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We?re Off to See the Wizards!
Written by IndyHoya
Fellow 55ers! This is truly the winter of our discontent. Today, like me, you probably sprang from your bed, peered out your window and only saw rainy darkness, bare trees, and patches of unthawed snowy lawn. You probably crunched your way to your car, grimly scraped the frost from the windshield, cranked a sluggish motor, and then went to your job with all the enthusiasm of a character from a subtitled black-and-white Swedish movie. Emerging from work, you grimly noticed that what little sun there once had been had already disappeared and your trip home was just as bleak as your original trip to work.*
Like me, you probably have tried to combat your winter blues with the happy thought of a trip to Conseco and a Pacers home game. But, alas, when you got there, you found that the cold Indiana December has turned our teams once-vaunted shooters into ice sculptures, as morosely frigid as our present depressing climate.*
So what is to be done?
Well, cheer up, fellow fun-seekers! The New Year approaches! Rest assured, our teams lost mojo is about to be restored!*
Effective Countermeasures Have Been Taken!*The Pacers current malaise lies not in Obies crazy rotations; not in Big Roys missing his baby hooks, nor in DGs recently erratic shooting touch. Nay! These are all mere symptoms! Our real problems run deeper. I have consulted with experts knowledgeable in these matters. Our true problem is that we have been cursed! Yes, cursed! A malicious practitioner of the black arts has cursed our team!*
But buck up! We now have a pretty good idea who the culprit behind it all is and, more importantly, what needs to be done about it. So how do we end this curse? Well .
First, El Pacero, a dedicated practitioner of the Afro-Caribbean religion of Santeria, reports that since Wednesdays loss in D.C. he has been sleeping on virginal white bed sheets bestrewn with laurel leaves. Furthermore, he now wears a big yellowed tooth, pried from the jaws of an old alligator, on a leather necklace under his wrestling jersey. He has also placed lit black candles and newly-minted copper pennies in strategic locations in Conseco Fieldhouse. Each of these measures, he assures me, is guaranteed to restore lost luck.
Not to be outdone, Area 55′s own voodoo-meister and periodically-entranced shimmy-dancer, SuperFan, has slain a bantam rooster and daubed unseen portions of his body with its blood. He has also invoked the dark power of Orisha, the Yoruba god of good fortune, to cleanse the Pacers. More importantly, as you read these words, SuperFan is methodically sticking tiny pins into a small, doll-like effigy he has fashioned of Lakers coach, Phil Zen Master Jackson (The effigy is made from beeswax and bits of old Pacers game programs).*
SuperFan assures me that the Pacers current statistical woes began immediately after our road win against L.A. He also advises that the Zen Master himself is almost certainly the party responsible for our teams current spate of bad karma.
Lastly, and just to be safe, Area 55 Chant Leader Kyle Brumback (a/k/a Kielbeze) — ursine resident of Hartford City and well-known practitioner of arcane Hoosier folk remedies — has concocted a potion (reportedly consisting of unrevealed proportions of stale beer, toasted bits of PTO bratwurst, hairs from particularly offensive members of Row 5, some Jim OBrien toenail clippings, a few drops of Larry Birds bathwater, eye of newt, ear of toad, skin of fenny snake, a couple of cloves of garlic, and a few threads from a discarded pair of flannel pajamas once worn by Roy Hibbert). Yesterday, Brumback poured this concoction secretly into the Pacers Jacuzzi. After Danny and Roy take a leisurely pre-game soak, he assures me that the evil eye now on them will be averted. Not only that, Kielbeze says that the bad luck that was originally transmitted to our boys will be deflected back towards California and will be visited threefold on Jackson, the evildoer that put the bad hoodoo on us in the first place.*
So watch your step, Zen Master. Our winning ways are due to return! And your time is coming!*
PTO Doings!*Pacer Tailgating Organization VP/GM Casey OBrien was missing in action at the Boston tailgate. His close crony and as yet unindicted co-conspirator, PTO President Aaron Coleman, consequently showed up again without OBriens grill or fire pit. Hence, PTO participants tuning up for the Celtics were forced to wolf down cold ribs hastily purchased by yours truly from a local Barbeque Heaven This provided some drunken entertainment. PTO regulars watched in awe as attendee Tony Laurenzana (a/k/a Duke Dynamite) gnawed rib after slimy rib, personally accounting for the elimination of over half of those purchased. The Duke hails from Bedford, where he is well-known in competitive eating circles. He is supposedly biding his time, waiting until the Pacers season ends in 2011 to challenge our idol, Roy Hibbert, to a sit-down session at Bubs. After seeing Dukie in action with those ribs, I will not be placing any money on Big Roy.
Results of the Footlocker Jumbotron Shoe Race!*To my surprise, at the recent Celtics game the always exciting Dunkin Donut Race was replaced by an equally thrilling Jumbotron racing competition involving torso-less, multi-colored shoes from Footlocker. At the competitions inception, Row 9 regular Brian Koller (a/k/a Pacers4Ever) immediately selected the ultimate race winner, a sporty yellow pair of athletic shoes, and then challenged me to a $50.00 wager on the pending outcome. (The $50.00 in Kollers wallet at the time was a Christmas gift from his grandma, and I seriously doubt that she would have approved of the use he wanted to make of her generous holiday donation). After his previously stinging me for $5.00 at the last game I attended (when his pick, Cuppie Coffee, won the Jumbotron Dunkin Donut Race), I was smart enough to decline Kollers sporting proposal.*
I am now almost positive that Koller has somehow tapped into inside information on the outcome of these Jumbotron races and Ive resolved not to be taken in by him again. Im pretty sure he splits his take with the Jumbotron operator, whoever that is, who tells him who wins before every game. At any rate, I plan to write a letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern in the very near future asking him to look into this.
Bandwagon Weirdness!*Area 55 got to see more of the Bandwagon mentality that presently infects Conseco at the Celtics game. As always happens when a supposed playoff finals contender comes to town, Conseco was invaded on Tuesday by a horde of green-shirted, shamrock bedecked bandwagon types cheering for Boston and rooting against the home team. One, weirdly, elected to sit in Row 10 of 101, right behind moi, Koller, and regular 55er Colin Lott who were ensconced in our customary positions in Row 9. After vocally dissing the Pacers at the outset of the game, Colin and I politely pointed out to the invader that such was not permitted under the Area 55 Rulez and that if he wanted to cheer for the Celtics he should relocate elsewhere. The nameless fan then claimed that he would do no such thing. We then told him that if he persisted, wed get him removed. On hearing this, he stated that he might consider cheering for the Pacers if Colin and I both sat down so that he could watch the action on the court while sitting on his comfortable rump. We, of course, demurred and explained that sitting was something that true 55ers just dont do and that this wasnt in our game plan for the evening. The interloper did thereafter refrain from actively cheering the Celtics — sort of — but spent most of the rest of the first half grumbling about our erect postures. At half-time, he then made the thoroughly idiotic mistake of trying to induce Area 55s usherette, Sandy, to order us to sit down. Predictably this proved unavailing. The yo-yo then spent the 2nd half sitting while we stood, but he seemed resigned and relatively chastened.*
Plea #1:*Please 55ers. If you give your tix to replacements or otherwise favor strangers with the opportunity sit in our section, try to explain to them in advance what theyre getting into. Area 55 should not be a haven for bandwagon types like Mr. No Name that think its OK to diss the home team and cheer for a hated opponent. The whole lower level of Conseco seems to be available for that.
Drunken Weirdness!*Other news of note from the Celtics game involved Kielbezes confrontation in 101 with a dentally challenged (his lower row of choppers was reportedly MIA), dipsomaniacal geezer seated in Row 5. At the games outset, the obviously intoxicated old-timer accused Kielbeze of supposedly touching him. He then got all macho and threatened to pop Kielbeze for the alleged offense. Not wishing to be distracted from the upcoming game, Kielbeze mercifully advised the idiot that he did nothing of the sort, but that if the man wanted to visit with him in the Anthem lot after the game, he would be happy to oblige. What followed thereafter was a game filled with bipolarity. There were proffers of good fellowship — with the drunken geezer purporting to make amends and professedly forgiving the totally nonexistent offense. These tidings of good will were then periodically followed with claims of new offenses committed , with the geezen suddenly becoming belligerent and accusatory, and griping loudly that Kielbeze had spilled phantom beers on him with the intent of shaming him in the presence of his tender grandson. (something again that never happened). At game end, the clown staggered out of Area 55 in the same manner he had arrived. Happily there were no visits from him later at the Anthem lot. Kielbeze is a big boy and the results to the mans remaining teeth might well have been ugly.*
Plea #2:*So Please 55ers, if you cant make it to a game, do not give your valuable tix to toothless, obnoxious, and paranoid drunks, even if he's a relative!*
Pacers4Ever on Basketball The NBA Defensive Three-Second Rule Explained!*In a feature new to this Newsletter, Area 55 regular and basketball savant, Brian Koller (a/k/a Pacers4Ever), has agreed to explain little-known aspects of the game to the clueless and uninitiated. Koller has previously regaled members of Pacers Digest with penetrating insights into Jim OBriens coaching mistakes, Pacers management trading errors, and the general Xes and Os of NBA B-Ball. I can personally attest to Kollers basketball savvy and deep knowledge of the game. One warning, however. Koller's written communication skills are a bit eccentric. He employs a stream-of-conscience writing style with little regard for mere conventionalities like grammar or spelling. His style is also heavily influenced by a unique Hungarian immigrant background, possible undiagnosed dyslexia, and a youth spent impatiently tweeting incoherent abbreviations on countless NBA-related weblogs.*
Anyway, Koller now brings his same insights and uncompromising style to the readers of our Newsletter. His mission today? To definitively explain, once and for all, the NBAs mysterious Defensive Three-Second Rule! Have at it, Pacers4Ever!*
Ha Ha! LOL! OK! Tks! Itz EZ! C, wen the ball krosses the ½-line then the ref startz kownting 123 & if the uther team (the Dfence) has sum1 in the lane and the Dfensiv guy isnt gardng any1 then the ref can call a T (a T = teknikal). C, U haveta gard sum1 & not just the baskut. U kant just stay there in the lane!. U gotta akt lik U R garding sum1. & U kant just stand ther in the lane & stik yer arm out and just akt lik U R garding sum1 wen U R not. But if U R in the lane on Dfence, U kan gard NE1, just so the 1 U R garding stayz ther but if sum1 doublez the ball, then the 1 that was garding the 1 with the ball has to still gard the 1 with the ball or els he haz 2 find sum1 elsto Dfend in ther or leve the lane b4 the ref stopz his 123 kownt. & if U dont do that, U get a T (but U dont hav to pay any $ for that kinda T to the NBA. Itz a diffrunt kinda T). NEway, if the ref givs out a T then NE1 on the teme that haz the ball can shute the T and then after that that same teme getz the ball. C! lik i sed, Itz EZ!*
People don't look at defense as a big thing in the League. I dont understand why, because defense wins" Dwight Howard
Thank you Pacers4ever!
Editorial Note: If this new feature is well-received, Mr. Koller has promised to explain the intricacies of the Pick and Roll offense in our next Newsletter! Stay tuned!
How the Wizards Became the Wizards!*The team that is now the Washington Wizards originated in the 1962 NBA season as the Chicago Packers. In 1963, the teams name was changed to the Chicago Zephyrs. That same year the Zephyrs pulled up stakes and moved to Baltimore, where the teams name was again changed — this time to the Baltimore Bullets. In 1973, the teams owner moved the Bullets from Baltimore to Landover, Maryland in the Washington D.C. suburbs, where the team began playing under the name of the Capital Bullets while waiting for a new arena, the Capital Center to be built. In 1995, the Bullets owner, Abe Pollin, announced he had decided to again change the team's name because the name,Bullets had acquired a lot of negatively violent overtones, particularly given the high homicide and violent crime rates that were then extant in early 1990s D.C. The final straw reportedly came when Pollins longtime friend, Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated. Anyway, Pollin responded with a contest to choose a new name for the team. The choices were eventually narrowed to the Dragons, Express, Stallions, Sea Dogs, or Wizards. (Frankly, I would have picked the Washington Sea Dogs, but nobody asked me). Thus, on May 15, 1997, the Bullets officially became the Washington Wizards. Theyve been that ever since.
The changeover to the Wizards generated some controversy at the time due to the fact that Washington is a predominantly African-American city and Wizard is a rank in the Ku Klux Klan. However, the Wizards name stuck and thats who were playing on New Years Eve.*
Accordingly, if you happen to see any guys in white sheets and stupid looking pointy hats at Conseco on New Years Eve, ignore them. Those are different Wizards and not the guys that were going to be playing.*
Meet the Wizards Mascots G-Wiz and G-Man!*Washington, as far as I have been able to tell, is the only NBA team with two Count em! Not one, but two! official team mascots, G-Wiz and G-Man.
Heres G-Wiz:*http://tinyurl.com/376pztn
G-Wiz, I guess, is supposed to be some sort of bewitchingly loveable creature of enchantment (note his pointy hat with the splash of stars) that is emblematic of magic and wizardry. G-Wiz is described thusly on his official website:
G-Wiz has been with the Washington Wizards since they opened the Verizon Center on December 2, 1997. Infamous for his Belly Shaking, Trick Shots and Cheering, he is a trusted and loved member of the team and community. Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler (Inserted Editorial Comment: Arenas and Butler are no longer with the Wizards, they were both magically traded) believe that G-Wiz is that special ingredient that sparks super special energy that separates them from their opponents. G-Wiz is and forever will be, THE WIZARDS NUMBER ONE FAN!
There is bad blood between Area 55 Member El Pacero and G-Wiz. See this played out on video here:*
G-Wiz is lucky Pacero didnt figure-four his head and make him bleat for mercy like some of the women Pacero wrestles. I intend to get more info on the confrontation portrayed on the video at the pre-game PTO on the 31st. Have a brat and hear Pacero explain it all from the horses mouth there yourself!
And what about G-Man? Well, here he is:*http://tinyurl.com/23br6m8
G-Man, apparently, is the mascot that does most of the Wizards ball-dunking, T-shirt throwing, and other muscled-up athletic stuff. Why the name G-Man? Well, Washington, ysee, is home to the FBI, whose agents are occasionally referred to as G-Men. I can only say that the Wizards G-Man bears no resemblance to any FBI agent Ive ever seen (And Ive seen more than my fair share of them in the course of my criminal defense representation of PTO VP/GM, Casey OBrien). So, as for G-Mans phony muscles, Batman gloves, and blue Marvel Comics Superhero uniform, as being FBI-related, I can only scratch my head and say, Go figure!.
Do the John Wall Dance and Meet His Main Squeeze – Ms. Dalivia!*Aside from basketball, Wizards rookie point guard John Wall is famous for two main things. First, he is supposedly the inventor of the John Wall Dance a bicep-popping dance number that his videos say is now sweeping the country.*
I fact checked this invention with two of the more knowledgeable Area 55 members with expertise in this area i.e., noted Caucasian hip-hopper and Doug E. Fresh fan Markus Beresford (a/k/a Indianapolis Markus) and Area 55s own soul dancemaster extraordinaire, SuperFan. Both set me straight and heres the skinny: Wall didnt invent The John Wall Dance. He just popularized it.*
Markus and SuperFan differ however on one point. Both claim that they, and not Wall, were the ones that invented the dance. They also both claim to have invented the Hokey-Pokey, so take these representations with a big grain of salt.
Wanta see what The John Wall Dance is all about?
Here ya go!*http://tinyurl.com/y8r8xz7
John Walls other claim to fame is that his current sweetie is the fetching bikini / lingerie model, Ms. Dalivia. No marriage announced yet, but lets hope for the best for the happy couple. Aside from her bikini-wearing and lingerie modeling, Ms. Dalivia has also appeared in a couple of videos put out by hip hop artist, Flo-Rida. I guess no further preliminaries are needed. So lets get to it:
Voila! Heres Ms. Dalivia! -*http://tinyurl.com/26b4xow
Want some more? Ill bet ya do! OK, here ya go! -*http://tinyurl.com/2aqrjrw
Just a word of sage advice to John (And I am now doing my best avuncular Clark Kellogg): Be careful, there, young fella! Make sure shes not the type to kiss and tell. Just ask Dwight Howard, you dont want an ex-girlfriend showing up later on Basketball Wives and giving you the bad mouth.
Guess Yi Jianlians Age and Win a Free PTO Bratwurst!*There has been controversy over the Wizards Chinese-born forward, Yi Jianlian's age. Several reports have listed his official birth date as being October 27, 1987. Others say that this birth date was intentionally falsified so that Yi could play longer for Chinas national team in junior basketball competitions. Yi has refused to comment.
Heres the poop:*
In 2004, Yi was listed as being born in 1984 at a time when he played in China's big Four Nation Tournament. Chinese officials at the time claimed the 1984 birth date was probably a typographical error. Two years later, in 2006, Fran Blinebury, a sportswriter with The Houston Chronicle, claimed that Yi once told Shane Battier that he was 24 when the two were playing in an exhibition game just before the 2006 FIBA World Championship. However, this was later denied by both Yi and Battier. Still later in 2006, a senior Chinese Basketball Association official admitted that past Chinese youth squads had included players that were above the permitted age, and Yi's longtime American teammate in China, Jason Dixon, told still another sportswriter, Chad Ford, that Yi was "21 or 22…It's pretty common over [in China] to change ages". In 2007, a Chinese government registration site that had been made public by computer hackers showed Yi's actual date of birth as being 1984. Still later, in December 2008, a Chinese reporter announced that he had supposedly discovered school registration forms that listed Yi as being born in that 1984. So who the hell knows? If you can prove Yis real age, you get the bratwurst!*
By the way, Yi isnt the first Chinese player to come under age scrutiny. Former Dallas Maverick (and reportedly the first Chinese player to play in the NBA) Wang Zhizhi was listed as being born in both 1977 and 1979.*
Meet Andray Blatche and Take a Walk in His Shoes! Er, Better Not!*One of the guys the Pacers are going to have to contain on the 31st is Wizards power forward Andray Blatche, a young, 5-year NBA veteran who was drafted by the Wizards out of high school. Andray, you may remember, torched us for 22 points on the 29th. He has a colorful history.
In September, 2005, Andray was shot near his home in Alexandria, Virginia. The deed was done by assailants who were supposedly trying to highjack his car. According to a passenger who was there at the time, Andray was ordered to get out of the car but didnt move fast enough and was shot before he could exit. As a result Andray missed the Wizards training camp in his rookie season. He recovered from his wound quickly, however, and eventually played his first game with Washington in November. Given that he did not play college basketball, the Wizards initially split Blatche's playing time between the Roanoke Dazzle, their then-affiliate in the NBA D-League, and the Wizards in the 200506 season. After that, Adrays pretty much been a Wizard (not the Ku Klux Klan kind, the other, basketball-playing kind).
On August 2, 2007, Andray was charged with sexual solicitation in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. after he was caught allegedly trying to pay an undercover police officer that was posing as a prostitute for some quickie sex. The solicitation charge was later dropped after Andray followed court orders and attended a day-long seminar for men who solicit prostitutes. Andray took careful notes at the seminar and has not repeated this unfortunate mistake to anyones knowledge.*
Andray was arrested again on June 4, 2008, this time in Virginia on charges of reckless driving and driving on a suspended license for the third time. Andray was specifically charged with going 86 mph in a 70 mph zone in his Mercedes while cruising on Interstate 85. He was released on bond. I was unable to learn whether his license is still suspended, but my guess is that it might very well be.
On January 9, 2010, Andray was fined $10,000 by the Washington Wizards for participating in Gilbert Arenas' pre-game antics before a January 5, 2010 matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers. To understand the rationale for the fine, you have to know that Gilbert was being investigated at the time for an earlier incident involving his bringing guns into the Wizards' locker room. At the Sixers game, Gilbert made light of the investigation by pointing his finger like a gun at his teammates and pretending he was shooting at them. Gilberts teammates (Andray, among them) were photographed smiling and affably chuckling along at Gilberts little joke.*
You can view the mirthful incident here:*http://tinyurl.com/yb6oxx4
Speaking of Gilbert, his antics with Andray did not begin or end with the Sixers game. Apparently, Gilbert once defecated in teammate Andray's shoes during Blatches rookie season.*
Gilbert acknowledges now that this shoe-pooping prank did nothing to improve his injured reputation, as the pooping incident became widely known only after his later guns in the locker room fiasco. Says a defensive Gilbert:
"I understand what people think because of the perception of me. They read the funny stuff, like me taking a crap in Andray Blatche's shoes. But nobody is going to ask what Andray did to deserve it. You read about it because that's when I'm at my goofiest, when I'm around my teammates. I don't get in trouble outside of this building. You are not going to catch me drinking and driving, or picking up prostitutes (Editorial Comment: Is Gilbert referring to Andray here? Hmmm.). People don't see what my teammates see, the guy who is in here three times a day working out. That's the guy they don't see."
Crapping in shoes does take talent, and its certainly good evidence of Gilberts shooting accuracy both on the court and off. And as for Andray, does this mean that Area 55 will have a Check your shoes! chant ready when he gingerly toes the free-throw line tomorrow? Well see!
By the way, what Andray did to deserve Gilberts shoe poop was this: In his rookie season with D.C. Andray apparently mistakenly thought that Gilbert was the one that had taken a scissors to his street clothes in a locker room (thereby forcing Andray to fly home from a road game in his sweaty, unwashed Wizards uniform). By way of revenge, Andray took it upon himself to throw Gilberts street clothes in the teams Jacuzzi. Gilbert, justly angered, retaliated by squatting down and pooping out a couple of loaves in Andrays shoes. See, Gilberts right! Nobody asks what Andray did to deserve that!
Gilberts oral explanation of these scatological high jinks can be found here:
Andray is also sort of famous for being robbed of a triple double by an unwary Wizards teammate. The video of this event is heartbreaking! And you can now say that you saw it here!
But enough gratuitous sex, scandal, gunplay, and locker-room mirth! Try to show up in your seats early, 55ers, and start your chanting for the Wizards. Im predicting a much needed win! The Wizards have yet to pick up a road win this year. Lets do what we can to ensure that our game tomorrow wont be their first.
Go Pacers! Go Area 55!
Joe Murphy (a/k/a Indy Hoya)


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Carbon Ion Radiotherapy for Recurrent Gliomas (CINDERELLA)
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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Treatment of patients with recurrent glioma includes neurosurgical resection, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy. In most cases, a full course of radiotherapy has been applied after primary diagnosis, therefore application of re-irradiation has to be applied cautiously. With modern precision photon techniques such as fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT), a second course of radiotherapy is safe and effective and leads to survival times of 22, 16 and 8 months for recurrent WHO grade II, III and IV tumors.
Carbon ions offer physical and biological characteristics. Due to their inverted dose profile and the high local dose deposition within the Bragg peak precise dose application and sparing of normal tissue is possible. Moreover, in comparison to photons, carbon ions offer an increase relative biological effectiveness (RBE), which can be calculated between 2 and 5 depending on the Glioblastoma (GBM) cell line as well as the endpoint analyzed. Protons, however, offer an RBE which is comparable to photons.
First Japanese Data on the evaluation of carbon ion radiation therapy for the treatment of primary high-grade gliomas showed promising results in a small and heterogeneous patient collective.
In the current Phase I/II-CINDERELLA-trial re-irradiation using carbon ions will be compared to FSRT applied to the area of contrast enhancement representing high-grade tumor areas in patients with recurrent gliomas. Within the Phase I Part of the trial, the Recommended Dose (RD) of carbon ion radiotherapy will be determined in a dose escalation scheme. In the subsequent randomized Phase II part, the RD will be evaluated in the experimental arm, compared to the standard arm, FSRT with a total dose of 36 Gy in single doses of 2 Gy.
Primary endpoint of the Phase I part is toxicity. Primary endpoint of the randomized part II is survival after re-irradiation at 12 months, secondary endpoint is progression-free survival.
|Radiation: Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Radiation: Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy (FSRT)
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Randomised Phase I/II Study to Evaluate Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Versus Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Patients With Recurrent or Progressive Gliomas: The CINDERELLA Trial
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: at 12 months ]
- Progression-free Survival
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Carbon Ion Radiotherapy
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in the RD determined within the Phase I Part of the Trial
Radiation: Carbon Ion Radiotherapy
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in the RD determined within the Phase I part of the Study (10 x 3Gy E to 16 x 3 Gy E)
Active Comparator: Standard Treatment: Fractionated Stereotacitc Radiotherapy
Standard Precision Radiotherapy performed as Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy (FSRT) up to 36 Gy in single dosis of 2 Gy
Radiation: Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy (FSRT)
Standard Treatment as Re-Irradiation performed as Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy (FSRT)up to 36 Gy in single doses of 2 Gy
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- unifocal, supratentorial recurrent glioma
- contrast enhancement on T1-weighted MRI and/or Amino-Acid-PET-positive high-grade tumor areas
- indication re-irradiation
- age ≥ 18 years of age
- Karnofsky Performance Score ≥60
- For women with childbearing potential, (and men) adequate contraception.
- Ability of subject to understand character and individual consequences of the clinical trial
- Written informed consent (must be available before enrolment in the trial)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Multifocal Glioma or Gliomatosis cerebri
- refusal of the patients to take part in the study
- previous re-irradiation or prior radiosurgery or prio treatment with interstitial radioactive seeds
- time interval of < 6 months after primary radiotherapy
- Patients who have not yet recovered from acute toxicities of prior therapies
- Known carcinoma < 5 years ago (excluding Carcinoma in situ of the cervix, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin) requiring immediate treatment interfering with study therapy
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Participation in another clinical study or observation period of competing trials, respectively.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01166308
|Contact: Stephanie E Combs, MD
|+49-6221-56 ext 8202
|Contact: Jürgen Debus, MD PhD
|+49-6221-56 ext 8201
|University Hospital of Heidelberg, Department of Radiation Oncology
|Heidelberg, Germany, 69120
|Sub-Investigator: Stephanie E Combs, MD
|Principal Investigator: Jürgen Debus, MD PhD
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Stephanie Combs, Leitende Oberärtzin, University Hospital Heidelberg
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01166308 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2009-017352-26 ( EudraCT Number )
|Study First Received:
|July 19, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 18, 2013
Keywords provided by Stephanie Combs, University Hospital Heidelberg:
Recurrent Glioma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017

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sometimes I hear from others that karma or the fruit of karma is only responsible for mind phenomens (feelings, mood). Other times I hear that karma is even responsible if one has wealth and success in life, so that for an evildoer there will come misfortune events in the future and a gooddoer will have wealth, success, a more peaceful life etc ?
What is the correct view ? Does Karma drive the entire world and everything which is happening to me so that even the body (which can be healthy or unhealthy) is a visual manifestation of karma ? Is there collective karma ?
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Which way will Louisiana-Pacific ( LPX) go? The stock is down 20% over the past several weeks, down 6% on the year. However, several weeks ago, shares reached a new 52-week high of $22.55. Now heading into the company's first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, it seems investors are expecting the worst. Otherwise, why else would the stock be down 20% in a matter of weeks?
Is the 'Sandy Effect' Over?Despite LPX's ups and downs, the stock's not cheap -- sporting a P/E that is 3 times that of rival Weyerhaeuser ( WY). However, given LP's recent stock movement and the fact that the company is so closely tied to the housing recovery, it's anyone's guess where the shares are heading next. There are two frames of thought here, one being on the company and the other being on the overall housing recovery. In terms of LPX, it's more of a cautious tenor, which (in my opinion) was spurred by management's own words. That's why investors have decided to take profits ahead of the first-quarter earnings report. At the same time, the long-term direction of the overall industry is still positive, which is why the stock, by virtue of its high P/E, is being valued higher than the S&P 500. Of the 13 analysts covering the stock, the consensus estimate is 45 cents per share, while revenue is expected to come in $558 million. Management, however, offered no specific guidance during the fourth-quarter report, other than to say that it will tread cautiously. LPX has a P/E of 92 vs. WY's P/E of 34.
TheStreet's Jim Cramer correctly predicted Louisiana-Pacific's initial stock surge, while citing Hurricane Sandy as a likely catalyst. When Cramer made his bullish call last November, LP was trading at around $14.72. And given that the stock soared to $22.55 in March, representing gains of 53%, it seems that LP has peaked. Meanwhile, Weyerhaeuser, which was also on Cramer's bullish list, has posted gains of 23% and is still up 11% on the year. Whether the "Sandy Effect" is still in play, depends on what metric you use. For Weyerhaeuser, the debate is certainly up in the air, especially since the company is still posting 30% revenue growth. For Louisiana-Pacific, though, I'm inclined to believe that the "Sandy Effect" is over -- at least the Street seems to think so, even though the stock is being priced with the anticipated housing recovery. With first-quarter earnings on tap, management's main objective should be to rebuild and strengthen a seemingly fragile base of investors.
Expectations for the QuarterDespite the fact that LP is coming off a strong fourth quarter, during which revenue rose a year-over-year 47% on the strength of the housing recovery, management didn't seem too confident that this level of performance was sustainable. Guidance was overly cautious, if not filled with complete terror that there would be an imminent reversal in the consensus housing forecasts. During the fourth-quarter conference call in February, Louisiana-Pacific's CEO, Curtis Stevens, first spoke favorably about the housing recovery:
"The current consensus for housing forecast stands at about 990,000 for 2013 and right at 1.2 million (starts) for 2014. New-home inventory remains very, very low, at about 125,000 and that includes both completed homes for sale and homes under construction. And then existing home inventory is down 23% compared to the same time last year. And home prices are on the rise and mortgage rates are low, so I'm confident that the momentum that we have seen recently in housing starts will continue as pent-up demand is very large. ..."


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Interfaith Community Dialogue on Dealing with Economic Downturn May 13
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A woman who was reported missing in the Cutten area has been found alive in heavy brush near where she went missing.
Myra Sheek, 61, was reported missing Friday around 11:30 a.m. by the owner of Aguilar Manor Assisted Living Facility, located on the 6400 block Eggert Road. She was found this morning at Eggert Road and Ridgewood Drive. Officials said she is conscious. No other details on her condition were immediately available.
Sheek went for a walk around 11 a.m. Friday and did not return, according to a press release. She normally doesn't walk farther than one block from the home and returns within a short period of time, the owner said.
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HOLLYWOOD—Jimi Hendrix Mk. IV isn't talking to the media anymore.
Seven years after he emerged from his biomold, the 28-year-old artist is tired of having his purpose in life endlessly debated by critics, managers, record-company executives, lawyers, and even fellow musicians. He knows what he was born to do: play left-handed synth guitar like a man possessed and bring the cold, artificial grooves of his trademark synth-funk to audiences the world over.
But Warner-Geffen executives disagree. They say they know his purpose in life; they commissioned him, after all. Jimi was created at great expense at Celebirth Genetic Engineering, where his genetic material was pulled from the same 1965-1990 archives responsible for both sets of Dean triplets, the all-Buddy Holly band, and the recent rash of Elvises. Hendrix Mk. IV was born, Warner-Geffen says, to fulfill the studio-recording potential of the first Hendrix, who died after releasing only three albums.
Executives say they wish that Jimi IV would contact them. They haven't heard from him in months.
Jimi IV says he's got his own life to live. Warner-Geffen says they've got a contract. So who's right?
One thing seems clear: If vat-grown celebrities continue to follow their own muses, it may spell the end of the entertainment industry's latest and most expensive case of sequel-itis.
"Many in the recording industry are beginning to believe that vat-grown artists are no longer worth the expense of revivification," said David Miner-323, a talent-relations specialist at Murdoch-Merck-Viacom. "The public's desire to find out whether a streak of talent was successfully reproduced in a vat-grown celebrity used to be enough to turn a profit—but not today."
According to Miner-323, public curiosity is why Kenny Rogers 2.0 was nominated for a Tony. It's why Re-Streisand still sells some of her poetry chapbooks. And it's why Hendrix II, III, and IV found some success at the beginning of their careers, despite their fascinations with ambient noise and meandering instrumental breaks.
But the curiosity factor is quickly wearing off, Miner-323 said. And each subsequent generation of Jimi has become more unpredictable, perhaps indicating a breakdown in their genetic material.
"It looks like the ancient curse of entertainment—the infamous 'mind of their own' problem—might keep everyone from taking a chance on bringing back anyone else," Miner-323 said.
The thousands of vat-grown entertainment-industry executives (including Miners 282-420) appear to be performing their duties with all the energy and creativity of their models, but there's only scant evidence that the practice works with celebrities.
While the 36 Andy Warhols take obvious joy in their own reproduction, it seems that many artists are resistant to the idea of being a copy.
"I guess I just don't feel like acting," said Sharon Stone Version 3.3, working in her Norfolk, VA glassblowing shop. "Or modeling, either! At my weight, can you imagine? I mean, I'm glad Sony Pictures decided to make me. But the truth is, I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag."


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THE Rev Nick Brown is looking forward to starting his new role in Lincolnshire this weekend, after saying his farewells to the people of Warminster in a service on December 29.
Rev Brown was assistant priest at the Minster Church for three-and-a-half years, working as part of a team of six ordained ministers and 11 lay pastoral assistants.
The 36-year-old, who was ordained in Salisbury Cathedral in 2009, has now moved with his wife Lucy and children, two-year-old Ben and four-month-old Ollie, to take up the post of priest-in-charge of the Team Parish of Louth.
He said: "I have really enjoyed my time in Warminster, I have met many wonderful people in the town and its surrounding villages and I was also part of the 3 Yorks remembrance services, which were very important events during my time at the Minster."
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The quiet descended abruptly.
In the longleaf pine forests of Mississippi, the song of the ornate chorus frog vanished. In the Australian rain forest, gastric brooding frogs fell mute, extinct only nine years after being described. In California's High Sierra, meadows rich with the call of amphibians such as the Yosemite toad and the yellow-legged frog became eerily silent. And in Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, the silence was deafening. Scientists monitoring stable populations of 49 amphibian species listened and watched as they crashed in just two years, with 20 native species disappearing completely—including the golden toad, found nowhere else on Earth.
David Wake, a University of California–Berkeley biologist who has studied amphibians for 40 years, recalls the first time he returned to Monteverde after the crash: "I had the perspective of the forest becoming silent, of what had been just an incredible experience suddenly turning into nothing."
Since the late 1970s, Wake and other herpetologists worldwide have watched in dismay as populations of their study subjects plunged perilously or disappeared altogether. (See National Wildlife, October/November 1999.) The bad news has come from a variety of habitats across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North, Central and South America. Because amphibian populations naturally fluctuate—and because most herpetologists focus on a single region—it took time for the scientists to comprehend the global nature of the crisis.
With last fall's publication of the Global Amphibian Assessment, a joint project of IUCN–The World Conservation Union, Conservation International (CI) and NatureServe, the problem has become impossible to ignore. A three-year effort involving more than 520 scientists from 60 nations, the assessment concludes that 1,856 of 5,743 known amphibian species—or nearly a third—are threatened with extinction. Since 1980, as many as 122 kinds of amphibians may have become extinct, and 34 extinctions are confirmed.
The news is likely to get worse. According to CI biologist and report coauthor Janice Chanson, participants lacked sufficient data to assess the status of nearly 1,300 amphibian species. "Many of these are also likely to be threatened," she says, "because the reason we don't know much about them is that they have small ranges in remote and vulnerable places."
The scientists found no single culprit to explain the declines. So far, individual population drops and extinctions have been attributed to habitat loss, including deforestation, pollution and wetlands destruction; overharvesting (in Asia); invasive species such as introduced bullfrogs and trout; a recently discovered fungal disease; or, most often, a combination of these problems. Still, about half of amphibian losses remain unexplained. Among them are extinctions in apparently pristine areas—such as Costa Rica's Monteverde—which some scientists are beginning to link to global warming. In the United States, says Wake, "the most mysterious disappearances are from seemingly undisturbed national parks in California, where 50 to 90 percent of historical breeding sites are now without frogs."
In other parts of the country, habitat destruction is clearly the biggest problem, and the Mississippi gopher frog provides a sadly typical example. This stocky, three-inch animal ranges in color from black to brown to gray and is covered with dark spots and warts. Adults spend most of their lives underground in longleaf pine forests characterized by open canopies and abundant ground cover. Over the past two decades, the frog's distribution, which once stretched across the lower coastal plain from east of the Mississippi River in Louisiana to the Mobile River Delta in Alabama, has declined to one or two small breeding ponds in Mississippi's DeSoto National Forest.
Towson University biologist Richard Seigel began studying gopher frogs in the early 1990s. By that time, he says, their populations already were in decline because of habitat loss in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1991, Seigel asked a research assistant to search Louisiana for breeding sites recorded in a state museum's records 30 years earlier. "Every one had been either drained, dug out to be a permanent farm pond, covered over by a shopping mall, or had a highway built through it," he says. "We couldn't find one intact."
Gopher frogs and other amphibians are unusually sensitive to habitat loss and degradation. "Amphibians have smaller range sizes than do birds or mammals, so if there is habitat loss in an area, they are more likely to be affected," says Chanson. A majority of the animals also depend on fresh water for breeding. "It's not possible for a frog to fly away like a bird or get up and leave like most mammals," she adds. "Any pollution of their habitat is likely to cause populations to die out." And because amphibians have permeable skin and unshelled eggs, even slight changes in moisture or temperature can harm them.
Such sensitivity means amphibians are frequently the first species to show adverse reactions to pollution, emerging diseases, climate change and other environmental problems—the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. Wake recalls the first time someone asked him whether amphibian declines were signs of even bigger problems in the future. "I asked the reporter, 'What did the miners do when the canary died? They got out of the mine. Where are you going?'"
Virginia-based journalist Jim Morrison wrote about the economic value of wildlife in the February/March issue.
NWF PRIORITY The Climate ConnectionUniversity of California–Berkeley biologist David Wake is convinced that climate change, in addition to overzealous logging, is a major culprit behind the disappearance of so many amphibians from the cloud forests of Central America. Depending on the location, global warming has raised the region's cloud line by about 100 to 500 meters. If the clouds have moved up, asks Wake, what does that do to the cloud forests?
At Costa Rica's Monteverde, for example, the frog Hyla pseudopuma breeds in ephemeral ponds. Lacking cloud cover they once had, those ponds today dry up almost immediately, and without them, the frogs breed far less successfully than in the past. In 1999, researchers reported in Nature that a crash of amphibian populations a decade earlier at Monteverde was related to changes in cloud cover and animal populations set in motion by atmospheric warming.


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Avery® Assorted Binder Pockets 75254, Acid Free, Pack of 5Product Number: 75254
Storage becomes simple when you've got the right help. These Binder Pockets let you store more than 20 pages of standard 8-1/2" x 11" paper in a three-ring binder without punching or folding. Durable material protects your pages and resists tearing on the rings even with repeated use. The pockets are acid free and archival safe and won't lift print off pages, so you can store papers for long periods. Pack includes one clear, pink, green, blue and yellow. Maintain your documents with ease and free your mind for care-free joy.
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Beware! A folded 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper will not fit in the pockets. Only good for business cards, tickets, notes, etc. I don't want to have to stop and hole punch the top of the paper, nor do I want to fold it 3 ways as that produces too much bulk and too many creases. I use this style for hand-outs that I'm only going to keep in my binder for a short duration prior to tossing or filing. Avery: just 1/2" wider would do the trick!
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I have been using binder pockets for years. I use binders a lot & the pockets are so easy to use & much easier to use than sheet protectors for certain paperwork. I have to change the information sheets periodically & it's very easy to remove the old sheets & replace them with new.
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Researchers Receive $1.5 Million to Make Steel, Syngas Using Microwaves
September 22, 2009—
A project spearheaded by a team of materials science and engineering researchers has received $1.5 million from the Michigan Public Service Commission to further develop a new, energy-efficient method for making steel. And, by the way, it also produces syngas.
The grant was awarded jointly to Michigan Tech and to U.P. Steel, a start-up company created by Professor Jiann-Yang Hwang and Xiaodi Huang, a project manager and research leader in the Institute of Materials Processing.
"We started this concept back in 1991, using microwaves to do steel-making," said Huang. "Iron ore and carbon, which are used to make steel, are both excellent microwave-absorbing materials; in a few minutes, they can get up to 1,000 degrees centigrade."
The team initially created small samples of a few grams each in household microwave ovens. Later, after much testing, they designed and fabricated a hybrid furnace that combined microwave and electric-arcing technology that could make one kilogram of steel an hour.
Their work impressed the Department of Energy enough to earn a grant to build a bench-scale model. "That was pretty successful," Huang said. "We proved we could make high-quality steel in about twenty or thirty minutes."
In 2001, the technology was licensed to U.P. Steel, based in Negaunee. "At that point, the major problem was how to scale production up," said Huang. In 2005, the researchers completed a microwave rotary hearth furnace that can make two hundred pounds of steel in an hour. With the Michigan Public Service grant, they expect to triple steel production, to six hundred pounds an hour, and add another product to the mix.
"Our goal is to produce pig iron nugget and synthetic gas from the iron and coal," said Huang. "Syngas is very valuable; it would be equal to or greater in value than the steel."
The process could also take advantage of America's vast coal reserves and reduce dependence on petroleum. "If all the steel in the US were made this way, it would produce gasoline equal to a quarter of total US consumption," Huang said.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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The University of Colorado Boulder's administration and CU's student government together spent a combined $278,797.52 to curtail the 4/20 gathering on the CU-Boulder campus this year, according to figures released today by the university.
The administration spent $124,561.34 and the CU Student Government spent $154,236.18.
"I view the university's commitment of $124,000 as an investment in the health, safety and conduct of basic academic business on the CU-Boulder campus," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. "Our efforts were funded by insurance premium rebates that result from CU-Boulder's reductions in liability and hazard claims, so no tuition dollars were applied to this expense."
The CUSG portion was spent to fund a concert by hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean. Those funds, controlled by CUSG, came from student fee reserves, so there will be no impact on CU-Boulder student fee structures next fall as a result of the expenses.
"We sought to give CU students an alternative activity to participating in 4/20," said Carly Robinson, former CUSG vice president for internal affairs. "We know that maximum attendance at the show – about 1,200 – was lower than we hoped, but it was still four times larger than the 300 or so who participated in the smoke-out. I believe we made good on our pledge to the student body and took a major step toward ending 4/20."
CU-Boulder's $124,561.34 in police and facilities costs included:
• $75,569.37 for CU police/security/dispatcher overtime and labor costs for officers from outside agencies;
• $12,579.61 for Argus security staff assisting with police/parking operations;
• $5,789.29 for Fire Department/ambulance coverage;
• $9,515.55 on miscellaneous expenses, including food and water for all personnel; ads in Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins student newspapers and additional equipment rental;
• $6,550.85 for CU Parking and Transportation Services personnel overtime;
• $7,270.67 for Parking Services equipment/rentals, such as cones, barricades and signs. The campus and area closure signs are re-usable for other events, such as President Obama's visit last month.
• $7,286 for overtime labor costs in facilities management (groundskeeping, locksmiths and other facilities employees). This includes $699 for the fish emulsion and equipment to apply it to the Norlin Quad.
CUSG concert expenditures include:
• $84,611 for talent
• $35,882.66 for production
• $19,526.63 for security
• $8,049.65 for facility fee
• $3,441.88 for staff
• $1,170 for parking
• $1,056.93 for miscellaneous expenses
• $497.43 for transportation
Bronson Hilliard, CU spokesperson, 303-735-6183
Ryan Huff, CU Police spokesperson, 303-492-7581
Carly Robinson, former CUSG vice president
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The New Challenge provides funds for students to pursue social entrepreneurship ventures that innovatively address civic issues on a local or global level. Graduate and undergraduate submissions include advocacy projects, films, technological innovations, and service designs. Awards include a grand prize of $10,000 and several smaller prizes and are meant to serve as seed money for students' projects. All New School students are invited to apply for funding through this inspiring initiative. The New Challenge is hosted by the Social Innovation Initiative. Learn more about the program and past winners and find out how to apply.
Students can also seek funding through the University Student Senate and the Office of Student Development and Activities for certain projects, events, and organizations.
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Each year, the Civic Engagement Grant Fund, generously funded by board of governors member Judith Zarin, awards grants to faculty whose projects enrich the New School community through civic engagement and public programs. The purpose of the Civic Engagement Grant Fund is to support valuable community partnerships and public projects and build a community of practice around civic engagement in the division. This effort involves faculty, staff, and students in long-term commitments to public scholarship and creative work, in which community partners are co-learners and co-educators. It also involves the development of new pathways of learning that weave civic engagement into curricula. In order to broaden the community of practice, grant winners enter into an ongoing dialogue with faculty, staff, and students in the division through organized events, reportage, and analysis. This dialogue enables the division to evaluate practices and to learn from the successes and challenges the awardees encounter in the implementation of their projects. Here are some recent projects that were funded by the Civic Engagement Grant Fund Award.
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Timothy Beal is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts (in progress). He has published 13 books and many scholarly articles on the cultural history of the Bible, religion and popular culture, and relations between critical theory and academic religious studies. He has also published essays on religion and American culture for The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com, The Washington Post, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He has been featured on national radio shows including NPR's All Things Considered, The Bob Edwards Show, WBUR's On Point, and Interfaith Voices.
For me, teaching is about creating a space in which a unique and genuinely collegial intellectual community can take shape. I strive to treat every student as a colleague with something unique to offer the class. I believe that one of the highest goals of education should be to learn to ask good questions, and that the best questions are often those that survive all their answers. Education is a lifelong affair. As Marian Wright Edelman puts it, "Education is not just about making a living. It's about making a life."
I teach courses in biblical literature, cultural history of the Bible, theory and methodology for religious studies, and in thematic areas of broad, comparative interest. My courses include: Introduction to the Study of Religion; Introduction to Biblical Literature; Special Topics in Biblical Literature: Introduction to the Study of Religion; Method and Theory in the Study of Religion; Special Topics in Biblical Literature (advanced exegetical seminars on specific biblical texts and topics, e.g., "Job and the Problem of Pain," "The Legends of Genesis," and "The Parables of Jesus"); Ritual; Religion and Visual Culture; Religion and Ecology; Religion and Horror; and Senior Seminar. In a recent senior seminar, my students and I planned and conducted a research project called The Case Pluralism Project, which began mapping the religious landscape of the undergraduate student body at Case in order to better understand how religion impacts undergraduate education and life on campus. I also teach in the SAGES core curriculum, including "What Is Soul?" (team-taught with Louis B. Rice in the School of Medicine), which explores the cultural history of soul, from Moses, Socrates, and the Buddha to Ray Charles, soul food, and the hospital bed.
Research and Writing
I find writing, including the research that it necessarily involves, to be a generative process. In my experience, writing doesn't simply give expression my ideas; it invents and forms them. For a fuller list of my publications, visit my website at timothybeal.com.
Home and Family
I was born in Hood River, Ore., and grew up in Alaska (about twenty miles outside Anchorage, near Flat Top Mountain). I spent my youth hiking and hunting and messing around in the forests and foothills of the Chugach Mountains. I feel deeply connected to Alaska, although I rarely have the opportunity to visit. My family has five acres on a small pond called Loon Lake in a wilderness area about 60 miles south of the Alaska Mountain Range, near Talkeetna. I dream of building a cabin there one day.
I am married to Clover Reuter Beal, a Presbyterian minister at Forest Hill Church in Cleveland Heights. Clover and I met during college in Seattle (in a philosophy of religion course). I call Clover a Presbyterian shaman.
Clover and I live in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with our two kids, Sophie and Seth. We love to travel together. In fact, my Roadside Religion book project began with a family road trip — a travel seminar, let's call it — through the Bible Belt in a 29-foot rented motorhome. Learn more about that by visiting my website.


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Hi all. I am working on a website where the owner wants to have a full screen video background to start with which should end with a full image background. They don't want to use Flash. What would be the best option? I saw some jQuery options but most doesn't support iPad/iPhone. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Hi I have decided to use BigVideo.js. It all seems to work reasonably well when I use the link as in the example file:
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But as soon as I use a link to a video(mp4) on my own server IE isn't showing the background at all as you can see here. Does someone has an idea what the reason can be or know how to solve this. Thank you in advance
The page in your second link contains a <video> tag, not Jquery and not bigvideo.
By the way, when I rightclick on the playing video, my browser (FF) tells me that it's a flash object. Does the jquery script use the available player (no flash on the iPhone) ?
Hi Guido. That you saw the video tag was a confluence of circumstances. Since it wasn't working in the right way I was trying the <video> tag as well. I just have put it back the way it was. I hope you will see what I am doing wrong.
By the way, when I rightclick on the playing video, my browser (FF) tells me that it's a flash object. Does the jquery script use the available player (no flash on the iPhone) ?
They have this option:
$(function() {
var BV = new $.BigVideo({useFlashForFirefox:false});
BV.show('vids/river.mp4', {altSource:'vids/river.ogv'});
Hi donboe,
Just saw this thread now and had a look at the link you posted (http://www.sothenwhat.com/test2.html).It works for me in Internet Explorer versions 7 - 10.
Did you change something in the meantime?
Hi Pullo. The link you saw is indeed working for me as well. That one is linking to a video file on the server from the person that developed BigVideo. The problem I have is with the other link. . In that one I have a link to a video on my own server, but that one isn't showing in IE.
Ah ok.
For me, the second link works in IE7, IE8, but not IE9 and 10 (which is weird).
Anyway, it's almost certainly a server configuration issue, as if I download the video to my PC and include it in the web page from there, it works fine in IE9 and IE10:
$(function() {
var BV = new $.BigVideo();
So, what to do:
Try creating a plain text file, name it ".htaccess" and using your editor of choice, enter the following:
#Video MIME Types:
AddType video/m4v .m4v
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
Save it, then upload it to the root directory of your website.
You might have some difficulty saving a file that begins with a dot on a Windows box. If so, call it htaccess.txt, upload it to the server and rename it there.
Does doing that make a difference?
Hi Pullo. That with the .htaccess works great. Thank you so much. You really made my day. I was near to throwing my cloves in the ring
Cool man, I'm glad we got it working Thanks for taking the time to report back.
Hi Pullo I am really glad it is working. I am wondering! Is there any way that at the end of the movie it will be replaced by a photo background and that some content will appear on top of that, like a delayed function? Or should I use a complete different plugin for the video background.
Sure that's possible.Because BigVideo.js is built on top of [Video.js, you can use the [URL="http://videojs.com/docs/api/"]Video.js api](http://videojs.com/).You can access the player using the getPlayer() method, then you can attach an event listener to the player, such as "ended", which is fired when the end of the media resource is reached. (i.e. currentTime == duration)
For example:
$(function() {
var BV = new $.BigVideo();
BV.getPlayer().addEvent("ended", function(){
$("body").css("background", "red");
BTW, it must suck to be one of those fish. They appear to be being eaten by dolphins, birds, sharks and whales!
That works great Pullo. It al look so simple but I cant figure certain things. Can I instead use an image for the replacement. I tried $("body").css("background", "img/porsche.jpg"); but that wasn't working
Yes to be one of those fishes must suck indeed
Just a slightly different syntax.Try:
$("body").css('background-image', 'url(path/to/your/image/file.jpg)');
Hi Pullo. That works great indeed. One last question though! Ist here any way to have a function start, whenever the $("#big-video-vid_html5_api").fadeOut(1400); is finished? Thank you in advance. For example to make a div fade in!
fadeOut() takes a call back function, so something like this should work:
$("#big-video-vid_html5_api").fadeOut(1400, function() {
// Do some stuff here
So if I place something like:
$("#big-video-vid_html5_api").fadeOut(1400, function() {
it would only fade in after the previous one is faded out?
Kinda. You want to have it as a callback function (so within, not behind), otherwise they will execute asynchronously.
$("#big-video-vid_html5_api").fadeOut(1400, function() {
Sorry if this was just a linguistic thing and this is what you meant in the first place
I understand. Thank you so much
Edit:Mmmm The container isn't hiding. Shouldn't that be hidden on page load, or should I declare that in my css
Mmmm The container isn't hiding when tha page opens. Shouldn't that be hidden on page load, or should I declare that in my css
Might be better to do it via JS, as that way, people with JS disabled still get to see some content.
I was kind of confused as to why you wanted to hide it, then fade it straight back in again, anyway
Something like this should work:
$("#big-video-vid_html5_api").fadeOut(1400, function() {
// This will run after "#big-video-vid_html5_api" has faded out.


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Topic: mum just diagnosed with cc thought she had eaten a dodgy sandwich
Hi 3 weeks ago my mum was diagnosed with nonresectable cc. Well they think it is cc. The Dr. said that this was the most likely diagnosis. he said they couldn't tell for sure unless they did an autopsy!
my mum lives in Leeds and I live in Northern Ireland. Mum told me one night when we were talking that she felt a bit unwell and put it down to a dodgy sandwich. I told her to go to the Dr. which she did. The Dr. told her she was jaundiced and said he would write a letter to the hospital for them to make an appointment to see her. This would take about 2 weeks. My daughter also lives in leeds she is a teacher. She called me to say that mum was really yellow and I told her to take her to A&E. They admitted her and that was the beginning of the nightmare.
Firstly they told us it was a blocked bile duct caused by gallstones. At least that was treatable we thought, we were relieved. An Endoscope was performed and low and behold no gallstones, well actually lots of gallstones but none blocking the bile duct. More tests were ordered. After Cat scans and Mrsi scans the Dr. called us into a side room to break the news. We all held hands and walked together into the room wheeling the drip stand my mum, my son and my daughter. I was in Leeds by this time armed with my list of treatments fresh from the internet. "Don't worry mum I have lots of things to ask the Dr". I said to try and reassure her.
He drew a diagram of the biliary tree and put circles all around this area. "You see it is so agressive there is nowhere to do a stent." I showed him my list and he shook his head. "Not possible", he said the cancer had metastesised. I had never heard this word before and still can't say it let alone spell it. IT is in the lung, stomach, liver and pancreas. Wow, mum you don't do it by halves. My very courageous mum squeezed my hand and said don't be sad I don't want you to be miserable I am not going to be.
To crown it all my brother came on the train from London and ended up in the ward next to mum on a drip with gall stones. He has to get his gallbladder removed now.
My mum is at home now receiving palliative care which has been excellent I have to say.
She has no pain and a part from being bright yellow and very very tired she doesn't feel to bad. Her optimism and zest for life is inspirational. On her first day home the wheelchair arrived. Mum has asked ot go out nearly every day since. We have been to the royal armouries, the Whiterose centre and Ripon Cathedral where a lovely canon gave her a guided tour and also communion,
My Mum is an intelligent creative lady who has inspired many people in her life. She writes poetry and short stories. She did a degree in her sixties for fun.
Everyone wants to visit her and this is quite a task to manage as relatives are travelling from Ireland.
I have gone home for week as my husband is ill he has a heart condition and was in hospital when mum was diagnosed. He is home now.
I am flying back on Friday for the weekend. I want to be with mum all the time but what do I do? I am very confused and still don't really belive my mum is going to die. They said weeks to early months what does that mean? Mum hasn,t asked.


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Boston gets the DH back on Friday for the start of a three-game series in Anaheim.
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We also find various versions in Yiddish literature: Podheitze The Private Teacher, Drohobycz 1897; Podheitz R. Mahler, Warsaw, 1958; Podietz Weichert, Memories, Tel Aviv, 1960; and even Podgaitze Pages on Yiddish Demography, Statistics and Economics, 1923, number 3. In ordinary Yiddish, the word is pronounced as Pidhaitz or without the 'yod' as Podaitz. In that respect, the Yiddish version is closer to Ukrainian than to Polish.
The name of the city stems from the large forests (gaia, haia) between which the settlement is situated[*1]. The settlement itself is situated in a valley surrounded by densely overgrown hills. The sources emphasize the fine position of the city that was founded later, which attracted tourists and guests. The great Polish composer Friedrich Chopin used to enjoy staying over there on account of the beauty of the area[*2]. With the growth of the settlement, the forests were cut down to a large degree. Fields and gardens near the houses took their place.
The settlement was already known at the beginning of the 15th century. In the year 1463, the Roman Catholic (Polish) church was erected. In the 16th century, the Greek Catholic (Ukrainian) church was erected, which was built like a fortress. Aside from this, there was a castle, and walls surrounding the city. In the middle of the 17th century, a Frenchman who was among Jan Sowiecki's court men, Daleran, describes the city in 1667. Among the residents of the city at that time, Jews, Wallachians, Armenians, Poles and Ukrainians are mentioned[*3]. Everything was wiped out by the frequent battles that took place there. Only ruins remained from the castle, and a beer brewery was erected in its place.
Podhajce was a city from the beginning of the 16th century. It obtained the privilege of conducting a major annual fair, aside from the weekly fairs for the nearby towns. Podhajce obtained the Magdeburg rights in 1539, which helped the development of the city. From the year 1630, Podhajce became the place of residence of the Potocki Polish magnate family.
Podhajce was situated upon the road through which the Tatars, and later the Cossacks and the Turks would invade Poland. The Polish army commanders (hetmans), as well as the Polish kings, Jan Kazimiersz in 1663, Jan Sobieski in 1667 and 1687, and August II in 1698, spent time in Podhajce. In 1675, Podhajce was plundered and destroyed by the Turks (Ibrahim Pasha). In 1698, the Polish military,
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The cover page and last page of the book Masaat Binyamin,
by the rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Aharon Solnik
of blessed memory. Published in 5383 1633
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headed by King August II, drove out the Tatars[*4]
Podhajce transferred over to Austria in 1772
It is difficult to assert when Jews first settled in Podhajce. According to Meir Balaban[*5], Jews arrived there during the 16th century. According to other sources, Jews came there much earlier. Two known Polish scholars state that the Jewish cemetery in Podhajce is much older than the Christian one, and that the oldest monuments date from the year 1420[*6]. Regarding the old times of the city, that same researcher mentions the Interesting synagogue which is completely similar in structure to the local Greek Catholic church, which was built in the year 1650. According to the authors, the similarity is because the synagogue was first designated as a house of worship for the Aryans, and later given over to the Jews[*7]. In 1602, there was a rabbi there, which means that there was already an organized, independent Jewish community with a significant number of Jews. The rabbi was Rabbi Binyamin Aharon the son of Avraham Solnik, a known author of responsa under the name Sefer Masaat Binyamin[*8].
The Jews fought alongside the Christian population at the time of the battles around Podhajce, defending the walls of the city during the time of the siege in 1667. The same thing happened when the Turks invaded the city in 1672. Jews took part in defending a portion of the walls, and the remainder was defended by the Polish population of the city. The Turks invaded the city twice: on July 22, 1673 and in 1676. They razed the city to the ground, and some of the Jews who did not succeed in escaping or hiding were killed or taken prisoner[*9].
The Sejmik[2] in Halicz decided after that, on account of the service of the Jews in the war, to present a request to the chief Sejm in Warsaw to free the Miastszanes[3] and Jews of Podhajce for twelve years from paying royal taxes. The Sejm approved this on December 3, 1676[*10]. The Sejm in Warsaw dealt with this matter once again on April 18, 1701, and decided to continue to free the city from the aforementioned taxes for a longer time, for the city had suffered greatly from the battles in its area [*11].
During those years, the Jewish community played a great role in the spiritual life of Jewry. A full tier of rabbis and scholars lived and were active there. Since there was no printing press in Podhajce, they printed their books in outside cities that had printing presses, and they mentioned the name of their community on the title page. The book Masaat Binyamin by the aforementioned Rabbi Solnik was published in Krakow in Cheshvan of 5363 (1633)[4] by his grandson Rabbi Chaim Menachem Mann.
In 1672, the Turks crossed the Polish border and took over Podolia (below Podhajce). They remained there until the year 1699. They perpetrated a pogrom in the city in 1676. Many Jews were murdered, and others were taken prisoner. A selicha (penitential prayer) by Wolf the son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib remains and was published in the book Gefen Yechudut which was published in Berlin in the year 1699. When he later returned to Podhajce, the city was in disarray after the Pogrom that the Turks had perpetrated. The selicha begins with Kel Maleh Rachamim[5]. The Podhajce rabbi Moshe the son of Shabtai Cohen, who succeeded in escaping from prison, tells about it in the introduction to the book Nekudot Hakesef which was published in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1677[*12].
We know of the following from among other rabbis and sages who lived in Podhajce:
Yaakov the son of Baruch of Podhajce, the author of the book Birchat Yaakov, which was published in Lvov in 5506 (1746).
Meshulam Zalman the head of the rabbinical court of the community of Podhajce, the son of Rabbi Leib the son of Shaul (approximately 5511 1751).
Yissachar HaMagid of Podhajce (from the same time). Yaakov Emdem considers him as an adherent of Sabbateanism, although he is considered by them to be a great and pious man[*13].
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Sabbatean Chaim Malach settled in Podhajce, and attracted a great number of adherents. Thanks to him, Podhajce was an important center of Sabbateanism[*14]. Another Sabbateanist was known over and above the aforementioned Yissachar HaMagid of Podhajce from a later generation, Rabbi Moshe David
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of Podhajce, who was born in Podhajce in the year 5456 (1696). A ban of excommunication was imposed upon him and he was forced to leave the city. He later settled in Altuna, Germany, where he died in the year 5526 (1766).
There were Jews from Podhajce among those who became apostates at the time of the Frankist movement. In 1759, 508 Jews became apostates in 1759, including the following from Podhajce: David Leizerovitch, Jas (Josef) who took the new name Podajcki upon receiving his baptism. His daughter Malka also became an apostate and took on the name Mananna; the son of Moshko (Moshe) of Podhajce took on the name Franciscus Seraficus, Pesach from Podhajce Josefus Piesecki, his son Moshko (Moshe) Lodowicius, his daughter Dvora changed her name to Roza Bananenzis. Chava the maid of Moshko also became an apostate and took on the name Manannia Szajnska, her second daughter took on the name Saloma Anna Piasecka. Another Jew, Moshko, took on the name Tomasz Elazanius Podhajciecki, his wife Mananna There was also a seven year old girl among those who became apostates. She took on the name Franciska Bonawentura Podhajciecka.
In 1760, Yankel the son of Aharon became an apostate and took on the name Gregorius Jakubowski da Podhajce, and Pesia Ickowicz took on the name Franciska Benedictus Aranska. On November 9, 1760, Anna the daughter of Shimon and Zofia Jablonski became an apostate in Kamenetz-Podolsk. Her parents had become apostates earlier. Aside from these, others Podhajce Jews became apostates on other occasions, such as Zofia Podhajiecka, and others. According to Polish statutes, the apostates became members of the nobility, which means they joined the ranks of the szlachta[6]. This is also indicated by their names. We find important Polish aristocrats among those who were baptized[*15]. The text of the oath was in Polish.
The final rabbi of Podhajce in independent Poland was Rabbi Hirsch (Tzvi) the son of Berl Dov. His name is included among the list of Jews in Podhajce that was produced through the census of 1765.
After Galicia was taken over by the Austrians, the center not only administrative transferred to the regional city of Berezhany, where the seat of the headquarters of the regional rabbinate was located. Only an ordinary rabbi, a religious leader, remained in Podhajce. However, his salary was more than the other rabbis in the other communities, aside from Berezhany. It is no surprise that the city grew with it scholars, and with its high cultural and moral achievements. The emphasis often stemmed from the great bygone generations, the writers and correspondents of the city, who had written in the various Jewish and Hebrew journals for decades. A. David Polisiuk writes in Hamagid in 1876 that Podhajce is not like the other surrounding towns which sit in darkness and are shielded from the world so that no new light would Heaven forbid penetrate into them. On the contrary, Podhajce acts like the large cities, moving toward progress and the ways of the Haskala.
In Tishrei 5666 (1876), an organization was founded in Podhajce with the purpose of reading the periodicals in the holy tongue and the vernacular. It rented two rooms in an appropriate house, in which the members gathered together every day. The name of the organization was Meeting Place of Jewish Citizens (In German: Izraelitishes Bergerliches Kasino).
After enumerating the activities regarding obtaining certification from the civic administrator in Lemberg, and enumerating those who stand at the head, the correspondence ends with a call to the small towns: Look at the city of Podhajce, take note and do as it does. Arise from the slumber of folly. Wake up and become like people who know how to differentiate between the light of intelligence and the darkness of the fool, and then you will be called a wise and understanding nation.
The same correspondent did not neglect to send other correspondences to the same periodical, about their other important problems. He always invokes the great past of Jewish Podhajce.
After Austria took over Galicia, the situation of the Jews deteriorated. The country was cut off from its earlier sources and had not yet set up contact with the rest of Austria. The Jews also had to become accustomed to the higher taxes
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that were imposed upon them by the Austrian regime, and also to the national projects to Europeanize them.
A new tribulation crept up; they began to draft the Jews to the army (1788), and one was able to evade the draft for a fee. The money had to go to a middleman. We know that in the year 1853, the community members gathered in Podhajce and decided that in order to collect the tax to free the community from the army, they would impose a special surcharge on flour for matzos, which would go to the communal coffers. All merchants who dealt with salt similarly decided to impose a special fee for that purpose. In 1855, anyone who would not abide by that decision was threatened with a ban[*15]. Later, the Jews had to give over either money or a quote of people. In 1852, the region of Berezhany had to provide 58 soldiers (1,281 in all of Galicia). In 1878, general military duty was imposed upon the Jews in a similar fashion to the gentile community (from age 21). This applied to all healthy males, without exception.
The Jews had the duty to pay the various taxes: for candle lighting on Friday nights, for having a wedding, for kosher meat, etc. Cliques were formed which ruled over the community and used the Jews for their own self-benefit. Clashes arose between the head of the community and the Jews. In 1855, the head of the community was even removed from his office by the regime[*16].
As well, the communal elections were not democratic. The voters were divided into categories; who belonged to the intelligentsia, who paid the most taxes these are just a few belonged to a higher curio which elected a greater number of members to the communal council than the lower curios to which belonged the masses and the remainder of the residents who paid the lowest taxes (known as etat). The communal elections themselves Galician elections were a byword were rife with forgery, just like the general elections. Those whom the authorities approved of were elected. Thus was the situation in the Austrian era, and thus was the situation later under the Poles.
With this situation, there was friction between Jews until the outbreak of the First World War; the Jewish community became the seat of backward elements, and was run for the most part by designated officials. This came to an end after the rise of Poland, when democratic elections were conducted, and every individual had only one vote.
However, new tribulations began at that time. The authorities would interfere with the elections, and not approve all candidates. On occasion, especially in the later years, they would dissolve the communal council if they found something inappropriate in their eyes. Instead of elected members, they would nominate a government commissar who would rule with the power of the regime behind him.
In general, the community concerned itself solely with religious matters, with everything else being run by the Polish decree. The community took the name Gmeina Wyzaniowa, and had to concern itself solely with the religious needs of the community: a cheder, a rabbi, a cemetery, a bathhouse, and the like, and to some degree with social assistance.
If at times the community allocated in its budget a specific sum for a worldly cause, such as a secular school, the national funds, and the like, the Starosta would impose penalties, and in such a case, appeals to the Wojewoda[7], to the higher authorities or the interior minister would not help
If the authorities approved of a communal head, he would remain in his position without elections for a long time, not infrequently until death. This would especially be the case in smaller cities. There were also cases, often connected with livelihood, where the honor was transmitted hereditarily.
The head of the community of Podhajce at the beginning of the 20th century was Leib Rottenberg. He remained in office until the beginning of the world war.
In independent Poland, the Zionists would enter the communal elections with their own list. Eventually, they did so in cooperation with like minded organizations. However,
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during the elections, they were not able to obtain the approval of the Starosta, without whose approval the elections would not take place. A regime commissar would be appointed from among the assimilationists, who was, of course, from the Party of the Regime.
Such a commissar existed in Podhajce in the year 1927. His name was Ratner. He was a wealthy Jew, and he threatened that whoever would not vote for his list during the elections (which the regime finally confirmed after intervention from the Jewish nationalist elements) would be persecuted. The Polish administration had the appropriate means to do this, and they would gladly apply it against Jews whom they could easily accuse of anti-government activities, etc.[*17]. They could also take other frightening actions, such as removing concessions, raising the government taxes, etc.
The Cywila writes regarding Ratner's machinations (May 13, 1927) that he agreed that only 260 Jews would take part in the list of those entitled to participate in the elections., and after reclamations, it was agreed to register another 180 names. In total, this was 440 who were registered for the election, at a time when their numbers in the city were more than one thousand. These were the known tactics that were used in Galicia earlier during the elections to the Austrian parliament, to the Landrat of Galicia, and so on.
With the intention to help his party, the Starosta forbade the use of Yiddish in the election rallies. This made the publicity work more difficult, for the Jewish masses did not understand any Polish. When Dr. Adolf Rothfeld from Lvov, a member of the Zionist executive in Poland, came to an election rally and spoke in Yiddish, The delegate of the Starosta interrupted him and did not let him speak until Dr. Rothfeld would switch to Polish. At the beginning of his speech, he stated that he would raise an interpellation about this in the Polish Sejm
The Zionist organization achieved victory in the communal elections of 1933. They won five mandates (Engineer David Lileh, Dr. Zalman Dik, Michael Kohn, Chaim Lehrer, and Moshe Weintraub). On the other hand, the list of the Husyatiner Hassidim won only one mandate, as did the Yad Charutzim (workers) and the Aguda, who elected the assimilationist Tovia Ratner[*18].
However, the victory did not last for long, for the authorities dissolved the communal council and nominated the court officer Pastel as a government commissar. He immediately removed all allocations from the community budget that were designated for Jewish national interests[*19].
In an article from Podhajce that was published in the Cywila of Lemberg in those times, the communal activities were described. It seems that they conducted all of their activities in an orderly fashion. They chose a special committee chaired by Ch. Funken in order to renovate and improve the old cemetery. They helped the Gemilut Chasadim fund, the committee for social assistance, etc.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A new $9.5 million tiger exhibit is set to open at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.
The Land of the Tiger exhibit opens at 10 a.m. Saturday with a ribbon cutting and will feature five tigers.
Zoo officials say the exhibit is the most significant addition to the facility since the Range of the Jaguar opened in 2004.
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"This is the first time that the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has purposefully built and purposely designed an area for tigers," said Dan Maloney, director of conservation and education for the zoo.
The zoo's executive director, Tony Vecchio, said the facility hasn't had its own tigers in more than 20 years. He said they've been the most requested animal in the four and a half years he's been with the zoo.
The 2.5-acre exhibit is the second phase of the zoo's Asia Precinct expansion. It will include a pair of rare and endangered Sumatran tigers and three endangered Malayan tigers, which were transferred from the Palm Beach Zoo. The tigers can weigh up to about 400 pounds.
Several trails have been built throughout the exhibit to get people up close and personal with the furry felines.
"It also gives the the tigers choice of freedom that they can't experience in any other zoo enclosure anywhere," Maloney said.
Because tigers are an endangered species, animal enthusiasts hope the new attraction will educate the experienced and inexperienced visitors.
"It's really neat and big, and also one of my best friends really likes tigers, so I bet she'll be pretty happy about this," visitor Celia White said.
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We are in Charlottesville VA
Use a real one dollar bill and literally change U.S. currency into foreign bills! Then turn the bills back into U.S. money again. You'll even be able to show BOTH SIDES of the U.S. bill! Just like in the video demo! No camera tricks, no funny angles were used to film the demo- what you see is what you'll be able to do!
Extreme Change comes complete with three special, separate gimmicks as well as a DVD that teaches you how to do it all. Plus, the DVD shows you some great routines you can do with your new trick.
This is truly reputation-making money magic that you can do anytime, anywhere! Perfect for for those magicians who want to do strolling and restaurant work. And also perfect for sales reps, bartenders, wait staff and anyone who wants to put some WOW into their act!
Extreme Change is a TRICK- you will not be able to actually change the denomination of money. It will APPEAR that you are changing the denomination, but actually you are SWITCHING one for another.
You supply an ordinary dollar bill.