives Donner some and the ADA seems noticeably relived. The broadcast concludes with, "I'm Count Vertigo, and I approve this high."
With Donner missing, Laurel is told she is the new lead attorney on the case. She looks through Adam's notes and says, "I just found his trump card."
There is a meaningless scene with Thea feeling terrible and Roy making her feel better by letting her beat on his with boxing gloves. All healthy relationships need a little punching, right?
Laurel goes to visit Moira in prison. She knows it is against the rules, but she warns Moira not to testify. Laurel warns Moira that she has a document that is really bad and she will have to reveal it if she gets the chance to cross-examine Moira. She shows the document to Moira, who seems shaken.
Felicity studies the tape of The Count and Donner and finds a reflection that tells her The Count is hiding out at an abandoned government records building. Arrow pays the building a visit, freeing Donner. The Count has a huge Vertigo production team at the building and is unmoved when Arrow arrives. He says he knows Arrow refuses to kill anyone now and presents himself as an easy target for Arrow. Arrow shoots a propane tank, causing a big explosion, which allows him and Donner to escape. The Count remains at large.
The next day, at court, Moira is forced to tell her children her awful secret so they don't hear it in court. She reveals that, years ago, she cheated on their father… with Malcolm Merlyn. In court, the secret affair comes out and Laurel tries to paint all this as evidence that Moira and Malcolm were still close. The show seems to make all this seem like it is really bad for Moira. Personally, I don't see it. After the day is done, Laurel is shaken at how hard she attacked Moira in court. Oliver seems more concerned for Laurel than for his own mother.
Another scene on the island. Slade and Shado rescue Oliver. He grabs Sara as they all flee Ivo's men. Shado uses one of Ivo's detonators to cover their escape.
Felicity and Digg figure out how The Count is giving so many people Vertigo withdrawl. He is using a free flu vaccination truck to inject trace amounts of Vertigo into people's systems. She goes to investigate the truck and The Count grabs her.
Thea and Oliver are at the courthouse. It appears that jury is about to reach a quick verdict, probably a bad sign for Moira. Oliver's phone rings – he thinks it is Felicity but The Count in on the line. The Count has figured out that Oliver is Arrow! Oliver goes to The Count's "office" with his hood down. The Count says he wants to kill Oliver and says that someone "with means" set all this up so The Count could get revenge. The Count is all ready to give Felicity a huge dose of Vertigo and Oliver has no choice – he shoots The Count through the chest. Despite his pledge not to kill ever again, Oliver had to kill The Count.
Oliver rushes back to court in time to hear the verdict. Moira is not guilty. Queen family hugs all around! Oliver can't figure out how the verdict came out this way. He visits Digg, who is doing better thanks to a vaccine Queen Consolidated was able to make. Felicity pulls Oliver aside and apologizes for putting Oliver in a position where he had to kill again. He forgives her.
On final island flashback. Shado pulls out the Hosen. She doesn't know why Ivo wants it. There is a Buddhist inscription on one side and some numbers on the other. She reads the numbers out loud: 30 – 30 – 175 – 12. It is coordinates to locate the Japanese sub that ran aground here decades ago. Sara says something on the sub can "save the human race." Oliver wants to find it so they can save the badly burned Slade. Nearby, an angry Ivo kills one of his men for failing to stop Oliver from escaping.
Back in the present, Brother Blood reveals that he was behind The Count taking on The Hood. He is upset that The Hood is still alive. But, he is pleased when one of the people he has been experimenting on does not die, but says he is feeling stronger.
Moira leaves the courthouse. Instead of taking her home, her driver brings her to an abandoned parking lot. The driver says she is there to meet someone and then the driver is killed by an arrow to the chest. MALCOLM MERLYN steps out of the shadows! He says he knows how to pretend to be dead. He reveals that he bribed the jury to get Moira off. He also says that he conducted a secret DNA test and now knows that Thea is his daughter.
And the episode is over!!
WOW! Now that was a huge, huge twist! Merlyn alive! Thea is his daughter! Oh, and Brother Blood is finally ready to build an army of super-soldiers. Whew, things are really heating up in Starling City!
So, what did you think? Were you as shocked at the ending as I was? Post your comments and we'll have a conversation. And be sure to check back here next week and see what happens to Arrow next!
If you want to read more of Jason Evans' commentary on the Movie and TV industry, follow him on Twitter @TVFilmTalk and be sure to check our Speakeasy every Monday and Wednesday for his recaps of "The Blacklist" and "Arrow."


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Students may withdraw from class in one of the following ways: (1) Online through your mySnead account under the Registration tab, (2) come into the Office of Student Services and complete the withdrawal request form, or (3) email a request from your Snead email account listing the class(es) you wish to be withdrawn from along with the class call number. This is a secure site which requires authentication upon log-on. There will be few days that online withdrawal will not be available due to account payment finalization. Complete withdrawals processed through mySnead must email the Office of Student Services at firstname.lastname@example.com notifying them of your status. Emails to drop classes after the published withdrawal dates for the term will not be honored. Important dates for each term are available on the college calendar.
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What is the difference between the regular semester and a mini term?
A regular semester lasts 16 weeks. A mini term lasts only 8 weeks. Regular semester classes typically meet two days per week while mini classes may meet every day. Many students prefer mini term classes because they can accomplish more in a semester. They are able to focus more on the material since they receive instruction every day instead of every other day.
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What if I don't want to leave campus for breakfast or lunch?
The Snead State Cafeteria serves breakfast and lunch. The cafeteria begins lunch at 10:30 a.m. The student lunch price is $4.
What if I want to work on campus?
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If I'm on service scholarship, how do I earn my service hours?
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In the rugged Santa Cruz Mountains, far from the reach of city boundaries, schools define and shape community identity.
So Andrea and Andras Szabo thought the children on their one-lane, dead-end street just south of the summit all should be able to attend the same elementary and middle schools instead of being divided among two or three districts.
The couple petitioned to transfer their and 16 other properties from the far-flung Lakeside School district to the neighboring Loma Prieta School District.
Now, after a three-year journey through local school committees and the state Board of Education, in May residents will be able to vote on the proposal. But the Szabos are resigned to losing because the Santa Clara County Board of Education this month determined that all 1,200 or so voters in the Lakeside School District may cast a ballot. And because Lakeside officials oppose the territory transfer as costing it precious dollars, the Szabos believe they're outnumbered.
The dispute that has heated up the bucolic mountain community illustrates the difficulty in redrawing outdated boundary lines, even with arguments about educational or community benefits. Lakeside's 141 students come from an area straddling the mountain summit, west of Highway 17. Two-thirds of the district lies in Santa Cruz County.
"It's very simple, really. We are closer to the Loma Prieta District," Andrea Szabo said. "If something happens, all the kids from the road are in one school district."
Lakeside contends that the May vote will affect only four students -- the Szabos' two children, whom they home-school because they didn't want them to be caught in the dispute, and two others who wish to remain in the district. The Szabos say beyond their own family, the change would make life easier for future children on their street.
But Lakeside leaders insist the Szabos could simply have requested an interdistrict transfer for their children. Instead, the proposal to secede "affects the children of the voters in the whole district," Lakeside Superintendent Elizabeth Bozzo said, pointing out that the property taxes lost if the 17 parcels leave Lakeside will cost the district 3 percent of its budget, or about one-half a teacher's salary. "It's really about the voters' right to vote."
Lines dating back a century and a half put two-thirds of properties on Marty Road and its offshoot, Jensen Springs Road, in the Loma Prieta District, the rest in Lakeside. The Szabos argue that Loma Prieta School is closer -- 4 miles versus about 8 miles -- than Lakeside. Lakeside offers no morning bus service, and the afternoon bus deposits students two hours after school ends. And Lakeside does not offer middle school; instead, students choose between Loma Prieta's C.T. English or Rolling Hills Middle School in Los Gatos.
Unlike in other territory transfers, the issue isn't school quality or test scores. Students in both districts score well into the 900s on the state's Academic Performance Index.
Outside observers may wonder why not just merge the districts -- at least Lakeside and Loma Prieta, if not also Los Gatos and Saratoga elementary districts. All four feed into the Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District, which some say should be unified into one entity with its feeder districts. Four years ago, an initiative to transfer about 300 parcels from Lakeside to Loma Prieta fizzled.
Marrying school districts with distinct cultures, priorities and finances is a tricky thing, even with willing partners. The last large merger in the county occurred when the Mountain View and Whisman districts joined in 2001 after years of talks.
Lakeside has met with other school district officials to discuss cooperation and sharing services to save costs. But the short answer is, "There's no guarantee they'd keep the school open," Bozzo said.
And that is a top priority for its community, even if it costs extra to run an elementary school with fewer than 100 students.
"It's very expensive to run a school with a class size of 12 or 14," said Ralph Becker-Szendy, who helped lead a successful campaign for a $311 parcel tax two years ago.
Every merger scenario faces financial or political roadblocks, Becker-Szendy said. "There's no good solution."
So without a big-picture resolution, Lakeside voters will vote on a tiny-picture scenario on May 7. While they are happy to have a say, the Szabos don't welcome outside opinion. "It's very disappointing," Andrea Szabo said. "We don't feel like the system worked for us."
Contact Sharon Noguchi at 408-271-3775. Follow her at Twitter.com/NoguchiOnK12.


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The American Heart Association recommends that you limit your intake of foods high in calories or low in nutrition, including foods like soft drinks and candy that have a lot of sugars. We know that soda and junk food is bad for us. But do we actually know why?
People may think that any food that is low in fat is inherently healthy. This is not the case! For example, soda and hard candy have no fat, but they also have no vitamins, minerals, fiber, or other health-promoting ingredients. What they do have is sugar, and lots of it. And a lot of sugar can add up to a lot of calories.
Eating foods high in sugar and calories can lead to weight gain, and being overweight is a risk factor heart attacks and heart disease.
In addition, sugary foods often take the place of healthier foods. For example, when was the last time you chose a soda over a glass of skim milk or snacked on gummi bears instead of an apple?
Here are a few tips to help you minimize your intake of empty-calorie foods.
Do not be fooled by low-fat sweets. Often, when food manufacturers remove fat from cookies, crackers, cakes, and other snack foods, they add sugar to make up for the flavor lost with the fat. The result is that many low-fat snacks provide the same amount of calories—or more—as the original product. So a low-fat banner on the package does not give you free reign to eat the whole box. It's still important to look at calories and limit snacks.
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WASHINGTON (January 10, 2013)—The National Rifle Association says its meeting Thursday at the White House was more about demonizing the Second Amendment than about keeping students safe.
The National Rifle Association met with Vice President Joe Biden's school safety study group on Thursday and afterward said the participants spent most their time on proposals to limit gun rights.
The NRA said it "will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
The politically powerful group, under public pressure since December's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman massacred 20 children and six women, says it will now work with Congress to discuss what works in preventing violence and what does not.
"It is unfortunate that this Administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems," the NRA said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
"We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen. Instead, we will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works - and what does not," the organization said.
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I'm 12 and i'm 5'3 and 85 pnds. when i play basketball at my school practice i play like a 2 guard position because i dnt really demand for the ball but im a really good shooter an alright ball handler and have a good iq. what position should i play?
Could be a shooting guard, but I'd seriously start working on my ball handling skills and continue to practice outside shooting. Don't know how much you'll grow as you are only 12, but if you can become a better ball handler then you could play point as well. Good luck!
You're about exactly my age and height. I'm 5"1, 11 and a guard. I can play both but I end up as a 2 guard. I have really good ball handling but can shoot well. Just work on your ball handling and keep up your shooting. Since I'm a good shooter and have good ball handling skills I can play either. Wherever they put you is where you belong. I think you should be a shooting guard.
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."-Michael Jordan
Well when i played basketball this year i played SG, SF, PF, and C because i was tall...but i culld also handle the ball...it all depends if you get your dribbling stats up.
well i am little bigger im 5'3 94 lbs right now and last year i played shooting guard and small forward for my 6th grade team
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Twin State Speedway trying revival with new management
Claremont — Can motorsports racing be successful once again in Claremont? On Thrasher Road is a one-third paved asphalt track that flourished for decades and then failed as the Claremont Speedway. More recently, the facility was renamed as Twin State Speedway, but a name change was not enough to get the crowd and car count up.
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POSITION: Goaltender
CATCHES: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Blyth, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: CAR: 2004-38 overall
Justin spends his summers in Toronto and has a dog named Roxy… His uncle, Mike Leckie, played college hockey at Harvard… His brother, Anthony, plays goalie for the St. Mary's Huskies (CIS) and his brother, Alex, is a defenseman for the Plymouth Whalers… Justin is involved with the Ainsleigh Bontaine Memorial Golf Tournament, which benefits the children's hospital in London, Ont… He started playing hockey at the age of five, and switched to goaltender at age 11… His first youth team was the Blyth Bulldogs, and his favorite former teammate was Cole Stewart… His parents were the biggest influence on his career and his favorite player growing up was Patrick Roy… His favorite television show is SportsCenter, favorite movie is Gladiator, favorite magazine is Sports Illustrated and favorite musical artist is Jason Aldean… Justin's first job was in landscaping… His favorite vacation spot is the Bahamas, favorite Triangle restaurant is Nina's, favorite food is steak and favorite website is tsn.ca… His biggest talent outside of hockey is golf, and he is a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays… Justin's favorite non-hockey athlete is Usain Bolt and the person he'd most like to meet is Wayne Gretzky… He wears No. 35 because it was his number in Albany (AHL)… Justin's biggest game-day habit is his pre-game stretching routine… His favorite thing about playing in the NHL is "the competitiveness" and most memorable hockey moment was his first NHL game… Justin's favorite road city is New York and favorite road arena is Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
Completed his fourth NHL season with Carolina, appearing in 19 games on the NHL level… Was 4-11-1 with a 3.46 goals-against average for the Hurricanes… Played 37 American Hockey League (AHL) games with Charlotte prior to his NHL recall on 3/5, going 22-12-1 with a 2.29 goals-against average and .921 save percentage… Among AHL netminders, ranked tied for second in shutouts (6), eighth in goalsagainst average, ninth in save percentage and tied for 13th in wins, despite being in the NHL for the final two months of the season… Started for the Western Conference at the 2013 AHL All-Star Game, stopping 12 of 13 shots in the opening period… Was named Top Goaltender at the skills competition during the AHL's All-Star weekend… Earned five consecutive wins for Charlotte from 10/28-11/18, including a shutout at Peoria (10/28)… Won four consecutive AHL games from 1/4-1/16, including three shutouts: at Lake Erie (1/4), at Oklahoma City (1/11) and vs. Grand Rapids (1/16)… Stopped 41 shots in a shutout victory at Abbotsford (2/23)… Recalled to the NHL on 3/5… Made his NHL season debut vs. BUF (3/5), stopping 37 of 40 shots for the win… Made 26 saves to earn his second career NHL shutout at WSH (3/12)… Set a career-high with seven consecutive starts from 4/8-4/20… Served as backup and did not play for eight NHL games.
Is in his fifth NHL season with the Hurricanes… Signed a two-year contract with Carolina on July 1, 2012… Had a record of 94-94-9 with a 2.73 goals-against average in 213 career AHL games entering 2013-14… Also played in 32 games in the ECHL with Florida, going 18-10-3 with a 2.67 goals-against average.
2002-03: Completed his rookie season of junior hockey with Toronto St. Michael's of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), going 6-10-1 with a 3.08 goals-against average… Won a bronze medal with Team Ontario during the 2003 Under-17 Canada Games, posting a 3-0 record.
2003-04: Was second among OHL goaltenders in wins, posting a St. Michael's Majors modern-era franchise record with 30 victories… Was selected for the 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game… Had four shutouts during the 2004 OHL playoffs, and scored a goal in Game 7 of the Majors' first-round playoff victory against Sudbury, the only goal of his amateur or professional career.
2004-05: Was 23-23-5 with a 2.78 goals-against average in 58 games for Toronto St. Michael's.
2005-06: Split his final season of junior hockey between Toronto St. Michael's and Plymouth… Was 29-21-4 with a 3.14 goals-against average for the season, including 19-15-1 with a 2.75 goals-against average after the trade to Plymouth… Completed his four-year junior hockey career posting a record of 88-70-16 in 189 career OHL games, with a 2.88 goals-against average and eight shutouts.
2006-07: Completed his first professional season, spending most of the year with Albany (AHL)… Was 10-8-0 with a 3.26 goals-against average and .886 save percentage in 34 games with the River Rats… Also appeared in one ECHL game with the Florida Everblades… Made his professional debut with Albany at Rochester on 10/6, and posted his first professional shutout for the River Rats 12/8/06.
2007-08: Split the year between Albany (AHL) and Florida (ECHL)… Was 18-10-2 in the ECHL with a 2.57 goals-against average and 7-3-0 in the AHL with a 2.70 goals-against average… Began the season in Florida and was the ECHL's Goaltender of the Month for October, finishing the month unbeaten with a 0.97 goals-against average… Was named to the American Conference squad for the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game… Stopped an ECHL career-high 49 shots in a 5-4 shootout win at Mississippi (12/28).
2008-09: Spent the entire season with Albany (AHL), posting AHL-career bests in games played (56), shutouts (4) and save percentage (.908)… Made an AHL-career-high 55 saves vs. Providence (11/8)… Was recalled to Carolina (NHL) for the first time on 12/2 and served as the Hurricanes' backup for four games… Won four consecutive AHL games from 2/7- 2/13… Dropped the gloves with Alexandre Picard at Syracuse (2/28)… Made 47 saves and stopped four-of-six in the shootout for a 1-0 win at Providence (3/20)… Played in his 100th AHL game at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (4/10)… Recorded his 19th win of the season and had 15 penalty minutes for a center-ice scrap with Senators goalie Jeff Glass vs. Binghamton (4/11).
2009-10: Completed his first NHL season, earning a record of 6-3-0 with a 2.83 goals-against average and .905 save percentage… Was 26-18-2 with a 2.54 goals-against average and .917 save percentage in 47 AHL games with Albany… Played in the 2010 AHL All-Star Classic in Portland, stopping nine of 11 shots for the Canadian AHL All-Stars during the second period of a 10-9 shootout victory for Canada… Made his NHL debut, stopping 34 of 35 shots to earn the victory and first-star honors at NYI (2/6)… Recorded his career-best 20th AHL win of the season with a victory vs. Adirondack (2/20)… Made 32 saves on 33 shots at TOR (3/2) to earn his third consecutive NHL victory… Suffered his first NHL loss, giving up three goals on 29 shots faced at FLA (3/6)… Made 37 saves and was named first star in a 4-3 overtime victory vs. PIT (3/11)… Played all eight of Albany's Calder Cup Playoff games, going 4-4 with a 3.42 goals-against average… Won his professional playoff debut vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (4/14)… Earned victories in four consecutive games as the River Rats swept Wilkes-Barre/Scranton before being swept by Hershey.
2010-11: Established then-career high in NHL games played (12), going 3-5-1 with a 3.98 goals-against average… Served as backup and did not play in 70 games, including 36 of the final 37 games… Made his season debut at LA (10/20), stopping 23 of 27 shots in a 4-3 loss… Entered the game at FLA (12/15) at the 1:42 mark and stopped 21 of 22 shots to earn his first victory of the season… Stopped 32 of 35 shots to earn his second win of the season at FLA (1/7)… Earned his second consecutive victory, stopping 25 of 28 shots in a 4-3 overtime win vs. ATL (1/9).
2011-12: Was 2-3-2 with a 2.48 goals-against average and .931 save percentage in seven games with the Hurricanes… Went 10-13-2 with a 2.77 goals-against average and .907 save percentage in 28 AHL games with Charlotte… Began the year in AHL and was named the Reebok/AHL Goaltender of the Month for November after posting a 5-1-1 record with a 1.63 goals-against average and a .949 save percentage in seven appearances… Made NHL season debut and stopped a career-high 48 shots at PIT (12/27)… Made 35 saves to earn his first win of the season vs. SJ (2/17)… Stopped 17 shots to earn his first career NHL shutout vs. WSH (2/20)… Stopped 42 of the 44 shots he faced in a 3-2 shootout loss vs. FLA (2/25)… Served as backup for 25 NHL games.


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Kim McGahey and his son, Conor McGahey, were chosen among 400 statewide high school soccer referees, coaches and athletic directors to referee the recent 4A and 5A high school varsity soccer state championship games at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. Conor McGahey received the most votes of any referee in the state and Kim McGahey had the second highest votes, qualifying them both to officiate the games.
Kim's 4A Final between Battle Mountain and Palmer Ridge was played in a 35-degree snowstorm and went through full regulation time and two overtimes without a goal. It was settled in penalty kicks favoring Battle Mountain.
Conor's 5A Final between Boulder and SMoky saw the Boulder team dominate in a decisive 3-1 victory. This is the eighth consecutive year the McGaheys have been selected to referee the state final high school games. Both referees were founders of local soccer clubs and are active in state boards that govern soccer referees and players.


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The head of a company that handles bus transportation for a southwestern Michigan school district says "it was totally wrong" for an employee to physically slam a boy inside the vehicle.
Ed Dollin says Heidi Mullin was fired after the incident Wednesday in the Galesburg-Augusta school district, about 50 miles southeast of Grand Rapids.
A video taken by a student and posted online shows a 7-year-old being slammed into the side of the bus by Mullin. Dollin, president of Cincinnati-based Auxilio, says the child had a pattern of extreme behavior on the bus, but he adds that's no excuse for what happened.
Mullin could not be reached for comment Friday. Her phone number was unlisted. Dollin said Mullin's job was to reduce rough behavior on the bus, not aggravate it.


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25 years ago Kardex, which is celebrating its 10th year in business, reports a successful year, with more than $50 million in sales. The Reno plant employs 575 workers. 50 years ago Mrs....
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