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Sponsored by International Ministries
Dr. A.K. Lama
Rev. Glynis LaBarre
Dr. Leslie Braxton
Jars of Clay
Dr. Ken Fong
Dr. Tony Campolo
Dr. Alistair Brown
May 18 – 25, 2012
Green Lake, Wisconsin
International Ministries invites you to our biggest event in a decade! Come for the weekend retreat, the weekday mission conference, the one day celebration, or the entire week!
To register, call the Green Lake Conference Center at (920) 294-3323. For information on housing, meals, and shuttles, scroll to the end.
To view the conference schedule, click here. To learn about earning Continuing Education Units, click here.
Track 1 will explore a call to Missional Involvement in your Community
Track 2 will explore a call to Pastoral Ministry
Track 3 will explore a call to Cross-cultural Global Mission service
(IM is partnering with ABHMS and the Ministers Council to provide tracks 1 & 2)
The Call Globally Monday evening through Thursday evening, May 21-24 will focus on what God is doing in global mission today, especially as seen through the work of IM missionaries and partners in the U.S./PR and around the world. This event will include worship, Bible study and a variety of opportunities to learn from and connect personally with what God is doing through the partners and missionaries of IM.
The Call Celebration: Thursday afternoon and evening, May 24. The Call Globally will be brought to a climax with the participation of Tony Campolo and the Christian contemporary music group, Jars of Clay. The week-long conference will welcome additional participants for this final celebration of God's call to global mission.
Special Moment #1: The Swing Day – Monday, May 21 Between the climax of the Call Retreat on Sunday night and the launch of The Call Globally on Monday evening, this day will offer a change of pace that includes opportunities for relaxed conversation and recreation.
Special Moment #2: Ready-Set-Go! – Friday, May 25 There will be opportunities to talk and pray with missionaries and staff during or after breakfast about the next steps you need to take as you respond to God's call to global mission before heading home.
We have a diverse, talented group of leaders that are helping to shape and lead this event. They are listed here in order of their involvement. Click on their name to read their bio.Bible Study Leader (May 18 - 20)
Dr. A.K. Lama – General Secretary, Council of Baptist
Churches, North East India
Track Leader: Missional involvement in your
Rev. Glynis LaBarre - Transformational Strategist for
the American Baptist Home Mission Societies
Track Leader: Pastoral ministry
Dr. Joe Kutter - Executive Director, Ministers Council
Dr. Jeff Savage - President of the ABC Ministers Council
Track Leader: Cross-cultural global mission service
Rev. Jim Bell - Recruitment Director, Int'l Ministries
Saturday evening sermon (May 19)
Dr. Alistair Brown – President of Northern Seminary, Lombard, IL
Dr. Leslie Braxton – Senior Pastor of New Beginnings
Christian Fellowship in Renton, WA
Bible Study Leader (May 21 - 24)
Dr. Ken Fong – Senior Pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church in Los Angeles, CA
Worship Leader (May 18 - 24)
Brian McClure - Founder of 'The Way', Nashville, TN
Daily Workshop Leaders (May 21 - 24)
Two dozen IM missionaries, development workers, global consultants, international leaders and staff from around the world.
Keynote Speaker (May 24)
Dr. Tony Campolo – Professor emeritus of sociology, Eastern University; Founder and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education
Special Guests (May 24)
Jars of Clay – Christian Contemporary Music Band
Mission Personnel
This event is a unique opportunity to interact with two dozen missionaries, development workers and global consultants all in one place! To see all the mission personnel involved in this event, click here. Begin a new relationship or deepen an existing one over a meal or free time. Look for them on Facebook! Read their journals and learn about the blessings and challenges of their ministries in Mexico, Thailand, Italy, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, South Sudan, Bolivia, Laos and Cuba.
International Leaders
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the Judsons going to Burma in 1812, there will be international guests and Baptist leaders from Burma (Myanmar) and other countries including China, Haiti, India, Poland and Nepal. Click here to see who is coming.
To register, contact the Green Lake Conference Center at (920) 294-3323. To view the conference schedule, click here.
$79 per person for The Call Retreat
May 18 - 20 Friday evening – Sunday evening
When you register, please select one of these 3 tracks:
1) Mission Involvement Locally
2) Cross-Cultural Global Mission Service
3) Pastoral Ministry
$99 per person for The Call Globally
May 21 - 24 Monday evening – Thursday evening
$149 per person for The Call Experience (the whole week)
May 18 - 24 Friday evening – Thursday evening (Please tell Green Lake which of the weekend tracks you want to attend)
$15 per person for The Call Celebration
May 24 ONLY Thursday afternoon with Tony Campolo and evening concert featuring Jars of Clay & Tony. (Dinner meal ticket is extra and must be reserved with Green Lake by calling 920 294-3323.)
Please contact the Green Lake Conference Center to reserve housing by calling (920) 294-3323. There are a variety of hotel rooms that sleep 2 - 6 people. Renting a lakeside or forest home is ideal for church groups. Families and good friends could share a cozy cabin. For a list of housing option and photos of the accommodations that are available for this event, click here.
Meal packages are available for the entire week, or per day for part time attendees. Those renting a home or cabin have the option of doing their own cooking. Please tell the Green Lake staff which meal option you would like when you make your housing reservation. To view the prices, click here.
Shuttle Service
Green Lake Conference Center offers shuttle service for those arriving by bus, train or plane. Please contact them directly to reserve a seat on one of their shuttles by calling (920) 294-3323. For details on pricing, and a list of locations where they'll pick you up, visit their website. You'll also find driving directions on their website.
Tony Campolo: World Mission Conference for Young Adults - download
Tony Campolo: World Mission Conference for Adults Over 40 - download
Tony Campolo: Come to the 2012 World Mission Conference - download


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In a round the other day I threw my 2 shot and it landed in bounds, then skipped OB onto a path which is OB itself, not beyond, just if its completely on the path. Then off the other side of the path and rolled on its wing back onto the path. In short went onto path the first time on the basket side of the path, then went off path, back in bounds, then from the non basket side of the path made its way back onto said path. I took my disc, set it at my feet and took my 4 shot from directly behind the path, mini touching the path basically and my foot behind that. Guy in the group says, you have to take a meter. I say then Ill be OB??? he says no a meter back from where it went out, basically farther from the hole.
I was under the assumption you get that meter so you do not have to take your shot from an OB position. He is saying that no matter what if you go OB you have to take a meter away from the OB regardless. This makes no sense to me as i was not OB, and I took my lie on the side of the path were it was last inbounds, but why would i have to take a meter away from the OB in this case?
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o = my disc
whatchya think

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On the other side of Pine Valley, Edmund, Alex and Charlotte pay a visit to Dimitri's burial site. Back in town, Liza tells a shocked Arlene and Adam that Tad is her new partner at Chandler Enterprises - while an even more shocked Tad looks on!
Then, Charlotte asks one of her henchman to investigate Adrian. Later, Alex overhears Charlotte declaring that she must get Alex away from Edmund. Meanwhile, Edmund hopes for Dimitri's blessing in regard to his relationship with Alex, and is shocked when he turns around and comes face-to-face with his brother, who is very much alive!
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NEW ORLEANS—A casually dressed Jed York hardly looked the part of an NFL executive and owner, wearing slightly baggy jeans, a polo shirt and sneakers for Super Bowl week.
The shoes were designer, but still.
In a matter of months, the 49ers CEO has become a first-time father, watched a new billion-dollar stadium take shape outside his office at team headquarters in Silicon Valley and seen his San Francisco franchise return to the Super Bowl—18 years after the last championship. Not bad for 31.
After much change from top to bottom, York takes pride in the progress but won't be happy until his Niners are Super Bowl regulars again.
Next up: bringing home another Lombardi Trophy. San Francisco is 5-0 in Super Bowls heading into Sunday's NFL championship game against Baltimore.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- By all accounts, the sport utility vehicle's career should be dying as slow and painful a death as that of any other late-'90s/early 2000 celebrity.Why won't it go away? For the same reason yesterday's teen idols and pop superstars are today's game show hosts and talent show judges: Because they're still familiar enough to most Americans to be a lesser-evil fallback to something new and scary. Less than a million SUVs were sold in the U.S. in the first nine months of the year, according to Motor Intelligence. That's nearly a third the number of the 2.8 million midsize cars sold in the same span and less than half of the sales of the 2.2 million crossover vehicles that took the bulkier SUV's place.
Times have gotten so tough for the SUV that once-shunned subcompacts are more than doubling its sales. The only category the SUV is outselling? Luxury cars, and only by a 200,000-vehicle margin. Still, SUV sales numbers are up 7.7% since last year. That's the slowest growth of any vehicle class within the past year, but still surprising for a category that's fallen so low since its heyday. It may have a little something to do with dealers letting them go at nearly 20% of their price to clear the bulky behemoths off their lots.
We checked in with automobile pricing site TrueCar and found 10 SUVs that can be had for discounts of 10% or more. Crank up some Nelly and play a DVD of your favorite reality show about spoiled heiresses on the screens in your headrest. It's time to get less than 25 miles per gallon:


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the buddha taught a vast variety of different methods and practices in the pali canon.
how do you decide which one too do?
which practices are the most connected too which?
as far as i can tell, you need too fulfill the three trainings of concentration, morality and wisdom (and within that the eightfold path).
i just picked for myself through trial and error:
satipatthana and sutta study (and lots and lots of general study of many authors and articles on the dhamma) for wisdom
anapanasati for jhana (concentration)
and the precepts (obviously you don't have too pick) for morality.
side note:
i know it is systematized in the visuddimaggha, i find that book too be wonderful and indispensable, but i didn't really identify with it's methods of picking practices by personality types. so i was wondering if there is any clue in the canon about this? and i'm also interested in what actual practitioners on here think, or views from modern teachers and/or other teachers throughout history.


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RAVENNA, Ohio - Longtime Ohio salesman remembers old days
George Dunckel started selling classroom furniture before Joe Louis lost a heavyweight title fight in 1950.
It's a landmark in time that helps "Uncle Dunckel" remember the old days, when "schools appreciated having someone come around," he said.
Back then, schools bolted solid wooden desks -- with inkwells and cast-iron frames -- to the floor. Tables had to be stacked instead of folded. And salesmen made personal visits instead of phone calls.
Over the years, more than furniture changed, but Dunckel, who made every sale with a nod and a handshake up until his retirement on New Year's Eve, took pride in doing business the old-fashioned way.
"I'm like a car that has 350,000 miles on it," Dunckel said of his 67 years in the retail business.
At 91 years old, Dunckel leans on a cane to shoulder the weight of his sales materials, which he lugged from his Mercury to his customers for decades. Time has taken a toll on his body, but with a pressed collar and a straight tie, his mind is as sharp as his wardrobe.
Dunckel, who sold furniture to the Ravenna school district for more than a half-century, figures he has seen about three or four generations of superintendents and school business managers come and go. But he remembers every one of them, as well as their hobbies and family.
"It's all about developing relationships," said Ray Nist, who retired in 2010 as business manager of North Canton schools.
Nist first worked with Dunckel in 1992 as business manager for Tallmadge schools. After 18 years of making deals with Dunckel, Nist said, he got more than a receipt with every transaction: He got "service."
When an order arrived, Dunckel was there to make sure the customer was satisfied. It's one of many courtesies that make a great salesman, Nist said.
"That still holds true today," he said, "But George got to know people on a personal level."
Dunckel did all the little things that made a difference.
To shield his customers from losses caused by damage in transit, he trained school custodians on unloading, assembling and inspecting shipments. When visiting a school, he would pick up a stray pencil on the hallway floor and drop it off in the office with a smile. He jotted down each customer's birthday on a Rolodex card next to a land line or -- some years later -- a cellphone number.
"You don't have that (service) anymore," said Hank Dunckel, George's son and owner of Dunckel Distributing Co. on Washington Avenue in Ravenna.
With generations of salesmen, furniture became a Dunckel family tradition.
Hank Dunckel remembers using one of his father's samples, a scaled-down replica of a window shade, for a class demonstration in high school. Growing up, he recalls used furniture littering the house.
Hank Dunckel launched his business in his father's footsteps in the same building George used in the early 1970s.
"I took over the phone bill and the rent," Hank Dunckel said.
He took over his father's customers, manufacturers and distributors, too.
"If I needed help with a certain contact, I could call Dad."
George, whom customers cordially called Uncle Dunckel, married his wife of 71 years in 1941. He finally retired this year so that he could take care of her; otherwise, he said, he would have kept selling till the day he died.
After returning from the war in Europe in 1945, he took a job with the F.W. Woolworth Co. as a manager-in-training. Then, he worked as a sales representative for Quaker Oats from 1950 to 1955. During that time, he sold furniture on the side to General Electric and made his first sale to a school district in Schenectady, N.Y., about two hours south of where he grew up near the Vermont border of upstate New York.
He got his break in 1957, when he took a job selling school furniture for Piqua-based Miller Co. He worked on commission, selling to districts from Steubenville to Cleveland, from Pennsylvania to Mansfield, and just about everywhere in between.
He would fly customers to a furniture manufacturer in Texas on a twin engine Bonanza airplane in a time before the Internet.
"When (school officials) are investing all that money, they want to be sure of the product and the people," Dunckel said.
After cornering the Northeast Ohio market, he launched a company with a colleague in the late 1960s. He subsequently flipped the operation to his son and worked as the educational director for Beckley-Cardy Inc., a furniture and equipment company in Ravenna. He retired -- for the first time -- in 1992.
After that, he split profits with his son for the next 20 years, maintaining age-old clients like Bill Wisniewski, director of business operations for Ravenna schools.
"Here's a man of 91, and he kept up. Smart boards. Technology," Wisniewski said. "He kept up with the industry, but he was so personable."
Wisniewski, Nist and school administrators across northeast Ohio still call him "Uncle Dunckel," attaching phrases like "first-class gentleman" and "honest guy."
Throughout his career, Dunckel said, he always employed common sense, a solid work ethic, knowledge of his product and -- most importantly -- a love of the trade.
"If you don't like people, don't get involved," he said.


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Delivering Services, Not Profits
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced that it intends to end Saturday mail delivery starting in August. The move is designed to cut costs, which many people, including members of Congress, say needs to be done because the agency is losing a lot of money.
With more and more people using email and other forms of electronic delivery as well as online bill paying, the volume of mail delivered by USPS the "old fashioned" way is down and it will likely continue to decline. However, there are still people who rely on snail mail and those people are going to be hurt. For them, a reduction in service is functionally like a tax and they don't deserve it....523 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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A massive manhunt continues Friday in Southern California for Christopher Dorner, a rage-filled former Los Angeles police officer on a self-confessed vendetta that left one policemen dead, another seriously wounded and another two people dead.
San Bernadino County Sheriffs confirmed in a Friday morning news conference that cabins are being scoured in the snowy mountains surrounding Big Bear, where Dorner, a former LAPD officer with military training, has a cabin of his own.
Police earlier found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck and tracks leading away from the vehicle off a wooded road near Big Bear.
Authorities say Dorner's alleged wave of violence was retribution for having been fired in 2008 after making false statements.
Dorner said he would stop the killing when the LAPD publicly proclaimed his innocence and restored his reputation. "The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse," Dorner wrote in a document that he called his "Manifesto."
He continued: "I know I will be vilified by the LAPD and the media. Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
Police departments throughout the sprawling Los Angeles area continue to help try and capture Dorner, who is said to be armed with assault rifles and multiple other weapons.
Within two days, Dorner allegedly claimed his first victims on Sunday: Monica Quan, 27, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence. The couple was killed in Irvine, Calif., in a vehicle at a parking structure. Quan was the daughter of a former LAPD officer who Dorner claims bungled his LAPD termination appeal.
After failing to steal a boat in San Diego Wednesday night, Dorner allegedly attacked more victims – this time, police officers. He allegedly shot at LAPD officers protecting one of his targets, grazing one officer in the head. Dorner was able to escape after shooting up the officers' car. Thirty minutes later, he allegedly ambushed two officers at an intersection in Riverside, Calif., killing one of them and sending the other to the hospital.


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Beats Antique Play DENVER At Ogden Theatre
Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electonica and world roots music comes a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance, built of brass bands and glitch, string quartets and dubstep: the musical trio Beats Antique.
Since the group's inception from the eclectic underground of San Francisco's performance art scene, Beats Antique has been notorious for making it nearly impossible to sit still. They meld their mediums as attentively as they fuse the cultures that inspire their sound. All self produced and composed, the trio creates a unique collage: an animalistic, raw musical event that blurs the lines between the provocative, the spiritual, and the artistic, while still maintaining an allegiance to the muses of class and beauty.
The journey that led to Beats Antique today was a winding and twisted path from the west coast to the ancient trade routes of the silk road. In this modern incarnation, the musical alliance of producers David Satori and Tommy Cappel is inspired and emphasized by their collaborative partnership with world-renowned belly dance performer and music producer Zoe Jakes.
David Satori and Tommy Cappel both trained classically before venturing to locations such as Bali, West Africa, Serbia and beyond. With extensive backgrounds in multicultural music production, and the passports to prove it, Satori and Cappel command the spectrum of live and digital instrumentation, born from Hip Hop and old school jazz.
Zoe Jakes adds a third dimension as the multi –cultural and –disciplinary dance counterpart to Beats Antique's sound. Jakes has worked with 2 major dance troupes, Miles Copeland's Bellydance Superstars and Rachel Brice's Indigo Belly Dance Company, a student of ballet and contemporary techniques. Jake's additional history with Cappel in the Extra Action Marching Band and the Yard Dogs Road Show grants some insight into the caliber of performance that is Beats Antique's standard.
All of this sets the scene for Beats Antique's overtly ambitious stage show, a sensory overload conquest of the festival circuit's most riotous events, such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits festival, and Outside Lands, as well as a catalog of proper tours that include Bassnectar and a recent run with Les Claypool of PRIMUS in early 2010. According to Satori, the trio is excited by their ability to create a huge sound from their relatively small setup. "It gives us this whole new world of musical opportunities that we're just starting to scratch the surface of."
In a prolific 3 years since Beats Antique emerged, the group has released 2 albums and a pair of EPs, with a third album, Blind Threshold, on the way. Notable features of the new release include vaporous violins and Danny Elfman-esque dementia; glitchy, laser-guided harmonica provided by Blues Traveler frontman John Popper; and 2 very different vocal tracks that range between restless pop hooks and vibrant Eastern European dance loops. All wrapped into an intricate collection of heavy beats and sub bass.
Beats Antique is best imagined as an innovative creature built from the cumulative heritage of the world's music chasing its tail. However vivid that image, when a marching band groove crashes into bluesy folk chords only to be accompanied by electronic beats and Middle Eastern melodies, you'll still be surprised
8/21 - Stephentown, NY - Bella Terra Music Festival
8/28 - Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre
9/10 - Clarks Grove, MN - Harvestfest - Harmony Park
9/11 - Minot, ME - 1st Annual Dankfest
9/17 - Laytonville, CA - Earthdance
9/18 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
9/24 - Seattle, WA - Decibel Festival @ Motor
9/25 - Arcata, CA - Aracata Theatre
9/28 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
9/30 - Madison, WI - Majestic Live
10/1 - Milwaukee, WI - Miramar Theatre
10/2 - Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub
10/3 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection
10/6 - New Orleans, LA - Republic
10/9 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10/11 - Mobile, AL - Alabama Music Box
10/12 - Birmingham, AL - Zydeco
10/13 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10/14 - Asheville, NC - TBD
10/15 - Charleston, SC - The Pour House
10/16 - Athens, GA - New Earth Music Hall
10/17 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade - Hell Room
10/22 - Allston, MA - Harpers Ferry
11/11 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
11/12 - Edmonton, AB - The Pawn Shop
11/13 - Calgary, AB - Royal Canadian Legion
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OROVILLE >> An incendiary device that may have been a homemade firework item was destroyed Friday morning in the parking lot at the upper overlook at Oroville Dam.
California Highway Patrol officer Matt Duford said the agency received a call around 6:50 a.m. of a suspicious device found near the dam. CHP was notified by a security guard who makes regular rounds at the dam and found the device.
CHP responded and contacted the Butte County Sheriff's Office to request assistance from the Bomb Squad.
The squad arrived at the scene and rendered the device safe, Duford said.
Duford said the device looked like a homemade firework and wasn't anything criminally suspicious.
There are no investigating leads and no one was around the area or in danger, he said.
Contact reporter Barbara Arrigoni at 533-3136.


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Scribd is a San Fransisco web company that helps you present documents online. You join up, upload and your doc, pdf, xls, txt, rtf, ppt, odt files to the service and then it displays your upload in an interface which is easy on the eyes. For example, the readers who find your Scribd document can zoom around, flip pages, see thumbnail views and jump into a full screen mode. There are options for viewers to email your iPaper (that's the official name of your Scribd uploads), save them for later reading, embed them, leave comments and add them to Scribd Groups.
So what's good about this for musicians? Press kits baby! If you search online for "online press kit maker" you will find many companies willing to charge you $499 to make a flash type of online magazine out of your clippings. But Scribed does this free (ad supported) and has Social Networking and SEO built in so people actually find your interviews and five star reviews.
Something to keep in mind is you have to get written permission from each magazine or newspaper you plan to copy from. If contacted with a DMCA notice Scribed will zap your file. When I get contacted by a magazine asking, "Would you do an interview in GothWorld?". I always say yes of course as long as I have the right to reproduce and distribute the article. There is plenty of copyrighted material on Scribed as there is on YouTube, Flickr, etc… so I don't suspect many publishers will be asking for your Press Kit to be deleted. After all it's good promotion for them too.
Another thing I discovered while trolling the site was that there is a bunch of sheet music that's been uploaded including an Aimie Street sheet music Group. I always say the best way to improve your sound is to take piano lessons. If your teaching yourself here's some compositions you can check out for free. If you are a beginner I would not try the "Crazy Musical Scores" I embedded above!
So far all my recent press is: click here. It's time I get all my saved press clippings going back to 1990 and get them into a Scribd and backup PDF.


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Re: Brother diagnosed 2 months ago
Dear Suzanne,
So sorry to hear of your brother's passing. Know that you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Love & Hugs,
All of my comments and suggestions are just my opinions and are not a substitute for professional medical advice. You should always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care providers.


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BOTH Mark Cox and Jack Tweddell failed to win a tour card or any Order of Merit points on the second day of Q-School in Wigan.
The pair both missed out on day one, although Cox did manage to pick up five ranking points, which could help him win his card if he does not reach the semi-final of either of the two remaining events.
The day got off to a great start for both players as Tweddell beat Darren Ward 6-5 and Cox triumphed over Heikki Hyvonen 6-3 in the Preliminary Round, and it looked as if the duo could make some progress.
But their runs came to an end in the first round, as Cox fell 6-0 to Dale Quince and Tweddell lost 6-3 to Steve Kirkby.
The pair have another chance to win a regular place on the PDC Tour today when the third day gets underway.


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1:00 Announcements and Host Chat
- I'll be teaching at Debauchery April 25-27 in North Carolina
2:00 Topic: Is monogamy natural?
Before we dive into this, what do you hope to accomplish or prove by answering this question? Do you want it to be true or untrue that human beings are naturally monogamous? Why does it matter to you, and how will it affect your behavior?
All the books I recommend are in the Poly Weekly Amazon Store under Polyamory Must Reads or For Sex Scholars.
- The Myth of Monogamy by David Barash and Judith Lipton answer thusly: humans are socially monogamous with a strong tendency toward extra-pair couplings
- Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray and What It Means for Modern Relationships, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. Fascinating review of biological, anthropological and even economic origins of social preconceptions of sex and monogamy. Fun, semi-scholarly reading. Ryan's TED talk Are We Designed to be Sexual Omnivores? is here.
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, by Olivia Judson. A cute approach to the biological nature of sexual contact in the animal kingdom, written as a Q and A to an advice columnist. Yeah, as in "why DOES my mate bite off my head after sex"? 🙂 For a very readable look at sex, monogamy, polyamory and more in the animal kingdom, it's a great read!
- Why We Love, by Helen Fisher. Fisher, a cultural anthropologist, delves into brain chemistry and the science of attraction. Think you're the only one who's ever been in love LIKE THIS? Think again! A fascinating read, even for non-anthropologists. Want a preview? Fisher's TED 2008 talk on The Brain in Love.
- Anatomy of Love, by Helen Fisher. Another Helen Fisher classic on love, dating and "why we stray." Humans really aren't monogamous–find out what we are. Also, Fisher's TED talk on Why We Love and Why We Cheat is here.
21:00 Happy Poly Moment
Diana shared a Happy Poly Moment about getting not just tolerance but active support within a relationship with differing approaches to polyamory.
Wrap up
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text: The hotels in Shirdi have been playing host to Sai Baba devotees for years. The rich followers of the Baba, looking for luxurious hotels invariably land up at Hotel Shraddha Inn. Other luxury options include Marigold Regency, Hotel Sai Jashan, Hotel Sai Mahal, Hotel Bhagyalaxmi, Shraddha Inn, Celebrations Inn - Sai Sanjivani and Hotel Lee Grand. Indulge yourself into spiritual expedition while being in Shirdi and enjoy the inner peace. Ardent devotees, who are not all that well off, find themselves equally at peace at the cheaper guest houses and Shirdi hotels such as Sai Mahal, Vardhman Guesthouse, and Hotel Kalpataru. Other options for affordable accommodation include Hotel Sai Sahavas, Sun-N-Sand , Hotel Sharan, Reeva Suites, Hotel Sai Grand Castle Inn and Hotel Netra Sai. Staying at hotels in Shirdi brings you fine accommodation and friendly hospitality!


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(UPDATED COVERAGE, April 26) In the wake of an 18-state salmonella outbreak, U.S. officials issued an import alert on cucumbers from Mexican growers whose produce is distributed by Tricar Sales Inc., Rio Rico, Ariz.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an outbreak report April 25 referencing the import alert issues the day before by the Food and Drug Administration.
The CDC reported 73 people were confirmed with Salmonella Saintpaul with illness onsets reported from Jan. 12 through April 6. No deaths have been reported, but 14 people have had to be admitted to hospitals because of the salmonella infections.
Tricar Sales director of marketing and sales, Rod Sbragia, said the Food and Drug Administration has been in communication with the company since April 5. He said the FDA told company officials they did not have to recall produce because it is unlikely that any of the cucumbers remain in the stream of commerce, based on the illness onset dates.
The import alert applies only to imported cucumbers supplied by Daniel Cardenas Izabal and Miracle Greenhouse of Culiacán, Mexico, and distributed by Tricar Sales Inc.
Cucumbers from the two firms may be denied admission into the U.S. until further notice unless the importer provides evidence that they are not contaminated with Salmonella, such as results from private laboratory tests of the cucumbers.
Sbragia said Tricar has been doing business with Izabal since 1949. He said Izabal is the principal grower for Tricar Sales. Sbragia said Tricar officials are not sure of the volume of cucumbers distributed in the U.S. during the time the illnesses were reported.
"At this time they have not linked anything for sure," Sbragia said April 25. "We are cooperating fully with the FDA and have provided documentation and records they requested.
"We are looking for potential causes but have not found anything. the Mexican authorities are working with the growers to investigate possible sources of potential contamination."
The FDA and CDC have been trying to pinpoint the source of the salmonella for weeks, said Doug Karas, public affairs specialist with FDA's Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network.
"Only recently could we identify the product and the suppliers — this was done with a combination of epidemiological interviews and through using shipping records to trace the cucumbers back to the suppliers," Karas said.
"Although we are confident that cucumbers from these firms are linked to illnesses in this outbreak, currently, we have no evidence that contaminated cucumbers from these suppliers are still on the market."
The CDC reported 30 out of 45 of the sick people reported eating cucumbers from grocery stores or in restaurants during the week before they became ill. Another five of those 45 sick people thought they might have eaten cucumbers before becoming ill.
"Reviewing shipping records, with assistance from its partner state agencies, FDA traced cucumbers eaten by six ill people to the distributer, Tricar Sales Inc., and further, to the suppliers, Daniel Cardenas Izabal and Miracle Greenhouse," the CDC reported.
The CDC notice said the agency is continuing to interview patients to determine the source of the salmonella, but preliminary findings were strong enough for the USDA to issue the import alert.
The states involved and the number of illnesses reported are: Arizona 9, California 28, Colorado 1, Idaho 2, Illinois 3, Louisiana 1, Massachusetts 1, Maryland 1, Minnesota 8, Nevada 1, New Mexico 2, North Carolina 1, Ohio 1, Oregon 2, South Dakota 2, Texas 6, Virginia 2 and Wisconsin 2.


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Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Cardiac Arrest (ECPB4OHCA)
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Cardiac arrest ist associated with a very poor prognosis. Even though resuscitation algorithms and postcardiac arrest care have been improved there is an urgent need for measures leading to a higher survival rate.
Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass (ECPB - artificial heart and lung outside the patients body) is a method which has shown good results in case reports and animal studies for cardiac arrest care.
The study will be performed as comparison between the new treatment option of ECPB versus the standard of care treatment.
Aim of our study is to determine the feasibility of ECPB installed in an emergency department to improve the rate of patients restoration of spontaneous circulation.
|Cardiac Arrest
|Procedure: Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass under ongoing CPR Procedure: Standard ACLS
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass After Cardiac Arrest With Ongoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - a Pilot Randomized Trial
- Rate of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) [ Time Frame: 2-48h ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|November 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Standard ACLS
Patients in the standard ACLS group will be resuscitated until ROSC or termination of efforts. If ROSC is achieved they will be transported to the emergency department and treated according to ERC guidelines and GCP.
Procedure: Standard ACLS
Standard ACLS Standard ACLS provided by EMS personnel according to current guidelines of the European resuscitation council.
Transport will be initiated as soon as the patient achieves ROSC in the field and transportation is feasible. All patients will be admitted to the ED at the Vienna general hospital.
Standard Post resuscitation Management:
After admission to the ED post resuscitation care and standardized intensive care treatment will be provided according to Utstein protocol and current standards for good clinical practice and according to ILCOR recommendations. A crossover to the ECPB group is possible, if indicated by good clinical practice. If so, it will be counted as treatment failure in the standard ACLS group.
If no ROSC can be achieved and the patient dies in the field pathological results will be obtained if feasible.
Experimental: ECPB
ACLS provided for 15 minutes by EMS personnel according to current guidelines of the ERC.
CPR during transportation will be performed by EMS personnel according to ERC guidelines.
At the ED cannulation will be performed percutaneously if feasible. The femoral artery will be cannulated with a 17-19 - Fr and the femoral vein will be cannulated simultaneously with heparin coated 19-25 - Fr catheter or a smart cannula. An antegrade 8 - Fr cannula will be placed to supply perfusion for the cannulated leg if feasible. The procedures will be performed ultrasound-guided and the size of the cannulae will be adapted according to vessel size. Correct placement of the venous cannulae will be verified via ultrasound. Cardiopulmonary bypass will be performed by using the Lifebridge(Sorin®) or the Cardiohelp(Maquet®) ECMO device, according to protocol.
Procedure: Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass under ongoing CPR
Procedure: Standard ACLS
Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass under ongoing CPR
Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass (ECMO: lifebridge (Sorin®) or cardiohelp(Maquet®) will be initiated percutaneously ultrasound guided, during CPR efforts at the Emergency department.
Cannulae and tubing in use will be heparin coated. ECMO flow will be set to 70ml/kgBW/min. Anticoagulation will achieved with unfractionated heparin and monitored using ACT.
Standard ACLS Standard ACLS provided by EMS personnel according to current guidelines of the European resuscitation council.
Transport will be initiated as soon as the patient achieves ROSC in the field and transportation is feasible. All patients will be admitted to the ED at the Vienna general hospital.
Standard Post resuscitation Management:
After admission to the ED post resuscitation care and standardized intensive care treatment will be provided according to Utstein protocol and current standards for good clinical practice and according to ILCOR recommendations. A crossover to the ECPB group is possible, if indicated by good clinical practice. If so, it will be counted as treatment failure in the standard ACLS group.
If no ROSC can be achieved and the patient dies in the field pathological results will be obtained if feasible.
Detailed Description:
Background: Out of hospital cardiac arrest is associated with a poor prognosis. Overall survival varies between 3% and 16% respectively. Measures to improve the chance of survival are urgently needed. If return of spontaneous circulation under competent cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) measures is not achieved within the first 25 minutes the chance of survival decreases even further. Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass (ECPB) would be such a treatment option for these heavily compromised patients, as it has shown considerably good results used as resuscitation device for cardiac arrest in animal studies.
Material and Methods: This study will be performed as single center (university hospital) randomized, controlled and prospective pilot study comprising a highly experienced emergency department treating about 200 to 300 cardiac arrest patients a year. Two groups will be analyzed, a `Standard ACLS´ group and an `ECPB´ group. Each group will comprise 20 patients. Eligible are adult patients with witnessed out of hospital cardiac arrest, with presumed cardiac cause and without return of spontaneous circulation after a minimum of 15 minutes of advanced cardiac life support.
Patients in the `Standard ACLS´ group will be resuscitated until return of spontaneous circulation or termination of efforts. The `ECPB´ group will receive ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation during transport to the emergency department where ECPB will be installed. Necessary diagnostic examinations and therapeutic interventions for both groups will be performed according to guidelines for post resuscitation care and good clinical practice.
Primary outcome measure is the rate of sustained restoration of spontaneous circulation according to Utstein criteria. Secondary outcome measures are 24 hours survival, survival to ICU discharge, survival to hospital discharge, rate of best neurological recovery (cerebral performance category score 1 or 2) within 6 months after cardiac arrest and modified Rankin score at 6 months after cardiac arrest.
Patients in the `Standard ACLS´ group receive standard treatment without any potential additional risks. The `ECPB´ group receives standard advanced cardiac life support as well and has the predicted advantage of the extracorporeal oxygenation at the emergency department and coronary intervention even before return of spontaneous circulation.
Aim of this study: To compare current standard therapy for patients after out of hospital cardiac arrest (cardiopulmonary resuscitation until return of spontaneous circulation or termination of efforts) with a new concept of transportation with ongoing cardiopulmonary reanimation and installation of ECPB at the Emergency Department to improve survival.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, with presumed cardiac cause, immediate initiation of bystander CPR and without return of spontaneous circulation after a minimum of 15 minutes of advanced cardiac life support are eligible. Patients who do achieve ROSC at first but suffer rearrest afterwards and do not achieve ROSC again after 15 minutes of advanced cardiac life support are considered eligible as well.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients younger than 18 years or older than 75 years
- Traumatic cardiac arrest
- Cardiac arrest due to exsanguination, strangulation, hanging or drowning
- Accidental hypothermia as a cause of cardiac arrest
- Women suffering life-threatening amniotic fluid embolism
- Cardiac arrest due to pulmonary artery embolism
- Cardiac arrest due to intoxication
- Cardiac arrest due to intracranial hemorrhage
- Other initial ECG-rhythm than ventricular fibrillation
- Known or clinically apparent pregnancy
- Patients with an Allow-natural-death- (AND) or Do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) order or patients with a terminal illness
- Patients who, for any reason, can not be transported with ongoing CPR
- Insufficient quality of bystander CPR (at the discretion of the emergency physician or EMT)*
- Estimated transportation time exceeding 30 minutes
- Patients with psychiatric conditions
- Mentally handicapped patients
- Patients with severe neurological conditions
- Patients of a nursing institution or other institutionalized patients
- Ward of the state / prisoner
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01605409
|Contact: Andreas Schober, MD
|+4340400 ext 1964
|Contact: Michael Holzer, Prof. MD
|+4340400 ext 1964
|Medical University Vienna, Dept. of Emergency Medicine
|Vienna, Austria, 1090
|Contact: Anton N. Laggner, Prof. MD +43140400 ext 1964 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Sub-Investigator: Michael Holzer, Ao. Prof. MD
|Sub-Investigator: Fritz Sterz, Ao. Prof. MD
|Principal Investigator: Andreas Schober, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Andreas Schober, MD
|Medical University Vienna, Austria, Dept. of Emergency Medicine
|Responsible Party:
|Andreas Schober, MD, Medical University of Vienna
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01605409 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 22, 2012
|Last Updated:
|September 13, 2016
Keywords provided by Andreas Schober, Medical University of Vienna:
Refractory cardiac arrest
Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass
Extracorporeal life support in cardiac arrest
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Arrest
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Michigan's assault on labor: Elections have consequences
The decision by Michigan's Republican regime to speedily enact and sign historic laws that diminish the power of unions - in a state that once pioneered the power of unions - vividly illustrates the importance of state legislative elections. Let that be a lesson to those of us in the press corps who often pay scant attention to those elections.
And let it be a reminder to Democrats that, as giddy as they may feel about the 2012 presidential results, and about their party's gains in the U.S Senate, the reality is far more sobering. Thanks to the 2010 midterm elections, the GOP is still thriving at the state level. Witness the political bomb that was just detonated in Michigan.
On election day, the federal races typically dominate the coverage; even in years when a presidential contest isn't topping the ticket, Senate and House candidates get the brunt of the scrutiny. You typically need to turn to an inside newspaper page, or scroll deep into an online story, to find out whether the Democrats or the Republicans notched gains or losses in the competition for seats in the state chambers. And that's a shame, because so many of our cutting-edge issues are fought in those chambers. They often get resolved there as well, because state legislatures - especially when they're run by the same party as the governor - are frequently far less gridlocked than their counterparts in Washington.
The press scrutiny of the 2010 midterms was a case in point. We focused heavily on the big hit suffered by President Obama, as Republicans scored huge gains on Capital Hill; far less ink was devoted to the arguably bigger story. Republicans clobbered the Democrats at the state level. Prior to the '10 election, the GOP enjoyed full control (both legislative chambers and the governor's office) in only nine states; after the '10 election, the GOP controlled 21 states. And if you tallied all the state legislative seats nationwide, the GOP total was the party's largest since 1928.
One of key '10 states was Michigan. Prior to the balloting, Democrats held the state House by a 20-seat margin; but on election night, Republicans captured the state House by a 16-seat margin. Plus, Republican Rick Snyder rode the wave into the governor's chair. And thus the seeds were sown for the current assault on organized labor.
Snyder recently insisted that a right-to-work law - a typically southern red-state measure that allows workers to forego union dues - would be too "divisive" for Michigan. But yesterday he signed two such bills, suddenly hailing it as an exemplar of "workplace fairness and equality," after they were hustled through the Republican-dominated legislature. There's an old saying that state governments are America's "laboratories of democracy," but these bills were fast-tracked without normal committee scrutiny, without public hearing, and without the traditional public unput period - all potential violations of the state's Open Meetings Act. Some democracy.
But that's what happens when one party focuses heavily on state legislative races - as the GOP did in 2010, flipping the Michigan House - and the other party does not.
Perhaps even an energized Democratic party would have been thwarted by the '10 conservative wave in Michigan and elsewhere. But let it be recorded that the GOP was far more ginned up, and far better financed, for those state races. The Republican State Leadership Committee, a Washington GOP group, pumped $30 million into the races (buoyed by hefty donations from the usual suspects, including the Koch Brothers) and it devoted outsize resources to Michigan. Nationwide, the RSLC outspent its Democratic counterpart by roughly three to one. Nationwide, the Republican Governors Association (another player in state races) outspent the Democratic Governors Association by two to one.
The results speak for themselves. Democrats have been forced to fight rearguard actions state by state, on everything from voting rights and women's health to immigration reform and public education spending. Michigan's new anti-union law - in a pioneering union state, no less - is merely part of this pattern. The GOP may be gloomy about the federal election results this autumn, but its agenda is alive and well below the Washington radar. Democrats would be wise to vie more effectively at the state level, and the rest of us would do well to pay more attention.
Speaking of voting rights:
It's always refreshing when Republicans drop the pretense that their state-by-state "reforms" of voting laws are designed to combat ballot fraud. This was exposed as a blatant lie during the summer, when GOP lawyers in Pennsylvania admitted in a sworn affadavit that they had no evidence of voter impersonation fraud - which had supposedly been the rationale for passage of the state's new photo-ID requirement.
Anyway, at a Pew-sponsored forum on Monday, Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter uttered this gem:
"A lot of us are campaign officials - or campaign professionals - and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines - whatever it may be."
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Fairfax County to Celebrate GIS Day on Nov. 16
On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Fairfax County government agencies will showcase their achievements and educate their peers and the public about how they use Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Activities will include the announcement of the annual GIS Day Excellence Awards; GIS exhibitors from numerous county agencies providing live demonstrations of GIS products, services and "internal" business processes; the GIS Excellence Awards Map Gallery; and drawings for GIS Day T-shirts and hats throughout the day. GIS Day is a global event during which GIS users work to expand the understanding of how GIS technology and geography makes a difference in our lives. All GIS Day activities will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax.
GIS, a computer-based tool used to map and analyze features and events, combines the power of a database with the visualization capabilities offered by maps. More than half a million people in the world use GIS to solve problems in areas such as environmental protection, pollution, health care, land use, asset deployment and routing, natural resources, conservation, business efficiency, education and social inequities. Over the past year, GIS was an essential tool in responding to the tsunami in Asia and to Hurricane Katrina.
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text: May as well start a thread....anyone know how to feedback issues to Samsung directly as some problems may be resolveable in a fw fix? Weak reception - worse that N2 in a side by side test. Both phone and particularly internet. I was on H on the N2 now on just G with little internet and poor call quality. Speaker is so in the wrong place! When holding the N3 in landscape mode, thumb rests on the speaker! Jerky when using Gallery viewing/scrolling through camera pictures.


text: I have a one and a half year old Shar Pei/Boxer/??? mix that was EXTREMELY friendly for this first year of his life. However, starting in January he became increasingly aggressive to other dogs. First it was just one GSD at the dog park that he continuously got into fights with - I chalked it up to the dog's size (this was probably the tallest dog I've ever seen that wasn't a Dane or a Mastiff, which strangely enough, Chester loves). A few weeks later, he got into a fight with a Dalmatian at the park and blood was drawn (my dog's, not the dalmation's). At this point we stopped going to the park to avoid further incidents. Since then, he has been in a room full of dogs at obedience school with no problems, played with my mom's border collie with no problems, and played with my friend's spitz with no problems. I began to assume that it was just those two dogs at the park. Today, though, we met what looked like a pit mix, and my dog initially greeted him very friendly, then out of the blue growled and snarled at him. A second later, his tail was wagging and he was "smiling", with the other dog play bowing and Chester wagging his tail. Then when they got close again, Chester growled and snarled at the dog again. I am extremely confused as to what's going on and how to help it, especially since it isn't very predictable when his aggression will present. Is there any way to stop this? Or can someone at least explain what is happening?


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Greetings all,
A while ago I reading Radhika Abeysekera's "Relatives and Disciples of the Buddha" and really enjoyed hearing some of the historical stories about what led the Buddha's disciples to go forth into the monastic life, and how the achieved great spiritual feats once joining the order.
It was also good to learn a little more about Khema (the first female chief disciple of the Buddha - female equivalent of Sariputta) and Uppalavanna (the second female chief disciple - female equivalent of Maha Moggallana) and what role they played in the initial successes of the bhikkhuni order.
For anyone interested in learning more about Khema, Uppalavanna and other early prominent female disciples of the Buddha, I recommend the following online resources:
Pt. III - Great Female Disciples (from "Relatives and Disciples of the Buddha") by Radhika Abeysekera
Buddhist Women at the Time of The Buddha by Hellmuth Hecker
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el292.html
Bhikkhuni-samyutta (Discourses of the Ancient Nuns)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... bl143.html
Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns - Susan Elbaum Jootla
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el349.html
Therigatha · Verses of the Elder Nuns
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... index.html


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Topic: ASCO 2009
There is another upcoming event for the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation. We will be attending and occupying a booth at the
2009 ASCO Annual Meeting
May 29 - June 2, 2009
Orlando, Florida
Orange County Convention Center
The SSO conference in Phoenix was a success due to the kindness and willingness of Teddy, Lainy, and David in helping our Foundation to reach out to the medical community.
The 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting will be a forum for cutting-edge scientific and educational developments in oncology with a focus on personalizing cancer care and has an attendance of 30 to 40 thousand physicians and researchers from all over the world.
If anyone living in the Orlando area and is willing and interested in joining Stacie and I at this conference please, contact me at: email@example.com.
With your help so much more can be accomplished. A Chicago Conference (Digestive Week) would also be pertaining to our cancer and I would love to be able to attend both although, the dates overlap. There is a possibility for us to accomplish this if we can staff a booth at either event


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FREEZE FRAME: Meet the Cast of CINDERELLA- Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, and More!
The new production of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella will begin performances in January at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd St). RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a new book by Douglas Carter Beane and original book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is directed by Mark Brokaw. Josh Rhodes is choreographer.
The cast and creative team met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for all of the festivities. Check out a photo preview below, and check back later for full coverage!
Leading the cast of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella are Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince, along with Tony winner Victoria Clark as fairy godmother Marie, Tony winner Harriet Harris as Madame, Cinderella's stepmother; Ann Harada as stepsister Charlotte; Marla Mindelle as stepsister Gabrielle; Peter Bartlett as Sebastian, Prince Topher's mentor and Lord Chancellor, and Greg Hildreth as the rebel Jean-Michel.
For tickets and more information, visit http://www.cinderellaonbroadway.com/
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Harriet Harris, Santino Fontana, Laura Osnes & Victoria Clark


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ENGLAND may be out of the running for the World Cup, but that didn't dampen villagers' spirits as they celebrated their annual summer fete – Brazilian style!
On Saturday (June 28) John Keble Primary School, in Hursley near Winchester, played host to Hursley Village Fete, with a World Cup Street Carnival theme.
Patriotic bunting lined every building, along Main Road leading up to the fete, which was just as colourful with Brazilian inspired carnival decorations.
Dancers took to the centre to perform a samba and the traditional chocolate custard eating contest was held in the afternoon.
Southampton Football Club mascot, Sammy Saint, popped in and there was entertainment by stilt-walkers Circus Sensible – as well as plate spinning, juggling, diablo and hula-hooping.
Ann Ramsdale, of the organising committee, said: "It's a whole community event, between the school, church and village. The weather was gorgeous in the morning, and then as soon as we set up it rained! When we started though, the rain stopped."
She added: "It's fantastic. We had so many people come along, help out and donate stuff and about 80 volunteers."
The proceeds will be split 60/40 between the school and All Saints Church.


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In mid-September, a milk processor in the Midwest was forced to dump four loads of milk. Test results showed milk aflatoxin levels were too high. Several thousands of dollars in profit poured down the drain.
Luckily, swift action by farm management put the farm's milk back on the market after 24 hours, preventing further economic loss.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, aflatoxin levels in milk for human consumption cannot exceed 0.5 parts per billion (ppb). This year's unrelenting drought has made this mandate a real challenge for many farms. If you find yourself with contaminated feed, here are some steps that you can take to protect not only the health of your animals, but also the safety of your milk supply.
Know your risk
The foremost step you can take to protect your milk supply and consumer confidence is to monitor aflatoxin levels in milk.
"When you look at aflatoxin tests on your farm, the one that's always right is the milk," says Mike Hutjens, professor emeritus and extension dairy specialist at the University of Illinois.
Feed monitoring also is a must, although frustrating because results of sampled feeds often show only very low levels of aflatoxin are present.
Both corn grain and silage can harbor aflatoxin, but don't forget to step up quality control of by-products and other purchased feedstuffs that originated in drought- or heat-stressed areas.
Some corn by-products can actually raise aflatoxin levels in the diet, Hutjens points out.
For example, the concentration of aflatoxin in corn distillers grains can be three times higher than the original level found in the corn grain used for ethanol production. So, if corn grain contains 10 ppb aflatoxin, the level in the distillers grains could end up being 30 ppb, which exceeds the FDA's 20 ppb limit for lactating dairy cows.
Corn gluten feed, corn hominy and fuzzy cottonseed are some other common by-product feeds that can harbor aflatoxin, so know what you are dealing with when using these feeds.
Unfortunately, it can be challenging to sample stored feed for aflatoxin contamination. Detailed instructions for proper sampling can be found at dairyherd.com.
Once there, type "Aflatoxin sampling instructions" into the "Search" box on the homepage.
Feeding options
Since no more than 20 ppb of aflatoxin are allowed in lactating-cow diets, you need to take action if you find yourself with contaminated feeds. Here are some options for managing the ration:
Dilute contaminated feed. This can be accomplished with "wholesome" forages and grains, such as alfalfa, barley, or commercial protein supplements and by-products like soy hulls, Hutjens says.
Use an additive or flow agent. There are three general types of flow agents (also known as mycotoxin binders). These include clay-based products, such as those containing bentonite, zeolite or calcium aluminosilicate, as well as products containing yeast cell wall extracts (also known as MOS agents or glucomannans) and those containing enzymes specific to mycotoxin control. Ask your nutritionist to help you determine what commercial product is a good fit for your situation and be sure to follow the manufacturer's guidelines for dietary inclusion levels.
Ammoniate the corn. The process of ammoniation breaks or destroys the structure of the aflatoxin. Ideally, you need to have moisture (>13 percent) and heat (60° F) to cause this chemical reaction, Hutjens says. To accomplish this, seal the contaminated feed in bags or bins and then add ammonia. The level of ammonia to add will vary, depending on the concentration of aflatoxin in the feed. Be aware that the corn will darken because the sugars caramelize during ammoniation. You also may encounter palatability problems, so plan to aerate the feed. And as a safety reminder, be very careful when handling anhydrous ammonia.
Dry the corn. If you have corn yet to harvest, don't store atrisk wet corn as high-moisture corn this year. "It's a wonderful environment to grow the aflatoxin," Hutjens says. "Dry it down below 14 percent moisture."
A dairy cow secretes about 1 to 2 percent of the aflatoxin she consumes into her milk. Monitor and manage to keep your rations clean and your milk supply wholesome and safe.


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Eden offers diners the finest halal Dim Sum selection and a rich variety of oriental flavours, made fresh daily using only the finest ingredients. Carefully crafted by its master chefs, Eden's Signature Selections include Fresh Lobster Dumpling, Cod Fish Dumpling and Braised Hong Kong Noodles with Lobster
Whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner, there are few better places to satisfy the taste buds than at Eden. Eden's comfortable and relaxed ambience caters to all travellers whether if it is for a leisure meal or a quick bite. The restaurant also caters for tour and travel groups, offering attractive group packages to compliment its spacious seating arrangement. With its combination of friendly and courteous service, and mouth-watering delights, Eden will surely touch your heart and leave you with a flavourful memory.
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