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Study to Allow Access to Nilotinib for Patients Who Are on Nilotinib Treatment in a Novartis-sponsored Study
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Drug: AMN107
Phase 4
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|Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Open Label, Multi-center Nilotinib Roll-over Protocol for Patients Who Have Completed a Previous Novartis-sponsored Nilotinib Study and Are Judged by the Investigator to Benefit From Continued Nilotinib Treatment
- Number of patients receiving nilotinib [ Time Frame: Until no patients are left on study up to 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To allow continued use of nilotinib to patients receiving nilotinib in a Novartis-sponsored Oncology CD&MA study which has reached its objectives and who are benefiting from treatment with nilotinib.
- Frequency of serious adverse events [ Time Frame: Until no patients are left on study up to 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]To collect long term data on serious adverse events.
- Nature of serious adverse events [ Time Frame: Until no patients are left on study up to 10 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]To collect long term data on nature serious adverse events.
|Study Start Date:
|March 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2023
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2023 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: AMN107 (nilotinib)
Drug: AMN107
AMN107 (nilotinib)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
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Inclusion Criteria:
-Patient is currently enrolled in a Novartis-sponsored, Oncology Clinical Development & Medical Affairs study receiving nilotinib and has fulfilled all their requirements in the parent study -Patient is currently benefiting from the treatment with nilotinib, as determined by the investigator -Patient has demonstrated compliance, as assessed by the investigator, with the parent study protocol requirements -Willingness and ability to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plans and any other study procedures -Written informed consent obtained prior to enrolling in roll-over study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has been permanently discontinued from nilotinib treatment in the parent study due to unacceptable toxicity, non-compliance to study procedures, withdrawal of consent or any other reason - Patient has participated in a Novartis sponsored combination trial where nilotinib was dispensed in combination with another study medication and patient is still receiving combination therapy -Patients who are currently receiving treatment with any medications that have the potential to prolong the QT interval or inducing Torsade de Pointes and the treatment cannot be either safely discontinued at least one week prior to nilotinib treatment or switched to a different medication prior to start of nilotinib treatment and for the duration of the study -Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women, where pregnancy is defined as the state of a female after conception and until the termination of gestation, confirmed by a positive hcG laboratory test. -Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception during the study and for 30 days after the final dose of nilotinib.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01735955
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|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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|NCT01735955 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 14, 2012
|Last Updated:
|September 1, 2016
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Canada: Health Canada
China: Food and Drug Administration
Denmark: Danish Medicines Agency
Hong Kong: Department of Health
Hungary: National Institute of Pharmacy
Japan: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
South Korea: Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA)
Singapore: Health Sciences Authority
Slovakia: State Institute for Drug Control
Spain: Spanish Agency of Medicines
Sweden: Medical Products Agency
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Argentina: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica
Austria: Federal Office for Safety in Health Care
Brazil: National Health Surveillance Agency
Egypt: Ministry of Health and Population
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Israel: Ministry of Health
Italy: National Institute of Health
Netherlands: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Poland: Ministry of Health
Thailand: Food and Drug Administration
Taiwan: Department of Health
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Restore this holiday to its May 30 heritage
By JEFF WEBB Editor of Editorials
Published May 27, 2007
How's your holiday weekend going so far? Made plans for Monday?
Planning a patio or pool party? Gathering your goodies for grilling? Surveying the sales for shopping?
Devising a devotion to the dead?
Warning to the eye-rolling, "here-comes-the-patriotic-punchline" crowd: I hope you stub your toe or some other delicate appendage on my soapbox, because this needs to be said.
Memorial Day, a federal "holiday" set aside to pay solemn tribute to the service men and women who have died fighting for their country, has turned into an unfocused day of merrymaking and/or indolence. For most people it has absolutely no extraordinary meaning. With the exception of those who honor their loved ones by paying a visit to the cemetery or attending a ceremony sponsored by a service organization, Memorial Day is nothing more than a 24-hour extension of a weekend that heralds the end of the school year and the beginning of summer.
Think I'm wrong about people not appreciating the true meaning of Memorial Day? Ask the next five people you see about its origin or objective. I'll bet four out of five will equate it to Veterans Day, which recognizes all who have served in the U.S. military. Most don't know this particular day in May singles out those who have died.
That is a significant difference and the U.S. Congress is responsible for diluting the spirit and tradition of Memorial Day by passing, in 1971, a law that changed the observance from May 30 to "the last Monday of May." That misguided act traded our country's conscious for convenience.
There have been attempts to restore awareness about the meaning of Memorial Day. In his last year in office, President Bill Clinton declared the National Moment of Remembrance, which calls on all Americans to stop what they are doing at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day (the observed one) each year and observe a moment of silence in honor of those who gave all they had to give in defense of our country's freedom. That's an earnest gesture, but it should take place on May 30 (the traditional one).
Since 1989, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, a Medal of Honor recipient who left his right arm on a battlefield in Europe, has sponsored a bill every two years that would reinstate May 30 as the traditional day of observance. Support from members of the House of Representatives has been spotty, and each time the bill has been referred to some catch-all committee, where it, like the memory of too many veterans, languishes and dies.
Inouye's bill this year is S70 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.70.IS:) and there is a petition circulating on the Internet (www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html) urging people to sign it and post their reasons for supporting it.
Shuffling around Memorial Day to the last Monday in May implicitly disrespects the individual sacrifices of the fallen and demeans the commemoration of their collective memory, all in the name of expedient scheduling.
After all, Independence Day is July 4, not "the first Monday of July." If it is appropriate to designate a day to celebrate America's freedom, it makes just as much sense to specify a day to honor those who died protecting that freedom.
Move Memorial Day back to May 30. That's the only way to recapture the true meaning of the observance. And forget those folks who will whine about it spoiling their precious three-day weekend. They will still get one three out of every seven years.
In the meantime, please try to find some way to observe this floating federal holiday on Monday. If nothing else, display Old Glory (and if you do, the etiquette is half-staff until noon and then raise it to full-staff).
Don't get me wrong; you don't necessarily have to plant a flag at a cemetery or wear your grief on your sleeve on Memorial Day. There's nothing wrong with firing up the grill or taking the kids to the beach. But those activities should be accompanied by some thoughtful acknowledgement that legions of deceased veterans helped make your choices of leisure possible.
No doubt, they probably would have as much fun as you if they were still here.
Jeff Webb can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (352) 754-6123.


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For more information, please call 304-526-4565
Neha Garg, MD, a fellowship-trained specialist in kidney care and hypertension, has joined the medical staffs at Cabell Huntington Hospital and Marshall Health. Dr. Garg completed fellowships in nephrology and hypertension at Cleveland Clinic after completing her residency in internal medicine at Wayne State University in Michigan. She earned her medical degree at B.J. Medical College in India.
She is now seeing patients to diagnose and treat kidney disease, including problems associated with kidney stones and resistant hypertension. Dr. Garg treats patients at the Kidney Stone Clinic in the J. Robert Pritchard Dialysis Center behind the hospital or in her office at Marshall Internal Medicine.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Garg in the Kidney Stone Program, please call 304-526-4565. For appointments with Dr. Garg at Marshall Internal Medicine, please call 304-691-1000.


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Mount Rainier National Park
Get Up Close and Personal with the Northwest's Glaciated Giant
Smack dab in the center of Mount Rainier National Park, its 14,410-foot namesake mountain rises 10,000 vertical feet from the surrounding topography. Draped with a cloak of glaciers, its upper reaches form a whitewashed silhouette against the green rainforests that fill the Pacific Northwest landscape. Over a million-and-a-half people visit the park each year to get up close and personal with the mountain.
Mount Rainier's trail system connects runners with the mountain in two ways, by traversing its flanks and by ascending separate highpoints that yield views of the glaciated giant. A shining example of this is the 93-mile Wonderland Trail, which encircles Mount Rainier.
Jason Henrie, a 37-year old Flagstaff, Arizona-based ultrarunner, has run the Wonderland Trail in two days. "To run it in a single push or a couple of days embodies all the elements of a top-tier trail run," he says. "You will experience a sense of fear and excitement, serious commitment and isolation, world-class trails and terrain-based sensory overload." While on the trail, Henrie noted a peculiar commonality, a "oneness" between the mountain's topographic highs and lows and his physical and emotional ups and downs. He says, "Run it and you will understand."
Top Trails
- Glacier Basin Trail, seven miles out-and-back. Park at White River Campground's trailhead parking area and run 1200 vertical feet up into Mount Rainier's subalpine world. You may spy flashy wildflowers, agile mountain goats and ant-size alpinists further up the mountain. Add on a mile roundtrip on the Emmons Moraine Trail spur to see Emmons Glacier, the largest in the continental United States.
- Shriner Peak Trail, eight miles out-and-back. The trail ascends more than 3400 feet to the peak and its fire tower. Begin in a Douglas-fir forest, then break out to big views with 2.5 miles to go. From the top, enjoy Mount Rainier in its whole-mountain glory and the rest of the Cascade Range before dive-bombing downhill. Consider planning this run to see sunrise light turn Mount Rainier the color of cotton candy.
- Wonderland Trail, variety of possible distances and route layouts of up to 93 miles. Tackle all 93 miles at once or enjoy shorter chunks of the trail. For example, running to Panhandle Gap and back from the trailhead on the road to White River Campground offers 14 roundtrip miles of views toward Mount Rainier's northeast side in exchange for an uphill effort. Grind out the 1.5-mile ascent out of Longmire onto Rampart Ridge for more mountain vistas, then return the way you came.
Getting There. The park is a two-hour drive southeast of Seattle and a three-hour drive northeast of Portland. Use the Nisqually Entrance on the park's southwest side for fastest access from all points west.
Seasons. June through October offer the best trail-running conditions. Most park trails are buried under feet of snow from sometime in November through mid- to late May. Snow persists into July on highest-elevation trails. While rainfall is possible throughout the trail-running season, the driest months are July and August.
Camping and Lodging. The park has four campgrounds, each with its own opening and closing dates (360-569-2211, www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/camping.htm). For lodging, the National Park Inn is open year-round and the Paradise Inn is open from mid-May through early October (360-569-2275, www.mtrainierguestservices.com).
Other Activities. Thousands of climbers and mountaineers are drawn to the higher half of Mount Rainier every year. The park's paved roads are the prized pedaling grounds for cyclists. Worth a look-see are the wildflower displays of summer. Kindly refrain from picking flowers, as it is illegal.
By The Numbers
35 square miles of snow, ice and glaciers surround the summit of Mount Rainier.
22,000 feet is the elevation gain on the 93-mile Wonderland Trail.
260 miles of trails are maintained by the National Park Service in Mount Rainier National Park.
Grand Teton National Park
Ride High on the Cowboy State's Alpine Singletrack
The Grand, Middle and South Tetons in northwest Wyoming rise to three shark-tooth summits. Two hundred years ago, French-speaking fur trappers saw something more in the peaks when they named them the "Trois Tetons." Whether or not you see three breasts or just a whole lot of rocky mountains, a visit to Grand Teton National Park will make your jaw drop. From the east, the Teton Range claws itself more than 6000 vertical feet out of the pancake-flat Snake River Valley in a few horizontal miles.
Sean Meissner, 37, an ultrarunner and one of the sport's ambassadors who resides in Sisters, Oregon, spent a few post-college years living and running in Grand Teton. "Be cautious of bears and moose, and give them and other wildlife space when you encounter them. And you will encounter wildlife while running trails there," says Meissner. "Start and finish your runs early, as afternoon thunderstorms are powerful and can be dangerous." Grand Teton National Park has enough wildlife, wild places and wild environmental conditions to drop your jaw for many reasons.


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Sparpana, Fleury home featured on the Zonta Tour of Homes fund-raiser
IRON MOUNTAIN – The annual Zonta Tour of Homes will be held Sunday from noon p.m. to 4:30 p.m. A reception at the Spread Eagle Garden Center will be open from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The home of Gary Sparpana and Suzanne Fleury, located at 4490 M-95, will be part of this year's event. The home is one mile from the junction of U.S. 2.
When you arrive at his pristine country setting you will likely be greeted by the compelling sound of wind in the poplar trees, the family cats, and a friendly herd of deer. Nestled on the shores of Spring Lake and professionally landscaped by the Spread Eagle Garden Center you will enter the lovely home built by owner Gary Sparpana in 2000.
Co-owner Suzanne did the decorating and was involved in the creation of a unique kitchen designed by Debbie Gursky of Cuisine Art. Persons will see real tin ceilings, plates in lower drawers and open shelving, a unique counter top featuring a deer and rabbit motif, designed and installed by Jim Bjorkman, and under counter lighting, just to mention a few of the details.
There is a comfortable covered deck to enjoy the ambiance of the lake, master bedroom, bath and laundry for convenient one floor living. There is an antique in each room to add warmth and charm, and create interesting storage for necessary items.
On the upper level there is an office/ sitting area, bedroom, and bath for additional living space.
The lower level is Gary's "Man Cave" and the location of a beautiful bar with marble counter tops and Gary's many ski jumping awards.
Tickets will be available at Bond Decorating and Julia Rose Creations in Iron Mountain, Maxine's Bridal Shoppe in Norway, and the Spread Eagle Garden Center in Spread Eagle. Cost is $15 in advance or $17 on day of tour at all participating locations.
This year's proceeds will benefit the Young Women in Science Scholarships which is an educational program for local young women in grades ninth through 11th interested in the ecology of the great lakes. The "Tall Ships" scholarship provides an opportunity for young women to participate in an onboard, overnight trip aboard a tall sailing ship science lab, where experiments are conducted.
This years tour will showcase Clark and Mary Lee Lebo and the Leeds Real Estate Building in Iron Mountain, Gary Sparpana and Suzanne Fleury on M-95, Gary and Dee Benjamin, Nathan and Dolly Goudreau, Jon and Suzanne Harry, Richard and Linda Western, all on Lake Ellwood in Spread Eagle.
For additional information call Toni Lori at (906) 221-1055.
Zonta is a service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women locally and worldwide.


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Get a map of Central Park for your visit.
Find playgrounds, places to eat, and cultural points of interest on the interactive map below. Use the legend to select the types of things you would like to display on the map. Click an icon to see a summary and links to additional information about the attraction.


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Like I started my introduction on the blog out with, I am not a representative of Adagio. I do not hold any rights to the tea, I do not get paid by Adagio, although I do live in the same state as one of the warehouses. I digress.
I know AdagioTeaV reviews the different signature blends that come through, and that the website has smaller, rated reviews, but that seems to be it when it comes to everything outside of signature blends. As you can see by the first entry (forgive me, it was written at 12:30 AM, which meant I was drinking black tea at 12:00 midnight... never again.), I include pictures of the different stages of the brewing process.
This is just a little side project I'm doing, it's not official through the site, but I just thought I would share it with you tea fans. Thanks a lot!


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Hair by Dimitrios Tsioumas
How about something a little more funky to push the boundaries of avant-garde hairdos! Award winning & brilliant hairstylist Dimitrios Tsioumas knows just how to captivate the crowds attention with his eccentric and Willy Wonka almost like brilliant mind! The fusion of colors mixed in with some totally awesome frizzy teased curls just works so well for this avant-garde photoshoot. Well done Dimitrious keep those creative cuts coming you have every hairstylists looking up to you and pushing their own limits to match your creativity.
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With the enactment of the Agricultural Act (February 7, 2014) funding provided for the Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) in FY-2014 is no longer available for obligations.
If you are interested in applying for water enhancement projects in programs, please visit the 2014 Farm Bill RCPP web page.
The Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) was a voluntary conservation initiative that provided financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to implement agricultural water enhancement activities on agricultural land to conserve surface and ground water and improve water quality.
As part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), AWEP operated through program contracts with producers to plan and implement conservation practices in project areas established through partnership agreements.
Each fiscal year, NRCS made AWEP financial and technical assistance available to eligible owners and operators of agricultural lands who participated in approved AWEP project areas.
After the Chief announced approved AWEP project areas, eligible agricultural producers were able to submit a program application.
NRCS entered into partnership agreements with eligible entities and organizations that wanted to promote ground and surface water conservation or improve water quality on agricultural lands.
AWEP was not a grant program. Eligible partners entered into multi-year agreements with NRCS to promote ground and surface water conservation, or improve water quality on eligible agricultural lands. AWEP was intended to leverage investment in natural resources conservation along with services and non-Federal resources of other eligible partners.
Individual producers were not eligible to submit a partnership proposal.
Eligible partners included:
Owners and operators engaged in livestock or agricultural production were potentially eligible for the program. Eligible land included cropland, rangeland, pasture, private non-industrial forestland, and other farm or ranch lands.
Producers were required to submit a program application to be considered for financial assistance through AWEP.
The 2008 Farm Bill provided $73 million for fiscal year 2009, $73 million for fiscal year 2010, $74 million for fiscal year 2011, and $60 million for fiscal year 2012 and each year thereafter for AWEP.
Please note that the amount of financial assistance provided to approved projects changed every fiscal year depending upon appropriations and agency priorities. Agricultural producers in selected project areas were able to apply for available AWEP financial and technical assistance at their local United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Service Center. Once an application was selected, an eligible agricultural producer entered into a contract with NRCS to receive technical assistance and to implement approved conservation practices.
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Heat Up Your Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day weekend may mark the end of summer, but just because the pool closes doesn't mean your grill does! Labor Day, the third favorite grilling holiday, is the perfect opportunity to get the neighborhood together for a "Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall Grilling" party.
The HPBA suggest the following tips, to Fire Up Fall Grilling:
What to cook? If you are tired of the same old hamburgers, steaks, chicken and hotdogs check out the HPBA Recipe Web section for savory recipes from appetizers to veggies and catfish coffee to desired desserts all made on the grill.
Meat matters. At the store, in the kitchen or in front of the grill there are always guidelines to keep in mind when handling your food.
Safety first. Of course, the main ingredients for outdoor cooking should always be common sense and safety. To help keep your Labor Day and any grilling day safe check out these tips.
- Position your grill in open areas away from buildings and high traffic areas.
- When lighting a gas grill, always keep the lid open.
- Check propane tank levels before the day of the barbecue.
- Trim the excess fat from meat to avoid flare-ups.
- When grilling, use tongs or spatulas to move or turn meats instead of a fork to minimize the loss of juices.


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The following procedures are often used in the evaluation and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Consult your physician or heart care professional for more specific information.
Catheter Ablation
This procedure uses radio waves to silence an abnormal area in the heart electrical system, which is usually found during an electrophysiology study.
Permanent Pacemaker
A permanent pacemaker is inserted into the patient's heart and upper chest to provide a reliable heartbeat when the heart's own rhythm is too fast, too slow, or irregular. A permanent pacemaker is usually inserted while the patient is in the electrophysiology lab.
Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator
A defibrillator is inserted into the patient's heart and chest to send out a small amount of electricity when needed to jolt heart rhythm back to normal.
Maze Procedure
An innovative surgery called the Maze procedure has proven highly successful in curing atrial fibrillation.
Coronary Angioplasty
With this procedure, a catheter is used to create a bigger opening in the vessel to increase blood flow. Although angioplasty is performed in other blood vessels, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) refers to angioplasty in the coronary arteries to permit more blood flow into the heart. There are several types of PTCA procedures, including:
Open Heart Surgery
Open-heart surgery is performed on the heart while the bloodstream is diverted through a heart-lung machine. The surgery includes heart valve replacements, coronary artery graft (CABG) surgeries, heart transplants and "other open-heart procedures."
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG)
A surgical procedure in which small portions of veins or arteries are taken from one part of the body and transplanted into the heart to bypass clogged coronary arteries in the heart.
Valve Replacement
In this surgical procedure, a mechanical or tissue valve is transplanted into the heart to replace the damaged valve.
Transmyocardial Revascularization (TMR)
The procedure, called Transmyocardial Revascularization, or TMR, uses laser surgery to create small holes directly into the heart muscle to relieve chest pain.
Angina occurs when blood vessels, which bring blood to the heart muscle, are clogged or damaged. When this happens, the heart muscle doesn't get the oxygen it needs and patients feel pain, called angina, in their chest, neck, jaw or shoulders. This pain can often severely limit their physical activity and ability to do the things they want to do.
The procedure takes about 90 minutes, and involves a small incision on the left side of the chest. A bypass machine is not needed, and blood thinners are not used during TMR.
For certain patients needing bypass surgery, TMR can be used in areas of the heart where bypasses cannot be placed. This can improve the results of the surgery.
Valvuloplasty is a procedure in which a catheter with a large balloon is used to open a heart valve that has become narrowed usually as the result of scarring. The catheter is guided through the aorta to the valve, and once in place within the leaflets, the balloon is inflated until the leaflets are loosened. The balloon is then deflated and withdrawn from the body.
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Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846
English autobiographer, essayist, critic, and diarist.
Aspiring to achieve greatness as a historical painter, Haydon never attained the success he envisioned. Instead, the tumultuous figure is remembered more for his autobiographical writings, which reveal his flair for romanticized and exalted language; his tremendous ambition and pride; his disputes—both public and private—with his many "adversaries," including London's Royal Academy; and his never-ending anxiety over his professional failures and financial troubles. Not considered a major writer during his lifetime, Haydon attracted attention as a literary figure after his death with the publication of the three-volume Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography and Journals (1853), which was printed at the request of his wife. A highly abridged version of his personal writings, the Life exhibited such literary merit that it has been reissued in modified forms several times since its original publication.
Biographical Information
Haydon was born in Plymouth in January of 1786 to Benjamin Robert Haydon, a bookseller and printer, and Sarah Cobley Haydon. At age six he began drawing, and by age eighteen, certain of his love for art, he left his father's business and enrolled at the Royal Academy. Though beset in childhood with an eye disease that permanently damaged his vision, Haydon was driven by an intense determination to succeed. He found inspiration in famed English portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art (1769-91) and hoped to paint in the mode of the great Renaissance painters Raphael and Michelangelo. Devoted to what he referred to as the masters's "high art," he wished to replicate their reverence for religion, their precision of form, their sense of patriotism, and their emotional expressiveness—qualities he vehemently set in contrast to the work of the "carrot painters," those artists whose still lifes, portraits, and small-scale landscapes were so loved by the uninformed public. Arriving at the Royal Academy in 1804, Haydon achieved success with his first commissioned work, The Assassination of Dentatus (1808), which in 1810 won a premium for historical painting from the British Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts. This also marked the beginning of a lifelong conflict with the Royal Academy, triggered by a dispute over the display of the painting in the Academy. Some of Haydon's other early works—The Judgment of Solomon (1814) and Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1820)—garnered high prices, and for a short time he was even called by some critics England's finest historical painter. Haydon quickly accumulated massive amounts of debt, however, as he spared no expense with materials and models while spending enormous amounts of time on the massive works. He temporarily maintained solvency only through the generosity of friends and by borrowing money. These continued financial difficulties would contribute significantly to his downfall.
During this same time the Elgin marbles, a collection of ancient Greek sculptures and inscriptions, was brought to England from Athens by Lord Elgin, who hoped that they would be purchased by the English government. Haydon, who had first seen the marbles in 1808, quickly became a proponent of the purchase and became embroiled in an intense public dispute with connoisseur Richard Payne Knight, director of the British Gallery, who claimed the marbles were inauthentic and inartistic. Haydon attacked the detractors in his first publication, The Judgment of Connoisseurs upon Works of Art Compared with That of Professional Men (1816), which brought about widespread notoriety for the author. Haydon became further incensed at the fact that, even though his name had been submitted as a "friendly witness," he was never called by Parliament to testify as to the artistic value of the marbles. Haydon's public status reached its height when he was awarded an honorary membership in the Russian Imperial Academy. Around this time Haydon's friends included the Hunt brothers (John, Leigh, and Robert), Charles Lamb, John Keats, and William Wordsworth, the latter two sharing Haydon's ambitious artistic goals. Keats and Wordsworth, in fact, both wrote sonnets to their friend.
Haydon's quarrel with the Royal Academy extended to the areas of art instruction for the public and governmental funding for artists, causes that he returned to repeatedly over the course of his life. He claimed that the Royal Academy had "subtly and insidiously abandoned its most sacred obligation, that of providing sufficient art instruction for the people." Thus, he established a private school of his own, which operated from 1815-23, and opened the doors to artisans, mechanics, and traditional artists. Haydon's mantra was that design was crucial to any aesthetic undertaking, and his school focused heavily in this area. "My object," he stated, "was to make design as cheap as ABC, that the merest door-painter might paint the human figure."
A year after his success with Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, Haydon married the widow Mary Cawrse Hyman. She already had two children, and four more were born in subsequent years. Mounting debts only increased, and a series of imprisonments resulted for Haydon, who could no longer escape the money lenders and creditors. By 1824 Haydon was forced by his legal adviser to submit to a new methodology: the artist had to start painting portraits and could not work on the massive canvasses he had previously desired. In effect, Haydon became one of the detested "carrot painters." For the next several years he painted portraits, including an 1842 portrait of Wordsworth and Mock Election, completed during one of his many stays in debtor's prison. He busied himself with trying to convince the government to subsidize historical painters and also began a career as a public lecturer, speaking in London, Edinburgh, and the northern cities, particularly Liverpool. Though popular and enjoyable as a lecturer, Haydon was never able to break from poverty. In early 1846, he arranged another exhibition of his works, featuring two final paintings entitled The Banishment of Aristides and The Burning of Rome by Nero. The showing was a complete failure. Impoverished and despondent, Haydon attempted to set his affairs in order. Overwhelmed, he shot and stabbed himself in the throat. The medical examiner listed "insanity" as the cause of death.
Major Works
Haydon began writing his autobiography in 1841, writing for two years and stopping his chronicle at 1820. His journals fill in the years both before and after that period. Totaling twenty-six folio volumes, his highly dramatic journal entries begin in 1808 and are filled with letters and documents, sketches, gossip about contemporaries, literary criticism, talk of English politics, his views on debtors' laws, newspaper cuttings, his anguish over his constant financial woes, and descriptions of his paintings. Writings in both his autobiography and journal reflect his grandiose ideas about his own artistic talent and his aspirations to elevate the artistic preferences of the general marketplace and his almost desperate desire to see his own country achieve the same respect in painting as it had in poetry. Reflecting, too, his emotional intensity, his writings continually emphasize the "ceaseless oppositions" that he felt characterized his entire life, highlighted by his feeling that the London art establishment never accorded him the honor and respect he deserved and the subsequent resentment and bitterness he fostered throughout his career. Conversely, his jottings also exhibit his knack for simplicity and humor, evidenced in particular in the anecdotes of his friendships with Wordsworth and Keats, the former whom he admired for his skill at using the written word to convey emotions, and the latter for whom he felt a devoted kinship. Both of these writers, in Haydon's estimation, would forego life if their lofty artistic goals were not reached. In addition, the journals reveal Haydon's great admiration for Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, and Homer, and allusions to these literary giants fill his writings. Religion is also a major component of the works; at one point, Haydon, an orthodox Christian, claimed that, except for religion, "I should have gone mad."
Critical Reception
From the start, Haydon was criticized for his lack of judgment where his own artwork was concerned; in fact, Haydon was criticized for extolling his own artwork in such publications as Annals of the Fine Arts and The Examiner (these pieces were often published anonymously). As early as 1926, English novelist and critic Aldous Huxley claimed that Haydon "had absolutely no artistic talent" and that he had missed his true calling as a romantic novelist, citing his keen powers of observation, his comic style, his strength in storytelling, and his verbal dexterity. Biographer Eric George, too, declared that "Haydon chose to be a painter, but it is through the pen and not the brush that he is most likely to be remembered." Critics have stressed that Haydon's writings contain characteristics of the Romantic writers and that he possessed an extraordinary gift for drama. One of the areas of interest to scholars is the fact that even though Haydon professed that he was bound to tell the truth, almost all his writings are colored by his distorted and grandiose view of himself and of his work. Haydon's endless self-analysis and indulgence in obsessive melancholy, both evident in his writings, have also inspired critics to speculate on his motives for penning his life story.
Principal Works
The Judgment of Connoisseurs upon Works of Art Compared with That of Professional Men; in Reference More Particularly to the Elgin Marbles (criticism) 1816
New Churches Considered with Respect to the Opportunities They Afford for the Encouragement of Painting (essay) 1818
Description of Mr. Haydon's Picture of Christ's Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem, Now Exhibiting (prose) 1820
A Descriptive Catalogue of Mr. Haydon's Great Picture of the Raising of Lazarus, Now Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall (prose) 1823
Explanation of the Picture of Chairing the Members, a Scene in the Mock Election, Which Took Place at the King's...
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Aldous Huxley (essay date 1926)
SOURCE: Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to The Autobiography and Memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), by Benjamin Robert Haydon, edited by Tom Taylor. Vol. 1, pp. v-xix. London: Peter Davies, 1926.
[In the following excerpt from his introduction to the 1926 edition of Haydon's Autobiography, Huxley insists that Haydon wasted his creative energy on painting when it was as a writer—in particular as a romantic novelist—that Haydon's true talent lay.]
Haydon was something more than a bad and deservedly unsuccessful painter. He was a great personality to begin with. And in the second place he was, as I like to think, a born writer who wasted his life...
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Clarke Olney (essay date March 1934)
SOURCE: Olney, Clarke. "John Keats and Benjamin Robert Haydon." PMLA 49, no. 1 (March 1934): 258-75.
[In the following essay, Olney discusses Haydon's influence on the young John Keats during the mid-1810s, when the two men shared an intense devotion to art. Haydon encouraged Keats to undertake themes considered by Olney to be more "grand" and "powerful" than the poet's earlier subjects.]
The friendship between John Keats and Benjamin Robert Haydon is one chapter in the life of the poet which has never been satisfactorily written. A biography, like a novel, must needs have a villain; and in Haydon, Keats's biographers have one ready made. He was an egoist,...
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Varley Lang (essay date July 1947)
SOURCE: Lang, Varley. "Benjamin Robert Haydon." Philological Quarterly 26, no. 3 (July 1947): 235-47.
[In the following essay, Lang portrays Haydon as a reformer in the field of the arts, focusing in particular on the painter's lobbying for increased public support of the arts and his belief that all English manufacturers and artisans should combine excellent workmanship with high artistic skill. In addition, Lang compares Haydon's ideas with those of later English art reformers, including Matthew Arnold, William Morris, and John Ruskin.]
Whenever reforms in English art of the nineteenth century are mentioned, whether they concern standards of beauty in things of...
(The entire section is 5988 words.)
Eric George (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: George, Eric. "Haydon on Haydon." In The Life and Death of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter: 1786-1846. 1948. Reprint, with additions by Dorothy George, pp. 374-84. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
[In the following essay, George, using as his source W. B. Pope's Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1960-63), the first publication of the full text of Haydon's Journals, focuses on Haydon's entries describing his "darker side"—the anguish over his own sanity, and those feelings of anxiety and despondency that plagued the artist throughout his entire career.]
Painters & Poets are liable to the erruptions of...
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Colbert Kearney (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Kearney, Colbert. "B. R. Haydon and The Examiner." Keats-Shelley Journal 27 (1978): 108-29.
[In the following essay, Kearney attempts to prove that Haydon was the author of several anonymous letters and articles published in the Hunts' paper The Examiner during the early 1800s, using entries in Haydon's Diary to validate his argument and maintaining that the published pieces attest to the close relationship between Haydon and the Hunts during that time.]
Writing in The British Press for 3 July 1823, "An Observer" claimed that Haydon the historical painter—then in the King's Bench Prison for debt—had written critiques of...
(The entire section is 8671 words.)
Roger J. Porter (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Porter, Roger J. "'In me the solitary sublimity': Posturing and the Collapse of Romantic Will in Benjamin Robert Haydon." In The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation, edited by Robert Folkenflik, pp. 168-87. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Porter attempts to pinpoint the reason why Haydon felt the intense need to chronicle his life in his autobiography and in his journals.]
On June 22, 1846, moments before he committed a kind of double suicide by shooting himself and slashing his throat, Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter, would-be savior of British art, and friend to...
(The entire section is 8462 words.)
Further Reading
Barlow, P. J. "Benjamin Robert Haydon and the Radicals." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 654 (September 1957): 311-12.
Records Haydon's unsuccessful attempt to paint the May 1832 scene at Newhall Hill in which the Birmingham Political Union gathered to celebrate the success of Reform.
Brooks, E. L. "An Unidentified Article by Benjamin Robert Haydon." Keats-Shelley Journal 6 (1957): 9-12.
Proposes that Haydon was the source of an article in John Scott's A Visit to Paris in 1814 (1815), in which the author reported on his reactions to a visit to the Louvre.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Robert Doyle, lead architect at eCube Systems, will examine the issues and need for an agile infrastructure and show the advantages of capturing developer knowledge in an exportable file for migration into production. He will introduce the use of NXTmonitor, a next-generation DevOps tool that captures application environments, dependencies and start/stop procedures in a portable configuration file with an easy-to-use GUI. In addition to captur...
Jan. 20, 2017 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,865
Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last four digits of his social security number? Assuming you don't, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ben Klang, Founder & President of Mojo Lingo, discussed the impact of technology on identity. Sho...
Jan. 20, 2017 12:45 AM EST Reads: 4,103
Fact is, enterprises have significant legacy voice infrastructure that's costly to replace with pure IP solutions. How can we bring this analog infrastructure into our shiny new cloud applications? There are proven methods to bind both legacy voice applications and traditional PSTN audio into cloud-based applications and services at a carrier scale. Some of the most successful implementations leverage WebRTC, WebSockets, SIP and other open source technologies. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Da...
Jan. 20, 2017 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,811
A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights.
Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 AM EST Reads: 6,328
In his session at DevOps Summit, Tapabrata Pal, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Capital One, will tell a story about how Capital One has embraced Agile and DevOps Security practices across the Enterprise – driven by Enterprise Architecture; bringing in Development, Operations and Information Security organizations together. Capital Ones DevOpsSec practice is based upon three "pillars" – Shift-Left, Automate Everything, Dashboard Everything. Within about three years, from 100% waterfall, C...
Jan. 19, 2017 11:45 PM EST Reads: 9,913
You think you know what's in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
Jan. 19, 2017 09:45 PM EST Reads: 6,815
WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was. You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when things went wrong.
Jan. 19, 2017 09:45 PM EST Reads: 7,696
"We provide DevOps solutions. We also partner with some key players in the DevOps space and we use the technology that we partner with to engineer custom solutions for different organizations," stated Himanshu Chhetri, CTO of Addteq, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Jan. 19, 2017 09:00 PM EST Reads: 4,556
DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that's changing with microservices architectures. In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks, will focus on how microservices are changing the underlying architectures needed to scale, secure and deliver applications based on highly distributed (micro) services and why that means an expansion into "the network" for DevOps.
Jan. 19, 2017 08:45 PM EST Reads: 5,387
WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus o...
Jan. 19, 2017 07:30 PM EST Reads: 4,237
Providing secure, mobile access to sensitive data sets is a critical element in realizing the full potential of cloud computing. However, large data caches remain inaccessible to edge devices for reasons of security, size, format or limited viewing capabilities. Medical imaging, computer aided design and seismic interpretation are just a few examples of industries facing this challenge. Rather than fighting for incremental gains by pulling these datasets to edge devices, we need to embrace the i...
Jan. 19, 2017 05:30 PM EST Reads: 3,643
Web Real-Time Communication APIs have quickly revolutionized what browsers are capable of. In addition to video and audio streams, we can now bi-directionally send arbitrary data over WebRTC's PeerConnection Data Channels. With the advent of Progressive Web Apps and new hardware APIs such as WebBluetooh and WebUSB, we can finally enable users to stitch together the Internet of Things directly from their browsers while communicating privately and securely in a decentralized way.
Jan. 19, 2017 05:15 PM EST Reads: 3,113
All organizations that did not originate this moment have a pre-existing culture as well as legacy technology and processes that can be more or less amenable to DevOps implementation. That organizational culture is influenced by the personalities and management styles of Executive Management, the wider culture in which the organization is situated, and the personalities of key team members at all levels of the organization. This culture and entrenched interests usually throw a wrench in the work...
Jan. 19, 2017 05:15 PM EST Reads: 1,343
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry p...
Jan. 19, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,771
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long developm...
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PASS Kicks Off 2010 Elections
The 2010 PASS Board of Directors election season is here! The
Nominations Committee, chaired by Wayne Snyder, has approved the
elections procedure
documents to kick off this year's
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Can Integrity Be Learned?
By Kevin Kline
In the last Plays Well with Others column, I talked about the
work of Dr. William Cohen, a renowned expert on leadership. In Dr. Cohen's work,
he describes eight frequently recurring characteristics among excellent leaders,
one of which is "absolute integrity."
However, this characteristic got pushback from several readers. The general
thread seemed to be, "You either have integrity or you don't. It's not something
that can be learned." So let's take a step back and examine the idea of whether
integrity can be learned.
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Transferring From a Running Start Student's Perspective
The Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me About Transferring
by Nataly
First off, transferring really isn't as scary as I thought it would be, but it can be stressful.
When you are choosing and applying to universities, don't limit yourself! I applied to six different in state universities and was accepted to all of them. This gave me the option to decide where I really wanted to go. If you only apply to one school, then you might be selling yourself short on other possibilities. The worst they can say is no and your life isn't over if they do. So just apply to as many as you can. BUT no matter what, make sure you chose a university YOU want to go to. There are plenty of diverse schools in this state that you can choose from. Look into what feels comfortable to you. Think about these things:
How is the environment?
Could I see myself living here?
Do they offer the program or major I want to pursue?
If you need to factor in finances then think about that too. I thought I wanted to go to one university that I lived by my entire life, then the last minute I decided to attend a different university that felt more like home and gave me more options for my education.
Coming in with Running Start credits gave me many advantages at the university. I was able to register early, and had a better chance of getting the classes I wanted. The down side is you have to know what you want to major in right when you go in (that is if you graduated from the running start program with your associates degree). If you can apply to your major at the same time that you apply to the school then you will be off to a great start. If not, then you might have to wait an extra year to make the deadline or take classes for
a back up major/minor. One good thing to keep in mind is always having a back up major. Make sure it is something you will be interested in and something you would want to pursue. The more back up majors you have, the more prepared you will be. I want to major in business but still need to finish up prerequisites. I found that I needed to take microeconomics before taking macroeconomics for my program. For other majors, look into what classes have prerequisites that need to be taken first at the university so you can be right on track when you transfer.
When you do register for classes at the university, make sure you have read through both the schedule of classes offered that quarter/semester, and you have read through the course catalog. The course catalog will give you a description of what the class is about and sometimes it tells you what other quarters/semesters that class is offered. This is nice to know incase you have other classes you need to take first. The catalog is just one extra tool to help you organize yourself when you are picking out classes.
Once at the university you will be tempted to hang out with the people at your dorm or within your living space. There is nothing wrong with making friends, but make sure you know when to say no to people when you have to do homework or study for an exam. Become friends with the people in your classes in case you miss a day and need notes. I suggest that during the week you focus on classes and homework, and try to get it done before the weekend. That way you can be free from homework and enjoy the weekend with your new friends.
Adjusting to the dorm life might be tough for some of you. Just give it time, do some of the same things you did at home, and make sure you remember to get some sleep. It is okay to call or text your parents. You will find out that there are students like you who also miss home and their families. You will have something in common to talk about with them!
For some the university workload might be really easy, for others, it can be hard and stressful. I can't say this enough but make sure you GO TO CLASS. You won't have your mom and dad to wake you up to remind you to go. You are on your own.
You will have advisors at your university just like you did at Pierce. Make sure you go talk to them. They can give you great insight on different options you could have for classes or how to get into a major, or give you information you need to find out about different things.
One way to keep in touch with advisors, professors, TA's and other people on campus is through email. Make sure to check your email everyday! In the morning and at night! Professors will send crucial information via email. Whether they are telling you class is cancelled or they are giving you insight about an assignment that is due, or even assigning you more homework, it is all worth looking at!
Lastly, I want to leave you with something I hope you will always keep in mind. Don't ever give up and don't ever get discouraged. You are there to learn and better yourself. Take time to worry about yourself everyday. Take 5 minutes of quiet time to collect your thoughts. If you don't do so well the first quarter/semester, remember that it was only your first! You can do better the next time. The first quarter/semester is all about adjusting to your new life. It really is trial and error at this point in time. Upperclassmen can give you advice on classes to take, things to get involved in, cool hang out spots, but it is up to you to figure out what advice you are going to take and what you want to discover on your own. Ask for help when you need help and remember you aren't the only one going through the problems you have.
The effort you put forth at the university will show up in your grades, your experiences, the amount of friends you have, and your ability to be successful.
Nataly is a former Running Start student. She graduated from Pierce College in 2010 and is now a junior at the University of Washington.


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Sanford's expansion decisions
We couldn't help but notice these two conflicting items reported by the Associated Press:
– Sanford Health is shutting down a nursing home in Underwood by March 15 because of a declining need and problems hiring staff.
– Sanford Health will open its fourth clinic in Ghana, and is working on expanding to China, and has plans to expand to Ireland, Mexico, Israel and perhaps India in the next two years.
While we wouldn't begrudge the South Dakota-based company the opportunities to expand worldwide, we wonder if those ambitious plans are coming at the expense of smaller facilities right here at home. Sanford Health is based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, calls itself the largest not-for-profit rural health care provider in the nation, with some 126 locations in eight states. Sanford merged with Bismarck's Medcenter last year.
But Underwood will soon no longer be one of those locations. Perhaps the facility in Underwood doesn't qualify as rural enough. The company did say it would help the Underwood facility's 38 residents find spots at other facilities, and that its 62 employees in Underwood would be offered other jobs within the apparently expanding Sanford.
Perhaps in China.


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Double the Gift
Friday, November 19, 2010
Jim '65 '67 and Beverly Pehler '72, joke that St. Cloud State University is "their third child." And like all good parents who want to set aside money for their children's college education, the Pehlers have established two funds to benefit students at St. Cloud State University.
Bev, an active St. Cloud community volunteer and Jim, a former state legislator and retired associate professor in the Learning Resources Center at St. Cloud State, established the Jim and Beverly Pehler Student Teacher "Emergency Need" Scholarship. It helps student teachers meet urgent expenses such as a car repair or child care expenses.
"I would just hate to have anyone who wanted to be a teacher be unable to do so because of emergency financial reasons that they can't control," said Beverly Pehler who attended a two-room schoolhouse and always wanted to be a teacher.
The Pehlers also established the Jim and Beverly Pehler Artist in Residence Endowment to bring artists to campus, whether it's musicians, actors or fine artists.
"We both benefited from exposure to a variety of artists at college," said Beverly Pehler. "Through those experiences I grew a lot. We want others to have the same opportunities and experiences that we had."
The Pehlers hope that the visiting artists will enrich the lives of university students as well as elementary and secondary students in the area and community members.
"Both Jim and I pretty much worked our way through school — we both have education degrees, we both taught," she said. "We had thought that we'd like to make a difference in the lives of others. We both realized how important teachers and artists have been in our lives."
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Speer: Snyder's budget has limited bright spots
I believe Gov. Rick Snyder's budget proposal Thursday is a mixed bag for Northeast Michigan residents.
On one hand I give him kudos for a number of proposals I support.
And, yet again, he has proven to be a real independent in political thinking by proposing to expand Medicaid eligibility to 320,000 state residents under a federally-backed expansion program. His decision was met with approval by legislative Democrats and uncertainty by his Republican peers in the legislature.
I appreciate his independent thinking and putting forth ideas and concepts he believes best for Michigan.
Unfortunately, not everything I found to my liking. In particular I was very disappointed in his highway funding proposal. After he narrowed in on highway improvements in his State of the State address this year, I was hoping for more. Instead, all state residents received was another pothole in the long debate as to how best to fund improvements.
I had hoped for an innovative and new proposal to fund highway improvements so that it might be something I could embrace and support publicly. Unfortunately, increasing the 19-cents-per gallon gas tax and 15-cents-per-gallon diesel tax to 33 cents each isn't anything new. Neither is his 60 percent increase in vehicle registration fees. Together, according to Associated Press, the average family in Michigan would pay $120 more each year with both proposals.
Sorry, but Northeast Michigan residents can't afford that kind of an increase, especially when there is no guarantee as to where the extra tax money is going to be spent. Without guarantees that the money would return to the region from where it originated, there can be little excitement about such significant increases, especially from this corner of the state.
The governor insisted that without the increases, state highways only are going to get worse and eventual repairs, more costly. Certainly he is right. But given the spike in gas prices this past month, residents are just as concerned how they are going to find the extra nickels to pay for the extra 18 cents per gallon increase in the gas tax. Imagine their delight, for instance, had motorists gone to the pumps Friday – only to discover local gas prices had skyrocketed yet again. Can you envision a survey Friday afternoon at gas stations asking motorists their thoughts on the governor's highway proposal?
Everyone agrees there is a problem. The harder part is agreeing on the solution.
Thankfully there were bright spots in the budget as well.
Increasing the state police force, for instance, is a concept few are going to find fault with. In today's world, the more deterrents we have to discourage criminal acts, the better.
Likewise conservation seems to have been a priority item with the governor as he proposed hiking hunting and fishing fees, although the brunt of the increases will be paid by out-of-state sportsmen who want to hunt or fish in Michigan. As long as the revenue remain strictly within the DNR budget and not raided for projects elsewhere by the legislature, I can support the increase.
While school funding still isn't at a level where area superintendents would like to see, there is more headed this way via the budget. Districts at the minimum levels of state funding would receive $34 more per student.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. would receive $10 million toward new training programs. Alpena Community College has been a beneficiary of similar MEDC grants in the past, and there is reason to suspect it could again in the future. Likewise, if the drone project were to move forward locally, some of these dollars also could end up here in connection with that project.
Finally, the governor proposed $21 million for harbor dredging, a vital need as all the Great Lakes are suffering from low water levels, especially Lakes Huron and Michigan, which are at historic lows.
The blueprint has been presented. The ink is still drying. Now will come the interesting part as the legislature "slices and dices" its contents.
It's going to get interesting.


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Iron River man faces additional charges
By NIKKI YOUNK
Staff Writer
CRYSTAL FALLS – An Iron River man accused of criminal sexual conduct with victims under the age of 13 is now facing more charges.
Dennis Alan Johnson, 54, was originally charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct-first degree and three felony counts of criminal sexual conduct-second degree.
During a re-arraignment Monday in Iron County Trial Court, Johnson was charged with those counts and four additional counts: one felony count of criminal sexual contact-second degree and three felony counts of criminal sexual contact-third degree.
The additional charges reflect alleged crimes against a third victim that were not included in the original case.
Johnson will have a preliminary examination on all charges on April 15.
He is currently being held at the Iron County Jail on a $25,000 cash bond.
According to the criminal complaint in the case, Johnson is accused of having sexual contact with three different female victims under the age of 13. The alleged incidents occurred in Iron River between 2006 and 2010.
If convicted on the first degree charges, Johnson must spend between 25 years to life in prison. The second and third degree charges carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
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