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MEDC offers financial support for new hotel
State gives Third Coast Development a loan for Mid Towne Village hotel.
(As seen on WZZM TV 13) Apparently the state has no reservations about a new hotel being built at Mid Towne Village.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. recently awarded Third Coast Development Partners, which consists of Dave Levitt and Brad Rosely, a $3 million loan for a new five-story, 149-room hotel it will build.
The hotel is one of two planned projects that will complete the village.
Third Coast will use the loan to demolish a surface parking lot that will become the hotel's site.
The state considers the loan an incentive intended to assist the development. It will come from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program, which is overseen by the Michigan Strategic Fund.
"The construction of this hotel and mixed-use development will further revitalize the city of Grand Rapids and act as a catalyst for additional positive activity in the area," said MEDC President and CEO Michael A. Finney.
The hotel is expected to total 94,000 square feet over its five levels. Construction also will include a parking ramp. Forty new jobs are projected to be created from the project, which is expected to take two years to complete. Third Coast is investing about $27 million into it.
Levitt told the Business Journal ground will be broken in October; the hotel's operator is Lodgco Hospitality Management of Mt. Pleasant. Lodgco manages multiple brands that include Hampton Inns, Courtyards by Marriott, Holiday Inn Expresses and SpringHill Suites.
The hotel isn't the only project Third Coast has planned for the village. A 30,000-square-foot office building with underground parking will be built for roughly $6 million on another surface lot not far from the hotel site. Work on the office structure should begin in 2015 and take a year to complete.
The city's Brownfield Redevelopment Authority awarded Third Coast a brownfield designation for the hotel and office structure last spring. City Economic Development Director Kara Wood said the project has an eligible and reimbursable brownfield cost of $7.5 million, primarily because of the parking ramp and underground parking that are part of the project. Reimbursements should be made through 2028.
The city will exempt Third Coast from half of its property taxes as its part of the reimbursement, but will still collect $127,500 annually from the project.
Mid Towne Village is situated along the Medical Mile, near the intersection of Michigan Street and College Avenue NE. The Village already has 100,000 square feet of medical office space, 60,000 square feet of professional office space, 40,000 square feet of residential space and a 15,000-square-foot urban park.
It is home to West Michigan Women's Health Center, Park Row Condominiums and the mixed-use building at 545 Michigan St. NE, the location of The Omelette Shoppe and Bakery.
Third Coast is investing about $33 million into this second phase of construction. The first phase was completed in 2008 and cost about $37 million to build.
The Commercial Alliance of Realtors chose Mid Towne Village for its project-of-the-year award in 2004, the year Levitt and Rosely began construction.
The state's revitalization program provides grants, loans, or other economic assistance of up to $10 million to projects that will revitalize urban areas, act as a catalyst for additional investment in a city, reuse vacant or historic building, and promote mixed use and sustainable development.
The MEDC is the state's marketing arm and lead advocate for business growth and jobs.


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Subject: Agricultural Sciences Deposit Date: 2016 Publication Date: 2016 Author Name: P. B. Kavi Kishor Author Name: Hari D. Upadhyaya Author Name: Rajeev K. Varshney Author Name: R. Varma Penmetsa
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Mahendar Thudi; Abhishek Bohra; Spurthi N. Nayak; Nicy Varghese; Trushar M. Shah; R. Varma Penmetsa; Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu; Srivani Gudipati; Pooran M.Gaur; Pawan L. Kulwal; Hari D. Upadhyaya; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Peter Winter; Günter Kahl; Christopher D. Town; Andrzej Kilian; Douglas R. Cook; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Genetic map data of ICC 4958 (C. arietinum) × PI 489777 (C. reticulatum) with 1291 markers", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/A9Y3ZC, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1This dataset contains genetic map data developed based on recombinant inbred line (RIL) population ICC 4958 (C. arietinum) x PI 489777 (C. reticulatum). This map consists of 1,291 markers on eight linkage groups (LGs) spanning a total of 845.56 cM. The number of markers per linka...
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Pavana J Hiremath; Ashish Kumar; R. Varma Penmetsa; Andrew D Farmer; Jessica A. Schlueter; Siva K. Chamarthi; Adam M. Whaley; Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia; Pooran M.Gaur; Hari D. Upadhyaya; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Trushar M. Shah; Douglas R. Cook; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Chickpea genetic map comprising 1328 marker loci", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/YC6QWG, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1A second-generation genetic map comprising 1328 marker loci including novel 625 CKAMs, 314 TOG-SNPs and 389 published marker loci with an average inter-marker distance of 0.59 cM. CMap Visualization Links: 1328 loci map DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00710.x
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Abhishek Bohra; Anuja Dubey; Rachit K Saxena; R. Varma Penmetsa; KN Poornima; Naresh Kumar; Andrew D Farmer; Gudipati Srivani; Hari D. Upadhyaya; Ragini Gothalwal; S Ramesh; Dhiraj Singh; K.B. Saxena; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Nagendra K Singh; Christopher D. Town; Gregory D May; Douglas R. Cook; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "BES-SSR markers map of Pigeonpea from ICP 28 x ICPW 94", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/XWFWPP, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1With the objective of enhancing genomic resources for Pigeonpea, this study reports for the first time, large scale development of SSR markers from BAC-end sequences and their subsequent use for genetic mapping and hybridity testing in Pigeonpea CMap Visualization Links: ICP 28 x...
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Advisory Bike Lanes
An advisory bike lane is similar to a regular bike lane, but is used on low-volume streets that are narrow. An advisory bike lane is marked with a solid white line on the right (next to parked cars) and a dotted line to the left. These markings give bicyclists a space to ride, but are also available to motorists if space is needed to pass oncoming traffic.
Advisory bike lanes are currently located on E 14th St in the Elliot Park Neighborhood. At this location, the dashed yellow center line was removed and advisory bike lanes were added to the street. Narrow travel lanes now require motorists to be more cautious when negotiating passing vehicles.
When you drive:
- To safely meet an oncoming motorist you are allowed to merge into the bike lane. However, you must first yield to bicyclists in the bike lane.
- Even though the travel area for cars is narrow, it is still a 2-way street.
When you bike:
- Be more prepared for a motorist to enter the bike lane than on typical streets.
- Always use caution and assume turning or merging motorists do not see you.
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I have a major problem to display about 20,000 records in vsFlexGrid control
using an ADO recordset. It takes too much time. I use client side cursor
and retrieve data NOT as a disconnected recordset.
Is there any way I can speed up this process?
If I open server side recordset, will it help in speed?


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Fuller Mountain Climber's Log
kevinsa - Jun 29, 2016 2:37 pm Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2016Fuller
Misty, no-view day. Done as a '3fer' with Deep Devil and Grand Ridge. Didn't see any ribbons marking the trail, so I just went up the relatively easy south ridge to the top from the gravel pit. Rode my bike to/from the gravel pit, which was a big time saver.
EastKing - Dec 27, 2014 9:49 am Date Climbed: Dec 15, 2007Nice Hike
Nice mountain to visit before Hancock took over.
Arkitekt - Jul 3, 2011 1:57 am Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2011Nice and easy
Good quick hike. It could certainly be done after work, with it's close proximity to population centers and the fact that it can be done in under 3 hours.
Got a little off track near the summit, the trail branches and I went right instead of left to the ledge. Eventually the right path was found and the views were better than I expected.
Josh Lewis - Jan 13, 2011 4:25 pm Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2009Simple Trip
When getting to the top it was one of those moments where you say "hmmm I believe the top is at the top of one of these trees".
jkuresman - Mar 15, 2010 7:43 pm Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2010Finally
It took me 28 years of hiking this area to finally get around to Fuller Mountain. Fun little hike with a decent view at the overlook.
Mike Lewis - Mar 9, 2010 3:16 am Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2009Climbed with kurt, EK and JL
Cloudy and very high snowlevel allowed for early-fall like conditions. Good view of Si from an outcropping that faces east. Everything looks the same on top. Kinda got lost for a few minutes. Felt like the blair witch project.
ericwillhite - Oct 8, 2009 1:02 pm2004 sometime
If I had millioins, I would purchase this peak, put a hotel on the summit and build a gondola up from a parking area below. Then pave a road to it from North Bend. Mt. Si should have a gondola as well...ok, at least the higher peak behind it if that bothers you.
Redwic - Mar 1, 2009 3:03 am Date Climbed: Feb 28, 2009Underestimated Hike
Given its low elevation, this peak can be easily underestimated. Don't be fooled. The summit trail seemed to traverse endlessly around the mountain slopes. Much of the trail, especially the upper portions, was rough and unstable. It was easy for me to understand why some people lose track of the true trail during the descent. Fortunately, I had no such issue and found my way fine both directions. The summit offered no views, but the rock outcropping a little beyond the summit had great views to the east. Overall, it was a good hike.
Curtissimo - Jan 12, 2009 11:47 am Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2009with EastKing and J Lewis + his bro
significant blowdown blocks the trail before obtaining the summit ridge on the final switchbacks.
it's easy to lose your direction from the summit down to that spot so it wouldn't hurt to mark your ascent with wands from point where ridge is attained to the summit (only appr. 1/4 mile or perhaps less).
Buffalo - Apr 9, 2006 7:40 pm Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2006Also climbed with Kyle
This is a great and easy hike that has great views. It is very secluded and really takes you away from the stess normal life. There is some fun/easy bouldering that can be done in the clearing. All in all a great hike.
Kyle Bissell - Mar 21, 2006 5:45 am Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2006nice, secluded summit
Easy day hike to fuller mountain summit. A bit tricky to find the viewpoint after summiting, but managed after about a half hour. Great views for such a short hike. Didn't see one other person on the trail!
Topoftheworld - Mar 21, 2006 5:18 am Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2006Climbed with Kyle!
Well I summitted with the man who created this well organized page. It was a fun, easy and quick day-hike with great views of Bessemer, Hancock's comb, Si, (you know the weary recapitulation). Recommended for easy hikes involving utter SOLITUDE.


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White Lace & a Pageant Dress
Me no likey her dress for the gala premiere of In The Valley of Elah at the Venice Film Festival, though I suppose if someone HAD to wear it, if the dress HAD to be worn, only Charlize could have pulled off a pageant frock without looking like a complete mess. In fact, far from.
However, I much prefer her white short lacy number (must have it!) at the photocall earlier in the day if only for this view of her legs, even more elongated by the nude heels.
Best legs in the business: Charlize or Cammy D?
PS. Early reviews are positive for In The Valley of Elah, written and directed by Paul Haggis who will likely score yet another Oscar nomination for his efforts which would make it the third year in a row. Elah received a 10 minute standing ovation following its screening and is quickly building momentum rolling into TIFF as a Best Picture frontrunner early in the season. Can"t wait to see Charlize in person. Elah shows next Monday in Toronto. Will let you know.


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Today our anthology The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists is officially on sale, although we've gotten reports of sightings in the wild starting the end of last week. All this week I'll be posting original content here at Ecstatic Days, including material from contributors S.J. Chambers, Rachel Swirsky, and Caitlin R. Kiernan–as well as the story of how we found and acquired a piece by famous Czech animator Jan Svankmajer.
How You Can Help!
If you like the anthology—an LA Times recommended summer reading selection—and want to support unique ideas like hybrid fiction-art books, here are some of the things you can do to help:
—Buy the book. It's currently selling on Amazon and elsewhere for a ridiculously low price for a fully-illustrated oversized hardcover. Buy it for friends. Buy it for family.
—Review the book. Blog, review site, or on a sandwich board in front of your local bookstore. Any mention, especially noting whatever you really liked about the book, helps immensely. And a limited number of additional review copies are available for review sites; email me at vanderworld at hotmail.com if interested.
—Review it on Amazon. Go to the Amazon sales page for the book and tell other readers what you liked about it. A quick and easy way to help get the word out and create interest.
—Make sure local booksellers carry it. The anthology seems to have a strong presence in bookstores, but you can always encourage booksellers who aren't stocking it. You can even tell them its by some of the same people who brought them The Steampunk Bible, which has done very well.
—Request it from your local library. Making sure your local library knows about the anthology not only increases library orders but allows multiple people to enjoy the book.
—Spread the word through twitter and facebook. Tell people about the anthology through social media, using one of the links below. Lots of excerpts have been posted in various places—choose your favorite.
—Come to the author events (more to be scheduled). We'll be having lots of fun, including telling tales out of school, so to speak. Current schedule here. (We should have at least one prominent West Coast event to announce soon.)
NOTE: Bloggers (non-contributors) who post the link to their mention of the antho in the comments thread will be in the drawing for a free copy of the book, signed by the editors, as well as a copy of the coffee table book The Steampunk Bible, along with a few surprises…
More Info on the Anthology
I think by now, if you've followed this blog, you know the idea behind this unique anthology, but in case you missed it…
After the death of the famous Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead at his house in Wimpering-on-the-Brook, England, a remarkable discovery was unearthed: the remains of an astonishing cabinet of curiosities. In keeping with the bold spirit exemplified by Dr. Lambs¬head and his exploits, HarperCollins now proudly presents fully illustrated highlights from the doctor's cabinet, including exciting stories of adventure and reproduced museum exhibits. The Cabinet anthology is a secret history of the 20th century, an art book with over 70 images, and a treasury of modern fantasy containing work by over 85 creators, including some of the genre's most exciting names. Suitable for both YA and adult library collections.
Contributors include Holly Black, Greg Broadmore, Ted Chiang, John Coulthart, Rikki Ducornet, Amal El-Mohtar, Minister Faust, Jeffrey Ford, Lev Grossman, N.K. Jemisin, Caitlin R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Mike Mignola, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, James A. Owen, Helen Oyeyemi, J.K. Potter, Cherie Priest, Ekaterina Sedia, Jan Svankmajer, Rachel Swirsky, Carrie Vaughn, Jake von Slatt, Tad Williams, Charles Yu, and many more. Eighty-five in total!!
Links to Unique Content!
Here are links to some of the coverage so far, with more planned on at the Huffington Post, SF Signal, Suvudu, Fangoria, and many, many others.
Kirkus Reviews–Exclusive Mike Mignola image and Lev Grossman excerpt
Amazon's Book Blog–Exclusive Mike Mignola image and Cherie Priest excerpt
Barnes & Noble Book Club–Rave review by Paul Goat Allen
i09—A table of contents feature with exclusive Greg Broadmore image
Weird Tales—My lovely co-editor talks about the more macabre side of the cabinet anthology, with excerpt from stories by Kiernan and Michael Cisco and Aeron Alfrey art.
Weirdletter—A view from Italy
Ecstatic Days—Right here on my blog I've posted an exclusive excerpt with commentary from Reza Negarestani (with China Mieville art)and a disgrunted artifacts image created by Rikki Ducornet.
Contributor Posts—Posts by contributors have included interesting glimpses into the cabinet by artist Aeron Alfrey, artist John Coulthart (with many images), writer Amal El-Mohtar, and writer Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
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It seems very intuitive: if something is right, do it; if someone needs help, help him. Not so. What seems right to some people is very unreasonable to others; the Americans wanted to democratize Iraq, but the Iraqi Shia only wanted to kill all the Sunni. American blacks and Israeli Arabs obviously needed help to become equal members of developed societies, but welfare and affirmative action produced a class of hostile spongers. Diffidence underlies liberalism. We should not impose good on others, and it is very doubtful whether we should do good even when asked. That, of course, relates to complex societal issues rather than helping an old lady to cross the street.
Judaism wisely prescribes non-doing, Do not do unto your neighbor what is hateful to yourself. The policy of not harming others cannot go wrong. Judaism also qualifies the rule, applies it only to neighbors. People cannot avoid harming others: for example, trade unions keep their members' salaries high by passing costs onto consumers.
Israelis need not care about the national aspirations of the Palestinians. Arab rights are a mere curiosity, just like the rights of conflicting groups in the Ivory Coast war. Rights, whether Jewish or Arab, are irrelevant. Germany had a good claim to Alsace-Lorraine and to German-settled parts of Poland and Czechoslovakia.
The Jews should not unreasonably or unnecessarily harm the Arabs, and the transfer passes that test. A fifty-mile relocation to Jordan, where the Palestinians form the majority, is no great hassle. Israeli Arabs will lose the welfare provisions, but Jews should not be helping them in the first place.
Is that racism on the part of the Jews? Not in the normal sense of the word, which implies hateful action. Jews merely recognize that people are different. To ask which is better, apples or oranges, is silly: they are different. That does not preclude people from preferring either apples or oranges. Distinctions do not call for discrimination, but tastes can legitimately differ. Some dislike apples, others dislike Arabs. Honestly, all people prefer to live with culturally similar neighbors, rather than with odd and hostile aliens who are unpredictable, and thus cannot be trusted.
Israeli leftists proclaim that Arabs are equal citizens of the Jewish state, but protest the return of the 1948 refugees. Except for a handful of masochists who really want the Jewish state to go down into the melting pot of Jewish-Arab democracy, leftists are no less 'racist' than the right. Leftists only put their ideology of ethnic-blind-democracy-and-international-solidarity above their feelings and common sense. The right wing is somewhat less hypocritical.


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text: Today is Endangered Species Day (ESD), a day established to raise awareness of the issues – both human and ecological – that face endangered species and their habitats. Here at the National Aquarium, our mission is to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. We hope that by connecting with guests and our online community, others will be inspired to join us in protecting our disappearing wildlife. Threats such as habitat loss, climate change and species exploitation have seriously degraded once richly bio-diverse ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef and Amazon Rain Forest. In the United States, more than 1,300 species of plants and animals are listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as either threatened or endangered – and an estimated 500 species have gone extinct since the 1600s. Here in the National Aquarium, we represent 16 species that are threatened or endangered, including the following two species, which can be found in our Upland Tropical Rain Forest exhibit: Panamanian Golden Frog Critically endangered Considered by locals to be a symbol of good fortune and luck, this species has seemingly run out of both. Once abundantly found in the tropical forests of Panama, the golden frog is now considered extinct in the wild. An infectious disease affecting amphibians, chytridiomycosis, has virtually wiped out the frogs in Panama (and an estimated one-third of amphibian species worldwide). Additionally, deforestation and collection for the pet trade have also contributed to the decline of Panamanian golden frogs. Zoos and Aquariums throughout North America have been participating in breeding programs to try and reintroduce these animals into their native habitat. Golden Lion Tamarin Endangered Native to the coastal rain forests of Brazil, there were fewer than 200 golden lion tamarins reported in the wild in 1970. Habitat loss and fragmentation, capture for the pet trade and hunting have caused a serious decline of populations of these animals. Although many of these threats have been reduced, the number of golden lion tamarins is still low with limited possibilities for growth due to their restricted range. Currently, only about 1,500 golden lion tamarins can be found in the wild. Approximately 30 percent of those animals were either relocated from depleted areas or released as part of a reintroduction program. The tamarins at the Aquarium are part of a group managed by the Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program, headquartered at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. This group oversees the management of both the wild population of golden lion tamarins in Brazil and the captive population worldwide. Here are a few things YOU can do to help protect endangered species: Learn more about the endangered species of plants and animals found in your area. Transform your backyard into a certified habitat for native wildlife! Volunteer at a local conservation and/or habitat restoration project. Click here to check out the National Aquarium's conservation events! Do not purchase items made from endangered species. Want to learn more about endangered species? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @NatlAquarium and using #ESDay! Tags: chytridiomyscosis, Conservation, endangered-species, endangered-species-act, endangered-species-day, golden-frog, golden-lion-tamarin, national-aquarium-2, panamanian-golden-frog, us-fish-and-wildlife Categories: News Previous Post Next Post


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Angiogenesis linked to poor survival in patients with rare type of ovarian cancer
Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found that increased angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression are associated with poor survival in women with sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors. This data was presented in a poster session today at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists' 40th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer. Sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors are rare, accounting for five to seven percent of all ovarian cancer diagnosed, and there is little data available on how they advance, or metastasize, in patients. These findings provide doctors greater understanding into how they may be able to successfully treat patients with this type of tumor by inhibiting angiogenesis according to the study's authors.
"These tumors tend to metastasize very differently from other, more common types of ovarian tumors," said Jubilee Brown, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and lead author on the study. "For instance, sex cord-stromal tumor cells rarely break away and invade the lymph nodes, but we still see evidence of their spread to distant locations in the body such as the abdomen and liver. This unusual progression hinted that a different pattern of metastasis in which tumor cells break off and invade the blood system, may be at play."
The American Cancer Society estimates approximately 21,650 new cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 2008. There are more than 30 different types of ovarian cancer, categorized by the type of cell where the malignancy begins. Sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors, which develop in the connective tissue that holds the ovary together, are typically diagnosed at an earlier stage.
Researchers looked at 54 sex cord-stromal ovarian tumor samples, 28 from women with primary occurrences and 26 from women with recurrences. The samples were evaluated for two common indicators of angiogenesis: expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) protein and high microvessel density (MVD), or a large number of blood vessels associated with the tumor. Of those tumors studied, VEGF overexpression was noted in 52 percent and a high MVD was present in 32 percent. Both high MVD and VEGF were linked to significantly poorer survival (130 months versus 415 months in those with high MVD and 154 months versus 394 months in those with VEGF overexpression). Researchers noted that high MVD was also associated with recurrence and metastasis to other locations such as the abdomen, liver, lung and bone.
"Unlike most ovarian tumors which metastasize to nearby tissues or invade the lymphatic system, we suspect that the biological qualities of sex cord-stromal tumors, especially their ability to spread to and survive in distant sites of the body, explain why this type of ovarian cancer behaves so differently in patients," said Anil Sood, M.D., professor in the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at M. D. Anderson and senior author on the study. "By honing in on how sex cord-stromal tumors utilize the blood vessels to become deadly, we can begin to test targeted anti-angiogenic therapies as possible means to control their growth."
Anti-angiogenic agents have been used in other cancers including colorectal, breast, lung and kidney cancers to slow tumor growth. Brown is currently the principal investigator on a Gynecologic Oncology Group Phase II clinical trial at M. D. Anderson to test the efficacy of bevacizumab (Avastin), a drug that blocks angiogenesis through antibodies against VEGF, in patients with sex cord-stromal tumors.
Source: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Articles on the same topic
- Fertility drugs do not increase risk of ovarian cancerFri, 6 Feb 2009, 0:23:42 UTC
- Gene expression signature associated with survival in advanced ovarian cancerTue, 3 Feb 2009, 9:36:51 UTC
Other sources
- Fertility Drugs Do Not Increase Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Study Showsfrom Science DailyMon, 9 Feb 2009, 14:15:03 UTC
- Fertility drugs do not increase risk of ovarian cancerfrom PhysorgFri, 6 Feb 2009, 18:07:34 UTC
- Fertility Drugs and Ovarian Cancer Not Linked, Study Saysfrom NY Times HealthFri, 6 Feb 2009, 6:29:09 UTC
- Angiogenesis linked to poor survival in patients with rare type of ovarian cancerfrom PhysorgThu, 5 Feb 2009, 17:42:34 UTC
- Gene Expression Signature Associated With Survival In Advanced Ovarian Cancerfrom Science DailyWed, 4 Feb 2009, 5:15:33 UTC
- Gene Expression Signature Associated With Survival In Advanced Ovarian Cancerfrom Science DailyTue, 3 Feb 2009, 16:07:48 UTC
- Gene expression signature associated with survival in advanced ovarian cancerfrom PhysorgTue, 3 Feb 2009, 9:35:23 UTC


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rk47 wrote:No idea on triggering events, but for the most useful Skills out there:
1. Warlord
Direct control allows your army to be more flexible with placements and you no longer have to micromanage 3-4 units and instead dump all your AP on a single most effective unit. Don't over-do it, but an army with 2 Warlord will wreck most enemies with ease.
2. Entice
It's always annoying to have to fight past 50,000 troops, break down a gate, or climb over two walls just to take over the city. Wouldn't it be faster to just lure the leader out, surround him, and capture him to end the fight? This is only applicable vs Low INT officers btw, which is why I always spare the stupid ones (INT<60) and execute the smarter ones if they refuse to work for me (INT>60). I took out all of Yuan Shao's sons with this strat. They never survived the ambushes. And of course, I let them go upon capture.
3. Spy
Sometimes you want the info to be exposed for a long term, and this helps you just that. It's not that crucial, but helpful to keep tabs on your enemies. Spy lets you plant spies to keep the information displayed for a longer time than usual.
4. Blunder
Another great skill but require the strategist to be close enough in harms way unlike Entice.
5. Missile
A chance to ignite a flame on hit from range on top of the ranged damage? I definitely like this when the wind conditions favor it. A fire is like another unit on your side, blocking movements and dealing damage. Take note that even Horsebow Units can launch Missiles.
6. Hire
Very useful to maintain high experience on veteran units, hastening their upgrade.
7. Rally
Rallying seems wasteful when used on just one unit, but when set up right, rallying five units at once can be immensely rewarding. You have thirty days to finish the fight. Why not spend the first few days rallying 5 units while the rest of the veterans get into position? Also, it is a very good way to increase strategic experience to unlock the immensely useful Warlord skill.
Another powerful item effect to note is 'Red Hare'
The 'Retreat Certain' effect made sure any escape is guaranteed in battles, this is extremely powerful for harassment raids. You need to remember that any development order requires a month to complete, if an attack occurs, it will cancel all orders for that city. So what do I do? I bring in Lu Bu with just 10,000 Horsebows, attack and employ ambush tactic to remain out of sight. If I see targets of opportunity, I walk out and destroy, and reserve enough AP to return to Ambush position.
Do this for 30 days and the defenders would've claimed a very hollow victory. Your budget is 20,000 food and 10,000 men.
They lost a month worth of supplies consumed by their entire garrison, and their entire work for the month is canceled. I did this 5 times in a row, and eventually the defense just crumbled with the City Order at 33 due to the constant battles.
I also like the ambush skill as well because almost any player can do it but it requires a forest to hide. What amazing about this skills is that you lose no units and can sometimes cause confusion towards your opponent. It's great for gorilla tactics because you can use this tactic multiple times in one turn if you have high enough AP but you require two forest next to each other.
Basically the sequence is Ambush in Forest ->attack->Sneak back into adjacent forest->Ambush in Forest->attack


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Rep. Nancy Pelosi back in driver's seat
Washington -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears to command more votes in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations than the speaker of the House, Republican John Boehner of Ohio.
That's because the San Francisco Democrat leads a unified caucus whose votes will be needed to pass any deal to avert more than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts come Jan. 1.
Boehner's Republicans, by contrast, are rebellious and fractured, having abandoned their leader.
"She's got to be sitting back and smiling at all of this right now," said Jim Manley, formerly a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "She's got some pretty good cards to play."
Pelosi and other top congressional leaders met with President Obama on Friday. Reid and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell promised to try to come up with a deal by Sunday.
If they fail, Obama said he would ask Reid to put to an up-or-down vote a bill to extend income tax cuts on all households but those earning more than $250,000 a year and extend unemployment benefits. The move was an obvious challenge to Republicans in both chambers.
That Pelosi should control the majority from the minority is a huge embarrassment to Republicans and a powerful lever for Obama.
"She has her caucus more in lockstep with the White House than Boehner does with himself," said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell. "In the House, there's no way around it. Unless fiscal conservatives say, 'All right, I see the greater strategy here,' there is no way to do this without votes from Pelosi's caucus."
More popular than Boehner
Having lost the speaker's gavel in 2010 after a GOP pummeling that drove her approval rating into the basement, Pelosi now finds herself more popular than Boehner, whose 31 percent approval rating in a recent Rasmussen survey now ranks him as the least-liked congressional leader.
Democratic aides attribute this bizarre turn of events to a series of political miscalculations by Boehner that contrast with Pelosi's ability to hold Democrats together during contentious votes under her leadership, including passing health care reform, the 2008 bank rescue and funding for the Iraq war.
In the fiscal negotiations, Obama and Republicans are about $300 billion apart, which is not much on the scale of a budget that runs to the tens of trillions of dollars over the next decade. During the previous three administrations, Democratic and Republican, such differences were frequently bridged.
This time, Boehner found himself boxed into a corner by rebellious conservatives who abandoned him when he offered a "Plan B" on Dec. 20 to raise taxes on millionaires, a proposal Pelosi first proposed last year.
"The whole Plan B idea was to try to go back to the million-dollar threshold, and they thought that enough Democrats would come over," said a House Democratic leadership aide.
"They thought that by going to that level that they would get Democratic votes. They even said it was like the Pelosi plan. But they made a tremendous miscalculation," said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Democrats would not support it. We were completely united and ultimately they realized that not only did they not have any Democratic votes, they didn't have enough Republican votes."
Boehner faces even more difficult odds when the new Congress starts and the GOP advantage in the House shrinks to 17 votes from 25.
Obama campaigned on raising taxes on households earning more than $250,000 a year. Pelosi threw out the million-dollar threshold earlier this year as a political ploy to demonstrate that Republicans would not vote to raise taxes even on the very wealthy. Had the House adopted Plan B, it would have given Boehner some leverage in the negotiations.
Conservatives didn't get it
"A lot of fiscal conservatives feel that they don't want to compromise principle, and for them, raising tax rates violates their principle," O'Connell said. "Personally, I think that game theory may be a lost art among fiscal conservatives. They don't recognize that Boehner was trying to move the ball down the field by lobbing Plan B to the Senate so he could minimize what Obama's political victory would be."
Democrats argued that many Republicans, including McConnell of Kentucky, who faces re-election in 2014, are so fearful of Tea Party primary challenges that they dare not compromise on taxes, making a deal with Obama impossible.
Obama, having won re-election, is taking a much harder line than in previous budget talks, in which he agreed to spending cuts in 2011 and a two-year renewal of the Bush-era tax cuts in 2010, negotiations that teed up the current impasse.
There are signs of closer coordination between the White House and Pelosi than in earlier negotiations, increasing her ability to keep Democrats in line.
In initial negotiations toward a "grand bargain," Pelosi drew a hard line on Medicare, vowing that House Democrats would refuse to agree to raise the retirement age for receiving benefits.
After that, she angered liberal interest groups when she seemed to accede to an adjustment in an inflation index that would reduce the growth rate of benefits in Social Security. As talks began to break down in recent weeks, she became less publicly visible, avoiding controversies that could potentially split Democrats.
"She's kept her powder dry and kept her troops in line and recognized that there is no need to get into a circular firing squad," Manley said.
Pelosi ruminated to reporters earlier this month on the challenges of leadership, comparing Boehner's refusal to allow a vote on the fiscal cliff to her decision to allow votes on funding the Iraq war, which she and many Democrats strongly opposed.
'You have to do it'
"Do you know what it was like for me to bring a bill to the floor to fund the war in Iraq, a war predicated on a misrepresentation to the American people?" Pelosi told reporters.
Former President George W. Bush refused to agree to timelines to end the war, and Pelosi's alternative was to cut off funding for troops.
"So it's tough," Pelosi said. "But you have to do it. So is the point that you don't want to put your members on the spot? Figure it out. We did."
Carolyn Lochhead is The San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. E-mail: email@example.com


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we are just about to undertake a project involving big data and HPC (high performance computing). We will probably need a platform to handle the computational requirements and storage so I was looking at Hadoop and its various offshoots.
In any case on eof the considerations I am looking at is whether to use GPUs for doing the calculations. They are mega fast compared to CPUs but have limited instruction sets it seems. There are some technologies such as CUDA from Nvidia which seem to make this easier (ie use C etc.) but I came across this:
It would probably be easier to program with considering its x86 but looks expensive.
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The ensemble was founded in 1992 at the initiative of three friends, graduates of the Krakow Music Academy. Taking the traditional music repertoire as the basis for constructing original arrangements and improvisation, and using their previous experience in classical music and jazz, Kroke creates new and unique compositions, and a sound therefore unknown to Jewish music. The music played by Kroke should be understood and felt as the quintessence of ancient Jewish culture, and at the same time as living proof for its unbroken existence. It is also a form of speaking to humanity, an invitation to commonly contemplating the question of what it means "to be a human being".To date they have released four albums, out of which the third in line - "Live at the Pit" - got nominated to the German Musical Critics Award.
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