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DeceasedOnline have just twittered that they are about to put online 56,400 burials from Plumstead Cemetery. So if you have ancestors there, keep checking back for the latest news.
Genealogy news, Family History links for your English Family Tree
Genealogy news, Family History links for your English Family Tree
DeceasedOnline have just twittered that they are about to put online 56,400 burials from Plumstead Cemetery. So if you have ancestors there, keep checking back for the latest news.
As promised last week DeceasedOnline have added the burial records for Charlton Cemetery, Greenwich to their collection. The coverage is 1855 – 2001 and comprises 36,500 burials. The cemetery opened in 1855 and has the graves of some important military and historical figures. On offer are scans of the original burial registers, grave details, cemetery maps indicating grave location and a number of headstone photographs.
If you have ancestors who lived and died in Greenwich this may be where you will find they ended up !!
I've just received a bulletin from DeceasedOnline, it contains the news that five cemeteries in the royal Borough of Greenwich are being added over the next few weeks. Eltham Cemetery and Crematorium is now completely uploaded and available for searching. Greenwich Cemetery coverage is now 50%+ complete. The rest of Greenwich cemetery will follow shortly.
The other three cemeteries within the borough; Woolwich, Charlton and Plumstead are due to come online over the next few weeks.
PS The photo illustrating this post is from Kensal Green not one of the Greenwich cemeteries, but it amuses me as it was positioned as if it was there for the inhabitants not visitors to the cemetery!!
Deceased Online will be adding half the records for Greenwich cemetery to their database from tomorrow 14th September, the remaining records will be added in a couple of weeks time. Apparently Greenwich has hundreds of WW1 & WW2 graves so this addition will be of interested to family historians from other areas of England and elsewhere.
The company has also announced that next week they will be adding all the records for Eltham Cemetery, also known as Falconwood Cemetery, the Eltham Crematorium records have been online for a while so this will complete the set.
Good news all round for those with people in the Greenwich area!
If you haven't visited the Deceased Online webpage then you should, it's a great place for getting access to the records for those ancestors who were buried in cemeteries rather than churchyards. Cemeteries are either owned by private companies or by councils and their records can be held at the cemetery or in offices which can be quite a distance from the cemetery.
Deceased Online have partnered with cemetery owners and are putting the burial records online. There is a fee for looking at the original scan, but it isn't huge and often much cheaper than locating the burial record yourself. Also some cemetery owners charge a search fee so you end up paying anyway!
The company now have a blog and a Facebook page so that everyone can keep up with what's been added to their collection. Below are the links to their website, Facebook page and Blog.
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Offerors must submit all clarification questions concerning this solicitation in writing to the contract specialist by October 25, 1999, not October 15, 1999 as shown in Section L.8, Clause 311-6. An official amendment to the solicitation will be forthcoming regarding this change.
DUE DATE:November 29, 1999, 2 P.M. E.S.T.
POC:Lola Bland, Contract Specialist at (202) 401-3538
The United States Department of Education (ED) has a requirement for an Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS 2000). ELS:2002 will begin with a tenth grade cohort in 2002 that will be followed at two year intervals. ELS:2002 will collect data from students and their schools, parents, and teachers. Students will also be asked to complete cognitive tests in mathematics and reading comprehension. The method of data collection will include paper and pencil sessions in group settings and telephone & personal interviews. This study will culminate with documented data files and the user's manual for the first follow-up.
Requests for copies of the RFP may be made by telephone, mail, telegram, Internet, or in person. All requests shall reference the RFP number (ED-99-R-0042) and title. Telephone requests may be placed by calling 202-708-6498. Mail or telegram requests shall be sent to the following address, U.S. Department of Education/CPO, ATTN: Yolanda Abney, Room 3616, 7th & D Streets, SW, Washington, DC 20202-4443. Internet requests may be sent to email@example.com. Copies of the RFP may be picked up in person on the issuing date at the above address, Room 3616. Issue date is October 13, 1999 and Closing date is November 29, 1999, 2PM EST. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered. The dates listed herein are subject to change.
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The sound on A.K.A.C.O.D.'s new Happiness CD — baritone sax, drums, slippery fretless bass and two-string slide bass combined with sultry bottom-register vocals — is going to make many Boston listeners think one word: Morphine. The comparisons are something that A.K.A.C.O.D. (also known as Colley/Ortiz/Dersch), who play Church December 6, are accustomed to. Saxophonist Dana Colley was one-third of the beloved Boston "low-rock" trio created by singer/bassist/songwriter Mark Sandman. Drummer Larry Dersch, a long-time utility player on the Boston scene (Binary System, with Roger Miller, and the Concussion Ensemble), did some recording with Morphine. And for singer-songwriter Monique Ortiz, who's best known for her performances and CDs under the band name Bourbon Princess, Morphine has been a constant. It was Sandman, after all, who encouraged her to move here from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she and a friend saw Morphine in Philadelphia and were knocked out by the sound. After the show, they found themselves complaining to Sandman about the lack of a local scene. His reply, after a very pregnant, Sandman-esque pause: "I think you need to relocate."
"I was already exploring some of those elements," Ortiz says of Morphine's sound when I get together with the band over beers at the Abbey Lounge. "I'd hear something in my head and nobody else was doing it — so how do I make this? I was taking my basses apart and playing a lot of fretless bass and doing a lot of drony things, and I couldn't find anyone to play with who understood what I was trying to do."
When she heard Morphine, she says, "I was excited and a little pissed off, because 'these guys are doing it! There's somebody out there doing it!' "
She moved to Boston, played in various bands, and formed Bourbon Princess. When Sandman died on stage in Palestrina, Italy, during a Morphine performance in July 1999, she recalls, "I wasn't just sad that he was gone, I was sad that there were certain sounds I wanted to keep hearing. I knew the only way I was going to hear them, or hear new things done with them, was if I did it myself."
Colley had his own issues with the Morphine sound. When Bourbon Princess recorded at Morphine's Hi-N-Dry studio and he was brought in as an engineer, he at first resisted getting further involved in Ortiz's music. But then he recorded with Bourbon Princess on 2003's Black Feather Wings (Accurate). "I don't know why it is that I had such a problem with it to begin with, because it's where we come from, it's what we created, and to delve into that and to borrow or be influenced from our own past shouldn't be a problem. I faced my reservations and realized they were of my own making, because the music itself was its own thing." As for his musical relationship with Ortiz: "We're both coming from the same æsthetic — we like things that sound low and deep and simple and groovy. It's a coincidence, maybe, but it's also where we're both moved to make music."
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Posted by Stephen Mann on June 27, 2011
OK, so we all probably now know that the long-awaited ITIL "refresh," ITIL v3.1 (or the ITIL 2011 Edition as it now seems to be called), is to be released on the 29th July 2011. But four years on from the release of ITIL v3 where are we exactly?
Let's start with the provided facts about the updated version of ITIL. The ITIL Best Practice Management update points out that this is an "update" not a new version. Paraphrasing the update on the update, ITIL 2011 Edition is designed to:
Posted by Kate Leggett on June 7, 2011
Forrester's book Groundswell made the power of social media tangible with real-world examples and laid out a framework to help onboard organizations. However, many companies today still struggle to benchmark their social media journey, manage bottom-up social activities, and prove the ROI of social media activities. The new chapters published in the just-released expanded and revised edition of Groundswell highlight some best practices. Here are some of them:


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Get Off My Block
Dear Editor;
Another letter about the parking situation in Broad Channel. Honestly, enough already! I am really tired of you talking about me! Yes, I do live here with my husband and two small children.
I cannot leave for more than five minutes to come back to no parking spots anywhere for blocks and blocks. Is it really bothering you people that much that the people who live here save themselves a parking spot?
If so, shame on you! Why don't you park where you live? And by the way, my husband is getting tired of cleaning up after you "slobs" so while your on the horn to sanitation, don't forget to mention that!
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For the third consecutive year, Wright State University School of Medicine has received a generous gift from the Kettering Fund of Dayton. This year's grant will establish a new research center of excellence and expand two other research programs at the medical school.
Wright State's new Lifespan Health Research Center, located at the Miami Valley Research Park in Kettering, combines internationally recognized research projects on cardiovascular disease and rehabilitation medicine. The center is the steward of the Fels Longitudinal Study, the world's largest and longest-running survey of human growth, body composition, and cardiovascular risk factors.
Kettering Fund support will enable the center's researchers to expand their investigation of human variation throughout the lifespan, from childhood to old age. A long-range goal of the research is to develop practical diagnostic tools for assessing health status and aging in older persons.
The Kettering Fund gift also will augment research at Wright State's Gene Expression Laboratory and Center for Interventions, Treatment, and Addictions Research (CITAR). The laboratory is a collaboration between Wright State's School of Medicine and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Using the latest "gene chip" technology to study changes in gene expression, the laboratory is currently conducting research on genetic factors involved in Gulf War Syndrome and cancer.
Kettering Fund support will enable more Wright State scientists and clinicians to use gene chips in their research. The new technology is expected to open up new avenues of exploration as well as new and more precise methods for diagnosing diseases such as cancer.
Kettering Fund support will enable CITAR to launch the first statewide research effort to monitor adolescent substance abuse and other health issues throughout Ohio. The new program builds on the research track record of the Dayton Area Drug Survey, which has monitored the incidence and prevalence of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use by Miami Valley teenagers since 1990.
The new program will provide the types of statewide data about teen tobacco use, as well as other substance abuse problems, that Ohio policy makers need to plan prevention programs funded by the state tobacco settlement.
"Over the past three years, generous grants from the Kettering Fund have enabled Wright State University School of Medicine to make strategic investments in exciting and innovative new directions in biomedical research," says Dr. Howard Part, dean of medicine at Wright State.
In 1999 Kettering Fund support provided seed grants through the Medical Innovations Grant Program which have resulted in more than $4.5 million in competitive research awards from federal and state sources; an additional $5.5 million is under review. Last year Kettering support brought additional post-doctoral researchers to Wright State and established a new center of excellence, the Center for Brain Research.
"A key feature of all the initiatives supported by the Kettering Fund is an emphasis on multi-disciplinary research, including collaboration between Wright State's biomedical scientists and clinicians," Part explains. "By keeping this research strategy in the forefront, we hope to speed the transfer of new medical knowledge from the 'bench' to the 'bedside.'"
"The Kettering family is pleased to support medical research at Wright State University School of Medicine. The family hopes the latest gift will continue to foster innovative research collaborations in the Miami Valley, " says Al Leland, who represents Virginia Kettering.


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I recently got a DUI and was ordered to get car interlock installed in my car. Now problem is for my work, I often have to rent car since I travel. What can I do about it, I live in Michigan.
Also, if I need to reduce my probation terms, will a probabtion officer help me or do I need to file a motion. And can a file a motion myself, instead of getting a lawyer?
"...ordered to get car interlock installed in my car."
What does the order say about operating another vehicle, not one actually owned by you? I suspect that there is something on that subject. If not, consult with your attorney about consequences of operating a vehicle with the interlock equipment. Ask him/her about possible modification of your terms of probation while you're at it.
By the way, does your employer know about your DUI and what is there take on the issue? I'm curious because at my company you would probably not be driving a rent car for business purposes, anywhere.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
well it says any car I operate and no I havent told my employer about it. I am loosing my sleep over this.
Also, if I move my state of residency (lets say from Detroit to Chicago), will my probabtion get carried over?
You need to discuss that one with your attorney as well.
I think the answer is that the new state must agree to take over.
Most states believe they have enough of theiw own "problem children" to supervise. It is by no means a given that you will be able to transfer it. If you can't, then you may not be able to legally move to another state.
"...any car I operate and no I havent told my employer about it. I am loosing my sleep over this."
Any car, to me, would seem to cover a rental vehicle. You might consider having your attorney review this to make sure. As far as your employer, you might make some discreet inquiries about the company's policy or attitude regarding DUI activity. They may have a policy that restricts or forbids your operating a vehicle while on company time for company business.
A taxi is always an option if you don't rent a vehicle.
If you move, you're probaly going to have to abide by the order in your new location. I would check it out with an attorney to be sure.
Your probation officer only enforces the terms of your probation.
You'll have to go back to court to ask for a change.
You can certainly do that without an attorney, if you know how?
Do you?
If you don't know how, get the attorney to do it.
The attorney would probably get better results anyway.
Thanks a lot guys for your comments, it really helped to calm things down for me.
One more questions, if you do really well in your probation for a month or two, does it really help. I knw it depends on the judge and county, but in general does it makes my case stronger.
I have been asked to do 35 hours of AA meetings, I am planning to do atleast 40-50 hours by end of April, have already done 8 hours in past 5 days.
How long is your probation? Generally the courts don't modify probation (other than changing it to another state if you move and the other state agrees) after a couple of months good behavior. Most people on probation behave for the first couple of months it's maintaining it that is the problem.
If you want this modified you need an attorney to help you and there better be a REALLY compelling reason and you have a spotless record since. The courts are coming down hard on DUI these days and the courts are reluctant to back off on sentencing once handed down. If they do that and you rack up another DUI and this time hurt/kill someone they will take a huge hit for it.
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Hello, I have a tattoo and had an IPL treatment to remove hair around the tattoo and it accidentilly reached my tattoo and burned it. Will it be permanently damaged? Small pieces of black skin ar coming off and I am really worried.
An IPL Laser Accidentally Burned my Tattoo, Will It Be Permanently Damaged?
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Effect of IPL on tattoo
The tattoo will be slightly lighter, as the IPL destroys and "lifts" darker pigment molecules such as the ones found in your tattoo.
IPL laser burned off tattoo
IPL targets color and pigment, so it would be very much attracted to inks in tattoos. When doing IPL on people with tattoos (that want to keep them!) it's best to cover the tattoo itself with something to prevent the light from hitting it at all. The treatment may in fact have removed some of the ink, and that's what is crusting off. In the treated areas the tattoo will probably lighten or smear a bit. But it won't be gone completely and you can have the tattoo redarkened again. Ask your laser technician to appropriately cover the tattoo next time before treatment!
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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The next Willits Free Store is set for this Saturday, October 20, at the parking lot at Sanhedrin High School, 120 North Main Street, from 9 to 11 a.m.
The Willits Free Store was started to be a place where community members can come and exchange, donate or accept clothing items. The Free Store is open to everyone in the community, said Hollie Aldridge, of the Willits Unified School District office, who is helping to organize the ongoing events.
"I'm really hoping that people will come and do clothing exchanges with each other, that the whole community can come and participate," Aldridge said. Thirty children, including children from local homeless families, were assisted at the September event.
Aldridge wanted to thank her volunteers, Katherine and Alyssa--"They worked so hard!" she said--and also members of Jessie Rees' Special Day Class at WHS, who sorted and washed donated clothing.
Donations are always needed. Donations can be dropped off at the Willits Free Store events, or call Aldridge at WHS at 459-5314, extension 1100, to make arrangements or for more information.
There will be another Willits Free Store at the Sanhedrin parking lot on Saturday, November 17, then after a break in December, the events will continue monthly through May 2013.


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MOUNT_SYSCTLFS(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT_SYSCTLFS(8) NAME mount_sysctlfs -- mount sysctl namespace as a directory hierarchy SYNOPSIS mount_sysctlfs [-r] [-o mntopts] sysctlfs mount_point DESCRIPTION The mount_sysctlfs program provides the sysctl(8) hierarchy through the file system namespace. It is possible to browse the tree, query node values and modify them. By default, the node contents are interpreted as ASCII. If the -r flag is given, the server uses raw mode and displays node contents as they are received from the kernel (binary). SEE ALSO puffs(3), puffs(4), mount(8), sysctl(8) HISTORY The mount_sysctlfs utility first appeared in NetBSD 5.0. CAVEATS Raw mode [-r] does not currently support node modification. NetBSD 7.0 April 11, 2010 NetBSD 7.0
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Please enter your password to continue.
I use an extra strength face wash already. This one couldn't compete with that. However, "two-in-one" items like this are great for the gym bag.2


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Well-designed and well-executed health promotion programs can
pay for themselves by reducing health risk factors and improving
health and productivity.
In 2002, Johnson and Johnson published the results of the first
long-term evaluation of the financial and health impact of a
large-scale corporate health and wellness program. Savings came
from reductions in hospital admissions, mental health visits, and
outpatient services. Savings grew over time, and most came in the
third or fourth year after program inception. The bottom line: $225
saved per employee per year. And the results are getting better.
The average cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1:3 for earlier
programs to 1:6 today.
Tobacco and Obesity
Heart disease, cancer, and stroke may be the most common causes
listed on death certificates. The worst real killers, though, are
tobacco, poor diet, and lack of exercise.
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Tobacco use is the major cause of preventable death in Texas and
the United States, with more than 400,000 related deaths each year.
Annual medical and economic costs attributable to active smoking in
the United States are $150 billion, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (2002). The annual costs of excess
medical care, mortality, and morbidity caused by secondhand
exposure to tobacco smoke exceed $10 billion.
More than 61 percent of Texas adults and 35 percent of Texas
school-age children are considered overweight or obese.
The obesity epidemic hurts our schools and workplaces through
absenteeism and lost productivity. An average-size school district
could lose $95,000 in state aid per year due to the rate of
absenteeism among overweight students.
At least half of worksite health care costs are driven by
lifestyle-related behaviors, such as smoking, poor diet, and lack
of exercise.
In all, an estimated $10 billion is spent annually on health care
in Texas due to obesity; by 2040, that cost is projected to reach
$39 billion.
Vaccines are among the greatest public health measures we have,
particularly against life-threatening diseases in children. The
direct and indirect savings of commonly used vaccines range from $2
to $24 per dollar invested, according to the National Immunization
Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2004).
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services,
pertussis (whooping cough) has killed more than 26 Texans since
1999, mostly infants too young to have received the vaccine; six of
those were babies who died in the first nine months of 2005. The
World Health Organization estimates that the annual cost of
influenza epidemics to the U.S. economy is $71 billion to $167
Texas is currently 48th in the nation in childhood immunization
Part of the reason for this dismal performance is that physicians
and health officials have no way of knowing which children have
been immunized. Additionally, recent media coverage questioning
vaccine safety has made parents fearful of immunizing their
children. Confusion resulting from changes in the recommended
immunization schedule also has contributed. In recent years,
sporadic vaccine shortages have compounded the problem.
Physicians face steep financial disincentives to provide
immunizations. Reimbursement is inadequate. The total cost of
administering vaccines, per shot, is $10.67 for pediatric practices
and $7.57 for family practices.
The current reimbursement rate in Texas for vaccine administration
is $5. Newly recommended vaccines have become increasingly
expensive. Physicians must purchase those vaccines for people who
do not qualify for the Vaccines for Children program and for those
whose health plans do not cover the immunizations.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, untreated
mental illness costs the United States $300 billion each year;
untreated depression alone is responsible for $40 billion of that.
The American Psychiatric Association (2005) asserts that mental
health treatment can more than pay for itself in terms of increased
worker productivity; untreated psychiatric illnesses exacerbate
chronic conditions like arthritis, asthma, and diabetes, thus
increasing potentially avoidable visits to primary care
Alcohol and substance abuse pour additional stress onto our
already-burdened medical system in Texas. Most people with
untreated alcoholism require more general health care, including
treatment for illness and injury. Their health care costs are at
least 100-percent higher than for people who do not have
alcoholism. Untreated alcohol problems waste $184.6 billion per
year in health care, business, and criminal justice costs, and
cause more than 100,000 deaths, according to the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2000).
Underage drinking costs $3.7 billion a year for medical costs
due to traffic crashes, violent crime, suicide attempts, and other
related consequences. The total annual cost of alcohol use by
underage youth is $52.8 billion.
Kaiser Family Foundation.
Texas Department of State Health Services. Worksite Wellness -
Reap the Benefits of Health; 2005.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The 2004 Surgeon
General's Report.
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Tobacco Smoke; March 31, 2005.
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Obesity in Texas.
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Value of Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity in Our
Schools; 2004.
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in Texas 2000-2040.
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Children Aged 19-35 Months - United States, 2004. MMWR; July 29,
2005 / 54(29);717-721. Accessed October 2005 at
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Second window opens for Poker Flat rocket launch
The second launch window for the 48-foot, two-stage rocket began Monday night and runs through March 8.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – Strong wind and other conditions a few weeks ago prevented a rocket launch at Poker Flat Research Range but scientists are making another attempt.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks says scientists want to fire a NASA sounding rocket over a dynamic aurora.
They tried for 16 nights starting Jan. 25 but were confounded by winds that would have pushed rocket stages beyond areas where stages could land. Also, auroras were not appropriate for the test some nights.
The second launch window for the 48-foot, two-stage rocket began Monday night and runs through March 8.
Lead scientist Marilia Samara of the Southwest Research Institute plans to use particle instruments and electric and magnetic field probes to learn more about the sun-Earth energy connection that powers the aurora and affects satellites.
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West Australian batsman Shaun Marsh has been called into Australia's one-day squad to replace Mike Hussey, who has undergone surgery for a serious hamstring injury.
Selectors say Marsh will play the next three matches against England.
Australia lead the seven-match series 1-0 after last Sunday's opening victory at the MCG.
"Whilst the injury appeared to be minor at the time and soon after the game, scans have since revealed that he has avulsed one of the hamstring tendons from the attachment point at (the) inner side of his knee," Australian team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said in a statement.
"As such, Michael had corrective surgery today.
"The recovery time and availability for the ICC World Cup will be dependent on his progress with the rehabilitation program in the coming weeks."


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Date of Stay: June, 2008
We stayed just before the July 4th weekend for six nights and loved it. The sites are well spaced and some have waterfront views. Although with being all first come first serve it's hard to get the ones right on the water, but we were able to (got there on a thursday AM). The shower house was clean and maintained. Trash was picked up several times throughout the day/evenings. The loop we were in had access to the lake nearby and a small beach so we were able to swim close by. There are two public beaches nearby also. The Campground is located two miles away from I-57 but it is easy to find. You are on the northern edge of Rend Lake. Being our first time here I would say we would come back.
Date of Stay: July, 2006
This is one my favorite parks. It is always clean and quiet most of the time. There are some pets restrictions, (certain breeds not allowed) But otherwise most dogs allowed. Theres plenty of fishing available with a bait shop/concession stand close by. Food is good and priced reasonable. The beach is open again and only cost 1 dollar per person. They have ice/firewood available at the concession stand and some firewood available at the host station. The restrooms/shower house was clean and neat as always (at least when i've been there) The host are good they rotate between 3 couples so the one you check in with may not be working when you leave but they are all nice people, also they have 2 dump stations the main dump station is by the entrance to the park and the other on is just inside the campground by the check in station. My son caught a lot of fish this last trip. There also is a clean and updated playground located in the middle of the campground. There are no pull thru sites. In sections A , section P, and section F there are reservable sites. Highly recommend reservations on holiday weekends. Website has map available to see and also reservation forms. We will be back.
Date of Stay: July, 2006
All I can say is for this being our first time here. I can't say enough about this campground it really is located about a mile off the main street (441S). The only thing to watch out for is when you turn onto Henderson Springs Road to go to Creekside Campground, you'll first see another campground but immediately after is Creekside We almost went right past the drive. The roads are all paved and the pool is clean, there is a basketball hoop by the office and the bathroom/shower houses are very clean and air conditioned. Also the wife said the laundry room was clean. You can catch the trolley in the campground. I would recommend taking the trolley at least if you plan on going to Gatlinburg, as it was convenient and we didn't have to look for parking. There is plenty of shade and full hookups. Cable channels seemed to have a good selection. The owners were nice and the had firewood, ice and limited rv supplies available. They do accept good sam's. The campground is close to gas & stores. We had a great stay and we will camp here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2006
We stayed for a stop over, We pulled in about 9pm and say that you don't want to come after dark as it really full of trees. Great for the day time as all sites appeared to be well shaded. Not sure on Wi-Fi as we don't use although the owners said they had it available. The bathrooms/shower house were very clean and air conditioned. They even had music piped in you could hear. Roads could be tight for the big rigs although we saw several in with toads while we were there.There were plenty of pull thru sites Theres is a lake and playground centrally located.The office/store seemed to be clean & stocked. Park is close to the interstate but far enough away we couldn't hear road noise overnight. I can say that we would camp here again.
Date of Stay: May, 2006
All I can say is for the memorial Holiday weekend and being Full, The campgrounds were clean. The shower/restrooms were clean all of the time. The beach was open and it cost everyone a dollar to go into the beach but it was worth it as it has 1000 feet of beach all sand and clean. The beach was very busy during the time we were there. The beach is located just south of the campground, The beach also has showers/restrooms but We didn't use them as we cleaned our feet off outdoors by the gates leading to the parking area and went back to the campgrounds. Also the concessions stand has good food and is reasonably priced, It's also located close to the southside of the campgrounds and the beach borders nearby, so you use it from either side. Over all for being a full campground, I can say that we will be back again.
Date of Stay: April, 2006
This is a great IDNR campground. It is located 3 miles outside of DeWitt taking advantage of Clinton Lake (the second largest lake in down state IL), offering a great boating/water skiing experience, a beach, fishing, picnicking, hiking, and biking. The camp ground also has a small bait/supply store, and very nice concession stand. This is also a great area to see wild life native to this region. My parents have camped for 40 years, and when they visited us at this camp ground were so disappointed to discover that they had had this great location less than an hour from home and had never discovered it. We also saw a strong ranger presence in the park - never going more than a few hours during the day when we didn't see a ranger in our camp loop. The camp ground also offers designated areas where alcohol is PROHIBITED. We saw this as a real advantage for families with small children in particular. This park also offers 30 of their over 300 sites as reservable, some of these even being their "full hook up" sites - however several of the "full hook up" sites are still on a 1st come 1st serve basis.
Date of Stay: July, 2005
Quiet park most of the time except friday/saturday nights; They host free concerts 6pm-9pm. Campers are welcomed to stop by the concessions area to listen although you can hear the music through the campground. They have 33 sites with 13 sites being in the front half and 20 sites in the back half with the shower building dividing between the two areas. Concessions stand close by and serves good food also has boat rentals, ice, & wood, etc... Several types of camping are offered at Walnut Point State Park. "Class A" camping areas offer campers use of electric hook-ups and a shower building with flush toilets. In addition, "Class C" walk-in tent camping areas and a group camping area (youth and adult) are available. Drinking water and a sanitary dump station are provided. During cold weather, camp facilities are subject to closure. Campers are reminded they are required to have their primary camping unit with them before they can occupy a site and obtain a permit. Currently, all Class "A and C" campsites are available for reservation. The group camping area and two large picnic shelters are also reservable. Please contact the park office for current information. PET Restrictions are: all noisy,vicious or dangerous animals are not allowed. We enjoy this campground and would reccomend reservations on most good weather weekends as there are only 33 sites (not including walk in tent sites) And the campground fills up fast. We will camp here again.
Date of Stay: May, 2005
Campground was clean and quiet. Most sites were gravel. A few sites had full hookups. The road leading into the park is narrow. There a 10 sites available by the office mainly for overnight stays all pull thrus. Big rig friendly. They do have more sites further back in the park that also have pull thrus and the rest are back ins. The road around the park is gravel so it can get dusty. Pets are allowed. There is a separate area in the back of the campground for monthly rentals. Mostly locals staying back here who were very nice. The showers/restrooms are clean but need updated. The office personal were very friendly and even showed us to our site. The campground is located within a mile of I-74 and makes and great location to stop overnight. The times we have been there it's been quiet. There is a large open field for the kids to play in and the playground also needs updated. We have camped here several times and we will return.


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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Oh The Humanity
Of course, the banks have their useful idiots to defend them. One such is the Sun's Tom Brodbeck (one wonders how long you have to bow and scrape on what Sun pays its reporters before you get to cash in on the Tory big bucks and land a cushy job at a fake research agency).
Brodbeck writes, "I don't know what kind of glue this guy is sniffing. Consumers have all kinds of choice on where to bank and how to withdraw money. And just like 20 years ago, you can still do it for free."
This is simply not true. If Brodbeck is banking for free, then he's either paying a monthly service charge, or he's keeping some significant minimum balance in his (non-interest paying) account. Of course, on a Sun salary, Brodbeck shouldn't know anything about high income banking.
The bank charges are a recent invention. I remember when there was no charge at all for withdrawing from the teller (and I think it was something like 14 cents to write a cheque). Along came bank machines, and they were at first free to use as well. Great stuff; none of us liked waiting in line for the teller. But then not so long ago - it's really only five years or so ago - banks started charging fees. First to other banks' customers. Then their own customers.
The strategy is of course to blame the customer for running up their banking costs. This is, of course, a con game. When customers doing what they have always been doing suddenly start getting much increased charges, it's not the customers' fault. No, it's the $14 billion industry that's gouging them. Again. And making up bank fairy tales isn't going to change that fact.
Brodbeck says, "Everybody likes a little bank bashing." There's a reason for that. Banks, almost uniquely, deserve to be bashed.
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- AnonymousTuesday, January 30, 2007
You're voluntarily paying a convenience fee for a service.ReplyDelete
If you don't want the convenience of getting to take out your money at 500+ locations across your city, I suggest getting a 'free' ING account.
If you're too stupid or too lazy to do so, you deserve to get 'gouged'.
Wrong. They are paying me so they can use my money while I'm not using it. If they were not in a monopoly position, they would be paying me to use the ATM, as it saves them so much on staff costs.ReplyDelete
geez - what a volcano - i've been meaning to blog about this for months but can't bring myself to cos i'm afraid i'll just spew endlessly.ReplyDelete
the thing that's interesting me lately is the way everyone is becoming a banker - department stores, appliance manufacturers, telcos, just about everyone. and they advertise "interest free" terms (which, upon reading the fine print) means that it's theoretically interest free if you follow instructions precisely (such as paying a particular amount before a particular date each month).
if you don't, you then attract the "excuse me, i'm your not so interest free 21+% interest on the full amount you'll pay each time you do this" fee, which is a bit shocking. i bought a lounge recently and was offered "interest free" terms - it was only later that i learned that each time i stuff up (and this is entirely possible - already i have had to phone the company twice to ask why they (each time) somehow "undo" my interest free status, forcing me to ring them each time and suspend my payment until it's sorted out, meaning that within days i'll be beyond my first month and close to $100 (interest only) in default before i even start. (and from there, the $100 becomes part of the amount they charge interest on if i don't manage the due date again meaning my debt becomes compounded before i can even get started). (sorry about all the brackets - can't seem to huff and puff and spell etc at the same time).
and, while i asked for $4000 in credit (only cos i bought this thing at night and was talked into doing it "simply" rather than visiting my own bank the next day), they've now mysteriously given me $7500 credit limit (without really knowing anything about me or my credit rating etc). another credit card. woo hoo.
anyway - i'm garbling here, but that's just one part of it - so much about these "banks" really really disturb me in terms of what is apparently legal.
clearly there's more money in moneylending than selling things. can't help thinking about jesus in the temple, throwing these bastards out on their ears.
except they're not the problem - merchants have always been opportunists the most part. it's the governments who allow these sorts of things who are to blame and really from there we can only blame ourselves for the dickheads we end up with.
in the end the problem is the millions of sonambulists out there, watching lifestyle shows on their "interest free" plasma tv's, fat as houses, watching rome burn.
no wonder you don't like groups.


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Apr 14, 2011|
Doc Rivers joins D&C to talks about the Perkins trade, Shaq's return and the matchup with the Knicks.
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You know statistically if you look at the box score last night Celtics winnable the next should be very impressed and say they are rolling into the play at six Celtics in double figures. They shot 56 and a half percent from the floor. And got that name aside threat is gaps and -- slumping. Disputes and shots for tabs. Greece scored fourteen babies scored seventeen and artistic scored thirteen wafer scored fourteen Bradley scored one -- I would have scored nineteen. Her -- perhaps perhaps was four for five from three point. -- don't know the knicks were running them hard closing out the shooter they never do that. It'll eliminate the ducks in -- Jonas and about a minute from now we can eliminate wasting a minute of time and saying what that last night's game mean what you aptly enough the aptly enough. Stoudamire did play I guess. No meals. -- of important -- mattered. That ray Allen's day in his suit guy. Rondo and pierce had actually put there sneezes yeah. That in rhetoric also play it's it's again I go back. I'm always the optimistic one and there was no but flip the switch. The whole team does have to flip the switch to start and at the scene of the day populace is any great year. Kevin Garnett isn't a very good year last year at this time we wondered would go and that no flip the switch would he be there and couldn't he wasn't able to. And he still -- by the way and the even in the playoffs he was hobbled he was hurting right and the reason they lost game seven is not as -- was discuss. Oh so well. Commitment yeah and and what three boards and a solid eighteen boards. And the Celtics could not score in the last two games even with park in game six -- -- underestimated park now it's six at the lakers series when they scored 69 you can look that I will look up but it and so we have light with the great. Kendrick. A -- Ewing Jabbar. They only had 69 points and in game seven without -- they only in seven whatever they could not score. Which has been largely a problem on the stretch. And that's Rondo Rondo flips a switch and Rondo plays like he does -- postal increases he still has those games. Because he's not hurt we -- think. -- it's a bit of common concern if he's healthy. And meet them -- can change everything you you can beat. The Rondo rom. Until the cows come home. And the fact is there are other elements involved here I know you've glob on to Rondo you have to protect your little. -- little you'll realm of Ron -- the recent good or bad Rondo is the reason there are other things at play here beside -- on Rondo. You want us to believe that Ray Allen -- throat in the ocean from the boat because Rondo is doing something wrong you possibly that they can't score they can't play defense they can't set fixed array -- because Rondo is it doing what Rondo can do obviously Rondo is that an up and down -- it's not the entire reason there're a number of reasons it's all in Perkins says -- never goes all Kendrick Perkins. Popularly known -- Doc Rivers is brought -- -- Herb Chambers are authorized Mercedes-Benz deal with locations in Boston infield and Natick. They've got it and Herb Chambers dot com and by Mikey Adam's -- doctor doctor Leonard hair transplant associates 1800. Get -- morning doc how are you. Martin minority say the minute we're fine and eliminate the question what at last night's game means they don't they get met much of anything fair to say we can move on. Excellent here's something else that doesn't mean anything -- heard people talking about well the last couple games and audition for the twelfth spot on the roster. Bradley way for Sasha that doesn't mean much either -- what about eight or maybe nine deepen your rotation. Yeah but it's amazing when you did ask that question and you know of the dead in the player ever just used to matter I don't them there right. So let's get the something that does matter are the Celtics ready for the post season now or is this little mini camp thing between now and Sunday evening. Going to put the finishing touches and the edge you need to play well. What -- were ready. Bureaucracy at center for the player also. You know your opponent is and so that gives -- -- time to prepare which is good. And the game went certainly doesn't hurt you know that means we have we've had a lot of rest or intuit. And now so we should be pretty good. Does the regular season. Against the -- does that matter. Now one gains it was the only game that. Matters in the end that's because at that are traded at that -- -- Would play one day. To -- game but other than that. And doesn't matter marched you know. You UC tendencies. You know the other games obviously. And they see some that we replay of the -- in the way they play defense and same thing -- our -- stuff you don't change who you are completely no matter pubic region. But other than that. You you know you wanna mall loss Somalia cat -- doesn't matter going into the playoffs. Changes isn't that historically we hear those less transition is this tougher better defense more half court play. Is that true and if it is true does that play into your favor. Well I don't know deployed in our paper or not -- cases it is preparation you know -- recklessly and you may play four games and five day. You don't have one single target. You don't have. You know one single focus. And so and in you don't have breast. You know go to regular season this is more grind and that's why you you know -- always caution everyone regular season games you gotta be careful because. You don't know the game the team is just -- -- the West Coast trip for you you know certain stone ago. -- recklessly and everybody on the same -- and or the -- -- So that's what makes it different -- you -- as it does slow a little bit because of you know by Jane Q. You know callers these orders. An academic fusion gonna come down to players -- voice. Doctors -- fair to say that the Celtics are playing the kind of consistent smothering defense you played. Proportions of last year and the beginning of this year. Right now are low right now going it and we hadn't been that statistically our numbers are better. So it it's just that. When we play. Argued in I would say in fairways were brought it to you before. If you go about a number at all. I know you don't install the defense like the patriots would do for a game on Sunday but to tweak it and and what are the two elements when you try to deal with Carmelo and Stoudamire what are the two elements in -- defense that need to be functioning. All eight cylinders to shut each of those guys down. Well our help defense has to be -- believe. You know they're very different group what makes -- you know and Chauncey Billups it would make Vick really till now. Didn't before -- reported courage to really focus on one guy that was Stoudamire. Not yet to release their kitchen it to two other guys in the in Billups and in Carmelo. And investor required -- there there are very tough. Signal cover guys we don't like double team and much. And shall we probably will not do that much. But everyone has being helpers are properly. -- ones are you what went with a trade was first mate and for a while after that they were fairly dysfunctional in fact Carmelo said well you know what we're a work in progress. Next year will really concentrate on the playoffs probably -- have that besides the obvious of just getting more used to each other. Technically specifically from basketball. Standpoint what have they done to kind of turn that around -- 180 degrees to be the -- a teammate who won seven of their last eight summit last. It together you know listen we -- more room there right. Soro. You just play together and and it does not -- -- -- chemistry you're near temple it all that stuff. But there's enough time and they had enough time. We -- have enough time. It's it's -- it's not the chill. Is is. Pierce on Carmelo is Garnett on Stoudamire is Rondo on Chauncey Billups or is that too simplistic. New investors simplistic. As far as yes. You know we don't like cross matchup -- a lot. You know other guys -- be -- Carmelo. All the Dutch mobile Stoudamire. You know also but for the most part yes. I heard you say the other day. And I think he'd known really ashes specific question but -- point you wanted to wanna know that Paul Pierce had a great year candidates lost. The Perkins trade the Rondo struggles the uneven play of the team but. Out what did he do that was so exceptional and and why you think we'd we know once in a notice. Well I don't think -- -- surgery you know he's you know in some way. You know the cult conducting ground hold -- You know hope yours is there are -- ago. You know he's a great dark and almost -- just so consistent. If he's he's rebounded where he's just a great basketball player. That the very fundamentally sound and so you don't see you. And you look at the box -- has been rated games where. You know we've won that game America brought to win and a look at the Bosporus a lot of all really played our best. That's why you don't see. We had this discussion well I think when you're hanging on him we have a lot ball. Rondo struggles affect everybody obviously is the point guard. Does it affect Ray Allen Moore when Rondo struggles because Paul seemed to be able to create his own shot Paul seems to like bad shots in that he's good and bad show. -- -- bad shots you know our best use the word scores and stuff. It does affect it affects race there's no doubt about it tomorrow. You know some of them it is right -- -- biscuits shots orders don't struggle. Public several -- Rondo as well you know -- simple. Help Slaton were running and and setting better picture and -- Our own problems playing at a speed that his guy can't help when we're playing at that slowed. Walked the ball up wasted your double while ago when the -- Optimal -- And don't torture rate cut. So yeah our government and president. But it the whole reason. How much does rebounding game missed shot -- taking the opponent's ball out of the basket after a made shot impact your ability to control pace. So huge it's huge I mean now in the two -- slower paced is what make this right the circle -- go to the problem. You know if you continually get to the foul line. Then you're slowing the pace jumped -- today because they're kicking the ball and you get sir Richard it. Thought you told anybody who'll listen Jerry in me writers certainly did you talk to every single day it is call what does happen Rondo in recent weeks just a -- I'm wondering industries and stretch where he's had a good game and had a bad game and a good game and a bad game. Are you able to anticipate which is coming next based on the match up based on I don't know his attitude are you talking to him based on practice or do you find out when we find out. Our primary when you -- that -- that it. You know that's most guys. And you know obviously this stuff when it's a point guard. But that is in many games where it starts do -- in in Goldberg has been on the start and you'll do and so. You go the whole -- -- -- America you know just fight through it. In just keep playing at a peace and did you play -- poorly at times just. Just don't let go you know just keep going and when he -- His numbers may not reflect in in his late. But and our -- -- it it definitely resident there. Are you wary of or aggravated with the questions about the trade how you were before and how you were are now. Are you all -- and that undergraduate. You know right yeah that you expect -- -- trade like this and the question except -- Colorado battle to get personal lump. Nor guitar government -- -- a couple of -- continue to back. But understand. And then you know -- stretch we did play well we struggled and you know -- you stroke who are we get we gotta find a reason why and that's just the do the world we live and in Colorado and then my job distraught did you go advances in some -- development from them develop. Will grab -- me asking us what weapon near the one do -- yet you know what I have won a -- this question but I already know it's futile because an -- rancher has to be. If you had it to do over again would you approve this trade I think I know what you have to say what what do you really think. Ultimately what I have to. You know I don't know guys admittedly it was a -- do we did it we knew that. And mentioned. I think we'll wait and see if it was a right -- now. Danny says is that everybody who's -- Alaska is everyone was on board yeah. What does that mean exactly did you actually. Disgust with the all the key guys and and every one. Thought it was a good GO you know we it was debated the Euro and some -- that cured. But but no wasted no. Rondo and not sure. No one should know. One no one and you know what happens is we don't go -- on -- -- -- you don't watch. But that's okay that that's just our work sometimes and you know up to organizers -- -- is made -- and we're not gonna make it we've done it. It it and now we've got to have moved more. Candidate back and then we got four. Was it like a team meeting that that the Perkins wasn't invited to is that when the. You know individual players. Those individual. And and players as well as. Coaches and management. And everybody was on boy. It broke don't boredom mean most knew it was going to happen and so you used -- thought about it and you know there're there was a couple deal honestly and -- problem oneself through. There and this while we got. Are you counting on. Krstic and green in the post season I mean really counting on the. Yeah -- cal Norton up a lot. And there will be good a player out there really believed that. And Chris did it really depends on the health check and ill. But I'm -- -- the race. How's the health -- check in jail. -- children. Circular remain -- Kenya you know he doesn't practice -- felt that they were gonna do much to very besides you know a lot of -- work in the a lot of he just walked stuff. But hopefully -- get on the floor next couple days. -- other something else you have to say and probably wanna say it as well that would be to condemn or or or reject the word that Kobe used in the got to find a 100000 dollars for. But in the context of NBA play and words that are said and names that are called over all of your years in basketball is that out of the ordinary what was said. Battled over the out of ordinary. You know. But just out of there are unfortunately careful. And unlike other little thing went down personally I didn't bill -- -- it was. -- cameras to order -- You know. It's incredibly different -- that mountain. -- or -- Becoming golf where you can call in Asia and sort of move the ball that he should be disqualified and that's. That's a little. Guy just offensive there are two words right you know you should -- percent. And we -- all the work and when you sit them. You know you probably you know -- been somewhat. But aren't they said all the time and of NBA basketball court to each other with them. Lot of -- yeah so you're gonna hurt and there right -- -- -- -- but yet they are. There -- a lot of things. Are you aware of the ESPN cameras as this association thing. Is being video. You. Now you know you need you don't like a narrative account because. That allowed -- coaches meeting Governor Davis when -- torque are gonna markers and in the included results. Still don't like it honestly you know being right arm for gangs. Pretentious don't feel safe if you go to yeah. Well but you don't even notice it for the most part anymore. You know and so it's sleeping with a camera he's just doing your job. And then there around -- -- a good job. -- -- association applauded jittery a bit rate job of being invisible. -- was. Part of -- -- pursuit innovate they don't mess they're gonna do this for the most part because you're. They wanted to evolve and us a strong way to sort of idea now there about -- doing worse as long as we can to -- You haven't been given said the wrong thing yet but I'm look at -- the next. Episode because it's got more efficient Mike KG more viewer struggles. KG what do think I -- David Stern gets like a full time lip read. Didn't do trouble can't completely control. What are you gonna say before Sunday book that to get your guys to have to flip the switch the proverbial -- I don't regret to say much compare you know less. Will be prepared. Will be ready. And if you want to motivate them to assume games last year. And seven against the lakers zero. Will that I mean did you give a great effort in the game or know where you are you ran out of gas. Then we wanted to director and so don't where we're gonna do there it is and we we have to have. We have to be motivated that we have to play great team basketball. How much has Delonte is injury impacted what you're going to be able to do certainly in the first couple games son moon's. Surface assassinate yeah. The Arctic you'll be fine you know are you actually worked out a little bit yesterday so. No of the -- permanent and it is but it there are -- injury. You know that would impact and things -- -- -- that in but I think he's going to be okay particular place -- But a question from me the Red Sox sure in the midst of a two at nine start can't seem to get anything go on sort of like golf when the drivers not work in the the -- dot work in the wedges -- and nothing. -- a little streak. It all with this team a couple of years ago where you couldn't get out -- -- way what do you say as a coach if if you're Doc Rivers to a basketball team or or Terry Francona to a Red Sox baseball team when nothing's going your way including the brakes. Just keep driving keep dornin has this week you know you have the government saying you know. I've approached -- to bet on games that you know. Is that it in the record. You can't let him just fall back on -- I guarantee you judo is this just you know the -- -- gonna turn their way but it Turkey grinder and he will remain this. You got the right guy in charge dude -- and and -- to -- start and I have no doubt. You know the devil it'll ever I have no doubt about it. And from personal experience are you able to I don't know -- -- -- -- we're cliche look at their eyes and see when they're about to go around the bend and -- get better I mean to say my god this is not gonna go all the way we thought. And not lose guys. This a couple of personal experience you can see when it's turned -- for sure. And it could be a moment. You know including games that happened at times you know when you look back on certain games you can look at a moment in the -- Right we're we're we're here to rest is history. The same thing which you can. Have you ever created a moment as baseball managers get thrown out a game -- they tossed the post game -- they had you don't have one of those. It's all they needed a moment but that's more emotional yet you know -- I've done that -- many times but you know the the emotional moment last four minute. Put through and it made stardom but it's something that they do the players will do. -- -- -- It is just like when your golf right orgasm little around so you had one shot and you sit well. -- -- It's like when that show where equity forced to objections we could go watch the masters that's true yeah yeah. -- -- a moment you have your dog Jerry goes the other way he gets in the sand and -- -- in the -- he's done for some great goals that's his. Moment of land on Sunday at in the middle of Miami and it would have been added another great. Kind of report. Aren't though -- -- DVR can we just did an estimated time of arrival for Shaquille O'Neal when will we see him again. Well -- game one but I don't know yet because we haven't gone through the couple park. Good luck dockside and at 7 o'clock start Doc Rivers -- Dennis and Callahan joining us on the AT&T hotline he's brought to -- Herb Chambers you're authorized Mercedes-Benz dealer locations in Boston league field and Natick. 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KRAS Mutation Analysis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
DESCRIPTIONThe epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a receptor tyrosine kinase (TK), is frequently overexpressed and activated in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Two EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) drugs, erlotinib and gefitinib, block intracellular receptor phosphorylation, dampening signal transduction through pathways downstream to the EGF receptor, such as the RAS/RAF/MAPK cascade. RAS proteins are G-proteins that cycle between active and inactive forms, in response to stimulation from a cell surface receptor such as EGFR, and act as a binary switch between the cell surface EGFR and downstream signaling pathways important in cancer cell proliferation, invasion, metastasis and stimulation of neovascularization.
The KRAS gene (which encodes for the RAS proteins) can harbor oncogenic mutations that result in a constitutively activated protein, independent of signaling from the EGF receptor, possibly rendering a tumor resistant to therapies that target the EGF receptor (e.g., TKIs). KRAS mutations are found in approximately 15–30% of lung adenocarcinomas.
Erlotinib (Tarceva®) received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2004 as salvage therapy for advanced NSCLC, based on results of a phase III clinical trial that demonstrated a modest survival benefit, 6.7 months median survival compared to 4.7 months in the placebo group. Gefitinib (Iressa®) was approved by the FDA in 2003 through the agency's accelerated approval process, based on the initially promising results of phase II trials. The labeled indication was limited to patients with NSCLC who had failed 2 or more prior chemotherapy regimens. However, in December 2004, results of phase III trials became available, suggesting that gefitinib was not associated with a survival benefit. In May 2005, the FDA revised the labeling of gefitinib to further limit its use to patients who were currently benefiting from the drug, or who had benefited in the past, and that no new patients were to be given the drug.
Although gefitinib fell out of use in the U.S. in 2005, it continued to be used elsewhere in the world and a recent study was published ("Iressa in NSCLC Trial Evaluating Response and Survival vs Taxotere," or "INTEREST" trial) that involved 1,466 patients from 24 countries outside of the U.S. (1) All of the patients had advanced or metastatic disease and had been previously treated with at least 1 platinum-containing regimen, and were randomized to receive either gefitinib or docetaxel. Of the 1,466 patients, 1433 were evaluable. Objective tumor response rates, progression-free and overall survival were similar for the 2 groups; however, gefitinib was associated with lower rates of treatment-related adverse events than docetaxel. The authors state that based on their findings, they are hopeful that gefitinib can return as a treatment for lung cancer in the U.S.
Because gefitinib is currently in very limited use in the U.S. and only as part of a special access program, this policy will only address studies that assess the response to erlotinib in relation to the presence or absence of KRAS mutations in NSCLC. KRAS mutation analysis is commercially available to test NSCLC from Genzyme Genetics and Medical Solutions™.
Several studies have reported that somatic mutations in the EGFR gene TK ATP-binding domain predict sensitivity to these targeted therapies.
Anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies
Anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies include cetuximab and panitumumab. Recent conclusive evidence has shown that patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose tumors harbor KRAS mutations do not respond to EGFR monoclonal antibodies, as summarized in a TEC Assessment. Cetuximab is used in combination with chemotherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent NSCLC as first-line and maintenance therapy.
KRAS mutation analysis is commercially available to test NSCLC, and laboratories performing the test include Genzyme Genetics and Medical Solutions™.
Several studies have shown that EGFR and KRAS mutations are mutually exclusive. Although several of the studies outlined in this policy that analyzed KRAS mutations also tested for other markers in NSCLC (e.g., EGFR mutations), only the data from each study as they relate to KRAS are presented in the policy.
POLICYAnalysis of somatic mutations of the KRAS gene is considered investigational as a technique to predict treatment non-response to anti-EGFR therapy with the tyrosine-kinase inhibitor erlotinib and the anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody cetuximab in non-small cell lung carcinoma.
POLICY EXCEPTIONSFederal Employee Program (FEP) may dictate that all FDA-approved devices, drugs or biologics may not be considered investigational and thus these devices may be assessed only on the basis of their medical necessity.
The coverage guidelines outlined in the Medical Policy Manual should not be used in lieu of the Member's specific benefit plan language.
Investigative is defined as the use of any treatment procedure, facility, equipment, drug, device, or supply not yet recognized as a generally accepted standard of good medical practice for the treatment of the condition being treated and; therefore, is not considered medically necessary. For the definition of Investigative, "generally accepted standards of medical practice" means standards that are based on credible scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed medical literature generally recognized by the relevant medical community, and physician specialty society recommendations, and the views of medical practitioners practicing in relevant clinical areas and any other relevant factors. In order for equipment, devices, drugs or supplies [i.e, technologies], to be considered not investigative, the technology must have final approval from the appropriate governmental bodies, and scientific evidence must permit conclusions concerning the effect of the technology on health outcomes, and the technology must improve the net health outcome, and the technology must be as beneficial as any established alternative and the improvement must be attainable outside the testing/investigational setting.
POLICY HISTORY3/2/2009: Policy added
04/23/2010: Policy description and statement unchanged. FEP verbiage added to the Policy Exceptions section.
04/25/2011: Added information regarding anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies to the policy description. Policy statement revised to state that analysis of somatic mutations of the KRAS gene is considered investigational as a technique to predict treatment non-response to anti-EGFR therapy with the tyrosine-kinase inhibitor erlotinib and the anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody cetuximab in non-small cell lung carcinoma.
02/24/2012: Policy reviewed; no changes.
01/01/2013: Added CPT codes 81275 and 81403 to the Code Reference section.
03/13/2014: Policy reviewed; no changes to policy statement. Removed deleted CPT codes 83890-83914 from the Code Reference section.
12/31/2014: Code Reference section updated to revise the description of the following CPT code: 81403.
07/31/2015: Code Reference section updated for ICD-10.
12/31/2015: Investigative definition updated in policy guidelines section. Code Reference section updated to revise code description for CPT code 81275 with an effective date of 01/01/2016.
01/26/2016: Code Reference section updated to add new 2016 CPT code 81276.
06/09/2016: Policy number L.2.04.436 added.
12/30/2016: Code Reference section updated to add new 2017 HCPCS codes G9840 and G9843.
SOURCESBlue Cross Blue Shield Association policy # 2.04.55
CODE REFERENCEThis may not be a comprehensive list of procedure codes applicable to this policy.
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IRVINE, Calif. --- Drew Hillman and D.J. Crumlich combined for six RBI as No. 22 UC Irvine handed Sacramento State a 9-5 loss Friday at Cicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark. With the win, UCI climbs to 10-1 overall while the Hornets drop to 4-10.
Hillman went 2 for 3 and blasted his second home run of the season, a three-run shot off starter Tanner Mendonca in the first inning. Hillman also hit an RBI triple and scored twice on the evening. Crumlich was 4 for 5 at the plate with a double and a pair of run-scoring singles.
UCI starter Matt Summers went 4.1 innings, striking out three and walked three while giving up four runs (two earned) on six hits in the no-decision. Junior Nick Hoover struck out two and walked two in 3.2 shutout innings to earn his first win of the season (1-0).
Crumlich led off the Anteater first with a double to left and Jordan Fox drove a single past diving third baseman Blake Miller to plate Crumlich. Brian Hernandez drew a full-count walk and Hillman hit a 2-0 offering over the left-field fence to give UCI a 4-0 lead.
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Facebook is different from Apple or Google or Amazon or Microsoft, says Mark Zuckerberg, because it doesn't build products. It seeks to improve the products built by everyone else.
"If Apple or Google want to build a product, they typically go build it," the Facebook CEO told Charlie Rose this fall. "Whereas…, you know, we want to help rethink the way that people listen to music or watch movies.
"We build a platform on top of which people connect, and we enable all these different companies, dozens of companies, to plug in, companies that are big companies, companies that are small companies, things that don't even exist."
Today — May 24 — marks the fifth anniversary of the Facebook Platform, a set of tools that let outside companies and developers build applications and websites that plug into Zuckerberg's massive social network. Zuckerberg has long pointed to the platform as the key to Facebook's future — and even the future of the web at large. "A social version of anything can almost always be more engaging and outperform a non-social version," he likes to say. And five years on, this view has been born out — at least in part.
More than 9 million applications and websites now tie into Facebook in some way, and some online operations — most notably Zynga — have ridden the Facebook platform to heights they likely couldn't have reached without it.
But Zuckerberg wants more. As the Facebook Platform enters its sixth year, the company is expanding its mission through something it calls the Open Graph. This isn't a visual graph. It's not a line graph or a bar graph or a pie graph. In this case, graph is a mathematical term. It's a way of representing connections between pieces of data.
In the beginning, Facebook built what Mark Zuckerberg calls a "social graph" — i.e. a data model representing the connections between its million of users. With the Open Graph, it's expanding this model across third party services, including applications that run atop Facebook as well as independent websites.
In essence, Open Graph is a means of grabbing all sorts of information Facebook users generate on third-party services and feeding it back into the Facebook machine. It's a way of sharing all this information with your network of online friends — and it's what Zuckerberg was referring to when he said the company seeks to change how the world listens to music and watches movies.
Using Open Graph, Spotify — the digital music service — lets you share your listening habits with your network of Facebook friends. Netflix lets you share what movies you're watching. Little snippets of your online behavior are streamed into the Facebook Newsfeed and onto your Facebook Timeline, and ultimately, this feeds the habits of your online friends.
"Music is fundamentally a social experience. The music your friends listen to shapes what you listen to," says Mike Vernal, who oversees the Facebook engineering team responsible for Open Graph. "We knew that it would be really powerful if you could use Facebook to discover interesting music based on what your friends are listening to."
"Music is fundamentally a social experience. The music your friends listen to shapes what you listen to." – Mike Vernal
But Open Graph is more than just way of moving song names from one place to another. It's at least a small step towards what has long been called the semantic web — a web where information is structured in a way that it be more easily analyzed and refined and reused by outside services. Facebook's more than 900 million users generate so much data on the social network — and beyond — the company can't just shuttle all this information into your Newsfeed. Open Graph provides application and website developers with a way of structuring their data, so that Facebook machines can readily use it and restructure it and reuse it as need be.
"We could have just done text analysis," says Vernal. "But we decided that if we could create a framework where developers can tell us the structure of this information, we could build much more interesting and much more compelling visualizations of this data both in Newsfeed and on Timeline."
In short, Facebook is striving to organize and use data generated by other companies in much the same way it has always organized and used data on its own site. Facebook beat out the likes of MySpace because its data was structured in a way that gave it some context, says Adrian Aoun, who once worked for MySpace's parent company, Fox Interactive. The system had an understanding of what the data meant — and knew how to treat it in relation to other data.
If you added your company's name to your profile, he says, it wasn't just a piece of text. It was link to a page, and this page linked to anyone else who worked for your same company. The upshot is that on Facebook, data had more meaning. It could so easily turn up in a new context on a new page.
Aoun sees the Open Graph as a natural extension of this setup. "Facebook gave your data some underlying representation, and it realized the power you can give to a computer interface if you have this sort of underlying data," he says. "Open Graph is dead on. It's the exact same vision."
But as Aoun points out, Facebook must convince developers to reformat their data. And when developers do so, Vernal and company still face an enormous task on their end. In building Open Graph, Facebook not only offered developers a way of structuring data and an API, or application programming interface, for shuttling that data to Facebook. It built an entirely new system inside its data centers that juggles all this data and ultimately decides what you see and what you don't.
In many ways, developers are free to define the structured data they supply to Facebook. But then Facebook decides how this data is ultimately used.
Inside the Open Graph
Facebook stores two basic types of data: objects and the relationships between those objects. And with Open Graph, the model has been extended to third-party applications and websites. "We have an object store, which stores things like users and events and groups and photos, and then we have an edge store that stores the relationship between objects," Vernal explains.
"With Open Graph, we built a layer on top of those systems that allowed developers to define what their objects look like and what their edges look like and then publish those third party objects and edges into the same infrastructure that we used to store all of the first party objects and edges."
The trick lies in analyzing those relationships — and fast. "With the site, we try to contextualize what you're looking at, contextualize it with respect to you social circles. Barack Obama has 30 million followers, but if you visit his page, we highlight which of your friends like Barack Obama. And we do this in milliseconds."
In the case of Open Graph, the task is to weed through the mountains of data streaming from outside operations and serve up only the stuff that's most relevant. The system works in two stages. First, it seeks to determine how interesting a certain type data would be to Facebook's audience as a whole. Then, using this global rating as a starting point, it tries to determine how important the data is to you in particular.
"One problem is understanding globally how people interact with this content," Vernal says. "The secondary problem is trying to understand on a per user basis what is most interesting to them. If you prefer music, we show you more music. If you prefer games, we show you more games.
"Then we merge those two sets of scores together, to influence what Newsfeed shows and what Timeline shows and what some other systems show."
As those 900 million people use Facebook, clicking on objects here and there, Vernal and company record this behavior in a software platform called Scribe, a technology specifically designed to log large amount of data in realtime. Then a second (unnamed) platform taps into Scribe and does a kind of on-the-fly analysis of this data, determining what's the most popular and what's the least. These tallies are then stored in a third system based on Hbase, the open source distributed database.
According to Vernal, data moves from one end of the system to another in about 20 to 30 seconds, and about a billion actions are processed each hour.
The tallies stored in Hbase are then shuttled to Facebook's Newsfeed and Timeline platforms, and there — in tandem with a similar analysis of your personal behavior — they're used to determine what Open Graph data you see and what you don't.
Facebook's Future and Beyond
At the moment, Open Graph is very much a Facebook-centric technology. But at least in theory, other web services could make use of all that structured data in much the same way Facebook does. "You could have a whole ecosystem of sites that leverage this infrastructure that people are putting together for Facebook," says Will Larson, the director of engineering at Digg, another site that uses Open Graph. "It's kind of like they're a standards creating body where everyone is benefiting from these standards they're creating."
For some, those are fighting words. As much as Google would like a more structured web, says Larson, it's unlikely to adopt a technology built to server the interests of Facebook. And as Adrian Aoun points out, the number of sites using the technology is still just a drop in the bucket when you consider the web as a whole. Unwilling to wait for something like Open Graph to mature, Aoun and his company, Wavii built a service that seeks to structure web data using text analysis — the very thing Facebook didn't want to do.
Vikrum Nijjar, who recently added Open Graph to a small Facebook application he runs, believes that any talk of Facebook feeding the semantic web is premature. "Right now, it's Facebook-centric," he says, "but that is an open possibility."
In the meantime, at least some companies say that in pumping Open Graph data into Facebook, they've seen big leaps in traffic. According to Goodreads, a site that lets you share your reading habits with the rest of the world, the number of impressions it receives from Facebook has risen by at least 800 percent since it went live with Open Graph in January. Digg says that between December and January, it's page views increased 35 percent, attributing at least part of this to Open Graph.
Ultimately, there's only so much space in the Facebook Newsfeed. And some sites will benefit more than others. But the benefits are there. That, says Mark Zuckerberg, is what Facebook does. The question is how effective it will ultimately be.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.