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KIHEI - While other students looked on with fear and did nothing, Eileen Parkman mustered up the courage to stop five 5th-grade boys from beating an autistic student who lay defenseless in a fetal position on a South Maui schoolyard last year.
"Everybody was scared," 9-year-old Eileen recalled last week. "I went up to the kids, and I asked them politely" to stop . . . "even though I was scared."
"It isn't the right thing to beat up people. It's the right thing to help people," Eileen said in explaining her bravery in coming to the defense of a helpless student during a lunch recess at Kamali'i Elementary School.
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Nine-year-old Eileen Parkman beams as friend and Maui police officer Oscar Martin-Del Campo and Eileen's father, Sean, stand next to her during her receipt of awards for her bravery from the Maui Autism Center in Kihei on Friday. In 2012, then-2nd-grader Eileen stood up to five 5th-grade boys who were beating up a 2nd-grade autistic boy.
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Maui Autism Center founder Howard Greenberg reads a speech from his iPad while presenting a bravery award Friday afternoon to 9-year-old Eileen Parkman for her courage in stopping five boys from beating up a younger boy with autism last year. Standing in the background is Parkman's father, Sean.
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But she paid a price. The boys turned their attention on the then-2nd-grader, pushing her to the ground, swearing at her and stepping on her hands and arms - leaving shoe marks all over her body, according to Eileen's father, Sean.
Eileen kicked the boys to get away.
"Yes, I was very scared," Eileen said, adding it was "very painful" to get bullied.
"No, I don't think that is right. I don't think anybody should be beat up," Eileen said.
And, it wasn't an isolated incident. Her defiance of the older boys made her a target for bullying at least four more times at Kamali'i Elementary School, Sean Parkman said. Older kids kicked Eileen and threw balls at her face.
After being unable to get satisfactory attention to the problem of bullying from school officials, Parkman pulled his daughter from the school. Now she's being tutored privately.
Citing student privacy laws that don't allow official comment on such cases, Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz declined last week to address the specific incident involving Eileen and 9-year-old Jimmy Mandeville, the autistic student who was beaten. She acknowledged that the department investigated.
"All students are subject to disciplinary actions as noted in Chapter 19," which refers to misconduct in public schools, she said in an email.
"The Department of Education takes bullying very seriously and believes it is important to support victims of bullying. We encourage students and parents to report incidents of bullying and harassment by immediately notifying school officials," she wrote. "The department is taking a comprehensive and systemic approach to address bullying and harassment in all of our public schools, including training staff about anti-bullying efforts."
Meanwhile, Eileen's heroics and courage have not gone unnoticed.
The Maui Autism Center presented Eileen with a bravery award on Friday afternoon, with center founder Howard Greenberg calling her a "hero."
"She defended this boy because of her courage," he said during the ceremony at the center in Kihei. "Eileen Parkman is a defender of the defenseless."
Prior to the ceremony, Greenberg said he was personally touched because he has a 9-year-old autistic son.
While Greenberg said the award aims to boost Eileen's self-esteem while she continues to cope with psychological and emotional issues stemming from the incident, the award spotlights the problem of schoolyard bullying of autistic students, as well as bullying in general that goes on in schools.
"We got to have more people to stand up for the nonverbal community, the autistic community," Greenberg said. "If we can shine light on this, we can maybe create some sort of awareness."
Sean Parkman said he's proud of his daughter.
"She deserves to be held as a hero," he said. But "what happened to her was pretty wrong. I felt bad. What she did was the right thing. She helped the kid that needed help. She got beat up," he said.
It took Sean Parkman a while to remove Eileen from enrollment at Kamali'i. After the first incident, he was told the situation would be remedied, he said. But when Eileen endured more retaliation, Parkman said he received no help from school officials.
He and his mother offered to help serve as school field monitors, but they were turned away, he said.
Parkman said school officials told him that if he pulled Eileen from the school, then officials would report him to Child Protective Services because he could be violating school attendance policies. So, he held off.
But after taking Eileen to doctors several times after getting beaten, doctors warned Parkman that Eileen was not safe. He then removed her from the school.
Greenberg called for "more kindness in the school system."
"Elementary school is supposed to be safe, especially for special needs kids. . . . They cannot defend themselves," he said.
Some special needs students cannot talk or physically express their feelings easily, Greenberg added.
Sixty percent of students with disabilities reported being bullied compared to 25 percent of the general student population, according to a 2008 citation from the British Journal of Learning Support, which was cited in the 2011 report, "Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, Bullying and the Child with Special Needs."
According to the book "Insights from across Fields and around the World" (2009), only 10 studies have been conducted in the U.S. on bullying and developmental disabilities.
All studies found that children with disabilities were two to three times more likely to be victims of bullying than their nondisabled peers.
During the award presentation, Greenberg said that, according to the National Education Association, 160,000 children every day don't go to school because they are afraid of being bullied.
Although reports paint an ugly picture of what special needs students face from fellow students in school, Greenberg said prior to the ceremony that the situation is likely worse than reports show. Many incidents go unreported because those being bullied can't speak or have a hard time communicating verbally.
"The kids can't speak for themselves," Greenberg said. "Sometimes the ones that are verbal don't speak to what actually happened. Their testimony isn't admissible in court."
Greenberg cited one case in which a New Jersey father had his autistic son wired with a microphone and found out that his son was being bullied.
"The core of the issue is, this population needs to be protected by the rest of us because they can't protect themselves," he said.
Jimmy's mother, Maria Mandeville, told The Maui News she is thankful for what Eileen has done to protect her autistic son and for the special needs community.
"I think she's amazing," Maria Mandeville said. "She's a wonderful girl."
All is not well, though. She said her son, now a 3rd-grader, still is being picked on at school.
Maria Mandeville and Jimmy were present to see Eileen receive a certificate from the center. It was given to her by friend and Maui police officer Oscar Martin-Del Campo. Greenberg presented her with a medal.
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The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.
The LHC has thousands of magnets which will be maintained in this frigid condition using liquid helium.
The magnets are arranged in a ring that runs for 27km through the giant tunnel.
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The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang.
Currently, six out of the LHC's eight sectors are between 4.5 and 1.9 Kelvin, though all sectors of the machine have been down to 1.9 Kelvin at some stage over the last few months.
By comparison, the temperature in remote regions of outer space is about 2.7 Kelvin (-270C; -454F).
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Helium exhibits spectacular properties at 2.2 Kelvin - becoming "superfluid". This allows it to conduct heat very rapidly, making it an extremely efficient refrigerant.
No particle physics facility on this scale has ever operated at such low temperatures. But, so far, the hardware was performing as predicted, Roberto Saban explained.
"We have a very systematic process for the commissioning of this machine, based on very carefully designed procedures prepared with experience we have gathered on prototypes."
He added: "Our motto is: no short cuts? exchanging a single component which today is cold, is like bringing it back from the Moon. It takes about three to four weeks to warm it up. Then it takes one or two weeks to exchange. Then it needs three to six weeks to cool down again.
"So, you see, it is three months if we make a mistake."
Two sectors of the LHC are currently not cold enough for testing to proceed. Electronics that control the cryogenic systems in these sectors are being moved to an area where they will be better shielded against particles that shoot out of the machine during collisions.
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One sector of the ring is being run as if the LHC was operational and carrying a beam. This is so that crews can de-bug software and hardware and gain experience of running operating cycles.
The LHC's magnets must also undergo electrical testing. Each sector of the machine contains about 200 electrical circuits. Each circuit may consist of as many as 154 magnets or as few as one.
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"We power each circuit, making sure it goes to its design current. But above all, we are verifying that all the protection systems around it - which are there to detect an eventual quench - are operating as expected," said Roberto Saban.
A quench occurs when some part of the magnet starts to heat up, becoming resistant to electrical current. Engineers have built in a recovery system to detect these quenches before they affect the magnetic field bending particles around the ring and shut off the circulating beams.
The machine's cool-down should take another two weeks to complete, provided no serious problems are found. Electrical testing of the magnets may take another couple of weeks.
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The Summerville High School Class of 1973 will be having a Forty Year Reunion on August 10th at the Summerville / Miler Country Club. $40 per person. Open bar, food and dessert buffet , and DJ. Please contact Steve Murray at (843) 345-3970 with any questions.
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sasha does them occasionally in exhibitions (see marshall's fall 2005 DROMP on youtube)Originally Posted by hockeyfan228
sasha does them occasionally in exhibitions (see marshall's fall 2005 DROMP on youtube)Originally Posted by hockeyfan228
Still reading through your great post but just wanted to jump in to say (and i'm relying purely on, i think , Robin Cousins' commentary since i didn't know much about pairs elements at the time), Eltsova & Bushkov, before they made it to the top did an LP in truly hideous peach coloured costumes at one point in the program they set up what looked like a throw double axel but it went up higher than normal and not as far and before she landed they caught hands...to me it looked like a variation on a throw double axel rather than an "axel twist lift" which is what i think it was described as.Originally Posted by DORISPULASKI
I can't imagine an axel take off being very easy for a twist lift...you'll be able to spot those who have been attempting it by looking for the male paris skaters with black eyes from get knee'd in the face!
Last edited by antmanb; 07-19-2006 at 04:41 AM.
You could put a side step in between them. Land the first double axel, open your body out a little to the side, plant the left toepick jump up but don't rotate land (still sideways on) on the right toe pick and simultaneously push onto the LFO edge and take off for the second double axel. If the number of jumps really aren't limited in a sequence then what is there to stop someone doing 4 double axels with the side hops in between and getting 10.56 as a base base mark (4 lots of 3.3 for the double axels multiplied by the 0.8 sequence multiplier).Originally Posted by Mathman
I think the reason that it is a real change and not just an aesthetic change is because of that .8 multiplier. (Thanks to Hockeyfan for being the first to explain this to me, post 8 above.)Originally Posted by Theatregirl1122
If you did a second solo quad and it was scored as a (failed) combo, you would still get full value (9.0) for the quad as the first jump of a combo.
But if it is scored as a failed sequence, then, because of the .8 multiplier applied to all jumps of a sequence, you only get 7.2 points for the quad.
Now that I understand it, I think the change is a good one.
But i thought, and i am likely wrong, that you were only allowed one jump sequence in the program and so what if you fall on a quad that should have been a combo not a sequence and you then properly execute your 3toe/3salchow sequence? Is the second sqeuence counted?Originally Posted by Mathman
Actually the more i think about it, the more i think i'm wrong and thinking of only being allowed one three jump combo rather than one sequence!
If this is true, and I can believe Sasha capable of charlotte on an edge, then the next step would be to put the charlotte into a spin. It would be mind blowing and put the Bielman to rest.Originally Posted by tully
But Joe can you imagine the number half-arsed attempts at the charlotte spin we would then see - how many attempts would end up looking like a spinning dog-peeing?!!Originally Posted by Joesitz
I think i'd rather see bad Biellmann spins than bad Charolotte spins!
These posts on jump sequences and combos are very informative and for me fascinating.
My question is do the infractions to the rules get into the computer which comes up with the errors?? I was thinking of Plush in the GPF in NKH where he put an extra jump pass into his program and was penalized.
I know the Tech Asst made the call of the jump without thinking it wrong, but was it the computer which tallied the number of passes? or was this second thoughts later by humans?
The ISU software does. The reason there was an issue at Japanese Nationals, where Oda performed an illegal jump that was later nullified, giving Takahashi the title and Olympic berth, was that the Japanese Federation decided to use its own software, and they didn't program the rule correctly.Originally Posted by Joesitz
Ant, That does sound a lot like a somewhat screwed up axel twist lift.Originally Posted by antmanb
And you've got to be right about the black eyes. I remember the interview with Orscher and Lucash where they were asked what their least favorite skill was, and it was the twist, according to Garrett, who said that he had lots of injuries from it (broken noses, I think). I'd say, practice it only in a goalie hockey helmet, the kind with the metal cage over the face, but probably then the lady would crack her elbow on the helmet!
I'm going to spend some time watching old pair vids looking for a really good clip to make of an axel twist lift.
The other versions are just nothing-three different ways of picking in, and which edge you're on. If the girl is tiny, often it is all for show, too. Check it out. Sometimes the girl goes just as high, no matter whether she has an effective pick in or not, provided the guy is a big bruiser.
There's no handicap given by the ISU for size, other than Novice, Junior, and Senior, ratings, which keeps 9 year old girls out of the mix.Originally Posted by SeaniBu
And the Chinese are often said to fling the lady, accompanied by a large kick, sort of, of their back leg. Check out early Shen and Zhao vids versus BerSikh vids. And on message boards, there was much snarking about the difference in technique and whether it ought to matter in COP by fans of Chinese vs. fans of Russian pairs.
Tong of Pang and Tong manages to get that high kick without making it look awkward, a huge plus, I think.
Downloads, I get from rinkside, youtube, and the ever popular fsvids. Olympic vids, which is what the Campbell Brown vid was, are in the restricted section of fsvids. You have to upload a vid or two and register to enter the restricted sections.
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Go to the thread you are interested in. Click on the link you want to download and follow the directions that come up on the page that next shows. If you have any problems, go to the Video Help section of the forum. There is also info and TV and web broadcast scheduling, doing streaming video, recording streaming video, and other interesting viewing stuff for the obsessive skating fan (ME)
search by skater name, and click to view. If you want to download and save the file, I can give you directions.
you have to follow the directions, download software, and do the filesharing thing with DC++
Last edited by dorispulaski; 07-19-2006 at 09:51 AM.
It doesn't seem the rules are mentioning it but i've also heard that an effective entrance to the split twist is a loop entry so the lady performs a falling leaf split going into it which strikes as being more difficult than either the toe loop or lutz/flip entrance becaue of the toe assist in those.Originally Posted by DORISPULASKI
In the axel twist lifts are ladies caught like on a regular split twist?
The rule is "There may be up to three jump combinations or jump sequences in the Long Program."Originally Posted by antmanb
The second (or third) sequence would count.
Doh, and I just realized why no one is doing those multi-jump sequences: only the base values of the two hardest jumps are added and then multiplied by .8. The other jumps don't count.
Last edited by hockeyfan228; 07-19-2006 at 12:52 PM.
Little by little it's all coming back to me I only have a couple of months left to re-memorized Communications 1319, 1342 and 1396 before the season starts.Originally Posted by hockeyfan228
But I still want to see someone do a 4 double-Axel sequence. Give them 5.3 points for the last two and an extra +2 GOE for an unusual entrance!


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Nut Cupping is what two online gaming guilds do together when they are outclassed. They call in friends because they are unable to reap what they've sewn by themselves.
KGB couldnt handle repeated attacks from LoD, so they called EB for a nut cupping victory over LoD.
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the act of a former first lady campainging for a shot at her own presidency; could also be referred to as a 'wife swap' or a moment at which the first lady publicly starts wearing the pants in the relationship
Katie: i would so vote for her if she ever went for "pulling a hillary"!
Katie: i would so vote for her if she ever went for "pulling a hillary"!
автор: Katie_0990 20 января 2009
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When a woman stays with her husband/boyfriend after catching him cheating, ie Hillary Clinton staying with husband/former President Bill after finding out about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Chelsea Lately: "The newest gossip on Tiger Wood's wife is that she's actually gonna stay with him after he cheated with all those women!"
Alleson: "Ugh, I can't believe she's pulling a Hillary."
Alleson: "Ugh, I can't believe she's pulling a Hillary."
автор: allesam 11 декабря 2009
Pulling a Hillary Being calm, reasonable and factual in the face of blatant animosity, prejudice, and falsehood. See Secretary Clinton's performance the Benghazi hearings, October '15.
Watching the tapes of Cecile Richards appeared at the Planned Parenthood hearings, I realized she was really pulling a Hillary
автор: LiberalLady 24 декабря 2015
Thinking that someone looks like a celebrity , or some obscure combination of celebrities, and being totally wrong. Basically being poor at facial recognition.
"That actor definitely looks like Joeseph Stalin and Tina Fey's hypothetical love child"
"That's Bradley Cooper. You're totally pulling a Hillary"
"That's Bradley Cooper. You're totally pulling a Hillary"
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This heated vest earned The Best rating from the Hammacher Schlemmer Institute because it reached the highest average temperatures and had the longest-lasting battery. Evaluations by Institute analysts found that The Best Heated Vest reached 111� F on its highest setting and 107� F on medium—25% and 28% warmer, respectively, than lesser units. On high, The Best Heated Vest's lithium-ion battery produced heat for more than four hours, while other vests lost power in half the time. Consumers praised this vest for evenly distributing its warmth—unlike others that concentrated the heat in the front or back. With three temperature settings, the Best Heated Vest is made from soft polyester that resists rain and wind, with zippered hand pockets and a high collar for additional comfort. Battery recharges in four hours via the included AC adapter. Machine wash and dry. Imported. Men's sizes XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL. (2 lbs.)
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By claybusters
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This vest was sold as "Best Heated Vest" and the heat was very LOW! We first ordered a Large, but sent it back because it was snug and low heat. When we got the XL, the size was a little large, but comfortable, but the heat was still too low for what we expected. I can't imagine how you could feel the heat from this vest if you had a t-neck and sweater on?? We were disappointed.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Al
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Use for Golf, fits well, however more heat distribution in the front of vest for me.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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The only negative so far is that the wiring for the heating pads is exposed. Should be in pockets like a jacket I purchased.
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Not that warm
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It doesn't get that warm even on high but I use it walking on cool days when normally I would have used a night weight coat. Great wind blocker. A bit heavy.
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By Erich
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This is a good addition to the wardrobe for winter. Do not expect it to be VERY warm. It's function is really to add some warmth and also keep in body heat while doing the warming. It is NOT a heating vest.
Just what we hoped for.
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I bought this as a gift for my husband and he loves it. It is just the thing to add an extra layer of warmth in the cold winter months!He even wore it without an overcoat on one of the milder days.
I would by this product again
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I bought the heated vest mainly for when I sit outside at night reading. The low setting works well most of the time, some times I move up to medium.I'm going to try it under my motorcycle jacket for more warmth when on the motorcycle.
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The Altoona Regional Health System is on schedule to join UPMC as of July 1, President and CEO Jerry Murray told employees in a letter distributed Friday,
One day after a delegation, through a petition with 2,000 signatures, asked the hospital's board to reconsider the pending affiliation, Murray issued a letter confirming that the targeted merger date will be met.
"I am pleased to report that we are completing the due diligence phase of our affiliation process and are on schedule to announce on July 1 that we have joined the UPMC system," Murray wrote in his letter.
The delegation organized by the SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania employees, named several concerns about the pending merger in its petition submitted Thursday to the hospital's board.
Murray's letter doesn't mention the petition, but it makes a reference to a main concern named in the petition: whether Highmark insurance will be accepted at Altoona Regional after the merger.
"UPMC has said publicly more than once that it will welcome negotiations in the market with Highmark and all other insurers," Murray said in his letter.
"I don't think that's the case any longer," delegation member Bob Kutz, president of the Blair-Bedford Central Labor Council said Saturday. "The board of UPMC in Pittsburgh said Thursday that they're not going to extend their agreement with Highmark past June 2014."
In a resolution passed Wednesday, UPMC's board spelled out its rationale for not renewing its Highmark contract beyond 2014. Highmark, which contends that a Highmark-UPMC relationship is in the best interest of the community, responded with a statement accusing UPMC of taking a monopolistic position.
The local delegation claims that Blair County's 44,000 Highmark subscribers are at risk of losing in-network access to Altoona Regional, and maybe to Pittsburgh area hospitals, without agreements governing future access. An Altoona Hospital spokesman dismissed that claim on Thursday as a scare tactic and referred to UPMC's previous commitment to negotiate a separate contract with Highmark for access to UPMC.
The delegation also complained about a lack of communication with the public, although Murray, in his letter, said that questions from the community have been rare.
Kutz said he wasn't surprised by Murray's letter indicating that the merger is on schedule for July 1.
"I think the die has been cast," Kutz said. "But it's not a done deal until [state Attorney General] Kathleen Kane approves it.
Murray, in his letter to the employees, said most of their questions have focused on human resource issues, especially benefits.
"While we don't know how benefits might be affected, we hope to have more information soon," Murray said.
The letter also includes Murray's endorsement of the pursuit.
"This is an exciting time for health care in our region," he wrote. "Our vision is to be a world-class health care provider, and together with UPMC, we will realize that goal."
Mirror Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 946-7456.


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the state of not being impressed by a person or the action they performed.
this is a face of unimpressment.
i am unimpressed with your actions
i am unimpressed with your actions
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A moment between two people, when one person is unimpressed with the other person. OMJ.
the woman who was doing my hair didn't seem impressed with all my texting...im pretty sure i jiggled at one point of laughter oops i forgive her moment of unimpressment...
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Modern medicine has failed to treat, cure, and prevent cancer
Open source cancer research
When it comes to treating, curing, and preventing cancer, modern medicine has largely failed. You could argue that cancer is far too complicated to unravel in the few millenia we have been documenting it. Or that the billions we spend annually on research is far too little. Established incentives and policies that perpetuate research silos certainly seem to slow success.
Medical researchers have been trained in a professional culture where secrecy reigns, where they must protect their own interests. The dominant culture discourages sharing research findings and collaborating on projects. It has become more important to protect vested interests than to take advantage of the huge collaborative network that is available in academia.
This mode of thinking is a bitter pill to swallow for the quarter of our population that will die of cancer. According to the World Health Organization, one in every four deaths is attributable to cancer.
What would happen if cancer researchers were able to adopt an open and collaborative approach like the one that has--for the last two decades--revolutionized software development? What if cancer research could be open source?
Linux has been successful because a large group of people recognized a need and agreed on a process for meeting that need. The brilliance of the open source approach is in the sheer amount of brainpower participating. The open source community shows that the collective intelligence of a network is greater than any single contributor.
While the term is attributed to software development, the idea is not. In fact, some medical research does use this methodology in the same way that Linus Torvalds and others develop open source operating systems. The Human Genome Project, for example, very successfully distributed gene-mapping in efforts to speed up the sequencing of the genome. The HGP teams published their data openly, on the Internet.
More recently, a team of Harvard researchers discovered the power of distributed research. A team led by Jay Bradner at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute discovered a small-molecule inhibitor that showed promise in its ability to interrupt the aggressive growth of cancer cells. The small-molecule inhibitor, called JQ1--after Jun Qi, the chemist who made the discovery--works by suppressing a protein (bromodomain-containing 4, or Brd4) necessary for the expression of the Myc regulator gene. It is a mutated Myc gene that is believed to be at the root of many cancers. Without Brd4, Myc remains inactive. Inhibiting Myc could be part of the key to successful cancer treatments.
With the cells from an affected patient, Bradner's group successfully grew the cancer in mice and discovered that the mice with the cancer who received the compound lived, while the mice with the cancer who didn't receive the compound rapidly perished.
Instead of operating in secrecy and guarding their work, Bradner's group shared it. They simply started mailing it to friends. They sent it to Oxford crystallographers, who sent back an informative picture that helped Dr. Bradners team to understand better how the small-molecule inhibitor works so potently against Brd4.
They mailed samples to 40 labs in the US and 30 more in Europe, encouraging these labs to use it, build upon it, and share their findings in return. As a result of this open source approach, Dr Bradner's team has learned--in less than a year--that JQ1 small-molecule inhibitor prevents the growth of leukemia, making affected cells behave like normal white blood cells. Another group reported back that multiple myeloma cells respond dramatically to JQ1. Still another found that the inhibitor prevents adipose cells from storing fat, thus preventing fatty liver disease.
Bradner has published his findings. He has released the chemical identity of the compound, told researchers how to make it, and even offered to provide free samples to anyone in the medical research community. (If you're a researcher who'd like a sample of the JQ1 molecule, you can even contact Bradner's Lab via twitter @jaybradner.)
Bradner feels his early successes are due not only to the science, but also to the strategy. Using an open source approach, sharing the information about this molecule, and crowd-sourcing the research and the testing illustrates the opportunities that an open methodology can bring to the difficult challenges of medical research and prototype drug discovery.
In his recently released TED talk video, Dr. Bradner explains that he firmly believes that making a drug prototype freely available among researchers will help accelerate the delivery of effective cancer drugs to affected patients.
With more practice—and more familiarity with each other and this kind of collaborative research—scientists can break large, complex, time-expensive projects into smaller, achievable portions. By spreading out those small tasks among many groups, much more work can be accomplished in a vastly reduced amount of time.
Using the old research models, Bradner's team might have learned that JQ1 affects AML cells in the first year. But it might have been next year before they got to leukemia, and years after that before they realized it also could affect fatty liver. How many years do you think the old approach adds to the development of drugs we need today?
It is time to seriously consider a different model for scientific research–one that directly engages and benefits society, encourages open access and the free exchange of scientific information. The benefit to patients would be enormous.
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I have MDS and I think these are wonderful ideas. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I do agree that there are forces at work that will do everything possible to protect their profits. In particular chemotherapy is a billion dollar industry and it will never go down without kicking and screaming and hurting people.
The "open source" concept is probably one of the most effective ways to fight back as it makes it much more difficult to conceal any dirty tactics to hold back the type of progress that is difficult to profit as much from. But I cannot help but think the FDA and/or other organization so heavily vested in this type of thing NOT succeeding they will find ways to put up roadblocks that are difficult to pass through. They can delay or indefinitely postpone approval of anything they want to, they can specify testing conditions that cannot succeed or they can interpret any kind of side-effects, even minor or imagined ones as too dangerous. They have the power to even change the law to their advantage.
They will surely use propaganda to discredit any type of "open source" movement that threatens their power. In most peoples mind the FDA is a respect "authority" that is there to protect us and they can easily paint something like this as misguided or foolish idealism not to be taken seriously - and ultimately dangerous because people are taken in by it instead of seeking "serious" treatment.
As I say, I am not a conspiracy theorist, I do not consider them evil and I believe that in many cases they DO protect us legitimately. There is no down there are many working inside the FDA who have character. However the truth of the matter is that when really big money is involved or their authority is challenged, they are a different animal.
Sorry to be so negative, but I am very positive about this concept and I hope it succeeds. To any involved, keep up the good work!
Disappointingly careless reporting - to pick just one example, according to the WHO report, only in the richest countries can a quarter of all deaths be attributed to cancer. To quote another WHO report - In low-income countries ... People predominantly die of infectious diseases: lung infections, diarrhoeal diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many academics already share information readily. There is definitely room for improvement, and the open source movement may provide some helpful insights, but sloppy and sensationalist reporting weakens the argument.
Logically it would be best to ask if there is any reason for there not to be a Cancer Cure. As this statement seems negative then why can we not find one? In depth research indicates that there have been several, that the Cancer Industry chooses to ignore. It would seem that there are areas in Physics and Biology that need updating, as a consequence of the results of the Erganon Microscope by Dr Olbrich. An alkaline blood ph seems to be at the root of documented cures by Dr Simoncini and Rife, and there are others based on phytochemicals. Indeed nothing less than a wholesale revolution in Medicine and Science seems to almost be upon us.
BSc Physics, ARCS
The are plenty of examples of freely available data related to cancer and other diseases. At NCI data for hundreds of thousands of structures (including most of the approved agents), in vitro and in vivo antitumor data are available (see http://dtp.cancer.gov/webdata.html and http://dtp.cancer.gov/docs/dtp_search.html). There is also gene expression data (http://dtp.cancer.gov/mtargets/mt_index.html and http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/). More broadly there is PubChem (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pcassay) with millions of compounds and thousands of bioassays. It is being fed in part by the Molecular Libraries Program (https://commonfund.nih.gov/molecularlibraries/) where agreeing to promptly put the high throughput screening data in PubChem is a requirement for the assay to be accepted in the program. There is far more openly data available than is being used.
Nice article. Beside the specific research context (cancer research), I like the basic message that I can see in it: in research collaboration pays more than competition (in terms of knowledge accumulated and benefit for the society).
Unfortunately, today the opposite philosophy that forces researchers to compete each other is gaining consensus.
A personal example: here in Italy there is a proposal by the ANVUR (National Association for the Evaluation of Research and University, more or less) according to which only the top 25% of professors (according to some evaluation method still to be defined) will be able to have PhD students. This makes all my colleagues competitors of mine. (Note that having PhD students is not a prize, but a necessity of research work.) Until now, if a colleague of mine asked me for, say, a piece of software that my group developed, I would have given it to him without any problem. He would have done some research, published some papers that referred to my work. Everything would have been fine. Now, with this competitive approach, I am not sure if it would be good for me give the software to my colleague since he would get an advantage exploiting my work, and every paper that he will publish will be a little backward step for me. In the end we risk of getting a research community made of little "monads" that do not talk each other.
Who proposes the competitive approach says that it is necessary to introduce some feedback in the system in order to avoid the presence of free-loaders. Although I agree that there is a risk of getting free-loaders aboard if no control is done, I believe that the ultra-competitive approach is too strong a solution. Note that "getting rid of free-loaders" is not the same of "allowing to just 25% of researchers to do their work."
Unfortunately I think there is a fundamental assumption in this article that people choose research for the right reasons. After twenty years in academia, I can tell you that publishing and winning research funding is the name of the game - what a disaster it would be to solve this crisis. Where would the state of tenure be without cancer, HIV and other serious illnesses? I'm sorry for the pessimism, but I think your rose colored glasses are making you assume that the group of researcher who publish or perish and have infinity pools put in their gardens thanks to their tenured positions and salaries actually want to change the world.
Want to see real-life 50 MILLION dollar collaboration at work in a Research 1? Try iPLANT...50 MILLION folks from NSF and done NOTHING, ueber-NOTHING for the past five years, with a possibility of a five year renewal. After ten years time, they will still have done nothing. The only people benefiting from this project are the ones getting HUGE salaries from the NSF - now that's what I call (taxpayer) collaboration. You should check it out. Let's see MD researchers at that same institution are making 425K, and their ability to maintain those positions requires the development of largely patented technologies.
The system, as it is, will NOT support this type of idea. Sorry. First change the system that promotes greed and profiteering through academic and especially scientific and medical research. My two cents.
"Disgruntled" in the US.
Thank you for this information. It adds my knowledge about cancer. God bless!


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quote: "USB connectors are not general purpose connectors and are not designed to be used in support of other technology applications or standards or as combo connectors."
quote: Alongside the Ethernet, HDMI, VGA and USB2 connectors is the Thunderbolt port. Unlike Apple's and Intel's implementation, which takes the form of a Mini DisplayPort-compatible connector, Sony has decided to use a USB3 port. The underlying technology is still the same as Thunderbolt - Intel's Light Peak – but since it doesn't use the Mini DisplayPort connector, it can't be branded as Thunderbolt. Perversely, squeezing Light Peak into a USB3 connector is against the rules set by the USB Implementers Forum, so it can't be branded as USB3 either.


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This makes me sad... What could have been...
it's really crazy to think that if it weren't for such tragic events, our D core for YEARS could have been Lidstrom, Konstantinov, Fischer and Chelios...
Chances are, that if Vladdy hadn't been injured, we wouldn't have drafted Fish. But then again, we do have a thing about drafting defense in the first round, so I could be wrong. Either way, it sucks to lose two guys like that. We should get a compensatory pick.
Sutton's hit on Leopold was a beauty.
If you drop the 's' off of the https, it will embed the video instead of the link. You did that from a mobile device?
I've always enjoyed this for some reason or another.
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Barton Bests Record Showmanship Contest at 2012 All-American Dairy Show
Barton Bests Record Showmanship Contest at 2012 All-American Dairy Show
Kyle Barton, 14, of Ancramdal, N.Y., topped 166 intermediate showmen at the 15th Youth Showmanship Contest at the 2012 All-American Dairy Show in Harrisburg.
A record 439 juniors vied for top showman honors in this year's show, for youth ages eight to 21.
Intermediate division showmen first competed in eleven heats, then a semifinal round and the final class. The top ten were chosen and others received honorable mentions. All participants received a coupon for a free milkshake, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Dairymen's Association.
"Stay relaxed and keep your eye on the judge," advised Barton. He is the son of Mike and Donna Barton.
Robbie Shaw of Fairplay, Md., evaluated the intermediate division of the popular showmanship contest. Remaining winners in the intermediate division were:
2nd – Jacob Kline, 14, Myerstown, Lebanon Co.
3rd – Daniel Kitchen, 14, Danville, Montour Co.
4th – Kayla Umbel, 13, Emmitsburg, Md.
5th – Hannah Rhoades, 15, Greenville, Ohio
6th – Maddy Manges, 13, Fairhope, Somerset Co.
7th – Lane Kummer, 12, Evans City, Butler Co.
8th – Kayla Windecker, 15, Frankfort, N.Y.
9th – Lexi Winkler, 14, Woodbine, Md.
10th – Kelsey Heiney, 13, Strasburg, Lancaster Co.
Barton received a savings bond, embroidered chair and medal. Other top 10 finalists received a blanket and cash prize.
Kaila Stoltzfus, 13, of East Earl, Lancaster Co., highest placing Guernsey showman, received a savings bond, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Junior Guernsey Association. Winkler, first place Ayrshire showman, received a show halter, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Ayrshire Breeder's Association. Barton was top Brown Swiss showman and Kline was top Jersey showman.
The 49th All-American Dairy Show, the world's largest dairy show, runs Sept. 15-20 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. This year's show features 23 shows in six days, the nation's only all-dairy antiques show, more than 2,400 animals and nearly 1,000 exhibitors from 21 states. For more information, visit www.allamerican.state.pa.us or call 717-787-2905.


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A Community of Exceptional Nurses
Critically ill patients have an increased risk for aspirating oropharyngeal secretions and regurgitated gastric contents. For those who are tube-fed, aspiration of gastric contents is of greater concern.
While witnessed large-volume aspirations occur occasionally, small-volume clinically silent aspirations are far more common. For example, a laboratory study identified frequent microaspirations in approximately half of a large population of critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients who were receiving tube feedings.1
In the same study, risk for pneumonia was about 4 times greater in patients identified as frequent aspirators. Because no bedside tests are currently available to detect microaspirations, efforts to prevent or minimize aspiration take on added importance.
There is evidence that a sustained supine position (zero-degree head-of-bed elevation) increases gastroesophageal reflux and the probability for aspiration; for example, using a radioactive-labeled formula, endobronchial counts were higher when patients were lying flat in bed (zero degree) compared to when they were in a semirecumbent (45-degree) position.2
Thus, elevating the head of the bed to an angle of 30 to 45 degrees, unless contraindicated, is recommended for patients at high risk for aspiration pneumonia (eg, a patient receiving mechanical ventilation and/or one who has a feeding tube in place).3,4
Although effectiveness of the reverse Trendelenberg position in minimizing aspiration has not been studied, it is likely to produce similar results to an elevated backrest position.4
Sedation causes reduced cough and gag reflexes and can interfere with the patient's ability to handle oropharyngeal secretions and refluxed gastric contents; in addition, sedation may slow gastric emptying.5,6 To reduce the risk for aspiration, it is prudent to use the smallest effective level of sedation.
Expert panels recommend that correct feeding-tube placement be verified at regular intervals to minimize the risk for aspiration.3,4,7 If feedings are administered at the wrong site (such as the esophagus, or even the stomach of a patient who requires small-bowel feedings), the risk for aspiration is increased.8
It is not uncommon for feeding tubes to become malpositioned during routine use. For example, in a study of 201 critically ill patients, it was found that the distal tips of 24 of 116 feeding tubes originally positioned in the small bowel were displaced upward into the gastrointestinal tract (23 into the stomach and 1 into the esophagus).9
Tube-fed patients who experience frequent regurgitation and aspiration of gastric contents are at increased risk for poor respiratory outcomes.1
Guidelines developed jointly by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition recommend that patients be monitored for tolerance to enteral feedings by noting abdominal distention, complaints of abdominal pain, observing for passage of flatus and stool, and monitoring gastric residual volumes.10
Because gastric distention predisposes to regurgitation, it is recommended that gastric residual volumes (GRVs) be measured every 4 hours in critically ill patients.4 Practice varies widely in regard to GRVs; however, 200 ml and 250 ml are frequently cited values for initial concern.11,12
In a study of 206 critically ill patients, 2 or more GRVs of at least 200 ml and 1 or more GRVs of at least 250 ml were found significantly more often in patients who experienced frequent aspiration.11 Prokinetics are sometimes advocated to improve gastric emptying when GRVs exceed a stipulated value. Several sources recommend that feedings be stopped when GRVs exceed 500 ml.4,7
In a study of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in critically ill patients, investigators found that those with 2 or more simultaneous GI symptoms (such as high gastric aspirate volume, absent or abnormal bowel sounds, vomiting/regurgitation, diarrhea, bowel distension, and gastrointestinal bleeding) were less likely to have successful enteral feedings than those with fewer than 2 GI symptoms (84% vs 12.2%, respectively, p < .001).13
Although bedside assessments for GI function such as GRVs and abdominal girth are difficult to evaluate,14-16 they are frequently used in combination to provide an estimate of GI tolerance to enteral feedings. Small bowel feeding with the tube's ports situated at or below the Ligament of Treitz is strongly recommended for patients with persistent intolerance to gastric feedings and documented aspiration.7
An expert panel has concluded that no recommendation can be made regarding the best type of formula delivery method (continuous or intermittent).3 Also, no guidelines exist for bolus feedings.
On the basis of logic, however, administering an entire 4-hour volume of formula over a period of a few minutes is more likely to predispose to regurgitation of gastric contents than is the steady administration of the same volume over a period of 4 hours.
Continuous feedings are used in most critical care units. Supportive of this action is a small study of neurologically impaired adult patients; aspiration was observed more frequently in those with intermittent feedings (3 of 17) than in those who received continuous feedings (1 of 17).17
It is possible that the bolus method of feeding may decrease the lower esophageal pressure and thus predispose patients to reflux and aspiration.18 Other researchers reported that adult burn patients who received continuous tube feedings had less stool frequency and less time required to reach nutritional goals than did intermittently fed patients.19
Tracheal intubation interferes with overall swallowing physiology.20 Thus, it is reasonable to expect some degree of swallowing impairment when patients are initially extubated.
A systematic literature review found that recently extubated patients were at increased risk for swallowing difficulties; more than 20% of the patients in many of the reviewed studies experienced dysphagia.21
A persistent low cuff pressure (< 20 cm H2O) predisposes patients to pneumonia, presumably by predisposing to aspiration of oropharyngeal secretions and/or refluxed gastric contents.22 To minimize aspiration of secretions pooled above the endotracheal tube's cuff, hypopharyngeal suctioning should be performed before deflating the cuff.3
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Your sunrise summary of everything you need to know about weather in H-town.
Cool, but sunny with light winds today.
It's a chilly morning, with lows in the mid-20s to the north and northwest of Houston, and lows in the upper-30s along the coast. Today's high will only be in the mid-50s.
Beginning later today, a flow from the Gulf of Mexico will return, allowing temperatures to rise on Saturday into the mid-60s under partly sunny skies. It should be a really nice day.
But things will change Saturday night and Sunday morning, when there's a chance of showers as our next cold front blows through. It should be the strongest front of the season, setting the stage for the region's coldest weather in several years on Monday and Tuesday mornings.
Here's an overview of the situation from Kent Prochazka, a forecaster with the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service:
A much colder airmass will plunge south through the Plains on Saturday and Sunday and should reach Southeast Texas on Sunday. This airmass will originate over the Arctic and will be very cold and dry. Near freezing temperatures may be possible for the some of the inland areas of Southeast Texas on Monday morning while the moderate north winds are still blowing. Wind chill index readings of 15 to 25 are likely on Monday morning. Temperatures may struggle to rise into even the lower 40s on Monday. Winds should relax on Monday night at the coldest temperatures of the season should occur.
Monday night and Tuesday morning below freezing temperatures of 9-14 hours will be likely for all but the immediate coast. Low temperatures over the Conroe area may fall to 15 to 20 degrees. The Houston Metro region may see lower 20s. The Pasadena/Texas City/Freeport areas may experience freezing temperatures for 4 to 6 hours with lows in the upper 20s. Galveston Island could see temperatures of 30-32 degrees. The last time in recent history that temperatures this cold were felt on the Island was in Feb. of 2011.
Here's a graphical depiction of the cold snap:
The very cold Arctic air will be forced southward by high pressure over northeastern Canada and Greenland, which will block the eastward movement of weather systems, forcing them to instead plunge southward into the heartland of the United States.
The map below shows the Arctic push into the central United States on Monday morning, where temperatures will fall into the -20s and -30s. Note the temperatures in Alaska and Maine.
So while it will be in the 20s across parts of Houston on Monday, remember that it could be worse.
So, would you rather
Freeze in the thirties, or sweat
when it's ninety five?
The year 2013 had an average temperature of 69.5 degrees. According to Paul Lewis, with the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service, this tied with 2010, 1996, 1931, and 1918. The last year that was cooler than this year was 2002 when the average annual temperature was 69.3 degrees.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The school year is off to a fresh start and the Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation is giving thanks to the community for its consistent support of our programs. We look forward to another successful year of fundraising as the Foundation prepares to celebrate our 25th anniversary.
What began modestly as a business and education partnership has blossomed into an established non-profit foundation dedicated to enhancing public education within the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. The Foundation raises money to provide grants, resources and unique partnerships to benefit students, teachers and the overall educational community.
Excellence in Education is proud that our primary fundraising efforts, including Skiing for Schools, Dining for Schools, Golfing for Schools and the Home Tour have developed into successful partnerships between the business community and the Foundation. By driving business to our excellent restaurants, mountain resorts and golf courses we are able to raise money to enhance education in our region. A thriving and successful community depends on a sound educational system and the Foundation is delighted to have contributed more than $2.4 million to the district over the past 25 years.
These past two and a half decades have seen great change and growth for the Foundation. Beginning in the 1991-1992 academic year, seven grants were awarded for a total of $7,500. The Foundation has evolved and expanded allowing the Foundation to fund over $150,000 in grants and educator awards during the 2011-2012 school year.
Grants are intended to fund classroom enhancements that schools are not able to finance through existing budgets. Many supplemental math and reading tools, as well as state of the art science equipment are funded by Excellence in Education. In addition, the Foundation has purchased instruments for the district's music programs, art supplies and physical education equipment such as snowshoes and cross-country skis that take advantage of our natural surroundings.
Last year the Foundation funded a pilot program, iLearn, through our Innovation Grant cycle, intended to support and encourage teachers to try new programs or approaches in education. The iLearn program utilizes the iTouch to enhance curriculum and reading fluency. Some classes used their iTouches for research for their career projects while others created 'splice projects', used Reader's Theater, and took AR tests on their devices and buddy read textbooks aloud and then discussed content with a peer.
Excellence in Education was the original funder of the Harvest of the Month program which introduces seasonal fruits and vegetables to students each month. Arts for the Schools was awarded a $25,000 grant a few years ago in support of their Artist in Residence Visual Arts Program. The Foundation funded the Winter Discovery Center at Tahoe Cross Country, which provides place-based science/ski programs to students in our region. Additionally, nearly $70,000 was contributed to the school district's technology plan, which helped bring all district classrooms up to standard with basic equipment.
Heading into another school year full of promise, the Foundation's endowment is now at two million dollars and we are thankful to our partners who remain committed to helping continue Excellence in Education's efforts. Today, the organization is able to fund between $150,000 and $200,000 annually and we expect to see further growth and success in the future.
Excellence in Education reminds everyone that Dining for Schools cards on sale now and the community is invited to join us for our annual recognition event on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Olympic Valley Lodge in Squaw Valley. For more information about the Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation and our various programs visit www.ExinEd.org or call 530-550-7984.
— Katja Dahl is an Excellence in Education board member.


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COLUMBIANA - In a move that shocked City Council and left Mayor David Spatholt speechless, Keith Chamberlin announced Tuesday he is resigning from the city manager position.
Chamberlin told Spatholt to read the resignation letter aloud at the close of the council meeting, and until then no one seated at the table appeared to know of his intentions.
Chamberlin said in the letter that after roughly 23 years of employment he has decided to leave because of changes in the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System (OPERS) that was signed into law by Gov. John Kasich.
The OPERS legislation takes effect Jan. 7, 2013, and changes increase employee contributions, compute new final average salaries, require longer service and reduce cost-of-living adjustments.
The Columbus Dispatch reported in September the changes are to ensure that the pension systems can meet the state requirement that their unfunded liabilities be paid off within 30 years.
Chamberlin said in lieu of the changes "it makes no financial sense for me to continue in my present position."
Prior to working as city manager the last 20-and-a-half years, he was public service director for two-and-a-half years.
He said the "most significant changes" during that time have been the growth of the town, an increase in population that "spurred on" many new housing developments, and the increase and expansion of commercial and industrial businesses.
He also said the expansion of utilities was significant as Columbiana transitioned from being a village to a city.
"Through all of the changes and also the downturn of the economy the city has been and is still in very good fiscal condition," he said.
He closed the letter by saying that working for Columbiana the last two decades has been "challenging" but also "very rewarding."
Spatholt said after reading the letter that he was "shocked" and "speechless" that Chamberlin chose to resign.
Other members of council also expressed surprise and councilmen Bryan Blakeman and Bob Bieshelt said after the meeting that they were also unaware he was considering leaving the position.
Chamberlin didn't offer additional comment after the meeting, only noting that the OPERS changes were the main reason for his decision.
He also didn't indicate whether he has found, or was pursuing a job elsewhere, although during the meeting he commented that he is "still young" and has more career potential ahead.
The 61-year-old will be replaced by Service Director Jay Groner until a full-time replacement is found. Groner already serves as acting city manager when Chamberlin is on vacation or otherwise out of the office and that authority was granted through the city's charter.


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Source: Reuters
quote: While Amazon sellers saw a drop after tax collection, Best Buy was reaping the benefits. In California, Pennsylvania and Texas, Best Buy's online sales jumped 4 to 6 percent over the holiday season compared to other states. It also saw a 6 to 9 percent increase in online orders that are picked up in-store within those states.


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Tiffin Insulators Co. LLC has purchased the Tiffin operations of Seves USA Inc., effective Nov. 30.
The announcement was made in a news release by Dennis K. Kerschner, pesident and CEO of Tiffin Insulators Co. LLC, and his wife, Julie.
Seves USA's headquarters are in Houston. The company was founded in 1894 as Federal Porcelain and focuses its local business on the national sale of pole line hardware and low-voltage OEM insulators for electrical distribution.
According to the release, the purchase did not result in a change of local management or staffing.
"Our primary goal with this transaction was to maintain the business in Tiffin," Kerschner said. "My wife, Julie, and I were born and raised in Tiffin and it was important to us to maintain the business here.
"We are very excited about this transition and look forward to maintaining our relationship with current customers while continuing to expand our customer base throughout the United States."
The company continues to operate at 981 Tyber Road.
For more information, visit www.tiffininsulators.com or call (419) 447-3460.


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Size16 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Parking available
- Breakfast
- Towels
- Pets allowed
- Elevator in building
|Wenzigova, 120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
FREE Wi-Fi
Check in time is from 14:00
Check out prior 12:00
Breakfasts from 7:00 till 10:30
Royal Court Hotel is a brand new, modern and comfortable hotel, which is located in a fully restored and renovated XIX century building of the former Royal Court. It is located in the central part near the medieval sights and the quay of the river Vltava with some of the most beautiful bridges in Europe stretching across it.
Our friendly English-speaking personnel will surround you with care and attention and will make sure you have the warmest memories of your visit to Prague.
We are pleased to offer you a classic cozy double room, which is equipped with all the necessary things for your comfortable stay. You can choose rooms with either a double bed or two large beds. The rooms are equipped with:
Shower cabin, hairdryer, towels
Shower gel/shampoo
Aroma soap for hands
Air condition
Tea set
Welcome coffee and tea
Extra services (paid):
Extra cleaning
Airport transfer
Public transport tickets
Parking for middle-sized cars costs 15-25 euro/day (at the building near apartments). The price depends on the size of your car.If you have some more questions, feel free to ask me about!
|Price for > 2 guests
|R 160 ZAR per guest/night extra
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Great location, ten minutes from downtown, the apartment was nice and new, well equipped and clean, dogs are welcome and parking is near. The only drawback is the traffic because it is a big road and had work in progress closely. Overall we enjoyed it!
Ottima posizione, dieci minuti dal centro, l'appartamento era carino e nuovo, ben attrezzato e pulito, i cani sono benvenuti e il parcheggio è vicino. L'unico difetto è il traffico perchè è una strada grande e aveva i lavori in corso vicino. Nel complesso ci siamo trovati bene!
Dear Elizabeth!
Your hotel is great! We had wonderful days in Prague! The apartment is beautiful, great service and with the metro no problem to reach. The old town is not far away and there are also supermarkets just one step out of the house! Thank you! Greetings from Germany:-)
This studio is HIGH level! INCREDIBLE, it has oerfect location, you arrive 10 walking minuts until the old town. This is brilliant, super clean, has all you need to enjoy your stay and lovely PRAHA. SUPER TOP apartment. I will come back for sure!
The apartment is comfortable, not far from the historic center (two stops by metro), clean well taken care of. Legerova street is a bit chaotic, but with the double windows the room is well insulated. Also recommended for families. Fabio
Everything was perfect!! The apartment was beautiful and very clean. The staff was very friendly and everything was uncomplicated. We felt very good and enjoyed our stay in this apartment. We will book it again for our next Prague holidays! Thanks a lot!
What an amazing deal for the apartment we had. Nicely furnished, cute decor, and spacious. We forgot what apartment we were getting when we rented at first, but the pictures didn't do it justice. My boyfriend and I stayed there for a very, very reasonable price and it was the perfect place to spend our two days.
The apartment was about a 10-15 minute walk to the city center and about a 10-15 minute walk to the train station. Good location, great price, and good customer service!
The Prague apartment was very clean, nicely furnished and conveniently gelegen.Gleich upon arrival we received at the reception tips.
Tram and metro 3 min. Away. It is quite possible from here also much walk to erreichen.In the immediate vicinity there are several restaurants and mini-markets. Our apartment was facing the courtyard out and absolutely quiet. Everything was perfect. This Wimdu booking was a positive surprise and we are already planning the next destination.
Das Apartment in Prag war sehr sauber, nett eingerichtet und günstig gelegen.Gleich bei der Ankunft haben wir an der Rezeption Tips bekommen.
Straßenbahn und Metro sind 3 Min. entfernt. Es ist gut möglich, von hier aus auch vieles zu Fuß zu erreichen.In der nächsten Umgebung gibt es diverse Restaurants sowie Mini-markets. Unsere Wohnung war zum Hof raus und absolut ruhig. Alles war bestens. Diese Wimdu-Buchung hat uns positiv überrascht und wir planen schon das nächste Ziel.
The apartment was big, very clean and beautifully decorated. It even had to bathrooms!
The receptionist was very nice and helpful. Our car was to big to fit in their parking, so they found another one for us in a near hotel.
The breakfast was a bit expensive, but they also recommended us other places to go. However, we decided to have breakfast there because it was faster.
The street was quite noisy but with the windows closed it was not a problem to sleep.
It is a long walk to the center, but it is not far from the Wenceslao Square and it is very well connected with tram.
It was a great stay!
Our stay in the Royal Court Apartments was lovely. The apartment was exactly as in the photo. We got an upgrade to a larger place, which was more into the city center. The staff was very friendly and we got a bottle of champagne because of the switch in apartments, which was extremely nice.
Elizabeth was very nice to be in contact with. She gave me a lot of information about the public traffic and how we could get to the apartment. The apartment itself was really specious and clean. The bed was very comfortable and the living room was really nice and cosy to stay in. The only bad thing was that you had to wait for about 5 minutes before the water of the shower was warm. But for the rest, the apartment was just perfect! It was really clean and in good condition and a cleaning lady came by almost every day. We felt really home and we would definately like to visit this place again.
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SMU's 2013-2014 Tate Lectures: Former Defense Secretaries, NPR Luminaries, Authors and Activists to Headline Series
DALLAS (SMU) – Former political leaders and secretaries of defense, award-winning authors, innovative thinkers and the "founding mothers" of NPR are among speakers for the 2013-2014 Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series at SMU. In its32nd season, the Tate Series brings distinguished leaders from various fields to share their unique perspectives with area residents and students.
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 (Sold Out)
The Linda and Mitch Hart Lecture
Robert Gates
U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006-2011, CIA director 1991-93
Leon Panetta
U.S. Secretary of Defense 2011-13, CIA director 2009-11
David Gergen, moderator
CNN senior political commentator, former presidential adviser
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013
The Anita and Truman Arnold Lecture:
JFK 50 Years Later
Robert Caro
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; author of four-volume Lyndon Baines Johnson biography
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013
Sir Ken Robinson
Internationally acclaimed expert on creativity, innovation and human resources in education and business; named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013
The Omni Hotels Lecture
Co-founders, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; former Co-chairs, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
Erskine Bowles
White House Chief of Staff, 1997-98
Alan Simpson
Republican Senator from Wyoming, 1979-97
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014
The Tolleson Lecture
Khaled Hosseini
Bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and the recently released And The Mountains Echoed
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Ebby Halliday Companies Lecture
Garry Kasparov
World chess champion, global human rights activist, author of How Life Imitates Chess
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Oncor Lecture
A.J. Jacobs
Esquire editor at large, self-experimenter and human guinea pig, author of bestsellers Drop Dead Healthy, The Year of Living Biblically, and The Know-It-All
Monday, May 5, 2014 (Sold Out)
The Jones Day Lecture
Founding Mothers of NPR (National Public Radio)
Cokie Roberts
NPR senior news analyst; named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress
Susan Stamberg
NPR special correspondent; member of radio and broadcasting halls of fame
Nina Totenberg
NPR legal affairs correspondent, including the U.S. Supreme Court
Linda Wertheimer
NPR senior national correspondent; former host of NPR's "All Things Considered"
"The SMU Tate Lecture Series provides a special stage for prominent global leaders to share their thoughts on current issues and the future," said Brad Cheves, SMU's vice president for development and external affairs. "In addition to the lectures, the accompanying student forums make these recognized speakers available to SMU students and area high school students, as well as the University's faculty and staff. The Tate Lecture Series is a remarkable asset for the entire Dallas-Fort Worth region."
The Tate Lecture Series is produced by SMU and is presented by The Dallas Morning News and sponsored by WFAA-TV Channel 8, Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and Turner Construction/Wells Fargo. Supported by 570AM KLIF, Sewell, Ducky-Bob's Event Specialists, SMU Student Foundation and The Weitzman Group & Cencor Realty Services, the series returns more than $800,000 to SMU each year. A primary beneficiary of these funds is the prestigious President's Scholars Program by providing full-tuition scholarships and study abroad opportunities.
Tickets to individual lectures may be ordered online at smu.edu/tate or by calling 214/SMU-TATE (214-768-8283).


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They say his clothes blend into the background, no matter where he stands. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing's for sure: no one ever noticed him. Except me. My name is Antsy Bonano, and I was the one who realized the Schwa was "functionally invisible" and used him to make some big bucks. But I was also the one who caused him more grief than a friend should. So if you all just shut up and listen, I'll tell you everything there is to know about the Schwa, from how he got his name, to what really happened with his mom. I'll spill everything. Unless, of course, "the Schwa Effect" wipes him out of my brain before I'm done….
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Original unpublished painting of Ernie Banks by Dick Perez. Watercolor on board. Collection of artist. Signed lower right. 14 x 18 inches. Reserve $300. Estimate $500+. SOLD FOR $928.00
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WELLSVILLE - The Buckeye Water District Board of Trustees approved a one-year agreement to supply bulk water for use in the local shale gas industry at the board's final meeting of the year on Thursday morning.
BWD will sell treated water to Keystone Clearwater Solutions, a Hershey, Pa., based firm that "provides customized water transfer/frack support services and water supply/turnkey water intake construction/management for Marcellus & Utica Shale operators," according to the company website.
Though a contract has yet to be written, BWD board President Mike Ryan announced the terms of the agreement.
Keystone Clearwater will pay a bulk rate of $6.60 per thousand gallons for the first 30 million gallons used, with the expectation of higher usage. Beyond that, the company will pay a descending scale of $12, $10, $8 or $6 per thousand depending on the daily volume used. Under the agreement, Keystone Clearwater will pay all parts and supply costs for the installation of a transfer line near the Salineville sewage treatment plant on state Route 39, as well as a tap-in fee of $14,250. BWD will be responsible for the labor, which Ryan says will be performed by an outside contractor.
Treasurer Bob Wines sounded a cautiously positive note as he delivered the monthly and year-end fiscal reports. "For the end of the year, we will end up in the black. Not very far, but in the black," he said. This was despite a total $4,428,850 paid to the East Liverpool Water Department, including $1.5 million from Columbiana County Commissioners, to settle the long-standing breach of contract lawsuit between the city and BWD.
With income of $6,378,800 and $6,193,379 in expenses, the district ends 2012 with a balance of $185,421. Wines' report also showed revenues of $282,157 against expenses of $118,867, for a net income of $163,290 for November. He thanked all district staff and employees for their thriftiness in helping keep expenses low during the year.
Board member Gene McGaffick asked about higher-than-normal water loss rates that have been observed. The suspected source is a stretch of water line dating to the 1930s that runs through the area of Hibbets-Mill Road in Yellow Creek Township. The line runs under the nearby creek, making leak detection especially difficult. "When you get into older systems, you get into higher loss," district manager Al DeAngelis said.
According to DeAngelis, the normal loss rate for water treatment facilities is between 15 and 18 percent, whereas the BWD plant is suffering losses of 28 percent. The board is considering its options for pinpointing the source, including a draw-down on the district's tanks. "You know exactly how much water was in a tank and compare that to your gauges: what you made and what went out," office manager Gregg Stanley said.
In his district manager's report, DeAngelis stated that both surge protection units for the raw water pumps at the treatment plant were discovered to be out of order during a weekly inspection. Assistant district manager Todd Brown called the manufacturer and found that the failed units, which were installed when the plant was constructed in 2009, were covered by a 10-year warranty. Replacement units worth $4,900 each were delivered to the plant and have been installed.
The next BWD trustees meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in council chambers at Wellsville Village Hall.
In other news:
* Litigation committee Chairman McGaffick announced a date of Jan. 24 for what he anticipates will be final settlement hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge C. Ashley Pike, asking for enforcement of the $5.9 million settlement reached with East Liverpool in July. For its part, attorneys for the city say East Liverpool is owed an additional $700,000 in interest.


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A Belington man is free on bond after police arrested him this week for allegedly having a meth lab in his vehicle.
According to information from Barbour County Magistrate Court, Cody Phillips was charged with operating or attempting to operate a clandestine lab, a felony, after police allegedly found a mobile methamphetamine lab in his vehicle March 1.
Phillips was not arrested until Tuesday.
According to a Wednesday press release issued by Belington Police Chief Keith Rowan, Sgt. D.J. Harris with the BPD discovered the lab during a routine traffic stop at approximately 3 or 3:30 a.m. March 1.
Rowan did not know the reason for the initial stop, but a magistrate court official told The Inter-Mountain that Harris stopped Phillips because he knew his driver's license was suspended.
Harris smelled a "strong odor, consistent with that of a methamphetamine lab" emanating from inside the vehicle, according to the press release.
After obtaining permission to search Phillips' vehicle, Harris searched the vehicle and found a "working" meth lab in the trunk as well as other meth precursors stored in various locations throughout the car.
Neither Rowan nor Barbour County Magistrate Court could provide information about what items were found in Phillips' vehicle.
Barbour County Magistrate Tina M. Mouser set bond at $20,000 surety; Harris is free on bond.
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