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Speaking to a crowd of over 200 during the national conference of the World Affairs Councils of America in Washington, D.C. this morning, Deputy Secretary Bill Burns focused on the U.S. strategic pivot towards Asia and the tremendous opportunities the United States is working to seize in the broader Pacific region -- spanning from India to the western coast of the Americas. He highlighted how, in many respects, the Asia-Pacific will be the most significant part of the world for American interests for many decades to come. He challenged the audience "to think of those increasingly interconnected regions as an integrated whole... with commonalities beyond geographic proximity."
Drawing on his recent visits to Japan, China, Mexico, and South America, Burns observed that mutually reinforcing strategic and economic relationships with partners in Asia and the Americas will be central to our future success, highlighting that "these are places with booming middle classes where U.S. businesses can tap new markets and reach new consumers to drive the U.S. economic recovery forward."
In addition to Asia's well-known economic transformation, Burns highlighted the remarkable progress Latin America has made in consolidating democracy, lifting citizens out of poverty, and growing as a global commercial and energy marketplace.
He observed that our partnerships in the Western Hemisphere "are vital to our economic recovery and competitiveness; vital to our ability to solve the transnational challenges that no country can solve on its own; and vital to our efforts to promote and consolidate democracy and human rights globally."
Burns looked to the APEC leaders' meeting and North American Leaders Summit in Hawaii next week, as well as President Obama's participation in the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum later this month, as key opportunities to drive our agenda forward and strengthen the trans-Pacific architecture. He noted that our challenge is not to contain rising powers in Asia and Latin America but to lead them and in doing so ensure "that the Pacific century ahead will also be an American century."
Burns closed by stressing the importance of investing in U.S. leadership, noting that "any attempt to cut that small investment will not make a dent in our deficit, but will certainly make a dent in our leadership. And that is what we cannot afford."
You can read a transcript of the Deputy's remarks here.
Ashim C. in India writes:
Mr. Bill Burn's speech rightly emphasises the importance of the entire Asia Pacific region,in which he significantly included India too, for leadership of United States in 21st century. Certainly, the his thoughts reflect the vision of US as to how it would go about in strenthening and further imvigorating it's relationship with countries in the region. Possibly, the vision is inspired by one concern - JOOOOBs for Americans to stabilise and quicken the pace of economic recovery. President Obama's G20 statements said this loud and clear.
In Asia there are glorious success stories of Japan & South Korea. Former is a country, which have recovered from the ruins after second world to emerge as world's third largest economy in which, admittedly US-Japan post war friendship of more than 60 years has combined with ingenuity of Japanese. However, there is also the example of US-Pak relation, which is marked by high tides points of CENTO, later collaboration as a response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and now a new level in the same relationship where US has to discover OBL in Peshawar and eliminate him, tell Pakistan it can have snakes in it's backyard and expect it will only bite the neighbour. While US Pak relations have evolved the way it has, Pakistan have not improved the way Japan and Korea and some other countries in region have. Does this contrast in the situation in Pakistan have anything to do with inconsistencies in US approach towards Pakistan? The answer is obvious.
Coming to China, good US relations with China can work wonders for US and world economy. However, from the content and tenor of Mr. Burn's speech as also of few of the questions that were asked, it seems that China seems to have replaced in 21st century Soviet Russia of cold war era though it is believed cold war has ended. This is the real challenge. One's sense is the authoritarian regime of Communist China has it's own internal compulsions - which again is the compulsion of keeping it's economy growing and keeping it's huge population employed and happily engaged - therefore, it will continue to agressively assert it's supremacy in Asia and pose as a challenger to USA without budging. Mr. Burn, with the advantage of information about ground realities in China, would know better but one, as an India and also an Asian, shudders at the thought of - God forbid- inconsistencies in US China policy going making Sino-US relations go into the US-Pak relationship mould. These negetive thoughts notwithstanding, one is hopeful that US vision of a new economic and strategic architecture shall take concrete shape soon enough in silk route, integration of SAARC, ASEAN with US, Japan India and all other SAARC countries contributing significantly to the process. There is need to sell the Japanese and South Korean experiences in particular before the people of whole of South Asia. This possibly has to begin with identification and prioritisation of difficulties and needs of people at grass root level of these countries, which will not only benefit them visibly but also strengthen and restore the credibility of political class there, who necessarily have to be partners in this vision.
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Ps. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is also leading two wildlife and geology walks around the city centre that day, starting from the Market Place at 11.30am and 2.30pm. These walks are free of charge and last about an hour. To book contact the Trust on the number above.
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I'm pretty sure I saw wing-flapping on the static camera. Any word on when the stream will be back? I know it's early for fledging, but it would be great to see that on the stream. Thanks.
- 2 June 2008 at 16:00
I see our 4 chicks are still impersonating badly-stuffed upholstery! Best wishes for a great "Springwatch" event on Sunday. It also just occurred to me that the reference to the "ringing chamber" at the cathedral may have puzzled a few fellow-bloggers. It really does mean BELL RINGING this time, not bird ringing!
Sue H, Wendover
- 2 June 2008 at 22:17
I am relieved it isn't just me then that can't get the live stream. Hope you guys get it fixed real soon.
The chicks are looking great BTW.
- 3 June 2008 at 13:06
It's fascinating watching the young ones interacting with each other - but we can only guess what they are actually doing. I can't wait for the live stream to be up and running again so we can really see what our chicks are up to.
Waiting patiently.
Anna, Ripley
- 3 June 2008 at 13:45
I have some (more!) questions! sorry if they are stupid. Do the chicks not ever walk off the edge of the nest? there doesn't seem to be much to stop them and that's a steep drop!
Do the parents hunt and feed the chicks at night?
I would also be grateful for more information about the cache - how close to the nest is it/how long is food kept in it etc
Grateful for any answers. thank you
- 3 June 2008 at 13:59
I think the nest ledge is a little to shallow, and would prefer a more substantial edge on the front covered with astro turf. Which would be better for the parents to perch on and more comfortable and healthy for their feet as they seemed to spend a lot of time perched on that narrow square bit of timber. Also something for the eyasses to grip on when they start winding their wings up. It looks like there is nothing close to the ledge for a eyas to venture on to.
So with 4 young falcons exercising
I can for see one leaving before its ready hope I am wrong.
- 3 June 2008 at 14:42
Sue, I think it's their natural instinct to stay within the scrape until they're ready to fledge. Yes, the adults certainly do hunt and feed the eyases at night.
Until efforts like the Derby Project existed to rescue these birds from distinction, their natural habitat was places like high cliff edges. I'm sure a lot of thought went into the design of the scrape and if you look at other webcams around the world they are similarly designed.
Remember, the falcon chooses the scrape. If she wasn't happy it suited their needs she would go elsewhere and certainly not return again to lay more eggs.
It won't be long before you will see the young perched on the edge of the scrape. They won't fall off. As someone else pointed out before, the birds talons form a grip when relaxed, unlike human hands that have to be clenched. That's why sleeping birds don't fall out of the trees. :)
- 3 June 2008 at 15:30
Thank you TM - I feel very reassured! I have been enjoying every moment watching the chicks and I realised it MUST be safe for them but it looks so precarious...now I can relax!
Thanks again
- 3 June 2008 at 15:40
I am sorry but falcons do not feed in the hours of darkness and yes young do leave ledges before they are ready either knock or pushed or to over crowding. And though I am extremely glad the peregrines have nested on Derby Catherdral, and enjoy watching them. And think the work that has gone it to the project is great Peregrines have been increasing extremely well over the last couple of decades and numbers are at a all time high. Hence they now populate several citys and towns.
- 3 June 2008 at 15:46
...despite the lack of astro turf :)
- 3 June 2008 at 16:24
I'll have to differ with anonymous here, Recent evidence has shown that urban Peregrines can and do indulge in night time hunting. This is made possible by skyglow from street and floodlighting either silhouetting or positively illuminating prey.
John - Stroud Valleys Glos
- 3 June 2008 at 16:47
And before anonymous or anyone else ticks me off for spreading unsubstantiated rumours about Peregrines; nocturnal habits please see Diet and prey selection of urban-dwelling Peregrine Falcons in southwest England by Edward A. Drewitt and Nick Dixon in the February 2008edition of "British Birds".
John - Stroud Valleys, Glos
- 3 June 2008 at 17:01
Be very interested in the evidence
of urban Peregrines using skyglow
""light pollution" to hunt during the night it sounds possible but would like proof.
- 3 June 2008 at 17:02
Google is your friend. Just look for "peregrines hunting at night".
Anyway, thanks to the Derby webcams I have seen for myself the eyases being fed in the wee small hours. :)
- 3 June 2008 at 17:08
Sound like proof to me tm.....
- 3 June 2008 at 17:10
No would not tick any body of,
I have had a great deal to do with Peregrines, over several decade's
Watching wild Peregrines all over the UK. I have seen some great spectacles. I have also been involed in reclaiming several lost falconry birds "peregrines included" its sometimes been dark when we have located some of them a few have been lured down using car headlights lights, others will not move untill first light.
- 3 June 2008 at 17:43
There's been a discussion of red tailed hawks and peregrines hunting at night at palemaleirregulars.com recently.
They cite biologists finding that peregrines were hunting over Lake Erie at night. They radio tracked them out over the lake and also found prey in the nests in the morning that was not there at night. Dunno how much light pollution there is over Lake Erie, but from other observations they think peregrines (and kestrels) see up in the ultraviolet.
Also the hawks were observed moving their night perches into trees, which presumably they could not do at flying peed without danger if they couldn't see well.
- 3 June 2008 at 17:54
I meant to say, the prey appeared in the nests during the hours of darkness.
- 3 June 2008 at 17:56
speed...speed..not peed :-)
Time to do something else today :-)
- 3 June 2008 at 17:57
Somehow I just don't feel at all comfortable with reading the words peregrine and lured in the same sentence.
Off topic a bit but during my travels I've noticed many Red Kites in the Oxon/Bucks area this year. Beautiful to watch as they soar effortlessly, sometimes quite close to the ground. One of them came within about 20' above me as I was walking my dog recently; taking a very good look at us. Fortunately, she's a big dog !
- 3 June 2008 at 18:38
Unlike peregrines tm, red kites are essentially scavengers so your dog would have been perfectly safe even if it had been of the smallest of breeds!
re. night hunting, this has now been filmed in Taiwan of all places. Attempts to film it in the UK and USA have failed so far I gather.
A peregrine bringing in food at night isn't really proof that it had just caught it since it could have been moved in a from a nearby cache. So really we need footage of a bird still alive being brought in at night to conclusively prove night hunting takes place.
Peregrines, like most birds are opportunists so I'm quite sure they would hunt at any time of day providing they could see their quarry well enough. And we have many examples of species being taken in Derby and elsewhere in the UK which only ever fly at night - quail and woodcock being two examples. More on this later in a new blog entry.
Incidentally, the cathedral peregrines cache their (spare) food on the top of the gargoyles and also inside the U-shaped lead gutters which drain water from the tower roof. Pud cam sits in one such gutter above the nest platform but the adults still manage to find space to store uneaten or partly eaten prey alongside it.
Finally, renewed efforts to get the a/v stream working again will be made shortly. Apparently, according to Capita, the sofware is very touchy and it doesn't take much to upset it!
Nick B (DWT)
- 3 June 2008 at 21:16
For those showing concern for the dangers on the ledge,you must have watched wildlife films in Africa,for example,the crew NEVER interfere with the nature side of the cretures,its NO different from providing food,you just cannot do it;so just relax and enjoy the wonderful opportunity of being able to see mother nature doing what she does.
Dennis.local lad.
- 3 June 2008 at 21:22
Just to confirm that the front of the platform is some 14 centimetres high and makes it impossible for the chicks to fall out. Only when they are at a much later stage of development, flapping their newly feathered wings, do they climb up on the edge and stand on it.
Peregrine chicks have an innate behavioural trait not to stray far from the nest cup until they are close to fledging. They do need to spread away from each other as they get bigger and that's why the platform has two 'sides' and is over a metre wide.
So far the only problem was for one 2006 chick at fledging when it failed to gain height and came down to ground in a nearby car park. It was rescued and taken to the tower top where it was released and made a second, successful maiden flight!
Nick B
- 3 June 2008 at 21:31
Great replies Nick, thanks.
I didn't seriously think a red kite could carry off a dog but it certainly makes you feel somewhat awestruck when such a huge bird comes so close and you find yourself 'eye to eye' with such a magnificent creature.
I have noticed the kites often seem to share their airspace with rooks or crows which fits in with your explanation.
Anyway...back to the peregrines :)
- 3 June 2008 at 22:21
Aren't they looking grown-up now? TM mentioning red kite and dog reminded me of Goldie the Golden Eagle which escaped from London Zoo in about, I think, 1966. There was a photo of it swooping towards a small terrier in one of the London Parks before it was recaptured! Anyone else remember that? xxx
- 3 June 2008 at 22:42
Pax (via australia)
I see some wing flapping :-)
- 4 June 2008 at 05:38
Just seen the chicks all looking very alert and one flapping wings. Can't believe the difference between the eledest and the youngest. Wish we had the video to watch.
- 4 June 2008 at 07:55
Just seen one chick having a good look over the edge of the scrape-ledge, so they must be curious. However it seems to know, like we would, that stepping into the void a bad idea. After all, most baby birds are crammed into a tiny space and positively bulge by the time they are ready to fledge, so these are very lucky. xxx
- 4 June 2008 at 09:32
10.40 Wed. One just went I think. Was sitting on the R.H. ledge and flapping. I turned to this page and then back and its gone, hasn't it?
- 4 June 2008 at 10:42
Hi all, I've not been able to take a look for a while - but I see our scruffy herberts are still thriving. My heart skipped a beat to see one sitting on the edge of the platform - how quickly they grow! I've been reading some of the earlier comments about Red Kites in the Chilterns - this is my area! The Chilterns Conservation Board (who have responsibilities over the Chilterns AONB) have a web site - see http://www.chilternsaonb.org/caring/red_kites_nestwatch.html - and this has a nestwatch section. It's nothing like as full blown as the Derby peregrine site, but is still of great interest. The project started, I believe, on Getty's estate near Stokenchurch, Bucks. At first, much feeding was done by local residents but when people were persuaded to stop it, the bird population really seemed to explode outwards - we even get some over Aylesbury now. On the whole, they seem to follow ribbons of motorways and busy roads and railways - proof of their carrion-eating lifestyle. There are masses and masses along the stretch of M40 motorway between High Wycombe and Oxford - so much so that I have to try to avoid driving down there (it's very dangerous to drive on a motorway whilst being tempted to gawp up at the sky and birdwatch).
I hope this may be of some interest to some of the Derby watchers!
Sue H, Wendover
- 4 June 2008 at 10:47
Further to the earlier message, I once saw some black and white footage of Goldie the Golden Eagle attacking a terrier - and in turn, the terrier's elderly lady owner was going after Goldie with her umbrella! I wouldn't ever advocate harming an animal in any way, but I have always thought that this was a level of courage I would not be able to find, if confronted by a bird of prey with a six feet wingspan...
Good to see our four young ones growing rapidly - though interesting to see that 'tiddler' is still easily distinguishable from the others.
Liz, Derby
- 4 June 2008 at 13:25
I saw a lot of flapping yesterday but didnt have time to comment. Keeping a look out for the first bird to leave. As far as size of these birds goes, I think you get a good idea when you look at the picture of Martin hanging from the tower (May 27) when ringing the chicks. I'm sure many imagine - as I have done - that the ledge is very small and the birds could easily fall. Obviously this is not so. Interesting to read the size of the birds. I didn't realise they were quite so big. I love Graham Whitmore's multiple falcon picture (May 30). Pam, Derby
- 4 June 2008 at 15:44
Would be great to find some video footage.
- 4 June 2008 at 16:44
Yay!! Managed to get 10 mins of live stream just now.
'Tiddler' was doing a lot of wing flapping whilst the others looked on, apparently bemused. Almost as if the youngest was desperate to impress his siblings whilst they remained unimpressed !
It's really easy for regular viewers to identify #1, 2 3, 4 right now (especially #4) but I guess this will get more difficult as they grow and lose their downy feathers.
- 4 June 2008 at 17:40
Also just got few moments of live footage - enough to see one chick using his own gumption: picking bits off a discarded bone. I haven't seen the parents today. Will they start just to bring bits and leave the chicks to it? Yes, Liz! I seem to remember the terrier's owner making an irate defence of Fluffy with her umbrella. xx Penny
- 4 June 2008 at 19:45
You got it TM - gosh it was 1965! Well, I was only 5 so I'm allowed to be a year out. There's def footage at the BBC as I've seen it since, but, no, I can't find it anywhere on the www. Thanks for finding the still phot and story though. xxx Penny
- 4 June 2008 at 20:45
Penny I saw a feeding on the live stream within the past few hours. The youngest(?) one "flew" over to the other side of the nestbox when he was done.
- 4 June 2008 at 21:04
I saw the Goldie footage on the BBC series The Rock and Roll Years, but I can't find any trace of it on the internet either...
Hoping to get into the city centre to see the birds in the flesh this weekend. My husband tells me there is now a peregrine nest on one of his favourite climbing areas of the Roaches, near Leek in Staffordshire. The area is now out of bounds to climbers. While he and his friends were reading the explanatory sign, one of the adult peregrines flew overhead, clearly unhappy that they were there. Has anyone else been to this area and seen the birds? We've visited the Roaches for years, and never noticed a peregrine population before. Maybe we just weren't looking in the right places?
Liz, Derby
- 4 June 2008 at 21:41
Liz: may I just ask that information about any bird of prey nest site is not broadcast here or elsewhere? Although there is a 24 hour watch on the birds you mention, the happenings in the W Midlands recently when snares were set at peregrine nests and two adults were killed by them makes it clear that the threats to these birds are still very real.
And this blog is readable by 'anyone and everyone'......
Nick B
- 4 June 2008 at 22:59
- Terry, Herts UK said...
I've uploaded some pictures I captured from the Rochester NY webcams last year. Just a few to start with - mostly of the young peregrines about to fledge. This is what we have to look forward to :)
Here's the link. Click on each of the the pictures for the full images.
I'll upload more later.
- 5 June 2008 at 00:10
Both parents were just on the nest at the same time, which I haven't seen for awhile. It looked like the very end of a feeding by one parent, with the other keeping company.
The oldest chick seems to be eating on his or her own, without being fed "mouth to mouth."
- 5 June 2008 at 07:31
Nick B is, sadly, accurate when he reminds of the danger of letting undesirables know where special wildlife can be found. The red kite sites are strictly secret, but last year's nestwatch site failed due to disturbance by unauthorised searchers. I am also keenly aware of the problem in the context of badgers, another species that I am involved with. Obviously, all of we bloggers are the absolute salt of the earth - but if there were a bad person, where better to look for information than here! That's what's so absolutely brilliant about the cathedral family - we can all watch them and talk about them in complete safety. There's no way a sneak thief is going to get up there!
Sue H, Wendover
- 5 June 2008 at 07:58
- Terry, Herts UK said...
As Karen Anne says, Dad served up breakfast this morning between 0700 and 0720 whilst Mum perched on the ledge behind him, watching closely. Haven't seen him feeding the young for ages.
Lovely to catch a rare sight of the whole family together.
Family photos here !
Click on the pics for the full size images.
- 5 June 2008 at 08:03
Terry, thanks for such super photos, they are wonderful to see. Wish I could get some like this
- 5 June 2008 at 10:11
We're really hoping to be able to get over this weekend. If the young ones are perching on the edge of the nest ledge now, we should be able to get a real good look. Yes, I am revolted by people who trap, rob out or disturb any birds, never mind rare ones. What is wrong with these people. Why not just enjoy the webcam photos like everyone else? Hope they get BIG fine when they are caught.
- 5 June 2008 at 10:19
I'll bum everyone out a bit further by noting that the people reintroducing migrating whooping cranes in the U.S. have a periodic problem where the public is so anxious to get a look at the birds in the wild that they get too close. They have already spooked one or two birds into power lines the past few years.
There is also the danger that the cranes will get too accustomed to seeing humans from the too close watchers, which is not safe for them. The people running the project are always in hot, miserably stuff "crane costumes" while they take care of the birds.
Fortunately, on most of the migration route and at the end points in wildlife refuges, the cranes are safe from people.
Now if they'd just start reproducing in the wild...the oldest birds should have been old enough for the past 2-3 years, but only 1 egg has hatched, the other nests have been abandoned.
- 5 June 2008 at 12:50
- Terry, Herts UK said...
I think it was Jon B who posted this link before but if you haven't read the "On a Wing and a Prayer" report, and signed the pledge to encourage enforcement of laws protecting these birds, please do so.
The RSPB are offering a £1000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the West Midlands Peregrine killers and iirc, the maximum punishment is 6 months in prison.
- 5 June 2008 at 13:27
Yeah Terry that was me. Thanks for reminding everybody. And if anyone needs an incentive [here's one from the Midlands]
John - Stroud Valleys, Glos
- 5 June 2008 at 14:18
Oops - you beat me to it with that nauseating Kingswinford story Terry but, let's face it, there's plenty more where that came from......
- 5 June 2008 at 14:23
- Terry, Herts UK said...
"The bigger and fiercer you are, the rarer you must be: a basic rule of ecology. In a wood, there will be millions of caterpillars. They will be eaten by dozens of blue tits; the blue tits will be eaten by a single pair of sparrowhawks.
If there is a terrible year for caterpillars, you will end up with a mere handful of blue tits. You will also end up with no sparrowhawks at all. The blue tits will recover: the sparrowhawks are gone. So if humans chop down half the wood, there will still be caterpillars and blue tits: but the wood is no longer big enough to support enough blue tits to feed a single family of sparrowhawks.
But the thing can work the other way. If you have a successful pair of sparrowhawks, what does it say about your wood? It says that it is in very good shape: if it wasn't, it couldn't support the sparrowhawks. So every time you see a bird of prey, it is the most clear and obvious sign that the place you are in is doing all right.
Even in the best of all possible worlds, birds of prey have the toughest job. It is made even harder because humans
kill them, or allow them to become the accidental victims of attempts to poison other wildlife."
-- Simon Barnes, journalist.
- 5 June 2008 at 14:44
Apologies for my earlier comment about other bird sites - it never occurred to me that it could cause a problem. Glad to hear the site in question is under watch.
Liz, Derby
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The Volunteer Center of Durham coordinates volunteer events and services across the Triangle. For more information on these events, visit www.HandsOnTriangle.org or call 919-613-4515.
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• The Veggie Van works to deliver boxes of fresh, locally grown veggies to people who have limited access to these products. Volunteers are needed for the van sites at Durham Tech and the DC Health Dept.
• Help EarthShare NC with marketing and tracking participating groups to celebrate North Carolina's natural environment.
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• Help students with homework in after-school tutoring at the Salvation Army from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
• Are you knowledgeable about wildlife? Volunteers are needed to answer WildNet phone lines on weekends. WildNet connects wildlife to rehabilitators and can be forwarded to your personal line.
• The Durham Literacy Center's Teen Career Academy provides one-on-one tutoring with young adults who are pursuing their GED. Become and instructor Monday through Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
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The growth in ethanol plants throughout the Midwest has increased the need for good distillers' grain feed guidelines. University trials are under way to determine the nutritional information, including some at the University of Illinois (UI). UI has been conducting trials and expects a second round to be done this spring.
Larry Berger, professor of nutrition in the UI animal science department, reports that the first studies found that cattle producers could economically feed distillers' grains for 37½ and 50% of cattle diets. Currently, cattle feeders use distillers' grains for only 10 to 20% of a diet. The ability to feed the grain at these high levels depends on prices. Berger says if the price of grain is less than the price of corn, it pays to feed more distillers' grains. Once the price of the grain rises 10% above the price of corn, then feeders should lower grain levels to 20 to 25% of the diet.
"We are finding that distillers' grains are an excellent source of protein and energy even when fed at higher levels than previously thought economically feasible," Berger says. "The challenge now is to develop guidelines that can assist producers in making management decisions." Interested feeders may watch for UI research results on this project at the Web site http://traill.outreach.uiuc.edu.


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Doha Talks Show Need for Climate Action in Post-Sandy U.S.
As the second week of international climate negotiations begins here in Doha, Qatar, rich and poor countries are staking out very different positions and digging in their heels. The big debates on the floor are about how rich and poor countries will strike a deal to reduce their emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. And the provision of fair and effective financing for clean development, adaptation to climate change, and compensation for loss and damages is emerging as the make-or-break flashpoint.
Essentially, rich countries are obstructing the process by demanding positions that poorer countries say they cannot take. Their approach would condemn millions of people to suffer loss of life and livelihood in the wake of severe climate disruption. Climate negotiators from developing countries should call their bluff and stand together to halt the talks.
For climate realists watching from the United States, the best action in the short term is less clear. There is little anyone can do in three days to alter the position of the United States. The American people sealed the fate of these negotiations when we voted Barack Obama back into office before extracting a promise from him around denying a permit to TransCanada for Keystone XL pipeline, or around stepping back from his announcements that he was going to make the United States into the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas."
In the longer term, however, the crisis currently unfolding in Doha has made one thing clear. After this round of negotiations, it's up to the populations of the rich countries to make it politically impossible for their governments to take these positions again.
What's at stake
At the end of this year, the Kyoto Protocol—the only binding international treaty to regulate climate pollution—will end its first five-year phase of emissions cuts. A shrinking list of countries—including all EU members and Australia but notably not the U.S., Canada, or Japan—have agreed to a relatively weak second round. If no other agreement is struck, most countries will begin 2013 free to pollute to their hearts' content.
While Kyoto limps along, countries have turned to piecing together a new agreement to cap greenhouse gases that would go into effect in 2020—blowing past the 2015 deadline for peaking emissions that scientists say we must meet in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. But this time around, wealthy industrialized countries, and the United States in particular, are saying that they will not be part of any deal that doesn't also bind emerging economic powerhouses in the developing world.
Developing countries are, in fact, obliged to cut pollution under the U.N. climate convention—but only as enabled by support from the developed world in the form of funding and the transfer of clean technologies. And, wealthy countries have stalled in the delivery of that financing, which was supposed to catalyze a shift to greener development in poorer countries, and thus lower emissions.
Developing countries are so far sticking together and arguing that they've already pledged to do more than the developed countries (which is true), and that they won't move forward until the financing issue is resolved, or at least until industrialized countries make a formal commitment—complete with numbers and deadlines—to fund climate action over the next five to ten years. Wealthy nations don't want to talk about money at all—and certainly not outside of the context of poorer nations making hard commitments on paper to reduce their emissions.
Unfortunately, none of the countries involved have years to waste on negotiations. In the Copenhagen round of climate talks back in 2009, negotiators agreed that global warming must be kept to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrialization temperatures if we want to avert climate disaster. Scientists say we can send no more than 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and stay within that goal. Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies are planning to burn enough oil, coal, and gas to release 2,795 gigatons, a number some of you will remember from Bill McKibben's article in Rolling Stone on "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math." In other words, fossil-fuel companies need to keep most of that oil, gas, and coal in the ground, or else we're cooked.
The consequences of the carbon-based fuels we've burned so far are already visible. The island nation of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean is negotiating to resettle its entire population in Fiji because sea level rise threatens its existence. And in the United States, we've just experienced a summer of record-busting heat waves and drought, followed by a superstorm the likes of which meteorologists have literally never seen before.
So there's the catch. We need all countries, rich and poor alike, to act. And it's the moral and legal obligation for countries like the U.S.—who are more responsible for global warming and more capable of dealing with its consequences—to act first.
What will it take to converge?
The problem for the current discussion in Doha is that climate negotiators have arrived with clear marching orders and, short of developing countries literally leaving the table, it's unclear that anything can shift U.S. red lines. The best outcome we will likely get from this week is still abysmal—vague reassurances of money from rich countries, new market-based tools to offset their responsibility for both emissions cuts and finance, and a lost eight years between now and 2020 where no substantial action is mandated.
In order to avoid a repetition of this outcome, we need to drastically change the political reality in all developed countries. We need to build enough public pressure that companies will be put out of business and elected officials voted out of office if they are willing to condemn the majority of the planet to superstorms, severe droughts, rises in sea level, famine, flash floods, and wildfires.
The good news is that after Hurricane Sandy the American public finally seems ready to connect the dots between global warming and extreme weather. Data from several national polls suggest a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans who believe climate change is a serious problem. And Obama said right after getting re-elected that he's ready to start a national conversation on climate change.
That's why the real work is back at home through a three-pronged approach that builds the power of the climate movement. First, we need to bring down the fossil fuel interests that are pumping elected officials full of donations to represent their interests. We should be destroying their reputations, eliminating their bottom lines, and physically blocking their progress. 350.org's campaign to have universities and colleges divest from dirty energy is a good start. So is the Tar Sands Blockade, in which residents are putting their bodies on the line to stop a pipeline from running through their backyards.
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Second, we need to step up our electoral organizing the way that the Asia Pacific Environmental Network and the South West Organizing Project have done to make it clear that climate realists are a political constituency. Politicians must learn that ignoring these voters can cost them their jobs.
And third, we need to show that people are ready and willing to make alternatives to a fossil fuel economy work. It's already happening—just look at Detroit's move toward local food systems and the rise of solar power cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Civil society can and should bring all its fire power to bear on the proceedings here in Doha this week, and meet quietly with the U.S. negotiating team to push innovative ideas like eliminating fossil fuel subsidies—but it's unlikely to change the existing geopolitics much. It is our responsibility though, once his negotiating team comes home from Doha, to have that tough talk and hold Obama's, and the rest of our elected officials', feet to the fire—before it's the planet that burns.
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Nearly 200 Hope College students will be spending their spring break serving others and gaining insights into the needs that they encounter.
Some 15 service and immersion trips have been planned for the college's spring break, which runs Friday, March 18, through Sunday, March 27. The mix includes trips across the U.S. as well as abroad.
A total of 175 of the students will be participating in 14 immersion trips organized by the college's Campus Ministries Office. In addition, another 17 students will travel with professor of kinesiology Dr. Steven Smith to Jamaica.
In East Palo Alto, Calif., students will be working with BayshoreChristianMinistries, a year-round ministries program, to help at-risk children, learning about how racial reconciliation affects urban ministry. In Miami, Fla., students will work through DOOR (Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection) Miami at a variety of ministry sites, including homeless shelters, with migrant workers and their children, sorting food and clothing, or assisting with home maintenance. In Americus, Ga., students will take part in the day-to-day life of Koinonia Farm, a Christian community committed to racial equality, through farm chores, visiting local development ministries and other activities. Students remaining in Holland will join with area churches and other organizations in working on a variety of projects.
In Detroit, students will work with the Jeanie Wylie Community will learn about and work on food justice and urban farming, helping build a community garden, visiting a public school for teen mothers that grows its own food, and touring local food-justice organizations like D-Town Farms and Greening Detroit. In Jackson, Miss., students will work through Voice of Calvary Ministries, participating in building projects and other reconciliation activities dealing with poverty and racism. Students heading to Newark, N.J., will work with World Impact, an inner-city ministry committed to serving the urban poor, to tutor children and participate in renovation projects.
At the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, students will work with Re-Member on a housing rehabilitation and renovation project alongside members of the Lakota community. In Chattanooga, Tenn., students will work with Hope for the Inner City in leading after-school programs for children and on a building project in learning more about urban poverty and development. In the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, students will visit mountaintop-mining removal sites and learn about environmental justice, energy issues and the experience of local residents affected by the mining.
Hope students will travel abroad to three sites through the Campus Ministries program this year.
Along the Mexico-U.S. border at Agua Prieta, Mexico, and Douglas, Ariz., students will work with Frontera de Cristo to develop a deeper understanding of the economic, political and spiritual connections that people have across borders, and issues related to immigration, economic justice and multicultural ministry. In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, students will work with the Association for a More Just Society, which is a Christian organization that focuses on government accountability and rights for the nation's poor. In Blue Fields City, Nicaragua, students interested in the health professions will have an opportunity to participate in the public health work of the Reformed Church in America and help meet a variety of hygiene and medical needs.
The group of students with Smith will be working on the school campus of the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It is the 13th year that Smith has led a group of students to the site during spring break.


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Seniors Andrew Kistner and Charles Walker come from two different camps when it comes to helmet safety. Kistner credits his life to the bicycle helmet he was wearing when struck by a car at age six. Walker, on the other hand, never wore a helmet as a kid, and thankfully never suffered any consequences. So when these public relations majors, along with classmates Eric Beals and Matt Knobloch, designed a community relations campaign about helmet safety, they included in the title, "Your Choice."
"However one feels about the issue, our goal was to give our clients and local experts an opportunity to educate the public about the risks," said Kistner, whose team named its agency PilotPR. "It wasn't about us or what we think. We did extensive research and spread the word for our clients."
The campaign was a semester-long assignment for Dr. Ron Koperski's capstone public relations course, in which PilotPR initiated a partnership between the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a local not-for-profit medical center, and Grayboy Motorsports, a Peoria Heights retailer. The campaign, titled "Helmet Safety Awareness in the Local Community: Your Choice," included media coverage, a helmet safety awareness event complete with a helmet giveaway, and the combined support of local medical experts and generous donors.
The assignment integrates all the skills the students have acquired in their communications curricula and is sponsored by one of Bradley's most distinguished alums in the public relations industry. Every semester since spring 2004, Chuck Ebeling '66 has been challenging seniors to design and implement a public relations campaign centered on a key social issue. This semester, four groups vied for the Ebeling PR-ize.
"Most PR campaigns are designed for one client, but Chuck wanted to include a not-for-profit organization because it would create an automatic opportunity for goodwill to be created in the community for two local clients," said Koperski, noting that some partnerships established through the project in previous semesters have endured.
Each member of the winning team will receive a cash award, but the most notable prize is the sense of accomplishment for months of hard work.
"We're all graduating this week, so this is that cliché 'icing on the cake'," said Knobloch. "And to meet Mr. Ebeling, with his incredible career, will really be an honor. We're excited to take this experience with us as we pursue future endeavors."
In congratulating PilotPR, Ebeling pointed to the positive impacts this practical exercise brings semester after semester.
"If anyone has cause to wonder if tomorrow's professional communicators can make a positive difference in society, this program proves that they can, and already do. Everyone this program touches is a winner," said Ebeling.


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AirAsia receives 'The First China Domestic A320 Aircraft Export Leasing Business Innovation Award' for landmark financing deal with ICBC
The shine continues with second successive 'Best Low-Cost Airline' award from Business Traveller Asia Pacific
SEPANG, 28 September 2013 – AirAsia was honoured by the China Air-Finance Award Ceremony Awards Committee with 'The First China Domestic A320 Aircraft Export Leasing Business Innovation Award' at the 1st China Air-Finance Award Ceremony recently, in recognition of the airline's groundbreaking aircraft leasing deal with the ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd, the most innovative and globalized financial leasing company in China.
AirAsia started its winning combination with ICBC in 2011 with a sale and leaseback structure for 4 Airbus A320 aircraft, followed by an operating lease agreement in the same year for another 2 aircraft.
In December 2012, AirAsia and ICBC Leasing started a landmark operating lease agreement, in which the airline took delivery of an A320 aircraft assembled in Tianjin, China by Airbus (Tianjin) Final Assembly Co., Ltd.
It was acknowledged by the China Air-Finance Award Ceremony Awards Committee as a truly innovative and pioneering aircraft leasing arrangement, as the A320 aircraft was the first unit assembled in Tianjin to be accepted by an overseas client and China Tax Leasing Structure was first involved in an overseas deal.
AirAsia Group CEO, Tony Fernandes said, "A big thank you to the China Air-Finance Award Ceremony Awards Committee for the honour and recognizing innovation at work. I would also like to congratulate ICBC, for making history by becoming the first financing entity in China to lease an aircraft assembled by Airbus (Tianjin) Final Assembly to a foreign airline and of course, for starting a new chapter of financial leasing in China.
"This deal between AirAsia and ICBC does not only reflect a successful financing arrangement, but it also reinforces our excellent relationship with China, one of our important and valuable markets. We are the largest foreign airline operating into China by capacity and we look forward to continue serving its people with low fare flights to various destinations and through productive business collaborations like we are having with ICBC."
This year, ICBC has also approved finance leases on two Airbus A320s operated by AirAsia Group's airline affiliate, AirAsia Thailand.
AirAsia was also awarded—for the second time in succession--the 'Best Low-Cost Airline' award at the 2013 Business Traveller Asia-Pacific's Awards ceremony held at the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong yesterday.
The Travel Awards ceremony is a premier annual event for over 20 years and a much awaited event by top players in travel and hospitality, to etch their names in the industry's roll of honour.
The 'Best Low-Cost Airline' was a new category introduced last year and AirAsia was chosen as the inaugural victor, a nod to the airline's growing power and its stature as the market leader in the low cost carrier segment.
Commenting on the 'Best Low-Cost Airline' award win, Fernandes said, "This second 'Best Low-Cost Carrier' award win represents the unwavering support and belief from our guests towards our services and products. We thank them for choosing AirAsia as the airline of choice for their travels.
"We will continue to work hard to maintain our leadership spot and uphold our pledge to present our guests with unbeatable low fares and exceptional products and services. This win is also due to the collective contributions of our 'AirAsia Allstars, whose hard work, passion, dedication and creativity made this recognition possible.
AirAsia was chosen as the inaugural award winner through votes by Business Traveller readers, recognizing the airline as a service provider which has maintained impeccable standards and making journeys seamless and productive.
This comprehensive survey was conducted annually among Business Traveller subscribers, and the 2013 results are based on data collected between April and June this year. For more than 20 years the awards have rewarded the excellence that its readers have experienced on their travels during the previous year.
AirAsia is a household name which has flown over 180 million guests since it was established eleven years ago with a mission to democratize air travel in the region and has been operationally profitable from day one of its launch as a low-cost carrier. The airline now has operations based in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, servicing the most extensive network with 85 destinations.
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The Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Siècle des Lumières. North Carolina Series in Romance Languages and Literatures, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
"New York, New York." Convietuirea: Revista românilor din Seghedin. 6, 1-2 (2002): 156-158. Essay on New York City written two months after 9/11.
"La Fausse Couche: Failed Potential and the Anti-Enlightenment." Romance Quarterly 49, 1 (2002): 30-35.
"Filles Perdues? French Literature in Search of the Maternal." (Solicited article). Intertexts 5, 1 (2001): 23-31.
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Diagnosis of colorectal cancer
Diagnosing colorectal cancer usually begins with a visit to your family doctor. Your doctor will ask you about any symptoms you have and may do a physical exam. Based on this information, your doctor may refer you to a specialist or order tests to check for colorectal cancer or other health problems.
The process of diagnosis may seem long and frustrating. It's normal to worry, but try to remember that other health conditions can cause similar symptoms as colorectal cancer. It's important for the healthcare team to rule out other reasons for a health problem before making a diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
The following tests are commonly used to rule out or diagnose colorectal cancer. Many of the same tests used to diagnose cancer are used to find out the stage, which is how far the cancer has progressed. Your doctor may also order other tests to check your general health and to help plan your treatment.
Health history and physical exam
Your health history is a record of your symptoms, risk factors and all the medical events and problems you have had in the past. In taking a health history, your doctor will ask questions about a personal history of:
- symptoms that suggest colorectal cancer
- polyps in the colon or rectum
- familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Lynch syndrome (also called hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer or HNPCC)
- inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Your doctor may also ask about a family history of:
- colorectal cancer
- risk factors for colorectal cancer
- other cancers
A physical exam allows your doctor to look for any signs of colorectal cancer. During a physical exam, your doctor may:
- feel the abdomen for lumps and enlarged organs
- do a digital rectal exam (DRE)
Find out more about physical exam.
Complete blood count (CBC)
A CBC measures the number and quality of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. A CBC is done to check for anemia from long-term (chronic) bleeding.
Find out more about complete blood count (CBC).
Blood chemistry tests
Blood chemistry tests measure certain chemicals in the blood. They show how well certain organs are functioning and can help find abnormalities.
Liver function tests measure how well the liver is working. Higher levels of certain substances may mean that colorectal cancer has spread to the liver.
Find out more about blood chemistry tests.
Stool tests
Stool tests check for hidden, or occult, blood in the stool. A guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) or a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) may be done during diagnosis if it was not used during screening.
Find out more about screening for colorectal cancer, including stool tests.
Double-contrast barium enema
A double-contrast barium enema is an imaging test that uses a special substance (barium sulphate) and x-rays to make images of the entire large intestine (cecum, colon, rectum and anus). Air is pumped into the intestine to improve the view.
A double-contrast barium enema may be done when there is a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT). It is also done if you have symptoms of colorectal cancer, such as bleeding from the rectum, blood in the stool or abdominal pain. It can show polyps or growths in the colon.
Find out more about barium enema.
Sigmoidoscopy is a procedure that uses a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and lens on the end (called an endoscope). It is used to look at the sigmoid colon (the last part of the colon) and rectum. A biopsy can be done during the sigmoidoscopy.
The type of endoscope used for this procedure is called a sigmoidoscope. Doctors generally use flexible sigmoidoscopes because they give more complete views of the sigmoid colon and are more comfortable than rigid sigmoidoscopes.
A flexible sigmoidoscopy may be done if you have symptoms of colorectal cancer, such as changes in bowel habits, blood in the stool or abdominal pain.
A rigid or flexible sigmoidoscopy may be done to measure the distance a rectal tumour is from the anus. Tumours that are lower in the rectum and close to the anus may need radiation therapy before surgery.
Find out more about sigmoidoscopy.
Colonoscopy is the main test used to diagnose colorectal cancer. During a colonoscopy, the doctor looks inside the colon and rectum using a flexible tube with a light and lens on the end. This tool is called a colonoscope.
A colonoscopy is done if you have blood in your stool or other symptoms of colorectal cancer. It is also used to check polyps or other abnormal areas that were found during a double-contrast barium enema or sigmoidoscopy. The doctor may also collect a biopsy sample during colonoscopy.
Find out more about colonoscopy.
During a biopsy, the doctor removes tissues or cells from the body so they can be tested in a lab. The report from the lab will confirm whether or not cancer cells are present in the sample.
A biopsy is usually done during a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy to remove polyps (called polypectomy) or small amounts of tissue from the colon or rectum. This may be called an endoscopic biopsy.
A core biopsy may be used to collect samples from organs where the cancer may have spread, such as the liver.
Find out more about biopsy.
Cell and tissue studies
Cells and tissues can be studied in the laboratory to look for the presence or effects of cancer. They can also look for certain changes or characteristics in the body. Cells may be collected from blood or urine. They can also come from tissue samples collected with biopsy or other procedures. Find out more about cell and tissue studies.
The following cell and tissue studies may be done for colorectal cancer.
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a tumour marker. Doctors usually measure CEA before surgery to set a starting point, or baseline, that they can use to check future levels. Measuring CEA levels is usually done as a part of follow-up. CEA levels that are higher than the baseline may mean the cancer is not responding to treatment or has come back (recurred). Find out more about carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).
KRAS is a gene that can be mutated, or changed, in some colorectal cancer cells. The KRAS test is usually done on colorectal tumours in people with metastatic colorectal cancer because it may show if targeted therapy is a treatment option. Colorectal tumours that test positive for the KRAS gene mutation are unlikely to respond to the targeted therapy drugs such as cetuximab (Erbitux) and panitumumab (Vectibix). Colorectal tumours that don't have the KRAS gene mutation are called KRAS wild-type tumours.
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a change to the genetic material, or DNA, in a cell. Normally, mismatch repair (MMR) genes correct any mistakes to DNA that happen when it's copied during cell division. When the MMR genes don't work properly, MSI can happen. People with Lynch syndrome have a mutation in one of their MMR genes. Doctors may test biopsy samples from a colorectal tumour for MSI to find out if the tumour could have been caused by Lynch syndrome.
Digital rectal exam (DRE)
DRE is an exam in which the doctor inserts a gloved finger into the rectum to check for lumps or swelling. It is usually done as part of a physical exam. DRE is also done to measure how far a rectal tumour is from the anus. Tumours that are lower in the rectum and close to the anus may need radiation therapy or chemoradiation before surgery.
DRE is used with a transrectal ultrasound or pelvic MRI to find out the stage of the rectal cancer, including how deep the tumour has grown into the wall of the rectum.
Find out more about digital rectal exam (DRE).
CT scan
A computed tomography (CT) scan uses special x-ray equipment to make 3-D and cross-sectional images of organs, tissues, bones and blood vessels inside the body. A computer turns the images into detailed pictures.
A CT scan is used to check if colorectal cancer has spread to lymph nodes or organs in the chest, abdomen and pelvis. It is usually done before surgery to create a starting point, or baseline, that doctors can compare to CT scans done after surgery during follow-up.
A CT scan of the pelvis may be used to measure how far a rectal tumour is from the anus. Tumours that are lower in the rectum and close to the anus may need radiation therapy or chemoradiation before surgery.
Doctors can also use a CT scan to guide a biopsy needle to a specific area in the body. This is called a CT-guided biopsy. It is used to check if colorectal cancer has spread to certain organs, such as the liver.
A virtual colonoscopy, also called a CT colonography, uses special equipment to make images of the colon and rectum without using an endoscope. It looks for polyps and cancer. Researchers are still studying virtual colonoscopy to see if it is effective in diagnosing colorectal cancer. If virtual colonoscopy equipment is available, you may be offered this test if you can't have a regular colonoscopy.
Find out more about CT scan.
Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to make images of structures in the body. It may be used to check if colorectal cancer has spread to the liver.
Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is also called endorectal ultrasound. TRUS is an ultrasound technique in which the ultrasound transducer, or probe, is placed inside the rectum. It is used to find out the stage of the rectal cancer, including how deep the tumour has grown into the wall of the rectum. TRUS may also be used to measure how far a rectal tumour is from the anus. Tumours that are lower in the rectum and close to the anus may need radiation therapy or chemoradiation before surgery.
Find out more about ultrasound and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS).
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses powerful magnetic forces and radiofrequency waves to make cross-sectional images of organs, tissues, bones and blood vessels. A computer turns the images into 3-D pictures.
MRI of the pelvis may be used to find out the stage of rectal cancer and where cancer has spread within the pelvis, such as to the lymph nodes. It may also be used to measure how far a rectal tumour is from the anus. Tumours that are lower in the rectum and close to the anus may need radiation therapy or chemoradiation before surgery.
Find out more about MRI.
Chest x-ray
An x-ray uses small doses of radiation to make an image of the body's structures on film. A chest x-ray is used to check if colorectal cancer has spread to the lungs.
Find out more about x-ray.
PET-CT scan
A positron emission tomography (PET) scan uses radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals to look for changes in the metabolic activity of body tissues. A computer analyzes the radioactive patterns and makes 3-D colour images of the area being scanned.
A PET-CT scan combines images from a PET scan and a CT scan, which are done at the same time using the same machine. It may be used to help with staging colorectal cancer or plan surgery for metastatic tumours.
Find out more about PET scan and CT scan.
Questions to ask your healthcare team
Find out more about diagnosis. To make the decisions that are right for you, ask your healthcare team questions about diagnosis.
An inherited condition that causes hundreds to thousands of polyps to develop, mainly on the lining of the colon and rectum.
People with FAP have a higher risk of colorectal cancer and small intestine cancer. It also increases the risk of stomach, adrenal gland and thyroid cancers.
An inherited condition that causes a large number of polyps to develop in the lining of the colon and rectum but not as many polyps as are found in familial adenomatous polyps (FAP).
There are 2 types of Lynch syndrome. Type A increases the risk for colorectal cancer, and type B increases the risk of several cancers, including colorectal cancer and other digestive system cancers, and ovarian and uterine cancers in women.
Also called hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC).
A substance in the body that may indicate the presence of a certain type of cancer.
Tumour markers may be produced by cancer cells or by the body in response to the cancer. They can be found in blood or other body fluids and may be used to detect cancer or monitor a person's response to treatment.
For example, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can be used as a tumour marker for prostate cancer.
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For me specifically, my every-day-carry kit is:
* Wallet: Cash, Credit Cards, Health Insurance card, Dental Insurance Card, Drivers License.
* Keyring (Car keys + House Keys)
* Wristwatch (Just a cheap, battery-based Casio, upgraded to a Nylon NATO strap)
* Cell Phone
* Field Notes journal (48 pages, super light, fits in back pocket comfortably. I can sit on it all day and not notice) and Bic ballpoint pen
* Harmonica (
* Soon to be added: EDC Flashlight. I'm shocked that there are flashlights only slightly larger than AA batteries.
My "extended" carry includes a laptop bag (containing a USB-battery bank, my laptop and its charger, extra pens and pencils, my Pathfinder character sheets, my Nintendo 3DS, a spare PS4 controller, a musical tuner, and Benadryl for allergic emergencies).
I've discovered a NIMH-AA charger / USB-battery bank combo however, so depending on how that works, I might dump the USB-battery bank for a 4-pack (or maybe 8-pack) of charged NIMH-AA batteries + the AA -> USB charger instead. The AA batteries would work with both the flashlight and USB devices in theory.
I know some people carry knives, tissues, band aids... even Epi-pens. But what does everyone around here carry each day?


text: Colin Powell named speaker for second Hanway Lecture in Global Studies August 19, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) will deliver Loyola University Maryland's second Hanway Lecture in Global Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, at 7 p.m. in Reitz Arena. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Powell has devoted his life to public service for more than 50 years. In his senior military and diplomatic positions across four presidential administrations, Powell's deep commitment to democratic values and freedom has made an impact across the world. "We are honored to welcome General Powell to Loyola for our marquee lecture series on global awareness," said Rev. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., Loyola's president. "His unique journey to becoming chief diplomat for the United States is the mark of true leadership, vision, and appreciation for shared values both at home and abroad, all virtues we are committed to upholding as a Jesuit university. General Powell's understanding of the global challenges and opportunities facing America evolved throughout his distinguished career, and I'm confident the tremendous wisdom he gained through years of discernment will be inspiring to our community." In 1958 Powell received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon graduation from the City College of New York and went on to serve in the United States Army for 35 years, rising to the rank of Four-Star General. He served as President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor from 1987–89 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for both President George H.W. Bush and for President Bill Clinton from 1989–93. He was not only the youngest officer and first ROTC graduate to ever serve in the position but also the first African American to do so. During his time as Chairman, he oversaw 28 crises including the Panama intervention of 1989 and Operation Desert Storm. Under President George W. Bush, Powell was appointed the 65th Secretary of State and went on to lead the State Department in major efforts to address and solve regional and civil conflicts overseas. He worked at the forefront of American efforts to advance economic and social development worldwide. His numerous U.S. military, civil, and international awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters), two Presidential Medals of Freedom, and an honorary knighthood bestowed by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. Currently, Powell is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and is on the board of Bloom Energy. He is also the chairman of the Advisory Board of Leeds Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in the education, training, information and business services industries. His two books, both bestsellers, are his autobiography, My American Journey, and the more recent It Worked For Me, which explored the lessons that shaped his life and career. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was born in Harlem in 1937 and was raised in the South Bronx. He is married to the former Alma Vivian Johnson of Birmingham, Ala. They live in McLean, Va., and have three children and four grandchildren. The Hanway Lecture in Global Studies is an endowed lecture series made possible by a gift from Ed Hanway, a member of the University's Class of 1974 and current chair of its Board of Trustees, and his wife, Ellen. The inaugural lecture was held in April 2013 and featured Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ticket info Members of the Loyola community will have the opportunity to obtain tickets in September. Tickets for the general public will be released in October pending availability. DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley


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§ 404.1790. Appeals Council's decision.
(a) The Appeals Council shall base its decision upon the evidence in the hearing record and any other evidence it may permit on review. The Appeals Council shall either—
(1) Affirm, reverse, or modify the hearing officer's decision; or
(2) Return a case to the hearing officer when the Appeals Council considers it appropriate.
(b) The Appeals Council, in changing a hearing officer's decision to suspend a representative for a specified period, shall in no event reduce the period of suspension to less than 1 year. In modifying a hearing officer's decision to disqualify a representative, the Appeals Council shall in no event impose a period of suspension of less than 1 year. Further, the Appeals Council shall in no event impose a suspension when disqualification is the sole sanction available in accordance with § 404.1770(a)(3)(ii).
(c) If the Appeals Council affirms or changes a hearing officer's decision, the period of suspension or the disqualification is effective from the date of the Appeals Council's decision.
(d) If the hearing officer did not impose a period of suspension or a disqualification, and the Appeals Council decides to impose one or the other, the suspension or disqualification is effective from the date of the Appeals Council's decision.
(e) The Appeals Council shall make its decision in writing and shall mail a copy of the decision to the parties at their last known addresses.
[45 FR 52090, Aug. 5, 1980, as amended at 56 FR 24132, May 29, 1991; 71 FR 2877, Jan. 18, 2006]


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When Will The Media Stop Treating FRC Like A Serious Policy Organization?
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This month marks the one-year anniversary of the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Unsurprisingly, not a single one of the Family Research Council's (FRC) doomsday predictions about the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" have come true in the past year, which is just the latest example of FRC's inability to produce credible and unbiased policy analysis. So why do media outlets keep taking the group seriously?
In the months leading up to DADT's repeal, FRC officials issued countless warnings that allowing open service would undermine unit cohesion, increase the rate of sexual assault, bring back the draft, and risk millions of lives. The group also dismissed a comprehensive survey by the Pentagon which found that repealing DADT would not hinder military performance, calling the study "suspect."
It's not the first time FRC has made wildly inaccurate claims about policies that advance LGBT equality. Some examples of FRC's "expert" policy analysis:
- Non-discrimination laws would make it a "civil right" for a "temporarily cross-dressing male" to enter women's restrooms and expose himself
- Hate crime laws "suppress free speech" and respond to a "phony 'crisis'"
- The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) "would require every employer in America to open every position to homosexuals... and 'transgenders'"
FRC's inability to provide credible policy research might have something to do with its sources of "expert" analysis. FRC's Senior Fellow for Policy Studies, for example, is Peter Sprigg - a man who spent 10 years as a "professional actor" and served as an ordained Baptist minister before joining FRC.
The group also has a history of relying on discredited and junk research to make disparaging assertions about LGBT people: gay people are more likely to be pedophiles, homosexuality can be cured, etc. FRC's propagation of known falsehoods about gays and lesbians is the reason the organization was labeled a "hate group" in 2010.
Given FRC's record of wildly inaccurate "policy analysis," it's unclear why the clearly biased organization remains relevant in policy discussions. FRC president Tony Perkins regularly appears on all three major cable news networks to provide commentary on a wide range of political issues. Fox News' Mike Huckabee referred to FRC as "one of the most respected family organizations in America." And the Washington Post's Dana Milbank recently referred to the group as a "mainstream conservative think tank."
As the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) noted in a recent report:
To make the case that the LGBT community is a threat to American society, the FRC employs a number of "policy experts" whose "research" has allowed the FRC to be extremely active politically in shaping public debate. Its research fellows and leaders often testify before Congress and appear in the mainstream media. [emphasis added]
In a column earlier this month titled "Why Must We Take the Family Research Council Seriously?", Daily Beast correspondent Michael Tomasky highlighted the media's double standard when dealing with right-wing groups like FRC. Discussing the groups' ties to anti-Muslim speakers, Tomasky wrote:
All right, this is crackpot stuff. But according to the Serious Men and Women of Washington, the FRC is not a crackpot outfit. Can you imagine if the Center for American Progress, say, or Jim Wallis's group featured a speaker who alleged that Romney had a secret plan to convert everyone to Mormonism and force Christians to reject all they'd been taught and embrace Joseph Smith's teachings? I know I said last week I generally steer clear of analogies, but this one is pretty precise.
FRC can do this and still be accorded respect. Why? Because we just take it as a given and accept that the right wing is full of nativist and reactionary and racist cranks. And this, remember, is a religious organization.
A similar analogy can be made with regards to FRC's anti-gay politics. Mainstream media outlets just assume - and accept - that FRC's extreme homophobia is par for the course when it comes to conservative Christians organizations.
It's not just that FRC is an anti-gay hate group, though; it's a hate group that's consistently flat-out wrong about its policy analysis, especially when dealing with LGBT issues. The Family Research Council continues to be viewed as a "think tank" despite overwhelming evidence that its "policy analysis" is really nothing more than baseless horror stories motivated by extreme anti-gay animus.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but when it comes to the media's treatment of FRC, wrong after wrong (after wrong after wrong) makes a right-wing "think tank."
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LONDON (AP) Tom Brady led touchdown drives on the Patriots' first five possessions Sunday and New England ran over the St. Louis Rams 45-7 in the NFL's annual regular-season game in London.
The Rams looked ready to put up a fight when Sam Bradford hit Chris Givens with a 50-yard touchdown pass on the first drive of the game. But that was about all the offense St. Louis could muster, and the Patriots were unstoppable from there.
Brady cut through the St. Louis defense at will to give New England a 28-7 lead by halftime, then hit Brandon Lloyd for a 9-yard score to start the third quarter.
New England surpassed 350 yards of total offense for the 17th straight game, breaking an NFL record set by the Rams in 1999-2000.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Observing Student Reasoning and Proof
|Introduction | Inscribed Triangles | Problem Reflection #1 | Inscribed Triangle Continued | Problem Reflection #2 | Classroom Practice | Observe a Classroom | Your Journal
Ms. Saleh's tenth-grade geometry class is working on an inscribed triangle problem. Students had previously worked with angles, triangles, and circles and had been introduced to the idea of a proof.
One group of students created this chart.
Here is a dialogue between Ms. Saleh and members of one group:
Ms. Saleh: Can you describe how you worked on the problem?
Ben: We made a circle with the compass, and then drew lines.
Ms. Saleh: How did you draw the lines?
Ben: We found a place on the top of the circle and drew lines to either corner.
Sonia: See these are our points. {she points to the top of the circle] we actually tried a bunch of different points for C.
Ms. Saleh: What about that point in the middle, O?
Grant: We thought we'd need that because last time we did circles we used it. But we didn't use it to draw with.
Ms. Saleh: Okay, we may want to come back to it later, so it wasn't a mistake to put it in. Now tell me about your chart. Can you draw any conclusions about angle C?
Grant: Well, we measured it in five positions on the circle. It is always close to 90 degrees, although it's never exact.
Ben: No, it was exact once.
Grant: Oh, I see. Yes, but it was just once.
Ms. Saleh: Do you have any ideas about angle C?
Sonia: Yes, it's always the top of the triangle and C always looks like a right triangle. So I think C is a right triangle, no matter what.
Ms. Saleh: Yes, it certainly looks that way. But does the table support the idea that angle C will be a right angle in every case? We have some data, 94 degrees for instance, that isn't a right angle.
Grant: That's just cuz we measured with a protractor and maybe it was off a little.
Ms. Saleh: If we had a more accurate protractor and many more triangles how could we show that angle C is always a right triangle? How many measurements would it take?
Ben: You'd have to do every single triangle ever. And that's not possible, right?
Ms. Saleh: Sonia what do you think? Could we check every possible angle C?
Sonia: No, I couldn't at least. Maybe I could make an argument about why it needs to be 90 degrees.
Ms. Saleh: That's great. Please work on an argument you think will convince one another that angle C is always a right angle. Then I'll come back and you can try to convince me!
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