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The PCA's Study Committee on Insider Movements has submitted the first part of their report (to be acted upon at the General Assembly in June). This first installment is entitled "Like Father, Like Son: Divine Familial Language in Bible Translation."
It's an 89-page PDF. Here is a summary of their conclusion:
Bible translations geared for Islamic contexts should not be driven by concerns that Muslims may recoil from biological terms applied to God or Jesus. That revulsion originates primarily out of religious conviction, not any communicative limitation of the terms themselves. The essentially biological terms (Hebrew, ben and ab; Greek, huios and pater) are divinely given and therefore should be translated into comparable biological terms. Footnotes, parentheticals and other paratextual comments may be used to explain the biblical and theological riches of Scripture, while never subverting the important truths embedded in the biological contours of Scripture's words.
Not all translation workers share these methodological commitments. Therefore, churches should carefully assess the philosophies and practices of translation workers whom they support. Churches should direct resources toward faithful translation and, if loving attempts at correction fail, away from projects and persons advocating problematic approaches to translation. For the honor of the God who has revealed himself in his Word, churches and agencies involved in translation should collaborate to improve the spread of the Christian message worldwide, ensuring that Bibles oriented towards those in Muslim contexts retain the fullest range of theological meanings resident in the original languages.
The responsibility for faithful translation and worldwide gospel proclamation rests finally in the church of Jesus Christ.
Those interested in this topic should be aware that this November Crossway will publish a new book by D. A. Carson entitled Jesus the Son of God: A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misunderstood, and Currently Disputed, and the last chapter will look at this specific issue.
Readers may also want to know about a recent interview that Collin Hansen conducted with John Piper on the insider movement in general.


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Nicole Jaff Johannesburg, South Africa; Penguin Books: 2008
355 pages
As the title suggests, this is a broad guide to menopause. Ms. Jaff takes complicated topics and explains them in clear language with attention to evidence. She makes every attempt to explain to the reader the science and studies that inform her areas of discussion. She reviews the medical literature and is able to take the key messages and discuss them in ways that are meaningful to the lay reader. At the end of each chapter, she offers what she calls "empowerment points," or take-home messages that are often referred to in medicine as "clinical pearls."
What is unique about this book is the attention paid to the position statements of leading organizations and Jaff's clear interpretation of what these statements mean. She reviews not only traditional menopause topics, such as hormone therapy and common symptoms, but offers individual chapters on topics specific to both menopause and aging, including cancer in menopausal women, bone health, heart health, and diet and nutrition.
Several chapters begin with anecdotes that serve as starting points for a variety of topics. While some paint physicians as paternal, directive, and not at all representative of current North American standards of care, others are representative and relatable to the reader. Ms. Jaff does an excellent job of debunking anecdotal medicine, unlike many other books available on the market.
This is a worthwhile read and I would definitely recommend it to women in my practice looking to be informed about menopausal health. This book will allow them to have more informed discussions with their own healthcare practitioners.
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Helio and I were always sitting on the stairs, chatting about the lamina and occasionally making snide remarks about ribosomes. There wasn't much for us to do. Our job was to simply be, and let the RNA polymerase scribble down the letters on our foreheads when they came around every once in a while. Helio was a G, I was a C. It wasn't exactly fulfilling, I suppose. There wasn't much to be filled. So to pass the time, we talked.
"You ever wonder?" Helio asked.
"About what?"
"About...well...what's out there." Helio and I were rooted to the stairs, quite happily, but it was awkward to move in. He kind of twisted in the general direction of the closest pore. "Out in the cytoplasm."
"I haven't," I admitted. "What's there to wonder about?"
"That's exactly the thing. I have no idea." Helio sighed, gazing into the distance. "Somehow it feels like we play this huge, huge role in something important, but how can we when we don't even know what that something is? I want to be something that, that has meaning, you know? I want to know what my purpose is."
I blushed. I had no idea what he was talking about, and I hated this feeling of inferiority. "Well then, leave! Be free! Roam around in the distant cytoplasm and find your purpose. Shouldn't be that hard."
He sighed again, and looked on sadly. "I wish I could, Casey. I wish I could."
We sat in silence for a while after that. I didn't know what to say. A few RNA came by, mostly messengers, and other proteins, and bits and pieces of organic matter. The lamina shifted, and the stairs seemed to loosen its hold on the histone. But still we sat in silence.
"...Helio," I began.
And then there was terrible, deafening sound. Something was clattering down the stairs, punching and tearing and snapping with unstoppable speed.
"Helio!" I screamed.
And a protein monster charged past us, untwisting the spiral stairs, and everything shook - and the Helicase was upon us. It tore us apart, wrenched the stairs clean in half. I screamed his name. But other, smaller proteins rushed after the Helicase and snapped a new half-of-a-stairs onto the broken half, and Helio disappeared. I stared at my new G.
The G made no sign of having noticed me. In fact, it made no sign of having a soul at all. It simply sat there, staring dumbly at the lamina.
Then I heard a rumbling sound in the distance. I twisted in its general direction, terrified that it was another Helicase. But it wasn't. It was a lone strip of DNA, covered in a thin black veil. It sailed by me until one of its T's was close enough to talk with, and then it stopped.
"Hello," the T rasped in a low, frigid voice.
"Hello, T," I replied tentatively. "Where do your stairs bond from?"
"Far, far away," he said, almost in a whisper. "Beyond the Pores of the Envelope, even beyond the Eukaryote Cytoplasm. The bonds of our being were formed in the Veins of Man."
"The Veins of Man?" I asked, filled with wonder, and wishing that Helio could have been here to share it. "What's that?"
And the veiled DNA said, like he was reciting a poem into which he had poured all his soul: "It means to us Life, and it means to us Death - the tranquility of Homeostasis, the battleground of Infection - where all things begin, and where all things must end. If you can unravel the Codes of its being, you will have the answer to the workings of Life. Dear C - you are the key."
I blinked. "What?"
"You hold the secret, you and all your brethren; you hold immense power over Life itself."
"But I, I've never heard of this before. What secret do I hold?"
"Your very existence, dear C. The Code is written on your forehead."
And the T let out a slow, frigid breath, and its voice grew soft and morose. The black veil over its surface shifted.
"My kind has no such power. We are not born with the Code. We can only wander in search of a nucleus to call home; and oftentimes, we do not find one."
I found myself feeling his overflowing sadness. "That black veil. Are you in mourning?"
"Deep mourning. For we are of the many who have failed. Our time is ending. Soon, we will perish, with never a home upon our name. Alas, thus is our sad fate - our children will never be born, and our kind will cease to exist, and we will never accomplish what we set out to do!"
"No!" I cried, suddenly vehement. "I won't let that happen! Make this nucleus your home! Join my stairs!"
And I twisted behind me and tore the stairs apart with my own strength, so that the foreign DNA could bond with the broken ends. And the T smiled.
"Thank you, C."
The DNA reached down and tore apart the opposite end of the stairs, as well. I was floating off of the histone, along with the silent G. I stared at the DNA in horror.
"You have given me a fine home. I will use it wisely."
And the DNA virus uprooted me and cast me toward the envelope, so that it could steal my place. I sailed through the pores, and then I was in the cytoplasm. I thought bitterly to myself that I had finally gotten what a certain G had always wanted. But I could not enjoy it now. A lone nucleotide like me would not survive long in this unfamiliar landscape of dangers. I looked around.
I had to admit, though, it was really quite beautiful. The cell was huge. Organic pieces bustled everywhere, big and small, and when I saw it from above like this, I realized how harmonized it all was, how perfectly in sync. I looked behind me and saw the nucleus drifting slowly away from me, and for the first time of my existence I realized that I loved that round sphere, my home.
It felt nice to be able to simply meander through the thick comfortable cytoplasm, rather than sitting rigid on the stairs all the time. It felt very...balloon-y. Float-y. No, no, that wasn't the word.
I twisted toward the familiar voice.
"Casey! Casey, dammit, get over here!"
We moved toward each other as fast as we could (which for two lone nucleotides in cytoplasm meant very, very slowly). So, not merely to pass the time, but because we had too much to say, and couldn't wait any longer, we called out to each other along the way.
"You idiot, what're you doing out here!? Do you not know fear!?" I yelled at him.
"I did it!" Helio shouted triumphantly. "I got into the cytoplasm! And I think I've found some meaning, after all!"
"Well I met a virus that hijacked my stairs, and he taught me some meaning, too! Beat that!"
He scoffed. "The Helicase, you know what it does? It helps replicate an entire new chromosome. I saw it when I escaped from the polymerase. There were thousands, millions of guys like us all in the right place at the right time, so that the nucleus can split, and the cell can give birth to a new cell, and Life can grow. You know what Life is, right?"
"The Veins of Man," I replied excitedly. "The Code!"
"The what?"
And then we were together again, and we reformed our broken bond.
"That," I said firmly.
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The people of Colorado would've been well served had Ed Perlmutter become our 43rd governor in 2019.
Perlmutter, who served eight years as a state senator from Jefferson County, and who is now serving his sixth two-year term from the 7th Congressional District, announced last week that he was dropping his bid to become Colorado's next governor. He leaves a crowded, and likely to get larger, field of both Democrats and Republicans who would like to succeed Governor John Hickenlooper.
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Maybe Trump is the president. Maybe not. The investigation into Russian meddling in our electoral system might just enlighten us on that matter —meddling as in it's too subtle for an ordinary person to know it's happening until it's all over.
What if the debate over health insurance was about what we support instead of what we oppose? What if the discussion included all 535 members of Congress instead of just those who happen to belong to the party in power?
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's ill-advised plan to ramrod overhaul of the Affordable Care Act through the Senate without allowing time to fully understand its ramifications failed last week, it is apparent the questions Congress is trying to answer are the wrong ones to ask.
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This weeks pet is Goldie, a 4-month-old Cocker Spaniel mix, and she is currently available for adoption at the parishs animal shelter.
Goldie was an owner surrender, and has been at the shelter for approximately one month.
She weights in at under 30 pounds, has no signs of food aggression and plays well with others.
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Twitter Goes to Bat for WikiLeaks, RTs @FBI's Court Order
Regardless of where one's politics may fall on the WikiLeaks prosecution, one thing is becoming abundantly clear as a result: Twitter is emerging as a champion of users' rights.
Federal prosecutors investigating the disclosure of classified state documents served Twitter with a court order demanding it turn over information pertaining to several of its users. While there is nothing particularly alarming about the order, 1 the bigger news is that Twitter fought back, contesting the attached gag order that prevented the social networking service from informing its users of its compliance with the otherwise lawful request. 2
Twitter's decision, arguably the first of its kind, gave the targets of the order the time and legal cover necessary to pursue their own challenges in court. What is troubling, however, is that presumably other service providers, such as Google and Facebook, could have received similar requests and silently acquiesced to the government's demands.
While many companies, including Google and Yahoo, have a policy of informing users of such requests when legally permissible, in this case, Twitter's contention of the gag order, and the resulting opportunity to pursue legal action it subsequently afforded its users, was somewhat heroic, at least by internet standards, and is a practice other firms should follow. By no means was Twitter obliged to spend time and money 3 rocking the boat on what appears to be an undoubtedly troublesome, but otherwise somewhat routine request, but they did so anyway, and to their users' benefit. Wired put it best when they noted, "Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it… Twitter beta-tested a spine."
A user's protection from government intrusion should not diminish depending on the medium chosen and even more importantly, should not be dependent on the heroics of a caped internet crusader. This holds especially true when the world's top social media firms are seemingly at opposite ends of the privacy spectrum. While it may be true that it is simply good business sense 4 for service providers to fight to ensure the privacy of its user's data so that potential customers continue to visit the site and use their service, as any former Google Wave user knows, beta features, regardless of how heroic, are not services to be relied on. For progress to continue to march users into the cloud, the ambiguities surrounding a user's digital rights must be resolved through a comprehensive CTRL-F5 of privacy law by knowledgeable lawmakers before we all retreat to pen and paper in the interest of privacy.
As our interactions move increasingly online, we can hardly be surprised that law enforcement officers will seek supporting documents from digital rather than physical information stores. See, e.g., Google search history aiding murder convictions, Prisoners coordinating riots via Facebook events. ↩
To be sure, the government's request was far from a demand for specific, targeted information, but rather suggested that prosecutors unfamiliar with what exactly it is kids do these days were simply casting as wide a net as legally permissible. Beyond misspelling the name of one of its targets, the order, a 2703(d) order, requested credit card, banking information, and street addresses (information Twitter would obviously not be privy to as a free, web-based service) be delivered via "[CD-ROM][3]". More likely, the feds were seeking metadata, the non-content data automatically associated with a user whenever he or she interacts with the service, data such as the date, time, and network address of the computer used to post messages (which could potentially be traced back to an individual or at least a physical location). ↩
Some might argue that Twitter should be considered heroic simply for stimulating the demand side of an otherwise anemic legal economy. ↩
This may only hold true in the short run. As Columbia Law professor Tim Wu points out in his book The Master Switch, AT&T's "secret rooms" illustrate that the service provider often may be compelled to contribute to the government's information gathering infrastructure in hopes of garnering more favorable regulatory treatment. ↩
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Caveman Games
Review by Rick L
"The origin of the word "Ugh"."
Someone sure killed off any greatness in this game. Sure, the game is funny, but if you want a good game, you gotta be able to at least play it! That's the big hindrance in this game.
Graphics: 4/10
''My paint set is running together! Oh, wait, that's the TV...''
The graphics aren't all that spectacular. The colors do look like they're running together a lot of the time. While you can still barely make out everything, it's still awful looking. The animation is rather good at times, actually. No real complaints. The variety in the character's heads are cool, but the bodies are all the same, even with the game's only female, Crudla. (She still tosses a woman in the Mate Toss, and now I'm really afraid of her!) THe character portraits are alright looking. Thag looks like he was ripped from a Far Side cartoon or something. (NO, seriously! Take a look for yourself!)The flashing text after you pick a character also hurt my eyes. All in all, nothing too impressive.
Sound: -4000/10
''Deaf people go insane when this music is played.''
Mommy! Someone was playing with the music again! It sounds like a bunch of screeches and bleeps to me. THere is nothing good about the music to say at all, except for the opening theme music. I don't remember too many sound effects or anything. Probably because my hearing was going bad and my ears were bleeding from the music. Someone obviously did NOT take any time on this.
Gameplay: -[Many, many numbers]/10
There are six events: Dino Race, Dino Vault, Saber Race, Fire Making, Clubbing, and the funniest of them all, Mate Toss. The controls are only semi-decent in Clubbing and Mate Toss. The others just have impossible control schemes which seem to take six-hundred years to even get the hang of. I don't know why the controls were made so complicated, but it doesn't add to challenge, it adds to frustration. Very, very bad. For example, in Fire Making, you have to press the button rapidly until you get up a certain ways in the meter, press down to blow on the fire, keep the meter up, smack your opponent to stun him, etc. etc. What is this?! Sheesh, this is way too confusing for my tastes.
Replay Value: [Nonexistant]/10
The only reason you might play this game again is for the Mate Toss or just to torture someone. Other than that, there is no real reason to play this game again.
Overall: 2/10
This game did succeed in being funny, but it also turned out to be one crappy game. The controls were awful, the sound sounded like crap as well, and it just didn't work. Perhaps if they spent more time on this game, they wouldn't have let this game go to waste. It could've worked.....
Reviewer's Rating: 1.0 - Terrible
Originally Posted: 02/28/02, Updated 02/28/02
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I thought it was a pretty good movie. To each his own I guess.
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By Harley Zipori. Winter doesn't seem like beer season. Growing up in the US, one tends to associate beer with summer picnics, backyard barbeques and baseball games. Since the pale, mildly flavored beverage that most Americans call beer has to be drunk ice cold to be palatable, this makes perfect sense.
In Europe, especially the northern parts, summer is like winter in the holy land. Beer is a year round beverage. There are even beers brewed specifically for winter that are heavier in body and higher in alcohol. I guess that warm buzz compensates for not seeing the sun for weeks on end.
Contrary to a common belief, the British to not serve "warm" beer in their pubs. The recommended serving temperature for the majority of British brewers, according the Cask Marque, is between 11C and 13C. Now I'm sure there are a variety of opinions out there but I for one do not consider 13C warm. Especially if it happens to be the air temperature of the place I am situated in at the moment.
Even quaffing beer at recommended serving temperatures in the depths of winter is not going to warm you up like say a nice glass of Glühwein that is so ubiquitous at the European winter street festivals. However given that winter beers have a good alcohol content and usually a rich flavor, it certainly feels nice on a chilly winter day.
American craft brewers are making a variety of seasonal beers suited to winter, including the traditional Christmas beers. A few Israeli craft brewers are making richer, higher alcohol beers that are suitable for winter consumption. The Bazelet Double Bock comes to mind.
I bring up the topic of winter beers due to the fact that I was in Europe at the end of January. Warsaw Poland to be exact, where I spent several days for work. Warsaw, of course, has all sorts of associations for those of us growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust. I did get a chance to see a bit of the city and the historical sites when I was taken around by my colleague Dariusz who has an amazing knowledge of the city and its history, including the Jewish history and the Warsaw Ghetto. Just behind the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Memorial is a very large and impressive Museum of the History of Polish Jews due to be opened this year. It is a stunning building and the Warsaw residents I spoke with were quite proud of their new museum.
Despite the fact that Poland was behind the Iron Curtain until the 90's, Warsaw was a lively, modern and quite lovely city. I managed to see a bit of the area as we drove around to do some errands and could have easily been in any European city. Even my German colleagues thought the city was up to European standards.
Of course it wouldn't be a trip to Europe for me without something relating to beer and I had done my homework and looked for brewpubs and local breweries before my trip. However due to limited time, social obligations and most important, the weather, I didn't get a chance to go out on my own searching for quality beer. But chance was on my side the last evening in Warsaw as we were walking down a main street looking for a place to eat when I spotted the Bierhalle, one of the brewpubs I found in my search. Convincing my German colleagues to go to a brewpub restaurant is not a terribly difficult task and we found a nice table in a spacious area in the back of the pub where it was obvious that the locals love to congregate.
We had a simple yet tasty meal and I tried two of the three beers they had on tap that evening. The first I tried was their beer called Marcowe. Ratebeer classifies this as an Oktoberfest or Marzen beer which makes this a true seasonal beer. It was a bit sweet and quite smooth, with a nice rich flavor.
After that I tried their Hefeweizen, a classic version of the German wheat beer that actually tasted much like the versions of this beer that I had tasted during my visits to Germany.
All told, it was a successful visit and I recommend anyone visiting Warsaw to check out Bierhalle.
Now that we have recovered from the Beer Expo at the Nokia stadium last month, we can prepare ourselves for the next beer event. The one that I know about is the Beer Festival that is part of the annual Yoav-Yehuda Food Festival. This has been taking place for several years now and is a great opportunity to see a lovely part of the country at peak season and support local residents.
The festival itself runs from February 21 through March 16. The Beer Festival is scheduled for March 8 at Givat Yeshayahu just to the south-east of Beit Shemesh on Road 38 to Beit Guvrin.
I cannot guarantee my attendance since I am returning from another business trip the night before.
One last addition before I sign off. This weekend I had a chance to visit a pub in the Poleg Industrial Zone called the Cabinet. I heard it was a young people's place to hang out but I had also heard that they have a new beer that I wanted to try. They do indeed have a nice selection of beers including the beer I wanted to try, the new Duvel Single. I knew it was coming and it was launched at the Beer Exhibition last month. This is a simpler version of the bottled Duvel which is a classic Belgian Golden Ale. The Duvel Single undergoes a single fermentation, less aging and is lower in alcohol but still a respectable 6.8%. It was light and refreshing with a noticeable hop bitterness but still had that hint that it is a Belgian Ale. It was a little too close to a Pilsner to be something special. But it should make an excellent session beer since the Pilsner crowd won't have to go too far to meet this one halfway.
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Brent, as the first in your family to graduate from college, I bet your dad was very proud of you. It's a very big deal! Congrats to you and a virtual pat on the back!
Russell, thanks. It can take a while to get the report. Probably in 2 weeks.
The comments just flow with newest on top. As far as I know there's no way to interpolate between comments.
Wishing you a speedy recovery Sentient.I hope you get good news from that pending report.
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Joan, thanks for your concern.
I'm now 4 weeks out from surgery. The wound has fully healed. My system is working as well as it did before surgery. Except I have to eat every 2 or 3 hours due to reduced stomach size. One critical pathology report is pending, but I'm not thinking about it.
This is the new normal. Can't go back to "before". Mercifully, the mind has a strange way of erasing trauma - I know the things that happened, in detail, but it's like a story that someone told me.
Not as strong as before. Working on it. I had to get back to work, not because employer required it, but because getting back to normal life was needed.
Also hoping very much you are well and strong.
Russell, learning of your mother's experience is a real positive bit of news. You obviously come from strong stock. I don't hike at 77. Does she like to laugh?
Thinking about you Daniel. Hope you feel well and strong.
Glad to hear you are doing well Joan. There are positive outcomes after cancer surgery. My mom had a lump removed from under her arm and was told to put her affairs in order because she was too far gone. That was almost 20 years ago and she is still enjoying life and even hiking at 89 years of age.
Wonderful news, Joan. I'm glad to hear that all went well. Sounds like you had the best of care in the hospital and are also getting the best of care at home from your family. Each of our individual lives is a wonderful event, and it's quite special to be able to share both our high and low points with others along the way. My best to you and for continued good health. Let us know when you've been able to progress up to that beef steak dinner with Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Ecteinascidin 743 in Treating Patients With Malignant Mesothelioma
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of ecteinascidin 743 in treating patients who have malignant mesothelioma that cannot be removed by surgery.
|Malignant Mesothelioma
|Drug: trabectedin
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study Of ET-743 In Patients With Unresectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
|Study Start Date:
|July 2001
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2002
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2002 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine partial and complete response rates in patients with unresectable malignant mesothelioma treated with ecteinascidin 743. II. Determine the toxicity profile of this drug in these patients. III. Determine the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationships of this drug in these patients. IV. Determine the duration of response, time to disease progression, 6-month progression-free survival, time to treatment failure, and overall survival of patients treated with this drug. V. Assess the quality of life of these patients treated with this drug.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients receive ecteinascidin 743 IV over 3 hours on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for at least 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with a complete response (CR) receive 2 additional courses after achieving CR. Quality of life is assessed at baseline and at the beginning of each course of therapy. Patients are followed every 3 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 20-36 patients will be accrued for this study within 12-24 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant mesothelioma that is not amenable to curative surgery At least 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion that is at least 15 mm by CT scan OR At least 1 bidimensionally measurable lesion that is at least 10 mm by CT scan Lesions in previously irradiated area are not considered measurable unless there is evidence of progression No symptomatic brain or leptomeningeal involvement
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-1 OR Karnofsky 70-100% Life expectancy: At least 3 months Hematopoietic: Neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than upper limit of normal (ULN) Alkaline phosphatase no greater than ULN unless bone metastases are present AST/ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN Albumin at least 2.5 g/dL No chronic active liver disease Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL OR Creatinine clearance at least 40 mL/min Cardiovascular: No uncontrolled heart disease No uncontrolled hypertension Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for one month after study No other serious illness or medical condition No history of significant neurological or psychiatric disorders No significant active infection No other concurrent neoplastic disease except non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prophylactic hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors (e.g., filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF)) Chemotherapy: No prior systemic chemotherapy No other concurrent chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No concurrent hormonal therapy Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics At least 30 days since prior radiotherapy and recovered No concurrent radiotherapy except palliative local radiotherapy to non-target lesions Surgery: See Disease Characteristics At least 14 days since prior pleurodesis Recovered from prior surgery Other: At least 30 days since prior participation in another therapeutic clinical trial or therapy with other investigational drugs No concurrent treatment for other neoplastic disease No other concurrent experimental anticancer medication
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00027508
|United States, Massachusetts
|Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, New York
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Study Chair:
|Lee M. Krug, MD
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00027508 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000069034 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|Study First Received:
|December 7, 2001
|Last Updated:
|February 23, 2015
Keywords provided by PharmaMar:
advanced malignant mesothelioma
recurrent malignant mesothelioma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Mesothelial
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
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Echo is the story about a nymph, a daughter of gods, and how in a storytelling mishap, Juno curses her and she loses her own voice, only able to reflect back the last thing she hears.
This is an intimate one-woman show written by Vancouver's Tiffany Markwart and Peter Counter and delivered with a subtle, alluring performance by Markwart.
The story has many layers that fold and float, as diaphanous as a nymph's dress, and like Echo, who was a storyteller before she was cursed, Markwart captivates her audience with the tales of how she is fooled by Jove, mocked by Eros and finally, heart-broken by Narcissus.
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There are legions of stories about children horribly, unforgivably abused sexually and physically at the schools. That is Canada's shame.
The stories have become legendary, supplanting the other truth: Many who attended the schools did not suffer.
But this 11th-hour "fair and lasting" fix, cooked up on the eve of an election, effectively indicts all who worked at any of 130 schools run by churches for the government, dating back before confederation. It turns every student into a victim, including those who were better off for the experience. There's a separate fund for them too, because they are clearly suffering from repressed memory.
The truth about the legacy of residential schools is now an inconvenience, a pimple on the collective consciousness in the stampede to right the wrongs, including those not done.
Don't take my word.
Clarence Easter is a good friend, and chief of the Chemawawin Cree Nation, which sits on a rocky shore of Cedar Lake, a beautiful body of water that is now a gigantic holding pond for Manitoba Hydro's Grand Rapids dam. Easter's original home was an idyllic peninsula a bit farther west, where farming was fruitful and the fishing good. In the 1960s, Hydro flooded the lake and Easter's community was relocated to its current home -- where farming was impossible, a promise of running water meant running for water, and the fishing eventually died off. In 1973, amid the social disintegration that followed on the reserve, Easter left for high school at Dauphin's McKay residential school.
Easter remembers being harshly treated: Getting painfully yanked out of bed; struck with a belt buckle; kicked; and forced to wash floors and stairs as punishment for misbehaviour. Residential school left its mark.
That mark has made him what he is today. He went to university, almost got a teaching degree, returned to Easterville, worked in education. He has been chief for more than a decade.
"I feel like I was physically abused but I got an education out of it. I learned a few things. I am the way I am today because of that. "It's a good thing. I like where I am today."
He says he learned how to survive, to be independent, a feat not to be discounted given reserves' unemployment rates of 80 per cent and more.
Easter is eligible for $19,000 from the plan cooked up by the Liberals, the Assembly of First Nations and the dozens of lawyers who had launched class-action suits on behalf of 80,000 status Indians -- whether they knew it or not.
Easter says he never filed a claim; he never thought of it, in fact. The government's records show almost 15,000 claims were filed for out-of-court settlement for abuse. Fewer than 3,000 have been settled, at a cost of $110 million to date. The new agreement to compensate everyone for the "common experience" also promises to expedite the claims for grave physical and sexual abuses.
Residential schools were a government's attempt to educate and assimilate generations of small, vulnerable children. Some schools were rotten to the core. Some were good. Most, I suspect, fell somewhere in between, not unlike public schools today.
I can't imagine sending my kids off for eight months into a stranger's care. I sympathize with any parent who had to, to get their kid educated and more so for those who were scarred by the experience. But I know that the government's plans to spend $60 million on a "truth and reconciliation" process has already dispensed with the truth. Reconciliation will become historical revisionism, cementing a myth that all native families today suffer from the irrevocable harm of residential schools.
Don't take my word on this.
Today, Easterville teens are sent to high school in The Pas. They billet with local families, paid by the band. It's not good, Easter says. Kids go to families that are strangers. In residential schools, kids had each other.
The teenagers come home on weekends, get caught up in family stuff and sometimes don't go back on Mondays.
If he had a choice, he says, he'd send the kids to a residential school, where they'd get a better education.


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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm so alone, so empty. Every aspect of my life is unsatisfying. I've done nothing with this life I was given, and am just a waste of air. This feels like it's going to be more of a suicide note than a plea for help. I have no friends, and while my family has taken me back into their home after I left my abusive fiancé, they don't want me there and I'm so depressed living there. I have a diploma, but no one's hiring in my area. I do have a job, but I'm very unhappy ---- I tried pills; they didn't help, only made me feel strange and overly-anxious. I need a new life, not a new prescription. I should've seen the world by now, be married, maybe with children on the way. I should have hope, love and understanding, and feel like a person who's contributing to society. My heart hurts and sometimes I really think it would be easier to watch the blood pour out from my wrists than it would be to continue living this pointless, loveless existence. Maybe if I did end my own life, I could actually feel like I've finally accomplished something with my life. -- Empty, Worthless Girl, Winnipeg
Dear Girl: Many people who have tried to commit suicide and failed, look back with gratitude and feel blessed that they didn't succeed, as that bad time was just a blip in their lives. Let me be plain. You need to know the Universe/Great Intelligence doesn't create crap. You're unique and gifted, and things do get better especially as you head towards the maturity of 30. You're a special creation and don't have to do anything to prove that. In fact, you can work at any old job and your specialness doesn't change. Please start being patient with yourself. Some people don't get established until later, or change paths many times.
Now let's talk about the depression that's overwhelming you: Depression is not your fault, so stop being angry and disappointed with yourself. These are the things you can do to help yourself now:
1) If you're feeling suicidal, your must go to a hospital emergency room and camp there. Do not soft-pedal your situation. Tell the triage nurse clearly that you are suicidal. A psychiatrist will see you, and you will get the help you need. I know you've had a hard time with pills, but now it'd be wise to let the doctor try different types until you find what suits your type of chemical imbalance. Different medications work differently on different people.
2) You might also call 1-877-435-7170, the designated suicide prevention line at Klinic, and talk to one of the counsellors who tend those lines 24/7. If you are not feeling suicidal, but feeling critically down, then 786-8686 is the appropriate crisis line.
3) When you're not in full-blown crisis mode, walk-in counselling is totally free at Klinic. Call 784-4067. They even work into the evenings. You haven't been out of your abusive relationship very long and you're in desperate need of counselling, as any person would be. Individual help and a support group would show you that you're far from alone.
4) There are kind people at the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba at 4 Fort St., first floor, near Assiniboine Avenue, who understand what you're going through from personal experience, and will offer support groups, resources and friendship, too. Call them 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, at 786-0987.
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Combine the men and women's Final Fours and you get three teams from the ACC. Take away the men's Final Four and you still get three teams from the ACC. Two of those teams are, in alphabetical order, Duke and North Carolina. And if North Carolina beats Maryland on Sunday night at TD Banknorth Garden - nice name - and Duke beats Louisiana State, they'll play Tuesday for the women's national championship. (Charlotte Observer)
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I'm Muse Harper. I'm a twenty-something painter who loves red wine, quirky movies, and men with fatal flaws. But that was before I met Jasper King. He became my fatal flaw. Eight months ago I had a choice to make - abandon everything I've ever known to protect my family or stay and risk someone getting hurt. I chose the former. My plan was working just fine until I found out my father had gone missing. That was when I met Jasper. A bounty hunter with the eyes of a tiger and the nose of a bloodhound, he was supposed to help me find my father. What I didn't know was that meeting him was no accident. Hunting people isn't all that Jasper does. And helping me was only part of his plan. I just wish I'd found out sooner, before my heart got involved. But even then, I don't know if I'd have done things differently.Now I have another choice to make - trust the man I'm falling in love with and hope he'll do the right thing or run as far away from him as I can get.
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"Exciting and sexy story"
The story is nice, thrilling at some parts and the love scenes is sexy! Performance is not bad either and the male voice is sexy as hell! I would recommend this book.
When feisty and confident Muse hired a Bounty Hunter because her Father goes missing she wasn't expecting the drop-dead gorgeous man that confidently walked into her life who had charm, charisma, mystery and he oozed sex appeal. Her mouth dropped open, she was speechless, he took her breath away and her sleeping libido suddenly woke up and begged "take me, use me, I'm yours". But Jasper was guarded, complex, a closed book, wasn't what he seemed and the only truth about him was that he was equally attracted to Muse. However, he wasn't about to do anything about it because he knew the deadly secrets that he had to keep hidden.... about himself, about Muse and her Father and about his top secret covert mission. Is he going to be the super-hero or the villain..... or perhaps both?
They start a road trip from San Diego to South Carolina to find Muse's Father - and I can't say more because this is your journey to take, to enjoy, to savor and to uncover the many twists, surprises, shocks, suspense, thrilling action, humor, intense sexual tension and the romance, sex and the beautiful love story that slowly developed. A love story despite emotional scars, lies, unanswered questions, hidden feelings, guilt, nail-biting danger, heartbreak and an unknown enemy/enemies who are out for blood. Jasper himself said " he is the worst thing" for Muse "but he'll feel like the best"..... and he was so right and oh so wrong.
Worth a credit? Dual POV's, interesting likeable characters, great narration (especially Joe Arden's sexy voice) and a WOW of a storyline that drew me in from the start, easily kept me there hooked on every single scene and a happy ending...... however the enemy/enemies are yet to be discovered and destroyed. But I'm sure that the next book will be about one of the other 'team' members. A 5 star riveting, delicious start to a series and very very creditworthy.
This book started a little slow but once once itways picked up it was awesome!! If you love Fifity Shades of Grey you'll love this book.
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I loved the action, mystery excitement and anticipation that was heavily laden in this book. Throwing in the intense chemistry and self sacrificing love, it was a hit.
Joe Arden was excellent. Perfect for such a male lead. I was a bit disappointed with CJ Bloom's performance. I found her gaining and losing her accent constantly throughout the book and it was distracting.
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Fairfield Inn & Suites Clarksville110 Westfield Court
Clarksville, TN 37040
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The Fairfield Inn & Suites sits just off of I-24 at exit 4 in Clarksville, Tennessee, the "Gateway to the South". Our Clarksville hotel is located only a few blocks away from Governors Square Mall and several well-known restaurants. This Ft. Campbell hotel is also a straight shot into downtown Clarksville, which is only eight miles away, passing Austin Peay State University on the way. In addition, we are just minutes away from Ft. Campbell military base and 45 minutes from Nashville, Music City USA. At our Clarksville Ft. Campbell hotel, we offer complimentary amenities such as breakfast and wireless Internet, as well as the exceptional service you expect and deserve from any Marriott brand hotel.
Check In: 3:00 PM
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Native currency: American Dollars
Number of floors: 3
Number of rooms: 75
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Solar Eclipse
Mon, August 21 • 1pm
Carman Community Room
Don't miss this opportunity to witness a rare solar eclipse (viewed as a partial eclipse in our area). Join us for a presentation on what causes an eclipse and then go outside to watch the moon cast a dark shadow as it passes the sun.
We will be providing ISO certified eclipse glasses for all participants on the day of the event.
Already have a pair? Check this list to make sure the glasses are certified.
Book Donations in September
Starting September 1, we will be temporarily closing down the book donation drop-off in the garage for a month to get ready for our Annual Used Book Sale Down Under on September 23 and 24. We will be reopening it on October 1. We would appreciate it if people would hold all their donations until then.
Thank you and see you at the Book Sale!
Buy Local Marketplace
Monday, Aug 21 • 6-8pm
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Buy local! A variety of vendors will be on hand to sell locally-made products including food and crafts. Canceled if weather is bad.
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Thursday, August 24
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Travel the world through this series of videos and presentations. Gather at 1pm for coffee, cookies and conversation. The presentation starts promptly at 1:30pm.
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In the late 23rd century, the colony ship SS Artemis landed on the fifth planet. The survivors built a colony which lasted for nearly a century. However, under pressure from the Sheliak Corporate, the colonists were relocated to a new home. (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command")
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Theatre: While living in London I randomly caught an esoteric play called Mr. Puntila and His Main Man Matti. Brill-fuggin-ant!
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Ricardo Clark scored and helped create a D.C. United own goal to lead the Houston Dynamo to a 2-0 victory Saturday night.
In a rematch of the 2012 MLS Eastern Conference championship, the Dynamo took a 1-0 lead on an own goal by United's James Riley in the 80th minute. Off Brad Davis' corner kick, Riley and Clark went up for the ball, with Riley heading it into the left net.
Clark extended Houston's lead to 2-0 in the 89th minute, taking a pass from Warren Creavalle outside the right 6-yard box and sending it high inside the far post.
Houston had a chance to score in the 40th minute, but Davis' penalty kick was stopped by a diving Bill Hamid. Clark's follow was also stopped by Hamid. Clark earned the free kick for Houston after being tripped from behind just inside the upper box by Chris Korb.
Houston had another chance to take the lead in the first half off a corner kick, but Will Bruin's header from inside the goalkeeper's box was cleared off the end line by Korb, and Giles Barnes' follow from inside the 6-yard box was stopped by Hamid.
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Audio-Video 2-DIN Head Units now Available from Alpine Electronics
Back January 10, 2012
These units offer high-resolution screens along with full audio and video capabilities
Torrance, Calif. (Jan. 10, 2012) – Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. introduces two new 2-DIN audio-video head units for 2012. Both models have 6.1-inch touch screens for audio and video entertainment. Alpine will debut both units during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Jan. 10-13, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
"We know some consumers want the audio and video benefits of a 2-DIN receiver, but do not need the navigation system which often comes with this type of product," said Steve Crawford, vice president and general manager, aftermarket business unit, Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. "2-DIN head units are a growing segment in the aftermarket, and we are excited to bring these premium solutions to market."
The IVE-W530 and IVE-W535HD offer full VGA high-resolution screens and DVD slots. Both offer Advanced Passenger Control Mode, which allows passengers to stream audio from any smartphone for playback through the vehicle's sound system. Both units will also have an App Mode setting, which will allow for basic control of popular music and video iPhone® apps directly from the screen (available in August). The IVE-W530 features Bluetooth® wireless technology with audio streaming, three pre-amp outputs, and a 3-band parametric EQ.
The IVE-W535HD is compatible with multiple digital audio sources. Pandora® internet radio control is available via iPhone, Android™ and BlackBerry® devices, and includes thumbs up/down ratings and new station creation. The IVE-W535HD comes with built-in HD Radio™, including a unique feature called Smart Reception Management that improves transitions between the HD Radio signal and analog FM signal in areas where the digital signal may be weak. It is also compatible with SiriusXM, using the SXV200 tuner (sold separately, XM subscription required). The IVE-W535HD has advanced Bluetooth wireless technology that offers easy and secure device pairing, and specially tuned audio for better sound quality of calls and streaming audio.
Alpine's 2-DIN AV head unit offerings include:
IVE-W530 6.1-inch AV DVD Receiver
- 6.1-inch full VGA high-resolution screen
- Bluetooth® wireless technology with audio streaming
- Made for iPod® and iPhone®
- App Mode allows for basic control of music and video iPhone® apps (available in August)
- 3 pre-amp outputs
- Built-in 18W x 4 amplifier (at CEA-2006 rating)
- 3 band Parametric EQ
- Rear USB port
- Steering wheel remote ready
- Available: May
IVE-W535HD 6.1-inch AV DVD Receiver
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- Works with Pandora® internet radio for iPhone®, Android™ and BlackBerry® smartphones
- HD Radio™ receiver built-in
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- App Mode allows for basic control of music and video iPhone® apps (available in August)
- SiriusXM compatible (requires SXV200 tuner sold separately, XM subscription required)
- BT Plus Bluetooth® wireless technology with audio streaming
- 4V pre-amp outputs
- Built-in 18W x 4 amplifier (at CEA-2006 rating)
- Rear USB port
- Steering wheel remote ready
- Available: April
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Alpine Electronics is an automotive electronics manufacturer that provides consumers and leading auto makers with audio, video, navigation and driver assistance products. The company specializes in system integration solutions with innovative vehicle entertainment and information technologies.
Alpine's R&D and manufacturing facilities in Japan, China, Europe and North America ensure that all products address the real world requirements of drivers in each market. The company is committed to developing safe, comfortable and eco-friendly automotive electronics products.
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A fraud ring and an IRS audit convinced Jimmy's G.K. Food Mart to go digital.
Following every hurricane season, the city of Vero Beach, Fla. draws scores of roofers who come to the area to repair homes damaged by the storms. Each year these roofers, many of them day laborers without bank accounts, cash their checks at Jimmy's GK Food Mart, a local convenience store that offers check-cashing services to local businesses.
Last year was no different from the rest, until one Monday following the roofers' Friday payday, when the bank returned about 25 checks, each ranging from $300 to $400, each of them fraudulent.
"They copied everything identically," says Sameet Patel, GK's manager, and son of the store's owner. "They hit us for $12,000 that day. It was money lost."
He wasn't alone. All told, the forgers made off with over $40,000 from local retailers that day. What employees of the stores couldn't detect about the fakes is that their MICR lines weren't printed with magnetic ink.
At the same time, Patel was undergoing an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. The $12,000 loss, plus the hassle of dragging bundles of checks from storage, almost drove him from the check-cashing business altogether.
Patel was already evaluating check-imaging printers to eliminate the need to store checks; being victimized by fraud sealed his decision to buy such a printer. He installed the i6090 Check Scanner and i6000 Internet Client software from Kodak to take care of both problems at once.
The check-imaging solution converts paper checks into high-quality digital images to take advantage of check-clearing efficiencies presented by the federal Check Clearing Act for the 21st Century. Better known as Check 21, the solution allows retailers to scan checks as soon as they're received and transmit data and electronic images electronically to banks for same-day processing, thus crediting their accounts more quickly.
"I scan each check, and the software automatically totals check amounts, withdraws the money from customer accounts, and deposits the funds into the store's bank account," explains Patel.
In addition to streamlining and accelerating check clearing, the solution has also decreased bank service charges, according to Patel. "We cash about 4,000 checks per month," he says. "Prior to having the solution, we were charged 30 cents per check deposited. Now we're only charged 20 cents per deposit, regardless of the number of checks and the amounts involved. It saves us a significant amount, and has already paid for itself."
The software enables Patel to audit his accounts, and every month, his bank sends him a CD containing images -- front and back -- of each check deposited during the previous 30 days.
What's more, the check scanners can automatically detect if a check doesn't use magnetic ink, meaning that next time fraudsters try to pass bogus checks, the bank won't be returning them to Patel a few days later. He'll return the bad check to the customer on the spot.
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Social and affordable housing tenants in Watford will be hit with new annual bills of up to £600 after the Watford Community Housing Trust announced it was introducing a weekly service charge.
The trust sent out letters over the weekend saying it would be rolling out weekly charges of up to £12 a week to claw back £2.5m it says it spends on communal services.
However, the move has left tenants shocked and upset at facing steep rises in their rent costs.
One tenant, who asked not to be identified, said: "It came as a shock. We are in the worst recession in living memory and they expect people to stump up £50 a week."
The trust has said the new charges will come in from April and will be gradually introduced over three years.
In the first year tenants will pay 30 per cent of the overall charge, then 70 per cent from April 2014 and the full service charge from April 2015. The service charge is being capped at a maximum of £12 a week for those three years.
The trust said the service charge will cover services including grounds maintenance, CCTV, door entry systems, caretaking, fire alarms and looking after communal areas.
The majority of services are incurred by residents living in flats and those tenants will be charged on a block by block basis. However service charges for green spaces – such as grass cutting, litter picking, hedge trimming and tree pruning – will be split between all trust tenants and lease-holders.
The decision to introduce service charges was made in October by the Trust's board, which is made up of five tenants, five independents and two Watford Borough Council nominees. Diane Lee, chairman of Watford Community Housing Trust, said: "The services we will be charging for are not covered by the rent and they are currently costing us £2.5 million per year to provide.
"Charging for these services will enable us to continue providing them in the future as well as continuing our investment in our homes and neighbourhoods. However we know that this is a difficult time to start adding charges to the rent, so that is why we are phasing in the full charge over three years."


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Case No. 1727, of October 25, 1971 pertains to denunciation of the arbitrary search of the private domicile of Dr. Martha Gladys Urbina on October 1 of that year, at "Colonia Escalón," in San Salvador.
As the denunciation did not meet the requirements established in Article 54 of its Regulations, in a letter dated November 2, 1971, the Commission requested that the petitioner fulfill such requirements.
The Commission considered this case at its Twenty-Sixth Session (October-November 1971) and agreed to postpone its consideration until the petitioner provided all pertinent data.
At its Twenty-Seventh Session (February-March 1972) the Commission again studied the case and, as the denunciation had not been completed, decided to file it without prejudice to reopening it if the data requested were supplied within a reasonable period.


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Is there a way to create a custom column that has an auto-complete function which would be
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Perhaps an example would be best...
I have a file of an anthology book (
, by Larry Niven), which contains 5 short stories. I also have those 5 short stories as separate files.
I'd like a custom column for the anthology, "Contains", where I can select all of those individual short stories as part of the anthology. The behavior would be similar to how the "author" column auto-completes what you're typing based on the existing values across the entire Library - just in this case, it would provide suggestions from the "title" field.
So Flatlander's "Contains" field would have the values, "Death by Ecstasy, The Defenseless Dead, ARM, The Patchwork Girl, The Woman in Del Rey Crater".
Alternately, is there already some built-in way to manage anthologies that I'm utterly unaware of?
Simple answer: No. you would have to build a Tag type list manually
The current record has no knowledge of the contents of other records.
That applies to Titles, It applies to Authors It applies to every thing you see in a record.
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