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espnW Fantasy with Melissa Jacobs
Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, espnW fantasy football guru Melissa Jacobs stops by to chat about the NFL season.
Jacobs has been playing fantasy football since age 14, and for the past seven seasons has been the commissioner of a league that includes heavy hitters like ESPN's Howie Schwab. She is also the founder and Managing Editor of the award-winning site, TheFootballGirl.com. Previously, she was a producer for ESPN's studio shows including SportsCenter and Jim Rome is Burning.
Send your questions now and join Jacobs Friday at 3 p.m. ET!
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Melissa Jacobs (3:01 PM)
Hi everyone! Welcome to my very first (and hopefully not last) fantasy chat. I'm here to guide your lineup decisions, trade dilemmas, and help out any newbies with general fantasy how-to.Look forward to getting to know you and your fantasy rosters over the next couple months. Let's get started!
Dom (Cincy)
What do I do about Arian Foster? Is he starting or not, and how limited do you think he'll be if he does start?
Melissa Jacobs (3:03 PM)
Hi Dom and thanks for joining. Foster's status seems to be a hot topic of debate. I'm going to trust our injury expert Stephania Bell when she said earlier that Foster had done more and more over practices this week. She predicts a start. And yes, if he starts, you should start him too.
Katherine (Tulsa)
Start Bears or Steelers D/ST? Bears may be w/o Urlacher, but Steelers have something to prove
Melissa Jacobs (3:05 PM)
That's a toughie. The Bears loked fierce last week and obviously will be playing with a little extra gusto for Urlacher. But the Steelers host the Seahawks and the turnover possibilities are endless.
Tom Coughlin (NYC)
Melissa, if you aren't 5 minutes early to the chat, you're late! Now drop and give me 20...
Melissa Jacobs (3:05 PM)
OK, just did. Already tired. Thanks TC. Next....
Robby White (Oklahoma City)
Should I start Julio Jones or Shonn Greene as my flex, Green looked terrible & Jones looked good, your thoughts?
Melissa Jacobs (3:08 PM)
Wow, I thought Roddy White was chiming in for a sec. Had to do a double take. Greene looked awful last week but you should still opt for him based on opportunities alone. And wouldn't feel good about any #2 WR against the dreamy Eagles
Brian (Indy)
Romo or Big Ben?and in another league Rivers or Big Ben?
Melissa Jacobs (3:11 PM)
Hi Brian,Big Ben has a favorable matchup vs Seattle and will be playing to avenge last week. I like him over Rivers.But I like Romo over Roethlisberger because the Niners secondary is awful and susceptible to he big play. Seattle's is as well. but I think the DAl/SF will be a tad closer, increases Romo's pass numbers.
Jennifer (Tampa)
What should I do about Chad Ochocinco?
Melissa Jacobs (3:12 PM)
Hi Jennifer,Drop him. Drop him. Drop him. I think there's a good chance he's released by Week 5. No sources on that. Just a hunch.
Chris Fiegler (Latham,NY)
What is your Favorite NFL Team?
Melissa Jacobs (3:13 PM)
Like Stephania,the 49ers. Our glory days are way too far behind us. Yes, I said us.
Rachel (Hattiesburg)
Hi Melissa! What is this talk about East Coast Mike Williams being shut down against Minn this week? What is your take on this?
Melissa Jacobs (3:15 PM)
Hi Rachel,Williams didn't look great last week but still got a score. I believe that's four game sin a row with a TD for him. Vikings give up big plays to WRs. I'd happily start him.
Big Buddy (DeKalb, IL)
Hi Melissa, QB question: should I start Jay Cutler or Sam Bradford? Cutler had better #s last week, but I'm a little nervous about him doing it in a hostile environment with his crappy O-Line. Plus, he has a face I just want to punch.
Melissa Jacobs (3:17 PM)
Wow. With an injury depleted Rams team, you really should start Cutler. The Saints have given us no reason to believe they can shut Cutler and the Martz system down. Just try not to punch your tv during any Cutler close-ups.
Megan (New York)
hi melissa - do i drop peyton to free up space or think its worth holding on for the mid-end of the season?
Melissa Jacobs (3:20 PM)
Hi Megan,Thanks for the question. I was in the same situation and just dropped #18 fro Rex Grossman (never thought I'd say that!). His injury could very well be season ending, let alone career ending.
nikki (nj)
Randall Cobb or Dwayne Bowe?
Melissa Jacobs (3:22 PM)
Hard not to go with Bowe here. He'll get 5 times the amount of targets, and he did lead WRs in TDs last year. That should count for something.
Laura (Gainesville, FL)
Witten or Gronkowski? Rivers or Fitzpatrick? Thanks!
Melissa Jacobs (3:24 PM)
Hi Laura,I'd go with Witten. He had a ton of targets last week (9, I believe) and will likely see the same against San Francisco.
Christina Jones (Twitter)
Start Sanchez v JAC or Rivers v NE at QB
Melissa Jacobs (3:26 PM)
Hi Christina,I like Rivers this week. If Chad Henne can put 416 yards against the Pats, so can Rivers. San Diego will likely be playing from behind as well.
Meredith (Columbus, Ohio)
Go 49ers! I have the option of E. Manning or C. Newton at QB- some ratings are telling me Newton, but he's facing the Packers and I think week 1 might have been a flash in the pan (yes, that is a Niners/Gold Rush reference). The younger Manning isn't a great choice, but will he generate me more points than Newton this weekend? Thanks!
Melissa Jacobs (3:28 PM)
Hi Meredith,Can you pick someone up in free agency? Rex Grossman? Assuming no, I'd go with Manning by default. Newton is so much fun to watch but this week should be blitz city and he'll be prone to mistakes all game long.
Mike (Ohio)
Not a fantasy question but an espnW question: When are you guys gonna get Amanda Rykoff a chat? She'd kill
Melissa Jacobs (3:29 PM)
Yes, Amanda rocks. Are you her boyfriend? Dad?
Amanda (New York, NY)
Hi Melissa - I am a LeGarrette Blount owner. Should I be worried that he only had 5 carries in the opening game? Do you foresee a bounceback week for him? What about longer term? Thanks!
Melissa Jacobs (3:31 PM)
Hi Amanda,Thanks for writing. I do see a big bounce back for Blount (a mouthful there!). After the game, Morris vowed to get Blount a significant number of carries and recognized that's he's a playmaker. I'd start him one more week.
Sarah (Washington, New Jersey)
Start Vick or Kolb this week? Will Vick pull out all the stops? I know they are saying vick isn't going in with vengeance but what about the Falcons? That defense has to be holding something emotional on the line for this one...
Melissa Jacobs (3:32 PM)
Hi Sarah,Vick all the way. All defenses are emotional when they play Vick. It doesn't generally get them too far.
Elijah (West Virginia)
Start Joe Flacco or Michael Vick? I cant make up my mind.
Melissa Jacobs (3:33 PM)
Hi Elijah,Same advice to you to start Vick. Flacco should start over almost anyone else, but Vick is too much of a weapon. There's a reason you presumably took him with your first pick?
Danielle (NJ)
I have Ochocinco too.. If I do drop him.. who would be a god receiver to pick up? One preferably I wouldn't have to make a trade for. (Somebody not too known)
Melissa Jacobs (3:35 PM)
Hi Danielle,I'd look at a guy like Jacoby Jones in Houston, who will be starting this week. Domenick Hixon would be a good bet if Nicks can't start. and at this point, I'd take it a week by week basis (based on injury openings)
susanne Whiting (san diego)
I have two choose between Shon Greene, Mike Tolbert and Frank Gore...help please
Melissa Jacobs (3:38 PM)
Hi Susanne,I like Tolbert because he's dangerous at the goal line and in the air. And Gore, just because he's such an integral part of the Niners offense at this point.
kyle (michigan)
Who do you think will have a better week, michael vick vs. Falcons or mark sanchez vs. Jaguars?
Melissa Jacobs (3:39 PM)
bob (NY)
Hi, do I take the risk of starting Hakeem Nicks? or sit him?
Melissa Jacobs (3:40 PM)
Depends on your other receivers but probably not. Unless your backup receivers are very low end probably not worth the risk. And Nicks does seem very 50/50 at the moment.
Mike Cannoli (NJ)
Jimmy Graham or Fred Davis at TE?
Melissa Jacobs (3:43 PM)
Hi Mike,I say Davis. It's really a matter of matchups (Davis vs. Ari, Graham vs. Chi) and the fact that Davis appears to be the top weapon for Grossman at the moment. Subject to change, of course.
megan (new york)
do i drop my falcons defense given vick will tear it up and pick up the texans based on them playing miami this week?
Melissa Jacobs (3:45 PM)
Yeah, i wouldn't feel comfortable trotting out the Falcons D. I'd look at Denver and Detroit as options as well. Love defenses playing subpar quarterbacks at home.
Kyle Orton (Denver)
Why does everybody hate me? Is it the beard?
Melissa Jacobs (3:46 PM)
I don't hate you Kyle.
Talal AlGharaballi (Twitter)
Steve Smith, Nate Burleson, or Robert Meachem?!
Melissa Jacobs (3:47 PM)
Hi Talal,Steve Smith. While the other two are viable and the Panthers face a mountain in GB, Newton will likely be airing it out to Smith multiple times. He catches one or two of those bombs, it's a successful fantasy day.
Mark (San Diego)
Malcolm Floyd or Jacoby Jones? PPR and return yards
Melissa Jacobs (3:49 PM)
Hi Mark,I like Jones, particularly for the KR yards and the fact he's starting.. I don't expect Floyd to lead the Chargers in targets again this week.
Ronan (chicago)
who should I start- Antonio Brown, Braylon Edwards, or Nate burleson? I have Vincent Jackson who's an obvious start and my other WR is colston who is injured..
Melissa Jacobs (3:53 PM)
Antonio Brown doesn't seem like he's going ot be a big part of the Steelers offense. Braylon likely wont do much until Jim Harbaugh takes the straightjacket off of Alex Smith. So Burleson, who should get a lot of decent looks again this week vs KC.
What is your feeling on carrying two defenses on your roster? If you had some combination of Jets, Packers, and Eagles would you say it's OK to carry two?
Melissa Jacobs (3:54 PM)
Hi J.B.,I'm all for it as long as you have a solid (and uninjured) starting lineup and a few good backups. Often times in drafts he just throw darts up in the bottom five rounds and wind up dropping most of those guys anyhow.
Melissa Jacobs (3:55 PM)
Also, if you don't get one (or two) of those elite defenses, I like to add and drop weekly based on matchup. It's been a winning strategy for me for years.
Melissa Jacobs (3:56 PM)
Well, time to go make sure my lineups are in order. Very much appreciate you guys and girls joining me. Hope the advice helps you pull out a big W this week. And hope you'll join me here again next week. In the meantime, check out my fantasy coverage on espnW!
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is riding a wave of discontent that may well carry him into the White House.
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A MAN from Altrincham is putting in hours of training as he hopes to help raise over £10,000 for charity this month.
Mike Davies is part of a 17-man team taking part in the Three Peaks Challenge.
The team, called Volkswagen Trampers, is made up of staff from Inchcape Volkswagen car and van retailers across the UK, including the Altrincham retailer, and is raising money for the automotive charity BEN.
The charity provides practical, emotional and financial support for current and past employees of the automotive industry.
Mike has been training with team captain and Inchcape Volkswagen franchise director, Tony Gorrighan, as they aim to be the first of nine Inchcape teams to climb the three mountains of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon.
Mike, after sales manager Inchcape Volkswagen, said: "The training has been tough but we're determined that Volkswagen Trampers will be the first Inchcape team to finish the challenge."
The team, made up of 13 climbers and four drivers, is hoping to complete the task in under 24 hours, starting at Ben Nevis on June 22.
Mike added: "The challenge will see the team walk more than 40km, climb more 3,400 metres and travel over 550 miles between the mountains.
"I'm sure they will be few sore legs and backs afterwards, but if we hit our target fundraising total it'll be all worth it."
To donate call in to the Inchcape Volkswagen retailer on Manchester Road, Altrincham. Alternatively go online to http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/InchcapeCEOChallenge and mention Volkswagen Trampers.


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GBR 830: An antagonistic anti-human OX40 mAb with potent suppressive effect on pathological immune responses
OX40 is a costimulatory TNFR-superfamily receptor expressed almost exclusively on activated T lymphocytes and not on naïve or resting memory cells. OX40 signaling can enhance proliferation, survival and effector functions of T cells with a more pronounced effect on late, chronic and memory responses. Many studies have indicated that OX40 may play a central role in various T-cell mediated pathological immune responses, thus implying a therapeutic potential for antagonistic antibodies targeting OX40. However to date no antagonistic antibodies targeting OX40 have been published.View / Download
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We have generated a novel bispecific BEAT® antibody (GBR1302) which can simultaneously bind HER2 (+) tumor cells and CD3ε on cytotoxic T cells. GBR 1302 potently re-direct T cells to HER2 positive cancer cells showing strong tumor cell lysis activity. The differential killing efficacy of HER2 (3+) and HER2 (0+) cells reveals an excellent safety-efficacy margin. This essential feature supports the assumption that in patients with HER2 (3+) cancers, a dose of GBR 1302 that will kill tumor cells but not normal cells can likely be achieved. Furthermore, GBR 1302 shows the following attributes that warrant their clinical investigation; BEAT® GBR 1302 bispecific antibody can be produced using standard antibody technology with industrial relevant expression yield. GBR1302 bispecific antibodies have unique advantages which also include a built-in purification system for manufacturing.View / Download
Upstream process development for GBR 1302, a bispecific antibody based on Glenmark's Proprietary Beat® format
The BEAT platform was designed for the robust, rapid and cost-effective development of bispecific antibodies. The format maintains all the benefits brought by an antibody scaffold whilst bringing a "plug and play" approach to the generation of therapeutic products.
GBR 1302 is the first BEAT developed by Glenmark for the treatment of HER2+ cancers
Following a fast-track upstream process development a 5L stirred-tank bioreactor process could be established for GBR 1302 stable cell lines. This process was successfully scaled up to 50L and 250L scale without loss of performance. The level of bispecific product formation was not affected by the scale of production. The quality attributes of GBR 1302 were found very similar compared to a standard IgG produced using the same host cell (typical CHO glycosylation pattern, pI, level of aggregation < 2%)
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Western Union and Fidelity National Information Services have announced an agreement to offer Western Union global money transfer services to FIS' more than 8,500 banking institution clients throughout the United States. The signing of FIS is an important step in Western Union's North America "go-to-market" strategy to continue its expansion into the banking channel. As Western Union expands its service offerings, in an effort to strongly position money transfers to consumers, it looks to tap into consumer banking channels including: Cash-to-Cash, Account-to-Cash, and Account-to-Account.
"FIS is excited to offer Western Union's global money transfer service to our banking institution clients, adding strategic value to a bank's portfolio of services and convenience to consumers," said Anthony Ficarra, executive vice president, FIS eBusiness. "We see Western Union as a strong and strategic fit in providing our clients and their customers with the convenience of a well-established and strong Western Union Agent network to easily transfer money to family and friends."
"FIS is the number one provider of financial services technology to financial institutions," said Stewart A. Stockdale, executive vice president and president, The Americas for Western Union. "Our agreement with FIS is part of Western Union's new focus on identifying and driving the development of best-in-class services to expand the company's business to new consumer segments in the United States, especially through the banking channel. By entering into this agreement with FIS, both of our companies can help meet the prevailing need for banked consumers to have more efficient options to send money around the corner and the world. We look forward to providing the convenience of money transfers to FIS banking institutions and their customers."
Recently, FIS teamed with online financial application and payments provider Yodlee, Inc. and Western Union Payment Services to expand the value and capabilities of online bill pay for FIS customers and other leading financial institutions worldwide.


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Affiliated to CBSE Board, the school strives for educational innovation and academic excellence through its lively & caring community of teachers and students guided by an experienced group of educationists. City International School is implementing student assessment called the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) which refers to a system of school based assessment that covers all aspects of a student's development.
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My setup is using the modem in bridge mode and m0n0wall for pppoe auth.
The status.php, somehow (I don't know why), always report mtu of 1492.
What you need is to enter the proper mtu at the WAN page, if the default
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You could test/confirm your mtu by using the default mtu first and
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If you're interesting in knowing more about MTU, have a look on this
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> Does anyone have ppoe with and external dsl modem in bridge mode
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"I can't think of anyone who would make a better role model."
"I can't think of anyone who would make a better role model."
With terms like "trainers" and "gyms" being tossed around in the game, it's really not surprising.
This could not have been worse.
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" Address: Low Row, Sunderland, SR1 3PT / Tel: 0871 984 6050 "
Travelodge Sunderland Central
I am writing this review on the Central Travelodge Sunderland not the new one located at Sunderland High Street West.
I have used this hotel many times over the years, mainly because of it's location to Sunderland Empire. It is only 2 minutes walk to the theatre and I see quite a few shows there, so sometimes choose to stop at this hotel.
This hotel is one of your standard old style Travelodge hotels, there are double rooms that can sleep up to two adults and have a single double bed and then family rooms which have a double bed and a sofa bed. These rooms can cater for 3 adult's and 1 child or 2 adults and 2 children. The reason that these rooms are not suitable for a fourth adult is that the mattress that pulls out from under the sofa bed is too small for an adult to sleep upon. As far as I am aware this hotel has the original bath with shower set up in all rooms. I am yet to have a shower room at this hotel if there are any.
This hotel has no cafe/bar of it's own, however there is a Weatherspoons under the hotel which is perfectly adequate for a breakfast or meal for many. If not the hotel is only 2 minutes walk to the centre of town so there is plenty of choice.
This hotel does have 10 parking spaces, however I will warn anyone using this hotel to park with great caution!! Although I have heard that it is now illegal to clamp in private car parks a few years ago when stopping at this hotel with my mum we were clamped and upon checking as of today their website still says that they do clamp. Anyway the warning! The 10 spaces are only for guests of the hotel, we were travelling over 2 hours in the car so we actually arrived at the hotel 20 mins before our 3pm check in. This was before the early check in option was available and they were very strict about the check in time. As we were guests of the hotel we parked our car in the car park and went into weather spoons under the hotel for a quick drink until we checked in. When we came back out our car had been clamped because until you check in you are not a guest of the hotel! At check in we were provided with a slip of paper to place in the car to show we were a guest. In my opinion this was an awful system and very unfair to clamp guests simply awaiting checking in.
The rooms at this hotel really are hit and miss, I have had some that are alright but I have had others that I can only describe as disgusting!
The rooms are your basic Travelodge rooms, they have bedding, towels, toilet roll, a bar of soap, kettle, teabags, coffee, milk, sugar and mugs.
Upon check in on this particular occasion my mum discovered that the mugs were filthy, I would say that they had not been cleaned out from the last guest they were that dirty. I ended up using the soap in the bathroom to wash them out so we could have a cup of tea.
The vanity area of the room had also not been wiped down from the previous occupants, they had clearly spilt some alcohol or fizzy drink, the vanity was stained, ringed and sticky but worst of all, the previous occupants had left us a nice bit of their hair stuck into this sticky mess that had not been cleaned up.
The light fittings were also covered in a layer of dust so thick that mum wrote a letter in it and these were also topped and finished off with a bit more hair for decoration!
There was also a filthy layer of dust on the toilet roll holder in the bathroom. The towels and bedding however were clean enough.
As is usual with Travelodge hotels the sofa bed is not made up for you so you are required to do this yourself.
This hotel is about half a mile from the main train station in Sunderland and around 2 minutes walk to the main shopping centre and shops.
A word of warning there are pubs/clubs under the hotel and along the same street as the hotel so you can get noise coming from these at times, however I will admit to finding them often perfectly quiet. In fact the most noise I have experienced from the pubs was the staff binning the bottles in the early hours but friends have said from other rooms that their had heard the music. The back of the hotel over looks a busy road so this also can be noisy.
This hotel is alright for a single night stop, it can be hit and miss the quality of the rooms, it is worn and tired and I have had to change rooms sometimes because they were just to dirty for my liking. We have never again taken the car after the clamping incident and I really would warn customers to park with caution and check with the staff on check in about their current policy.
Because of it's location I would give this hotel 3 stars, however because of the amount of problems and the run down state of the hotel I am taking one star away and feel that this hotel has the value of 2 stars. Whilst I have no issues with a room being basic, I do not feel there is any excuse dirty rooms.
Welcome was fine, clean lobby and given/told everything needed by the receptionist. Access to rooms is controlled by keycard which is good as normally Travelodge hotels have this facility but don't actually use it. A lift and stairs are available. The ends of the corridors were dark, and unlit.
At first glance the room appeared pleasant, well lit, roomy and clean. However it wasn't really clean at all, besides the bed, which was. The sofa was heavily stained and uncomfortable and just looked horrible (see photo). The sofa had a wheel missing and the carpet was heavily torn and instead of being replaced, was just covered up by the sofa. The carpet was very dirty and visibly stained in various obvious places, highlighting that no vacuuming had been performed. What's more, there were various stains all over the walls and plenty of cobwebs. It is such a shame to be able to say I could look at virtually any patch of wall, and it would be stained/damaged in one form or another. The window was filthy, and the track of where a net curtain used to be was still there.
Without a doubt, the worst area of the entire room was the tea & coffee facilities. This may seem like a small area, but they need to be clean. There was two cups, which looked like the cheapest money could buy, 1 spoon (in a family room) which again looked like the cheapest money could buy. One of the cups was fine, but the other one had hairs in it, as well as fluff, something yellow and sticky around the side, and two large and very noticeable (and dangerous) chips out of the rim. To summarise, not the least bit of effort had been put in to cleaning or checking them. I boiled both cups and cleaned them properly since it appears to have been a while since this was done.
I am pleased to say the bed was comfortable with great pillows, and the bathroom appeared clean. Though given the experience with the cups, I didn't give using the bath a thought, and the shower curtain was torn and mouldy.
There is also the late checkout policy. I paid £10 for the privilege of a lie-in, which I didn't get. I confirmed with reception at check in that the late check out was noted in an attempt to prevent the exact eventuality that happened, and she confirmed this. From around 9am my door was randomly lightly knocked on (the do not disturb sign was present), later followed by vigorous banging and shaking of the door. This was at 12:30pm, and needless to say it woke me up. I am sure it would have been scary for a lone female guest. I got up and heard two staff very loudly discussing and realising outside my door that they had been trying to get into my room instead of the one opposite. They found it hilarious. I thought they had realised their mistake and that I was on late checkout. Yet right after this, a woman receptionist banged on my door, to which I answered. She asked me when I was checking out in a 'get out now' way. I told her about the late check out which she clearly had no clue of whatsoever and she walked off. She then knocked on a guest room next door who was very apologetic at running late and she very rudely interrogated the guest for their mistake. But did they apologise to me for their mistake? No.
Ironically, you would expect the biggest problem with a hotel above 2 nightclubs, would be the nightclubs. However, this did not present one single sleep problem during the stay!
Travelodge hotels can be good and value for money, but this one is an absolute dive.


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Rani [rani] as a girls' name is of Hebrew and Sanskrit origin, and the meaning of Rani is "she is singing; queen".
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Sahara or Sahel? The fuzzy geography of terrorism in West Africa
Since the mid-2000s, terrorism has pushed the peripheries of West Africa into the news and the public eye. While the political implications of this phenomenon have been extensively documented, most commentators have adopted a zonal approach to terrorism in which the Sahel and the Sahara are usually confused. This paper assumes that this confusion dramatically highlights the failure of academic and common geography to think beyond territories in West Africa, and to move away from a ?sedentary? vision of West African societies. The paper contributes to an understanding of the geographical locations of terrorism in West Africa by showing, firstly, what the main reasons behind the current confusion between the Sahel and Sahara are. Secondly, we show that this confusion arose from a territorial vision of space, which has important implications not only for local economic activities, but also for our own understanding of the spatiality of networks in West Africa.
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An attorney for the state is asking a judge to rebuff a bid by abortion providers to prevent a new restriction on the procedure from taking effect as scheduled less than two weeks from now.
In legal filings Thursday, Assistant Attorney General Michael Tryon did not dispute that the law, set for implementation April 1, would prevent the use of medications to terminate a pregnancy after the seventh week of pregnancy. That would shave two weeks off current practices by Planned Parenthood and the Tucson Women's Clinic.
But Tryon said that still leaves the option of a surgical abortion all the way up to the point of viability. He told U.S. District Court Judge David Bury that means there is no irreparable harm to women – and no grounds to place the law on "hold" while its legality is litigated.
Hanging in the balance is the question of whether more than 800 women a year are going to lose an option for the simpler procedure. These are women who last year had a medical abortion are beyond seven weeks – the new limit under the Arizona law – but less than 10 weeks, which is the current practice.
The issue is even more critical in Northern Arizona where Planned Parenthood claims that having to follow the new state-mandated procedure will eliminate the option for all abortions at its Flagstaff clinic, where only medical abortions are allowed. That is because what the state wants requires a doctor to be available more than she is now.
But Tryon told Bury he should ignore that fact as irrelevant to the stated legislative goal of the law to minimize the risks of medication abortions and preserve maternal health.
"If Planned Parenthood is unable to staff and maintain clinics in Northern Arizona, it is more likely a reflection of its failed business practices," Tryon wrote.
The fight stems from the method abortion providers use in a two-drug procedure to terminate a pregnancy. The first dose is administered at a clinic; the second is taken by the woman at home one to two days later.
But the 2010 Arizona law set to take effect spells out that the first drug, known as RU-486, to be administered only as specifically approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That involves not only different dosages but also that both be taken at a clinic, requiring a second trip.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood and the Tucson Women's Clinic said there was "no medical justification" for the change, saying what the law mandates is "less effective, less accessible, more expensive, and causes more side effects."
Tryon, however, said the FDA-approved protocol "also represents an acceptable standard of care." He argued that lawmakers had other legitimate reasons for insisting they be followed.
One is the possibility that a woman, sent home with the second drug, might not follow the process. And Tryon said legislators had evidence of "adverse effects" of medical abortions.
One issue Bury has to consider in whether to block the law from taking effect is that question of who would be harmed by a delay in implementation. On one side that includes Tryon's argument abortions remain an option, albeit not necessarily the type of procedure that some women may want.
But the lawyers for the abortion providers pointed out to Bury that it has taken close to two years for Will Humble, director of the Department of Health Services, to craft and implement the rules necessary to start enforcing the 2012 law. That, they suggested, shows Humble "felt no urgency" to enforce the law.
"And if the Legislature had thought the problem was so pressing, it would have required (Humble) to implement the act by a certain date," they argued.
Whatever Bury decides after a hearing next week will not be the final word on the law but only whether it gets placed on "hold'' while both sides argue the constitutionality of the underlying law. But Bury will need, as part of any ruling on an injunction, to make at least a preliminary ruling on which side he thinks ultimately will win.


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By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement, aimed at helping schools boost student success, was created on the premise that all students should be held to high standards but learn best when colleges create the right environment. To that end, 715 colleges in 49 states have used the survey since 2001 to help assess and improve their effectiveness.
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Help for English learners. Some community colleges serve a large number of immigrants and refugees, yet few continue beyond non-credit English classes. At Highline Community College in suburban Des Moines, Wash., a new program introduces English learners to potential careers, along with information on which jobs require a certificate or college degree. Advisers also explain how to navigate the U.S. college system, including financial aid. Of 23 students who received advising in fall 2007, almost a quarter enrolled in college-level credits the following quarter, compared with under 3% of those who got no academic counseling. Rolita Flores Ezeonu, dean of instruction for transfer and pre-college education, says deceptively simple gestures made a big difference: Instead of urging students to make an appointment with an adviser, advisers "would go into the classroom," she says. "It's about building relationships, having students feel that they're part of your community."
Student-faculty relationships. In a pilot project designed to improve student-faculty relationships, instructors at Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland decided to conduct short, instant-feedback sessions with students for a few minutes of class time. In one case, students told remedial English teacher Charlayne Cassady that they enjoyed a recent group project, so she came up with more of the same. Mark McCulloch, vice president of instruction, says CCSSE data helped departments set priorities: "Faculty are pretty receptive to evidence."
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Feb 26, 2012
The destruction of Brazil's Antarctic base in a fire that killed two navy personnel has dealt a major blow to the country's strategic research on the resource-rich continent, experts say.
"All the central core of the base, where the installations were concentrated, was lost. The exact extent of what occurred still needs to be determined, but the assessment is that we really lost virtually everything," Defense Minister Celso Amorim said late Saturday.
Brazilian experts painted a grim picture of the damage after Saturday's blaze, which swept through a room housing energy generators of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz research base located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The base, which was established in 1984, conducts biological science research focused on coastal and shelf marine ecosystems.
Meanwhile, a Brazilian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft was to pick up 45 evacuees from the base -- 32 civilians, 12 navy personnel and the injured navy man -- in Punta Arenas, Chile.
The Brazilian Navy said the aircraft was due to land at the Galeao air base near Rio around midnight after dropping four scientists in Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul state.
In a statement, it also said that roughly 70 percent of the installations at the base was destroyed by the fire.
Shelters for isolated emergency modules along with laboratories, fuel tanks and the helipad -- which are isolated from the main building -- remained intact, it added.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation for its part said that scientists at the base were conducting studies on the effects of climate change in Antarctica and their impact on the planet, in addition to research on marine life and the atmosphere.
"It's an irreparable loss," the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo quoted Yocie Valentin, a Brazilian expert in charge of scientific work in Antarctica, as saying Sunday.
"We lost much more than equipment, we lost lives. I lost all my research and that was one of the cheapest. Some of the research lost cost millions of dollars," survivor Joao Paulo Machado Torres, a 46-year-old biophysicist, said in a telephone interview carried on the O Estado de Sao Paulo website from Punta Arenas.
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text: Culture 28 January 2002 Up close and personal Isn't an exhibition of intimacy a contradiction in terms? Helen Laville discovers that the public co Sign up for our weekly email * The exhibition "Intimacy" at the Lowry Centre in Salford has set itself two challenges. First, it opened in January, when "intimacy" is about as welcome as leftover turkey and stale mince pies. In November, even early December, everyone cherishes romantic notions of gathering around an open fire with parents who have miraculously become facsimiles of James Stewart and Donna Reed, playing charades, singing carols, exchanging thoughtful gifts and basking in the warm glow of family intimacy. Or there is the vision of snuggling up on the sofa with the beloved, smugly revelling in special festive "togetherness". Come New Year, however, and normally stable thirty-somethings have stormed upstairs to the comfort of rooms still haunted by their teenage selves, muttering: "This is so typical, no one here understands me. I'm just not going down to play Scrabble with them. I'd rather sit up here, by myself, rereading Five On Kirrin Island." They lurk petulantly in the kitchen, deliberately burning food, brooding over what it really, really says about your relationship when your husband buys you a Dyson for Christmas. Intimacy has, by January, undergone an ordeal by (open) fire. Exhibitions opening during the first month of the year should perhaps opt to reflect this, and choose themes such as "Sulking", "Acting Up" and "Why men spend potentially valuable couple-time watching The Great Escape when they've already seen it about a thousand times". Still, ignoring these seasonal trends, the Lowry pressed ahead with "Intimacy", whereupon it confronted its second challenge. A public exhibition of intimacy contains the same inherent contradictions as a private exhibition of the Mexican wave. Exploring in public what people hold most private, the theme of "Intimacy" engages with fundamental issues about both representing and viewing. At first, the clunky organisation of the exhibition does not encourage a thoughtful approach to these questions. The show has been divided, somewhat arbitrarily, into three parts: Two by Two in Gallery A; Family Affairs in Gallery B; and The Deck, showing "power-packed images of contemporary interpretations of intimacy" - whatever that might be. The Two by Two collection demonstrates that a head-count of the protagonists within a picture does not in itself constitute an organising principle for a themed exhibition. Pictures of breastfeeding mothers are shoved together with Walter Sickert's sketch of a helpless hospital patient tended by a Red Cross nurse. There are potential common themes here - for example, the extent to which intimacy depends on some degree of vulnerability and helplessness, and therefore inevitably entails some kind of power relationship. But the nature of intimacy as a strictly one-to-one relationship - perhaps the most common understanding of the term - remains illustrated, rather than explored. The section of the exhibition devoted to family affairs, however, does begin to examine the central contradiction of publicly displaying, recording and exploring intimacy. The quality of intimacy, and the difficulty in capturing and representing it, is vividly demonstrated by the Lowry's perky idea to take publicity photographs of Margaret and Michael Kirk, parents of the artist Joanna Kirk, posed carefully under the vast portraits painted by their daughter. Both sweetly and rather painfully, Margaret and Michael are dressed in the exact same clothes as they are wearing in their painted portrait. I had dismissed this as a bit of a publicity stunt, until I watched the photographs being taken. In the portraits by their daughter, the Kirks are smiling and look relaxed. As the photographer arranged them beneath their respective pictures, they looked tense, their smiles a little forced, not quite sure what to do with their hands. In the space between their daughter's very loving depiction and the photographer's command of "Just turn this way now. Lovely" lie oceans, years, a lifetime of intimacy. This theme is captured more deliberately in other photographs in this section. Richard Billingham's images of his family are clearly the product of an intimacy so deep that the camera becomes invisible. The upward smile of Billingham's mother, curled up on the sofa bottle-feeding some helpless rodent, is clearly directed at her son, not the camera in his hands. Lea Andrews's photograph of his parents looking sternly into the camera from either side of an ugly 1950s fireplace could be an overdetermined scene in a bad Hollywood movie. His parents look forbidding and unapproachable. The title of the picture, Hidden, hints at some dark and painful secret. Andrews undermines this reading by appearing in the next picture, cheerfully naked, between his now relaxed parents. The intimacy here is oddly basic and comforting. The flip side of this family intimacy is the traumatic effects of its breakdown. This is painfully depicted in Gerard Hemsworth's Table Manners. Given that this picture contains only two people, in numerical terms it clearly belongs in the Two by Two section, unless someone has decided that the table counts as a third player - which, in fact, it does, dividing and separating the man from his partner. She is slumped naked over the chair; he, clothed, lies head down across the table. This is a reminder that the people with whom you are most intimate are the ones who know how to hurt you. The kitchen table, the altar of everyday family contact, serves in this instance to divide, an impassive reminder of the barriers to intimacy. The wounding, knowing quality of family intimacy is beautifully explored by Victoria Hall in Family Tree. Ostensibly a formal family tree, Hall has replaced the meaningless names of strangers with the type of definitive, unreasonable but inexorable judgements on individuals that constitute family intimacy when it moves beyond the nuclear rela- tionship. Hall has peopled her family tree with character summations such as "Not at all like her sister", "Bubbly" and "Always wanted a fur coat". "Pity she's so large" is married to "Plays golf in the rain". Hall's work manages to benefit from the post-Christmas familiarity of being stuck in conversations with aged relatives, drunk on sherry and intent on recounting the family annals using just these sorts of phrases. Family intimacy dwindles to a mere familiarity with secrets or embarrassments that serve as markers of identity. You have to feel intensely for the son-in-law whose name is for ever damned with the family assessment "He won't set the Thames on fire". Looking at intimacy can be disturbing and difficult, but it can also be a secret, rewarding experience, something for which there was no intended viewer, but which you feel privileged to have been able to see. The best pictures at the Lowry capture this uneasy relationship between intimacy and an audience. The pictures of the Kirks are like a graduation photograph; you feel happy in the glow of the parents' pride in their daughter. The depiction of privacy in Hemsworth's painting is such that you feel vaguely guilty and voyeuristic for having seen it, and you have to fight the urge to mutter an apology and back away. Intimacy is less about showing than knowing. Ian Breakwell's Ghost Dance narrates a set of discovered photographs of strangers: "Lost souvenirs of private parties, of having existed, public proof of having a good time. Animated by flashlight, each face remains a mask fixed in time. Dancing strangers. A silent movie behind closed doors, a cast of unknown characters. The plot we can only imagine." The accompanying photographs were undoubtedly intimate to someone, some time. But without that someone, without the context of knowledge, the intimacy is strangely distant. These photographs look exactly like the thousands of photographs of your own family at weddings, parties and picnics on the beach. And that's because they are the same, intimate photographs. Just with different people. 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Hindoos on High Beam
An old India hand, our Frequent Flyer brings us up to date with the subcontinent's pop culture, transportation highs, Keralan spirituality, high-society causes and insanity-causing cultural differences.
I have become something of an armchair expert on India. Every month I spend long hours on India's dastardly highways, avoiding cows and Hindus on high-beam. I then spend long hours in Indian hotel rooms (generally Taj hotel rooms), propped up in front of the idiot box, recovering from such trips.
I munch Masala chips and quaff Parsee mango pop as I recite my mantra: "Never again… never again…".
After three years of doing this – and putting up with that glorious subcontinent's own brand of not doing business – my nerves are shattered and I am 110 kilos on heat… but I can name every Hindi movie Parveen Babi ever made. And I can do hip gyrations and pneumatic breast thrusts while downing a glass of banana lassie. Heaven help the hotel maid who interrupts my morning rendition of Satya Da Alo Du Du ("Bang Me, Bang Me, Baba") as I climb into my highway patrol outfit and vinyl bib.
The vinyl bib I have affected since discovering the Parota (crepes) lounges of Tamil Nadu, where men slam things down in front of other men, sending onion gravy sky high.
These lounges are my favourite eateries in Asia, almost on a par with the warung of Indonesia, in terms of a good meal in a proletarian atmosphere. My personal assistant from Pondicherry, the delightfully slim and elegant Miss Trixy Kapur also loves these lounges, but I suspect, for reasons not wholly related to gastronomy. She often pole-dances in the Parota lounges of Tamil Nadu (born of a Rhodesian cricket umpire father and a Tamil Javelin-throwing mother, her milky if blotched skin tones are set off to perfection by the generally sooty décor). No one ever looks up – Tamil's are true he-men and are not to be distracted from a greasy pancake by the gyrating hips of a half-caste – but cows have been known to look in the window. Miss Trixy generally gyrates to "Dobi Da Da Movi" ("Hit My Tits tonight").
Tamil's are true he-men and are not to be distracted from a greasy pancake by the gyrating hips of a half-caste.
Brahman Bashing
Last trip I visited the famous Tam-bram (Tamil Brahman) village of Sundarapandipuram, near Madurai. Tam-brams are a uniquely robust sub-species who marry wealthy Bangalore girls and conceive computer whizzes. In their home villages – such as the architecturally splendid and unique Sundarapandipuram – Tam-bram men are rather fierce; they glare at passers-by like tigers in an old city zoo. Unlike their Balinese Brahman cousins they have no gardening skills at all – the last tree in the village has long since been chopped down – and there are a limited number of temples to run. Most village Tam-brams just lounge around in togas like roman senators, surfing the breeze. (Except, of course, the special few who serve as maître d's at one of the state's executive vegetarian restaurants, where the traditional macho service is circumvented by a senior Brahman who flutters about with a shining aluminium bucket, delicately dispensing dollops of curried goop. His fingers twirl like dancing castanets as the buckets dance across the linoleum.)
Legless in Kerala
Christianity came to South India with St. Thomas in the first century AD, resulting in the conversion of so many Brahmans that Tam-brams had to be imported from across the Western Ghats (to essentially run the states temples and religious communities).
In Kerala, God's own country, there are more miracles per square mile than anywhere on the planet. I love to watch the local evangelic Christians television channel; "Give it up for Christ." Last month, the show featured numerous miracles and a charismatic healer whose very touch would send beefy Malayalees (Keralites) crashing to the church floor. Fishermen gave testimony: "In the two weeks since I started praying to the Lord Jesus as my saviour I have not touched toddy." They then promptly collapsed, legless, in a sorry heap.
Another 'contestant', a moo-moo clad-aunty from Mommy's Colony, had been cured of her "intolerance towards air-conditioning," we were informed by the pastor's assistant, a lithesome miss in a tight floral frock.
Praise The Lord!
I am going to appeal to the Lord Jesus to get me off my Snickers and Lay's Masala chips dependency. Stay tuned.
Socially-Conscious Socialites
India only has Breaking News. Ever since CNN invented the idea in 1994, Indian news channels have been streaming only Breaking News. It's like the treble dial on a ghetto-blaster, or the high beam option on car headlights: if you've got it, WHY NOT USE IT?
My favourite news programmes are the celebrity ones where Bollywood divas discuss wildlife conservation. These programmes invariably have tense "Thundering Stampede of the Apocalypse" background theme music (Tension is an Indian speciality).
Recently I was on a ferry coming back from Alibag – Bombay's answer to Long Island – with a socialite who was yakking about Amanresorts and conflict diamonds and high colonics. Suddenly she turned on a group of locals who were about to throw a banana skin into the ocean.
"Shame on you" she shrieked as the docile Dalits took cover. "Couldn't you find a bigger cause?" I enquired. I then lectured her on how all rich Indians should concentrate on the prevention of cruelty to design consultants, in the first instance.
Asking and Doing
Communicating in hotels in India induces sociopathic tendencies, particularly when dealing with staff members fresh out of a training program. Indians are extremely polite and cautious in communications, and tend to double check, triple check even, to avoid misunderstandings.
Example: (In a business centre in Hyderabad)
"I would like to go online."
"You would like to use the computer?"
Or, in a business hotel in Bangalore:
"I would like my laundry back, please."
"You want a laundry bag?"
"No, please return my laundry"
"Yes, now please"
"In your room?"
"No, in the middle of the road outside you …#%*!!"
(A laundry bag will certainly appear within five minutes).
Almost every hotel driver now asks a medley of Dale Carnegie questions aimed at soothing ones' nerves such as:
"Are you comfortable?"
"Can we go now?"
"Is the A.C. all right?"
I prefer to be thrown a brochure for a foam massage, personally.
Recently a trolley retriever at Bangalore airport asked me if I found the cool climate pleasing. "It pleases me that you bother to enquire" is the only response, really, delivered like a true Princesse de France.
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Road Raga
An architect kidnapped me last year and drove me from Bombay to Poona, the once quaint hill station where ancient parsees still live like grandees.
We left down town at 6 a.m., to avoid the traffic, and were soon on the outskirts of the interminable grey suburbia. Sadly the grey edge of suburbia extended for another two hours. I thought the sun would soon rise and the morning mist would lift and it would be like the hills and vales in the Sound of Music.
"Its not mist, its marsh gas" said my abductor" so don't get your knickerbockers in a knot, Heidi."
It was a cruel retort.
It was like the descent into hell.
In the primordial gloom we pressed on. We passed a row of abandoned Delta Force booths, set up to stem the flow of car-jackings along highway One, and then, suddenly, there was a ray of sunshine and a patch of the pastoral before we dove back into grey suburbia and marsh gas.
We were on the outskirts of Poona.
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text: I'm planning on ordering a pair of APC jeans from Denimbar before they raise their prices (which they already have or will be doing soon, from what I heard). Measured, I'm about a 31-32 waist (although down to a 30 1/2 was measured comfortably), but I wear size 30 jeans (31 in Seven and Gap's 1969), so I'm guessing either a size 28 or 29. But this isn't the main part of the question. I don't have any stores in the area (at all...) that sell APC, so I don't know which model would be the best. I'm not looking for a skin-tight pair, but not baggy, either. Most of my shirts aren't super-tight, so the skin-tights won't work too well. Also, since I'm wanting to get nice distress on these, I don't want them too slack that it'd be a waste to get raw denim. I was told both New Standards and Rescues would be good choices, but not much information was given to back this up. What do you guys recommend?


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At last night's Academy Awards®, Angelina Jolie took a coquettish stance as she presented the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, placing one hand on her hip and extending her right leg out from her dress' high slit. The moment instantly went viral: while accepting their award, the screenplay award winners — "The Descendants" producer Alexander Payne and cowriters Jim Rash and Nat Fixon — mimicked her stance.
"I just saw her pose and I thought, you know what, we have exactly the same legs," Rash explained backstage. "And I wanted to show everyone what it means. It was a loving tribute."
The Jolie parodies didn't stop there. A Twitter account named @AngiesRightLeg began tweeting out missives like, "Look at meeee!!" and "Still here. Great view, but thank god for the slit in this dress." As of this writing, the account has over 14,000 followers.
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Companies are aiming at having an internal recruitment team. This acts as a parallel HR team to supplement the chief HR manager in a company. This team has to undergo an in house recruiter training programme. The training is offered to selected managers and supervisors. Renown recruiter agencies are entrusted with offering the training .But what should a good training manual contain?Read More
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25: Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre has appointed a new breast radiologist who will help the organization to reach international best practice standards for all aspects of its breast imaging programmes.
Clinical director Dr David Green be able to provide breast assessments and give patients immediate feedback to those who have been called back for diagnostic work after a mammogram.
Dr Green is responsible for the day-to-day clinical operation of the breast imaging service and the introduction of standards, protocols and improved breast cancer detection programmes. Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre's mammography services are accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
A member of the Royal College of Radiologists (Breast Group), a UK-based group of Radiologists, Dr Green has more than 21 years of experience as a Breast Radiologist and clinical director. He specializes in breast imaging, general radiology, ultrasound and uroradiology and has special interest in breast diagnosis, musculoskeletal ultrasound and prostate biopsy. He has reported more than 250,000 breast examinations and has performed more than 10,000 image-guided breast biopsies, lymph node biopsies and wire localizations.
The Royal College of Radiologists has sub-specialist breast training and experience and exists to advance the science and practice of clinical radiology. Through its Faculty of Clinical Radiology Professional Support and Standards Board, it undertakes to produce standards or documents to provide guidance to individuals involved in the delivery of radiological services with the aim of defining good practice, advancing practice, and improving services for the benefit of patients.
Dr Green has acted as an expert breast radiologist witness on behalf of the General Medical Council of UK and was also appointed by the same body as a medical assessor in fitness to practice reviews.
Tara Soares, executive director of Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, says: "We are very privileged to have someone with Dr Green's expertise available to our patients. Dr Green has consistently exceeded UK national standards in cancer detection and has maintained a low recall rate, meaning patients do not endure unnecessary repeat mammograms and biopsies.
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"As clinical director of a major breast facility in the UK, he has also gained extensive experience in managing and leading a large screening facility and will be helping us to pursue our goal of achieving international recognized standards and performance. The addition of Dr Green to our team has an incredible impact on the level of care we can offer to our patients and is another step towards achieving the centre's vision of providing a specialist approach to patient care."
Prior to his position with the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, Dr Green worked at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as Consultant Radiologist for more than 21 years and as clinical director for Wirral Breast Screening Unit for over 20 years. Previous to that, he was registrar (radiology) for two years and senior registrar (radiology) for more than three years at Mersey Region Training Scheme and was senior house officer at Broadgreen General Hospital and at Royal Liverpool Teaching Hospital, where he was also pre-registration house officer. Dr Green was appointed honorary lecturer in medical imaging at the University of Liverpool in 2000 and has lectured frequently on breast and other topics. He has published several papers, letters and case reports.
Dr Green studied medicine at Liverpool University Medical School. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (London), and is a member of the Radiological Society of North America (USA). He is registered locally with the Bermuda Medical Council.


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This set of cards devoted to the comic-strip lawman was produced sometime in the 1930's by the Walter H. Johnson Candy Co. There are 144 cards in the set, each measuring 2-3/8" by 2-7/8".
The card fronts depict a piece of colored artwork surrounded by a white border with the card number and caption at the bottom. The card backs repeat the card number and the caption, then give a long paragraph of text. An ad for the set and the name of the manufacturer is at the bottom.
The card set is basically separated into two series: 1-96, and 97-144. The backs of the first series indicate 'This is one of a set of 96 cards'... while the backs of the second series indicate 'of a set of 144 cards'.
The wrapper for this set features red and blue artwork and is captioned, 'Dick Tracy Caramels.'
In the 1980's, a large group of the cards #121-144 appeared within the hobby, leading to questions about whether they had been reprinted or whether a warehouse find had been made. It is generally believed that these more plentiful cards have been reprinted, since the unquestioned originals seem to have been printed on heavier and less glossy card stock.
Value: Individual Dick Tracy cards in Excellent condition, if thought to be authentic, can range from $3.00 to $15.00 each, depending on the card number and desirability. The entire set may cost around $1,500.00.
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