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Buildings represent an increasingly important component of China's total energy consumption mix. However, accurately assessing the total volume of energy consumed in buildings is difficult owing to deficiencies in China's statistical collection system and alack of national surveys. Official statistics suggest that buildings account for about 19%of China's total energy consumption, while others estimate the proportion at 23%, rising to 30% over the next few years. In addition to operational energy, buildings embody the energy used in the in the mining, extraction, harvesting, processing, manufacturing and transport of building materials as well as the energy used in the construction and decommissioning of buildings. This embodied energy, along with a building's operational energy, constitutes the building's life-cycle energy and emissions footprint.This report first provides a review of international studies on commercial building life-cycle energy use from which data are derived to develop an assessment of Chinese commercial building life-cycle energy use, then examines in detail two cases for the development of office building operational energy consumption to 2020. Finally, the energy and emissions implications of the two cases are presented.PB - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ER -


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Angelina Jolie Took Her Sons Maddox & Pax To Have Fish Pedicures! What's That?!6 years ago 4
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Brangelina's Brood Sample Scottish Cuisine During Their European Adventure — And Maddox LOVES Haggis!6 years ago 1
The 10-year-old was the only member of the family who could stomach the ancient delicacy, made from sheep heart, liver and lungs! Yuck! Brad Pitt… Read Article ▶
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It may be asking for too much but it would be reassuring to both business and the public if major political parties made clear statements on maximum levels of national debt (both real and forward commitment) and reserves before getting into government.
And when in government, reaffirm these in the light of more detailed information. Four-year forecasts help, but they are moveable feasts. Right now, we almost give governments carte blanche in these areas, and current laws provide further scope.
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It seems like I can still remember back when Jesse Jackson Jr. disappeared for long stretches of time to seek treatment for debilitating health issues, becoming a sympathetic figure on the Left. Ah, good times, good times. Ed brought us up to date a couple of weeks ago, after it became obvious that there was quite a bit more to the story and that Jackson was heading for some serious legal problems. Well, now the tale is just about fully written and the details may come as a shock even to those who suspected the worst. The former congressman and his wife were dipping into the cash contributed by their supporters at a hefty pace, funding a lifestyle which was "way beyond their means" and the expected penalty is going to be high.
Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) will plead guilty to conspiring with his wife to illegally spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including a $43,000 Rolex watch, fur coats and memorabilia associated with Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Bruce Lee, according to information obtained by POLITICO.
The charges against him include conspiracy, making false statements, and mail and wire fraud…
Prosecutors will recommend a prison sentence of between 46 months and 57 months for Jackson Jr., as well as a fine of $10,000 to $100,000, and forfeiture of a yet-to-be-determined portion of the misspent $750,000 in campaign funds.
I'm not sure if Jackson really is suffering from some sort of mental illness or it was all a dodge to put up a smoke screen around an investigation that he knew was closing in on him. But either way, this isn't going to turn into one of those cases of money getting lost in transfer or a misunderstanding of the campaign finance laws and what constitutes legitimate campaign expenditures. The details being released by the prosecutors are pretty graphic.
In one instance there was a completely bogus charge for "billboard expenses" transferred to his wife's business and then almost immediately moved to their personal account to pay down credit card charges. Others ranged from, "airplane tickets, booze and cigars to groceries." It would be difficult to argue that anyone seriously thought those were legal expenditures for a political campaign unless your campaign manager was Billy Carter.
But if there's any plus side to all of this, the people of his district have probably learned a valuable lesson, and will quickly move to elect a fiscally conservative Republican with a sold background in financial management who will ….
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AS THE temperature on the US presidential campaign rises, the two candidates are tussling over, of all things, lipstick-wearing pigs.
The Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, used an unfortunate phrase while campaigning in Virginia on Tuesday night, prompting howls of protest from the Republican camp.
In the course of poking fun at John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin's new "change" mantra, Senator Obama said: "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The McCain camp immediately sent out Jane Swift, a former governor and the head of the "Palin Truth Squad", to tell the media how upset the campaign was and to demand an apology.
(Mrs Palin made a joke about lipstick last week when she said it was the only difference between hockey mums - like her - and pit bulls.)
"You would think that having gone through a hard-fought fight with Senator Clinton, that the Obama team would have figured out how to respectfully engage in a debate that represents what they say they want to do, which is the politics of hope. This is just the same old low-road, flinging accusations," Ms Swift said.
A fair cop?
Earlier in the campaign Senator McCain used the exact same phrase to run down Senator Clinton's health-care proposals. "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal last year.
It is easy to see why Senator Obama is sounding increasingly strident. Yet another poll, this one for the Wall Street Journal and NBC, has found Senator McCain's running-mate choice has shaken up the presidential race.
A majority of voters said they were comfortable with the idea of the first-term Alaska Governor as vice-president, despite a national debate over whether she is experienced enough for the job.
Particularly worrying for the Democrats, the poll shows that Senator McCain is winning white women 52 per cent to 41 per cent after having been virtually tied with Senator Obama in that crucial category just a month ago.
Senator McCain is now about even with Senator Obama, with the poll finding 46 per cent favouring Senator Obama and Joe Biden, and 45 per cent favouring the McCain-Palin ticket. The poll was taken two days after the Republican convention ended.
Trying to regain momentum, Senator Obama again linked his rival to the unpopular US President's war policies, blasting the decision to keep Iraq war troop levels largely unchanged until early next year. "John McCain has been talking a lot about change, but he's running for four more years of the same foreign policy that we've had under George Bush," he said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Mr Bush has become "He Who must Not be Named" in the McCain camp. The Republican contenders were silent on his troop announcement, spending another day on the hustings promising to put a broom through Washington.
Who are they planning to sweep out? The criticism is aimed partly at Congress - and at You Know Who, who just happens to be from the same party.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) had quite a few jabs at President Obama in his prepared remarks, but his delivery appeared to fall flat in the hall.
He called President Obama "the tattoo president." Why?
"Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young," Pawlenty said. "But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: What was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids."
Few in the room laughed or seemed to be listening. Other zingers also fell short:
"The president takes more vacations than that guy on the Bizarre Foods show." (Apparently it airs on the Travel Channel.)
"I'll give Barack Obama credit for creating jobs these last four years for golf caddies."
He also called Vice President Biden a bad decision made by Obama.
"I hear Joe's particularly interested in tonights proceedings. He even thought about coming here to Tampa," Pawlenty said. "And he's taking notes because when Paul Ryan speaks, Joe will finally get to hear what a real vice president sounds like."
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Getting to be a part of Paul Chamberlain's free apologetics workshop on January 29th and 30th was a real privilege. I really think it's important for us to keep refreshing our ideas about our relationship to the world; what our Christian mission is truly about. We all need encouragement and edification given to us on a regular basis.
At the heart it is, and has always been about people. Reaching lost, hurting and ultimately dying people with the redeeming message of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In facing head-on the prevailing notions of the age we find ourselves in, we (with the help of men like Mr. Chamberlain) find that there are indeed excellent reasons to believe what we believe, as well as a strong foundation from which to share our faith and reason with others. The wonderful thing about God's Kingdom is that it holds up marvellously under any and all scrutiny. In fact, the harder and more deeply we look, the more reason we find to give God our sincerest praise and worship; our desire to ascribe glory to His name only grows!
What I appreciated particularly was Dr. Chamberlain's attention to pluralism, or neo-universalism. He clearly demonstrated that all virtually all thought and philosophy is inherently exclusivistic, and not just the Christian faith. As such, we as Christians can point out to the pluralist that we both make exclusive claims on what we believe is true, and that at this simple but meaningful touch point we can move our dialogue further along toward the message of the gospel.
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by Terrance Hendershott, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
Historically, financial markets require intermediaries to provide immediacy to outside investors. These intermediaries often were given special status and located on the trading floor of exchanges. The automation of stock exchanges increased markets' trading capacity and enabled intermediaries to expand their use of technology. This reduced the role of traditional human market-makers and led to the rise of a new class of intermediary, typically referred to as the high frequency trader (HFT). Like traditional intermediaries, HFTs are central to the trading process, have short holding periods and trade frequently. Unlike traditional intermediaries, however, HFTs are not granted privileged access to the market that is not available to others.
The substantial, largely negative media coverage of HFTs and the so-called "flash crash" on May 6, 2010, raise significant interest and concerns about the role that HFTs play in the stability and price efficiency of financial markets. In a new paper, Ryan Riordan and I examine the role of HFTs in the price-discovery process using data from NASDAQ that identifies the participation of a large group of HFTs in each transaction.1
Overall, HFT profits from predicting future price changes over relative horizons of between 10-30 seconds. This is the standard positive role in price efficiency played by speculators. This is driven by the marketable (liquidity demanding) HFT orders. Passive HFT limit-orders negatively predict future prices changes. HFT marketable orders' informational advantage is sufficient to overcome the bid-ask spread and trading fees to generate positive trading revenues.2 For non-marketable limit orders, the costs associated with negatively predicting future price changes are smaller than the bid-ask spread and liquidity rebates, so these HFT orders also generate positive trading revenues.
The role of traders in determining prices is typically discussed in terms of finding the efficient price and in causing prices to diverge from the efficient price. The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC 2010) concept release on equity market structure primarily expresses concern regarding short-term volatility, particularly "excessive" short-term volatility. Excess volatility is best thought of as pricing errors that are defined as the difference between the efficient price and the observed price. Such pricing errors could result from long-term institutional investors' need to adjust their portfolios, often referred to as price pressure. If HFT trades against these pricing errors, it can be viewed as supplying liquidity and reducing long-term investors trading costs. If HFT trades in the direction of pricing errors, it can be viewed as increasing the costs to those investors. HFT trading in the direction of pricing errors also could arise from attempts to manipulate prices.
We find that overall HFT trades in the opposite direction to pricing errors, as HFT buys when market prices are below the efficient price and sells when market prices are above the efficient price. HFT trades in the direction of changes in efficient prices by buying when the efficient price is rising and selling when the efficient price is falling. These imply that HFT is associated with improvements in price efficiency, both in terms of helping to get new information into prices and reducing pricing errors. Both of these relations are driven by HFT marketable orders.
More informative stock prices can lead to better resource allocation in the economy. However, HFT's information is short-lived at less than 30 seconds. If this information would become public without HFT, then the potential welfare gains may be small. However, the fact that HFT predicts price movements at such short horizons does not demonstrate that the information would inevitably become public. It also could be the case that HFTs compete intensely with each other to quickly get information that is not obviously public into prices. If HFTs were absent, it is unclear how such information would get into prices, unless some other market participant played a similar role. Joe Stiglitz refers to this in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech as, "if markets were fully informationally efficient—that is, if information disseminated instantaneously and perfectly throughout the economy—then no one would have any incentive to gather information, so long as there was any cost of doing so. That is why markets cannot be fully informationally efficient."
Reducing pricing errors improves the efficiency of prices. Just as with the short-term nature of HFT's informational advantage, it is unclear whether or not intraday reductions in pricing errors facilitate better financing decisions and resource allocations by firms and investors. One important positive role of smaller pricing errors is if these corresponded to lower implicit transaction costs by long-term investors. Examining non-public data from long-term investors' trading intentions would help answer this.
One important concern about HFT is its role in market stability. Our results provide no evidence that HFT contributes to market instability in prices. To the contrary, HFT overall trades in the direction of reducing transitory pricing errors, both on average days and on the most volatile days during a period of relative market turbulence (2008-2009).
While our paper's results illustrate interesting relations between HFT and stocks prices, care is needed in interpretation. Without HFT, other investors almost certainly would change their behavior. Would the resulting prices without HFT be less efficient? The results suggest so, but we cannot prove it as we do not observe the market without HFT. Algorithmic trading, which includes HFT, has been shown to improve market efficiency,3 but "natural" experiments to establish this for HFT have not yet been found.
HFTs are a type of intermediary. When thinking about the role HFT plays in markets, it is natural to try to compare the new market structure to the previous market structure. Some primary differences are that there is free entry into HFT, HFTs do not have a designated role with special privileges, and HFTs do not have special obligations. Without such privileges, there is no clear basis for imposing the traditional obligations of market makers on HFT. When considering the optimal industrial organization of the intermediation sector, HFT more resembles a highly competitive environment than traditional market structures. A central question is whether there were benefits from the old, more highly regulated intermediation sector that outweigh reduced innovation and higher entry costs typically associated with regulation.
When thinking about regulation of HFT, the answers to many important questions are not yet known. If HFT becomes competitive (zero profits), will HFT then resell their technology as brokers? Could this lead to efficiency without imposing costs on other investors? Do dark pools and batch auctions limit part of the costs of technology investment for slower and less non-technologically savvy investors? Significant volumes are already traded in these ways; e.g., the opening and closing auctions. Finally, if HFT should be regulated, can regulations specifically target behavior viewed as negatively affecting markets without impacting the efficiency brought by other aspects of HFT; e.g., the price efficiency associated with marketable HFT orders?
1) Hendershott, Terrence, and Ryan Riordan, 2012, "High Frequency Trading and Price Discovery," working paper, University of California, Berkeley. Nasdaq makes this data set is available to academic researchers and it has been used in a number of studies. The data represent a limited set of HFT, e.g., excluding some small finance firms and large integrated firms, in a single market. Unless there are reasons to believe that HFT trade differently on other markets or the not identified HFT follow different strategies, the dataset is representative of HFT.
2) Whether HFT profits should be viewed as a tax on other investors is an interesting question. If one views trading as a zero sum endeavor then HFT profits represent a loss to other investors. If HFT are viewed as intermediaries providing immediacy to other investors, then HFT profits can be seen as the value of the service they provide. Both of these sources of revenues can be associated with marketable and non-marketable orders.
3) Hendershott, Terrence, and Ryan Riordan, See, for example, Hendershott, Terrence, Charles Jones, and Albert Menkveld, 2011, "Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?" Journal of Finance 66, 1-33.


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Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his MLA son Ajay Chautala and 53 others including two IAS officers were on Wednesday convicted on corruption and other charges by a Delhi court for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers 12 years back, and sent to Tihar Jail.
The 78-year-old senior Chautala, the chief of Indian National Lok Dal, was held as the "main conspirator" by Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar in his 308-page verdict.
The court will hear arguments on quantum of sentence on January 17, 19 and 21 and pronounce the punishment on January 22.
The father-son duo along with others were convicted for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior basic trained teachers in the state in the year 2000.
The court said, "All the accused are held guilty for the offences of cheating, forgery, using fake documents as genuine, conspiracy under the IPC and for abusing their official position under the Prevention of Corruption Act."
While holding that under Chautala, the state government officials were "executing this scam", the court said, "There is a complete chain of circumstances which pinned down accused Om Prakash Chautala as the main conspirator."
As per Section 8 of the Representation of People Act, a candidate is disqualified and debarred from contesting polls if convicted and handed a prison sentence of two years or more. The ban would remain in force from date of conviction to six years after release from prison.
Among the 55 convicted are the then Director of Primary Education Sanjiv Kumar, Chautala's former Officer on Special Duty Vidya Dhar, both IAS officers, political advisor to the then Haryana CM Sher Singh Badshami and 16 women officials.
The court relied on the testimony of Sanjiv Kumar who initially was a whistle blower but in the CBI probe that followed he was also found to be involved in the scam.
Other than the 55 accused, their counsel, prosecutors and the court staff, the judge did not allow anyone else to enter the court room at the time of pronouncement of judgement.
Relatives and family members of the accused and mediapersons were asked to stand behind barricades set up outside the courtroom, as the proceedings were held amidst tight security.
"...it was O P Chautala on whose behalf these accused persons were executing this scam. In view of these overall circumstances and the testimony of Sanjiv Kumar (co-accused) is worthy of credence that around the time he was posted as the Director of Primary Education, O P Chautala had called him and had directed him to change the award list with fresh award list because now his government had got full majority and there was no need for him to accommodate the MLAs of other parties," the court said.
Chautala's INLD had got majority in Haryana in 2000 and the scam was also committed in the same year.
The court said, "Profuse evidence is available on record to show that it was O P Chautala who was managing the whole affairs".
According to the prosecution, the convicts had appointed 3,206 JBT teachers in the state during that period.
The CBI had filed its charge sheet in a Delhi court after its probe established that a conspiracy on making second lists was hatched at Haryana Bhawan here by calling the chairpersons and members of the district-level selection committees of 18 districts.
They were also called at a guest house in Chandigarh, where the modalities were worked out, it had said.
The court said that first IAS officer R P Chander (CBI witness), who was the then Director of Primary Education, had given a proposal for declaring the results of successful candidates in April 2000, but he was transferred on the next day itself.
Subsequently, IAS officer Rajni Shekri Sibal (CBI witness), was brought in at Chander's place and she was asked by accused Badshami and Vidya Dhar to change the award lists in the presence of Ajay Chautala, it said.
"When Rajni recommended for compilation of results vide her note sheet of June 20, 2000, she was also transferred and Sanjiv Kumar was appointed in her place," the court said, adding that Kumar's testimony proves that he was brought with a "specific mandate of changing the award lists."


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Looking for nice bug-tracking solution
If anyone has any good experience with a free PHP/MySQL based bug-tracking system please let me know in the comments. The best I have found so far is MantisBT. It's a nice clean install, but to be honest I think the UI is butt-ugly and would prefer something cleaner. I have used FogBugz in the past and quite liked it, but I don't want to pay the subscription required.
Not interested in Perl or Python solutions, thanks :)
Update: Am going with FogBugz for now, as it turns out they have a free "startup" version for poor independent developers like myself :)
An Atheist Creed
We don't believe in Gods,
And that's about it.
If you want our manifesto,
There ain't one; tough shit.
Inspired by the frustration of reading David Penberthy's recent article lumping anyone who dares to mock or disrespect religion into the largely media-created "new atheist" camp. What a lazy hack. Please God spare us from the paternalistic self-hating "moderate" atheist.
Another Beautiful Thing
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
(You should watch it full screen in HD if possible)
Then and Now
Here is what a Wild West themed video game looked like in 1980 (Outlaw on Atari 2600):
And this is what one looks like in 2010 (Red Dead Redemption on Sony PS3):
Holy Crap!
8 Memory Lane
So. It looks like this blog is 8 years old already. I started it just after my 30th birthday. Wow. It feels like I accidentally sat on the fast-forward button of my life sometime in 2005. So far 2010 is not quite as I imagined… Aw who am I kidding, it's exactly as I imagined. I've always known I'm crap at being my own boss.
So without further ado, let's take a look at what's occurred in all that time…
- Moved a few times, including to New Zealand and back. Now living south of Sydney in a lovely house that's costing me more in rent than I can really afford right now.
- Three different relationships– in total I have probably spent about half of my 30s partnered. I still have very positive feelings toward all involved, and try to maintain contact, although logistically can't really see any of them in person since all currently reside in New Zealand. Two out of three I met though online dating, which on one hand bothers me hugely but on the other where the hell else am I going to meet anyone? – Unless I go back to university, which at this point I would say is exceedingly unlikely.
- One major job, some miscellaneous contract work and one start-up misfire. I'd say I've been in some kind of employment for 70% of the time, which is similar to how I spent my 20s. I don't really blog about paid work for the same reason most people don't; it just feels inappropriate. I will say that I have been very lucky to work on things that are wayyy more interesting that the majority of programmers get to do in their day jobs.
- Racked up a huge tax bill by not paying the tax from my earnings as a contractor… with interest and penalties it came to around $40K (I hadn't filed a return for almost 7 years) At least part of the reason it got so bad was because of the next point. I am now debt free but rapidly pissing away my savings.
- Got really sick a couple of times, was hospitalized the second time and actually got proper medical care which allowed me to avoid getting sick again. The first time it hit me badly was around 2003, and I was never properly diagnosed, which basically meant I lost about a year of my life for no good reason. I was blogging at the time, but as far as I can tell I never actually mentioned it then, probably because it was just too depressing to talk about.
- Changed my hair color a bunch of times… I still have no clue what to do with it though, it always irritates me no matter what color or length. Although I like that as I get older simply having hair starts to become more of a draw ;)
- Gained a bunch of weight– having cleared the aforementioned illness my body became much more efficient at turning the food I consumed into flab. I am in the process of losing it again but it takes a lot longer coming down than going up. When I moved back to Australia I was over 106kg, now I am down to a more acceptable (but still higher than I'd like) 97kg. I'm hoping to eventually get back down to 87 or so…
- Gave up smoking, took it up again, gave it up again, tried e-cigarettes etc… in fact today marks one week without smoking, again– I really have to make it stick this time.
- Neglected projects like JujuEdit and Drivey like I still can't believe. JujuEdit actually predates this blog!
- Created some minor buzz when an idea I had for an atheist symbol was mentioned on PZ Myers' blog. I still have to update the mini-site I created for it with some photos of tattoos that people have gotten.
On the blog specifically, it's all starting to feel a bit old-fashioned now. Since it's been going this long I don't see myself chucking it in any time soon– at least not til I'm 40. Do people start blogs anymore? I stopped keeping track of visitors and stats ages ago, and am glad of it (one less thing to angst about) but I guess the current readership must be somewhere between 10 and 1,000,000.


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Publications and Speeches
|Exploring Plato's Cave
|August 23, 2010
Convocation Remarks: Exploring Plato's Cave
August 23, 2010
President Thomas R. Rochon
Behold! Human beings living in some sort of underground cave dwelling, with an entrance behind them, as wide as the cave and open to the light. Here they live, from earliest childhood, with their legs and necks in chains, so that they have to stay where they are, looking only ahead of them, prevented by the chains from turning their heads. They have light from a distant fire, which is burning behind them and above them. Between the fire and the prisoners, at a higher level than them, is a path along which you must picture a low wall that has been built, like the screen which hides people when they are giving a puppet show, and above which they make the puppets appear.
Picture also, along the length of that wall, people carrying all sorts of implements which project above it, and statues of people, and animals made of stone and wood and all kinds of materials. As you'd expect, some of the people carrying the objects are speaking, while others are silent.
They are strange prisoners, like ourselves, and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the back wall of the cave.
Source: Plato, The Republic, Book 7, 4th century B.C.
In this passage, drawn from perhaps the most famous allegory ever written on the human condition, Plato takes on the voice of Socrates who imagines us all as prisoners in a cave. As Socrates explains to his student Glaucon, our heads are rigidly fixed to look in front of us at the shadows cast on the wall by unknown beings behind us, whom we cannot see. Because we have always been this way, we do not suspect the existence of those beings, or indeed of anything in the universe other than the very limiting view of the shadows in front of us.
As you can read in the pamphlets set at your place, Socrates goes on to explain that because we are human and we have the power of learning, we examine our limited universe with care. We notice the differences among the shadow-shapes, and we name them. We notice any regularities that may exist in the order of their appearance or in the relative speeds with which they move. We develop a predictive system that enables us to anticipate which shadows will come next. Because of our love of learning, perhaps we bestow honors on those who are particularly good at observing, codifying, and theorizing about our universe. But all of our human ingenuity does not change the fact that our understanding of the world in which we live, and even of the cave in which we are chained, is deeply limited and fundamentally flawed.
Do we live in a cave and are we able to see only the shadows projected on its wall? The modern counterpart reference might be to Jim Carrey's character in the movie The Truman Show, who grows up unaware that his entire life is a 24/7 reality TV series. The truly frightening thing about Plato's image is that the prisoners don't know they are in a cave, any more than Truman Burbank was aware that he lived in an artificial world. If we did live in a cave, prevented from fully seeing our world by metaphorical chains, we would also be as unaware of that fact. The more daring intellects among us might consider the possibility that our perceived universe is artificially limited, but in the end there would be nothing in our experience to suggest such drastic limits to our vision. On the contrary, like the slaves in Plato's story, we take great pride in our ever-expanding understanding of the world around us.
What would happen if somehow we broke free of our chains and had an opportunity to look at the cave behind us? What if we could see the people who were casting the shadows that previously constituted our total field of vision? What if we saw even further -- beyond the mouth of the cave and into the world beyond? Socrates muses that even if we were freed we would turn our gaze only reluctantly, using neck muscles that have long since stiffened into a single position. Our eyes would squint in distress as we looked toward the light and we would at first be unable to see much. Shown the people and objects that have been casting the shadows, we would not at first understand that they are real and the shadows that had previously been our whole universe are just epiphenomena. Were we to leave the cave itself and go out into the world, we would become even more disoriented.
We would, in short, need time to grasp the new realities we have been shown -- both our minds and our bodies would at first limit our sight. It is, after all, a deeply uncomfortable experience to break beyond the boundaries of what is known and familiar.
In fact, Socrates tells us that the voyage to knowledge is incredibly demanding. For if you go into the sunlight and become accustomed to the wider world, you will never be able to return to your fellow prisoners and be one of them. You will take no pleasure in their games of naming and predicting the shadows, because you know they are only shadows. They, in turn, will think you have become useless, because your eyes, now adjusted to the light, will no longer function well in the darkness of the cave. You would be a laughing-stock, according to Socrates; it would be said that you have "come back from your journey to the upper world with your eyesight destroyed, and that it wasn't worth even trying to go up there." Socrates surmises that if you proposed that others return to the upper world with you and see the sun, the other prisoners would attempt to kill you rather than follow your lead.
I am sure you are way ahead of me here and that you know what I am going to say next: that your education at Ithaca College is an opportunity to break free of the line of prisoners watching shadows on the wall, an opportunity to explore the rest of the cave, an opportunity to exit the cave altogether.
I like to think, at least I hope, that we are in much better shape in our grasp of reality than the prisoners in Plato's cave. Perhaps I simply lack the imagination and daring of the true philosopher, but I think we know the difference between shadow and substance. At the same time, I believe we would be foolish to imagine that we have seen everything there is to see. And we would also be foolish not to acknowledge that the things we have yet to learn may fundamentally alter our understanding and interpretation of the world we already know.
This is the spirit with which I hope you will approach your education at Ithaca College. It is a spirit of risk taking, of intellectual adventurousness, of being willing to expand your boundaries of sight and knowledge, and even of being willing to look at the sun. (Metaphorically only, of course!)
If you are going to get everything possible out of your time as a student here, then you must bring with you the spirit of a fearless explorer, willing to go not just where others tell you to go but instead where your own path takes you. And, as Lily Tomlin once said, "Just remember, we are all in this alone."
That line makes me laugh every time, but fortunately it's not true. Only you can decide what part of the cave you will ultimately make your own, but we have an amazing faculty and staff who can show you its various chambers. Of special importance to your education are the faculty, whose classrooms and laboratories and office hours beckon you to formal instruction and informal mentorship. Our faculty are highly credentialed experts in their fields, but they are also your partners in learning. Will the faculty present stand, and will you, the class of 2014, greet them with applause in anticipation of all they will do for you?
If my conversations with alumni are any guide, the greatest thing about your Ithaca College experience will be that you are a full partner in shaping your own education. We provide the guidance, the facilities, and the support that enable you to create your own performance, to undertake your own research, to design and shoot your own video, to practice your craft, to initiate your involvement in the community, and write your own story.
You will be assisted in this not only by the faculty, but also by staff and fellow students who are part of our residential community. Every friendship, every involvement in a club or organization, every commitment to a sports team, every time you volunteer in the community, you are adding to your education. The IC campus itself is laid out in a way meant to draw you into camaraderie with others and to offer aesthetic pleasure. You are most definitely NOT in this alone.
For two years I have walked this campus, seeing it but not really seeing it. Then last summer I spent a day working with the grounds crew, irrigating playing fields and weeding flower beds. I didn't really appreciate the beauty of the flower beds in front of Job Hall and the Muller Center until I had spent a few hours on my knees, weeding them inch by inch. Now I cannot walk past them without pausing for a moment to take in their beauty. I was like Thoreau -- learning about beans through patient planting and hoeing.
I know your residence hall accommodations are not deluxe, but as you get to know them you will appreciate that they have an essential beauty simply because they are your home. As Thoreau wrote in Walden, our First Year Reading, "My dwelling was small and I could hardly entertain an echo in it; . . . [However] All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room . . . and whatever satisfaction parent or child, master or servant, derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all" (page 228).
I know we have students here who are living in Clark Hall -- let me hear from you!
I spent a day last summer cleaning the bathrooms and kitchens in Clark Hall with Mr. Art Sims, who is the facilities attendant for your building. Clarkies, I hope you appreciated the cleanliness of your rooms, and especially of the shower stalls that I cleaned, as you moved in!
In short, my experience last summer working on the grounds and with the cleaning crews reinforced for me the basic truth that there is enormous pleasure and insight to be had simply from paying close attention to your environment. Plato and Thoreau each tell us the same thing: that wisdom comes from a patient and thorough exploration of our mental and physical caves, in which we take nothing for granted, and in which we find links between the smallest physical detail and the biggest mental construct.
Class of 2014, you are here because you have talent, and your work to this point in your life has translated your talent into accomplishment. If you have had a chance to read my blog post on the members of the freshman class, you know the depths of my respect for all that you are and all that you bring to our campus. Every one of you has the opportunity not only to succeed at IC, but to truly thrive here -- to excel and to be transformed. You will reap the full benefit from being part of our community of learners to the extent you commit to a full exploration of the cave and of the marvelous lands that lie beyond.


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The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right founded with the approval of Pope John Paul II in 1988, "for the formation of priests in the framework of the traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and their pastoral deployment in the Church."
The active apostolate of this Fraternity is to reunite those who have been alienated by liturgical abuse and theological dissent by offering the sacred liturgy in all of its solemnity according to the Latin liturgical books of 1962, and by offering the faithful sound catechetical teaching within the living Tradition of the Church. Those who are nostalgic for the traditional Mass will enjoy visiting this site. Those who are too young to remember may also like to learn about the "Old Mass."
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Fundamentals in nuclear physics : from nuclear structure to cosmology
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- Jean-Louis Basdevant, James Rich, Michel Spiro.
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- English.
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- New York : Springer, c2005.
- Physical description
- xiii, 515 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-509) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction.- Basic concepts of Nuclear Physics.- Nuclear Models and Stability of the Nucleus.- Nuclear Reactions.- Nuclear Decays and Fundamental Interactions.- Radioactivity and all that.- Fission.- Fusion.- Nuclear Astrophysics.- Nuclear Cosmology.- Relativistic kinematics.- Accelerators.- Time-dependent perturbation theory.- Nutron transport.- Solutions and Hints for Selected Exercises.- Tables of numerical values.- Table of Nuclei.- References.- Index.
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- This course on nuclear physics leads the reader to the exploration of the field from nuclei to astrophysical issues. Much nuclear phenomenology can be understood from simple arguments such as those based on the Pauli principle and the Coulomb barrier. This book is concerned with extrapolating from such arguments and illustrating nuclear systematics with experimental data. Starting with the basic concepts in nuclear physics, nuclear models, and reactions, the book covers nuclear decays and the fundamental electro-weak interactions, radioactivity, and nuclear energy. After the discussions of fission and fusion leading into nuclear astrophysics, there is a presentation of the latest ideas about cosmology. As a primer this course will lay the foundations for more specialized subjects.This book emerged from a series of topical courses the authors delivered at the Ecole Polytechnique and will be useful for graduate students and for scientists in a variety of fields.
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Don't Blame Pilot
Dear Editor;
Before the NTSB blames the pilot of flight 587 - a man I am not related to and have never met - they'd need to be able to respond to the following questions.
Question 1: An aircraft lifting off from runway 31L and seeking to head south or southeast (tracking 'wavey') has the option of flying the harbor or slicing the peninsula. Tracking the harbor means less than a 90-degree port turn, whereas slicing the peninsula is tantamount to a 180-degree turn in the same short linear distance. Any schoolboy who ever flew a model airplane knows that all three forces of torque, yaw and slipstream will be significantly increased on an inclining flight choosing the 180 degree option. Ever hear the groan of the aircraft engines struggling 700 feet over Beach125 Street. Ever watch the Concorde as it struggles to fly a fuel-saving path over our homes. They're fighting those enhanced forces. The increased whine of the engines is one result of counteracting forces. If the NTSB really thinks there is a danger of any pilot flying either the tail or rudder off the plane, then why not enforce your own 'fly the harbor rule' and ease the forces. They don't enforce the rule, because they're not truly worried. The airplane manufacturers are not worried either. I too, am annoyed, but not worried.
Question 2: A vortex, the conical disruption behind the plane that supposedly "caused the pilot to overreact" is, in my opinion, a somewhat lame theory. Its forces are quickly diminished. Observe, if you will, any Friday or Saturday evening as the planes come in two by two over Dayton towers. At times there is not even a 30 second delay from one to the other. More telling even is the spread pattern where they are staggered side by side. Were the vortex really an issue, would the NTSB allow this pattern? Not only is it allowed, it is standard operating procedure! Once again, annoying, yes, unsafe, no.
Are they really going to blame this pilot for hitting a vortex and "flying the tail off'?" Who's going to sign their name to this? How will they respond in ten years when some high school physics student writes a report showing how ludicrous this theory is? Maybe they should consider interviewing eyewitnesses.


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Fix Tol'Barad :/
Still no fix for druids and mounting while in moonkin form automatically shifting you out of moonkin instead of erroring.
That's not a bug, sephiroth.
They need to give TB some TB exclusive gear like WG. And also get rid of the bridge. Make it a teleport in or w/e. So you can only get in when you control it. For the battle they should put back in the Tenacity but still keep a maximum limit to the number of players for each side. 5 ppl in TB per side isnt exactly becoming a pvp battlezone. Also make it so that the defenders have to defend the towers. If all 3 towers are down than the attacking side gets a buff.
LOL, i'm going to have to run deadmines now just for that buff.... XPThat, and i'm pretty sure that you would expect hunters to be sneaky like that when you give them a camouflage spell...
Maybe I can finally finish Skullcrush the Mountain and get my blue item for my priest.
I don't know about the supposed fix for the Skullcrush quest. First time that I did it today the horn did not spawn. The 2nd and 3rd times doing the quest the horn showed up. I used it. Reinforcements showed up. Then the guy despawns with no credit.Not sure if that one is working yet or not.
/cancelaura Moonkin Form/cast Brown Riding CamelThat is one tough macro!Sheesh.
"Tamed Tol'vir Prowlers now have regular loot and Skinning tables, instead of epic-quality loot."Nooooo ! No more 5 stacks of Savage Leather / hour.
Blizz really doesn't want anyone to be able to "farm" leather, do they?
Lol, bridge leeching fixed.
Skullcusher still bugged on eitrigg. Despawns once help arrives.


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ATLANTA — Rollins, parent company of Orkin, reported unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.
The company recorded fourth quarter revenues of $259.6 million, an increase of 4.6% over the prior year's fourth quarter revenue of $248.1 million. Net income increased 59.0% to $20.0 million or $0.20 per diluted share for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, compared to $12.6 million or $0.13 per diluted share for the same period in 2008.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Rollins converted Orkin, Inc. and certain other operating subsidiaries from C corporations to wholly owned limited liability companies. This change will allow Rollins to use the operating profits generated by these subsidiaries to offset Rollins' state tax losses and reduce state income taxes. The Company also recognized a non-cash pre-tax impairment charge of approximately $2.9 million following management's determination that a routing and scheduling system under development would require substantial changes and expense in order to deliver the product expected. The Company is exploring alternative solutions as the potential benefits of an effective routing and scheduling system would be significant.
Excluding a tax benefit of $6.2 million or $0.06 per diluted share on Rollins' conversion of Orkin to a limited liability company, net of cost associated with a Canadian restructuring and repatriation of cash, and the impairment charge of $0.02 per diluted share associated with the software system write-off, the Company's earnings per share for fourth quarter 2009 were $0.16 per diluted share, an improvement of 23.1% compared to fourth quarter 2008.
The Company repurchased 227,100 shares at a weighted average price of $18.18 per share in the fourth quarter bringing the total number of shares repurchased in 2009 to 1,677,200. In total, 2,951,591 additional shares may be purchased under the share repurchase program.
Revenues for the full year 2009 rose 5.2% to $1.1 billion compared to slightly over $1.0 billion for the prior year. Rollins' net income for the full year rose 21.8% to $84.0 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, compared to net income of $68.9 million, or $0.69 per diluted share for the prior year. Excluding the impact of Rollins conversion of Orkin to a limited liability company, and the impairment charge associated with the software system write off in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Company's earnings for the year were $0.80 per diluted share, an improvement of 15.9% compared to the full year 2008.
Rollins' balance sheet continued to strengthen with total assets increasing to $566.5 million and stockholders' equity of $264.6 million.
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I was wondering if there is any recent updates on the boys. I haven't seen any in awhile. ANYONE????
No ma'am, sorry! :(
so was i its been so long with no updates i hope all is well
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text: Ok first off I already have a truck, I'm 17 now and bought a 97 Sonoma for $500 when I was 14I figured I would work on it for when I did turn 16. It just never happened, I ended up doing more work on other peoples cars then my own.Well anyway I have some spare time this summer coming up and have a job. We have a transmission sitting up the mountain where the garage is located. All we need to do is put it in, which should take half a day if I get a few more guys to help me.I am taking suggestions for what I should do first to this woods truck. I mean after we have the tranny in and all the lines, brakes, tires, etc. What will really make this thing stand out going down the road. Obviously it's not the biggest thing out their, reply with a thought or idea.


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An estimated crowd of 12,000 flocked to Baldwin St in Dunedin today for the 2013 Cadbury Jaffa Race.
The first race, at 12.30pm, saw 25,000 orange Jaffas released at the top of the world's steepest street, with the most enthusiastic Jaffa getting home in just under 30 seconds.
Fifteen minutes later, the second race featured 25,000 lime green Jaffas.
It was a street carnival atmosphere before the event, with stilt-walkers, jugglers and even a life-sized Dalek threading through the crowd.
Small children watched the action from perches on grown-ups' shoulders, while Baldwin St residents had some of the best seats in the house.
The 350m race track has a gradient of 19 degrees, dropping from 100m above sea level to just 10m, and is ratified by Guinness World Records as the steepest street in the world.
It was the thirteenth running of the balls and the event has now raised more than $500,000 for charity since its inception in 2000.
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Girls Aloud and Strictly star Kimberley Walsh was on the red carpet at the Vue cinema in the West End last night for the premiere of the latest feel-good children's comedy All Stars. She appears in the film alongside Extras' Ashley Jensen and Mock The Week's Hugh Dennis. The movie is about a group of teens battling to save their youth club by holding a talent contest - and Britain's Got Talent star Ashleigh Butter and Pudsey were also there to add a bit of authenticity to the event.
Jensen plays the part of youth worker Gina and the children in the cast include Horrid Henry's Theo Stevenson and Got To Dance winner Akai Osei-Mansfield, who set about organising a dance show to raise money for the centre. Former Shrek The Musical star Walsh plays the main character's mother.
Other well-known cast members include singer Javine Hylton, comedian Kevin Bishop and star of Green Wing and Friday Night Dinner Mark Heap. The film is released on May 3.
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No. 13 USC Men Edge No. 30 Texas Tech 4-3
March 12, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - The No. 13 USC men's tennis team saw freshman Matt Kecki clinch a tight match with visiting No. 30 Texas Tech by beating out his Red Raider opponent in a three-set battle. Kecki's win put the Trojans ahead 4-3 for the match, improving USC's overall mark to 11-3.
Texas Tech got the early advantage by pulling off a pair of doubles wins to start things off. At No. 1, Red Raiders #10 Rojman/Carvalho managed an 8-5 upset of USC's #4 Farah/Johnson. With two doubles matches still going tightly, Texas Tech pair Breler/Markovic fought ahead and took an 8-6 win over Kecki Polmda at No. 2 to secure the doubles point for the Red Raiders just before USC's Magdas/Nguyen tacked up an 8-5 victory at No. 3 over Escobar/Gonzalez.
Robert Farah turned the tide after the doubles slip with a resounding win at No. 1 singles. The nation's #1, Farah pinned up a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Texas Tech's #45 Raony Carvalho to make it a 1-1 match. At No. 4, #57 Abdullah Magdas pulled the Trojans into the lead with a powerful tiebreak win in the second set to claim a 6-4, 7-6 (1) win over Christian Rojmar, bringing USC to a 2-1 lead in the match. #86 Steve Johnson padded the Trojans' lead to 3-1 with his 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 3 over Gonzalo Escobar, but there were battles still raging at the No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6 slots to leave the match up in the air.
At No. 2, #102 Jaak Poldma was topped by Texas Tech's Sinisa Markovic 6-4, 6-3 to pull the Red Raiders to 3-2. Meanwhile, at No, 6, USC's Jason McNaughton was working his way into a second-set tiebreak with hopes of pushing to a third set, but Milos Kustudija worked ahead after a 4-4 tie in the tiebreak and claimed the match 6-2, 7-6 (5), tying the whole thing up 3-3. That left the deciding match at No. 5, where freshman Matt Kecki rebounded from dropping the second set to take a lead and hold it through to the end, breaking Michael Breler one last time to claim the win and clinch the match with his 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 decision.
USC's next competition comes next week with a Monday (March 16) match against No. 29 Tulsa at 12 p.m. at Marks Stadium.
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Comedic renaissance man Bob Odenkirk joins Media Mayhem to talk about everything from sketch comedy and political satire, to his unlikely inspiration for playing shady lawyer Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad.
We get into the pitfalls of comedy in the politically correct internet age and how his own comedy is off limits to his kids.
Bob Odenkirk is a comedian, actor, producer, director and writer. Bob has been a writer for "Saturday Night Live," "Get A Life," "The Ben Stiller Show," and "The Dennis Miller Show." He created the Emmy award winning "Mr. Show" along with fellow comedian David Cross which aired for four seasons. Odenkirk produced the TV series "Tom Goes to the Mayor" and "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" He has also directed three films, "Melvin Goes to Dinner," "Let's Go to Prison," and "The Brothers Solomon."
He has appeared in such shows as "The Larry Sanders Show," "Entourage," and can currently be seen playing "Saul Goodman" on the current season of AMC's "Breaking Bad."


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Composition Voting Meeting 24 November 2015 – Composition Proposal approved
Kaupthing hf. Composition Voting Meeting which was duly convened by a notice published in the Icelandic Law and Ministerial Gazette on 10 November 2015 was held today, 24 November 2015, at Silfurberg, Harpa Conference Centre, Austurbakki 2, 101 Reykjavik, at 11:00 a.m. (Reykjavik time).
At the meeting, Composition Creditors had the opportunity to vote on Kaupthing's Composition Proposal which was initially made available to Composition Creditors on 23 October 2015 on the Kaupthing creditor secure website and updated 6 November 2015 as well as being available at Kaupthing's offices Borgartun 26, 105 Reykjavik.
Composition Creditors of Kaupthing representing 93.66% of the total amount of claims on the Voting Registry participated in the vote.
The Composition Proposal was approved at the meeting with all valid votes cast in favour.
In accordance with this outcome the Winding-up Committee of Kaupthing will submit a request for confirmation of the Composition Agreement to the District Court of Reykjavik.


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Purpose of study:
In this study, researchers want to find out if we can improve the treatment for your disease by adding another drug called topotecan to the 5 drugs used in standard treatment.
We chose the drug topotecan because the combination of topotecan and cyclophosphamide has been found to be useful in treating some subjects with Ewing sarcoma when it has come back after treatment (recurrence). The combination of vincristine/topotecan/cyclophosphamide (VTC) has been well-tolerated in people with other types of sarcoma. A recent COG study added VTC to standard therapy for localized Ewing sarcoma and the early results indicate that VTC can be used in this way.
The overall goal of this study is:
To find if adding the drug combination VTC to the standard five-drug chemotherapy for Ewing sarcoma will get rid of the cancer better than the standard five-drug chemotherapy by itself. ?
Who can participate:
Patients with newly diagnosed, biopsy confirmed, extracranial, non-metastatic Ewing sarcoma or PNET of bone or soft tissue are eligible for this study.
No prior chemotherapy or radiation therapy is allowed. Patients should only have had a biopsy of the primary tumor without an attempt at complete or partial resection. Patients will still be eligible if unplanned excision was attempted or accomplished as long as adequate imaging was obtained prior to surgery.
Patient must be < 30 years of age at the time of study enrollment.
Additional screening for eligibility will be required.
What will happen during the study:
Random Assignment
Subjects (people participating in the study) will receive 1 of 2 different treatment plans. The treatment plan they receive is decided by a process called randomization. Randomization means that the treatment is assigned based on chance. It is a lot like flipping a coin, except that it is done by computer to make sure that there are about the same number of people on each treatment plan of the study. The randomization process is described in the COG Family Handbook for Children with Cancer. You will be randomized to get either standard chemotherapy (Regimen A) or experimental chemotherapy (Regimen B). The randomization takes place at the time you are enrolled on the study. You have an equal chance of getting either one of the treatments.
The treatment plan involves chemotherapy along with surgery and/or radiation therapy. The treatment on this clinical trial may take about 9 months. The treatment is divided into 3 stages: Induction, Local control and Consolidation therapy.
Each cycle of chemotherapy on this study will last 14 days. Induction will be 6 cycles of chemotherapy, and will last around 12 weeks. Local Control will begin upon recovery from Induction and may be surgery, radiation therapy, or both (as described below). That decision will be made by your doctors and will depend on the location and size of the tumor. Consolidation includes 11 cycles (22 weeks) of chemotherapy and may start during the period of Local Control. This means that sometimes radiation therapy and some chemotherapy will be given in the same weeks.
Local Control
If you are to have surgery only, this will happen after you recover from Induction therapy.
The exact timing of chemotherapy and local control will depend on how well you recover from the drugs given during each cycle. You will also need time to heal from any surgery, and from the effects of radiation therapy. ?
Subjects in this clinical trial are expected to receive treatment on this study for about 9 months. After treatment, subjects will have follow-up examinations and medical tests. We will continue to collect some medical information about how you are doing for 10 years from the time you start the study.
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Madrid aka The Hottest Place on Earth
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We spent a few days seeing the sights that Madrid has to offer, those being museums. Madrid has an amazing modern art museum and for pure extravagance Palacio Real de Madrid (Palace of Madrid), is hard to beat. The palace also boasts the best armory I can ever remember seeing. Spanish armor is impressively ornate on it�s own, but this armory also had full scale horse and rider "mannequins" donned with full armor for both.
Our last day in Madrid we finally had to say goodbye to Libby until she comes home from her semester studying abroad. I hope she likes the heat!


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Three-time world champion Antonio Margarito and trainer Robert Garcia hit the mitts in preparation for Margarito's upcoming mega fight against superstar Manny Pacquiao on November 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Pacquiao vs. Margarito is promoted by Top Rank in association with MP Promotions and Cowboys Stadium. The Pacquiao vs. Margarito telecast will be available live on HBO Pay-Per-View.


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Arsenal train ahead of Marseille - Pictures
Arsenal flew out to France on Tuesday for their Champions League Group F clash with Marseille - but not before they trained at their base at London Colney.
Arsène Wenger put his players through their paces in the morning and our official Club photographer was there to send back these pictures.
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