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|Trad, 13 pitches, Grade V
|YDS: 5.10d French: 6b+ Ewbanks: 21 UIAA: VII+ ZA: 21 British: E3 5b [details]
|Ed Webster & Joe Kaelin, 1979 see description for full
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By Todd Bauck
Jun 4, 2001
|Good description by Charles Vernon. A few additional comments: End pitch 1 under the second roof. It is a poor stance, but it is protected from rockfall (the second pitch could easily generate some). Pitches 3 & 4 can be combined with a 60 m rope. The variation he reported for pitch 6 is not bad. You climb up the corner directly above the belay for about 30' and reach way around the arete to your left to clip a sling. Hand traverse around the arete and back up the the fixed piece (it will be the last piece you can get in for a while). Down climb the ramp and climb up the rounded Pegemite lieback to the block with slings. On pitch 7, there is a chockstone in the crack that can be slung just before traversing right under the roof. On pitch 8, about 30' after passing the bush, leave the wide crack and do a rising traverse left to a good ledge (one person could bivy here). This keeps down the rope drag on the following pitch (plus it is a nice belay spot).
By Todd Bauck
Jun 27, 2001
|To find the Cruise Gully, go halfway between the campground and the ranger station and look for a trail on the South side. About 40' along this trail is a sign saying that this is the Cruise Gully.
By Anonymous Coward
Jul 10, 2001
|Wasn't the motto: "A rack, a rope, and a little bit of dope"? -S.L.
By Anonymous Coward
Apr 18, 2002
|Alternative pitch description: P1: Climb the entire initial corner, and the broken rock and short corner above in one pitch, belaying at the top-most stance where Cruise diverges. 5.8, 85m, simul-climbing required. P2: Climb right and up, through the 5.9/5.10 bulge and continue up crack to old slings at a stance. 5.10, 55m. P3: Continue up the crack to the end at a ramp right, continue up through pegmatite and the peg traverse, moving left to belay at a spike almost below the crux corner. 5.10, 55+m. P4: Climb the corner, step right and up some wide cracks to a flat ledge with an old bolt, on your right. 5.10, 50m. P5: Step left, up a crack, then lower angle face leading to left side of big flakes. Climb around flakes on left and up and right to 2-bolt anchor. 5.9, 55m. P6: Traverse right, climb short bolted face, then up and right on peg to a bulge with a crack, then up to good ledge below final broken headwall. 5.9, 55m. P7: Traverse left to a crack/corner system, then straight up past small overhangs to broken ledges below the terrace. 5.9, 75m, simul-climbing required. Carefully climb up and right to get top the terrace. Walk left almost to the end to a short class 4 break and the rim.
By Bryson Slothower
May 12, 2002
|With a 70 meter rope this can be done in 9 excellent pitches.....
By Anonymous Coward
May 22, 2002
|With a 600m rope, this can be done as one pretty darn good pitch.
By Anonymous Coward
May 22, 2002
Please note that the route description in the new Black Canyon guidebook contains a significant error, i.e. the pegmatite traverse is described as going right, whereas we all know it as a leftwards' traverse.
For those desiring a little obscure tidbit, on the original FFA of the Cruise by Dunn & Wiggins they did not climb the now-popularized "crux corner" on the pitch above where the Cruise and Scenic Cruise meet (right after the peg traverse). Instead they climbed what is now referred to as the "Wiggins finger crack". This takes off to the right of the corner, near the horn where people belay after the peg traverse. It is difficult (5.11), sustained, long, and slightly under-nourished in the protection department, but quite good climbing. This is also the purported aid line on the original Kor-Dalke.
Also, AC, with a 600m rope you'll be short.
By piz
Oct 30, 2002
70m cord4-5 pitches3-4 hrs
keys to success:dont stop to look aroundsimul everything!
have fun
By Anonymous Coward
Oct 30, 2002
60m rope.5-6 pitches, no rope drag.4 hours rim-to-rim.
key to success:stop to savor the experience.have it all ruthlessly wired.
any idea on the roped 2-person time record? can it be done faster than 2:48 (the new record for the Nose)? sure hope so.
By Charles Vernon
From: Tucson, AZ
Oct 30, 2002
|According to speedclimbing.com the record is 3 and 1/2 hours, by Jim Dunn and Kerry Gunther. Slower than the Nose (of El Cap)--guess that makes this a grade VI ;)
By Anonymous Coward
Oct 30, 2002
|Or... a 60 meter cord, ten to twelve pitches, 5 to 10 hours and what a great route in a spectacular setting.
By Bill Wright
Oct 30, 2002
Charles, the record you mention is car-to-car. It seems possible that they took 45 minutes to descend the gully and rope up. That would put the route time at 2h45 and faster than the new Nose record. :-)
This route is MUCH shorter than the Nose of El Cap (15 pitches vs. 33 pitches) and MUCH easier (5.10d vs. 5.14). Hans and Yuji would likely be able to do this route (after climbing it at least once or twice) in well under two hours, probably under 90 minutes, and maybe under an hour.
That said, it is more than enough route to kick my butt. We did it in 14 hours car-to-car, I think. Had some trouble finding the easiest way up top and had to do some aid to get off. Clearly I was off route there. A fun adventure route.
By Anonymous Coward
Oct 30, 2002
The rules should be a little different for speedcliming the Scenic Cruise vs something on El Cap. On the SC both climbers should free climb every pitch. So jugging, short roping, pulling on a piece, etc are out- not that these techniques are at all required to climb this route fast.
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 30, 2002
Or ...
no ropeno rope drag
keys to success:figure out how to get to the base without rapping!don't fall
Personally, I was happy to have a fat rope, loads of gear and a better partner to (barely) see the rim before darkness ...
By Max schon
May 25, 2004
rating: 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
|Charle's route description is quite good. Couple of points: combining pitches 4 & 5 isn't that bad. While these pitches are pumpy, there are quite a few rests to recoup energy. On pitch 8, I wouldn't recommend the crack on the right through the nasty bush. The crack on the left has got a little shit in it, but will allow you to make it to the top of the flake in one pitch. Prudent runner use will alleviate rope drag.
By Anonymous Coward
Aug 10, 2004
|Somebody once told me they thought this route was the best climb in Colorado. I don't know about that but it's pretty good. How can their be a best or favorite climb anywhere? Aren't all climbs really different and every experience different? You hear climbers say it a lot: "Thats the best climb I've ever done" . I just think it's a weird statement, especially coming from the mouths of talented experienced climbers. Whoa! I'm babbling, I'm injured and I 've eaten too much percocet . Sorry.
By Bosier Parsons
From: Colorado Springs, CO
Aug 14, 2004
I climbed the route for the first time with Kerry Gunter on June 11th or so this year. The weather was perfect and we were one of four total parties in the whole canyon. Climbing here in June is recommended if you just watch the weather and pick a cooler day.
We did the route in 9 pitches with a 70M rope, rim-to-rim in 8 hours.
We climbed a 2 pitch variation at the top of the route. Instead of going left, continue up on steep edges and flakes, trending slightly left towards the end of the pitch. Belay on a nice ledge with a right facing flake/corner system above you, and a steep right facing corner above that. This pitch was about 9+ but with somewhat questionable pro, but great climbing.
The last pitch of this variation goes straight up the steep overhanging corner, and steps right around the small roof at the top of the corner (about 10b or 10c, with a fixed wire at the crux). Continue up and slightly left around a corner to a large left facing corner, which leads to a 2 or 3 move hand traverse right to the top of the wall and the walk-off.
By Rob Dillon
Jun 11, 2005
Upper version of the peg traverse: Not Recommended. It's hard, not real safe, and the second ends up downclimbing 5.9+ face for 20' to the belay, with a factor-2 consequence if the ledge doesn't slow you down. Bootied a 0.75 Camalot, though....
This is the going-up-the-corner-to-the-triangular-roof version mentioned in an old Rock & Ice article.
[2008 edit: All the way up the corner, yes. I heard that George Bracksieck had been told that a variation existed that went that way and insisted that it be noted in the article, despite no one's having any firsthand information on it. Just one among the many reasons to be leery of the old R&I mini-topos...]
By Anonymous Coward
Jun 12, 2005
|Rob, are you talking about going up the corner and then traversing out at the fixed nut, or going all the way up the corner to its end and then ???I don't even recall what if anything noticable was up above that corner.
By eric whewell
From: Longmont, CO
Jul 15, 2005
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|Classic. This route goes quickly for a competent team.
By Tom Dickey
Apr 22, 2009
|Option for those days that may be crowded, or during the hot season: We started down the gully at 3:00 pm, then headed up the route with light bivy sacks and pile jackets, Goretex etc in a small pack with a couple of cans of Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned peaches, etc. When we got to that big ledge halfway up, we bivvied (spacious for 2) then headed up next morning. We were in the shade the entire time and had no crowds. I've done it both ways. The bivy adds a nice dimension and feel to the climb.
By blakeherrington
Jun 4, 2009
rating: 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|What a route! I could believe it as the best in Colorado. So many pitches would be *** at a crag.
By Devan Johnson
Jun 13, 2009
Adam Brink and I climbed this route last week. Our impressions:
-Simul climbing the first 300' is definitely the way to go.
- Retreating from this route would be epic! There are no fixed anchors and the traversing nature of the pitches would make it difficult, although I'm sure it's been done plenty of times before.
- We found the pitches before and after the traverse to be the crux. Both were well protected where it mattered (although the first 20' of the pitch after the traverse offers no pro). The harder sections involved making a few moves off of insecure fingerlocks/liebacks to bomber jams.
- I didn't lead the traverse, but still found it to be a serious undertaking! Not super hard, but runout and heady. My partner did it with a cool head, no problem, but I imagine that I would have taken a much longer time to commit had I been on the sharp end.
Have fun on this one - it lives up to the hype!
By Peter Yakovchuk
From: Tempe, AZ
Jun 1, 2011
|I think the crux was the beginning of a long 5.10 pitch, right after you climb into a sort of dihedral with finger crack. But probably not harder than 10c. Traverse pitch is not bad, maybe 9+? And the pitch after traverse is definitely easier than the first long 5.10 pitch. Awesome climb. We also climbed it in 9 pitches with a 70m rope.
By orin salah
Jun 10, 2011
Just climbed this a couple days ago and I wanted to add a few notes.
We were using the topo from the guidebook along with the written description from here on MP. I have since realized that the pitch numbers do not really match up...I probably should have looked into that a little more before climbing! But here's the deal for anyone interested:
What is described as pitches 1 and 2 here on MP is shown as pitches 1 to 3 in the guidebook. What is described here as pitch 3 is shown as part of pitch 4 in the guidebook. The only reason this matters is that Charles mentions his partner linking pitches 4 and 5 in one monster 200' pitch. It would not be possible to link pitches 4 and 5 as they are shown in the guidebook as it would be about 300' of climbing. Guess you could simul....
Otherwise, I found the descriptions here on MP to be excellent; the route was fantastic and I would highly recommend it.
By Scotty Nelson
From: Boulder
May 21, 2012
|Contrary to the comments here, we found P4 / aka the pitch before the Peg traverse to be NTB / 5.10- as stated on the topo. P6 / after the Peg Traverse was burly, undoubtedly the crux for us. Make sure to take a C4 Camalot on this pitch. Also, if I do the route again, I would like to take a drill kit and replace the horrible rivet on P10. That move is kind of hard and unnecessarily dangerous. If there's a hole already there, there's no good reason not to put a proper bolt in it.
By Eric Shon
From: Phoenix
Jun 28, 2013
|How are the temps on this route in the middle of summer? Does it get a lot of sun?
By Charles Vernon
From: Tucson, AZ
Jun 29, 2013
Really hot and yes.
[edit] Then again, I see you're from Phoenix. Perhaps you'll have a different perspective on "heat."
By Robbie Brown
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Jan 11, 2014
|Nice of you to respond to a question posed by a climber using the alias erection...
By WadeM
From: Golden, Co
May 4, 2014
Climbed this weekend.
Gray Mastercam to orange, #0.5-2, doubles in 3, 1 #4.
Bring an extra 2 if you're uncomfortable running out the PERFECT hands on the enduro pitch.
By Eric Sjoden
May 6, 2014
|"Dude, looks like the number 4 didn't make it to the rack last night". Never mind how it happened, it is definitely NOT what I wanted to hear at the top of the second pitch. We had doubles through a #3 and never felt uneasy. I lead the crux pitch and certainly saw where a #4 would go, but the crack allowed other sizes all around. Leave the weight in camp. Also, I was unpleasantly surprised a second time when I discovered that the 3rd bold on the face traverse (P10?) was not merely missing a hanger, but the bolt itself was bent downward, making it completely useless. Expect a Lumpy Ridge 5.9+ face move where a bolt formerly resided. Safe but not ideal.
By pete cutler
From: Des Moines, IA
Oct 5, 2015
Leave the 4 in the car.
Peg traverse was NBD, no more spicy than any of the other traversing pitches on the route, and none of them felt dangerous. The crux pitches took great gear. Cool route, even the 'easier' pitches were in-your-face, steep, and sustained.
With 70m rope:
Link first 3 with some simul-climbing.
Link 7 to 9 (bad rope drag, back-clean a ton of gear), 9-11, 11 to beginning of 4th class ledge (just barely! had 2 feet of rope left). Unrope and scramble to top from there.
By Don Ferris
From: Eldorado Springs
Sep 28, 2016
Great route. I would consider climbing something else if there is more than one party in front of you. The route is not exactly chossy, but the belays tend to be cramped for 2. One could, in theory, bail fairly easily before the peg traverse with a single 80m (maybe a 70m) without leaving much if any gear which is not the most attractive option anyway as you would still have to climb out of the canyon.
A 70m or 80m rope is helpful for linking pitches: simul to three, link 8 and 9, 10, and 11, and simul 12 and 13. I could see not bringing a 4, but I was happy on several occasions to have one. Doubles to 3 otherwise.
Pitches 4, 5, and 7 are amazing! I'd give pitch 5 my favorite. So long and great jamming. Not as sustained as MP and the Topo would have you to believe though. The crux is down lower in the acute corner with shitty, flaky right feet. After that, there are several great rests to break up the awesome climbing.
Pitch 7 is awesome and steep, and if it wasn't for the pod at the crux in which I was able to get a slightly flared knee lock, I surely would have flamed out. I was able to no hands rest for a solid 5 minutes. The crux, for me, was leaving this pod.
I would also note that the 5.8 and 5.9 pitches throughout the route are NOT gimme pitches. My partner and I agreed that some of these pitches could easily be considered 5.10 elsewhere.


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Winter Olympics: Canada Tops U.S. in OT to Win Women's Hockey Gold
Canada's women's hockey team beat the United States 3-2 in overtime in the gold medal game on Thursday at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Here's a recap of Thursday's action in Sochi
Canada Defeats U.S. Again
Marie-Philip Poulin scored a power-play goal at 8 minutes, 10 seconds of overtime to lift Canada past the U.S. in the championship game of the women's hockey tournament.
Down 2-0 with more than 3 minutes remaining in regulation, the Canadians rallied to tie it 2-2 on Poulin's goal with 54.6 seconds to play.
Up 2-1, the Americans nearly tallied an empty net goal that could have clinched the victory, but Kelli Stack's clearing shot missed by inches late in the third period.
Instead, the U.S. was forced to watch their rivals tie, win and celebrate their fourth consecutive Olympic gold.
Shannon Szabados made 27 saves for Canada, allowing goals to Meghan Duggan and Alex Carpenter before her team rallied.
Switzerland beat Sweden 4-3 to claim the bronze medal.
Maddie Bowman Claims Halfpipe Gold
American Maddie Bowman captured the first-gold medal in women's Olympic halfpipe skiing.
The 20-year-old from South Lake Tahoe, Calif. used several spins to score an 89.00 and beat France's Marie Martinod, who claimed the silver medal. Ayana Onozuka of Japan took the bronze.
Russia's Adelina Sotnikova Wins Figure Skating
Russian Adelina Sotnikova gave the host country its first gold medal in women's figure skating with a dazzling free skate on Thursday. The 17-year-old outpointed the entire field including teammate Yulia Lipnitskaia.
Defending Olympic champ Kim Yu-na, of South Korea ,earned the silver medal; and Italy's Carolina Kostner earned the bronze. Americans Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner finished fourth and seventh, respectively.
Canada Wins Women's Curling
Canada beat Sweden 6-3 and captured the gold medal in women's curling.
The Canadian team went undefeated throughout the tournament.
By beating the Swedes, the Canadians avenged their loss in the final at the Vancouver Games in 2010. Great Britain beat Switzerland 6-5 to win the bronze medal.
Medals Count
Skier Maddie Bowman and the American women's hockey team helped the United States remain in first place in the overall medal count with 25. Norway led all countries with 10 gold medals.
United States (25)
8 gold; 6 silver; 11 bronze
Russia (23)
7 gold; 9 silver; 7 bronze
Netherlands (22)
6 gold; 7 silver; 9 bronze
Norway (21)
10 gold; 4 silver; 7 bronze
Canada (20)
7 gold; 9 silver; 4 bronze
Sources: Sochi Winter Olympics and NBC Olympics


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The selection of nutrient-rich foods is most critical to the maintenance of the blood/tissue pH. The typical American diet, high in animal protein, fats and refined sugars/carbohydrates, produces a pH imbalance toward acidity. Cells exposed to continuous acidic conditions adapt by mutating and becoming malignant, which results in autoimmune diseases, cancer and other illnesses. Maintaining a normal blood/tissue pH provides oxygenation and carbon dioxide balances important to the respiratory system, and contributes to a symbiotic microbial body flora.
Antibiotic therapy to reduce the burden of toxins on the liver of a pregnant woman…produces ecological imbalances of the large intestine microbial population, which results in fungal infections, immune system deficiencies, resistance to antibiotic therapy and various degenerative diseases.
…The destruction of "friendly" bacteria, without supplementary probiotic therapy creates an environment that will produce countless future infections and ill health. The alternative to antibiotic therapy is probiotic supplementation. The large intestine hosts a community of living bacteria called "flora." This microbial intestinal flora is colonized by bacteria within the first few days of birth. Both friendly bacteria and harmful bacteria exist together in this flora. Antibiotics are not selective in their mission to destroy and will eradicate all bacteria in the flora—good or bad—which creates a sterile intestinal environment.
When the intestinal environment becomes dangerously sterile, one's diet is critical. The types of foods eaten will determine which bacteria will dominate the reestablishing flora. The rate of harmful bacteria overgrowth which causes infection and systemic symptomatology is inevitable when the body is malnourished.
Eating an alkaline diet high in complex carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits, whole grains) is imperative. The consumption of complex carbohydrates will encourage increased levels of bifidobacteria growth, the dominant friendly bacteria in the large intestine of both healthy adults and breastfed infants. Fruits should be eaten in moderation because they are rich in natural sugars, as are grains, and may facilitate a yeast proliferation depending upon individual variables, including the status of the client's immune response.
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The acid/alkaline level of the colon's environment is critical to influencing the colonization or destruction of friendly bacteria. Friendly bacteria reduce the colon pH (increases the acidity) by creating an undesirable environment for harmful bacteria through the production of acid secretions. These secretions maintain the large intestine at a level of acidity that enables ammonia to remain in ionized form and prevents it from diffusing into the bloodstream.
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Daily Pregnancy Requirement: 80–100 grams protein
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…The facts are that a woman who eats well will gain what she needs to gain to have a healthy pregnancy, period. While one may be able to point to some general trends in healthy weight gain there is no magic number of pounds which represents what all women need to gain. Neither is there a magic pattern of gain that will apply to every woman. Both will vary according to each woman's physiologic make-up. To hold a woman to a pattern of gain or to set a limit on how much she gain for the entire pregnancy, no matter how "reasonable" or individualized that limit is considered to be, sets a woman up for trouble.
…Tell women to focus on what they eat, not what they gain; that there is no normal amount of weight to gain during pregnancy. In fact, most healthy women gain 35 to 45 pounds during pregnancy. Since each woman is an individual, it is impossible to say what any one will gain. Therefore it is best not to give women any number which they can attach to as "enough." The thin, underweight woman may gain more, the woman of size may gain much less. As long as the dietary choices are good ones, and weight gained will be different than that gained by eating junk food and empty calories, because empty calories create more fat than nutrient-rich foods.
You should instead praise women for gaining weight. They need to hear that gaining is desirable, that their baby is growing nicely, that getting bigger is what you want to see! If a woman is concerned about how much she might gain, I make a deal: if she will eat, I won't ask her to weigh herself at each prenatal visit. Instead of focusing on weight gain you should be asking a woman how she is doing with her diet and if any changes have occurred which increase her stress and activity levels so you can counsel her concerning necessary dietary changes. When women see that your primary concern is what they are eating, not what they are gaining, their focus will shift as well.
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A University of Washington study examined data from two case-controlled studies of 688 women and 897 women during which women were asked to rate their level of exertion during their normal exercise routine in the year before becoming pregnant. The objective of the study was to identify the effect of regular exercise on the incidence of gestational diabetes. Women who had maintained "very strenuous" usual exertion were 81% less likely to develop gestational diabetes compared with women who reported having had minimal exercise. Women with moderate prenatal exercise habits reduced their risk of gestational diabetes by 59%. Reduced risk was found even in women who had exercised less than recommended levels.
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Q: Has anyone out there had any experience with the autoimmune disorder, morphea, and pregnancy? I currently have a client who has it and it has been very difficult finding any information about its effect on pregnancy and pregnancy risk. As I understand it, and this is mostly from being educated by the client herself, morphea is a sister disease to scleroderma but does not affect the internal organs, just the skin. My client has an area of hardened scar-like tissue on her lower back but otherwise she has no problems. She is an acupuncturist and very well educated about her condition.
At first I didn't think much of it, but I decided to run it past my backup OB just to make sure she would be low-risk. Once he heard that it was related to scleroderma he said that even he wouldn't take care of her, he would refer her to a perinatologist. Apparently he had a woman with scleroderma who ended up dying at 35 weeks or so because a blood vessel popped in her brain. I tried to explain to him that this condition was different because it doesn't affect the internal organs. So he recommended a perinatologist consult.
The first perinatologist I sent her to had no idea what morphea was but nonetheless recommended a whole slew of coag studies and genetic tests. I decided to get a second opinion and phoned a perinatologist in my area. He hadn't heard of it, but when I described my understanding of it to him and he did some quick research, he said that my client is right and it should pose no problems with the pregnancy or birth. I'm much more inclined to go with his assessment, but I'm wondering if anyone out there has ever dealt with this before and what the outcome was.
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Q: What do you do to encourage women to trust birth?
A: To encourage women to trust birth, I begin with openness—first she must trust me and her partner. Then we move to open communication and good listening: to any fears, any past experiences, and communication hurdles—these all need validation but cannot define who this woman is in her own mind for her to trust birth. I also need to meet her where she is—my opinions don't matter, hers do. I submerge her and her partner with positive images, movies, stories, scenarios and positive birth affirmations along with guidance toward good nutrition, exercise and the physiology of what is happening during pregnancy, labor and birth. My goal is for her to be empowered through knowledge, to know the truth that replaces fear, to acknowledge and vocalize any reservations and/or fears and to emerge a whole person prior to labor. We train, rehearse, encourage and prepare to submit (in the most positive sense of the word) to the needs of her body. I offer constant reassurance and help her to see the small areas where her body can be and is trustworthy.
Often, women who have had a hard time conceiving or have had sexual trauma have a really hard time learning to trust. This is perfectly understandable. Trust is earned and should be something protected between people. Trust is not to be taken casually. Then, I also impart to her that her baby will trust her completely, through their birth experience together, and isn't that a blessing and miracle?
Some women need professional help from a licensed therapist. I am more than willing to ask for help and offer a referral. Often, though, healing takes place after birth.
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A: It depends on where we are in the pregnancy—if she's in labor I ask her to close her eyes, take a deep breath and visualize all the women who have done this over the ages—and trust her body to follow the same path.
If she seems to be expressing fears during her pregnancy, I express similar ideas, and suggest visualizing these ideas on a regular basis.
— Mary Alice DeCoursey
Q: A friend has had two cesarean sections, the last one 19 months ago. She is now considering getting pregnant again and wants to have a VBAC next time. She is concerned about uterine rupture. She wants to know if there are any great remedies for healing uterine scar tissue from her previous c-sections.
— Anon.
A: The best way to prevent uterine rupture during a VBAC is to avoid any form of induction.
— Amy V. Haas, BCCE
A: Association for Improvements in Maternity Services (AIMS) comment: Without the use of oxytocin and protaglandins, the risk of rupture of the uterus even after a caesarean operation seems very small—about one in 33,000 deliveries in this series, and it confirms the findings in other areas. Dublin still has women who have had large families, and therefore have a uterus more vulnerable to rupture. This study confirms our experience, that using prostaglandins and oxytocin is a major risk factor for rupture in women who had a previous caesarean.
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On the subject of the wisdom of squatting during pregnancy [Issue 7:25]:
As a midwife experienced in assisting some 4000 births, most of them vertically, I am very enthusiastic about squatting whether before or after labor has started. However, there can be a hitch. First of all we need to differentiate between squatting with the heels being pulled up and squatting with the foot soles making full contact with the floor. The latter position means squatting more deeply. This allows the abdominal contents to come down and gives rise to greater pressure being exerted onto the uterus from the thorax for instance. When the baby's head is not yet engaged in the pelvic inlet, the membranes may rupture prematurely and consequently a prolapsed cord can develop. Again I am talking from experience. Therefore, I do not recommend deep squatting during the last two months of pregnancy if the head is not engaged. During labor deep squatting means opening the pelvic outlet. If the baby's head is still high in the birth canal, no form of squatting is appropriate at that moment. Opening of the pelvic outlet goes at the expense of the measurements of the pelvic inlet. The pelvis is involved in a scissor-like movement depending on the hip joints being either stretched like in a standing position or flexed as during squatting. If the presenting part is above the pelvic floor, meaning that the pelvic inlet is still involved, fetal distress can be brought on by squatting.
However, when at the start of the second stage the woman takes a standing position, labor continues in a wonderfully relaxed manner. She need not push actively, because the baby's weight takes the child down. So she does not get tired. Once the baby's head touches the pelvic floor, the woman feels the need to push, and nobody can stop her from bearing down and ending in a squatting position. And when the baby's forehead is born, most women lean backward, thus allowing the pelvic inlet to widen to allow the shoulders to pass. I call this the ballet of the second stage.
— Gre Keijzer, midwife
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ATHENS—Lake Palestine produced its first Toyota ShareLunker March 2, becoming the sixty-fourth public reservoir in Texas to allow an angler to land a 13-pound or larger largemouth bass.
Lindell Booth, Jr., of Chandler was fishing Kickapoo Creek on the upper end of the East Texas reservoir when the 13.14-pound bass took his green pumpkin Brush Hog in eight feet of water. The fish was 26.25 inches long and 21.25 inches in girth.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Considering the subject matter of his next game, it makes sense to interview Ken Levine in our nation's capital.
Levine's games take clear inspiration from American society and politics. BioShock, released in 2007, explored Ayn Rand and Objectivism using the setting of a dystopian underwater city. In BioShock Infinite, to be released in October, Levine pulls inspiration from the very beginning of the 20th century. Set in a floating city called Columbia, Infinite will involve themes of theocracy and American exceptionalism.
Game|Life editor Chris Kohler and I spoke with Levine last month during the Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where the original BioShock was on display.
Wired: Your games have always had claustrophobic, oppressive and menacing atmospheres. How do you preserve that in an environment like BioShock Infinite where it's set mostly outside with blue skies overhead?
Ken Levine: What we've shown so far is primarily what's different about the game. We're basically expanding the palette instead of changing it. So the [areas] we've shown are much more [open]. In the E3 demo, it starts in a dark, little store with lots of little things to loot around. It's a spooky environment. And there's going to be a ton of that in this game.
I think people know we can do the dark, gloomy, oppressive spaces, so the question was, "How can we expand the palette to include these big spaces? And what does expanding that palette mean for the game?" I think we've been trying to show that. We only have a limited time to put stuff in front of people and we want to make sure we show things that would tell them what's the same, but also what's different.
I think you'll realize, as you start seeing more of the game, that there's going to be more of those [dark] environments.
In BioShock, we did a certain range of stuff extremely well. But it was basically a dungeon crawler dressed up as an underwater city. And I think people felt we never really delivered upon being at the bottom of the ocean in the way that maybe they would have wanted.
But in Infinite, we wanted to make sure that we delivered upon the verticality. There's the skylines, the zeppelin and then you'll see a lot more stuff coming up soon. We're just really leveraging the sky and the outdoors, as well as having all the other tools that we had before.
Wired: Can you expand on some of that?
Levine: This is going to sound evasive, but generally, as a developer, I like to show stuff right before I talk about it, because otherwise it comes off as a little abstract. But I think people are going to be surprised at just how much of the sky space is leveraged.
You've seen the skylines, obviously, but there's other stuff coming along. There's one, which is really a big part of the game: We have a piece of tech now that allows everything from a zeppelin to an entire city block to move freely in the sky. I think people will be surprised at how much of that there is.
Wired: I saw the press releases about the new enemies but I haven't had a chance to look at any videos. Can you tell us a little bit about these guys –- the Heavy Hitters?
Levine: The two we've shown so far are sort of like big bad bruiser types. There's the Handyman, who has these huge, porcelain hands. He can jump huge distances and pick up objects, including enemies, and use them as a weapon or even toss them at the player. That was the first enemy we showed.
And one trademark of BioShock games is that we always have a lot of space for telling a story outside of the main arc. For example, the story of the Big Daddies and Little Sisters from the first game. You learn all these little details about the Handyman and how they came to be and players are going to find a lot of that stuff to be really surprising.
Wired: Are you delivering these nuggets of information the same way you did in the previous games, such as the audio logs and environmental clues?
Levine: That's exactly right. You have all these layers of storytelling in BioShock games. In Infinite you have the main story involving Elizabeth and Booker. The new layers, the ones that are really in your face, are the characters. You interact with them and they're not dead or behind a piece of glass, as was often the case in BioShock.
We're still going to support the traditional forms that I think are really useful for giving those detailed backstories. I was talking about music before in another interview, and the style of music along with how it came to be is going to be another story you have to follow. The story of the Handyman is another one. Both of those will be delivered through audio logs and little visual pieces in the environment.
The new character we showed last week was called the Motorized Patriot, who is this Hall of Presidents-esque figure. So imagine an automaton George Washington, who was originally used for propaganda in the city. He acted sort of as a museum guide, telling the history of the city.
And when things got ugly, the city residents weaponized him and gave him this big, heavy machine gun (laughs). So he's spouting his propaganda but he's also a deadly Terminator figure. I think, aesthetically, he's really cool. He's an enemy that's just really relentless, and when you do kill him — well, you can even hack him and take control of him — you can take his machine gun, which is called The Peppermill. And the only way you can get that gun is by killing him.
Wired: You recently announced a mode you're calling "1999 Mode," which places a larger focus on making choices regarding your abilities and weapons and having to stick with the consequences of those choices.
Levine: Yeah, one thing we heard about BioShock is that there were things some people missed from our older games like System Shock. Like making a choice and being stuck with it. For some gamers that isn't good, like "Oh I don't want to be stuck." But others find it really important that they have to think about their decisions.
The other thing is specialization. You have to think to yourself and say "I want to be a vigorous guy," or "I'm going to be a sniper guy," or whatever you choose to be. That means if you're not specialized and you pick up a pistol, you're going to have a real challenge with it.
And you'll have times where you struggle because you don't have ammo for the weapon you're comfortable with and have all these stats to support.
I find those experiences really fun. I've played so many Civilization or X-COM games where I'm really behind the eight ball and I have to come from behind. So I think that's great and it's something that I think wasn't strongly represented in the first BioShock.
Wired: Does the game place any larger focus on these elements outside of "1999 Mode"?
Levine: The "normal mode" does contain choices you have to live with permanently. But the thing with 1999 Mode, in terms of specialization at least, is that it's mainly a balance issue. For instance, you could basically make the starting point for everybody with all the tools much lower. If you don't enhance that, especially as the difficulty curve rises, you're going to get further behind the eight ball. That's an issue of balancing the numbers.
It creates a very different style of gameplay. A lot of gamers might not understand — well, okay, a lot of gamers probably understand now because they play so many multiplayer games and they see these balance changes with things getting made worse or made better and they see the impact that has on the game.
Balance is one of the most important things we do, and it's not very glamorous. You sit there with a spreadsheet. But you have to know where your attention should be and in the first BioShock, our attention was focused on making a game people could get through.
We want to do that in Infinite, but we also want to support the kind of gamer who wants to be like, "Oh, God damn, what do I do here?" when presented with a tough decision. That's a bit of an old-school notion though, which is why we call it 1999 Mode. But it's a valid notion.
To some degree, my dream would be that a lot of people who don't come from that kind of background play this mode and are like, "Wait, I've never played something like this where I'm forced to make these hard decisions." And they're reloading their save and they really get stuck on an area and fight and fight it and finally beat it.
So many of my greatest gaming experiences come from that kind of thing.
Wired: It sounds like you're making two different games when you talk about these two modes. The balancing of both of them has got to really increase the amount of work you're doing.
Levine: Yeah, and balance makes a very broad impact. Look at the original Rainbow Six games compared to the current ones. In those games, you take one shot and you're dead, which creates a certain amount of tension. Now you could go and balance that and have a very different game just by changing the underlying numbers. You could take more damage, have the enemies react more sluggishly –- you can do a lot of things that are relatively simple to implement but very hard to get right.
Anybody can go in an say we're going to make this game harder. But you really need an expert who actually knows what that means and knows how you get those results with the numbers. Same way with BioShock, I said I wanted people to get through this. Dorian, our numbers balancing guy, had figure out how to achieve that.
With Infinite, I said, I want that but I also want to have my cake and eat it too. So players can get through the game in a relatively straightforward fashion, but 1999 Mode drastically changes how you think about specializing your skills. That has huge knock-on effects throughout the game. If you're specialized, finding ammo for a gun that isn't your specialty and not finding ammo for that same gun has a huge impact on how you approach combat. Just that alone. You have no ammo for your gun that deals three times the damage relative to the gun you can use that only deals half your normal damage.
That's a style of spreadsheet game design that a lot of people don't see very much.
Wired: Your big appearance at last E3 was on Sony's stage. I think a lot of people were wondering what to think about the PlayStation Vita and you, very generously, gave Sony a lot of your credibility that you've built up based on System Shock and BioShock. I can't think of other people on your tier who could walk out onto that stage and say "I'm making a game, I have nothing to show you, but trust me."
Were you nervous about going up and announcing that without anything to show?
Levine: Yeah, absolutely. Look, Sony has been –- and I'm not just giving you bullshit here -– a great, great partner to us. You're going to see some stuff coming up that illustrates that. You know, they just sent me a Vita with a bunch of games, and that's a tiny thing, but there are so many huge things. They're very nice to us.
So when they asked me to get on stage, I was a little nervous because as I said, I don't like to go out and just talk. I want to show you something first and then talk about it because it is tough to speak abstractly about things. I don't want to convince you, I'd much rather have the work convince you.
When they asked me to do that and at first I was like, "Well, I don't really have a lot to talk about and the last thing I want to do is go out and make a bunch of promises." I tried to really downplay what I was presenting, which is tough on a stage where presenters are going out and saying "We're gonna do this!"
But that's just not my personality. I tried to manage people's expectations of what the Vita game is going to be. Not because I think they're going to be bad but because I'd rather not talk like a marketing person. I'd rather say, "Here's the basic thing we're doing and maybe you'll check it out!"
I think that's what's always so interesting about the game space. I think a lot of people worry about games being overhyped. Look, frankly, if you're going to believe me about BioShock Infinite over your friends and reviewers, you're probably doing yourself a disservice.
It is my baby, right? I am not an objective judge of it or anything we do. I'm going to go out and talk about the game and I'm going to tell you what I honestly think about it. And generally, if I wasn't excited about it, then I'm making a mistake in the development process. Because then, why don't I go back and do something I'll be excited about?
I always say, look, don't believe the hype. Listen to you guys, or listen to your buddies or go on the internet when a game comes out. But you shouldn't be complaining about developers hyping their work, because you should just not listen to them. That's their job, is to hype it.
I'm fortunate that I get to hype things I really believe in, I don't have to go out and hype stuff I don't believe in. And when I'm not ready to hype it, I just don't talk much about it and that's why when people ask me about the Vita game, I just say I'm not ready to talk about it because I don't have anything to show yet.
Wired: Are you really focusing on BioShock Infinite before you get to work on the Vita game? Or are you working on both simultaneously?
Levine: These games really are all-consuming endeavors. You do want to keep the ball rolling but it is tough to give it your full attention before you finish what you have. But we're getting there with Infinite.
Wired: Well, you just announced a release date.
Levine: Yes! October 16! Which is great, because now we have an end date and we can know when it's time to put pencils down. You can keep going forever, honestly. I could work on this game for another 20 years and keep polishing it and making it better. But at some point –- and this wasn't decided by our publisher, this was my decision –- you need to say "this is the date." It helps keep the team focused on finishing it, knowing they have a constraint. I always think you work the hardest when you have constraints because that sort of helps you define your task.
So yeah, we're not as focused on the Vita game as we will be.
Wired: I love the Will The Circle Be Unbroken trailer because it brought to mind the Gears of War trailers where they played "Mad World." But of course that had nothing to do with the actual aesthetic of Gears of War. When I saw your trailer, I felt that it fit together so well. I expect music like that or emotions like that will be present in the actual game, right?
Levine: Yeah, the level you got a peek at there was basically this company town and we'll be showing more of that later. The guys in this town are pretty oppressed. This is where the roots of the Vox Populi come from and where the social upheaval comes from. The reason that happens is because people are pretty unhappy and having folk music and hymns like that creates a much more somber mood.
There's also the fact that the woman playing Elizabeth just has this incredible voice. One of the best days of my life was when the guy playing Booker played his guitar and she starts singing. They sat together and made this beautiful moment.
I really struggled with what song was going to be in the trailer. I found that song, which is well-known from the Carter Family version, but this was the original hymn, which doesn't have the word "Lord" in it. It was a weird conversation because it's obviously a religious song. I mean it's about people dying and going to heaven. It's a sad song and the notion that we somehow sanitize it is pretty hysterical. Songs get changed all the time.
It's a beautiful song that's been done in a lot of different styles over time. What we settled on was this very simple style that I thought suited her and the character. It's not often you to get to participate on something like that.
Wired: And that kind of arose out of these deep recording sessions you've been having.
Levine: I asked Courtnee [Draper, who portrays Elizabeth] if she could sing, and I had this idea that there would be some singing in the game because music is always important to Bioshock games. She gives me a tape of something she wrote and I listen to it and go, "Oh my God."
The recordings she gave me were actually fairly polished and professional, very Broadway-style. When we got to the studio, I asked if we could try something a lot simpler and stripped down. She agreed and when she started singing, she just had perfect pitch, incredible delivery and Troy [Baker, who plays Booker] played a beautiful guitar. It was a great moment. I just got so lucky.
I had a recording session two days ago where I asked an actress who's playing in our ensemble –- we have more speaking parts in this game than I can keep track of –- if she could have her character hum at one point. So she says yes and yet again I luck out because what comes next is the most beautiful humming I have ever heard in my entire life. Just gorgeous.
Wired: What's the process of picking out these licensed songs like?
Levine: Well we have an original score being written, similar to BioShock. There's music that characters hear in the world and then there's music on the soundtrack that they don't hear. That's the authorial music we use to comment on the game.
I actually never really believed in that until I met Garry Schyman, who worked on the original compositions for BioShock and now Infinite. The descent to Rapture would never have been the same without Schyman's beautiful score.
But one of my favorite parts of my job is choosing the licensed music. BioShock Infinite is set in an interesting time because it's right at the beginning of jazz and blues. Music before jazz and blues is not very listenable. I mean popular music -– it's really kind of awful. You know, the John Philip Sousa marches and stuff. And then you get jazz and blues coming in, with the early stuff like ragtime.
It's much more challenging to find music from that era that sounds great to a modern ear. BioShock was set in 1959, so we had this huge slate of great music to choose from. But here we don't have all the chord progressions, and the things we like didn't exist or had just started to exist. So finding music has been a really interesting challenge.
You end up finding stuff like bluegrass and gospel that you can draw from. But there are a lot of hymns that are awful, right? Then you find a melody like "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," which we used in our trailer and is just beautiful. So you have to dig a little deeper and that means my research has been a little harder this time around.
Wired: How strict are you as a creator? Do you say, "No, this game is set in 19-whatever, therefore no song written afterwards can be used?"
Levine: The most important thing is that you get people to feel things. I'll give you a hint: There weren't flying cities in 1912 nor were there underwater cities and genetic technology in 1959 (laughs). So, yeah, you play a little fast and loose. You could argue that this is Columbia and we do things a little differently.
You've already heard some of the strange musical things in the game. There's a part where Elizabeth opens these tears to other worlds and realities. She opens up something that appears to be the 1980s and you can hear Tears for Fears playing.
So music is going to have a strange role in this game. Stranger than BioShock, at least. There's definitely some surprises there.
Wired: I'm getting into dangerous territory here, but is the opening of tears going to be a fun little Easter egg that happens sometimes, or is it going to be integral to where the story goes and is resolved?
Levine: It's absolutely essential in the story. It's not a gimmick or anything because that's what makes Elizabeth special. It's why everybody's interested in her and why all these powers are pursuing her. Everyone else can see these tears but they can't manipulate them.
It's not gimmicky but you can have a little fun with it, absolutely. Like the moment where we had Revenge of the Jedi displayed on a 1980's movie theater marquee. Certainly that was a storytelling device. It told you what she was doing in a lot of ways. It told you that it wasn't just a time-travel thing because obviously there was no Revenge of the Jedi.
There's a lot packed into that little two-second clip, especially for a nerdy guy like you or me. Figuring that out was a real challenge. I knew I wanted to get that message across but struggled with the execution.
Those are going to be a major element of the game –- both in the gameplay and the story. It's the heart of the game, that this world has this strange thing going on. The same way that geneticism and Objectivism were the driving forces for the first BioShock.
This notion of physics, this quantum mechanics issue paired with the philosophies of the city make for very interesting things that go on.
Wired: So BioShock, of course, heavily subverted and poked a bit of fun at linear game design. Does Infinite play with the conventional wisdom of design in a similar way?
Levine: You know it's always interesting when you get into meta-spaces like that where you're commenting on games. In that case we used the limitations of a game to talk about those same limitations. Because, look, we do a lot of math in our heads as gamers to forgive a lot of the things games do. Generally in first-person shooters, you're playing a crazy sociopath running around murdering people (laughs).
But you're a hero, right? How many people does Commander Shepard kill? He literally kills thousands of people. How many people does the protagonist of BioShock Infinite kill? A lot. You still want to deal with him in a human way.
When you shine a light on these sort of things, it can be disconcerting. You're not just shining a light on the story, you're shining a light on the player's experience as a gamer.
Going back to System Shock 2, when we revealed Polito was SHODAN, that was very early in games in terms of messing with the player. It wasn't an insult to the character, it was an insult to you. What you thought you had was not real. You made all these assumptions that turned out to be wrong.
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I try comparing Buddhism with Jainism and found many things similar, from believing in karma to the way to liberation.
Buddhism claims that there will only be 1 sama-sam-buddha at 1 time/era so Mahavira cannot be a Buddha but both Gautama and Mahavira taught about their unsurpassed goal of Nirvana.
My question is: what state exactly Mahavira of Jainism seems to attain makes him acquired the same view like Buddha but distinguished itself from Buddhism?
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FULLERTON, Calif. -- The Lady Mustangs closed the regular season in style, beating Hope International 67-46 in Fullerton.
The No. 11 Lady Mustangs (25-4, 10-4) finished the regular season, winning three in a row and securing the No. 3 seed in the upcoming GSAC Tournament. That third slot gives the Mustangs a bye into the quarterfinals on Wednesday when they will host either Hope International or Biola, who play a first-round game Monday evening.
Right from the start, the Lady Mustangs left little doubt, reeling off the contest's first eight points and never looking back in beating the Royals for the second time this year. Sophomore guard Whitney Best (Snohomish, WS) triggered the game-opening burst with a three-pointer, Jacquelyn Marshall (San Clemente, CA) added a jumper, and Lena Rivera (Allen, TX) capped it off on a three-point play.
Hope's Krystal Canning stopped the surging Mustangs temporarily with a basket but Rivera fueled a quick, 6-0 skein with a hoop and the guests enjoyed a 14-2 lead after Kelly Burns (Yorba Linda, CA) hit a pair of free throws with 12:37 left in the opening half.
Displaying no let-up, the Lady Mustangs kept attacking, outscoring the Royals 15-10 over the next seven minutes to extend the advantage to 29-12 on a Zoe Scott (Spirit Lake, ID) trifecta with 5:24 remaining. Kimmy Iverson used the same method to key the Lady Mustang run, draining a pair of three-pointers in a 49-second window to snuff out a budding Royal royal.
After allowing a couple of Royal free throws with just under four minutes left in the stanza, the Lady Mustangs closed out the half by holding the hosts scoreless over the final 3:54 while tallying six points themselves to take a 35-16 lead into the break. Marshall sparked the half-closing burst with a jumper while Burns' two layups gave her team the largest lead of the game to that point.
Paced by Marshall, Burns, and Iverson, who had six points apiece, the Lady Mustangs shot 41% from the field during the opening 20 minutes while holding the Royals to a paltry 21% mark.
The Royals improved their accuracy considerably in the second half (41%) but the Lady Mustangs continued to put more distance between themselves and the hosts despite shooting just 38% in the final stanza.. Two Marshall free throws in the first minute of the closing half gave the Lady Mustangs their first 20-point plus lead (37-16) of the evening and the Royals never got closer than 16 points the rest of the way.
The last margin of that kind came at 47-31 with 10:55 remaining but the Lady Mustangs dashed any thought of a miraculous comeback by ripping off 10 consecutive points in less than three minutes. Iverson, who buried a game-high four three-pointers, started things with her final trifecta of the evening, Scott followed with another three, and Lena Rivera and Burns added hoops for a 57-31 advantage with 7:27 left to play.
The Lady Mustangs enjoyed the game's largest advantage (26 points) once more at 59-33 and cruised to the win. The Lady Mustangs wound up converting 39% of their shots while limiting the Royals to 31% shooting.
Marshall and Iverson paced the Lady Mustangs with 12 points apiece and 11 rebounds from the former gave the junior forward her seventh double-double of the campaign. Rivera contributed nine points and six rebounds, and Burns tossed in eight points and yanked down seven caroms.
Now, the Lady Mustangs turn their attention to the "second season", hoping to extend their magical season through the conference tournament and into the NAIA National Tournament in March. Wednesday night's quarterfinal game against Biola, who split a pair of games with the Mustangs this year, or Hope International will start at 7:30 pm in Bross Gym.
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By the end of the century, the Allens and the Kathans had intermarried: all the residents in the Hollow were related. Because of their isolation, misunderstandings developed between them and the outside world.
The economic disasters of the 1930s shut down the factories and mills. In 1932 the Sacandaga River was dammed, flooding the fertile valley below the Hollow. Forced from their homes, the valley residents sought employment elsewhere, but the Allens and Kathans chose to remain up in the mountains.
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I don't have all the details yet but Dan is in his 3rd week of a clinical trial thru Dr. Howard Bruckner in NYC. It's for metatastic cancer and consists of 2 pills and 1 shot every day for 6 weeks.
I'll post the name of the trial in the next few days.
It was really by chance that we heard about this. My husbands boss was fostering a young boy in her home that was receiving the treatment and he was doing remarkably well. She kept pushing us to get more info. Dan reluctantly agreed and scheduled the appointment. When we arrived at the office and met with 1 of the doctors coordinating the trial he was curious that Dan had CC and wound up at this particular office where Dr. Bruckner is so well known.
We met Dr. Bruckner also, and now may change oncologists. Even though my husband is no longer persuing chemo they are pushing their low dose chemo method. We'll see.....


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Dodgers send five players to Minor Leagues
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Dodgers sent five more players to the Minor Leagues after Monday's game, including four-year veteran infielder Brendan Harris.
Pitcher Matt Magill was optioned. Reassigned were non-roster invitees right-hander Carlos Frias, catcher JC Boscan and infielders Harris and Clint Robinson.
Assuming Dee Gordon wins the job as the primary second baseman and Alex Guerrero opens in the Minor Leagues -- as it now appears -- the Dodgers still have some tough calls to make for their bench.
Outfielders Scott Van Slyke (right-handed hitter) and Mike Baxter (lefty) both could make it. Non-roster infielder Justin Turner (.368) seems to be ahead of Chone Figgins (.130) as a platoon player at second base, with Miguel Rojas behind them. Outfielder Joc Pederson is still in camp, but he's only 21 and needs to play regularly.
The third catcher going to Australia will be either Drew Butera, who is out of options, or Miguel Olivo, a non-roster veteran with a contract out clause in June.
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Jaromir Jagr is back on the market.
The Dallas Stars have decided to trade the 40-year-old winger, according to multiple reports. ESPN's Pierre LeBrun was the first with the news. The NHL trade deadline is Wednesday—and according to RDS.ca's Renaud P. Lavoie, management has gone so far as to tell Jagr his Stars career is over after 34 games.
UPDATE: Dallas has traded Jagr to the Boston Bruins
— MORE: What is Jay Feaster doing?
The first team to come to mind—and the one specifically in LeBrun's report—is the Boston Bruins, since their chief Eastern Conference rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins, beat them out on two other veteran wingers.
Whether it's from Boston or anyone else—and the market for Jagr will be strong—Dallas should net at least as much as Calgary did with Iginla: an assumed late first-round pick and two prospects.
Jagr is older than Iginla and less likely to re-sign with the team that acquires him, but he's also been better in 2013; Jagr still drives possession at even strength, and has 14 goals and 12 assists so far in 2013. Compare that to nine and 13 for Iginla.
Two other factors to consider: Both, no matter Iginla's intentions, are rental players, and it's a seller's market, and Flames GM Jay Feaster's return on Iginla didn't impress many people. Part of that was because of Iginla's no-trade clause, which Jagr doesn't have.


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First let me say this loud and clear. Duncan is better than J.O. Duncan is better than J.O. No dispute there.
But I believe some of you need to re-consider your criticism of J.O. Yes he struggled in the Pistons series, but now we see TD struggling also. So maybe the Pistons post defense is really, really good. The combo of Ben and Sheed and even McDyess is really tough on post players.
With Sheed defending one-on-one and Ben coming over to help Duncan has been no where near what he normally is. And when TD gets used to Sheed, they move Ben on him and give him a different look.
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PLAY Campaign makes stop at Coors Field
DENVER -- The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer Society's PLAY Campaign stopped at Coors Field Friday morning, allowing Rockies players to help teach children with intellectual and developmental disabilities the importance of a healthy and active lifestyle.
The PLAY Campaign teamed up with The Arc, an advocacy organization for I/DD youths, to provide children served by The Arc of Colorado, The Arc of Pikes Peak, the Arc of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, the Arc of Larimer County and the Arc of Jefferson, Clear Creek & Gilpin Counties with this unique opportunity.
Rockies outfielder Michael Cuddyer and right-handers Jhoulys Chacin and Jordan Lyles guided participants through a series of pitching and hitting activities before giving the children a tour of the Rockies' clubhouse.
"The players were unbelievable," The Arc communications manager Suniti Bal said. "They were so good and so hands on."
Lyles and Chacin ran the accuracy practice portion of the process while Cuddyer lead the children in hitting off a tee against a giant, point-based target on the right-field, out-of-town scoreboard. Afterwards, the children were taught the importance of proper hygiene and other benefits of a healthy life.
"Physical activity and healthy living habits are critical for all children, including those with significant disabilities," said executive director of the Arc of Colorado Marijo Rymer. "We are thankful that the Colorado Rockies and the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society have chosen to include the Arc in this year's program."
PLAY, standing for Promoting a Lifetime of Activity for Youth, is a national public awareness campaign of PBATS in conjunction with MLB Charities and the Taylor Hooton Foundation. The PLAY campaign will host events in all 30 Major-League ballparks this season with the next stop being the Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field on Saturday.
For more information on how you can get involved with the Arc foundation, visit TheArc.org.
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Veteran Tech lawyers Gil Arie and Paul Sweeney Named to Co-Chair Foley Hoag's Technology Industry Practice
February 28, 2013
Foley Hoag LLP has named two partners with decades of experience in technology, legal and financial issues to co-chair its Technology Industry Practice.
Partners Gil Arie and Paul Sweeney will lead the practice, which is one of Foley Hoag's largest with a combination of early-stage and established clients, including LevelUp, uTest, Linkable Networks and EMC Corporation. The Technology Practice recently launched TEC@FoleyHoag, a monthly meet-up and ongoing resource for technology industry entrepreneurs, investors and professionals. It is based in Boston's Innovation District, where Foley Hoag is headquartered.
Gil Arie practices in the areas of emerging companies, venture capital, "angel" funds, mergers and acquisitions, cross- border transactions and general corporate law. He focuses his work in enterprise software, analytics, cloud computing, storage and databases, virtualization, networks and infrastructure, physical and computer security, electronic media, e-commerce, telecom and mobile technologies, water technologies, and medical devices. Much of his work with emerging and established companies focuses on equity and debt financing transactions, and on general corporate and business matters. Mr. Arie has developed deep expertise in assisting management teams in the process of scaling and accelerating the growth of their companies. Mr. Arie's international experience extends to assisting early-stage and mature foreign companies operating in the U.S. to structure, form and conduct business operations, and assisting U.S. companies to structure, form and conduct business operations abroad. He is an industry leader in assisting Israeli startups with raising capital in the U.S., assisting U.S. investors in Israel, and representing Israeli and U.S. buyers and sellers in U.S.-Israel M&A transactions. Mr. Arie serves as a mentor and judge at the Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition, and is a frequent moderator and speaker at industry events. Mr. Arie is a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Israel Business Council.
Paul Sweeney practices in the areas of venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law. Mr. Sweeney focuses on the organizational, operational and transactional needs of startups, emerging companies and growth-stage companies in a wide array of industries, including hi-tech, social media, Web 2.0, mobile networking, computer security, enterprise software, communications and medical services. He also represents top-tier venture capital firms in connection with their portfolio investments. Mr. Sweeney was recently listed as one of the "Top 20 Startup Lawyers in Boston," and one of the "Ten Most Innovative Lawyers in America" by the ABA Journal. Mr. Sweeney has served as a mentor in the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition and a judge in the Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition, and has been a guest lecturer at MIT's Venture Capital/Private Equity Club, Harvard Business School and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
"For well over 40 years, Foley Hoag has been a leading law firm representing technology clients, from startup companies and their investors to large-cap public companies. With Gil and Paul leading the practice, we look forward to continuing our longstanding role as a leader in the technology industry," said Bill Kolb, co-managing partner of the firm.
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I know I should wait to talk to doctor on Monday but I feel so helpless and ignorant to this disease. I want desperately to do and learn everything I can to help my husband. The sad part is we went to the local doctor on Tuesday and he told my husband and I that the biopsy they performed on him came back negative for cancer. The specialist told me but not my husband or family about the findings and after reading his reports they suspected this almost a month ago! I go from one emotion to the next and sit here alone in my knowledge. A part of me doesn't want Monday to arrive because I know that this will become our truth then. I know time is of the essence and I would never miss this appointment but I do wish for the "boring" days we had only 3 short weeks ago. Thank you for all your help and for giving me someone who I can share this with. I've never felt so all alone. My heart breaks for the moment that my husband learns of this fight we are taking on. He posted an update on Facebook the other day that said "Dear Lord, I ask not for an easier life, I only ask you make me a stronger man" so I am thinking he feels it deep inside.


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'A big key to the late-season surge is Miller's health. He came out of training camp with some nagging hip and groin problems that forced him to sit out games at the beginning of November. "It's just little things that kind of add up," Miller said Tuesday morning. "You don't feel great but every player plays with (small injuries). … It's just as a goalie you're not used to certain feelings when you're out there. At that time of year you want to get a lot of work and I was trying to ease off on the work. It's tough to find a balance."'
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