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Dallas: The hospital at the centre of the United States' Ebola outbreak admitted it made mistakes and has apologised, as a whistleblowing nurse described scenes of "chaos" there.
Thomas Duncan, 42, the first person to be diagnosed with the disease in the US, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on October 8 and two nurses who treated him - Nina Pham and Amber Vinson - contracted the virus.
Speaking at a congressional hearing in Washington, Daniel Varga, the chief clinical officer of Texas state health resources, the medical group that oversees Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, said: "We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. We are deeply sorry. Despite our best intentions, and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes."
He said there had been no Ebola training for staff before Mr Duncan was admitted.
The admission came as Briana Aguirre, a nurse, described scenes of "chaos" at the hospital with staff having no idea how to tackle the virus. She said the hazmat suit she was issued had a large gap in the neck and that materials used to treat suspected Ebola patients were left festering in corridors for days.
She claimed that suspected Ebola patients were wheeled around the hospital without protection and that doctors were told it was acceptable to move between rooms without disinfecting.
Her claims came amid growing criticism that the US response to the virus has been mismanaged. Some politicians called for the resignation of Dr Tom Frieden, the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and accused his organisation of "demonstrable failures".
At the congressional hearing, Dr Frieden defended his agency's handling of the Ebola crisis while conceding the agency may have allowed a Texas nurse to fly on a commercial airline even though she was among a group of health-care workers involved in treating the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the nation.
He said it was unlikely passengers who flew with the nurse were infected because the nurse had not vomited or bled on the flight, but he said she should not have boarded the plane.
At the hearing, several Republicans said flights from West Africa, where the virus is widespread, should be stopped.
Ebola has killed nearly 4500 people in West Africa, predominantly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, since March.
Dr Frieden argued that closing US borders would not work and would leave the country less able to track people with Ebola entering. Moreover, cutting flights to Africa would hit the US ability to stop the virus at its source, he said.
The congressional hearing comes as concerns about the virus in the United States are accelerating. Several schools in Ohio and Texas were closed after concerns that a nurse with Ebola travelled on a plane with people with ties to the schools.
In a tearful television interview, Miss Aguirre said she feared for her job but believed that colleagues would be "proud" of her for speaking out.
She said: "I can no longer defend my hospital at all. I'm embarrassed for my hospital. I watched them violate basic principles of nursing care, of medical care."
When Mr Duncan arrived in an ambulance he was put in an area with up to seven other patients and it took three hours to call the CDC, she said. A nurse caring for him was looking after three other patients at the same time and the scene was "chaotic".
Miss Aguirre said: "Our infectious disease department was contacted to ask 'What is our protocol?' And their answer was, 'We don't know'.
"There were no special precautions, no special gear. We did not know what to do with his lab specimens."
She said preparations for treating Ebola had consisted of an "optional seminar". She added: "It wasn't even suggested we go. I don't think any institution in the country is prepared for what to look for."
The Texas hospital defended itself against some accusations by Miss Aguirre, and similar ones from the National Nurses United union.
It said: "The assertions do not reflect actual facts learned from the medical record and interactions with clinical caregivers. Our hospital followed the CDC guidelines and sought additional guidance and clarity."
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National Gumbo Days at Liberty Kitchens
Friday – Sunday
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The Ukraine crisis and Western sanctions have cut deeply into the number of Russians travelling to Europe this summer, the government said on Wednesday.
"The fall ... has hit 30 percent following the deterioration in our international relations," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting on the tourism industry.
"That is bad news because it is our citizens who are paying the price as well as the economies of countries who welcome tourists," said Medvedev.
Growth was already slowing but the threat of painful Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis sparked massive capital flight and pushed Russians to hold off making big purchases, bringing the economy to the brink of recession.
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Hi Chris, I saved your email and hadn't replied yet. Here are my responses, thanks! > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 02:39 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat 6.0.29 using more and more RAM until it collapses? > > Brian, > > On 11/11/2010 1:54 PM, Brian wrote: > > I don't think my app is taking all this RAM, because when I restart > > it, the RAM usage doesn't go down. > > That doesn't necessarily mean that your webapp isn't using all that heap > space: it's very easy for a webapp to do something foolish and cause all of it's > used memory to stay active even after a webapp restart. Yes, now I know that. > I disagree with Ben's comment about database connections: there are faster > ways to bust your heap than leaking database connections. If you /are/ using > Tomcat's container-managed DataSource (which I highly recommend), you > should enable all of the abandoned resource tracking features to help fix any > resource leaks that you may have there. Well, the database relation with my code is not the problem, I'm using a pool and it works great. I don't know for what else should I use the DataSource. > I agree with Chuck's assessment, but there may be some questions we can ask to > help lead you down the right path when using tools such as memory profilers. > > 0. What kind of OOME are you suffering? Please post any messages that > you get when your heap busts. Specifically, is this a "regular" heap > exhaustion or a PermGen exhaustion? Good question, but I can't answer that. I think I lost my logs. :-( I will search for them again. But I could use the profiler now and responde whatever you would like to ask about how is it behaving now. > 1. Are you seeing any messages in catalina.out when you undeploy of > the form "your webapp likely has a memory leak"? Tomcat 6.0.x has > some nice checks on undeploy to see if your webapp is leaking > some specific things like threads, etc. Yeah, I have seen those lately. > 2. Are you re-starting your webapp a lot while Tomcat remains running? > Failure to perform some clean-up during webapp unload can cause > your entire set of classes loaded in the "old" webapp to stay in > the PermGen space forever. No, I don't restart them frequently. But I do redeploy them frequently, in the past I did it deleting the WAR in the directly and uploading a new one, now I'm suing the Tmocat Manager do undeploy and deploy again. > 3. Are you using any caching mechanism in your webapp? Perhaps it needs > to be tuned. You should probably check out what's in your > "application" scope: you may have things you didn't expect. I do have some caches in my objects. For example, the ir an object called "BrandsManager" which has methods like "getBrands(), getBrand(int id), insertBrand" and so on. The getBrands() method goes to the database only the first time, and then creates a LinkedList with the data. But I don't think this kind of caching is the problem, they consume a minimal amount of memory. > 4. Are you using HttpSession for anything bulky? It's possible that > you are "leaking" memory with lots of sessions. When a webapp > is stopped, though, all session should be purged and if you > have session persistence, they should all come back and take > up the same amount of memory. This is a long-shot, but low-hanging > fruit. No, I don't store anything big in the sessions. I just store some strings in them. Nothing serious. How do I know if I have session persistence? > You can get a lot of mileage out of a tool like "jmap" which comes with the JDK > (and JRE?): you can get a heap histogram and look at things that are taking up a > lot of space. If you find that you have several tens of megabytes of foo.bar.Baz > classes, then you can look at your app to see where you heavy uses of those > classes are. I'm already using yourkit, which I guess is even better. > To understand #2 a bit better, see Mark's presentation from this year's > ApacheCon NA: > http://people.apache.org/~markt/presentations/2010-11-04-Memory-Leaks- > 60mins.pdf I will now!! > It's worth a read to understand how simple things like using a logging library can > cause PermGen exhaustion after several webapp redeploy operations. Well, I'm using the Tomcat log indeed. And I also saw a lot of memory being used by that! But more memory is being used by the cached static pages, so I guess I should start with that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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3) Using the weekly challenges, look for ways to share what is happening in your classroom and school. Highlight your sucesses. Share things that interest you and are important to you and might be interesting and important for other educators like you.
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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 / Edition 1
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A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's "four corners." It was a time of exploration and conquest, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China's enigmatic history, focusing on China's rise as a naval power that literally could have ruled the world and at its precipitious plunge into isolation when a new emperor ascended the Dragon Throne.
During the brief period from 1405 to 1433, seven epic expeditions brought China's "treasure ships" across the China Seas and the Indian Ocean, from Taiwan to the spice islands of Indonesia and the Malabar coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the African coast, China's "El Dorado," and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook was credited with its discovery. With over 300 shipssome measuring as much as 400 feet long and 160 feet wide, with upwards of nine masts and twelve sails, and combined crews sometimes numbering over 28,000 menthe emperor Zhu Di's fantastic fleet was a virtual floating city, a naval expression of his Forbidden City in Beijing. The largest wooden boats ever built, these extraordinary ships were the most technically superior vessels in the world with innovations such as balanced rudders and bulwarked compartments that predated European ships by centuries. For thirty years foreign goods, medicines, geographic knowledge, and cultural insights flowed into China at an extraordinary rate, and China extended its sphere of political power and influence throughout the Indian Ocean. Half the world was in China's grasp, and the rest could easily have been, had the emperor so wished. But instead, China turned inward, as suceeding emperors forbade overseas travel and stopped all building and repair of oceangoing junks. Disobedient merchants and seamen were killed, and within a hundred years the greatest navy the world had ever known willed itself into extinction. The period of China's greatest outward expansion was followed by the period of its greatest isolation.
Drawing on eye-witness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China's most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of other cultures toward this little understood empire at the time. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming Dynastythe last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasions.
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7 Emissaries of the Dragon Throne,
8 The Auspicious Appearance of the Celestial Animals,
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Background Information- Born December 12, 1805 in Newburyport,MA. He died may 24 1879 in New York City, NY. William was a journalist. He helped lead the abolitionist campaign against slavery in the united states. He dies from a chronic kidney disease.
Accomplishments-Garrison published the Liberator in 1831. The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper. He owned his own newspaper. He believed that free states and slave states should be separate.


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The original Cy-Hawk Trophy, passed back and forth between the winners of every Iowa-Iowa State match since the rivalry returned from a decades-long hiatus in 1977, lasted 24 years without drawing much attention or scorn. Its successor lasted a little less than four days:
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — The new trophy designed for the winner of the annual Iowa-Iowa State gridiron showdown was scrapped Tuesday as organizers acknowledged it had too much to do with corn and not nearly enough to do with football.
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A temporary trophy will be designed for this year's game on Sept. 10. Fans will be able to suggest a design for the more permanent replacement.
"The new Cy-Hawk trophy, we trust, will truly be something fans will embrace," Floss said.
Within 48 hours of the new trophy's unveiling on Friday, its visage of a kneeling farmer handing over an ear of corn to a young boy while his mother looked on, second child in arm, had come in for such a sound mocking both nationally and within Iowa that even the governor himself felt compelled to tell the Associated Press, "I think they can do better." On the milder end, critics suggested the makeover was "a little weird," and a thinly veiled advertisement for its sponsor, Iowa Corn. At the other end, some Hawkeye fans stopped being polite and started swearing a lot.
Thus the Cy-Hawk Trophy becomes the second Midwestern tradition this offseason to botch its makeover to the point of no return, following Purdue's attempt to update its mascot, Purdue Pete, which was hastily recalled just a few days after the new Pete debuted at the spring game. As always, it is very, very easy to hate the new.
Now comes the hard part: With 18 days to go until the Hawkeyes and Cyclones kick off, what are they going to do for an "interim" trophy that keeps the haters at bay without resorting to something so generic it barely elicits a shrug? Fans will accept (or at least tolerate) hokey tokens that have earned their place over decades of drama and hate — see the countless buckets, jugs, turtles, axes, eggs and pigs that are literally meaningless outside of the context of cross-border feuds — and even acknowledge them as hallowed relics that help give college football its distinct, organic character. You know, after a while.
But you actually expect them to embrace some new brand of corporately backed hokum, without generations of tradition to fall back on? Get that junk out of here.
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To investigate the association between pre- and postdiagnosis physical activity (as well as change in prediagnosis to postdiagnosis physical activity) and mortality among women with breast cancer.
This was a prospective observational study of 933 women enrolled onto the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle Study who were diagnosed with local or regional breast cancer between 1995 and 1998 and observed until death or September 2004, whichever came first. The primary outcomes measured were total deaths and breast cancer deaths. The primary exposures were physical activity in the year before and 2 years after diagnosis and the pre- to postdiagnosis change in physical activity.
Compared with inactive women, the multivariable hazard ratios (HRs) for total deaths for women expending at least 9 metabolic equivalent hours per week (approximately 2 to 3 h/wk of brisk walking) were 0.69 (95% CI, 0.45 to 1.06; P = .045) for those active in the year before diagnosis and 0.33 (95% CI, 0.15 to 0.73; P = .046) for those active 2 years after diagnosis. Compared with women who were inactive both before and after diagnosis, women who increased physical activity after diagnosis had a 45% lower risk of death (HR = 0.55; 95% CI, 0.22 to 1.38), and women who decreased physical activity after diagnosis had a four-fold greater risk of death (HR = 3.95; 95% CI, 1.45 to 10.50).
Moderate-intensity physical activity after a diagnosis of breast cancer may improve prognosis.
More than 25 studies over the last 20 years have demonstrated that both premenopausal and postmenopausal women who are physically active have a 30% to 40% lower risk of developing breast cancer compared with sedentary women.1 Furthermore, recent publications have shown that approximately 2 to 3 h/wk of moderate-intensity physical activity after a breast cancer diagnosis is associated with a 40% to 50% lower risk of breast cancer death.2-4 Similar amounts of physical activity after a diagnosis of colon cancer have been associated with an approximate 60% lower risk of death.5,6 The beneficial effects of physical activity may be mediated through a reduction in body fat and beneficial changes in metabolic and sex hormones, growth factors, adipokines, immune function, or inflammation.7,8
In an effort to quantify the amount and timing of physical activity necessary for improving breast cancer prognosis, we examined the association between physical activity, assessed in the year before and 2 years after diagnosis, and mortality in an ethnically diverse sample of breast cancer survivors enrolled onto the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) Study.
The HEAL Study is a population-based, multicenter, multiethnic prospective cohort study that has enrolled 1,183 breast cancer survivors to determine whether lifestyle, hormones, and other exposures affect breast cancer prognosis.9-11 Women were recruited through Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries in New Mexico, Los Angeles County, and Western Washington. Women with first primary breast cancer were contacted to determine eligibility. Details of the study have been published previously.9-11
Briefly, in New Mexico, we recruited 615 women, age 18 years or older, diagnosed with in situ to regional breast cancer between July 1996 and March 1999, and living in Bernalillo, Sante Fe, Sandoval, Valencia, or Taos Counties. In Western Washington, we recruited 202 women, between the ages of 40 and 64 years, diagnosed with in situ to regional breast cancer between September 1997 and September 1998, and living in King, Pierce, or Snohomish Counties. In Los Angeles County, 366 black women with in situ to regional breast cancer, who had participated in the Los Angeles portion of the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study (a case-control study of invasive breast cancer) or who had participated in a parallel case-control study of in situ breast cancer, were recruited for the HEAL Study. Eligible participants from these two studies were the subset of black women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between May 1995 and May 1998. Both Washington and Los Angeles restricted eligibility to women age 35 to 64 years at diagnosis because of competing studies and by design of the parent study.
A total of 1,183 women completed in-person baseline interviews, which were conducted 6 ± 2 months (median, 5 months) after diagnosis. Among these women, 933 were diagnosed with local and regional breast cancer. A total of 944 women completed the follow-up interview conducted 3 years after diagnosis (median, 2.5 years). In the interval between the baseline and 3-year interview, 54 of these women experienced a recurrence or new breast primary. These women contributed to analyses regarding physical activity before diagnosis but not to analyses of physical activity after diagnosis. Also, 202 women were excluded from postdiagnosis analyses because of missing physical activity data (n = 8) and a diagnosis of in situ breast cancer (n = 194). Thus, our prediagnosis and postdiagnosis physical activity analyses are based on a sample of 933 and 688 breast cancer survivors, respectively (Fig 1). The study was performed with the approval of the institutional review boards of participating centers, in accord with an assurance filed with and approved by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
We collected information on all types of physical activity, including recreational, occupational, and household activities, using the interview-administered Modifiable Activity Questionnaire developed by Kriska.12 This questionnaire has been shown to have high validity and reliability (r = 0.73 with doubly labeled water and r = 0.92 for 3-week test-retest).12 Participants recalled the type, duration, and frequency of physical activities for the year before diagnosis at the baseline interview (Washington and New Mexico) and at the 3-year postdiagnosis interview (all three sites). Data from Los Angeles for prediagnosis physical activity were collected using a lifetime physical activity questionnaire that provided sufficient detail to classify activity according to the Modifiable Activity Questionnaire.13 Each activity was categorized as light (< 3 metabolic equivalents of energy expenditure [MET]), moderate (3 to 6 MET), or vigorous (> 6 MET).14
Follow-up time ranged from 5 to 8 years from diagnosis, with a median follow-up time of 6 years. Women were observed until death or September 30, 2004, whichever occurred first. SEER records were used to determine the vital status of participants. Prior literature indicates that breast cancer death is accurately reported on death certificates, with confirmation rates that are greater than 93% when comparing death certificates with medical records.15
At the 3-year follow-up data collection point, women were asked whether they had any disease recurrences or new breast cancers diagnosed, breast biopsy or surgery, new adjuvant treatment, bone or computed tomography scan, or hospitalizations. A positive response triggered a request for medical records to confirm details of each recurrence or second primary breast cancer. New breast cancer primaries were also identified through linkage with SEER records. Six women self-reported recurrence or a new breast primary that was not confirmed via medical records.
Trained staff measured weight and height at the baseline (Washington and New Mexico) and 3-year postdiagnosis assessments (all three sites). Measurements of weight and height were made to the nearest 0.1 kg and 0.1 cm, respectively, with women wearing light indoor clothing and no shoes. All measurements were performed twice and averaged for a final value.
Medical history, demographic, and lifestyle information was collected at the baseline and 3-year visits. Information on disease stage, hormone receptor status, adjuvant therapy, and hormonal therapy was abstracted from SEER records and from physician and hospital medical records. Information on diet was collected at the 3-year follow-up assessment using a 120-item self-administered food frequency questionnaire.16
Cox proportional hazards models were fit to our data using time since the baseline or 3-year interview as the underlying time variable. We calculated the hazard ratio (HR) of death in one exposure group and compared it with the HR in a referent exposure group adjusting for potential confounding factors. Two outcomes were defined; these were total deaths and breast cancer deaths (with deaths from other causes censored).
Physical activity was measured as activity in the year before diagnosis, activity in the second year after diagnosis, and change in physical activity between these two reference points. We conducted analyses with physical activity classified in tertiles, as the recommended amount of physical activity (ie, 0, > 0 to < 9, and ≥ 9 MET-h/wk, with 9 MET-h/wk equal to approximately 150 min/wk of moderate-intensity physical activity),17 and in physical activity categories similar to the Holmes et al2 publication (ie, 0, > 0 to < 9, ≥ 9 to < 15, ≥ 15 to < 24, and ≥ 24 MET-h/wk). Results were similar for each of the classification approaches used and for different types of physical activity; thus, we present our results using categories of recommended recreational physical activity. Categories for change in physical activity from before to after diagnosis were classified as inactive (ie, 0 MET-h/wk before and after diagnosis), a decrease in activity of more than 3 MET-h/wk, maintenance of activity within 3 MET-h/wk, or an increase in activity of at least 3 MET-h/wk. For all three physical activity analyses, the 0 MET-h/wk category was the reference group.
We evaluated the relationship between physical activity and death using an age-adjusted model and a multivariable model with adjustments for age, race, disease stage, treatment, tamoxifen use at the baseline or 3-year interview, body mass index at the 3-year follow-up interview, fruit/vegetable servings per day at the 3-year follow-up interview, and prediagnosis physical activity for analysis of change in physical activity. Other covariates considered were study site, education, parity, age at first full-term pregnancy, family history of breast cancer, estrogen receptor (ER) status, menopausal status, history of smoking, history of oral contraceptive use, and diet. However, because none of these covariates altered the HR by more than 10% and because some of the covariates were strongly associated with covariates already included in the analyses (eg, race and study site), they were not included in the multivariable-adjusted models.
To minimize the possible influence of recurrent disease on postdiagnosis physical activity, we did a subgroup analysis excluding women who had an adverse event (recurrence, new primary, or death) within the 2 years after completing the postdiagnosis physical activity questionnaire. We also considered whether the association between postdiagnosis physical activity and death varied according to certain demographic and prognostic variables.
We tested for heterogeneity of trends in risk using a 1-df χ2 test. In addition, a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis examining 5-year survival, stratified by physical activity category, was conducted. All analyses were performed using SAS Version 8.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).
Among the 933 women included in this analysis, there were 164 deaths (115 from breast cancer), 56 breast cancer recurrences, and 40 new breast primaries. The distribution of covariates according to category of physical activity in the year before diagnosis is shown in Table 1.
Table 2 lists the age- and multivariable-adjusted HRs for total deaths and breast cancer deaths by recreational physical activity in the year before diagnosis. Women who engaged in at least 9 MET-h/wk of physical activity had a 31% lower risk of death (HR = 0.69; 95% CI, 0.45 to 1.06; P for trend = .045) compared with women who were inactive in the year before diagnosis. Results were essentially unchanged after excluding women who had an adverse event (ie, recurrence, new primary, or death) within 2 years of diagnosis (n = 49).
Results for analyses examining the association between physical activity during the second year after diagnosis and adverse outcomes are listed in Table 3. Women who reported participating in any recreational physical activity or at least 9 MET-h/wk 2 years after diagnosis had 64% and 67% lower risk of death than inactive women (HR = 0.36; 95% CI, 0.17 to 0.73; and HR = 0.33; 95% CI, 0.15 to 0.73; P for trend = .0046), respectively. Results were essentially unchanged even after excluding women who experienced a recurrence, new primary, or death within 2 years after completing the postdiagnosis physical activity questionnaire (n = 24). Furthermore, results were similar when we used the five physical activity categories (similar to the Nurses' Health Study categories) of less than 3, 3 to 8.9, 9 to 14.9, 15 to 23.9, and more than 24 MET-h/wk. Compared with women who engaged in less than 3 MET-h/wk of physical activity, the multivariable adjusted HRs of total deaths were 0.39 (95% CI, 0.16 to 0.95) for 3 to 8.9 MET-h/wk, 0.38 (95% CI, 0.11 to 1.28) for 9 to 14.9 MET-h/wk, 0.78 (95% CI, 0.33 to 1.84) for 15 to 23.9 MET-h/wk, and 0.27 (95% CI, 0.08 to 0.94) for 24 or more MET-h/wk (P for trend = .038).
Table 4 lists the HRs of adverse outcomes according to change in physical activity from before to after breast cancer diagnosis. Women who decreased their physical activity were at an approximate four-fold increased risk of experiencing a death than inactive women (HR = 3.95; 95% CI, 1.45 to 10.50). Results were similar after excluding women who had an adverse event (ie, recurrence, new primary, or death) within the 2 years after completing the postdiagnosis physical activity questionnaire (n = 24). African American race and prediagnosis physical activity were statistically significant covariates.
The protective benefit of physical activity seemed to be stronger in certain subgroups, including women diagnosed with a higher stage of disease and women with tumors that were ER positive (Table 5). However, we did not have the power to demonstrate statistically significant differences in these stratified analyses because of the small number of events in some of the subgroups. The unadjusted 5-year survival rates for women who engaged in 9 or more MET-h/wk, more than 0 but less than 9 MET-h/wk, and 0 MET-h/wk after diagnosis were 94%, 89%, and 71%.
Fast walking was the most common postdiagnosis recreational activity performed by HEAL participants. Bicycling and yoga were the second and third most common recreational activities reported, respectively.
We found that women who participated in any moderate-intensity recreational physical activity, such as brisk walking, after diagnosis had an approximately 64% lower risk of death than inactive women. Furthermore, exercising at recommended amounts of 2.5 h/wk of moderate-intensity physical activity compared with no exercise was associated with a slightly higher risk reduction of 67%.17 Although our risk reductions were observed for total deaths, the majority of deaths were from breast cancer.
Our results of an inverse association between postdiagnosis physical activity and total deaths are similar to the three other reports examining this relationship2-4 and two reports examining postdiagnosis physical activity and colon cancer deaths5,6; however, the amount of exercise necessary for reducing the risk of death differed for our study compared with the other reports. We observed an association with any recreational physical activity, whereas the other studies observed associations with approximately 2 to 3 hours per week of physical activity. The HEAL Study included a more detailed assessment of physical activity than the other studies, asking about 20 different types of activities and their average duration per session, thus allowing us to more accurately categorize women as inactive, somewhat active, or active at recommended levels. Furthermore, our final results focused on recreational physical activity (eg, brisk walking for exercise) rather than any type of physical activity (eg, gardening). Additional differences between the HEAL Study and the other breast cancer studies include sample size and date of diagnosis; our cohort of women with breast cancer (N = 933) was smaller than the cohort of women enrolled onto the other breast cancer studies (N = 1,490 to 4,482), and HEAL participants were diagnosed in a more recent time period (1996 to 1999) than some of the other studies (1984 to 1998).
Because study recruitment occurred between 1995 and 1999, the majority of women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer were taking tamoxifen, and during the study follow-up period, less than 1% of the sample reported switching from tamoxifen to aromatase inhibitors. Among women with known ER status, an inverse association between participating in physical activity and death was observed among women whose tumors were ER positive but not among women whose tumors were ER negative. Similar findings were observed for breast cancer death. The Nurses' Health Study also observed stronger influences of physical activity on breast cancer death among women whose tumors were ER positive (relative risk = 0.50; 95% CI, 0.34 to 0.74).2 Associations between physical activity and breast cancer outcomes were hypothesized to be stronger in women with ER-positive disease because of the observed beneficial effect of exercise on estrogen levels.18 Thus, the association between physical activity and reduced risk for death may be explained by effects on sex hormones. However, physical activity may affect death via additional mechanisms including reduced insulin levels or reduced inflammation markers.8
A strength of the HEAL study is that we assessed whether change in physical activity from before to after diagnosis was associated with adverse outcomes relative to women who remained inactive before and after diagnosis. We found an increased risk of death with decreasing physical activity after adjusting for important covariates. We have previously reported that HEAL women who decreased their physical activity levels from before to after diagnosis gained more weight than women who increased their physical activity levels.10 Thus, weight gain may partly explain the increased HR observed among women who decreased their physical activity levels.19,20 These findings emphasize the importance of participating in physical activity after a diagnosis of breast cancer to gain the maximum benefits of physical activity on survival. Although one study has examined change in physical activity on colon cancer prognosis,5 no other study has examined change in physical activity on breast cancer prognosis, and few studies have examined physical activity before diagnosis and prognosis in cancer survivors.21,22 Nonsignificant associations were observed for physical activity in the year before diagnosis and survival by Abrahamson et al21 and Enger and Bernstein.22
Other strengths of the HEAL study include the quality of the physical activity data. Although we report recreational physical activity, similar associations were observed with any type of moderate-intensity physical activity. Other strengths include measured weight at the 3-year visit, a multiethnic cohort of breast cancer survivors, and results adjusted for various prognostic and lifestyle factors including dietary patterns. Compared with the Women's Healthy Eating and Living observational analysis of greater survival after breast cancer among physically active women with high vegetable/fruit intake, the protective benefit of participating in physical activity among HEAL women was similar among women eating less than five versus five or more vegetable/fruit servings per day relative to women reporting less than five vegetable/fruit servings per day and no physical activity.
In the HEAL study, physical activity was statistically significantly associated with total deaths but not breast cancer deaths. Given that the majority of deaths were from breast cancer, our lack of statistical significance is most likely a result of the fewer number of deaths, and therefore, there was insufficient power to examine the association between physical activity and breast cancer deaths. Other limitations include lack of uniform eligibility criteria, the inability to separate race and study site, and self-report of physical activity.
In conclusion, our results suggest that participating in any moderate-intensity recreational physical activity, such as brisk walking, after a diagnosis of breast cancer is associated with a lower risk of death. Encouraging women to maintain or increase their physical activity after a diagnosis of breast cancer may be beneficial to their overall health. Future studies examining the association between physical activity and breast cancer outcomes are needed, as are randomized controlled trials examining the potential effect of physical activity on prognosis in women.
The author(s) indicated no potential conflicts of interest.
Conception and design: Melinda L. Irwin, Anne McTiernan, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Financial support: Anne McTiernan, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Administrative support: Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Provision of study materials or patients: Melinda L. Irwin, Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Collection and assembly of data: Melinda L. Irwin, Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Data analysis and interpretation: Melinda L. Irwin, Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Kathy Cronin, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Manuscript writing: Melinda L. Irwin, Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Kathy Cronin, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
Final approval of manuscript: Melinda L. Irwin, Ashley Wilder Smith, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Kathy Cronin, Frank D. Gilliland, Richard N. Baumgartner, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Leslie Bernstein
We thank Kristin LaCroix, Shelley Tworoger, and Lynda McVarish for their contributions to the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) study, as well as the HEAL participants for their ongoing dedication to this study.
Supported by National Cancer Institute Grants No. N01-CN-75036-20, NO1-CN-05228, and NO1-PC-67010 and Training Grant No. T32 CA09661. A portion of this work was conducted through the Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington and supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant No. M01-RR-00037 and the University of New Mexico Grant No. NCRR M01-RR-0997. Data collection for the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study at the University of Southern California was supported by Contract No. N01-HD-3-3175 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and patient identification was supported in part by Contract No. 050Q-8709-S1528 from the California Department of Health Services.
Authors' disclosures of potential conflicts of interest and author contributions are found at the end of this article.
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 10:47 a.m. to 10:47 a.m.
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For more information: Martha Zimicki; spiritsalive.org/events.htm
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Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for the Eastern Cemetery, is encouraging those interested in the cemeteries of Peaks Island to join them in visiting the old graveyards there.
Take the 9:30 am Casco Bay Lines ferry (round-trip ticket $7.70) from Portland. This will get you there in time to meet in front of the general store on Peaks Island at 10:00 am.
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We hope Matt will show us some of his own gravestone carvings! Wear appropriate shoes and layers for walking the island. Bring a lunch or grab a sandwich at the general store after the tour, and catch the 12:45 pm ferry back to Portland. Anyone who wishes to stay on the island for the day might enjoy a visit to the Fifth Regiment Museum and return on the 2:45 pm ferry.


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During his earthly ministry, Jesus was regularly approached by people asking for healing, and he healed them. The question is, can he do the same today? This sermon explores others as well: Why is there sickness? Does healing replace traditional medicine? Is all healing from God? Why does God heal? Can everyone receive healing in this life? When will all of God's people receive healing? And more.
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HANOVER, N.H. - For the Penn volleyball team, looking for its first Ivy League title since 2003, Friday's 3-1 win over Dartmouth (30-24, 30-27, 27-30, 30-19) was a big step. Senior Anna Shlimak recorded a career-high 19 kills to lead the Quakers (11-7, 4-2)to within a half game ofthe second-place Big Green (12-5, 5-2).
"Our senior captain really stepped up for us tonight," said head coach Kerry Carr. "She was there with the career-high in kills, and she was also able to come up with big service aces, digs, and blocks. This was exactly what we needed from Anna tonight."
Penn has now won five of its last six matches. The win in Hanover Friday marked the first road victory for the Quakers in the Ivy League.
Shlimak started the match quickly, recording seven kills and six of her 17 digs in the first game. The score was tight for much of the match, but after the Big Green evened it at 22-22, Penn rattled off eight of the next ten points for the victory. Freshman Julia Swanson contributed four kills, while senior Linda Zhang set up 16 of her 55 assists in the match.
Coming off the win in the first game, the Quakers jumped out to a 7-3 lead early in the second game. Dartmouth battled back, though, and tied the score at 7. After the teams exchanged points, Penn again seemed to take control, pulling out to a 22-16 lead. The relentless Big Green pulled to within one, though, at 23-22.
Again, Shlimak came up big for the Quakers, with one of her four kills in the game to regain the serve for Penn and give the team a little breathing room. Dartmouth continued to threaten, but could never tie the score and the Red and Blue eventually pulled out a 30-27 victory. Freshman Julia Swanson led the team with five kills in the game.
Despite a dogged defensive effort in the third game that saw the Quakers outblock Dartmouth 5-1, the Big Green's persistance paid off in the form of a 30-27 victory. Shlimak added six more kills and two block assists, while sophomore Natalie Drucker added four kills and two assists in the losing effort.
In the fourth game, the Quakers were picked up by two more of its veteran leaders. Senior Laura Black and junior Kathryn Turner had four kills each and Black added two block assists as the Quakers ran away with a 30-19 victory that sealed the match. Behind three services aces from Shlimak, the team ran out to a 10-3 lead.
Shlimak (19), Swanson (14) and Turner (12) all finished with double figure kills, while Drucker pounded in nine and Black added eight. Shlimak added three block assists and four service aces to go along with her 17 digs to round out her career night.
Freshman Madison Wojciechowski registered a match-high 20 digs, a stat that was not lost on Carr. "Madison was there for every dig," she said. "We had a solid defense and kept our intensity up all night tonight."
The team outblocked Dartmouth 10-6 and shot at a .230 clip for the match.
The Quakers are back in action tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. when they take on Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. Video of the game will be available for Penn Sports Network subscribers.


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Memorial Day weekend
This is always a bittersweet time for me because it is the anniversary of my son Grey's death 15 years ago. Martin and I had just returned from a trip to Japan, were recovering from jet lag, when very early---still dark---on that morning, we got the phone call from Germany telling us of the F-15 crash that had taken his life. Within hours we were packing for Germany, getting emergency expedited passports for a daughter and grandson who had none, plane tickets (Northwest Airlines: Bereavement fare? No ma'am, never heard of such a thing. That'll be $4000)
It is all a bit of a blur. But the memory of him and his too-short life is not.
This was taken about a year before he died.
But at the same time, Martin and I are celebrating an anniversary---our 30th---and last night had dinner with the friends who introduced us to each other....


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It's been a year since first post appeared on this blog. I made foray into blogosphere during the month of January 2006, but it took me nearly 7 months to decide what should I be writing about-would it be a personal account, a photo blog, etc., etc., and finally I decided why not I write about the issues related to Arunachal Pradesh? And so, I started with post on the attitude of Directorate of Higher and Technical Education towards the students while sending them for higher studies outside the state and the problems faced by them (Find it here).
Looking Back
When I started this blog, I was not sure if I could keep going on writing on this blog. A time came when I thought, that's it, I' m no more blogging, but support from Cho and Tallo and their contribution to Arunachal Diary and the words of encouragement from you readers kept me going.
During the year the blog sported different looks (hope you liked it) and I tried to incorporate new functionality in the blog like nav tabs (check out Home and About tab above the banner)-which is
has to be made functional now.
While looking back at the posts that I did during the year, I found some posts utterly silly, some which I thought was good and some really bad. Never-the-less, below are some of the posts which I personally liked.
Callousness of Deptt. of Higher and Technical Education – the reason I liked it being the first post that I did.
Become a 'Millionaire' overnight
Is branding of Arunachal Pradesh a parasitic state justified?
Where do we belong…India or China?-this was what came to my mind instantly when I heard about Chinese Ambassador's claim on Arunachal Pradesh.
I saw, I analysed and I hated it
Our feathered friends are in danger
Can Tani language become a lingua franca of Tani group?
Donyi-Poloism-Is it really an indigenous faith or an alternate form of Hinduism?
Lastly, thank you readers once again for letting Arunachal Diary cruise through a year. Do keep visiting and put in your comments.


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"(The government is) considering auction route for ONGC (disinvestment). No time line fixed as yet. Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to meet again shortly", Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, S Jaipal Reddy, told reporters after the meeting of the EGoM here.
As regards BHEL, Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister Praful Patel said, "no decision on BHEL disinvestment...May happen next fiscal".
The EGoM, which met under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was slated to take a call on stake sale in the two major PSUs with a view to garnering about Rs 14,500 crore in the current fiscal itself.
The government in the budget for 2011-12 had envisaged to raise Rs 40,000 crore through PSU disinvestment, but in over 10 months it could mop up only Rs 1,145 crore from stake sale in the Power Finance Corporation (PFC).
The target of Rs 40,000 crore, according to Disinvestment Secretary Mohammad Haleem Khan, "is now almost impossible (to meet)".
He further said that a final picture with regard to raising funds from disinvestment in the current fiscal would emerge after the next meeting of the EGoM.


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Fortescue Metals Group will halve its spending on projects after taking the knife to its $US1.3 billion capital budget for the 2015 financial year.
On Friday, the miner joined Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in aggressively cutting capital, with the Perth-based miner now set to spend just $US650 million this financial year.
But in an attempt to distance Fortescue from the two major miners, who have defended export expansions amid weak commodity prices, Mr Power said the cuts were made because; "In the current environment it is prudent to defer investing additional capital that increases supply into the market".
The spending cut will see Fortescue's exploration budget savaged, and the deferral of a $US100 million detrital processing plant, which was expected to treat 5 million tonnes per year from mid 2015 onward.
The miner will also look for cheaper ways to complete the purchase of a group of very large ore carriers, which are designed to lower freight costs to China.
In a statement to the ASX after the close of trading, Fortescue said alternative funding or ownership models for the large vessels were being investigated.
Fortescue chief executive Nev Power said the spending cuts would improve cashflow while maintaining export guidance for the 2015 financial year at between 155 million tonnes and 160 million tonnes.
"We will maximise output from our world class mining and infrastructure assets and remain focused on factors within our control to ensure the efficiency of operations and cash discipline to continue the program of early, voluntary debt repayment," he said.
Fortescue said it would complete the construction of its fifth berth at Port Hedland but would look to do so more efficiently.
Iron ore prices were fetching $US69.98 per tonne on Friday, less than half the price they were fetching on December 9, 2013.
It is the second time Fortescue has taken quick action to respond to a fall in the iron ore price, after it halted an expansion project in September 2012.
Despite rumours the miner may close its Cloudbreak mine in response to weak iron ore prices, Fortescue last night insisted it would not be closing Cloudbreak.
Fortescue shares rose 8¢ to close the week at $2.94.


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Author | exchange4media News Service | Thursday, Nov 01,2007 8:10 AM
BAG Films and Media Ltd has reported a stand-alone net profit of Rs 1.14 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, up 45 per cent as compared to Rs 78.6 lakh in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. The company's net income during the quarter was marginally up at Rs 12 crore, from Rs 11.8 crore for the corresponding quarter last fiscal.
Commenting on the performance for Q2 FY08, Anurradha Prasad, Managing Director, BAG Films & Media Ltd, said, "Our performance in the quarter ended September 30, 2007 has been quite satisfactory. Strong emphasis on cost control measures have yielded higher bottom line. Going forward, we are confident of continuing to achieve healthy revenue and profitability growth."
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Smart Bar
At the time of this show, Sonic Youth's second LPBad Moon Risinghad been out a few months. Explicitly designed as a fresh break for the band Moore and Lee Ranaldo devised guitar tunings which made much of their previous material unplayable it forms nearly all of the set's first half. Death Valley 69, perhaps their first crack at making beat-poet capital from pop culture mythology (see later songs like Hey Joni and Tunic), has a massive-sounding guitar intro that, for those present, may well have felt like the room was being sucked into a giant plughole. Gordon, subbing for LP-version guest Lydia Lunch, yowls with some menace. - Drowned In Sound
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If you want to know which direction the stock market is going, just look at it. It will tell you.
That's why the best-known mantra about market direction is: The trend is your friend.
If the trend is up, you buy more stocks. If the trend is down, you take cover or sell stocks.
Since 2009, the trend has clearly been up, up, and away. In fact, since the bull broke free from the bear's claws in March 2009, the S&P 500 is up 200%.
And since the election of Donald Trump, the grade of the uptrend has gotten steeper with markets setting new all-time higher highs.
Another Wall Street mantra is: The trend is your friend until the end when it bends.
And that's the problem right now.
Investors looking at the long, long uptrend are scared the election of Donald Trump as America's 45th president precipitated a final push higher and that now we're facing the bend that ends up breaking the back of this old bull.
I laid out my bullish case and why markets can double in a few years here on Wednesday.
Today, I'll point out the hurdles, sinkholes, and black swans out there we should worry about that could interrupt the market's march higher…
The Biggest Obstacles in Our Way Right Now
The two hurdles right in front of us are the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and the confirmation process his cabinet nominees will be subject to.
Inauguration Day is Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Donald Trump takes the oath of office at 12 p.m. EST at the U.S. Capitol, officially marking the peaceful transfer of power at noon from the outgoing to the incoming elected president of the United States of America.
Given the demonstrations, protests, and downright anger over the election results, there's a possibility the Inauguration could be marred by protesters on site, and possibly protests around the country. If protests turn violent or disruptive enough, they could frighten investors over the weekend into taking profits on Monday. That's a stretch, which is why it's only a hurdle to the bull's march higher.
The other market hurdle right in front of us is the whole process of confirmation hearings and the gauntlet the soon-to-be president's cabinet nominees will have to traverse.
The last push higher for stocks, since the election, has been about optimism and expectations that President-elect Trump's proposed policies (such as tax cuts, fiscal stimulus, and deregulation) will generate corporate profits, cash, and buybacks in a banking environment less impeded by stifling regulations.
Markets could be prone to profit-taking if Mr. Trump's candidates are rejected, or if the whole process gets drawn out so he isn't able to implement policies markets are counting on, or if he's impeded from governing because his cabinet is in limbo. While that would be unprecedented, given the bitterness Democrats feel about losing the election, they could take a stand for their constituents and wreak havoc on the smooth running of the executive branch.
That's unlikely, but possible. That's why it's a hurdle the market's facing.
Then there are the possible upcoming sinkholes markets are facing.
That Sinking Feeling
Tax cuts are expected. If there aren't any, or if cuts aren't viewed as being appropriate or stimulative, that would leave markets with a sinking feeling and could precipitate a sell off.
Fiscal stimulus sounds good. Rebuilding America's infrastructure is necessary. Creating good paying jobs for workers doing all the work that's necessary would be a huge positive for the economy. But fiscal stimulus isn't a slam dunk.
How the new administration proposes to pay for enough stimulus to make a difference in economic growth, without blowing up the deficit, is a serious concern. The Obama administration promised millions of "shovel-ready" infrastructure fixing jobs to spur economic growth, and nothing happened. If there's no immediate push towards meaningful fiscal stimulus, markets would get another sinking feeling.
All the talk about deregulation has been a boon to stocks. Prospects that burdensome environmental, energy, and banking regulations, will be cut back or eliminated makes corporations salivate. They make investors hopeful that reduced regulatory burdens will get quickly translated down to the bottom line and help lift share prices.
But regulations, even if they are burdensome, aren't all bad. Clean air and water are as important as economic growth and rising stocks. And deregulating banks that have a history of blowing up the economy and markets isn't a smart idea if their greed gets the better of them.
Markets are counting on a deregulatory push, which won't be an easy sell in Congress. If the clearing investors expect remains guarded enough to corral higher profitability expectations, that's going to engender another sinking feeling.
The biggest sinkhole markets face is themselves.
They've gotten ahead of themselves. The rise since Nov. 8, 2016, took the forward price/earnings multiple (PE) on the S&P 500 up one full percentage point to 17.6, according to Thomson Reuters. That's 17.3% higher than the long-term average of 15. But that's forward earnings expectations coming from analysts, who are usually way off. The actual, or trailing earnings for the S&P 500 for 2016, meaning what the companies in the index earned versus the price of the total index, was a whopping 24.82. That's only 65.5% higher than the historical average.
Earnings matter. Not only are forward earnings estimates going to be hard to meet, they face a huge headwind from the rising dollar, which is up 5% just since the election. Every 5% increase in the dollar translates into a 3% earnings hit for the S&P 500, and a half-point drag on domestic GDP growth.
Unfulfilled earnings expectations could be the sinkhole most likely to derail the charging bull.
And, of course, there are always black (more accurately, grey) swans out there, and we know what some of them might look like.
Somewhere over the horizon are nesting problems that include: the European Union breaking up; capital outflows from China and the collapse of its currency; currency wars; regular wars; and all the true black swans we don't know exist.
Those hurdles, sinkholes and black swans, are why I'm worried, though I know that since 2009 the likes of all these worries have been steamrolled by the raging bull market.
So, I remain optimistic and bullish… until the trend starts to bend and comes to an end.
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