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Have you ever noticed your dog leaning his head to one side, as if listening to something, for extended periods of time? Or worse, his eyes twitching or suddenly losing his balance? If so, he could be suffering from Canine Vestibular Disease, which is fairly common among older dogs. The symptoms have led some to refer to sufferers as "Head-Tilt Harry". Fortunately, this condition is generally not grave, but when it occurs, it can be very frightening for pet parents. In this episode of Pet Talk, Dr. Sarah talks about the possible causes of CVD and what you can do to minimize the symptoms.
Americans love their companion animals. These days, it's rarer to not have a
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U.S. marshals made an unusual arrest in Fargo, capturing a woman who tried to hide inside a large suitcase but got tripped up by her own hair.
The 38-year-old woman was wanted for violating her supervised release on a drug conviction. As authorities searched an apartment for her Wednesday, a suitcase fell over in a closet and officers heard a grunt.
Authorities say the woman's hair had become caught in the zipper, and she had to be cut out of the suitcase before she could be arrested.
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How do you answer someone when they ask for putting advice?
It seems that teaching someone to putt might be is as challenging as the skill itself.
And why wouldn't it be? Your individual style is like cooking the same dish over and over, adding spices slowly over the course of months or maybe years...it can be very different from individual to individual.
So to me it boils down to the COMMON DENOMINATORS.
A loaded 'Mechanism' with 'Linear Energy'. All of the great putters in the World have this in common, regardless of their individual style (push-spin-pitch-bullet-wristy-knuckleball-nosedive-pancake-sidearm- etc, etc, etc)
The great putters load a mechanism and project linear energy...they control the speed and reach for the pole...they always finish 'frozen' with a clean release.
I've personally found that as a right handed putter my body favors a hand pitch, over a hinged shoulder, on a rocking base, with a projected reach, finishing with a crisp finger pop ('Finger Pitch'). As a left handed putter my body favors a loaded wrist, over a rocking base, with a projected reach, followed by a crisp finger pop ('Spin Pitch').
Once again how do you explain this?
You don't, it's individual and you have to learn it.
So the more import question is how do you learn your style?
Take 3 or 4 discs and build your ENVELOPE. Start close to the basket and build an envelope of confidence outward. First 10ft, if you make it take a step back, and continue backing up when you make it, if you miss stay where you are. While in Monterey, CA I learned that one of the great teachers of disc golf, Merle Witvoet, has been using this exact method for 25 years! It works!
As you gain confidence build your envelope by taking a step and a half, but always reset at close range. I sometimes find myself taking 3 steps with confidence but this usually takes 15 to 30 minutes of solid putting. Your goal is to have a high percentage of makes ( Pretend like your the casino house, you want to test yourself - but always finish ahead!)
While using this technique I recommend studying video or live action of some of Worlds great putters. Jay Reading, Ken Climo, Tanner Duncan, Adam Olsen, Mike Randolph, Barry Schultz are all great players that Iowa Region players can learn from and that have personally influenced me as a putter.
Phase 2 is to start role playing various scenarios you've encountered while playing...experiment with different trick putts to keep it fresh. This only happens after a lengthy session of 'confidence building'.
Putting styles are very regional and varied much like grapes used to make wine, so enjoy your quest and become a putting connoisseur!


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Brock Mueller of St. James has been accepted for admission for the 2013-2014 academic year at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Brock, child of Jeff and Liz Mueller, plans to major in accounting at MSU. Brock graduated from St. James High School, where he participated in tennis, band/choir and National Honor Society.
Fall semester classes at Minnesota State Mankato started Monday, Aug. 26.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with more than 15,000 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which comprises 31 state institutions.
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Jackson County won a bargaining dispute that could spell relief for 66 employees of the Sheriff's Department who received pink slips in February.
"This means we should be able to rescind all or most of the layoff notices," Commissioner Don Skundrick said this afternoon.
The county and the bargaining unit representing sheriff's employees were locked in a dispute over wages that went into binding arbitration.
The county offered no salary increases for 2011 and 2012, with a 2013 salary increase of up to 2 percent based on the consumer price index.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Employees' Association proposed retroactive pay increases for 2011 through 2013 based on the CPI for each year — 2.1 percent and 3.6 percent for 2011 and 2012, respectively. The 2013 CPI has not been determined, but the union asked for no more than 4 percent.
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Stephanie Jo Piehowicz and Bryce Arthur Culver were united in marriage on June 16 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Marietta with Monsignor Michael Campbell officiating the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Dr. Thomas and Barbara Piehowicz of Marietta. She is the granddaughter of the late Hugh and Betty Flanagan of Glendale, W.Va., and the late Joseph and Mary Piehowicz of Benwood, W.Va.
The bridegroom is the son of Brent and Marjorie Culver of Delaware, Ohio. He is the grandson of Robert Dyson and the late Helen Dyson of Steubenville, and the late Arthur and Pauline Culver of Sunbury, Ohio.
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Given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father, the bride wore a strapless floral organza ball gown in ivory with a sheer corseted jewel encrusted bodice, sweetheart neckline, floral A-line skirt embellished with crystals, and a chapel-length organza train. She wore a three tier fingertip-length veil with Russian netting and tulle accented with crystal detail. The bride carried a bouquet of magenta peonies gathered at the stem with black and white striped ribbon, with a heirloom charm from her maternal grandparents and a piece her mother's wedding veil attached.
Maid of honor was Jennifer Jensen of San Francisco, Calif., and honorary matron of honor was Hilari Wulfeck of Crescent Springs, Ky., best friends of the bride.
Bridesmaids were Elizabeth Downs of San Francisco, Stacey Williams of Grandview, Ohio, Amy Silverstein of Columbus, Eleni Pappas of Simpsonville, S.C., Melissa Laing of Alexandria, La., all close friends of the bride, and Kelsey Culver of St. Louis Park, Minn., sister of the bridegroom and close friend of the bride. They wore ruffled one-shoulder, asymmetrically draped taffeta floor-length gowns in onyx black. They carried bouquets of magenta peonies and hydrangeas with striped ribbon detail that complimented the bride's bouquet.
The bridegroom wore a traditional black tuxedo complimented with a black and white striped bow tie.
Best men were Matthew Trombitas of Worthington, Ohio, and Zachary Reeder of Columbus, best friends of the bridegroom. Groomsmen were Michael Kne of Chicago, Joseph Zaccardelli of Tampa, Fla., Matthew Stoltzfus of Columbus, David Patterson of Chicago, Ill., and Stephen Winner of Columbus, all close friends of the bridegroom. The groomsmen wore traditional black tuxedos that complimented the bridegroom's attire.
Family friend of the bride, Marie Mallett of Marietta and aunt of the bridegroom, Carol Wood of Sunbury, Ohio, were readers at the ceremony. Aunt of the bride, Sue Brant of New Freeport, Pa., and aunt of the bridegroom, Anita Wolverton of Columbus, served as greeters and guest book attendants.
Music was provided by soloist and cantor Jennifer Simmons, organist John Ontko, both of Marietta, cellist Cynthia Puls, and violinist David Puls, both of Parkersburg.
A formal dinner and dance reception was held following the ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta.
After a honeymoon on the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai, Hawaii, they reside in New Albany, Ohio.


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Report: Former #Giants RB Ahmad Bradshaw To Visit #Steelers Later This Week http://sulia.com/my_thoughts/2a441d3...source=twitter …
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Former Giants RB Ahmad Bradshaw is visiting the Steelers on Wednesday.
I would love to have him. I also read somewhere that they may fly him in tomorrow and visit with him on Thursday.
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Steelers expect to host RB Ahmad Bradshaw for a visit this week, Will explore his health/medicals
When healthy he is a good back, he has his age going for him and a productive player. If the Steelers can get past his recent injury and he works out well the possibility exists he could be a Steeler soon.
My question would be, if we do sign him would RB still be in their draft plans in the first four rounds?
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I can't believe people use this as their primary browser. It's a poor-mans browser on OS X. Even the dev team says this. I know they are working on improving it, but they have a long ways to go. The speed is just horrid.
Still waiting on a G3 and Intel-optimized version of 188.8.131.52 from el furbe...
When is was on Windows it was my favorite browser, but on Mac its just slow, bulky and an RAM-eating whore...
I really hope Firefox 3 will be useable.
I can not imagine to live without Firefox anymore... It has pushed Web browser development forward like no other. And it became one of my favorite web development tools aswell. Don´t miss to check out Firebug! (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1843)
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Runs poorly on my PowerBook 1.5GHz PowerBook G4 maxed-out with RAM. I still keep it around for extensions like DownThemAll! and sites like Google Calendar, Documents, etc. (though supposedly Google willl work with Safari soon).
I really really want Firefox to be just as great on OS X as it is on Windows. After months of using 2.0, it just doesn't measure up. The XUL-based interface behaves oddly, and is less responsive than Cocoa. Perhaps this is partly my fault for getting gung-ho with extensions, but it's got a huge memory footprint.
I switched to using Camino as my primary several months ago and have been pretty happy with it. There are still a few extensions I'd really like to have (Tab Mix Plus for contextual and draggable tabs and scrolling tab bar, web developer toolbar, google notebook) but I've mostly learned to go without them. I find that it's worth it for the speed you get with Camino. It behaves like a good Cocoa app should, it starts fast and stays fast, and you can even extend it a bit with prefPanes and applescripts.
The only reason I use Firefox (well I actually use Bon Echo, the optimised Mac version) is to display websites that don't work in anything else.
My tip to people worried about how FF looks, check out UNO (http://osx.iusethis.com/app/uno). It replaces a lot of OS X's UI to how (I, and many believe) OS X should look. it's much more consistent than ShapeShifter's themes, and can now change Mozilla apps like Firefox, Camino, Thunderbird etc., so that everything in the OS is consistent. also removes many of the uglier things in Aqua like pinstripes.
Basically, if you use the right FF theme so the buttons look OS Xish, FF can look very like Safari. Also check out the optimised builds for FF, they run a bit faster, and usually load quicker.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's a budget problem for the school, but one mother says it's a matter of life and death.
The blood sugar monitor beeps. The reading says "hi."
"Still high. Man, we're gonna have to go to the hospital?" asked 6-year-old Shane.
This is just one of many scary moments for Alecia Reed and her son, Shane, who suffers from Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes.
She can help her 6-year-old get treatment now, but when he's at school, she can't.
"I have the best nurse at Tobacco Road Elementary, but at the same time, she does have obligations at another school," Reed said.
"We're only able to fund 32 nurses and there are 59 schools, so we still have a lot of buildings that have a nurse that has to cover two buildings," said Executive Director of Student Services for the Richmond County School Board Carol Rountree.
"When it says 'hi,' it puts us in emergency mode," Reed said.
Without a full-time nurse at her son's school, a blood sugar reading like this could turn into tragedy.
"If his sugar was to rise and she wasn't there, he probably could go into a coma, he could start having seizures, and he could die," Reed said.
"We would love to have one nurse per school. That would be an ideal situation," Rountree said.
But at $500,000 a year for the 32 nurses the county does have, parents and officials can agree on one thing.
"There's a definite problem," said Wendy Walton, a friend and advocate.
Walton has fought a similar battle with her 14-year-old son who's autistic and diabetic.
She even moved out of the county so her child would not have to go to a Richmond County school.
"I just felt like my son would not be safe, so I chose not to put him in the school system," she explained.
Reed's about ready to do the same.
"If I don't see any changes the first of the year when it's time to go back to school, Shane possibly will not be going back to public school. He may be home-schooled," she said.
Reed has a meeting set up with the school as soon as classes start again.
Dr. Rountree says the school system often works to rearrange the nurses' schedules depending on a child's needs or even provides training to other staff members if they are willing.
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August 5, 2013
7PM – Selectmen's Room – Town House
1. Call to Order
2. Consent Agenda:
• Town Accountant's Warrants
• Minutes: June 10, June 24, and July 8, 2013
• Gift Acceptance: Diamond Steel & Fabrication LLC $6,000, James W. Flett Co., Inc. $6,000 and NASDI $4,500 all to the Concord Open Golf Tournament for Recreation Dept. scholarships; Concord-Carlisle Community Chest $8,108 to Council on Aging volunteer Coordinator, Outreach Worker, Social Services Coordinator, Van Transportation and Benefit costs gift accounts; Concord-Carlisle Baseball $7,700 for Ripley Ball field gift account
• One Day Special License: All Alcoholic Beverages License for The Concord Rotary Club Golf Tournament August 19 at Concord Country Club from Noon – 9 PM; Wine and Malt License for Art BeCAUSE golf tournament August 12 from 9 AM – 9 PM at Concord Country Club
3. Executive Session Minutes: June 10, 2013
4. Town Manager's Report
5. 7:05 PM Continued Public Hearing: 12 LLC d/b/a Comella's Change of Location, Change of Manager, Change of Common Victualler License
6. Update on Drinking Water Supply Matters
7. Homes on Elm Local Initiative Project, Development Agreement
8. Discuss Plan for McGrath Farmhouse Renovation and Leasing
9. Becoming a Green Community
10. Clean Air Resolution
11. Vote to Set Town Elections
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Vermont's attorney general says a Rutland man is facing charges in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian last month.
Christopher Sullivan will be arraigned Thursday on charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of a crash both with death resulting.
The accident on the night of April 17 killed 71-year-old Mary Jane Outslay who was crossing the street.
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PARKERSBURG - In order to help all of the children who deserve the best Christmas possible, the Salvation Army of Parkersburg Corps has teamed up with area Wal-Mart stores to hold a toy drive on Saturday.
"We will be at three participating Wal-Mart stores with our buses to collect donated toys," said Lt. Erik Henry with the local corps.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than 2,500 Wal-Mart stores throughout the country will participate in the "Fill the Truck" toy drive to allow the Salvation Army to help provide a cheerful Christmas for local children.
The three local stores participating with the Parkersburg Corps will be the locations in Vienna, south Parkersburg and Ripley.
Shoppers to those stores will be handed a flier listing the recommended toys and coats of children with their Christmas wishes on Angel Tree cards throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley, Henry said.
A lot of community members want to help but are not able to completely sponsor a child or a family of children for the holiday, he said.
"This is one way people can help give little Johnny or Suzie the Christmas they want and deserve," Henry said.
The local organization is expecting to provide Christmas for about 700 families that includes about 4,000 children throughout the Salvation Army's coverage region in Wood, Calhoun, Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt and Pleasants counties.
While the majority of the roughly 4,000 children on the Angel Trees are adopted by local individuals, families and groups, many are not.
"No matter what, every child who has a card at the Salvation Army will have a Christmas," Henry said. "We will buy what we can for the children left, but we look to the community to help us with that."
Another way for the community to help is by donating to the red kettles, at about two dozen store entrances throughout the area.
This year's drive began on Nov. 9, in time for Veterans Day and will be out at stores across the area until Christmas Eve. Henry said the goal for the campaign is $165,000.
"I think our goal is reachable," Henry said. "We have so far raised $57,000, which is up about $3,500 from last year at this time."
Last year's red kettles and holiday mail drive collected $154,000 for the local organization to provide food, clothing, toys and other assistance to those in need.
While the iconic red kettles solicit spare change donations from holiday shoppers, the majority of the funds come from the mail appeal with nearly $19,000 coming during the Thanksgiving drive. More than $35,000 has been donated by the Christmas appeal.
"We think the community is really stepping up to help one another," Henry said. "We want everyone to know that whatever you give to the Salvation Army, you get back in a change to the community."


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STOCKTON -- Lockdowns at two Stockton schools ended peacefully late this morning.
Edison High School and Dolores Huerta Elementary School were on lockdown after reports of a student with a gun on or near the high school campus, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the case.
Lockdowns are routine at schools if there are reports of someone with a gun. There were no reports of shots fired.
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Five Reasons Why Gold Bulls Are Right
It seems gold bulls are few and far between these days, but those who still view the yellow metal as a valuable hedge against economic uncertainty have plenty of reasons to buy on current weakness. Here are five:
1) Fears are receding in peripheral Europe: The recent collapse in gold prices was precipitated by news that Cyprus may sell its gold holdings to assist in the recovery from its banking crisis. Panic spread over fears that the rest of peripheral Europe would sell bullion reserves but no news has emerged to match those fears. Yet.
2) Equities could tumble: Record strength in stock indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average is not supported by macroeconomic fundamentals. Sooner or later, stock markets will correct and gold will be back in vogue.
3) India's monsoon season won't last forever: Inhabitants of the world's second most populous country are also the biggest buyers of gold jewellery. The problem is, a large part of that is purchased to celebrate weddings, and nobody wants to get married in the rain. That suggests there is a seasonal element to gold's current weakness, so in the Fall demand will be back again. India's overall population growth will contribute to strong long-term demand.
4) The important Indian demand for gold isn't all about jewellery: In some jurisdictions, notably India, gold counts as part of a bank's liquidity ratio. If the asset base of banks in those jurisdictions grows, so too will demand for gold.
5) Retail investors are still buying: Despite what financial experts say – that the world's economy is in recovery so gold is no longer needed as a hedge - retail investors are treating gold's current travails as a buying opportunity. On the back of April's 20% drop in gold prices, CoinNews.net reported that sales of gold bullion coins rose 40%.


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Tracking the heat removal data from fermentation processes is a powerful aid in specifying scale-up characteristics such as cooling requirements. These same data can help define the metabolic activity of the cells in the fermenter. By reversing metabolic heat equations and defining the heat characteristics of the fermenter, the oxygen uptake rate can be determined from the fermenter heat removal data. This offers a simple, inexpensive method to determine the metabolic state of the fermentation. When the heat input and removal for a fermentation process have been properly investigated, the oxygen uptake rate determined from the metabolic heat equation will closely follow the values measured with external devices such as a mass spectrometer.
Gaining an understanding of a fermentation process can take many forms, such as investigating biomass increase, substrate use, metabolite production, and oxygen use. Of these metabolic indicators, one of the most common is the analysis of oxygen use. The oxygen uptake rate (OUR) can be measured through multiple methods. These techniques include a dynamic OUR determination method and a steady-state OUR method based on an overall oxygen balance. The dynamic OUR determination uses a dissolved oxygen probe that is located in the fermenter. The airflow is temporarily stopped during the fermentation and the rate of dissolved oxygen (DO) decline is used to determine the use of oxygen by the cells. This method requires accurate determination of the mass transfer coefficient and assurance that the system is not in the regime of DO dependent oxygen transfer. This method can be further confounded by factors such as slow DO probe response and localized oxygen conditions near the probe.The steady-state method for determining OUR uses a material balance to calculate the amount of oxygen that is consumed by the fermentation. Essentially, the amount of oxygen entering the system is subtracted from the amount of oxygen leaving the system, and that difference is the oxygen uptake. This method requires very accurate gas flow measurement, a nitrogen balance to correct for flow differentials, and analytical equipment, such as a mass spectrometer. When all of the components are working properly, this method is quite accurate in describing the OUR of the entire system. Another method to determine OUR relies on a correlation between the fermentation heat transfer rate and oxygen uptake rate based on theoretical and empirical data. This method is very practical and can provide a quick answer because it uses equipment that is generally in place for a fermenter.
Heat balances often used in chemical engineering to break down very complex systems into manageable pieces. The underlying principle is that the heat inputs and outputs can be summed for a system to determine the flow of heat. In the case of fermentation, the heat balance represents a biological system that is in steady state. This means that the net heat difference when the inputs and outputs are added together is zero. Heat is generated and lost in fermentation systems. If the heat generation exceeds the heat loss, then the fermentation will require cooling to maintain steady-state conditions or steady temperature for the heat balance.
Sources of heat for fermentations include feeds, air in-flow, agitation, recirculation pumps, and the metabolic activity of the cells, which is the largest heat generation component. Sources of cooling for fermentations may include water evaporation, environment, and broth temperature increases. Each of these heat balance components is described in the following sections.


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Welcome to the biggest soccer game in the history of everything as Battle Mountain heads down to take on Evergreen at 6 p.m. today in the state quarterfinals.
Because we love him, we repeat the game is at 6 p.m. at Evergreen, Charlie Penwill.
• Evergreen has a special or not so special place in Battle Mountain's heart as the Cougars have knocked the Huskies out of the playoffs the last three years. Just to refresh everyone's memories (or to motivate the boys) ...
In 2009, Evergreen handed Battle Mountain its lunch, 7-2, in the first round of the playoffs in Edwards. Center-back David Gonzalez had gone down with a knee injury in the second-to-last game of the regular season. To make matters worse, one of Battle Mountain's players had a family emergency on game day, and chaos ensued.
In 2010, Evergreen won, 2-0, in the second round down on the Front Range.
On Nov. 1, 2011, one year ago today, the Cougars eliminated the Huskies, 3-1 in the quarterfinals.
I was interviewing seniors Christian Espinoza, David Suarez and Joe LyBarger on Saturday after the Huskies beat Pueblo Centennial to advance to today's game. Since Evergreen and Golden were just starting their second-round game when I was talking to the guys, I asked them whether they wanted another home playoff game (if Golden had won) or to see Evergreen.
The answer came quickly and unanimously - Evergreen.
• While the Huskies have gone about their playoff business well and said the right things, I know that Battle Mountain isn't pleased that it got the sixth seed and is on the road for today's game. The team has a point, especially given the Huskies' and Cougars' results against their one common opponent, Steamboat Springs. (Evergreen beat the Sailors, 1-0, while the Huskies have 4-0 and 5-0 wins against their archrivals in the Slope.)
That said, the Huskies should have to go on the road for this one. Evergreen is the champ in this series until Battle Mountain proves otherwise. There's also just such a Hollywood aspect to it Cue the voice one always hears in a movie trailer, "This time it's personal ... Battle Mountain-Evergreen IV."
• OK, assistant coach Kyle Mercer (who is a fan of the 2010 and 2012 World Series champion San Francisco Giants) gave what I will call "The Mr. Happy Fun Guy Speech" Saturday afternoon during halftime of the Pueblo Centennial game. Mercer exhorted the team to play with more passion. (That's a rough translation.)
If anything, I'd dial back the emotion today. As listed above, there is an awful lot motivation. No rah-rah speeches are needed. (Win one for the Coper? Nah.) Gents, you've got to be calm. My bet is that Battle Mountain can avoid being frazzled in the first 10-15 minutes, this will end well.
• Have fun or else. OK, maybe, that's not the best way to phrase it, but there's some truth to it. Battle Mountain doesn't need to focus on tactics tonight. That's ingrained at this point. These guys have been playing together forever.
Wednesday's practice, by design, was light. This isn't coach David Cope's first rodeo. But the fellas, as Cope would call them, were the ones making it light - zingers back and forth, good-natured competition and so on.
It's not fake. (I've seen Battle Mountain soccer teams where it was, and you can't fake it.) As talented as this team is - it's extremely high - this vibe is the Huskies' biggest asset. Have fun and do you what you do.
• And here's the bait for today and the rest of the playoffs.
I stink at sports (with the exception of my brilliant back-heel rebound Wednesday at practice). But I know what its like to pursue and want something in the sports world. I went to my first Giants game on July 23, 1977, and that was it. For better or worse - and it's been a lot of the latter - I have invested my life into that team.
As I kid, I dreamed what it would be like for the Giants to win the World Series with surprisingly enough, a young phenom named Freud, leading San Francisco to the crown. As an adult, I've watched the trials and travails on my team, and dreamed of the moment the Giants would win.
What's really amazing is that it's even better than you dream it when it actually happens. Trust me here.
You guys win today, and you could well be on your way.
It's yours for the taking.
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B. Ian McMahon, executive vice president and chief financial officer of both Salisbury Bank & Trust Co. and its parent company, Lakeville-based Salisbury Bancorp Inc., will resign effective March 1, the company announced Friday.
McMahon has served as CFO since September 2009, but decided to step down to pursue "another career opportunity," the bank said. It added his resignation is not "the result of any disagreement ... on any matter relating to Salisbury's operations, policies or practices."
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Outside the Target store at Campbell and Saratoga avenues in San Jose, an alert reader snapped a picture that perplexes us. Next to the corral for carts, the Target sign says this: "Are you reusable bag ready?" Underneath was an explanation that the store could no longer give out plastic bags because of a new city ordinance.
What exactly did they mean? One possibility is that the writer meant to say, "Are your reusable bags ready?" If so, it's evidence of a tragic deprivation of basic grammar.
We think the author of the sign probably left out quotation marks around the third and fourth words. The warning should have said, "Are you 'reusable bag' ready?'' Naturally, this is a small tragedy by itself.
Target responded with this statement: "This particular sign is designed to remind our San Jose guests of the local plastic bag ban while incorporating the "wink and smile" that is often seen in Target's marketing campaigns.''
Call us sticklers about the English language: We're not really smiling.
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DOE and DOI Offer $26.6 Million for Advanced Hydropower Technologies
DOE and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on April 5 that they are offering $26.6 million in funding for research and development projects to advance hydropower technology. This initiative, taking effect over the next three to four years, is focused on developing innovative technologies that can produce power more efficiently, reduce costs, and increase sustainable hydropower generation at sites not previously considered practical.
The funding announcement seeks environmentally responsible projects that increase the generation of reliable hydropower for the U.S. electricity supply. The four areas for selected projects are: sustainable small hydropower technologies that can be quickly and efficiently deployed in existing or constructed waterways; environmental mitigation technologies for conventional hydropower that increase electricity generation while mitigating fish and habitat impacts, including more efficient, fish-friendly turbines; sustainable pumped storage hydropower projects already in the construction pipeline, for which DOE intends to provide both financial and technical assistance; and innovative, low-head hydropower technologies for testing at a DOI Bureau of Reclamation facility that currently doesn't include hydropower. DOE recently identified 70 such facilities that could generate up to one million megawatt-hours of electricity; see the April 6 story from the EERE Network News.
The solicitation is from DOE's Wind and Water Power Program. Applicants must be institutions of higher learning, private entities, state or local governments, or consortia formed from these three types of entities. Mandatory letters of intent are due on May 5, and completed applications are due on June 6. See the DOE press release, the funding opportunity announcement on Grants.gov and FedConnect, and the Wind and Water Power Program website.


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Definición de impersonal en inglés:
1Not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings: the impersonal power of a government
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- The subject matter may be impersonal and unemotional but it doesn't make it any more enjoyable to know that.
- It might suggest a curt, efficient, formal, impersonal, or even angry attitude about the conversation.
- But a book is always an extension of its author, however impersonal the subject matter.
neutral, unbiased, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, unprejudiced, unswayed, objective, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, free from discrimination, without favouritism, with no axe to grind, without fear or favour;
aloof, distant, remote, reserved, withdrawn, unemotional, unfeeling, unsentimental, dispassionate, passionless, cold, cool, frigid, unresponsive, indifferent, unconcerned;
formal, stiff, rigid, wooden, starchy, stilted, restrained, self-controlled, matter-of-fact, businesslike, clinical
informal stand-offish
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1.1(Of a place or organization) featureless and anonymous: an impersonal tower block
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- But online stores are cold, impersonal places devoid of any sense of human contact, where every book is merely an itemised commodity.
- At the time, however, my dad deplored the feeling that he was becoming just another number in an impersonal organization, a cog in the machine.
- You may have a tendency to avoid gyms because you think of them as unattractive, boring or impersonal places.
2Not existing as a person: he gradually came to believe in an impersonal God
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- God is not a personal heavenly Father but an impersonal force.
3 Grammar (Of a verb) used only with a formal subject (in English usually it) and expressing an action not attributable to a definite subject (as in it is snowing).
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- Both Bactrian and Pagolak recall the mysterious Ursprache of Borges's Tlön, which contains no nouns but only impersonal verbs, and in which famous poems consist of a single enormous word.
- The it in suffice it to say is an impersonal or indefinite pronoun, one that functions as a grammatical placeholder without supplying much real meaning.
- A person is now 'impersonal,' as in an impersonal verb construction, as in 'it is raining.'
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- Woolf's notion of diffuse impersonality is not merely a theoretical condition for artistic creativity; it is the beginning of a mystical idea, an attempt to escape the cell of self-knowledge, a longing for real things.
- Computer presentations have become the standard in many fields, although there is a substantial wailing about the attendant impersonality (and often incomprehensibility) of the result.
- However, though we may on calm reflection see the virtues of allowing large parts of our lives to follow well-worn paths, modern people periodically feel themselves frustrated by the impersonality and predictability of life.
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- In ancient Athens, the Court of the Areopagiticus was set up specifically to deal justice impersonally to criminals and bring to an end the feuds and demands for family vengeance which brutalised society.
- Market forces, working impersonally and without 'intelligent design,' can give you a pretty good glimpse at the future.
- My objection would be more to huge schools and school districts where rules for the district are decided impersonally at some big administrative building.
Late Middle English (in sense 3): from late Latin impersonalis, from Latin in- 'not' + personalis (see personal).
Palabras que riman con impersonalinterpersonal, personal, transpersonal
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Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. Look for the second part in High Life next week.
In June 2010, barely a month after oil, concrete and gas shot through the drill pipe of Transocean's Deepwater Horizon, PBS producer William Brangham prematurely buried the tiny community of Grand Isle, La., declaring this could be "the end of the road" for the island. Local residents that Brangham interviewed were no doubt in shock as they began what would be their first summer of uncertainty in the wake of the worst man-made disaster to rock the domestic oil industry.
I grew up in a small, college town surrounded by cane fields and bisected by Bayou Lafourche two hours up the road from Grand Isle on Highway 1. Unlike Brangham, I know these people. Surrender is not an option. Many of them can trace their ancestors to the British expulsion of French settlers from Nova Scotia and their perilous, deadly journey to the swamps and marshes of south Louisiana. Adversity - both from Mother Nature and cruel armies - had been their lot for centuries. Survival is in their DNA.
The inhabitants of this eroding sliver of land roughly 52 miles southwest of New Orleans have endured three centuries of hurricanes that hit on average every 7.88 years. Neither the storm of 1893 with its 17-foot storm surge that decimated coastal communities nor Hurricane Camille in 1969 could bury the island. The Last Island Hurricane of 1856 turned the Isles Dernieres to the west into a barren memorial for 200 unsuspecting victims who perished in the storm. Only exhausted migratory birds and a statue of the Virgin Mother occupy the remaining island now. Grand Isle, with her highway connection to the mainland, has endured.
But there was something sinister and unfamiliar about the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. For generations, islanders had dealt with Mother Nature's temper tantrums. They knew how to rebuild their homes (known as "camps") and fix their boats. Starting over wasn't a foreign concept to them. They knew that after a storm fish and shrimp would be plentiful and tourists would soon return. They also knew that since the early 1960s, it was common to see tar balls on the beaches. But as the oil plume began to creep into the south Louisiana marshes, at the start of the busiest time of the year, alarm bells sounded. These were frightening, uncharted waters.
From Hell to Purgatory
Last summer, I visited my brother Mike LeBlanc and his wife Becky at their camp in Grand Isle. I sensed an eerie pall over the island. The ship channel was nearly empty. The usual stream of workboats and support vessels servicing the offshore rigs was gone. Jack-up rigs were moored and silent. For how long remained a burning question. But it was the absence of shrimp trawlers with their booms extended and nets hanging like Dracula's cape that spooked me the most.
In the wake of the disaster, all temporal readings in Grand Isle are measured in terms of "Before BP" and "After BP." Any tale about seafood, real estate or the oil industry usually begins with one of the two qualifiers. Unfortunately, anything starting with "After BP" was not good. Until now.
The third summer "after BP" is underway and a sense of normalcy is evident as the island struggles to return to the life it knew before the oil - and the international press - overran it. The media left and the tourists are returning.
Returning to seafood heaven
In contrast to my experience in 2011, from the moment we crossed the bridge onto the island, I could sense a renewed energy. In the distance, majestic trawlers once again filled their nets with shrimp as gulls flocked to scoop up aquatic goodies the nets stirred up. Signs advertising fresh seafood were in abundance again. My brother said the real estate market was heating up, obviously a positive sign, particularly in this economy. The seafood had long been deemed safe. The sky was blue. The sea was calm. Most of all, the fish were biting. Life was good.
We stopped at Camardelle's Seafood on Highway 1 just before the bridge. Camardelle's was famous to local residents and visitors long before President Obama and his Secret Service army invaded their space in June 2010. To me, Camardelle's appears in my epicurean dreams as cayenne scented clouds of steam and pots of boiling blue crabs, shrimp and the obligatory corn on the cob, new potatoes and smoked sausage. For the past 11 months, I'd waited impatiently for shrimp season and a visit to what I consider one of the best seafood shops in the nation. I had arrived!
Proprietor and "boiler" Chris Camardelle grew up on Grand Isle. In 1947, his father came to Grand Isle from "the West Bank" (as in west bank of the Mississippi across from New Orleans, not the other one) to work the fishing boats with Camardelle's grandfather. Now Camardelle, whose partner in life, Juanita Cheramie, and son Jake Kraemer work alongside him. Approximately 90 percent of the product sold comes from Camardelle's own crab traps and fleet of shrimp boats. Although he has another crab source and brings in crawfish from the rice paddies near Henderson, they sell what they catch.
Later I learned it was the beginning of "90 days of haymaking" on the island. If they don't have a good season between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the winter ahead would be tight. Memorial Day had been one of the biggest ever. Spirits were high; far from Brangham's "nail in the coffin" report two years ago. Barring any pre-Labor Day storms, they were on track for a relatively normal season, whatever normal is "after BP."
The best thing I got at Camardelle's was their agreement to let me spend an afternoon "boiling" with them. Given the summer heat and humidity, boiling is not a bad way to describe what happens to seafood and humans alike! Cheramie, who had seen more than her share of self-serving reporters, most of whom in her opinion failed to capture the true soul of the islanders, reluctantly agreed to my request for a behind the scenes experience. Perhaps it was that I was a child of the bayou whose soul was never quite severed from the land despite years of absence or that she just liked the idea. Whichever, she agreed.
So I went on with siblings in happy anticipation of Saturday - a morning of fishing for speckled trout, an afternoon of boiling seafood and an evening spent eating it! These are truly the finer things of life in south Louisiana that includes the blessings of family, nature's bounty and the beauty and serenity of being on the Gulf waters. What more could a bayou girl ask for?
Now that I've set the scene and hopefully whetted your appetite, join me next week when I take you behind the scenes with Cheramie for a unique education in Louisiana seafood and proof that life - and the seafood - in Grand Isle is good after BP.
Suzanne Hoffman is a local attorney, wine importer and the Chambellan Provincial of the Southwest Region and Bailli (president) of the Vail chapter of the Chaine des Rotisseurs. She is passionate about all things gastronomique. For more background information on her "Behind the Scenes" series, go to www.facebook.com/vailvalleysecrets. Email comments about this story to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A meeting about hosting a public forum for learning about the budget problems facing Marietta City Schools will be held Nov. 16. The community is encouraged to come with questions to be addressed at the forum. Dates for the forum have not been determined.
The Ohio Department of Education is set to visit Fort Frye schools. The visit is to determine compliance with Ohio laws and if the schools are meeting state standards.
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Romayne Hill, a junior at Marietta High School, has been missing since Nov. 11. It is suspected that he has met with foul play or an accident.
Mrs. Spack is being held at the Washington County Jail. She is under investigation for the suspicious deaths of two other children.
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'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' FAQ
By Kathleen Doheny
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Aug. 1, 2014 -- Summer is prime season for a bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus -- also known as "flesh-eating" bacteria -- to thrive, especially in warm Gulf Coast waters. Swimmers and those who eat seafood should be careful to avoid infection from this potentially fatal bacteria.
Earlier this summer, Florida health officials issued a reminder that the bacteria thrives not just in Florida but in other coastal states surrounded by warm saltwater.
While infection with the bacteria is a rare cause of disease, taking simple precautions can minimize the risk and decrease the chances of the bacteria becoming ''flesh-eating." That's especially true when the bacteria is thriving -- from May through October .
WebMD turned to public health experts to shed more light on these bacteria and to get advice on how to stay healthy.
Where is Vibrio vulnificus found?
The bacteria thrive in warm saltwater. Most cases of infection happen in the Gulf Coast region, including Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, the CDC says.
"The bacteria thrive in warm water, so concentrations of the bacteria are higher during the summer months," says Carina Blackmore, PhD, Florida's acting state epidemiologist.
How do you get it?
Eating uncooked seafood can bring on the infection. Also, if a skin injury is exposed to the bacteria, the wound can become infected.
The bacteria can also infect the blood, especially if someone has chronic liver disease or other medical problems that compromise their immune system. This type of infection can become severe and even fatal. Bloodstream infections with V. vulnificus are lethal in half of those affected, the CDC says.
There is no evidence the bacteria is transmitted from person to person, the CDC says.
How common is it?
In the U.S., about 95 cases occur each year, according to the CDC, although only half of those are confirmed by culturing the blood, the stool, or a wound. Of those, about 85 patients need to be in the hospital; about 35 die.
In Florida, 11 cases have been reported in 2014, says Sheri Hutchinson, a spokeswoman with the Florida Department of Health, with two deaths as of July 25. In 2013, 41 cases were reported, with 11 deaths.


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2010: The 3rd International Forum on Buddhism and Medicine - Meditation and Health: The therapeutic benefits of meditation in modern life
The Third Conference in this series brought together leading international experts who presented the most recent research on the benefits of meditation in a wide range of medical and therapeutic settings, and in everyday life.
Nearly 1000 people attended the forum: doctors, therapists, healthcare professionals, academics, Buddhist practitioners and, of course, the general public.
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Aloha Falls Miniature Golf & Games
Seasonal facility offering outdoor miniature golf, a retro arcade, cafe and bar from spring to fall. Miniature Golf offers two Hawaiian-themed courses that offer a relaxing easy round of mini-golf on the Beach Course or an adventurous and difficult round on the Waterfall Course. Retro Arcade has over 100 of the favorite console games from the 80's and 90's with 10 screens devoted to classic console games and two 90" projection screens with modern consoles. Cafe & Bar features a few unique options including the Volcano Dog, and a Chocolate Avalanche ice cream float. Craft beers and sangria also available for the big kids!
Antioch Bowl is back with 28 premier Brunswick Synthetic Prolanes, AMF's Elite scoring system, and good folk in great leagues. Birthday parties, arcade games, cosmic bowling and Quick Strike snack shop.
The challenging 18-hole layout spans 90 acres of superbly manicured fairways and greens with 14 beautiful lakes to negotiate during a round. Features clubhouse, snack bar area, pro shop, and patio area.
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All new tropical-themed water park with water slides, wading pool, unique circular drop slide, children's spray ground, locker rooms, concession stands, and more!
Beverly Lake Forest Preserve Trail is perfect for hiking and biking. The five mile out and back trail located near Dundee that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Bill's Friendly Christmas Tree Farm
Cut your Christmas tree in a backwoods setting. We have many trees, including Norway, white spruce and blue spruce. Family owned and operated. Trees up to 23 feet tall.
Challenging and scenic 18-hole golf course that offers the public a fantastic practice facility with lighted driving range and natural grass tees. PGA golf instructors on staff to help improve your game. In addition, we can help you plan the perfect golf outing, small wedding or special event. Or stop by the Fireside Grill for breakfast, lunch, dinner or Friday fish fry.
Get into the swing of spring at Bonner Heritage Farm! Enjoy a variety of spring-themed activities, crafts and demonstrations. Wagon rides, farm animals, food and entertainment round out the afternoon. Be sure to take a guided tour of the Bonner farmhouse.
Bonnie Brook Golf Course & Banquet Facility
Bonnie Brook is one of the most popular public courses in Lake County, boasting a meticulously manicured 18-hole course with rolling, wooded terrain. Its natural, picturesque landscape offers golfers the ability to enjoy tree-lined fairways, spacious greens, small lakes and the beauty of the north branch of the Waukegan River, which flows gently throughout the course. With a course length of 6,701 yards, Bonnie Brook offers championship golfers a solid test while being friendly and forgiving to the high handicappers. The clubhouse features a Indoor Golf and Learning Center which houses a P3Proswing Simulator. The simulator and its software helps analyze a player's swing and provides guidance how to improve their game and is available on an appointment basis only.
Boone Creek consists of three unique 9-hole courses that can be combined to make up three different 18-hole courses, allowing you to play a different course while visiting the same location. Boone Creek Golf Club has a natural setting with a number of wetlands and creeks that are home to a variety of wildlife including frogs, beavers, snapping turtles, wood ducks, deer, cranes, and red-tail hawks. Our golf course has large and undulating greens that provide some of the best putting surfaces in McHenry County.
The newly renovated Bowen park's theme for their new playground is "Forest Findings". The overall layout offers tiered play areas arranged on the northwest hillside of Bowen Park. Fun and learning will go hand-in-hand as children and their families enjoy modern playground amenities, combined with several environmental learning stations that represent a forest ecosystem. Parents and kids alike will also enjoy the six-station fitness/exercise trail located on the perimeter of the playground.
Brae Loch Banquets and Golf Club
The golf course has 18-holes and it is a par-70 course. Brae Loch Banquets feature a bright space in a country setting overlooking the fairways at the Lake County Forest Preserves Brae Loch Golf Club. A fine balance of food, location and people are the three ingredients that an event at Brae Loch brings together for a truly memorable experience. The banquet facility comfortably seats up to 165. The menu includes appetizers, entrees, and desserts that are almost too beautiful to eat, but too wonderful to skip.
The Busse Woods Trail system is located within Ned Brown Forest Preserve, a 3,700-acre property in the western suburbs of Chicago. There are 11.2 miles of paved trails for cyclists, equestrians and pedestrians. The main loop is nearly 8 miles, circling some lakes and meadows, while a couple of much shorter side loops will take you to the north and south end of the forest preserve. The Busse Woods Trail connects with the Schaumburg Bikeway on the west, and on the north, Busse Woods links to the Rolling Meadows Bikeway system. Some key features of the forest preserve include fishing, boat rentals and a small herd of captive resident elk. The trails are open from sunrise to sunset.
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STEM - robotics, engineering and building with LEGO is what you will find at the C&A Robot Factory. Classes include having fun learning with LEGO machines and robotics, LEGO Mindstorms. Classes can also be provided at a company or school site. Have a birthday party at C & A or we can do in home parties. Also try one of the camps we offer including LEGO Machines and Robots, stop motion movies, etc.
For 84 years, C. J. Smith Resort has provided everything needed to enjoy a day of fishing and boating on the beautiful Chain O' Lakes in northern Illinois. C. J. Smith Resort is a family owned and operated business since 1929. We believe in providing exceptional service and reasonable prices to our valued customers and guests.
Located in the northeastern corner of Illinois in both McHenry and Lake counties, the Chain O'Lakes State Park is 60 miles northwest of Chicago. With nearly 6,500 acres of water and 488 miles of shoreline on the Chain, Chain O'Lakes State Park is the heart of a water wonderland. And, with six miles of relatively easy hiking and biking trails to navigate the scenery, Chain O' Lakes State Park has become a treasure to behold.
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This championship 18-hole golf course with 6,950 yards offers bent grass fairways, and beautiful rolling hills and vistas. Power carts are required Friday through Sunday and holidays.
Enjoy the delightful rural atmosphere at this semi-private facility located near the banks of the Fox River in lovely McHenry. Accept the challenge to play the longest hole in Illinois, measuring over 700 yards.
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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Prostate cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the prostate.
The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system. It lies just below the bladder (the organ that collects and empties urine) and in front of the rectum (the lower part of the intestine). It is about the size of a walnut and surrounds part of the urethra (the tube that empties urine from the bladder). The prostate gland makes fluid that is part of the semen.Anatomy of the male reproductive and urinary systems, showing the prostate, testicles, bladder, and other organs.
Prostate cancer is found mainly in older men. In the U.S., about 1 out of 5 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Signs of prostate cancer include a weak flow of urine or frequent urination.
These and other signs and symptoms may be caused by prostate cancer or by other conditions. Check with your doctor if you have any of the following:
Other conditions may cause the same symptoms. As men age, the prostate may get bigger and block the urethra or bladder. This may cause trouble urinating or sexual problems. The condition is called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and although it is not cancer, surgery may be needed. The symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia or of other problems in the prostate may be like symptoms of prostate cancer.
Normal prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A normal prostate does not block the flow of urine from the bladder. An enlarged prostate presses on the bladder and urethra and blocks the flow of urine.
Tests that examine the prostate and blood are used to detect (find) and diagnose prostate cancer.
The following tests and procedures may be used:
A transrectal biopsy is used to diagnose prostate cancer. A transrectal biopsy is the removal of tissue from the prostate by inserting a thin needle through the rectum and into the prostate. This procedure is usually done using transrectal ultrasound to help guide where samples of tissue are taken from. A pathologist views the tissue under a microscope to look for cancer cells. Transrectal biopsy. An ultrasound probe is inserted into the rectum to show where the tumor is. Then a needle is inserted through the rectum into the prostate to remove tissue from the prostate.
Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options.
The prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:
Treatment options also may depend on the following:
Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die of it.
After prostate cancer has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the prostate or to other parts of the body.
The process used to find out if cancer has spread within the prostate or to other parts of the body is called staging. The information gathered from the staging process determines the stage of the disease. It is important to know the stage in order to plan treatment. The results of the tests used to diagnose prostate cancer are often also used to stage the disease. (See the General Information section.) In prostate cancer, staging tests may not be done unless the patient has symptoms or signs that the cancer has spread, such as bone pain, a high PSA level, or a high Gleason score.
The following tests and procedures also may be used in the staging process:
The stage of the cancer is based on the results of the staging and diagnostic tests, including the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and the Gleason score. The tissue samples removed during the biopsy are used to find out the Gleason score. The Gleason score ranges from 2-10 and describes how different the cancer cells look from normal cells and how likely it is that the tumor will spread. The lower the number, the less likely the tumor is to spread.
There are three ways that cancer spreads in the body.
Cancer can spread through tissue, the lymph system, and the blood:
Cancer may spread from where it began to other parts of the body.
When cancer spreads to another part of the body, it is called metastasis. Cancer cells break away from where they began (the primary tumor) and travel through the lymph system or blood.
The metastatic tumor is the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if prostate cancer spreads to the bone, the cancer cells in the bone are actually prostate cancer cells. The disease is metastatic prostate cancer, not bone cancer.
Denosumab, a monoclonal antibody, may be used to prevent bone metastases.
The following stages are used for prostate cancer:
As prostate cancer progresses from Stage I to Stage IV, the cancer cells grow within the prostate, through the outer layer of the prostate into nearby tissue, and then to lymph nodes or other parts of the body.
Stage I
In stage I, cancer is found in the prostate only. The cancer:
Stage II
In stage II, cancer is more advanced than in stage I, but has not spread outside the prostate. Stage II is divided into stages IIA and IIB.
In stage IIA, cancer:
In stage IIB, cancer:
Stage III
In stage III, cancer has spread beyond the outer layer of the prostate and may have spread to the seminal vesicles. The PSA can be any level and the Gleason score can range from 2 to 10.
Stage IV
In stage IV, the PSA can be any level and the Gleason score can range from 2 to 10. Also, cancer:
Recurrent prostate cancer is cancer that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The cancer may come back in the prostate or in other parts of the body.
There are different types of treatment for patients with prostate cancer.
Different types of treatment are available for patients with prostate cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment. Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Seven types of standard treatment are used:
Watchful waiting or active surveillance
Watchful waiting and active surveillance are treatments used for older men who do not have signs or symptoms or have other medical conditions and for men whose prostate cancer is found during a screening test.
Watchful waiting is closely monitoring a patient's condition without giving any treatment until signs or symptoms appear or change. Treatment is given to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.
Active surveillance is closely following a patient's condition without giving any treatment unless there are changes in test results. It is used to find early signs that the condition is getting worse. In active surveillance, patients are given certain exams and tests, including digital rectal exam, PSA test, transrectal ultrasound, and transrectal needle biopsy, to check if the cancer is growing. When the cancer begins to grow, treatment is given to cure the cancer.
Other terms that are used to describe not giving treatment to cure prostate cancer right after diagnosis are observation, watch and wait, and expectant management.
Patients in good health whose tumor is in the prostate gland only may be treated with surgery to remove the tumor. The following types of surgery are used:
In some cases, nerve-sparing surgery can be done. This type of surgery may save the nerves that control erection. However, men with large tumors or tumors that are very close to the nerves may not be able to have this surgery.
Possible problems after prostate cancer surgery include the following:
Radiation therapy and radiopharmaceutical therapy
Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing. There are different types of radiation therapy:
The way the radiation therapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Men treated with radiation therapy for prostate cancer have an increased risk of having bladder and/or gastrointestinal cancer.
Radiation therapy can cause impotence and urinary problems.
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy is a cancer treatment that removes hormones or blocks their action and stops cancer cells from growing. Hormones are substances made by glands in the body and circulated in the bloodstream. In prostate cancer, male sex hormones can cause prostate cancer to grow. Drugs, surgery, or other hormones are used to reduce the amount of male hormones or block them from working.
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may include the following:
Hot flashes, impaired sexual function, loss of desire for sex, and weakened bones may occur in men treated with hormone therapy. Other side effects include diarrhea, nausea, and itching.
See Drugs Approved for Prostate Cancer for more information.
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. When chemotherapy is taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, the drugs enter the bloodstream and can reach cancer cells throughout the body (systemic chemotherapy). When chemotherapy is placed directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, an organ, or a body cavity such as the abdomen, the drugs mainly affect cancer cells in those areas (regional chemotherapy). The way the chemotherapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Biologic therapy
Biologic therapy is a treatment that uses the patient's immune system to fight cancer. Substances made by the body or made in a laboratory are used to boost, direct, or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. Sipuleucel-T is a type of biologic therapy used to treat prostate cancer that has metastasized (spread to other parts of the body).
Bisphosphonate therapy
Bisphosphonate drugs, such as clodronate or zoledronate, reduce bone disease when cancer has spread to the bone. Men who are treated with antiandrogen therapy or orchiectomy are at an increased risk of bone loss. In these men, bisphosphonate drugs lessen the risk of bone fracture (breaks). The use of bisphosphonate drugs to prevent or slow the growth of bone metastases is being studied in clinical trials.
There are treatments for bone pain caused by bone metastases or hormone therapy.
Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone and certain types of hormone therapy can weaken bones and lead to bone pain. Treatments for bone pain include the following:
See the PDQ summary on Pain for more information.
New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
This summary section describes treatments that are being studied in clinical trials. It may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about clinical trials is available from the NCI website.
Cryosurgery is a treatment that uses an instrument to freeze and destroy prostate cancer cells. Ultrasound is used to find the area that will be treated. This type of treatment is also called cryotherapy.
Cryosurgery can cause impotence and leakage of urine from the bladder or stool from the rectum.
High-intensity focused ultrasound
High-intensity focused ultrasound is a treatment that uses ultrasound (high-energy sound waves) to destroy cancer cells. To treat prostate cancer, an endorectal probe is used to make the sound waves.
Proton beam radiation therapy
Proton beam radiation therapy is a type of high-energy, external radiation therapy that targets tumors with streams of protons (small, positively charged particles). This type of radiation therapy is being studied in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial.
For some patients, taking part in a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. Clinical trials are part of the cancer research process. Clinical trials are done to find out if new cancer treatments are safe and effective or better than the standard treatment.
Many of today's standard treatments for cancer are based on earlier clinical trials. Patients who take part in a clinical trial may receive the standard treatment or be among the first to receive a new treatment.
Patients who take part in clinical trials also help improve the way cancer will be treated in the future. Even when clinical trials do not lead to effective new treatments, they often answer important questions and help move research forward.
Patients can enter clinical trials before, during, or after starting their cancer treatment.
Some clinical trials only include patients who have not yet received treatment. Other trials test treatments for patients whose cancer has not gotten better. There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop cancer from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of cancer treatment.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. See the Treatment Options section that follows for links to current treatment clinical trials. These have been retrieved from NCI's listing of clinical trials.
Follow-up tests may be needed.
Some of the tests that were done to diagnose the cancer or to find out the stage of the cancer may be repeated. Some tests will be repeated in order to see how well the treatment is working. Decisions about whether to continue, change, or stop treatment may be based on the results of these tests.
Some of the tests will continue to be done from time to time after treatment has ended. The results of these tests can show if your condition has changed or if the cancer has recurred (come back). These tests are sometimes called follow-up tests or check-ups.
Stage I Prostate Cancer
Standard treatment of stage I prostate cancer may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage I prostate cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage II Prostate Cancer
Standard treatment of stage II prostate cancer may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage II prostate cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage III Prostate Cancer
Standard treatment of stage III prostate cancer may include the following:
Treatment to control cancer that is in the prostate and lessen urinary symptoms may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage III prostate cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Stage IV Prostate Cancer
Standard treatment of stage IV prostate cancer may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage IV prostate cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Standard treatment of recurrent prostate cancer may include the following:
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent prostate cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. Talk with your doctor about clinical trials that may be right for you. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
For more information from the National Cancer Institute about prostate cancer, see the following:
For general cancer information and other resources from the National Cancer Institute, see the following:
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Changes were made to this summary to match those made to the health professional version.
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