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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
The Prophet Isaiah, in the first reading today, reflects on the word of
God. When God speaks, reality is created. When God sends His Word, the
world is redeemed and transformed. This happens, however, in the way which
was shown to us in the readings from last Sunday: in humility and
meekness, not in power and force.
The Gospel speaks also of the word and how it is like seed sown. When seed
is sown, it does not all develop equally. This is a reality that anyone
working with planting seeds knows as tough experience. Thus, those who
plant seeds want to prepare the ground so that seed will have its best
results. If you and I were to plant grass seed, we would not normally
choose to plant it in a pile of stones. Rather, we would prepare the
ground first so that the grass might grow and be beautiful or productive or
Jesus is aware of this difference and uses the readily understandable image
to show why the word of God is not always effective. God always honors our
freedom. We are the ones who must prepare the ground to receive the seed,
the word of God.
The Letter to the Romans, from which comes the second reading today, gives
an image of Christians straining toward the Kingdom. These Christians are
ground fully prepared for the seed, the word of God. There is nothing
holding back their deepest desires for the Kingdom except the reality of
still living in this world.
Spiritually, today, we can begin to understand that we must desire the word
of God in ourselves. If we truly desire that word, then we will begin to
prepare our hearts and minds to receive the word. If we say that we desire
the word and do nothing, then we are simply deceiving ourselves. God's
word will come to us but unless we have prepared the found, it will fall on
the stones of our hearts.
My sisters and brothers, let us prepare our hearts and our minds so that
the seed, the word of God, may fall in us and bear immense fruit.
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New Products - December 2004
MitsubishiNot only does Mitsubishi's WD-62825 rear-projection HDTV have a big, 62-inch screen for high-definition shows to stretch out in, but it also has a built-in 120-gigabyte hard disk for recording them. The disk has room for 12 hours of high-def programming or 72 hours at standard-def. DLP (Digital Light Processing) technology creates images with a 1,280 x 720-pixel resolution, and there's no possibility of their "burning in" to the screen over time. The set incorporates Mitsubishi's NetCommand control interface, which can route commands to other gear through its infrared-emitter output or two-way FireWire ports. Pick your favorite flavor of HDTV hookup from FireWire, VGA, RGB+H/V, component video, or HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), a digital connection that carries both audio and video and is appearing on some DVD players. Price: $6,499. mitsubishi-tv.com, 800-332-2119 Rave-MPWhoever thought that 5 gigabytes would fit in a package as tiny as Rave-MP's ARC5.0 digital music player? That translates into hours and hours of music, encoded in either MP3 or WMA format, stored in the 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3/4-inch player's built-in memory. You won't even be able to get through it all before you have to recharge the built-in lithium-ion battery, although it's said to last 10 hours or more. Transferring music is fast work with the USB 2.0 connection, and software is provided for both Macs and Windows PCs. Other convenience features include an FM tuner with 20 presets, a microphone and voice recorder, and an armband. Price: $249. rave-mp.com, 480-998-3400
Boston Acoustics Flat-panel TVs are a natural for wall mounting, speakers less so, and putting three of them around a sleek plasma set can look cluttered. Boston Acoustics' P400 combines the front left, center, and right speakers into a single cabinet designed to hang above or below your TV. Its 40-inch-wide chassis should closely match most 42-inch plasmas, and it comes with either a black or silver grille. Besides the trios of 1-inch tweeters and 4 1/2-inch woofers, three 4 1/2-inch passive radiators help stretch the speaker's bass output down to 80 Hz. The P400 is magnetically shielded, and an optional foot helps you aim it if you put it on a shelf. Price: $1,500. bostonacoustics.com, 978-538-5000 NOTE All prices and product information are supplied by the manufacturers. Dealer prices may vary.


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The Voice of Housing is a mortgage industry portal published by the Collingwood Group. Contributors include former Ginnie Mae CEO Joe Murin, former FHA Commissioner Brian Montgomery, Collingwood Group Managing Director Tim Rood and other housing professionals.
The Collingwood Group is a top mortgage industry advisory group based in Washingtion, DC. Collingwood's expertise spans all aspects of Agency, non-Agency and FHA/VA housing financing programs and Ginnie Mae securitization activities, among others.


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LOS ANGELES — NASA's newest spacecraft got down and dirty on Mars, taking its first practice scoop of Martian soil ahead of the actual dig expected later this week, scientists said Monday.
The test dig made Sunday by Phoenix Mars Lander's 8-foot-long robotic arm uncovered bits of bright specks in the soil believed to be ice or salt.
"We see this nice streak of white material," said Pat Woida, senior engineer at the University of Arizona at Tucson, which is directing the mission. "We don't know what this material is yet."
Scientists expect to find out definitively what the specks are made of once the lander begins conducting its chemical tests.
Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains on May 25 to begin a three-month hunt, aimed at finding out whether the far northern latitudes could support primitive life. Its main task is to excavate trenches in the permafrost in search of evidence of past water and organic compounds considered the chemical building blocks of life. The cost of the mission is $420 million.
Close-up images beamed back by the lander over the weekend revealed that its three legs are resting on what appears to be a slab of ice. It apparently was uncovered when the spacecraft's thrusters blew away the topsoil. Also over the weekend, engineers fixed a nagging short-circuit problem on one of the lander's instruments.
"We're ready to go," said Ray Arvidson of Washington University, who is known by team members as the "dig czar." "We're pretty excited to get on with business here."
Since Phoenix's arrival, scientists have roped off no-digging zones to preserve parts of the landing site. They've also named rocks and other geologic features after fairy-tale and nursery rhyme characters, including "Humpty Dumpty" and "Alice."
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Miriana spends her nights sleeping in a park, and her days hunched on a stoop outside a Madrid shop, begging for money. The young woman admits that she earned more in Italy, where she lived for a year. But for this Romanian immigrant, who is also ethnically Roma (or gypsy), the decision to move to Spain was easy.
"Here, the people are better," she explains in broken Spanish. "They don't have as much hate."
Both Spain and Italy, situated across from Africa on the Mediterranean coast, have faced huge influxes of illegal immigrants over the past couple of years – 18,000 intercepted by Spain last year alone, and 12,000 by Italy so far this year. But their governments, though sharing a conviction that the problem urgently needs to be curbed, have taken different approaches to reach that common goal.
While Spain struggles to find the balance between limiting immigration and protecting human rights, Italy has implemented state of emergency measures and even fingerprinting of Roma – measures decried as "xenophobic" by the human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg.
"The Spanish government has a very strict policy," says Roberto Malini, president of the Italian human rights organization EveryOne. "The Italians have an intimidatory policy: the idea is to scare immigrants, so that when they go home, they can tell their countrymen that Italy is no place for foreigners."
Italy: State of emergency
On July 25, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government passed a decree that allows the government to use military troops to monitor the country's 16 immigrant internment centers and to deploy another 3,000 soldiers to several cities in an effort to control crime, which is often blamed on immigrants.
Parliament also recently passed a law specifying that illegal immigrants convicted of crimes can be held for up to a third longer than Italians convicted of the same felony. Property rented to illegal immigrants can be confiscated under the new legislation.
These steps have troubled human rights activists. "At the identification centers used to hold North Africans, immigrants often face violence and intimidation," says Mr. Malini. "But they're not in a position to complain, because they'll be expelled."
Italy's measures have hit the Roma most severely. Though some have lived in Italy for years, many came from Romania when that country joined the European Union in 2007. Berlusconi's predecessor, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, had ordered some deportations of Roma, despite their EU citizenship. Under Mr. Berlusconi, Italy has gone further, initiating a census of Roma that began in June and included fingerprinting.
This discrimination has been fed by media headlines such as "Invasion of the Nomads." And it has trickled down in other ways as well. In July, the rightwing Northern League party presented a proposal in one region that would ban "kebab shops" and Chinese restaurants from city centers because they were "incompatible with the historical context." Vigilante groups in southern Italy have set fire to Roma enclaves and attacked their inhabitants.
Spain: Balancing rights, crackdown
In Spain, where legal immigrants alone make up nearly 9 percent of the population, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero surprised many at the start of his second term this spring by directing an about-face of his administration's previously lenient immigration policies.
In June, just three years after authorizing a mass legalization of 750,000 undocumented workers, Mr. Zapatero expressed support for the EU's Return Directive – a policy that allows member states to hold undocumented migrants, including minors, for up to 18 months, and, if deported, bans them from returning.
Faced with a 10.7 percent unemployment rate, Zapatero's new labor minister has announced a plan that would pay jobless immigrants to return to their home countries. The Catalan regional government, among the most progressive in Spain, has authorized a program that would temporarily segregate newly arrived immigrant children from non-European countries in special schools designed to better prepare them for integration into the regular educational system. The government is expending greater resources on preventing migrant-laden boats from reaching Spanish shores, and more frequently deporting those who do land.
Zapatero's immigration policy has been criticized by immigrants-rights organizations. Antonio Abad, secretary-general of the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (CEAR), points out, for example, that by increasing the monitoring of the Moroccan and Mauritanian coasts, Spanish authorities have compelled sub-Saharan migrants to begin their sea journey from points farther south, endangering themselves even further. "It takes the people who need the most protection and makes things even harder for them," he says. He also criticizes Zapatero's support for the Return Directive. "When you limit one person's rights, you limit all of society," he adds.
Yet Zapatero has balanced these more rigid policies with other kinds of efforts. He appointed the first immigrant to his cabinet in April and has promised to extend the vote to legal immigrants by the end of this term. Those efforts, say Abad, make a difference. "On the positive side, we can see that the government has a strategy for integration.... It's totally different from the racist measures you see in Italy."


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- 500ml good-quality vanilla ice-cream
- 400g dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Place a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper in the freezer for 10 minutes or until cold. Scoop teaspoonfuls of the ice-cream into balls and place on the cold tray. Return to the freezer for 30 minutes or until firm.
- Place the chocolate and vegetable oil in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and stir until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat.
- Working quickly, dip the ice-cream balls into the chocolate mixture using a fork. Place on a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper. Return to the freezer for 30 minutes or until the chocolate has set. Makes 12.
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Texas health department officials rushed Wednesday to assure people that prisoners will not be receiving the swine flu vaccine before the public.
The statement came one day after Texas prison officials said that thousands of high-risk convicts may be vaccinated against the swine flu ahead of the general public as soon as next week.
Michelle Lyons, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman, said more than 45,000 convicts have been targeted to receive the vaccine.
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"We have a number of the high-risk groups in prisons -- pregnant women, people with immune deficiencies, with other serious health issues," Lyons said. "In some respects, we're like a nursing home or a college dorm. If the flu were to get started in this environment, it could spread quickly."
But the state health department now says that it is unclear when the state will be able to fill those requests.
The department said Wednesday that the state has not allocated any H1N1 vaccine to prisons at this time. Prisoners are not a priority group to receive the vaccine and will not be vaccinated ahead of the general public, the department said.
The plan to deliver the doses to prisoners ahead of the general public drew outrage across Texas.
"I can't really see a legitimate reason that our inmates are getting it before physicians and children and people who are pregnant," parent Michelle Spak said.
Eric Willer, also a parent, said prisoners should not have "preferential treatment over the rest of us."
But Linida Willer said vaccinating prisoners first could help her decide whether or not to vaccinate her child.
"I would rather use them as a guinea pig and see what happens to them, because I'm not emotionally attached to the inmates," she said with a laugh.
Texas is initially targeting the groups most at risk, including pregnant women. Health care providers who serve pregnant women in prisons have requested vaccine from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The vaccine also will go to more than 40,000 correctional officers and medical personnel who work with the prisoners.
The decision on who gets the vaccine is set by a distribution policy established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyons and officials with the state Department of Health Services said. Under that policy, the initial target groups to receive the shots when the vaccine is first available include pregnant women, health care providers, emergency services personnel and people with medical conditions that put them at highest risk should they get the flu.
"We have been told that we will start receiving doses by around the first of November in lots of 25,000," Lyons said.
She said the prison system has asked for more than 158,000 doses of swine flu vaccine to inoculate all convicts in state prisons and state-contracted private prisons.
Lita Beck contributed to this report.


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Cheers for volunteers
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Cheers for volunteers
October 15, 2013
By Meghan Johnstone
The Adirondack Park contains thousands of lakes and ponds, so it should come as no surprise that our quality of life is directly tied to water. The region's waterways support our tourist-based economy through recreation and treasured beauty, provide clean drinking water, contribute to overall ecosystem health and even play a role in determining property values. Unfortunately, aquatic invasive species threaten these values, and they are on the move.
Fortunately, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program Aquatic Project is on the front lines of protecting the region's waterways from harmful AIS, and the summer is a particularly important time for action. Each June, APIPP enlists volunteers as part of its Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and offers instruction on aquatic invasive plant identification and monitoring techniques. Then, the real fun begins – volunteers select a favorite waterway to search for aquatic invasive plants, a process that is fun, easy and a great way to enjoy a sunny summer day.
Eighty-three eager individuals attended APIPP's training sessions in Bolton Landing, Paul Smiths and Raquette Lake. Throughout the summer, more than 100 volunteers kept watchful eyes for aquatic invasive plants on nearly 100 lakes and ponds, and survey reports are still rolling in. Since the start of the program in 2002, nearly 600 citizens volunteered more than 6,500 hours to monitor 300 waterways – and the tallies from this year will push those numbers even higher.
Volunteers are essential because their vigilance each year enables better understanding of the distribution of invaded and invasive-free waterways in the Adirondack region. Armed with this information, organizations and communities can take prescriptive prevention and management actions, such as having stewards at boat launches to inspect watercraft for attached plant fragments or starting control programs to remove invading plants. Thanks to volunteer and partner staff efforts, we know that the number of invasive-free lakes is more than two times that of invaded lakes, making a compelling case for prevention.
Aquatic invasive plants are not the only AIS that are on APIPP's hit list: aquatic invasive animals are, too. Spiny waterfleas, Asian clams and zebra mussels are relatively recent arrivals to the region. The 2013 field season was particularly exciting because APIPP expanded its monitoring program to include aquatic invasive animals.
Spiny waterflea, an invasive zooplankton, was discovered in Lake George and the Champlain Canal in 2012 and is in at least four other Adirondack waters; however, the regional distribution of this species, among that of other aquatic invasive animals, is not fully understood. As a result, APIPP worked with partners to develop an Invasive Waterflea Monitoring Protocol, which was tested on six lakes this summer: Lower, Middle, and Upper Saranac lakes, Lake Placid, Sacandaga Lake and Jenny Lake. Great news – no invasive waterfleas were detected except for in Sacandaga Lake, which was known to be infested.
Naturally, training on how to identify aquatic invasive animals is fundamental to an early detection program that includes these species. This August, APIPP held its second Aquatic Invasive Animal Identification Training with 19 volunteers ready to help hunt for AIS. Next year's program will be even bigger and better.
With the help of dedicated volunteers, APIPP's Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program is stronger than ever and is crucial to help protect our region's waters from harmful AIS. Great thanks to all volunteers involved in AIS monitoring, and we look forward to working with you again next year!
Help protect your favorite waterway. Contact Meghan Johnstone at [email protected] or 518-576-2082 x119 for more information.
Meghan Johnstone is the Aquatic Invasive Species Project Coordinator for the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program.
Eye on Invasives is a seasonal biweekly column that spotlights a top invader when it is easiest to identify. The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program is a partnership program housed at the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy in Keene Valley. Find out more about this award-winning program online at www.adkinvasives.com.


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Watch: A tribute to Johnny Cash
Saw this bumper sticker a few days before the opening night of the Denver Center Theatre Company's "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash," which opened last night at the Stage Theatre.
Thought it was a nice omen. Stay tuned for the review, which will also take a look at the Arvada Center's ambitious production, "Chess, A Musical," which runs there through April 15.
Meanwhile, think of this as an amuse bouche. It's a different, deeply evocative tribute to the Man in Black. The video explains itself.
"The Johnny Cash Project" was one of the sweet surprises at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, part of its knockout New Frontier programming. Chris Milk, the project's creator, also created an achingly participatory music video, "Wilderness Downtown," to Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait."


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Proper counsel can help you to address these difficult issues and help you to avoid unnecessary expenses and emotional distress. The lawyers and staff at Law Office of M. Kent Olsen, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, are qualified and eager to assist you with any and all estate and trust matters with the goal of providing you with a comprehensive solution to your situation. Contact our Denver law firm to learn more about your estate planning options in Colorado.
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Welcome to the Xcalak to Chinchorro Dive Center (XTC)! We are located in the small fishing village of Xcalak (pop 400). It is the southernmost town on the Mexican Caribbean coast, on the border with Belize and within the Xcalak Reef National Marine Park.
Xcalak is on the tip of a peninsula that borders the Caribbean sea to the east and Chetumal Bay to the west, which are part of a unique, extremely connected and bio-diverse eco-system made up of coral reefs (15miles of protected reef), mangroves, rivers, lagoons and bays that make for a nature lover's paradise.
Xcalak is at the center of the Great Maya Reef, the second largest barrier reef in the world. Scuba Diving around Xcalak offers incredible diversity. There are deep walls, shallow walls, unique geographical formations, vast canyons between spur and groove reef systems, swim throughs, caverns, and an exotic array of Caribbean marine reef creatures.
Xcalak is most definitely the quintessential fishing village, unspoiled by development and certainly remote in the best sense of the word. You will find your cell phone doesn't work here, internet access is limited, and most lodging options are small beach inns that run on renewable energy. This allows our guests to enjoy a truly memorable experience in a very special place. All of us who work here at XTC were drawn here by Xcalak's peacefulness and paradise-on-earth feel and work very hard to protect it and preserve its unique eco-system. You will find that spirit in everything we do; from our facilities, we are 100% self contained, to our trips and instructional philosophy.
For us, sustainability is not an aspect of what we do but a way of life that is shared by the locals. More than a decade ago, they requested the federal government declare Xcalak a National Park to protect it from the development happening not far north of here, where there now is a cruise ship pier. This means that Xcalak is one of the few Marine Reserves that were protected well before there was any development.
XTC's full service dive center offers PADI diving instruction—everything from Bubblemakers to Divemaster; PADI Tec Rec training through Trimix and all levels in between.
We also offer bird watching trips, bone fishing and snorkeling tours in Xcalak.
Additionally, we have access to the Chinchorro Bank Biosphere Reserve, the largest and oldest reef on the northern hemisphere. This highly protected Marine Sanctuary is a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage Site Designation not only because of its amazing reef ecosystem but also its rich shipwreck history.
We are fortunate enough to work with local fishermen who have lived and fished in these waters for generations and are now captains. Ocean lore is everywhere here as this is one of the few places on the Mexican Caribbean coast with a very rich history. For more on Xcalak history go to our About section.
Pets are welcome at XTC Dive Center and the Flying Cloud Hotel. Bring your four-footed family member with you when you stay with us.
Come to Xcalak before we get discovered by the mainstream dive travel industry. You´ll be glad you did.


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Boeing, Field Aviation Advance MSA Bizjet Concept
An estimated $10 billion in sales to replace 150 maritime surveillance aircraft in the 50,000-lb. category over the next 10 years is leading to intense competition among airframers hungry to dual-purpose existing aircraft lines to fill surveillance needs globally. Backfilling for worn out legacy aircraft, including DC-3s and CASA 212s, Fokker F27s, YS-11s and Gulfstream IIIs, is a new generation of medium-class turboprops and business jets converted to maritime surveillance carrying a new generation of smaller sensors that cost less and perform better.
We are seeing very clearly a move toward cost-effective, multi-mission, special-mission platforms, says Joar Gronlund, non-executive director at Field Aviation, an aircraft modification company that converted 10 Bombardier Dash 8 Q200s and Q300s to maritime surveillance aircraft (MSA) for the Australian Coast Guard starting in the mid-1990s. That typically drives you to starting with commercial aircraft. Marry that to an evolution in smaller, lighter and cheaper sensors, and new special-missions platforms are born.
The action has created what aircraft makers, including Dassault and Bombardier, could see as a burgeoning medium-class MSA niche to supplement a still-sluggish civilian business market. Dassault is offering factory MSA versions of its Falcon 900 and Falcon 2000 business jets; Embraer is offering a maritime patrol version of its ERJ 145 regional jet.
Boeing announced in November that it will partner with Field Aviation to jointly build a business-jet-based MSA that will have mission systems commonality to the larger Boeing P-8A Poseidon, a variant of the 737-800, and a lower cost. The companies are developing an MSA demonstrator using a Challenger 604 and hope to generate the first sales within two years.
The jet offerings will compete head-to-head with turboprops, among them Field's Dash 8 conversions, Airbus's variant of the CN235 regional twin-turboprop, the ATR 42 and 72, and Saab's maritime surveillance and patrol versions of its 340 and 1000 regional turboprops.
With the MSA fleet renewal underway, the trend toward smaller, lower-cost aircraft with similar or better sensor performance is a prime mandate for cash-strapped governments. Based on advances in sensor performance, the same new medium-class MSAs also can perform the jobs of many of the lighter aircraft that had been a part of the legacy surveillance equation, including Cessna 406s and Britten-Norman Islanders.
While jet-powered aircraft are more costly to operate than turboprops in terms of fuel, their benefits come from a faster transit time to more-distant destinations and the ability to climb above weather, capabilities certain customers need.
In missions with a transit range in the order of up to 300 nautical miles, the best turboprops will generally come up as less costly than the best business jetsparticularly when the search criteria of small targets require a relatively low altitude for the surveillance, says Gronlund. As the transit distance increases, the jets will naturally fare better.
Boeing analyzed the maritime surveillance market and determined that a business jet was the best solution to capture a significant portion of the 150 medium-class aircraft it estimates will need to be replaced in the next decade. Out of that $10 billion, Boeing could capture 25 percent, says Bob Schoeffling, Boeing Military Aircraft senior manager of business development. Boeing chose the Bombardier Challenger 605 as its platform, and teamed with Field Aviation to perform the modifications. Not every country in the world wants or needs a P-8, says Schoeffling. We looked at how we could offer a P-8-like capability to generate interest in countries that might not need, or be able to afford, the P-8.
The MSA is part of a broader Boeing MSA and surveillance portfolio that includes the Insitu ScanEagle and Integrator tactical unmanned aerial vehicles on the low end and the P-8 on the high end. The company also is developing a Beechcraft King Air 350-based Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (Emarss) that was flight tested in October.
Schoeffling says the key differentiator setting it apart from competitors in the medium-class MSA market is the U.S. Navy's P-8A tactical open-mission software suite that it will port over to the Challenger 605. The software will manage a variety of sensor options that include a 360-deg. active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radar with synthetic aperture radar, inverse synthetic aperture radar and ground-moving-target indicator modes, a retractable electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) turret, electronic support measures (ESM), communications intelligence (comint), and an automatic identification system to receive identification information from ships. Boeing is also marketing the aircraft for overland surveillance.
Dassault is advertising similar sensors, with the addition of underwing carrying capabilities for sensors or weapons and a self-protection suite. Schoeffling says the future options for the 605 could include a self-protection suite, Link 16 data link for coalition partners, and hard points on the wings, potentially for another sensor or other equipment. I'm not saying we're going to weaponize it, he adds.
Field, a risk sharing partner in the program, funded the modifications to the demonstrator aircraftformerly a Boeing corporate Challenger 604that arrived at its Toronto facility in February 2013. The modified 604 first flew Feb. 28 and was painted by Boeing at its facilities in Yuma, Ariz., where Field will conduct the remaining flight tests. Boeing will later install mission systems and sensors in Seattle, leading to an international marketing tour later this year. The Challenger 605 is a modernized version of the 604 that Bombardier began delivering in 2007.
Field has some experience with the type, having modified three Challenger 604s to an MSA configuration for the Royal Danish Air Force in the early 2000s. The Danes equipped the Challengers with a low-profile 3.6-meter-long (12-ft.) composite belly pod housing a Telephonics APS-143 imaging radar, and a retractable ball turret with a Flir Systems Star Safire II EO/IR camera mounted behind the belly pod, aft of the aircraft's pressure vessel. The ball turret is retractable to minimize drag at high speeds. One aircraft is equipped with a hard-point to hold an optional side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) or a weapon, and all three have a quick-change interior for executive transport.
Field's mainstay for MSA conversions has come from the Bombardier Dash 8, with nearly 40 conversions of new or used aircraft completed to date for customers that include the coast guards of Australia, Japan, Sweden, Iceland and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. That work continues, although it is becoming increasingly difficult for operators to find good deals on available Q200s and Q300s, the most desirable platforms, as both are out of production and airlines continue to fly them.
The market need for a wider diversity of aircraft prompted the company to sandwich the Dash 8 in a standard portfolio that now offers two additional aircraft: the Bombardier Challenger 604/605 on the high end and the Viking Series 400 twin-turboprop, a reincarnation of the DeHavilland Twin Otter, on the low end.
Field partnered with Viking 18 months ago to build a multirole surveillance version of the Twin Otter to be called the Guardian 400, an unpressurized aircraft priced at less than $14 million that the company says will be attractive to smaller nations. Modifications, to be completed by Field, will include 360-deg. Selex 5000 search radar for the nose, a retractable EO/IR turret, also on the nose, and additional fuel tanks that boost the maximum takeoff weight to 14,000 lb. from 12,500 lb., giving the aircraft an on-station endurance of 7 hr. for a target 100 nm away. Field is interested in building a demonstrator using Viking's test aircraft, although that aircraft continues to be used for certification testing of a new autopilot, says Gronlund. Instead, the companies are building a nose section with sensors to take to the Farnborough Air Show in July. Viking is primarily marketing the aircraft in the Asia-Pacific region and South America.
The 605 MSA should represent less developmental risk for Field, as the work is similar to the conversions it did for the Danish Challenger 604s. We're not starting with a white sheet of paper. It's very much an optimization exercise, once the project requirements are defined, Gronlund says. The new aircraft will mirror the 604 in terms of the retractable EO/IR turret mounted aft of the aircraft's pressure vessel, but it will have a larger belly radome that can fit more than one manufacturer's radar from a menu provided by Boeing, giving operators more flexibility. The pods in the Field's Dash 8 conversions can carry radars built by Elta, Telephonics or Selex, according to Gronlund.
With the larger pod also comes more drag, but Gronlund says the Boeing mission profile is less demanding than that of the Danish. They had to fly from Copenhagen to Greenland without getting wet in the process, says Gronlund of the Danish air force mission. It forced a smaller radome. Gronlund says the radome and non-retractable EO/IR nose turret on the Dash 8 have a 3% performance penalty for transit and high-speed surveillance, in terms of distance covered per unit of fuel burned, and he expects the Challenger 605 penalty to be slightly higher when measured during flight testing this year.
Boeing is designing the aircraft for a basic mission endurance of 8 hr., with 6 hr. on station, a mission efficiency of 75% (on-station time/total time). For a target with a 1,200-nm transit, the 605 can be on station in 2.5 hr. and loiter for another 3 hr., a mission efficiency of 60%. A prop plane can't do that, he says. Dassault is marketing similar mission efficiencies for its Falcon 2000. Dassault and Embraer would not comment on MSA orders or deliveries.
For the 605 MSA, Boeing plans to sign the customers and buy green aircraft from Bombardier. Field will perform the structural and aerodynamic modifications over an expected 4-5-month timeframe, a process that is somewhat slowed by the limited number of people able to access the sections of the fuselage where large portions of metal have to be cut out for the sensors, says Brian Love, Field's chief commercial officer. After removing the interiors, the under-floor fuel tank must be removed to install the radome. Along with ESM antennas in the radome and tail, and comint antennas on a platform behind the radome and on the wings, technicians will install wiring and power inverters for the electronics and relocate the lavatory from the back of the plane, where electronics racks are placed, to the front of the cabin. Field is also installing an Inmarsat satellite communications system. From there, Boeing will take the aircraft to install mission systems and sensors as well as painting, all of which Field says should take 2-3 months.
Schoeffling says the baseline crew will be two pilots and three crew members for three workstations, with an option to expand to five workstations. The competitors have similar offerings.
Creature comforts on the 605 will include a kitchen and two of the original cabin seats for crew rest or extra passengers.
On the 604 demonstrator, Field is planning for more than 60 test flights in Yuma to verify acceptable handling and measure performance degradation parameters, due to the sensor drag, ahead of gaining Transport Canada supplemental type certificate approval for the modification, which should equate to an FAA approval through bilateral agreements. Beyond the demonstrator, Boeing plans to install mission systems and sensors at a location in the U.S.which Field hopes will be its corporate headquarters in Ohio.
Boeing is conducting the flight-test program for the sensors and mission systems.
As for the relatively long window for finding a launch customer, Schoeffling says it is a function of the formalized procurement cycles for governments, which generally include requests for information and proposals as well as competitive bidding. We are well along the way in conversations with several countries, he says. Unfortunately, buying an aircraft is not like buying a car.
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Since Prednisone can cause water retention and puffiness, we need to keep our sodium chloride levels down, but not totally eliminated. Most people have been conditioned to a salty taste by nutrient-poor refined carbohydrates commonly known as snack foods. Sodium occurs naturally in foods and it is not necessary to add sodium chloride to foods to be healthy; quite the contrary.
What it does: Sodium and potassium need to be in balance so that nutrient and waste exchange can take place across cell membranes. Sodium is also necessary for the production of hydrochloric acid, the digestive enzyme secreted by the stomach to digest protein. It is required for the proper functioning of our nerves and the contraction of our muscles. It is also required for fluid balance, electrolyte balance and pH balance.
Too little sodium can cause impaired carbohydrate digestion, and possibly neuralgia. Dietary Allowance: Normal blood levels of sodium are 137-144. The estimated RDA for healthy adults is 500 mg. Some experts say you need 2000 mgs per day if under stress. Over 14 grams is toxic. One teaspoon is 2000 mgs, 1/8 teaspoon is 250 mgs.
Types of Sodium: Naturally occurring sodium in foods is desirable; table salt is not. Refined table salt is stripped of all its minerals except sodium and chloride. It is heated to high temperatures, bleached, treated with anticaking agents such as the toxic alumino-silicate. This prevents dissolution in the fluids in our system. The aluminum leaves a bitter taste so the manufacturers add dextrose, a refined sugar, which disrupts the body's equilibrium.
Natural Sources: shellfish, carrots, beets, artichokes, kelp, and natural cheeses. Unrefined sea salt, or a rock salt called Real Salt. Both these salts contain naturally occurring iodine. Potassium, magnesium, and calcium counteract the effects of excess sodium.
Dangers of too much sodium: Too much sodium can cause a depletion of potassium, and often high blood pressure (hypertension), which can lead to stroke and heart failure. Excess sodium causes calcium to be lost through the urine, and can contribute to osteoporosis. The resulting fluid retention can also stress the heart and circulatory system. Bloating (edema) often causes irritability and depression. Headaches and migraines can be caused by eating substances with sodium such as MSG (which by the way, has excitotoxins which can damage and kill nerve cells), sodium sulfites, nitrates (usually found in luncheon meats), and nitrites. Salt has long been indicated as a cancer threat to the stomach, especially in collusion with other carcinogens, such as residues and smoke from barbecuing and grilling meat. Salt is an irritant to the stomach that can induce gastritis, increases precancerous cell replication and boosts the potency of chemical carcinogens causing stomach cancer, and ulcers. The American Heart Association reports that blacks have a greater sensitivity to salt and a higher rate of hypertension.
Foods with high sodium: luncheon meats, hot dogs, cured meats (such as ham, bacon, corned beef), ketchup, chili sauce, soy sauce, mustard, baking powder and baking soda. Ninety percent of the sodium Americans consume comes from processed foods. Just read the labels you'll be shocked at the percentage of sodium. Sodium added because there is no flavor in the food to begin with and salt makes it edible.
Factors affecting need for sodium: Older people, overweight people, and people who have kidney damage are more sensitive to salt intake. Those that exercise a lot, live in high elevations, have vomiting or diarrhea and vegetarians (because of excess potassium) need more sodium. Check with your doctor. Exhaustion makes you want more salt to stimulate your metabolism, but it won't help. Symptoms of low sodium levels: People under prolonged stress can have low sodium levels because of weakened adrenal glands. Symptoms are allergies, chronic fatigue, flatulence, low blood pressure, cold hands and feet.
If you crave salt it can be sign your adrenal glands are depleted due to stress. Snacks without much sodium: celery spread with unsalted nut butter, sliced jicama (marinate in lemon juice, later add chili powder, red pepper), veggies dipped in a yogurt and dill weed sauce, whole grain pretzels without salt, air popped popcorn with herbs (or cayenne, or chili, and canola oil) unsalted baked Tostitdos with low-salt salsa (tomatoes, scallions, chiles or jalapeno, red wine vinegar) tortilla chips dipped in warm refried beans, unsalted nuts or unsalted dry roasted nuts, low sodium bottled water (Evian) or seltzer, low sodium V8 or tomato juice with hot sauce.
Cooking: If you add salt after cooking, it will taste stronger and you can use less. Cutting down on sugar and alcohol can minimize salt cravings. Use lemon , mustard greens, or radishes for flavor. High sodium vegetables such as celery, carrots, parsley, chard, spinach, and kale can impart a salty flavor to cooked foods. Use fresh (under 6 months old) ground herbs and spices to jazz up foods. Fresh herbs can be frozen. Mrs. Dash (available in the spice section of your grocery) has a selection of salt-free seasonings, some are without garlic and onions for those who are sensitive. Herbed olive oil, or herbed vinegar (Spectrum Naturals have no added sulfites). Taste before you salt your food.
Your individual situation may require special considerations. Reasonable people will consult with their physician before making changes to their medical regimen.


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DNR reminds parents of ice danger to children
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is warning parents to keep an eye on their children when they near a pond or other body of water where only a thin coating of ice may have formed.
Last winter season, six people died after falling through the ice.
"Kids are adventurous and want to go out and play," said Kara Owens, DNR boating and water safety specialist. "Right now, a thin coating of ice has formed on many lakes and ponds, but an inch or two of ice is not safe."
Children should not go out on the ice without adult supervision, even when conditions improve, she added.
"Parents should also tell their children to stay away from any frozen water bodies around the home and that no ice is ever 100 percent safe," Owens said.
The DNR recommends anyone heading out on the ice should: carry a set of ice picks, check with a local bait shop or resort — ask about ice conditions — and measure the ice.
DNR clear ice thickness recommendations are:
4 inches for walking
5 inches for a snowmobile or ATV
8-12 inches for a car
12-15 inches for a medium-sized truck
For more information, visit www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/ice/thickness.html


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Nano-Klick - A Cybertronian unit of time measurement that is approximately one Earth second.
Nebulan - An inhabitant of Nebulos. Nebulans went on to become Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters.
Nebulos - A world filled with humanoid beings who would eventually join with the Autobots and Decepticons to create Headmasters, Powermasters and Targetmasters. Sometimes referred to as Nebulon.
Nemesis - The Decepticon starship which pursued the Ark to Earth.
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A collection of 13 gene defects can be used to identify men most at risk from life-threatening prostate cancer, scientists have shown.
The discovery raises the prospect of screening men for the first time to single out those predisposed to developing aggressive and potentially deadly tumours.
Scientists tested blood samples from 191 British men with prostate cancer who had at least three relatives affected by the disease.
Fourteen carried "loss of function" mutations in their DNA that completely stopped a gene working. Having any one of these flaws dramatically boosted the chances of developing invasive, spreading prostate cancer.
In future, men could be tested for the variants in the same way that women are currently screened for breast cancer genes, the researchers believe. This would herald a revolution in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Professor Ros Eeles, from London's Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said: " Our study shows the potential benefit of putting prostate cancer on a par with cancers such as breast cancer when it comes to genetic testing.
"Although ours was a small, first-stage study, we proved that testing for known cancer mutations can pick out men who are destined to have a more aggressive form of prostate cancer.
"We already have the technical capabilities to assess men for multiple mutations at once, so all that remains is for us to do further work to prove that picking up dangerous mutations early can save lives.
"If so then in the future, genetic testing may be needed as part of the prostate cancer care pathway."
Women with a strong family history of breast cancer are routinely tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene defects, both of which greatly increase their chances of developing the disease.
But the picture is much more complicated for prostate cancer, which seems to be linked to a multiplicity of different genetic mutations.
Currently there is no way of screening men who might be at risk from ferocious "tiger" prostate cancers that could cut short their lives.
Many diagnosed prostate cancers, known as "pussycats", are slow-growing and can safely be left untreated while their progress is monitored.
An effective screening test would make it possible to step in early and treat men with developing dangerous cancers before they progress too far.
Despite big advances in treatment in the last 10 - 20 years, around 11,000 of the 40,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the UK die from the disease.
The ICR scientists used cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology to assess 22 known cancer genes at the same time.
Each of the 14 carriers had a mutation affecting one of eight DNA repair genes - genes whose job is to fix damage to DNA that can lead to cancer.
Two men had the same mutation in the BRIP1 gene. The others all had different variants, some of which shared the same genes. All were serious enough to shut a gene down and prevent it producing a working protein.
Among the affected genes were BRCA1 and BRCA2, variant forms of which are implicated in both breast and ovarian cancer. Four of the mutations were identified in the BRCA2 gene.
The other genes were ATM, CHEK2, BRIP1, MUTYH, PALB2 and PMS2.
Among the study participants, men with one of the mutations were found to be 13 times more at risk of having high-grade T4 tumours or cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes or travelled beyond the prostate gland to other organs.
Both carriers of the mutations and non-carriers were typically diagnosed at around the age of 59, and no significant association was seen with levels of PSA (prostate specific antigen), the most widely used blood marker for prostate cancer.
Nor was a high Gleason score, an aggressiveness rating obtained by examining biopsy tumour samples, more common in men with the gene variants.
The findings are reported in the latest edition of the British Journal of Cancer.
Co-author Dr Zsofia Kote-Jarai, from the Institute of Cancer Research, said: "One of the important messages to come out of our study is that mutations to at least eight genes - and probably many more - greatly increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
"Any future screening programme would need to assess as many of these genes as possible - more than we currently look for in women at risk of breast cancer, for example."
Dr Iain Frame, director of research at the charity Prostate Cancer UK, which part-funded the study, said: " The minefield of prostate cancer diagnosis is one of the biggest hurdles facing treatment of the disease today.
"Current tests fail to differentiate between aggressive cancers that could go on to kill, and cancers that may never cause any harm. This lack of clarity means that too often men and their doctors are left having to make incredibly difficult decisions on whether to treat the disease or not.
"We urgently need to understand more about which men are at risk of developing prostate cancer and in particular aggressive forms of the disease.
"Genetic testing to predict risk could revolutionise how we treat the 40,000 men diagnosed with the disease every year in the UK. These results are exciting as they add to the growing weight of evidence that men with a family history of prostate cancer who possess certain genes may be at higher risk, providing us with another crucial piece of the jigsaw."


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Small business owners grew more pessimistic in November after the presidential election and Superstorm Sandy.
That's the finding of a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business. The lobbying group says Tuesday that its small-business optimism index dropped 5.6 points last month to 87.5.
NFIB Chief Economist William Dunkelberg says the biggest drag on the index was owners' expectation that business conditions will be worse six months from now. The number of owners expecting better times ahead fell 37 points. Nearly half the owners surveyed are pessimistic about the future.
Dunkelberg says readings in the states hit by Sandy were more pessimistic than in the rest of the country. A greater number of owners in those states say they planned to cut their payrolls.
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Today's interview is with Ion Hazzikostas (Lead Encounter Designer) on ConvertToRaid. A summary of the main points is below, but listening to the full interview is worth it if you want to hear the full answers!
- Looking back at the daily quests, anything that rewards player power feels mandatory to raiders, but this has to be balanced with giving purely cosmetic rewards. There has to be enough of a reward to encourage players to do some quests, but not so much that it feels mandatory for everyone.
- The Patch 5.1 daily quests took in to account the Golden Lotus daily quests that rewarded you with more daily quests and kept the number being added this time more reasonable.
- Blizzard wants to keep delivering content and storyline progression through daily quests, because it gives you a better understanding and connection to the faction you are assisting. Tabards ended up with the player running dungeons for rep and never learning anything about the faction whose tabard they had on.
- Valor Points being necessary for raiders due to item upgrades feels better than daily quests because of all of the different sources for earning Valor Points versus only being able to do daily quests for reputation.
- Brawler's Guild is working out well, with the limited invites keeping queues reasonable.
- Showing the number of LFR bosses that are dead was making it very slow to fill groups.
- The addition of LFR has allowed Blizzard to target Normal difficulty more towards organized guilds that play together regularly and use voice chat. Previously, Normal difficulty was used by both organized guilds and PuGs, which made it somewhat easier than intended.
- Staggering the release of the raids worked out well.
- Heroic Sha of Fear was a worthy end boss in terms of the amount of time it took to defeat. It is almost impossible to make encounters that the best guilds won't be able to beat in a matter of days when they are spending so much time raiding. Only 28 guilds have killed Heroic Sha of Fear so far.
- Larger patches in the past needed everything to be complete before shipping, which sometimes caused delays. With separate patches for raids and the other content, we are able to see more frequent patches.
- Patch 5.2 is coming Soon™ and will include a large and more traditional raid tier. It has been a while since we had a raid zone that was as large as Ulduar or Icecrown Citadel. Blizzard will talking about what will be in it and how many bosses soon!
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Method agreed with what Ion said in the interview above, saying "In my opinion the difficulty of these encounters are harder than ever, people are judging the content on the speed in which top guilds are beating these encounters when they shouldn't be. The quality of the guilds in the Top 10 now are so high it's impossible for an encounter to stay alive more than 1 reset unless its either bugged or impossible".
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An American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a "New Blue". Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Millicent Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent president George H.W. Bush. As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. He implemented Don't ask, don't tell, a controversial intermediate step to full gay military integration. After a failed health care reform attempt, Team Red won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years. Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Team Blue Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president. He successfully passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children. Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U.S. Senate right down party lines. (The impeachment process is useless). and served his complete term of office. The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. He was sent by President Bartlett along with Ex President George Bush to inspect the damage from the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Based on his philanthropic worldview, Clinton created the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes such as prevention of AIDS and global warming. In 2004, he released his autobiography My Life, and was involved in his wife's and then Robert M. Russel's campaign for president in 2008. In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents.
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A regular outside Peggy Porschen's Parlour in Ebury Street, Belgravia, SW1 'Mr Black Lives Matter' attempts to entertain those queuing for somewhat overpriced cakes. Though little is known about this dreadlocked man and despite the fact he is not popular with the staff of this bizarre "boutique bakery," one titled local comments: "His music is jolly and he adds a bit of joy to an area now increasingly devoid of character." Others, however, remark: "Where does the money he raise actually go?" and add: "I sense a bit of a scam."


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Like the wonderful Libby Cooper before her, this girl is just beyond awesome. She remixes her Facebook Cover Photo so that her profile picture pops up seamlessly in movie sequences, TV shows and video games. It's perfect.
Anyone with that kind of dedication to this kind of silliness will always be worthy of a friend request in my book. The work was done by redditor RubberDogTurds (lulz) and these are her cover photos from just the past few months. You gotta wonder what she comes up with next. Will she be timely? Will she continue to shout out throwback movies? I need to know. You can see more of her work here. [Imgur, Reddit via Laughing Squid]


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The study, the first to test this treatment in people, combined the drug vorinostat with standard medications given after transplant, resulting in 22 percent of patients developing graft-vs.-host disease compared to 42 percent of patients who typically develop this condition with standard medications alone. Results of the study appear in The Lancet Oncology.
"Graft-vs.-host disease is the most serious complication from transplant that limits our ability to offer it more broadly. Current prevention strategies have remained mostly unchanged over the past 20 years. This study has us cautiously excited that there may be a potential new way to prevent this condition," says lead study author Sung Choi, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the U-M Medical School.
Vorinostat is currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat certain types of cancer. But U-M researchers, led by senior study author Pavan Reddy, M.D., found in laboratory studies that the drug had anti-inflammatory effects as well – which they hypothesized could be useful in preventing graft-vs.-host disease, or GVHD, a condition in which the new donor cells begin attacking other cells in the patient's body.
The study enrolled 61 older adults from the University of Michigan and Washington University in St. Louis who were undergoing a reduced-intensity bone marrow transplant with cells donated from a relative. Patients received standard medication used after a transplant to prevent GVHD. They also received vorinostat, which is given as a pill taken orally. Fifty of the 61 participants completed the full 21-day course of vorinostat.
The researchers found vorinostat was safe and tolerable to give to this vulnerable population, with manageable side effects. In addition, rates of patient death and cancer relapse among the study participants were similar to historical averages.
The results mirror those found in the laboratory using mice. Reddy, the Moshe Talpaz Professor of Oncology and professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, has been studying this approach in the lab for eight years.
"This is an entirely new approach to preventing graft-vs.-host disease," Reddy says. Specifically, vorinostat targets histone deacetylases, which are different from the usual molecules targeted by traditional treatments.
"Vorinostat has a dual effect as an anti-cancer and an anti-inflammatory agent. That's what's potentially great about using it to prevent graft-vs.-host, because it may also help prevent the leukemia from returning," says Reddy, who is also co-director of the hematologic malignancies and bone marrow transplant program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"We are encouraged by our findings," Choi says. "Vorinostat combined with standard graft-vs.-host disease prophylaxis after related-donor transplant appears to be safe and associated with lower than expected incidence of acute GVHD. Future studies are needed to assess the effect of vorinostat in broader transplant settings. We are currently investigating vorinostat plus standard therapies to prevent GVHD in transplants with an unrelated donor."
For information about this clinical trial, call the U-M Cancer AnswerLine at 800-865-1125.
Additional authors: Thomas M. Braun, Ph.D.; Lawrence Chang, M.D., M.P.H.; James L.M. Ferrara, M.D., D.Sc.; Attaphol Pawarode; John M. Magenau, M.D.; Guoqing Hou, Ph.D.; John E. Levine, M.D., M.S.; Steve Goldstein, M.D.; Daniel R. Couriel, M.D.; Carrie Kitko, M.D.; Gregory A. Yanik, M.D.; Michael Lehmann, M.D.; Yaping Sun, M.D., Ph.D.; John F. DiPersio, M.D., Ph.D., all from U-M; Jan H. Beumer, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Keith Stockerl-Goldstein, M.D., Washington University; Oleg I. Krijanovski, Ph.D., M.D., Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation; Isao Tawara, M.D., Ph.D., Mie University Hospital, Japan; Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D., Indiana University; Markus Y. Mapara, M.D. Columbia University; Charles A. Dinarello, M.D., University of Colorado;
Funding: Merck; Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; National Institutes of Health grants R01-CA143379, 1K23-AI091623, P01-CA039542, P30-CA047904 and R01-AI15614; St. Baldrick's Foundation and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research
Disclosure: None
Reference: The Lancet Oncology, published online Nov. 30, 2013


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The affidavit was filed in federal court on Saturday in support of Jonathan Vilma's motion to dismiss Roger Goodell's decision to suspend Vilma for the 2012 season.
"I have no knowledge of a pay to injure program existing, and yet to personally see any evidence that would substantiate these allegations," Brees says in the affidavit. "In my four years as a teammate with Jonathan, I have found that he is a man of integrity who passionately plays the game of football within the frameworks of the rules and has respect for his opponents."
See what he did there? Drew Brees's attorney wants you to know that Drew Brees knows nothing about a "pay to injure program." Meanwhile, Roger Goodell says Vilma was suspended for his role in a "pay-for-performance" program. So, the stupid dance continues.
Brees's attorney then pulled out the old Hurricane Katrina card and argued that Vilma's absence from the field this year would negatively affect his ability to help the community.
Brees says Vilma has been dedicated to helping the city recover from Hurricane Katrina and has started a foundation to build schools in Haiti.
"As a professional football player, our platform to reach our communities is directly driven by the manner in which we compete on the field," Brees said. "Therefore, Jonathan's absence on the field will adversely affect his ability to impact the community in a positive way as a leader and a role model."
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Born in Arkansas, Billy Don Burns moved to Palm Desert, CA, in 1970 after serving in the United States Army. Although joining a publishing company and having a few songs recorded, Burns moved to Nashville in 1972. With the help of Lynn Owsley, Burns moved into a musician's boarding house in Nashville. Owsley would often sneak Burns into the Grand Ole Opry while Owsley was one of Wanda Jackson's backing musicians. In 1972, Burns signed to Wilderness Music. After performing as Hank Williams at Opryland USA in 1973, the singer/songwriter had two songs recorded. One was "Be Alright In Arkansas" by Connie Smith and the other was "I Always Come Back To Loving You" by Mel Tillis.
In 1975, Burns formed the Travis Brothers with Jimmy Getzen, but it was a short-lived project. At the time, Burns performed around various Nashville clubs, opening for Boots Randolph and also Ronnie Prophet. After breaking off a wedding engagement to Lorrie Morgan, Burns started Gypsy Women Music Publishing. The early '80s saw him touring across North America and having Arkansas governor Bill Clinton proclaim March 27th, 1983, as Billy Don Burns Day. In 1984, he recorded "New Commitments" with Lorrie Morgan and appeared on TNN. In 1990, down on his luck and producing a gospel album as well as a failed album project with prison inmate Johnny Paycheck, Burns saw his career take an upswing when Willie Nelson recorded one of his songs. In 1995, the musician released his debut album, Long Lost Highway, which received critical acclaim in North American and European country music circles. Sammy Kershaw also recorded another of Burns' songs, "Honky Tonk Boots." In 1996, teaming up with Hank Cochran, the duo recorded the Desperate Men album. In 2002, Billy Don Burns had his second solo album, Train Called Lonesome, released.
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The L Street Cycle Track officially opened today. Here are sundry pictures and then some snippets from an email I wrote about it, in which I gathered most of my thoughts in a somewhat coherent way for the first time.
|Postcard given to drivers to combat CONFUSION
|Not to scale. Unless everyone drives SmartCars & cyclists are on HGH.
|You can see the back of Mayor Gray's head (to the left of Bandanna Woman) . In the foreground, the not-yet-fired Alex Baca of WABA.
|Blogging the bloggers.
|Mayor Gray at the podium
|Sam Zimbabwe of DDOT, flanked by Mayor Gray and Shane Farthing of WABA
|Post-ribbon cutting. THIS CYCLE TRACK IS FULLY OPERATIONAL
|Me, giving one of my buttons to the mayor.
|DDOT truck parked in the bike lane as observed by the Official Wife after the ribbon cutting. Yes, I dragged the Official Wife with me to the ribbon cutting. She's pretty awesome for putting up with me.
|EtP wearing a WABA bandanna. If she looks unhappy, it's not because of the rocking bandanna, but because she just had a bath.
I've got a lot more to say about L Street and why it really matters, but there's plenty more blog posts in which we can get to that. Anyway, it was a good morning and it was great seeing so many of you there to support the lane. Thank you DDOT and thank you WABA. If you work for another organization that also is a four letter acronym, I thank you too.
On my ride home, I took CaBi. My key was busted (demagnetized AGAIN!) and I had to call customer support. They disabled the key and gave me a "gift certificate" to pay for a one day pass so I could use the bike while I wait for my new key. This is much better than the old way of doing things, where they reimbursed for usage fees. Anyway, I won't be using Bikeshare again this week, so it's not a big deal. JUst a little annoying because the kiosk touchscreen was giving me some problems. Yes, I'm one of those people.
Mass to 23rd to L and a really nice ride in the cycle track. No car problems, plenty of other cyclists around and a nice, warm night for riding. The dock at 12th and L gave me a great place to reset the clock since it's about halfway home. They added a new flex post (I'm trying to adopt the WashCycle convention on bollards and flex posts because he's like 36 spots more local bike bloggerly significant than I am) to prevent drivers from continuing straight from the hotel loading zone and to shortcut the mixing zone. That's what this is:
|A good idea
Good luck finding another sign to Takoma between this sign and actually arriving in Takoma. Signs are great, but having lots of them is better than having only one of them.
11th Street to Pennsylvania (a glorious night for it) and then past the Capitol.
|Congress: now with less Establishment Clause and more Santa Claus.
I docked at 15th and Independence, responded to an email to the Official Wife about the prospect of Ambassador Anna Wintour, bought some Devils Backbone Vienna Lager at the liquor store with the bullet proof glass and walked three blocks home.


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The National Memorial for the Unborn, located on the site of a
former abortion mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and having a wall containing
some 3000 individual plaques in honor of aborted children, had its first annual
banquet on June 7. Experts in post-abortion healing from around the nation were
present, and joined in prayer and thanks to God for the countless men and women
who are undergoing the process of healing from the wounds of abortion.
The first national "Life Hero Award" was presented to Fr.
Frank Pavone, Founding Director of Priests for Life, and the newest Board member
of the National Memorial for the Unborn. The award recognized his work in
defense of life and his "compassionate leadership in advancing post-abortion
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