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[Content Note: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse]When I was 16, I dated an abuser who was constantly coercing me into having sex with him. I had been raised in fundamentalist purity culture, so I thought of sex as something gross and scary. My boyfriend at the time tried to combat those feelings by sending me on guilt trips and by holding me to his manipulative, subjective standards of "responsibility."He'd say things like, "You hugging me turned me on. You're a horrible person if you turn a … [Read more...]
On Bob Jones University, and Letting Survivors Speak
Content Note: Rape, Sexual AssaultGrowing up expecting to go to Bob Jones University today was just another part of life as a member of an IFB (independent fundamental Baptist) church. Unless of course you were one of those heathens who went to Hyles-Anderson. Really, though, if you grew up in the IFB church and school that I grew up in, your options for acceptable colleges were limited. My choices were to go to Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Pensecola Christian College, Northland, or good … [Read more...]
Packin' up and movin' to Patheos!
Hey readers! It's official. I've made the move to Patheos Spirituality. The new URL is http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sarahoverthemoon/Check out my first post here!When I was a kid growing up in an independent, fundamental Baptist church, spirituality was a dirty word. When many independent fundamental Baptists thinks of "spirituality," they think of pantheism, paganism, postmodernism, and Harry Potter (Harry Potter is, of course, the worst of these). To the fundamental Baptists I knew, "spiri … [Read more...]
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When I was a kid growing up in an independent, fundamental Baptist church, spirituality was a dirty word. When many independent fundamental Baptists thinks of "spirituality," they think of pantheism, paganism, postmodernism, and Harry Potter (Harry Potter is, of course, the worst of these). To the fundamental Baptists I knew, "spiritual" people were often depicted as lazy hippie-liberals who refused to commit to a specific religious belief so that they could justify having all the sex they … [Read more...]
We are thin spaces.
I've been reading N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope for several months now (with my internship, my research project, plus school and work, it's been a slow process). In one section he discusses an idea of the "theology of space." His discussion mostly revolves around whether or not churches should continue to have buildings.I have a lot of mixed feelings about church buildings, personally. I was sexually abused in a church nursery as a child, so for most of my life just walking into a church b … [Read more...]
On being a female body at a Christian college
[I wrote recently about learning to love my body for Lent. Part of that loving so far has involved some deep contemplation about where the fear and hatred come from. And I've realized something.Part of my body hatred, and by extension part of my self hatred, comes from the fact that oppressive people have used my female body to justifying oppressing me.I hate my body and myself because, deep down, I blame my body (and thus myself) for the ways in which I've been hurt by others.Two e … [Read more...]
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I want to talk about faith for a second.I'm a Unitarian Universalist. People often ask me what that means. Basically, it's an interfaith religion that celebrates diversity, yet finds unity. Unity is found, not an agreement on doctrine, theologies, images of God, etc. but on these seven principles (quoted from UUA.org):The inherent worth and dignity of every person; Justice, equity and compassion in human relations; Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our … [Read more...]
Account and Countenance
Trigger Warning for intimate partner violence/verbal abuse and spiritual abuseI'm on a guest-posting streak apparently, because today I'm over at Dianna Anderson's blog talking about images of God for her Account and Countenance series. I look around me, years later, and I see a Church that is terrified to look its theology in the face. I see a Church that is somehow okay with having two drastically different definitions of love—one for humans and one for God. I see a Church that holds God to … [Read more...]
Why Chris Rosebrough is Wrong: A Case for Ordaining Women (Guest Post By Travis Mamone)
Here are some thoughts from my friend Travis Mamone (who blogs about cool stuff like Doctor Who and theology here!) on why popular arguments against the ordination of women fall flat and why sometimes it's best to just step away from "theological bullies." He included a picture of a fluffy animal to represent Rosebrough but I couldn't get it to load, so for now, here is my cat in a tiny top hat. Enjoy!Like many of my fellow emergent Christians, I once tried to pal it up with fundamentalist … [Read more...]
No one's Messiah
To Christian men and the churches they attend:I am not your Christ.Churches may try to put women on a cross, sacrificing them so that men may be pure and holy.But I am not your savior.Churches may expect women to keep silent, to hide their talents, their bodies, to sacrifice who they are to protect men from sin and shame.But I am coming down off of that cross.Churches may ask women to endure abuse for a season--like Christ endured crucifixion--so that abusive men might be saved.But … [Read more...]

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Named Best Of Live Band by in 2010, Community Property has gone undefeated in every South Florida battle of the band in which it's participated. Proud to be "Sunrise boys," Community Property has been rocking in Broward for six years now. The band's frontman, Lucien Sawyer, writes all the lyrics, and the band comes up with melodies. In addition to Jimi Hendrix comparisons, Community Property brings together a wealth of dirty blues and soul that will run you as ragged as any Black Keys guitar romp. Keep your ears peeled; the band will be dropping a self-titled album this summer.
Gourmet diners have long had Sublime as their go-to, a restaurant founded by animal-rights activist Nanci Alexander and serving an entirely vegan, and partly organic, menu. Sublime has always been beautiful, with its water wall and open brick oven and its inventive list of "healthy" cocktails and organic wines. The food lives up to the name, from a delicious tempura-battered cauliflower "frito misto" to a gorgeous sublime roll wrapped in grasshopper-greensoy paper. Classic Margherita pizza from the wood-burning oven could totally go crust-to-crust with the best brick-oven pizzas in South Florida. And a braised spinach, wood-fired artichoke, and roasted shallot "quiche" lacking either eggs or cream is a knockout. Presentation is exquisite.
This wood-oven pizzeria sits in a standalone building near Mizner Park punctuated by a large brick oven and a few rows of brightly colored industrial tables. The single-page menu features chicken wings, Italian salad, a handful of appetizers, and a few specialty pizzas (eggplant, broccoli rabe and sausage, Margherita). But the pizza is a treat. The crust crackles with a snappish crunch, and the sauce is garlicky and rich. Even better is the capricious nature of the cheese, which randomly finds its way into every other bite without ever getting rubbery.
The Salon Mantra's website spells out its mission: "To create a salon environment as unique to this planet as our clients are to us." It's clear Salon Mantra co-owner Sofia Navarro is helping meet that goal, considering she has won this poll two years in a row. The mission statement ends: "We will live this by keeping our Mantra one of trust, love, and beauty. After all... isn't that what it's about?" Yes, apparently it is.
Last year, Le Batard launched upward and onward from his days as Miami Herald columnist, local radio personality, and occasional guest host of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption. Now he's all marquee, with his name on his own show. Appropriately, he kept that personality that made him "the hatable Dan Le Batard" and called his show Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable. He's also highly unpredictable. Take the fact that he hosts his show with his father, Gonzalo. It's like nothing else you'll see on the ESPN networks, and that's exactly what makes it good.
Located where NE Fourth Avenue meets the train tracks, Laser Wolf fits in an unusual triangular space. The place vibrates with bright-red walls, a mural by pro skateboarder Kris Markovich, and the runaway trendiness of a crowd that gathers between its walls to drink sake and locally crafted microbrews. Ashtrays feature the Misfits' skull logo, and even the chairs made the trip from the moody-hip downtown hangout the Poorhouse. Dance parties instinctively emerge in front of the DJ's corner setup, while an adjacent, charming courtyard hosts bands for the rock-devoted.


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Tenor Michael Toby tells the story of the Underground Railroad in song on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul's United Church in Dundas.

Canada became a refuge for African slaves from the American south after slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834. Once the United States passed the Fugitive Act of 1850, requiring that runaway slaves captured in northern states be returned to southern owners, Canada became the only land of freedom for slaves. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 40,000 slaves escaped to Ontario by way of the Underground Railroad. Stories abound of people like Harriet Tubman, black Underground Railroad conductor, or Burr Plato, who escaped to Canada by swimming the Niagara River, and the hundreds of people who risked their lives to help slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

In his presentation, Toby uses images and songs to tell how African slaves used music to communicate their escape plans and schedules to one another. Since most slaves were illiterate, songs became the vehicle for telling one another when someone was going to escape, when the "conductor" was arriving and where to go. The slave owners, who loved to hear them sing, had no idea what they were planning.

They also used an elaborate system of signals and gestures, but the spirituals, which seemed to be innocent celebrations of the afterlife, played a significant part in getting the message out.

Toby, accompanied by Christopher Hunt at the piano, brings these stories to life in his concert. Toby lives from Selkirk, Ont., where he is pastor of the Church of Christ and also a teacher of voice.

St. Paul's United Church is located at 29 Park St. W. in Dundas. Tickets are available at the door, $20 for adults, $10 for students, and $45 family rate. More information can be found at www.stpaulsdundas.com or by calling the church at 905-628-6396. A reception to meet Toby follows the concert. St. Paul's is fully accessible and all are welcome.


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Corn rootworm populations are unusually high this year in many areas of Iowa. The snow cover for most of the 2000/2001 winter insulated the ground and contributed to the increase in rootworms in 2001. The past winter was mild, so I expected high populations of rootworms to continue or be even higher than in 2001. I began to prepare for this possibility with my article [1] in last week's Integrated Crop Management newsletter on insecticide failures and what can be done now.
In late June and early July, I began receiving reports of "insecticide failures." On July 4 and the following weekend there were some scattered thunderstorms. On July 10, there were stronger storms that were more widespread. With the wetter, softer soils and the taller corn for the wind to push against, these early July storms lodged corn that the numerous corn rootworm larvae were feeding on throughout June and early July. Lodged corn has been treated with nearly all the insecticides, including both granular and liquid treatments on continuous and rotated corn in northwestern Iowa, but there are no trends that would indicate a particular product has ceased to work.
Based on research in my laboratory, insecticides applied to the soil at planting or after corn emergence control approximately half of the corn rootworm larvae. Under "average" conditions this level of control is sufficient for the insecticides to prevent lodging and yield reduction in eight to nine of 10 fields that have rootworms. Last year, with the higher rootworm populations, the best treatments in statewide plots gave acceptable control only 60 percent of the time. This year, the populations of rootworms are high enough that, before the rain, the untreated plots at Ames were dying because severe root feeding prevented the corn roots from reaching moisture. During last week's storms, several research locations suffered extensive lodging, in both treated and untreated rows. This outcome is the good aspect of abundant rootworms; it challenges the treatments in our research plots.
A benefit that the rains may provide is adequate moisture for the corn to begin to regenerate roots. If timely rains continue through pollination and ear fill, the impact of the larval feeding and lodging will be minimized. The only control that remains is the management of the beetle population. In heavily infested fields, inspect the silks to make sure that the beetles do not reduce pollination.
Beetle management also might reduce the populations before females lay eggs. Timely treatment of beetles to prevent egg laying can avoid economic infestations next year, but management must begin NOW. The beetles are out and egg laying is beginning. As soon as female beetles are found that contain well-developed eggs, they should be treated to prevent egg deposition. A treatment threshold that can be used is an average of 0.50 to 0.75 beetle per plant. Beetle treatments also may help reduce populations so that next year's soil treatments are more effective, but treatment could result in unneeded additional cost. Normal winter conditions could bring the beetle population down to a level at which early-season larval treatments alone would be sufficient.
This article originally appeared on pages 146-147 of the IC-488(18) -- July 22, 2002 issue.


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Brown Coated Tongue
Anything that a person can take for a coated tongue?
Brush it: Try brushing your tongue, either with toothpaste or listerine. ...Read more
What is the definition or description of: coated tongue?
Film on tongue: The normal tongue is generally light pink with visible papillae, which resemble the bristles on your toothbrush. A coated tongue usually has a white to yellowish covering or thickness to it. It can look like a thin layer of tapioca on the tongue. If you brush your tongue regularly, you will get rid of that thickness and a pink tongue will greet you in the mirror. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Why do I wake up most mornings with a thick white coated tongue?
Poor oral hygiene: The thick white coating could either be plaque (bacteria) or a fungal infection. If it's bacteria, you might want to get a dental check-up to make sure there is not a rotten tooth or periodontitis happening in your mouth. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
What would cause a yellowish coated tongue?
See your dentist: Candida albicans is a fungus accumulates usually on your tongue or inner cheeks. The condition is a minor problem if you're healthy. Candida infections can occur when your immune system is weakened by disease or drugs such as steroids. Eating unsweetened yogurt and acidophilus capsules will solve the problem. Rec.: see your dentist if the condition gets painful. ...Read more
Is halitosis due to coated tongue?
Possibly: There are a number of reasons for bad breath- one being a coated tongue, using a tongue scraper or brushing your tongue would help remove the film. Other reasons include what you ate and acid reflux, and the most common gingivitis/periodontitis (gum disease) due to plaque building up under the gums. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
What is a white coated tongue that is not candida?
Propbably: It is probably plaque and can be removed with a brush or better yet a tongue scrapper. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
I have coated tongue, esp in furrow. Can you show photos of thrush?
Brush your tongue: A coated tongue does not necessarily mean you have thrush, which is an oral yeast infection. If the coating looks like cottage cheese curds, can be easily wiped away and it leaves the surface of tongue looking red. You should be brushing your tongue with your toothbrush after brushing your teeth, each and every time you brush. After a few days, your tongue should look normal. Questions, see dds. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Why am i having trouble swallowing - feels like there is something in my throat but no symptoms except coated tongue?
Reflux: One of the most common reasons my patients complain of this symptom is acid reflux. A small bit of acid can come up when you lie flat and it causes swelling of the larynx. This causes the feeling that something is stuck in your throat. Avoid -spicy foods, eating late a night, acid foods. Try Prilosec otc for a couple of weeks and if it doesn't get better see an ent. ...Read more
What causes a yellow coated tongue and what can I do to get rid of it without changing diet?
Need a check-up: Could be anemia, could be furry tongue syndrome, could be unusual diet, vitamin deficiency. Go for complete, thorough check-up. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
For 5 months i 've had a white coated tongue with a sweet taste in my mouth. What is causing this and how can I get ride of it?
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The aim of this multicenter prospective study was to evaluate the incidence of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in adult and pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies, involving nine nosocomial facilities in Southern Italy over a period of 18 months. Furthermore, results of an environmental microbial surveillance routinely carried out in some of the enrolled hospitals are reported. A total of 589 onco-hematological patients were enrolled and 27 IFIs were documented. The main infections were caused by yeasts, more than filamentous fungi (overall incidence of 2.7% and 1.9%, respectively). The yeasts were mainly represented by
The epidemiology of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in onco-hematological patients has changed substantially in recent years and its incidence varies considerably among different nations [
Among IFIs caused by yeasts,
Over the last 20 years, an increasing number of infections caused by moulds has been reported:
Although the actual incidence of the IFIs has increased, its real frequency is often underestimated because of the difficulty in diagnosis [
This study is a subset of the AURORA Project, the first active surveillance program carried out in Apulia (Southern Italy) to assess the incidence of IFIs in patients admitted to the Intensive Care, Hematology and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. It was launched in February 2007 and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico of Bari, Italy.
The present study reports the incidence of IFIs in onco-hematological patients, the characteristics of enrolled patients, and the role of the additional biomarkers-diagnostic tests. Moreover, the results from an environmental surveillance carried out on water, surface and air samples are reported.
Apulia is a region located in Southern Italy with about 4 million inhabitants, 38,000 births/year and a mean of 850,000 hospital admissions/year. All the regional hospitals admitting onco-hematological patients were involved in the AURORA project, for a total of nine nosocomial facilities: five admitting adult patients and four both adult and pediatric patients.
To standardize the clinical recruitment and microbiological procedures, a training course was organized before starting the study, and a manual was distributed to all participants.
The study was carried out over 18 months (February 2007–August 2008) on adult (aged over 16 years old) and pediatric (under 16 years old) patients with newly diagnosis of one of the following diseases:
acute myeloid (AML) or acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL);
chronic lymphocitic (CLL) or chronic myeloid leukemia (CML);
Hodgkin's (HL) or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL);
Multiple myeloma (MM)
Moreover, patients with autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCTs) following one of the previously mentioned onco-hematological malignancies were enrolled.
Patients with non-malignant hematological disorders (hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenias, aplastic anemia,
In accordance with the criteria proposed by Ascioglu [
For each enrolled patient, the participating centre had also to complete an electronic report form including information about the patient (age, sex, underlying disease), microbiological data (date of first culture, etiological agents, circulating antigens), histological and/or radiological evidence, therapeutic approach and outcome 30–60 days after enrolling.
In order to confirm the identification of species and to analyze the data, both the isolates and the electronic reports were sent to the Coordinating Centre (Laboratory of Mycology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro").
As indicated in the study protocol, the pharmacological management of the onco-hematological adult patient was made according to ECIL 2007 [
In the pediatric population the use of antifungal prophylaxis (Fluconazole at 6 mg/kg daily) was reserved for patients with severe neutropenia (PMN < 500/mm3), while an empiric antifungal therapy with Caspofungin (50 mg/m2 daily) or LF Amphotericin B (3 mg/kg daily) was administered in case of fever unresponsive to an adequate antibiotic therapy.
Furthermore, because an environmental microbial surveillance was carried out three times per year in the bone marrow transplant units located in 4 out of the 9 enrolled hospitals, a hypothetic association between the IFIs cases and the environmental fungal surveillance was evaluated. These wards are equipped with a laminar air-flow (LAF) system with HEPA filters. Each room has a positive airflow control device.
The diagnosis of invasive fungal disease was made according to the definition proposed by the EORTC/MSG [
The duration of fungemia was defined as the time interval (days) between the first and last positive blood cultures (yielding the same pathogen). Persistent fungemia was defined as the persistence of positive blood cultures for >2 days, from the time of the first positive blood culture.
Each biological sample (e.g., sputum, nasal swab) was cultured on two Sabouraud chloramphenicol dextrose agar (SDA) plates (bioMèrieux, Marcy l'Etoile-France), incubated at 36 ± 1 °C and 28 °C (for yeasts and moulds isolation) and examined daily for 10 days.
Identification of yeasts was performed with sugar assimilation profiles obtained using the ID32C and confirmed by VITEK-2 System (Biomérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).
Filamentous fungi were identified on the basis of their macroscopic and microscopic morphological features, in accordance with standard methods [
The presence of the BDG antigen was measured by colorimetric assay, Fungitell (Associates of Cape Cod Inc., E. Falmouth, MA, USA); the GM antigen was measured using a commercial sandwich immunoassay (Platelia
Overall, 156 air, 312 water and 312 surface samples provided by the four hospitals including bone marrow transplant units (for a total of 26 onco-hematological patient's rooms) were examined. SDA plates were employed to yield fungi, incubated at 36 ± 1 °C and 28 °C (for yeasts and moulds isolation) and examined daily for up to 10 days.
Air samples (180 L/min for a total suction volume of 500 L) were collected using a Surface Air System (SAS) sampler (Microflow Acquaria, Milan, Italy). It was placed in each monitored room about 1 m above the floor and 1 m from the patient's bed. The number of colony forming units was adjusted using the conversion table provided by the manufacturer and was expressed in colony forming units per cubic meter (cfu/m3) [
For mycological water contamination, tap and shower water samples were collected in sterile bottles and immediately transported to the laboratory in cool boxes, in accordance with Italian legislation [
Fungal contamination of surfaces was evaluated at the patient's bedhead and on the air aspiration grate, using sterile swabs [
Data were entered into a computer database (Microsoft Access 2003). Categorical variables were expressed as proportions or percentages, and numerical data were expressed as the mean ± SD and range.
Univariate analysis was performed using the χ2 test and Fisher's exact test where appropriate with each of the following independent variables: age group (0–16, 17–40, 41–60, 61–80), sex, underlying hematological diseases, host factors and autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCTs). Variables for which data sets were incomplete were not included. Multivariate analysis was performed using a logistic regression model applying the stepwise selection to identify significant associations between host factors and risk of developing an IFI. Adjusted odds' ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. A
The analyses were performed using the software SAS system version 9.2.
The overall and IFI-attributable mortality rates (AMR) were estimated. As reported by Pagano
To evaluate the association between environmental fungal surveillance and presence/absence of IFIs, data regarding number of hospitals with and without a periodical environmental monitoring and number of hospitals with and without IFIs were entered in a contingence table. The relative risk (RR) and the confidence interval at 95% were calculated. The
During the 18-months study, 589 patients with newly diagnosed hematological malignancies were enrolled (475 adults and 114 pediatrics). Their underlying hematological diseases and host factors are shown in
Twenty-seven episodes of IFIs were documented: overall incidence 4.6% (5% in adults and 2.6% in pediatric patients). The male/female ratio was 13/11 in the adult population (mean age at diagnosis = 53.6 ± 16.6 years; range, 19–78) and 2/1 in the pediatric population (mean age at diagnosis = 6 ± 6.1 years; range, 2–13). The most common underlying disease was AML (40.7%), followed by NHL (18.5%), ALL (14.8%), CLL and MM (11.1%, respectively) and HD (3.7%).
Of the 27 documented IFIs, 16 were caused by yeasts (13 in adult patients: incidence 2.7% and 3 in pediatric patients: incidence 2.6%) and 11 by filamentous fungi (all in adult patients: incidence 2.3%). No filamentous fungi infections in pediatric patients were reported.
Regarding the antifungal treatment, 67% of our patients were undergoing empiric therapy. The overall fungal infections mortality rate was 1% (6/589 patients) and the AMR was 22.2% (6/27 cases). Fisher's exact test showed a significant difference between AMR for mould
Of the 27 diagnosed cases, 16 (59.2%) were caused by yeasts, all based on blood cultures: 13 were adult (male/female ratio was 8/5) and 3 pediatric patients (male/female ratio was 2/1). The majority of yeasts isolates were
With regard to adult patients, the underlying diseases were AML (61.5%), NHL (15.4%), MM (15.4%) and ALL (7.7%). Among the host factors, the presence of a central venous catheter (CVC) resulted the most frequent (69.2%), followed by chemotherapy (cytarabine in all cases) (53.8%), severe neutropenia (38.5%, with a mean duration of 7 ± 1.6 days; range 6–11), prolonged antibiotic therapy (30.8%), and immunosuppressive therapy (15.4%) with cyclosporine. Moreover, four were bone marrow transplant patients: autologous transplants (23.1%) were more frequent than allogeneic ones (7.7%). The mean age of adult patients at diagnosis was 55.1 ± 14.6 years (range 19–77). The time of infection onset was 15 ± 16.1 days (range 0–55) from the first day of recovery; the mean duration of fungemia was 3.8 ± 6.3 days (range 1–24); persistent fungemia was found in four patients (30.8%—range, 4–24 days). Just one adult patient with yeast infection and MM who underwent autologous bone marrow transplant died. In five adults, at the moment of the IFI suspect and after the blood sampling, the CVC was removed and underwent catheter tip cultures. In all cases, the blood culture tested positive for
With regard to pediatric patients with yeasts IFI, the underlying diseases were ALL (2/3: 66.6%) and NHL (1/3: 33.3%). They had a central venous catheter and were under chemotherapy, immunosuppressive therapy, and use of corticosteroids; moreover, 66.6% of them showed severe neutropenia. The mean age of pediatric patients at diagnosis was 6 ± 6.1 years (range 2–13), the mean duration of fungemia was 4 ± 3 days (range 1–7); persistent fungemia was found in two patients (4 and 7 days, respectively). The time of onset of infection from the first day of recovery was 19.3 ± 19.6 days (range 1–40), caused by
Univariate analysis showed that—in adult patients—chemotherapy (
A total of eleven mould infections (40.7%, 10 aspergillosis and 1 zygomycoses) were reported only in adult patients (incidence 2.3%). The overall male/female ratio was 5/6. The mean age at diagnosis was 51.8 ± 19.2 years (range 21–78).
Underlying diseases were AML and CLL (27.3%, respectively), NHL (18.2%), HD, ALL and MM (9.1%, respectively).
Severe neutropenia (<500 PMN/mm3) resulted the most frequent host factor (81.8%), followed by central venous catheter (45.5%), corticosteroids therapy and chemotherapy (36.4%, respectively), prolonged antibiotic therapy and
The most common site of infection was the lung, with regard to aspergillosis (81.8%). These patients presented a CT scan suggestive of moulds infection, but only in three cases the etiological agents were isolated from respiratory secretions and identified at the species level (
BDG, GM antigens detection was performed in all eleven patients, for a total of 39 sera. BDG tested positive (>80 pg/mL) in all the 38 sera samples from patients with aspergillosis (10/11), while GM antigen tested positive (Index cut-off > 0.5) in 36 of the same 38 sera samples. Using BDG and GM assays, an aspergillosis diagnosis was possible in 6 of the 10 patients with suspected aspergillosis, in which the culture survey was negative.
The AMR in adult patients was estimated at 45.4% (5/11 cases): one AML patient had undergone an allogeneic bone marrow transplant (9.1%), two patients were affected by NHL (18.2%) and two by CLL (18.2%).
Univariate analysis showed that chemotherapy (
With regard to the pediatric patients, no mould IFIs were detected.
In four Hematology units, including bone marrow transplant wards, equipped with HEPA filters and undergoing environmental monitoring, fungi were never isolated from air/water samples collected from patients' rooms; only
In the remaining five hospitals without HEPA filters and not undergoing environmental monitoring, 10 mould IFIs were detected.
Since this surveillance yielded a small number of IFIs, an association between the results of environmental surveillance and frequency of IFIs was not possible.
In Apulia region the IFIs affecting onco-hematological patients appear to be caused more commonly by yeasts than by filamentous fungi (59.2%
Among yeasts,
Other yeasts isolated from blood were
Regarding mould infections, we found a low incidence in adult patients (11/475; 2.3%) and no case in the 114 pediatric patients. We realize that these data are not according to those reported by other authors. In fact, recent studies indicate that:
AML patients are at highest risk of developing an IFI [
It is possible that our data concerning the low incidence of IFI from moulds may also be related to empirical antifungal therapy administered in 67% of enrolled patients, or to preventive measures (e.g., ventilation system cleaning and HEPA-LAF filtered room) usually adopted in four out of the nine enrolled hospitals. In fact, in these wards, a microbiological surveillance is regularly carried out on air, water and surfaces three times per year. In our 18 months experience, this surveillance yielded a poor environmental contamination: the only filamentous fungus detected was
There are other potential reasons explaining the low incidence of moulds IFI: a different geographic distribution of some fungal species [
Regarding bone marrow transplant patients, only three yeasts IFIs were reported in adults. Our data are in agreement with Pagano
Regarding pediatric patients, the yeasts IFIs incidence was 2.6% (2 ALL and 1 NHL patients); these data support findings from Castagnola
Our conflicting results with regard to the numbers and type of fungal infections might be mainly explained by the high rate (67%) of empirical antifungal therapy which usually results in a lower rate of proven/probable IFI, because of a less intense diagnostic work-up. Actually, BDG and GM determinations were performed only in patients with suspected infections as well as TC thorax scan was not regularly carried out and consequently BAL was exceptional. Although the diagnostic driven/pre-emptive approach was to prefer in Aurora Project experience because of the patients' various fungal risk, the empirical approach was the prevalent one and the IFI rate inevitably penalized. Any effort should be made in order to facilitate the implementation of diagnostic microbiological test (
This study was supported by an unrestricted grant from Pfizer Italia.
The authors thank the "Aurora" Project Group for the data collections: Caterina Coretti, Teresa Cuna, Roberta Iatta, Antonella Rella (Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Hygiene Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"—Bari, Italy); Giampaolo Arcamone (A.O.U. Policlinico Consorziale, Bari, Italy); Maria Rosaria de Paolis, Nicola Di Renzo, Maria Letizia Faneschi, Maria Pizzolante (Hospital "Vito Fazzi"—Lecce, Italy); Raffaele Antonetti, Silvana Capalbo, Rosella De Nittis, Anna Di Taranto, Celestino Ferrandina (Hospital "OORR"—Foggia, Italy); Nicola Cascavilla, Maria Labonia, Michele Li Bergoli, Lorella Melillo (Hospital "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza"—San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy); Angela Iacobazzi, Gaetano de Santis, Antonio Riezzo (Hospital "S. Nicola Pellegrino"—Trani, BA, Italy); Giovanna De Candia, Annarosa Doronzo, Consiglia Venitucci (Hospital "Vittorio Emanuele II"—Bisceglie, BA, Italy); Luca Leo, Giambattista Lobreglio, Vincenzo Pavone, Antonio Rana (Hospital "Panico"—Tricase, Lecce, Italy), Francesco Mosticchio, Giancarlo Negro, Isabella Rhaeli (Hospital "F. Ferrari"—Casarano, Lecce, Italy), Maximiliano Galizia, Angela Greco, Alessandro Orlando, Riccardo Pagliarulo, Antonio Vaira (Hospital "S.Giacomo"—Monopoli, BA, Italy), Vincenza Giorgio, Annunziata Lopatriello, Vito Lorusso, Antonella Mastria, Piero Vinciguerra—Hospital "Fallacara"—Triggiano, BA, Italy).
The authors also wish to thank Paolo Trerotoli (Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Hygiene Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"—Bari, Italy) for his help with the statistics.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Demographics and clinical characteristics of 589 enrolled patients.
|All patients (
|Adults (
|Pediatric (
|383 (65)
|290 (61)
|93 (81.6)
|206 (35)
|185 (38.9)
|21 (18.4)
|Age-mean ± SD (years)
|47.7 ± 23.4
|57.3 ± 13.7
|7.4 ± 5.7
|114 (19.3)
|114 (100)
|14 (2.4)
|14 (2.9)
|200 (33.9)
|200 (42.1)
|261 (44.3)
|261 (54.9)
|Underlying hematological diseases
|204 (34.6)
|195 (41)
|9 (7.9)
|136 (23.1)
|48 (10.1)
|88 (77.2)
|5 (0.8)
|5 (1.0)
|10 (1.7)
|10 (2.1)
|147 (24.9)
|140 (29.7)
|7 (6.1)
|15 (2.5)
|5 (1.0)
|10 (8.8)
|72 (12.2)
|72 (15.1)
|Host factors
|580 (98.5)
|466 (98.1)
|114 (100)
|Central venous catheter
|343 (58.2)
|238 (50.1)
|105 (92.1)
|Prolonged antibiotic therapy
|223 (37.9)
|143 (30.1)
|80 (70.2)
|Neutropenia < 500 PMN/mm3
|410 (69.6)
|333 (70.1)
|77 (67.5)
|Neutropenia: 500–1000 PMN/mm3
|179 (30.4)
|142 (29.9)
|37 (32.4)
|Immunosuppressive therapy
|138 (23.4)
|24 (5.0)
|114 (100)
|209 (35.5)
|95 (20)
|114 (100)
|Parenteral nutrition
|101 (17.1)
|95 (20)
|6 (5.3)
|25 (4.2)
|5 (1)
|20 (17.5)
|12 (2)
|12 (2.5)
|Allogeneic bone marrow transplant
|15 (2.5)
|15 (3.1)
|Autologous bone marrow transplant
|30 (5.1)
|30 (8)
AML: acute myeloid leukemia; ALL: acute lymphoid leukemia; CML: chronic myeloid leukemia; CLL: chronic lymphocitic leukemia; NHL: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; HD: Hodgkin's disease; MM: multiple myeloma; HSCT: hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Incidence of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in adult and pediatric patients.
|Hematologic malignancies
|Adult patients
|Pediatric patients
|Yeasts IFI No./Total (Incidence %)
|Moulds IFI No./Total (Incidence %)
|Yeasts IFI No./Total (Incidence %)
|8/195 (4.1)
|3/195 (1.5)
|1/48 (2.1)
|1/48 (2.1)
|2/88 (2.3)
|3/10 (30)
|2/140 (1.4)
|2/140 (1.4)
|1/7 (14.3)
|1/5 (20)
|2/72 (2.8)
|1/72 (1.4)
|7/466 (1.5)
|5/466 (1.1)
|3/114 (2.6)
|Central venous catheter
|9/238 (3.8)
|5/238 (2.1)
|3/105 (2.8)
|Prolonged antibiotic therapy
|4/143 (2.8)
|2/143 (1.4)
|Neutropenia <500 PMN/mm3
|5/333 (1.5)
|9/333 (2.7)
|2/77 (2.6)
|Neutropenia: 500–1000 PMN/mm3
|1/142 (0.7)
|1/142 (0.7)
|1/37 (2.7)
|Immunosuppressive therapy
|2/24 (8.3)
|1/24 (4.2)
|3/114 (2.6)
|4/95 (4.2)
|3/114 (2.6)
|Parenteral nutrition
|4 (4.2)
|1 (20)
|2/12 (16.7)
|Allogeneic bone marrow transplant
|1/15 (6.7)
|1/15 (6.7)
|Autologous bone marrow transplant
|3/30 (10)
AML: acute myeloid leukemia; ALL: acute lymphoid leukemia; CLL: chronic lymphocitic leukemia; NHL: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; HD: Hodgkin's disease; MM: multiple myeloma; HSCT: hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.


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Though Christopher Nolan, Frank Miller and others have taken the once camper-than-camp Batman and dragged him growling into the darkness, there remains something inherently silly about a man pretending to be a bat, flapping about in a big black cape. Ever observant, the internet has noticed this, and for the past seven years has poked fun at The Caped Crusader and his villainous adversaries. As The Dark Knight Rises winds up its stay at cinemas (and beats The Avengers at the UK box office, to boot) we thought it was high time we paid our respects to the web's best efforts. Here, then, are 13 of the funniest Bat-parodies; add your own favourites in the comments box below…
This isn't the first Batman / Carly Rae Jepsen mash-up to hit the web – the DegaBros got there first – which perhaps isn't surprising given the song's massive web footprint and insane catchiness. Still, this is definitely the better of the two, with the Batman here actually looking quite a bit like Christian Bale's goateed, hollow-faced Bruce Wayne. Their Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be more Michael Peña than John Blake, but he's not altogether terrible – and he can carry the tune.
Best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Chris Kattan has never really made it in the feature film Hollywood scene, with his talent for impressions languishing in the likes of Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters and a deleted scene in Superbad (where he dresses up in a squirrel suit). Thanks to Funny Or Die, however, Kattan has a new lease of life, playing everyone's favourite asthmatic terrorist with a gusto not seen since, well, Tom Hardy did it.
Living up to their name, Above Average productions effort sees The Dark Knight Rises meet Burt Ward's Robin in a mickey-take that boasts production qualities far superior to most other online Batman buffoonery. Luke Scholl's Bane deserves particular praise on that front, even if his inevitable beat down on the hapless Robin does descend into the rather-too-bloody-to-be-funny-anymore category by the end of the skit.
Where Above Average productions reveled in their top-notch production values, The Robson Experience – Robson Thomson, Will Tiddy and Tony Stephens – does exactly the opposite, embracing their sticky-back-plastic shonkiness with glee. In the clip, Robson is seen dashing about the centre of Cambridge, knocking Professor Stephen Hawking off his wheelchair shouting at passers-by and making "Neeoooow" noises as he 'drives' through a park. You know, just like in the movies.
Years before the world said with one voice, "Were those even words coming out of Bane's mask?", many cinemagoers were scratching their heads over the World's Greatest Detective's own dialogue in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Sure, we could at least lip-read Batman as necessary, whereas Bane had a spider made of tubes covering his alimentary canal, but he still mumbled quite a bit. Here, The Joker takes on Bats' poor diction with giddy aplomb – to the extent that we'd like to see a sequel where he tackles Bane…
Though not technically anything to do with Nolan's Dark Knight universe – and not, strictly speaking, a sketch – this on-the-street quiz is remarkably illuminating. The question was this: can the average American Joe work whether an out of context quote was spoken by George W. Bush or 1960s Batman? The answer: not always. "Whether we bring our enemies to justice or justice to our enemies, justice will be done…" is one such contentious quote – which was definitely said by Batman. Or Bush. Wait, Batman. No, Bush. One of the two, anyway.
If you've ever wondered how Bruce Wayne happened upon his particular Batman cough-slash-drawl, this video contains all the answers. It turns out that before he ended up speaking like a woodbine smoker after a particularly heavy night at his local Working Men's Club, Batman tried out Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many, many more. Shame the Dick Van Dyke "cock-er-nee" edition didn't make the cut, really – that would have brought a whole to twist to proceedings: "WHERE IS HE, ME OLD CHINA!?"
The How It Should Have Ended gang have a running gag that sees Superman having a cup of coffee with Batman, normally resulting in Supes bragging about something awesome he's done and/or Bats saying "…because /I'm Batman!/" Once they got around to covering on The Dark Knight – releasing their skit as late as February 2011 – it didn't disappoint, delivering both much-loved jokes alongside a clumsy magic trick, a road traffic accident and a plot hole so egregious it really is a wonder Nolan didn't spot it himself.
Just a month or so after The Dark Knight Rises arrived in cinemas, the How It Should Have Ended team butts heads with Gotham's Reckoning™ and identifies a few significant plot holes. Their baldy baddie's voice is perhaps the best impression on this list – though it hasn't got anything on our Nick's take, of course – and their Morgan Freeman ain't too shabby either. Elsewhere, their Commissioner Gordon delivers the line "Oh poop" so well, it's a wonder it wasn't in the actual film itself. One for the Blu-ray director's cut, perhaps.
Eagle-eyed fans of The Dark Knight trilogy will have noticed that The Riddler does not appear in any way, shape or form, such was Nolan's darker take on the comic book hero and/or the fallout of Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever. But that didn't stop CollegeHumor from taking the time to imagine what it would be like if he had. The resulting YouTube video manages to be both highly silly and prove a point: The Riddler just doesn't work in this world, although that question mark scar on his forehead is a nice touch…
If you were Commissioner Gordon, Batman's regular vanishing act would get pretty old, pretty fast. One moment he's there, growling sweet plot points at you, the next, he's off. At least The Joker was kind enough to leave a card. Of course, in The Dark Knight Rises, Catwoman shows Bats what it feels like, but here in his CollegeHumor video, Gordon fails to give The Dark Knight enough time to swoop away, resulting in some beautifully awkward moments.
Batman has no superpowers. Superman, on the other hand, has all the superpowers. In the grand scheme of DC superheroes, Superman should clearly be top dog, with only kryptonite and daddy issues standing in his way, whereas Batman is chock full of emotional angst and seemingly indefatigable enemies – which makes it faintly dishonest that any face-off between the two in the comics has (as is traditional) ended up in more-or-less a stand-off or a Batman victory. So it redresses the balance when CollegeHumor's cartoon comedy department square off Supes against Bats in a fight to save Gotham, The Last Son of Krypton kicks pretty much everyone's arse – including Batman's. God knows how The Justice League is going to work out that power dynamic…
This sketch by sketch troupe Totally Sketch, although not totally sketch, is still somewhat sketch. It all depends on whether you mind graphic descriptions of dark and twisted sexual acts as part of your daily intake of Batman-related funnies, really. If you are OK with it, this one's a cracker, revealing a previously-unguessed-at weakness in Batman's Bat-armour: homosexual men and references to homosexual men. Now we know.
It turns out that Sam Rockwell does good Batman and Justin Long does even better Robin. Neither of them do good dates - not when they're in costume, anyway. This we now know, all thanks to the internet. Thanks, internet. Thinternet.


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OMG! It's a Disney Rose! This one is inspired by Beauty and the Beast...that yellow is exactly like the one from Belle's dress!
So, I was watching NCIS and they had an episode with black roses...so I wondered if there actually were black roses. While this one isn't black, it is pretty! So storybook-esque!
Instead of a bright garden, maybe a soft creamy rose with the palest of pink can brighten and make a sweet garden.
A pink rose that twists around the trellis...they smell sweet and are a deep and pretty pink. Perfect for your pink garden.Added 8 Years Ago from Jackson & Perkins
These roses intrigue me because they are purple and yet are suppose to have a sweet and citrus-y scent.
Or maybe a spicy rose? After all something sweet is heightened by a bit of something spicy.
Clove fragrance in the rose and a velvet touched bloom. This flower smells and looks good.
It's like a sunrise in your garden. I'm loving this rose with it's burst of bright sunshine!
I'm loving this plant, the yellow and pink golden fade, the pretty smell, all of it is perfect. Plus it's one of the most widely planted roses in the world.
Want your garden to look like disneyland? Now you can!Added 8 Years Ago from Jackson & Perkins
Or maybe Sleeping Beauty inspires a better rose. This one has a nice fade on it and is oh so delicate!Added 8 Years Ago from Jackson & Perkins


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Bill Would Prevent Wireless Tax Increase [AUDIO]
Every year it seems more features that were once "premium" on cell phones are now standard options, but as technology continues to drive the cost of cell phones down the cost of the plans they're attached to remains static.
Much of it can be attributed to local, state, and federal taxes, however a bill going through the US Senate aims to curb any further increase to wireless bills from unfair taxing.
New Jersey ranks 29th out of the 50 states in terms of additional fees from taxes.
Scott Mackey, an economist with Vermont based KSE Partners, says the Federal Universal Service Charge can tack on as much as an extra 6% to your bill. Mackey says a lot of the money gets taken from urban areas (like New Jersey) and transferred to build up the networks of rural areas; a program that he claims has outlived its usefulness.
"We not have wireless networks that don't cost as much to deploy as copper and fiber that can be providing some of these services in these rural areas yet we keep having this antiquated program."
Much of that has gone into the consideration for the Wireless Tax Fairness Act, which has passed the House with bipartisan support and is now in the US Senate. The proposed bill would put a stop to additional taxes specifically on wireless voice and data plans.
The bill is co-sponsored by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and Mackey hopes it gets passed during the "lame duck" session. He notes the legislation wouldn't handcuff legislators from any increases to cellular voice and data plans, but rather not allow them to tack on tariff's that specifically target only the plans. Keeping consumer's plans from getting much higher than they are now.
"It would not prevent states or localities from increasing broad based taxes. If there's a sales tax that wireless pays but everyone pays it too, that's not discriminatory."
The bill would only cover the voice and data portion of cell phone bills. Internet bills are not subject to taxes via a federal prohibition on taxation of internet access, however the moratorium expired on 2014.


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Art Histories: Washing Away the Canon
It can be argued, to one degree or another, that we're stuck with the grand narratives of art history. From the caves at Lascaux to the YBAs, these cumulative frameworks inform, but can also encumber, the way we look at and think about art. For artists, this weight of a canonical past poses another dilemma: how to balance the binding hierarchies of history and at the same time refresh, reshape or, as is often the case, refute them.
In the group exhibition "Art Histories" which marks the debut of VOX's new and expanded rue Ste-Catherine space, curator Marie-Josée Jean takes a look at the strategies and counter-strategies artists use to, as the gallery text states, "restore notions of fiction and politics to the ideal museum that is art history."
Opening with Marcel Duchamp's self-fashioned retrospective-in-a-box-in-a-suitcase, La Boîte-en-valise, the exhibition cruises across time and cultural geographies, unpacking notions of an art historical status quo along the way. Works such as The Last Futurist Show, an anonymously produced 1986 rehanging of Kazimir Malevich's iconic 1915 exhibition, and the Slovenian art collective IRWIN's rearrangement of the Eastern European avant-garde, Retroavantgarda, strikes at the legitimacy/authenticity of modernist legacies.
Paul McCarthy's performance video Painter offers a critically laced parody of abstract expressionism and the attendant pretensions of the art system that surrounds it, a wry artist-as-genius satire echoed in Rodney Graham's photo triptych The Gifted Amateur, Nov. 10th 1962. Gerard Byrne's four-part video installation A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not challenges the authorial voice of minimalism as well as the institutional and discursive constructs of the minimalist canon.
There is, of course, always an underlying paradox that neither artist, curator nor viewer can avoid in "institutionalizing" works initially meant as gestures against the dominant archetypes of art practice—a fact that is especially hard to ignore when looking at the show in VOX's gleaming new white-cube spaces. (Indeed, this mode of institutional critique might well be another of art's grand narratives worth questioning.)
Still, rounded out with works by artists Michael A. Robinson, Bik Van der Pol, Sorel Cohen, Guillaume Désanges, Mario Garcia Torres, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, Louise Lawler and Ron Terada, as well as video documents featuring the seminal thinker Walter Benjamin and Eastern Bloc noisemakers Laibach, Jean's gathering of discontents offers what we might think of as an alternative canon that blurs the authority of history making and, for the moment at least, knocks those grand narratives wildly askew.
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Personally I'd stay the hell away from a TN screen these days but many people are fine with them and there's no denying that they're perfectly good for text-based work and casual gaming.
TN screens only really suck when the vertical viewing angles interfere with the gamma when you're trying to retouch very pale or very dark scenes in Photoshop, or when the game/movie is particularly dark it can all look a bit washed-out/inverted, but that doesn't sound like it'll be of relevance to you from the casual usage description you've mentioned.


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Welcome To The Dayton Christian
Writers' Guild Web-site Our mission is to support
you in your writing endeavors and to "Write For Gods' Glory".We meet at Corinthian Baptist Church 700
S. James McGee Blvd. Dayton, Ohio 45402
Rev. Dr. Perry E. Henderson,
Pastor 2:00-4:00 p.m
(educational wing) Our meetings are held the second Saturday of
every month. Please come and bring a friend! I pray that you will continue Writing For God's Glory Until we meet again!!!!! Be Blessed! Tina Toles, Founder/President The Writers Guild is a 501-3(c) organization.
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Min./Dr.Cheryl Merchant, Author "Order My Steps"
Mrs. Linore Rose Burkard,Author "Before The Seasons Ends"
Ms. Vanessa Miller, Author "Through The Storm"
The Dayton Christian Writers' Guild Inc. Cordially invites you to our monthly
meeting, the second Saturday of every month. The meeting starts at 2:00 o'clock. Meetings
are held at Corinthian Baptist Church700 S. James McGee
Blvd Dayton, Ohio 45402Rev. Dr. P. E. Henderson Jr., Pastor (Educational Wing) All are Welcome! "Finding
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Marion Pinkney Carnell, former member of South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 14 for over 40 years, died November 22, 2012 at National Healthcare of Laurens. He was 84 and was the husband of Sara Moore Carnell. In addition to his legislative duties from 1961 to 2002, Mr. Carnell also formerly co-owned and operated Piggly Wiggly Stores in Ware Shoals and Ninety Six from 1957 to 2002.
Born in Ware Shoals, March 8, 1928, he was son of the late Calvin W. and Panna Page Carnell. He was a graduate of Ware Shoals High School and was a US Navy Veteran. Mr. Carnell was a member of First Baptist Church, Ware Shoals Lions Club, Ware Shoals Masonic Lodge, the American Legion and the Forty & Eight. He was also a member of the Burton Center Foundation Board and was the Carolina Health Centers Legislative Liaison.
Surviving in addition to his wife of the home are a son, Marion Ray (Jane) Carnell of Ware Shoals and a brother, William (Frances) Carnell of Welford; grandchildren, Chastity (Jason) Vickery, Patrick (Lillian) Nicholson, Erin (Tim) Fleming and Jerred Carnell; six great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Toni Lynn Carnell, a grandson, Marion Avery Carnell and a sister, Katherine C. Martin.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 PM Monday at First Baptist Church in Ware Shoals with Rev. Leon Jones, the Honorable James. E. Moore, Senator William H. "Billy" O'Dell, Jeff J. May and James L. "Jimmy" Burton officiating.
Burial with honors will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Patrick Nicholson, Marvin Carnell, Tim Fleming, Jason Vickery, Tommy Amick, Steve Dove, Richmond Hill and Danny Ballentine.
Honorary escort will be Rep. Mike Pitts, Dr. Dan Ball, Dr. Larry Jackson, John Drummond, Sen. Floyd Nicholson, Jones Buchanan, Giles Daniel, Robert Tinsley, Bill Whaley, William "Red" Thompson, Jennings McAbee, David Wilkins, Nick Theodore, Henry Harrison, Rex Carter, Dr. James Smith, Sam Riley, Fred Teeter and Townes Jones.
The body is at Blyth Funeral Home in Greenwood and will be placed in the church at 1 PM Monday.
The family is at the home 43 S. Greenwood Ave. and will receive friends at the funeral home from 1 to 4 Sunday afternoon.
The family request that flowers be omitted and memorials made to the Marion P. and Sara Moore Carnell Scholarship Fund, Lander University, 320 Stanley Ave., Greenwood, SC 29646.
For online condolences please visit www.blythfuneralhome.com.
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" Brand: Nestle / Type: Bar "
At a very long day and night at work I was very pleased when my boyfriend bought me these (along with a lasagne) to have as my pudding and breakfast (I had to stay over).
The box is quite small as there are only 6 bars in it. The bars are quite small, you can finish them in about 5 bites. Along the bottom is a thin layer of chocolate which gives you that chocolatey fix but without all the fat.
There are only 90 calories per bar so its great for a chocolatey snack if your on a diet or watching what you eat.
As a cereal bar you would expect it to just be edible for breakfast, however Im eating one right now and its 7pm! I like them as a pudding because of the chocolate, but they are also great for breakfast because of the oats and other healthy things.
I find them quite chewy to eat, bu they dont scratch your mouth like some cereal bars do. Theres a certain wetness to the texture and they almost taste a bit like they are stuck together with caramel.
The bars are individually wrapped so they could even be taken to work or school in a lunchbox. So this makes them even better than just being a breakfast bar.
They taste really nice, just the texture is different to that of a real chocolate bar.
I bought a magazine at the weekend to read in the garden whilst topping up my tan and was pleasantly surprised to see that it came with a Nestle Heavenly Chocolate fitnesse bar.
I was a bit surprised to find out it was a cereal bar as the picture on the front shows whole pieces of chocolate, much little the little squares you find in a dairy milk bar but as it was chocolate and technically free I decided to give it a go anyway!!
Like I said it is produced by Nestle, the multinational food company founded in Switzerland. The fitnesse range is part of their cereals range. If you look at a list of their products it is astounding, from ice cream to drinks to packaged foods.
The fitnesse bars also come in a range of different flavours including Tasty Multigrain, Sumptuous Strawberry, Chocolate & Orange Delight and Chocolate & Raspberry Sensation.
The thing that actually first caught my eye was the fact that each bar has only 90 calories. The bar itself is 23.5g so it was a normal size cereal bar not a mini one which was nice. This is great as I am always looking for something quite tasty, preferably with chocolate that would fill me up and be quite healthy at the same time and was hopeful that I would like this bar and want to try more. It also contains the following as well, "A 23.5 gram serving of Nestlé Chocolate Fitnesse Bar provides 15% of the RDA of eight vitamins and iron, and 20% of the RDA of calcium." This I can imagine is why they have called it a fitnesse bar as they are trying to promote a healthy product to healthy people and are doing so with vitamins and other essential nutrients.
It was much like any other cereal bar you can imagine. It had cereal grains, which according to the packet are whole grain wheat and rice held together with a sticky type substance, probably sugar I think. Then it has little bits of chocolate quite evenly distributed in it which gave it an overall very chocolaty flavour. The bottom of the bar is covered with a layer of chocolate, not too thick but enough to add more of a chocolatey flavour. The bar was nice and crunchy and chewy at the same time which gave it a really nice consistency and was pleasant to eat.
The reason I ended up tasting this cereal bar was quite simply because it was a free sample that I received the other day. I tend to back away from bars such as this because I find that they tend to have a bit of a cardboard texture and I hadnt found one that I found tasty that is until now.
The well-known company of Nestle makes the Fitnesse Chocolate bar. Now like the company or not, they are very successful and I have to admit I buy a lot of their cereals for the kids because they are made from the whole grain as well as being very tasty. My son loves to eat dry cereal as a snack so anything that gives him a bit of extra vitamins etc is a welcome change from the normal childhood snack these days of sweets or crisps.
This cereal bar originates from a cereal too, which is available in multigrain form or with honey and nuts.
***The Bar & Its Packaging***
I got a single bar of this but it is available in packs of 6 of this 23.5g bar. It is around 5 inches long and around half an inch tall. It comes in a foil wrapper to help it stay fresh and has an attractive design showing chocolate chunks on one side and a picture of the cereal bar on the other. In the middle it advertises that this bar only contains 90 calories, which is quite eye-catching for anyone who wants a bit of a snack but doesnt want a high calorie content to go with it. Most biscuits or snack size versions of bigger bars have at least 120 calories so its quite a different for those counting the calories.
The wrapper is easy to open and the smell of chocolate does hit you in a pleasant way. The bar doesnt really look that appetising to be honest but it has a layer of chocolate on the underside, the cereal bits held together with syrup in the middle and chocolate chips generously scattered on the top of the bar.
***The Taste***
Biting into this bar I wasnt prepared for the lovely taste it would have. The cereal is a strange mix of being chewy in the syrup but also crunchy too. There isnt a lot of chocolate on the bottom layer but its enough to add a bit of flavour to this healthier option and is a must for any chocoholics like myself.
You can definitely pick out the flavour of the wheat and rice in this bar and the dark chocolate chips are nice to nibble on I have to admit to picking a couple off to eat on their own.
***The Contents***
I wont bore you with a list of ingredients but the cereal grains make up 42% of this bar and the chocolate makes up 15%. Also included in just one 23.5g bar is 20% of the recommended daily dose of 8 vitamins including Vitamin E, B1, 2, 6 & 12 as well as Folic Acid and Calcium. Also included is a 10% RDA of iron. So all in all if you dont have time to eat a healthy breakfast then this could be a good supplement to your day.
***Other Varieties***
Chocolate and Orange
Chocolate and Raspberry
For the pack of 6 of the original variety youll pay around 90p and for the flavoured bars you can pay around £1.80.
***My Thoughts***
This healthier bar does actually do it for me. The taste is a lot more pleasant than some of the other bars Ive tried and for a freebie it was excellent value. I do think that its quite expensive to pay about 30p for a bar such as this but I will be looking out in the supermarkets for any special offers in the future. I do realise that this is about an average price for a cereal bar with extras in it though.
What I liked about it was the mixture of crunchy and chewy bits in it. You can really taste the brown sugar that is used to help make the syrup and this helps give it the sweetness that you associate with more sumptuous snacks. The thin layer of chocolate was just enough to deal with my cravings and the little chips on top were just scrummy.
Anything that allows me a little bit of chocolate and doesnt pile on the pounds has got to be a bonus, especially with my forthcoming wedding approaching quickly. I also found that this bar was quite filling and it was nice as a little snack with my afternoon cuppa. Its just the thing to keep you going half way through a tiring day.


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Law enforcement officials across Orange County began adjusting to new search limits on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled officers need warrants to look through the cellphones of people they arrest.
The decision was hailed as a victory for personal privacy, though some police departments said it will make their investigations more difficult.
In response to the ruling, local police and the Orange County Sheriff's Department said they initiated efforts to train officers and deputies about the new rules. The Fullerton police chief, for example, emailed a copy of the ruling to his officers.
Past court rulings treated searching an arrestee's cellphone as the equivalent of looking through his pockets, which officers can do without a warrant. But the Supreme Court said that logic ignores the massive amounts of personal data held on cellphones, which 90 percent of Americans own.
Going through someone's phone, the court suggested, isn't like searching someone's pockets; it's like searching a house, perhaps even more intrusive.
"Most people cannot lug around every piece of mail they have received for the past several months, every picture they have taken, or every book or article they have read – nor would they have any reason to attempt to do so," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
Yet they do the equivalent on their phones.
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine's law school, called the decision "the most important Supreme Court case yet about privacy in the technological era."
Meanwhile, police assessed the fallout from the sudden end of a common practice that often yielded incriminating evidence. Fullerton police Sgt. Jeff Stuart said he often searched phones without warrants and found it especially helpful in drug and gang cases.
Stuart said officers typically concentrate on text messages and photos when looking through a cellphone. That's because drug dealers often trade texts with dollar amounts and other details of sales, and gang members like to take photos of themselves flashing gang signs or holding guns or cash.
Lt. Jeff Hallock, a Sheriff's Department spokesman, said the effect will be most obvious on uniformed deputies. Detectives already get warrants for almost every step of an investigation, Hallock said, but uniformed deputies don't have the time.
The ruling won't stop officers from seeking consent to search someone's phone, though people are free to decline.
In Wednesday's ruling, the Supreme Court applied the Fourth Amendment's protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" to phones. To get a warrant to look through a phone, police must convince a judge there is probable cause to believe it contains evidence of a crime.
While the ruling protects privacy, Stuart said it could lead to more phones being seized.
"A lot of times, I could look at a cellphone, pretty quickly determine there was nothing of evidentiary value and give it back to them and they go on their merry way," he said.
Now, Stuart said, officers will be more likely to take cellphones after arrests and seek warrants to search them.
Courts across the country, including the California Supreme Court, had long allowed warrantless searches in connection with arrests, saying they are justified by the need to protect police officers and prevent the destruction of evidence.
Roberts acknowledged that the decision would make law enforcement more difficult because criminals use cellphones widely. But the chief justice wrote, "Privacy comes at a cost."
Jennifer Manzella, a Newport Beach police spokeswoman, said officials there believe the new rule will make parts of their jobs harder. But they were glad the Supreme Court left little ambiguity about what's allowed.
Santa Ana police said they were still assessing the impact of the ruling, and some other agencies didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in April in two cases on the issue, but issued a single decision. The first case arose from the arrest of David Riley, who was pulled over in San Diego in 2009 for an expired auto registration. Police found loaded guns in his car and text, photos and videos on his smartphone that linked him to the Bloods street gang and to a shooting. Riley was later convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
The second case involved a search of the call log of the flip phone of Brima Wurie, who was arrested in 2007 in Boston and charged with gun and drug crimes. Last year, a federal appeals court threw out the evidence found on Wurie's phone.
In Supreme Court briefs, the U.S. Justice Department said cellphones are not materially different from wallets, purses and address books. Roberts disagreed.
"That is like saying a ride on horseback is materially indistinguishable from a flight to the moon," he wrote.
The New York Times contributed to this report.
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I do not see what I have liked at the hotel; this is the worst stay I had in any hotel around the world ;... I have been in, and spent many many nights in hotels (No way to see the Hotel sign.) the hotel was closed !!! There was a paper note on one window asking me to call some phone number; my wife used her mobile phone for making an international call; to get a code to enter; I had to find a key in an enveloppe. My room was on the third floor; no elevator; the room was very very small; no place to put any suitcase; the restaurant was closed as well. I was not informed of all that. unbelievable. The soap in the bathroom was not wrapped in some paper. No way to know if any internet was available; there was nobody who cared. At breakfast my seat was against the kitchen door. My car was blocked by a hotel helper car in the parking. I surely miss to report something else unpleasant.
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Janmaat, Germ (2007) The Ethnic 'Other' in Ukrainian History Textbooks: The Case of Russia and the Russians. Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 37 (3). pp. 307-324. ISSN 0305-7925. DOI UNSPECIFIED
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Outdoor Fun: ABC Nature Scavenger Hunt
The weather is finally getting warmer, and the world is blooming all around us, so naturally, my family is itching to get outside. Although I'm a big fan of letting my daughter, Chloe, just amble about aimlessly in the yard (it's amazing how much fun a stick and a pile of dirt can provide), I sometimes like to give her something a little more interactive to do outside.
One of my favorite outdoor games is an ABC nature scavenger hunt, where players have to find something outside that starts with every letter of the alphabet. This game is great for so many reasons. Obviously, it helps teach kids letters, sounds, and spelling, so Junior gets to learn that the word "centipede" actually starts with a "C" not an "S."
But it also lets kids really explore and dig into their environments, discovering plants and animals that they might not notice on their own and learning their names (lichen, anyone?). They have to look beyond the clearly visible to find what's hidden and less obvious, and watching kids do this is always exciting.
To play, every object on the list has to be something that the kids have actually found in their environment, not just an animal that they know exists somewhere in the world. So putting down "zebra" for the letter "Z" won't fly unless you actually live in the African savannah and just saw one run by. But on the other hand, I'm all for encouraging creativity for tough letters like "Z," so things like "zebra-striped rock" or "zephyr" are OK.
You can either play casually, just by looking around and naming things, or actually make a written list; both ways are fun. Players also have the option of actually collecting the things they find or just observing them. I'm a fan of a hybrid method, where some objects, like rocks or flowers, are collected, whereas others, like a hawk or a bee, are just observed. Groups of kids could make it a contest to see who finishes their list first.
And the best part of this game? It changes! You can play it again and again, throughout the year, and in different places—the beach, the backyard, on a camping trip—and you'll never have the same list twice.
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SRK is always known for its romantic image but this year Shah Rukh Khan will be in full mood to kick some butt because both his movies are going to be action movies. Shah Rukh Khan recently admitted that he is already bored of the romantic movies that are being offered to him and its time that he do something different. This November and December he will have releases like Ra One and Don 2 and in both the movies he will be battling out to stay on top. However, there is one movie that will launch before both these SRK movies and that is Aazaan.
Aazaan might not have the great star cast that is required to pitch the movie up to the audience but it definitely looks better and it can bring in a lot of audience. Aazaan is among the most expensive action thriller which has espionage theme. This means that the movie will have some combinations of James Bond and Mission Impossible. The movie has been shot in more than nine different countries and the music is not that bad at all. Together this can attract the people to see if the movie is really worth watching.
Aazaan and Don 2 both are action films and they both have some mind-blowing stunts that are never seen before on Bollywood screen. This is something that is more than enough for the audience because some action movies can draw in large crowds based on the action scenes that are pitched in. Recently, SRK did a 300 feet jump stunt in Don 2 and something similar is there in Aazaan as well. However, Aazaan releases two months before Don 2 which means that people will believe that it was SRK who copied stunts from Aazaan creating problems for SRK to get in more audiences.


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