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KERRVILLE — In a bit of fence mending after litigation failed to prompt reconsideration of a state plan to put power lines here, the Kerr County Commission on Wednesday accepted a settlement offer from the Lower Colorado River Authority's Transmission Services Corp. in return for agreeing not to appeal.
Besides reimbursing the county $12,372 for legal fees, the agency will make available its aerial maps of Kerr County Commissioners recently rejected a proposal to join other local entities in spending $68,000 to make new maps.
The county backed a city of Kerrville suit that challenged the Public Utility Commission's routing decision in January for the 345-kilovolt line that runs between Kendall and Schleicher counties.
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A day before the deadline to appeal the judge's ruling, the settlement offer was made by the LCRA TSC, which has the contract to build the line and sided with the PUC in the legal fight.
"It was a gesture to rebuild relations and also of appreciation of how we handled the lawsuit," Commissioner Jonathan Letz said of the offer. "We were very civil throughout the process."

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February 18th, 2014 | SMWC
The future of humans, society and the Earth is going to hinge on the appropriate use of natural resources, innovative ideas and conservation. It is with this in mind that Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) adds the environmental science as a bachelor's degree program for the fall of 2014 on campus. With a major or minor in environmental science, students can be at the forefront of these issues.
With social responsibility central to the mission of the College, environmental science is a natural addition to the curriculum.
"The world is currently facing many environmental challenges, and the goal of this major is to teach students about these issues, train them to interpret data and information and develop solutions to these problems," states Robert Jean, assistant professor of ecology at SMWC.
Students may choose between two concentrations: wildlife/conservation and chemistry. This academic program prepares students to understand ecology, conservation, green technology, natural history, wildlife identification and management, all areas with future growth in the job market.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of environmental scientists and specialists is projected to grow by 19 percent from 2010 to 2020, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Heightened public interest in the hazards facing the environment, as well as the increasing demands placed on the environment by population growth, are expected to spur demand for professionals in the field.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid hit a five-year low last week and residential construction surged in December, the latest signs that the US economic recovery remains on track.
The reports on Thursday showed the economy was weathering an uncertain fiscal environment surprisingly well. Still growth in the fourth quarter was likely subdued, and only a modest pick-up was expected in the first three months of this year.
"While growth has been slow, the damage done from the uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff was not sufficient to topple the recovery," said Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York.
The fiscal cliff refers to a wave of deep government spending cuts and tax increases, part of which was avoided after a last minute agreement by US lawmakers. A fight over raising the government's borrowing limit looms.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 335,000, the lowest level since January 2008, the Labor Department said on Thursday. It was the largest weekly drop since February 2010 and ended four straight weeks of increases.
While problems adjusting the data for seasonal fluctuations might have exaggerated the size of the decline, economists said the report still suggested an improvement in sluggish labor market conditions and the broader economy as a whole.
"Having taken a pinch of salt, however, we would suggest that the trend in claims generally show no pickup in layoff activity around the turn of the year," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
The fairly upbeat jobs and housing data helped to lift US stocks to a five-year high and supported oil prices. US Treasury debt prices fell and the dollar was little changed against a basket of currencies.
A separate report from the Commerce Department showed housing starts jumped 12.1 per cent last month to their highest level since June 2008. Permits for future home construction were also the highest in about 4-1/2 years.
Though warm weather likely helped, the data was confirmation of the improving housing market tone, and gains in home building were across all four regions. Groundbreaking increased for the both single-family homes and multi-family units.
Housing is no longer a drag on the economy and residential construction is expected to have contributed to growth last year for the first time since 2005.
The reports came on the heels of data this week showing solid retail sales and manufacturing growth in December.
But weak exports, a slow pace of inventory accumulation and the reversal of a surge in defense spending probably slowed growth to below a 2 per cent annual pace in the fourth quarter.
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Still, the outlook for the economy remains shaky. A third report showed factory activity in the US mid-Atlantic region contracted this month as new orders tumbled, pointing to a cooling in manufacturing activity.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said its business activity index fell to -5.8 from 4.6 in December. A reading below zero indicates contraction in manufacturing in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.
"Manufacturing has slowed but it's still growing. I'm not going to read too much into this until I see other regional surveys," said Gus Faucher, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
The claims data covered the survey week for January's nonfarm payrolls. The four-week moving average for new jobless claims, a better measure of labor market trends, fell 6,750 to 359,250, suggesting some improvement in labor market conditions.
Job growth has been gradual, with employers adding 155,000 new positions in December. The unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 per cent last month.
The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid increased 87,000 to 3.21 million in the week ended Jan. 5.
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Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
Ryan Rudolph wrote:He doesn't feel hate towards them, but he doesn't place them on a pedestal either. It is merely a matter of seeing both sexes as they are, without any distortion.
Ryan Rudolph wrote:A hatred of women usually happens when the spiritual seeker is young, has a lot of libido, and is frustrated by his inability to connect with women on a deeper level, and frustrated by his inability to have constant sexual fulfillment and the women of his choice. Most sexual crimes agaisn't women occur due to this frustration that builds up in men.
Ryan Rudolph wrote:The end result is a man that is a shell of what he could be, and his life ends up filled with despair, loneliness and negative karma.
Ryan Rudolph wrote:no I wasn't implying that David fell under that category. Overall, I think his generalizations and critique is highly accurate of how most women are. Sound reasoning in my opinion.
Is it not human nature to conceal the animal nature ?
For every negative thing you can find reguarding a woman there is a positive. And vice versa with men.
...a normal healthy realtionship with women.
it's the majority that rules
Our bodies are nothing but chemicals...male and female hormones are us.
Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Humans have no essence. They are neither one way nor another necessarily. What they happen to do is more often accidental than virtuous.
Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Those who go against the norm have no use for normal; those whose temperament is made for solitude have no use for relationships, no matter how healthy normal people insist they are. Jesus never married: in all likelihood, he never had a normal healthy relationship with women.
Trevor Salyzyn wrote:That's a rather trite expression. It's almost as though you think truth is democratic. Which side would you be on? Galileo, or the philosophers?
Can you please give an example ? i have a hard time following that one .
Trevor Salyzyn wrote:instance, human nature is benevolent. Or, humans are essentially evil.
Kunga wrote:i only read it on the fly...so this discussion can expose the depths....
..i tried to imagine i was David....i could feel the immense pain...a love/hate relationship with women...
and a deep desire to transcend my human nature by destroying any attachment to women in the pursuit of Enlightenment.
Therefore he must kill all love and admiration of woman by reducing her to nothing more than a clump of dirt. If this hatred and loathing of woman was put in physical form, rather than expressed in words...he would be behind bars.
A true Sage is beyond love and hate.
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Why not read it in depth, slowly and thorough as it was written?
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Why would you imagine straight away the feelings of the author as first argument? The problem is that there's no defense, no critique possible to what you think David must be feeling. It does create an atmosphere of bias with a veiled ad hominid, although I'm not entirely against character analysis, but starting with it doesn't look helpful.
Kunga wrote:....as a woman i know how a woman thinks...but his detest towars women clouds his thinking...if i was a sage and he was my student i would require him to learn to love woman and have a lover before he has any right to Enlightenment...
dejavu wrote:Diebert:Could you give an example where the clump of dirt comparison was made? We're all clumps of dirt in the end with some breath or spark added, after all."Compared to the majesty of God women are as about interesting as a lump of dirt. They are like cream cakes - capable of giving one great pleasure for a moment but fail to satisfy in any genuine sense."
The man who wrote this does not truly possess what can be called sagacity.
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:lack of experience
Kunga wrote:lack of a successful experience....he failed as a man to have a successful/rewarding experience with a woman...and so he wallows in his misery, and decides to lash out like a child that didn't get what he wanted ...
as i read this essay now, the red flags of hypocrisy and childish views and distortions run amock...not to mention his being diagnosed as having a personality disorder...
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:The problem is that now it's up to you to describe the exact "success" factor in relationships and how to experience such. Good luck! Do you see how you go from "requiring him to learn to love woman and have a lover" to: love successfully have some rewarding experience with the lover in question. It's a slippery slope in a discussion but feel free to expand on the secrets to real love.
Kunga wrote:i realize there is more to life than having personal happiness....and that is responsibility. Responsibility to other peoples happiness.
So to answer your question as to what is a succesful relationship...it is one in which you don't wind up hating the opposite sex, but continue to grow and mature as an adult not blaming or shameing the opposite sex for your mistakes.
Kunga wrote:Hey ! i never listened to Kate Bush before...i just found out who she was for the first time now Diebert :)
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Kunga wrote:Hey ! i never listened to Kate Bush before...i just found out who she was for the first time now Diebert :)
I only mentioned it because your avatar icon shows her recent album cover. And because she sings about love now and again.
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:What do you think of this sentence from the article: She strives to make everyone like herself - open-minded, happy, tolerant, caring, sensitive to others, cooperative - that is, a non-entity. Have you an idea what he might mean with "non-entity"?
Kunga wrote: He is alluding to women being non-existent (non-entity), and those characteristics of open-mindedness, happy, tolerant, caring,sensitive to others, cooperative, are valid attributes any human can aspire to....they do not cause one to become invisable or non-existent....like a woman (his woman), but to be more HUMAN/HUMANE.
Woman claims to desire real substance, yet the values she holds dear - her "living for others" - necessarily implies her lack of it. She desires substance, but it is impossible for her to create something out of nothing.Instead, she must continually strive to weaken others, to reduce them to her own level of nothingness. Only in this way, she can gain a feeling of substance.
Kunga wrote:Many times i thought it's not worth even reading...let alone comment about...i feel like i'm wasting my time.
Nick Treklis wrote:I think when it comes to true spirituality, if a person doesn't show signs of getting it right away, they have no chance of ever getting it. Real wisdom can easily penetrate through even the most deluded minds to move one's soul, but if there is no soul, just delusion through and through, nothing can be done. If wisdom is a tree, it needs a place to set it's roots.
Kunga wrote:I've read many wonderful spiritual books, none of them sound anything like what Quinn has written...
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Real philosophy is hard,
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Picture it: a small fishing boat bobbing on the sea just off the coast of Iceland. A solitary man is making his catch. Sometimes he is accompanied by his 15-year-old son. He enjoys the company but the man also enjoys the tranquillity.
After some 15 or 16 years in the public eye, he welcomes that tranquillity.
When the work is done, he returns to port and sells his catch in the market.
Last Sunday week, I watched as that fisherman received the Watford FC legend award at the club's annual dinner at Shendish Manor.
"Why did you move to France?" Heidar Helguson asked.
"Part economics but also to get away from the intensity," I replied.
He asked me if it was tranquil where I lived and I confirmed we both needed that tranquillity when we retired.
It was good to see and talk to Heidar and I enjoyed the vision of this all-action player, calmly bobbing about in his small fishing boat. It was a far cry from the club's video of his greatest Watford moments and one particular clip which showed 'H' homing in on the ball at full pace with the keeper coming straight at him, which brought anxious gasps from the diners.
Another former player, Tommy Mooney was at the same table on awards night. He had helped Troy Deeney when they were both at Walsall, a fact Deeney acknowledged when receiving one of his awards.
Tom ended his playing career in Marbella some six years ago. He decided to settle there, played golf every morning and convinced himself this was the life. However, he became disillusioned with the lack of purpose and with his marriage breaking up, he headed back for the UK.
"It depends which day of the week you came and asked me if I was enjoying the job," Tom told me, referring to his job at Aston Villa coaching the Under-17s. "I work a lot of hours and I spend a lot more time on a computer than I would have chosen to do, but the job can be really great, fascinating and very rewarding."
Two former colleagues, the Moon-man and 'H', coping with life in different ways after their playing careers ended.
The previous day, I watched that unhappy game against Huddersfield and while that was taking place, my hopes of winning the Watford Mailing List Prediction League were fading.
I have been streets ahead since September but gradually over the last six weeks, I have been hauled back. I think Brighton's late charge proved to be my undoing but congratulations to those who pipped me in the final week, knocking me from leader to fourth place. Naturally I was disappointed.
To be honest, I did not want to take part as I am so out of the loop in France, but I was persuaded to have a go, because "it is just good fun".
So last August I sat down and entered the names Sean Dyche, Harry Redknapp and Nigel Pearson and then scoured the list of managers to assemble a complete list of those who know how to get out of the Championship. Then I put them in an order determined by the amount of money they had at their disposal and listed the teams accordingly.
I was hoping to win because then I could have claimed it was simple. Just get a manager who knows the Championship and what is required to move on. That's what my list was based upon and the Pozzos would have been wise to follow likewise.
Ok, so they had their own agenda but you only had to be around Sean Dyche for a day or so, to appreciate this was a man who had what it takes in the managerial stakes. It is an irony that he is successful whereas the club that sacked him is not.
Yes it was only my fourth time back at Vicarage Road since I retired in March 2005 but I enjoyed it, despite those 90 forgettable minutes. It enabled me to take in my surroundings; seeing it as it is and remembering it as it was.
Apparently I was sitting in the soon-to-be-renamed Graham Taylor Stand. I always thought the concept of naming the stand after the former local schoolmaster, Rous, was a mite pretentious and stretching a point. I know Elton, who as good as paid for it and then gave the club away for Jack Petchey to profit, did not want the stand named after him.
During that moribund post-Taylor era (1987-96), some wanted to name the new Vicarage Road Stand, inspiringly dubbed the North Stand, as the Graham Taylor Stand.
After Taylor left, the bit parts had emerged and were eager to bring the curtain down on the Taylor era. There was a touch of de-Stalinisation to the policy.
So one day Graham received a call informing him that they knew he did not want a stand named after him and that they had done their best to point this out. They just wanted to let him know his wishes were being implemented and they were going to call it the North Stand, and the next one would be… yes the think-tank had come up with South Stand. And because the West Stand (Rous) was the biggest, the Main Stand was no longer the Main Stand, and instead they were going to call it…the East Stand.
It was artfully stage-managed. Graham was presented with a fait-accompli. He would have had to say: "No, no. You are wrong. It would be a great honour to have a stand named after me and to be perfectly frank (in all fairness) I would really like a stand named after me."
He was not disposed towards overturning the suggestion that they were acting on his behalf by refusing to let the stand be named after him.
Now the years have sped by and so the previous wrongs, oversights and shenanigans are about to be righted: The Graham Taylor Stand. It is right and proper.
Good place too, for a wedding reception, I found out while visiting the loo.
This article was first published in the Watford Observer on Friday, May 16.
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I've got to run off to do an interview this a.m. I'll be back later today, and through the game. Not sure I'll make it to MSG, though.
Ales Kotalik is back in the lineup tonight. Not sure who is being prucha'd along with Erik Christensen. There are a long list of deserving candidates, although I imagine it will be one of the usual suspects (accountability, right?).
Off three straight losses (in regulation, so zero points), this is a pretty big game since the Rangers go West for three in four nights starting Saturday.
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Port Adelaide is not going to stand in the way of Danyle Pearce's move to Fremantle, with the beleaguered club saying it would be "irresponsible" for it to match the Dockers' offer.
But the Power is still deliberating on weather to let Troy Chaplin move to Richmond, under the new free-agency rules.
Port's football manager Peter Rohde said after "careful consideration" the club had decided it would not match Fremantle's offer for Pearce's services.
"We have taken time to think about the situation and have resolved that it would be irresponsible in the context of our team structure at Port Adelaide to match the offer put forward by Fremantle," Rohde said.
"Danyle has made a strong contribution during his eight years at Port Adelaide and we wish him well with his new opportunity in the AFL."
Pearce was rookie-listed by Port Adelaide in 2005 before his debut later that year and going on to play 154 games for the Power. He earned the title of AFL Rising Star in 2006 and was a part of Port Adelaide's 2007 grand final side.
Rohde said the club was still deciding whether to match Richmond's offer to Chaplin, and is also assessing its own options in the free-agency period.


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REMEMBER Dean Towers? He was the kid who outleapt Trent Croad's standing jump record at last year's draft camp. Reports said he'd ''come from nowhere'' and that ''football had fallen into his lap''.
Perchance I was a neighbour of the Towers, and Dean's coach, and have another perspective. And obviously it wasn't nowhere he came from, he just took longer than most to get to draft camp, via a more interesting route and, importantly, in the time that he needed.
He grew up in Kawarren, in the foothills of the Otways, south of Colac. Dean was still playing under-17s, when I became coach of the Otway Districts Football Club's senior team. He was just another kid enjoying a game of footy in the morning before playing kick to kick for most of the day with all the other hillbillies' kids. Or, at least with those who didn't have to play another game of footy with the seniors because we were short on numbers.
''When can I play seniors?'' he asked me one day, having been overlooked a few times. ''Do you think you're ready?'' I said. ''Yeah, yep, sure Tex, I'm ready'', he said, bright-eyed and brimming with exuberance.
His parents were, however, a little more circumspect. Dean was lightly framed, and played footy in an open, honest fashion, head-over-the-ball-style, which could make him an easy target for an experienced opposition player. His father Neville pondered a little before saying it was up to me, as coach, but warned I might have trouble getting the green light from his mother.
I did think, for a moment, about bypassing Christine and playing him anyway, but jeopardising my supply of cakes seemed ludicrous.
Eventually, on our home ground at Gellibrand River, Dean played his first senior game. But I can't say he excelled. He was no better, or worse, than any other kid making his senior country footy debut.
Certainly, there was nothing to indicate he might one day be drafted by the reigning premiers of the AFL, the Sydney Swans.
The following year our on-field numbers were so short, I foolishly came out of retirement, which at least provided the youngsters with a laugh and, perhaps, the motivation to improve. Especially after outlasting those laughing lads at training one night in a surprise beep test. Dean came second or third and spent a good part of the season playing wing. At some point it clicked that the 40-ish-year-old coach running around with him had once played AFL footy. If that was true, why couldn't he? At age 18, going on 19, Dean asked his father the big question. Was he good enough to play AFL? Neville had trained with Subiaco in the mid-80s as a mature-age player, but was deemed too old. Aware that Dean may also be a late developer, Neville gave some serious thought to the question.
I didn't think Dean was good enough to play AFL footy. But when Neville asked me, I didn't say that. I said, ''Maybe. Let's see how he goes next year''.
The following year Dean deferred university, helping Neville in his work as a plumber. Dean played more sport than ever, mixing tennis with surf lifesaving in summer, basketball, indoor soccer, indoor tennis and mixed netball, as well as his football in winter.
His performance on the football field responded well to this inundation of sport, as well as being able to talk throughout the day with Neville. As a result, he became more confident in his own abilities and eager to learn from those around him.
As Dean's mind finally caught up with his elongated limbs and his movements became fluent, he was able to play football as he wanted.
Not consistently, but enough to make him our best player. He learnt how to find the ball in a losing side and take advantage of his pace and athleticism, and he found some tricks as well. His marking and goal kicking stood out and he won our best and fairest that year.
Otway Districts was a club closer to the bottom of the ladder than the top, in a competition considered third-tier country level. The AFL was a bit of a way off yet.
During the next three years, however, Dean worked with commitment and enthusiasm, and learnt how to play top-level football, at Colac then North Ballarat.
Dean Towers, 22, has not come from nowhere. Nor has football fallen in his lap. On the contrary, he has quietly and relentlessly pursued his goal for the past three years and, some would say, against the odds. This is both the culmination of determined efforts and, in my opinion, the beginning of a long career.
Tim Pekin is a former Fitzroy and St Kilda utility who played 219 VFL matches.


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This gala event kicks off our annual fund raising drive for the Luhrs Center. Our attendance at the gala is the largest to date. We are especially appreciative during these challenging economic times. Fortunately, people still want their entertainment, especially when it's in their own backyard.
The gala has raised over $35,000 this year. Others will be contacted over the next couple of months to renew or become members of the Circle of Friends.
I would like to thank everyone for helping to make the Luhrs Center THE premier performing arts center in our region by attending our performances.
We are very appreciative of your support of the Luhrs Center through their annual Circle of Friends contributions. Your contributions help to cover some of the production costs associated with these performances, and most importantly, help to keep ticket prices affordable for as many people as possible to enjoy live performances. (The University's financial commitment also helps to cover some of the Center's operating budget.)
There are currently 283 Circle of Friends members (couples included). There were 165 members last year. That's an increase of 118 -nearly 75%!!!
The Luhrs Center has exceeded the University's expectations. The box office has sold over 82,000 tickets since the Luhrs Center opened in 2006. Over 132,000 people have attended a performance, University function, or a private event since the Luhrs Center opened.
To date, there have been 19 sell-out performances including tonight's performance of Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles and Friday night's performance by Peter Paul & Mary.
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A PUBLIC consultation exercise is set to begin over controversial plans to axe a number of respite units in Lancashire.
Social service chiefs insist that several units are not equipped to deal with the most seriously disabled youngsters.
And as part of proposals to hack £3million from the respite care budget, county council officials plan to close between four and six sites.
Those under threat include Hargreaves House in Oswaldtwistle, Burnley's Reedley Cottages and Long Copse at Chorley.
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Campaigners in East Lancs have already voiced strong objections to any moves to close Hargreaves House.
County Hall bosses are already bracing themselves for at least some unease over the plans, which will be the subject of public debate over the next 12 weeks.
Helen Denton, the county council's executive director for children's services, said in a report: "Parents will of course express concern about potential increases to travel time for children and young people with complex needs resulting from reducing the number of units and this is clearly an important factor to take into account."
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AN ELDERLY woman was in serious condition last night, after a crash on the outskirts of York.
The woman, believed to be in her eighties, was the passenger in a Skoda car and suffered serious chest injuries in a crash with a Toyota Yaris, which took place near the junction of Manor Heath and Hallcroft Lane in Copmanthorpe at about 5.30pm yesterday.
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance was also called to the scene at about 6.10pm, and transported the woman to Leeds General Infirmary, where she remained with injuries believed to be serious but not life-threatening.
Three other people were taken to hospital, including another woman, believed to be in her forties, who was driving the Skoda, and two younger men from the Toyota.
A spokeswoman for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service said two rapid response vehicles and three ambulances were sent to the scene, with the women taken to the LGI, and the men taken to York Hospital.
All three were believed to have suffered minor injuries.
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text: It took a while, but since word got out about the new blossoming of Iranian cinema, the films have seemed to arrive more quickly than most viewers could sort them out. Even with the small flood of titles spanning a good 15 years, some of Iran's foremost directors remain underrepresented, though this new set of films by and about Moshen Makhmalbaf goes a long way toward remedying that problem on one front. Probably the best-known Iranian director after Abbas Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf shares little of his compatriot's style. Highly emotive, restlessly cinematic, visually extreme, and daring in their use of surrealism and satire, Makhmalbaf's films are as instantly distinctive in their own way as Luis Buñuel's. Newcomers now even have a fine introduction in the form of Houshang Golmakani's Stardust Stricken, Moshen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait, an informative, if rough-around-the-edges documentary that traces Makhmalbaf's development from childhood through his involvement with a group of Islamic guerrillas, imprisonment in pre-revolutionary Iran, and later reinvention as a director. Makhmalbaf addresses his prison years in the disturbing 1985 film Boycott, starring Majid Majidi (later the writer/director of Children Of Heaven and The Color Of Paradise). While the bloody opening sequence is too heavily indebted to any number of action films, Majidi's arrival in prison allows Makhmalbaf to play to his already considerable directorial strengths, creating a nightmarish environment to try his protagonist's soul. Tortured by captors, ignored by old friends for failing to toe a strict Communist line, and tormented by thoughts of the wife and child he left behind and now sees only under heavily circumscribed conditions, Majidi is plagued by visions of death and forced to choose between conformity and staying true to his revolutionary values. As the photojournalist protagonist of 1989's Marriage Of The Blessed, Mahmud Bigham inhabits an environment of similarly heightened reality. But this time, Makhmalbaf is concerned with those who suffered after the revolution rather than those who suffered to bring it about. Shell-shocked from time spent at the front of the Iran/Iraq war and confined for some time to an asylum, Bigham attempts to resume his life with some coaxing from his fiancée. Together, they take to the streets of Tehran, where they find crime, homelessness, evidence that the old elite has begun to creep back into power, and other signs that the revolution has failed to live up to its ideals. Though a proponent of the revolution, Makhmalbaf's political films reveal an idealist trying to fight off disillusionment, and they've occasionally raised the ire of the Iranian government. Marriage met with controversy, and Makhmalbaf had trouble getting clearance from the censors for his next few films, which helps explain his later shift away from overt political material toward an odd kind of humanism. Artistic successes such as Gabbeh and Once Upon A Time, Cinema (both previously released on video) followed in the '90s, and the Two Short Films tape collects interesting shorts connected to each of them. Less successful, but still of considerable interest, is 1993's The Actor, starring Akbar Abdi as a popular comedian depressed by his desire to make films of artistic value. Deeply troubled by her inability to conceive, his wife mirrors his frustration. The peculiar mix of comedy and drama never quite gels as it should, though the film still contains unforgettable moments: In one, Abdi suffers a public breakdown, but is met only with amusement by the police, who recognize him as a famous clown. No less than the protagonists of Makhmalbaf's other work, he inhabits a world where filmmaking can turn deadly.


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There has recently been concern about the future of sleep medicine in response to the "disruptive technology" of home sleep testing (HST) and its embrace by the medical insurance industry in the USA.1,2 A reader might surmise that the first contract by an insurance carrier in Massachusetts to mandate HST as a first step in apnea diagnosis was the shot heard around the world that would change sleep medicine forever. The original shot heard around the world referred to the first skirmish of the American Revolution (incidentally only about 30 miles from the headquarters of the insurance carrier in Massachusetts) was simply a step in a process that had its genesis long before. Similarly, the genesis of this shot affecting sleep medicine was long ago, and the reader must recognize that this is a shot heard around America, not the around the World.
There have been many "disruptive" technologies and treatments in medicine, and in general they have improved patient outcomes. We can now prevent poliomyelitis and many childhood viral diseases; we can cure most bacterial, mycobacterial, and fungal infections; we seldom require surgery to treat diseases caused by gastric acid hypersecretion; we use "noninvasive" surgery using laparoscopic and thoracoscopic techniques to treat many patients who a generation ago would have required large incisions, dissections and excisions, and prolonged hospital admissions. We can now determine the presence of cancer in many cases using PET/MRI imaging.
Sleep medicine is a young field, and there have already been several disruptions. In the field of sleep apnea some of the disruptions have been technical, while others were based on new knowledge. There have already been several shots heard around the world of sleep. Some of the shots have been quiet, while some have very loud. Such shots might include the following: the description of CPAP3; the first description of data acquisition for respiratory variables during sleep by a microcomputer4; the notion that respiratory sleep data can be obtained outside the laboratory5; the publication of data suggesting that apnea patients have more automobile accidents6 and increased mortality7; the implementation of an integrated home sleep testing system8; the monitoring of CPAP compliance9; and the realization that sleep apnea is a very common problem.10
Based on the latter, there was an explosion worldwide in the following decade in the capacity to diagnose sleep apnea. The ability and capacity to diagnose apnea clinically was related to local medical practice, funding, and available technology. Home sleep testing has been integrated as an important diagnostic option in the Veteran Administration Healthcare System.11 In some countries comprehensive polysomnography was used; in others the testing evolved to include (sometimes exclusively) limited-channel monitoring, and resources were directed towards treatment.12–14 In the United States (a notable exception being the Veterans Administration System), there was an entirely different path directed by two entities: the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that set the clinical benchmarks, and Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) which set the reimbursement benchmarks. At the end of the day, the decisions by CMS trumped the standards of the AASM.
There were several important milestones related to the definition of apnea and when CMS would pay for treatment that lead to the current situation:
1986—CMS defined sleep apnea as "at least 30 episodes of apnea, each lasting a minimum of 10 seconds, during 6-7 hours of sleep" using "facility-based, attended polysomnogram."
2001—CMS defined sleep apnea as "AHI > 15, or AHI between 5 and 15 with documented symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, impaired cognition, mood disorders or insomnia, or documented hypertension, ischemic heart disease or history of stroke."
2008—CMS for the first time defined apnea without requiring an in-lab PSG as "The AHI and/or RDI may be measured by polysomnography (PSG) in a facility-based sleep study laboratory, or by a Type II home sleep test (HST) monitor, a Type III HST monitor, or a Type IV HST monitor measuring at least 3 channels." Initially there was no fee code for HST. Initial coverage for CPAP reimbursement was 12 weeks and the patient had to show compliance for CMS to pay for CPAP.
2009—Home sleep testing fees approved.
In these milestones and other decisions during the years, CMS actually ventured into the medical realm and de facto defined the disease (at least for the USA) and how it should be diagnosed and treated. The Medicare hypopnea has even found its way into the scoring manual published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as Hypopnea Rule A.15
Once home sleep testing fees were approved by CMS, entities not previously involved in sleep (doctors, clinics, companies marketing HST equipment and services) all of a sudden expressed tremendous interest in the field of sleep medicine (more precisely sleep apnea), and rapid transitions and sometimes chaos ensued. There was marketing of types II, III, and IV HST monitoring units and services to medical practitioners who often had no training in sleep and whose medical practice often did not involve patients who would benefit from such services. Since many of these new purveyors of sleep medicine services had little or no training in sleep, the interpretations of the studies were done by "board-certified sleep specialists" whose name, location, and state of medical licensure were often unclear or undecipherable on their reports. Doctors with almost no knowledge of sleep medicine were now ordering positive airway pressure (PAP) equipment from DMEs based on recommendations indicated on the HST study interpretations by doctors who actually never saw the patient and relied on questionnaires. Thus, the situation is such that some patients with a lifelong condition are currently being managed by clinicians out of their depth, and the patients are never actually seen by a practitioner with expertise in sleep.
Out of chaos often comes order, and some patterns seem to be emerging. Home sleep testing is here to stay, because it does offer an excellent diagnostic option for many patients and health care systems. Does that mean that sleep labs are obsolete? Not at all. There are too many patients with sleep disorders who have problems that require in-lab evaluations including children, patients with complex comorbidities, patients requiring complex PAP titrations, and patients with a variety of diseases that cannot be properly evaluated with HST technology that is designed only to document apnea. In the author's experience about 20 % of HSTs are non-diagnostic and require additional, usually in-lab evaluation. However programs that offer only in-lab sleep testing may see their days numbered.
There will be new practitioners entering the sleep field from a variety of specialties. Some have taken the ABMS sleep certification exam. Indeed there was a large bulge in taking the exam whose results were available in early 2012. Most of the test takers were able to take the exam via the practice waiver, without having taken sleep medicine training. Thus, many will be in the field not ever having any comprehensive sleep training. There will be specific educational challenges so that these practitioners obtain the knowledge to evaluate and manage long-term sleep disorder patients.
It is likely that the trend of insurance carriers mandating screening or initial diagnosis of OSA by HST and covering testing only when done by their preferred provider will continue and expand. I believe that this is potentially harmful to patients because it takes sleep doctors out of an important loop in managing patients. The question remains whether insurance carriers have the expertise and know-how to evaluate whether their preferred HST provider has the proper equipment, staffing, and experienced interpreting physicians to offer patients what they deserve and expect. One challenge in the management of patients is not the diagnosis, but long-term adherence to treatment. With society's focus on prevention, will insurance carriers fund true screening for apnea which in many cases is already a burden a decade before patients are formally assessed for the first time?16
Although on the surface, home sleep testing seems to be the most cost-effective approach to managing patients with sleep apnea without other comorbidities that may confound diagnosis, there is still debate about whether this approach is actually the most cost-effective.17 In addition to be able to rapidly respond to inevitable reimbursement shifts, it is likely that sleep medicine programs that are flexible in adopting new technologies (diagnostic and therapeutic) and that also maintain some in-lab capability and have long-term management programs will be the most successful. What is important that the target is understood: long-term patient outcomes. There will be innovations to come; we must evaluate them and, if effective, embrace them.
Dr. Kryger has indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
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I hope that your Christmas preparations are bringing you joy and that you're finding many things to be thankful for this holiday season.
As for me, I'm thankful for a husband who doubles as a Christmas light connoisseur. There's nothing I love more than coming home to a house trimmed with white Christmas lights – if you want a little chuckle, read about the Christmas lights debacle of 2008 here.
If you've been following me here for any amount of time, you know that I love to write about the things that God is teaching me. I pray that He has spoken to you through my struggles and lessons learned as well.
With this is mind, let's continue our learning journey. We set off to make imperfect progress together, and I want to stay the course with you.
I hope you feel the same, whatever you've faced this year.
As 2012 comes to a close, I'm beginning to look forward to a new year. A fresh start. And a chance to get back into the swing of things as I connect more and more with you here on my blog.
I think the best way to do that is to hear from you today. I want to know you better, as well as the issues that we can conquer together.
So would you mind tucking a little note from you in the comments below? Here are some things I'd love to know…
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Over at the Guardian, Nick Watt has pulled together a terrific summary of the lifelong rivalry between Ken Clarke and Michael Howard. It began 50 years ago with a row over Oswald Mosley and it's still going strong today over prisons policy.
Clarke and Howard are, of course, members of the so-called Cambridge Mafia that graduated from 1960s student politicking to rule the roost in Whitehall as cabinet ministers.
It is a famous tale. But there is a coalition twist to the Cambridge Mafia story that is less well known.
One of the Cambridge Union presidents around this time was a young liberal activist from York called Vince Cable.
Now that the coalition is formed, Cable has surely earned his place as a "made man". He really deserves to join the list of Cambridge Mafioso, which includes Clarke, Howard, Norman Lamont, Norman Fowler, John Gummer and Leon Brittan. (Some of them are pictured here at Clarke's wedding.)
That said, while they mixed in the same circles, Vince was never terribly keen on joining the gang. He remarked that Clarke was "not particularly exciting back then – not the real personality he later became". And this is what he thought of the Tory "conveyor belt". Read more


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WINGATE, N.C. – Despite being bounced out of the tournament by Florida Southern in the first round, Saint Leo junior middie Ray Ferrara has been given a nod on the 2012 Deep South Conference All-Tourney team, league officials announced Wednesday. This marks the first time Ferrara has earned all-tournament accolades.
Ferrara gets the nod after scoring a hat trick and causing a turnover against the Mocs in the first round of the tournament. The Potomac, Md. native adds the all-tourney award to his All-DSC selection this season, and finished the year fourth on the team in goals scored with 17. Ferrara added three assists for 20 points, and tacked on 13 ground balls and seven caused turnovers in his junior campaign.
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PHILADELPHIA - After continuous rainfall pushed the Ivy League schedule back from Saturday and Sunday to Monday and Tuesday, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team continued its hot start in league play, defeating Brown twice by the score of 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon.
After sweeping Yale in two games on Monday, the Quakers (10-10, 4-0 Ivy) continued on a roll, not only in Ivy play, but at home in Meiklejohn Stadium. Penn has started the season 6-0 on its home field, while being just 4-10 on the road.
In the first of two games against Brown (4-10, 0-4 Ivy), the Quakers won on the strength of Connor Cuff and Mike Reitcheck on the mound, and Jeff McGarry at the plate.
Cuff (2-1) went 6 1/3 innings allowing two runs, before Reitcheck came in shutting down the Bears (4-9, 0-3 Ivy) with two strikeouts to finish the game, earning the save.
For Penn at the plate, McGarry led the way going 3-for-3, scoring twice, while driving in one.
Penn scored inonly two innings, once in the first andtwice in thefifth, but it was enough for the Red and Blue to be victorious.
McGarry hit a solo home run in the first, to make it 1-0, while back-to-back doubles by McGarry and Matt McKinnon, followed by an RBI single by Mike Vilardo, produced the two runs in the fifth.
In game two, Penn starting pitcher freshman left-hander Jack Hartman pitched six innings, allowing one running, while striking out a season-high five batters.
Senior right-hander Cody Thomson pitched two innings of scoreless relief before Mike Reitcheck worked his way through a precarious ninth inning to pick up his second save on the day, and third overall.
Penn totaled just three hits in game two, getting two from senior outfielder Brandon Engelhardt, who also scored and drove in a run. Rick Brebner collected another RBI, giving him eight in the past two days.
The Quakers manufactured, what would turn out to be an all-important insurance run in the eighth inning, after a Ryan Mincher walk, Mitch Montaldo hit-by-pitch, and Engelhardt single, to score Mincher.
Reitcheck came on in the ninth and gave up one run, making the score 3-2, but managed to escape to any more trouble, ending the game with a punchout, on a called third strike.
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AMD's Big Bet on ARM Powered Servers: Opteron A1100 Revealedby Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014 12:00 PM EST
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Stuka87 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkUnless I missed it, what process are these being made on? I would hope they are one of the 20nm processes, but maybe they are still 28nm? Reply
VulgarDisplay - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThe article said 28nm. Reply
richricard - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkWhere...? Reply
VeauX - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkLast page, on the AMD slides bellow the "what is it" section Reply
dgingeri - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThis could be a great thing. As a systems admin, I can see the need for small, low power servers for local purposes.
They'd be great for branch offices or small offices who have much of their infrastructure in the cloud or remote datacenters. Imagine spending $1000 on a local domain controller and file server branch cache with everything else remote instead of having to spend the $5000 we do today.
They'd also be great for a local departmental authentication server in a large office. Keep one as a domain controller in the wiring closet with the local switches for each physical section of the office, and it would reduce the load on the main domain controller in the datacenter, reducing equipment requirements, power consumption, and cooling costs. It would also increase redundancy of the AD domain.
There are a lot of possibilities for this thing. Virtualization has already taken care of most of the uses it could have had, but lower power servers do offer an alternative to that, too. Reply
thesnowman - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkUnless you are going to use Linux and run samba for active directory and file server duties this CPU is not suitable. Windows Server does not run on ARM (yet). Reply
iAPX - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThe reference design is clearly tardeted at NAS, powerful NAS up to 8 drives, on the SOHO space. But I see an effective way to use it as Memcache server (without storage), benefitting of it's 128GB memory space with a power-effective CPU, probably 2 of them in a 1U box.
There's also other possibilities, such as SSD + 8core ARM CPU, 2 of them on a 1U box, for MongoDB or CouchDB.
Beside this reference design, there's a world of possibilities, considering this SoC and it's incredible potential (when it's not CPU-hungry tasks!) Reply
LarsBars - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkHas Microsoft ever dropped hints about future versions of Windows Server supporting ARM? Obviously they've done Windows on ARM before (Windows RT) but I've never heard any mention of Windows Server running on these new AMD ARM CPUs. Reply
LarsBars - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkOkay, I probably should have looked it up first: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2092620/microsoft-j...
I'm guessing a big blocker to Windows Server on ARM would be getting people to convert server workloads to run on ARM that currently run on x64. But I could actually see one potential usage for Windows Server ARM: storage spaces. If Windows Server 2012 R2 (or vNext) gets developed for ARM, we could see ARM-based Windows Server storage devices serving up SAN-competitive iSCSI and SMB storage, at a greatly reduced cost. Reply
someone0 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkMaybe, it's all depend on what the market wants. If people want enough servers on ARM, there will eventually be Windows server for ARM. and may even be based on RT. If you remember Windows for IA-64, that will tell you how much MS willing to bang its server OS off the x86 codes. If not linux will steal all the markets. OS for server is a different beast, most servers don't need to run the usual x86 and usual win32/64 based applications. Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI'm not sure why you'd want Storage Spaces. The marketing sounds great, but there are many complaints all over the web that it just doesn't work as well as advertised. Parity mode in particular has unusably slow write speeds, and you can't expand the pool in an ad hoc fashion as was originally advertised - you have to add a collection of drives simultaneously which effectively just builds a second pool. And don't even ask about rebalancing. Conventional RAID5 is actually more flexible in practice. Reply
hechacker1 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThe latest Server2012 updates have largely fixed it. Yes, it's slow, but that's for data consistency. If you enable SSD tiering, I can max out my network connection. Or you can enable the ram write cache, if you have a UPS.
The biggest problem is rebalancing, which it doesn't do. It also can't shrink a volume to safely remove a drive. But a lot of other RAID schemes don't support that either. Reply
easp - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkKeep in mind that Microsoft has quite a few servers of their own for Azure, Bing, etc. Thats the initial target market for this stuff, orgs that run their own software on big infrastructure. Reply
En1gma - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkusb? Reply
davegraham - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkStephen, you also have to remember that AMD has separate divisions now (retail and embedded). the Embedded side absolutely could and will integrate into SeaMicro. ;) so, just remember, a dev kit isn't anything more than that....a dev kit. the final integration stages remain to be seen. Reply
Stephen Barrett - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI agree with you completely. I was just hoping they would make a big announcement on that simultaneously instead of the weak reference system shown. Reply
BMNify - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkamd seem to have killed mass consumer/prosumer/SME uptake before they even start as these reference system designed 2U kit are being sold for 3000+ USD.
selling your initial reference boards for to high a price massivly limits AMD's ability to mass produce these soc quickly at a good mass consumer price ($200 per chip for testing and product OEM development etc) so no initial mass uptake, and far longer time scales to get parity with other mass produced customer hardware, remember its an untested soc, and they need to prove its viability PDQ to make their ROI back and pay their bills etc... Reply
iwod - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI must have missed it, why is it not targeting webserver application market?
I find myself asking the same question whenever there is an ARM Server SoC article. What exactly does A1100 does better then Intel's Airmont based Server SoC? Yes, Airmont, the "14nm" version of Silvermont, compared to 28nm of A1100. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkWe can only compare it with Avoton for now as details for Airmont are not known yet. And it should be a good deal faster than Avoton (especially given it has 3x the amount of L2/L3 cache) and at better perf/W. Whether Airmont increases performance is unclear, power is likely reduced, but so 20 or 16nm versions of Seatle might be available next year as well, and those would significantly increase clockspeed. Reply
tuxRoller - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkWow. If this a video accelerator, this would be a tremendous soc for a media server/nas.
All those sata ports, 10Gbe ports(!!!), ecc ram, and better performance/clock than silvermont when using the new isa. Reply
coburn_c - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkWhy are there no 28nm FX products. Why are there no micro atx/mini itx AM3+ boards. Why is AMD walking away from the performance market. Why would anyone buy ARM from AMD when their track record is to walk away from their customers? Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThere's a lot of "why"s in your post. I doubt they have the money to create a new FX line right now (28nm SHP doesn't clock as highly as 32nm SOI anyway). Their performance CPU lines are not popular enough (and probably too power hungry) to warrant uATX/mITX.
As for the last question, AMD have the market experience and are ahead of everybody else in bringing such a product to market. I doubt they'll have their own cake and eat it, but how they get on here will be a good indication for other ARM licensees as to what they can expect from releasing their own products. Besides, if you can't directly compete in traditional markets, you need to possess the agility to look for a market that you can compete in. That is kind of the point - in my eyes - to AMD hiring Rory Read in the first place, and should be answered over the next year. Reply
atlantico - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkAMD probably wants to make sure that the next FX they offer will be an unquestionably worthwhile upgrade. The FX line has been very good, in fact the FX8350 is still the best value chip available for purchase (though the FX8300 is a pretty good value too) - but the competition can offer better performance.
Like when the Radeon HD7900 line was introduced, an extremely good value GPU, it still didn't perform as well as the competition and many were reluctant to give credit to that line - but the 7900 GCN chip was a beginning, like the FX8300 line is.
The next major iteration of the architecture must be a worthwhile step up, and I'm sure AMD can deliver on the CPU front as they did on the GPU front, but as the GCN refresh took time, the FX refresh will too.
It will ship when it is ready. AMD is here to stay. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkStill don't see the point of this. it's niche. Visualization on a full server cores is just as efficient and offers other advantages. Yes it might be cheaper but if the difference of CPU cost usually is negligible in servers running software that costs millions per year. Reply
easp - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkIf you don't see the point, then you are so far from the target market, you should just skip articles like this in the future.
The primary market for this is for orgs that buy servers by the aisle (or data center), particularly those that own most of the software stack that runs on them.
Such people care a lot about power consumption. Balanced system architectures with a good balance between compute, memory bandwidth and I/O tend to be more efficient and can have capital cost advantages as well. Reply
Ammohunt - Thursday, August 14, 2014 - linkNot for OS agnostic highly threaded workloads. I have a lot of backend tasks here where i work that could be offloaded to say a KVM based virtual environment running on ARM. Environmentals are expensive and large blade chassis put a lot of load them. Reply
eyours12 - Sunday, August 17, 2014 - linkCool! Reply
firstname.lastname@example.com - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - linkIs the cryptographic co-processor an OpenCL device, or is limited to specific cryptographic functionality. The latter would be a mistake. It takes an ARM design and makes it more like Intel CPUs rather than the approach AMD has been promoting. Reply


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Cancer Institute Partners with Lux Center for the Arts for Week-Long EventMay 16 2012
LINCOLN, NEB — Saint Elizabeth Cancer Institute is celebrating cancer survivors with a week-long event called Expressions of Art & Hope beginning Monday, June 11. Lux Center for the Arts is bringing a series of art classes to Saint Elizabeth where cancer survivors can gain healing, strength, gratitude and peace from the creative process of self-expression and reflection.
The first Sunday in June has been designated as National Cancer Survivors Day®. A cancer survivor is anyone living with cancer – from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life, according to the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation. The National Cancer Institute reports that there are nearly 12 million cancer survivors in the United States and it is estimated that by 2020 there will be some 20 million people living with a history of cancer.
Major advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment have resulted in a growing number of cancer survivors. However, the physical, financial and emotional hardships of cancer often persist after diagnosis and treatment. This free program is designed to give survivors the opportunity to explore their voice through artistic expression as well as connect and gain support from other survivors.
"Cancer survivors face each day with courage and dignity and serve as an inspiration to all of us," says Mary Trauernicht RN, director of oncology at the Saint Elizabeth Cancer Institute. "We hope this program gives survivors the opportunity to become absorbed in their own creative process as they meet the challenges of cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship."
All cancer survivors are invited to join Saint Elizabeth for one or all of the art classes, which will be held June 11 – 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. Participants can learn about different styles of bookmaking, create a tile of personal significance, experiment with acrylic and watercolor paint and reflect on gratitude.
The Thursday night session is a continuation of a semi-annual retreat, Spiritual Pathways, which gives cancer survivors the opportunity to explore their spiritual needs with others who have a similar experience. Sister Elaine Herold, chaplain at Saint Elizabeth, will lead the group in creative writing while reflecting on gratitude. Participants can use the journal they created on Monday.
The program will conclude on Friday, June 22, with a Community Art Show where class participants can display the work created throughout the week. Family members of survivors - as well as community members - are also invited to attend the art show. In addition to the cancer survivors' artwork on display, Saint Elizabeth will feature artwork from Lilly Oncology on Canvas, a traveling display of artwork created by individuals touched by cancer.
More information is available at www.SaintElizabethOnline.com/ExpressionsofArtandHope. Registration is available online or by calling 402-219-7000. Early registration is encouraged as space is limited.
For more information about National Cancer Survivors Day, please visit www.ncsdf.org.
About Saint Elizabeth Cancer Institute
Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, founded more than 120 years ago, is a full-service, 260-bed nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Nebraska. Saint Elizabeth has been selected as a Top 100 Hospital® in the nation by Thomson Reuters five times and has been recognized as a Magnet hospital for excellence in nursing since 2004. Saint Elizabeth is guided by its core values of reverence, integrity, compassion, and excellence to devote funding and resources to programs and services that benefit their patients as well as the health of the greater community. Saint Elizabeth is part of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI).


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The competition hasn't been any easier for the 12th-ranked Saint Leo men's tennis team as the Lions fell to visiting No. 3 Lynn University in Sunshine State Conference action on Sunday afternoon.
The day's highlight for the fans of the Green and Gold came at No. 3 doubles as the Saint Leo tandem of Bruno Sisti and Matt Nicholson-Lewis defeated Simon Gloeckner and Alessio Iannozzi, 8-5. It was a win that had the Lions trailing just 2-1 heading into singles competition, but Lynn would run the table on the individual side, claiming the conference win.
With the victory, Lynn moves to 5-0 and 3-0 in the SSC while Saint Leo falls to 3-2 and 0-1 in conference with both of the Lions' losses coming to teams ranked first and third in the nation.
The Lions will look to regroup in less than 24 hours as they face their next SSC opponent when Florida Tech comes into the Saint Leo Tennis Center on Monday afternoon. The match is scheduled to get underway at 3:00 p.m.
#3 Lynn 8, #12 Saint Leo 1
02/17/13 at Saint Leo, Fla. (Saint Leo Tennis Center)
|Singles competition
|1. #4 Willi Wolfer (LUM) def. #21 Aloua Adjenak (SLM) 6-4, 6-3
|2. #17 Vlad Cirla (LUM) def. Bruno Sisti (SLM) 6-1, 6-4
|3. Max Kouyate (LUM) def. #29 Matt Nicholson-Lewis (SLM) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3
|4. #28 Alessio Iannozzi (LUM) def. Victor Lozier (SLM) 4-6, 6-4, retired
|5. Pavel Mohja (LUM) def. Ismail Lemtouni (SLM) 6-4, 6-5
|6. Simon Gloeckner (LUM) def. Jacobo Gonzalez (SLM) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 10-5
|Doubles competition
|1. #4 Willi Wolfer/Vlad Cirla (LUM) def. Victor Lozier/Ismail Lemtouni (SLM) 8-6
|2. Pavel Mohja/Max Kouyate (LUM) def. Fons Verberne/Jake Fleischer (SLM) 8-1
|3. Bruno Sisti/Matt Nicholson-Lewis (SLM) def. Simon Gloeckner/Alessio Iannozzi (LUM) 8-5
|Match Notes
|Lynn 5-0, 3-0 SSC; National ranking #3
|Saint Leo 3-2, 0-1 SSC; National ranking #12
|Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (2,4,1,3,5,6)


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Without Jesus being first, true leadership isn't possible
The church worldwide is facing a leadership crisis. Not only does it have too few leaders, but many of those leaders have weak spiritual lives. Media headlines in recent years attest to the compromise, worldliness, moral failure, human ambition and error in the church.
What's the underlying cause of this spiritual deficiency? A "disconnection" with Jesus. We must return to the centrality of the person of Jesus Christ. An inward union with Him isn't merely an important part of Christian leadership, it is the very nature of Christian leadership.
During His earthly ministry, Jesus lived in continuous union with His Father. This inward, spiritual fellowship was the source of everything in His life and ministry (see John 5:19). From this inward union came wisdom, discernment, power and miraculous works. As a result, Jesus perfectly revealed the Father: "If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. ... Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:7-9, NIV).
In the same way that Jesus lived by the indwelling life of His Father, so we are to live by the life of Jesus in us. We are to be in constant inward fellowship with Christ by His Spirit. Jesus' own leadership came entirely from His union with His Father, and He commissioned us to lead in the same way.
Biblical Christian leadership is not vision-based, competency-based, success-based or even values- or character-based; it is Christ-based. Everything must come from an inward union with Him. This is not merely semantics for the sake of influencing behavior. It is truth that goes to the very heart of how we understand Christian life and Christian leadership.
Making this distinction doesn't undermine the importance of vision, competency or character. In fact, it establishes that true vision, competency and character come from the indwelling life of Christ and not from human effort or capacity. "If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; [for] apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5, NIV).
Jesus isn't just describing the "best" way to true Christian leadership; He is showing us the only way. He is revealing that everything else is mere human works. He is pre-eminent (see Col. 1:18), and is the only true foundation for our lives and ministries (see 1 Cor. 3:11). Like a body without a head, true leadership isn't possible without Christ being first—not merely as a doctrine we agree with or a set of values we hold, but as a living, inward experience in our personal leadership.
Many Christian leaders are intellectually familiar with God and the things of God, but they are not intimately united with Him on a daily basis. Sadly, this lack of intimacy is aided in part by our current popular understanding of leadership. Today, much Christian leadership teaching consists of little more than business models of leadership or motivational "success" anecdotes from basketball coaches, football stars and wealthy businesspeople.
In the biblical paradigm, however, union with Christ and the cross, and dependency on the Holy Spirit are at the center. Jesus Himself is the beginning and end of all Christian leadership. He will not accept second place. He is worthy of absolute pre-eminence in our lives and ministries. Apart from Him, we will accomplish nothing of any lasting value. This is our only solution to the current leadership crisis—Jesus Himself
MALCOLM WEBBER is the founder and executive director of LeaderSource, which equips churches to build healthy leaders. His monthly Leadership Letters are read by thousands of Christian leaders worldwide.
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I take beachcombing seriously.
In my courtyard resides the nation's foremost collection of filet knife handles. The thought of all those rusted, detached blades keeps me shod.
The beach and dunes next to the house we rent between Gulf Shores, Ala., and the Fort Morgan – Dauphin Island ferry are a protected home for shorebirds and sea turtles.
Men and women in officially green, four-wheel vehicles travel the beach day and night. One night, I awakened in the middle of a Steven Spielberg/Stephen King movie to blue lights sweeping the beach house's big, communal room that is dining room, den and dormitory.
The lights came from the headlamps of the official green machines. The sea turtles are probably used to the nighttime convoy, but it was a full day before I could again lay and bury my eggs in the sand.
The beach patrol strings stout, red twine between poles to warn beachgoers away from the dunes and places on the beach where turtles have laid eggs.
The humans wear tool belts to hold the instruments required for cutting the red twine, driving metal poles, stapling, twisting, cutting whatever it is they attach to the poles and twine.
The humans accidentally drop these tools they use to force obedience on mere beach walkers but not hotels, golf courses and planned communities.
Beware the unplanned community.
People like me who can't take the sun and have no business in it walk along, beach monks, eyes to the ground, hands folded behind our backs.
There. Right there. The handles of needle-nose pliers jut from the sand. And, here, look, a face mask for diving that requires but a sluicing in the surf to put to order and use.
Here, everywhere, are the neon-colored shovels, rakes, pails of children. The tykes are plopped in the sand and told to get busy digging holes that will surprise early morning and late evening walkers.
Oops. Careful. Don't fall over the Mayan temple so carefully crafted that you look around for 4-inch Mayans.
Walking Pine Beach Trail, my walking partner and I came upon a mother eagle feeding babies the size of chickens. Father eagle flew low air support over the big, sloppy (but planned) nest.
A little farther on, we happened on a Great Blue Heron the size of a hotel doorman. The heron was fishing and paid us little mind.
Later that day, I walked onto our beach for a last look around before retiring. A small, light ball moved over the sand, kicked by unseen feet before nesting between tufts of sea oats.
An Adirondack-style chair the color of a neon fir was four houses down the beach from where it sat that morning. Whether moved by hands or wind or both, things on the beach are always traveling.
I knew the motion of the night was starting. I wanted to know the night as I'd known the day, but it was the time of sea turtles and the beach patrol who'd keep us safe and wakeful until morning.


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Observational Study of Early Metabolic and Vascular Changes in Obesity (STYJOBS)
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To work against the increasing burden of obesity, the STYJOBS / EDECTA (STYrian Juvenile OBesity Study / Early DetECtion of Atherosclerosis) project was started at the Medical University of Graz in 2003. STYJOBS / EDECTA is a prospective, observational study to improve the understanding of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular risk, immune mediated low grade inflammation, and metabolic changes in obesity by investigation of the "non-biased" early phase.
The main focus is the early identification of obesity and "worse lifestyle" related individual high risk profiles for cardiovascular/metabolic/immune-inflammatory disease in juvenile, young, and adult persons up to the age of 65 years. Based on this information, new and effective strategies are developed for preclinical diagnostics and early intervention. Concerning mechanisms of obesity and "bad" lifestyle associated pathologic conditions, risk biomarker patterns, chronic immune-mediated inflammation, disturbed adipokine balance, individual adipose tissue topography, brown and white adipose tissue (BAT/WAT) function, addiction like behaviour, genetics/epigenetics, early vascular pathology, and fatty liver disease are in focus of research. Interventional branches of study tested a holistic strategy comprehending sports, and lifestyle modification for efficiency. A better understanding of the role of a disturbed energy expenditure in the etiology of obesity should give the basis for new paradigms in therapy of obesity.
The investigative spectrum of STYJOBS / EDECTA was recently extended also to non-obese body weight extremes i.e. underweight/anorectic people.
|Obesity Atherosclerosis Inflammation Adiponectin Deficiency Fatty Liver
|Other: Lifestyle intervention
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Study for the Investigation of New Individual Risk Profiles and Therapeutic Strategies in Obesity Related Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders.
- Anthropometric changes(BMI, SAT-Topography, waist/hipCF, waist to height ratio) during intervention [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Obesity related biomarkers (fasting glucose, insulin, HOMA-index, HbA1c, liver transaminases, inflammatory markers, adipokines, clotting parameters, lipids, oxidative stress markers, Biomarkers related to tryptophan metabolism), performance diagnostics. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2003
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
The cohort consists of age and sex matched normal weighted controls and overweight/obese persons.
Definition for "overweight": BMI >90th and <97th percentile, if under 18 years of age, and BMI >25 and <29.9 kg/m2 if over 18 years of age.
Definition for "obese": BMI >97th percentile, if under 18 years of age, and BMI >30kg/m2, if over 18 years of age.
Other: Lifestyle intervention
Regular sports and dietary advices. Controlled by analysis of laboratory parameters, BMI change and performance diagnostics. No drugs included so far.
Other Name: lifestyle counseling
Interventional branch
A lifestyle intervention following a holistic schedule was done in a subgroup of obese juveniles.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Years to 55 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- general healthy condition except overweightness/obesity, age below 55 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- thyroid dysfunction, infections, chronic diseases (e.g. autoimmune, inflammatory), neoplasia
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00482924
|Contact: Harald Mangge, Prof., MD
|+43 316 385 ext 83340
|Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnosis
|Graz, Styria, Austria, 8036
|Contact: Harald Mangge, Prof., MD +43316 385 ext 83340 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Harald Mangge, Prof., MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Harald Mangge, Prof., MD
|Medical University of Graz, Austria
|Responsible Party:
|Harald Mangge, MD, Professor Dr.med., Medical University of Graz
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00482924 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 4, 2007
|Last Updated:
|April 8, 2016
Keywords provided by Harald Mangge, MD, Medical University of Graz:
cardiovascular risk profiles
low grade inflammation
insulin resistance
brown adipose tissue
white adipose tissue
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fatty Liver
Nutrition Disorders
Body Weight
Signs and Symptoms
Pathologic Processes
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
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