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Safety Study of CAT-8015 Immunooxin in Patients With HCL With Advance Disease
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00462189
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified April 2007 by Cambridge Antibody Technology.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : April 18, 2007
Last Update Posted : April 18, 2007
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RATIONALE: The CAT-8015 immunotoxin can bind tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells. This may be an effective treatment for hairy cell leukemia(HCL) that has not responded to chemotherapy, surgery or radiation therapy.
PURPOSE: Phase I dose escalation study to determine the maximum tolerated dose of CAT-8015 immunotoxin in treating patients who have hairy cell leukemia (HCL) that has not responded to treatment.
|Condition or disease
|Leukemia Hairy Cell Leukemia HCL
|Drug: Immunotoxin therapy Drug: CAT-8015 Immunotoxin Procedure: Biological therapy
|Phase 1
OUTLINE: Patients receive CAT-8015 IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5 followed by rest. Treatment repeats every 4 weeks for up to a total of 10 courses in the absence of dose limiting toxicity, complete response or disease progression. Patients are followed at 1, 3, 6,12,15,18, 21, 24 months following the start of the last treatment cycle.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients each will receive escalating doses of recombinant CAT-8015 until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose proceeding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. Once the MTD is determined, between16 to 25 new patients will be added to the MTD cohort depending on how well the CAT-8015 is tolerated.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|40 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1, Multicenter, Dose Escalation Study of CAT-8015 in Patient With Relapsed or Refractory Hairy Cell Leukemia (HCL)
|Study Start Date :
|April 2007
- Estimate the maximum dose that can be safely administered to a patient
- Characterize the toxicity profile of CAT-8015
- Study the clinical pharmacology of CAT-8015
- Observe anti-tumor activity, if any.
- To assess the immunogenic potential of CAT-8015 to induce antibodies
- To investigate the potential of biomarkers to predict any therapeutic or toxic response.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Confirmed diagnosis of hairy cell leukemia
- Measurable disease
At least one of the following indications for treatment:
- Neutropenia (ANC <1000 cells/µL)
- Anemia (Hgb <10g/dL)
- Thrombocytopenia (Plt <100,000/µL)
- An absolute lymphocyte count of >20,000 cells/µL, or
- Symptomatic splenomegaly
- Patient's must have had at least 2 prior systemic therapies. There must have been at least 2 prior courses of purine analog, or 1 if the response to this course lasted <2 years, or if the patient had unacceptable toxicity to purine analog.
Performance status • ECOG 0-2
Life expectancy
• Life expectancy of greater than 6 months, as assessed by the principal investigator
- Patients with other cancers who meet eligibility criteria and have had less than 5 years of disease free survival will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- Ability to understand and sign informed consent
- Female and male patients agree to use an approved method of contraception during the study
- Documented and ongoing central nervous system involvement with their malignant disease (history of CNS involvement is not an exclusion criterion)
- History of bone marrow transplant
- Pregnant or breast-feeding females
- Patients whose plasma contains either a significant level of antibody to CAT-8015 as measured by ELISA, or antibody that neutralizes the binding of CAT-8015 to CD22 as measured by a competition ELISA.
- HIV positive serology (due to increased risk of severe infection and unknown interaction of CAT-8015 with antiretroviral drugs)
- Hepatitis B surface antigen positive
- Uncontrolled, symptomatic, intercurrent illness including but not limited to: infections requiring systemic antibiotics, congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, psychiatric illness, or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
Hepatic function: serum transaminases (either ALT or AST) or bilirubin:
• ≥ Grade 2, unless bilirubin is due to Gilbert's disease
Renal function: serum creatinine clearance ≤60mL/min as estimated by Cockroft-Gault formula
Hematologic function:
- The ANC <1000/cmm, or platelet count <50,000/cmm, if these cytopenias are not judged by the investigator to be due to underlying disease (i.e. potentially reversible with anti-neoplastic therapy)
- Baseline coagulopathy > grade 3 unless due to anticoagulant therapy
- A patient will not be excluded because of pancytopenia ≥ Grade 3, or erythropoietin dependence, if it is due to disease, based on the results of bone marrow studies
Pulmonary function:
• Patients with < 50% of predicted forced expiratory volume (FEV1) or <50% of predicted diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO), corrected for hemoglobin concentration and alveolar volume. Note: Patients with no prior history of pulmonary illness are not required to have PFTs. FEV1 will be assessed following bronchodilator therapy.
Recent prior therapy:
- Cytotoxic chemotherapy (except stable doses of prednisone), whole body electron beam radiation therapy, interferon, retinoids or other systemic therapy, or investigational therapy of the malignancy for 3 weeks prior to entry into the trial
- Less than or equal to < 3 months prior monoclonal antibody therapy (i.e. rituximab)
- Patients who have received or are receiving radiation therapy less than 3 weeks prior to study entry will be not be excluded providing the volume of bone marrow treated is less than 10% and also the patient has measurable disease outside the radiation port
- Any history of pseudomonas-exotoxin (PE) immunotoxin administration
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00462189
|United States, California
|Stanford University School of Medicine
|Not yet recruiting
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
|Contact: Sylvia Quesada, RN 650-725-4041
|Principal Investigator: Steven E Coutre, MD
|United States, Illinois
|Cancer Center of Northwestern University
|Not yet recruiting
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Contact: Simbi Acharya 312-695-1383
|Principal Investigator: Martin Tallman, MD
|United States, Maryland
|Warren Grant Megnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Contact: NCI Clinical Trials Referral 888-624-1937
|Principal Investigator: Robert J Kreitman, MD
|Klinika Hamtologii Uniwersytetu Medycznego (Medical University of Lodz)
|Not yet recruiting
|Lodz, Poland
|Contact: Krzysztof Jamroziak, MD (48) 42 689-5191
|Principal Investigator: Tadeusz Robak, Professor
|United Kingdom
|Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research
|Not yet recruiting
|Surrey, United Kingdom
|Contact: Claire Dearden, MD (44) 20 7352 8171
|Principal Investigator: Claire Dearden, MD
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 18, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 18, 2007
|Last Verified:
|April 2007
Leukemia, Hairy Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Immunotoxin HA22
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents

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Two New Whiskies Rev Up Bourbon and Rye
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
For devotees of American whiskey, these are exciting times indeed. Beginning in the 1980s and accelerating in recent years, bourbon has brushed off its once tarnished reputation and has reinvented itself as a sippable, collectable spirit. And rye whiskey, only a decade ago mostly written off as an archaic relic, has seen its popularity surge and is now considered a staple ingredient in most craft bars.
In the last couple of weeks, the selection of American whiskies has become a little more interesting with the debut of two new spirits from a couple of familiar names.
Since the 1990s, Knob Creek (produced by Jim Beam) has been one of the kings of the small-batch bourbon hill. In late February, Beam introduced Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve; like its small-batch brother, the single-barrel bourbon is aged nine years. But while the bourbon in the small-batch version is married across a number of different barrels to create a particular style and flavor, and is bottled at a sparky yet sippable 100 proof, the single-barrel bourbon is exactly that: everything in the bottle is from one barrel of whiskey, and the difference in character is surprising. The flavor is still recognizably Knob Creek, with a bright spark of spice and a citric tang, and a smoky, leathery richness of texture, but in the single-barrel bourbon these characteristics are amplified, as is the alcohol level, at 120 proof. Big, bold and afraid of nothing, the Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve is an excellent addition to the Jim Beam lineup of bourbons.
Over the past dozen years, Bulleit Bourbon has made become an increasingly visible part of the whiskey bar. With a high percentage of rye in its recipe, Bulleit Bourbon has a spicy bite that's made it a favorite mixing whiskey. Last week, Tom Bulleit took this fondness for rye to its natural conclusion, introducing Bulleit Rye Whiskey. Aged between four and seven years and produced using a recipe with a whopping 95 percent rye (a characteristic it shares with other whiskies including Redemption Rye and Templeton Rye, all produced at Lawrenceburg Distillers in Indiana), Bulleit Rye Whiskey has a beautifully dry aroma of dried fruit and tobacco, and a flavor popping with winter spice and cherries, with a lingering, maple-y finish.
As a longtime fan of American whiskies, I'm excited to have these new additions to my bourbon and rye lineup. Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve and Bulleit Rye Whiskey are now available in liquor stores and some early-adopter bars. Have you come across either of these whiskies yet? What's your opinion?
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In a nutshell, if I have to summarize my experience, BCG has given me wings to explore the open sky of opportunities and roots to remain grounded.
I joined BCG at an interesting phase of my career, with more than 16 years of experience in large IT organizations, where I was well settled in a position of authority and responsibility. Even though I was always keen to join BCG, it seemed like a very daunting decision at that point. There were some teething challenges, but the people I worked with made all the difference. The support, independence, and flexibility BCG offered has helped me to succeed in my role. I joined as an office coordinator to head operations functions, but within a few months I also took over the Business Services Team HR position. My role has continued to evolve and offer new and exciting challenges. I have not looked back since the day I joined.
BCG provides ample opportunities to those who are willing to take up new challenges. One thing I find unique is that you are in charge of your own career. BCG allows individuals to choose their career path and find fulfillment both professionally and personally.
Over the past several years I have had various opportunities to challenge the status quo and implement new initiatives, which has been professionally enriching and satisfying. I know there is so much more that I can do and so many more ways to continue to grow.
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In my first year, I learned to appreciate partnership as a BCG value in every sense—and realized aligning multiple stakeholders across levels could be quite fulfilling. Every time we arrive at a final output, I look back and see the value of alignment and it reinforces what we stand for.
The tremendous support, independence, and flexibility BCG has offered me has helped me succeed. Working with like-minded colleagues in an intellectually stimulating environment brings out the best in people as they work together to achieve great things.
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Justin Johnson and Laura Pastor, candidates in the Phoenix City Council District 4 race, continued delivering some hefty jabs at each other as early voting got underway on Thursday.
Johnson, the son of former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, faces criticism over family properties that are vacant eye sores, for being vague about his family's numerous Valley corporations, and for casting favorable votes on development projects represented by the same individuals hosting a campaign fundraiser for him.
And, probably the most damning criticism stems from his own words during a candidate forum -- at which he admitted to donating money to every council member to grease the wheels, or as he put it, "make things smoother," for his development projects.
It's not a good look for Johnson, a member of the city's Planning Commission.
Johnson is hoping to beat out Pastor, who is the daughter of Congressman Ed Pastor. And she's had her fair share of criticism in this election, and previous ones, because of it.
During the August election, someone sent out a this flier:
But, the same could be said of Justin Johnson, a 32-year-old businessman who has only worked in his father's shadow.
And the likes of Wayne Howard and Paul Gilbert aren't likely tossing their support behind Johnson because of all that he's accomplished. It's all about close relationships they have with his father, and the political connections they bring -- and the new ones they can create.
Justin Johnson started a construction company -- Old World Communities -- that did construction work for his father's homebuilding company. According to Arizona Corporation Commission records, Old World Communities is managed by two other corporations controlled by the elder Johnson. According to state records, Justin is a member.
Two other companies that Justin Johnson lists on his Financial Disclosure Statement -- Predecessor Development and NSPAZ, both construction related -- aren't doing business anymore, he tells New Times. While Justin Johnson was in sole control of Predecessor Development, several of his father's companies had controlling interests in NSPAZ.
Johnson says that he listed those defunct companies on his financial disclosure form in an effort to be overly transparent.
He says his company is doing great things in the community. In a February press release announcing his candidacy for the City Council, Johnson describes Old World Communities as one that "has focused on revitalization projects throughout" Phoenix.
Then, Camp Pastor busts out with this photo of a Johnson family-controlled property near 27th and Georgia avenues.
The criticism doesn't end there.
Consider the invite below to a $250-per-person fundraiser for Johnson's campaign shows the May 30 event was hosted by a Who's Who of Valley developers, consultants and zoning attorneys, including Edwin "Ed" Bull, Paul Gilbert, Nick Wood and Wayne Howard.
During a May 14 Planning Commission meeting -- about two weeks before that scheduled fundraiser -- Johnson voted favorably on a couple of development projects represented by Gilbert, an influential zoning attorney. (Minutes, Pages 6-28)
Phoenix's staff asked the Planning Commission to reject one of the projects -- a single-family development near North Valley Parkway and Sonoran Desert Drive -- because of its proximity to a waste transfer station that will eventually process a million tons of garbage a year.
Johnson made a motion for the project to be approved, but it failed after a majority of the commissioners shot it down.
Again, during a June 11 Planning Commission meeting, Johnson voted in favor of changes favorable to a development project on the northwest corner of 32nd Street and Canal Avenue represented by Bull. (Minutes, Pages 16-29)
Johnson isn't apologetic for voting on those projects.
"Those are the types of tough decisions we have to make on the City Council," he says. "And I evaluate the projects on their merits."
He deflects and jumps into the way-back machine to criticize Pastor for her adamant support at the time of payday loans in 2007. At that time, Mario Diaz was reportedly working as a paid consultant for the payday industry and a paid fundraiser for Pastor's then-council campaign.
New Times' published the following in a 2007 column:
Laura Pastor's sole experience as a public official is her two-year tenure on the Encanto Village Planning Commission. In that capacity, she was asked to vote on code changes, being pushed by the city of Phoenix's planning department, to keep payday lenders from overwhelming residential neighborhoods.
Every planning commission in the city supported the code changes, and so, eventually, did the City Council.
But not Laura Pastor. She voted no -- and, in two different meetings, she made a point of defending the usurious payday lenders from municipal intervention.
You know who else was at one of the planning commission meetings where Pastor piped up? Mario Diaz. Records show he was being paid to lobby for the local association of payday lenders.
Pastor obviously had a change of heart.
Her campaign responds those political charges with testimony from State Rep. Debbie McCune Davis, a lawmaker who fought to abolish the industry in 2008.
"Laura Pastor supported our ballot initiative to end pay-day lending," McCune Davis said in her statement. "Thanks to her and thousands of other Arizonans we were able to end this exploitation of the working poor here in Phoenix."
Pastor's campaign also points out that Johnson's disparagement is ironic because his campaign is being run by HighGround Inc., a high-profile lobbying firm that was the public relations arm of the payday loan industry when it tried to re-enter the market in 2009.
He says his votes won't be swayed by such connections, or financial contributions from political supporters. If they are going to have an impact on his opponent's votes, "then she shouldn't run, because to me, [contributions] don't have an impact."
Johnson's voting in May and June on projects that are making money for the same people helping to stuff his campaign coffers is aggravated by comments he made during that September 12 debate.
The moderator asked Johnson which council and mayoral candidates he has financially supported.
Johnson just laid out his pay-to-play-better philosophy for everyone to hear:
"I would say, every single council member that's actually on the City Council today. I'm in the construction business, I'm a general contractor, and we often submit plans down to the City; and it's nice to have people to call down there, and ask for help on what the process is, how we can make it smoother, how we can make it better."
He tells New Times that the comment was taken out of context. He says that in the second half of his comment he talked about how he "believed in the City of Phoenix" and that it was important to work hard and support it.
Watch the video and judge for yourself.
We asked why he would make such a connection between his financial contributions to elected officials and getting something in return for his construction business.
"I stand by my reasons," he says. "I donated because I believe in the City of Phoenix."
Johnson points out that developers have also donated money to Pastor's campaign.
"They're just people," he says of developers, and argues that his background and experience in the industry will give him an edge over Pastor since he will be able to recognize the difference between responsible development and irresponsible development.
It's unclear exactly which development pots and projects Johnson has his fingers in because, as we noted earlier, while he lists various limited liability corporations in his financial disclosure statement, those connections aren't reflected on official records filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
For instance, Johnson describes himself as a member of Casa de Montanas in his financial disclosure statement, but there is no record of him being a member, according to state documents.
His name also doesn't appear on records for the LLCs Old World Homes II or Arizona Pathways and Partnerships (APP).
Again, he says he listed those corporations because of ties they have with his father, and he wanted to err on the side of over disclosure.
If that were the case, it's worth noting he omitted several from that report, including Old World Homes Berkana Development, Old World Homes Berkana Development II, Old World Homes Berkana Holdings, Old World Homes II, APPB Management.
Johnson's voluminous family interests are a convoluted tangle of limited liability corporations with partnerships that, according to state records, involve the Barron Collier Company, which developed the Collier Center in downtown Phoenix, and Wayne Howard, a well-connected investor/developer and political money-man.
Howard is a member of a limited liability corporation named Osterra, which is managed by PJJR Consulting -- one of Paul Johnson Jr.'s many corporations.
Justin Johnson's dad is also listed as a member on another Wayne Howard corporation, Hojo, LLC.
There is one more connection between the Johnsons and Howard -- and it lies in one of the worst kept secrets around town:
Howard's "breakfast club" meetings -- a monthly gathering of a cadre of developers and the politically connected.
As described in a 2010 New Times story, Howard's "breakfast club" meetings are often the source of huge campaign dollars for political candidates.
One Phoenix insider likened Justin Johnson's selection process among the mighty members of the breakfast club to the way that Pastor Warren Stewart received his stamp of approval to run in the District 8 race by a small clique of power brokers in the African American and Latino communities.
A far cry from a church basement, where Stewart supporters gathered to pledge support for his candidacy, Johnson's circle of political friends like Howard, Rick Cole, Billy Shields, Mike Leib and Dean Howard don't rely on the subtle security that an off the beaten-path basement provides.
Rather, they opt for the more obvious security provided by the prestigious members-only Arizona Country Club in the heart of Arcadia.
Much like Stewart was the choice of south Phoenix politicos, Johnson emerged as the candidate of choice for the north Phoenix development lobby.
Johnson says he attends Howard's breakfast club meetings, but adds that he will attend "any and every meeting" to which he's invited.
At Howard's breakfast club, members can raise large sums of campaign contributions for elected officials favored in the world of developers.
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New Times hasn't been invited to a meeting, but those who have been graced with entry into the club tell us it goes something like this:
Several times a year a sitting elected official will attend to make a stump speech, usually on the importance the development community provides to the region. On their way out the door they pick up a handful of campaign checks for the maximum contribution allowed by law. One could easily walk out with $25,000 in political contributions.
In return, perhaps it's like Johnson explained during the candidates forum:
"It's nice to have people to call down there, to ask for help on what the process is, how we can make it smoother."


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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) Mississippi State's veteran defense is one of the biggest reasons the program has emerged as a consistent competitor in the Southeastern Conference over the past three seasons.
But it's also been a big contributor to the Bulldogs' disappointing finish to this regular season, which included losses in four of five games.
Senior linebacker Cameron Lawrence says he's glad Mississippi State (8-4) has one more chance to leave a good impression when it plays No. 21 Northwestern (9-3) in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1.
``We've had time to get our bodies back together, get our bumps and bruises healed up,'' Lawrence said. ``Now we've got to keep working on the little things. It was a hard stretch for us - we played a really tough schedule toward the end of the season - but now we've just got to focus on the details. The sky is the limit for us.''
Mississippi State was scheduled to arrive in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday to begin preparations for the Gator Bowl. It will be the last game for Lawrence, cornerback Johnthan Banks, safety Corey Broomfield and defensive tackle Josh Boyd - a quartet of longtime starters.
The 6-foot-3, 230-pound Lawrence was a role player in his first two seasons, but moved into a starting role as a junior and has responded with a combined 234 tackles over the past two years.
Banks won the Thorpe Award earlier this month - which goes to the nation's top cornerback - and the 6-foot-2, 185-pounder will almost certainly be an early selection in April's NFL draft. He has 16 career interceptions, using a blend of size and speed rarely seen at cornerback.
Broomfield and Boyd don't have the gaudy numbers but have been consistent the past four seasons, providing the constant production that Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen craves.
But the past five games haven't reflected that experience.
Mississippi State won seven straight to start the season - rising to No. 13 in the nation - but then hit a brutal portion of the schedule that produced lopsided losses to Alabama, Texas A&M and LSU. The Bulldogs responded to beat Arkansas, but then lost 41-24 to rival Mississippi in the Egg Bowl.
In those four losses, the Bulldogs gave up nearly 40 points per game.
``We've always been known for playing hard and giving great effort out there,'' Boyd said. ``But we've been forgetting little things. It's frustrating because we know we can do better. We've been working really hard to make sure Northwestern gets our `A' game instead of our `B' game.''
Northwestern's offense will provide another difficult challenge for Mississippi State. The Wildcats are averaging more than 31 points, which ranks third in the Big Ten, and are averaging more than 230 yards on the ground.
Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald and Mullen are two young head coaches who have developed a friendship over the past several years, discussing ideas and philosophy as they try to build their programs. That should lead to plenty of familiarity in the Gator Bowl.
``They're a team that probably should have won their conference and played in the Rose Bowl,'' Mullen said. ``Very talented in every phase of the game - very explosive offense, one of the top rushing offenses in the country. They run at a high tempo, and they have stout, physical offensive linemen, some fast playmaking receivers, and a quarterback and running back who can score every time they touch the ball.''
Mullen was particularly concerned with Northwestern running back Venric Mark, who has rushed for 1,310 yards and 11 touchdowns and averaged 6.2 yards per carry. He's also scored two touchdowns as a punt returner.
``They get him the ball in the open field and he can score from anywhere,'' Mullen said.
Mississippi State has stopped players like Mark before. That's one reason the Bulldogs are playing in their third bowl game in three seasons.
And Boyd is ready to prove the defense can do it one more time.
``We want to show everybody that we're still us - that we're still a great defense,'' Boyd said. ``This is the last college game of our lives, so we want to go out on top.''
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DEAR ABBY: My girlfriends are always trying to get me drunk. I don't need alcohol to have a good time, and in fact, I rarely drink. They say I'm "no fun," which is probably true. But that's just who I am.
Although they never drink and drive, they drink a lot and are embarrassing when they sing loud, stumble on the dance floor and slur their words. I'm afraid if I get drunk I may say something hurtful to them, and they will no longer be my friends.
My boyfriend says they're not true friends if they want me to drink to excess. My college days are behind me. I am mature enough not to succumb to this peer pressure. Is my boyfriend right? Do I need new friends? — TEETOTALER IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR TEETOTALER: There are few things more unattractive than a person who is drunk. Your boyfriend may be right that you need some new friends, if yours can have a good time only if they use alcohol.
If I'm reading your letter correctly, it appears you may be their designated driver. My advice is to take yourself out of that equation, and if possible, socialize with them in situations that do not involve drinking. If that's not possible, then for your own sake, start cultivating friends with wider interests.
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for 20 years. Before our two children started high school two years ago, we had a great marriage. Unfortunately, my wife has put our children's high school education above everything else. She's a classic "helicopter mom" who says that once the kids leave for college, our relationship will become great again.
As the months go by, I find myself being more of a father and a tutor than a husband and "intimate friend" to my wife. We have little in common with each other, little intimacy, and everything revolves around our children — not us.
I have talked to her about this, and we have seen a counselor and a priest who told my wife that what she's doing is wrong. But things are getting worse, not better.
Any suggestions on how to get the message across before we get totally separated or even divorced? Or am I the one who needs to see things differently? — NO HELICOPTER DAD
DEAR DAD: Your letter touches upon a conversation I have had several times over the last few years, and it involves whether helicopter parents are giving their children an advantage, or preventing them from developing social skills and independence. If your kids are having problems in school and need extra parental guidance, then I'm all for it. But if they aren't — and their teachers should be able to tell you that — then your wife isn't doing this because of their need but her own.
Because you say you're not sure your marriage will be intact by the time they graduate, I'm urging that you both have more marriage counseling NOW. I hate to see a 20-year marriage go down the drain, because that's where it's headed.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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At Kenya's Kamariny Stadium in the mid-1980's a local track race was about to begin. An elderly male race official strode across the starting line of the women's distance race, asking the loaded question, "Are you married?" Each woman who answered affirmatively was immediately ejected from the competition.
As far as women's rights are concerned, present day Kenya is still lost in the dark ages: The liberating march has yet to happen. Much has changed since that day at Kamariny Stadium, but this change has been won the hard way: through sacrifice, diligence and determination. While the women of Kenya still face a long and arduous struggle for equality in the athletic world, they now have world class results to back up their demands for equal treatment, thanks to the emergence of several dominant female runners.
A Woman's Place
The hot fireball of the equatorial sun boils like oil dancing in a frying pan. The thin air holds the distinct taste of red, choking dry dust, and the hill ahead is a full thirteen miles of pure strain and sweat. It looms above, reaching an altitude of over 10,000 feet. Facing the hill is an athlete, not dressed to breath in the afternoon heat, but to cover all the flesh from the sun.
There are thousands of understandable reasons to quit this workout. Our athlete is a female and, as such, she gains one more. As she runs past a group of idle men, they scream scoldingly at her: "You should be at home! A woman of your age should be ashamed! Running is for school children!"
Sally Barsosio sits above the town of Kipkabus recalling this event. She looks over the Rift Valley with a frown. She has heard a thousand similar insults. "A woman's place…" She smiles and doesn't complete her sentence. I believe that she has drifted away to a favorite mental space—perhaps to a stadium in Athens, Greece, where, as a teenager, she won the 10,000m World Championship.
Times are changing. Record books and stats show a staggering rise in the dominance of African women in distance events—a territory long dominated by European and Asian women. There is now a group of African women: The talent of moving feet. But why have these talented women taken so much longer than the Kenyan men to emerge as dominant figures on the international running stage?
Brother Colm O'Connell, a prolific running coach and a man who has seen a slow change in the social climate during his 25-years in Kenya, points towards social customs and unwavering expectations as reasons for the delay. For one, the school system that has helped develop and promote so many male stars didn't have a place for women until recently.
In addition, most Kenyan men are not supportive of their wives trying to establish themselves in professional running. "The men don't want a wife training, they want a family woman," O'Connell explains. According to 2:11 marathoner Jacob Losian, "I would never have a runner for a wife. I want my wife to stay at home and look after our children."
Distance runner Hosea Kogo is an exception, but he only goes so far. Kogo's wife, Lydia Cheromei, has earned a handsome living off the international running circuit over the past ten years. For his part, Kogo usually runs well in Kenyan competitions, yet he makes little headway on the international moneymaking scene. When I asked Kogo why he didn't stay in Kenya and "attend to the necessary family affairs," letting his wife compete in Europe, he blurted, "What are you doing in Africa? Go home, White Man!"
The average Kenyan female is usually married before the age of fifteen. A woman's social role or career expectations extend no further than the confines of the family shamba, or land plot. After marriage a woman is expected to tend to the farm, keep house and propagate—all simultaneously! Kenyan women recognize that this is socially unjust, but Kenya is still largely a nation where people can't afford the luxury of dreaming—they simply act to survive.
Three Dreamers
In 1995 three young women sat in the gardens of the St. Patrick's High School in Iten, Kenya, relaxing after a five mile tempo run. They were talking about their future; dreams of blossoming running careers, international travel...and sympathetic husbands.
The year before, in New York City, Tegla Loroupe became the first African woman to win a major international marathon, paving the way for future dreamers. For Tegla, however, marriage would never be in her dreams or plans, for fear that it would stifle her running life, particularly if she were to wed a Kenyan.
Seven years later each of the women has reached the absolute pinnacle of their sport, and each has married. Each relationship is different, yet each supports and enhances the athlete's life on and off the race course. Most importantly, all three still have dreams they wish to fulfill, dreams that a decade before would have been impossible.
The Simba
Lornah Kiplagat's nickname in the Rift Valley is The Simba, or Lion, in reference to her training ethic. Her training methods reveal nothing revolutionary: simply a lot of work at threshold level, and a total workload only a lion could handle.
Known to the athletic community by her first name because of both her fame, and to avoid confusion with other runners named Kiplagat, Lornah was born 28 years ago outside of a small village called Kipkabus on the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley where her family farmed a 600-acre plot of land. Lornah ran the five kilometers to school twice daily (she returned home for lunch each day) simply because she loved to run. Neither she, nor her family, ever dreamed that Lornah would become a world class runner, nor that she'd marry a Dutch man.
According to Lornah's mother, "I wanted the best for Lornah. I did not mind what she would do, as long as she was doing her best." For a mother whose entire world revolved around a small village and who had never seen the outside world, it was impossible to envision her daughter earning a living through running.
A world's best time for the 20K, international marathon wins on three different continents, and two of the eight fastest half marathons in history have cemented Lornah's name in the annals of distance running history. But her path in athletics nearly came to a grinding halt in Germany in 1997.
Dejected and disillusioned from the political back-stabbing at a German training camp, Lornah wanted to return to Kenya and retire to her family shamba, "I thought 'If this is athletics, then let me leave it!' Better just to go home. I did not get support in Kenya, or in Europe." Luckily, this was when she met her future husband, Pieter Langerhorst, through her connections at the shoe company, Saucony.
Pieter recalls their first interactions, "We'd send her a pair of Saucony socks and receive a thank you letter!" A simple, yet unheard of, sign of appreciation for something that the developed world takes for granted.
After traveling together throughout Africa and Europe, Lornah moved in with Pieter and her life immediately improved. Pieter, himself a successful former triathlete, has always been understanding and supportive of Lornah's athletic career. At each important juncture Pieter has been there to aid, assure and assist his wife.
Langerhorst, athletic and still capable of running a good 10K, also coaches and manages several other international runners (including Christopher Cheboiboch, the 2002 Boston Marathon runner-up). In addition, he continues to serve as a consultant for Saucony and directs the business side of the running camp that he and Lornah built in Iten in 1999.
Supported primarily through Lornah's athletic winnings, the camp focuses on training and supporting promising young women. During construction, their funds gave out. "Do not worry, something will come," she told the bank manager. Lornah's 2:22 personal marathon record at the 2000 Chicago Marathon brought in enough money to complete the camp.
"I do not expect to harvest anything from my investment," Lornah explains to people who asked where returns will come from. "I came into this sport with nothing, so how can I ever lose?" she asks.
Standing on the plot of land they purchased for their future home, the couple reflect on the amazing circumstances that brought them together. Lornah looks at her husband and bursts into an infectious laughter that Pieter joins—neither seems capable of controlling their sensibility. Looking at this couple, one cannot help but see how a congenial and mutually supportive relationship can build two marvelous careers.
The Quiet Champion
Joyce Chepchumba doesn't have the inflated ego that one would expect from a world class marathoner. She runs down New York's Seventh Avenue talking about her holiday plans, excited about her trip to the Portuguese coast. A group of visiting German runners fall like dominoes down the sidewalk as they stare at Joyce. "Tegla's sister!" I hear them exclaim, mistakenly, moments before collapsing. Chepchumba isn't aware of the commotion she causes; her self-image is that of a runner, not a celebrity. Little in the demeanor of this five-foot package of smiles, loved by race directors and fellow athletes around the world, suggests the gritty champion with wins at London, Chicago and Tokyo, as well as an Olympic medal.
More congruent with her image is the woman who is the mother of Collins and the wife of fellow Kenyan Aaron Kitur. Chepchumba's interests are her family and reading; she seems rather nonchalant about the fact that she consistently runs at a world-class level.
Her childhood was, in her words, "nothing special." Chepchumba was an average student who excelled at sports. Luckily, she was encouraged to run in school, which ultimately led to her migration to Germany, where she spends most of the year, training with Volker Wagner, who also coaches Loroupe, though the two rarely run together.
Aaron's involvement with Joyce the athlete is minimal, albeit supportive. A former national long jumper, he currently works as a clerk for the local post office. Even when discussing athletics with Aaron, Joyce is not the topic of conversation. Aaron seems far more interested in spotlighting the conversation on a local running club he recently formed to help some local men reach the international level.
When I stubbornly steer the conversation onto Chepchumba the marathoner, Kitur politely changes the subject, with no time for my formulaic ideas, "No. I am glad that Joyce is running, I don't feel any pressure from the other Kenyan men."
Kitur is not engaging in surface talk; the pervasive norm in Kenyan society has always been that Kitur should be the breadwinner. In turn, his wife should remain at home with their son. In this relationship, Chepchumba's cousin helps with the household chores and the care of Collins, who boards away from home during the school term.
What helps in the Chepchumba/Kitur relationship is that their social circle falls inside a group of contemporary world class athletes and family. The Kenyan community finds Chepchumba's absence from her homeland strange, but her low key behavior while in Nakuru is so underplayed for a sports star that her family is sheltered from social scorn.
"Most of the time I'm relaxing in Kenya and visiting friends," Chepchumba says about her brief visits home. "I try to see my mother as much as possible." Their neighbors on the dusty dirt path—apart from those who run sub-28 minute 10K's—around their residence seem oblivious to Joyce's fame.
Kitur is unique among Kenyan men in allowing Chepchumba to live the life she does, and maintaining their relationship with such scant interconnection. Understated and often underrated, Chepchumba has achieved both international fame and domestic tranquility.
The Saint
Catherine Ndereba, one of the most exciting names to hit the road racing scene in the last decade, has carved out a superstar status not seen since Loroupe faded from the running limelight. She is known simply as Catherine, or, often, Catherine the Great, when referring to her athletic prowess. Her "off-road" persona is as pleasant as her performances are powerful. At press conferences or personal encounters, she appears no more than an almost embarrassingly quiet, deeply religious wife and mother.
Hailing from the town of Nyeri in the Central region of Kenya (from the Kikuyu tribe), Catherine was not an outstanding junior athlete. She ran well in school and impressed her teachers, but the path to stardom came from a solid work ethic. She seems to have avoided much of the negative response that others of her generation report. "People told me I ran too much, but I was encouraged to run," Catherine recalls.
Motivation can lead to greatness with the right elements, and when Catherine's husband, Anthony Maina, found his Cleopatra it was Catherine who began to shine. After settling into a stable family life in 1996, Catherine's professional life flourished.
With the exception of 1997, when she stayed in Kenya and off the race circuit for the birth of her daughter, Jane, Catherine has ranked at the top of women road racers on the U.S. circuit for five years, won Boston and Chicago twice each, and now holds the world marathon record—an astounding 2:18:47.
At a cross country race in Kenya, Catherine praises the people around her for her running success. "I have a good team," she says. It is an understatement. On that team are an agent, Lisa Buster, who respects her wishes while guiding her career, a coach, El-Mostafa Nechadi, a 2:10 marathoner, and her husband, whom she met through her job with the prison system a decade ago.
Anthony Maina, along with their household maid, helps raise their daughter so that his wife can concentrate on the arduous task of running even faster. Or, as Catherine explains when asked about his absence at the cross country race, "he helps with the household chores."
It is like saying today the grass is blue. It is very unusual in Kenya to hear of such conduct: A man supporting a woman's career? And for Maina to be at home instead of pursuing his own career—this is untried territory. Unlike Langerhorst and Kitur, who have many projects of their own, Maina's focus is centered solely on Catherine. "We are a team together," Catherine says, her head bowed in thought, "He is a good man."
The day before the 2002 Boston Marathon, I find the young family looking at the Boston memorial sculpture amid the street crowds in Copley Square, dressed in their Sunday best: Anthony in a dark suit, Catherine and Jane in light dresses trimmed with lace. They positively sparkle with happiness in the spring sunshine.
"We've just been to church," Anthony says, shaking my hand with confidence, as his daughter and wife stand close beside him with lowered eyes. He reveals no hint of resentment that his wife's name is the one carved into the marble behind him. It is easy to see that this base of family and faith will continue to carry Catherine the Great beyond disappointments—such as will happen the following day when she finishes second—and beyond the amazing success she has already experienced, to fulfill her highest dreams.
Daughters of the Land
African society has not crippled these women. Yet, has Kenya made them? They are as divided on their opinions regarding their loyalties as they are in personality.
Kiplagat is adamant that she'd run regardless of her upbringing. She has little time for politics, and is currently in the process of applying for Dutch citizenship, "The Federation in Kenya does not care for women. It is not easy to be a runner here."
Chepchumba, though she lives in Germany most of the year, has no problems with the federation or her birthplace; she has consistently rewarded them with medals and victories.
Ndereba was highly dissatisfied with her treatment before the Sydney Olympics when she was overlooked despite being the reigning Boston Marathon champion, but will persevere, believing: "They will not dare to leave me home for Athens." As for what she would do if she wasn't running, it was never a consideration, "I always ran, and I always will. If I was Kenyan, or not."
Ten years ago very few would have believed that these Kenyan women would hold world records and titles to the world's top marathons, and still have husbands and families. It is a change for the better, and everyone feels that the best is yet to come.
None of these women feel that the opportunities for women in Kenya are great. The success of these three is slow to trickle down. Few Kenyans, male or female, would even recognize their names or know of their success. Kiplagat is quick to add, however, "But we are doing something about it!" Those Kenyan feet are talking, and it is a woman's voice that is being heard.
Toby Tanser is an avid sports fan and a runner in New York City. He is the author of the book Train Hard, Win Easy: The Kenyan Way.


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Directly challenging the Pentagon's top leadership, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday snubbed a military study on gays as flawed and said letting gays serve openly would be dangerous in a time of war.
McCain's opposition foreshadows the upcoming Senate debate on a bill that would overturn the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law, which bans gays from serving openly in the service.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has promised a vote, but McCain has helped to block previous debate on the Senate floor.
Further dimming chances of repeal this month was a recent agreement among Senate Republicans not to vote on any bill before addressing tax cuts and government spending.
McCain, a former Navy pilot, comes from a long family line of service in the military. He was a Vietnam era prisoner of war. and was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 who lost to Barack Obama.
Advocates of repeal had hoped that this week's Pentagon study would have lessened GOP resistance to the bill. The study found that the overwhelming majority of troops were not against seeing the policy repealed.
But among those who did care, most were troops performing combat arms duties. Nearly 60 percent of those in the Marine Corps and in Army combat units said they thought repealing the law would hurt their units' ability to fight on the battlefield.
McCain seized on this finding to argue that forcing such a substantial personnel policy change in a time of war would be wrong for the military and the country. He also criticized the study for scrutinizing only how the law could be repealed, instead of whether doing so would benefit the military.
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Mullen also said that Congress should act before the courts do, and that wartime is an ideal time for repeal.
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Carnival stock is surprisingly buoyantJune 25, 2013: 2:20 PM ET
Carnival Corp. has had its share of bad press, but investors were willing to cut the cruise ship operator some slack Tuesday.
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While earnings were better than expected in the second quarter, Carnival said advance bookings for the rest of the year are currently below last year, despite discounted ticket prices.
Carnival also said it will split the roles of chairman and chief executive, currently held by Micky Arison. Arison will remain chairman, while long-time board member Arnold Donald will become CEO effective July 3.
Arison said the time was right for him to step aside after 34 years at the helm, in order to better "align our company with corporate governance best practices."
Coincidentally, the move comes days after Arison's basketball team, the Miami Heat, won another NBA championship. So don't feel too bad for him.
Despite relinquishing his CEO title, Arison will probably retain significant influence over the company founded by his father, Ted, in 1972. At least that's the chatter making the rounds on StockTwits.
$CCL, who are they kidding?! You cant tell Mickey how to run CCL! His family built it from the ground up...
The shake-up comes after Carnival got dinged by a number of high-profile incidents, including last year's Costa Concordia disaster which led to the loss of 32 lives.
More recently, the Carnival Triumph was stranded after a fire aboard the ship in February caused it to lose power in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. It took five days to tow the ship to shore.
The public relations woes have taken a toll on the company's fortunes. Carnival warned in May that earnings would suffer.
Well done MartyChargin beating 14 other analysts and the Wall Street Consensus to take the win for $CCL - http://stks.co/pI1v
Some traders were surprised by the resilience of Carnival's stock given the concerns about safety and sanitation.
$CCL amzes but this has so rarely lost 32 since the "wreck" , might take fleet wide bubonic plague to get it under 31 or 30 <bg
The Black Death would definitely be bad for business. But there may be another, equally ridiculous, explanation for the stock's performance.
$CCL Guidance is lower than 2012 & price is up. Did Fed announce a capital injection in return for free cruises & drinks? 🙂
Why not? Fed chairman Ben Bernanke seems like he could use a vacation after that last press conference, and he's made it pretty clear that he won't be around much longer…


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Say what you will about the struggles of the parent club, or about its general manager, Brian Burke, but the Leafs' minor-league goaltending might be the best of any team in the National Hockey League.
It starts with Jussi Rynnas, this summer's most eligible undrafted European goaltender. The 23-year old, 6'5" net-minder had a breakthrough season in Finland's top league last season, posting a sparkling 0.931 SV% through 31 games with Assat Pori. This year, he's split time in net with Leafs' draft pick James Reimer (more on him in a moment) and although his 3-3-1 record isn't going to turn any heads, his 1.95 GAA and 0.936 SV% are both among the best numbers in the league and indicate a player that is getting the job done.
Splitting time with Rynnas is James Reimer, the Leafs' fourth overall pick in the 2006 draft. After a solid WHL career with the Red Deer Rebels, Reimer worked his way up from the ECHL and was the Marlies' best goaltender last season, with his 0.925 SV% easily overshadowing the numbers of veterans Adam Munro and Joey MacDonald. Reimer has dipped slightly in the early going (down to a 0.919 SV%) but has still been very impressive.
Behind those two on the Toronto depth chart is Ben Scrivens, the Cornell University star who was the Leafs' less heralded goaltending signing over the summer. Scrivens was probably the second-best undrafted free agent goaltending prospect on the market (right behind Rynnas), and he made the odd choice of signing with a team as rich in goaltending talent as the Leafs, and has consequently been stuck in the ECHL with the Reading Royals. He's been superb through six games, recording a 0.930 SV% which easily outpaces incumbent starter Matt Dalton (0.892 SV%). This perhaps isn't overly surprising, given that Scrivens has topped the 0.930 mark with Cornell in each of the last three seasons.
The obvious caveat with all three of these players is that it's early: any of them could backslide or disappoint from this moment on (some would argue, given that they're Leafs' property, that this is likely). But entering this season, all three deserved serious consideration as future NHL goaltenders, and all three have done nothing but live up to their reputations.


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A member of University Press of Kentucky has contacted us, offering a free hardcover biography of Hedy Lamarr to an io9 reader. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film, by Ruth Barton will be given to the winner of the Holidays with Hedy contest. Hedy got the most credit for her invention of the 'secret communication system,' meant to steer torpedoes into Nazi ships, so the winner of the contest will be the one who recounts their favorite anti-Nazi invention from World War II in comments.
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Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Broken World (Coffee House Press) and Human Rights (Talisman House, forthcoming). His poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner). His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in Bay Poetics, No Gender, and elsewhere.
Donna de la Perrière is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, 2009) and the forthcoming St. Erasure (Talisman House, 2010). Her poems have appeared in No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at both California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series at San Francisco's The Lab gallery and performance space.
Mathew Timmons has published prose, poetry and criticism in various places including: P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine, X-TRA and The Encyclopedia Project. A chapbook, Lip Service (Slack Buddha), and an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, CREDIT (Blanc Press), was recently published. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books) are forthcoming.


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I recently read your article "The Evening Worship Service" in the October, 1997 issue (Volume 6, Number 4) of Ordained Servant.
I especially appreciate your point that "An obvious advantage of evening congregational worship is found in the fact that it is much easier to keep the whole day sacred if it is begun and ended with corporate worship." Since your article appeared over 6 years ago, I was wondering if there would be more you would want to say in this regard?
Thank you for your letter. I might just add to what you quoted out of that article. It should be obvious that what I said is a good, pragmatic argument. The fourth Commandment uses the term "Sabbath day." I think it is a matter of choice whether we define the day as from sundown to sundown or from midnight to midnight, but the commandment is one day in seven.
Now I would not "un-church" anyone who has a shrunken view of the Lord's Day. But all the Commandments are equally inspired and required for those who, having been saved by grace alone, want to please God with their redeemed lives! And it should be clear that those who habitually neglect the Lord's day are robbing themselves of needed blessing (Isa. 58:13-14).
I grew up in a home where keeping the Lord's Day holy was the rule. We were in a little rural Presbyterian church. There were times that I would have been glad to skip Sunday school and evening worship, but I did not dare to ask. Perhaps we weren't as serious about some of the in-between hours as we might have been, but we were there every Sunday evening unless there was a blizzard. And the pattern stuck with me. And I credit much of the deterioration of modern American morality and decency to the neglect of the Lord's Day.
My farmer father had a livestock trucking business which saved our farm during the Great Depression. His competition would load livestock Sunday evening to truck them to the stockyards for Monday's market, but he wouldn't go along with the competition. And faithful customers would get up at midnight to load their stock into his trucks for Monday's market. Any other night we'd come at any hour, but not Sunday. Habits like these have a powerful effect on children.
I give you this for what it's worth, but he who starves his soul for human convenience has himself to blame if he finds no joy in the worship of God.
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Florida Flips Back
GOP legislators say no to Rick Scott and refuse to join new Medicaid.
The nine Republican Governors who decided earlier this year to pump some helium into the ObamaCare balloon and expand Medicaid forgot about that saving grace of American politics: the separation of powers. On Friday Florida became the latest state to reject the expansion, as Governor Rick Scott failed to convince the GOP-controlled legislature to approve his Medicaid flip.
Mr. Scott's Medicaid plans stalled as the Florida Senate and House stalemated and adjourned for the year. Unless the Governor recalls legislators for a special session, the state won't participate in new Medicaid. Opposition is concentrated in the lower chamber, where conservatives are concerned about Medicaid's large and growing costs and the Florida budget's dependence on federal funds.
They're right to worry. The Obama Administration is attempting to bribe states by financing all of the expansion for a few years, with an assist from the hospitals and other providers lobbying for more money from Uncle Sugar. But these promises can't last. The Government Accountability Office reported last week that the average state "fiscal gap" is 14.2% over the next 50 years, largely because of health-care costs. That means states will need to raise taxes or cut spending or both by that amount—and that's before new Medicaid kicks in.
John Kasich in Ohio, Jan Brewer in Arizona and Rick Snyder in Michigan are also having trouble moving Medicaid legislation, and Jack Dalrymple in North Dakota is the only Republican so far who has sold a GOP legislature on expansion. As the state legislative calendar winds down, perhaps as many as 24 states won't expand.
Instead of making a broken system larger, a saner approach would be to fix Medicaid first. And here Florida is also instructive, as a market-based pilot project started by Jeb Bush in Broward County and greater Jacksonville that allows low-income people to choose health plans on a "Medicaid marketplace" is saving Florida about $1 billion a year.
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Kluber's rehab continues to progress positively
CLEVELAND -- Corey Kluber continues to pass the necessary tests in his comeback from a sprained middle finger on his throwing hand. The Indians right-hander played catch on Saturday with no issues, which has been the theme throughout his rehab.
"It's good, really good," Kluber said on Saturday. "I don't have any issues at all throwing. I don't really have any issues with anything. So, it's just a follow-the-process kind of thing. I'm happy with how it's going.
"I was somewhat expecting to maybe feel it a little more once I started adding in new things. But, I haven't, really."
Kluber -- shelved with the injury on Aug. 6 -- is scheduled to rest on Sunday leading up to a bullpen session during the team's off-day on Monday. It will mark his first time throwing off a mound since injuring the finger in a start against the Tigers on Aug. 5, when he spun 7 1/3 shutout innings.
The injury stemmed from a breaking ball thrown in the eighth inning against Detroit. To this point in his throwing program, which only recently included playing catch without protective tape on his finger, Kluber has been limited to just fastballs and changeups.
Indians manager Terry Francona noted that Kluber was checked again by hand specialist Dr. Thomas Graham, who was encouraged by the pitcher's progress.
"He's doing really well," Francona said of Kluber. "He was seen by the doctor and the doctor kind of gave him a thumbs up, like full go. That was great to hear. That was really good news."


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UPDATE: Bikie taskforce investigate drive-by shooting
UPDATE: TASKFORCE Maxima has been called to Warwick to aid investigations into last night's drive-by shooting.
The specialist police force was assembled in 2013 to disrupt, dismantle and eliminate criminal motorcycle gangs in Queensland.
Police have revealed four people were inside the home targeted in a drive-by shooting last night.
Initial investigations indicate about 8pm yesterday a car stopped in front of a Gilbert Crescent residence and fired a number of shots at the house.
A man who lives opposite the house said he heard, "over ten gunshots then a car driving off".
The residents were all uninjured.
The car, believed to be a dark coloured sedan, was last seen headed toward the Cunningham Highway.
12PM: A witness has told of the terrifying moment he heard gunshots on his usually quiet Warwick street.
The man, who lives opposite a house targeted in a drive by shooting last night, said he heard, "over ten gunshots then a car driving off".
"I first heard a couple of shots," he said.
"Then were the rest."
It is believed a handgun was fired at a house in Gilbert Crescent, near Scots PGC college.
It is believed the incident occurred after power was restored following yesterday's blackout.
EARLIER: Police are investigating a suspected drive-by-shooting in Warwick.
It is believed a handgun was fired at a house in Gilbert Crescent.
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Actor Alec Baldwin says he did not use a racial slur in a Sunday morning confrontation with a photographer that landed on the cover of the New York Post.
"This is completely false," Baldwin's spokesman Matthew Hiltzik told TODAY of the alleged racial slur.
"The claim of racist remarks is one of the most outrageous things I've heard in my life," said Baldwin.
According to the Post, reporter Tara Palmeri and G. N. Miller, a former policeman turned photographer, approached Baldwin Sunday morning as he was walking his dogs in New York, asking about a lawsuit filed against Baldwin's pregnant wife, yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas Baldwin.
The Post reports that Baldwin grabbed Palmeri's arm and told her, "I want to choke you to death," then used a racial slur to refer to Miller, who is black.
The Post ran a photograph of Baldwin holding Palmeri's arm as she holds a small tape recorder, and reports that Palmeri played an audio recording of the conversation for the police.
Baldwin told Gothamist that he felt the photographer deliberately "banged into me with his shoulder." The actor denied using racial slurs, saying "I don't think I've ever uttered a racial epithet to someone in my lifetime."
Police confirm that Baldwin and Miller filed complaints against each other after the incident.
Baldwin has been tweeting about the incident, writing in one message, "That's kind of magical thinking, isn't it? The Post accusing me of racism?" The Post reports that Baldwin removed some of his earlier tweets about the incident, including one in which he reportedly twice called Miller a "crackhead."
Baldwin also tweeted, "I find it ironic that my foundation's last grant was $50,000 to the Arthur Ashe Learning Center." Ashe, the only black tennis player ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open, passed away in 1993.
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Is it possible for a Christian to know that Christ died for him from scripture alone?
The Bible does not give us a list of all those names who are written in the Book of Life; God alone truly knows that. I suppose it would be nice if we had access to that knowledge, but then we might simply walk by sight instead of by faith. That being said, I cannot help but think of Paul's wonderful words in Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (ESV, emphasis mine).
What I want to underscore here is twofold. First, Paul seems to see the work of Christ as not being merely comprehended as for the church in a corporate sense, but for himself in a very tender, personal sense. He does not say "for us" but "for me." That Christ died for "us" or "for his church" is true, but to say Christ died "for me" is also just as true. How can one know? Well, Paul is not, to my knowledge, basing this reference on any particular revelation. In other words, I do not believe such confidence belonged to his apostolic office. There is no reason I am aware of to think that, neither from Galatians or elsewhere. But positively, how would Paul's words been of any pastoral benefit for the Galatians if they were only something Paul could utter? Paul's goal was to pastor them and not merely himself. Notice his use of "you" and "we" in Galatians 3. The personal reference is not unique to Paul, but something Paul hoped would take shape in the heart of each believer. Christ has loved me and given himself for me, and the way in which I know this is through faith; a faith that is built up through the ministry of the word, sacrament and prayer.
It is right to point out that not every believer will enjoy this sense of assurance. It is certainly something we grow in, and something that may even wax and wane depending on our faith and trials. This is why the Westminster Confession is careful to guard the reality that assurance of salvation is not of the essence of saving faith. Real Christians may and should have genuine assurance, but some real Christians for one reason or another may lack it.
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This episode of Investor Insight identifies the most-cost effective renovation and property upgrades designed to increase cash flow and property values. Be warned, says CREW reporter Jemima Codrington, it involves a paint brush
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Jemima Codrington: Things like lighting and painting may not be high on the list of things to look for in an investment property. But subtle changes and improvements to these things may make a bigger difference than you think. Hi, I am Jemima Codrington and welcome to Investor Insight on Crew TV.
They say the devil is in the details and the same can be said for your investment property. Sometimes the smallest changes can lead to the biggest leap in revenue.
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Tip # 1 – Don't gloss over the details
Matthew Regan: There is two parts of this. If you have a relatively low budget that you, that you have got for your home paint, paint, paint and more paint goes such a long way. It can brighten a room, it can freshen a room and it's a nice first impression. If you have got a bit bigger of a budget, kitchen and bathrooms, you can't go wrong. But you know what, consult your local real estate agent, get good contractors in there, do it right the first time, because you don't want to flush the money down the drain so to speak.
Jemima Codrington: The most cost effective way to renovate is knowing where to start.
Sandy Cockburn, Durham Mortgage
Tip # 2 – Make little changes to big rooms
Sandy Cockburn: A cost effective way for an investor to renovate would be to start with the kitchens and bathrooms. When a potential buyer walks into a home the first thing they look at the kitchen. If the cupboards are updated, either that or painted that's an excellent place to start. Bathrooms as well, if a person walks into a bathroom that's old and has those old blue and green tiles, they need to be replaced. It's the best place to start.
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