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God calls us to develop culture. He placed Adam in the garden to "cultivate" it, after all—and the "cultural mandate" of Genesis 2 is the command of God to all human beings to take dominion and make stuff out of the world. This cultural calling, then, often precedes the development of our worldview. … [Read more...]
Toward a Biblical View of Justice
We hear much talk these days about "social justice." It is raised regularly in the health care debate, in discussions of legal reform, and in the battle over marriage. It is a very popular issue among college and high school students; it is a very attractive concept. It sounds great! Who could be … [Read more...]


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The tournament hype before the 2014 GEICO Bassmaster Classic predicted loads of big bass and plenty of heavy limits. It was a lot to live up to.
Despite the coldest winter in decades and frigid water temperatures, Guntersville put on a show.
When the battle for Classic glory was over, the top nine finishers averaged over 20 pounds a day. Adam Wagner in 10th place missed that mark by less than a pound.
The Champ
Atop the heap was Alabamian Randy Howell who sacked the heaviest limit of his 21-year professional career on the final day of the Guntersville Classic, 29 pounds, 2 ounces. Howell was fortunate to have his biggest catch on bass fishing's grandest stage, but it was hardly luck.
Howell's experience was the reason he made the right adjustments at the right time. After the practice days preceding the Classic, Howell's best spot was a submerged milfoil patch in 3 to 4 feet of water on a flat in a creek.
The grass only covered a 50-yard square of the bottom, but it held some heavyweights. Howell started there on the first morning of the tournament. He caught a 6-pounder and another that went 4 pounds on a bladed jig.
Then the bite died. Rainfall the night before had pushed muddy water over the grassbed. Howell changed gears and began cranking a Rapala DT-6 in the bright red Demon color tight to riprap banks. A slow retrieve enticed the bites he needed from the sluggish, cold-water bass.
Guntersville's riprap is known for producing big catches, but it hadn't been kind to Howell on practice days.
"I could see all kinds of shad and bass hanging 8 to 12 feet deep along the riprap with my Lowrance SideScan," Howell said.
He tried to catch them with crankbaits and other lures in that depth range, but the bass refused his offerings. Thankfully for Howell, the warming water pulled the bass up in Mill Creek the first day where he picked them off with the DT-6.
Late the second day, Howell snatched a 5-pound bass from the riprap in Spring Creek. That bass prompted Howell to start in Spring Creek the next day, which resulted in his amazing finish.
After catching a good limit on the DT-6, Howell noticed bass on his graph that were hanging just off the rocks 8 feet deep. That's when he did the unthinkable, which was switching to a prototype Livingston crankbait that he had never fished before. The lure's running depth, hard wobble and electronic shad sound proved to be just what the bass wanted.
"I was paralleling the riprap and hitting rocks 7 to 10 feet deep," Howell said.
Howell believes that the lure's wide, hard wobbling action coupled with the electronic baitfish sound it emits played into his success. By the end of the day he was throwing back 4-pound bass without giving them a second thought.
"It was one of the best days of my life," Howell said.
The Contender
B.A.S.S. Nation champion Paul Mueller, who hails from Connecticut, had what may have been the most reliable pattern during the Guntersville Classic. His key area had a mix of ridges and ledges 3 to 9 feet deep intersected by a creek channel.
"It had the healthiest eelgrass I had found and there was some hydrilla mixed in with it," Mueller said.
On all three days of the Classic, Mueller feathered the top of the grass with a 3/4-ounce Strike King Red Eye Shad. He also caught some of his bass on a 3/8-ounce Z-Man Original Chatterbait dressed with a Reins Fat Rockvibe Shad.
"The biggest thing that helped me was the Navionics Platinum card in my Lowrance graph," Mueller said. "The contour lines showed where the points and turns were in the grass. Those irregularities are where I caught all my biggest fish."
Steady Eddy
Edwin Evers fell short of winning the Classic at Guntersville by less than 2 pounds and finished third. He is surely one of the best anglers to ever wear the B.A.S.S patch.
Unlike Howell, who relied on riprap, and Mueller, who keyed on main lake eelgrass, Evers plucked his bass from shallow grassbeds in "pockets" off the main lake.
One of his key pockets was a flat in a backwater where submerged milfoil and hydrilla were growing in 2 to 4 feet of water. This is where he mopped up with a 3/8-ounce Megabass Flat Slap in the GP Sexy Shad color.
A thin, tight-wobbling, shad profile bait, the Flat Slap runs 3 to 4 feet deep. A slow retrieve with frequent pauses did the trick for Evers. He added lead tape to the Flat Slap's belly so it would suspend when paused.
"That bait stays horizontal when you stop it," Evers said. "That's when all the bites happened."
Gator grass in 1 to 3 feet of water also produced bass for Evers. This was especially true on the final day when he caught all the bass that he brought to the scales on a bladed jig dressed with a Megabass Spark Shad.
"The bass moved shallower every day," Evers said.
Breakfast of Champions
One of the most nervy times for the pros during the Guntersville Classic was when they lined their boats up at the official ramp before take-off. Loud rock and country music blared from loudspeakers, thousands of fans lined the bank and writers and cameramen swarmed the pros for photos and interviews.
While all this was happening, Tennessee's Ott DeFoe would calmly munch on a Pop Tart like he didn't have a care in the world. His steady disposition is surely a big part of the reason for his bass fishing success.
One lure accounted for the bulk of the bass that carried DeFoe to fourth place at the Classic. It was a Rapala DT-6, custom painted by Gordon Monroe to resemble a pumpkinseed sunfish.
Over the first two days, DeFoe slowly ground the DT-6 over riprap along causeways. He eased his boat down the riprap within a few feet of the rocks and cast the crankbait close to the shoreline. Then he held his rod low and close to the riprap so he could slowly work the crankbait into every crevice.
He paused often to let the crankbait float up out of trouble. Even though DeFoe fished with delicate precision, he snagged frequently. However, he never showed any irritation. It was all in a day's work.
DeFoe started out cranking riprap on Day 3. He quickly boated a keeper, but had nothing else to show 4 hours later. It was time to punt.
DeFoe fled the riprap and motored to a grass ridge on the main lake that was 4 to 6 feet deep. The grass was just beginning to grow there and stood only 8 to 12 inches tall.
It was slow going, but DeFoe was relentless. He tried a variety of lures, including a small swimbait and a jerkbait, but the DT-6 did most of the damage.
Only six bass got a tour of DeFoe's livewells that day, including his last bass, an 8-pounder. One more like that and DeFoe would have been the champion.
Home Boy
Randall Tharp resides in Florida, but he knows Guntersville so well that the other pros feel he had a home field advantage. A mix of milfoil and eelgrass 4 to 7 feet deep on the main lake produced most of Tharp's 62 pounds, 12 ounces.
"I was sitting in about 10 feet and casting over the grass," Tharp said. "A Rapala DT-6 was strong in practice, but an XCalibur Xr50 caught 90 percent of the bass I weighed in."
The Xr50 is a lipless rattling crankbait. Tharp fished it in the Royal Shad color and retrieved the bait very slowly. When it contacted the grass, he would pull it through the vegetation and let it fall.
"That's when most of the bites happened," Tharp said.
After catching a good limit from the grass, Tharp would run back close to the official ramp and work riprap banks with Spro's McStick 110 in the Blue Bandit color. This allowed him to cull at least one fish each day.
"I know the key places on those long straightaway banks where the bass pull up and feed," Tharp said.
Late on the final day, Tharp knew he needed one or two kicker bass to have a shot at winning the Classic. He almost pulled it off by pitching a jig into wood cover off the main lake. He hooked and lost three bass, including a giant largemouth that hung up in a limb and shook free.
Tharp will never forget that bass.

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You don't know how much you miss something until it's gone.
The most cliche breakup song lines included some kind of variation of that sentence, but it is so true. In my case, it is not a person, but the internet.
I am going to go another two weeks without internet, and I'm not sure if I can do it! It feels like I'm missing out on all of the fantastic inspiration I could be getting from other food blogs. And I can't update my own blog unless I go to the nearest coffee shop (here I come Tim Hortons), or I use the data on my phone (here I come sore eyes and clumsy thumbs).
Also, Pinterest. I am going on a Pinterest withdrawal.
What could POSSIBLY cheer me up in this situation? Um…did anyone say cupcakes?
Actually, as with my previous post, did anyone say Nutella??
These cupcakes, like most of the cupcakes I make, did not last long. Like, at all. I am looking at these pictures right now, and am craving them all over again.
Because of my lack of internet, these cupcakes aren't the most creative thing you have ever seen in the world, but sometimes simple and ordinary is best. Or that is what I will keep telling myself. That is, until I reacquaint myself with the internet full time in two weeks..
Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting
printable recipe
What you'll need:
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 3/4 cup nutella
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Line two muffin pans with cupcake liners. Set aside.
- Cupcakes: In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs one at a time, and beat until fully combined. Mix in the lemon juice and vanilla bean paste.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until fully incorporated.
- Fill the prepared cupcake liners with batter, around 3/4 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, remove and rotate pans, then bake an additional 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from the oven, and place on wire racks to cool completely.
- Frosting: In a medium bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for around 2-3 minutes, until smooth and creamy. Add the icing sugar, and beat until fully incorporated. Add in the Nutella, milk and vanilla bean paste and mix until fully combined. If the mixture is too thick, add more milk. If it is too thin, add more icing sugar until the frosting reaches your desired consistency. Pipe onto the cooled cupcakes.


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November 12, 2014
Convenient. Helpful doormen. Clean building.
April 11, 2014
Good facilities
January 15, 2014
Pretty good experience.
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Worst management team and service, old building, noisy neighbor, but good location
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Clean surroundings.
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IMPERIALE Ring
18k rose gold and amethyst
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The sparkle of colored stones and the beauty of rose gold: this IMPERIALE ring set with a large amethyst bestows a touch of elegance. Its lightweight design inspired by ancient embroidery combined with the imperial purple and magnificent cut of the amethyst give this ring an exquisite aura of majestic femininity.


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TravelChair® Slacker Tripod Camp Stool―Black$17.99The Slacker tripod stool is a lightweight camp chair that folds down small, is easy to set up, and delivers the perfect blend of comfort, portability, and durability. At less than 2 lbs., you can bring this three-legged stool on your hike or simply leave it in your trunk until it's needed for the next campout or game. Super-strong design (with "duck feet" for added stability) holds 275 pounds! And, the Slacker is as tiny as it is tough. When closed and secured with its integral Velcro® strap, it's only a little bigger than a Sunday newspaper. Built for extra durability with: tempered powder-coat steel frame, 600D nail head polyester fabric, and 600D ripstop polyester fabric. Chair is reinforced throughout and includes oversized riveting. Learn More
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Docket Management
Docket: 02N-0209 - Request for Comment on First Amendment Issues
Comment Number: EC -17
Accepted - Volume 1
Comment Record
Mr. Jonathan Sisson
2002-05-28 20:28:05
Mr. Jonathan Sisson
Comments for FDA General
1. Are there arguments for regulating speech about drugs more comprehensively than, for example, about dietary supplements? What must an administrative record contain to sustain such a position? In particular, could FDA sustain a position that certain promotional speech about drugs is inherently misleading, unless it complies with FDA requirements? Does anything turn on whether the speech is made to learned intermediaries or to consumers? What is the evidentiary basis of such a distinction?
Manufacturers/distributors should be responsible for the statements made on the labels of the product being sold. If the product is a non-regulated item such as vitamins, the manufacturer/distributor should not be required to obtain a governmental approval before selling the product but must be able to substantiate the statements if requested.
2. Is FDA's current position regarding direct-to-consumer and other advertisements consistent with empirical research on the effects of those advertisements, as well as with relevant legal authority? What are the positive and negative effects, if any, of industry's promotion of prescription drugs, biologics, and/or devices? Does the current regulatory approach and its implementation by industry lead to over-prescription of drugs? Do they increase physician visits or patient compliance with medication regimes? Do they cause patient visits that lead to treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry lead to adequate treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Do they lead to adequate patient understanding of the potential risks associated with use of drugs? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry create any impediments to the ability of doctors to give optimal medical advice or prescribe optimal treatment?
I am not qualified to comment on these questions.
3. May FDA distinguish claims concerning conventional foods from those relating to dietary supplements, taking into account limits on claims that can be made about foods in the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, 21 U.S.C. 301, 321, 337, 343, 371? What must an administrative record contain to sustain or deny claims on food labels? How can information best be presented in a succinct but non-misleading fashion? To what extent do assertions in claims need qualifications or disclaimers added to the label to avoid any misconceptions that consumers may draw? Is there a basis to believe that consumers approach claims about conventional foods and dietary supplements differently?
I make no differentiation between conventional foods and dietary supplements. I read all labels to get full understanding of what the contents can do for me.
4. Should disclaimers be required to be in the same (or smaller or larger) size of type and given equal prominence with claims? Is there any relevant authority or social science research on this issue?
It must be clearly legible regardless of size of type.
5. How can warnings be made most effective in preventing harm while minimizing the chances of consumer confusion or inattention? Is there any evidence as to which types of warnings consumers follow or disregard?
My experience is that well educated persons will usually read documentation on a container. Those I know with lesser educationer do not read most of what is on a container regardlessof size of type.
6. What arguments or social science evidence, if any, can be used to support distinguishing between claims made in advertisements and those made on labels? Does the First Amendment and the relevant social science evidence afford the Government greater latitude over labels?
No comment.
7. Would permitting speech by manufacturer, distributor, and marketer about off-label uses undermine the act's requirement that new uses must be approved by the FDA? If so, how? If not, why not? What is the extent of FDA's ability to regulate speech concerning off-label uses?
Off label claims should meet the same criteria for acceptability of on label claims.
8. Do FDA's speech-related regulations advance the public health concerns they are designed to address? Are there other alternative approaches that FDA could pursue to accomplish those objectives with fewer restrictions on speech?
Manufacturers should be able to make claims that are supported by any reasonable research by any responsible organization in any civilized country.
9. Are there any regulations, guidance, policies, and practices FDA should change, in light of governing First Amendment authority?
I am not qualified to answer this.


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More Than 101,000 Cubic Yards Of Debris And 360,000 Yards Of Sediment Removed From State Waters
Trenton, NJ – The unprecedented clean-up of New Jersey waterways following Superstorm Sandy, which resulted in the systematic removal of more than 101,000 cubic yards of debris from storm-impacted tidal waters, is officially coming to a close, the Christie Administration announced today.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has notified impacted municipalities that all waterway debris removal performed by three state-hired contractors for this effort will cease on October 30.
"The success of this massive project is the result of a true team effort involving not just the DEP, but the hard work of our contractors, our sister state agencies, the federal government and local and county governments," said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. "With this enormous effort, we were able to clear debris from bays, inlets, wetlands and the ocean."
While debris removal is ending, sediment removal from state waters will continue through the fall. To date, more than 360,000 cubic yards of identified Sandy-related sediment has been removed from marinas, lagoons and back-bays.
In addition, the state Department of Transportation is developing a separate plan to dredge state channels, some of which suffered impact from Superstorm Sandy.
Earlier this year, during the first 100 days following the storm, the DEP and impacted municipalities cleared more than 8 million cubic yards of debris from the streets of storm-ravaged communities. The materials, including more than 4.5 million cubic yards of construction and demolition debris from some of the hardest hit towns in Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex, Cape May and Atlantic counties, were sorted and safely disposed or recycled.
Then the DEP turned its focus to the challenge of removing docks, bulkheads, pieces of boardwalks, boats, cars and even houses, and other storm debris from tidal waters from Bergen County to Cape May and up the Delaware Bay to the Delaware Memorial Bridge in Salem County.
The DEP hired three contractors through public bidding to focus the federally-funded water cleanup effort in separate coastal regions. The DEP separately engaged three debris monitors to provide FEMA-required oversight of the debris removal work, and a project manager, Dewberry Engineers, Inc., to manage this complex undertaking.
The firms surveyed nearly 195,000 acres by side-scan sonar and gathered and removed the following materials from New Jersey waters:
The bulk of the debris removal work was completed by mid-summer. However, remaining wet debris and submerged material took longer to locate and remove.
"The waterway debris removal project represents the finest efforts of New Jersey, showcasing our ability to pull together the best resources available to get the job done safely, on time and with utmost respect and consideration for the environment and, of course, for our residents and businesses," said DEP Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Management Jane Kozinski, who coordinated the water and land debris removal projects.
Agencies that worked with DEP on this concentrated effort include the state Department of Transportation's Office of Maritime Resources, the State Police Marine Services Bureau, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Earlier this month, municipalities were given until October 15 to notify the DEP of any remaining waterway debris removal requests. With the passing of this deadline, municipalities are again solely responsible for the safety of their beaches and public areas and hazards in the water.
For more information on the DEP's Sandy recovery efforts and waterway debris removal visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/special/hurricane-sandy or http://www.state.nj.us/dep/special/hurricane-sandy/wwdebris.htm
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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson To Release 'Thick as a Brick' Live Set
Ian Anderson will release a live set that includes both Jethro Tull's 'Thick as a Brick' and its 2012 sequel.
Ian Anderson will release a live set that includes both Jethro Tull's 'Thick as a Brick' and its 2012 sequel.
Fresh off a new solo release, Ian Anderson says: 'I think I prefer, in my twilight years, to use my own name.'
Ian Anderson isn't finished with Gerald Bostock, a mythical character whose poetry was said to have inspired Jethro Tull's legendary 1972 prog classic 'Thick as a Brick.'
Ian Anderson promises new music in 2014. And while he knows what direction the project will take (it's a concept album), details -- like whether or not it will be a solo record or a Jethro Tull LP -- are still up in the air. Either way, Anderson says it will be a folk-prog-metal hybrid.
By 1978, Jethro Tull had been running for 10 years, and though their commercial fortunes and profile had soared with albums like 'Aqualung' and 'Thick as a Brick,' the band was still at its creative peak, as its 11th album, 'Heavy Horses,' proves.
Fans of Jethro Tull are looking forward to Ian Anderson bringing them up to date on the fate of Gerald Bostock, fictional star of the band's seminal 1972 album 'Thick as a Brick.' Tull frontman and founder Anderson has not only updated the story but also put together a sequel album, 'Thick as a Brick 2,' and a concert tour which will include performances of both 'Brick' albums.
I get pretty excited about memorable concert experiences and opportunities. Growing up in this part of the country meant big trips to Seattle, Minneapolis, Calgary and the like...
Hearing the start of the interview with Jethro Tull front man Ian Anderson proves beyond doubt that the music Anderson and his band mates have crafted through the decades does indeed stand up well to the test of time. Talking about the early days and the mention of the year 1968 drives that point home. To say that Jethro Tull has been together for more than four decades is one thing, but for those of us that actually remember 1968, it provides some additional perspective that helps one better grasp just how long these chaps have been at it.


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Online Daily Updates and Contributions: www.an-archivist.org/tavernculture
Telephonic Daily Activities Schedule: 1-888-339-4496
September 21 - 28th
in conjunction with Creative Time's Democracy in America Convergence Center @ The Park Avenue Armory
+ Within the bar room and surrounding environs of the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue)
+ Central Park
+ Cabinet Magazine Event and Exhibition Space (300 Nevins St. - Brooklyn, NY)
+ Various restaurants off of the 7 line in Queens, NY
Unless otherwise noted all activities will take place within the Park Ave. Armory bar room or elsewhere within the Armory itself.
(You may call 1-888-339-4496 for daily updates concerning our activities, or link to www.an-archivist.org/tavernculture)
September 21st:
7 10pm
Political Mask Making Party - Join us in the bar room within the Park Ave. Armory for a political mask making party. Make masks that attempt to answer the questions:
"What does a politician look like?"
"What does a radical look like?"
"What does a citizen look like?"
As masking making progresses groups will be formed and speechifying will commence.
September 22nd:
12 2pm
LunchTime Topics - Each lunch hour from the 22nd thru the 27th we will host an informal discussion within the bar room. Starting with the days headlines we will lead into a conversation developed from a new question for the group each day) concerning how politics enters into our everyday.
Paige Saez and Anslem Hook will discuss their Iraq War Body Count Campaign, which utilizes Twitter as a means of political action, and venture to discuss how everyday technology can be used for broad sociopolitical action.
7 9pm
HappyHour As opposed to our more informal lunch time get-together's each Happy Hour will facilitate a more formalized discussion regarding politics and our everyday lives.
Introducing the MRCC
Columbus, Urbana, Chicago, the Driftless Area, Minneapolis. Global circuits are great, and we all love our neighborhood, but could the regional be where it's at? Dan S. Wang talks about his year thinking, working, and seeing the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor, which was there underfoot all along. Fellow travelers will help tell the tale and give their angles. The brand new book, A Call to Farms: Continental Drift through the MRCC, will be available for (considering the 40% inflation about to hit us) next to nothing!
September 23rd:
11.45am ?pm
LunchTime Topics Postcards from Flushing.
We are going lunch-hopping in Flushing. We will try new Chinese dishes, maybe some Korean bbq, probably some South Asian, too. While eating, we'll think and talk about, and absorb, the aesthetics and political questions presented by migration. I will have stamped postcards on hand so we can record our thoughts, drop them in mailboxes, and have them be a part of a steadily growing postcard project now on display at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and also collected online.
Meet at the Information Booth Clock in the main hall of Grand Central Terminal at 11.45am
September 24th:
12 2pm
LunchTime Topics
7 9pm
An evening examining interloping and social action with artist and activist Marisa Jahn and Dave Rankin, Lawyer for the NYC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
+ I, Interloper: Espionage and the Contingency of Identity
(Marisa Jahn)
Interloper def: someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission.
In her recent work as an artist and activist, Jahn evidences a fascination with the process of surveillance, trespassing, and espionage. In I, Interloper Jahn discusses recent projects in which she is both the subject and object of surveillance. Recently, she stalked her mailman, but was in turn stalked by the FBI Postal Division under the false allegation she was conducting a mail fraud ring with the postman. In her day job as a video journalist with a group called I-Witness Video, Jahn is involved in probing police actions at mass demonstrations, revealing illegal police surveillance, and exposing official lies. Perhaps not uncoincidentally, I-Witness was recently falsely accused by the police of holding people hostage in their office. To her midnight caller with a blocked ID, Jahn reads chapters from 1001 Arabian Nights over the telephone until the stalker hangs up. She begins reading where she left off when the stalker calls again.
Jahn cites several points of origin for this ongoing investigation in which the sense of difference instills a sense of being an outsider to participation her childhood as a half-Chinese, half-Ecuadorian living in a very very white Dallas, Texas and the informal barriers faced by women in occupational advancement and professional settings. Detourning the sense of being an outsider and making it a departure point for infiltrating and interloping, Jahn investigates the psychoanalytic and political dimensions of boundary crossing. Jahns work veers between light-hearted humor and dark violence to question notions of alterity and the gender biases of espionage.
+ Infiltrants, Informants Gathering Information from the Other
(Dave Rankin)
Did you know that of the 15 main coordinators for the RNC Welcoming Committee, a group of activists organizing forms of dissent at the Republican National Committee in Saint Paul-Minnesota 2008, two were paid informants to the FBI and one was a federal undercover agent? Dave Rankin, Executive Committee Member for the NYC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild exposes this and other greatest hits about recent and past infiltration and government surveillance of activist groups in the 20th century.
September 25th:
12 2pm
LunchTime Topics
7 9pm
HappyHour A mystery speaking will discuss Charles Schenck V. United States (the WWI era case of political dissent that brought about the phrase, thanks to justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, about not being able to "shout fire in a crowed theatre), as well as the case in light of The Patriot Act, its connections to H.L. Mencken's "Bathtub Hoax," and the Greek Cynical Philosopher Diogenes ("The Dog").
September 26th:
12- 2pm
LunchTime Topics
Happy Hour Our activities will begin within the bar room at the Armory with Arrington de Dionyso and the Modern Garage Movement. Acting as our "marching band" Arrington and MGM will lead us out of the Armory and we will parade over to Central Park. Upon arrival within the park we will construct a new tavern, at that time Ted Purves will lead a discussion.
September 27th:
12 2pm
LunchTime Topics
7 9pm
Happy Hour We're keeping our last hurrah at the Armory bar room a surprise. Do join us. It will, we hope, be fun.
September 28th:
Revolutionary Table: Welcome to Home, Wa.
On September 28th Red76 will facilitate a Revolutionary Table dinner - with presenters Sam Gould and Gabriel Mindel Saloman - regarding the history of Home, Wa., its historical off-spring, and the power of myth and conviviality as a political vehicle. Sam and Gabriel will discuss their research from over the last year into Home as well as the projects that their research has spawned, such as issue #4 of the Journal of Radical Shimming, and the interactive online representation of Home, Wa., entitled Second Home (www.welcometosecondhome.org).
Breaking from tradition, this Revolutionary Table get-together will cost a little money ($20), but that is because the mobile restaurateurs, Coach Peaches, will be preparing an extravagant Pacific Northwest inspired meal for all in attendance. It's BYOB - so bring some booze along - though there will be a special pre-dinner drink served for all.
The dinner will take place at the new office space/project room of the good folks at Cabinet Magazine. We are tickled pink to be there.
In regard to the finale of the nights presentation, we encourage you to dress in clothes that you wouldn't mind possibly never wearing again. Maybe dress yourself in the fashion that you think someone from Home would attire themselves in?
The meal is limited to 24 seats, and space is already filling up fast. Please RSVP if you would like to attend by writing us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Cabinet Magazine Event and Exhibition Space
300 Nevins St.
Brooklyn, NY
(More info here: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspace.php)
Revolutionary Table: Welcome to Home, Wa.
Sunday, September 28th
Cost: $20 (BYOB, pre-dinner drink provided)
In the late summer of 1895 three men - B.F. O'Dell, George Allen, and Oliver Verity - built themselves a small boat and set out into the Puget Sound south of Tacoma, Washington. The men, all former members of a failed planned community, Glennis - were looking for a spot to settle to create a new home for themselves and their families, as well as any other person who was interested in living a life free of arbitrary restrictions and the laws of man.
O'Dell, Allen, and Verity's afternoon ride brought about the creation of Home, Washington, founded in 1896, one of the Pacific Northwest's oldest Anarchist/Free Love/ Free Thought communities.
In its time Home, though isolated within the Puget Sound's Key Peninsula, became a hot spot of progressive thought, group learning, and radical living. The town published countless newspapers and journals within its day that were distributed widely around the US and abroad (Clothed by the Sun, New Era, The Demonstrator, Dissent, to name a few), all which garnered Home the attention of the Post Master General and lovers of censorship such as the likes of Anthony Comstock.
The members of Home built Liberty Hall as a site for learning available to all members of the community, young and old. It served as the meeting house for the town, held classes, and hosted any traveler coming through who wished to speak their mind; bearded cross-dressers, nudists, Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Catholic clergymen from up the Sound in Tacoma, all shared space at the podium within Liberty Hall.
Working off a particular disputed history of Home involving a U.S. Marshall, restrictive obscenity laws, and a convivial banquet, the evening will touch on the history of Home, Wa., the people and groups who have been inspired by Home, and ideas for conviviality as a progressive tool for mindfulness and social change.
Red76's initiative, Revolutionary Table, has facilitated topic driven meals across the country since late 2006, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Portland, Oregon, San Jose California, to Brooklyn, New York, and most recently with Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota during the Republican National Convention. The series aims at harnessing the existing power and convivial nature of dinner table conversations to discuss topics of import to the area in which the meal is held.
Each meal is simultaneously recorded and broadcast via small range radio transmitter throughout the area in which the meal is being held, while guests to the project invite the neighborhood to join them by hand-drawing fliers prior to the day's meal.


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Current Treatment Options for Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Current Treatment Options for Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
ABSTRACT: Non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains a difficult-to-treat malignancy, and durable long-term survival is elusive for patients with advanced-stage disease. Chemotherapy, especially with platinum-based combinations, is the mainstay of treatment, yet these regimens yield only modest response and survival rates. Outcomes of recent clinical trials have shown that histology, mutation analyses, and biomarkers have an impact on the selection and combination of chemotherapeutic agents. Oral tyrosine kinase inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies are now part of the treatment schema. Other changes to the treatment paradigm include the duration of treatment and the use of maintenance therapy. Additionally, chemotherapy is now employed in earlier-stage disease in neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and combined-modality treatments. The aim of this article is to review the current systemic treatments for NSCLC.
A variety of agents and drug combinations (see Table 1) are used for the management of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), depending on the stage of the disease and a number of patient factors that will be discussed in this article.
Doublet Therapy: Histology Matters
Cisplatin-based combinations (doublets) continue to be the cornerstone of treatment for patients with advanced NSCLC, following results of early studies that demonstrated a modest 1-year survival benefit (20% to 25%) with this modality.[1] For years, researchers have tried to determine the most effective doublet therapy, in terms of patient response and survival. Results of phase III clinical trials have shown equivocal response and survival rates in NSCLC patients treated with third-generation agents—such as the taxanes (paclitaxel and docetaxel), gemcitabine, and vinorelbine—combined with a platinum (either cisplatin or carboplatin).[2]
In 2008, Scagliotti et al published the findings of their phase III study comparing the efficacy of cisplatin-based doublets (gemcitabine, pemetrexed [Alimta]) in untreated patients with advanced-stage NSCLC. Although both combinations had equivocal efficacy, the main finding of the meta-analysis was that patients with either adenocarcinoma or large cell carcinoma who had received cisplatin-pemetrexed had better survival rates than those treated with cisplatin-gemcitabine. It should be noted that patients with squamous cell carcinoma treated with the cisplatin-gemcitabine combination had improved survival rates compared with patients who received the cisplatin-pemetrexed doublet. This study was the first to demonstrate survival differences based on histology.[3] Based on the results of this phase III clinical trial, histology is a significant factor in selection of chemotherapeutic agents for patients with untreated, advanced-stage NSCLC.
There is still some question as to which platin (cisplatin or carboplatin) is the more effective agent. Numerous studies have tried to answer this question.[2,4–6] Both drugs have benefits and toxicities. Treatment with cisplatin requires pre- and post-treatment hydration, thus prolonging the treatment time.[7] Side effects of cisplatin include, but are not limited to, nausea, vomiting, neurotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, and ototoxicity. Nausea and vomiting are better controlled with newer antiemetic medications.
Carboplatin side effects are milder nausea and vomiting (compared with cisplatin) and hematologic issues such as thrombocytopenia. Both drugs are associated with hypersensitivity reactions.[8]
Results of a meta-analysis demonstrated better response and prolonged survival for patients who received cisplatin-based therapy.[4] There was not a higher incidence of severe (grade 3 or 4) side effects in the cisplatin group compared with those who received carboplatin.[4] The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines support using either cisplatin or carboplatin for patients with advanced NSCLC[7]; therefore, treatment planning for the patient with NSCLC is determined by histology, performance status, age, and comorbidities.
Triplet Therapy
For years, researchers have been investigating various combinations of drugs and other means of overcoming the plateau effect of standard chemotherapy. Early clinical trials using three cytotoxic chemotherapy agents (triplet therapy) were tried, with the result that triplet therapy was more toxic and did not improve survival rates compared with doublet therapy.[9,10] The consensus among investigators is that newer agents, with a different toxicity profile and mechanism of action, are needed to improve the response and survival rates.[7,11,12] Some targeted therapies, such as the monoclonal antibodies bevacizumab (Avastin) and cetuximab (Erbitux), have been combined with chemotherapy in clinical trials.[7]
In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bevacizumab as first-line treatment for advanced NSCLC in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel.[7] Bevacizumab is a recombinant monoclonal antibody that prevents vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from binding to its receptor, thereby slowing tumor growth and preventing metastasis. Results of a phase III clinical trial randomizing untreated patients with advanced NSCLC to carboplatin and paclitaxel with or without bevacizumab demonstrated a survival benefit for patients who received all three drugs.[13] Subsequent clinical trials have also shown response and survival benefit with the addition of bevacizumab to doublet chemotherapy.[7] Both the ASCO and NCCN treatment guidelines recommend combining bevacizumab with chemotherapy, based on clinical trial findings.[14,15]
Cetuximab has also been studied in clinical trials. It targets the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway at the extracellular level, preventing ligands from binding with the EGFR receptors.[16] The results of two phase III clinical trials demonstrated slightly improved response and survival rates for those who received cetuximab with chemotherapy.[17,18] Currently, cetuximab is approved for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer and squamous cell head and neck cancer, but not for advanced NSCLC.[7]
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors as First-Line Therapy
Small tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) target the intracellular EGFR pathways, thereby blocking downstream signaling as well as growth and proliferation of cancer.[7] Two such agents are gefitinib (Iressa) and erlotinib (Tarceva). Results of phase III randomized clinical trials comparing chemotherapy plus an oral TKI (gefitinib, erlotinib) against chemotherapy alone did not show improved survival with addition of the oral TKI.[19–22] Therefore, oral TKIs in combination with chemotherapy were not approved for first-line treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC.
Recent studies have evaluated the oral TKIs as monotherapy (single-agent) first-line treatment for advanced NSCLC. One large phase III trial, the Iressa Pan-Asia Study (IPASS), randomized untreated East Asian patients to chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) or gefitinib; the results demonstrated improved response and progression-free survival rates for patients who received gefitinib.[23]
Another phase III randomized clinical trial evaluated erlotinib vs carboplatin-gemcitabine as first-line treatment for NSCLC. This was a smaller study in which 549 patients were screened but 384 patients were excluded because their tumor did not express the EGFR-activating mutation (exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R point mutation); therefore, 165 patients were randomized to the two arms. Once again, the results demonstrated longer progression-free survival for patients who received erlotinib.[24] Based on the findings from these two studies, and from other clinical trials that demonstrated longer survival with an oral EGFR TKI agent over chemotherapy, the NCCN recommends erlotinib as first-line therapy in patients whose tumors express the EGFR-activating mutation.[15]
Crizotinib (Xalkori), another small-molecule agent, may also be used as first-line treatment providing that the patient's tumor expresses the EML4-ALK mutation, and that this mutation status is known at the time of treatment intiation. (Crizotinib was approved by the FDA in August 2011 for treatment of NSCLC patients whose tumors express the EML4-ALK mutation.) If the mutation status is not known (the mutation test results are pending), then the oncologist can delay treatment (if the patient agrees to wait) until notified of the results or just begin treatment with other agents. If, after treatment is started, the patient's tumor does express the EML4-ALK mutation, then crizotinib could be used after initial treatment is completed (see section on Second and Third-Line Therapy). NCCN guidelines recommend crizotinib as first-line therapy for patients with the EML4-ALK mutation.[15]


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Portuguese police reluctantly reopened their own case in Portugal in 2013, but they remain separate investigations.
I love caldeirada, which is a Portuguese version of bouillabaisse.
The book is built around two couples in the Portuguese city of Lisbon in 1940.
The Portuguese only ever had two suspects in the disappearance: Kate and Gerry McCann.
Here, tourists and locals sit side by side indulging in the house specialty— pasteis paired with strong Portuguese café.
Here the Portuguese maintain a kind of garrison, if we may allow it that name.
The Portuguese carried off some of these natives, and treated them with kindness.
They were asked to come first of all to the Portuguese castle that was on the island.
Of the 160 Portuguese whom he had taken with him, fifty-five only returned with him.
Timoja pressed the Portuguese Governor to attack Goa as soon as possible.
1610s, the language, or a resident, of Portugal; 1660s as an adjective, from Portuguese Portuguez (see Portugal + -ese). The ending was vulgarly mistaken for a plural in English, and false singular Portugee (1830) was formed (cf. Chinee from Chinese). For Portuguese man-of-war, see man-of-war.


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text: Politics 19 March 2008 Characters you can care about The sentimental but kind and loving sitcom returns for a second series <strong>Gavin and Stacey</ Sign up for our weekly email * Only occasionally is Gavin and Stacey, the comedy about a girl from Barry who has fallen in love with a boy from Billericay, pee-yourself funny; the rest of the time it is soapy and sentimental. So why do I love it? I used to think it was because the genius of the few gags that it does offer, and the perfect performances put in by its cast, somehow gave me permission to wallow in - or to ignore - its saccharine plot; that, and how weary I am of brittle TV irony. But it's more complicated than that. The series is just so completely itself; it has integrity, its own internal rules. I like its elliptical qualities: the way that some things (Nessa's tall stories, Bryn's sexuality) are never explained or commented on, and the way that characters take shocking or kinky goings-on (an unexpected pregnancy, a threesome) in their stride, but then make stern judgements about daft things like whether or not a hotel is changing the sheets every day. On the subject of sheets, the changing of, a good test, in the opinion of Gavin's mum, Pam (Alison Steadman), is to hide two wine gums in a pillowcase: if they are still there when you come back from your hot stone massage, you'll know what's what. Pam, in her approach to this and other aspects of Essex life, has a certain loopy intensity that she shares with Bryn (Rob Brydon), Stacey's uncle, and Smithy (James Corden), Gavin's best friend. They are all desperately loving, which makes them sweetly vulnerable even when they're being monstrous; they fear, dreadfully, being excluded from Gavin and Stacey's newly-wed bubble. There are people like this in all extended families - except, perhaps, not quite like this. Gavin and Stacey returned from their honeymoon to a banner at the airport ("We missed you and love you so much," Pam had written in magic marker); to a sulk about three weeks of unreturned calls (Smithy's); and to an uncle who'd had a T-shirt printed in advance, so excited was he by the prospect of their homecoming. In the end, Smithy was calmed by Gavin's profferring of a dubious bottle of alcohol. The fact that they'd once seen this booze in Nuts magazine - you got the feeling that Smithy wouldn't have been bothered, otherwise - is symptomatic of how well-written the series is. Corden and his co-writer, Ruth Jones, know when characters should stay silent (after a rabbity monologue by Bryn, usually) and when they should add the crucial detail. They are also deft at what you might call stagecraft. The new series began with a double bill, and the first show was mostly involved with getting all the characters in one place again: Bryn and Nessa had come south with Stacey's stuff, which, it later turned out, included a giant cuddly giraffe (house-proud Pam looked at this piece of inert wildlife, and jigged anxiously in her designer wellies). The writers weren't content, however, with assembling everyone in Pam's house; they crammed everyone in the loo at an Italian restaurant where Pam's friend Dawn (Julia Davis) was sobbing at the premature demise of the threesome she'd organised on the internet - a farce that could not have been wrapped up more expertly had it been written by Michael Frayn. Levers were pulled, but silently as the night. The second part was funnier, though. Pregnant Nessa (Ruth Jones) claimed that "Richard" had offered her a place to stay, only "Judy" wouldn't have it, on account of the fact that, in the old days when she was the couple's nanny, she and he would spend whole days making love. Cue a kind of long-suffering but not wholly sceptical silence from Pam and Stacey. All the plot strands are now in place - Stacey's homesickness, Smithy's discovery of his impending fatherhood - to enable the rest of the series to unfold without too much contrivance. I can't wait to see what happens. I suppose this is the real magic of it: Gavin and Stacey isn't just a comedy show, each episode quarantined from the last. These are characters whose destinies you care about. You want them to be happy and never to stop being so very kind and loving. Pick of the week The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency23 March, 9pm, BBC1Adaptation of the Alexander McCall Smith novel set in Botswana. Desperate HousewivesStarts 23 March, 11.45pm, Channel 4Straight out of suburbia comes a new series of the US comedy. The Curse of Comedy: Hancock and Joan26 March, 9pm, BBC4Series of dramas about comedy icons continues, with Tony up next. Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 24 March 2008 issue of the New Statesman, The truth about Tibet More


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It takes time and experience to decipher the Republican racism code. Some Republicans never figure it out, and it took me years of elections to spot them.
The Internet, with its "vast variety" of sources to draw from, has been helpful in the decoding process. Bloggers and online forums have allowed me to see more opinions, views and experiences from Main Street to Martin Luther King Boulevard.
When we're all expressing ourselves from our PCs and cloaked in anonyminity, we tend to be more honest than we would in face to face conversations.
In 1980, I cast my second presidential vote for Ronald Reagan. A young Republican, I was still smarting because Jimmy Carter had beaten my choice, Gerald Ford, in my first election. While I was one of the millions who was dragged down by the late 1970s economy, I had few assets but my paychecks didn't go far.
I missed the significance of Reagan launching his 1980 campaign from Philadelphia, Mississippi and getting rousing cheers each time he said "States' rights". His delivery was smooth and charming and the crowd was eating it up!
Movies, when historically accurate also are excellent educational sources. The 1988 film Mississippi Burning was about the 1960s murder of three civil rights workers by white supremacists in -- you guessed it -- Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Onice I made the connection, I was mortified. Why had the president I'd twice voted for and admired chosen that hideous venue as a campaign kick-off spot? Why not a tree with a rope hanging from it in the background?
Was Ronald Reagan a Racist? Does George W. Bush Hate Black People?
It's a reach for me to believe that Ronald Reagan was racist, and more plausible to think that Lee Atwater, a Southerner, told him "This is where you need to go, and say 'states rights' a whole lot" and he cluelessly complied.
I don't want to dent Kanye West's marketability by admitting that I, a middle-aged WASP, enjoy his fresh and unique sound but I am a shirttail fan. While I understood his emotion when he stated "George Bush hates black people" at an awards ceremony after Hurricane Katrina, I saw things a little differently: "No, Kanye, I don't think he hates black people, he just doesn't give a damn anyone who isn't a millionaire. You're a wealthy music mogul now, he'd like YOU!"
A couple of times a week when I shop at Wal-Mart, I see many black families. Some appear to be middle class like me, others appear to be struggling.
Exterior wrappings and cart content aside, our common bond is clear: We are searching for bargains at Wal-Mart. We are not entertaining Prince Bandar at our spacious Texas ranch or at a rustic luxury lodge going on a caged hunt with Dick Cheney. We are not Bush's people, the 1.5 percent.
'Hey Harold -Call me!'
Lee Atwater's famous Willie Horton ad in 1988 may or may not have helped Poppy Bush win a four-year term. I can't objectively say because I had no intention of voting for Michael Dukakis anyway.
But had I lived in Tennessee in 2006, I might very well have voted for Harold Ford for Senate. Like Barack Obama, Ford is Democrat, black, attractive, intelligent, well-mannered, has a good head and a heart to match. Lots of white voters in The Volunteer State agreed with me, according to forums I was reading at the time.
Then surrogates for Ford's opponent, Bob Corker, bought a television ad showing Ford, then a bachelor, as a man about town who didn't relate to the typical Tennessee resident. A pretty blonde at a Playboy party winks suggestively into the camera purring "Call me, Harold!"
A Yankee by birth, I missed the hidden message that my mother, a Southerner, spotted instantly: white woman flirting with black man = not a good thing south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Naturally, Corker decried the implied message and asked surrogates to cease the spot. After all, the damage had already been done and why pay for television time the media was giving you for free? Corker won the race.
Barack Obama's Nomination Shows Progress
Most people my age expected to see an African American male in the White House in our lifetimes. And most of us thought it would probably be Colin Powell. George Bush helped put Powell in a position with the Iraq War that ensured this would never happen.
Barack Obama appeared somewhat suddenly and unexpectedly, but we DO "know" him. Anyone who still doesn't after a 20-month campaign just hasn't been listening, or doesn't want to listen. Questions about his birth certificate, his church, his very loose connection with Bill Ayers and his efforts to quit smoking and his wife's "anger" have been answered thousands of times.
If we had not made progress in race relations, Obama would never have won the nomination, and toppled the country's most powerful Democratic couple in the process. I don't think people who respond to McCain's platform and message more than Obama's are racist.
The Bradley Effect? I don't see it. People who plan to vote for McCain and who don't like Obama are more than happy to come right out and say it to me when we talk about the presidential race. We disagree without being disagreeable, as Obama says.
But there are telltale signs of potential racism.
When I ask them "Why are you voting for McCain?" a few of them respond "Obama is arrogant (uppity) and inexperienced."
The absence of a substantial reason for supporting McCain combined with absence of a reason besides "He looks snotty" for not voting for Obama is a "code word" into parts of themselves that they can't see, but that I have learned to recognize.


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This is an amazing organization that does so much good. They have low overhead, are very transparent and are dedicated to their mission. I have nothing but respect for the Save a Childs Heart Foundation and hope they ill grow exponentially in the future.
After not having visited SACH in almost a year, I was very excited to be back visiting Save a Child's Heart. The new children's home continues to amaze me with its warmth and spaciousness, providing an inviting and comfortable space for the children and their families to eat, play, relax, and enjoy their time while recovering from surgery. On this particular visit I met a young boy from Tanzania, who proceeded to give me his personal tour of the house, taking me by the hand and walking my outside and around the house, all the while telling me "kum", which I understood to be come or some iteration of "follow me." As always the best part of the visit were these interactions - individual conversations and connections that make truly tangible the life-saving work of SACH. Each surgery is a child, each child is a story, each story is special. I enjoyed every minute of my time at SACH and the visit re-energized me for the all activities in the works for SACH Young Leadership.
Save A Childs Heart (SACH) is a unique nonprofit organization that helps provide vital heart surgery to children from developing countries. These children are brought to Israel & are provided state-of-the art medical care, all free of charge. SACH actually saved these children's lives.
I was lucky enough to learn about Save a Child's Heart this summer by volunteering in Israel where children who benefit from this foundation are treated. What striked me the most was that this charity truly follows a no strings attached policy. Despite Israel's relations with the Middle East or various countries, there is no discrimination as to the origin of the children chosen for treament. Save a Child's Heart selflessly gives underprivelaged children a chance at having a healthy long life, and after witnessing this first hand I left with a new found inspiration to get involved and continue volunteering.
When I heard about Save a Child's Heart through friends, I knew it was something I needed to look into. After being in Israel for some time I realize that I have made a lot of big changes in my life this year but there are two things above all else that I am absolutely sure of. The first is that with every day I fall in love with Israel a little more. The second is that coming to volunteer my time at SACH has been one of the most valuable experiences of my life. From the moment I entered the Children's home for the first time I was in love. The children are thousands of miles away from home and have every reason in the world to be frightened and yet they are warm and welcoming. Minutes after I arrived there were games and hugs and laughs galore. Days went by and then weeks and I felt like I couldn't get enough of these children. I started off volunteering twice a week and realized very soon that I was getting more from them than they were from me. I had to be here more, those two days weren't enough. Even now being here four or five days a week seems like no time at all. The strength and perseverance of these children is astonishing. I had never felt such a fierce passion for a cause that I had been introduced to so abruptly. With other things going on around me, I noticed that I had renewed sense of gratitude in all aspects of my life. There is no greater feeling than to wake up in the morning and love how you are investing your time and effort. I didn't just want to become more involved, I needed to. With the help of the wonderful staff, I was able to find an internship opportunity where I could help behind the scenes and contribute my efforts so that the opportunity for a long, healthy life would be a reality for more children.
I'll never forget the day that I had the opportunity to go with another volunteer and take two nurses from Zanzibar and Tanzania to Jerusalem. They told us that it was an experience that they believed would always be out of their reach. There were so many things in the beautiful city that they had never seen before. I had never seen two people so excited to be in an elevator. We walked around in the old city and visited Al Asq; as religious muslim woman it was an extremely emotional experience to be visiting to such a holy site. I was witnessing a life changing moment for them and I couldn't have been spending my time with two people who were more grateful. These women were away from their families, in a foreign country, caring for other people's children and yet they were elated. That day they bestowed upon me the great gift of tolerance. I have always considered myself an open-minded person but I was able to further indulge in the beautiful aspects of Islamic traditions from a respectful distance. I am certain that they will never forget their spiritual experience in Jerusalem and neither will I.
Before SACH, I don't think I truly understood how much a hug and a nice word could mean to another person. In a scary place full of unknowns, a familiar face is the greatest of all things, it surmounts any language barrier or difference in skin color, nationality, religion. Anything. A smile and a hug trumps all.
In particular there is one child that has touched my heart forever. Her name is Kadija, she is a beautiful 6-year old girl from Angola. I have never felt such a strong connection with a child as I do with her. This gorgeous girl has a glow about her; she has such passion and such a fiery spirit. Not only is she beautiful but she is perceptive and thoughtful. Before her surgery she was so expressive in her desire to be healthy. She was always letting me know when she would be going to the hospital, touching her chest and giving me a big smile and a thumbs up. If you don't find her learning a new language by mimicking everyone around her, she will most definitely be with the smaller children. Ever the facilitator, she will be starting games, comforting the crying toddlers. While I always had a special place for her, one afternoon I was getting ready to leave and she ran up to me, pulled me close to her and whispered, "thank you." Only when I believe that I couldn't love the children anymore, they remind me why I invest so much time in SACH.
The children are leaving Israel with a healthy heart and I also feel like I leave here every day with a heart that is just a little stronger. My capacity to appreciate, love and empathize has grown infinite amounts. I can attribute this growth all to the beautiful children of Save a Child's Heart.
After working with SACH for about 4 months, I have realized that I now want to look into a masters program that focuses on International Public Health. This organization has truly changed my life forever. This organization is not only organized, but all of the staff work together as team and all actions and initiatives are transparent through the hardworking members of the SACH team.
There is no organization that has had a greater impact on my life as a future physician than Save a Childs Heart. We exist in a world where we strive for peace and understanding both in the middle east and around the world. At SACH children from all around the world, including many enemy states of Israel, are given world class cardiac care free of cost. Far greater than the life that is saved is the seed of compassion and love that is planted in the midst of chaos and hate. Jewish tradition teaches that to save one life is to save the world, there is nowhere where this is embodied more than Save a Childs Heart.
I've worked for Save a Child's Heart for almost two years. This is an amazing organization that works non-stop to save the lives of children in need. Working in the Israeli office allowed me to meet the children that have come for treatment. It is amazing to see them arrive sick and tired, and leave laughing and jumping around. As a worker, I also had the opportunity to travel to Zanzibar with the doctors on a Medical Mission and see first hand the amazing work SACH does, not only in saving lives of children but also in training doctors from developing countries, so they can continue the work back home.
This is an organization that literally saves lives every week. Children arrive who are sick and for somehow unentitled to the miraculous gifts of childhood, but by the time they leave they are able to run, play, tease, and enjoy life. This is not only because of the medical care they receive here, but also because of the nurturing care and love they are given by the many volunteers before, during, and after their surgical treatments. People come together here, and children leave healed and happy. It happens every week, and every week I become more and more inspired by the Save A Child's Heart Cause.
I have been involved at Save a Child's Heart for years now, as an employee turned biggest fan and advocate. I admire the organizations approach to leaving politics, race and boarders behind and treating each child with the love and care they deserve. They have changed the lives of so many - providing a second chance at life and a chance for a better future for entire communities.
From the second I learned about Save A Child's Heart (SACH) I knew I had found something that truly mattered to me. Since that time my love for the work done at SACH has only grown. SACH is an organization which brings children from developing countries all over the world to Israel for life saving, and FREE open heart surgery. Children from all over the world are saved by the tireless work done by the doctors who perform these operations with no monetary gain for themselves. The feeling of home and family seeps into every aspect of this organization. I feel truly blessed that it has become such an important aspect of my every day life.


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Teachers have forced a shutdown of schools across Hertfordshire on March 26, with a one-day walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions.
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Cllr Chris Hayward, cabinet member for enterprise at Hertfordshire County Council, urged as many schools as possible to stay open for the day.
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POLICE have just hours left to quiz two people arrested in connection with the murder of Farnworth man Marc Jepson.
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hints on wi pick 3 tonight??????????? last night numbers were 912
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Good Luck,
its almst impossible to predict the numbers in wi, its a computer generated # system
go back 9 wks count and chart all the doubles see what doubles are cold. then start going back from the last drawing and count each double has been out the longest say the double 77s are out the longest in both draws miday and eve. now go back from the last draw and see how many times the 7n is out in each position, also do the same seperatley for miday and eve, get the idea you can see on your paper say the sevens did not show for 50 draws and now a 7 shows, is cold for the past week or two. now stick with the 77s and maybe two hot numbers for the past 2 weeks, good luck
From my list :
NY soon 00 55 88 / The 00
New York
NJ soon 00 99 11
09 01 04 91 94 14 41
New Jersey
Cant promise anything :
11 22 66
12 16 13 19 26 23 29 63 69 39
Maybe a 1 or 3 is in the number .
Calif was 411 THE 11 double . The time posted says 3 pm but in calif it was 12 pm I think . The 1 hit also .
Love this thread! Thank you.
Can you please do California?
I hope you got it .The 11 double and the single digit 1 showed .
WI looks tough . There is only 1 draw a day .
Here is what I think but could be wrong :
33 00
pairs 30 39 36 09 06 96
Thanks, I have a way to pick pairs too that kind of do well for the most part.
The ones that are due from my way are 28-34-13-76-40
The 76 matches one of your sets, 67.
Thanks Onlymoney !!
amazing system man!!!..I missed it had 996 figuired for a repeat because CT is retarded..
Incredible stuff you have going on here.Where did you find the Conn stuff??...I went around 2 months back and didn't see it.
I dont go back more than one or 2 draws Jonny . Thats how I started puting these here . The first post says to go back several weeks and I dont think you have to do that .
I dont know if this will continue because I have no spreadsheet , no program , no special TTT . I really dony have anything , yet that is . trying to work on it . Of course as I have been saying , you find something to work for a while , then everything goes south .
I just shifted my doubles list to the pick 3 if anyone would like to look at it . I did that because it has to do with pick 3 and not so much systems . I was thinking of shifting it yesterday anyway .
Here is the link to it :
Sure did, thank you! My first straight in weeks!
Nice job !!
today new jersey midday, the past week 9s were hot 3s cold so the pick is 339 993 0r frt pair 39 93
Va got the 67 .
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He keeps to himself and doesn't date anyone from the office. She has free tickets to Hawaii and a plan. Sort of.
When heart-broken Beth wins two tickets to paradise, she doesn't plan on using them to save her job as a photographer at a home and garden magazine. She doesn't plan on making a deal with her aloof co-worker Russell to get him to go with her, either. And it might have been a mistake to make the deal when she was too drunk to remember the terms of their arrangement.
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I love my dad and all but I'm not sure I'd like his corpse in the cellar...
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Steamed Broccoli with Ginger and Sesame Seeds
Slideshow: More Fast Side Dishes
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- Servings: 4
- 1 head of broccoli (1 1/2 pounds), florets cut into 2-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon Asian sesame oil
- Salt
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
How to make this recipe
Set a steamer basket into a large saucepan filled with 1 inch of water. Add the broccoli, cover and steam over high heat until bright green and just tender, about 4 minutes.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil with the garlic, ginger and sesame oil and cook over moderate heat until the garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the broccoli, season with salt and cook for 1 minute, stirring. Transfer to a bowl, sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve.
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Dated 20 February 1902 at 10:05 AM in Pollica
Appearing before the official was Giovanna Fedullo, 38, landowner residing in Pollica, to declare that at 1 AM on the 16th of the current month at Via Corso Vittoria #4, to Filomena Palladino, age 27, laborer residing in Celso, wife of Gennaro Carracino, 35, blacksmith, residing in Celso, was born a male child. The declarant presented the child in place of the father who was absent and he was given the name GIUSEPPE.
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