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Angie and I just returned from a two week whirlwind tour in the states. We saw my parent's gorgeous new house in Maine, went to Brian Becker's wedding on Martha's Vineyard and visited with friends along the way. Our partner, John, was at Tierra de Sueños while we were gone. The adjustment from Pleasantville to Puerto Viejo has been a bit shocking. We never could have imagined the changes that would happen in being away for such a short time.
Several of the dirt roads in Puerto Viejo are now paved. The rumor is that they will be coming down our road soon. Great for the car, tough on pedestrians as the drivers will go as fast as possible.
Where five months ago there was a parking lot, there is now a palapa roofed wireless internet spot with 6 laptops. This is the most shocking change. It's right down the street from Tierra de Sueños and directly across from the entrance to Playa Chiquita. Internet has been a tough subject for us so far. There are constantly rumors about someone getting wireless that they will sell at a monthly rate or that ICE, the national electric company, will lay a cable for ethernet soon. For now we're still on dial up, but with change happening so fast it's hard to imagine that lasting very long. Then again, it is Cost Rica.
Our neighbors a few doors down sold their property two days ago. They have four small houses, so it may be run as a lodge or B&B. More competition and recognition for Playa Chiquita.
There is a huge poster on the stable down the road advertising luxury villas built to Italian standards. We're not exactly sure where they're going, but it's somewhere in the neighborhood.
Unfortunately some kids have figured out that spray paint is fun. They tagged our beautiful sign, wrote on C & J's supermarket down the street and the house across from them. They also took the old Tierra de Sueños sign that we had leaning on the gate to our parking spots. We should have the good sign painted and back up by tomorrow.
It's hard to digest the area changing so rapidly and to imagine what the Talamanca coast may look like in 10 years. The best change was realizing after returning that we do have a quite a few friends around. It took 45 minutes to walk 100 meters on our first morning because we kept stopping to talk to people. The sloths and monkeys are still here. Our gardens are blooming more and more. All in all, it's good to be back in the jungle.
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USC law students continue strong ABA presence
Two University of South Carolina law students were recently elected to serve as national officers in the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division.
Brandon Smith, a second-year student from Atlanta, was elected to serve as the 2011-12 student representative on the ABA Board of Governors. Lauren Acquaviva, a second-year student from Holmdel, N.J., was elected vice chair of the Law Student Division.
Smith will replace Tommy Preston Jr., who has served in the position the past year, marking the first time in ABA history that students from the same law school have served the position consecutively.
Acquaviva will be responsible for overseeing student membership for the ABA and working to ensure that the association is providing adequate services for students to succeed in law school and in being prepared to enter the legal profession.
Smith and Acquaviva continue a tradition of USC Law students serving in key ABA positions. This year, USC has had more law students in regional and national ABA positions than any law school in the country. In addition to Preston, five other students have served in ABA positions.


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Contractor selection using multicriteria utility theory: an additive model
Hatush, Zedan & Skitmore, Martin (1998) Contractor selection using multicriteria utility theory: an additive model. Building and Environment, 33(2-3), pp. 105-115.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados offense busted out with 13 runs in the first game against Montreat College on Saturday afternoon, and then survived a grueling 10 inning battle in the second in recording the sweep against the Lady Cavaliers, 13-5 and 6-5.
Jennifer Gift recorded the win in both games and Chelsi Mallory went 5-6 with five RBIs and three runs scored as Brevard moves to 10-4 in 2009. Montreat, with the pair of losses, falls to 6-10 for the season.
Game 1: Brevard 13, Montreat 5 (5)
Four Brevard players recorded multi-hit games and the Tornados batted around in the first inning on their way to a 13-5 victory in game one.
Tornado starting pitcher Gift (5-3) gave up five runs on eight hits, and struck out five in her fourth win of the season while Rachel Stowe suffered the loss. Stowe allowed only five earned runs, but was betrayed by her defense as the Tornados scored eight unearned runs to take the win.
Montreat went three up-three down in the top of the first, leaving way to the Tornados offense. Becca Curlee walked to lead off the inning, a bunt single by Kristina Clayton moved Curlee over to second. Curlee advanced to third on a stolen base and scored on Mallory's sacrifice fly to left field. The next batter, Jennifer Brown, launched a shot to centerfield that Tameron Sealey tracked down, but the ball glanced off Sealey's glove for a two-base error that scored Clayton from second. The Tornados proceeded to send the next nine batters to the plate, tallying six more runs before Jennifer Brown flew out to right field to end the inning as Brevard took an 8-0 lead.
The Lady Cavaliers responded in the second as Amy Vogel placed one of Gift's pitches over the left field wall with Olivia Huffman on base to put the score back at 8-2.
Brevard reopened the eight-run lead in the bottom of the second as Katie Brown scored on a wild pitch and Sarah Carlos drove in Kasey Fagan with a single through the right side of the infield.
Montreat pushed across another run in the top of the third as Jamie Poling scored on Erin Cross' double to right center, but Brevard matched the run in the bottom half of the inning as Katie Brown drove Clayton home with a base hit up the middle to put the score at 11-3 after three innings.
The Tornados pushed across their last two runs of game one in the bottom of the fourth when Curlee placed a single in-between the outfielders in left center scoring Beth Brooker from second and Mallory placed a line drive just inside the right field line to score Curlee giving the Tornados a 13-3 lead.
Needing three runs in the top of the fifth to keep the game alive, the Lady Cavaliers came close, scoring two as Huffman nailed a double down the right field line scoring Cassie Randall and Whitney Roper, but Gift forced Vogel to pop out to Clayton at shortstop to end the game.
Game 2: Brevard 6, Montreat 5 (10)
The evening game of the doubleheader controlled by Brevard through the first six innings, before a blast by Montreat's Mandi Pike over the centerfield fence in the top of the seventh tied the game up and sent Brevard and Montreat to extra innings. The two teams traded runs in the extra frames before a single by Clayton scored Carlos from second to complete the sweep for Brevard, 6-5.
Gift received the win, pitching 1.2 innings in relief of starter Liz Houser who went eight and a third, giving up 11 hits and striking out 10 batters for the day. Houser gave up five runs, four earned, in her longest stint on the mound as a Tornado. Stowe pulled double duty for the Cavaliers for the afternoon, pitching 9.1 innings, giving up eight hits and six runs, while striking out eight in recording the loss.
Brevard opened up the scoring in the bottom of the first as Mallory tagged a double to left center and scored on Jennifer Brown's two-out single.
Montreat responded in the top of the second as Vogel led off the inning with a double to left and scored three batters later on Tiffany Davis' single that landed just inside the right field line.
In the bottom of the third, a play happened that made a direct impact on the game. A grounder hit by Clayton to the shortstop was fielded, but the throw was wide, forcing first baseman Erin Cross to come off the bag into the path of the runner. Clayton and Cross collided and by the time the dust settled, Clayton was called out and Cross had to come off the field due to injury, making way for new Lady Cavalier first baseman Pike.
Brevard tacked on runs in the bottom of the fifth and sixth as Brooker scored on a Stowe wild pitch in the fifth and Katie Thornburg stroked a single to right center driving in Mallory to give the Tornados a 3-1 lead.
In the top of the seventh, with one on and two outs, Pike laced a 2-0 offering from Houser over the left field fence tying the game up and Stowe put the Tornados down in order in the bottom of the inning sending the game into extra innings.
The Lady Cavaliers scored two in the top of the eighth as Davis drove Vogel home with a single to left and Sealey plated Kerby Barkdoll on a base hit as Montreat went up 5-3.
Brevard, however, responded with a pair of their own in the bottom of the eighth as Mallory continued her Saturday afternoon heroics with a double to the fence in left center, scoring Curlee. A two-out single by Katie Brown scored Mallory as the teams went to the ninth.
Montreat threatened in the top of the ninth, putting two runners on with one out, but Gift, coming in to relieve Houser, struck out Vogel swinging and a diving catch by Sarah Carlos at first base on Morgan Mills' line drive ended the inning with the score intact.
One-two-three innings in both the bottom of the ninth and top of the tenth led way to late game heroics by Clayton as she placed a one-out single up the middle past the glove of Stowe to score Carlos from second as Brevard took home the sweep, 6-5.
Brevard will take a week off for Spring Break and will head back to the field on Monday, March 16th as the Tornados make the trip to Bristol, Tenn. to take on King College. First pitch for the doubleheader is set for 2 p.m. Montreat, meanwhile, heads to Limestone College on Thursday, March 12th with game time starting at 2 p.m.


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By Nick Patterson Herald Writer
EVERETT — For nearly a month the Everett Silvertips have circled the wagons, hoping merely to survive until help arrives.
But now the cavalry is coming, and the Tips are hoping it's coming to the rescue.
Everett is getting three key players back from injury this weekend, and the Tips hope they provide the spark needed to snap their franchise-worst losing streak.
Everett, which has dropped its past 10 games, is expected to have goaltender Austin Lotz, winger Joshua Winquist and defenseman Austin Adam back on the ice for tonight's game with Tri-City in Kennewick. The players' returns couldn't come at a more important time.
"No question," Everett general manager Garry Davidson answered when asked if the return came at an opportune time. "We've got 12 games to go and it sure would be nice to have all hands on deck. We need two points real bad."
It's been a rough season for Everett on the injury front. Players have gone down in waves, and the malady has afflicted most of Everett's top players at some point. The most recent collection of injuries included Lotz, the team's No. 1 goaltender who's been unavailable for nine games because of an ankle sprain, as well as Winquist, the team's then-leading scorer who's missed eight games because of an upper-body issue. It's no coincidence that the bulk of Everett's 10-game losing streak, which matched the franchise-worst skid suffered last season, occurred with those two out.
However, both have mended. Lotz suited up as the back-up last weekend, but would only have played in an emergency. He's ready to return to action this weekend. Winquist practiced at full speed throughout the week and also will be back.
The other player Everett gets back tonight is defenseman Austin Adam. He has had a miserable season when it comes to injuries, appearing in just 23 games because of a combination of a broken thumb, concussion and most recently mononucleosis. He'll be back after missing the previous 14 games.
Everett's biggest problem during the losing streak has been scoring goals as the Tips found the net just 11 times in the previous 10 games. The most goals Everett scored in a single game during the streak is three, and the Tips were shut out three times.
The returning players should help in that area. Winquist, despite having missed 21 games this season, is still the team's leading goal scorer with 21, and his 37 points are just one fewer than leading scorer Landon Oslanski.
"I don't think there's any question he's our most natural goal scorer," Davidson said of Winquist. "You can see it in practice, and he leads our team in goals scored. That's certainly big plus for us. But we're also going to have to score by committee."
Adam's return also indirectly helps Everett's offense. While Adam is strictly a stay-at-home defenseman, his return means Oslanski can once again switch from defense to forward.
"We certainly hope it helps," Davidson said about Oslanski's return to forward. "Landon can really shoot the puck. That's the thing he does, he shoots lots, which results in goals of his own and also creates opportunities around the net for other people to hopefully deflect or bang in some rebounds."
And having Lotz back gives the Tips a final layer of security at the back. Daniel Cotton did an admirable job carrying the load in goal while Lotz was out. But Lotz was in excellent form when he went down and was single-handedly earning Everett points, such as when he made a franchise-record 65 saves in Everett's 4-3 overtime loss at Kamloops on Jan. 23.
"When he got injured he was really on top of his game," Davidson said. "It'll be great if he's back and right on top of his game, but we have to be realistic, too, as he's been out for a couple weeks. But he's looked good in practice and he's woking hard."
Despite the returns, the Tips haven't avoided the injury bug just yet. Center Manraj Hayer is considered day-to-day because of a lower-body injury that's prevented him from practicing, and winger Logan Aasman left practice Thursday after taking a shot off his arm. Their status for tonight's game is unknown.
Check out Nick Patterson's Silvertips blog at http://www.heraldnet.com/silvertipsblog, and follow him on Twitter at NickHPatterson.


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KURTLEY BEALE could still play against former team NSW on Friday night after scans cleared the Melbourne Rebels star of seriously injuring his shoulder in the 30-13 loss to the Brumbies.
It appears Beale will not need surgery on his left shoulder and will have treatment to help keep him on the field.
Beale hurt the shoulder in a tackle midway through the second half on Friday night. The five-eighth said the joint ''popped out and then back in''.
It is an injury that Beale said has occurred twice previously, during last season's Super Rugby season and late last year when playing for the Wallabies against England.
Rebels spokesman Adam Freier said scans showed there had been no further damage to the shoulder since a scan last year.
Freier said a decision on whether Beale would be fit to play against the Waratahs - he backed up the following week on the two occasions he injured it last year - would be made later in the week.
Meanwhile, a faster and stronger Brumbies fullback Jesse Mogg now has higher goals in sight.
Scoring three tries in the opening two Super Rugby games, as well as setting up another in his team's 30-13 win over the Melbourne Rebels, Mogg is quickly making a strong case for Wallabies selection.
It's not just the tally of tries - one short of his total season tally last year - but the manner of the five-pointers.
Mogg burnt off renowned Rebels speedster James O'Connor at AAMI Park in a similar fashion to the way he got outside another Wallabies flyer Digby Ioane in the Brumbies' opening win over Queensland.
The 23-year-old, who only made his Super Rugby debut last year, credits Brumbies high-performance director Dean Benton, who joined the organisation late in 2011, for his ability to now run a blistering 10.6 metres per second.
Benton has worked for a range of elite Australian sporting bodies, including Athletics Australia, the AIS and the Brisbane Broncos. Genetics may also have something to do with it - his mother, Kerry, and an uncle, Josh Mogg, were junior track champions.
''I've done a lot of work in the pre-season on my top-end speed,'' said Mogg, originally from Brisbane. ''Speed's a major factor in our pre-season. We're starting to see the results on the field.''
Mogg has also added 11 kilograms in the past three years to his still-lanky frame and showed that strength when he busted a tackle to set up the Brumbies' second try, scored by Clyde Rathbone.
While he has been included in a Wallabies training camp, he's trying to stay focused on keeping the Canberra-based side on its winning way.
''I had some good games and some bad games last year,'' Mogg said.
''This year I'm really working on my consistency for the Brumbies.
''If things come from that I will take the opportunity but my goal is to try to win as many games with the Brumbies. Coach Jake White believed Mogg had something special. ''I think one thing about Jesse, he's got something there that other players don't have.
''He's really quick, he's got a great left boot. I think the more he appreciates how quick he is and the more he understands how good he is when he has a foot race, the better he's going to become.''
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Thread: 9 month old and solids
23rd October 2013 02:54 AM #1
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9 month old and solids
Is it appropriate for a child not to eat semi-solid foods even if she's already 9 months old?
23rd October 2013 05:51 AM #2
Dear fraulein06,
From six months of age and if a baby is developmentally ready (sitting up unaided, reaching out for food, able to grab onto small objects) you can start introducing solid food to your baby. This should be alongside the baby's milk. Breastmilk is best and baby's benefit from the nutritional, emotional and social advantages of breastmilk to two years of age and beyond. If you baby has formula milk rather than breastmilk then this should still be their main source of nutrients up to 12 months of age.
There is an excellent book called Baby Led Weaning by Gill Rapley which explains this principle of introducing solid food to your baby from around 6 months of age and letting them play and explore the food without any need to mush or liquidise it. With baby led weaning, a baby should be offered food when they are not hungry (for example, they could have their milk feed around 1 hour before eating) and not tired. Babies younger than 12 months will not be able to associate food with stopping hunger and it is above all a time of developmental play for them. Babies can get over 90% of their required nutrients from their breastmilk up to 12 months of age.
Is your daughter breastfed or formula fed?
I am not sure of your main question in your post. Are you worried that your daughter is eating no mushy food and only solid food? This would be fine. Or are you concerned that she doesn't eat much food at all? If she still is breastfed on demand (day and night) then I would not be concerned about this either. Sometimes it is not until babies reach around 10 months of age that they start actually swallowing the food. Have your daughter's poos become more solid?
As long as you are offering your daughter a wide variety of fresh, healthy food at regular times throughout the day that is what really matters. What food do you currently offer your baby?
Please do post back so I can help you further with this.
I am passionate about baby led weaning and interested in all forms of weaning and supporting parents in this process.
Warm wishes,
23rd October 2013 10:57 PM #3
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Good day!
My baby is formula feed. She's 9months old and she doesn't eat any semi or solid foods. Whenever we feed her, she vomits. She only drinks milk. Whatever we do, we cannot let her eat. Are there any ways to convince her and bring out her appetite? Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here in your forum. I have learned a lot already.
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24th October 2013 05:01 AM #4
Thank you for your reply fraulein06.
I need to ask you some more questions to help us get to the bottom of this.
Have you tried giving your daughter finger food? For example, steamed vegetable sticks or roast chicken hunks or pieces of banana, apple or pear?
Is your daughter actually vomiting properly after every time she tries food or just gagging? If she is properly vomiting then she could have a food allergy or a food intolerance. I would have her checked with your health professional. If she is just gagging (and perhaps vomiting a little with this) then you may find it useful to know that this is more common with spoon fed babies and so you may find swapping to baby led weaning helpful.
Did your daughter have problems with vomiting when she only had formula milk? At this age, it is important that your daughter gets most of her nutrients from her milk. What is essential is that you focus on your daughter getting enough milk.
What age did you start giving your daughter food? Was it 6 months? Has she always found food difficult to keep down? Is your daughter well and happy otherwise? Does she produce plenty of wet and dirty nappies?
Sorry, I'm still unsure from your post if your daughter is sick even when she just has her milk? If this is the case then please do see your doctor. It could be that she has reflux. This can be helped by feeding your baby in an upright position, burping your baby more frequently and giving your baby smaller more frequent feeds. Your doctor may also advise some medication for your baby if the reflux is severe. With reflux, it does reduce as the baby gets older and as they start eating more and more solid food. Is reflux something you have considered?
Warm wishes,
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Marion, the abstract mentions high intensity ultrasound treatment. Have you heard of this before?
Kris....I don't know much however, someone had mentioned it on the board not too long ago.
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The Time Traveler's Life - Part Two
By Allan EastmanGo back to Page 3
A Conversation with Science Fiction Master Joe Haldeman
Allan Eastman's 10 Favorite1. The Forever War
Joe Haldeman Books
2. All My Sins Remembered
3. Camouflage
4. Forever Peace
5. A Separate War & Other Stories
6. The Hemingway Hoax
7. Worlds
8. The Accidental Time Machine
9. Starbound
10. Forever Free
And that's the one you go to. There might be many others that still exist in some peculiar way. In fact, you have to say that finally when you think about a many worlds interpretation of reality, there are gazillions, uncountable gazillions, of Nows and of futures a microsecond from now and of pasts a microsecond ago. So, the whole notion...well, when I was little, I tried to get my head around the idea of infinity. And I think I'm still stuck in thinking of infinity as a number that's bigger than any number I could ever visualize. And it's not a number, of course...it's a condition. And whatever that condition is, it describes the number of time lines available from this instant to any given amount of time in the future.
Which is theoretically infinite as well...?
And infinity just keeps getting bigger too, doesn't it? With what quantum gravity and theories like that are talking about – the Multiverse, any number of Big Bangs, lots of Big Bangs outside of our Big Bang.
Yeah, once you put in the clutch and allowed yourself to more or less visualize infinite things, it's only another gear shift to get into trans-finite things – we have infinite infinities...(laughs)...and then your brain just blows out and you're left floating...
To me, it's a kind of positive for time travel in the sense of the argument that many people make is that there can't ever be time travel because we haven't met any time travelers. But we also haven't lived through into a future in which time travel has been invented so when time travel is invented, the time travelers come back and create a different past - which may or may not include us...
Well, that's not inconsistent with the many worlds interpretation because all they say is, OK there's nothing in our physics that allows time travel backward in time and so we have never experienced somebody coming from the future but that's OK because that's the kind of present that we're in. We're inhabiting a Universe that doesn't allow backward time travel. That doesn't mean that there isn't another Universe where it's quite ordinary.
Apparently, there's nothing in physics that actually forbids backwards time travel. It just...
Yeah, when you're in Newtonian physics, that's OK. It's just minus T instead of T. It all works.
We just don't happen to inhabit that kind of world where T is run backwards. The thing is that kind of Universe doesn't deal with thermodynamic realities. But it never did. It doesn't have to. In a Newtonian or Einsteinian simple Universe, you don't even have friction. So it doesn't describe anything like the real world. It's always an approximation.
I'm starting to think that entropy might be the biggest religious concept that humans have ever come up with...
(Laughs) Yeah, well, it's basically the Universe grinding down...
Well, we certainly seem to experience that, don't we? On a different point, one of the interesting things you wrote about in Accidental Time Machine was the idea that every temporal displacement also included a spatial displacement. As the time displacement increased so did the spatial displacement so eventually the characters ended up in Space. The earth is moving around the sun at about 108,000 Kilometers per hour (67,000 mph) and the sun around the center of the galaxy at say, 900,000 KPH (560,000 mph). That seems to be a big problem with time travel – that you don't necessarily end up spatially where you start from. Where did you get that idea?
Oh, that's totally generated by the necessities of the plot...
...I mean obviously if you used any interstellar or even geographical fixed point, then you'd be flying to hell and gone every minute that you were traveling in time. You'd be off Earth in no time at all.
The Time Travel genre has been extremely popular with the public ever since H.G. Wells published The Time Machine, right up through Star Trek and The Terminator. Why do you suppose people seem so fascinated with the subject of Time Travel?
Partly because we're trapped by Time. Time travel would release us from the steady march toward death. Partly curiosity about the past. There's also fear and visceral attraction to the unknown, past and future.
Any favorite stories or authors of time travel fiction?
Let me see. Well, I go back to Ward Moore, Bring The Jubilee. And I guess Rudy Rucker does a good job, of the modern guys. I don't read that much science fiction – I'm very critical. I have to read a lot of non-fiction for my own writing...and for my own curiosity. I read the "Best Of" collections when they come out. My wife reads constantly and she will recommend novels to me. You know, a great time travel novel was Doomsday Book. That was not only logically consistent but the past that she made up was just as concrete and real as anybody could want. Connie Willis wrote it.
Can you talk about what you're working on now, Joe? Is that still in a secret state?
Naw, it's not secret. I'm doing the 3rd novel in the trilogy – Marsbound, Starbound and the new one is called Earthbound. I'm up around page 300 and some. I'll finish it before the end of the year, he says, touching wood.
Can't wait for it, as always. So, time travel...No, huh?
Time travel fine for fiction...
OK. Thanks, Joe.
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Truth to tell, as much as it was a thrill for me to talk with him, I was a little disappointed by Joe's contention that Time Travel didn't seem possible in our Universe. I guess I wanted him, with his scientific and mathematical background and all his literary thought on the subject, to support my own hopes that eventually humans would be doing it.
Fortunately for me, Time Travel will remain one of those areas of Time where we don't know anything for certain until it is ultimately proven to be possible or not. If that ever happens. So, it is all right to harbor hopes.
I'd still like the chance to meet Helen of Troy.


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'So let's assume that a 2005-06 NHL season occurs, and it is with a new CBA, and the replacement players never make it onto NHL ice. Where should the Sabres make changes? Who stays? Who goes? Fans have opinions, but I doubt the Sabres brass really considers that in the final answer. But anyway…'.
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i really like this one
i met this guy last year, he's one funny mother fucker.
more throwss...
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how do u resize the pic?
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^^nobody wants to see that
nice flix tony B) heres a few more
Y r u such a dick? Half the shit u guys post is gay so i can post wat i want!
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sek start off with simpler letters or somthing
kill em all
theres some nice RC throies by my house ill post asap, i just have to borrow my dads digi cam.
don't be so offended sek its only a stupid internet forum just practice more
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im being a dick becauseOriginally posted by SEK@May 19 2004, 03:09 PM
Y r u such a dick? Half the shit u guys post is gay so i can post wat i want!
#1 thats not a throw up
#2 it sucks
#3 just because YOU think its better then some of the stuff posted here, doesnt mean people want to see it.
dont mind this fool up in here.
chillin, if you dont pm or email me im gunna start the hateing.
what r u talkin about i emailed u like 3 times and i pmed u. they must have not gone thru
Im not offended , i know i need to practise more, i hav only been writing for 3 monthes!
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Well then wheres all the throwies?
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Someone plz tell me how to resize my pics!
Sorry for the large pic!
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i think your sketch is too big and too fuzzy to tell what it is. but going by the first one id say you just need some more practice.....work on your 'e' and your can control, the drips make it look sloppy.
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Alice In Chains praise Uproar co-headliners Jane's Addiction
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Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell says he and his bandmates are big fans of their Uproar Festival co-headliners, Jane's Addiction. The guitarist says they've always admired Perry Farrell and company, adding that they were thoroughly impressed whenever the band would come through town in their early days.
Cantrell says Jane's Addiction's first few albums are very important to him, while Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney notes that "there's nobody like them." The two rockers - who are also gearing up for the release of Alice in Chains' new album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here on May 28th - say Jane's Addiction's participation in this year's traveling Uproar fest was a big reason they signed on. Cantrell says they "wanted to go out with another really great band."
The outing - which will also include Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive and others - is scheduled to start August 9th in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The full lineup and other details are available at RockStarUproar.com.
Rock Star Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour dates:
8/9 -- Scranton, PA -- Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
8/10 -- Hartford, CT -- The Comcast Theatre
8/11 -- Darien Center, NY -- Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
8/13 -- Saratoga, NY -- Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8/14 -- Mansfield, MA -- Comcast Center
8/16 -- Bristow, VA -- Jiffy Lube Live
8/17 -- Holmdel, NJ -- PNC Bank Arts Center
8/18 -- Wantagh, NY -- Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
8/20 -- Toronto, ON -- Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
8/22 -- Tinley Park, IL -- First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/23 -- Noblesville, IN -- Klipsch Music Center
8/24 -- Clarkston, MI -- DTE Energy Music Theater
8/27 -- Oklahoma City, OK -- Zoo Amphitheater
8/28 -- Dallas, TX -- Gexa Energy Pavilion
8/29 -- The Woodlands, TX -- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
8/31 -- Albuquerque, NM -- Isleta Amphitheatre
9/1 -- Denver, CO -- Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
9/2 -- Salt Lake City, UT -- USANA Amphitheatre
9/8 -- Ridgefield, WA -- Sleep Country Amphitheater
9/11 -- San Francisco, CA -- Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/13 -- Phoenix, AZ -- Desert Sky Pavilion
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9/15 -- Irvine, CA -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
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Commissoner Peck's Statement at the News Briefing on "Can't Beat GSA Leasing"
June 18, 1996
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The following statement by Robert A. Peck, commissioner of the U.S. General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, was released today at a news briefing on GSA's reinvention initiatives in federal real estate, including "Can't Beat GSA Leasing," its new program to streamline federal leasing:
In line with the recommendation of Vice President Gores National Performance Review, our own initiatives and congressional directives, the Public Buildings Service is embarking on additional changes in our leasing practices. Our new program called "Can't Beat GSA Leasing" will give our employees the tools to compete successfully for business which is now ours by statutory fiat. We will use this initiative to increase competition and customer choice, both of which, in the final analysis, will serve taxpayers better.
Let me begin by giving you an overview of the Public Buildings Service. Today, PBS provides owned and leased space to over 100 Federal Agencies, and it is the single largest manager of Federal leased office space. During our discussion, it is important to keep in mind that fully 90 percent of the Public Buildings Service budget is already contracted out. This year, we will pay out $4.9 billion to private sector building owners, custodial and maintenance, security, construction and design firms. The remaining 10 percent of the budget goes to personnel, computer and other administrative costs.
In this era of downsizing, we have to find alternative ways to carry out our business, because we simply do not have enough people to handle our leasing workload. Public Buildings Service employment has declined about 20 percent since 1993, from about 10,000 to around 8,000.
Recent Initiatives -- Reinvention, Public/Private Partnerships, Agency Choice
The building blocks of our new business approach are already in place. Our Northwest Arctic Region in Auburn, Washington, was designated by the National Performance Review as a leasing reinvention laboratory in 1993. This and other reinvention laboratories, and many other parts of GSA have reengineered our leasing process with significant improvements in timeliness and flexibility. In addition, we have awarded contracts to private sector commercial brokerage firms in two of our eleven regions, have begun a solicitation process for multi-regional commercial broker services contracts, and have been providing choice and flexibility to agencies by delegating leasing authority.
Our New Can't Beat GSA Leasing Program
Building on our labs and other Business Processing Reengineering initiatives, we are overhauling our in-house procedures nationwide so we can execute leases faster, in a manner more user-friendly to private sector building owners, and with increased savings to the taxpayers. As you have already heard from acting GSA Administrator Dave Barram, we are calling the new program "Can't Beat GSA Leasing." We will also use lease renegotiations, tax appeals and other business improvements that will save taxpayers more than $300 million in payments over the multi-year terms of the leases.
Next month, we will launch "Can't Beat GSA Leasing" when all 700-plus of our leasing managers and specialists will cease business as usual from July 9-11 to receive training on the new, streamlined GSA leasing program. Later this year, our leasing specialists and managers will get new computer software used in a major corporate real estate operation. In the end, we believe that when agencies are given the choice to stay with us or take their leasing business elsewhere, this new program -- coupled with the quality and experience of GSA's people -- will help GSA maintain and even increase its federal real estate market share.
GSA Leasing -- Myths and Reality
Finally, to gain a better understanding of our service, it is important that I address some myths about savings in our leasing program which you and I have heard.
One private firm has told members of Congress that the government could save $1 billion a year by privatizing leasing. We agree that we can achieve more savings, but the billion dollar number is sheer fantasy. The total GSA budget for leasing in fiscal year 1996 is $2.3 billion. Our studies show that we are paying leasing rates approximately the same as those paid in the private sector for comparable space. Our own recent experience in saving more than $300 million over the five to ten year terms that our leases usually run indicates what is likely to be the magnitude of savings we -- or a private sector firm -- can realistically hope to achieve.
I was recently told that some are saying that Arthur Andersens work on the FORM studies, or the National Performance Review, indicated we could save $600 million a year in leasing. Again, that number is plain wrong. The total annual savings from FORM recommendations, on all of the $5.5 billion annual Public Buildings Service budget, not just leasing, were estimated as $65 million. The number identified as savings on the leasing program was $6 million -- NOT $600 million.
Our in-house study estimated we could achieve about $350 million in multi-year savings from the leasing program by switching to a form of lease prevalent in the private sector. GSA as the tenant -- and not the landlord -- would control ancillary leasehold costs such as initial build-out and cleaning. We will go after those additional savings.
As Dave Barram said, GSA is making great strides in contributing to President Clintons promise to make our government work better and cost less. And the Public Buildings Service is playing an important role as we take steps to streamline our leasing business and work both prudently and creatively to serve our client agencies and the taxpayers effectively.


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The Schedule: More Conference Than You Can Shake a Stick At
Here it is, in black and white and some kind of aqua, the 2011 Vida Vegan Con weekend schedule! We've promised you classes, panel discussions, workshops, excursions, local vegan dining options, receptions, entertainment, and more—and we aim to please. Next step, we'll be working with our speakers to match them with classes. Keep an eye on the Conference Agenda page for the most up-to-date information.
Early Bird registration is still open—so if you've got any loved ones looking for the perfect stocking stuffer…
Thursday, August 25, 2011
6:00 pm–8:00 pm • Informal Meet & Greet
In town early? Already a Pacific Northwest dweller? Come join the early birds and natives for this casual get-together at the Bye and Bye, then perhaps a stroll down vegancentric NE Alberta St.
Friday, August 26
3:00 pm–6:00 pm • Early Registration
Please make sure to check in and pick up your stylin' Vida Vegan badge, official materials (book, map, and whatnot), and Swag Bag of Wonder at the registration table before the start of tomorrow's activities. (The registration table will be also be open Saturday morning.)
7:00 pm–9:00 pm • Opening Night Reception
Our opening reception, held in the Columbia Falls Ballroom, will feature local musicians. Have a cocktail (or mocktail) or two, sample whichever hors d'oeuvres strike your fancy—they're all vegan—and make some new friends.
9:15 pm… Late-Night Wander
You won't forgive yourself if you come to Portland and don't explore the city at night! Grab your map or join a group of us for a cart or bar crawl. A MAX line just so happens to journey from the PSU campus to a 24-hour doughnut shop with vegan yeasted and cake doughnuts.
Saturday, August 27
8:00 am–10:20 am • Registration, Breakfast, and Official Welcome
If you haven't had a chance yet, pick up your Vida Vegan Con materials before heading off to breakfast. Fuel up buffet-style, with local baked goods, juices, teas, and Stumptown coffee. What's your favorite unmilk or creamer? We'll probably have it!
10:30 am–11:30 am • Class Session 1 (3 classes)
11:40 am–12:10 pm • Class Session 2 (3 classes)
12:20 pm–1:00 pm • Class Session 3 (3 classes)
1:00 pm–2:00 pm • Lunch (catered—and it'll be good!)
2:10 pm–3:10 pm • Class Session 4 (3 classes)
3:20 pm–4:20 pm • Class Session 5 (3 classes)
6:00 pm–9:00 pm • Galarama & Silent Auction
After a long day of gettin' your learn on, get your fancy on at the Galarama. Cocktail dresses and up-dos, wingtips and bow-ties are heartily encouraged! Music, art, and yummy eats and drinks set the stage for our Silent Auction to benefit animal sanctuaries.
9:15 pm… More Late-Night Wandering
Yes, we'll be heading out on the town again. It's either that or a pillowfight in the dorms!
Sunday, August 28
9:00 am–10:30 am • Brunch
Good morning, wild and productive vegans! Pour that coffee, grab the coconut creamer, and smother those pancakes in maple syrup and fruit. You need your strength—we've got another full day of greatness ahead.
10:45 am–11:30 am • Class Session 1 (2 classes)
11:45 am–1:15 pm • Class Session 2 (3 classes)
1:30 pm–2:00 pm • Coffee/Tea Break
2:15 pm–3:15 pm • Class Session 3 (3 classes)
3:30 pm–4:15 pm • Class Session 4 (2 classes)
4:15 pm–4:30 pm • The Farewell
If you haven't already, swap your business cards or fill in your address book/fancy phone with all your new friends—you'll have a lot of new blogs to catch up on once you get home!
7:00 pm… Optional Dine-Out
Still planning on being in town? Let us know when you check in at the registration table and we'll save you a spot for our Sunday night dine-out…at a location to be determined. We're open to suggestions.
So Many Classes!
With 9 sessions, and 2-3 classes per session, we'll have a ton to choose from. The following are merely a sampling of what's in store.
• Dating & Mating
• Small Town, Represent!
• Nutrition & Diet
• Group/Community Blogging
• Activism & You
• Family/Parenting
• Publishing
• Marketing & Promotions
• Experienced Vegan Travel: Tips, Stories & Dining
• Budgeting
• Build-A-Blog
• The Accidental Journalist
• Veganism and Special Diets: Gluten-free, Fat-free, Sugar-free, etc.
• Positive Blogging
• Photography: Beginners and Advanced
• Videoblogging and Making Culinary Videos
• Podcasting
• Vegan Fashion
Quite Likely:
• Cooking Demos
Special Presentations by:
• To be Added!
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Will a court ruling allowing same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania portend more such weddings in local synagogues?
Some synagogues in the Philadelphia area already hold same-sex weddings, but couples have had to travel elsewhere to legally marry.
In the aftermath of Tuesday's decision to strike down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage, that all changes for people like Rita Pompey and Debbie Gordon. The couple immediately announced new plans for their August wedding. Rather than get married in New Jersey — one of four neighboring states in which same-sex marriage was already legal — they plan to hold the ceremony at Temple Sholom in Broomall.
"I actually shed a tear," said Pompey, 44, who lives with Gordon, 48, and their 9-year-old daughter, Ellie, in Delaware County.
"Part of it was pride and part of it was gratitude to the individuals, couples and families that have put themselves in front of the courts and have made it possible for our family to see the day where we can stand in front of our community and commit to one another legally."
Pompey and Gordon met 18 years ago in the summer of 1996, introduced via a friend from their time as undergraduates at West Chester University. That fall, then-Gov. Tom Ridge signed the bill into law banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania.
The significance of the number of years they have been together — 18, which in Hebrew means life — has not been lost on the couple.
Gordon said they finally decided to get married in part because they have aging parents. "Rita's father, who is 80 years old, all he wants to do is be there to walk with her down the aisle and be part of the service," said Gordon.
A number of rabbis interviewed said they did not expect the ruling to change other rabbis' minds on officiating and recognizing same-sex marriages.
"I still think that the traditional part of our world has other concerns. They're not waiting for the courts; they're waiting for the rabbis," said Rabbi Peter Rigler of Temple Sholom, who has been actively involved in lobbying for same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania. His officiation at the wedding of Pompey and Gordon will be his first same-sex marriage.
When asked last year about proposed legislation in Harrisburg to legalize same-sex marriage in the state, Rabbi Neil Cooper of Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El in Wynnewood said he supported gay marriage but declined to say whether he would officiate at a same-sex couple's wedding.
In an interview after the ruling this week, he said, "If someone asked and they were members of my community, I would be happy to do it for them."
"I haven't always felt this way," he said. "I think the world has changed. I think it's really a great thing that people have the right to define the kind of loving relationship that they want to be in."
Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, who held a commitment ceremony in Philadelphia in 1998 and was legally married to her partner 10 years later in California, drove down to City Hall after the ruling to celebrate as same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses. She said she has officiated over dozens of same-sex weddings but the majority of them were not legally binding.
"Now I hope to be part of many more legal ceremonies in my home state," said Elwell, who recently retired as a rabbinic director with Union for Reform Judaism.
In the car with Elwell was Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, director of multifaith studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Her daughter and son-in-law married this past weekend and had asked guests to donate to efforts for marriage equality in Pennsylvania.
"They were fortunate that they were able to be married in the state, and they felt sorry that they were unable to share in the joy with gay couples," said Kreimer.
Her husband, Seth Kreimer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, was part of the legal team representing the plaintiffs and said Tuesday that he hoped Corbett would decline to appeal the case.
"I hope he doesn't waste more of the state's money on this," said Kreimer. "I think it's pretty clear which way things are going; I think he could save a lot of angst and a lot of money by simply acknowledging that Pennsylvania has joined the rest of the Northeast in recognizing marriage equality."
Corbett announced on Wednesday that he would not be appealing.


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:: Introduction To Multicultural Education
Summer 2014
@Leeward CC
|Credit Hours:
Jaydene Silva
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455-0397 (Ph)
|Course URL:
|Instructional Mode:
|07/07/2014 - 08/14/2014
|Course Requirements:
|*Students will be contacted by their instructor by UH email before the first day of instruction. Students must check their UH email for course correspondence before the first day of instruction.
|Course Prerequisites:
|ENG 22 with a grade of C or better OR placement in ENG 100 or equivalent or consent of the instructor.
|Course Description:
|Reflective practitioners realize that in order to create a community of learners, we must first build that community by celebrating diversity. This introduction to Multicultural education will integrate discussion, "hands-on" activities, skills and methods to develop an awareness and sensitivity to the challenges facing K-12 educators in today's classrooms. (formerly ED 298E
|Books may be purchased at the Leeward CC bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/lcc/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
|Technical Requirements:
|The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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|DE AA Degree core
Alternate Technology Access Plan: In registering for a Distance Education course (Cable or Web) the student is responsible for finding immediate alternate access to a computer with Internet connectivity or cable television should that student experience technical difficulties. Technical difficulties can include but are not limited to problems with a student's computer hardware/software; inoperability of a student's VCR or DVR; or lack of service by a student's Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Cable Provider. Technical issues do not constitute the extension of an assignment, project, quiz or exam deadline unless agreed upon by the instructor.
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text: Famed record producer and wig lover Phil Spector is currently serving 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. He was sentenced back in 2009 and according to his attorneys is near death. They are trying to expedite his appeal so that it can be heard before he dies. He has been transferred from the jail he was serving his sentence to one that has more medical facilities available. Spector is one of the few celebrities who didn't get away with murder and I wonder how often his wife actually visits him in jail after attending court every day. She seemed like she was ready for him to go to jail so she could spend all his money. He does have lots of money still rolling in because of all the records he produced. Spector is the inventor of the Wall Of Sound which was a popular recording technique he used at his peak back in the 1960's and 70's.


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The Management of Early Ovarian Cancer
The Management of Early Ovarian Cancer
Approximately one third of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer present with localized or early-stage disease. Prognostic features identify certain subsets of patients with good risk characteristics who do not require adjuvant treatment after comprehensive surgical staging and cytoreduction. Only a minority of patients undergo such a complete procedure, which often results in understaging of these patients. In the United States, patients with poor prognostic features, such as stage IC to II disease, poorly differentiated histologic grade, clear cell histology, dense adhesions, and large volume ascites, have received adjuvant chemotherapy. Single-agent or combination chemotherapy, whole abdominal irradiation, and intraperitoneal phosphorus 32 have been evaluated, although no modality has been shown to improve overall survival. Randomized trials investigating the optimal therapy or whether any therapy is truly effective are in progress. Until the completion of these trials, the most common postoperative adjuvant therapy in these patients in this country remains combination chemotherapy.
In the past year, ovarian cancer ranked as the fifth most common cause of malignancy among women in the United States [1]. There will be an estimated 21,000 new ovarian cancer cases this year, and approximately 13,500 deaths, which is more deaths than from endometrial and cervical cancers combined. Despite advances in cytoreductive surgery and dose-intense combination chemotherapy, overall survival in patients with ovarian cancer has not changed in the past 2 decades, because more than two thirds of women continue to be diagnosed with advanced bulky disease. Patients with localized ovarian cancer, however, have been reported to have a 5-year disease-free survival of approximately 80% [2]. This article focuses on the management of early-stage ovarian cancer, which has been surgically defined by the staging system of the International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO) as stage I and stage II disease (Table 1).
Surgical Implications in Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer
Staging--Over the past decade, a great deal has been learned about the potential for occult extra-ovarian disease, which occurs in a significant proportion of women with apparent early-stage epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Comprehensive surgical staging is the single most important factor in deciding appropriate management of early-stage disease. It allows for a more accurate determination of prognosis and correctly identifies those patients whose survival may be improved by adjuvant therapy. The appropriate procedures that constitute a complete staging laparotomy for ovarian cancer are listed in Table 2 [3].
Unfortunately, many women who are explored for pelvic masses undergo their initial surgery in a community hospital by a general obstetrician/gynecologist or a general surgeon. Oftentimes, a comprehensive staging procedure is not performed, since ovarian cancer often is not suspected at the time of the patient's initial surgery. McGowan and coworkers [4] found that only 54% of 291 women with ovarian carcinoma had a complete comprehensive surgical staging at their initial laparotomy. In this series, 97% of the patients initially explored by gynecologic oncologists had complete surgical staging documented, compared with 52% and 35% of patients explored by obstetrician/gynecologists and general surgeons, respectively. In another series, only 25% of patients had an incision at the time of their initial surgery that would allow a thorough exploration and staging of the upper abdomen [5]. When a second laparotomy was performed, approximately 30% of the patients were upstaged, and approximately 75% of these patients actually had stage III ovarian carcinoma. Another study evaluated 59 women who were explored in a community hospital setting for a pelvic mass [6]. Only 15% had a comprehensive surgical staging procedure. Complete surgical staging was performed in 5% of cases managed by an obstetrician/gynecologist, and only 38% of patients were completely staged when a vascular surgeon was consulted.
Preoperative consultation with a gynecologic oncologist obviously is imperative. In addition, since age and menopausal status are important risk factors, we recommend that any patient who is peri- or postmenopausal and who has a pelvic mass should also have a gynecologic oncologist available at the time of her laparotomy, regardless of the value of the preoperative CA-125. Any postmenopausal woman with a pelvic mass and an elevated serum CA-125 level should be referred directly to a gynecologic oncologist for appropriate surgical staging and cytoreduction, as her risk of malignancy is exceedingly high (95%) [7].
Conservative Surgery--If an apparent stage IA ovarian carcinoma is encountered intraoperatively in a young woman desiring fertility, or in a woman whose desires are unknown, conservative surgery may be possible following careful inspection of the upper abdomen and retroperitoneum. The contralateral ovary should also be carefully inspected. Unless an obvious lesion is noted, random biopsies or wedge resections are not recommended, because they may compromise future fertility. If, on gross inspection, there appears to be no extra-ovarian disease, the surface of the ovary is smooth without excrescences, and there are no adhesions between the mass and the pelvic side walls, then a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with adequate resection of the ipsilateral infundibulopelvic ligament may be performed. A thorough surgical staging procedure as shown in Table 2 should be undertaken, except that the contralateral ovary and uterus are not removed. If, on the final histopathology review, adverse prognostic factors are discovered, the benefits of a second operation to remove the uterus and the retained ovary may be discussed and safely performed after careful consideration has been given to every alternative. Consideration should be given to a "completion" total abdominal hysterectomy and unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy following the patient's childbearing, although it has not been established that there is any benefit from this procedure.
Although not common, early epithelial ovarian carcinoma does occur in younger women who have not completed childbearing. In these circumstances, it is crucial to review with the patient, prior to surgery if possible, the risks and possible benefits of conservative surgery with preservation of reproductive function. Several studies have documented compromised survival for patients with stage I ovarian carcinoma treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. In one series, the contralateral ovaries of 65 women with apparent stage IA ovarian carcinoma were pathologically evaluated, and 14% had cancers in the normal-appearing ovary [8]. Additional reports have documented poor survival in women undergoing unilateral oophorectomy (50%), compared with women undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and complete comprehensive surgical staging (80%) [9]. These studies are flawed by nonrandomized small numbers of patients, many of whom did not have comprehensive surgical staging. In contrast, Williams and coworkers [10] retrospectively reviewed 29 patients with apparent stage I ovarian carcinoma treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. No recurrences were documented after initial surgery in 19 patients with grade 1 or 2 lesions that did not have capsular rupture, pelvic adhesions, or surface excrescences. Among these 19 patients, seven were successful in achieving pregnancy. If the dominant ovarian mass was adherent, ruptured, or had excrescences, 50% of these patients eventually died.
Ovarian Tumors of Low Malignant Potential--Borderline tumors of the ovary or tumors of low malignant potential constitute a distinct, well-defined pathologic entity with several characteristic microscopic findings that distinguish it from its invasive counterpart. These tumors have characteristic papillary fronds, epithelial tufts, and a pseudostratification of their nuclei, but do not exhibit any stromal invasion microscopically. Clinically, borderline tumors are more indolent than typical ovarian cancers.
Unlike invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, approximately 75% of these tumors are diagnosed in early stages and represent approximately 15% of all ovarian malignancies. If these tumors are encountered intraoperatively, a gynecologic oncologist should be consulted, and every effort should be made to fully stage the patient, just as in invasive epithelial ovarian cancer. It should be noted, however, that these cancers are not usually chemosensitive, and the surgeon should attempt to remove all gross evidence of disease. In younger women who desire the preservation of their fertility, conservative surgery should be attempted in exactly the same fashion as previously described for women with invasive early epithelial ovarian cancers who desire preservation of their childbearing potential. Recurrence rates are higher in women who have conservative surgery than in women who have definitive surgery, but there is no difference in overall survival, due to effective salvage surgery.
In one series, approximately 24% of apparent early-stage epithelial ovarian cancers of low malignant potential were upstaged by a comprehensive surgical staging procedure [3]. Obviously, upstaging has important prognostic implications, though not as significant as with invasive disease. In addition, an experienced gynecologic pathologist should be consulted in all cases because of the unusual nature of the tumor and the difficulty in making accurate diagnoses and differentiating it from its malignant counterpart. Clinicians should be aware that appropriate sampling of large pelvic masses includes at least one pathologic section for every centimeter of the mass. Of equal importance is the fact that the diagnosis of a tumor of low malignant potential in the operating room by frozen section does not confer the same accuracy as diagnosis of an invasive tumor or a benign tumor by frozen section. It is therefore of utmost importance to completely stage the patient in a thorough fashion at the time of the initial surgery, as a percentage of these cancers thought to be of borderline histology intraoperatively will be documented as invasive on final pathologic review.
Although the prognosis for patients with tumors of low malignant potential is much better than for patients with invasive tumors, approximately 10% of stage I tumors will ultimately recur. Because these tumors are indolent, recurrences can present 10 to 15 years after the initial diagnosis, making long-term follow-up necessary. Surgical reexploration should be strongly considered in these patients when recurrence is suspected, since long-term palliation and even cure have been documented after secondary surgical resection [11,12].
Laparoscopic Management of Adnexal Masses--Because of advances in minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic management of ovarian masses has important considerations in the discussion of early ovarian cancer. Older series [13,14] have documented an adverse effect of tumor rupture in patients with stage I ovarian cancer, although these findings have not been confirmed in more recent series using more elaborate statistical methods [15]. It should be noted that most patients in these studies received adjuvant therapy after tumor rupture was documented, and this "adjuvant" treatment may have negated, in part, the adverse prognostic effect of tumor spill at the time of surgery. Despite the lack of convincing data suggesting adverse outcomes in patients with tumor rupture, adjuvant therapy is often given in cases of rupture, due to the oncologist's bias or perhaps the bias written into protocols for early ovarian carcinoma. All this considered, difficult dissections performed laparoscopically are likely to result in tumor rupture. In addition, laparoscopic surgery has a disadvantage in that the surgeon loses the ability to carefully palpate and inspect all of the peritoneal surfaces. Patients of any age group with an elevated CA-125, or with suspicious findings on ultrasonic examination (abnormalities within the cyst wall, septations, or any solid component), should be managed with exploratory laparotomy, unless they have consented to an investigational protocol for evaluating pelvic masses laparoscopically. It should be apparent to any clinician that loss of the ability to palpate and inspect the entire abdominal cavity and retroperitoneum could significantly compromise the accuracy of the surgical staging procedure and be detrimental to the patient's prognosis.
Second-Look Laparotomy--Previously, operative reexploration was an integral part of the management of advanced ovarian carcinoma. Although this procedure helped physicians decide whether to discontinue chemotherapy or to use additional therapeutic regimens, it has not contributed to improvement in survival. Traditionally, second-look laparotomy was considered for patients with advanced disease, but several studies have now evaluated this procedure in patients with early ovarian cancer [16,17]. Walton and coworkers [16] evaluated the experience of the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) in 112 patients who underwent initial surgical staging and had FIGO stage I and II ovarian carcinomas documented histologically. Following adjuvant therapy, these patients then underwent a restaging operation. Of 95 patients who were asymptomatic prior to their second-look laparotomy, only 5% had disease confirmed by second-look laparotomy, as opposed to over half of 17 patients who were symptomatic prior to their second-look laparotomy. These data suggest that for asymptomatic patients with early-stage disease, in whom initial comprehensive surgical staging was performed and followed by adjuvant therapy, routine second-look surgery will yield positive results in only a small percentage of patients. Therefore, routine use of second-look laparotomy is not recommended.


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Solve your family photo mysteries with these books by Maureen A. Taylor:
Since this relative descends from her paternal grandmother's side of the family, Karen thought maybe these folks were McClures who lived in northwestern Ohio.
Karen decided to take the picture to her class reunion. The Grover Hill school has a reunion where graduates from all classes gather in one place. Unfortunately, no one recognized anyone in the picture.
She then tried to upload the photos to an Allen County, Ohio, genealogy page, but doesn't remember which one. The Allen County Genealogy group has a Facebook page that she could join. That's a good next step. She'd then be able to post the photo.
Members of her Stout, McClure, Parker and Stratton families lived all over northwestern Ohio in Allen, Van Wert, Paulding and Hancock counties. The Ohio Genealogical Society is an active group with an annual conference and chapter meetings. Karen could reach out to chapters in those areas and see if they could show the photo at meetings.
While connecting with someone locally could be helpful in her quest to identify these folks, she could also try posting it on sites such as DeadFred.com and AncientFaces.com. In the description, she can list all the possible surnames and locations.
Her mother identified all the other family pictures except this one. Why didn't she recognize any of these people? That's a big part of this puzzle. Since this photo dates from circa 1920 and there are likely individuals in their 20s in this picture, several of them could have lived long enough for Karen to meet them as a child.
Karen says the man in the middle looks familiar but can't think why he does. It's possible he resembles someone else in the family. She wants to figure out who they are and wished she'd asked her mother more about family history. Her sentiment is a common one.
Of course, there is no guarantee that these individuals are family. Our ancestors often sent photos of themselves to friends. Until this mystery is solved, she won't know if they are relatives or acquaintances.
Throughout the 1920s, hemlines and waistlines go down and up. You can find a good overview of average fashion for men, women and children by reading the Sears catalog (digitized on Ancestry.com). This illustration is from the Spring 1922 catalog.
I don't expect major changes in the way Violet dresses in the 1920s. There's no way she's going to change her conservative ways. It's up to the younger women in the Crawley household (and Cora's American mother) to wear contemporary fashions.
On Dec. 13, 1905, Joseph wrote: "I expect you will take me out to America about next March or April. I would not stop here any longer, I am totally sick of it. If I stopped here any longer I would be getting too old nearly to be taken in an office. I am always thinking of what kind of a job I would get after landing. I would like to be in the Excise or Customs or some job you would be sure of. I think it is easy to get into the Excise or any Government position. Any how, I must till I get over first and then I would know what would be best."


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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Chap. 579
|Jackson Barnett, estate. Sale and conveyance of certain property.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell and convey any or all of the property hereinafter described, upon such terms and conditions as he shall prescribe: Lot 2 of tract numbered 8553, as shown on map recorded in book 105, pages 22 and 23 of maps, and the southerly forty feet of lot 20 and all of lot 21 of tract numbered 3446, as shown on map recorded in book 37, page 84 of maps, in the office of the county recorder of Los Angeles County, California, together with all improvements thereon, and all furniture, fixtures, and personal property, belonging to the estate of Jackson Barnett, located in or on said real property.
Approved. December 13, 1944.


text: "Women of Age" trip to snowshoe two days in Pingree Park. All skill levels welcome. This is a rustic adventure spending the night at the Pingree Park Campus. Participants must provide bedding, towel, extra trail food, snowshoes and poles. Trip is ladies only. (2 day 1 night trip includes transportation, dinner and breakfast and double occupancy room. Trip not discountable.)