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He talked about wanting to do what was best for the party and for the country and at some level he was no doubt quite sincere.
But last week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney acted like the businessman he was while amassing the fortune that made it possible for him to play politics, and decided to cut his losses.
He had already spent at least $35 million of his own money, and the chance of catching and displacing Sen. John McCain might have been greater than zero, but not much.
There was little chance that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, propelled by religious support and ego, was going to drop out. So the two former governors, neither of whom looked much like conservatives before they started running, would have kept on splitting the conservative GOP vote, smoothing Arizona Sen. John McCain's path.
It is both obvious and a little mysterious why Romney never quite got enough Republican voters to warm up to him. There were the shifts in position from his previous campaigns and his time as governor on issues like abortion, gay rights and immigration, of course.
While it shouldn't have made any difference, his Mormon faith no doubt was a factor. And there was the sense that he was just a little too buttoned-down, a little too modulated, almost a little too — well, perfect.
Perhaps if he had tousled his hair and loosened his tie and showed a little more warmth and humor? He might apply these lessons in 2012, which this graceful exit at this time could facilitate.
Based on crowd reaction, attendees at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, at which Romney's exit speech took place, are ready to put past and present differences to the side and embrace Sen. McCain — not that they have much choice now unless they decide improbably to rally around Ron Paul.
McCain, during a speech at the same conference, wooed them skillfully, acknowledging differences and invoking Ronald Reagan.
McCain's best applause lines came when he expressed his unstinting support for waging war and his enlistment in the enforcement-first ranks on immigration, a troubling signal for us. It seems that time in power and in close proximity to power has brought out the mean-spiritedness and a desire to punish in all too many American conservatives, as it does with most people.
If Republicans focus on hostility to immigrants and foreigners, and Democrats focus on hostility to capitalism and success, don't expect the political process this year to advance the cause of liberty.

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ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about the different ways doctors use to treat people with MDS. To see other pages, use the menu on the side of your screen.
This section outlines treatments that are the standard of care (the best known treatments available) for this specific disease. When making treatment plan decisions, patients are also encouraged to consider clinical trials as an option. A clinical trial is a research study to test a new approach to treatment to evaluate whether it is safe, effective, and possibly better than the standard treatment. Clinical trials may test such approaches as a new drug, a new combination of standard treatments, or new doses of current therapies. Your doctor can help you review all treatment options. For more information, see the About Clinical Trials and Latest Research sections.
Treatment overview
For MDS, different types of doctors often work together to create a patient's overall treatment plan that combines different types of treatments. This is called a multidisciplinary team. Your health care team may include a variety of other health care professionals, including physician assistants, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, counselors, dietitians, and others.
Descriptions of the most common treatment options for MDS are listed below. The goal of treatment is to bring about a remission and to bring blood counts back to healthy levels. Treatment options and recommendations depend on several factors, including the subtype and IPSS-R score of MDS, the risk of developing AML, possible side effects, and the patient's preferences, age, and overall health. As explained in the Subtypes and Classification section, a patient's IPSS-R score and MDS subtype help doctors determine when treatment should be begin. It is important to note that the treatments may not be equally effective for every patient.
Your care plan may also include treatment for symptoms and side effects, an important part of your medical care. Take time to learn about all of your treatment options and be sure to ask questions about things that are unclear. Also, talk about the goals of each treatment with your doctor and what you can expect while receiving the treatment. Learn more about making treatment decisions.
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy unhealthy cells, usually by stopping those cells' ability to grow and divide. Chemotherapy is given by a medical oncologist, a doctor who specializes in treating cancer with medication, or by a hematologist, a doctor who specializes in treating blood disorders.
Systemic chemotherapy gets into the bloodstream to reach unhealthy cells throughout the body. Common ways to give chemotherapy include an intravenous (IV) tube placed into a vein using a needle or in a pill or capsule that is swallowed (orally).
A chemotherapy regimen, or schedule, usually consists of a specific number of cycles given over a set period of time. A patient may receive one drug at a time or combinations of different drugs at the same time.
Common drugs for MDS include:
Azacitidine (Vidaza)
Cytarabine (Cytosar-U)
Daunorubicin (Cerubidine)
Decitabine (Dacogen)
Idarubicin (Idamycin)
Lenalidomide (Revlimid)
People with high-risk subtypes of MDS who have an increased risk of developing AML may benefit from chemotherapy. Medications that are used to treat AML, such as cytarabine, idarubicin or daunorubicin, are also sometimes considered, particularly if the MDS has turned into AML. Overall, 30% to 40% of patients may benefit from chemotherapy for MDS. Factors such as the patient's age and medical condition are evaluated before starting chemotherapy.
Lenalidomide is taken by mouth, or an oral, medication that is very effective when given to patients with low-risk MDS and 5q chromosomal abnormalities (See Subtypes and Classification). Therefore, it is very important for doctors to find out whether a patient has this chromosomal change.
Both decitabine and azacitidine are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to treat all types of MDS, although they are used most often for patients with higher IPSS-R scores. Both can be given in the doctor's office or clinic, and patients often need more than one round of treatment given monthly before it starts improving a patient's condition.
The side effects of chemotherapy depend on the individual and the dose used, but they can include fatigue, risk of infection, nausea and vomiting, hair loss, loss of appetite, and diarrhea. These side effects usually go away once treatment is finished.
Learn more about the basics of chemotherapy and preparing for treatment. The medications used to treat MDS are continually being evaluated. Talking with your doctor is often the best way to learn about the medications prescribed for you, their purpose, and their potential side effects or interactions with other medications. Learn more about your prescriptions by using searchable drug databases.
Immunotherapy, also called biologic therapy, is designed to boost the body's natural defenses to fight MDS. It uses materials made either by the body or in a laboratory to improve, target, or restore immune system function. Although this is rarely used for MDS, it may be an option for some patients. One type of immunotherapy for MDS is anti-thymocyte globulin (ATGAM, Thymoglobulin), which is given after chemotherapy. Learn more about the basics of immunotherapy.
Stem cell transplantation/bone marrow transplantation
High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell/bone marrow transplantation is the only current treatment that can produce a long-term remission. However, transplantation is a higher-risk treatment and may not be recommended for patients who are older or have other medical problems. However, for patients ages 50 to 75, an ALLO transplant may be an option after reduced intensity treatment. Before recommending transplantation, your doctor will talk with you about the risks of this treatment and consider several other factors, such as the subtype of MDS, results of any previous treatment, and your age and general health.
A stem cell transplant is a medical procedure in which bone marrow that contains unhealthy cells is replaced by highly specialized cells, called hematopoietic stem cells, that develop into healthy bone marrow. Hematopoietic stem cells are blood-forming cells found both in the bloodstream and in the bone marrow. Today, this procedure is more commonly called a stem cell transplant, rather than bone marrow transplant, because it is the stem cells in the blood that are typically being transplanted, not the actual bone marrow tissue.
There are two types of stem cell transplantation depending on the source of the replacement blood stem cells: allogeneic (ALLO) and autologous (AUTO). ALLO uses donated stem cells, while AUTO uses the patient's own stem cells. In both types, the goal is to destroy all of the unhealthy cells in the marrow, blood, and other parts of the body using high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and then allow replacement blood stem cells to create healthy bone marrow. An ALLO transplant is usually the type recommended for people with MDS. Learn more about the basics of stem cell and bone marrow transplantation.
Getting care for symptoms and side effects
MDS and its treatment often cause side effects. In addition to treatment for MDS, an important part of care is relieving a person's symptoms and side effects. This approach is called palliative or supportive care, and it includes supporting the patient with his or her physical, emotional, and social needs.
Palliative care is any treatment that focuses on reducing symptoms, improving quality of life, and supporting patients and their families. It works best when palliative care is started as early as needed in the treatment process. People often receive treatment for MDS and treatment to ease side effects at the same time. In fact, patients who receive both often have less severe symptoms, better quality of life, and report they are more satisfied with treatment.
Palliative treatments vary widely and often include medication, nutritional changes, relaxation techniques, emotional support, and other therapies. You may also receive palliative treatments similar to those meant to treat the MDS, such as chemotherapy (see above). Talk with your doctor about the goals of each treatment in the treatment plan.
Some people with MDS who do not have any symptoms may only need close monitoring, including measuring blood counts, to watch for any symptoms. People with low-risk MDS, meaning those with RA and RARS subtypes, usually receive supportive care to control symptoms and improve quality of life. Supportive care may include:
Transfusions to treat anemia and thrombocytopenia
Use of growth factors that help cells mature, such as epoetin (Epogen, Eprex, Procrit), a red blood cell growth factor, and filgrastim (Neupogen), a white blood cell growth factor
Antibiotics to fight infection, a common side effect of low white blood cell counts
Before treatment begins, talk with your health care team about the possible side effects of your specific treatment plan and palliative care options. And during and after treatment, be sure to tell your doctor or another health care team member if you are experiencing a problem so it can be addressed as quickly as possible. Learn more about palliative care.
If MDS worsens
If MDS continues to worsen despite treatment, patients are encouraged to talk with doctors who are experienced in treating this disease because there can be different opinions about the best treatment plan. Learn more about getting a second opinion before starting treatment, so you are comfortable with the treatment plan chosen. This discussion may include clinical trials studying new treatments.
Your health care team may recommend a treatment plan that includes a combination of the treatments discussed above. Palliative care will also be important to help relieve symptoms and side effects.
For most patients, worsening MDS is very stressful and, at times, difficult to bear. Patients and their families are encouraged to talk about the way they are feeling with doctors, nurses, social workers, or other members of the health care team. It may also be helpful to talk with other patients, including through a support group.
Remission and the chance of recurrence
A remission is when MDS cannot be detected in the body and there are no symptoms. This may also be called having "no evidence of disease" or NED.
A remission may be temporary or permanent. This uncertainty causes many people to worry that the disease will come back. While many remissions are long-lasting, it is important to talk with your doctor about the possibility of the disease returning. Understanding your risk of recurrence and the treatment options may help you feel more prepared if the disease does return. Learn more about coping with the fear of recurrence.
If MDS does return after the original treatment, it is called recurrent MDS. When this occurs, a cycle of testing will begin again to learn as much as possible about the recurrence. After testing is done, you and your doctor will talk about your treatment options. Often the treatment plan will include the treatments described above, such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation, but they may be used in a different combination or given at a different pace. Your doctor may also suggest clinical trials that are studying new ways to treat this type of recurrent disease. Whichever treatment plan you choose, palliative care will be important for relieving symptoms and side effects.
People with recurrent MDS often experience emotions such as disbelief or fear. Patients are encouraged to talk with their health care team about these feelings and ask about support services to help them cope. Learn more about dealing with a recurrence.
If treatment fails
Recovery from MDS is not always possible. If the MDS cannot be cured or controlled, the disease may be called advanced or terminal.
This diagnosis is stressful, and advanced MDS is difficult to discuss for many people. However, it is important to have open and honest conversations with your doctor and health care team to express your feelings, preferences, and concerns. The health care team is there to help, and many team members have special skills, experience, and knowledge to support patients and their families. Making sure a person is physically comfortable and free from pain is extremely important.
Patients who have advanced disease and who are expected to live less than 6 months may want to consider a type of palliative care called hospice care. Hospice care is designed to provide the best possible quality of life for people who are near the end of life. You and your family are encouraged to think about where you would be most comfortable: at home, in the hospital, or in a hospice environment. Nursing care and special equipment can make staying at home a workable alternative for many families. Learn more about advanced care planning.
After the death of a loved one, many people need support to help them cope with the loss. Learn more about grief and loss.
The next section in this guide is About Clinical Trials and it offers more information about research studies that are focused on finding better ways to care for people with MDS. Or, use the menu on the side of your screen to choose another section to continue reading this guide.


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Waterbury meeting before the meeting steals show
Adam Caira / Staff Photo Lyn Kasvinsky of Waterbury Center speaks in support of the municipal civic complex project at the start of the Waterbury town meeting at Thatcher Brook School. Kasvinsky also expressed her concerns about the younger generation of Waterbury residents. "All everyone was talking about was the development itself and the cost," said Kasvinsky about her decision to speak during the discussion. "It has to be about more than taxes, it has to be."
WATERBURY — A presentation on options for a proposed municipal complex and a brief comment period stole the show on Town Meeting Day an hour before Waterbury's annual meeting even officially began.
While roughly 120 people passed the town budget just after noon, about 200 or more packed the Thatcher Brook Primary School gymnasium at 9 a.m. for an hourlong public hearing.
Those who attended learned about five options for a new municipal center that could be located at the Waterbury state office complex. Several people expressed support, while some criticized the plan in part because of uncertainties about the cost of acquiring the state-owned property associated with Stanley and Wasson halls.
The proposals for the new complex as presented Tuesday include three separate cost estimates: Option A would cost $6.95 million; Option B, $6.8 million; and Options C through E were each pegged at $5.8 million. Some proposals call for renovations to Stanley and Wasson halls, including raising them about 5 feet above ground level, while other designs call for entirely new construction.
"I have an open mind at this point ... but I do have some concerns about the price," resident Scott Mackey said. "I'm not saying I'm opposed to it. I'd like to see how much it will cost."
According to the presentation Tuesday morning, Waterbury may need to bond for anywhere from $3 million to $5 million in the next year.
"We're a long way from our final costs," Select Board Chairman John Grenier said. "To tell you today what the project would cost would be unrealistic."
Existing assets were identified that could contribute to the budget for the project. Local officials anticipate $200,000 from the potential sale of the existing village-owned municipal building at 51 S. Main St. and $300,000 if the current library were sold. Also considered a part of the mix would be $100,000 from the Waterbury Historical Society and $300,000 from a library trust fund. A capital campaign and fundraising from the library would also be necessary.
Waterbury also has $350,000 in insurance proceeds from 51 S. Main St. in the aftermath of flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, and it plans to apply for a community development block grant related to disaster recovery.
Resident Lluana Wilder said it could take five years before the municipal complex is built, and she questioned why plans were being pursued while the Stanley and Wasson property costs were unknown. Grenier said the municipal planning process takes time, that grant money is helping pay architectural fees, and officials don't yet know if they want to buy the property.
Another resident, John Callan, a geologist, questioned the location of the project and suggested that property near the school could be better suited for the new complex.
Resident Everett Coffey said the municipal building at 51 S. Main St. should be further explored.
Grenier, the board chairman, noted that three site options were previously explored in the spring of 2012 by Wiemann Lamphere Architects of Colchester. The firm examined two possibilities at the village-owned former municipal site as well as the library building.
He also said the school site was considered. But he said that location, which has an old armory building, has a property deed restriction involving recreational use.
Another follow-up meeting on the municipal complex project will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Leo's Hall at 109 S. Main St. Another meeting is tentatively planned for about two weeks after that.
"We don't know what these buildings look like, and that's really the thing we want to explore," said Jim Drummond, of the firm Black River Design Architects, which prepared the five proposals. "These are really blank boxes."
Waterbury voters approved a $1,958,234 budget for general expenses and $1,608,025 for the highway budget, among other expenditures and voice vote articles.
The general expenses and highway spending will mean a tax rate of not to exceed 37 cents per $100 of assessed property value, according to officials. The tax rate for 2012 was 35 cents.
During the meeting, resident Jim Atchinson read an amendment for a voice vote article in which he sought to reduce the amount owed for late taxes, rather than relying on a maximum penalty that's currently in place.
Atchinson said in an interview that a $331 fine last year when his taxes were due prompted him to propose a prorated fee system.
A voice vote defeated the idea.
Two Keith Wallace community service awards were presented during the annual meeting.
One was given to ReBuild Waterbury for the organization's work to help the community recover after Tropical Storm Irene. The other went to Municipal Manager Bill Shepeluk for his 25 years of service to the town and village.
Shepeluk said he was surprised, noting that he gets paid for his public service, and that he was grateful.
Both ReBuild Waterbury and Shepeluk received standing ovations.
The Keith Wallace award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding service to Waterbury and is named for the former town resident, farmer and state representative, who died in 1996.
Just before 9 p.m., Waterbury announced that the Waterbury Duxbury Union No. 45 school district budget was approved 530-456. The district covers Thatcher Brook Primary School and Crossett Brook Middle School.
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Eyeshadow Tutorials for Asian Eyes Part 1: Where to Apply Eyeshadow
Hi-ho-and-a-merry-oh, everyone!
Haven't blogged for a week coz I've been working on a series called Eyeshadow Tutorials for Asian Eyes. Man! It was a lot of work but I'm really pleased with the outcome. I hope this series can help more Asians better understand their eye shape and those who have Asian clients!
In this 1st installment of the Eyeshadow Tutorials for Asian Eyes series, we take a look at where to place eye makeup on the Asian eye.
When I first started out, I had no idea where or how to place eyeshadow. My eye makeup efforts were previously limited to eyeliner and mascara and sometimes, just a light dab of ONE eyeshadow color.
When I purchased my first eyeshadow quad, I was lost.
WHERE DO THESE FOUR COLORS GO TO??? O.o
I had no idea the eye could be divided into so many parts – lid, crease, contour, highlight, etc.
I had no idea that there are so many ways to shape the eye, combine colors, or use colors to emphasize or recede certain parts of the eye.
Google and Youtube, of course, presented me with tutorials and eye charts from their wealth of resources, but most of them were limited to the Caucasian eye.
It took me quite long to understand that I cannot copy the Western way of applying eyeshadow because one of the most prominent differences between an Asian and Caucasian eye is the 'crease', or rather, lack of.
If you haven't already checked out my post on the differences between the Caucasian and Asian eye, please do. It will definitely help you understand this post better too!
You would realize by now, if you have read the post mentioned above, that while the Crease of the Caucasian eye coincides with the Orbital Rim, the Crease of the Asian eye merely defines the Fold of the eyelid. If you have a Fold, it means you have double eyelids – prominent or hooded.
It is the fact that the Orbital Rim and Fold of the eye do not overlap that characterizes the Asian eye, and not the stereotypical slanted eye shape.
In half of the world's Asian population, there is complete absence of a Fold. For the remaining half who possess a Fold, the Fold commonly does not coincide with the Orbital Rim.
I am very proud to be Asian, and it is my wish to help as many girls out there to understand the Asian eye better and apply the most flattering eye makeup for their own eye shape and contour.
Here is, finally, my own eye shadow placement chart to share with Asians who want to understand how and where to apply eye makeup better.
This chart would also be useful to help makeup artists understand how eye makeup looks can be better applied on Asians.
The chart is based on my own eye – large, round, with prominent double eyelids, and does not coincide with the Contour Area. I throw in tips for monolids and hooded lids as well!
The placement of eyeshadows can vary for different looks, but here is the basic breakdown of parts of the eye.
I included pictures for every part of the eye instead of having just one complete picture with all the different parts outlined, simply because I always find it troublesome to read and refer to only one picture at the top all the time. Took me many hours to draw the outlines, but the result is definitely worth the effort. I'm sure you will find it more straightforward to understand too!
Now let's get started!


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Life Extension Tart Cherry Extract 60 vegetarian capsules
With nearly 40 scientific studies published on the wide-ranging benefits of tart cherries, scientists are now discovering important new health applications for this American fruit. Tart cherries are packed with unique beneficial compounds that have been shown to block COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes,1 as well as maintain muscle function and promote rapid muscle recovery after exercise, bringing faster relief from the minor aches, discomfort, and stiffness that can follow everyday muscle exertion.
In human studies, researchers have scientifically confirmed the muscle supporting benefits of tart cherries. For example, a randomized controlled trial found that consuming tart cherry juice twice daily produced a substantial decrease in muscle symptoms related to exercise. In the same study, the exercise-induced loss of strength over the four days following a workout was reduced from 22% to only 4%.
In another randomized controlled trial, marathon runners given tart cherry juice for five days before a race, on race day, and for two days after a race experienced significantly faster recovery of isometric strength and muscle function. And in yet another controlled trial, tart cherry juice taken twice daily for seven days prior to a race produced a significantly smaller increase in post-race pain, according to a standard pain assessment scale, compared to the placebo group.
Anthocyanins are powerful molecules that provide the dark pigmentation to blueberries, raspberries, and bilberries. In addition to being potent antioxidants, anthocyanins have been extensively studied for their numerous health benefits that include heart, cellular, and cognitive health.
What has drawn the attention of scientists is the fact that tart cherries not only contain a higher content of anthocyanins than other fruits, they also contain unique anthocyanins not found in other berries. To allow members to take full advantage of these discoveries, Life Extension now offers Tart Cherry Extract, a 100% natural supplement that opens the door to the remarkable benefits of continued physical activity at any age.
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Gertrude Kitongo poses with her mobile phone in Johannesburg, South Africa. She cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends and also sees it as a radio, a library, a mini cinema, a bank teller, etc., Nov. 8, 2011.
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"Africa's New Engine"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Finance & Development, volume 48, issue 4, pages 6-11
December 2011
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Agricultural Innovation in Africa; Cyber Security Project; Science, Technology, and Globalization; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
This article was reprinted by Business Daily on Dec. 6, 2011, as "Africa Banks on Middle-class Consumers to Drive Its Growth."
Africa looks to its middle-class consumers to drive prosperity
ONE of the noticeable things across Africa these days is how many people have cell phones71 percent of adults in Nigeria, for example, 62 percent in Botswana, and more than half the population in Ghana and Kenya, according to a 2011 Gallup poll.
Cell phone use has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Africa became the world's second most connected region after Asia in late 2011, with 616 million mobile subscribers, according to U.K.-based Informa Telecoms & Media.
Of course, South Africathe most developed nationstill has the highest penetration, but across Africa, countries have leapfrogged technology, bringing innovation and connectivity even to remote parts of the continent, opening up mobile banking and changing the way business is done.
Seeing the cell phone success, banking and retail firms are eyeing expansion in Africa to target a growing middle class of consumers. According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), one of the results of strong economic growth in recent years has been a significant increase in the size of the African middle class.
The middle class will continue to grow, from 355 million (34 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's population) in 2010 to 1.1 billion (42 percent) in 2060, the bank says (AfDB, 2011a). And this middle class is the key to Africa's future prosperity.
Good combination
Following African countries' independence, the continent has struggled with a seemingly endless array of development challenges, from civil war and political instability to chronic food insecurity, droughts, disease, and pervasive poverty and corruption.
But in recent years, Africa has started to see an economic resurgence. Better economic policies, governance, and use of natural resources, coupled with more business-friendly policies and stronger demand for Africa's commodities from emerging economies such as Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, have led to consistently high growth levels in Africa, despite the global downturn.
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It's not really how they perform in SL. I just don't believe they have the full set of skills to be a top half in the NRL. As I said, I believe there's only 4 in the NRL currently to meet the criteria, neither of them are anywhere near that level.
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(PHILADELPHIA) – Physicians initially diagnosed
Phil Marfuta, 28, with tension
headaches, which seemed reasonable
to him since he is a busy graduate student studying physics at
Princeton University. However, as the days went on his headaches
did not subside, and when a CT
scan and an MRI revealed two tumors,
Phil underwent emergency surgery at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania.
One of Phil's tumors was a grade IV glioblastoma
multiforme (GBM), which is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumor.
Typically once diagnosed, the median survival time for a patient
with a GBM is 12 months.
"That kind of news is the kind you don't want to have
to call your family and tell them about," says Phil.
Phil's tumors had stopped responding to traditional chemoradiation treatment and to a clinical trial that added an immune
modulator to his therapy. That's when he learned of the Cotara® trial.
About Cotara® and the Clinical Trial
Cotara is delivered through a method called convection
enhanced delivery (CED).
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Cotara is a monoclonal antibody that targets the DNA of cancer cells and carries a radioactive
isotope to them, literally destroying
the cancer cells from the inside out. GBMs are complicated
to treat because filaments of malignant
cells spread out like fingers
from the tumor and take root deep in the surrounding tissue, making
it difficult to remove them without damaging healthy brain cells. This
approach targets the cancer cells, while sparing healthy tissue
in the brain.
In November, 2006, Phil was treated in this clinical trial of
Cotara. "It involved
just catheters,
so compared to a craniotomy,
that sounded quite nice," recalls Phil. To-date, Phil's
GBM has been stabilized
HUP is one of four sites participating in the clinical trail of
Cotara, a biological "guided missile" for the treatment
of GBM, a deadly form of brain cancer that is newly diagnosed in
more than 10,000 Americans each year.
Phil feels very strongly about the importance of participating
in clinical trials and has even posted an account of his experience
on the Young Adults Surviving Glioblastoma's Web site.
"I'm very passionate about science and I really enjoy
finding things out and experimenting. By participating in
this trial, somehow I feel like I've actually done something
tangible to help other people who are basically going through the
same thing that I am going through. That's a small
thing, but to me, it's a very active step and it makes me
feel good that there's a contribution that I've made," says
Phil. "I sincerely wish that people would take that
step and participate in these trials."
A Different Approach for Treating Brain Tumors
"Based on the scientific rationale for Cotara, coupled with
some positive but preliminary indications from previous trials,
we believe it is important to study this approach as a new option
for this deadly disease," says Kevin D. Judy, MD,
Associate Professor, Department
of Neurosurgery at Penn.
"One challenge in treating brain tumors is the difficulty
of delivering therapeutic agents to the brain through the blood-brain
barrier (BBB) – the physical shield that serves to protect
the brain and central
nervous system from potentially dangerous
or infectious agents," says Myrna R. Rosenfeld, MD,
PhD, Chief of Penn's Division
of Neuro-Oncology. Cotara
is delivered through a method called convection
enhanced delivery (CED), which uses a catheter to bypass the BBB and target the specific
tumor site in the brain. "This method enables us to
treat GBMs with local therapy that does not have side effects elsewhere
in the body," says Robert Lustig, MD, Clinical
Associate Professor of Radiation
Oncology at Penn.
The Objective of the Clinical Trial
The Phase
2 clinical trial is designed to evaluate a single Cotara
infusion in patients with a first or second recurrence of GBM. The
primary endpoints of the trial are to confirm safety and determine
median survival time and median time to progression in patients
treated with Cotara. Cotara has been granted orphan
drug status and fast
track designation by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration for the treatment of GBM.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., developers of Cotara, is working
with the New Approaches to Brain
Tumor Therapy (NABTT) to conduct
the trial at Penn, Wake Forest University, Emory
University, and
the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Editor's Notes: Dr. Judy, Dr. Rosenfeld, and
Dr. Lustig have no financial interest in Peregrine Pharmaceuticals,
For additional information about the trial at Penn, call (215)
For information regarding the other sites, call (800) 694-5334
or visit www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00128635?order=1
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Yesterday it was reported by several sources that the Phillies aren't interested in trading for Chicago outfielder Jermaine Dye, considering the bounty White Sox GM Ken Williams wants in return. Rumors yesterday said the Sox wanted a young starting pitcher and other pieces.
The Phils don't seem to have what the Sox are asking for, nor is it really the right price for Dye.
Meanwhile, it was reported that teams in the northeast are among the seven teams Dye has listed in his no-trade clause. To my count there are four northeast teams: the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets and Phillies.
It really baffles me why players elect to stay out of the northeast. Sure there's inherit stress with playing in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, but arguably, the four teams in this region are the most successful franchises in baseball. In the last 10 years, the Sox, Yanks, Mets and Phils have won five World Series, and have participated in the series eight times.
One statistic I love pulling out is only three teams have had winning records every season since 2003: the Sox, Yanks and Phils. Clearly these are good teams devoted to winning. Sure, you may get booed a little louder than in, say, Chicago, but you're likely going to win. It shows Dye and some of these players with no-northeast trade clauses really aren't out for the championships. And those are players I don't want on my team.
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Note: No Minute today. Slow news day, and had some things to take care of. Plus, no Minute tomorrow. Holiday and all, hangover and all.
No big loss. I'd have been okay with Dye if he could have been had on the cheap, but trading upper echelon prospects for an aging slugger on a 2-year, $23 million deal doesn't make sense while Pat Burrell can be had for free (as far as prospects go). It might even be worth the extra year.
And happy Thanksgiving, Tim.
looks like ill still be wearing my burrell jersey next year. it truly is baffling that players dont want to play for teams that are in it to win every year
Maxhole one championship in twenty eight years and you label them in it to win every year. how stupid is that. Ed wade stop posting on this site or is this bill giles
no offense to tim, but hes the one that grouped the phils into that category, and i agree with the way he wrote it. mike, read a little closer, i said "teams." that includes boston, new yorks, and finally the phils like tim said. Chi sox won once in 88 years, but Dye still plays for them. did your mom ruin the turkey already or are you always this angry? i mean if you need a place to feast, theres always room for one more at my family's table.
Wow. I did not know only 3 teams have had winning records since 2003. Glad to see the Phils are part of that elite group. If players can't take the pressure of Philly, then like you said Tim, I don't want them.
No Dye then. Whatever.
Well said, Tim. I like that last stat you mentioned… I'm too lazy to see if it's true or not, so I'll just take your word… and repeat it as often as possible to get the word out there.
Maybe Dye's just sick of cold, windy weather, and wants to go someplace warm. Can't say as I blame him, if that's the case.
Make sure you read the fine print of that stat.
Only three teams to have winning records every SEASONS since 2003. Still an impressive stat.
Dye is the LF I wanted for the next 2 years, but not if we had to trade Happ or carasco. Why a hitter like him wouldn't want to play in this park is crazy. he could easily hit 40.
oh, and happy Holidays.
The White sox are minum 3 years away from any shot at the WS!!! What a moron
What the stat shows is every year the Phils are in the hunt for the playoffs. Even when heavily injured, they've been playing above average baseball since the end of the Rolen era.
is dye a problem we don't need ,,, give burrell a chance to come back…..prove why we kept him here… he got the bat.
agreed! i dont want to retire my burrell jersey
maxhole my mom is dead and second I don't eat meat have a nice holiday
same to ya brother, btw turkey isn't the only thing on my family's dinner table.
No big deal …Dye is up in age anyway…You never know what production you get at age 36..He could have been another Jenkins.
dye put up better numbers than burrell this past year, so prob not another jenkins. but agreed richie, its no big deal. i see what you were saying, jenkins had his best year previous to phils.
What about J-Roll, is he still someone we're considering trading?
We should offer them one of our top pitching prospects, like Gio Gonzalez and combine him with a failed prospect who will shine with another team, like Gavin Floyd. I'm sure the White Sox would think about that trade!
*LOL* Griffin, Tim there are seven Northeast teams you forgot about Baltimore, Washington and the Blue Jays.
Jermaine Dye is going to end up in Cinny for Homer Bailey and another prospect.
Phils need to sign Nick Punto. Former farmhand of ours of course. The guy can flat out play defense all over the infield and would be a great super sub for Utley early. He'd be cheap and the perfect bench piece. Switch hitter. He could be the guy that gives Pete Happy the day off against tough RP, and you don't lose any defense. Allows Dobbs to move to the OF full time.
Gavin –
That's a good point. Punto would be an upgrade from Bruntlett.


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Alice Cooper is one of the hardest working performers in show business. He spares no expense to put on a great show for his fans who also want to hear some great music along with those theatrics. Alice's work as a songwriter has been praised by people such as Bob Dylan and the late Frank Zappa. In fact some of the bright lights of Alice's great shows tend to force people not to notice what a great songwriter and musician Alice Cooper is. Alice has also been known to tackle some social issues in his songs; some of this commentary has not gone unnoticed by music journalists and critics. He speaks about the struggles for young people to find their way in life with the song "Eighteen." He talked about some of the issues that women face in life during the song "Only Women Bleed." The song "Elected" is a commentary on how some politicians basically will say anything to win favor and just truly want to be elected without solving any major issues. Alice is known to really enjoy himself as well, even making an appearance at Wrestlemania one year. Alice is not likely to slow done on the tour appearances either. He still is consistently putting out new songs and playing to packed audiences. If you go to an Alice Cooper tour event, you are likely to see Alice acting like he is going to be executed by having his head chopped off, something really out there and cool. These are the kind of happenings along with the great music that the band puts together which makes buying Alice Cooper tickets well worth it. Though you may not get a chance to see Alice throw a chicken off stage as he's done previously expecting that the chicken would fly but didn't, you're sure to have a great time at the concert. Seeing Alice Cooper during the summer months when he plays the song "School's Out." is a fantastic experience for concert goers. This is especially true for young people who might not be as experienced with antics of Alice Cooper.


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The Three Rivers Centennial was celebrated on Saturday, July 6, in the Hilbert H. Kopplin Memorial Park. There were speakers commissioner Donna Mills, Mayor Sammie Garcia, Judge Jim Huff and James Liska talking about the history of the town and it was first called Hamiltonburg.
The band Ruben Salazar and el Groupo Patron were the first to perform. Gary Glenn and the 20X Band played second just before the Randy Rogers Band. Ruben and Gary were reared in Three Rivers.
The beautiful fireworks display lasted 17 minutes was seen from afar. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Bellows viewed it from their home near Highway 27 and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Franke enjoyed the fireworks from their home in the Oaks Community along with so many others.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kopplin, Kyndal and Taten, Mr. and Mrs. Dustin Favor and Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. Randy Kopplin, Holly and Reagan, Audrey Kopplin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Brady Lee, Jenna and Ava, Kaylyn Schubert, Hayden Kopplin, Micah Wilbur, Miranda and Kyla Lindsley, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Liska, Jordan Liska, Mr. and Mrs. Travis Walker, Dannika and Bayleigh, Mr. and Mrs. James Liska, Heidi and Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mills and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Retzloff, Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Smith, Matthew and Travis, Mr. and Mrs. Chuch Hahn and Emily of Bay City and I had a good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Smith celebrated a Fourth of July dinner in the home of their neighbors, Jerry and Geraldine Retzloff. They had a good time.
Hayden Kopplin, Miranda and Kyla Lindsley, Audrey Kopplin, Richard and Nancy Lee, Brady, Lauren, Jenna and Ava, Kaylyn Schubert, Randy, Tammy, Holly and Reagan Kopplin, Jason, Crystal and Sadie Desselle, and Dustin Tracy and Bryce Favor shared fellowship and watched fireworks that the children off on the Fourth of July.
Warren and Haley Kopplin and children were at Leakey with the David Family Reunion for several days.
The Travis Walkers were guests of the Albert Liskas.
Kyle Wayne Otto, the grandson of Bill and Betty Otto, was a visitor on Saturday. He also used their tractor which he greatly enjoys driving. Callen Jonas was a visitor of Bill and Betty on Sunday morning. He was having tire trouble but couldn't locate the problem. His wife, Kathy, and son, Mike, and others were fishing.
Martin Zamzow of Austin was a visitor of Jerry and Geraldine Retzloff on Friday night. He like the Centennial Plate which is very beautiful so Jerry was able to purchase one for him. There are also two books available about Three Rivers and its history. Floyd Odom wrote one about Reflections of Three Rivers. Both his father Eldon Odom and his mother Mamie Carroll Odom were Three Rivers residents for many years. The other book was written from notes of Colonel Charles Tips by Richard and Janice Hudson. They both sound very interesting.
Evelyn Marek Sautter, 93, passed away early last week. Her son Elton Sautter and wife and children Roxanne and Jeff Sautter and families and her daughter Doris Wieding and husband Marvin Wieding and children Daryl Wieding and daughter Alexis Diana, Jeffrey Zamzow, Kourtney and Kelsey survive. Her parents and late husband Sonny Sautter preceded her in death. The visitation was held in the Roberson Funeral Home on July 4 and the funeral service was held in Our Savior Lutheran Church on Friday, July 5. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Retzloff and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Liska were among those attending. Her loved ones have our sympathy.


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Suppose you have developed your Java application and distributed it to your users. If all goes well, the application just works on every computer. But if there's a problem, you have to begin troubleshooting. Users will call for all sorts of installation problems, expecting you to fix them. Moreover, the same problems will often come back: the wrong version of Java, a deleted file, too-restrictive file permissions, etc. Most of these problems can be solved by creating a checklist. However, instead of wasting time asking new users the same questions on the checklist over and over, you can create a diagnostic test that goes through the checklist, providing users with the information they need to solve the problem. If users can't solve the problem themselves, they can show you a clear checklist, so you can take a look at what's going wrong without asking a bunch of questions first.
What problems can users expect? First, things can already go
wrong during the installation process if the user doesn't
follow the installation instructions accurately. Even if the
installation succeeds, problems can appear later. Changes in
configuration (like the
JAVA_HOME environment
variable) or changes in the directory structure can indeed break
things. In this article, we will develop an Ant script to run diagnostic tests for
a Java application. We will look at a list of possible problems and
how to deal with them. For our approach to work, Ant has to be
installed on the user's machine. This may mean that your installer
will have to provide Ant.
The first thing you should know to troubleshoot is the system
configuration--the operating system, Java version, classpath,
etc. Implementing this is easy, because Ant provides access to all
Java system properties. Here's an example (reformatted for the
ONJava layout; each
<echo> should be on one line):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="diagnostic" default="all"
<target name="systemProperties">
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
version: ${java.version}"/>
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
vendor: ${java.vendor}"/>
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
vendor URL: ${java.vendor.url}"/>
<echo message="Java installation
directory: ${java.home}"/>
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
specification version:
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
specification vendor:
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
specification name:
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
implementation version:
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
implementation vendor:
<echo message="Java Virtual Machine
implementation name: ${java.vm.name}"/>
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
specification version:
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
specification vendor:
<echo message="Java Runtime Environment
specification name:
<echo message="Java class format version
number: ${java.class.version}"/>
<echo message="Java class path:
<echo message="List of paths to search when
loading libraries: ${java.library.path}"/>
<echo message="Path of extension directory
or directories: ${java.ext.dirs}"/>
<echo message="Default temp file path:
<echo message="Operating system name:
<echo message="Operating system
architecture: ${os.arch}"/>
<echo message="Operating system version:
<target name="all" depends="systemProperties"/>
The example output looks like this (reformatted for this page):
$ ant -f diagnostic.xml
Buildfile: diagnostic.xml
[echo] Java Runtime Environment version:
[echo] Java Runtime Environment vendor:
Apple Computer, Inc.
[echo] Java Runtime Environment vendor URL:
[echo] Default temp file path: /tmp
[echo] Operating system name: Mac OS X
[echo] Operating system architecture: ppc
[echo] Operating system version: 10.3.9
Now, if something goes wrong, you might be able to see the source of the problem in the system properties: incorrect Java version, class path, etc.
Related Reading
Ant: The Definitive Guide
We can go further and automate some tests to see if a file or Java class is found:
<target name="files">
<echo message="Testing availability of
needed files..."/>
<available classname="org.apache.fop.apps.Fop"
<available file="build/scripts" type="dir"
<target name="fopNotFound" depends="files"
<echo level="error" message="ERROR: Fop
(class org.apache.fop.apps.Fop) not found
in classpath."/>
<target name="scriptsDirNotFound"
depends="files" unless="scriptsdir.exists">
<echo level="error" message="ERROR:
Directory build/scripts doesn't exist."/>
The first target performs two tests: first it tests if the class
org.apache.fop.apps.Fop is found in the class path.
Second, it tests if the directory build/scripts exists. By
type to
file, the
available task will test for the existence of a file with
the specified name. The next two targets show error messages in
case the class isn't available or the directory doesn't exist,
We can do even more, but to do so we have to write custom Ant
tasks. Let's check if the installed Java version is greater than a
minimum required version for our Java code. Our diagnostics build
file should show an error if the version isn't OK. The source code
of our
JavaVersionTask class is as follows:
import org.apache.tools.ant.*;
JavaVersionTask is an Ant task for testing if
the installed Java version is greater than a
minimum required version.
public class JavaVersionTask extends Task {
// Minimum required Java version.
private String minVersion;
// Installed Java version.
private String installedVersion;
// The name of the property that gets set when
// the installed Java version is ok.
private String propertyName;
* Constructor of the JavaVersionTask class.
public JavaVersionTask() {
installedVersion = System.getProperty
* Set the attribute minVersion.
public void setMinVersion(String version) {
minVersion = version;
Set the property name that the task sets when
the installed Java version is ok.
public void setProperty(String propName) {
propertyName = propName;
* Execute the task.
public void execute() throws BuildException {
if (propertyName==null) {
throw new BuildException("No property name
} else if (minVersion==null) {
throw new BuildException("No minimum version
>= 0) {
If you create a custom task, its class has to extend the
org.apache.tools.ant.Task class. Each attribute of the
task in the build file gets set with a set method. The name of the
setter method begins with "set", followed by the name of the
attribute, with the first letter capitalized (this is the JavaBeans
convention). For example, the attribute
gets set with the method
setMinVersion, while the
property gets set with the method
execute method gets performed when the task
gets called in the build file. First we test if the attributes are
set. Then we do the core of our task: if the installed Java version
is greater than or equal to the minimum required Java version, we
set the value of the property with the specified name to
The versions are stored as
String objects. Therefore, we compare
them with the
compareTo method, which compares two
Strings alphabetically. This method returns -1 when the first
String comes before the second, 0 when the two
Strings are equal,
and +1 when the first
String comes after the second alphabetically.
This way, the task treats
1.5 as greater than
1.4, and
also as greater than
1.4.2 or
To use our custom task in the Ant build file, we first define a build property that contains the minimal required Java version:
<property name="minJavaVersion" value="1.5"/>
In the target
systemProperties we add the following
<taskdef name="javaversion"
classname="JavaVersionTask" classpath="."/>
<javaversion minVersion="${minJavaVersion}"
The first line defines a new task with name
javaversion, followed by the name of the Java class
implementing this task,
JavaVersionTask. The next line
executes the
javaversion task with the minimum
required Java version specified. The property
javaversion.ok gets a value when the installed Java
version is greater than the specified version.
Then we add a target
<target name="javaVersion"
<echo level="error" message="ERROR: Java
version too old: found ${java.version},
needs ${minJavaVersion}."/>
Next, we add the target to the dependencies of the target
all. It only gets executed if the property
javaversion.ok isn't set. If so, the target shows an
error message stating the found Java version and the required Java
version. An example of the output:
javaVersion: [echo] ERROR: Java version
too old: found 1.4.2_05, needs 1.5.
Analogous to
JavaVersionTask, we could also write a
task to perform other version checks, such as for the versions of
installed libraries or the operating system.
When problems occur, it's very important to know whether some
files were changed after the installation. It's possible that the
standard configuration has been changed or a replaced file is
causing the problem. In order to investigate this, we can use Ant's
Checksum: in the installation build file of our
application we generate a checksum for each file, while in our
diagnostic test we verify the checksums. This way we know which
files have been changed after the installation, and the task
narrows down the search for the cause of the problems.
For each important file that could have been changed, we can generate an MD5 checksum in the installation build file and verify it in the diagnostics build file. Of course, there is a difference between changed binary files and changed configuration files. The first shouldn't have changed, and a change in the second could have caused a problem, but not always.
In our installation build file, we generate the checksums like this:
<target name="checksum">
<fileset dir="build">
<include name="**/*.class"/>
<include name="config.xml"/>
For all files with extension .class in the directory
build or its subdirectories, Ant generates an MD5 checksum.
The checksum will be stored in a file named after the original
file's name, with the extension .MD5 added to it. The same happens
with the configuration file config.xml. The target
checksum has to be executed after all files have been
In our diagnostic build file, we verify the checksums:
<target name="checksum">
<echo message="Verifying checksums of binary
<condition property="binary.unchanged">
<fileset dir="build">
<include name="**/*.class"/>
<echo message="Verifying checksum of
configuration file..."/>
<condition property="config.unchanged">
<checksum file="build/config.xml"/>
<target name="binaryChanged" depends="checksum"
<echo level="error" message="ERROR: Binary
files changed."/>
<target name="configChanged" depends="checksum"
<echo message="WARNING: Configuration file
Add the targets to the dependencies of the target
First, the
checksum target will be executed. If the
checksums of all class files match the generated checksums, the
binary.unchanged is set to
However, if at least one class file has been changed, the property
doesn't get a value. Next, if the config.xml file is
unchanged, the property
config.unchanged is set to
true. The target
binaryChanged, which
depends on the target
checksum, only gets executed
binary.unchanged doesn't have a value; that is,
when at least one of the class files has been changed. Then we
output an error message. We do the same with the configuration
file, but we issue the message as a warning.
If no files have been changed, our diagnostics build script outputs this:
[echo] Verifying checksums of binary files...
[echo] Verifying checksum of configuration file...
Total time: 1 second
Suppose we change the configuration file. Then we have this output:
[echo] Verifying checksums of binary files...
[echo] Verifying checksum of configuration file...
[echo] WARNING: Configuration file changed.
Total time: 1 second
If our software is open source, we can do even better and propose restoring changed files to their standard versions. For class files specifically, this means we have to recompile the Java files. Of course, your users have to have the whole JDK (not just a Java runtime) and your source code and the build file for your source code. To restore the changed class files, we delete them and call the compilation task of the installation build file. The specifics of this task depend on your build system.
As an alternative (for example, if your software is closed source), you could put known-good versions of the class files in a .jar or .zip in a safe location and unpack them. You can then replace the changed class files with their known-good versions.
On the other hand, configuration files can be copied from the
source directory. In order to do this, we extend the target
configChanged appropriately and add a target
<target name="configChanged"
depends="checksum" unless="config.unchanged">
<echo message="WARNING: Configuration file
<input message="Backup configuration file
and restore original? " validargs="y,n"
<condition property="config.copy">
<equals arg1="y" arg2="${config.restore}"/>
<target name="configRestore"
depends="configChanged" if="config.copy">
<echo message="Copying build/config.xml to
build/config.xml.1 and restoring configuration
<copy file="build/config.xml"
tofile="build/config.xml.1" overwrite="true"/>
<copy file="src/config.xml" todir="build"
Add the targets to the dependencies of the target
If the configuration file has been changed, Ant asks the user if
he wants to back up the configuration file and restore the original.
If he answers "yes" by pressing
Y and
Enter, the
config.copy is set. The target
configRestore will only be executed when this property
is set, backing up build/config.xml to
build/config.xml.1 and copying the original
src/config.xml to build/config.xml.
We developed an Ant script to run diagnostic tests for a Java application. The script checks whether the version of the Java installation meets a minimum requirement, if some important files haven't been changed, if a specific Java class is in the class path, if a directory exists, etc. After checking all of these prerequisites of the software, the script reports the results to the user. The script can even repair some problems. In addition, the output of the diagnostic test can be used by technical support to help the user quickly, without asking him a whole list of questions.
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Superintendent Emilio Vargas III said 26 new hires were made over the summer to fill teaching, administrative and staff vacancies and cited Goliad's lack of affordable housing as a reason for the big turnover rate.
"That is quite a few for us," Vargas said. "There has been a real struggle finding teachers. They are having a difficult time trying to find a place to live here in Goliad, which is a shame because they would add to our local economy. If they live out of town, they'll shop and buy groceries out of town and pay their utilities out of town and other things that are a benefit to our tax base.
"We lost several teachers, especially at the elementary level. They were driving in from out of town. We lost probably seven outstanding teachers – three of them to Victoria, one got a job in Edna and one to Beeville. They don't have to be on Highway 59 anymore travelling back and forth."
Vargas said the housing shortage in Goliad has hampered the school district's ability to attract young teachers.
"There just is not much for them here," Vargas said. "If you come in established with a family and looking for a nice, quiet place, this is a good place to be other than you can't find a house."
Among the new administrative employees is high school assistant principal Green Hill, who was hired from Corpus Christi King High School. Hill resides in Aransas Pass and will drive back and forth.
Goliad ISD also will have changes at the pre-high school level as there will no longer be a Goliad Intermediate School. Pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade students will attend Goliad Elementary School and seventh- and eighth-graders will attend Goliad Middle School.
"Our plan is for next year to move sixth grade off of that campus and move them back to the middle school," Vargas said. "That would create a sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade middle school campus. We feel it is a better use of our facilities and better use of our staff."
Former GIS Principal Debra Bauer will be the GES principal. Former GES Principal Patricia Huber will be an associate principal at the campus.


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My 22 month old has decided to start falling asleep at the breast again (Having been sending herself to sleep before Christmas) and I want to know if Im the only one this is happening to, is it a problem and do I need to do anything about it or will she stop when shes ready?
Shes not a great sleeper and wakes a few times a night for "mummys milk" - has a quick feed and goes straight off again.
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No injuries are reported, but a semi trailer is a total loss after a fire in the Township of Brockway in Jackson County.
According to the Black River Falls Fire Department, firefighters responded to a call of a semi fire on Interstate 94 at mile post 118 at around 9:30 Monday night.
The semi tractor was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived. Fire had also extended into the semi trailer, which was full of sea food.
Both westbound lanes of I-94 in the area were closed for nearly an hour as crews worked to put the fire out.
The driver, from Medford, wasn't hurt, but the sea food cargo is a total loss. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Food Inspectors has been told about the fire. There is no damage estimate at this time.
The semi was owned by a company out of Bonduel, Wisconsin.
Crews from the Black River Falls Fire Department, Wisconsin State Patrol, and the Jackson County Sheriff's Department helped at the scene of the fire.
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Gravitational Wave Physics in the Land Down Underbwillman | August 26, 2010
(I'm posting this on behalf of Ivan Meehan – pronounced Eee-von)
Hi this is Ivan Meehan, a rising junior, and I have had the most wonderful summer opportunity I could imagine!
I participated in a program that sent students to different universities around the world that were all collaborating on detecting gravitational waves. These waves have been described as ripples in the fabric of space-time and if detected, would open a whole new field of astronomy. Astronomers would be able to observe the universe using different gravitational wavelengths just like how they already do so with different electromagnetic wavelengths. Scientists believe this would especially give us more information about cataclysmic events like supernova explosions and neutron and black hole collisions.
I worked with the Optics group at Adelaide University in Adelaide, Australia. The current pair of gravitational wave detectors (they often work in pairs to help confirm the validity of a signal) in the U.S., the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) is expected to detect a signal approximately once every 50 years which is kind of lame. However, scientists are collaborating to build the Advanced LIGO which is expected to detect a signal approximately once a week. The Advanced LIGO requires technological developments like special mirror coatings and suspension techniques to make sure it works properly and the wavefront is not distorted. To be able to know how to correct for wavefront distortion the scientists will use a Hartmann Sensor, which measure wavefront distortion, or changes in the wavefront. At Adelaide University, I worked on characterizing the temperature sensitivity of the Hartmann sensor.
Basically I spent a lot of my summer taking pictures of spots and analyzing the spot displacements with MATLAB programs.
Aside from research, I also made time to meet many new people and explore the country. Adelaide is a small, picturesque city and a great place to spend the summer. I have to point out though, that in Australia it was actually winter time, and since Adelaide is on the southern coast, it was actually rather cold (32-60s degrees Fahrenheit, and usually in the 40s).
Some highlights include:
-going to Cleland National Park and getting to feed kangaroos and hold a koala!
-living in a residential college with graduate students from all over the world, and being the only American there!
-getting to spend a weekend in Sydney and see a symphony-orchestra concert in the Sydney Opera House!
-one of the astronomy professors invited me to the observatory one night and showed me some of the sights in the Southern hemisphere, like the Eta Carina nebula and the "Jewel Box", an open cluster.


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Home List of Titles Adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with hysteresis nonlinearity
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- Adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems with hysteresis nonlinearity
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- Abstract
- In this note, we consider a class of uncertain dynamic nonlinear systems preceded by Bouc-Wen type of hysteresis nonlinearity. A new perfect inverse function of the hysteresis is constructed and used to cancel the hysteresis effects in controller design with backstepping technique. For the design and implementation of the controller, no knowledge is assumed on system parameters. It is shown that the proposed controller not only guarantees asymptotic stability, but also transient performance.
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'Our Sunday Visitor' began publishing books and newspapers in the early 1900s.
Over one hundred years later, the company, which was founded in Huntington, has grown to become the nation's largest Catholic publisher.
It's this week's Locally Made Monday.
It's not just the books and magazines.
'Our Sunday Visitor,' which is still run out of Huntington, also creates more offering envelopes than anyone else.
And they make them right here.
"We manufacture almost seven hundred million offering envelopes for churches across the United States, by far the largest envelope manufacturer in the country," says Offertory Solutions Division President Kyle Hamilton.
Fort Wayne's Father John Noll founded 'Our Sunday Visitor' in 1912- printing their first Catholic newspaper in May of that year.
Father Noll would go on to become Archbishop Noll, and today 'Our Sunday Visitor' has grown- publishing books, newspapers, and teaching materials.
It's the largest Catholic publisher in the country.
And of those 1600 products made here in Huntington, they come in English and Spanish- and many other global languages.
"We do a lot of bilingual- Spanish. We do have a lot of customization capabilities where we'll put Vietnamese language on envelopes," Hamilton says.
Spanish-language products are among the fastest-growing segment of their materials.
"And this is a huge need right now, is to serve not just those who are just arriving to our country, but second, third, fourth generation as well," says Publishing Division President Greg Erlandson.
And of their books, media and teaching curriculum, besides the 25,000 U.S. churches they serve, you'll also find them in retail like Family Christian stores and on Amazon.com.
'Our Sunday Visitor' also publishes an English-language Vatican newspaper.
"It's a small circulation, but a lot of influence. And we're very proud to be affiliated with the Vatican. We were one of the largest publishers of Pope Benedict's books. We published more than twenty of them," Erlandson says.
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Empire State Institutional Training Programs in Stem Cell Research for Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
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FDA approves robots for hospitalsMICHAEL B. Farrell
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Colin Angle, chief executive of iRobot Corporation, stands with a mobile robot with an LCD screen for a face. It can interact remotely with an operator. iRobot is developing a version that can navigate a hospital and work remotely with doctors.iRobot Corp., best known for its Roomba vacuum cleaners, has won Food and Drug Administration clearance for a new line of robots designed to let doctors interact with hospital patients remotely.
The sleek, upright robot called the RP-VITA is designed to navigate around hospitals on its own and has a 15-inch LCD screen as a face.
It represents the early stages of a big push by iRobot into the health care market as the defense side of its business continues to contract.
The first RP-VITA robots, which would cost hospitals between $4,000 and $6,000 a month to operate, could begin appearing in medical centers throughout the country in the next few months.
We think its the beginning of an amazing new phase for the use of robots in telemedicine, said Colin Angle, chief executive officer of iRobot, which developed the robots in partnership with InTouch Health Inc., a Santa Barbara, Calif., company that is one of the pioneers in telemedicine systems.
Hospitals often use telemedicine to allow specialists to diagnose patients from long distances.
iRobot began a partnership with InTouch Health about a year ago when it invested $6 million to buy a minority stake in the company.
Today, the market is just getting started, said Philip Solis, an analyst with ABI Research in New York. Telepresence robots are seeing some use, but its still on a limited basis.
iRobots RP-VITA, which is the first FDA-cleared telemedicine robot that uses autonomous movement technology, will have to compete with a growing number of robots entering the health care market, said Solis.
You could envision a lot of different robots that can do many different things, but can the hospital afford it? Thats going to be the issue, he said.
The RP-VITA is outfitted with advanced cameras, touchscreen displays, speakers, and sensors. Doctors operate the robot with an iPad tablet, and the doctors face will appear on the LCD screen atop the robot.
InTouch Health chief executive Yulun Wang acknowledged that the steep price for RP-VITA will be an issue for hospitals, many of which are operating under increasing pressures to reduce health care costs.
But he said the technology that goes into the RP-VITA is expensive and some of the most advanced on the market. Theres just a lot more than dropping a robot off at the back dock, he said.
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Deal or no deal? Assembly to tackle late debate
It will be clear soon whether Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Assembly were able to reach a deal with Democrats to cut down on debating and taking votes in the middle of the night.
Party leaders met for two days to try and reach a deal before the new Assembly rules were to be debated Thursday.
Republican Speaker Robin Vos plans to unveil the proposed changes before the Assembly convenes Thursday morning.
Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca has said the two sides were worlds apart on agreement, but both he and Vos agree something needs to be done to curtail late-night debate.
Gov. Scott Walker has said he would sign a bill preventing voting on bills after 10 p.m.
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Fashion week is almost as much about the after-parties as the shows themselves.
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May 17, 2011 —
Over 80 supporters turned out to praise the college and ask lawmakers not to cut its budget.
It was a special meeting of the Sullivan County Government Services Committee at the government center in Monticello on May 12, and the task was to determine the level of funding for Sullivan County Community College (SCCC).
Facing a $13 million deficit next year, county lawmakers had previously proposed cutting the county's share from $4 million to $3.6 million.
Student Douglas Smith said to lawmakers, "If you were to cut these funds, wouldn't you in effect be punishing an institution that celebrates diversity, is achieving academically and giving the people of this county something to look forward to? I ask you to reconsider the cuts, perhaps you should be looking to reward this college."
Others speakers hinted that this cut might force the college to close, and that would be a crippling blow to the county.
But county lawmakers were having none of it. Several said that no one wanted to cut the college's budget, but the fiscal realties facing the county leave them with no choice.
A couple of the lawmakers, however, had harsh words for the college's leadership. Lawmaker Ron Hiatt said he did not want to "break faith" with the rest of the county employees, who have suffered lay-offs and cuts year after year, while the college funding remained at the same level.
He also said he and his peers had been seeking cooperation from the college for years, and had never received it. He noted that a special meeting had been scheduled to talk about the budget two weeks prior and "no one from the college showed up."
"We begged the leadership of the college to change how they do things; they won't change, maybe it's not a bad idea that there be change in the leadership. I don't know what else to do," he said.
The change in the leadership language was a reference to a resolution proposed by perennial college critic Ken Walter who suggested that county lawmakers make a "no confidence" vote regarding SCCC president Mamie Golladay. Walter said such a move was merited by such things as the loss of $2 million because of a bad investment with a company that was supposed to have built a windmill for the college, but never did.
Lawmaker David Sager said those "losses far outweigh the cuts that we are suggesting." He said that the people who had turned out to support the college should travel to Albany because state funding for SCCC is supposed to run about 33% of the budget, but in actuality only reaches about 15%. Sager concluded by saying that, in the future, "I would like to visit Mr. Walter's proposed resolution and take it into consideration."
The committee voted unanimously to cut the budget, and the move is expected to be adopted by the full board on May 17.


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Can't face that gloomy January bike ride? In our first Breeze Guest Blog, Louise Mullagh remembers how it was cycling at precisely this time of year that helped her get over depression – and start a new business...
Winter isn't such a great time if you're a cyclist. Heading out on cold, dark and wet days can feel like such an effort. Don't discount it though, as it was winter riding that helped me to recover and sparked the idea for Patisserie Cyclisme, a website which champions great cafés for cyclists. This time last year I found myself off work with depression. It was debilitating, and there were days when I felt physically and mentally exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do was to get out on a bike in the cold, wet and dark, but that's exactly what a friend suggested I do, as exercise really does do your mental state good.
To start with I focussed on just turning the pedals. I'd go out for an hour and end the ride at my favourite café, for coffee and cake in the warm. My goal was to just ride, to forget all about speed, distance and how hard I was pushing myself – it was just me and my bike.
I won't lie, winter riding isn't easy at times. There were days when I would be riding with tears streaming down my face, when it took all my energy just to turn the pedals, but going out for short rides helped immeasurably. It was the thought of the café stop, the chance to get warm and collect my thoughts, with the satisfaction of having had fresh air, that got me round during the first few weeks.
As my strength and confidence started to return, I rediscovered my passion for riding. I could push myself that little bit more and, with the wind against my face, started to savour feeling alive. The sense of exhilaration when you reach the top of the climb, and the sheer joy of the descent started to return. It became easier to turn those pedals, even as the rain poured and the wind blew – and there was always the café to look forward to at the end.
It felt so good to be physically tired from exercise, to be able to get out and feel my mind calming down again, and most of all to start getting back out into the world after hiding away in my house.
Cycling really did help me heal. It even sparked the idea for Patisserie Cyclisme, which helped me through the dark winter. At the moment it's a review-based website, but I have plans to expand this year. The aim is to connect even more cyclists and cycling cafés, as well as to feature articles and produce high quality jerseys and cycling gear for all types of rider.
I'm looking forward to the challenge – and the next stage of my cycling journey. Cycling might be a little tougher at this time of year, but just make sure you're prepared with warm clothes and tools – and never, ever forget your café money!
Louise Mullagh is an art historian and museologist by trade. As well as developing Patisserie Cyclisme, she hopes to study for a PhD in the next couple of years.