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Topic: Meeting today at Winship Cancer Institute (Emory Hospital)
We met today with Dr El-Rayes, oncologist at WCI. We feel much better about our options after talking to him. We're definitely going with WCI over Dekalb Medical Center (Decatur GA).
The tumor board at WCI is going to meet on December 8th to discuss the next steps. Although he's not an oncology surgeon, he believe the surgeon will determine that the tumor is not resectable at this time.
However the options to shrink it are:
1) Chemo (Gemcitabine/Cisplatin)
2) Chemoembolism
3) Radioembollism
We feel better about the methods and procedures at WCI than we were at Dekalb Medical Center; although I am sure DMC is a fine medical facility. However my wife and I feel that WCI offers more options.
We also have contacted M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, TX. However because WCI is 5 miles from where we live and is also a National Cancer Center, and we had a good meeting with Dr El-Rayes, we're going to go with them in the interest of time.


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Bethany in Beirut - A visit to the drop-in medical center of Saint Antoine
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Iraqi refugees forgotten victims of the Syrian civil war
Zena and Elias have six children – Dilor, Diana, Dali, Dany, Dalida and David. Three months ago they fled here from Baghdad. Zina's brother-in-law had just been murdered. He had found a job on the American base – that was reason enough for the islamists to lie in wait and kill him. Elias was also working on the US camp. When the threats began to multiply, they decided to flee, Zena explains. Now she is here with her three children in the drop-in clinic run by the Good Shepherd Sisters. She needs medicines, but has no money. Her sister is here also. She has eight children – Merla, Mazen, Mark, Orita, Sarah, Fadi, Josef and Nora. They too were threatened. But she does not wish to give her real name. When you hear her story, you understand at once. She had just taken her eldest daughter to school. "We can no longer allow them onto the streets alone in Baghdad", she explains. But as she was driving home, "some men blocked the road and forced me to get out of the car. "You are Christians", they told her. "You have no right to live in this land." Then they beat and raped her, leaving her lying unconscious on the road. When she came to, she was in hospital. Her aunt had collected her daughter and found her. "You must leave; the next time you will be dead." Two days later they left everything and fled to Erbil in the North, to her parents. They stayed there for a month. Every night she woke up screaming. She sold the last of her valuables; her sister in Australia send them some money. With it they were able to get as far as Beirut. She doesn't want to return. She wants to go to a country "where we can live as Christians". Asked her children's names, she immediately shows us their passports. She has them with her always, as though she is clinging to her identity, the only thing that is left to her.So now they are refugees. They do not want to stay in Beirut. True, as Chaldean refugees from Iraq, they can live here safely. But life is very expensive and they have nothing. No home, no house; a great question mark hanging over their future, and even over what they will eat tomorrow. Here in the St Anthony's clinic they for the first time find a welcome – and a sense of dignity. "Most people come here after experiencing terrible things", says Petronille, one of the two social workers. "They are traumatized. Many have a sense of deep shame; they ask only for medicines, but one can see in their faces how greatly the need psychological support and guidance." Indeed, the case of the two sisters in Baghdad is by no means even the worst. One young mother, with two children and nine months pregnant, was ambushed in Baghdad by islamists and raped. Her unborn child did not survive. They fled. For a year and a half she was in a deep depression, listless and withdrawn. Petronille visited her almost every day. Now she has come back to life. The same thing happened with the 14-year-old girl who was raped by five islamists and fled to Beirut together with her 16-year-old brother; for a year she spoke not a single word. She didn't want to see anybody. Petronille visited her two or three times every week, organised a visa for her for America, built bridges for her back into life. Now the girl is in the USA. "She is speaking again and has rediscovered her will to live." Petronille visits many families, helping them to fill out forms, advising them on looking for jobs, helping to find the right schools for their children. Is she a Christian, someone asks her. "Certainly, and very grateful for the fact," she responds, beaming. She has by now acquired a specialist training for traumatised cases. The drop-in centre also has two psychologists and two psychiatrists, plus several doctors – in all a team of 11 people. Most of them work for nothing, "though we have to pay at least something to some of them – needless to say far too little – but they have families and have to live", says Sister Hanna, the director of the centre. "They come to us although our resources are meager and our medical equipment antiquated. They see something of the Good Shepherd in us." The economic situation of the center is certainly precarious. Given the expected influx of refugees from Syria, the major aid agencies such as the UN and Caritas have cut their aid for the Iraqi refugees, "sometimes by as much as 50%. But we cannot simply send people away. They trust us." In the corridor sits Zaer, from Kirkuk, aged 24. Together with his wife, Sandrine, who is 22, he fled here three months ago from Kirkuk, bringing her elderly father with them. Soon afterwards Sandrine noticed a lump in her breast. The diagnosis was cancer. "She had to be operated on and is now on a course of chemotherapy, says Sister Hanna. "Up to now one of the major agencies has paid for the chemotherapy medication – $2,000 a session. Now they have cut off the aid. But we can't just leave the two of them to their fate." Zaer cares for his wife with self-sacrificing devotion. Today he has taken his lunch break to come and find out if her treatment can continue. "A 'No' would be tantamount to a death sentence. We can't do that." Sister Hanna has experienced many miraculous moments of grace. "The Good Shepherd is here, but we can't simply sit idly by and wait." The sisters pray and work a great deal. Last year alone she and her team treated 15,113 patients. Of these 2,818 were children from Iraq and 2,415 children from other countries. Altogether 4,381 women and 3,718 men from Iraq found help here. With many of the children and the elderly the cause of their illness was quite simply a nutritional deficiency; though123 patients required psychotherapeutic treatment. The tiny consultation rooms are simple but clean, the equipment sparse and makeshift; only a few of the "boxes" have air conditioning. Even though it is the weekend, around two dozen people are squeezed into the waiting-niches and corners. Medically speaking, first aid is all that can be supplied here; humanly speaking, however, there is much more to it than this. "For these people this center is Bethany" – which roughly translated means "house of misery", or also "house of dates". It refers of course to that insignificant village on the east slopes of the Mount of Olives, around a mile and a half from Jerusalem, that was home to Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary. According to the Scriptures this house was a place where Jesus was able to find rest among people who loved him and listened to him, a place where he was always welcomed and where they attended to him with devotion. In exactly this sense the center of Saint Antoine run by the Good Shepherd Sisters is a sort of "Bethany in Beirut".The international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is supporting the Good Shepherd Sisters. Given the growing need, our help will have to grow as well. For the Iraqi refugees have now become the forgotten victims of the civil war in Syria. And then there are the Christians who have previously fled from Iraq to Syria and who are now having to flee once again. "There are 12,000 of them at present, and every day another 10 families from Syria arrive here", says the Bishop of the Chaldeans in Beirut. "And none of them want to go back there." But Lebanon is more than merely a transit station. For in this "Bethany in Beirut" these Christians are able to rediscover their sense of dignity and self worth. This is a knowledge that is nourishment for their remaining journey in life.

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Galvis out of hospital, recovering from MRSA
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Freddy Galvis is still recovering from MRSA, but the infielder is out of the hospital and is optimistic he could play for the Phillies in three weeks.
Galvis was in good spirits on Tuesday afternoon, his first day back at the Phillies' Spring Training complex after spending four days in the hospital. Fortunately, the infection in his left knee did not spread to the joints or muscles. He'll be on antibiotics for two weeks and hopes to begin baseball activities in five days, with a goal of returning to the Major Leagues by the end of April.
"It might be maybe three weeks," Galvis said when asked when he will be back on a big league field. "After they take off the stitches it will be five days, then I'll be running and starting baseball stuff. I think my arm is good, my legs are good. I think my swing will be good. So maybe two or three weeks."
But Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. cautioned that Galvis might not be ready to play in April.
"Yeah, it could be two to three weeks, it could be six to eight weeks," Amaro said. "We just don't know. I think a lot depends on how quickly his wounds heal and how quickly he can get into some baseball activities. As far as his infection is concerned, he's not out of the woods, but optimistically he's taken pretty well to the antibiotics so far."
Regardless of the timetable, it's a positive sign for the Phillies that Galvis is out of the hospital.
"It was good to see him back," manager Ryne Sandberg said. "He told me the four days he spent in the bed made him weak, but other than that, he felt good about everything and is coming along. He is headed in the right direction."
With Galvis at least a few weeks away from joining the Phillies, the club remains thin in the infield. Reid Brignac and Cesar Hernandez are now the only utility infielders in Major League camp, and Amaro said he's looking at options both inside and outside the organization.
Austin Laymance is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jalaymance. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Edgar Allan Poe: In the Shadow of the Raven
Actor Duffy Hudson portrays Edgar Allan Poe, who rises from the scene of his mysterious death to tell his life story. April is National Poetry Month, and Poe is one of our country's most well-known poets.
Apr 11, 2011
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Join us for this incredible performance. Some reviews:
Duffy Hudson was engaging, funny, and witty as Edgar Allen Poe; and open, artless, and conversant during the audience Q & A. There was not a dull moment in the performance. Though previously not a big fan of Poe, I was drawn to him by watching Hudson's depiction. He brought Poe and his work to life!" (PS—After the performance I went home and pulled out all our Poe literature)
Jeanne Bradley
"I got to see Hal Holbrook doing "Mark Twain" and Duffy Hudson's "Edgar" compares very favorably…a magnificent performance!"
"Unbelievable! He held us spellbound from start to finish! He really became Edgar Allan Poe."
Laural Ronk, Executive Director Bluffs Arts Council
"So far, in my entire life, I have never experienced such a beautiful and mind opening show. The theories and attention to detail involved in this show opened my mind in ways I never thought possible."


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I'd hazard a guess that more than half of the money we spend on IT infrastructure goes to ensuring uptime. Whether that takes the form of redundant power supplies, redundant disks, multicore network architectures, high-availability server clusters, or fully replicated backup data centers, we build our infrastructures not "just in case" of failure, but because we know failure will eventually occur.
And we're usually not disappointed. I've lost count of how many failed SAN disks and controllers, servers, and network equipment I've seen -- probably thousands over the years. Doesn't matter who made the equipment -- it could be the biggest, most respected name in storage or networking -- it all breaks at some point or another.
[ Learn how data deduplication can slow the explosive growth of data with Keith Schultz's Deep Dive Report. | Looking to revise your storage strategy? See InfoWorld's iGuide to the Enterprise Data Explosion. ]
We're now at a point, however, where failure has become much more complicated. As storage has moved from simple, striped disk volumes to virtualized storage platforms and deduplication, the old standby of throwing more redundant hardware at the reliability problem doesn't always cut it. Every time you add a new feature to optimize or more effectively manage storage, you need more software to drive all the hardware. Often, that software is where the worst problems arise.
Recently, I worked with a client to design and implement a fairly complex new backup architecture. One key component of that configuration was a fairly large, high-performance VTL (Virtual Tape Library). The VTL was chosen as part of the design because it offered easy integration with the client's existing backup infrastructure and provided excellent deduplication capabilities -- essentially allowing them to keep months of backups in a nearline state where they could be easily and quickly restored -- rather than the few days that their previous, non-deduplicated disk-to-disk to tape solution had allowed.
Last week, the VTL decided for some reason that one of the emulated tape cartridges was corrupt. There was no real indication as to why; the hardware seemed to be working fine. Obviously, that didn't inspire confidence, but hey, things break. I've seen a few corrupted physical tape cartridges in my time. You learn to have a backup plan for your backup plan and roll with it.
The manufacturer's first-line support suggested that the client delete that cartridge and then reboot the VTL (fourth-level support and engineering would later say this was the last thing you should do, but that's an entirely different topic). Having done that, the VTL couldn't bring the affected virtual library online at all. That's because that cartridge -- really a massive collection of deduplicated data blocks on a disk array -- wasn't deleted cleanly and had taken with it all of the blocks that had been in common with many of the other virtual tape media. That one poorly conceived troubleshooting step had essentially rendered 20TB of backups useless in one fell swoop.


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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Three people were killed and one person was left in critical condition after a fiery collision Sunday in northwest Harris County.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies said Katie Thomas, 21, was driving a white Ford Mustang the wrong way on Highway 290 near Binford when she slammed head-on into a Ford Explorer.
Deputies said Thomas died in the wreck.
Investigators said three 18-year-old freshmen Corp of Cadets members from Texas A&M were in the Explorer.
Deputies said the Explorer burst into flames. Amy Pacheco, who drove the Explorer, and her back seat passenger, Miguel Hernandez, were killed.
Investigators said Francisco Campos was the front-seat passenger in the Explorer. He was critically injured.
Detectives said bottles of alcohol were found inside the Mustang, leading them to believe alcohol was a factor. An autopsy will determine if Thomas was intoxicated.
Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets released the following statement on Sunday:
"We in the Corp of Cadets and at Texas A&M University, are in mourning over the loss of two of our cadets in a tragic car accident early this morning.
We offer our sincerest condolences, thoughts and prayers to their family and friends."
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Camera Comics!
Smash! Boom! Pow! Watch out! The Dubois Library recently acquired two issues of Camera Comics!
Published in the 1940s by the U. S. Camera Publishing Corporation, each issue includes real stories about figures in the history of photography, such as Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Daguerre, as well as jam packed action from characters such as Linda Lens (based on Margaret Bourke-White) and Kid Click. Hints, such as using a coat hanger to serve as a support for a camera tripod, or using an L-shaped pipe cleaner as a tool for cleaning out dust and bits of film from cameras, and advice, such as "tell only one story per picture, no more," were included in an effort to inspire the next generation of young photographers.
U. S. Camera Publishing Corporation was founded by Tom Maloney, who went on to publish the U. S. Camera Annual from 1939-1965, as well as the magazine U. S. Camera, and the influential books: Edward Weston's California and the West, Paul Outerbridge's Photographing in Color, and Ansel Adams' Born Free and Equal. Maloney's lasting legacy of photography publications, which also includes children's books and instructional manuals, has had a significant impact on American photography, but I have to say, my inner 9-year old loves the comics the best!
For more on Tom Maloney and his contributions to the world of American photography, see Gary Saretzky's 2004 article, "U.S. Camera: A Thomas J. Maloney Chronology" in The Photo Review, vol. 26:4/27:1 (available in the Dubois Library).


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A Merton UKIP candidate has been suspended by the party after "extreme racist views" were posted on his Twitter feed.
A series of tweets posted on Andre Lampitt's Twitter branded Islam as 'evil', claimed Ed Miliband is 'not British' and that he wanted Africans to 'kill themselves off'.
UKIP's 2014 election broadcast features Andre Lampitt, a Merton Council election candidate, in a hard hat. The video also features current Merton councillor Suzanne Evans, who defected from the Conservatives last year. (YouTube)
Mr Lampitt, a Zimbabwean decorator, featured in UKIP's election broadcast, on Wednesday, in which he wore a builder's hat and complained that 'lads from Eastern Europe' were undercutting him.
Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, has launched an investigation into the incident and said he was 'very angry'.
A UKIP spokesman said: "We are deeply shocked that Mr Lampitt has expressed such repellent views.
"His membership of the party has been suspended immediately pending a full disciplinary process."
Mr Lampitt is featured in the party's 2014 party political broadcast, ahead of the European elections and local council elections on May 22.
He is the second speaker in the video. The first speaker is Councillor Suzanne Evans, who defected to the party from the Conservatives last year and is filmed outside Wimbledon's Centre Court Shopping Centre.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Maintenance crews are inspecting a JetBlue flight that was forced to return to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shortly after takeoff because of a bird strike.
Flight 1751 was bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a bird struck one of the engines Monday morning. An airline statement says the plane returned to the airport and landed safely. Crews are inspecting the aircraft for damage.
There were 142 passengers and five crew members on board at the time.
On Saturday, a US Airways flight from Key West, Fla., to Charlotte was diverted to Fort Myers after a bird strike. No injuries were reported.
In 2009, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in New York after striking a flock of geese.
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Each administrative department at Bentley has a Key User. These individuals possess a wealth of technical knowledge and should be your first point of contact for computing assistance.
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Is the country better off than it was four years ago? Are you and your family better off than you were four years ago? How you answer those questions may determine who wins the presidential election.
It was in the 1980 presidential contest that Ronald Reagan first asked the question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
In 2007, when President George W. Bush's White House representative Dana Perino was asked a question about one of the biggest foreign policy crises in American history, she drew a blank. "I was panicked a bit because I really don't know about ... the Cuban missile crisis," she later told NPR. "It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure."
It's clear that Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan want the No. 2 job. But why?
Is America still a land of promise? The biblical metaphor was used in 1785 by George Washington, who described the new United States as a "second land of promise." More than a century later, the progressive journalist Herbert Croly wrote: "From the beginning the Land of Democracy has been figured as the Land of Promise."
In next month's three presidential debates, President Obama and Mitt Romney will be asked a wide range of questions crucial to the future of America. But if history is any guide, they are unlikely to answer many of them. Even worse, most of us won't even notice.
To some, the Chicago teachers' strike that ended Tuesday proves what they've been saying all along: That the teachers and their unions, when you get right down to it, care more about protecting bad teachers, seniority and pay than they do about what is good for kids.
What is best for Georgia students? That is the question that should always be front and center when discussing education reform.
What will the result of the constitutional amendment on the November ballot mean to Northeast Georgia school districts? How will it impact Gainesville and Hall County schools?
AUSTIN, Texas - A friend is barely able to pay for a child's education. Another nearly loses her business. Yet another nearly loses his home. And for those who lose good jobs, like a woman in New York, "It's overwhelming."
"I'm so glad you talked about maternity leave," an obviously pregnant young woman said to me as I was walking out the door after giving a speech to a group of federal employees, about my book, "The New Feminist Agenda."
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the American economy is slowly and sluggishly recovering from one of the worst recessions in its history. Many sectors of the economy have been hit very hard by the downturn.
Americans are having something of an anger management moment. Tweeters hated on NBC's coverage of the Olympics, campaign crowds heckle both presidential candidates, and viewers lost interest in the last season of "American Idol" because the judges were too nice.
Without a personal identification card issued by some level of government, you are a second-class citizen. You cannot board an airplane, ride an Amtrak train, buy a six-pack of beer or a pack of cigarettes, open a checking account, enter many public and some private office buildings or even attend an NAACP convention without proving that you are who you say you are. You cannot even qualify for means-tested public support programs such as Medicaid without valid identification.
The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble, and there's no telling whether it will survive. It's been battered by the Internet and a dragging economy, besieged by commercial competitors and stymied in its efforts to trim a costly web of post offices and delivery routes. On Aug. 1, it defaulted on a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury for future retiree health benefits.
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