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Following a six-day inspection in 2009, Tonawanda Coke told federal officials that toxic emissions from a small bleeder valve at the plant were rare and didn't last long when they did occur.
For the first time Friday, an official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency challenged those claims in Buffalo federal court and suggested the amount and frequency of the emissions were substantially higher than what the company claimed.
The valve's emissions – the allegation is that it's coke oven gas with benzene – are at the crux of the government's clean air and obstruction of justice charges and account for six of the 19 felony counts facing Tonawanda Coke.
"I would not consider that de minimis," Harish Patel, an EPA environmental engineer, said of the government's estimate of how much gas came out of the valve.
Patel, one of four EPA officials who inspected the Town of Tonawanda plant that same year, went so far as to estimate the amount of coke oven gas at 173 tons a year.
Prosecutors would not comment on Patel's estimate – it is not known what percentage of that 173 tons may have been benzene or other toxic pollutants – but it is believed to be high enough that the valve may have at least required a permit.
Patel's analysis of the bleeder valve – one of three alleged sources of air pollution cited in the criminal charges against Tonawanda Coke – followed the disclosure in court Friday that the company claimed the emissions were infrequent and minimal.
"The PRV opens very rarely," the company said in a 2009 report about the valve. "Should the valve open, it would only be for 5 to 10 seconds. The PRV has not opened for months."
Patel is the first EPA official to testify before the jury and Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny about the amount of coke oven gas that came from the valve. Several current and former Tonawanda Coke employees have testified that the valve opened every 20 to 30 minutes and usually stayed open for 10 to 20 seconds, sometimes longer.
Courtroom testimony that coke oven gas with benzene was released into the air came as the debate over the health of residents living in and around Tonawanda's industrial corridor continues to rage.
State health officials recently released data showing elevated levels of certain cancers and birth defects among neighborhood people. The report, which stopped far short of identifying a cause, was prompted by an air quality study that found concentrations of benzene and formaldehyde much higher in the Tonawanda area than other industrial and urban areas.
Patel said EPA's review of the bleeder valve's operations led to a civil Notice of Violation against the company, an action defense lawyers took issue with in view of Tonawanda Coke's plan to remove the bleeder valve.
"You were not aware that the company was planning to deactivate the pressure relief valve, correct?" asked Gregory F. Linsin, a lawyer for Tonawanda Coke.
"Correct," answered Patel.
Patel, when questioned later by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, testified that the Notice of Violation was based not on the company's future plans, but on its past use of the bleeder valve.
He also disagreed with the defense's contention that Tonawanda Coke's characterization of the emissions as "de minimis" may have been justified if it was based on the valve's use in late 2009, and not during the inspection several months earlier.
"You don't think that would be reasonable?" asked defense attorney Rodney O. Personius.
"No, I don't," answered Patel.
The bleeder valve is one of three alleged sources of air pollution cited by the government in its indictment of Tonawanda Coke and fellow defendant Mark L. Kamholz, the company's environmental controls manager.
The others are two "quenching towers" used to cool the hot coke produced at the plant. The company is accused of not equipping its towers with baffles, a piece of equipment used to reduce the particulate matter in the coke oven gas that results from the cooling.
Personius and Linsin tried to poke holes in the government's case by suggesting there are inconsistencies and discrepancies in how state and federal officials oversaw the plant's use of the two towers.
"Were you aware that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had granted this facility an exemption for Quench Tower No. 1," Linsin asked at one point.
"I was not aware of it," Patel answered.
"Do you agree that you should have been aware of it?" Linsin asked.
"If I had reviewed the DEC records, I would have been aware of it," Patel said.
Linsin also asked Patel if he was aware that the state had cited Tonawanda Coke for violations at only one tower while the EPA cited both towers.
Patel said he was not aware of the difference in violations.
In addition to the Clean Air Act violations, Tonawanda Coke and Kamholz are accused of violating a federal law known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The law covers the storage and treatment of coal tar sludge, one of the byproducts of making coke.
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Sex and the City star Chris Noth and his longtime girlfriend, actress Tara Wilson, are engaged, Entertainment Tonight Canada is reporting.
Noth, 54, broke the news to the show Sunday during an interview at the London, Ontario, outpost of Once Upon A Tea Cup, a teahouse of which he and Canadian-born Wilson, 27, are partners.
The couple, who met when Wilson worked at Noth's New York City bar, the Cutting Room, have a son, Orion Christopher Noth, who turns two in January.
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Diverse factors account for the interest in (and success of) the adult stem cell field in recent years.
These factors include breakthroughs in reprogramming, ethical and regulatory issues more tractable than those encountered with embryonic stem cells, and (with a wink to The Graduate) … plastics. Diverse factors will likely contribute to the field's future as well. At the "Adult Stem Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Conference" factors such as manipulation, transduction, visualization, and homing were considered, as was cell culture.
How the cells are nurtured can be as important as how they are deployed. When it comes to preparing cells for possible (re)introduction into animals, every precaution needs to be taken—from the obvious (keeping them sterile and cross-contamination-free), to the subtle (housing and manipulating them in conditions that mimic their inherent physiology). Mimetic culture can support viability as well as promote the desired differentiation state.
It's not enough to keep cells in a 37°C, 5% CO2 incubator, passage them in a laminar flow hood, and then view them on a benchtop microscope. According to Kevin Murray, director of sales and marketing for BioSpherix, cells should be maintained in uninterruptable conditions: "Whatever conditions [you use for] culturing your cells…you should also use for processing them. For instance, incubators are set up to mimic body temperature and control for CO2, which is basically how they manage pH in the media. Another aspect we advocate is oxygen control, because cells in the body don't see room air."
Researchers generally take great care to match the body's physiological conditions in their incubators, but the one thing that hardly anybody controls for is oxygen. "And oxygen is tied to the expression of a multitude of genes, to cell signaling—many of the things that researchers ultimately are looking at, whether they know it or not," Murray said.
While the cells may not venture out of the incubator for very long, many of these genes may be very oxygen-labile—taking hours to upregulate but literally minutes to downregulate. BioSpherix' Xvivo system is a set of equipment modules—from hypoxic incubators to containment hoods to processing chambers that can house microscopes, centrifuges, and a variety of other equipment, including automation and robotics, all in a controlled environment. The barrier/isolator modules are designed to fit together in a range of configurations to maintain a constant environment in which cultures can be manipulated without being exposed to the room's atmosphere.
Only a very small percentage of the millions or billions of cells carefully grown and expanded ex vivo and introduced into an animal will survive to engraft and replicate, Murray said. "One of the main reasons they die is that they get very used to room air—about 21% O2—and when you inject them into the body of an animal they're probably in an environment that's less than 5% O2." Mountain climbers need to acclimate to the atmosphere of Mount Everest, Murray pointed out, and something similar is likely true for injected cells.
Growing and preparing cells poses a variety of requirements. For adherent cells, such as mesenchymal stem cells, a key requirement is something that not only supports their ability to attach and spread out, but also allows them to maintain their functionality. Much of this requirement used to be met by biologically based supplements to the culture medium such as serum. As researchers moved toward "leaner" media, serum was often replaced with surface coatings such as fibronectin.
"Our customers that are expanding stem cells for clinical and preclinical use would rather not use the animal- or human-derived material," explained Paula Flaherty, technology manager, life sciences at Corning. These can be a source of pathogens, and they sometimes require additional screening to demonstrate that they are pathogen-free. In addition, there can be batch-to-batch variability both in the raw material and in the coating protocol. Accordingly, there is growing demand for defined, animal-free culture environments, including synthetic extracellular matrices (ECMs).
Flaherty discussed advances in developing integrated solutions—including media, surfaces, and vessel design—to replicate the functionality of naturally derived proteins. For example, the Corning® PureCoat™ ECM Mimetic cultureware is coated with covalently attached, chemically synthesized collagen I or fibronectin peptides. The company also offers Synthemax®, a synthetic vitronectin peptide-based product specifically designed for human pluripotent cell culture and neuronal cell culture, which is sold as coated plates and polystyrene microcarrier beads, and is available lyophilized to allow users to coat their own culture vessels and glass slides.
Mesenchymal stem cells from various sources including bone marrow and adipose grown on ECM Mimetic or Synthemax in serum-free media showed equivalent population doubling, attachment, tri-lineage differentiation potential, karyotype, and functionality to those grown in standard tissue cultureware in serum-based medium.
That equivalence can also be achieved for stem cells using a combination of Corning's CellBIND charge-based surfaces and Cellgro serum-free, xeno-free, defined medium, Flaherty said.
Flaherty also emphasized that the ability to scale-up production is crucial to meeting the needs of cell therapeutics. Many of the synthetic (and charged) surfaces are available from 24-well plates up through a variety of sizes of single- and multi-layered T flasks. In addition, using Synthemax microcarriers in scalable spinner flasks "combines the best of both worlds of adherent culture but in a suspension mode so you can get much higher volumes of cells, at much greater density," Flaherty said.
Cells used for therapy generally aren't just taken from a donor, grown, and given to a patient. Typically they're genetically manipulated in some way to give them their desired properties, whether that means replacing a defective gene, conveying pathogen resistance, or making the cells able to withstand otherwise toxic treatments. Lentiviral technology, based on HIV, is the most efficient system known for reprogramming cell function, said Boro Dropulic, Ph.D., founder and CSO of Lentigen.
Dr. Dopulic recalled that in 2003, when he was still CSO of VIRxSYS, he led the team that first used lentiviral vectors in human trials. He presented a short overview of the field as it has progressed from that groundbreaking work through more recent, promising data coming out of current lentiviral clinical trials.
The VIRxSYS trial utilized a replication-deficient virus with an antisense HIV payload to target HIV-1. "To test HIV vectors in the very first instance it was appropriate to test in an HIV patient, because we really needed to know the outcome of the interactions between an HIV vector and a wild-type virus. Because sooner or later, even if you're treating patients with cancer or another disease, [you'll encounter] a patient infected with HIV," Dr. Dropulic explained. "So it was important to establish the safety in a best case/worst case scenario." That Phase I trial of five enrolled patients demonstrates the safety of the lentiviral vector.
Others have now followed in their tracks, Dr. Dropulic said, including "the first lentiviral vector trial getting clinical success." This trial, run by Drs. Patrick Aubourg and Nathalie Cartier in France, showed that when stem cells transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing the ABCD1 gene were introduced into patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, the patients were able to derive benefits equivalent to hematopoietic cell transplantation, the standard of care. Another project, for β-thalassemia, was so successful that the formerly anemic recipients had to be periodically phlebotomized.
Among other projects, Lentigen is currently involved in a Phase I trial for glioblastoma. The standard of care for this type of brain cancer is surgical resection followed by the chemotherapy agent temozolomide.
"The problem with temozolomide is that with multiple rounds of treatment the drug is toxic to the hematopoietic stem cell compartment, so we're genetically modifying these cells with the MGMT gene in order to make them resistant to the effects of temozolomide," Dr. Dropulic explained. "We've seen in our clinical trial … that when you transduce these cells with this MGMT gene you actually can increase the dosing for these patients from an average of one and one-half cycles to five cycles."
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Recent Event Highlights: Judy Collins goes over the rainbow - Access Atlanta, Lorna Luft helps New West Symphony kick off its first Pops Series on Sunday - Ventura County Star, Chesterton Wizard of Oz Festival set to begin - Chesterton Tribune, Spare Times: For Children - New York Times, ANDREA McARDLE Leads Musical Theatre West's ANNIE 10/29 - Broadway World, Spare Times: For Children - New York Times, and 54 more...
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Judy Collins goes over the rainbowAccess AtlantaIn 1939, the year Judy Garland debuted the tune "Over the Rainbow" in "The Wizard of Oz," another Judy was making her debut to the world. ...and more »
The Almanac -- weeklyistockAnalyst.com (press release)In 1935, 13-year-old Judy Garland signed her first contract with MGM. In 1939, after 19 days of heavy air raids and artillery bombardment, Polish defenders ...and more »
'The Glass Menagerie' sparklesHarwich OracleBased on one of his short stories by a different name, Williams first turned it into a screenplay, envisioning Ethel Barrymore and Judy Garland as the two ...and more »
Lorna Luft helps New West Symphony kick off its first Pops Series on SundayVentura County Starand selections from her show and 2007 album, "Songs My Mother Taught Me" — her mother, of course, was the late American icon Judy Garland. ...The Los Angeles Independent - Community Newspaper Serving Hollywood and West ...Los Angeles Independentall 4 news articles »
Chesterton Wizard of Oz Festival set to beginChesterton TribuneAdmission is $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Picture Yorself in Oz, 10 am to 3:30 pm, 101 Broadway. ...and more »
Spare Times: For ChildrenNew York TimesChildren will make garlands or treats, march in a procession and sculpture Ganesh from clay. (Through Sept. 25.) From 2 to 3 pm, Rubin Museum of Art, ...and more »
ANDREA McARDLE Leads Musical Theatre West's ANNIE 10/29Broadway WorldIn addition to ANNIE, Andrea's film and television credits include starring as Judy Garland in RAINBOW, appearing in THE LEADING LADIES OF BROADWAY on PBS, ...and more »
Spare Times: For ChildrenNew York TimesThe road, which starts with a wax figure of Judy Garland as Dorothy, leads into the Poppy Fields and a huge re-creation of the Emerald City. ...and more »
Judy Garland LIve - Command Performance (1943) - Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" (often referred to as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") is a classic ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by EY Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in that movie. Over time it would become Garland's signature song. The song is number one of the "Songs of the Century" list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The American Film Institute also ranked Over the Rainbow the greatest movie song of all time on the list of "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs". It was adopted (along with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States. Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 -- June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most ...
Mellowed dramatic musicianCourier MailHis brilliance is often in his ambition. After the wildly successful Judy Garland Carnegie Hall concert, he wrote and performed his first opera Prima Donna ...and more »
Spare Times: For ChildrenNew York TimesChildren will make garlands or treats, march in a procession and sculpture Ganesh from clay. (Through Sept. 25.) From 2 to 3 pm, Rubin Museum of Art, ...and more »
Judy Garland sing "In Between" from the movie, Love Finds Andy Hardy. Here are the words for the song. Enjoy! :D If you want, I can up-load clip and songs from Judy Garland's other movies. :D Fifteen thousand times a day I hear a voice within me say Hide yourself behind the screen You shouldn't be heard you shouldn't be seen Your just an awful in between I'm past the stage of doll and carriage I'm not the age to think of marriage I'm too old for toys and I'm too young for boys I'm just an between I'm not a child all children bore me I'm not a grown up, grown ups ignore me And in every sense I'm just on the fence I'm just an between I'm be glad when momma let's me go to dances and have romances I'll be glad to have a party dress that boys will adore a dress that touches the floor I'm sick and tired of bedtime stores I'm so inspired by love and glories But I guess that it's no use, I still get mother Goose I'm just an in between I'm allow to go to pictures show that is if nurse is feeling able But we only go to Mickey Mouse I'm not allowed Clark Cable it's such an imposition for a girl who's got ambition To be an in between My Dad says I should bother more About my lack of grammar Huh, the only things that bothers me is my lack of glamor Why if I could use a lipstick and a powder pop who know I might be garbo in the rough Instead of in between I'll be glad when uncle Jim can't call me precious child that simply drives me wild I'll be glad to have a date that doesn't grow on ...
I think the greatest honor I can give Judy is to share her legacy. My channel is one way ... another is to share with my 2 year old Granddaughter, Jade. It is astounding to see the effect Judy has even on small children. All I did was bring up my channel, inviting Jade to show me what Judy song she wanted to listen to. ... Everything else is unprompted & unscripted. Well ... I did ask 'Who's that?' ... 'Judy, Judy, Judy ... ' In this clip, Jade shares her Love For Judy. Her favorite song right now is 'From This Moment On'. You'll see that she appreciates the notes Judy hits, too ... throwing back her head with an 'OOhh!', clapping & saying 'Thank you.' I started my introduction to Jade with Judy's music, her singing ... not 'The Wizard Of Oz'. Not yet ... In a few years. Jade insisted on sitting in her 'Huggies' box while watching. I just smiled. For Judy ... For Jade ... For All The Generations To Come. www.youtube.com
Tribute to Judy Garland. Even though she had alot of problems in her life she still was a good mum to her children.
Judy Garland only performed "Over The Rainbow" twice during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years. She performed it on her first TV Special, "Ford Star Jubilee" in the episode called "The Judy Garland Special" in 1955, and sang it to her children on The Christmas Edition of her weekly TV show "The Judy Garland Show" (1963). Here Judy is dressed up as the tramp character she played when doing a duet with Fred Astaire in the film 'Easter Parade'. Judy sings the song so sad and mournfully here it makes me cry, and it makes Judy cry too. We can only wonder what she was thinking about that got her so upset. Perhaps she was thinking about how different her life was compared to the song's lyrics. It's very upsetting. I love you Judy.
This was at my last school choir concert for 6th grade. We'll miss you Mr Leger!
ME AND MY SHADOW. Part 5 of Judy Garland's last ever performance at the Palace Theater in New York City. Recorded August 26, 1967. Part five features John Bubbles singing Me And My Shadow while Judy and her children dance.
Judy performed 'The Things I Love' only once that I know of ... This song is the essence of The Things I Love about Judy. Research has been challenging, like a treasure map to oblivion ... where this song - performed by Judy - has been for a long time. All roads seem to lead to The Chase & Sanborn Hour, September 7, 1941. The video is also seldom seen footage of Judy, from different angles, at the Savoy Hotel in London, donating presents to The Variety Club for underprivileged children. I interlaced it with clip/photo themes from the words in the song. Written by Harold Barlow and Lewis Harris. The glow of sunset in the Summer sky, The golden flicker of the firefly, The gleam of lovelight in your lovely eye, These are the things I love. A silver moonbeam peepin' through the trees, A bed of tulips noddin' in the breeze, The look you gave in answer to my pleas, These are the things I love. Oh, once I thought that life was just a Winter thing, My heart was cold; And then you came to me, And like a breath of Spring, You turned the silver to gold. The robin's serenade when day is through, The babbling brook beside our rendezvous, your sweet voice whispering, "Darling I love you!", These are the things I love. www.youtube.com *No copyright infringement intended* *All audio/video content remains in the sole ownership of their creator* *For entertainment purposes only*
The Judy Garland Show, Judy Garland and her children Liza Minnelli, Lorna and Joey Luft singing consider yourself,1963.
I apologize a thousand times for me moving in the background!!!!!!! And i do not own any of this material; it is purely fanmade. I made this video for Christmas; A collection of video clips and pictures from Meet Me in St. Louis, and the song of course is in the title. Merry Christmas, everyone!!! (The clips at the beginning of course are from the Judy Garland Show! :))
Performed by Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien in the film 'Meet Me in St. Louis', 1944. This is a High Quality, Full Screen Close Up. I also included an audio excerpt of Margaret O'Brien from Larry King Live, with photo overlay. She tells an endearing story about 'The Cake Walk Hat', Judy's gift to her. ... Of all her talents - singing, acting, dancing - Judy found her greatest love with children. Under The Bamboo Tree Words and music by Robert Cole and J. Rosamund Johnson, 1902 *ESTHER* Down in the jungles lived a maid Of royal blood though dusky shade *TOOTIE* A marked impression once she made Upon a Zulu *ESTHER* From Matabooloo *TOOTIE* And every morning he would be Down underneath the bamboo tree *ESTHER* A Waitin' there his love to see *TOOTIE* And then to her he's sing *BOTH* To her he'd sing If you like-a me, like I like-a you and we like-a both the same I like-a say this very day, I like-a change your name. 'Cause I love-a you and lov-a you true and if you-a love-a me One live as two, two live as one Under the bamboo tree *No copyright infringement intended* www.youtube.com
Here's the intro to the episode #3 of The Judy Garland Show when Liza Minnelli was the guest star. That's a beautiful performance with Judy singing Gershwin's song "Liza" while surrounded by pictures of her daughter. You can tell how proud Judy was of her baby. *"Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)" was written in 1929 for the Broadway musical, Show Girl. It is said that this song was the reason why Judy choose the name Liza for her daughter. Liza once said in an interview that her father told her once that when her mother was pregnant she woke up in the middle of the night, woke him up and said out of nowhere 'Liza Minnelli would look great on a marquee!' and went right back to sleep, and that's how the name was chosen.* *Ira Gershwin who wrote the lyrics (his brother George composed the melody) was Liza's godfather.*
Judy Garland singing, "Smilin' Through," recorded July 10, 1945. This is dear to my heart, it was my Mom's favorite Judy Garland song. :)
...classic variety shows. On "The Judy Garland Show," the late singer invited viewers into her "home" — a living room set where Garland's children, Liza Minnelli, Lorna and Joey Luft, decorated the tree and had "visitors": Garland's singing pals Jack Jones and...
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Performed by Judy Garland with Louis Jourdan as part of the 'Children's Songs Medley' on Episode #19 of 'The Judy Garland Show,' taped January 17, 1964. I integrated animated video overlay from 'Snow White' with Judy & Louis Jourdan. I love the effect. Judy was fond of childrens classic stories, from 'The Wizard Of Oz' & 'Cinderella' (Radio drama) ... to this wonderful performance of 'Someday My Prince Will Come'. As a Mother, she was admired for the rapport & love she shared with her own Children ... For all Children, Judy was in touch with their hearts ... as they were with hers. This is for Judy ... from Judy ... to all the Children ... & to those of us who are still Children at heart. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come' is a popular song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. It was written by Larry Morey (lyrics) & Frank Churchill (music), and performed by Adriana Caselotti (Snow White's voice in the movie). (*Someday my prince will come Someday I'll find a love And how thrilling that moment will be When the prince of my dreams comes to me He'll whisper I love you And steal a kiss or two Though he may be far away I will find my love someday) Someday we'll say and do The things we've been longing to And I'll know him the moment we meet For my heart will start skipping a beat Someday (*when my dreams come true) Somewhere waiting for me There's someone I'm longing to see Someone I can't help but adore Who will thrill me for ever more ...
Katia 11 of Coldplay Kids performs Easter Parade with her 12 year old brother Aidan Children of Aurore Adamkiewicz
At Home At The Palace. Here, Judy Garland sings another great song from her stint at the Palace Theatre. This concert also featured Lorna and Joey Luft, two of her children.
Intro of the second volume of The Judy Garland Show with guest star Ray Bolger! Year: 1963 I DO NOT OWN.
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, 1954. This is a High Quality, Full Screen Close Up. By request: 'Please, could you give us the scene from a "Star is Born" where Judy ( Esther ) talks to Charles Bickford in the dressing room? Considering her troubles, I think this may be the most honest piece of acting I've ever seen. Nobody gave Judy her due for the quality of her dramatic work.' I couldn't have said it better ... & I decided to really zoom in on Judy here. My apologies to Mr Bickford, but I wanted to see the depth of Judy's dramatic abilities. Actually, I think this is more than drama. Judy is describing herself, & those who love her ... the dynamics of destruction & addiction ... 'Love isn't enough'. This scene tells me that Judy was more aware of herself than perhaps she has been credited for. As George Cukor said - & I included some of his words - 'You know what this is about'. Yes, I think Judy knew. A Star Is Born is Judy's story ... & almost, it seems, a premonition. When you see photos of her in the last few years of her life, what do you see? I know what I see ... someone who is dieing. People around her saw it, too. Watch the Anita O'Day video that's posted here on Youtube. www.youtube.com I have said it before, I believe Judy knew she was dieing. How could she not know? Many have said that the end of 'The Judy Garland Show' was the beginning of her end. Yes, it was, ... but it was the loss of her children, not being able to take care of them, that was her ...
Performed by Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, 1954. This is a High Quality, Close Up.Considered to be one of the greatest musical sequences ever created. Many genius talents contributed to this masterpiece. Born In A Trunk was written by Leonard Gershe & Rogers Edens. Black Bottom Written by DeSylva, Brown & Henderson They call it black bottom A new swisher, a sure galloon, an old sister They clap their hands and do the raggedy trot Hot! Old fellows with flamenco & young fellows the way they go They jump right in and give it all that they've got Then one night something happened dame fortune showed her face The star got sick and I was told to go on in her place. But, she recovered. Oh well! Black bottom, a new rhythm when you spot'em, you go with'em And do that black, black, black, black bottom You wont be blue when you have got'em If you do that black, black, black, black bottom all day. But finally I got an offer to sing in New York And I wired I'm on my way I had visions that this would be a fabulous, famous cafe. Filled with high society, elegant, and spruce. And I pictured me the epitome of a very chic chanteuse. The Peanut Vendor Written by Simon, Sunshine & Gilbert Peanuts! Through every city, town, and country lane You'll hear him sing his plaintive little strain And as he goes by, to you he'll say Sing Melancholy Baby Peanuts! The little children like to trail along, They like to hear the peanut vendor's song, They all laugh with glee when he will say Sing ...
The Capitol Records version, recorded in 1956. Another video can be seen on YouTube of Judy singing this song to a photograph of her son. This video is dedicated to Judy's children and all the children who got touched by her voice.
Interview with famed Munchkin Margaret Pellegrini. Pellegrini held two roles in the 1939 Wizard of Oz classic. "I was one of the Sleepy Heads in the bird's nest, and also one of the gals who wore a flower pot hat. They put me right in the front row!" Ever since then, the flower pot hat has been her trademark. When Alabama born and raised Pellegrini was 14 years old, she visited the Tennessee State Fair to help her brother in law pass out potato chip samples. "Some little people came down the walkway and asked if I'd like to join up with their midget show. I said no!" But at the same time the teenager didn't know she was going to be a little person. "I had no idea I was going to stay small, but I guess they saw something in me that made them know before I did. They said that I might change my mind and told me they'd keep in touch." Soon she got a letter from a Hollywood agent asking if she'd like to be in a motion picture called the Wizard of Oz. "I was so excited. I would get room and board, transportation and $50 a week for six weeks of filming. We decided I could take the job!" Since she was only fifteen and on a to train to Hollywood all by herself they appointed another little person to be her guardian for the trip. "Judy Garland was a sweet girl - a typical teenager and she loved the munchkins," recalls Pellegrini. "During film breaks, Judy would sit and chat with us on the Yellow Brick Road. We were all so amazed to be working with a star - but she was equally ...
PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT OWN MATERIAL IN THIS VIDEO IT IS PURELY FAN MADE!!! Basicly a collection of Judy Garland pictures of her children, (some) movies she made (mostly) behind the scenes, and lobby cards for her films. Hope you like. The songs I used are; Blue Butterfly, Hang Onto Rainbows, When the Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups Goodbye, Over the Rainbow, Tom the Piper's Son, Look for the Silver Lining, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart, and I Could Go on Singing. :)
A young Judy Garland singing 'In Between' from her first appearance with Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy series, 'Love Finds Andy Hardy'. Filmed in 1938, it is, of course, one of her earlier films ... before being catapulted into lifelong fame with the 'Wizard Of Oz. ' This song is Judy's lament of her youth. I created a closer view ... every nuance of expression is captured here. The music & lyrics were written by Judy's mentor, Roger Edens. A marvelous tribute to his genius! *No copyright infringement intended* www.youtube.com
*NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED IN UPLOADING THIS VIDEO. Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm, June 10, 1922 June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. She had a contralto singing range.[1] After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney, and the film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz (1939). After 15 years, Garland was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall concert, a well-regarded but short-lived television series and a return to film acting beginning with A Star Is Born (1954). Despite her professional triumphs, Garland battled personal problems throughout her life. Insecure about her appearance, her feelings were compounded by film executives who told her she was unattractive and overweight. Plied with drugs to control her weight and increase her productivity, Garland endured a decades-long struggle with addiction. Garland ...
A favourite song of mine.....it was recorded in 1957....hope you enjoy rx
Judy celebrates the 1 year anniversary of her triumph at Carnegie Hall. Part 1 of 3. A RARE interview, to my knowledge never before widely re-broadcast since the original. Includes photo overlay & rare footage from the concert. The audio was in a state of tragedy, & I did what I could to repair. Not pristene, but still okay. Judy talks alot about her music, the arrangements & composers ... her love from & to her audience ... her children. This concert is - & always will be - a historic event. *No copyright infringement intended.* www.youtube.com
A brief featurette & trailer, I Could Go On Singing. Judy played a highly creative role in this movie, contributing entire scenes written by herself & Dirk Bogarde. In addition to A Star Is Born, this film is from Judy ... her heart is here. Judy's greatest fear was losing her children. This movie, in many ways, was an expression of that emotion. Featured interview by Robert Osborne with Charles Busch, actor & playwright. *No copyright infringement intended* www.youtube.com
Judy Garland sings 'Lorna' to her second daughter, Lorna Luft.
'The history of my life is in my songs'. Judy Garland. The world is reawakening to the musical legacy given to us by an enigmatic genius. In this video, hopefully I am pulling back the curtain just a little more. ... For Liza, Lorna, & Joe. Jesse & Vanessa. May the light of Judy Garland's legacy shine forever. *No copyright infringement intended* Ol Man River & Through The Years are highlighted songs. Clips of Judy with her children. This is for them ... & the many generations to follow. It is the legacy of a Mother, a Grandmother, ... a Lady Of Songs, A Muse who lived among us for a short while filling our souls with wonderous dreams. For all the tears & laughter, sorrow & joy ... forever in our hearts. I hope this series has given you as much pleasure watching/listening as I had creating. Video clips: American Masters & A&E Biography. *All photo backgounds used remain in the sole ownership of thier creator.* *No copyright infringement intended.* www.youtube.com www.amazon.com
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Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 6. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 5. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 4. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 3. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 2. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Lorna Luft & Judy Garland - Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son - Part 1. Part of a UK documentary series focusing on the children of various show business icons who discuss their parents' lives away from the limelight. This was aired in the UK in 2004
Judy is joined by Mel Torme, Jack Jones, her children (Liza, Lorna and Joey) and others in this traditional Christmas Carol Medley. This performance is from episode #15, the Christmas special, of the Judy Garland Show. It was filmed on December 6, 1963 and aired on December 22, 1963. DVDs of the Judy Garland Show are available to purchase or rent in various configurations. Some additional excerpts from the show are available for viewing at www.theBestArts.com Browse our website at www.theBestArts.com for more great dance, music and musical theatre performances.
I made a tribute to Mick and Judy around 8 months ago, but unfortunately it was taken down due to copyright issues. I made a new, one, with lots of good (I think!) clips and pics of the pair of them. Please rate and comment!


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LAKE TAHOE — The Lake Tahoe Basin could be off-limits to bear hunters under a proposal to be considered by the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners next month.
Following public input, the Nevada Department of Wildlife has developed a proposal to prohibit the state's bear hunt from taking place west of the Tahoe Rim Trail, according to spokesman Chris Healy.
Moving the start of the bear hunt to Sept. 15 from the third week in August will also be considered by the commission during its Feb. 3-4 meeting in Las Vegas, Healy said.
Starting the bear hunt after Labor Day will decrease the possibility of hunters interacting with other outdoor enthusiasts and should also provide cooler temperatures for hunters and their dogs, according to the spokesman.
Although none of the 14 bears killed during this year's inaugural bear hunt were killed in the Lake Tahoe Basin, the most vocal opposition to the hunt has come from residents of the area.
NDOW officials warned bear hunters to steer clear of Lake Tahoe because of the controversial nature of the hunt.
Healy said the proposal to the commission is designed to provide accommodations to both hunters and those who are opposed to the bear hunt.
The commission is not expected to set quotas for the 2012 bear hunt at the February meeting. Bear population data and information from the 2011 hunt will be analyzed to determine the number of bear tags that will be issued for 2012, Healy said.
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See ThisThe World's End
Summer used to be a magical time when we settled on one thing to kill us: volcanoes or asteroids, perhaps, or the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Nowadays, we're just greedy disaster gluttons, taking whatever alien, zombie or putrefying disease will have us. At least this season we're ending it all on a good note, for writer/director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the team behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, return to take on no scarier a foe than the English suburbs.
In 1990, Gary King (Pegg) lived up to his name, lording it over his band of chums as they attempted – and failed – to complete a 12-pub crawl known as The Golden Mile. Twenty years later, the rest of the lads have grown up and moved on, but not Gary. He's still driving the same car, still dying his thinning hair a ridiculous shade of rebel black, and still obsessed with completing The Golden Mile. Somehow, he convinces his old mates, Andy (Frost), Steven (Paddy Considine), Oliver (Martin Freeman) and Peter (Eddie Marsan) to take a turn 'round the old homestead for a pint or 12. Since Oliver's sister, Sam (Rosamund Pike), is also in town she comes along to bend an elbow.
I won't divulge specifics about what bedevils the lads—and the rest of humanity—for all the cider in the UK (unless you're buying), but suffice it to say that the night does not go as planned. Tensions bubble up between Gary and Andy over old wounds, between Gary and Steven over Sam, and between Gary and everyone over what a snot he used to be. Or rather, what as not he still is, because even as unnatural events occur and casualties pile up, Gary refuses to abandon his quest to get to the finish line of the Mile, a pub fittingly called The World's End.
Gary's relentless pursuit, the loneliness and melancholy it suggests, sharply distinguishes The World's End from Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz. This is a more grown-up film and a less funny one. Pegg isn't simply larking about as Gary, he's actually delivering a tragi-comic performance that may be some of his best work. That doesn't mean the film isn't delightful; it is, with a script that could rival some of the Coen Brothers' for its precision in nailing the details of time and place. But The World's End tries to be something a bit deeper than your standard genre flick. It may not always succeed, but I'll certainly lift a glass to its ambition.
And See ThisYou're Next
If you'd prefer to settle for picking off humanity on a smaller scale, there's always this sly slasher send-up that owes its soul to horror films from the '70s and '80s. Sharni Vinson (yep, the girl from Step Up 3D) stars as Erin, invited to the country mansion of boyfriend Crispian (AJ Bowen), whose parents are celebrating their wedding anniversary.
But before the assembled guests can even make it through the appetizers, one of them takes an arrow in the head. Killers in creepy animal masks then set about thinning the family's herd – or they would, but for Erin. Somehow, the scrappy grad student seems strangely adept in horrific situations, as she marshals the family to try to mount a defense. She's a badass, and a convincing one thanks to Vinson, who taps into a reserve of steeliness that I certainly didn't see coming.
Vinson isn't You're Next's only asset, either. The film delivers solid jokes along with a few remarkably innovative ways to kill people. (One household appliance, in particular, earned my respect.) It's a fun night out for horror fans and folks like me, who watch scary movies through their fingers.
Oh, And See This TooShort Term 12"You might have to hunt for this little gem, starring Brie Larson as a counselor in a foster-care facility, but it's worth it. Larson plays Grace, who connects with the kids because as a former ward of the state, she's been there. So when newbie Jayden (Last Man Standing's Kaitlyn Dever) shows up and tunes out, Grace empathizes – maybe too much. I know, it sounds hokey, but Short Term 12 never takes easy routes, instead showing the people in the foster-care system in all their complexity. Oh, and keep an eye out for newcomer Keith Stanfield as Marcus, a young man about to age out of the system. He's riveting.
Skip ThisAustenland
As Jane Austen adaptations go, my fellow Janeites, this one is a Willoughby – so pretty and promising, yet so crushingly disappointing that the heartbreak is nearly fatal. The premise, though, is divine: Keri Russell plays Jane, a 30-something American who spends all her money for a stay at an Austen-themed resort estate in England. (Reasonable? I think so.) The blow comes soon enough when Austenland quickly tires of riffing on the Austen phenomenon, and settles for being just another lazy take on Pride and Prejudice with jokes that land with audible thuds. Even Jennifer Coolidge grates as over-the-top fellow traveler Miss Charming, a dumb bunny who knows so little about Austen you wonder why she's there at all. Still, J.J. Feild is appealing as standoffish aristocrat Mr. Nobley. He's no Colin Firth, I concede, but then there's only one of those.
And Skip ThisThe Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Speaking of ill-fated literary adaptations, there's also this woeful take on Cassandra Clare's bestselling series about Clary Fray (Lily Collins), who learns that she comes from a line of magical folk named Shadowhunters. The action picks up when Clary meets a clan of the otherworldly demon killers just as her mother, Jocelyn (Game of Thrones' Lena Headey), is kidnapped. While the book has an obvious Twilight meets Harry Potter framework (there's even a Voldemort-lite named Valentine), the film's problems start when it steps away from Clare's text, dropping much of the origin story and entirely rewriting the ending. What's left are scenes that feel rushed and over-expository, with no thought given to pacing or logic. It's a shame, but it's a miss.


text: Sure he's gorgeous, funny, and charming–but early in any doomed relationship there are warning signals foretelling the bad news to come. Studies show that most women will try to justify these signs, excusing them so they don't interfere with their fantasy of having met the perfect man. Unfortunately, such signs are usually all too prophetic–they are the essence of what Drs. Gary Aumiller and Daniel Goldfarb call "Red Flags." The question then becomes how to detect and respond to a Red Flag before it's too late. This first-of-its-kind book will help readers determine a man's all-important "loser potential" within the first three dates.Each chapter includes a profile of a different loser, a post-date quiz to help you determine if Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong, and important information about the best way to break up with him. Red Flags has all the fun of a magazine quiz combined with the expertise of psychologists who specialize in the techniques used by the police to profile criminals. They know how to spot the rejects–and now you will, too!


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It was early March when the siege began at the Goldtex construction site just north of Center City, and it has continued all through this brutally hot summer - almost five long months. Workers have been beaten, car tires slashed. Delivery trucks are blocked for hours. This week, two people were arrested on assault charges. Neighborhood residents are afraid to walk near the building.
If a gang held a Philadelphia house hostage for this long, you can bet it would have been all over the news and politicians would be issuing releases by the gross. The events at Goldtex are part of a union protest, so there is practically a Cone of Silence hanging over this tense and increasingly violent standoff.


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Police got a call to a home on N. 19th Place, near W. Vienna Avenue shortly after 1 a.m. Thanksgiving morning. Medics took the infant to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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SYCODE - NC Import for Bricscad :
Numeric Control (NC) program file import plug-in for Bricscad
NC Import for Bricscad is a Numeric Control NC program file import plug-in for Bricscad® powered applications. This plug-in gives Bricscad powered applications the ability to import geometric data from NC program files.
CNC Machines worldwide use Numeric Control files (.nc, .ncc or .cnc) to convert programmed instructions to tool movement. NC programs consist of a sequence of codes with parameter data to arrive at a precise description of the toolpath. NC Import for Bricscad reads NC program files and recreates the toolpath in 3D. NC Import for Bricscad converts the commands in NC files into corresponding line, arc or circle entities and adds them to the active drawing.
NC Import for Bricscad is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the Bricscad environment. Follow the simple instructions in the ReadMe document which can be found in the installation folder. Once loaded it adds new commands to Bricscad's existing commands and a new submenu called "NCImport" to the Bricscad menu containing these newly added commands.
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The 'NCImport' menu consists of the following commands:
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NC Import for Bricscad comes with detailed documentation for each command as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time. There is also an online version of the help file which you can view by clicking the link below.
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Numerical Control (NC) was the precursor of today's Computer Numerical Control (CNC), which controls the automation of machine tools and the inherent tool processes for which they are designed. The set of instructions, or "program" (usually an ASCII text file in which, in its simplest form, a line of text specifies the axial coordinates of a point in the work envelope) is prepared from a blueprint or CAD file and transferred to the memory of the CNC via floppy drive, serial data interface or a network connection. Once stored in the CNC memory and selected, the program is executed by pressing the appropriate key on the machine operator panel.
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Molly Sims Flaunts Fab Post-Baby Body in Bikini
Well, that was fast! Just seven months after welcoming son Brooks, Molly Sims posted a photo of her svelte body in a black two-piece bathing suit while on vacation in Mexico Saturday with her girlfriends.
"Finally bikini ready & pulling out those Sports Illustrated swimsuit poses, just in time for my bestie Lauren's big bday!" she Tweeted.
Although sad about leaving her baby boy at home for the first time, the new mom managed to have a good time celebrating her close pal at the Viceroy Riviera Maya resort.
"Girls weekend, so fun! Love the sun. Love the beach," the model and actress, 39, wrote. "Best girlfriends getaway ever! Viva Mexico ... OLE!"
While not in a rush to shed the weight she gained during her pregnancy, Sims did enlist fitness trainer Tracy Anderson to help her get back to her pre-baby shape. But that doesn't mean it was an easy process.
"You have to think about a baby first, and you have to get off all of that fat and weight – and that's a whole thing on its own. It's literally the hardest thing I've ever done," she told PEOPLE recently.


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If you took part in our live show or if you listen to Doctor Who: Podshock 232, you will know at the time of our live recording (5pm EST 26 December 2010) that the latest Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol still had not shown up on iTunes to purchase or rent.
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LuAnn Goist, 58, of 8952 SR 53, McCutchenville, died at 8:10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, at her home.
She was born to Ronald "Shorty" Wagner and Barbara (Van Horn) Wagner. Ronald survives in McCutchenville and Barbara passed away in 1988.
LuAnn is survived by one son, Adrian (Chrissy) Van Hoosier of rural Sycamore; two grandchildren, Hunter and Regan Van Hoosier; two brothers, Jody (Sue) Wager of McCutchenville and Randy (Jodell) Wagner of rural Tiffin; a sister, Tena (Darrin) Morehart of McCutchenville; and a special friend, Brad Droll of McCutchenville.
She was preceded in death by her mother; her step-mother, Janet Wagner; and a half-brother, Kenneth Copeland.
LuAnn worked for 28 years at the former Westinghouse and A.O. Smith plant in Upper Sandusky, and for the last 10 years at Bridgestone in Upper Sandusky. She was a 1972 graduate of Mohawk High School. She loved spending time with her grandchildren and working in her flower garden.
The funeral service for LuAnn is 11 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 14, at Walton-Moore Funeral Home, Sycamore, with the Rev. David Jones officiating. Burial will take place at Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey.
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I am convinced that curing myeloma requires the full dedication of a bright and hard-charging team of creative investigators. Foremost, we have to embrace a well-founded optimism that the goal of cure or lifelong palliation is achievable.
During the first few decades of myeloma investigation, through the mid-1980s, a series of mildly cytotoxic regimens were employed so as to not further compromise patients' immune status and hemato-poietic function, and thus potentially increase treatment-related mortality. Stem cell support and hematopoietic growth factors had not yet become available.
Inspiration was sparked by the remarkable activity of high does of dexamethasone, alone or administered as part of the VAD regimen, which was non-myelosuppressive and which effected bone marrow remissions regularly. Coincident with the findings of the late Tim McElwain that the increased dose intensity of melphalan did increase complete remission rates markedly, but was associated with toxic death due to prolonged neutropenia, we developed the autologous hema-topoietic stem cell support strategy using bone marrow even when infiltrated by up to 30% tumor cells. The hypothesis was that these were mainly terminally differentiated cells with little self-renewal capacity. In fact, the first patient ever to receive an autologous bone marrow transplant had 30% marrow plasmacytosis. Yet, the bone marrow was effectively used to support chemoradiotherapy with melphalan and total body irradiation, resulting in a 6-year subsequent survival.
A major breakthrough was the discovery by Gianni and colleagues that cyclophosphamide-mobilized peripheral blood stem cells, unlike those obtained from the steady-state bone marrow environment, could markedly accelerate both granulocyte and platelet recovery. This indeed reduced morbidity and mortality, especially among older patients, and has made it possible for most procedures to be done today in the outpatient setting with a high level of safety.
Emphasis should be placed on addressing the long-standing controversy among myeloma investigators about standard vs. single vs. double transplants. Our justification for the tandem transplants comes from the arithmetic: tumor burden at the time of clinically defined complete remission is reduced from a trillion to perhaps 1 to 5 billion remaining tumor cells. With the availability of peripheral blood stem cells affording rapid hematopoietic recovery, it became feasible to introduce treatment regimens that produce marked reduction of disease burden. Abandoning total body irradiation, we believed that a more radical intervention with tandem transplants was more likely to produce positive clinical outcome in the majority of patients. The French Myeloma Intergroup has been able to confirm in two carefully conducted randomized trials that single high dose therapy was superior to standard treatment, and, just recently, that two such cycles are superior to a single cycle.
In light of exciting new drug developments, a certain level of hype is infiltrating the myeloma medical and patient communities. Some are quick to abandon the impressive results obtained with tandem transplants. In pursuit of our strategy that the risk of treatment intervention should match the risk of the disease, we believe that exciting new agents whose long-term efficacy and toxicity is not yet known, should be tested in high-risk disease, e.g. myeloma with chromosome 13 deletion or high LDH. Given that 80% of such patients will likely progress or relapse within 2 years, the new approaches seem justified, as long as patients have the opportunity early on of autologous stem cell collection. Sufficient stem cell collection ensures that standard melphalan-based autologous transplant remains an option in the event of unanticipated marrow damage from new agents.
Other discussions have focused on the issue of early vs. late salvage transplantation. The mission of attaining durable disease control and cure, mandates that that best treatment options be applied up-front to battle the already enormously complex genomic instability that probably accounts for much of the standard dose drug resistance.
Finally, it is distressing to observe that the treatment discussion, even among hematologists and oncologists, is often about transplant vs. standard therapy. An autologous "transplant" is simply a transfusion of autologous cells. The critical component of the "transplant" is the drug administered at the proper dose and schedule. Toxicities and mortality from a melphalan transplant are strictly dependent on the total dose administered. Thus, if there is increased risk of morbidity, as in the case of associated amyloidosis involving the heart, a reduced melphalan dose in a safe range of 50-70 mg/m2 should be considered. In the case of "malignant myeloma," we have begun to advocate other agent combinations, such as DT PACE, which do not target hematopoietic stem cells and are rather devoid of significant extramedullary toxicity, so that cycles can be administered as needed, within 2 to 3 weeks. This approach is critical for preventing rapid re-growth in a setting where single agent melphalan, even at high doses, fails to achieve a marked tumor reduction.
We anticipate that the comprehensive fundamental research into the molecular and biological disease features, as part of an organized clinical trial program, will make tremendous strides in the near future.
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This 3 day Cultural Rendezvous is where nature and culture merge to give you a true South African safari experience. Experience the big game and birdlife of Kruger National Park, and the culture of the Shangaan people, whilst staying at a lodge with traditional but luxurious Tsonga-style huts.
A South African safari experience is incomplete without an experience of the cultures of the African people, and on this 3 day Cultural Rendezvous safari you can have the big game of Africa's iconic park and a cultural experience of the Shangaan people. The style of the lodge adds to the unique nature of this Kruger Park safari.
Roam the wilderness of the Kruger Park on game drives under the guidance of experienced rangers and learn of the cultures from the Shangaan people themselves. Africa, and Kruger Park, is a place of contrasts and this 3 day Cultural Rendezvous safari is one of the best ways for you to experience the contrasts of this incredible destination.
Your day starts early at Johannesburg Airport when you board the plane for a flight to Kruger Park. Here you will be met upon arrival by your driver for a road transfer to your classic lodge. Part of the route is in the Kruger Park, allowing you a first glimpse of the wildlife Kruger is renowned for. For the 2 nights of your Cultural Rendezvous Package in Kruger Park, you will be accommodated in 1 of the 6 traditionally styled and elegantly furnished huts. Large king beds, antique baths, air-conditioning and staff in traditional style provide you with comfort in a relaxed environment.
The combination of the bush, traditional cuisine, the warmth of the accommodation together with the opportunity to witness the lifestyle and culture of the Shangaan people, will ensure you an unforgettable South African safari experience on this Kruger Park package. You will spend the evening under the stars being entertained by ethnic dances, storytelling and Mungoma introductions. Enjoy the breathtaking blend of luxury and style, on your Cultural Experience Package.
After some early morning tea and coffee, you set out on an exciting 3 hour early morning game drive, where you get a chance to experience the awakening african savannah on your cultural rendezvous package. Take a refreshing swim in the pool or just relax after your big breakfast. Collect your strength after lunch for an unforgettable, spectacular evening game drive, where you follow the tracks of Africa's Big Five and stop for a sun-downers before searching for nocturnal animals. Back at the lodge, enjoy pan-African dining under the stars after a long day on safari.
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At Potoroo Palace we love introducing you to our family—and they get excited about it, too!
This meeting of worlds is what it's all about. Potoroo Palace is a sanctuary for both animals and people, grown over the years by a team of passionate staff and volunteers. And some very special ambassadors.
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Mahler's ResurrectionManfred Honeck conducts Mahler's sublime Symphony #2 with two vocal soloists and the Mendelssohn Choir, a programmatic work that proclaims the composer's belief in life after death. Hear this work, which the PSO takes on its 2012 European tour.10/19/2012Time: 8:00 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
AinadamarThe stones began to cry, the Spanish say, when poet Federico Garcia Lorca died at the hands of Franco's fascists. "Ainadamar," the supposed site of that murder, means "fountain of tears" in Arabic. This is a dream of a chamber opera, a Deep Song containing the cry of the flamenco singer, the pounding of horses' hooves, and floating above them, Margarita Xirgu, the great Catalan tragedian and Lorca's muse, left to sing his song and bequeath his freedom. Composed by Osvaldo Golijov; libretto by David Henry Hwang; Music direction by Andres Cladera; video by Joe Seamans; stage direction by Karla Boos.10/19/2012 - 11/03/2012Time: 8:00 pmLocation: East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Rzewski � piano. Concert IIJohanna Ballou performs De Profundis, along with other pieces from the modern solo piano repertory.10/19/2012Time: 8:00 pmLocation: East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 South Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Ravel, Franck, and Orli Shaham Playing GershwinA consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety and vitality, pianist Orli Shaham performs Gershwin's Concerto in F, featured in the movie classic An American in Paris. André Raphel also conducts Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, and Franck's Symphony in D Minor.10/19/2012Time: 8:00 pmCapitol Theater, 1015 Main St., Wheeling, WVwebsite | map
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Led by seven players in double figures, the Stetson women's basketball team advanced to its fourth straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship final with a 90-60 victory over USC Upstate in the semifinals on Saturday.
Senior Sasha Sims was one of the seven scoring in double figures, totaling 10 for the game. With her final bucket, she became Stetson's all-time scoring leader with 1,572 points in her four seasons with the Hatters.
"It's unbelievable," said Stetson head coach Lynn Bria of Sims' accomplishment. "She's done such a great job and it's amazing what she's done. She's a good kid. She's a good kid to coach, and she's a great team player. She probably could have gotten [the record] a long time ago if she were more selfish."
"It's definitely a great feeling," Sims said following the game. "I'm humbled. Our main goal, though, is to win a championship. Unless we do that the other accomplishments don't mean anything. I just want to get my third ring and be able to credit it to my teammates and our coaching staff."
After Stetson (26-6) started hot with a 13-4 run, the Spartans (17-14) countered with 12 straight points to take a 16-13 lead over the Hatters just over seven and a half minutes into the contest. Unlike in the quarterfinal match-up with Kennesaw State, however, Stetson didn't let USC Upstate hang around any longer than that.
The Hatters used a 14-0 run over the next 3:14 to regain the advantage at 27-16, and then extended it to 42-20 with a 29-4 stretch that ultimately put the game out of reach at 42-20 with 3:45 remaining in the first half.
"Overall I thought we played a pretty good game," Bria said. "In the first half there we turned them over and got a bit of separation. We're fortunate to get a win and I'm just glad that we're in this position."
Stetson, which leads the A-Sun with 12.5 steals per game, used 12 steals in the first half alone to push past the Spartans. Upstate turned the ball over 15 times in the first 20 minutes, and thanks to the Hatters' ability to maintain possession off those turnovers, Stetson turned the Spartans' miscues into 17 points in period one.
Following a 49-23 lead at the break, Stetson continued to extend its advantage, leading by as many as 32 points early in the second half. Junior Cherisse Burris knocked down a three off an assist from Sims to make it 61-29 with 15:27 to play.
The Spartans never got closer than 24 points the rest of the way, as Stetson cruised to the 90-60 victory. "We didn't take them lightly, which I think is a credit to our players," said Bria.
Junior Jama Sharp led the balanced attack for the Hatters, scoring 17 on 7-of-12 shooting from the field. She added four assists and four of Stetson's season-best 18 steals in the victory.
Freshman Amber Porter scored 14, while Burris finished with 13 points and eight rebounds. Junior C.J. Coddington and freshman Brianti Saunders scored 11 points each with the former adding another four steals for the Hatters.
Junior Myeisha Hall and Sims chipped in with 10 points each. Hall added a game high nine rebounds off the bench, while Sims finished with eight boards and five assists for the Hatters.
Stetson advances to take on Florida Gulf Coast in the A-Sun Championship game on Sunday. The Hatters and the Eagles will square off at 3:00 p.m. with coverage on Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS), ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app, Bright House Sports Network, and the Hatters Radio Network.


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Velma L. (Diehl) Estep, 82, Bellwood, died Saturday at Valley View Home after an extended illness.
She was born in Summerhill, the daughter of the late Earl and Gladys (Ritchey) Diehl.
She married Edgar R. Estep in 1976 in Altoona.
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Surviving are her husband of Altoona; a daughter, Wanda Ward of Temple Hills, Md.; two sons: Dennis of Altoona and Steven of Bellwood; two sisters: Twilet Corle of Osterburg and Pearl Calderon of Altoona; a brother, Glen Diehl of Altoona; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a son, Darrell "Skip" Otto, and three brothers: Darrell R., Earl and Forrest Diehl.
Velma was a member of Tipton Baptist Church. She enjoyed cooking and being with her family.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at The Good Funeral Home Inc., Alto-Reste Park Cemetery, 108 Alto-Reste Park, Altoona, where a funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, with Pastor John Pine officiating.
Interment will be at Alto-Reste Park Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Duncansville VFW Post 8724 in Velma's memory.


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A Kansas City, Mo., man on parole has been charged in the murder of Peter Belmont, Jr., a well known Kansas City, Kan., dog breeder, the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office said.
Darrell L. Broxton, 50, is charged with first degree murder and first degree burglary.
Belmont was found dead inside his home in the north 3000 block of 115th Street on Dec. 16, 2012. The district attorney's office said Belmont was a worldwide breeder of Afghan dogs.
Broxton was on post-release supervision from the state of Kansas for burglary at the time of the homicide, the district attorney's office said. He is being held in the Wyandotte County Detention Center in lieu of $1,000,000 bond.


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EDTC 6321 – Instructional Design
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EDTC 6321 – Instructional Design (UT Brownsville): This course uses an instructional systems design model to guide the student in systematically developing effective Instruction. Theoretical and practical issues in instructional systems design are examined. Other instructional design models are introduced. Lec. 3, Cr. 3.
EDTC 6323 – Multimedia/Hypermedia (UT Brownsville): This course concentrates on the development and utilization of hypermedia and multimedia in education. Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to develop an interactive instruction by utilizing audiovisual technologies and computer-based/Web-based technologies in a meaningful, educational context. Lec. 3, Cr. 3.
EDTC 6358 – Theory and Practice of e-Learning (UT Brownsville): This is the capstone course for the e-Learning Graduate Certificate Program. Students are expected to apply previously learned skills and knowledge to plan and manage an e-learning project in a real-life context. Prerequisite: Must be within 6 hours of completion of program. Approval of Program Coordinator. Lec 3, Cr 3.
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EDTC 6325 – Educational Telecommunications (UT Brownsville): This course addresses the development of instruction for e-learning environments. Learners will use a research-based rationale for the selection and utilization of technologies for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating instruction using an open source courseware management system. Learners will also explore the potential of 3-D virtual environments for instructional applications. Lec. 3, Cr. 3.
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A popular belief is that the world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012. But this isn't the first time the end of the world has been predicted, and it has survived so far.
We're taking a look back at the end of the world and some of the most noteworthy predictions made about it.
Dec. 21, 2012, is the current popular date for the end of the world. This is based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan long calendar, which ends a "Long Count" cycle on that date. Experts said that for the Mayans, the end of such a cycle would be a cause for celebration. The next cycle would then begin, just like putting up a new calendar on your wall.
Various ways in which the world is predicted to end this year include alien invasion, a giant supernova roasting the Earth or a collision with an asteroid or the fictional planet Nibiru. NASA notes that none of these events appear to be imminent.
The end of the world has been predicted for a very long time. Romans feared that the city would be destroyed 120 years after it was founded, which would be 634 BCE. This was based on a myth that 12 eagles revealed to Romulus when the city would be destroyed, and early Romans thought each eagle represented 10 years.
Many predicted apocalypses center on Christian predictions regarding the return of Jesus. Some early Christians expected this would happen within a generation of his birth, triggering the end times in the 1st century CE.
Various theologians predicted a date for the Christian apocalypse in the following centuries, often revising the date either when it didn't occur or when thoughts changed about key events in the Bible.
Popular predicted dates for the apocalypse were the years 500 and 1000. Some Christians thought the year 1033 was likely, representing the 1,000th anniversary of the believed death and resurrection of Jesus.
Real catastrophes sometimes triggered the belief that the world was ending. When the Black Death spread through Europe in 1346-1351, many thought it was the end of the world. The disease killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent of Europe's population and resulted in major economic and social upheaval.
In 1780, many New England residents believed the world was ending when the sky turned dark during the day. It's believed that the cause was actually smoke from forest fires, combined with a thick fog and cloud cover.
The end of the world was a popular event for astrologers to predict. Several predicted that a flood starting in London would destroy the world on Feb. 1, 1524.
When the flood didn't happen, the same astrologers revised the date of the flood to Feb. 1, 1624. The flood didn't happen then, either.
The Puritan minister Cotton Mather, remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials, predicted the world would end in 1697. When it didn't, he revised his prediction to 1716. He then revised the date for the last time to 1736. He died in 1728, before he could see his final prediction fail.
In 1806, there was quite a stir when a hen in Leeds, England, began laying eggs that had the phrase, "Christ is coming," scrawled on them. Eventually, it was discovered to be a hoax by a man who had written on the eggs in acid and then reinserted the eggs into the hen.
In the 1840s, the Christian sect known as Millerites made predictions that the end of the world was near. The most anticipated date was Oct. 22, 1844, for the return of Jesus. When that didn't happen, it was known as the Great Disappointment and led to the fracturing of the sect and the creation of new groups, such as the Seventh Day Adventists.
Astronomical observations have also triggered thoughts about the end of the world. Astronomer Camille Flammarion believed the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet might destroy all life on Earth.
Aliens are sometimes linked to apocalyptic beliefs. A small cult grew around Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin when she said she received a message from aliens from the planet Clarion that a flood would destroy the world On Dec. 21, 1954. The group believed that true believers would be rescued by a flying saucer.
Apocalyptic thinking was a factor in the creation of the Peoples Temple. Founder Jim Jones predicted that a nuclear war would engulf the planet in 1967. That didn't happen, but it spurred Jones' drive to create a socialist community that could survive such an event and rebuild. He eventually built Jonestown in Guyana, where 914 members of the Peoples Temple killed themselves in 1978.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, leader of the New Age religious movement the Church Universalist and Triumphant, gained national attention after predicting nuclear apocalypse on April 23, 1990, leading her followers to stockpile weapons and build shelters in Montana.
The world braced for a computer-based apocalypse in 2000, when the Y2K bug was expected to cause serious damage to information systems. Because old computer code calculated dates based on just the last two digits of the year, the concern was that things would go awry when the date flipped to "00."
But extensive problems never came to pass. There's still some debate whether the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fixing old computer code was worth it. Some say it prevented serious problems, while others note that some countries that did little to prepare didn't suffer any issues.
The French seer Nostradamus wrote a number of quatrains that some have interpreted as predicting the rise of the Antichrist or the end of the world. The History Channel has aired programs featuring analysts interpreting Nostradamus as predicting the end of the world in 2012, even though his writings never mention the end of the world or the year 2012.
Radio broadcaster Harold Camping has used numerology to make several predictions about the end of the world. When his most recent prediction of Oct. 21, 2011, passed without an apocalypse, he reportedly said that his attempt to predict the date was "sinful."
But the world's got to end sometime, right? It's likely to be pretty far off in the future, though. Geoscientist James Kasting predicts that in about 500 million years, Earth will no longer have enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be habitable.
In about 5 billion years, the sun will swell into a red giant, either scorching the Earth or enveloping it. The sun may become too hot for the Earth to sustain life in just 1 billion years.
Even after the sun is gone, the universe will continue for quite some time. Current thought is that the universe is going to keep expanding. Eventually, there will not be enough energy in it for anything to happen. This is known as the heat death of the universe and is expected in 10^100 years.
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