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text: I was reading an article today that said Smokey built a fiero with an adiabatic engine(No gain or loss of heat). Supposedly the engine had 150 hp and the car did something like 5 sec 1/4 miles and got 50 miles to the gallon. I did some googling and found little info on this. Can anyone add to this? Did this thing really exist? Here is a patent number patent #4,862,859 and there was an article in 1983 Popular Science. I havent been able to find the artcle yet.


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text: Has anybody compared using the HTC 8x with Beats enabled with any set of Beats by Dre Head/Earphones vs Regular Head/Earphones like Skull Candy, Sony, etc.? I cant really give a comparison since the only set of headphones I have are Beats Solo HDs. But I will admit the sound quality is quite superb. I included a photo to show my setup. :winktongue:


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Conor Gillaspie, 3B, San Francisco Giants
The Situation: Another year, another hamate injury to Pablo Sandoval. With the Panda sidelined indefinitely (he missed six weeks last year with a similar injury), the San Francisco Giants called upon the 24-year-old Gillaspie to fill in, as he was off to one of the hottest starts in the Pacific Coast League, batting .362 AVG/.417 OBP/.521 SLG at Triple-A Fresno, including a 20-for-39 mark in his last nine games.
Background: Gillaspie is already the surprising answer to a trivia question, as due to a stipulation of his signing as the 37th overall pick in the 2008 draft, he received a September call-up that year, thus becoming the first player from that class to reach the big leagues. Since then, he's taken a standard one-level-at-a-time path through the Giants' system, putting up good numbers at every level, but never showing much signs of power or a breakout with a career minor league batting line of .293/.364/.420 in 429 games.
What He Can Do: Gillaspie's most valuable skill is simply his ability to put a bat on a baseball. He has a good feel for the strike zone, outstanding hands, good bat speed, and just a knack for solid contact against both left-handed and right-handed pitching. It's an outstanding trait, but also his only positive one. He has become an average third baseman over time, but he does not have the kind of power normally associated with the position and he does not run well.
Immediate Big League Future: With injuries come opportunities, and this is a golden one for Gillaspie, who likely will be the primary third baseman until Sandoval is healthy. He should hit for average right away, but his power is solely in the doubles category and he's not going to steal any bases.
Long-Term Outlook: Gillaspie has some chance to be a second-division starter in the big leagues, but his role will be fill-in or corner bench bat as long as Sandoval is around, and healthy.
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text: So I just came back from my 6.0 mixed doubles sectional, and my team did awesome. We came in second place overall and got our finalist trophies and everything...We lost out of first place by ONE game which was really tough..so after we all came home my captain decided to check all the game stats out online and stuff..come to find out, the team that came in first place cheated. They paired a 3.5 with a 3.0 in several of their matches including the one against us. We have emailed the owner of our club and he said that the first place team should be defaulted, we should email the USTA sectioal corrordiator and that our team should be declared champions and get the invite for nationals. What do you all think of this? I think its nuts..i cant believe it. Do you agree with my club owners assessment?


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July 12, 2012 BY Brendan Dunne
The Vans Authentic is already one of the slimmer sneakers out there, a pair passed down from a time of much simpler design that wasn't privy to all the bells and whistles of the modern era. With that being said it apparently still isn't quite slim enough for some folks, with Vans retooling the iconic silhouette and coming up with the Vans Authentic Lite to shave some percentage points off weight wise. The moniker is interrupted appropriately by the Pop designation here as well, speaking to the crazy colors utilized ('surf the web' and neon orange if you're wondering). Click through to check out this Vans Pop Authentic Lite and if you like what you see then get in touch with the folks at CNCPTS to grab a pair.
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Top 10 Goviral for viral videos in November
Top 10 viral video campaign with Goviral Network – November 2009
Find the previous top 10 viral here.
1. Cullman Liquidation – Mobile HomesSuccessful 'Intertainment' duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal have founded a website called ilovelocalcommercials.com on which users can nominate their favourite local business for a free commercial. This viral for mobile homes seller Cullman Liquidation is one of their latest fantastic creations. This refreshingly honest, no-nonsense and (un)intentionally funny style of online advertising turns out to be a brilliant initiative. Many of the videos are reaching thousands of viewers. This one has passed 900,000 views.
Agency: Rhett & Link
2. 'Improv Everywhere' & Trident – Grocery Store MusicalThe group Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Since its foundation in 2001, the group has executed over 85 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. This time six undercover actors burst into song in a grocery store in Queens. The video doubles up as a clever viral campaign for Trident chewing gum. The brand gave the actors complete creative freedom and did not demand product placement. The video has generated 1.4 million views, 422 blog posts and more than 2,400 tweets.
Agency: Improv Everywhere
3. Guinness – Bring it to LifeIn a parallel with the way a pint of Guinness is created, this video shows a group of men bringing "a world to life." The video was shot on location in Canada, New Zealand, Fiji and the UK and shows men creating natural locations, starting with a big bang, separating continents, developing underwater coral reefs, laying out grasslands, raising high altitude forests, spreading glaciers, and releasing wildlife. The content has been spreading very rapidly and the video has received over 220,000 views and 186 blog posts in less than a month.
Agency: AMV BBDO, London
4. Verizon – Misfit ToysThis is the latest in a series of Verizon's attacks on AT&T and iPhone. In this video the iPhone is sent to the "Island of Misfit Toys" for its poor network coverage. The metaphor is borrowed from a scene from the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated Christmas television special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". The video and the music are quite funny and cute but the message is clear: as far as Verizon is concerned the battle is on. The video generated approximately 515,000 views and 900 tweets in less than three weeks.
Agency: McCann-Erickson, New York
5. Nokia N900 - The Journey Starts HereAs a viewer you can feel the tension build up during this viral ad for the brand new Nokia N900 phone. The video shows footage recorded during a focus group interview. Participants are giving their thoughts and inputs regarding the new phone when one of them suddenly makes a very unusual transformation. The key message is that Nokia has developed a lean and mean product that is packed with the latest user-inspired innovations, built on the powerful Maemo platform. The campaign has generated 212,000 views in its first two weeks.
Agency: The Mill
6. Vodafone - Vodafone SymphoniaVodafone New Zealand has recently released a great follow up on the successful AKQA Christmas wish. Instead of microwaves, Vodafone is using 1,000 cell phones to perform Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. It took 53 different ringtone alerts to recreate the famous classical piece. It might not be an exact replay of the composer's piece, but it is still carried out in a very creative manner. The video has generated more than 430,000 views and was posted on about 250 different blogs.
Agency: Colenso BBDO, Auckland
7. Heineken – Know The SignsHeineken has been very successful with its global campaign 'Know the Signs' to promote responsible drinking. The video shows how a wedding is ruined by a girl who had a few too many drinks. Starting a few weeks ago, the video spread rapidly around the web leading to over 2.5 million views and an appearance in MSNBC's ZeitGeist show. All videos used for the campaign can be found in the campaign's YouTube channel. Different tools such as the social network application 'Tag of Shame' enable conversation between friends.
Agency: Ruby
8. Toshiba – Space Chair ProjectThis impressive Toshiba campaign promoting its new 2010 Regza SV LCD TV series was shot using the brand's own cameras. The ad shows the journey of "an ordinary living room chair" to the edge of space before falling back to Earth. Toshiba wants to demonstrate that the new Toshiba LCD TV offers a better armchair viewing experience with sharper images. The chair was on its way up for 83 minutes and reached an altitude of almost 30 kilometres. More than 490,000 people have watched the video. There is also a making of video.
Agency: Grey London
9. Telekom Malaysia - Through My WindowTelekom Malaysia took a clever approach for this campaign. On 19 October a catchy song played on several radio stations with DJs mentioning something about receiving a mysterious package with the message "open for collaborations". The package contained a CD with a URL to Everyoneconnects.net and a song track titled Through My Window. The DJs (who were in on the campaign) mentioned the package and its contents in their tweets and the viral spread increased as bloggers and newspapers picked up on the mystery.
Agency: DraftFCB Malaysia, Universal McCann
10. Samsung – Hardest Hockey ShotThis viral by Samsung shows an ice hockey player warming up for Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. He might be underestimating his own powers when he takes a shot for the goal because his shot has the power of a canon ball. With this campaign, Samsung wants to encourage users to become a Mobile Explorer for the brand and film behind the scenes events in 2010 and promote itself as an Olympic partner in wireless communications equipment. During the past two weeks, more than 640,000 people have watched the video.
Agency: Cheil Worldwide


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Sprint Issues Statement: Says Its Offer 'Superior to Highly Conditional DISH Proposal'
Sprint (NYSE: S) today issued the following statement in response to Clearwire's (NASDAQ: CLWR) announcement that a special committee of Clearwire's board of directors is considering a proposed transaction from DISH.
"Sprint believes its agreement to acquire Clearwire, which offers Clearwire shareholders certain and attractive value, is superior to the highly conditional DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) proposal.
"In contrast, the DISH proposal includes a series of interdependent commercial agreements, debt and equity purchases and spectrum sales, which together with the other conditions required by DISH to complete the transaction, makes the proposal not viable. In addition, the DISH proposal would require Sprint to voluntarily waive rights that it holds as a stockholder of Clearwire and that it possesses through various vendor and customer contracts that significantly predate Sprint's proposed acquisition of the remainder of Clearwire. Sprint does not intend to waive any of its rights and looks forward to closing the transaction with Clearwire and helping consumers across the country realize the benefits of this combination."
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One of the things we go over with clients when getting them involved in the SEO process is that they know their business better than we do. The argument can be made that as soon as they become clients we need to learn as much as possible about their industry to market it properly. But no matter what, they hired the experts in SEO and that takes enough time as it is.
And this is why clients need to be actively involved. Keyword research is our domain, we weed out the junk, and help organize them into strongly optimized groups. But we still need the client's help with what fits and what won't.
It would be foolish to barrel through an SEO campaign without seeking the client's guidance along the way. We have to rely pretty heavily on the client's expertise in many of the marketing tasks before us. Are these keywords targeted? Is this content correct? These are all common questions we pose to the clients before moving on to the next task.
Sometimes, we find that the client isn't always the expert they think they are. So often we provide them keyword research and they just barrel through it and say, "yup, these look good." So we run with it only to have them remove those very same keywords from the text we had developed. Or we send content for them to approve and they say, "looks good," only to come back months later remarking that don't like how it's written. Fair enough, it deserves to be right, but couldn't they have mentioned that earlier?
These things happen and it does no good to get bent out of shape about it. Everybody makes mistakes, gets things wrong or is caught not paying close enough attention. But sometimes clients think they know more than they really do.
Is the client always right? Well, yes. Ultimately the client always gets what they want, even if it works against their best interests. You can only make your point so many times before you just have to say, "Okay, we'll do it just how you want it." Even with knowing full well that they won't like the results and will likely come back and blame you for it. Thank god for paper trails! After a few more rounds of trying to share knowledge of online marketing, "I really think we just have to focus on technical stuff. I don't need help with marketing."
Ok, but will they believe when the technical stuff isn't enough to get their site ranked for their keywords? Or if by the off chance we are able to get their keywords ranked without any on-page optimization and they don't see any improvement in conversions? Just as SEM (Search Engine Marketing) relys heavily on client guidance of industry specific knowledge, clients must also rely on their SEOs expertise.


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Redding, California: Sundial Glass BridgeWalk on glass, see the water race between your feet, but you are not wet! The sundial aspect of the design is not an accurate gnomon, so don't try to tell time with it.
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- Take Exit 678/Eureka to Hwy 44 West/Downtown Redding. One mile west, Exit 1/Park Marina Drive. Turn RIGHT at top of off-ramp to enter Convention Center/Turtle Bay complex. First left onto Auditorium Drive. First building on the left, next door to Ch. 7 news building.
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Architectural marvel crosses the Sacramento River and connects you to 18 miles of riverside walking and biking trails.[Judymanynames, 02/07/2015]
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This is an awesome glass-floored suspension foot bridge using its only mast as a breathtaking, beautiful working sundial, unlike anything I've ever seen. It only has time markers to 3 pm so if you get here late you will have to bring a watch. Just west of the 5 in Redding.[Rob, 06/01/2012]
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Officials in Ranchester are looking for a way to improve enforcement of the town's ordinances.
Mayor Allan Moore said members of the town council discussed what they can and cannot do about the issue under the current system, during their meeting this week. At present, he said, the town relies on the Sheridan County sheriff's department for police protection.
But, the mayor said the sheriff's department can only enforce state statutes. He said letters are sent to those who violate the town's ordinances. The mayor said the council is exploring options with the sheriff's department for better law enforcement. He said Ranchester depends on the sheriff's office because costs of hiring, training and equipping a municipal police force are prohibitive.
In other action during this week's meeting, he said Ranchester councilmen reviewed a preliminary plat for the Stoneridge Subdivision. This is a 37-acre housing development on the town's west side, which is adjacent to the site for the proposed new Tongue River Elementary School.
He said the council also authorized signing a letter that endorses a grant application from the Tongue River Valley Joint Powers Board. The board is seeking funds from the State Loan and Investment Board to finance a pipeline to bring natural gas to the towns of Ranchester and Dayton.


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Number 347 - December 2012
|Science notes - Substitution and elimination in halogenoalkanes
|Science notes - Smartphones, time-lapse and responsible use in the school laboratory
|Science notes - Teaching potential difference using a track lighting model
|Science notes - Using the Science Museum's 'Mystery Boxes' as a model for science and 'How science works'
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|Earth science
| Earth Science Education Unit workshops: an evaluation of their impact
The ESEU has provided professional development workshops free of charge to teachers and trainee teachers across the UK for more than 12 years, with demonstrable research-based success.
| Using the internet to educate the world: the Earthlearningidea website
An Earth science activity is posted on a website every 2 weeks for free downloading and use in classrooms in the UK and across the world.
| Common Earth science misconceptions in science teaching
Research has revealed that the most commonly held errors and oversimplifications in Earth science teaching are in the 'sedimentary processes' and 'plate tectonics' areas; the misconceptions identified are addressed in this article.
| Volcanoes, molten magma, … and a nice cup of tea!
Misconceptions about the origins of the magma at plate boundaries and mid-plate volcanic 'hot spots' are explored, together with some suggestions for practical classroom simulations to help students visualise the complex processes involved.
| The evolution of the atmosphere: the story and the evidence
The evolution of the atmosphere is an important aspect of the whole evolution of our planet; this article traces the story of atmospheric evolution, a story that is itself evolving!
| The Earth Physics workshops offered by the Earth Science Education Unit
Earth science is under-represented in the school curriculum; the ESEU suggests that students' experience can be enhanced by including real-life Earth science applications in mainstream physics teaching.
| Why reinvent the wheel when Earth science resources are already available?
The problem of teachers wasting time developing resources when they have already been produced by others has been eased by two systems hosted on the Earth Science Teachers' Association website.
| Sub-Surf Rocks! An A-level resource developed through an industry– education collaboration
A successful collaboration between industry and teachers has used seismic data to produce a useful resource for non-specialists.
| The 'real deal' of Earth science: why, where and how to include fieldwork in teaching
Fieldwork plays a fundamental role in Earth science and the way we understand how the Earth works, and authentic teaching of Earth science should include fieldwork as a key experience.
| Inspiring a generation through the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site
The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site provides excellent opportunities for accessible outdoor education at all levels across the curriculum, enhanced by public awareness of the area during the Olympic sailing events.
| Box Rock Circus: Earth science out of doors
A circle of stones built as an educational and recreational resource for a village and surrounding areas.
| The challenge of developing innovative science teachers with ICT
To realise the potential learning benefits of activities with ICT tools requires understanding and skill; a recently completed European project has devised training materials to help teachers achieve these.
| Leadership and modelling exemplary practice: a re-imagined role for the head of department
Science departments are more than convenient organisational units – they are also communities; an understanding of this dichotomy opens opportunities for heads to lead the professional learning of their departments.
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Merle Haggard 'Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room' KLAW Classic [VIDEO]
Hard to believe, but it was 28 years ago today – September 22nd, 1984 – that Merle Haggard's song 'Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight' was #1. It's the featured classic on K-LAW 101's Classic Saturday Morning.
It was Merle's 35th #1 song. He would go on to have a few more for a total of 38 #1's. Not bad for a guy who in his early 20's spent three years in San Quentin state prison in California for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern.
We tried to find a video of Merle performing the song, but it wasn't available. The one below has a few pictures of Merle through the years.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- From being courted by candidates to boasting a burgeoning, multibillion-dollar business sector, the nation's nearly 40 million Latinos are the center of attention for National Hispanic Heritage Month, which kicked off this week and will last until October.
Whether Wells Fargo with its Latina entrepreneur awards or the White House in a ceremony this week, the celebration of Hispanic culture and business has just started and over the next month will include recognition by many corporations and politicians of all things Latino.
President George Bush, at a Wednesday ceremony featuring Flamenco dancing, said: "This is the month we celebrate great contributions of Latinos to our country. It's a special month. It really echoes our diversity and the strength of our great democracy."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., hailed the month-long observance, noting that much that is American is also Hispanic, adding that Latinos are becoming an increasingly important economic and political bloc.
"Economically, culturally, and politically, Latinos are an integral part of our nation. Hispanic purchasing power is more than $600 billion. Hispanic influence on popular culture is immediately evident in music, film, food, and other areas," said Pelosi in a statement. "Meanwhile, 10 million Hispanics will be registered to vote this year, and the Hispanic community will have an enormous influence on this election. Hispanics know that civil rights pioneer Willie Velazquez was right: 'Su voto es su voz.' Your vote is your voice."
Politician or corporation, for those trying to reach the Hispanics, there is the question of what this rather diverse body politic and market segment really is?
The U.S. Census Bureau coined the term Hispanic in the 1970s to replace earlier designations such as Mexican-American, or Puerto Rican-American. While it officially refers to any person residing in the United States of Spanish-speaking origin, it doesn't in anyway attempt to encompass the cultural vibrancy or diversity of what has become known as "Hispanic-Americans."
In fact, the designation isn't for any kind of race whatsoever, but for an ethnic group -- one that spans every shade of skin imaginable, from white to black.
People encompassed in the census under this category may be American-born with a line of ancestors that goes back hundreds of years to the conquistadors and the early Spanish settlers of the New World. Or they may be recent immigrants arrived not only from nearby Mexico, but also from El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Columbia, Chile, Peru and Cuba.
In familiar terms, what has become known as Hispanic or Latino -- which is an entirely other debate in itself -- is a whole constellation of customs, traditions, and attitudes. It is this vibrancy that politicians and marketers are trying to understand and instill into political communications and corporate advertising and branding.
As a whole, American Hispanics are a big demographic group. There are nearly 40 million Hispanics in the United States or 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population, according to current estimates. It is forecasted that U.S.-Latinos will number 50 million by 2007.
Kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month was a gala celebration in the nation's capital, held by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on Wednesday night. The evening was a sea of black ties and sequined gowns filling the ballroom of the recently completed Washington convention center, with the 3,000-plus crowd including everyone from members of the caucus to non-profit leaders and corporate executives -- a "who's who" of the nation's Hispanic leadership, as described by a spokesperson.
Both CHCI chair, U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, and institute president and CEO, Ingrid M. Duran, gave farewell remarks at the event, ending their tenures as leaders of the institute.
"It is my hope that my last words as CHCI Chairman will give clarity to the real reason for tonight's event," said Rep. Rodriguez during his address. "Behind the glitz and glamour of the CHCI gala, hidden within the black ties and sequin dresses, is an important mission: to develop a new generation of Latino leaders."
Although known as one of the most prestigious Hispanic Heritage Month events, the CHCI Gala is also the largest fundraiser for the Institute's leadership development programs, raising more than $3 million for its College Scholarship Awards, Summer Internship Program and Public Policy Fellowship.
In taking her leave of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Duran said, "In the last six years, the most important lesson I've learned is that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. It's about the empowerment of a new generation."
Civil-rights and farm-worker activists Delores Huerta and Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Worker Union of America, were awarded the CHCI Medallions of Excellence for community service and leadership, respectively. Both Huerta and Rodriguez marched alongside the late Cesar Chavez in the civil rights movement and have continued fighting for justice and labor and farm worker rights. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos received the Chairman's Humanitarian Award.
Cuban singer Albita headlined the evening's entertainment "sending thousands into dance mode with hip-shaking salsa," said the CHCI.
In a statement, minority chairwoman of the House Committee on Small Business, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., said, "Latinos have become a catalyst for economic growth. Hispanic-owned firms are leading the way for the small business sector. It has been estimated that by 2007, one out of 10 small businesses will be Hispanic-owned," said Velazquez.
She added, however, that there are many challenges facing the Hispanic community, noting, "The poverty rate for Hispanics is 22.5 percent, almost twice as high as the national poverty rate, nearly a third of all Hispanics have no health
insurance, and 1.3 million Hispanic workers have lost their jobs."
Earlier this year, Hispanic Business magazine reported in a study that by the turn of the decade, many businesses will have a Latin beat, with the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States expected to grow 55 percent to 3.2 million by 2010, according to the magazine's HispanTelligence unit.
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The Latvian government has agreed to pour 1.36 million euros in an effort to keep African swine fever from spreading across its borders.
The announcement comes after a hunted wild boar in Lithuania tested positive for the disease that rapidly infects farms . A state of emergency has been announced in a number of regions. The disease is harmless to humans but is known to cause havoc across farms.
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The AFP news agency reports that Lithuania said Monday it plans a mass cull of its wild boars due to an outbreak of African swine fever after neighbors banned pork import from the country.
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" Genre: Fiction / Author: Belinda Jones / Paperback / 384 Pages / Book is published 2010-06-10 by Hodder Paperbacks "
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Belinda Jones is not an author I was familiar with before this novel. Living La Vica Loca was a book that appealed greatly to me on my last trip to the library. Firstly the cover is really visually appealing to me - totally girly with lots of pink and featuring a couple dancing in the streets. It looked fun, flirty and just what I needed. A bit of light reading.
The novel features two women who both work in theatre. Beth is a dancer who is struggling to hit the big time in London, whereas mousy Carmen is happy in her job as a costume designer, but is having a rough time romantically because of an abusive boyfriend, Lee. Beth has really struck bottom, agreeing to work in a strip club, when something occurs to snap her out of it and give her one last chance at fame.
Getting Beth to help her, she auditions for a reality TV show which takes novice dancers on a journey across the world to learn the Argentine Tango, the Paso Doble, and the Salsa. Completely disguising herself, and pretending she can't dance, Beth wins the part by relaying facts about Carmen's life. The two of them are swept off on a magical working holiday taking in Argentina, Spain and Cuba.
This book was pretty fantastic for me. I am a big fan of dance shows like Strictly Come Dancing, so I am familiar with the dances being described and some of the background to them, but I wasn't expecting the emotional journey for the characters within this novel. As well as being a fantastic way to give the background to these fantastic dances, the author skillfully weaves the emotions of the characters around their performances. More than a physical journey, both women are altered completely by their experiences as they learn the dance moves.
I loved the level of detail about each of the settings in this novel. I am a little familiar with the Argentinian and Spanish histories, and these were perfectly described to me again, and it was interesting for me to see what Cuba was like. More than a flitting description, you get a good feel for life in these countries, from poverty, to traditional song, to being able to visualise the festivals and events being described in the story. The author has obviously done a lot of research in these areas, and it transfers well in a fun way to the reader as you are experiencing it through the eyes of the two female characters who are seeing it for the first time as well.
I felt that the subsidiary characters such as the dance partners they were introduced to in each country were all full characters who felt very real and relevant to the story. Even chance encounters with people were described with depth without excessive words. The only time I felt confused about who all the minor characters were was when they hit Cuba and all of a sudden there were a lot of new names at one time and it didn't stick in my head well who was who.
My overall impression of this novel is that it is chick lit, but it is done incredibly well. It touches on some pretty deep issues about relationships and how people feel about their lifes without it being too long or preachy. I felt affectionate towards the lead female characters within the first few pages, and I almost felt like I was a backseat passenger and along with them for the ride. I found some sequences to be pretty hilarious to me when this small lithe dancer is trying to pretend to be a novice and physically change her appearance to fool the cameras. There are some amusing mishaps along the way that I won't try to describe as I feel they should be read to be appreciated.
I would recommend this to anyone who has an interest in hearing about other countries, relationships, or is fond of dance and all the sequins and dazzle that it entails. If you hate dance or chick lit, this won't be for you, but otherwise I think this would appeal to most when they start to read it.
At 362 pages, it was a fairly quick read for me over a few evenings before bed. I think I equally enjoyed the few pages at the end featuring an interview with Belinda Jones describing her motivations for writing this novel and how she researched it. It gave me extra insight into the story and rounded it off nicely.
This is an author I will deliberately look out for now after my enjoyment of this novel.
When it comes to books, chicklit is probably not my favourite genre. However, that said, I will admit that it does feature relatively frequently in my reading repertoire. The thing with chicklit, you see, is that, probably more than any other genre, when you get a good book written in this style it is very, very good, yet when you get a bad one, it is truly terrible!
Chicklit, on a bad day, is all too often stuffed with cliche, predictability, cardboard characters and based around an entirely guessable, done to death formula. However, every so often there comes along an author who takes takes the chicklit world by storm; who writes about likeable characters in interesting situations with real humour and depth. And one of these authors is Belinda Jones. Hence the reason I was all too keen to snap up this book, full of high hopes that it would live up to Belinda's usual standards...
Belinda Jones is an author who I became aware of probably about six years ago when I received a copy of 'Divas Las Vegas' - her first novel - free with a magazine. Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, I obediently gave it a courtesy read. However, I was soon extremely glad I did. Having got a bit bored of the generic chicklit formula over the last couple of years, I was pleased to find a chicklit novel that I actually enjoyed and even found myself recomending to others. In fact, I actually ended up writing about the book for an essay for uni! But back to Belinda...
Belinda Jones, who published her debut novel in 2001, has currently written nine novels, all of which undoubtedly fall under the "chicklit" umberella. The themes that connect all of her novels are travel, romance and self discovery.
Belinda's novels have been desribed as a cross between travel guides and fiction, mainly because they all feature her protagonists travelling to foreign locations (California, Capri and Las Vegas to name but a few) in pursuit of fulfillment and romance. And because Belinda is never one to skimp on research, the detail in the novels is amazing, as Belinda describes in great detail real-life hotels, bars, beaches, and everything in between!
Aside from the travel though, Belinda's novels generally also revolve around the tale of an insecure, discontented protagonist who unwittingly embarks on a journey of self discovery and acceptance, often aided by - but never exclusively the result of - a heavy dose of romance. Well, where would chicklit be without romance and happy endings?
Carmen and Beth have been best friends for a long time; two twenty something girls united by their love of dance. Carmen, the curvy, insecure wallflower, is happier behind the scenes, content in her job as a costume designer yet trapped in an abusive relationship with a man she can't resist. Beautiful, guarded Beth, meanwhile, is a frustrated dancer with ambitions of "making it" which never quite work out.
When the girls hear about a reality show looking for dancers to spend three weeks traveling and learning the native dances of selected exotic locations (tango in Argentina, flamenco in Spain and the salsa in Cuba), they see it as the perfect opportunity to escape from their heartbreak and frustrations and take one last shot at their dreams.
However, the girls soon get more than they bargained for as they start to discover the real meanings of the dances and meet the all too alluring men they will be performing them with. As the goal posts change on their dreams, the girls start to realise what exactly will make them happy, but is obtaining their dreams easier said than done, and can the girls ever truly shake off their pasts?
One thing that I liked about this book was the same thing that appeals to me about many of Belinda Jones's books, and that is the main characters. The author is extremely talented when it comes to characterisation, creating protagonists that seem real, likeable and multi dimensional; like girls you could actually meet or be friends with.
The girls aren't perfect, they don't always make the right decisions and they don't have it all sorted, and I think that many female readers could identify with this. I also think that the relationship the author creates between Carmen and Beth is believable and likeable and creates a strong centre point for the novel.
My main point of praise for the novel, however, is that I think that it is commendable that the author has chosen to write a chicklit novel that deals with domestic violence and its impact on women. All to often, chicklit plotlines are all too light and fluffy and skirt around serious issues that affect women, but Belinda Jones has done a good job in putting domestic violence at the centre of her novel, dealing with it in a delicate yet outright way, yet without it making the novel too "heavy".
The book is (generally) well balanced between frivolity and significance, and it maintains its sense of fun while also getting across some very good points and words of wisdom about domestic violence, which are particularly poignant given that the author admits to having been in Carmen's situation herself.
Another nice thing about this novel is that the girls don't end up getting exactly what they want, but they do get fulfilment anyway. I think this is quite a nice message, and it is also quite refreshing for a chicklit novel for the protagonists not to end up "happily ever after", but to be content anyway! However, that said, I do think that the message would have been more impressive if it had been left to speak for itself through the plot. Instead, Belinda Jones does hammer her points home somewhat, with Carmen and Beth both repeatedly reflecting on the lessons they have learned, which actually lessens the realism a bit and makes it all a little more "chicklit"!
I suppose the main thing that will appeal to readers is that the book is light, fun and girly. Everything is obvious, the plot is not intricate, the characters are likeable, you don't have to concentrate too hard. It is light, airy, girly, predictable chicklit, and there is definitely a market for that kind of thing today.
I have to say at this point, however, that, all the above said, personally I was very disappointed in the novel. Having read many books by Belinda Jones, I have always been impressed by her chicklit. OK, at times her novels are a little formulaic, and at times the whole self-discovery bit can be a bit schmaltzy, but on the whole her characters are so likeable, her humour is so appealing, her descriptions of places are so engaging and the plotlines are so fun that all the rest is forgiven! However, with this one, aside from the characters, the rest really fell apart for me.
First of all, I felt that this book was not nearly as humorous as 'Divas Las Vegas'. In fact, at times it just felt a little too packed with messages, inspirational dialogue and meaningful points to hammer home that the humour seemed to have very much fell by the wayside. Of course, as I mentioned before, the plot is ultimately quite light hearted, but light hearted is not exactly the same as humour, and I missed that in this book.
Secondly, the descriptions in this book - of both places and people - is not as effective as in the author's other books, simply because I feel she tries to squeeze in too many of both. With the characters starting off in London, then jetting off to Argentina, squeezing in a trip to Spain, then ending up in Cuba, there are just too many places to describe properly, and the author's attempts to do so just mean that the book is far too saturated with description and far too light on action.
Also, with new characters being introduced in each place, it is difficult to get to know or care about many of the characters, meaning that the romances portrayed in the novel lack significance and are not as convincing or interesting as they could be. I really didn't care who ended up with who, mainly because all the men were like hollow shells, defined simply by their physical characteristics.
Thirdly, the plot in this novel was not nearly as engaging or fun as in the author's other novels as there is actually very little plot outside of the contrived and superficial relationships and the dancing, and there is very little tension or intrigue at all.
I thought that the plot was far too heavy on dance and, not really knowing or caring much about dance myself, I found the book a little boring at times. I know that you might think "why read a book about dance if you have no interest?" and you may have a good point, but I generally think that the theme of a book should not impede so much on a plot as to make that big a difference to its readership. For instance, I have read chicklit books about office workers and about a reporter following the Tour de France, yet I never felt the need to have any intricate knowledge of, or interest in, office work or cycling in order to read them!
I think that the theme should just be background, to set a scene or build in to the plot, yet with this novel the dancing theme is so all-encompassing, so forced on you the whole way through - with every comment, relationship and thought being brought back to it and dancing being used as a metaphor for just about everything - that I felt you really needed to have some love of dance (which sadly I don't have) to not drift off a bit while reading!
Aside from the dancing theme, however (if you can possibly put the dancing theme to one side with this novel!), I just felt that overall the plot was lacking in tension and excitement and had none of those, "what's going to happen??" moments that every book should have. I think, for a book like this to be exciting, there needs to be some tension - some potential threat to the character's happiness lurking in the future that the reader is dying to see resolved - but with this novel I felt that all the possible impediments to the characters' happiness were dealt with swiftly and promptly at the beginning of the book, and there was little to care about by the middle of the novel!
In fact, all the things that were left for you to "wonder" about (namely Carmen and Beth's relationships, including the one between Carmen and her ex) were so utterly predictable that I could call the outcome - of each relationship and the book itself! - a mile off, which really didn't leave me much reason to read on.
I basically thought that, especially compared to the author's other books, this novel was very formulaic and predictable, with the inclusion of "goodies", "baddies" and predictable outcomes for each, which just felt a bit easy and contrived.
I also felt that the book was a bit unrealistic in its attitude to dance as some kind of life changing experience. I am not saying that dance is not a wonderful activity for many people, and even that it helps people to feel good short term, but I have to say I doubt its ability to completely change people's characters, attitudes and lives to the extent demonstrated in this book. It all felt a bit too easy and unrealistic to me... although perhaps that is because I am not a dancer?
Fans of formulaic chicklit, and those with a passion for dancing!
You fancy a light hearted, easy going read, or are suffering from 'Strictly Come Dancing' withdrawal symptoms!
'Strictly Come Dancing' (the TV show), or any of Belinda Jones's other books (although, in my opinion, this doesn't quite measure up to them).
Love hearts. Fun, sweet and romantic, yet packed with too many messages and quite predictable.
Brown - mixing too many bright "colours" together (characters and locations) has actually left it quite surprisingly dull!
Beth is an out-of-work dancer struggling to hit the big time and her friend Carmen has recently exited an abusive relationship. When Beth spies an advertisement looking for amateur dancers to take part in a reality television show, she hits on a plan to use Carmen's backstory and appearance to help her cause. Cue an exciting trip taking in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Seville (Spain) and Havana (Cuba) 'learning' the tango, flamenco and salsa respectively. Can Beth pull it off without giving away her real identity?
I loved both Beth and Carmen. They were both likeable and down-to-earth characters and I took to them straight away. Their strong friendship was endearing throughout the book and some of the scrapes they get into along the way are quite amusing. It's not all light-hearted as you can probably guess from Carmen's background. While this is something that she's obviously trying to escape from, her past issues are referred to a lot, especially as Beth is using them as her backstory on the show. This doesn't make the book too uncomfortable to read though and just served to make me like Carmen even more as I felt sorry for her and was rooting for her to come out the other side and not still be tied down by her demons.
Although Beth is the one who applies for the television show, it's actually Carmen who is the first-person narrator and Beth's dancing experiences are relayed through her. At first, I wasn't sure if this would work but Carmen was an engaging character and the many close conversations that they have give a great insight into her character. Granted, it's not as intimate as a first-person narrative would be but that doesn't detract from anything. Further into the book, the reasons for this choice of narrative make more sense but I'll say no more on that score as it would be a plot spoiler.
I enjoy watching Strictly Come Dancing but I'm not someone who knows much at all about dance styles or dancing full stop really. That's not a problem here as Belinda Jones mixes bona-fide dance terms with easily digestible explanations about what they actually entail. With Carmen being the narrator and her not being a dance expert either, it means that even those without dance knowledge can easily understand what's going on. I was really impressed with this element of the book and for me, it really added to the book. I was similarly impressed with the level of detail about the places involved. I felt like I was actually on the journey with the girls and experiencing these places for myself - that's how vivid some of the imagery was. When I finished the last page and saw an interview with the author at the back of the book in which she discussed her research into the dances, I understood how she was able to do that as she explains that she actually visited the countries in question and learnt the dances herself. That's dedication!
The writing style is of the chick-lit style and is as light as you'd expect from a book of that style. It's extremely easy to get into too and I was sucked into the plot from the very first page, which doesn't always happen for me. It's loosely split into several sections, notably in the countries that are visited as part of the reality show but there are lots of chapters to break things up and keep the pace moving. All in all, this was a great read and one that I would thoroughly recommend. I ordered the book from Amazon off the back of a review on this very site and I'm extremely glad that I took the plunge as I loved it.
I have recently read and reviewed Out of The Blue by Belinda Jones which I enjoyed and so when I saw she had released a new book, Living la Vida Loca, which was calling me from the shelves with its pink, glitzy snazzy cover how could I walk away!
Best friends Carmen and Beth are both involved in dance theatre although their jobs are completly different. Carmen works backstage with the costume designs whilst Beth is on the stage dancing her heart out.
Things become hard for Beth when she can no longer find work for dance as companies are looking for something new and fresh. It is when trailing through the job section the girls come across an advertisement for a new TV show offering a trip to Argentina to dance the Tango, Flamenco dancing in Spain and salsa in Cuba.
The problem for Beth is that the show requires a novice but this is not going to get in her way!
Carmen gets the opportunity to go along with Beth on the TV journey only things go wrong and end up putting Carmen in a different course on the show!
This is one of a few books where I actually warmed to the main characters. We meet Carmen who has just come out of a terrible relationship but she still feels tied to the guy. Through the whole book you are behind her hoping that she will be able to let go completely and find a man she deserves who will treat her right.
Beth who is the other main character is best friends with Carmen and her love and passion for dance is shown all the way through the book. She deserves to have her big break. She cares so much for her friend Carmen even giving up a excellent job opportunity to help protect her.
I didn't find any parts of this book predictable.
The way in which Belinda describes each of the countries in such beautiful detail makes you feels as if you are with them on the journey in these beautiful countries.
I found the light hearted humour throughout the book was an enjoyable plus and helped to keep you interested in the story line throughout the book.
I also liked the idea at the end of the book where there is a short interview with Belinda about different aspects of the book. I have not read a book by another author which has this in.
I would recommend this to anyone who has enjoyed previous Belinda Jones books and also for anyone looking to try a fresh new author and especially if you enjoy light hearted reading.
Carmen and Beth are best friends who are sick of the way their life has been lately. Carmen has only just broken free from a bad relationship and Beth is realising that her dream of becoming a famous dancer is ebbing away slowly. Salvation comes for the pair in the form of a reality TV show that will allow them to travel the world learning how to dance: the tango in Argentina, the Paso Doble in Spain and the Salsa in Cuba. Soon the girls are tango-ing in Buenos Aires, learning to dance with matadors in Seville and salsa-ing in Havana and having a ball of a time. They're still missing one vital ingredient: love. But are the girls ready to set their hearts free again?
I'm a huge fan of Belinda Jones's work and have read most of her books (The California Club & Cafe Tropicana were both fabulous) and I loved her last release Out Of The Blue, too so I was hugely disappointed to learn Belinda wasn't having a book released in 2009. I perked up when it was announced that Belinda had joined a new publishers and that there would definitely be a book out in 2010 called Living La Vida Loca. Imagine my delight when I received an early copy from the publishers to read. I decided to leave it a couple of months as (when I read it) it wasn't out until June but it kept shouting at me to read it so I eventually gave in.
The one thing I can guarantee with a book by Belinda Jones is the exotic locations in which she sets her books. California, Las Vegas, Italy, Greece all feature in previous books and in Living La Vida Loca we have Argentina, Cuba and Spain. The main reason Belinda is so good at making us love the countries her books are set in is because she's so passionate about travel herself and that really comes off the pages as you read about all of these magical destinations. Usually her books only feature one country so to pull off three stunning countries is quite something and I really enjoyed travelling around Spain and South America with Beth and Carmen.
The book begins by introducing us to Beth and Carmen, both aged 8, as they get ready to watch Come Dancing, a show they both adore but for different reasons. Beth wants to be a dancer but Carmen prefers the costumes the dancers wear. Twenty years later it transpires that Beth and Carmen are now best friends (they met during Dirty Dancing: The Musical) and while Carmen is a costume designer, Beth is finding hard to come by dancing work. All of Beth's prayers seem to be answered when she and Carmen come across an ad looking for people wanting to learn how to dance the tango, the paso doble and the salsa all in their countries of origin (Argentina, Spain & Cuba respectively) and be filmed for a reality show to boot. Beth jumps at the chance but is quite downhearted when she learns that it's only for non-dancers but it doesn't deter her for long and soon she and Carmen are making her a body suit to bulk her up and make her seem as if she really is a non-dancer.
Beth then goes to the audition and manages to fool the reality TV people into thinking she's some sort of clutz and they agree she can star in the show - and bring Carmen along. Soon the girls are whisked off to Buenos Aires to learn the tango before sweeping into Seville to learn the Paso Doble and finally, to Havana to learn the salsa. It's not all plain sailing though as Carmen is harbouring a broken heart and Beth is harbouring the fact she's, you know, actually a dancer. Things inevitably come to a head just before they leave Argentina for Spain but will Beth and Carmen actaully make it to Seville to learn the paso doble?
Inevitably, I had huge (and I mean huge) expectations for Living La Vida Loca so I was pleased that the book seemed to grab me early on. I loved learning how Carmen and Beth had met and I loved the banter between the two of them. The scene where they bulk Beth up in a bid to fool the reality show producers was hilarious in fact. Then of course came the fantastic locations as the girls managed to hoodwink the producers and soon we were in Buenos Aires, Seville and Havana. I absolutely loved learning about all three dances. I'm not very dance-y but even I found the explanations of the dances easy to follow (not that I would attempt them myself, obviously). The history of each dance is so rich and Belinda Jones kept it easy to digest as we learned about each dance.
As well as managing to bring to life so many exotic locations, I also found the characters incredibly interesting. Carmen, our narrator, is, just to put it plainly, lovely. There is seriously no other description to aptly describe Carmen. She's warm and funny and I really liked her. She has some skeletons in her closet, namely her ex Lee who, from what we read, really wasn't pleasant. She managed to fight back though and for that I loved her. I also really loved Beth, Carmen's best friend. It was so sad to see her so down at the beginning of the book as she was pushed out of the dancing community in favour of younger dancers and I just couldn't help but laugh when she came up with the hare-brained scheme to disguise herself as a novice dancer. She pulled it off, I must say! Beth and Carmen were really the main characters in the book but the reality show crew were also ever-present and they were an OK bunch.
Belinda Jones's writing is as good as ever (although I got irritated with the amount of time Beth or Carmen 'hoot'ed and 'toot'ed) and I really did enjoy the book. I suppose the reason I'm not jumping off the walls is because of my expectations of the book. I expected a lot and it's inevitable that I was going to feel disappointed (it's not the first book this year I'm over-hyping and it won't be the last!). I fear I over-hyped the book so much that no amount of fab locations or fab writing was going to make it worth just how much I had hyped it up in my imagination. It's mildly unfortunate for me as I so wanted this to be one of my favourite reads of this year. I did love it, but just not as much as her previous efforts. I also found the ending relatively luke-warm. It was all kind of abrupt and I think it needed a few more chapters. Yes, it all seemed to come full circle but I wasn't totally satisfied; I wanted romance!
Overall Living La Vida Loca is another great read from Belinda Jones. She's certainly one of my favourite travel writers as she easily manages to make countries like Argentina and Cuba sound so exotic. In fact reading about Cuba makes me want to go there right now and see if it's like it was described in the book! I was slightly disappointed but I still expect the book to be a huge hit as really, no one quite does what Belinda Jones does: giving us a fun read with great destinations to escape to. I'll certainly be buying myself a finished copy! Oh - and for all you Ricky Martin fans, look out for a nod to him in the book!


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I had a great time this morning with an old high school friend. She brought her hubby and two of her kids over to witness the youngest little girl's cake smash. Miss Bella turns one year old tomorrow!
Here are a couple of beautiful shots I captured of her before we did her cake smash.
and then of course her cake smash!


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ST. PAUL (WCCO) — Minnesota's new governor Mark Dayton hasn't yet completely moved into his new office, or the official governor's residence. But he says he's ready to go.
From the moment Dayton was sworn in on Monday, he was plunged into protest and controversy.
His first official press conference was crashed by demonstrators protesting the federal health care bill. He re-affirmed to anti-tax hike business leaders his plans to raise income taxes on Minnesota's wealthiest citizens. And his dog died.
In his first one-on-one television interviews since taking office, Dayton said he allowed raucous protesters to speak at his press conference "because of the First Amendment," recalling his own protest days as a young man.
"I remember going down to protest the Vietnam War in Washington, and I remember being tear-gassed," said the former U.S. Senator. "I thought then, 'that's not supposed to happen in a democracy.'"
Dayton is adamant about raising taxes on Minnesota's highest income earners to ease a massive budget deficit. He scoffs at Republicans who say it's easy to cut without severe damage to schools, hospitals, public safety and the poor.
"If they, and we, can collectively find $6.2 billion of spending cuts — hey! I'll buy the champagne," said Dayton, a recovering alcoholic. "I won't drink any, but I'll let everybody rejoice and we'll all go home happy. I have no desire to raise taxes on anybody. "
For all the controversy about raising taxes on the wealthy, Dayton says his famous Dayton Department Store family agrees with him. Including his 92-year old father Bruce Dayton, who watched his son sworn in as governor from the front row of the Landmark Center ceremony.
For the first time, Dayton spoke publicly about the death Wednesday of his beloved German Shepherd Dakota.
He expressed gratitude for what he said was an outpouring of support and sympathy and said he's planning for a puppy to accompany his other dog, Mesabi.
"Sometime this spring, or summer, when things settle down a bit, and a chance to survey the backyard of the governor's residence, I am going to get another German Shepherd puppy," he said. "A female. We're gonna name her Wanamingo and call her Mingo."
Dayton appeared at ease, comfortable in his new role, and he acknowledges the hard part is only beginning.
WCCO-TV's Pat Kessler Reports


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The University of Nevada, Reno has been named to a list of the world's top 500 universities. The 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities includes institutions from 40 countries.
"This ranking emphasizes faculty quality and research output, and therefore makes an important statement about the commitment and momentum of this University," said University President Marc Johnson. "Joining this worldwide list reflects the high-caliber teaching and research happening here, and the commitment of our faculty to prepare students to compete in the globalized, knowledge-based economy."
The annual ranking is produced by the Center for World-Class Universities at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The center describes its ranking methodology as based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data. Indicators include the number of highly cited researchers, research output demonstrated primarily through published work and the institution's per-capita academic performance.
U.S. universities at the top of the 2011 list include Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Berkeley. In characterizing the 2011 Academic Ranking, the center noted the progress of universities in the Middle East and in China.


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Amid the controversy surrounding the Food and Drug Administration's ruling that Avastin should no longer be used to treat metastatic breast cancer, a new multinational Phase III clinical trial shows that Avastin significantly increased tumor response rates in breast cancer patients when given before surgery.
At the annual meeting for the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the nation's premier association of clinical oncologists, Harry D. Bear, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Division of Surgical Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, presented the Avastin findings from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Protocol B-40 clinical trial. Bear, who served as the trial's protocol chair, explained that Avastin, when added to preoperative chemotherapy regimens, increased toxicity but also increased pathologic complete response rates by more than 6 percent (34.5 percent versus 28.4 percent) and clinical complete response rates by approximately 8 percent (64.3 percent versus 55.8 percent). Pathologic complete response was defined in the study as no remaining invasive cancer left in the breast, and clinical complete response was defined as a complete disappearance of cancer with no evidence of disease progression. Patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancers appeared to benefit most from the treatment.
"While encouraging, the results of this study will probably not affect standard neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy practices in the near term," says Bear. "There are many different types of breast cancer, and we need more definitive biological predictors of response in order to more accurately identify the patients who will benefit most from Avastin."
Though hormone receptor positive patients benefited most from the addition of Avastin in the NSABP Protocol B-40 trial, a second study presented during the same session at the ASCO meeting seemed to contradict the findings. The second study, known as GeparQuinto, was conducted in Germany and found that Avastin benefitted patients with triple negative cancers, but not patients with hormone receptor positive cancers.
"The more we understand tumor biology, the more personalized cancer care becomes. By identifying the factors that made Avastin beneficial, we can hopefully test future breast cancer patients to determine whether or not it should be included in their treatment," says Bear.
The NSABP Protocol B-40 trial included 1,206 patients with operable HER2-negative breast cancer and tested different preoperative, or "neoadjuvant," chemotherapy regimens. The trial had two objectives. The first was to determine whether adding the chemotherapy agents capecitabine or gemcitabine to the standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen of docetaxel followed by a combination of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide increased the pathologic complete response rate. The second objective was to test whether adding Avastin to chemotherapy before surgery increased the pathologic complete response rate. While the addition of Avastin did improve the pathologic complete response rate, the addition of the chemotherapy agents capecitabine and gemcitabine did not.
"We need more research focusing on patient biology and tumor differences to understand why Avastin works for some but not others. We hope to gain insight by analyzing tumor biopsies and blood samples from patients in the B-40 trial and other recent Avastin studies," says Bear. "In addition, since the patients who received Avastin preoperatively also received it after surgery, it is possible the drug may improve long-term outcomes. We will follow these patients for many years to come to determine whether Avastin increased cure rates."
News directors: Broadcast access to VCU Massey Cancer Center experts is available through VideoLink ReadyCam. ReadyCam transmits video and audio via fiber optics through a system that is routed to your newsroom. To schedule a live or taped interview, contact John Wallace at (804) 628-1550.
About VCU Massey Cancer Center
VCU Massey Cancer Center is one of only 66 National Cancer Institute-designated institutions in the country that leads and shapes America's cancer research efforts. Working with all kinds of cancers, the Center conducts basic, translational and clinical cancer research, provides state-of-the-art treatments and clinical trials and promotes cancer prevention and education. Since 1974, Massey has served as an internationally recognized center of excellence. It has one of the largest offerings of clinical trials in Virginia and serves patients in Richmond and in four satellite locations. Its 1,000 researchers, clinicians and staff members are dedicated to improving the quality of human life by developing and delivering effective means to prevent, control and ultimately cure cancer. Visit Massey online at www.massey.vcu.edu or call 877-4-MASSEY for more information.
About VCU and the VCU Medical Center: Virginia Commonwealth University is a major, urban public research university with national and international rankings in sponsored research. Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond, VCU enrolls more than 31,000 students in 211 certificate and degree programs in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-nine of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU's 13 schools and one college. MCV Hospitals and the health sciences schools of Virginia Commonwealth University compose the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. For more, see www.vcu.edu.


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This Best of Bogue column originally was published June 24, 1999.
Dear Gary: We are planning to go on vacation and will have to leave our three kitties at home. I don't worry so much about one of them, but the two other baby sisters are spoiled (all my fault).
My son will be coming and staying to care for home and hearth, but I can't depend on him to take care of the kitties in the same way that I do. I comb them nightly, look for bugs and stickers — and anything else — and most important, I make sure they are secure inside at night, snug in their beds.
I know they will miss the daily contact if I am not home, and while my son does love them, it is not a mother's love.
Would they be better off boarded? Or should we leave them at home and hope for the best from my kid?
Suzan Riddell
Dear Suzan: Nobody can take care of your cats the same way you do.
They should still be able to survive quite nicely, however, with your son and their unkempt fur while you're on vacation. They'll also be much happier staying in their own house.
Don't forget that a son's love is right up there next to a mother's love.
Show him where you keep the comb. You'll either be pleasantly surprised when you return from your vacation or you'll have the most wonderful all-night combing session of your life with your cats.
Dear Gary: This is our first summer in our new house. The previous owners had the backyard landscaped with bark chips spread over plastic sheeting bordering the grass.
For the past few weeks, I've been finding the sheeting pulled back around the borders of our yard, exposing the packed clay-soil underneath.
On occasion I've seen some claw marks in the hard earth, like perhaps something was looking for an easy meal of bugs and worms, but didn't have to do much digging to find it.
I suspect opossums, because the previous owners mentioned seeing them drink from their outdoor potted plant saucers.
But maybe it's one of the many neighborhood cats doing a little late-night gardening. That would explain the tiny rake and gloves. Just curious.
Pleasant Hill
Dear Mike: Pulling back the plastic sheeting to look for tasty worms is definitely raccoons. That's too much work for an opossum. And just FYI, cats don't use gloves.
Dear Gary: We are creating an outside enclosed area for our box turtles and I'm concerned about raccoons.
Raccoons aren't in our yard often but they do visit and I don't want to put the turtles in any danger. Will they bother the turtles?
The enclosure is 6 feet by 6 feet and the fence is 12 inches high.
We plan on having an area where the turtles can hide at night, but we don't want them to be an evening snack!
Dear Diane: The raccoons will definitely "bother" your turtles, given half a chance, so you will need to make your turtle enclosure raccoon-proof.
Box turtles have strong shells, but don't underestimate a raccoon's curiosity and tenacity, not to mention their "hands" and claws.
I've seen what they can do to a turtle, and it's not pretty. So be very careful.
Gary Bogue has retired after 42 years of writing this column. If you have animal-related questions, contact Joan Morris at email@example.com; 925-977-8479, or P.O. Box 8099, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Check out our cute pets and amazing wildlife photos at www.pinterest.com/gardenjoan.


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Has the sharing economy concept gone to far?
This week San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued a cease-and-desist demand to the mobile-to-mobile bidding app that's been gaining a popular footing in the parking-poor Bay Area, MonkeyParking. The service, which is currently used on iOS devices, allows drivers to auction off their public parking places. As of this week, it was still available on the Apple Store, with the tagline that the app "lets you make money every time that you are about to leave your on-street parking spot."
And that, says the city, doesn't fly.
Herrera has apparently sent a letter to one of the CEOs of the Rome, Italy-based startup, Paolo Dobrowolny, to let him know that there is "a key provision of San Francisco's Police Code that specifically prohibits individuals and companies from buying, selling or leasing public on-street parking." And, the letter says: "Police Code section 63(c) further provides that scofflaws – including drivers who 'enter into a lease, rental agreement or contract of any kind' for public parking spots – face administrative penalties of up to $300 for each violation. Because MonkeyParking's business model is wholly premised on illegal transactions, the letter contends that the company would be subject to civil penalties of up to $2,500 per violation under California's tough Unfair Competition Law were the city to sue from buying, selling or leasing public on-street parking."
Reading city bylaws is always a good thing to do before launching a locally-based startup (this appears to have been one of the worst cities to choose for a hang-loose premise like auctioning public property use). But it also looks like the enthusiasm for sharing-economy startups may be wearing just a bit thin in SF. Only last year, the city launched a suit against another three-member partnership, FlightCar for its airport drop-off-and-share concept. It seems the service overlooked the sizable revenue that the city gets from traditional car rental companies that operate at the airport.
FlightCar's growing popularity has highlighted consumers' frustrations with airport parking costs, but it also dug into the revenue that the city uses to cover airport operating costs. San Francisco's suit against the startup, which launched last year, is still ongoing and, not surprisingly, could ultimately have an impact on the rights and responsibilities of similar car-sharing programs in San Francisco.
Still, can you really blame three up-and-coming entrepreneurs for trying to solve city parking woes? The city has been struggling with parking issues for more than 40 years (I speak as a former Bay Area native) and get-ahead tactics like an online auction platform seem like a natural, if not extreme, outgrowth of the problem.
But what MonkeyParking and the city's struggle really highlights – unfortunately – is where the sharing economy seems to be going. Remember the days when people shared because they could help, or because they valued the exchange it fostered? In this case, I think it's a fair bet that few, if any, of the drivers who swap parking places via MonkeyParking ever exchange glances, a smile or a casual word. Sharing, in this case, is a major misnomer.
The question at hand may not be how the city addresses a sharing economy startup that it feels encroaches on public-run property or city bylaws, but what it is going to do to replace the incentive by residents and ticked-off tourists who hate searching for parking places.
I can't help but wonder what would happen if the city were to sit down with six (or more) new entrepreneurs from FlightCar, MonkeyParking, Lyft, Uber and other sharing-economy initiatives and pick their brains for alternative, city-friendly ways to solve parking, traffic and consumer woes. (And yes, I'd love to be a fly on the wall with that one.)
As the city no doubt noticed last year, NerdWallet's 2013 list of the 10 best cities for entrepreneurs –which looked at things like funding availability, cost of living and networking/collaboration options — was missing a key mention: San Francisco. That should be a wake-up call to a city that has made its reputation from innovative approaches. It just might find that smart, edgy professionals that have the moxie and the brains to find out-of-the-box solutions for city growth problems (especially those that aren't the city's favorite concepts) might have something unexpected to offer. The outcome, however awkward that first brainstorm might be, just might offer the next evolution to the sharing economy.
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The Center for Women's & Gender Studies presents a talk by Julia Lee, author of "Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937."
Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary question, arguing that scenes depicting Black-Asian interactions, relationships, and conflicts capture the constitution of African American and Asian American identities as each group struggled to negotiate the racially exclusionary nature of American identity.


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text: Cape Town - Honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani was captured on CCTV cameras paying cash to the taxi driver who admitted to arranging the murder of his bride, Anni Dewani, in an apparent botched hijacking. The Sun reported on Thursday that footage from a camera at an upmarket Cape Town restaurant showed a private meeting between Dewani and Zola Tongo, who admitted his role in the murder in a plea bargain with the State earlier this week, and was sentenced to an effective 18 years in prison. The CCTV footage and phone and text records led South African police to believe they had enough evidence to prosecute Dewani, the Sun said. A "police source" told the British tabloid: "Tongo's claim he was given money by Dewani after Anni's death is backed up in full colour on video.Cash paid after murder"CCTV footage shows them meeting in a restaurant area of a hotel and Shrien Dewani hands money to the driver."According to the source, this happened days after Anni Dewani's body was found, when Dewani was staying at the Cape Grace Hotel, being comforted by relatives. The Sun, however, pointed out that it was unclear why he was handing over the money, and he could simply have been paying a fare. Dewani handed himself over to British authorities late on Tuesday night and was arrested. He appeared in a London court on Wednesday, where bail was denied. He is expected to appear in court again on Thursday.Anni Dewani's sister, Ami, told the Sun: "I don't know what to believe."


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Joffrey Reynolds couldnt ask for a more perfect opponent this week.
The Calgary Stampeders running back needs 138 yards to set a franchise rushing record, and considering the Edmonton Eskimos have the worst ground defence in the league this season, its entirely possible it could happen on Labour Day.
But the upcoming milestone isnt the first thing on the seven-year veterans mind.
It really hasnt hit me yet, said Reynolds, who has spent his entire CFL career so far with Calgary. This seems like another season where were trying to win games. I really cant say what its going to feel like.
The Eskimos arent worried about any statistical landmarks, either.
I dont know. Those things kind of just happen, theyre not forced, said Eskimos defensive tackle Dario Romero. But Im sure theyre going to do what they had success with last game. I dont see them changing anything up. Theyre going to come out with that, see what they can get and then go from there.
In their first meeting of the season, Reynolds rushed for 79 yards and a touchdown, while his Canadian counterpart, Jon Cornish, added 74 rushing yards for Calgary in a 56-15 victory.
If Reynolds shoulders more of the load to eclipse the club record of 8,292 yards against the Eskimos, it will take a back seat to the rest of the Labour Day Classic.
Im not expecting any more fire from Joffrey because of this franchise record, Im expecting Joffrey to be Joffrey, said Eskimos middle linebacker Maurice Lloyd. He always runs the ball hard. He always does the little things, third-and-short, second-and-short. Hes always sticking his nose in and doesnt try to do anything out of his character.
Im expecting Joffrey to get the ball and run the ball hard no matter if it was a franchise record or just for a regular game. Im expecting 21 to run the ball hard.