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By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: July 11, 2006
Soon after North Korea started launching missiles before dawn last Wednesday, Japan's television networks canceled their regular programming to broadcast the news and the government's quick response.
By contrast, except for very brief ''news flashes,'' the networks here continued their World Cup soccer coverage until Italy beat Germany about 6:40 a.m.
The differences did not end there. Even as Christopher R. Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, crisscrossed this region emphasizing the importance of speaking with one voice against North Korea's missile tests, South Korea and Japan, America's allies, were bickering.
On Sunday, the South Korean president's office issued a statement saying that overreacting to the tests would only heighten tensions on the Korean peninsula. ''There is no reason to fuss over this from the break of dawn like Japan,'' it read.
On Monday, Japanese officials called South Korea's comments regrettable and said Tokyo was not ''creating a big fuss.''
The launchings have underscored how much the North Korea issue has transformed South Korea and Japan in recent years and set them heading in opposite directions, making it harder for Washington to achieve foreign policy goals like United Nations sanctions against the North. As South Korea has engaged North Korea and begun reconciliation, the process has reshaped its image of the North and complicated its relationship with the United States.
Japan, which began shaking off its postwar pacifism after North Korea fired a long-range missile over its territory in 1998, has led the campaign to punish it for last week's missile tests. In the last two days, Japanese officials have openly begun talking about whether Japan should acquire the military capacity to make pre-emptive strikes.
''South Korea is minimizing the threat, to manage the hawkish reaction from the United States and Japan,'' said Lee Geun, a professor of international relations at Seoul National University who is a visiting professor at Kyushu University in Japan. ''Japan is exaggerating the threat in order to pursue the goals of strengthening its self-defense forces and the U.S.-Japan alliance.''
To a great extent, though, the South's insouciance about the North's threat is the product of years of peaceful relations. As in 1994, when North Korea threatened to turn Seoul into a ''sea of fire,'' trouble with their northern cousins used to send South Koreans scurrying to buy up bottled water and instant noodles.
But since last Wednesday retailers have reported no hoarding, no spike in sales of instant noodles.
Consider the two young South Koreans who were sitting outside on a bench here. Asked about their reaction four days after the launchings, Chun Kwon Mi, 27, and Kim Chung Nam, 30, responded with blank stares. ''They fired?'' said Ms. Chun, who works in online shopping and does not follow the news.
Mr. Kim, a construction worker, had not heard about the missiles either. ''We never talked about it at work,'' he said.
Reconciliation with the North began in earnest in 2000 after Kim Dae Jung, then South Korea's president, and Kim Jong Il, the North's leader, held a historic meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital.
Since then, under its current president, Roh Moo Hyun, South Korea has pursued a policy of engaging -- or coddling, critics say -- the North. The South is now the North's second-biggest trading partner and aid donor, behind China, and thousands of South Koreans travel to the North each month for tourism, business and a multitude of exchanges.
North Koreans are now regarded by Southerners as long-lost brethren, objects of pity or targets of ridicule -- but rarely enemies. ''They weren't firing at us,'' said Nam Chul, 44, a welder. ''They were firing at the United States and Japan. For North Korea this is almost like their own home, so why should they fire at us?''
Older South Koreans tend to be more distrustful of the North, but their fear, too, has decreased.
''In general we've become too relaxed toward North Korea,'' said Kang Min Chung, who was waiting for a bus. Nevertheless, Ms. Kang supports engaging the North. ''But because my generation went through the Korean War, I'd still like to stay close to the United States,'' she said.
South Korea's policy has created friction with the Bush administration, which prefers to try to isolate the North and force its government to collapse. Experts say North Korea is likely to become a long-term strain in the Washington-Seoul alliance, because a consensus has formed here that conflict should be avoided at all costs and that the only sure disaster would be the North's collapse.
Park Jin, a lawmaker in the opposition Grand National Party, said his party favored a ''more balanced'' version of the engagement policy, which he termed ''necessary not only for cooperation with North Korea, but also to try to make it reform.''
Washington's opposition to engagement has stirred anti-American feelings here and a belief among some that the United States is standing in the way of reconciliation and eventual reunification.
''North Korea is an independent country, so why shouldn't they be able to fire missiles?'' said Kim Yung Reoul, 36, a pastor. ''It's remarkable -- they've confronted the United States. I felt quite satisfied. I felt as if I'd finally digested something that I had trouble digesting.''
Mr. Hill, the American diplomat, said he understood why South Korea's reaction to the missile tests had been muted. ''The Chinese talk about their century of shame,'' he said in an interview here. ''In the case of South Korea you have this brutal division.''
South Korea's ''whole North policy is predicated on some sort of long-term notion that somewhere through these sets of evolutionary policies that this will eventually get better,'' Mr. Hill said. ''Then this period of great tragedy can be put behind them. So when you have these moments that argue for the opposite, it's just upsetting for people. And we just need to be aware of that.''
Photo: In a Seoul train station yesterday, a video screen showed a news broadcast about the missile tests conducted last week by the North Koreans. (Photo by Seokyung Lee for The New York Times)


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A year after the Freedom Caucus pressured John Boehner to resign as Speaker, members of the conservative group have begun threatening his successor, Paul Ryan.
Members are still furious the new Speaker didn't do more to help Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas in his failed primary bid this summer. They're pressuring Ryan to back a vote to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in the coming days. And they're daring the Wisconsin Republican to ignore Freedom Caucus demands on a government-funding package and pass it with help from Democrats.
"How'd that work out for John Boehner?" quipped Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), a Freedom Caucus member and frequent thorn in the side of both Speakers.
Gosar didn't back Ryan for Speaker last October, so his tough talk isn't surprising.
But some of Gosar's Freedom Caucus colleagues who publicly voted for Ryan are now threatening to oppose him in a January floor vote depending on how he navigates this tricky set of issues before the election.
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Just how good of a career Corey Patterson has had is a matter of interpretation. The speedy outfielder came into professional baseball with high expectations, having been taken as the third overall pick of the 1998 draft by the Cubs. He made his big-league debut two years later, at age 21, but while there have been plenty of highs since that time—Patterson hit 24 home runs in 2004 and stole 45 bases in 2006—there have been an equal number of lows.
CP: I think so, and I think it is more from a mental standpoint. I'm not looking at it as far as stats or putting up certain numbers, but if you're relaxed and feeling good about yourself and how things are going, at the end of the year your numbers are probably going to be where you want them to. I feel that I'm at that point now. Is this is my best year numbers-wise? No, but I feel better and more relaxed. I feel good about what I'm doing every day and think that I can help a team win games.
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I don't mean this to sound as obnoxious as it will but I find it very funny that Patterson points to draft day as the highlight of his career as many would say that getting picked 3rd in the draft WAS the highlight of his career.
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Fascinating discussion. I appreciate his positive attitude and mindset. Still, it's interesting how someone with Patterson's raw talent, who wasn't able to convert a lot of the offensive aspect to actual game skills in the majors, seems to have kind of accepted his limitations as a ballplayer (at least implicitly).
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US soldiers had arrested him in a 3:00 am raid a few days ago. They accused him of filming IED (improvised explosive device) explosions. Therefore he was a resistance fighter or
knew who some were.
Yesterday afternoon we drove to the Adhamia neighborhood of Baghdad to see a friend's family. He was a cameraman who had worked with British independant media journalists. US soldiers had arrested him in a 3:00 am raid a few days ago. They accused him of filming IED (improvised explosive device) explosions. Therefore he was a resistance fighter or
knew who some were. So he was in jail. The international organization Occupation Watch called the US officer in charge "Can he have visitors, can he see a lawyer and what are the charges" "NO, no and he is charged under CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) law. CPA law is secret.
Thousands of years ago Hamarabi was considered an enlieghtened leader because he published his laws on stone tablets where everyone could see.
Now the US has taken over this same land but it is hard on Iraqis to follow the law when they have no idea what it is.
The arrested man's wife had been to the stadium where he is being held. She had been told that he had confessed to the filming and would be sent to Abu Gharib. This was Saddam's worst prison for decades, but he hademptied it before the war. Now the US was filling it up again. I had passed Abu Gharib earlier in the day. Hundreds of people were crowded
outside. Were their relatives among the 5-10,000 inside? Would they be released? Would the families be able to survive with their only wage earner imprisoned for months? Or would the families spend another day in the hot sun, surrounded by endless coils of barbed wire...
A certain kind of anger begins to build up. It seeps out and fills Iraq.
As we pulled away chucka-chucka-chucka-grrrrrr. An apache helicopter swooped low over the city. A seven year-old child stood by the wall of the narrow alley. Alone, he took his imaginary weapon and took careful aim.
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George: Uncertainty is why I think Cowboys should give DeMarcus Ware another season
Beat writer Brandon George answered questions in a chat Wednesday. Here are some highlights.
Question: I feel the Cowboys should make Ware an affordable offer and if he refuses, let him go. Then we can have financial cap space for free agency. We can pick up two defensive line men for the price of one. What do you think George?
Brandon George: Well, cutting Ware only saves the Cowboys $7.4 million. So, that's not a ton of money to work with in free agency. I still believe the Cowboys should give Ware one more season. Sure, he's not worth $12.25 million for 2014, at least not based on last year, but he's still one of the NFL's top pass-rushers when he's healthy.
Question: Do you believe Williams take a big step forward next year at WR? he's not as fast as I had hoped. Might a faster #2 receiver compliment Bryant a bit better?
Brandon George: Terrance Williams doesn't have track speed but he's fast enough. I believe he does take a step forward in 2014 and becomes the Cowboys' No. 2 receiver. I believe they'll cut Miles Austin and they could look for a veteran receiver in free agency who would bring some experience to a young WRs group.
Question: D-Ware is in steady decline. One good year left? Maybe. One outstanding year? Not likely, as he was handled one on one frequently. $7.5 mil can buy two effective rotation players....is D-Ware really more than that at this stage? I say bite the bullet.
Brandon George: Henry, you just don't really know. We can all sit here and guess what Ware has left, but it's a tough position for the Cowboys. They haven't seen him play healthy the last few seasons, so what does that look like if he can stay healthy? Is it more than injuries with Ware? Has age caught up with him? You'll never know until you see him healthy. I'll say this, he was dominant in training camp and played well early in the season before injuries started stacking up. Ware gave LT Tyron Smith fits throughout training camp.
Question: Might the Cowboys be awarded any compensatory picks for the upcoming draft (Ratliff)? And if Hatcher, Spencer, and Ware leave this offseason- might they receive compensatory picks in 2015?
Brandon George: The Cowboys could get two to three compensatory picks in the upcoming draft, but that won't be announced by the league until the annual league meetings later this month. They would likely be late seventh-round draft choices for such losses in free agency last year from Victor Butler, Mike Jenkins and Kenyon Coleman.


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"My breakthrough moment will be during the men's 100m final when billions of fans will watch in real-time on any device from anywhere in the world, the fastest man in the world!"
Dorien Wamelink originally from the Netherlands is Deputy Chief Marketing Officer based on our Bezons office. Dorien has been with Atos for 15 years.
"The proudest moment for me in Atos was completing my first Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games." Says Dorien. "And if you ask me to share another breakthrough moment, well, it was definitely supporting the great Atos MEV team to win the new IOC contract until 2024 in an open tender. We came up against some tough competition to secure the Worldwide IT Partner status until 2020, we achieved this through a different marketing approach and business model."
When we asked Dorien what breakthrough moment will she achieve during the Olympic Games, she told us… "Imagine… It is the evening of Sunday 14th August 2016; Usain Bolt is hopefully in the starting blocks for the 100m final, it's THE event of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, everyone has been waiting for this moment. The 60,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium are live at the race and gasp in anticipation of a spectacular new Olympic and world record. Over 30,000 commentators and journalists look at their information screens from their studios in Rio, or as far abroad as Tokyo. And around the globe, billions of fans are watching in real-time on any device and share their experience of seeing the fastest man in the world, ever!"
"For me, that is the breakthrough moment for these Games in Rio: it is the perfect example of what we (yes we!) at Atos as Worldwide IT Partner fror the Olympic & Paralympic Games altogether are capable of. It's a clear display of human achievement, only supported and powered by our different technologies and solutions. I am thrilled to support the program and initiative around these Games to have many of my colleagues (over 100,000!) and many of our clients take part in these Olympics – one way or the other! We cannot take everyone to the Games but we can bring the Games now to everyone!"
"As a former tennis professional I'm still into tennis. But beyond this, sports in general is just fantastic. To see the passion, to see the athletes having their own inner fights and overcoming barriers and winning their own personal challenges, that's truly awesome."
"During the Olympics there's a few games I have on my wish list" Says Dorien. "I will be watching every day! Especially the 100 meters men's just to see the fastest man ever; then the women's beach volleyball because of the impressive backdrop of Copacabana beach; also several tennis matches, just because it is tennis; the rugby Sevens since it is a new sport in the Olympics; the Hockey finals which I saw during London 2012 for the first time live, it really is a 'grown up' sport with super precision, speed, technique and team spirit. Then finally… swimming, for which I expect the Netherlands to gain a few medals!"
When we asked Dorien what she thinks about our work for the Olympic Games, she told us;
"We are a company with a unique combination of people, skills, capabilities and technologies. It makes us the proud Worldwide IT Partner and an example organization to inspire our employees and others."
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IAN Holloway has asked fans to lay off Stephen Bywater after his howler gifted Reading the lead in today's 3-0 defeat at The Den.
The keeper inexplicably dropped the ball when coming out to gather and his mistake was capitalised on fully by Pavel Pogrebnyak, who fired the Royals into a 39th minute lead.
Bywater was getting some stick from the home fans for the remainder of the game, most of the abuse referencing his past as a previous player for bitter rivals West Ham.
But although unaware of the flak heading the keeper's way, Lions boss Holloway was keen to point out criticising the player for who he used to represent was uncalled for.
The manager said: "I didn't hear that I was too busy trying to decide what I was going to do.
"I don't care whoever anybody has ever played for in my honest opinion.
"I remember having Paul Furlong when I was at QPR and I remember him being called Chelsea scum because he missed a couple of chances.
"He ended up getting one goal every three games for me by the time I finished with him.
"I don't care whoever Stephen Bywater has ever played for.
"If he went to play for West Ham now I probably wouldn't like him because I know what it means to everybody but what he has done before I don't really care.
"I don't want to upset our fans but I don't see how it (Bywater's past) is relevant.
"I see him every day, day in, day out.
"He is more experienced than Denzel Gerrar at the minute and I've lost Fordey so what do you want me to do, put the chairman in goal?"
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Does it bother you?
If so, why?
I watch p**n all the time. And so does DH. We rarely watch it together. We have totally different styles of what we like.
Not so much debate as it is discuss. I'm curious.
We both watch it- together and separately & no it doesn't bother me
He does at times. Sometimes it's with me, sometimes not. I don't care either way, really.
My ex hid it from me and kind of ruind it for me because he ended up being a sick pig. Ugh but it probably wouldn't otherwise
He does watch p**n and it doesn't bother me at all. I always get sex when I want it. He comes to me often for sex or oral. I know he loves me, I know he wants me. He usually does it at 2am when he gets up for work and you know what? I'm happy there is p**n. I'd be getting seriously pissy if he kept waking me up at 2am every morning for sex.
He watches it all the time..mostly because I am never in the mood lol But when I watch it he gets all uppity about it :P
We don't watch it. I think it gives unrealistic views on sexuality. My husband and I committed to just each other and are open to anything sexually together not using p**n. I don't think every realishionship needs it and I don't think it's "normal" for everyone.
It doesn't bother me, but on the weekneds I make him watch the p**n I want to watch. :twisted:
We both do at different times also sometimes together. It doesn't bother me I'm not insecure.
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Quoting ILOVEWINE:" We don't watch it. I think it gives unrealistic views on sexuality. My husband and I committed to just ... [snip!] ... sexually together not using p**n. I don't think every realishionship needs it and I don't think it's "normal" for everyone."
Same! We don't really need it. Plus he thinks my mouth > his hand.
We will watch it together occasionally, but never separately
It doesn't bother me, most of the time. If I'm feeling insecure or upset about myself, occasionally I'll feel annoyed (maybe twice a year).
We've tried watching it together, but I'm not really into it. I don't watch it on my own either.
we watch together and rarely we watch separately i more than him so no it doesn't bother either one of us
I am ok with hubby watching it just to look by himself. I am not ok with him masturbating while watching at. Although part of why i may feel this way is because he has hidden it from me and lied about it for a very long time. At times he has made me feel very unwanted and that he would rather do that than be with me. We watch it together sometimes and we both enjoy it. As long as he makes me a part of it and included I have no problem with it as long as its an occasional thing. When we got married I agreed to give him 100% of me in all ways. I expect the same from him. This a ongoing issue that we are currently working on.


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|Rich McNeil '10 placed 11th in the weight throw, one better than his seeding entering the event. (File photo by Tom Leonard '78)
|Jesse Chapman '13 had the highest score in the shot put among all 12 pentathletes. (File photo by Tom Leonard '78)
GREENCASTLE, Ind. -- Bates senior Rich McNeil competed in the shot put on Saturday to wrap up the Bates men's track and field team's excursion to the NCAA Division III Men's Indoor Track & Field Championships at DePauw University. Unfortunately McNeil fouled on all three of his attempts in the preliminary flights and was among seven competitors who missed the finals. He entered the competition as the 16th seed.
The Bates College men's track and field team was represented on Friday at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships by McNeil in the weight throw and first-year Jesse Chapman in the pentathlon.
McNeil (Lawrence, Mass.) missed the finals in the weight throw and finished 11th overall with a top effort of 57-07.50, one place better than his No. 12 seeding entering the event.
Earlier on Friday, Chapman (East Thetford, Vt.) scored 3,325 points in the pentathlon to finish 12th out of 13 competitors, 30 points behind 11th-place Richard Roethel of Christopher Newport University and 171 points under his Bates record-setting performance last week at the ECAC Division III Championships. Chapman led all competitors in the shot put at 43-8, good for 686 of his points.


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The Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler's Rebellion, the Great Rising of 1381) reached London on this day in 1381, some 30,000 entering the city to formally voice before King Richard II and his lords the complaints they had been making throughout England for days, or decades:
They are clothed in velvet and soft leather furred with ermine, while we wear coarse cloth; they have their wines, spices and good bread, while we have the drawings of chaff, and drink water; they have handsome houses and manors, and we the pain and travail, the rain and the wind, in the fields.
The lines above are excerpted from a John Ball sermon in Froissart's Chronicles. The peasant-rebels had recently sprung the itinerant preacher from prison, and the previous day he had spoken to them at Blackheath, delivering perhaps the most provocative rhymed couplet in history: "When Adam delved and Eve span, / Who was then the gentleman?" The protesters apparently took up this chant as they marched to London to demand of the fourteen-year-old king and his lords why they had the easy life while the peasants still had the digging and spinning. Though defeated — leader Wat Tyler killed as he argued his case to Richard, John Ball hanged, drawn, and quartered a month later — Ball's poetry lived on, says one historian, as the embodiment of "a spirit fatal to the whole system of the Middle Ages."
It also inspired the poet-artisan William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, which revolutionized Victorian taste. A medievalist in his aesthetic and a socialist in his politics, Morris published A Dream of John Ball (1887), a time-travel fantasy in which he promotes his vision of an idealized, compassionate society of craftsmen-artists. When Morris started his famous Kelmscott Press several years later, one of his first books was his own edition of A Dream of John Ball, with a frontispiece illustration of the "delved-span" couplet by Edward Burne-Jones.
Daybook is contributed by Steve King, who teaches in the English Department of Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. His literary daybook began as a radio series syndicated nationally in Canada. He can be found online at todayinliterature.com.


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Montclair, NJ September 2013 – Atlantic Health System and Montclair State University have announced a partnership to promote healing arts in health care and education through research.
Through the robust services of Atlantic Health System, one of the largest non-profit health care systems in New Jersey and the academic capabilities of Montclair State University, one of the state's foremost learning institutions, the partnership will offer opportunities to research and develop the ways that arts and health complement each other.
Atlantic Health System is comprised of Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center and Newton Medical Center and Goryeb Children's Hospital. Montclair State University's College of the Arts is a state-designated "Center of Excellence in the Arts," and is home to the George Segal Gallery and the Creative Research Center.
William Neigher, Vice President, System Development, and Chief Strategy Officer for Atlantic Health System, noted that there are many opportunities for arts to play an important role in healing, both in and out of hospital settings.
"A healing culture is essential for us to achieve our mission," Neigher said. "People come to us in some of the most difficult moments of their life. We can make connections with them through arts and music not only to aid them in those moments, but to help them live healthier throughout their lives."
"The partnership between Atlantic Health System and Montclair State University has the very rich potential to illuminate new pathways to well-being," said Montclair State University President Susan A. Cole. "The goal of that partnership is quite simply to become a leader in arts and health care and help future leaders to advance in both of these fields."
Through the partnership, health care and academic professionals will collaborate to examine the ways art can contribute to medicine and vice versa – for instance, the way art therapy can be used to help patients being treated for Alzheimer's disease, or the way sports medicine might assist dancers and performers.
The partnership will also enhance academic programs and provide a new outlet to bring together students studying health care or art to explore both subjects. This includes:
About Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System is one of the largest non-profit health care systems in New Jersey, comprised of Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center in Summit, Newton Medical Center, and Goryeb Children's Hospital. The three medical centers – all accredited by The Joint Commission – have a combined total of 1,308 licensed beds and more than 2,750 affiliated physicians providing a wide array of health care services to the residents of Northern and Central New Jersey. Specialty service areas include advanced cardiovascular care, pediatric medical and surgical specialties, neurology, orthopedics, and sports medicine. Each of these programs has earned top ratings and recognitions in their respective fields. Atlantic Health System is the official health care partner of the New York Jets and an official health care provider of the New Jersey Devils.
Morristown Medical Center's Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute performs more heart surgeries than any other hospital in New York or New Jersey, and is one of 20 facilities across the country to perform catheter-based repair and replacement of valves on both sides of the heart. Atlantic Health System's spine program – where surgeons perform more spine surgery than anywhere else in New Jersey – is one of just 13 hospitals across the country that has received the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission, achieving Disease-Specific Care Certification for cervical and lumbar spine treatments. With the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute based at Overlook Medical Center, the hospital serves as the hub for the New Jersey Stroke Network, and serves about 40 percent of the state's stroke patients. The system's Goryeb Children's Hospital offers more than 100 board-certified physicians in 20 pediatric specialties. Morristown Medical Center is verified as a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and designated a Level II by the state of New Jersey.
Atlantic Health System has been chosen for the past five consecutive years by FORTUNE® as one of the magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For®." The organization has also been recognized six times by AARP as one of the "Best Employers for Workers over 50." Inside Jersey magazine partnered with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. and ranked Morristown Medical Center in 2013 as the No. 1 hospital in New Jersey and the No. 1 hospital in the state for treatment of heart failure, coronary surgery, hip and knee repair, treatment of breast, prostate and pediatric cancers and treatment of stroke. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked Morristown Medical Center as a top hospital nationwide for cardiology and heart surgery, gynecology and geriatric care, in the publication's annual Best Hospitals list. Morristown Medical Center also ranked among the best hospitals in New Jersey and as a "Best Regional Hospital" for Cancer, Diabetes & Endocrinilogy, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics as well as Gastroenterology and GI surgery, Nephrology, Pulmonology and Urology. U.S. News & World Report ranked Overlook Medical Center in 2013 among the best hospitals in central New Jersey and as a "Best Regional Hospital" for Neurology and Neurosurgery as well as Gastroenterology and GI surgery, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Nephrology, Pulmonology and Urology. Atlantic Health System is an affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.


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Jakob Dylan Talks About 'Women and Country,' Plays at the WSJ Cafe
Jakob Dylan, the frontman for the Grammy-winning band The Wallflowers, releases his second solo album this week, "Women and Country."
Produced by T Bone Burnett ("O Brother Where Art Thou?" and the Oscar-winning "Crazy Heart" soundtrack), and featuring guests such as singer Neko Case, Dylan says the new album doesn't mean the end of the Wallflowers.
"Everybody's spread out doing different things, I'm doing this," Dylan said. "When we can figure out what we want to do next and it feels meaningful, yeah we'll do something."
Dylan stopped by the Wall Street Journal to talk about his new work, and to play two songs off the album. You can see two exclusive performances by Dylan at the WSJ Cafe after the jump.


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Sinner or Saint
DISD's Marcell Archer is either the best or worst school principal ever
Where to start? With the teachers and parents who say the principal is a "megalomaniac," a racist, "the anti-Christ"? Or with the teachers who went on the record--unlike many of those making disparaging remarks--who say the principal is a natural leader they'd follow anywhere, veteran teachers who call her the best principal they've ever had?
It's tough to know what to make of Marcell Archer, the principal of William J. Cabell Elementary School. Each story you hear is rebutted by another. Take the Cabell teacher who spoke to the Dallas Observer on conditions of anonymity, fearful of losing her job or facing Archer's wrath if she went public. This teacher says there's an Orwellian fear on campus that each word a teacher utters inevitably will make its way back to Archer. "She even said in one meeting, 'These walls have ears,'" the teacher says.
Now, listen to Deanne Paiva. Paiva teaches English as a second language to Cabell second-graders. In October, her peers on campus named her Teacher of the Year. "I feel that I have the pulse of the school," she says. "And a state of fear? Absolutely not...What has been presented to you is a product of gossip."
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Really? Then what about the claims that 68 teachers and staff members left Pershing Elementary, Archer's old school, in her three-year tenure there? What about the grievance filed last year against Archer by six Pershing teachers? What about the nine teachers this year who've already asked to transfer from Cabell, according to a source at the school? Or the 15 more who may leave, according to the same source? (As of press time, the Observer has yet to receive a definitive count from the Dallas Independent School District on how many Pershing staffers left during Archer's reign. And the Observer awaits the findings from an open records request that would list how many Cabell teachers will transfer at year's end.)
None of the figures, nor the grievance, has merit, Archer says. "I'm trying to go the high road and not throw rocks at everybody."
She came to Dallas from Austin eight years ago with Mike Moses, who last year retired as DISD superintendent. While in Austin, Moses' wife, Debi, taught at the same school at which Archer was principal.
Parents and former teachers at Pershing say Archer came to the school four years ago and talked openly of her friendship with the Moseses.
"She bragged about spending the night over at Mike Moses' all the time," says Kaneda Foster, who taught for 36 years before retiring after one under Archer. "After the school year, my blood pressure was so high," she says. She went to the doctor "and he said, 'What's wrong?' and I said, 'I work for the anti-Christ.'" The doctor said to decrease her stress level.
"I think she's mentally ill," Foster says. "I really do. It's not normal to create this much havoc and relish in it."
The havoc, according to Foster, former PTA members at Pershing and 17 unsigned letters from Pershing teachers and staff mailed, in 2002, to DISD trustee Hollis Brashear, includes allegations of screaming at teachers and staff--sometimes behind closed doors, sometimes not; rummaging, alone, through a teacher's books and files looking for "something"; writing up teachers who don't say hello to Archer; and asking some teachers to relay back to Archer what others are saying about her.
And don't forget Willie McCree. McCree, a former janitor at Pershing and an African-American, filed a grievance against Archer because of alleged harassment and racist comments he claims Archer made. Carl Weisbrod, a Dallas attorney whose youngest son attended Pershing at the time, says he took up McCree's grievance.
"DISD dropped the grievance before it was made public in a hearing," he says. The school "agreed to transfer Willie after airing all the facts and believing all the things he said."
Archer says, "There was no grievance, and Mr. Weisbrod did not represent him in anything...No, there's nothing there."
Weisbrod says because of McCree's grievance, and another he handled dealing with Archer's former secretary, he and his wife, Jaime, having already put two children through Pershing, transferred their youngest to another school at the end of Archer's first year there.
"She destroyed that school," Jaime Weisbrod says.
Why didn't DISD act on its behalf?
Because of her friendship with the Moseses, the Weisbrods say. "She let everybody know from the beginning that she was beyond any sort of justice," Carl says.
Archer says, "There's no truth to that at all."
Yet 68 teachers and staff allegedly left Pershing during Archer's tenure. The figure comes from the Weisbrods and is supported by other PTA parents, Kaneda Foster and Aimee Bolender, the president of Alliance/AFT, the teachers union that represented the six Pershing teachers who last summer filed a grievance against Archer.
Archer says the figure's nowhere near accurate. She does admit people left, though she doesn't know how many. Still, she says, the dot-com bubble burst was hard on Dallas and the spouses of Pershing teachers who found new jobs in other cities. Other teachers had babies. Others went back for graduate degrees. After that, the number that left was "insignificant," Archer says, compared with transfer rates of other DISD schools.
As for the teachers' grievance, Bolender admits the teachers' claims were found to be unsubstantiated.
Archer transferred to Cabell Elementary this year. Six teachers who spoke to the Observer anonymously say what happened at Pershing is happening again. "I cannot imagine going back in the fall," one veteran teacher says. But five more say they can. One, Sarah Kathman, enjoyed Archer so much at Pershing she moved with her this year to Cabell. She says the problems at both schools are isolated to teachers who "collect paychecks." Deanne Paiva heard of Archer's reputation at Cabell and wondered what she was getting into, but she's found Archer to be nothing but "professional."
Jerri Smith is a 27-year teaching veteran in her first year at Cabell. She likes what Archer's done. She says if the same effort were put into teaching students as what's put into "spreading rumors," then the school would be the better for it. "It's unfair to the students. And that's who are hurt mostly," she says. --Paul Kix
Don't Call Us...
An interesting bit of technical lore from a city council campaign: Mechanical dialing machines can be calibrated to specific irritation levels. A company making calls for District 2 candidate Monica Barros-Greene irritated the heck out of East Dallas resident George Wruck Jr. by barraging his home phone with as many as 58 hang-up calls in a 24-hour period.
Reading from meticulous notes, Wruck, an engineer, told the Dallas Observer, "On April 4 we started getting calls. They started around 5:49 in evening, and they stopped at 8:16 in evening." The calls started again a few days later, a total of almost 80 in two days. Every time he answered, Wruck got the same thing: "Nothing. Dead silence."
He traced the calls to Market Central, a company in Charlotte, North Carolina, which informed him the calls were being made on behalf of candidate Greene in Dallas. Mike Trest of that company told the Observer the same thing his firm had told Wruck: The company's automatic dialing machines crank out way more calls than the company has agents to handle.
The machine dials, but when someone answers, no one at the dialing company talks. Trest said calls like the ones Wruck was receiving are "a fairly common event."
Trest says the client--in this case, the Monica Greene campaign--decides how often and how fast the machine should dial the same sucker back again.
Greene told the Observer she had no idea what Trest was talking about. "This is the first time I have heard of any complaints. Obviously we would not set up any type of system that would incorporate calling 80 times to the same number."
Wruck called Greene's opponent, Pauline Medrano, and requested an oversized yard sign for his lawn. --Jim Schutze
Family Reunion
With her three daughters, Angel Dixon had begun the arduous task of setting up her own nonprofit organization, Angels of Mercy Foundation, with the aim of helping "those who are less fortunate or who have fallen into a rut and need help getting through it." But it was difficult to get funding and difficult to go on without it. Dixon needed a reason to keep going. She got it when one of her daughters, Carla, picked up the March 24 issue of the Dallas Observer, looking for a job. While Carla was flipping through the paper, she happened across a familiar face staring back at her from that week's cover story, "A Place of Their Own," on the homeless situation in Dallas: Carl Dixon, her father and Angel's ex-husband, known on the street as "Sporty."
Carla sent me an e-mail, asking if I could please send her his address or maybe slip him her phone number. Angel sent me a message as well, further explaining the situation: "My kids are aware of the history with their father, but they still love him very much. We never ask anything from him only to get on his feet and take care of himself." They hadn't seen him in years, weren't even sure if he was still alive.
I put the family in touch with Hal Samples, the local photographer and homeless activist who had introduced me to Sporty. That weekend, Samples took Angel's daughters (and the grandson Sporty had never met) to the camp near downtown where Sporty lives. It was an emotional reunion only slightly marred by the fact that it wasn't one of Sporty's better days. He'd been drinking a bit and looked thinner and more haggard than he had in the photo that appeared in the Observer.
"My youngest's initial contact with seeing her dad was not very good; she cried, and he didn't understand it," Angel says. "But it was good for them to touch base with him. Hopefully, if he is removed from the environment that keeps him down, it will finally make him move forward. He's a tough cookie." --Zac Crain
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My surgery was a mini tummy tuck- I was so tired of always having a pot-belly from the pregnancy, nipple reduction -I had large nipples that were always at-attention, and breast augmentation- being an A-cup, and then after breast feeding, my used to be small but perky breasts were no longer perky and I always dreamed of being a nice C. cup!
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There are a lot of laptops out there, from large-screen desktop replacements to lightweight ultraportables, but all share common features. So, what to choose? That's where we come in. The editors of PCMag.com test hundreds of systems each year to help you find the best laptop. Here, we whittle it down to the top 10 best laptops out there right now. Read on to find your perfect system.
Acer's Sweet Laptop Deal
These days, it's hard to find a powerful, feature-laden laptop for $600 or less. For that price, comprises usually have to be made, be it in terms of components, or storage. Not the Acer Aspire AS5745-7247. For $600, this mainstream laptop, available at Staples, offers an Intel Core i3 processor, 640GB hard drive, long battery life, and features like an HDMI port, and a numeric keypad. For all that and more, it earns our Editors' Choice in the budget laptop category. Intrigued? Then check out our full review.
T-Mobile's Googliest Phone Ever
The follow-up to the very first Google phone, the T-Mobile G2 is a powerful smartphone with a great keyboard and a hefty portion of pre-loaded Google services.Sleek and classy, the T-Mobile G2 is the carrier's first high-speed HSPA+ handset, and its and the best smartphone with a keyboard you can buy on T-Mobile. The G2 is fast, powerful, and it feels expensive. If you're looking for an executive-class Web and messaging phone on T-Mobile's network, then this is definitely worth your attention.
12 Online Games: Forgotten But Not Gone
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This is an odd thing in the UK as there is thousands of houses left empty and the worst offender is the government. Failed regeneration schemes, buying out of buildings for other reasons as well as empty caretaker and other ex use homes from past government posts are laying empty all over the place. Working inside the government housing sector before previously the issues are often more complex than they seem.
First issues are many have been left empty for years meaning for them to be utilized by government for social housing it would require considerable investment for any property due to the strict regulations. E.g. rewiring, re-plumbing,renewing the gas installation including all pipework, renewing bathrooms and kitchens over 25 years old etc. etc. these are all part of "politics". You see what happened is people started to set housing standards that the government past on to its social housing these standards in general cannot be met for multiple reasons the main one being cash flow but also the quality of tenants isn't great but their expectations and needs have increased.
What happens then is this situation where councils have properties they can neither renovate or rent out and although some of its down to stupidity often more than not its more to do with the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. I remember an allocated property lot we received from the Royal Air Force for the housing association I was contracted with at the time. They had specific requirements to be brought up to standard yet even the basics were behind coming from another department. E.g. Our guideline is no more than 25 years on a kitchen or bathroom yet every property we received hadn't had any major work done for at least 35 many still had coal bunkers and exterior toilets. Although they had a new bathroom installed at some point (still well past 35 years ago) which gave them a toilet indoors you get the picture of the state of these homes.
Why is this all relevant to shipping container homes your wondering? It shows the madness of society we live in where there is so much red tape and legislation that even the government creates problems for itself which also means getting your shipping container home through planning may be an initial battle. BUT the important thing here is the more people push through the more acceptable it becomes and the more people can do it. Personally I think there are many developments the social housing sector could benefit from using shipping container homes themselves as a long-term solution if not short-term for the housing shortages in the UK.
The other way to look at it is most of these houses are old and rundown the investment into them would be extremely costly and a stalemate is currently what we are seeing. Often its easier to rip out and start again rather than renovate and the shipping containers are a cheap option to the solution.
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During th local cultural festival Sveio Days the youth council will have a stand to promote Youth in Action. They will distribute fliers and give-aways, and serve food from the countries of EVS volunteers who work in Sveio.
Volunteers will show the positive opportunities that lie in the Youth in Action Programme to inspire the further sending and hosting of volunteers.
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Thrift center offers school freebies at fest
HIS Storehouse Outreach and Thrift Center will hold its annual Back 2 School Festival from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, offering free backpacks and school supplies, free food, carnival games for the children and a coupon for a $5 kid's haircut at Artistic Hair. The event will be at Alice Hall, 38116 Fifth Ave. The Thrift Center is still accepting donations of school supplies and backpacks for the event. Donations can be dropped off at the Thrift Center at 35362 State Road 54 during regular business hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday) or by calling (813) 283-1184 and leaving a message for special arrangements.
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As part of its routine maintenance of district lands, the Southwest Florida Water Management District will conduct controlled burns during the next two months in the Weekiwachee Preserve, which spans Pasco and Hernando counties. About 600 acres will be burned in small, manageable units in the preserve located about one mile west of Spring Hill and about one mile south of Aripeka. Swiftmud will also conduct controlled burns during August and September in the Annuteliga Hammock in Hernando County. About 100 acres will be burned in that tract near Royal Highlands and U.S. 19. According to district land manager Kevin W. Love, burns are implemented to mimic natural fire cycles under a controlled situation. The object is to avoid uncontrolled wildfires and enhance the area's natural conditions by maintaining the ecological and wildlife habitat values. Prescribed burns are only conducted when weather conditions allow the objectives to be met while minimizing impacts to the public.


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By Meghan Rouillard
While the "Pacific Orientation" does refer namely to those Pacific nations, such as Russia and China, who have been taking leadership in pushing for real, physical economic development, as well as challenging imperial strategic policy, such as the crucial role which Russia has played in keeping the Empire's hands off of the Syria war trigger, it also implies the role which the United States, also a Pacific nation, could play as part of that Alliance were we to change our tune and abandon the bankrupt Transatlantic system and its suicidal "principles." One nation which has decided to take on that role is decidedly Atlantic, but its spirit has rejected that of the Transatlantic collapse: Argentina. President Cristina Kirchner has been willing to call a spade a spade when it comes to policies which are imperial and colonial, as well as pushing for a science-driver economic orientation. As Cristina Kirchner has noted, she repeats at every G-20 summit one of her favorite quotes of Einstein "when he said that only insane people think they can keep using the same methods but obtain different results." Argentina has learned this lesson, having turned away from the repeatedly failed methods which typify the policies of the Transatlantic system (this is typified by the recent ceremonial removal of the portrait of Milton Friedman from the Argentine Central Bank!). This does not make the Empire crowd very happy, as they would like to see the rest of the world participate in "a global bailout of Europe's banks" which Gordon Brown recently encouraged, calling specifically upon the world's developing nations. Here, we review a few of the most recent developments from Argentina which make their intention clear, some of which we have covered already on the LPAC site, and we congratulate Argentina on its Pacific-mindedness, and example which we should follow!
Even smaller Atlantic countries, such as Ireland, are jumping on the veritable "Pacific Orientation" bandwagon: Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and Ireland's National Space Center just recently signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation in space exploration.
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And the season is off to a running start! Not only was the sun out but so were our guests AND the Easter Bunny himself. and Easter eggs with COOL prizes. In fact, Daniel Hajjar won the grand prize of a $500 Savings Bond! Congratulations Daniel! Other prizes included Pier & Waterpark Passes, Jumbo's Gift Certificates and stuffed animals. Ok, it's time for me to get back to planning the next events of school class trips and scouting adventures. If you missed Easter here at the Shore…we hope to see you soon!
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Jackie sleeps with Eddie at his apartment and tells him to stop seeing Kevin. Posters with Coop's face are plastered all over the city much to the disgust of Jackie and O'Hara. Jackie treats a female Iraq war vet with PTSD who tried to kill herself. O'Hara's ex, Sarah Khouri, comes to town and they're back on. With Eddie and the Pill-o-matix becoming less reliable sources, Jackie finds ways to get pills from other places (a pharmaceutical rep). Eddie ignores Jackie's request and invites Kevin to a ping pong club and Jackie shows up. Jackie allows Fiona to have a fake cast on her arm for her birthday.
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Kate And William Are Guests Of Honor At Black Tie Charity Event [PHOTOS]
While Pippa Middleton chose to cover up at a charity event in Richmond, UK last night (October 13th), Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge joined husband Prince William at a black tie event held by 100 Women In Hedge Funds at St. James's Palace.
Wearing a striking red gown by Beulah London (v. much reminiscent of the figure-flattering Issa numbers the Duchess has worn in the past), the Duchess looked exquisite as she supported William, who's been a patron of the organization for three years, which raised over $1 million for the Child Bereavement Charity.
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According to the Daily Mail, the charity supports both children who are bereaved and families who have lost a child. In 2009, Prince William said, "Never being able to say the word 'Mummy' again in your life sounds like a small thing. However, for many, including me, it's now really just a word – hollow and evoking only memories."


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Two specific areas have already convinced me that the rules will ultimately be toothless, business will proceed as usual and whatever is implemented will do nothing to curb the explosive price rises we've seen not only in oil, but in copper, corn, coffee and cotton last year. Proposals on contract position limits, necessary to avoid any single participant from having overwhelming influence on prices, were argued previously in December without resolution. Bart Chilton, the one commissioner committed to strict position-limits in futures markets, gave up on a hard limit Thursday, proposing a much weaker "point system" to monitor participants, without any authority to force a finite limit or liquidation of positions. If Chilton has given in, a dam has broken, and we shouldn't expect substantial position-limiting rules in futures markets to come from the CFTC. Another issue defining new swaps clearinghouses and who can own them has generated similar industry interest and pushback. Creating "aggregate" owned clearinghouses would help in transparency, fairness of access and help keep the clearing business competitive. Undue influence by a small group of banks in a new Swaps Execution Facility (SEF) could potentially control the nexus of trade and give far too much of an advantage for the bank owners, it is feared. Republican commission members have agreed with investment bank lawyers and the Futures Industry Association (FIA) that even the proposed 40% ownership limit for any one participant is still too low. A recent Department of Justice opinion advocating third-party ownership of new SEFs has been excoriated by industry spokespersons representing the banks saying: "The DOJ letter's analysis appears deficient and fails to consider the relevant history and features of the derivatives markets." We can see where this issue is ultimately headed. Banks will enjoy pass-through clearing that will in name only be at all different from the bilateral clearing system that is already in place and has sunk derivative markets in the past. The bottom line is that commodity trading isn't about to change one iota from the system that has caused one boom and bust cycle for oil already and is currently causing others in corn, coffee, copper and cotton.
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Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, 2012/02/02 - Atex will be introducing Atex Content Hub to the media market this quarter - Atex.com.
Leading global software company Atex will be introducing Atex Content Hub to the media market this quarter, a single 360˚ solution that efficiently manages content for all products and across all delivery channels.
This major development will improve internal efficiency and reduce development and integration costs, allowing editorial staff to concentrate on creating content once for publication to multiple print and digital devices. Through a single point of access to multiple repositories, staff will be offered an instant federated view of all available content and will be able to prepare and release content to any channel.
The cloud-based hub will be accessible from any platform, including PC, Macintosh, Tablet and mobile devices, and will also connect to internal and external customer, marketing, audience and advertising applications. The Content Hub will include connectors to Atex and non-Atex editorial systems, enabling existing customers to upgrade without replacing their current newsroom technology investments.
Atex Content Hub represents a major step in the evolution of content management solutions, and is designed to help editors control the growing complexities inherent in multimedia production workflows, said David Montgomery, Global Vice President of Product Development.
This product was developed based on feedback we received from customers and internal recommendations as to how we can further improve editorial efficiency. The result is a solution that successfully manages cross-channel publishing and gives newsroom staff the tools to find business success in todays competitive media environment.
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Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Chemoembolization in Treating Patients With Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping the cells from dividing. Chemoembolization kills tumor cells by blocking the blood flow to the tumor and keeping chemotherapy drugs near the tumor. It is not yet known if chemoembolization is more effective than standard chemotherapy in treating metastatic cancer.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial and randomized phase III trial is studying the effectiveness of chemoembolization in treating patients who have colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver.
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|Drug: FOLFIRI regimen Drug: cisplatin Drug: doxorubicin hydrochloride Drug: fluorouracil Drug: irinotecan hydrochloride Drug: leucovorin calcium Drug: mitomycin C
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|A Randomized Phase I/III Study Of Systematic Chemotherapy With Or Without Hepatic Chemoembolization For Liver-Dominant Metastatic Adenocarcinoma Of The Colon And Rectum
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|November 2001
- Compare the survival of patients with liver-dominant metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma treated with irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin calcium with or without hepatic chemoembolization.
- Compare response in the liver, time to hepatic tumor progression, and time to extrahepatic tumor progression in patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the possible treatment differences with respect to morbidity, toxic effects of chemoembolization, toxic effects of chemotherapy, and death from cancer-related complications in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a phase I dose-escalation study followed by a phase III randomized, multicenter study. (Phase I closed as of 10/14/02.)
Phase I: Patients in phase I are sequentially enrolled to 1 of 3 treatment regimens. (Phase I closed as of 10/14/02.)
- Regimen A: Patients receive irinotecan IV over 60-90 minutes, leucovorin calcium IV, and fluorouracil IV over 10 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Patients undergo hepatic embolization with embolic suspension only on day 36.
- Regimen B: Patients receive chemotherapy as in regimen A. Patients undergo hepatic chemoembolization with lower-dose cisplatin, doxorubicin, and mitomycin on day 36.
- Regimen C: Patients receive chemotherapy as in regimen A. Patients undergo hepatic chemoembolization with higher-dose cisplatin, doxorubicin, and mitomycin on day 36.
After 1 week of rest, patients in all regimens receive a second 4-week course of systemic chemotherapy.
Cohorts of 3-10 patients are sequentially enrolled until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of chemotherapy and chemoembolization is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which at least 4 of 10 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.
Phase III: Patients are stratified according to liver volume involvement (less than 25% vs 25-50% vs more than 50% to less than 75%) and participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive irinotecan IV over 60-90 minutes, leucovorin calcium IV, and fluorouracil IV over 10 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Courses repeat every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression.
- Arm II: Patients receive chemotherapy as in arm I. Patients undergo hepatic chemoembolization with cisplatin, doxorubicin, and mitomycin on day 36. Chemotherapy repeats every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression. Chemoembolization may repeat every 6 weeks for 2-4 courses as necessary.
Patients in phase III are followed every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 9-18 patients will be accrued for phase I of this study. (Phase I closed to accrual as of 10/14/02.) Approximately 315 patients will be accrued for phase III of this study within 2.5 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically confirmed metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma
Measurable metastasis to liver at least 1.0 cm
- Less than 75% of total liver volume
- Known extrahepatic disease limited to lymph nodes and less than 2 cm
- No ascites
- Ineligible for surgery
- 18 and over
Performance status:
- Zubrod 0-2
Life expectancy:
- Not specified
- Absolute granulocyte count at least 2,000/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 90,000/mm^3
- No bleeding diathesis not correctable by standard therapy
Ineligible if all of the following criteria are concurrently present:
- High risk of hepatic failure (more than 50% liver involvement by tumor)
- Bilirubin greater than 2.0 mg/dL
- SGOT greater than 100 U/L
- Lactate dehydrogenase greater than 425 U/L
- No hepatic encephalopathy
- No portal vein occlusion without hepatopedal collateral flow demonstrated by angiography
- No portal hypertension with hepatofugal flow
- Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
- No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- No evidence of congestive heart failure
- No severe peripheral vascular disease that would preclude catheterization
- No severe allergy or intolerance to contrast media, narcotics, sedatives, or atropine
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy:
- No more than 1 prior adjuvant immunotherapy regimen for colon cancer
- At least 6 months since prior adjuvant chemotherapy and recovered
- No more than 1 prior adjuvant chemotherapy regimen for colon cancer
- No prior hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- Not specified
- At least 1 month since prior radiotherapy
- No prior hepatic radiotherapy
- At least 1 month since prior surgery
- Prior surgical resection or ablation of liver metastases allowed
- No other concurrent therapy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00023868
|United States, Arizona
|Arizona Cancer Center
|Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
|United States, Florida
|H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612-9497
|United States, Illinois
|Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611-3013
|United States, Maryland
|Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231-2410
|United States, Massachusetts
|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, New York
|NYU School of Medicine's Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
|Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4283
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030-4009
|Study Chair:
|Michael C. Soulen, MD
|Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00023868 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 13, 2001
|Last Updated:
|January 3, 2009
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage IV colon cancer
stage IV rectal cancer
recurrent colon cancer
recurrent rectal cancer
adenocarcinoma of the colon
adenocarcinoma of the rectum
liver metastases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Liposomal doxorubicin
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017


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Publisher date: 12/29/2009
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Battle Hall over time
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Sept 15, 1883: In his speech during the University's opening ceremony, Board of Regents chair Ashbel Smith elaborated on the need for a separate library building.
1909: Preliminary discussions between UT President Mezes, Col. House, and Cass Gilbert concerning UT buildings. Texas state legislature acts to make construction on campus possible.
Dec. 4,1909: Gov. Thomas Mitchell Campbell releases funds, and UT announces that work will commence on a new library.
Jan. 11, 1910: Cass Gilbert becomes the University architect and accepts commission for the Library project.
1910: Gilbert works on library design, receiving communications from head librarian Nathaniel L. Goodrich, and Pres. Sidney Mezes.
April 19,1910: Site prep begins.
Nov. 2, 1910: Library cornerstone is laid at a Masonic ceremony with Gov. Campbell presiding.
1911: The University of Texas Library opens in August…but there are no stacks, elevator, or furnishings. Book boxes are swung in through a window via crane. The Reading Room floor begins to crack under the weight of piles of books. The UT President and other administrative offices occupy the first floor till 1918.
August 1911: Gov. Colquitt vetoes university appropriation of $130,000, which means that the library interior cannot be completed in 1911.
Mar. 29, 1912: UT Regents appropriate $55,000 for additional equipment of library.
1912: Electricity comes into the building. The circulation desk, an elevator, the wooden grilles, and five levels of stacks are installed (the remaining two are installed by 1920), and the rest of the library collection is moved in.
1916: The Board of Regents gather with Gov. Jim Ferguson in their meeting room in the Library to discuss Ferguson's allegations of misappropriated funds. His accusations were proven erroneous, with the Cactus noting "the appropriations barely sufficed, leaving small possibility of misappropriation."
1918: UT President and other administrative officers move to Sutton Hall. The newly acquired Wrenn Library is installed in the southeast "suite" on the first floor, the space formerly occupied by the President's office.
Nov. 14, 1919: UT's service flag, a patriotic tribute to the faculty and alumni who served in World War I, was returned to the archives, then housed in the Library, to be preserved. Read more about this symbol of UT's commitment to the war effort.
1919: Faculty Building Committee recommends that an extension be built on to the already crowded library.
1919–23: Library Science school is housed on the first floor.
1919 or 1920: The final two levels of stacks are installed.
1920: Major George W. Littlefield lies in state in the building's main entrance hall, an honor bestowed upon him for his significant contributions to UT as a Regent and philanthropist.
1926: Plans prepared by Herbert M. Greene for a much-needed library extension, only 15 years after its opening. Learn more about Greene's work and legacy at UT.
1926: The Chemistry Building burns, shifting funding away from the library extension.
1932: Beck's Lake is removed during construction of Goldsmith Hall.
1933–38: The main library collection and Wrenn Library moves to the new Main Building and Tower. The Library building is renamed "Old Library."
1934–38: Various offices, ranging from faculty, the campus foreman, investment officer, real estate rental, a stenography bureau, and a post office, operate out of the Old Library.
1936: The Old Library serves as one of the Texas Centennial Exposition sites. The Exposition was kicked off with the "turning of a key in an ancient lock in the door of the Old Library," and the astronomy department set up a planetarium in the Reading Room.
1938–48: The newly created Fine Arts department moves into the Old Library. The Reading Room is used for art studios, drama rehearsals, and Longhorn Band practice.
1936–39: J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and writer, offices in the Old Library.
1941 and 1946: Regents approve creation of Eugene Barker Texas History Center in the Old Library.
1942: The Fine Arts dean and other department members relocate to the new Music Building.
1942–47: Charles Umlauf, sculptor, offices in the Old Library (the same space where Dobie had worked, room 201).
1947: Fine Arts classes move out.
1948: The Old Library receives a $100,000 refurbishment for the Barker Center: new marble steps to second floor, new linoleum in the Reading Room, repainting, new fixtures and furnishings, kitchenette, and new millwork. The rose-colored rotunda is repainted.
1950: Barker Texas History Center dedicated, and the Texas State Historical Association moves in to offices on the first floor. Discover the origins of the Barker Center.
1951: The Barker Center's Reading Room is dedicated as the James Stephen Hogg Reading Room.
1962: West Mall Building completed.
1963–64: Air conditioning installed in Barker Center.
1970: Building is placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1973: Barker Center, now known as the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, moves to Sid Richardson Hall. Architecture, Education/Psychology, and Music libraries move in. The building is renamed Battle Hall in honor of past UT president William J. Battle.
1977–80: Toward the goal of a focused architecture library branch, the Education/Psychology Library moves out (1977), followed by Fine Arts administrative offices (1979), and the Music Library (1980).
1979: Battle Hall becomes part of the School of Architecture "campus," housing the Architecture and Planning Library and other school offices. The Architectural Drawings Collection is established.
1981: UT Regents authorize restoration of Battle Hall (which is not realized) as part of improvements to the School of Architecture facilities.
1993: Battle Hall receives $70,000 exterior "facelift."
1997: The Texas Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians sponsored a campaign to name the Architectural Drawings Collection after its founder, UT School of Architecture professor Blake Alexander. Today, the Alexander Architectural Archive is the largest such resource in Texas, containing over a quarter of a million drawings, nearly 2,000 linear feet of papers including over 40,000 photographic prints, 17,500 negatives, 160,000 slides, 8,000 post cards and films, audio visual media and artifacts, representing thousands of projects in Texas as well as New York, Chicago, California, and Great Britain. Enjoy the inaugural exhibit, "Blake's Choice."
1997: The Charles W. Moore Room opens, shortly after the donation of the Charles W. Moore Library and Archives. In addition to housing the Moore Archives, the space serves as the Alexander Architectural Archive reading room.
1999: Cesar Pelli & Associates develop a new campus master plan and directs that works like Battle Hall "establish the basic language of form and character for large and small buildings designed for the University from this point forward."
2000: The Architecture and Planning Library acquires the Colin Rowe and Paul P. Cret special collection libraries.
2007: The American Institute of Architects name Battle Hall on its list of America's Favorite Architecture. See the complete list.
2010: The Architecture and Planning Library collections include more than 96,000 volumes, including 19,595 in Special Collections, and 200 print and 100 electronic serial subscription titles, and critical database resources.
2011: The Battle Hall/West Mall Office Building feasibility study evaluates the future of Battle Hall.
Imade citations: "Cornerstone ceremony, Nov. 2nd, 1910, Library, Austin," courtesy of the New-York Historical Society; "Governor vs. Regents, Gov. Ferguson leaves Library," Cactus 1916-17 yearbook, Perry-Castañeda Library, The University of Texas at Austin; Post office, "A Photographic Tour of The University of Texas," 1936, courtesy of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History; Education/psychology Library in Battle Hall, courtesy of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.


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OSAKA, Japan - No.2 seed Sabine Lisicki was made to work hard for her place in the second round of the HP Open, battling past Chanelle Scheepers in two tight sets on Tuesday afternoon.
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Having taken the first set with a break of serve in the final game, Lisicki was forced to come from 3-0 down and then fend off three set points before eventually coming through, 75 76(1).
The German defeated Scheepers for the loss of just five games in Beijing last week, and admitted she struggled to replicate this form in the rematch.
"I don't think it was one of my best matches," Lisicki said. "But at the end of the day, it's only the win that counts so I'm happy that I pulled it out."
After her memorable run to the Wimbledon final in July, Lisicki is back inside the Top 20 and setting her sights even higher.
"It gave me a huge amount of confidence, which I'm able to put into my matches now," she said about her Wimbledon breakthrough. "It's an experience that helps me a lot, for example, in matches when I'm not playing my best tennis.
"I was No.12 two years or one and a half years ago, so I was really close but didn't get into the Top 10. The experience really helped me, so now I'm just going to continue to work.
"Hard work really pays off. Sometimes you start to panic when you don't see the results right away, but it comes with time. That's what I believe in and that's what Wimbledon proved to me."
In the second round, Lisicki faces a resurgent Polona Hercog, who followed up her impressive showing in Beijing with a 64 57 61 win over Petra Cetkovska.
Elsewhere, the evergreen Kimiko Date-Krumm delighted the home crowd when she defeated No.7 seed Laura Robson, 64 64. Also making an early exit was No.4 seed Flavia Pennetta, after she slipped to a 36 75 60 defeat to lucky loser Vania King.


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Friday, 21 March 2014
Postcard From London: The Salads at Harrods
NAH was most surprised to hear I'd never been to Harrods, so we rectified that little hole in my education last week and had a gigglesome time. The Food Hall is a magnificent emporium of all things edible, but I was a bit surprised to find some plastic in evidence amongst the salad display.
This link takes you to 150 pictures to drool over (not mine) which are much more as expected. Here's a little taster I took of the chocolate hall...
Until its takeover in 2010, Harrods had a dress code and I fear the doorman would not have allowed us to enter in those days. Still, it was rather fun to check out my latest post had gone up on Veg Plotting in the Apple store and to freely admit to the assistant that was what I was doing. Then blog away was the cheerful reply.
Standards might possibly be slipping... ;)
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I've never been to Harrods either - not even the one in Leeds.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's worth a trip Sue just to see how the other half lives!Delete
Me neither !ReplyDelete
I should think that Harrods loves to mentioned in blogs ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes it's. good publicityDelete
Have been enjoying seeing London through your eyes rhis week. Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
You're very welcome Colleen - you've helped so much to change my opinion of London :-)Delete
I visited many years ago, I must have been dressed correctly! It certainly is an experience!ReplyDelete
That top photo is one of your best yet. Your assistants must have been good too. I expect Harrods provides good lighting engineers for bloggers along with artistic veg arrangers.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Lucy - it reminded me so much of those still life paintings. However I was itching to take all the plastic away and rearrange everything!Delete
I have been to Harrods a couple of times, but it's almost 10 years ago since last time. It is so expensive it's hardly any point going there, I won't be buying anything anyway. I seem to remember bringing visiting family and friends there – one of the tourist landmarks I guess. Back then I had no idea about their policy, that was something I heard about in later years. No one attempted to kick us out though so I assume we were dressed acceptably!ReplyDeleteReplies
Well we were being typical tourists ;-) We saw plenty of people who were buying plenty - I think most of them were taking advantage of the tax free shopping opportunities though. I loved the Egyptian escalators and the eye popping slideshow showing the really unusual items they've sold over the years.Delete
Oh thanks for being so considerate VP and not posting a close up of the choccies. The veg produce looks fresh enough but that plastic is a shame. I've only visited Harrods Food Hall once and the choice of cheeses stayed in my mind for some time. I remember my dear dad saying that the establishment was a temple to Mammon and refusing to step over the threshold. He waited for my mum and I for some considerable time :)ReplyDeleteReplies
They were modt tempting Anna. I wonder how many people treat themselves to just a couple of them, so they can say they've bought something from Harrods?Delete
Indeed :-)ReplyDelete
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Indigenous American leaders speak out against the Washington NFL team's mascot.
Just because racism is "tradition" doesn't make it right.
To have the "poor one" at the center of the Catholic faith is right and just.
The approach of Transfiguration Sunday reminds me how, all through my evangelical upbringing, all those Bible passages about God's glory, and especially the parts where God demands glory, made me a bit uneasy. For example, Sunday's reading from 2 Peter 1 doesn't exactly hide anything under a bushel: Jesus "received honor and glory from God the Father when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory, saying, 'This is my Son, my Beloved...'"
Divine love? Great. Family relationship? Warm and fuzzy.
But the double helping of glory with honor on the side and majesty on top — doesn't that come off as, well, a trifle narcissistic?
The root of my misperception was that our culture doesn't have a concept of glory at all. We just have celebrity, which is way, way, different. While giving someone celebrity can get degrading to all concerned (insert your own Jersey Shore joke here), God demanding glory is actually a deeply relational act.
I didn't realize my cultural blind spot from any church sermon or from 10 years of small group Bible studies or from getting my Ph.D. in literature, so thank God that I eventually found myself trying to teach the epic of Gilgamesh. That's when I realized how central the idea of fame was in many ancient cultures.
Before Veteran's Day was Veteran's Day, it was Armistice Day.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the cessation of hostilities of World War I took effect.
It was supposed to be the end of the "war to end all wars."
In 1926, Congress passed a resolution to commemorate the day "with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding."
In 1938 the day became known as "Armistice Day" with the intent that it would be a day dedicated to the world peace.
In 1954, after World War II, when the world stood in horror at the sight of the Nazi genocide machine and ghastly bombings of civilian populations culminating in the first ever deployment of nuclear bombs, the day became known as Veteran's Day — a day to honor military service.
I say if we are to truly honor veterans, we ought to remember and honor Armistice Day with the hope that we can bring an end to violent conflict within and between nations.