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Honor the hard-working
Many Americans celebrate Labor Day, a federal holiday since 1894, as the symbolic end of summer.
While often regarded as a day for barbecues, cookouts, family trips and parades, Labor Day observes the strength, hard work and dedication of America's workers.
As we celebrate and stand together to say "You've earned it" with communities from across the country, we recognize the challenges ahead. Wall Street CEOs are back on top, while America's middle class is still suffering. Living wages are not equal to the increased cost of living and many of America's workers still are unemployed or underemployed.
America's workers did not create this mess, but we are the ones who are paying for it through unemployment, layoffs, home foreclosures, and the threat of social services and safety nets being cut.
The labor movement helped establish and maintain America's middle class. Through collective bargaining for a living wage, health insurance, retirement security and workplace safety measures, unions have stood the test of time and fought tirelessly for working America.
This Labor Day, let's honor all of America's hardworking people and continue to fight for them, not just on Labor Day, but every day.
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Congrats to Don "Hurricane" Carter on his football achievements at Monterey Peninsula College after being uprooted from New Orleans in 2005 (Aug. 27).
It is important for readers to note that it was not the Category 3 Hurricane Katrina that caused most of the death and devastation in New Orleans, but rather flooding caused by the extreme failure of man-made Army Corps of Engineers' levees that led to Don's home and many others being destroyed. Had the levees held as they were supposed to, Don's home and thousands of others would still be fully occupied today and hundreds of lives saved.
As a Northern California native who was a tourist in the Superdome, I can attest to this.
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Cathedral City
Corps to blame for flooding
What a wonderful, heartening story of young Don Carter doing so well after surviving a tragic experience (Aug. 27).
Unfortunately, the article got some facts wrong. You wrote, "Hurricane Katrina began to tear through New Orleans," and then: "The memories of his childhood have been washed away. A line where the water had reached the roof has faded."
Tragic. But, if the hurricane was the culprit, the house would be blown away.
New Orleans' real destruction came from the flood, which is what actually uprooted Don Carter and his family to California. And the flood was caused by men: The Army Corps of Engineers.
Without the corps' failures and resulting flood, Katrina would have been a nasty spitball on the city and Don Carter would be excelling in football for a school somewhere here.
Ken Conner
New Orleans
Doubts about Syrian gas attack
President Barack Obama threatens a "serious response" in Syria if it is confirmed chemical weapons were used.
What if it is confirmed, as the Syrian government claims, that the so-called rebels used it. After all, they are on the retreat, desperate for Western intervention.
Does it sound really believable that "Assad invites a United Nation chemical weapons inspection team into Syria, then launch a chemical weapons attack on women and children (instead of against the hired mercenary army) on the day the inspectors arrive, just miles from where the inspectors are staying?" (whatreallyhappened.com).
The Israeli paper Haaretz recently published an analysis that "Jihadists, not Assad, are apparently behind the reported chemical attack in Syria. Intelligence reports suggest jihadists among the Syria rebels have technical know-how to produce chemical warheads."
According to the Israeli source, Debka, Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles are being protected by Russian forces. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Syria has "consolidated its chemical weapons in one or two locations É and they are under control."
Do we really think Vladimir Putin would be very pleased if Obama's cruise missiles were to rain down on these Russian forces or would he feel forced to respond in kind?
Gabe Kish
Pacific Grove
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Congratulations to the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula for a successful Monterey Motorsports Reunion. SCRAMP donations to nonprofit organizations and income generated locally are a vital part of Car Week.
I have enjoyed the Monterey Historics as a spectator and participant since the 1980s and am concerned about a growing trend that could jeopardize future events.
The current selection committee seems to focus on accepting participants from the "rich and famous," with up to four entries each, at the expense of single-car entrants who are denied an opportunity to participate.
These mom and pop single-car entrants are responsible for evolving the historic races and have played a vital role with spectators who want to talk to drivers in the paddock.
I urge the SCRAMP board of directors to do a reality check and organize a new selection committee that would give priority to single car applicants and eliminate the practice of selection members awarding entries to friends and themselves.
A second and related suggestion is to clean-up the paddock!
Get rid of all non-period vehicles, non-period transporters and multiple car trailers. Give the ticket-buying public the experience that they deserve.
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Quite a bit of stir in the rumor mill today thanks to a blog post by TechCrunch (TC) which speculates that Google purchased a startup called Vutool. According to the description at TC, it sounds like the company had developed technology for capturing street level imagery at all angles and other "intellectual property" for processing and displaying this information.
Microsoft a year ago released a technology preview (still working) of something like this for Windows Live Local which provides an interface allowing you to "drive" a car and look in different directions at streets in Seattle. Google Earth Blog demonstrated how you could do something similar in Google Earth by "driving" down 3D streets for cities with 3D buildings in Google Earth. But, it lacks the street-level photographs except for those integrated on 3D buildings with textures. However, a technology like what Vutool has described could be an awfully nice way to get photos for 3D building models… Hmmmmm. Microsoft already has access to technology which uses photography to rapidly grow its collection of 3D buildings with textures. Microsoft has invested tens of millions of dollars in the technology and hiring aerial photographers to take these "bird's eye" views of buildings in cities. Vutools technology might actually help Google develop similar, or maybe even better, capabilities. So, maybe the rumors that Google bought them have some credibility.
Thanks to Matt for being the first of several to contact me about this.
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FORGET the World Cup – a far more enjoyable version of the beautiful game was played out near Chester for charity.Twenty four teams competed in the seven-a-side tournament at Cheshire County Sports Club in Upton, raising more than £1,800 for Macmillan Cancer Support, B.I.R.D and The Light Project.
Now in its 19th year, the event was hosted by Chester-based credit card company MBNA and local football club Crossway FC and saw teams allocated a team from Brazil 2014.
The event also doubled up as a family fun day, with a bouncy castle, stalls and other activities on offer.
Ugo Eboh, who works at MBNA and plays for Crossway FC, said: "It was a huge success and everyone had a lot of fun. We wanted to create a real family feel and that's what we got."
The Badgers BAA (France) were crowned Cup champions after narrowly beating Russell Athletic (Russia) 1-0 in a close final.
Crossway took on the mantle of FC Spain, eventually losing in the final of the Plate to Borussia Teeth (Uruguay) in a dramatic penalty shoot-out.
Ugo added: "The World Cup theme gave the tournament that extra bit of excitement and everyone was in high spirits. There was some great football and more importantly we raised lots of money .
"Massive thanks go to our sponsors, AW Mellor Associates, Visualmetrics and Domino's and to the Lord and Lady Mayoress for opening the event and all who gave up their time and donated."
Michael Walsh, of MBNA, said: "We're delighted with the number of teams playing on the day and that everything came together as planned to help us raise so much money. It was an immensely enjoyable day for all involved and I'm proud of everyone who took part and who helped organise the event."
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010/11/10 - Test Level 7 provides interoperability testing platform for conformance and certification.
Intelliware Development Inc. is pleased to announce its participation in the Fall 2010 Infoway Partnership Conference, Interoperability Realizing Implementation Benefits, from November 15-17 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Intelliware, a leader in standards based e-Health product development and interoperability, will showcase a new release of Test Level 7 (TL7). TL7 is a healthcare system interoperability testing platform that can be used for development and conformance testing with an increasing range of healthcare systems and standards. The capabilities of TL7 have expanded significantly from last year's release of the on-line HL7 v3 validation tool. TL7 now supports a range of systems, registries, databases and messaging interfaces, as well as standards with national or regional differences.
Demonstrations of TL7 will be provided in the Intelliware booth at the Conference Infofair Exhibit.
For more information about Intelliware e-Health and TL7, please visit Intelliware in booth 12 at the Infofair Exhibit or contact Ken Stevens at ken.stevens[.]intelliware.com or (416) 576-4096
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Intelliware provides software development, integration and testing services to healthcare clients. Intelliware's expertise with HL7 v3-based messaging and system interoperability, its standards-based approach, and its Agile development practices ensure timely delivery of high quality healthcare solutions. Intelliware created Test Level 7 (TL7) and the e-Health Interoperability Suite of products to accelerate the development and testing of e-Health systems. With experience ranging from Pharmacy Systems and eReferrals, to Registries and Integration Exchanges, Intelliware's interoperability and standards expertise can help get your healthcare systems talking to one another. Intelliware is a technical partner to local, national and global organizations in the healthcare, government, retail and financial services sectors.
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Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said Zuma had to come clean on whether he saw a letter outlining security upgrades for Nkandla.
"If he did see the letter, then he must further clarify why he did not take any steps to address the unnecessarily excessive expenses set out in the letter... and whether he accordingly made any enquiries as to their cost," Mazibuko said in a statement.
The department of public works had sent a letter to Zuma in November 2010.
On Sunday, Nxesi said the government spent R206 million on security upgrades and consultants. Included in this amount was R135 million for the "operational needs" of various government departments, R71 million for consultants and security features such as bullet proof windows, security fencing, evacuation mechanisms, and firefighting equipment, he told reporters in Pretoria.
Also included in the total was R26 million to make changes to the project (variation orders).
Nxesi said the task team investigating the spending found irregularities in the appointment of the 15 service providers and consultants who worked on the project.
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Sunday that neither Zuma nor his family had any input on the security upgrade.
"They were not involved with the design and installation of security measures."
Nxesi said Zuma was informed of the upgrades, but did not know any of the details.
Mazibuko said the letter contradicted Nxesi's "concerted campaign" to prove the report on Nkandla vindicated Zuma.
The Inkatha Freedom Party said it was becoming another "presidential embarrassment".
"The Minister of Public Works Thulas Nxesi has stated that there were irregularities in the appointment of service providers and the procurement of goods and services at President Zuma's home in Nkandla," IFP MP Petros Sithole said in a statement.
"A full investigation must be launched into this matter as a matter of urgency."
The Freedom Front Plus and the Christian Democratic Party questioned the amount spent on Nkandla.
FF Plus spokesman on public works Pieter Groenewald said: "It is possible to have effective security measures put in place for far less than the amount mentioned."
Groenewald said the full report should be made public. Nxesi said it would not because the residence was a national key point.
Corruption Watch (CW) said it had written a letter to Nxesi asking for a copy of his task team's report.
It also wanted the minister to publish the names of the companies or individuals who were awarded contracts.
"The information on the awarding of contracts does not fall within information relating to security measures and we see no reason for keeping this away from the public," executive director David Lewis said in a statement.
"Considering the public money spent on the upgrade, it is appropriate for the minister to reveal the details of the tendering process as well as explain how the amounts mentioned in Sunday's press briefing were arrived at and budgeted for."
The Congress of SA Trade Unions in Gauteng said the report revealed nothing new.
"In fact, some of these issues are ones we have been raising for some time -- the fact that government has no capacity to do anything. Everything is outsourced," provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said.
He said it was "not surprising" that corrupt officials benefited unfairly by outsourcing work on the home.
"People in government must choose whether they want to serve the people, or they want to be in business. We know for a fact that there are people who are charging the state R200 for a loaf of bread," said Dakile. - Sapa


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Our Family Tree has been a ten year effort to document our ancestry. Our interest first began upon the discovery of my wife, Cynthia's, Huguenot roots in Southern France. From there it has grown and been refined to include Mayflower descendants, Revolutionary War veterans and many other interesting ancestors. We discovered Find-A-Grave in 2013 after adding our tree to Ancestry.com.
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You are very welcome, glad we could help, was out with Audrey Lerew that day. If I have any others that you need transferred, just let me know.
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Thank you so very much for taking a photo of my uncle's headstone. And you did it so fast! I really appreciate it!
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Thank you for the photo. We're working on our departed classmates....she was a great person.
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Thanks so much for the photo of Vivian & Loretta Gubler's tombstone. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
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I fixed the dates for you. I can't believe I put him down for 1764-1942...what was I thinking? Haha! I'm glad to have helped you along with your tree. Happy hunting!
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It was my pleasure. Like I said, I will get up the rest of what I found shortly. His family has a large plot. Elisha Raymond Jr., Patty Raymond, Eliza F (Flint), Seneca Flint, Seneca Raymond, Dorcas Raymond, Susan B. Raymond, Elisha Raymond (1808-1869), Frank Raymond, and Caroline Susie are all there. Are any familiar? If they already have memorials, put through a request so I can find them and add easily. Otherwise I'll add them unless you prefer to do it. Just let me know what you'd like done to honor your family.
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Hi! In regards to your photo request, can you please call the cemetery and obtain the grave location (Section & Lot numbers) and ask them whether or not there is a grave marker? Please post this information to the memorial or send it to me.
Forest Home Cemetery: 708-366-1900 or 773-287-0772
Forest Home is a huge cemetery with well over 70,000 burials, and the information is needed in order to find someone there and take a photo of a grave. I go here regularly, and since August I have found over 200 graves at Forest Home that had the location information provided. Thank you! Ace
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The inscription on Anna Maria Miller read
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(making her calculated birth 17 May 1767.
Also took a photo of Michael Miller (presumably her husband) next to her. If you'd like to create his memorial, he died January 10, 1845 (a little shaky on the "5" of 1845), aged 80 years 8 months and 20 days 9making his birthdate 21 April 1764. No need for a request - just let us know the memorial is there, and we'll post the photo.
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Many people make a serious income from marketing other people's products. Unfortunately, many more spend time and effort in this area and see little or no reward. The good news is that not much usually separates the successful affiliate marketer from the novice. In this article we will look at some strategies to improve your results selling affiliate products.
1. Pick the right product
Generally you want to pick a product that has a higher affiliate commission and a higher price. However, it is Return on Investment (ROI) that is more important. In other words, if you spend 5 to make 10 you have a 100% return. If this scales up well you may just need to increase your advertising spending to get a large amount of money. On the other hand, if you market an expensive product that gives a large return, but it costs you more to advertise than it does in commissions then you are going to lose money.
As well as price and commission you need to examine the potential conversion rate. A product with a great sales letter and other benefits may be much easier to sell.
Timing is also important. If you can find a hot product before the majority of the market you are going to do well. If the product has already been flogged by your competition you may struggle to make any sales.
2. The money is in the list
You have probably heard this over and over again but the question is - Have you taken any action in this area? It is much easier to sell to existing customers than create a new one. Rather than sell one off products you should look at getting sign ups to your OWN list. From here you can continue to sell over and over again. However, you also need to provide good content or add value in other ways otherwise the unsubscribe rate will be high.
3. Spend money to make money
Sometimes you can get free advertising that works, but more often than not you have to spend money to make money. For example, you could run an AdWords campaign to send people to a sign-up page for a free 5-day course you set up using an autoresponder. Every subscriber is going to cost you something but over the long term as long as the ROI is positive you are going to make money.
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You need to continually test your ad copy, your traffic statistics, your sign-up rates etc. In particular, you should try a small-cost advertising campaign to see if it is going to be successful before putting a large amount of money into it. Find out what other successful marketers are doing. Read articles, participate in forums and if you can, get a mentor.
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Pianist Mehldau finds himself in the studio with a rock producer and a whole 6 days of...
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Over the past few years, Brad Mehldau's grandly titled Art of the Trio records have gained him a reputation as a thoughtful, lyrical pianist who (like Bill Evans) draws as much from classical tradition as jazz. Largo is quite a different kettle of fish though, resulting from Mehldau's collaboration with producer Jon Brion, whose CV includes work for Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann among others.
Unused to spending much time on a record, Mehldau was shocked to discover he and Brion had 6 days in the studio. Not much for the average rock album, but a lifetime for a realtime improviser. Brion goes for the studio as instrument approach, treating the piano either physically or electronically and adding splashes of colour from horns, electronics and guitars using a cast of players including Mehldau's usual trio of Jorge Rossy and Larry Grenadier, as well as session vet Jim Keltner and Beck's bassist Justin Meldal-Jonson.
Mehldau more than rises to the challenge; on "Dropjes" and "Free Willie" (both studio jams edited and reconstructed Teo Macero style) he unleashes solo flights of sparkling brilliance, while Brion's treatments twist new sonorities from the Steinway.
Similarly, "You're Vibing Me" (featuring Mehldau on vibes) and "Alvarado" offer expansive, almost psychedelic takes on the piano trio format. The opening "When It Rains" is simply beautiful, somewhere between Bill Evans and the wide open spaces of Bill Frisell's Americana.
At other times though, Mehldau appears a bit hemmed in; the lifeless funk thud of "Dusty McNugget" fails to inspire anyone much, while the grim sub metal antics of "Sabbath" go nowhere slowly. If there's irony here, it's buried deep. Similarly, the covers of "Dear Prudence" and "Mother Nature's Son" (here coupled with Jobim's "Wave") only begin to work once the tune is a distant memory. Maybe there should be kind of legislation to stop jazzers touching Beatles tunes (maybe Kenneth Clarke could do it as a private member's bill).
That doesn't extend to Mehldau's rework of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android". Mehldau's covered the Oxford prog existentialists before and here transforms the tune into a mini suite, opening with an extended episode of edgy gamelan funk before picking out the aching melody in Satie-esque fashion over a brooding backdrop of horns. Lovely, though whether Radiohead fans will think so is a moot point.
Brion and Mehldau are certainly unafraid of experiment, and that can only be a good thing. Even if occasionally the results are a curate's egg, it's one well worth tucking into. Recommended.


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Ah, the importance of grammar.
We all know that the Texas Republican Party, never in danger of being a progressive body, last week approved a state party platform that very definitely opposes LGBT equality. But a grammatical error on one platform plank seems to back up the idea held by many that the Texas GOP is controlled by not just a bunch of bigots, but a bunch of illiterate bigots.
As The New Civil Rights points out, because someone used the wrong verb, the party platform actually says that most Texans are gay and that homosexuality is ordained in the Bible. Check it out for yourself:


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The OECD Economic Assessment of Costa Rica, to be published on Monday 15 February, discusses the country's recent performance, which has brought about strong growth, rising living standards and the sustainable use of natural resources.
The 2015 edition introduces more detailed analysis of participation in early childhood and tertiary levels of education. The report also examines first generation tertiary-educated adults' educational and social mobility, labour market outcomes for recent graduates, and participation in employer-sponsored formal and/or non-formal education.
On 17-18 November 2015, a new regional meeting as well as a governmental workshop on BEPS was held for the Latin America and the Caribbean region to discuss the outcomes of the BEPS Project, and the ways that the countries can explore to be involved on an equal footing in the implementation and the monitoring phase of the measures adopted.
The review analyses key areas of public governance in Costa Rica and identifies opportunities to improve the performance of the state in order to ensure more effective and efficient service delivery for all citizens. It examines co-ordination at the centre of government, public policy monitoring and evaluation and the use of the budget framework for strategic planning. It also looks at human resource management, integrity policies and public procurement, and multi-level governance. The review provides recommendations to assist the government in strengthening the capacity of the public sector to support social and economic development.
This report contains the 2014 "Phase 2: Implementation of the Standards in Practice" Global Forum review of Costa Rica.
The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by over 120 jurisdictions which participate in the work of the Global Forum on an equal footing.
The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004, which has been incorporated in the UN Model Tax Convention.
The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. "Fishing expeditions" are not authorised, but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard.
All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction's legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined – Phase 1 plus Phase 2 – reviews. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
Costa Rica succeeds in combining rising living standards with sustainable use of natural resources. Incomes per capita have nearly doubled in real terms over the past three decades. Almost universal access to health care, education and pensions has been achieved.
The Capacity-Building Seminar on Citizens' Participation in Costa Rica took place on 29 July 2015 in San José. The OECD built capacities of open government leaders from Costa Rica's public service and civil society on ways to successfully consult citizens and involve them in policy design, implementation and evaluation.
The OECD set out a clear path for Costa Rica's accession to the Organisation, reinforcing the OECD's commitment to further extend its global membership.
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Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of changing economies? How should the programmes be funded? How should they be linked to academic and university programmes? How can employers and unions be engaged? The country reports in this series look at these and other questions. They form part of Skills beyond School, the OECD policy review of postsecondary vocational education and training. This report reviews vocational education and training systems in Costa Rica.


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Indian Tapas in Hong Kong
From Amy Ma for the WSJ's Scene Asia blog:
Ista restaurant, which opened earlier this month, calls itself Hong Kong's first Indian tapas joint and serves finger foods such as kebabs and samosas. But these are no bite-sized nibbles. Prepare yourself for large portion sizes.
The tandoori chicken tapas (68 Hong Kong dollars, US$9) — a large chunk of thigh meat and drumstick — can easily be considered a main dish. And a sikandri raan (HK$78) — slices of herb-marinated lamb on top of garlic naan — is the size of a small pizza. However, the predivided servings make for good family-style sharing.
Bring a group of at least four and brush up on your Indian food knowledge beforehand. Don't know what a pani puri (spelled "pani poori" on the menu) is? (It's a popular street food made of fried crisp dough filled with a potato mixture and topped with tamarind sauce.) The wait staff may not know either; the service is horrible here.
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Irinotecan/Cisplatin Plus Simvastatin in Extensive Disease-Small Cell Lung Cancer (ED-SCLC)
This study has been completed.
National Cancer Center, Korea
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Ji-youn Han, National Cancer Center, Korea
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First received: March 26, 2007
Last updated: June 17, 2013
Last verified: June 2013
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3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase inhibitors, commonly referred to as the statins, have proven therapeutic and preventative effects in cardiovascular diseases. Recently, there are emerging interests in their use as anticancer agents based on preclinical evidence of their antiproliferative, proapoptotic, anti-invasive, and radiosensitizing properties. Inhibition of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase by the statins interferes with the rate-limiting step of the mevalonate pathway, leading to reduced levels of mevalonate and its downstream products, many of which play important roles in critical cellular functions such as membrane integrity, cell signaling, protein synthesis, and cell cycle progression. Perturbations of these processes in neoplastic cells by the statins may therefore result in control of tumor initiation, growth, and metastasis. The statins have demonstrated growth inhibitory activity in cancer cell lines and preclinical tumor models in animals. Simvastatin, a member of the statin family, profoundly impaired basal and growth factor-stimulated SCLC cell growth in vitro and induced apoptosis. SCLC cells treated with simvastatin were sensitized to the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent etoposide. Moreover, SCLC tumour growth in vivo was inhibited by simvastatin. Therefore, the investigators will conduct this phase II trial to evaluate the efficacy & toxicity of irinotecan/cisplatin plus simvastatin in patients with chemo-naïve ED-SCLC.
|Small Cell Lung Cancer
|Drug: Irinotecan Drug: Cisplatin Drug: Simvastatin
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Irinotecan/Cisplatin Plus Simvastatin in Chemo-naive Patients With Extensive Disease-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: lung cancer
MedlinePlus related topics: Lung Cancer
Drug Information available for: Cisplatin Simvastatin Irinotecan Irinotecan hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Ji-youn Han, National Cancer Center, Korea:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- 1-year survival & overall survival [ Time Frame: the first day of treatment to death or last survival confirm date ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Tumor response rate [ Time Frame: the ratio between the number of responders and number of patients assessable for tumor response ]
- Time to progression [ Time Frame: the first day of treatment to the date that disease progression is reported ]
- Toxicity [ Time Frame: the first date of treatment to 30 days after the last dose of study drug ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: study arm
Drug: Irinotecan
Irinotecan 65mg/m2/iv over 90min on day 1 and 8, repeat Q 3weeks. until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patients' refusal.Drug: Cisplatin
Cisplatin 30mg/m2/iv over 30min on day 1 and 8, repeat Q 3weeks. until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patients' refusal.Drug: Simvastatin
simvastatin 40mg/QD, PO, daily, every 3 weeks
Detailed Description:
Cisplatin-30 mg/m2 on day 1 and 8 repeat q 3 weeks Irinotecan-65 mg/m2 on day1 and 8 repeat q 3 weeks Simvastatin 40 mg per day orally from D1 of cycle 1
Treatment will be continued until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or patients' refusal.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologic or cytologic diagnosis of SCLC
- Extensive-stage disease, defined as disease extending beyond one hemithorax or involving contralateral mediastinal, hilar or supraclavicular lymph nodes, and/or pleural effusion.
- No prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy
- Performance status of 0, 1, 2 on the ECOG criteria.
- At least one unidimensional measurable lesion meeting Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST. 2000).
- Patient compliance that allow adequate follow-up.
- Adequate hematologic (WBC count ≥ 4,000/mm3, platelet count ≥ 150,000/mm3), hepatic (bilirubin level ≤ 1.5 mg/dL, AST/ALT ≤ 80 IU/L), and renal (creatinine concentration ≤ 1.5 mg/dL) function.
- Informed consent from patient or patient's relative.
- Males or females at least 18 years of age.
- If female: childbearing potential either terminated by surgery, radiation, or menopause, or attenuated by use of an approved contraceptive method (intrauterine device [IUD], birth control pills, or barrier device) during and for 3 months after trial. If male, use of an approved contraceptive method during the study and 3 months afterwards. Females with childbearing potential must have a urine negative HCG test within 7 days prior to the study enrollment.
- No concomitant prescriptions including cyclosporin A, valproic acid, phenobarbital, phenytoin, ketoconazole.
- Patients with brain metastasis are allowed unless there were clinically significant neurological symptoms or signs
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to comply with protocol or study procedures.
- A serious concomitant systemic disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the patient's ability to complete the study.
- A serious cardiac condition, such as myocardial infarction within 6 months, angina, or heart disease, as defined by the New York Heart Association Class III or IV.
- Second primary malignancy that is clinically detectable at the time of consideration for study enrollment.
- Concurrent administration of any other antitumor therapy.
- Pregnant or breast-feeding.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00452634
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00452634
|Korea, Republic of
|National Cancer Center, Korea
|Goyang-si, Gyenggi, Korea, Republic of, 411-769
Sponsors and Collaborators
National Cancer Center, Korea
|Principal Investigator:
|Ji-Youn Han, M.D.,Ph.D.
|National Cancer Center, Korea
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Keywords provided by Ji-youn Han, National Cancer Center, Korea:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Ji-youn Han, Head of Lung Cancer Center, National Cancer Center, Korea
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00452634 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 26, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 17, 2013
Keywords provided by Ji-youn Han, National Cancer Center, Korea:
Extensive disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Topoisomerase I Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anticholesteremic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Lipid Regulating Agents
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017


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I remember when emus were going to be the next big thing. I know Jude's Mom and Dad had some emu's they were going to raise. I think there is a reason why that whole idea faded away. Emu's are mean and hard to deal with. That hasn't stopped thieves from raiding the Mobile Alabama Zoo and making off with unborn emu's in the form of eggs.I guess emu eggs would make a great big omellette or one heck of a fried egg sandwich, but I think I will stick with the chickens.


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The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fightby Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2010 12:00 AM EST
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Unlike a product review, there's very little I can do to conclude here. There's no buying recommendation, no performance to summarize. Even as an analytical piece there's not much for me to conclude based on what I've learned at this point. When I wrote The RV770 Story I was convinced that ATI had embraced a new, refocused approach to GPU design, only to learn that they nearly threw out all of the learnings with the RV870.
The Northern Islands GPUs, due out later this year, were surely designed before anyone knew how RV870 would play out. Much less whether or not Fermi/GF100 would be this late.
I'm not sure any of what we've seen thus far in the history leading up to the RV770 or RV870 can tell us what we should expect from Northern Islands. While we can't conclude about ATI's future products, I do believe I have learned a considerable amount about how AMD's graphics division works.
Carrell told me that the process of doing a product is not a logical process. There's logic in it, but it's not a logical process. It's an argumentative process. Not in the sense of having conflicts, but rather developing new data when the data isn't all there. When companies like AMD and NVIDIA do a product the engineers don't know all of the answers, and the knowledge they do have isn't binary - it's probability, it's weight, it's guesses. Sometimes they guess right, and sometimes they guess very wrong. The best they can do is to all weigh in with their individual experiences and together come up with the best group of guesses to implement. Over the years it seems that ATI has learned to, as much as possible, have all members of its team bought in to the product they're building.
The graphics team's dedication and experience in jumping to new process technologies seems to have paid off with this generation. The move from TSMC to Global Foundries will surely challenge them once more. It's not all about process technology though. The team's focus on schedule and execution was a much needed addition to the company's repertoire.
Carrell Killebrew helped turn ATI from a traditional GPU company with a poor track record, to one that could be known for its execution. The past three product generations have been executed extremely well. Regardless of whether you're an AMD, Intel or NVIDIA fan, you must give credit where it's due. The past couple of years have shown us a dramatic turn around from the graphics group at AMD. To go from the shakiness of the R500 and R600 GPUs to solidly executing on the RV670, 770 and 870 year after year is praiseworthy. I almost wonder if AMD's CPU team could learn from the graphics group's execution. I do hope that along with the ATI acquisition came the open mindedness to learn from one another.
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ThomasS31 - Monday, February 15, 2010 - link...it would be very interesting if nVidia tell us the story openly, what happened with this long delayed newly designed chip.
Anand staff, please try and persuade them to tell all details! :) Reply
XiZeL - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkdont want to look like a fanboy here but these stories just make me like ATI even more, make me feel like part of the familiy...
why dont you guys ever write these about nVidia? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkThe only reason I'm able to write something like this is because of how open/honest/unmarkety Carrell Killebrew is. And how trusting AMD PR is that they allow me to talk to him without any sort of limitations in place.
Until recently, there hasn't been a similar contact for me at NVIDIA. That has changed in the past few months and I've already reached out to him to see if he is willing to allow me the same opportunity to talk about Fermi.
If I can make it happen, I will :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
XiZeL - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - linkthanks for the reply :)
just for the record, as a costumer and someone who really likes technology, these kind of articles will help me take my final descision when bying a product...
yeally looking forward to seeing the same from Nvidia and try to understand their aproach on building a chip :)
thanks again Reply
Mat3 - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkI really enjoy reading stuff like this. One request for the next time you're talking to ATI guys: can you ask them about Fast14 and why it didn't work for them? Reply
Iketh - Monday, February 15, 2010 - link6900 series = Pagan
6800 series = Sarigan
6700 series = Saipan
6600/5500 series = Tinian
6400 series = Rota
Im probably way off lol Reply
hyvonen - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkLeaker! You'll be reported. Reply
XtremeOne - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkThank You for this beautiful and insightful article. Like many before me, i registered just to say that. Anandtech is one of the sites I fell very lucky to know about. Some of your articles are a bit "techie" for me, but this one is practically impossible to stop reading. :D Thank you Anand. Reply
Iketh - Monday, February 15, 2010 - linkit's a shame there cant be more articles like this... having a close relationship with one company allows it every year or two, but there are many companies in this field which could produce many more stories... i feel Anand is slowly tapping into a gold mine Reply
jstall - Monday, February 15, 2010 - link
This is a fantastic article, nice to get some insight into the the RD and thought process just as much as it is to see performance charts. Be nice to see a little more of this. Reply


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AMERICAN ISLAM – In Light without Fire, Scott Korb tells the story of the founding of America's first Muslim institution of higher education, ZaytunaCollege, in California, in the post-911 U.S.
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MCKINNEY– Cynthia McKinney is an internationally renowned peace advocate and human rights activist. Her new memoir is titled Ain't Nothing Like Freedom.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
"Animal Extermination" Glitch *PLEASE HELP!?*
After receiving the Animal Extermination mission from Aeyla(?) of The Companions I've gone to Greenspring Hollow to exterminate the Sabre Cat but I've killed the cat in question prior to receiving/accepting the mission. Now all I have is a marker arrow with no cat & no way to complete the mission. As if that wasn't bad enough, none of the other Companions will give me any more quests until I've done this one, can anyone help me?
Steve_O_1980 - 5 years ago
Clarification Request::
A cat? well when i accepted the quest around lvl 6 or so i had to fight trolls. are you sure you did the right quest?
brock147 - 5 years ago
Accepted Answer
Those kinds of quests are randomly generated if you were a true experienced player with multiple play throughs you would know that brock but to answer your question that is a sad part of the game if you accidentally do some things too early they become glitched if you havnt tried it wait about 2 days(10days at the most) in game it should respawn this works with most things in the game if not theres nothing you can do.
JDTgamr - 5 years ago
Other Answers
Is she following you? you need to part ways then re do quest or something
skyrim1991 - 5 years ago
Open her dialogue again it may have an option to quit the mission, I had a similar problem with one of the thieves guild missions and I just went back and said i didn't want to take it. turned it into a failed mission but then just open another dialogue, it gives you a random one each time so if you quit it and ask again she'll probably give you a different one
7Millions - 5 years ago
It's funny how you can screw up quests in this game. I was supposed to watch Viarmo read olaf's verse to elisif, but I had already gotten ulfric and tullius to agree to a peace conference, so elisif wasn't in the palace. After the peace conference ended, I suddenly got a notification that I had completed that quest XD
Also, I got a bounty to kill the dragon at bonestrewn crest immediately after I had already killed it. Now, the treasure chest is refilled everytime I go back, but there is never any dragon.
Randomnul3 (Expert) - 5 years ago
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How Mavericks make playoffs: taking it not one, but five games at a time
If the Mavericks look at their schedule and the daunting challenge of running down three teams in front of them for the final playoff berth in the Western Conference, it can get pretty demoralizing.
That's why coaches often break down segments of the season into five-game increments. That makes it easier to focus on a difficult situation — and makes it easier to sell the "one game at a time" stuff.
If Houston goes 14-13 the rest of the way, the Rockets will finish 43-39. Assuming the Mavericks have to get to 43 wins to get into the playoffs, here's how it can happen, five games at a time.
Feb. 20-28
Orlando, at New Orleans, LA Lakers, Milwaukee, at Memphis
Ideal finish: 4-1 (27-30)
It's going to take an unexpected win or two to make this happen, and beating the Lakers, even as sad as they've been, qualifies as unexpected at this point.
March 1-11
at Brooklyn, at Houston, Houston, at Detroit, at Minn.
Ideal finish: 3-2 (30-32)
The road is where they are going to have to make up ground, and Detroit and Minnesota are about as good as any place to pick up wins.
March 12-19
at Milwaukee, at San Antonio, Cleveland, Okla. City, at Atlanta
Ideal finish: 2-3 (32-35)
This is a pretty rugged stretch of games, and the visit to the Spurs ends a run in which seven of eight games are on the road. Survival is important in this stretch.
March 20-29
Brooklyn, Boston, Utah, LA Clippers, Indiana
Ideal finish: 4-1 (36-36)
The beards finally come off. It will have been nearly two months without shaving for the Mavericks, who agreed to grow beards until they reached .500.
March 30-April 8
Chicago, at LA Lakers, at Denver, at Sacramento, at Portland
Ideal finish: 3-2 (39-38)
Hard to see the Mavericks winning at LA or Denver (although by then, who knows what the Lakers will look like). But the other three must be banked in the W column.
April 9-17
Phoenix, Denver, at New Orleans, Memphis, New Orleans
Ideal finish: 4-1 (43-39)
It's quite possible Denver and Memphis could be coasting with their playoff fates already determined. Phoenix and New Orleans will be diving for lottery balls.


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In 1943, Hitler's Germany is performing scientific research on nuclear fission intending to produce nuclear energy, as well as devastating nuclear weaponry. Slip into the role of Dr. John Russell, a renowned British nuclear physicist who is hired by Britain's Secret Service MI6 to become an undercover agent. Your mission: prevent the Third Reich from building the world's first nuclear bomb. Embark on a dangerous and enthralling adventure that will have you looking over your shoulder and questioning who you can trust. Explore the heart of historic war-torn locations including London and Berlin, as you work with other Allied operatives to serve your country, the Crown, and defend the world from destruction.
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Chris Brown should be ordered to redo his community service, according to Los Angeles prosecutors.
A US judge has been asked to order the RnB star to redo his community work because of what the prosecutors claim are "significant discrepancies" in records submitted to a court.
Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray said that the records submitted by police in Richmond, Virginia, to prove the singer performed six months of community labour are "at best sloppy documentation and at worst fraudulent reporting".
Brown was allowed to perform his community labour sentence for the 2009 beating of Rihanna in his home state of Virginia.
Richmond police submitted paperwork last year indicating Brown had completed his sentence, but the logs showed the singer performing double shifts in the city and at a day care centre where his mother once worked.


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HarborCenter's hockey academy gearing up
'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the land, little boys and girls went to sleep with new hockey sticks in their hands.
But there's more to developing into a good hockey player than shiny new equipment and a few puck-handling skills.
That's where the HarborCenter Academy of Hockey comes into play.
The academy is a part of the HarborCenter project, currently under construction in front of First Niagara Center in downtown Buffalo.
While the construction includes two NHL-sized rinks and a world-class fitness center, the Academy of Hockey is about more than just your typical hockey drills and off-ice training.
It's about innovation, technology and making Buffalo a global destination for cutting-edge hockey training.
"We want to be known as the development destination for hockey players," said Kevyn Adams, HarborCenter Vice President and Director of the Hockey Academy. "We want this to be a place not only to develop the talent we have in Western New York and Southern Ontario but a destination for people from all over the world to come, train and share knowledge. Simply put, we want to be at the forefront of a player identifying how can I get better at hockey? I want to come to the academy."
It begins with state-of-the-art facilities at HarborCenter including the rinks and fitness centers. But it also includes theater-style classrooms, video and other technology to get the most out of training. (Want to see how hard you're really working? Try hooking up a heart rate monitor and having your numbers displayed on the big board.)
The buzzword is "innovation." The academy wants to be innovative in its approach to developing hockey players and that means looking at the hockey athlete, not just the hockey player.
"It's not just on-ice skills," said former Buffalo Sabre Adam Mair who has agreed to join the Academy of Hockey as a primary coach. "It's also about nutrition, working with strength and conditioning coaches and experts to develop hockey-specific off-ice conditioning. When they go into the fitness center, we want it to be very hockey-specific, something that's different than if you just go into a gym. We want to develop the athlete and not just hockey skills."
But part of the development of the complete hockey player includes specific hockey knowledge, which is where the "academy" part comes in making the venture more than just a training facility. The plan, according to Adams, includes a research component while reaching out to the best coaches and programs around the world.
"We may look at Swedish players and wonder why they're so good at controlling the puck," Adams said. "Coaches on our staff will do research, talk to coaches and players from Sweden, see what they're doing and bring it here."
That also opens up the possibility for exchange programs, sharing knowledge and making Buffalo the focal point for a range of hockey development.
"We're going to be able to touch everybody from youths to pros. That's the goal," Mair said. "Boys and girls. Players and coaches. We want to raise the learning curve of hockey and hockey development in the region."
Programming will be roughly divided between in-season and off-season. In-season programs geared more toward supplemental sessions while off-season programs will be geared toward intensive development.
And while the academy will be researching and bringing innovative training techniques to players, it also will be coaching the coaches. The academy will provide programming to coaches to help them raise their level and ability allowing the innovation at HarborCenter to have a further reach.
"We want to raise the level of coaching," Adams said. "We want the coaches that we help educate to understand the game, the practice plans, all the things that go into coaching. We feel by them having that knowledge they go back to their programs, they're going to certainly help develop their players and it's just going to help more players in the area."
While HarborCenter is still under construction, youth teams can already benefit from the expertise of the Academy of Hockey.
"If you can't come to us, we'll come to you," said Nik Fattey, vice president and director of hockey at HarborCenter. "There are opportunities right now for youth teams to get involved. And we're always ready to listen to ideas and to answer any questions about how we can help a team or league."
Right now, youth hockey teams (ages 8-16) in Western New York and Southern Ontario can win a practice with the Academy of Hockey's staff along with tickets to a Buffalo Sabres game as part of the Team of the Month contest.
To enter, participants should go to www.Facebook.com/HARBORCENTER to submit a nomination. In 300 words or less teams should list on-ice accomplishments, scholastic achievements and community involvement.
Entries are due by midnight, Jan. 12 with the top three teams announced on Jan. 13. Of those top three, the team with the most Facebook "likes" by 9 p.m. Jan. 17 will be the winner.
The Sabres did not practice on Wednesday and will also have today off as part of the three-day NHL holiday shutdown. The team will reunite for a morning skate Friday morning in Toronto before taking on the Leafs that night.
It looks like the Sabres will be missing forwards Matt Ellis and Johna Larsson on Friday. According to the Rochester Americans' website, the two, who played in Buffalo's 2-1 overtime win over the Phoenix Coyotes Monday night, were en route to Switzerland to join the team for the Spengler Cup. The Amerks are playing in the six-team tournament beginning today.
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Rushe Middle School hosts student robotics competition today
LAND O' LAKES - So close. Taylor Nguyen, Abdallah Mbowe and Jacob Goodloe watched intently as the robot wheeled across the table, angled to the right, came to a halt and tried to lift a "weight" built from Legos. The robot positioned itself a smidgen too short. Its arm swung up tantalizingly close to the target, but just missed. Undaunted, Taylor, 12, and Abdallah and Jacob, both 11, headed back to the computer in their Rushe Middle School classroom to tweak the program that told the robot how far to travel, when to turn, when to stop and when to lift.The pressure is mounting, though, because the deadline is approaching. This morning, the robot needs to be ready to compete in "Robots at Rushe," a Florida First Lego League Tournament expected to draw 16 robotic teams to Rushe Middle, at 18654 Mentmore Blvd. The robots, built from Legos, navigate across a table, handling challenges that involve props also built from Legos. Other Pasco schools represented in the tournament include Bayonet Point Middle, Chasco Middle, Crews Lake Middle, Dr. John Long Middle and Pasco Middle. The competition, which begins at 9 a.m. in the cafeteria and should conclude by about 5 p.m., is open to the public. "You are going to see some kids coming who build some crazy robots," technology teacher Ric Rieffer told his students during a practice session after school Thursday. The robots face a mission called "Senior Solutions," designed to mimic activities senior citizens might encounter in daily living. The 14 challenges include repairing a broken chair and returning it to its table, turning off a stove, bowling and placing a plant in its correct spot. The robot has a mere 21/2 minutes to complete as many tasks as possible. Teams earn or lose points based on the robot's performance. Rushe will have two teams at the competition. A team can have up to 10 members who help with the computer programs and snap together Legos to create the robot and the challenges it faces. Some team members perform a skit that involves coming up with a solution to a problem related to the competition theme. Just two team members can man the table when the robot springs into action at the competition, though. Rieffer serves as team coach, but competition rules limit how much he can help the students in their preparation because it is supposed to be a student-focused event. If the students encounter a problem, Rieffer asks them questions to try to nudge them toward their own solution, rather than spelling one out for them. For the students, robotics is lots of work and lots of fun. "I love robotics," said Paul Mangone, 13, an eighth-grader. "I want to be an engineer. I can probably build things that will help the Army." Jalon Pittman, 11, a sixth-grader, said that a year ago he wouldn't have imagined that he could help program a robot to carry out specific tasks. "What's the amazing thing about this is the technology and how we are able to move our robot like we want it," Jalon said. Of course, creating the instructions for the robot involves a bit of trial and error, as Abdallah, Taylor and Jacob found out. The students continually tweaked their computer program and downloaded revised instructions to the robot. The robot would travel too far. The students would tweak. Then the robot would stop or turn too soon. The students tweaked again. "We have to go through multiple trials to see if it works," Jalon said. Today they'll learn whether they tweaked enough.
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JEFFREY BROWN: Perhaps no social movement in American history is so tied up in the power of the image as the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s.
When Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy took the first desegregated bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956, when young men and women picketed a North Carolina courthouse in 1961, when protesters were set on by police dogs in Birmingham in 1963, cameras were there to record the moment.
Photographers got right into the action, often at personal risk, so their work could reach the front pages of American newspapers the next day.
This mix of journalism, activism, and art is celebrated in "Road to Freedom," put together by Atlanta's High Museum to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, some 250 photographs that both document a time and show the power of images to move people then and now.
Curator Julian Cox.
JULIAN COX, curator of photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta: Photography captures time and has this extraordinary capacity to freeze an historical moment and to provide information, evidence, narrative suggestion that is a very powerful — becomes a very powerful thing.
JEFFREY BROWN: The London-born Cox came to Atlanta three years ago and searched high and low for photographs that would build up the museum's existing civil rights era collection.
He found never-before-shown works, like this sequence of photos of the firebombing of a bus bearing "Freedom Riders" in Anniston, Ala., in 1961. They'd been stored in a law firm for decades as potential evidence.
And images that moved through time: a photo by Danny Lyon from the 1963 march on Washington that became a call-to-action poster and then turned up in another photo later taken in rural Mississippi.
Then there are iconic works: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery in 1956, taken by an unknown photographer.
TEACHER: Somebody tell me about Rosa Parks. What do you know about her?
STUDENT: She was the first black lady to sit in the front of the bus.
TEACHER: That's right.
Photos catch iconic moments
JEFFREY BROWN: Then there are the photos of James Meredith writhing in pain after being shot in Mississippi in 1966. They won the Pulitzer Prize for Jack Thornell, then a 26 year old working for the Associated Press.
And protesters being blasted with water in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham in 1963, taken by Bob Adelman, a freelancer who worked for both magazines and civil rights groups.
JULIAN COX: It's a picture that's so much about the decisive moment in photography with these two echoing gestures of figures with their arms raised. And it has the grandeur and power of some of the great paintings of history.
I think it's one of the great photographs of the 20th century in America. It's pictures like these that really changed the nation.
DORIS DERBY, photographer/activist: I particularly like to have pictures of the children...
JEFFREY BROWN: One person moved to action was a young northerner named Doris Derby.
DORIS DERBY: The power of those photographs, with the fire hoses, the dogs jumping on young people because they were demonstrating, the police with their billy clubs, all of those influenced me to go to Mississippi, when I had just two weeks earlier declined to participate.
JEFFREY BROWN: So those photos really changed your life?
DORIS DERBY: I said, "This is something that I have to do."
JEFFREY BROWN: In Mississippi, Derby took photographs for civil rights organizations while working as an educator and community organizer. Amid the violence and injustice, she focused her lens on programs in which blacks were helping themselves.
DORIS DERBY: I was documenting not only the political side, but the economic, the educational, and the artistic side that complemented the political. And I wanted to make sure that the self-empowerment activities that the communities were involved in were documented.
We had so many leaders developing. The average person was looking for a chance for a change.
JULIAN COX: And then this is very unusual, as well.
Photos seen for the first time
JEFFREY BROWN: In the family collection of Vicki Wilson Hunt, curator Cox found another rich trove of photos and a different perspective on events.
Hunt's father, at the time a detective for the Birmingham Police Department, took numerous pictures, including some from that same day in 1963 when the water hoses were turned on young people in Kelly Ingram Park.
Hunt herself knew nothing of the photos and wasn't sure what to make of them when her father showed them to her shortly before he died.
VICKI WILSON HUNT: I knew they were historic. I knew that my father thought that they were extremely important. They were wrapped in envelopes; they were very well taken care of. They were almost private to him.
JEFFREY BROWN: As a girl, Hunt says, she, like many of her white friends, knew very little of the turmoil around her. The photos and then this exhibition opened up her world.
VICKI WILSON HUNT: I went through room after room -- we were invited to the preview with other photographers, and then we came upstairs, and looked at the exhibit, and went from room to room -- I read every single thing that's beside every single picture.
And the museum had to come and ask us, tell us that the museum was closed and would we please leave, because it was closed. But I couldn't leave, because I was just fascinated with this story that I had missed.
JEFFREY BROWN: The photographs get a different kind of homage in a companion exhibition at the High Museum called "After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy." Seven artists were sent copies of the photos and commissioned to come up with a new work.
Nadine Robinson created a giant sculpture made of stereo speakers, with a variety of references to the civil rights era. A shape based on the facade of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, megaphones suggesting those used by protesters, and, most of all, a mix of sounds from gospel music to protest speeches to water hoses being sprayed.
NADINE ROBINSON, "After 1968" Artist: I wanted to take these photos and give them voice, give them a sort of life, a life force, re-envisioning them in which they are not subjugated, but uplifted.
JEFFREY BROWN: That's this part of the piece, but then at other times you hear the water being sprayed. I mean, you sort of feel the pain, as well.
NADINE ROBINSON: This is sort of like a give-and-take, that you kind of remember where you're coming from, but also have the hope of moving forward.
JEFFREY BROWN: Viewers and listeners have a chance to experience the new, while, says Julian Cox, savoring the depths of history and emotion contained in the old photographs.
JULIAN COX: They're moved by the images because they have the capacity to unleash powerful personal memories and qualities of personal association in the way that not all photography can do, but this subject matter seems to be able to really connect to people in that kind of powerful, direct way.
JEFFREY BROWN: The "Road to Freedom" exhibition is in Atlanta through October 5th, before moving to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in November.


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College baseball just getting to its prime
Posted June 7, 2013
Current South Carolina head baseball coach Chad Holbrook remembers life playing in Chapel Hill well.
"When I played there, the cages were all dirt," he said laughing. "Coach (Mike Roberts) would run us, and it was so dusty, we would spit up dirt. It would come through my nose."
A fine illustration of what college baseball used to be back in the day. Way back in 1990, that is, when Holbrook played for the Heels. Not that long ago by normal standards, but it is a different world for the sport these days.
"I went to a regional my freshman year and we played on a football field. In a regional," Holbrook said.
Now every regional game is broadcast online and many on TV. Most coaches are very quick to thank ESPN for the growth of college baseball. The network certainly deserves a bulk of the credit, but I think it goes way deeper than that.
Take Boshamer stadium for example. UNC spent a bunch of money in 2008 to renovate. The capacity is now up to 5,000. The park includes a suite level. It has a lot of the comforts of a major league park. The players have access to a state-of-the-art clubhouse. They have indoor batting cages and a player's lounge. Needless to say, these guys won't be telling stories of coughing up dirt when they reflect on their glory days in 20 years.
The sport also owes some of the boom the last few years to the change in bats. The NCAA changed to a more "wood-like" bat in 2011. Some thought this would hurt popularity at the time of the change, but it's made the game much more watchable. You see fewer 16-14 games and more strategy. You see more high-level pitchers giving the sport a try thanks to the new bats. They know their development will be more like the minor leagues. That wasn't the case in the "ping-era".
"It's made a lot of big strides and improvements," said UNC head coach Mike Fox. "Just sitting (in front of a bunch of media) is new. It's exciting."
And it just continues to get bigger. It's one sport where the "good ol' days" may be now.