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A day after Hurricane Sandy swept through the area with furious winds and several inches of rain, emergency management directors in Blair, Bedford, Cambria and Huntingdon counties agreed that the damage was light.
In order for the area to qualify for emergency assistance at the federal level, each county must meet a "threshold" of damage, Blair County Emergency Management Director Dan Boyles said.
The threshold depends on the county. Blair's threshold is $500,000 in public storm damage. None of the four counties are expected to reach their minimum damage limits, according to the local directors.
That is a good thing, Bedford EMA Director Dave Cubbison said.
"Bedford County really was blessed by not having a lot of damages," he said.
The assessments are coming at a very early stage in Sandy's aftermath, and there may be more damage than first believed, the EMA directors said.
One point made by the EMA experts was that flooded basements don't count when it comes to applying for possible federal aid, and if residents are able to remain in their homes, despite possible serious damage such as part of the roof being blown off, then the damage is not considered major, the emergency officials said.
Boyles estimated that more than 150 calls were received in Blair County, and 95 percent of the affected homes received only minor damage.
A trailer was totally destroyed while the roof blew off another trailer. Two other homes received major damage, Boyles said.
But because there was little flooding in Blair County, the roads and bridges were not damaged.
Blair County damage will reach only about 20 percent of the county's threshold, Boyles said.
"Our work is not over by a long shot. We are still fielding many calls," he said.
While area damage figures may be low, the four area counties did not escape the ferocity of the hurricane and storm that brought destruction to areas of New Jersey, New York and eastern Pennsylvania.
There were tense moments, however.
In Blair County, power outages reached into the thousands, causing concern for residents as temperatures dropped into the 40s and then the 30s.
Bedford County experienced a great deal of rain, the National Weather Service reporting that Schellsburg recorded 7.94 inches, second only to Hanover, York County, which received 8.15 inches.
There was concern that water may innundate Hyndman.
An evacuation occurred but no water entered the borough, Cubbison said as he praised the preparation and cooperation of the residents who already had a plan in place in case it was needed.
The residents followed the plan "perfectly," Cubbison. said.
Snow fell in parts of Cambria County, but it never approached the massive snows that hammered West Virginia, Maryland and other states.
Two to 3 inches fell in Richland Township, Cambria County Emergency Services Executive Director Ron Springer said.
Only flurries were reported in other areas of the county.
Springer said no streams left their banks, and PennDOT reported very little damage to the roads.
Forty-three people went to a shelter at the Rutter Center in Mount Union, Huntingdon County Emergency Management Director Adam Miller. Other residents possibly left their homes for a time, staying with relatives.
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the repe cmpsb is confusing me a bit. i know very well that repe cmpsb will compare string bytewise until equal or cx=0 .. BUT when i try to confirm this with a simple program, no matter whether the strings are equal or not, i always get a mismatch.
can anyone please guide me and explain what i am doing wrong.. would be a great help :)
"i am comparing two strings v1 & v2 both having the string 'apple', the answer however results in mismatch" Here is the code
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Re: Assembly, NEED GUIDANCE WITH REPE CMPSB
Does it make any difference if you start your code with CLD (clear direction flag)?
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Stockholm Design Week: Norwegian lighting company Luxo has launched the Ninety Light by American designer Shawn Littrell, which they claim is the world's most efficient task light. More »
Stockholm Design Week: Norwegian lighting company Luxo has launched the Ninety Light by American designer Shawn Littrell, which they claim is the world's most efficient task light. More »
An exhibition by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec is at Galerie Kreo in Paris until 8 March (via dezain.net). More »
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish architects TAF Arkitektkontor have designed the inaugural collection for IOU Design, a new company producing sustainable outdoor furniture. More »
French designers Frank & Stanimira Rafaschieri have designed two prototype pieces of nursery furniture that adapt to children's changing needs as they grow. More »
Italian furniture manufacturers Cappellini will launch tables by British designers BarberOsgerby and Japanese designers Nendo at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan furniture fair) in April. More »
Dezeen has teamed up with Belgian designer Arne Quinze to give away five signed copies of his new book, Cityscape. More »
Israeli designer Tomer Sapir has launched his new website, including images of his Prosthesis lights which incorporate illuminated fallen leaves. More »
Stockholm Design Week: young Swedish designers Form us With Love held an exhibition called Constructive at Nordiska Kompaniet (NK) department store in Stockholm earlier this month, which explored sustainability. More »
Here's another project from Dutch designer Anke Weiss, this time a table made from 150 bonsai trees. More »
Here's a second shortlisted design for the Mersey Observatory competition, this time by Duggan Morris Architects. More »
British designer Tom Dixon will exhibit his new collection, entitled A Bit of Rough, at Superstudio Più in Milan during the furniture fair in April. More »
Stockhom Design Week: Ny Svensk Slöjd, which means Contemporary Swedish Handicraft, was a group show at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at Stockholm Furniture Fair earlier this month. More »
Around the Corner is an exhibition of four new pieces by Amanda Levete of architects Future Systems for British manufacturers Established & Sons. More »
Film maker Peter Greenaway will create a multimedia event involving Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, as part of the cultural programme of this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile (international furniture fair) in Milan in April. More »
Mountain Dwellings, a project consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park by Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is nearing completion in Copenhagen. More »
Dutch designer Reinier de Jong has created Keer Chair, which can be used any way up. More »
South African designer Ryan Frank has sent in a couple of images of ZiG, a new shelving system he will be showing in Milan during the furniture fair in April. More »
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|EcommerceBytes-NewsFlash, Number 2924 - October 30, 2012 - ISSN 1539-5065 3 of 4
Etsy is rolling out a new way sellers can purchase USPS postage on its marketplace to increase transparency about costs. Sellers will now be able to see costs when entering shipping options. "You can change shipping methods and package types more easily to find the best rate for you," Etsy explained.
All the options required to purchase a label are shown up-front, not hidden behind an additional window. In addition, the cost is shown prominently before purchase - sellers must still confirm before buying.
Here's what's different:
"When you purchase a Shipping Label, you'll see a brand new form. This form focuses on the options required to complete your shipment. It also updates the label cost any time you make a change, as long as you're already entered everything we need to know to determine the postage price for that label. Once you enter the necessary package details, you can, for example, switch between Shipping Methods to compare shipping prices at different speeds, without leaving the form.
"We've moved the order details into a tooltip to make it easier to focus on postage options and we now display the buyer's name in the header."
Etsy is gradually releasing the new flow to all sellers who print USPS postage. Those using the new flow seem to like the new layout, but say the "Message to Buyer" is not as visible as in the old format, and are concerned about having to pay Etsy bills before being able to print labels once the balance goes over a certain amount.
Etsy recently launched USPS International Shipping Labels capability but only for those sellers who offer Direct Checkout.
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Shin, or Pure Land, is the flower of Japanese Buddhism. Although it is less well known in the West than Zen, Vipassana or Tibetan Buddhism, its message of holy freedom, or naturalness, which arises when man conforms with sincere attachment to the Eternal saving will of the Buddha has been an illuminating way of spiritual awakening for multitudes of Japanese people since the sixth century when Buddhism came to Japan.
Kanamatsu's Naturalness, written in 1949, is more than an introduction to the essence of Shin Buddhism. It is a profound and enlightened meditation on the relationship between man and Amida Buddha, who is pure mercy and whose Name is a vehicle of Nirvanic Reality.
Combining the erudition of a philosopher with the sensitivity of a poet, Kanamatsu leads the reader into the heart of the subject where man may unite with the Buddha-Nature even in the ordinary activities of everyday life. The deep compassion and beautiful simplicity of this classic work-- which like a haiku speaks volumes with few words-- will appeal to all people who seek a spiritual antidote to the artificiality and ugliness that causes much of the suffering in our world.
Very few books have appeared in the West on the Shin tradition, yet D.T. Suzuki -- recognized as the foremost exponent of Buddhism to Western culture -- has characterized Shin Buddhism as Japan''s major religious contribution to the West. Kanamatsu's Naturalness allows the reader to experience that "even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached -- yes, here is the Eternal Present, not distant, not anywhere else."
Born in 1915 in Kyoto, Kenryo Kanamatsu took his B.A. in Philosophy at Otani University. Following study under a Fulbright scholarship at Cornell and the University of Chicago, he received his doctorate and was a Professor at Otani University. In addition to Naturalness, Dr. Kanamatsu translated the works of Plato into Japanese and wrote a book on Plato's Theology and Cosmology which has not been translated into English. He was a lifelong devotee of Shin Buddhism.


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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, left, walks with his staff after visiting the Georgia Senate on the last day of the legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol, Thursday, March 20, 2014, in Atlanta. Photo by Jason Getz/AP.
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CHARLES TOWN - Visitors at Black Dog Coffee in Charles Town were invited to buy some other sweet treats Tuesday as Miss Potomac Highlands sold baked goods for charity.
Tiana Davis currently holds the title of Miss Potomac Highlands. Davis is involved in local pageants, and will compete for the title of Miss West Virginia in late June.
According to Davis, the Miss West Virginia pageant is part of the Miss America Organization. Davis said charity work is a big part of competing in pageants, on both local and national levels.
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Tiana Davis, Miss Potomac Highlands, sells baked goods to benefit the Children's Miracle Network. Charity work is part of pageants, on both the local and national levels.
"Miss America Organization's national platform is the Children's Miracle Network Hospital, so we all try and raise money for that," Davis said. "Each title holder also has an individual platform, and mine is called 'Save a Life, Give Blood.' It's about raising awareness about blood donation and encouraging people to give blood."
At her table in front of Black Dog Coffee, Davis had homemade brownies, cookies and cupcakes for sale as a fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital. She explained that the yellow, red and white frosting on the cupcakes corresponds to the Children's Miracle Network's colors.
"My total goal I would like to raise is $1,000 by the time my (pageant) year is over. I'll be out here again on Friday at Black Dog. I'm also planning a few other fundraisers in the future that are still in the making," Davis said.
Davis said she enjoys the philanthropic work that goes with competing in pageants.
"It's fun. I think it's really important to give back to the community because they do so much for us (pageant contestants)," she said. "I also love working with children, since that's another part of what I do. I go into schools and talk about the national platform as well as my own personal platform. It's just something I really like to do."
For more information about Davis's bake sale fundraisers, visit Black Dog Coffee's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/BlackDogCoffeeFans.
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There's a GAPS support group in Yahoo groups, you should look it up.
But really, you will be fine with limited vegetables for a while. There's plenty of nutrients in homemade broths & stocks.
So I have decided to follow a GAPS diet for what I believe is SIBO or some sort of IBS disorder that I'm suffering (lots of bloating/foul gas and non-so-clean stools). I have been reading that a GAPS diet is recommended for this, and thus have decided that starting this morning I will follow the diet as strictly as I can. However, I am concerned that I won't be getting very many veggies in my diet since there are a lot which aren't allowed (especially on intro diet). But I think to myself, "hey, there are lots of cultures/tribes which don't consume nearly as many veggies/fruit as we do, so I'll be fine." Is this sound advice?
Also, I have begun getting into the habit of steaming pretty much every veggie I eat, essentially creating a 'steamed salad'. Is this a good habit to continue with? Any advice from fellow GAPS dieters is much appreciated, and if you have had success please let me know.
Thanks.....here we go!
There's a GAPS support group in Yahoo groups, you should look it up.
But really, you will be fine with limited vegetables for a while. There's plenty of nutrients in homemade broths & stocks.
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The Dark Side of Fruits and Vegetables | Chris Kresser - YouTube
Got digestive problems? Take it easy on the veggies.
Have some butter with your veggies!
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Worth mentioning that in terms of biases, Georgia Ede is in favour of low carb and Chris Kresser isn't.
Wow - lots of good info in there thanks! And I just starting making a new batch of beef bone broth, so that's something to look forward to (I love my BBB)
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Her sin was being to weak to stand up to his power. She was just strong enough that he got a thrill from the fight, but not strong enough to survive it, so he locked up his power subconsciously so he could continue to get the thrill of fighting at the razor's edge of life and death. It's not really her fault, exactly, but at the same time, it was their first fight that caused him to do it, so she feels responsible.
Yup, it a warriors mind set like unohana's, it is her weakness that cost a child warrior(kid zaraki) to his current state, it was her weakness that made zaraki unconsciously weakened himself in order to prolong the joy and thrill of their fight.... it wasn't really her fault as you said as it is probably zaraki's ability or his zanpaktou that did this but unohana as a warrior woman felt it that way... a once proud killer with no equal or peers, the strongest kenpachi and the 1st one turned out to be weaker than a mere child <--this is such a big blow to warriors especially if they are projects similar to samurais
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KAPALUA, Hawaii — Masters champion Adam Scott is taking a six-week break after Hawaii, meaning he will skip the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana next month.
The WGC-Accenture Match Play will be Feb. 19-23.
Scott has never missed the Match Play since he first became eligible in 2002. But since the World Golf Championship moved to Arizona in 2007, he hasn't stuck around very long. Scott was beaten in the opening round the last three years, and he has not advanced beyond the second round since 2005 when it was at La Costa Resort north of San Diego.
Scott is playing the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua and then Sony Open at Honolulu next week. He says he won't play again until the Honda Classic (Feb. 27-March 2), missing the entire West Coast swing.
Scott enters the year at No. 2 in the world behind Tiger Woods.
Ottawa star left wing Ryan left off US Olympic roster
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Bobby Ryan helped the U.S. to the silver medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Unless Ryan gets a spot for the Sochi Games to replace an injured player, he will not have a chance to help the Americans go for gold.
The U.S. Olympic hockey team was announced Wednesday after Toronto's shootout victory over Detroit in the NHL Winter Classic.
Ryan, who has more goals in the NHL this year than all but 10 players, was perhaps the most surprising omission on the 25-man roster. The Ottawa Senators star has 18 goals this season — trailing just two U.S.-born players — and has scored at least 30 times in four previous NHL seasons.
Jack Johnson and Erik Johnson, a pair of defensemen who played in the Vancouver Games, also didn't make the cut.
"We did not pick the 25 best players," general manager David Poile said. "We picked the 25 players we thought gave us a chance to win the gold medal."
And with goaltending and grit, the Americans might have some assets to help them compete with the defending champion Canadians, along with the talented and extremely motivated Russians on their home soil.
In Sochi, the U.S. forwards will be: David Backes, Dustin Brown, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Kane, Ryan Kesler, Phil Kessel, T.J. Oshie, Max Pacioretty, Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski, Paul Stastny, Derek Stepan, James van Riemsdyk and Blake Wheeler. John Carlson, Justin Faulk, Cam Fowler, Paul Martin, Ryan McDonagh, Brooks Orpik, Kevin Shattenkirk and Ryan Suter will be on defense for the Americans.
The three goalkeepers will be Jonathan Quick, Ryan Miller and Jimmy Howard.
- Eleven returning Olympians are on the roster for the women's hockey team that will represent the United States at Sochi.
Julie Chu is heading to her fourth Olympics. She'll be looking for a gold medal to go with the two silvers and a bronze she's already got. Canada has won the last three Olympic titles.
Also making the team was Amanda Kessel, whose brother Phil made the U.S. men's team.
The U.S. women's team has seven defensemen, 11 forwards and includes three goaltenders: Jesse Vetter, Molly Schaus and Brianne McLaughlin-Bittle, all of whom have Olympic experience. The other players with Olympic experience include Kacey Bellamy, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight, Jocelyne Lamoureux, Monique Lamoureux, Gigi Marvin and Kelli Stack.
F1 great Schumacher stable, but remains unconscious
GRENOBLE, France — Formula One great Michael Schumacher's condition was stable but still critical overnight as he remained unconscious following a brain injury suffered in a skiing accident, his manager said Wednesday.
Sabine Kehm told reporters that his condition has not changed since doctors said he showed small signs of improvement on Tuesday, following his second operation.
- Maria Sharapova recovered her serve and her nerve to beat Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday and advance to the Brisbane International semifinals in Australia.
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Raven Coates notched her 1,000th career points, and she and Markia Jackson provided senior leadership in a pivotal fourth quarter surge, rallying third-seeded St. Mary's to a semifinal round victory over second-seeded County Prep in yesterday's HCIAA Seglio Division playoff game in Jersey City.
Trailing by as many as seven points and 34-32 after three quarters, the senior leaders answered the challenge, scoring 10 of teams 15 fourth quarter points to provide the Ramblers with their first appearance in the Seglio Finals since 2003 on Saturday at the Yanitelli Center of St. Peter's College.
"The two seniors (Coates and Jackson) really stepped up in the end with their senior leadership, and that was the difference," said St. Mary's coach Terry LaBruno.
Also in the final stanza, Aslin Rodriguez made her presence felt, controlling the glass on both ends of the floor, to amass a team-high 12 rebounds for St. Mary's.
Coates scored 19 points, including her 12th on a layup with 39 seconds left in the opening half to give her 1,001 career points and St. Mary's a 23-15 advantage.
With all of the excitement, the Ramblers lost focus, and allowed County Prep's Amanda Casillas to put the Hurricanes back in the game. She had a steal and converted the conventional three-point play to cut the Hurricanes deficit to 23-20 at the break.
Despite being outscored in the third quarter, the Ramblers' Pia Malcampo's clutch 3-pointer from the left-wing and another basket sliced the Hurricanes lead to 34-32.
County Prep's Christine Gonzalez, who scored 11 points, netted five quick points to start the fourth and give the Hurricanes their largest lead of the game.
But in the end, it was Coates and Jackson, who would get the final say.
Now, St. Mary's prepares for No. 1-seeded Holy Family in the title game.
"We have to sleigh the dragon," said LaBruno. "We're about 15 point underdogs, but thats why you have to play the game. I'm proud of my girls for getting (St. Mary's) back to the championship game. Its been a long drought."
Malcampo and Jackson finished with 10 and nine points, respectively, for the Ramblers. Lyliette Aquino led the Hurricanes with 13 points.
ST. MARY'S (17-8) -- Raven Coates 9-0-1-19, Alivia Alexander 1-0-1-3, Markia Jackson 3-1-0-9, Pia Malcampo 2-2-0-10, Aslin Rodriguez 0, Leitza Aponte 1-0-0-2, Jessica Frago 2-0-0-4, Ivanne Bikai 0. Totals 18-3-2-47.
COUNTY PREP (14-7) -- Christine Gonzales 1-3-0-11, Amanda Casillas 4-0-1-9, Lyliette Aquino 5-0-3-13, Kayla Muniz 3-0-0-6, Olivia O'Bayne 1-0-1-3, Stephanie Tedoro 0, Rebecca Rodriguez 0, Zuri Hart 0. Totals 14-3-5-42.
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Name: Elena
Age: 35
Height: About 5'5"
Weight: About 109 pounds.
Education: University graduate, Economics.
Work: Manager at a local firm.
Never married, no children.
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Elena does not smoke, she will have a glass of wine on special occasions. OK if you smoke, please only be an occasional drinker.
Elena lives in her own apartment. Elena's father has passed, her mother Nadya lives in her own apartment and works at a local retail store as a manager. Elena does have computer experience, she does know how to drive.
Born: Vitebsk
Elena has traveled to a couple FSU countries on vacation, she has never met anyone from the West.
Language skills: Russian
Elena was referred to us by a current female member and good friend of ours. Elena and her mother both have excellent reputations in Vitebsk. Elena is a beautiful woman with gray/green eyes and blond hair. Elena is an old fashion Vitebsk type woman. She has a good education and job, she comes from a family who believe in the importance of family and marriage.
Our crew in Vitebsk go on to describe Elena as being a "friendly, happy, enjoyable person with a good sense of humor. Elena is a good hearted woman, she likes people and gets along with everyone. She has a soft, sincere temperament, she is very much a touch-type woman who likes to show her affection. Not shy, not loud either."
Elena would like to meet a Caucasian man from any country for love, marriage, and to create a loving family together. You can be up to about 48 years old, if you have kids that's fine with Elena, she loves kids. Elena would like to have a child with her future husband. Please be a responsible man who believes in family and marriage, please be the type guy who loves to get and give affection from your wife.
Elena likes to cook, sew, she enjoys movies, reading, and she likes to be outside working in the garden. Elena also likes to take walks and generally enjoy the out doors.
Our crew asked Elena our question: Why are you a special person, and why should a man want to spend the rest of his life with you in particular?
Elena said, "I will try to give my husband good reason to be happy with me, and he will have good reason to love me."
Nice thoughts from a nice woman.
Elena is a good woman, she looks great, she's a nice woman who will make a fine wife, period!
Our Rating:
I will use the 5 categories below, each worth from 1-20 points, 20 being a perfect score. A perfect woman would get a 100 total. A score of 10 in any one category would be average. A total score of 50 would be an "average" woman.
Looks: 17 Great looking....SEXY BODY....Nice Body Parts....All around great looking!
Personality: 18 Soft and kind person who treats people well and gets along well with people. Nice and friendly.
Sense of humor: 17 Good sense of humor, not a party type.
How good a wife would she make: 20 Elena will make a fine wife for any reasonable and intelligent man.
How easy would she adjust to life in the West: 20 With understanding and support she would do very well. Elena will bring joy to your life!
Total points: 92 Calm personality, good person, Elena will make a fine wife. Get involved with her....You'll be glad you did!
All completely arbitrary, only my opinion.


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By Craig Hubert | After last month's announcement that shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine would finally be releasing the long-in-the-works follow-up to 1991's now classic "Loveless," the band announced on their Facebook page that they finished mastering the new album last week. We are this much closer to a new album, we suppose, but don't jump too far ahead – there is still now confirmed news of a release date. Front man Kevin Shields told NME that the record will be released via the band's website and that the few people who have heard it "think it's stranger than Loveless." Bassist Debbie Googe, speaking to Drowned in Sound, confirmed that the album does in fact exist, and that, basically, Shields recorded the entire thing himself. We won't get our hopes up till we actually hear the thing, but the fact that the band just booked a string of European tour dates, beginning in February, is hope that the long wait for a new album by My Bloody Valentine is over.
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With the season of giving upon us, I want to begin by thanking you for how much you have given to me this year by supporting the Dr. Susan Love Foundation and our primary goal: finding the cause and prevention of breast cancer.
I also want to thank you for your commitment to helping me get the message out that awareness is NOT enough. We've now had 25 years of breast cancer awareness and we still don't understand the cause or ways to prevent this disease. And the cure is NOT enough either. Not if it means surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy all of which have side effects and cause long-term collateral damage to our bodies!
I am well aware that our goal finding the cause and prevention of breast cancer is a daunting task. But with your help we can do it; we have to do it. We don' t have to pass breast cancer on to another generation. We can end it!
I am often told: It is too hard to find the cause, it's too complicated, cancer will always be with us, the best we can do is to make it a chronic disease. To those who think that's the best we can do, all I can say is, your best is not good enough. This year, more than 280,000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer. And with all of the early detection and varied treatments we have available today, this year we still lost about 40,000 women to this disease the same number of women we lost to breast cancer in 2005.
We can find the cause. We need to find the cause. I am more convinced than ever that the road that will get us there will require us to look at the areas of research that have been neglected by the grant givers, scientists, and universities because they seem too out there or too risky. But as we've seen time and time again, it's big risk projects that have the potential for big rewards.
That's why we at the Foundation are not afraid to take these risks. It's why we proudly:
- Are planning a study looking into bacteria and viruses in the breast fluid. This important study has the potential to revolutionize our understanding and perspectives on whether there could be an infectious cause for breast cancer.
- Completed the first phase of a study in China on 1,000 women testing a possible home test for breast cancer risk.
- Completed and published a study looking at the difference between the lactating breast which makes milk and the resting breast which doesn't.
- Are planning to make a model that will help us predict which environmental factors that appear carcinogenic in rats and mice actually get into the human breast.
- Completed a study testing whether low dose chemotherapy can be put into the breast duct through the nipple to treat DCIS. As we prepare the data for publication, we are planning to improve on this novel way of delivering drugs to where breast cancer starts.
- Launched the Army of Women, an initiative to recruit one million women interested in taking part in the research studies that will help us understand what causes breast cancer and how to prevent it. To date, more than 370,000 women have joined our Army of Women, and have helped 52 researchers recruit for and accelerate their research. If you haven't yet, join us today.
- Are preparing to re-launch the Health of Women (HOW) Study, the first-ever online study of an anticipated one million women. We will follow these women overtime to look at new risk factors for breast cancer. We will compare those without breast cancer to those who have it. And we will use new technology to explore the data for novel connections and hints.
This is the kind of innovative work that no other organization is doing. And it is an example of the disruptive thinking that is critical if we are going to break through the status quo and stop this disease.
If you agree, then we hope that you will show your support for us this holiday season by making a gift to the Foundation.


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At a free screening of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford said they are "hopeful" about making a fifth Indiana Jones film. Although, perhaps in a dig at 'Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls' alien plot, Ford announced that his alter ego "ain't going to Mars."
"Maybe a fifth..." Ford said. "Next time we get a script for Indiana Jones, I'd be delighted to play the character. Each time we meet him, we wanted to advance the audience's understanding of the character, not just by putting him in adventures, but by learning something about him...that's what led to the meeting of his father [in 'The Last Crusade'], played by Sean Connery, and his son [in 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'], played by Shia [LaBoeuf], and bringing Marion [Karen Allen] back."
When a fan in the audience whooped at the mention of a fifth film, Spielberg joked, "I think that's the one we didn't alienate with the fourth."
Other revelations from the evening: Spielberg first got the idea to cast Ford as Indy when he was viewing a rough cut of 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and had to talk George Lucas into seeing Ford as anyone other than Han Solo.
When Ford joked that Spielberg has only ever cast him as Indiana Jones, Spielberg insisted he'd first offered the role of Alan Grant in 'Jurassic Park' to him. Wonder how Sam Neill feels about that?
Spielberg also explained his (previously stated) reason for not tinkering with his earlier films, a stance that will please fans who are so outraged by pal Lucas's constant revisions to his movies:
"I tried this once and lived to regret it. Not because of fan outrage, but because I was disappointed in myself. I got overly sensitive to [some of the reaction -- including parents who had been less than pleased with the guns in the film] to 'E.T.,' and I thought if technology evolved, [I might go in and change some things]...it was OK for a while, but I realized what I had done was I had robbed people who loved 'E.T.' of their memories of 'E.T.'"Hear, hear. Spielberg then polled the audience, who overwhelmingly voted for the original 'E.T.' to be released on Blu-ray.
How awesome is Spielberg for giving fans the movie versions they remember? And do you want to see a fifth Indiana Jones film?
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FAU Professor's Commentary on Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents Published in 'The New England Journal of Medicine'
BOCA RATON, FL (October 5, 2011) — It's an all too common scenario in U.S. nursing homes – a 90-year-old resident with moderately advanced Alzheimer's disease, congestive heart failure with severe left-ventricular dysfunction and chronic pain from degenerative joint disease develops a nonproductive cough and a fever of 100.4 degrees. The night nurse calls the on-call physician who is unfamiliar with the patient and is instructed to send the patient to the emergency room. In the ER, the patient is found to have normal vital signs except for the low-grade fever and a possible infiltrate on the chest x-ray. The patient is admitted to the hospital and treated with intravenous fluids and antibiotics. On the second night, the patient becomes confused and agitated, climbs out of bed and falls, fracturing a hip. One week later, the patient is discharged back to the nursing home with coverage under the Medicare Part A benefit. This episode results in approximately $10,000 in Medicare expenditures, and discomfort and disability for the patient.
There are more than 1.6 million Americans living in nursing homes, and these types of hospitalizations are common. Hospitalizations of frail nursing home residents can result in higher costs, complications and death. According to the "Revolving Door of Rehospitalization from Skilled Nursing Facilities," a paper published in the January 2010 issue of Health Affairs, 23.5 percent of Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days at a cost to Medicare of $4.34 billion in 2006. These rehospitalizations are frequent and costly. Research suggests that a substantial amount of these hospitalizations may be preventable.
"There is an alternative to this scenario," said Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D., senior associate dean of geriatrics in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University and first author of the article titled "Reducing Unnecessary Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents," in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. "By using a standardized protocol and working with an on-call nurse practitioner who visits the nursing home daily, the patient can be treated in the nursing home without any complications and only costing Medicare about $200."
Using such care in nursing homes nationwide could improve care, reduce complications from hospitalizations, and avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare expenditures annually.
Ouslander and his co-author Robert A. Berenson, M.D., senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., explain that although many nursing home residents could be cared for safely and effectively without being admitted to the hospital, the causes for preventable hospitalizations in this population are complex.
They explain that one of the fundamental problems with hospitalizations of this population is not clinical. Rather, it is financial and stems from a misalignment of Medicare and Medicaid. State Medicaid programs do not benefit from savings that Medicare accrues from prevented hospitalizations of nursing home residents, even though the nursing home incurs expenses when managing changes in condition without hospital transfer. In addition, nursing homes have a financial incentive to hospitalize residents who have Medicaid coverage, because after a three-day inpatient stay, the resident may qualify for Medicare Part A payment for post-acute care in the nursing home at three to four times the daily rate paid by Medicaid.
"Nursing homes, like other healthcare providers will respond to financial and regulatory carrots and sticks," said Ouslander. "There are financial models available that provide incentives to reduce hospitalizations of frail and elderly people."
The authors also point out that not all nursing homes have the infrastructure to undertake more acute care, and it is imperative to recognize challenges and limitations. For example, because of financial constraints and shortage of health care professionals trained in geriatrics and long-term care, not all nursing homes have the capacity to safely evaluate and manage changes in the condition of the clinically complex nursing home population. Interventions must therefore be designed for nursing homes with the resources and leadership commitment to undertake more acute care.
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) is one such program that shows promise and provides the necessary tools to enhance the nursing home's ability to identify, evaluate and manage conditions before they become serious enough to necessitate a hospital transfer. Developed by Ouslander and his collaborators in FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, INTERACT was implemented at 25 community-based nursing homes in Florida, Massachusetts and New York over a six-month period and resulted in a 17 percent reduction in hospital admissions among the residents. The reduction was even greater in homes that were more engaged in implementing the INTERACT intervention.
"If implemented widely, the program could result in fewer complications, lower morbidity from hospitalizations and reductions in Medicare costs. Some of the savings could be used to support improved care in U.S. nursing homes," said Ouslander.
In conclusion, the authors emphasize that improving care and reducing complications in nursing homes will require multifaceted strategies to address the current incentives for hospitalization and a team effort among health care funders, regulators, health care professionals, nursing homes and hospitals.
-FAU-Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. In commemoration of its origin, FAU is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout 2011. Today, the University serves more than 29,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. FAU's world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.


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The study by Dr Alderman1 in this issue concerns the operation most commonly performed on adult men, elective vasectomy for family planning. The author, using the most popular technique of vasectomy (ie, cutting the vas deferens, excising a segment, and ligating the cut ends), reports 97 failures among 5331 men who were available for follow-up. In some of these failures the semen was never clear of sperm; in others sperm reappeared, sometimes several years after initial negative testing. These findings document the fact that the patient can eliminate the sperm from the urethral side of the vas deferens only to have the ducts rejoin later. This should be of deep concern to both the patient and his surgeon. Both need to know when sterility can be considered permanent. An operation with an uncertain result is not a good operation.
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Verse 1
The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell.
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win.
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song.
Verse 3
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made.
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade.
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
(Verse 3 was written by an unknown author
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(Verse 2 - not recorded in above audio.)
When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God's love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam's race—
The saints' and angels' song.
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The Love Of God:
Author: Frederick M. Lehman
Copyright: Public Domain


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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan met Saturday night into the early morning hours of Sunday with several key leaders in security, school, and the government about the kidnapping of 276 school girls.
He told them "everything must be done" to free the girls held captive by the Islamic terrorist group Boka Haram.
The meeting included security service chiefs, officials from the affected Borno state and Chibok town, and the principal of the school where the victims were taken.
Nigeria's government and military have been deeply embarrassed by the failure to rescue the girls abducted April 15.
Many of those girls are now said to have been forced into marriages with the men who took them.
Their parents say the girls are being sold by Boko Haram for $12.
Before the weekend meetings, impatience mounted.
"The government has been very lax providing information," activist, Yemi Adamolekun, said. "We hear conflicting information, as of now we don't even know the number of girls, 200, it's 234, it's 219."
Hundreds of people braved heavy rain Thursday to march to the National Assembly, demanding the government do more to find the girls and bring them home.
"The federal government seems to be more concerned with the World Economic Forum because every statement they issue seems to be assuring foreign delegates that there's no problem and Abuja would be safe," Adamolekun said. "How can Abuja be safe when the rest of the country is in mourning?"
One community leader said Boko Haram is demanding a ransom for the release of the girls.
Others believe they've been moved across the border into Cameroon and Chad.
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$40,000 in SLEMCO scholarships to be awarded June 6
Lafayette – SLEMCO is now accepting applications for 20 college scholarships, each worth $2,000, to be awarded in a random drawing at the electric cooperative's annual membership meeting here Saturday, June 6.
SLEMCO members and their dependent children under age 24 are eligible to enter. The scholarships can be used in pursuit of any undergraduate degree from any public university in the state.
Anyone wishing to participate in the drawing in June must pre-apply in order to do so. Applications can be found in every February, March or April SLEMCO bill. They can also be printed from the company Web site at www.slemco.com or picked up from any high school guidance counselor. The ULL and LSU–E scholarship offices will also have a supply.
Students must have a 2.0 or "C" average to enter.
The deadline to apply for the drawing is May 7. Any applications received after the deadline will be discarded.
The scholarships awarded must be used during the 2009-2010 school year so applicants must be at least a senior in high school.
SLEMCO members returning to school or those going to college for the first time are also eligible to enter.
A complete list of eligibility requirements is contained on the application form. If you have any questions, call SLEMCO at 896-5384.