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Advances in the Treatment of Gynecologic Malignancies
In their excellent summary of randomized trials examining the management of cancers of the uterus and ovary, Kim and coauthors highlight a significant and worrisome difference that has developed between the two gynecologic malignancies over the past decade, with regard to the direction of clinical research involving chemotherapy. Although it is recognized that cytotoxic chemotherapy is employed in the majority of women with ovarian cancer at initial diagnosis, whereas such treatment is fortunately only required in a minority of individuals with endometrial cancer, it is unclear why there has been such a major divergence in the drugs and combination regimens currently being evaluated in clinical trials.Chemotherapeutic Substitutions
In the case of ovarian cancer, studies in the 1980s explored the use of carboplatin (Paraplatin) as a substitute for cisplatin. This approach was designed to reduce the toxicity of treatment while preserving efficacy.[1] Moreover, cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan, Neosar), rather than doxorubicin, was generally employed in this malignancy (along with a platinum agent) in phase III trials and in standard clinical practice. That decision was based on considerations of toxicity (eg, doxorubicin-induced emesis and cardiac dysfunction), rather than on any evidence of superior efficacy associated with the alkylating agent.
Subsequently, when paclitaxel was shown to be active in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer,[2] it was quickly tested as a front-line treatment of ovarian cancer in a two-drug combination with cisplatin.[3] Despite the favorable survival impact associated with the use of cisplatin/paclitaxel compared with cisplatin/cyclophosphamide, clinicians had legitimate concerns about the toxicity of this new combination (eg, cisplatin caused more emesis), which led to trials comparing the combination of carboplatin/paclitaxel to cisplatin/paclitaxel. Several studies have confirmed the more favorable side-effect profile of the carboplatin-based program, without a loss of efficacy, and most investigators and clinicians now consider this combination to be the standard of care for this malignancy.
Thus, randomized trials exploring the optimal management of advanced ovarian cancer have progressed along highly logical pathways, focusing on both the efficacy and toxicity of the individual drugs in the two-drug regimen. The selection of agents to be examined in these definitive trials has been based on data obtained in phase II studies in well-characterized patient populations (eg, the activity of cisplatin in alkylating-resistant disease, or of paclitaxel in platinum-resistant disease).Different Story for Endometrial Cancer
In contrast, it is difficult to draw such conclusions regarding clinical research in the chemotherapeutic management of recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer. Despite the recognized more favorable toxicity profile of carboplatin compared to cisplatin, and the absence of any data from controlled trials demonstrating the superiority of the more toxic platinum agent, cisplatin remains the key platinum drug examined in randomized trials conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) in metastatic endometrial cancer.[4]
Based on the successful investigative strategy in ovarian cancerand the fact that a phase II trial showed paclitaxel to be among the most active single agents ever examined in metastatic endometrial cancer[5]one might have anticipated that the less toxic paclitaxel would have been substituted for doxorubicin and evaluated in a randomized trial (ie, cisplatin/doxorubicin vs either cisplatin/paclitaxel or single-agent paclitaxel). Unfortunately, such a trial was never conducted. Instead, the GOG elected to add paclitaxel to the combination of doxorubicin and cisplatin,[6] comparing this more toxic regimen to the GOG "gold standard" of cisplatin plus doxorubicin.
One might speculate that this peculiar clinical research direction evolved because it is not possible to safely deliver the combination of carboplatin/paclitaxel in endometrial cancer, due to patient age or prior radiation. However, this is certainly not the case, as several published phase II studies have documented both the safety and activity of the combination in this setting.[7,8]Conclusions
In general, it is reasonable to conclude that a chemotherapy regimen should be tested in a randomized trial before it is declared to be the standard of care for any malignancy. However, in the absence of definitive trials comparing a regimen of carboplatin/paclitaxel to the so-called "gold standard" of cisplatin/doxorubicin in the treatment of metastatic endometrial cancer, it may be necessary for clinicians to rely on published phase II data in the peer-reviewed literature to select an optimal management approach.
Currently, the realistic goals of chemotherapy for metastatic endometrial cancer are to attempt to palliate cancer-induced symptoms, minimize the toxicity of treatment, optimize overall quality of life, and possibly prolong survival to a limited extent. Any chemotherapy program considered for randomized trials or standard clinical practice should be critically evaluated as to how it satisfies these reasonable clinical requirements.
1. Alberts DS, Green S, Hannigan EV, et al: Improved therapeutic index of carboplatin plus cyclophosphamide versus cisplatin plus cyclophosphamide: Final report by the Southwest Oncology Group of a phase III randomized trial in stages III and IV ovarian cancer. J Clin Oncol 10:706-717, 1992.
2. Thigpen JT, Blessing JA, Ball H, et al: Phase II trial of paclitaxel in patients with progressive ovarian carcinoma after platinum-based chemotherapy: A Gynecologic Oncology Group study. J Clin Oncol 12:1748-1753, 1994.
3. McGuire WP, Hoskins WJ, Brady MF, et al: Cyclophosphamide and cisplatin compared with paclitaxel and cisplatin in patients with stage III and stage IV ovarian cancer. N Engl J Med 334:1-6, 1996.
4. Moore TD, Phillips PH, Nerenstone SR, et al: Systemic treatment of advanced and recurrent endometrial carcinoma: Current status and future directions. J Clin Oncol 9:1071-1088, 1991.
5. Ball HG, Blessing JA, Lentz SS, et al: A phase II trial of paclitaxel in patients with advanced or recurrent adenocarcinoma of the endometrium: A Gynecologic Oncology Group study. Gynecol Oncol 62:278-281, 1996.
6. Fleming GF, Fowler JM, Waggoner SE, et al: Phase I trial of escalating doses of paclitaxel combined with fixed doses of cisplatin and doxorubicin in advanced endometrial cancer and other gynecologic malignancies: A Gynecologic Oncology Group study. J Clin Oncol 19:1021-1029, 2001.
7. Zanotti KM, Belinson JL, Kennedy AW, et al: The use of paclitaxel and platinum-based chemotherapy in uterine papillary serous carcinoma. Gynecol Oncol 74:272-277, 1999.
8. Hoskins PJ, Swenerton KD, Pike JA, et al: Paclitaxel and carboplatin, alone or with irradiation, in advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer: A phase II study. J Clin Oncol 19:4048-4053, 2001.


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Fox will experiment with a night of all live-action half-hour comedies in midseason. During Fox's conference call this morning, entertainment president Kevin Reilly said the network plans to launch the four-show comedy block on Tuesdays in March, when the current block's 8 PM anchor Glee goes on hiatus before returning in mid-April. "This is a protected trial as we have Glee coming back right after," Reilly said. There are five contenders for the four slots: the three half-hour live-action comedies already on the fall schedule — Raising Hope, New Girl, and I Hate My Teenage Daughter — as well as pilots Family Album and Little In Common, which remain under consideration for midseason. Reilly praised both pilots, which he said may undergo "a piece of recasting and probably reshooting" before the network makes a pickup. "Both could make the cut," Reilly said.
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LITTLE IN COMMON is just what FOX needs.
One of the new shows (or even both) will probably be axed at the end of the year, so both Family Album and Little In Common may be picked up for midseason.
What about Touch, is it a sure thing?
So much for Breaking In being considered if it does well tomorrow night. I hate it when FOX sets up a show to fail then uses that as justification for shitcanning it. Do they think this satisfies fans and makes them believe that they gave the show a chance? No, it just pisses people off more because it's pretty obvious what they're actually doing… ugh I hate this network.
Believe it when I see it. FOX is just too much reality now with Idol, X-Factor eating up so much of their real estate.
Well, now I'm confused. Would they have to order additional episodes of Raising Hope and The New Girl then or would they also be replaced while they were on hiatus?
Family album is the BEST pilot of the year. Mike O'malley is the real deal!
So they screwed us again by believing us Breaking In has a chance. I hope Exit Strategy has a shot for April at least but I'm just getting disappointed all over again.
Happy to hear there's hope for "Little in Common" and pissed that there is no mention of "Breaking In" which I have really been enjoying.


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Lady Flames Post Late Rally, Fall at Winthrop, 6-4
The Lady Flames plated three seventh-inning tallies, pulling to within two, but the Winthrop Eagles escaped with a 6-4 victory on Saturday at Terry Field.
Winthrop evens its season record at 23-23, including an 11-9 mark in conference play. Liberty falls to 19-27, 8-12 in Big South games, with its sixth setback in a row.
Katie Zavodny went 3-for-4 for the second game in a row and stole her 37th base of the campaign. Sammi Shivock hit her team-leading 12th double of the season, while Amber Donovan's seventh-inning homer tied her for the team lead, with seven on the year.
Winthrop's Kathryn Eberlin batted 1-for-1 with four RBIs, including a key, three-run homer. Melanie Andrea hit 2-for-3 with a solo homer.
Sutton Watson (13-12) pitched a complete game, allowing four runs on eight hits while striking out six Lady Flames.
Chandler Ball tied her career high with eight strikeouts, set last April at Presbyterian College. She allowed six runs on eight hits, walking four while falling to 8-12 on the season.
Shivock doubled with two outs in the top of the first, but was left on base when Watson recorded her second strikeout of the inning.
The Eagles loaded the bases with one out during the first inning. Ball walked Eberlin, plating Teja Durante. The Lady Flames' right-hander then struck out the final two batters, getting out of the jam while allowing just one run.
Liberty earned a scoring chance during the top of the third inning, when Holly Seiz and Zavodny hit consecutive singles with one out. A flyout sent Seiz to third, but Seiz was later erased at the plate trying to score after an errant throw back to the pitcher.
With one out in the third, McKenzi Corn drew a walk, followed by a single from Chelsea Schoenfeldt. Eberlin then hit a three-run drive to right center, good for a 4-0 Eagles' advantage. Ball got out of the inning when she fanned Christine DeWitt with her sixth strikeout of the game.
Liberty derailed Winthrop's rally in the fourth, turning a double play on a bunt and run, while Ball struck out Kristy Noble for the third out.
Zavodny hit a single to lead off the sixth frame, and advanced to second on a dropped third strike. Shivock then reached on a fielder's choice, and Kassidy McCoy was hit by a pitch. Kelby Allen drove Shivock in with a single, and advanced to second on the throw. Nichols sent a flare into left, but shortstop Jenna Harbin saved two runs with a running catch.
Winthrop added two insurance tallies in the sixth, on an RBI groundout from Kelsey Ritter and a solo homer by Andrea, making it 6-1. Ball fanned Durante, bringing Liberty to the plate for the final time.
Donovan hit a leadoff home run during the top of the seventh. Watson then hit Megan Robinson, and Zavodny recorded a one-out single. Another hit batsman loaded the bases for Shivock, who walked to plate Liberty's third run. McCoy then flied out to left, sending Zavodny home for a 6-4 score. Allen hit into a fielder's choice, as third baseman Alex White stepped on third and Winthrop held on for the win.


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dillpickle69 (Topic Creator)4 years ago#11
dillpickle69 posted...I said there shouldn't be one that's ONLY based on modern day, because one of the biggest selling factors of this game is the history that you can take part in and affect. If there was a mostly modern day game, there would still be parts with significant pieces of history that you can play.
Where/when did Ubisoft specifically say that exactly?
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nubs222 posted...
It was a pretty underwhelming ending to Desmond's story. Here's this guy you've "played" as for three previous games and he pushes a button that saves the world and dies. It's like the rushed ending of a bad fanfic.
This was my main complaint too. I didn't mind Desmond being killed off at all, I just didn't like how it was done. It felt rushed and anti-climatic.
Plus I was hoping for closure and more explanations. Part of my anticipation for AC3 was more exposition on all those Truth puzzles we solved in AC2 and ACB, and more Pieces of Eden. Instead we're just left with another cliffhanger.
I did enjoy the Desmond missions though, I'll give it that.
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dillpickle69 (Topic Creator)4 years ago#13
I know that the whole reason the story got jumbled up and rolled around a lot is because the creative director left, but why is it that he left anyways?
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riddlebox89 4 years ago#14
dillpickle69 posted...
Where/when did Ubisoft specifically say that exactly?
When they said they wouldn't do a game entirely focused in modern day times because it would go against what they want the main focus of the games to be, which is the ancestors and the times they lived in, meaning animus coffee time for five minutes or not, that game where you're in modern times for 80% of the time isn't happening due to the modern day time being the main focus of the game.
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dillpickle69 (Topic Creator)4 years ago#15
I mean did they say that in an interview or post an article about it or something? I want to see this for myself.
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SymphonicRain 4 years ago#16
I don't want him in another game. I don't care for the whole 2012 end of the world stuff in the modern day. Yeah, I know they are the whole reason that we are introduced to characters like Altair, Ezio and Connor, but the appeal for me in these games is playing in the past, the interesting characters and the allies/enemies they deal with.
They could remove the modern day stuff entirely and all it'd mean for me is less disruptions from the story I'm currently into.
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dillpickle69 posted...
I know that the whole reason the story got jumbled up and rolled around a lot is because the creative director left, but why is it that he left anyways?
prob because he wanted desmond to get his spotlight after AC2/brotherhood but ubi said no and seeing his baby be taken from him left. On topic tho desmond dying doesnt bug me if it was done justified desmond was a pawn of a bigger lot since the begining born into a world he wanted no part in he had no peace having to hide his idenity live a lie. Having the burden of being somehow important in saving the world. Try as he might the guy just wanted to go back to his family and when he gets to the end of his journey our journey he sacrifices himself for the world. Then juno basically spits in his face saying he was screwed again into being used.
The character was always a pawn he had no real closure so personally i think that if anyone other then desmond kills juno and her army it wouldnt be fitting. Desmond always gets the short end of the stick people say he is boring or uninteresting as if its his fault, its not its ubisofts for not giving him the screen time to do virtually anything to win over fans. its sad it seems as if his story was going in a different direction then what was originally planned. Its a shame.
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I had no real issues with Desmond, it was a bit weak how he had almost o screen time/gameplay. I also believe that they could do a modern day game, say Splinter Cell mixed with parkour, they would have to be very careful to not make Uncharted however. It also seems to me as if they're pulling a Lost. I worry that they don't actually have an ending in mind and are just going in by the seat of their pants.
fooly__cooly 4 years ago#19
I don't want an all present game (I want Ubi to go back further in time actually) but the way they ended Desmond's story left a lot to be desired. I hope they either release a cinematic movie or explain more in the next AC game.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mar. 24, 2005 - Sutter Health, a family of hospitals and physician organizations serving more than 100 communities in Northern California, has launched its advanced eICU® patient-safety system in the San Francisco Bay Area, becoming the first health network in the Western United States to bring online two eICU centers for constant monitoring of critically ill patients. Implemented in San Francisco in mid November and monitoring patients at the Davies campus of California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) and St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco as well as at Novato Community Hospital in Marin County, the remote eICU center has been credited with helping save the lives of several patients in the hospitals' intensive care units. Sutter's expansion of its eICU program follows success in the greater Sacramento area, where its first eICU center has supported patients and caregivers since January 2003.
Studies point to around-the-clock coverage by physician specialists, called intensivists, as a key to better patient outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU). In Sutter's eICU system, intensivists and specially trained nurses use early warning software and advanced video and remote monitoring to keep an even closer eye on critical-care patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The patients who benefit from this additional level of care and expertise could be in a hospital right down the street or hundreds of miles away.
"Physicians whose patients currently are being cared for by our ICU and eICU staff are applauding the system's merits," said Thomas Shaughnessy, M.D., intensivist and eICU medical director for Sutter's Bay Area region. "One physician has given full credit to eICU monitoring for immediately recognizing a life-threatening trend in his patient. In that case, the technology and our team made a vital difference when every minute was precious."
Sophisticated monitoring centers like Sutter's have been shown to reduce severity-adjusted hospital mortality for ICU patients by 27 percent and shorten ICU length of stay by 17 percent, according to Critical Care Medicine Magazine (2004; 30:31-38). At Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, where Sutter's technology and team have been in place the longest, physicians have recognized improvements in care since adopting the system. In one example, hospital ICU mortality is down 17.3 percent from 2002, before the technology was implemented, to 2004.
Across the nation, eICU technology from Baltimore, Md. based VISICU, Inc. is installed or is being installed at only 30 health systems. Sutter Health is the only hospital system in California with eICU technology.
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Sutter's eICU patient safety system provides constant, real-time monitoring of critical care patients and alerts medical staff of any physiological changes that may be precursors of life-threatening conditions. Intensivists and specially trained nurses – at a location outside the hospital - constantly check patients' changing vital signs and health conditions so they may help the hospital-based team intervene earlier to avoid adverse events and improve patient outcomes. Data also is transmitted to the hospitals' on-site ICU doctors and bedside nurses to ensure an immediate health status overview of each patient. The on-site hospital team and remote eICU team work together to provide patients with the best possible care.
"This technology and the specialized team behind it are making a vital difference in our patients' lives every minute of every day," according to Sutter Chief Medical Officer Gordon Hunt, M.D. "With the new eICU monitoring system, we are providing our medical staffs in urban and rural settings the best clinical tools available to help ensure quality patient care and better outcomes," he said.
All of Sutter's 25 Northern California hospitals expect to be connected to one of the eICU hubs by the end of 2006. Currently monitoring 31 beds at CPMC, St. Luke's and Novato Community Hospital, Sutter's San Francisco eICU hub also will support Peninsula Medical Center, the Pacific and California campuses of CPMC, Marin General Hospital, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa and Sutter Lakeside Hospital during the coming year. By mid 2006, this new technology and the eICU team will monitor an additional 118 beds at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Eden Medical Center, San Leandro Hospital and Sutter Delta Medical Center. The Sacramento hub also will expand to assist affiliated hospitals throughout the region; beds monitored there will jump from 104 to 165.
With this aggressive implementation schedule, Sutter continues to push the organization's quality health care mission by implementing one of the most rigorous, patient safety programs in the nation. The network's $50 million investment in patient-safety technologies includes bar coding to help ensure the safe administration of medications. In addition, in 2004, Sutter Health announced it would deploy an electronic health record (EHR) system networkwide by the end of 2006. The inpatient-outpatient system, which will be one of the first in the United States to include secure patient access to EHR data, will be completed years ahead of the national EHR deadline set by the White House. Sutter also expects to be the first regional health care provider in Northern California to implement a comprehensive EHR system.
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Organizations that want their agile transition to stick must make sure that feeling of isolation doesn't happen. Like everyone else on a new agile team, testers need the right training and support to succeed. They need to learn how to collaborate with programmers, database experts, business stakeholders, and people they might not have had any contact with before. They may need new technical skills as well. Well-functioning agile development teams make sure to embrace testers, and provide the infrastructure to help them succeed.
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In successful agile development teams, every team member takes responsibility for quality. This means that although testers bring special expertise and a unique viewpoint to the team, they are not the only ones responsible for testing or for the quality of the product. The other team members all play a part in testing, and testers can ask other team members for help. The good news for a tester who's now on a development team is that she expands her influence—she's involved right from the beginning of each project. She's part of the requirements elaboration and iteration planning. She collaborates with the whole team throughout the iteration. This collaboration starts when she works with the customer or product owner to define acceptance (customer) tests, and continues when she reviews story tests with the programmers and asks for input to help guide development.
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A "Whole Team" Example
When Lisa joined her first agile team, she had to let go of the notion that she was the judge of product quality. Instead, she had to learn how to help customers define quality and "doneness" criteria before coding was started. She joined discussions with programmers and the DBA where the stakeholders gave examples of desired behavior. In the beginning, there were no automated regression tests, so everyone on the team did the manual tests each iteration. Everyone on the team committed to completing each story before the end of the iteration. If testing started to fall behind, Lisa asked for help, and everyone on the team performed testing tasks.
The system administrator helped put a continuous integration and build process in place, providing quick feedback from regression tests. Several months later, the team enjoyed adequate automated regression testing, with more time free to collaborate with business experts and learn more about the domain. The team could focus on new development instead of fixing bugs, and testers had time to do important exploratory testing.
Resources for Implementing a Whole Team Approach
"It sounds great", you say, "but we're still working as siloed groups, how do we transition to this whole team approach?" We recommend to new agile teams that they bring in an experienced agile coach or hire experienced agile developers and/or testers to help overcome cultural and logistical barriers. The Scrum concept of a self-organizing team helps; the team can commit to delivering the best software possible, and then experiment with practices that help achieve that goal. However, managers must give the team plenty of time to learn, and provide training in skills that the team is lacking. For example, the team may need formal training in test-driven development and acceptance test-driven development.
Hold team retrospectives each iteration—make sure everyone on the new integrated team participates and feels safe to raise issues. If you're new to retrospectives, consider bringing in an experienced facilitator to get started. Books such as Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larson, and Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising will give you ideas on how to run retrospectives and introduce changes.


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Application Criteria and Process
Each applicant for admission to the M.S. in
Innovative Leadership degree program at
Grand View University must complete an
application file which includes the
1. An application for admission to graduate
2. An official transcript of an earned
baccalaureate degree from a regionally
accredited institution of higher education.
Transcripts must be sent from the
institution(s) granting the credit.
3. A cover letter which addresses:
the students interest in the program,
including the identification of short
and long term career goals,
the skills and experiences that the
student will contribute to the program,
the expectations that the student has
of the program.
4. A resume.
5. Three letters of recommendation,
preferably one from an undergraduate
faculty member or a substitute approved by
the Council of Graduate Studies, one from
an employer, and one from someone else
who can attest to the ability of the student
to successfully engage in graduate study.
6. Validation of an undergraduate
minimum grade point average (G.P.A.) of
3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
7. A $40.00 non-refundable application fee.
8. Results of the Graduate Record Exam
(GRE) or Graduate Management Aptitude
Test (GMAT) within the last five years. The
GRE is most appropriate for those in
education and nursing, the GMAT for those
interested in business. OR a written essay
(in addition to the required cover letter).
9. Additional requirements related to the
intended tracks of study include:
For EDUC Track
A current license to teach in the State
of Iowa.
For NURS Track
A baccalaureate degree with an upper
division major in nursing from a
program accredited by the National
League for Nursing or the
Commission on Collegiate Nursing
Current state license as a registered
professional nurse.
Professional liability insurance of
$1,000,000/$3,000,000 coverage.
A baccalaureate level statistics course
approved by the Council of Graduate
Current CPR (professional level)
Health requirements including TB
testing, hepatitis B, varicella.
Criminal background screening.
All applicants must have a minimum of
two years of full-time employment or
approval of the Council of Graduate
Upon completion of the application file for
admission, all applicants are required to
schedule an interview with the Director of
Graduate Studies.
Students whose native language is not
English must also demonstrate mastery of
the English language.
All application materials should be
submitted to the Office of Admissions.
Completed application files will be
reviewed each month by the Council of
Graduate Studies and applicants will be
notified of council action on the 15th of each
month. New students will ordinarily be
admitted to the program once a year, at the
beginning of the Fall term.
Provisional Admission
The applicant who does not meet all
program requirements may be considered
for provisional admission on a space
available basis. The conditions of
provisional admission will be defined, in
writing, by the Council of Graduate Studies
at the time that provisional admission is
Transfer Credit
Students admitted to graduate study at
Grand View University may submit a
request for up to six semester hours of
previously earned graduate credit to be
accepted as transfer credit.
Previous graduate work must:
Have been earned at an accredited
college or university.
Have been completed within the last
five years prior to admission to
graduate study at Grand View.
Have been awarded a grade no lower
than a B-.
Be reviewed and evaluated at the time
of admission to graduate study at
Grand View University.
All requests for transfer credit must be
accompanied by:
An official transcript.
A course description.
A course syllabus.
Financial Aid
Students in graduate programs may be
eligible for Stafford Loans. To qualify,
students must be enrolled at least part-time
and meet eligibility requirements
established by the federal government.
Students who need additional financial aid
than that provided by the Stafford Loan
program may qualify for a federal Graduate
Plus Loan.
All questions about financial assistance for
graduate study should be referred to the
Director of Financial Aid.
Grand View Assistance
Graduate students who are degree seeking
may be eligible for limited Grand View
awarded aid. Please contact the Director of
Graduate Studies for information.
Grand View University is committed to
providing every student a quality
education at a reasonable cost. Through the
annual contributions of the churches of the
Iowa Synods of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, gifts from individuals
and businesses, and income generated by
the Grand View University Endowment
Fund, the actual cost to the students may be
The tuition and fees listed in this catalog
are effective for the 2010-2011 academic
year and are subject to change, at any time
thereafter, without notice.
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Pick up the phone! Our Classic Kitchen Phone is a real conversation piece - a tribute to famed designer Henry Dreyfuss, who created many of the now-classic telephone models made popular in the mid-20th century. This wall-mounted phone was originally designed to allow consumers to walk with the phone while cradling it on their shoulder. This unified and balanced form replaced the awkward and ungainly shapes of earlier models. Believe it or not, Dreyfuss actually used measurements from over 2000 faces to determine the average distance between the mouth and ear. And all of this vintage design is augmented by a wealth of modern features, including push button dialing, flash/redial button, ringer volume switch and tone/pulse modes.
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Delta Health Alliance announces Parents as Teachers program kick-off in Greenwood
(Stoneville, MS) –Mothers in Leflore County now have a new resource for education, support and encouragement during pregnancy and early childhood. It's called Parents as Teachers™ and it's a new program sponsored by Delta Health Alliance in partnership with Mississippi Valley State University. The kick off is set for June 5 at 3:00 p.m. with a balloon launch at the LS Rogers Building on MVSU campus.
According to Karen C. Matthews, CEO of Delta Health Alliance, Parents as Teachers recognizes that the best way to help children become successful students is by educating a child's first and most influential teacher, the parent. "We want to increase parental knowledge of early childhood development best practices, help them detect developmental delays and health issues, and increase their child's school readiness."
Matthews also indicated that the program will also help mothers who are expecting. "The Mississippi Delta," says Matthews, "has an infant mortality rate that is too high and premature birth rate and low birth weight rates that are too high. This program can help bring those numbers down."
The program will begin in Leflore County with future plans to expand to other Delta Counties.
For more information about this program or any DHA projects, visit www.deltahealthalliance.org or Parents as Teachers™ at www.parentsasteachers.org.


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Many people do not have access to adequate healthcare. This occurs widely enough in third-world countries but also in the United States, despite Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Healthcare professionals, institutions, and governments face controversial choices about providing adequate healthcare. Inaccessibility to healthcare is a public policy issue and, many people claim, a moral issue.
Three important themes in healthcare access are the problem of poverty, the many barriers to healthcare access, and the question of healthcare resource allocation. These themes generate controversies about the role and alleviation of poverty, how to overcome access barriers, and how to fairly allocate limited resources.
Poverty exists in both a relative and an absolute sense. The relative sense means someone is poorer than the norm (or some threshold) of a larger population. So in a society of billionaires a millionaire is poor. Unless everyone has the same income or wealth, relative poverty will always exist, but it is not necessarily something that needs to be addressed.
Absolute poverty occurs when someone has less income or wealth than some absolute standard or threshold without regard to what everyone else has. So if everyone in a country lacks enough money to buy food, everyone is poor, even if no one is in relative poverty.
In concepts of both relative poverty and absolute poverty one may question what the proper threshold should be. On most analyses, in reality the world contains many people who are relatively poor and absolutely poor.
Many causes of poverty have been suggested, with some focusing on the individual and some focusing on group or systemic factors. Among the most common causes or factors cited:
Most thinkers believe healthcare access is somewhat inversely correlated with poverty. Poor countries by and large have poor access to healthcare. And within a country, if you have plenty of money you usually have better access to healthcare than others do. You will be able to afford insurance or have enough money to pay for care privately.
In the United States Medicaid is a government sponsored program to help poor people pay for healthcare. But Medicaid is poorly funded and not all healthcare providers are willing to accept its low rate of reimbursement for services. Medicaid as administered in any particular state does not necessarily cover all needed services, such as bone marrow transplants.
Poverty might be seen as an impediment to "health access" and not just "healthcare access." Low income levels ("socioeconomic" status) are correlated with factors such as poor health literacy, poor health habits, and poor lifestyle choices that negatively impact health: poor nutrition, eating too much high-fat fast food, substance abuse (drugs, alcohol, tobacco), lack of exercise, and sexual irresponsibility. These factors limit access to good health, not healthcare. Putting a free doctor nearby may not be enough to overcome poor health access factors.
The list of barriers shows that there are various reasons for limited access to healthcare. Some healthcare resources are in scarce supply in particular regions or time periods: organs, primary care physicians, and advanced technologies, for instance. Sometimes it is a distribution problem: resources are available but in the wrong location, for example in large cities but not rural areas. Many times it is an affordability issue: some people are poor and uninsured or underinsured.
Medical education, healthcare infrastructure, organ allocation and distribution systems, and the level of medical technology may be low or poorly developed or administered in a particular country or in certain areas of a country. Distribution problems may mean no nearby doctor to treat an individual, or a region or country unable to provide access to large population segments. And in limiting healthcare access, poverty affects whole countries as well as individuals.
Perhaps many of the above problems would disappear if everyone's standard of living were drastically raised, but, short of that, many ethicists believe we must look for other ways of overcoming barriers and improving healthcare access for underserved populations. Given limited funding resources for payment and limited healthcare resources per se, healthcare access quickly becomes an allocation issue.
Healthcare allocation questions arise in several different realms. Similar to the way economics can be divided into macroeconomics and microeconomics, healthcare resource issues can be macroallocation issues, microallocation issues, or somewhere in-between. When the decisions are about large-scale allocation within society or government they are macroallocation issues and when they are at the level of healthcare professionals allocating time to specific patients they are microallocation issues.
One broad macroallocation issue is what priority the government should place on healthcare amidst other areas competing for funding, laws, and policies, for example, defense, education, and commerce. Slightly less broad issues concern how much to spend or focus on prevention, treatment, and research. Narrowing still, to the level of individual institutions or healthcare systems, what spending decisions should a hospital make about various healthcare programs, building facilities, buying technology, outreach to the community, etc.? Where should new clinics be stationed? Or for organizations, what algorithms should be used to match organ donors with potential recipients if there are not enough organs for the number of recipients in need?
Microallocation issues arise in the delivery of heathcare from provider and staff to patient. What patients should the practice focus on? How many Medicare and Medicaid patients should be accepted? What insurance plans should the practice participate in? What new equipment should be purchased? How much staffing should the practice have, and at what level? For specific patients, how much time should the physicians and nurses spend in the exam room, in patient education, in obtaining tests? How much continuing education should the staff pursue? Should the staff spend large amounts of time on the phone with patients? How long should each office visit (patient encounter) be?
1. On the first question, some people think (a) healthcare is like any other consumer product or service (blenders, oil changes, etc.) that some people can afford and some people can't. (b) A different perspective is that healthcare is a right that the government has a moral obligation to provide to the entire population. (A follow-up question would be: what level of healthcare?). (c) Somewhere in between is the view that healthcare is a social good like highways, education, and defense, and the government should distribute it more fairly than by letting it depend on ability to pay.
2. The second question focuses more on how to most efficiently provide healthcare. The usual assumption is that those who think healthcare is not a right believe a free market mechanism is the best system and those who think healthcare is a right or a social good would go with a government provided distribution. Thus two theoretical approaches usually identified are the "libertarian" position (free market) and the "liberal, social welfare, distributive justice" position (healthcare as a right). But this is not absolute. One may believe that healthcare is a right and yet believe a free market is the best overall mechanism to provide it (the government messing up everything it touches) or, in contrast, believe no one has a right to healthcare but believe it works in the most organized, coherent fashion if the government handles it rather than being left to the "chaos" of the market.
With that caveat, here are three traditional theoretical approaches.
Libertarianism: Those with libertarian sympathies believe government should for the most part stay out of healthcare and let it operate as a free market. Healthcare should be provided by private practices, private and publicly-owned (not government) corporate institutions, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, and perhaps with the involvement of private and publicly-owned insurance companies. Individual patients should be able to buy insurance and healthcare services as they wish. Healthcare should be allowed to operate according to free market principles of supply and demand. The libertarian thinks the role of government is limited to such functions as maintaining order. This view stems from their view of individual moral rights and obligations. Morality basically tellsus to stay out of each other's way, to refrain from harming others, to allow each of us basic liberty, rather than forcing us to provide for others or telling us how to live. Individuals have no moral obligation to pay for the healthcare of their neighbors – that's the role of private charity. Healthcare allocation becomes a function of the ability of free markets to provide it and the ability of individuals to pay for it.
Liberal, "social welfare" conception: The liberal social welfare conception supposedly stems from seeing healthcare as a social good or moral right that the government should provide so as to ensure that it is distributed fairly and no one is left out. This view seems to involve the notion of distributive justice, which has to do with the fair distribution of goods and services in society. Unfortunately there are competing interpretations of distributive justice. Commonly quoted is the phrase traced back to Aristotle, "equals should be treated equally, and unequals unequally," but that doesn't seem to solve the matter. "Everybody should get their fare share" likewise does not end the discussion. Does fairness require everyone get an equal dollar amount to spend on healthcare (even if sicker people need more, and what about the person who lives longer than the rest, wouldn't he need more?), that everyone get however much they want (so with limited resources the government still pays for anyone who wants a face-lift), or that each person gets enough tobring their health up to some standard of normalcy (and how to define normalcy)? Or should people get an amount based on their value to society, how much they have contributed already, and should they get less if their illness was partly their fault (drug abuse, etc.)?
Efficiency: Others think healthcare should be allocated for optimal efficiency, to get the most "bang for the buck." Presumably this can be taken to extremes so that no considerations of fairness enter into it. Healthcare decisions are made on the basis of cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness. A cost-benefit analysis considers alternatives with respect to how much they would cost and the benefit they would bring, with both cost and benefit stated in financial terms (in dollars, for instance). On a larger scale, alternative healthcare systems would be evaluated on the basis of how much money they required, how many lives were extended, the increase in quality in those lives, etc. The system with the greatest benefit per unit cost would be the desired alternative. On an even larger scale one might try to compare government spending for healthcare, defense, education, etc. in the same fashion to determine how much should be spent on healthcare. A cost-effectiveness analysis is similar except it does not try to compare costs and benefits in terms of the same financial units. Benefits are not converted to financial unites but instead something such as "quality-adjusted life years" (QALY). QALY is an attempt to account for years of life adjusted for the quality of life.
The theoretical underpinning of the efficiency approach is that of the ethical theory of utilitarianism, in which the right action is one which brings about the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
A country's healthcare system includes providers, patients, payers, research trials, programs, organizations, institutions, related businesses, laws, regulations, and policies. Some countries have a mostly private system with healthcare available to those who can pay or afford insurance. Others have a "universal," or "socialized" healthcare system. There are various ways this might work. In a "national health system," like in Great Britain, many healthcare professionals and institutions are government owned and administered, through private providers exist as well. In a "national health insurance system," such as Canada, most healthcare professionals are privately employed but get reimbursed by the government in a "single payer" system. Healthcare funding is from government revenue. In a system of "socialized health insurance," as in Germany, healthcare workers are privately employed but the government requires employee contributions (payroll taxes) that go into private insurance ("sickness funds). Healthcare funding is through distinct taxes. The idea of all such systems, though, is that everyone be provided healthcare.
The United States has a mixed private/public system, with more privatization than most other developed countries. Most healthcare providers do not work for the government, and most health insurance is private. Many people who have insurance get it at discounted rates through their place of work. Some healthcare is paid for by government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid which are funded by taxes and the general government revenue.
In developed countries the cost of healthcare has been rising, fueled by the cost of new technology, better and more extensive care for patients and treatment of diseases, sedentary lifestyles and poor nutrition, and aging populations.
In most countries healthcare is not an unlimited resource. Trade-offs and compromises must be made. Either some people do not get adequate healthcare, the cost of healthcare is high, there is a long wait to receive certain healthcare services, healthcare workers are relatively poorly compensated, or some combination of these occurs.
It could be argued that healthcare needs of future generations merit attention in discussions of distributive justice. Attention to future generations may imply the need for greater allocation for research and prevention programs that would significantly affect the healthcare of people who do not yet exist.


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Here are the beautiful words of my twin sister who recently commenced IVF. Sadly, no eggs were fertilised in the first round, but she is currently undergoing her second round. Fingers and ovaries crossed.
For 32 years I planned for you
Built my house on three degrees, 2 careers, a small but cosy savings account and travel adventures I hoped would inspire you.
Leaches. Scuba diving. Stinky tofu.
For 27 years I searched for my partner
Someone to dote on you with abundant enthusiasm
I found someone and life was lovely.
When you find THE ONE they say you KNOW.
I hope you KNOW one day.
We planned for you.
In our dreams. At a fertility clinic.
We had the PERFECT donor.
My best friend's brother and life was lovely.
And this is where the lovely stops.
Where life and all its chaos happens.
Where life is not fair and you make an earnest vow to appreciate it if it turns back in your favour
Where your mother can no longer put a band-aid on, kiss you and tell you it will be ok.
Because it's a promise she has no power to keep
My partner ended it and I was sad.
Partly because I missed her.
Mostly because I lost the future we spoke of.
In my dreams I had painted your room
With Little My Ponies, soccer balls and all the colours of a lolly shop
With stars that shared stories and pointed to endless possibilities
I reveled in your giggles, your shrills and silence that sung,
Mummy, I love you
Mummy, I feel safe
Mummy, isn't life just wonderful?
Yours was my favourite song
The first time you tripped I wanted to pad the ground with bouncing castles so you would never feel pain in this world
But I knew grazes would shape you
A gift that you could play hopscotch
Twirl yourself 'til you fell dizzy
Avoid the hot potatoes on the burly streets of life
In my dreams you had a younger brother or sister.
and you would play so beautifully,
Then fight, kiss and make up
You were cheeky
You finished your cupcake, then asked your sibling for half of theirs
Your sibling gave you the big half
I allowed it because you said, 'Please'
For 32 years I picked names
Elliott, Hugo, Luca, Benson
You must have been a boy because it was these names I always picked.
I caught your hazel eyes
As you caught golden butterflies and asked, Why?
Why do these fanciful creatures only live two weeks?
Because life is full of truths like these
And baby, education can wait. Careers can wait.
But babies baby, cannot.
Nanna Tonkin had it right
I should have sold bananas in Coles
What good is a career if you have no one to spend your toils on?
For 32 years I had not planned for this
How can I age 12 years with a blood test?
12 childbearing years
Then words from my donor
Two years after the deposit was made
My fiance does not approve, I'm sorry I cannot go
through with it
Time stopped that day
For five months the clock struck
No you did not ovulate
I peed on every stick on the market
No smiling faces or double lines
A lonely stroke that stabbed at my identity
Arms bruised like a junkie
I stopped counting the blood tests when I counted my unborn baby's last toe
I stopped looking at my bank account
When there was nothing to see
I engaged in promiscuous activities
And all I got was a venereal disease
An ant of an irritant
Beside the hairy monster of despair
They say infertility is a roller coaster
My ride has been the giant drop
I once enjoyed adrenaline
But this is the kind
Where you cling to the seat
Cause the buckle is broken
And you don't know how you will survive
If you can't have a child
I hate my ovaries
Because they are failing
I love my ovaries
Because they are my hope of a biological child
I wait for my next cycle
to begin in vitro fertilization
Begin injecting follicle stimulating hormone
A dose two times the normal recommended
A dose that increases the risk of miscarriage and down syndrome
But if this is my chance of a child
It's the chance I'll take


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Perhaps the first thing and probably the most important is that the game has now been designed to be used on all platforms including tablets and mobiles as opposed to just laptops and desktops. This really does leave you with no excuse for not getting yourself involved and with the whopping £250,000 prize increase for getting all 6 scores correct you can be sure that victory would be an out and out life changing moment.
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text: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., (LIOX), is a leading provider of globalization, testing and application development services that enable customers to create and manage technology applications and enterprise content in various languages. Lionbridge's globalization services include internationalization, software localization, application development, translation, and multilingual content management. The testing services not only assist customers in controlling support costs but they also identify and rectify problems relating to usability of a product. Further, Lionbridge's product certification and benchmark testing services help independent software vendors to verify that their products conform to standards and quality. The company employs 4,300 people and maintains around 45 solution centers in 25 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and VeriTest brands.


text: So many intriguing lines this week. The Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints number is, literally, historic. Posting at a wild-card high of 58, and then getting bet up to 58.5. Then 59. Then 59.5. I covered this line at length in my podcast with Warren Sharp, so we won't go into it here. But the sides in the Lions-Saints matchup are interesting, too. New Orleans opened at 9.5, and, like the total, immediately got some action, going up to 10, 10.5 and then finally 11.


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By Lauren HallJuly 11, 2012
TORII STATION, Japan (July 11, 2012) -- Torii Station in Okinawa will hold its first ever farmers market July 13, offering fresh produce grown on the installation by local farmers.
Torii Station is a 479-acre U.S. Army installation located in Yomitan Village on the island of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. Its subtropical climate makes it an ideal location for farming a large variety of produce.
Local farmers have been farming nearly two-thirds of the land on Torii Station for more than 52 years.
Currently there are 474 farmers on Army installations on Okinawa whose crops include sugarcane, watermelon, carrots, green peppers, cucumbers, purple sweet potatoes (beni-imo), hechima squash, cabbage, Chinese radish (daikon), eggplant, papaya, bananas, okra, mango, dragon fruit, tomatoes, goya (bitter melon) and more.
Seizen Higa has been farming watermelon, carrots and sugarcane here for 30 years. The secret to his health and success, he said, is farming every day and staying hydrated in Okinawa's heat and humidity.
"Taking regular breaks and drinking plenty of water is very important. Otherwise you would be miserable and dehydrated and you may even pass out," said Higa.
Shinei Higa has been farming on Torii for 15 years. His crops include purple sweet potatoes, sugar cane, okra and watermelon. He shared a tip on how to help the watermelon become sweeter: place Styrofoam cushions underneath each watermelon as it ripens on the vine.
"The sugar cane is sold to a factory in Uruma City where it is processed into unrefined brown sugar, white granulated sugar and powdered sugar. The purple sweet potatoes are sold to a local pastry shop," said Higa. "Okra grows so fast, we have to pick it every morning and evening."
After nearly a year's worth of coordination between the commander of U.S. Army Garrison Torii Station, Lt. Col. Cory Anderton, and the Yomitan mayor's office, local ward chiefs, Okinawa Defense Bureau, other Yomitan officials and Torii's Staff Judge Advocate office, the farmers will begin holding a weekly farmers market on Torii Station offering only produce grown on the installation.
"It is a pleasure to have the farmers and the farmers market on Torii Station. It allows the Soldiers to interact with our great neighbors and learn about the history and traditions of Okinawa farming," said Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin Nolan, U.S. Army Garrison Torii Station command Sergeant major. "I look forward to increasing our close ties with our neighbors and the farmers market is another step toward a great relationship."
Before getting the approval to hold the farmers market, a sample of the produce was sent for testing to ensure it passed U.S. Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) standards.
"A sample of the produce, including sweet potatoes, carrots, leafy greens, garlic and eggplant, was sent to the U.S. Army Veterinary Services, Okinawa Branch, and analyzed for pesticides and radiological residue to ensure it meets U.S.D.A. standards for food consumption," said Mike Riegert, Environmental Division Chief.
Finally, the farmers will be able to provide their produce right where it is grown: on Torii Station. The first farmers market will be held Friday, July 13 from 3-5 p.m. in the small parking lot next to the 4-way stop at the entrance to Torii Beach.
All sales will be in yen only, so be sure to have plenty of yen with you to purchase this fresh produce directly from the farmers on Torii Station.
(Note: Beginning Friday, July 20, the farmers market will be held in the same location every Friday from 4:30 -- 5:30 p.m. Check the U.S. Army Garrison Torii Station (USAGTS) Facebook page for updates.)


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WASHINGTON - Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed.
Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government agencies, and the allegations that nearly derailed his nomination to the high court in 1991 in his autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son."
A copy of the book, which goes on sale Monday, was obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
He writes with indignation of the nationally televised hearings that he memorably called a "high-tech lynching." A child of the segregated South, Thomas says he was being pursued "not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony."
Powerful interest groups were out to stop him at all costs and chose "the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct," he writes.
Hill, who is also black, had worked for Thomas at the Education Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She first made her allegations after Thomas had been nominated to the high court, 10 years after she began working for him and only after she was contacted by congressional investigators.
In the book, Thomas describes Hill as touchy and apt to overreact, not someone who would wait a decade to level a charge of harassment. She had complained to Thomas only about his refusal to promote her, the justice says.
"Her work at EEOC had been mediocre," he writes.
In 1991, Thomas adamantly denied Hill's accusations that he made inappropriate sexual remarks, including references to pornographic movies. Thomas says he did talk about X-rated movies while at Yale Law School, adding that so did many other young people in the 1970s.
Thomas, 59, acknowledges that three other former EEOC employees backed Hill's version of events, but he says they either had been fired or had left the agency on bad terms.
Hill, a professor at Brandeis University, declined Friday night to comment on the book.
The 289-page book, for which Thomas has been paid more than $1 million by publisher HarperCollins, is an account of his up-from-poverty story from his first home in tiny Pinpoint, Ga., through his swearing-in as a justice at the age of 43.
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STATE OF THE EMPIRE ADDRESS Given By QUEEN MOTHER I OF THE AMERICAS EMPRESS NICOLE THE GREAT Saturday, January 14, 2017 Houston Texas It is my honor, for the second time in my ten year reign, to present my annual "State of the Empire Address" in the great and rightfully proud state of Texas, and the beautiful city of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. During her term as Governor, Ann Richards proclaimed me an "Honorary Citizen of Texas", an honor I will always cherish close to my heart. And so, as an honorary citizen of this great state, let's make history and send the Houston Texans to the Super Bowl! We, of the Imperial Court System, are proud that we are one of the oldest GLBT organizations in the world, and even more proud to be an international organization serving the citizens of three...
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OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM QUEEN MOTHER I of THE AMERICAS EMPRESS NICOLE THE GREAT November 21, 2016 When We Rise (UPDATE: ABC will air its new LGBT civil rights historical miniseries old-school-style, scheduling episodes for two hours a night for four nights, 9-11 p.m. Feb. 27 through March 2. ) On behalf of Queen Mother I of the Americas, Nicole the Great. it is with great excitement that I am able to share with you this evening, the trailer for "When We Rise" the Mini Series on ABC. written by Academy Award Winner. Lance Black. This evening, Academy Award winner Lance Black told Queen Mother, Nicole the Great that he was so glad to have announced this project for the very first time in public, in October 2015 at the 50th Golden Jubilee State Dinner in Portland, Oregon. Lance also told the Queen Mother that he was so proud to have kept his word to the International Court System to make our Founder,...
Bentley's auctioneers will conduct an online estate auction of Jose Sarria, Empress I, The Widow Norton, from August 1 to August 11, 2014. The auction proceeds of nearly 2,000 valuable artifacts, including rare jewels, all belonging to the founder of the Imperial Court System (ICS) will go to fund a documentary about the activist's life. To view the Lots, go to Bentley's at:
Sarria passed away in Los Ranchos, New Mexico August 19, 2013, at the age of 90.
"Jose was a collector of fine jewels, coins, antiques and oil paintings," said Sarria's executor Tony Ross. "This is a great opportunity to own a bit of LGBT history and for the gay community to support a documentary long overdue on one of our unsung heroes."
Award winning Los Angeles filmmakers Dante Alencastre and Daniel Carrera are in pre-production on Sarria's documentary "Nelly Queen," slated to be released in 2015. Sarria was the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in the United States in 1961, more than a decade before Harvey Milk.
When San Francisco city officials vowed to shut down all the gay bars in 1961, the 38 year-old cabaret singer ran for a seat on the Board of Supervisors. Although Sarria lost the election, he garnered nearly 6,000 votes, proving for the first time in American politics that there was a gay voting bloc.
Speaker John A. Pérezof the California Assembly noted that "Jose Sarria's trailblazing run for public office as an openly gay man laid the groundwork for LGBT Californians to run for public office proudly and openly. But Jose's refusal to be silenced or shamed back into the closet--in an era where LGBT People were routinely discriminated against--was the greatest contribution to our movement."
In 1965, Sarria founded the ICS in San Francisco when a group of gay bar owners formed a Tavern Guild as a means to stand in solidarity with one another under the pressure of police harassment. The Guild put on the first large public drag ball in San Francisco's history. The following year, Sarria declared himself Absolute Empress I Jose of the newly formed nonprofit.
ICS was intended mainly for "camp" fun as its members derived royal titles and elected Empresses and Emperors at annual Coronations. However, under Jose's guidance the organization grew to 70 chapters, making it the second largest LGBT nonprofit corporation in the U.S., and since its inception has raised millions of dollars for AIDs organizations and other charities.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 —The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force celebrates the confirmation by the United States Postal Service that it will introduce a stamp commemorating LGBT rights pioneer and one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., Harvey Milk. He will become the first openly LGBT elected official to be featured on U.S. postage.


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Washington County woman pleads guilty in West Virginia bank robbery
A Washington County woman who, along with her boyfriend, was accused of being a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde," pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to participating in a bank robbery in West Virginia.
Jessica Crawford, 32, of Marianna, pleaded guilty for her involvement in the Dec. 3, 2010, robbery of the United Bank in Weirton, prosecutors said.
Crawford and her former boyfriend, Rudolph Todd Haladyna of Clarksville, Greene County, also were responsible for robbing five other banks in Fayette and Washington counties and in West Virginia, prosecutors said.
Crawford, who is accused of being the getaway driver in most of the holdups, is awaiting sentencing. Haladyna is serving a 20-year prison sentence imposed as part of a plea arrangement.


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> I have a question about VPN connection.
> How can I use this service with vpn client.
> What vpn client I must to use ?
Depends on the client OS and type of VPN.
For Windows and PPTP VPN - Windows built in PPTP client.
For Windows and IPSEC VPN - SafeNet IPSEC client or many of the
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Just for reference I'll post up some of the information I found when researching whether Dexron VI was now appropriate for the GM 5L40E tranny. As some may have already discovered, Cadillac uses the 5L40E transmission in some of the 1999-? CTS models and GM says Dexron VI is now appropriate for them as it is backwards compatible with the Dexron III original fill.
What many folks dont know is that just because GM chose the same name for the BMW/CTS transmissions (5L40E) doesnt mean that they are the
same transmission. Refer to the attachments for the specific examples.
What I was never able to conclude with taking the specific differences into account is whether the Dex VI would then indeed be recomended by GM for the BMW 5L40E. More than likely it would be just fine (As BMW has superceded the original ETL-8072 part # with a Dexron VI part #) but would it be
to the original fill? That is the question.
*Note: I ended up going with the Castrol Import Multivehichle ATF for my fill and drain refill cycles as it meets the ETL-8072b spec.
Obviously we can obsess about this to no end but as Starless has shown -- For peice of mind you can not go wrong with what was put in there originally.
The next question will be what do for peice of mind when we can no longer get the original fill anywhere?
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...Mr. Simms will also focus on supporting Comview's channel partners and engaging with clients to ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in all aspects of Comview's products and services.
Huntington Station, NY (PRWEB) March 31, 2014
Comview Corporation, a premier provider of telecom expense management (TEM), wireless mobility management (WMM) and call accounting software and services, announced today that Kevin Simms has officially joined the organization as Director of Marketing.
In his new role, Kevin will apply his two decades of strategic and tactical marketing experience -- including more than twelve years in the cloud-based, B2B telecommunications software industry -- to further accelerate Comview's growth in the fixed and wireless telecom management space. Beyond building pipeline and awareness, Mr. Simms will also focus on supporting Comview's channel partners and engaging with clients to ensure that the voice of the customer is reflected in all aspects of Comview's products and services.
Prior to joining Comview, Kevin held senior marketing positions concentrating on digital marketing, content development, corporate communications and PR at Enghouse Interactive and CosmoCom (both in the VoIP communications space), as well as Adecco and Olsten Corporation. He has also provided consulting services to companies in a variety of industries, including Comview.
"The people and products at Comview are top-notch. I particularly like their client-centric focus and customer for life philosophy," shared Simms, "I'm looking forward to playing a bigger role on this great team as we take the company to the next level."
"We are happy that Kevin has agreed to come on-board," shared Comview CEO, John Perri, "His professionalism, broad experience and unique blend of technical knowledge, strategic thinking and creative execution, have already been making a positive impact on the quality of our communications, product and pipeline. That was just on a contract basis, so we're excited about the possibilities now that he has taken on a full-time leadership role."
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Comview provides fully integrated Telecom Expense Management (TEM), Wireless Mobility Management (WMM) and Call Accounting solutions backed by industry-leading customer service. The company's cloud-based, unified software suite allows companies to easily manage all telecom usage and assets from a single intuitive interface, including: Invoice Management, Wireless Management (with BYOD and MDM integration), Audit & Optimization, Call Accounting, IT Asset Management, Procurement and more. A managed service/BPO approach and "customer for life" philosophy provides customers with the highest level of service and support and sustainable ROI. Comview's services are used by major organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad. For additional information, visit Comview at http://www.comviewcorp.com.


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MORELL – The Kensington Crusaders will play for the Atlantic midget AA baseball championship here at Church Field on Sunday.
The Crusaders will meet the Newfoundland and Labrador representative from St. John's in a winner-take-all final at 2 p.m. The two teams will close out the round-robin schedule with a meaningless game at 11:30 a.m.
The Crusaders and St. John's both took 3-0 (won-lost) records into Sunday's action.
Saturday, Kensington blanked Windsor, N.S., 4-0 and also defeated River Valley, N.B. (score unavailable). The Crusaders opened play with a 3-2 win over the host Northside Lions on Friday afternoon.


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Slow Down Uphill When Racing
Rethink Your Hill Strategy
There are plenty of benefits to running uphill, but when you're racing don't take that incline too fast. A new study from Down Under found that pushing the pace while running uphill can hurt you over the long haul. It tires you out and ultimately slows you down. Australian researchers also found that running hard up the incline prevented folks from going hard on the downhill side — a great place to pick up speed, and possibly gain time, since gravity is pulling along.
To prevent overtiring yourself, focus on maintaining your effort rather than maintaining your pace. Shorten your stride to downshift, just like a cyclist would, when you hit the hill. Taking the hills with a little less gusto than you did on your training runs will help with energy management, which is especially important when competing in longer distances — regular, prerace hill training is the time to push yourself. Hopefully running hard up inclines prior to race day will make the hills less daunting after crossing the start line.


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Hardy souls and nightclub goers will be able to watch some of the London Olympic Games' big-ticket events live on a big-screen in Northbridge - provided they are able to stay awake and withstand the cold.
The City Of Perth will screen Channel Nine's Olympic coverage on the Northbridge Piazza big screen between 6.30pm and 9am, from July 27 to August 12 - with an afternoon highlights wrap between 4pm and 6pm.
While full scheduling details are still being negotiated between Nine and co-coverage provider Foxtel, it seems likely the free-to-air coverage will include glamour events such as a men's 100-metre sprint final almost certain to feature Usain Bolt, Aussie Sally Pearson's expected tilt at the 100-metre hurdles gold and the men's and women's 100-metre freestyle swimming finals.
But the coverage is unlikely to be for the faint-hearted - Bolt's and Pearson's big moments are likely to come at close to 2am Perth time, with the swimming finals scheduled for about 2.30am.
And given the first three days of July have delivered average minimum temperatures of 4.1 degrees to Perth, the rugged-up and the merry-after-a-night-out would seem best placed to enjoy the action on the big screen.
A City of Perth spokesman said the council had no plans to install heating devices or additional amenities at Northbridge Piazza but would consider additional security as the Olympics start date ticked closer.
The Burswood Entertainment Complex's Carbon sports bar, which is open 24 hours, will have full coverage of all the Olympic action, both from Nine and Foxtel.
The big-ticket events (with potential athletes to watch):
July 29 - Men's 400-metre freestyle final (2.30am)
July 31 - Women's 200-metre medley final (3.40am) - Stephanie Rice.
August 1 - Men's 200-metre freestyle final (2.30am)
August 1 - Men's individual time trial cycling (9.15) - Cadel Evans.
August 2 - Men's 100-metre freestyle final 2.30am)
August 4 - Men's 50-metre freestyle final (2.30am) - WA's Eamon Sullivan.
August 5 - Women's 100-metre sprint (1.50am)
August 6 - Men's 100-metre sprint (1.50am) - Usain Bolt.
August 8 - Women's 100-metre hurdle (1.50am) - Sally Pearson.
August 10 - Women's javelin final (1.30am) - WA's Kim Mickle
August 11 - Women's hockey final (3am)
August 12 - Men's hockey final (3am)
August 12 - Women's basketball final (4am)
August 13 - Men's basketball final (4am)
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Life is more than what we see on the surface. Nature study is pleasant, but looking beyond surface-level observations can help us know what life (both biological and human) is all about.
This book is based on the author's blog and contains more than 60 photographs taken at the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, NJ.
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Carl Crawford is trying to work his way back to the major leagues.
Injuries are making it tough, as are fans in the Northeast.
Crawford, in the midst of a rehab assignment with Class AA Portland (Maine), said he heard one negative comment at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester, N.H.
"(One fan) actually called me a racial slur to begin the game with," he said. "He was the only one I had a problem with. People in Boston don't even do that. I don't know what that was about. It's not that bad in Boston like that. But I can understand why people can be upset about me signing a contract and me having the kind of year I had. I understand. They love their team. They want you to produce when you sign a contract like that. I can't be mad at them. All I can do is get ready to play this year and try to produce."
The outfielder signed a seven-year, $142 million contract with the Red Sox and hit .255 last year with 56 RBI and 65 runs scored in 130 games.
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What I Like About It: This Pantone rainbow was a promotion designed by Bates 141 for a Basheer Graphic Books campaign on a college campus. The goal was to convince college students and faculty that "Pantone has the most color selection for their printing guidance". So they created a 8 x 4.5 meter rainbow made of more than 5,000 Pantone color chips and placed it in the middle of the campus. This is a truly clever advertising campaign that was both well thought out and well executed. Campaigns like this attract attention and help spread the word about companies or products much quicker than conventional methods.


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The preliminary card for UFC 154 was dominated by fights going the distance.
Four of the seven prelim fights went the distance and only one of them was competitive. That fight was Antonio Carvalho's split decision win over Rodrigo Damm. To be fair and truthful, the fight was a split decision and so close because neither fighter did much of anything to distance themselves from the other and create no doubt in the judge's mind. Not to mention that the fight itself didn't feature much action on the ground or standing. So it wasn't so much a great competitive fight that was close to the end as much as it was a fight with nothing noteworthy transpiring for fifteen minutes.
The other prelim fights that went to decision were one-sided affairs. Darren Elkins opened the card with a three rounds to none unanimous decision win over Steven Siler. Later, Matt Riddle gained a unanimous decision over John Maguire as did John Makdessi over Sam Stout, both of which were almost identical on the scorecards to Elkins' win.
Patrick Cote earned a victory over Alessio Sakara in the final prelim of the night, but got it when Sakara was disqualified for repeated blows to the back of Cote's head. This occurred when Sakara was attempting to finish Cote.
This was a wild minute and a half brawl between the two. Cote immediately got the upper hand with a few standing combinations that did damage. Sakara's attempt to get away lead him to be against the cage eating a few uppercuts from Cote before turning the tide. Sakara did this with some very nice elbows he landed on Cote after he was able to pin Cote against the cage.
But this is where things got a little hairy. The elbows did their job and Cote ended up being floored by a combination of a left hook and an elbow from Sakara. However, Cote was still clinging to one of Sakara's legs when he got to the canvas, trying to either slow Sakara down or gain some leverage and try to get back to his feet. Sakara proceeded to rain down hammerfists right to the back of Cote's head over and over again before the fight was stopped 1:26 into the opening round.
Sakara and everyone else initially thought the fight was over and Sakara had a TKO victory, but referee Dan Miragliotta ruled Cote the winner because of the repeated blows, illegal by the unified rules of MMA that UFC uses. Hopefully there will be a rematch to settle the issue as a finish like this doesn't help either fighter.
Cyrille Diabate welcomed Chad Griggs to the light heavyweight division by choking him out less than three minutes into their bout.
Griggs came in charging, looking to land a big kick early, but instead walked right into a straight left from Diabate that put him on the canvas. Diabate kept the fight there and was eventually able to lock in a rear naked choke tight to gain the submission.
Of the two submission wins on the preliminary card, Ivan Menjivar's submission of Azamat Gashimov was by far the more impressive looking one.
Around the half way point in the opening round of the bout, Menjivar was able to roll his legs over and trap Gashimov's right arm in position for an armbar. Gashimov made the mistake of attempting to lift Menjivar up, and that was all Menjivar needed to turn his body and lock in the armbar. Once Menjivar's body was back on the canvas, Gashimov had no choice and submitted.Tags: Alessio Sakara, Cyrille Diabate, Ivan Menjivar, MMA, Patrick Cote, UFC 154


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