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The Casa de Cuba in Tampa, Florida, an institution of Cuban exiles, lovers of freedom and zealous defenders of human rights, are responding from a high moral ground against those who defend the dictatorship imposed on our country for four decades at the cost of thousands of our countrymen gunned down, imprisoned, facing shortages of the basic goods needed to survive, and the millions of them who have been denied their liberty and dignity in the country where they were born.
Christians in the world abhor the attitude of Judas, the disciple, who turned over the Son of God for a few coins. We, the exiled Cubans, in unison with those who reside in our captive island, feel repugnance against those who stand behind democracy (which exists in the United States) to sell for a bit of money the prestige of a magazine like the one you direct, and dedicate the great majority of your articles to defend the bloody regime of the Castro brothers.
Our martyrs, from their place in heaven where they can be found, feel misery for you, and we all ask that God forgives your souls, and that you repent like Judas did for the treason against our Cuban people.
Oscar Rodriguez
President, Casa de Cuba
Tampa, Florida
President, Casa de Cuba
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Dear Marvin,
As a reader of Cigar Aficionado, I was impressed with your June 1999 issue regarding Cuba and cigars. My mother was born in Cuba and worked in the cigar factories of Tampa, Florida. Accordingly, I know something about cigars!
However, I write to inform you that for over two and a half years I have worked closely with the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, D.C. You and your managing editor, Gordon Mott, should take great pride in the magazine's June issue. The magazine is informative, succinct and balanced. Not any of the major newspapers or periodicals have presented such an informative and timely piece.
I take a back seat to no one in my belief that America is the greatest democracy mankind has known. But my country's policy toward Cuba is wrong. With the Cold War over, there is no rational explanation to continue the embargo. The present policy is indefensible and inconsistent with American values and self interests.
Albert A. Fox Jr.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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Dear Marvin,
I read with great interest your recent issue dedicated to the Cuban embargo and tourist guide to Cuba; I, however, felt it was missing some important attractions: Prisión de Boniato--whose star attraction is Alejandro Mustafá Reyes, who is serving a 20-year sentence for the "crime" of trying to escape the island you are promoting. His 21-year-old son was murdered as he was swimming in the bay towards his escape boat. Further, if you were to go to Prisión Combinado del Este, you would meet another attraction: Arturo Suarez Ramos. He is serving a 30-year prison term. His "crime" also was trying to escape the "paradise" you mentioned in your magazine.
Further up the east coast is another tourist attraction you many want to inform your readership of: Prisión de Máxima Severidad Kilo 8, Camaguey. Featured attraction is Julio Alvarez Lopez, who has been reported "beaten to death" on three different occasions. He will be an attraction for the next 20 years. A little further to the east is Prisión de Ariza. As you enjoy the latest issue of Cigar Aficionado and puff on your Cohiba, you can meet Pedro Genaro Barrera Rodriguez. This is a great attraction. Mr. Rodriguez is 79 years of age. He was accused of "intellectual sabotage against the revolution." What is that? He will be an attraction for another 18 years.
Still further east on this "tropical paradise" is Carcel de Boniato in Santiago de Cuba, the former home town of Bacardi Corp. Here you can see Jorge Pelegria Ruiz. He was accused of trying to leave this wonderful destination you are promoting. Your visitors can actually see what happens to a human being, with chronic hepatitis, who is denied medical attention. I could go on with literally thousands of examples to make my point. Have you ever thought of this great irony? Why do people risk their lives, and that of their loved ones, to escape this "paradise" you are promoting?
As a cigar lover, I have over the years read most of your issues, and genuinely enjoy your magazine; but I cannot understand, under any stretch of my imagination, your coziness with Fidel Castro. I read your editorial and your qualifiers in the magazine, but I submit to you, that you cannot separate the two issues. Last, I find most ironic the fact that over the years the number one issue cigar lovers complain about in your magazine is restrictions on where they can or cannot smoke cigars. They constantly ask, where are their rights? Please be aware that in the paradise you promote, people have been dying by the thousands since 1959, fighting for some real basic rights. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion.
Ramiro A. Ortiz
Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
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Dear Marvin,
The milestone June issue goes a long way in conveying to its readers the truth about Cuba, which definitely can be found on the island and not generally in the U.S. media.
Exemplary of the disinformation by the U.S. government is the description of its policy toward Cuba as an "embargo." This is a euphemism utilized by Uncle Sam to hide its mendacity in attempting to lay siege to the people of Cuba in order to degrade and dismantle their revolutionary government. The correct term describing U.S. policy is "economic blockade," a term used by all except the United States--a term used by 157 countries that recently voted against U.S. policy in the United Nations--a term more accurately describing what is really economic war or attempted genocide.
The term "embargo" used in the Cigar Aficionado June issue is a legal interference with trade. U.S. policy is not only illegal but immoral.
Harry K. Nier Jr.
Denver-Havana Friendship/Sister City Project
Denver, Colorado
Denver-Havana Friendship/Sister City Project
Denver, Colorado
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Dear Marvin,
I am writing you today to commend you on your June issue. Being a 25-year-old graduate student living in Miami, Florida, it is extremely rare to come across such an objective piece relating to the situation in Cuba. If you happen to be based in south Florida, I recommend that you invest in some blockades and insurance immediately because the picketers and pipe bombs are bound to follow. Unfortunately, that is the current situation in south Florida, and it has reached the point where I am forced to write this letter in anonymity. It is ironic that the embargo is a tool designed to ultimately bring democracy to Cuba, and yet I can't even practice the freedom of speech in regards to this subject without doing so in hiding for my own protection.
I do realize that this is a painful subject to many Cuban residents of the south Florida community, having "lost everything" to the Castro regime (although I was never quite sure on how some of them managed to make it back so quickly), but I can't help feel that our policy towards Cuba is somewhat similar to the behavior of a degenerate gambler--we keep playing at high stakes, hoping for that big score. Forty years later, the Association of World Health reports that "the U.S. embargo has dramatically harmed the health and nutrition" of the same people that we're trying to keep from oppression.
Supporters of the embargo feel that the suffering of the Cuban people will become so unbearable that they will eventually rise up and overthrow their political leaders. In recent years, conditions have become unbearable, but rather than overthrowing their government, these people are risking their lives on rafts and washing up on our shores. Should we now have the CIA secretly train these people for an invasion--or hasn't that been done before?
Every single ally we have, with the exception of Israel, which does happen to have investments in Cuba, condemns the U.S. embargo. The fact that this policy remains in place continues to elude me. As a result, the people living in Cuba continue to suffer, and I feel that as Americans, we are being denied our rights to travel to the island. I consider myself a fairly intelligent individual, but the U.S. embargo is one policy that I cannot comprehend. I thank you for this opportunity to voice my opinion, and I congratulate you on an informative issue.
A Voice of Generation X
South Florida
South Florida
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Dear Marvin,
I am a U.S. Marine currently serving as a Marine security guard at the U.S. Interests Section Havana, Cuba. I have been an avid reader of your magazine for the past three years, and for the most part have enjoyed every issue; that is, until the June 1999 issue.
In this particular issue, Cigar Aficionado appears to be promoting Cuba for tourism. If so, why? Do you realize how many Americans come to this country in violation of U.S. law? Americans often stand out from other tourists, making them a target for petty theft and muggings. Sometimes this occurs just because they are Americans. If, in the process, they lose their passport and other such necessities, they must come to the Interests Section for help. Never mind that a hefty fine can be imposed by our government should it decide to enforce the terms of the current embargo.
Obviously, you have forgotten that the Cuban government does not like the United States very much. The propaganda on every street corner reinforces the Cuban government ideology that the United States is fully responsible for all of the problems that exist here. This country is not exactly benevolent in nature towards its people. It denies them basic human rights (such as freedom of speech). In fact, the United Nations recently condemned its human rights record.
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Stagehands put picket line in front of 'Mountaintop' in Philadelphia
A play about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., opens for previews in Philadelphia this Friday, but action has already begun outside the Suzanne Roberts Theater.
The stagehands of the Philadelphia Theater Company have gone on strike. Their timing is poetic.
The stagehands voted to unionize last summer, but they have yet to secure a contract with the company. Since their temporary agreement expired in November, negotiations for a full contract have yet to bear fruit and the union felt that management was stalling.
The managing director of Philadelphia Theater Company, Shira Beckerman, says this takes time.
"Like any first contract, it's a lengthy process to go back and forth on all these different issues that we need to iron out," said Beckerman. "So it serves everybody, so that it's fair to both the company and the employees."
Beckerman says the company's next production, "The Mountaintop," will go on, even if the strike continues.
The timing of the strike is uncanny. "The Mountaintop" takes place the the night before Dr. King was assassinated. At the time - April 3, 1968 - he was focused on worker's rights and economic equality.
"It's about Martin Luther King right after he gave his historic Mountaintop speech, while he was down there on behalf of sanitation workers, in Memphis. We're doing the same thing," said Michael Barnes, business agent for IATSE Local 8, the stagehand's union. "Why come see the show, when you can be the show? That's art, this is real life."
Most of the other stagehands on the Avenue of the Arts are unionized, including at the Kimmel Center, the Merriam Theater, the Academy of Music, and the Walnut Street theater. Barnes says a picket line will be maintained in front of the box office for "The Mountaintop."
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Because of the more frequent requests, the commission voted last week to table the History Center's request until January so city staff can set up clear guidelines on which projects qualify for money from tax increment financing, or TIF, districts, Leatherman said.
"We really need to stop and analyze what our policy is on these asks," Leatherman said. "We know there are people who will be asking for funds, and we want there to be a policy on paper."
Leatherman said the increase in funding requests may have resulted from last month's City Council budget hearings, where he outlined why several of the city's TIF districts have built up millions of dollars in unspent revenue.
A TIF district is an area where the city can capture property taxes generated by a new development – such as Harrison Square – and put those tax dollars toward civic improvements.
The city's 14 TIF districts have a combined balance of about $20 million, but Leatherman told council in October that almost all of that money is already tied up in specific projects.
"I don't want people to get the idea that there's all this money sitting in there for no reason," Leatherman said.
Outside groups may also have become more aware of the redevelopment commission early this year through a series of highly publicized discussions on whether the panel was right to tap $1 million in TIF money for elevator repairs at the city-owned Citizens Square building, Leatherman said.
At the time, critics argued that spending money on routine improvements to a taxpayer-funded building did not fit with the panel's goal of promoting economic activity in and around the downtown area.
The History Center hopes to spend about $400,000 on new windows, up to $30,000 on roof repairs and $240,000 to resurface the Barr Street Market area at Barr and Wayne Street.
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Thanks for the very in depth review. I have Zorin OS Lite installed on an old Vista Laptop which has breathed life into the old dear.ReplyDelete
Although I have not tried fuduntu yet I have tried xubuntu on a Windows 7 laptop. After 2 months of use I very rarely boot into Windows now maybe 1 per week. You may wish to take a look at Xubuntu too.
I've used Fuduntu on and off for a few years now and think it is great for when I just need a quick Linux system up and running. At work when my Windows machine starts buffering too much, I take out an old Dell laptop with Fuduntu to get on to the internet to get the work done.ReplyDelete
Nice review.ReplyDelete
Can I ask for the third wallpaper please? The street one, looks brilliant.
- Anonymous21 October 2012 at 00:02
its the best distro. its rolling release. It looks like its based on scientific linus/cent os, so gnome 2 is gonna stay for 4-5 years. Also the guys behind it seems to be very efficient and smart. The only question is why people are not much using it. I mean probably it needs some sort of marketing or something ?.Seriously for me its much better than linux mint. I want this distro to stay alive, unlike other small groups that fall due to economic crisis.ReplyDelete
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hardly better than linux mint but it is a good distro. Linux mint with cinnamon has a more modern design with out the dock at the bottom. This appeals to more users out there.Delete
- Anonymous21 October 2012 at 05:50
I just installed Fuduntu on my Lenovo Edge 125 netbook. It's the only Linux distro that I've been able to run on it that works well (snappy) and has excellent battery life.ReplyDelete
- montee21 October 2012 at 09:36
I like Fuduntu but I didn't realize that you could add the Fedora repos to it...how do you do this? It's not an option when you go into settings/software sources etc.ReplyDeleteReplies
Actually just because you can add the Fedora repositories doesn't mean you should.Delete
Read the following http://www.fuduntu.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2434
Also from the Fuduntu wiki read http://www.fuduntu.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started
"Since Fuduntu is now a fully forked distribution, we maintain our own repositories. All the repositories we support are available when you install Fuduntu, but only Fuduntu Stable is enabled by default. In the past we supported users going to repositories such as RPMFusion, Fedora, etc as an additional source of packages. Now that our fork has fully matured, we find that too many of the packages from outside sources are no longer compatible with Fuduntu, so we no longer recommend them or support them. Some users may elect to activate additional repositories on their own, but the risk is greater now that the packages from these repositories will not install, or might install and break your system"
Fuduntu is a great distro, but it will be nice if redhat made it a little more user friendly.ReplyDelete
thanks for good review. after reading I've switched to fuduntu and I'm really happy. for me and my mainly soho usage it's great. with all needed progamms (except radiotray but it can be installed separately).ReplyDelete
by the way who knows how to change number of workspaces?? I like three, not four.
going back to fedora. installing cinnamon desktop and decreasing the swappiness parameter it is my second favorite.
I've only been using it for a few days but so far Fuduntu has proven to be the most compatible distro for my Acer One 522 Netbook. Most other distros suffered from crash after logging (albeit that started after an update so it may have been solved now), I was previously running a modified JoliOS although that was basically Ubuntu 10.04 but the fact that plugging headphones in didn't mute the speaker made life annoying.ReplyDelete
Performance under Fuduntu is better than with the Win 7 OS that the netbook came with and also better than it was with Mint 12.
Absolutely best distro around, install and forget. Great idea and philosophy to join stability with rolling update which the biggest problem for any linux distro and also the main reason I usually had to change installation and tried most of distros during last 10 years.ReplyDelete
It is now running on all my pc, home and work, since 2010 (64bits is super fast). Look forward to see where their roadmap is going next when will leave gnome2..(hope not:-)
Long life to Fuduntu!
- Anonymous9 February 2013 at 19:08
I just installed Fuduntu on my p.c. but I cannot connect with internet.ReplyDelete
I have a usb mobile broadband and I do as the following links :
could u help me please
The look reminds me of the apple OS eg OSX. I've never ventured away from MS Windows for my laptop but I'm becoming tempted to try Ubuntu in one form or another. The only problem I can imagine is finding the right drivers to make Ubuntu work with my particular laptop.ReplyDelete
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Flexible sleeping arrangements are available for up to 7 people. One bedroom holds a double bed and 2 single beds, while the other bedroom has 2 single beds. A single sofa bed is placed alongside a TV and dining table in the living room.
Meals prepared using local ingredients can be cooked using the equipped kitchen. Also placed here are a washing machine and dining table. Wi-Fi, air conditioning and central heating are available.
Walk for 5 minutes to the Aksaray Metro Station for connections to Ataturk International Airport. Ten minutes away on foot are the Beyazid Big Bazaar, Laleli Mosque and Istanbul University. Take the tram for 10 minutes to the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace and the Grand Bazaar.
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Hey all! the apartment was large but not fräcsht as it looked in the pictures. the shower did not work as it should. no fixed, though we complained several times. so do not expect you so much. much sound and noise from the street around the clock. but cheap to shop ordinary things. it stood in the information that we receive daily cleaning, but it came after six days two women and just change the sheets and moppade little. there are no vacuum cleaners and cleaner did not do it either. stekpannaor is completely unhealthy to cook in, expect to eat out. one thing that worked well was the air conditioning. homes worth Passuri was a nice man, and even those who sit on the front desk, but it does not happen so much when you have preference. Taxi drivers were nice, pleasant and helpful. Sincerely, Shahin
that was verry good apartment in nice place . clos to city center and all nice place in istanbul . i was a realyy good trip at this place . thanks
The apartment is in a dire situation, müffelt the kitchen, bathroom is unakzeptal, Ammeisen are everywhere, Karkalackenbesuch at night. The Busy was very nice. The Wohnug must completely renovated. Hands off!
Die Wohnung ist in katastrophale Lage, die Küche müffelt, Badzimmer ist unakzeptal, Ammeisen sind überall, Karkalackenbesuch in der Nacht. Der Besetzter war sehr nett. Die Wohnug muss komplett renoviert. Hände weg!
Bathroom was full Schimel. Instead 2 bathrooms there was a bathroom with a toilet, where he had just attached on the toilet with a shower. State such as flat TV shown in the picture, there was an ancient TV. Supposedly there should be space for 15 people. There were only 10 beds and 3 broken Bettsofas.Im Esszimer there were only 6 seats. Kitchen was schmüzig. In the kitchen only funktioniete a flame. Simply awful. I do not understand how can you ask for something like 155 € night. The Kontaktman was never reached before entry. During his stay he was there and accessible, but could not resolve the problems on the ground.
Badezimmer war voller Schimel. Statt 2 Badezimmern gab es ein Badezimmer mit einer Toilette, wo man über die Toilette einfach eine Dusche angehängt hatte. Staat wie im Bild gezeigte Flachfernseher gab es einen uralten Fernseher. Angeblich sollte da für 15 Personen Platz sein. Es gab nur 10 Betten und 3 kaputten Bettsofas.Im Esszimer gab es nur 6 Sitzplätze. Küche war schmüzig. Am Herd funktioniete nur noch eine Flamme. Einfach scheußlich. Ich verstehe nicht wie kann man für soetwas 155€ pro Nacht verlangen. Der Kontaktman war vor der Einreise nie erreichbar. Während des Aufenthalts war er zwar da und erreichbar, könnte aber die Probleme vor Ort gar nicht beheben.
The flat was on the third floor, there was no elevator. It was quite big convenient, and clean.The beds were very relaxing. We got what we expected and what we needed. There is many shops and restaurants around. We could hear some noise but it was not disturbing . there was two AC, but we were there in september so we did not needed to use them so much. The host was very kind and helpful, always gave tips about places to visit and how to get there in a cheap way. He makes very good coffe.
We have been very pleased with both the apartment and the owner is very kind and decent iforhold to others engaged in this profession. The apartment was clean and ryddy it was large enough and more than ten pieces and not least was cheap. It is located in the heart of istanbul (cheap bazar and not the touristy expensive area) is printed directly from the apartment to all the nice and famous places plus there is life all the time 24 hours. Shopping is also nearby so you only need two minutes to the big store that has almost everything. A small recommendation that if you can stand third floor or fourth so it takes a little noise and you hear the cars and stuff all the time otherwise I was in the third and the joints very good owner is good to plan if you have no plans to to see and experience istanbul. ! 00% satisfied and highly recommend this apartment and not least the owner
Vi har vært kjempe fornøyde med både leiligheten og eieren som er veldig snill og grei iforhold til andre som driver med denne yrke .
Leiligheten var ren og ryddy den var stor og nok til mer enn ti stk og ikke minst var billig .
Den ligger i hjerte av istanbul (billige bazarer og ikke den turiste dyre område )
trykken går rett fra leiligheten til alle de fine og kjente stedene pluss at det er liv hele tiden 24 timer . Butikker er også i nærheten så du trenger bare to minutter til den store butikk som har nesten alt .
En liten anbefaling at hvis dere orker tredje etasje eller fjerde så tar det for det er litt bråk og dere hører biler og sånn hele tiden ellers jeg var i tredje og det fugerte veldig bra
Eieren er flink til å planlegge hvis dere ikke har noe planer til å se og oppleve istanbul .
!00 % fornøyde og anbefaler denne leiligheten og ikke minst eieren
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UNC fans have no excuse on 'Zero Dark Thursday'
Posted October 16, 2013
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Turn on the lights!! North Carolina will host Miami Thursday night at 7:45 p.m. (ESPN).
The nighttime starting time snaps four straight weeks of noon or 12:30 p.m. starts for the Tar Heels. Two of those games have been on the road, and two have been at Kenan Stadium.
There has been a lot of chirping out of Chapel Hill about the distaste for playing games at noon or 12:30. Historically, these games have been poorly attended by Tar Heel fans. I vividly remember Nov. 22, 1997 when a 9-1 Tar Heel team jogged out of the tunnel on Senior Day to play Duke.
The look of amazement on Coach Mack Brown's face said it all. He was stunned to see so many empty seats. Brown left after the season to take the job at Texas.
This past Saturday, Brown and the Longhorns beat Oklahoma in Dallas. The game started at 11 a.m. Central Time, but folks didn't mind getting up early to be in the stands for that game.
This Saturday, there will be several top-25 teams playing at noon or before. South Carolina visits Tennessee at noon, Florida is at Missouri at 12:21 p.m., Georgia visits Vanderbilt at noon, Texas Tech and West Virginia is a nooner and TCU is at Oklahoma State in a game that will begin at 11 a.m. locally in Stillwater.
I will venture a guess that these games will be well attended. Fans show up to see a good product.
If you want a gauge of how your football team or program is perceived, take a gander at the TV listings on Saturday. The prime location is 7 or 8 p.m. on ESPN or ABC. ESPN also likes to put attractive ACC games on at noon.
After ESPN sifts through the schedule, the ACC Network gets to pick the game for 12:30 p.m. Then Fox Sports Regional takes over in the selection process. The rest of the games are left for computer-based ESPN3 or the dinosaur days of no TV at all.
If schools don't like playing games at noon or 12:30, something can be done by your team. Play better, win more games and get ranked.
Right now, North Carolina, NC State and Duke aren't appealing enough to play on TV Saturday night or in the ESPN 3:30 p.m. time slot. So that leaves them as prime targets for 3:30 p.m. regional or 12:30 p.m. ACC Network selections.
The Miami-North Carolina game was on the Thursday night schedule long before the Hurricanes were ranked 10th in the country and the Tar Heels were 1-4.
Regardless of its record, Carolina gets to showcase the program on national TV in their home setting. It's not a noon game, so there is no excuse for fans not to show up for "Zero Dark Thursday."


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SCOTTS VALLEY -- JobEscrow, a startup with a solution to recruiting gone awry, is up and running and looking for its first client, six months after finishing as a runner-up in the Monterey Bay Business Plan Competition.
"We're live and legal and we're excited about that," said founder Ken Winters, 42, who heads recruitment outsourcing and staffing firm Staffback. "We call it recruiting insurance."
He got the idea for JobEscrow in 2009 after a chief executive officer recruited to run a tech company in Scotts Valley left after 91 days to work for another firm.
Winters said the Scotts Valley company had paid to relocate the executive from the East Coast but could not get money back from the recruiter who had given a 90-day guarantee.
JobEscrow charges $410 to employers using its service. The recruiter's fee is paid into escrow and released monthly over one or more years. If the candidate recruited for a job does not stay, the recruiter's fee is pro-rated. Recruiting fees typically range from $10,000 to $30,000 but can go up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the position being filled.
Look at Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer, promised $30 million if she stays five years.
Winters declined to say how many recruiters are in JobEscrow's network, but he said all the metro areas in the United States are covered and most but not all industries.
JobEscrow presented at the HRO Forum Competition in Washington, D.C., the Sierra Nevada Challenge in Chico and the World's Best Technology Marketplace in San Diego.
"I think it has a lot of potential," said Jason Buss, vice president of global talent management at staffing firm Akraya in Sunnyvale.
Buss, who has nearly 48,000 followers on Twitter, blogged about JobEscrow in June, saying it offered "real possibilities" in the $120 billion-plus recruiting industry.
At that time, JobEscrow was working on getting a license from the California Department of Corporations to provide online escrow services.
Escrow.com, partner with eBay, was the first in 2000, and Elance.com, which specializes in jobs for freelancers, was the second in 2008.
"We're proud we're the third to navigate this process," Winters said.
Among the requirements: Undergoing an audit before the business opens, purchasing a $250,000 surety bond to ensure contracts will be completed, and obtaining a crime insurance policy to protect against loss of funds.
All of the employees had to be fingerprinted and undergo background checks by the FBI and the Department of Justice.
With the license in hand, Winters is starting interviews with analysts Friday.
The challenge right now is the fiscal cliff, the tax cuts expiring Dec. 31 at the same time 2011 legislation mandates across-the-board cuts in federal spending to trim the deficit.
"I speak with employers each week who are delaying hiring until the fiscal cliff is resolved," Winters said. "If we can get past that, we could be in for a robust Q1 and Q2."
In December, he said, JobEscrow will launch a system in which a company laying off can put a reward of $500 or more in escrow on the resume of the employee being laid off, with the reward payable to a recruiter who helps place that person in a job.
Follow Sentinel reporter Jondi Gumz on Twitter at Twitter.com/jondigumz
At a glance
WHAT: Recruiting insurance
WHERE: Scotts Valley
FOUNDER: Ken Winters
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Every Wednesday during the Advent-Christmas season, we will post a reflection from Larry Livingston, CFCA church relations director. We hope these reflections help you on your own journey through Advent.
"Brothers and sisters: Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus." (1 Thess. 5:16-18)
I confess that I get a little irritated by some common ways that people misuse words.
For example, it bugs me when I hear notoriety used as a synonym for fame, or when people say less when fewer would be more appropriate. (And don't even get me started on very unique!)
I recognize this as my own little persnickety hang-up, and my purpose here is not to lecture about the decline of the English language.
I really just want to set the table for a reflection on one common misusage that seems especially pertinent during Advent.
People often say they are anxious when they are looking forward to something. For example: "It has been two weeks since Joe left on his trip and I am anxious for him to come home."
But anxious is a form of anxiety, which means a state of worry or apprehension ñ hardly the sentiment Joe would want to be greeted with upon his return!
What people really mean to communicate in such situations is that they are eager, and eagerness is a quality worthy of proper recognition.
Being eager is about anticipation, confidence and hopefulness. It is one of the most Christian of emotions and not one to let slip away from our collective vocabulary.
The Scriptures for the Third Sunday of Advent fairly crackle with eagerness.
In the first reading the Prophet Isaiah eagerly announces an era of justice and favor following the long suffering of the Babylonian captivity. In the second reading, Paul advises the Christian community to be ever eager for opportunities to live in God's grace.
Even the Gospel echoes this spirit as John the Baptist continues to divert the spotlight away from himself and onto Jesus, the one whose coming he so eagerly announces.
For all his talk of straightening desert paths and loosening sandal-straps, John might as well be shouting, "Get ready, folks! You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Choosing between anxious and eager isn't just a technicality or a linguistic exercise. The two words communicate very different perspectives.
While it is possible to be eager and anxious at the same time, one feeling or the other will almost always dominate a person's outlook.
CFCA works with people in great poverty, more often than not in systems that make it very hard for them to improve their situations.
It is easy for those living in such conditions to become anxious, and there is constant temptation to allow that anxiety to morph into despair.
Yet our blessed experience is that when CFCA sponsorship is introduced into a child's life, eagerness takes hold ñ eagerness to embrace opportunity, eagerness to express gratitude, and eagerness to give back to family and community.
Such eagerness comes from the liberation to dream and spills over into infectious joy.
So, this Advent, where are you on the continuum between anxiety and eagerness? Is your default mode one of dread about the future or hope in all it promises?
Related links
- Seeing the face of Christ through sponsorship [1st Advent reflection]
- God shares in our humanity [2nd Advent reflection]
- God dares us to dream big [4th Advent reflection]
- Glorifying God with fully human lives [Christmas reflection]
- We are God's partners in serving others [2nd Christmas reflection]
- Recognizing Christ when we find him [3rd Christmas reflection]


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This week, Kansas City—nicknamed the "Paris of the Plains"—was at the center of the evolving and occasionally awkward intersection between traditional American sports culture and soccer's global reality.
One by one, beaming young men took the Convention Center stage Thursday afternoon, accepted their team scarf and shook hands with MLS commissioner Don Garber. They were first-round draft picks, the lucky few who realized the childhood dream of millions.
In other major American pro sports, first-rounders are expected to be future stars, immediate contributors or, at minimum, players with reasonably productive careers.
In MLS, most just hope to make the team.
"It's an interesting (draft) class. I think there's a level of quality that we haven't seen in the past," former MLS G.M. and National Soccer Hall of Famer Alexi Lalas said on ESPN. "That will translate into some consistent players as opposed to actual stars."
And that's the verdict on the highly-regarded 2012 class. Where do the "actual stars" come from? In increasing numbers, they're being groomed by MLS clubs in their own youth academies or signed from leagues abroad.
No sport has a global player pool like soccer. In addition, because MLS is measured in part by how its teams fare against foreign opponents, there's pressure to develop talent in the manner preferred across the globe. That means young players benefit most by training in a professional environment, not by playing four-month seasons on college campuses.
An MLS SuperDraft preview in The Wall Street Journal was headlined, "The Most Meaningless Draft in Sports."
That might be true, but it certainly doesn't mean the SuperDraft is meaningless. Yet. Because of clubs' limited budgets and the nascent nature of the academies, draftees still fill out a significant chunk of MLS rosters. And there certainly are plenty of diamonds in the rough.
Among MLS' Best XI last season, four players were selected during a SuperDraft and one, Chris Wondolowski, was found in the '05 supplemental draft. That ratio holds true for most recent all-league teams.
U.S. national team fixtures like Clint Dempsey (eighth overall in '04), Carlos Bocanegra (fourth in 2000), Michael Bradley (36th in '04) and Jozy Altidore (17th in '06) were SuperDraft selections, proving that good players can come from just about anywhere. The '11 league MVP, Dwayne De Rosario, was signed as a free agent from the minor-league Richmond Kickers. Runners-up Brad Davis and Brek Shea were SuperDraft picks.
Over time, MLS coaches and executives expect those successes to be fewer and further between.
Most MLS draft picks remain anonymous. Andrew Wenger, the Duke utility man selected first by the Montreal Impact on Thursday, has the odds stacked against him in a manner that would shock his counterparts in other sports. Only two No. 1-overall MLS SuperDraft picks in the past decade, Alecko Eskandarian and Maurice Edu, have enjoyed notable success.
"What's going to end up happening is that the MLS level is going to continue to get better, with more and more finances available to go and get international players," FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman, who previously coached at SMU, told Sporting News. "American players will continue to go to college, but the thing that will affect the draft is that a lot of the guys down the road will be already homegrown and locked in (to an MLS club).
"You're going to start a little deeper into the college player pool because the better ones are already going to be homegrown."
D.C. United G.M. Dave Kasper, who counts homegrown stars Bill Hamid and Andy Najar on his roster as well as draft gems like Perry Kitchen and Chris Pontius, said, "there's still a very good talent pool coming out of the college system. The homegrown player initiative is still relatively young. Once that matures, it remains to be seen what the talent pool will be, but we're going to start seeing kids (from MLS academies) who are more prepared because they've had a better foundation and a better curriculum."
So whither the SuperDraft?
It's something MLS surely would like to keep on its calendar. Held in conjunction with the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention, it's an event that brings all those associated with the league together and one that garners a good bit of publicity, even if it's the variety found in The Wall Street Journal.
"If we're going to start diluting the college draft because players are now coming through the homegrown player system, what are ways that we can continue to make it a meaningful an important event," MLS executive vice president Todd Durbin asked. "I think what you're going to see is, college soccer is always going to be important. There's always going to be a need for the draft. But I do see a situation where we begin to layer in more and more international players through that process as a way of continuing to seed the league with up-and-coming young players."
The early returns on that initiative aren't great. Of the four selected last year, only Toronto FC's Joao Plata has proven indispensable. None were taken Thursday.
In '04, the SuperDraft consisted of six rounds. Thursday's contained only two, with four more pushed to a conference call scheduled for next Tuesday. The players selected that day won't receive a scarf, won't have their picture taken with the commissioner and won't shake any hands. They'll also be far less likely to thrive as an MLS player than ever before.
"MLS has done a very good job of bringing together a good level of talent," Lalas said. "There's not going to be stars, but you can go in and be quality players. Not all players are going to be homegrown going forward, so that's important. The draw of college and the draw of an education is always going to be important."
So the SuperDraft will linger on, partly because it's a visible league event and partly because it's a familiar American sports ritual. And occasionally, a late bloomer like Dempsey will come along to justify all the effort. But as MLS grows as a league and as the U.S. grows as a soccer country, the SuperDraft will seem far less so with each passing year.


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I just love the colours on this card from Maude Lankester's collection. It is a card of a country lane outside the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. One of the better known photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was an Irish immigrant Terrence McGann. Mc Gann specialized in landscapes and I find this a beautiful image. I love the tyre marks on the wet road leading down to that little bridge that crosses the stream. Are they tyre marks of a 1910 car or are they cart marks?
My third photo is added to show you an image of South Australia in 1910. A year later the map would change and South Australia would be divided in two to create the Northern Territory.
Title: Country Lane near Adelaide.
Photographer: Terrence McGann (1847/8 – 1913) 3 Leigh Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Year: c1910
Size: 14.1cm x 9cm (5½" x 3½")
Description: colour card by McGann with view "Country Lane near Adelaide" – unused. Signed McGann in bottom left hand corner. Printed in Germany. Numbered: 207410.
His obituary in the Adelaide Advertiser Friday 20 June 1913 reads:
The death occurred at the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday of Mr. Terrence McGann at the age of 64 years. Mr. McGann was born in county Clare, Ireland, and arrived in South Australia 25 years ago. He was long considered, the most expert outdoor photographer in Adelaide, and many beautiful pictures came from his camera. It was he who took the photographs of the members of the Federal Convention and the journalists who were engaged thereat in Adelaide in April, 1897 and he did similar work in connection with many other historic gatherings. His work was always artistic, and he took a deep pride in it. Many of his best pictures appeared in "The Chronicle."


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- Location: Oregon Health and Sciences main campus. Tuesdays practice and review session in Mac Hall room 1162 from 2-3:50, and Thursdays (Presentations) from 3 to 5 pm, Medical Research Building (MRB) 634.
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Current Topics in Cancer Biology. An advanced graduate course with an emphasis on the latest research from the primary literature along with in-depth presentation of the basic concepts of biochemistry and molecular biology. Topics will be chosen from areas of expertise among the cancer biology faculty. Topics will include genomics and cancer, genomic instability, and drug discovery.
This class is not a faculty-driven lecture class, but is based on student presentations of background material and research papers selected from the current literature. It is designed to maximize active roles for students in each class.
Goals of the Class
- Encourage students to seize every available resource for sifting and apprehending scientific matter (e.g., Nature podcasts, social bookmarking, RSS feeds, faculty, each other)
- Develop an appreciation for the molecular machines that duplicate nucleic acids
- Get familiar with collaborative web-based tools (OWW and wiki)
- Create ambassadors for open science
- Improve presentation skills, both in form and scientific content
- Engage in active group-based learning
- Gain leadership and organizational experience
- Build a shared web resource for information obtained in the class
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Hey Necro dude. I JUST found out that LARIATO is on Dailymotion. So I though to tell you if you didn't know.
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Topic: What Will You Do After Adjuvant Chemotherapy Is Done.
Hi, everyone,
After resection and adjuvant chemotherapy was done,doctor say you are clean and you are a cancer survivor,if so then what will you do ?
May be you will do as most oncologists suggested,follow up with blood work every month and CT scan or MRI every 3 -6 months to monitor the cancer; when the cancer comes back,(which in our case of cholangiocarcinoma,the recurrence rate is about 50% for extrahepatic and 75% for intrahepatic CCA.);then start with different chemotherapy agents or targeted agents and fight it allover again since there is no CURE is available at this time.
if you choose the above approach. do you think you may be just playing the "waiting game" or like "taking a long chemo break"? According to one study,90% of the patients,especially the educated one,who have a college degree will explore other options such as complimentary and alternative therapy (CAM) ;immunotherapy etc. to further their treatment needs. Most likely,even if we try hard, we will not find what we wanted except a few of those lucky ones.
How do you improve the odds to delay the recurrence of this cancer and may be the odds of longer overall survival?
Then it comes to the topic of " Maintenance chemotherapy " or "Switch maintenance therapy".
In short, that means after the assigned cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy, even if you are clear , you will follow with " a lower maintenance dose" of the same chemotherapy or " switch to a maintenance dose" of a different chemotherapy or targeted agent such as Capecitabine continuously daily right after you stop the adjuvant treatment. It has not been proven that "maintenance chemotherapy" had worked for hepatobiliary cancers but may have worked on other cancer like colon or lung cancer.
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In short I think this is a more active approach for me than like a sitting duck awaiting for the dismal outcome; besides, it is more like treating a chronic disease like hypertension or diabetes that required daily administration of medications to control the symptoms; in doing so, I hope it can provide a longer disease control period for me , a better quality of life and in time for the cure.
But please remember ,it is just a suggestion and you should discuss this unproven concept next time you see your oncologist.


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Alex Doolan could hardly be less brash than the teammate he shared a double-century partnership with at the weekend, David Warner. But when asked of his response to South Africa captain Graeme Smith's claim the Centurion Park pitch was the primary cause of Mitch Johnson's 12-wicket haul the Tasmanian is respectful but direct.
''Both attacks got to bowl on it,'' Doolan responded. ''Whether it was the pitch conditions or not, I think Mitch bowled superbly well. He did what he has been doing for the past six months in Australia in our summer and he also did it in India in the one-day series …
''You have to give full credit to Mitch for the way he bowled and the way he went about it.''
One of the key reasons behind Australia's 281-run mauling of South Africa is that its batsmen were able to handle the home team's chief pace threats, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, far better than the Proteas handled Johnson.
Johnson's career-best figures of 12-127 came on a pitch where Australia batted first and scored 397 and 4-290 declared.
The consistent struggles of all but AB de Villiers and, to a lesser extent, Hashim Amla among the South Africans to face Johnson suggested the left-armer had to have been bowling decisively faster than the other five specialist seamers in the match.
The results, however, indicated that for pace alone there was little between Johnson and Morkel.
In the first innings Johnson bowled at an average of 143.9km/h and a peak of 150.6km/h, with Morkel at an average of 143.6km/h and a peak of 149.5km/h.
The fast delivery for that innings actually came from Australia's Ryan Harris with 151.4km/h.
In the second innings the supremely fit Johnson edged ahead, with a 2km/h buffer for average over his lanky South African rival and a 4.5km/h buffer for peak pace.
While the gap in pace between the two was small the gap between how long the opposition batsmen could survive against them was significant.
Johnson bowled just over 33 overs for the match. In the first innings the only batsmen to survive the equivalent of two overs against him were de Villiers and Robin Peterson, who respectively faced 50 and 14 deliveries. De Villiers' performance was particularly impressive, scoring 40 runs from those 50 deliveries.
In the second innings the only South African to pass that threshold was Amla with 40 balls, the first of which hit his helmet.
By contrast, three Australian batsmen - Shaun Marsh (60 balls), Steve Smith (41), Harris (14) - faced more than two overs from Morkel in the first innings, as did Warner (28) and Doolan (26) in the second. Even more survived against Proteas pace leader Steyn: Marsh (66), Smith (40) and Doolan (15) in the first and Doolan (37), Warner (19) and Marsh (18) in the second.
Half of South Africa's specialist batsmen were dismissed by Johnson in each innings, with only de Villiers (62 balls) and Amla (43) able to face more than three overs against him for the match. Amla was the only South African specialist batsman not to fall to Johnson across the match.
Smith and Faf du Plessis between them faced Johnson for only 10 balls in the match.
In the first innings Johnson, according to the Hawk-Eye beehive that maps the height of deliveries, claimed four wickets from deliveries at shoulder height or above. Just as significant the South African batsmen were, between them, only able to play one scoring shot to the deliveries.
Doolan doubted the South African batsmen genuinely feared Johnson. But he confirmed he had never seen bowling as fast and as hostile as Johnson delivered in Centurion.
''I certainly haven't. It can be a little bit frightening and intimidating for me, standing at bat-pad,'' Doolan said. ''I'm not sure how the batsmen are feeling, but it really is something else, watching the ball go past at that speed.''


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ATLANTA -- As relief pitcher Shae Simmons' spot in the order approached during the bottom of the fifth on Tuesday night, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez did not call a pinch-hitter. Simmons had escaped a jam in top of the inning, and Gonzalez wanted to keep him on the mound.
So with Tommy La Stella at the plate and Christian Bethancourt on deck, the skipper told the rookie right-hander to prepare for his first Major League plate appearance.
"The only time I saw him flustered yesterday was when I told him to grab a bat," Gonzalez said while laughing. "He goes, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Grab a bat and a helmet. If Bethancourt hits a three-run homer, you're going to hit.'"
Simmons added: "It's been a while since I've had an actual at-bat. I had one in Double-A and I swung after it hit the glove."
Simmons was confused as one of Gerald Laird's bats was placed in his hands. Not only did he initially refuse a thumb guard ("It wasn't comfortable," he said.), but when he was asked for his helmet size, Simmons responded, "Large."
Once the initial shock wore off, however, Simmons had a sense of humor about the situation.
"I asked for the biggest bat they had, but they didn't think it was too funny," Simmons said. "I used one of Laird's, I think. He just told me to grab one. ... He made sure I didn't grab a good one, though."
La Stella ended up striking out to end the inning, and Simmons didn't need to bat before he went out and pitched a perfect sixth. When the ninth spot in the lineup came up the next inning, Gonzalez spared Simmons a trip to the plate and called on Dan Uggla to pinch-hit.
"It kind of helped get my mind off the game and everything," Simmons said. "I just worried about hitting instead of pitching, so it gave my mind a little breather."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A Couple on the Short Side
This morning I outlined a few longs I thought might be attractive, so it is only appropriate to look at a couple on the short side. I'm starting with Chico's FAS (CHS). The last time I tossed this one out on the short watch list, retail sales came out on much of the sector and were well ahead of expectations, sending just about everyone in the group higher. CHS followed along never triggering my entry. Six weeks later, CHS has not only given up all those gains, but its price is slightly lower than where I first looked at it on the short side. CHS has just about filled the gap left on the daily chart, so I expect support to come in around $17; however, that only defines an entry rather than preventing one. I believe this could be a short on a close below $17 or even a bounce to $17.50 that then turns lower. The relative strength indicator is just now breaking down and stochastics could remain oversold for a few more weeks.Chico's FAS (CHS) Source: StockCharts.com View Chart » View in New Window »
I have to expand out to the weekly chart (below) to obtain my downside targets of $15.80 and $15. CHS is not forming a megaphone pattern, which is bearish, after falling out of a very short-term channel. The TRIX is clearly in a bearish move lower while the RSI bearish channel confirms this move lower. I haven't looked for a pair to go along with CHS, but given how this group can move together in very short time frames, it may not be a bad approach....164 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Think back to the last time you experienced a pleasant smell. Remember how it made you feel? For me the smell of fresh-cut grass puts my mind at ease and instantly relaxes me.
The scent of lavender makes me less anxious and ready to fall asleep. I also love the smell of lemon — which reminds me of my mother's lemon pie and summer.
These are just a few examples of how scents can have a powerful effect on the mind, influence your mood and lower anxiety.
Aromatherapy usually involves the use of essential oils extracted from plants. However, other pleasant smells associated with fond memories can have a positive effect on mood and perspective.
Some studies on aromatherapy have shown these benefits:
You may want to explore using aromatherapy in your daily routine. It may be a helpful form of stress relief that's easy to incorporate.
Essential oils used in aromatherapy may be inhaled directly or indirectly, or applied to the skin through massage, lotions, oils or bath salts.
Aromatherapy works by stimulating smell receptors in the nose, sending messages via the nervous system to the limbic system — a part of the brain that controls emotions.
Some common aromatherapy scents used for relaxation include: lavender, jasmine, chamomile, bergamot, rose, clary sage, neroli, sandalwood, ylang ylang and vanilla.
Explore the scents to discover the ones that work for you. I'd love to hear any of your experiences with aromatherapy.
Sheryl M. Ness, R.N.
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Pete'sa Pete's Pizza PricesLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Pete'sa Pete lists prices for his extra toppings in pairs. How much does each topping cost by itself? Each price is whole-dollar increments.
Pineapple & Hot Peppers $7
Broccoli & Extra Cheese $6
Mushrooms & Onions $2
Black Olives & Hot Peppers $5
Pepperoni & Mushrooms $4
Onions & Black Olives $3
Extra Cheese & Mushrooms $5
AnswerFrom the list above and the note about only whole-dollar amounts we note that if Mushrooms & Onions are $2 together they must be $1 each. From there it is simple math to figure out the following.
Onions $1
Mushrooms $1
Pepperoni $3
Black Olives $2
Extra Cheese $4
Broccoli $2
Hot Peppers $3
Pineapple $4
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text: This custom built synth, called the "Abyssal" by Atomosynth (who we covered in Make back in the fall) is an analog, photo-noise and oscillating filter synth that features one square wave and saw waveform generator with a large pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound. Everything is controlled from a large photocell visible from the front that allows it to work as a photo "Theramin". Pretty cool videos of it in action at the link below.


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Neighbors fear that a pack of coyotes has taken up residence in a vacant Clearwater, Florida mansion.
The property has been abandoned for years and according to neighbors, the overgrowth has caused it to
become a breeding ground for various animals. Allie Lyon lives across the street from the mansion and
said, "We have a 5-foot monitor lizard which is a very aggressive species that carries salmonella,
living on that property. We've had lots of rat problems; rats going through the neighborhood and
through our homes and our yards. And now the coyotes, and coyotes coming out in broad daylight and
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Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
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RATIONALE: Gathering information over time from blood samples and measurements of activity, sleep, mood, and cognition may help doctors learn more about fatigue in breast cancer survivors and plan the best treatment.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying fatigue in breast cancer survivors.
|Breast Cancer Cancer Survivor Fatigue Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment
|Genetic: protein analysis Other: laboratory biomarker analysis Other: mass spectrometry Other: questionnaire administration Procedure: assessment of therapy complications Procedure: cognitive assessment Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Biological Mechanisms of Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
- Relationship between fatigue severity; protein biomarkers; and measures of activity, sleep, mood, and cognition
- Identification and quantification of serum biomarkers underlying biological pathways unique to cancer-related fatigue syndrome
- Inter-relationships between variables
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- To investigate the relationship between fatigue severity; protein biomarkers; and measures of activity, sleep, mood, and cognition in breast cancer survivors.
- To identify and quantify serum biomarkers and underlying biological pathways unique to cancer-related fatigue syndrome in these survivors.
- To map changes over time in order to explore the inter-relationships between these variables.
OUTLINE: Participants undergo fatigue assessment by the Diagnostic Interview for Cancer Related Fatigue and the FACT-Fatigue questionnaire; psychological symptoms assessment by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the Insomnia Severity Index questionnaires; and quality of life assessment by the EORTC-QLQc30 and EORTC-QLQ-BR23 questionnaires twice approximately 3 months apart.
Participants also undergo activity level, circadian rhythm, and sleep measurements by the Micro-mini® Motionlogger actigraphy and measurement of cognitive disturbances by the Cantabeclipse™ technology.
Participants undergo blood sample collection for protein analysis by 2D gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Disease-free breast cancer survivors between 3 months and 2 years after completion of primary treatment
- Recruited from the nurse-led breast cancer follow-up clinic at St George's Hospital
- Sufficient English language skills
- No significant cognitive impairment
- No concurrent severe combined immunodeficiency disease
- See Disease Characteristics
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00972400
|United Kingdom
|St. Georges, University of London
|London, England, United Kingdom, SW17 ORE
|Contact: Ollie Minton, MD 44-2087-252-620
|Principal Investigator:
|Ollie Minton, MD
|St George's, University of London
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00972400 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 3, 2009
|Last Updated:
|August 23, 2013
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment
cancer survivor
breast cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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Beethoven's TeaserLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Beethoven was a lover of teasers of all kinds, and often submitted the following to his friends.
What word can be created when following these directions?
1) Start at D.
2) Go up Eight.
3) Go down Eleven.
4) Go up Five.
What word is it?
HintA little knowledge of Beethoven would help greatly.
Beethoven was a composer, obviously, and utilized the Musical Key in this teaser. When he says "Go up Eleven", he is referring to the letters "ABCDEFG." Going up Eight notes from 'D' brings us to 'E' (because, of course, the musical scale simply repeats itself in the next octave). Going down Eleven notes brings us to 'A', and going up Five notes brings us to 'F'. Hence, DEAF (which, incidentally, Beethoven was).
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Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers with Microfluidics and CFD, 2nd Edition
James Wilkes
Since most chemical processing applications are conducted either partially or totally in the fluid phase, chemical engineers need a strong understanding of fluid mechanics. Such knowledge is especially valuable for solving problems in the biochemical, chemical, energy, fermentation, materials, mining, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, polymer, and waste-processing industries.
Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition, with Microfluidics and CFD, systematically introduces fluid mechanics from the perspective of the chemical engineer who must understand actual physical behavior and solve real-world problems. Building on a first edition that earned Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, this edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances.
This second edition contains extensive new coverage of both microfluidics and computational fluid dynamics, systematically demonstrating CFD through detailed examples using FlowLab and COMSOL Multiphysics. The chapter on turbulence has been extensively revised to address more complex and realistic challenges, including turbulent mixing and recirculating flows.
Part I offers a clear, succinct, easy-to-follow introduction to macroscopic fluid mechanics, including physical properties; hydrostatics; basic rate laws for mass, energy, and momentum; and the fundamental principles of flow through pumps, pipes, and other equipment. Part II turns to microscopic fluid mechanics, which covers
- Differential equations of fluid mechanics
- Viscous-flow problems, some including polymer processing
- Laplace's equation, irrotational, and porous-media flows
- Nearly unidirectional flows, from boundary layers to lubrication, calendering, and thin-film applications
- Turbulent flows, showing how the k/e method extends conventional mixing-length theory
- Bubble motion, two-phase flow, and fluidization
- Non-Newtonian fluids, including inelastic and viscoelastic fluids
- Microfluidics and electrokinetic flow effects including electroosmosis, electrophoresis, streaming potentials, and electroosmotic switching
- Computational fluid mechanics with FlowLab and COMSOL Multiphysics
Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition, with Microfluidics and CFD, includes 83 completely worked practical examples, several of which involve FlowLab and COMSOL Multiphysics. There are also 330 end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity, including several from the University of Cambridge chemical engineering examinations. The author covers all the material needed for the fluid mechanics portion of the Professional Engineer's examination.
Covering a wide spectrum of chemical engineering problems and disciplines, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing is recommended not only for undergraduate and graduate students, but also practicing engineers who are looking to learn how to choose the appropriate computer software program for solving nearly any chemical engineering problem.
About the Author
James Wilkes is a faculty member of the College of Engineering, University of Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He was awarded a King George VI Memorial Fellowship to the University of Michigan, where he has served as department chairman as well as Assistant Dean for Admissions in the College of Engineering. He was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor from 1989 to 1992. His co-authorship of previous books includes Applied Numerical Methods (Wiley, 1969) and Digital Computing and Numerical Methods (Wiley, 1973). His research interests are in polymer processing and computational fluid mechanics.


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A consensus is emerging in Washington that even if Congress finds a way to cancel the automatic budget cuts of sequestration, the Defense Department is in for more spending reductions over the next decade. A new exercise by one think tank shows the department has a lot of different ways to handle those cuts — some more thoughtful than others.
Defense experts at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments designed a sort of budget war game under the following premise: Congress will undo sequestration, but DoD will still take roughly the same budget cut: $519 billion over the next decade. But under CSBA's scenario, and unlike under sequestration, the cuts would be spread over 10 years rather than happening all at once, and the Pentagon could decide precisely what programs to fund and at what level.
To run the game, CSBA gathered about 70 people this past summer — retired military officers, DoD civilian leaders, defense industry executives and experts from other think tanks — organized them into seven groups and for the purposes of the exercise granted them anonymity so they could make choices more freely. They were given about 600 options for either cutting or increasing funding for programs.
The results, said Mark Gunzinger, a senior fellow with the group, were all over the map.
"We saw every approach. We saw groups that were truly strategy-driven, listening to the future first, all the way to people who said, 'Well, this is the way the building works so we'll work this way too. We'll cut everything, everyone will share pain and now we have a budget,'" he said during a briefing with reporters Tuesday. "That's not terribly well-driven by strategy. In fact, failure to make real strategic choices is essentially the same thing as sequestration."
Looking 10 years down the road
The think tank doesn't endorse or decry any of the individual spending decisions any of the seven groups made, but CSBA did reach some conclusions from the project. Organizers gave high marks to two of the groups that decided to think about what capabilities the military as a whole will need for the next 10 years rather than running through the typical Pentagon budget process, which allows individual military services to set their own priorities and then submit them for approval to the defense secretary and later to OMB.
CSBA's Todd Harrison said throwing those procedural stovepipes out the window turned out to be a huge breakthrough.
"They decided not to start the process by saying, 'All right, what are we going to cut?' Because if you do that, you've got your airpower guy saying you can't cut aircraft, you've got your seapower guy saying you can't cut ships and everybody's on the defensive," he said.
"Instead they said, 'All right, what's important in the future? What are we going to add money to?' Everyone decided what they thought the really critical capabilities for the future would be. Everybody got to win. Everyone got to pick the winners. Then they said, 'All right, now we've run up a bill and we're going to have to get rid of some things.' But everybody already got what they wanted, so they were willing to give up more, even in their own pet areas that they might otherwise have been protective of."
Other groups basically followed the Pentagon's standard budgeting formula and began with the idea that cuts had to be made rather than starting with investments in the military's most important joint priorities. They essentially gridlocked while trying to protect all of their own programs and cuts were made more or less evenly across the military's programs in order to meet the half-trillion dollar savings target.
Harrison said once those groups saw what their more strategically-minded counterparts had done within the same fiscal parameters, they had quite a bit of remorse.
"There was not a lot of consensus around the table. People's arms were crossed. It was like, 'If you're going to do that to me, I'm going to this to you," he said. "It was the service-centric approach you would expect out of DoD. And there was a lot of dissatisfaction at the end, because the other teams had cut more deeply but they used that money to invest in new capabilities. These teams were sitting there saying, 'Man, I wish we had that.'"
Identifying DoD's 'crown jewels'
But as far as what capabilities the military will need in the future, the teams had a fair amount of agreement. CSBA asked the experts to identify the military's "crown jewel" priorities that shouldn't be scaled back under any circumstances.
They unanimously agreed on several: Both offense and defensive cyber capabilities, special operations forces, undersea warfare platforms and a next-generation long-range strike bomber.
They also concurred that some programs would have to endure reduced funding, including the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"Their reasoning was that it might give time for the program to mature a little bit more before we proceed with full-scale procurement," Gunzinger said. "One team cancelled the F-35 outright, reasoning that the new kinds of scenarios we have ahead of us in the Pacific with very long ranges and challenges to our forward bases give less support to short-range aircraft."
Despite the wide divergence in approaches the teams took, they found other areas of commonality. For instance, Harrison said, under any approach to a half-trillion dollar budget reduction, the DoD civilian workforce is going to have to shrink.
"All of the teams made significant cuts, ranging from 20 to 40 percent reductions in the civilian workforce. I can't necessarily say that's part of a strategy, but it is something that all the teams went to when they needed more resources," he said.
Gunzinger and Harrison said it's not surprising that the teams found ways to cut DoD's budget. After all, they said, that gradual $519 billion cut would be roughly in line with previous downturns in defense spending following the conclusion of wars. The interesting part, they noted in a report based on the exercise, was that at least a couple of teams found ways to start with a strategy and build a budget around it.
Gunzinger, who worked on strategy inside the Pentagon for 35 years, said the system is still not designed to allow that.
"The point still is that the services develop their (program operating memoranda) independently, and then they're reviewed by the (Office of the Secretary of Defense) at the end of the budget process. So there's a lot of momentum behind those budget submissions already by the time they start to have the strategic choices discussion," he said. "If you have that discussion up front, before the POMs are developed, it might actually drive some different investments."
Picking budget winners first
Gunzinger and Harrison said the most important lessons learned from the budget study groups are that DoD needs to think about the military the nation will need a decade from now when it builds a budget, and it has to pick budget winners before it decides where to cut. To do that, it also needs to take a holistic view of military capabilities rather than letting each service set its own wish list in stone.
"If you want to begin with the end in mind, if you want to think ahead to the future and then work backwards into what you need to be doing today, that's got to be a joint thing. You can't have services doing it independently, it won't work," Harrison said. "If you want to pick the winners first, again, this has got to be a joint exercise from the beginning."
"This isn't just our opinion, this came out of the teams," said Gunzinger. "We discussed the process and the way things were, and the teams acknowledged, 'Gosh, that's kind of not the way we do it today.'"


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The opinions of the major ratings agencies like S&P carry a lot of weight in the financial markets. Their own reputations, however, were damaged during the financial crisis when they awarded AAA ratings to what turned out to be toxic, mortgage-backed securities. Guest host John Ydstie speaks with Nikola Swann, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's, about some of the criticism the company's received in the wake of the decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating.
Credit Rating Agencies Aren't Above Scrutiny, Either
By NPR Staff • Aug 7, 2011


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Top-seed Indiana was too submissive, tentative, and rattled, by far.
That's a shame.
All things were possible at 10 o'clock Thursday night for this Sweet 16 showdown at the Verizon Center. By midnight at the Verizon Center, it was over. The 61-50 score reflected a futility that rocked the Big Ten's best team.
"It's going to take me a long time to get over this," junior guard Victor Oladipo said. "I apologize to Hoosier Nation. They wanted it. This is disappointing because we feel like we let them down.
"It sucks, to be honest with you. This is a tough loss. We had no intention of playing like that. That's how it happened. We have to learn from it."
You work so hard for so long, you achieve so much (a 29-7 record, a Big Ten championship, 10 weeks ranked No. 1) and you deliver this kind of first-half performance?
It can't happen — not from a championship-caliber team, which IU certainly seemed to be.
That, as it turned out, was an illusion.
Syracuse, which might end up as a championship team, made it so.
"Our defense has been good all year and tonight it was really good," coach Jim Boeheim said. "We made some really good defensive plays against them and, offensively, we wanted our big guards to go at their little guards."
Mission accomplished.
Syracuse (29-9) intimidated with size and length. IU had no answer and, it seemed, no clue.
So much for three days of preparation.
In truth, no preparation could get the Hoosiers ready for the Orange's vaunted 2-3 zone.
"Nobody we played has a zone like that," guard Yogi Ferrell said. "It was hard to prepare for. We don't have guys as long as they are. We didn't see until we got out there. That was toughest part.
"They're so long, you think something is open and it's not. They can get to it."
That was personified by IU senior guard Jordan Hulls. He had spent his career proving doubters wrong when they said he was too small and too slow for elite basketball. His 1,318 career points, 363 career assists and 46.0 percent career three-point shooting reflected that.
But against Syracuse, he was overmatched. So was Ferrell. They combined for no points on 0-for-8 shooting.
But then, other than Oladipo, who went 5-for-6 from the field for a team-leading 16 points, every Hoosier struggled.
"Nobody else plays 40 minutes of zone like they do," Hulls said. "We weren't moving the ball as well as we needed to. We were turning it over. We didn't get stops. It wasn't a lack of effort. We didn't execute it the way we needed to."
The Hoosiers were rattled almost from the opening tip. They had no recognizable offense. Turnovers came almost as fast as missed shots. Even worse, they allowed the offense-challenged Orange to find their shooting rhythm.
IU fell behind 11-3 and then 18-7. Coach Tom Crean called timeouts that made no difference. The deficit swelled to 18.
As bad as the offense was, it was the defense that was a real killer. Syracuse scored efficiently and effectively. It scored from inside and out. It didn't have any significant scoring droughts. Guard Michael Carter-Williams was a one-man wrecking crew with 12 first-half tone-setting points. He finished with a career high 24, six more than his previous best, which came against not so might Central Connecticut State.
The Hoosiers found enough life to end the half down 12. Still, their 22 first-half points were a season low, three fewer than the home disaster against Ohio State to end the regular season.
Louisville shredded Syracuse in the second half of the Big East tourney title game with full-court pressure, but IU lacked the Cardinals' 90-feet ferocity. It would have to rally the old-fashioned way — bang inside, convert from in close, take care of the ball and defend with purpose.
IU needed six second-half minutes to cut that deficit in half. Syracuse needed two minutes to regain that 12-point edge.
Momentum was gone. So, as it turned out, was the comeback.
"We're proud of what we accomplished," Ferrell said, "but the goal was the Final Four. We came up short. It's disappointing."
Now the Hoosiers appear poised for rebuilding. Hulls, Christian Watford and Derek Elston have used up their college eligibility. Oladipo and forward Cody Zeller could head for the NBA.
Crean will have a young team led by Ferrell and Will Sheehey, plus bring in another outstanding recruiting class. The Hoosiers likely won't be national title contenders next year, but they won't be Big Ten fodder, either. Crean has the program in far better shape than that.
But that's a topic for another day.


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APPRENTICE star Lee McQueen went back to college to encourage Black Country students to think positively about their futures.
Lee, winner of series four of TV show The Apprentice which sees 16 candidates fighting to win a £100,000 a year job with Lord Alan Sugar, stopped off at Stourbridge College campuses in Stourbridge and Brierley Hill as part of a continued drive to raise aspirations.
The high-profile speaker, a former recruitment industry consultant who won the popular BBC show in 2008, visited the college's Advanced Technology Centre in Brierley Hill and the main campus in Hagley Road, Stourbridge, on January 31.
Mozz Baker, the college's head of Tutorial and Student Voice, said the visit was organised to "motivate students to realise that with hard work, drive and determination anything is possible in relation to achieving goals".
Since working for Lord Sugar, entrepreneur Lee has gone on to set up his own company Raw Talent Academy - which aims to find and develop 'raw talent'.
He is also regularly featured in magazines, newspapers and on TV talking about entrepreneurialism and youth employment.


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ESL Conversation Activities and Dialogues
Teaching conversation to ESL students requires good materials that can give students something to talk about. The printable ESL dialogues below all include highlighted vocabulary words, discussion questions, and a sentence pattern. Scroll down for some more useful ESL conversation activities. Great for both one-on-one classes and larger ESL classes of all levels!
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|Whining Wendy
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|Go Fly a Kite!
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|Paper Airplanes!
|Make a Bet
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ESL Conversation Activities: Cardhead - Guess the name on your card using Yes/No questions. All Levels.
ESL Conversation Activities: The Symbol Game - A great icebreaker game for new classes! All Levels.
ESL Conversation Activities: Circle Memory Sentences - Students must remember all of the sentences said before his/her turn. Great for killing time at the end of class or reviewing vocabulary words at the beginning of class. All Levels.
ESL Conversation Activities: The Question Game - You read the answer, and students must come up with the correct question! All Levels.
ESL Conversation Activities: Tag Question Game - Fun and simple review activity to practice using tag questions like "...do you?" or "...can we?". All Levels.
ESL Conversation Activities: I've Never - A great game for practicing the Present Perfect Tense. Think of things that you have never done, but everyone else has done! Intermediate / Advanced.
ESL Conversation Activities: The Lying Game - Students take turns coming up with lies about themselves, and their classmates must guess which statements are true, and which are the lies! Intermediate / Advanced.
ESL Conversation Activities: Conversation Cards - Students answer the questions on the cards, or they can take turns saying one word each until the question is answered. Intermediate / Advanced
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text: The "Who, What, Why, When, and Where" of SERIAL NUMBERS Who? Anyone and everyone who owns a bicycle, regardless of the value! What? Every bicycle owner needs to write down the serial number assigned to their bicycle. It is unique to each bicycle and by tracking it, the police department can identify the owner. Pictures are also very helpful. Why? Bicycles are recovered and /or "found" throughout the city, the serial number aids in tracking the bicycle and returning it to the owner. When? Now! The sooner the better, write the number down and keep it with all of your other important documents. There are even on-line services to help register your bicycle! Where? The serial numbers are commonly found under the "crankshaft," or where the pedals meet. In some cases the serial numbers are kept on file with the store where the bicycle was originally purchased. PREVENTION REMINDERS Document the serial number, register the serial number, and always keep it locked up! Contact the Pasadena Police Department Property Crimes - Detective Schwab with any questions at 626-744-6492


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Things the Retired Pope Can Do, Twitter Credit, and more: Digital Debbie's Web Watch: Feb 12th
Tuesday means we survived Monday! Hey – speaking of Tuesday, have you ever read Tuesday's With Morrie? If you haven't read this book, you should! You probably don't have time to read the book right this minute, so here are a few links from around the web that you do have time for: