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1.What was millennialism in the antebellum era? Identify and discuss the significance of the Shakers.
-believed that people should return to the simplicity and purity of the early Christian Church by withdrawing from the vanities of society & practicing celibacy-organized their communities into ÃÂfamiliesÃÂ-believed in spiritual and formal equality between men and women-separation of the sexes-men and women lived in separate quarters-labor was strictly organized by gender-can achieve salvation here and now (while youÃÂre alive) -->Second Great Awakening-immediateness --> cannot wait 25 years àgradualism may not be soon enough-each one of us must be committed to abolishing slavery â anyone who refuses to help abolish is as guilty as any slave-owner-prepared themselves for a judgment day --> maintained moral purity (utopian reform àfocus on conviction --> wanted to stop excess drinking, later on emphasis on no sex àdie out) examples of this are: the Mormon Church, Shakers-perfectionism, immediatism, moral suasion àanti-institutionalism-led to educational reform and McGuffy books tried to incorporate good social values within ppl-practical reform --> abolition, moral purity, educational reform, temperance, womenÃÂs rights, prison reform, creation of insane asylums (more egalitarian, democratic, inclusive America)-abolitionist community --> created the Liberty Party in 18402.
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-Mormons --> have their own version of the Bible & started in upstate NY --> became known as ÃÂBurned Over DistrictÃÂ dramatically changing peopleÃÂs lives-once Joseph Smith started to preach the doctrine of plural marriage (one of the ways that utopian reform rejects traditional values in society ÃÂ donÃÂt believe in consuming caffeine) --> confusion was ignited-the Mormon community split and anti-Mormon outraged flared-Smith was thrown in jail and them murdered by a mob-the Mormons then traveled to the Great Salt Lake and founded their permanent community of believers3.Identify and discuss the significance of Charles Grandison Finney.
-he was a missionary from the West-one of the most influential advocated of Protestantism-spread beliefs about a God of Justice --> laid his case before humans to accept salvation or not-those affected by the economic boom were especially drawn to his preaching4.What was the Benevolent Empire? What is moral suasion?-the new evangelical emphasis on personally agency soon assumed the character of broad impulse for social reform expressed in religious terms ;--> often referred to as the Benevolent Empire-moral suasion --> method of the Benevolent Empire-believed that social change through the gradual internal awakening of individual moral purpose --> coaxed through personal contact, testimony, and where needed exhortation-need to convince them for the need of change --> goes in two directions (practical & utopian reform)-donÃÂt think that the political parties should be used to implement reform (anti-institutionalism)Bibliography:Making a Nation (textbook)

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(2014-Jul-30, 21:07:43)menghu1001 Wrote: Concerning congruence coefficient, after reading this article...
Davenport, E. C. (1990). Significance testing of congruence coefficients: A good idea?. Educational and psychological measurement, 50(2), 289-296.
... I am left with the impression it's very bad method. You should be careful with that. (The version of the paper I have can't allow copy paste, but check the pages 293-295.) The congruence coeff seems to constantly give you very high value even in situations where they should be (theoretically) small, or not high at all.
Can you upload that paper or send it to me? There are other sources that are more sanguine about the CC, e.g., https://media.psy.utexas.edu/sandbox/gro...ruence.pdf In any case, the problems with using Pearson's r in the analysis of factor loadings are even greater.
Quote:Regarding the question of negative loadings, i don't understand your discussion here, both of you. My opinion is that when you have small loadings (such as 0.20 or less) in the 1rst unrotated factor, regardless of the direction, you should remove it because it's a poor measure of this factor.
I don't think the size of the loadings is that important here, only the sign. In scale development, it makes sense to remove indicator variables with small loadings (e.g., <0.3) because the purpose is to come up with a reliable measurement instrument. However, the purpose of Emil's paper is not to develop a scale but to investigate the correlation structure of international socioeconomic differences.
(2014-Jul-31, 20:25:10)Emil Wrote: However, one point. Yes, it is possible that the 2nd factor is almost the same size as the first. I had actually checked this because I initially did some analyses in SPSS before moving to R (it's my first time using R for a project). Here's what one can do in R:
y_ml.2 = fa(y,nfactors=2,rotate="none",scores="regression",fm="ml") #FA with 2 factors
y_ml.2 #display results
plot(y_ml.2$loadings[1:54],y_ml$loadings) #plots first factors
cor(y_ml.2$loadings[1:54],y_ml$loadings) #correlation ^
y_ml.3 = fa(y,nfactors=3,rotate="none",scores="regression",fm="ml") #same as above just for 3 factors
One will get the 2 factor and 3 factor solutions using max. likelihood. Apparently the first factor is not completely identical across the nfactors to extract, but almost so. ML1 (with nfactors=1) with ML1 from nfactors=2 and 3 was .999.
With nfactors=2, the 2nd factor was much smaller. Var% for ML1 is about 41%, for ML2 it is about 11%,
With 3, ML1=41%, ML2=10%, ML3=5%.
Discuss that in the paper, and explain why you disregard the other factors. As to the number of factors, use Kaiser's rule (eigenvalue>1) or, if you can, parallel analysis. Are the other factors interpretable based on which variables load strongly on them?


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An ever-cleaving constellation of bits within the aforementioned entangled site.
A verb-noun concatenation——process embedded in, affecting, and affected by site——with an assertive threshold calling attention to itself between the two. To understand this hybridity of site is to see the hyphenated construct itself as a tool——to see in its syllabic nodes and articulated connection a self-aware mirage.
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Tech startup Glip's conversation platform puts conversation at the center of collaboration to help teams become more productive while they communicate. The Glip platform supports natural workflows while remaining focused on keeping members connected to maximize creativity. Glip's consolidates all forms of interactions including: face-to-face conversations, conference calls, chats, instant messaging, email, collaborative editing of documents, task management, events scheduling, project planning, and others, into the conversation stream. The stream remains in context and reduces the time and effort necessary for managing multiple applications and threads of communication enabling teams to focus more on their work.
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A widespread health problem in the modern world is back pain. The American Posture Institute goes as far as calling it a "posture epidemic".
Back pain affects more than 80 percent of Americans at some point in their lives, and Sweden is estimated to have a similar number. As a result, the posture correction industry is booming.
'Posture-fixers' and 'back buddies' are support devices and wearable tech designed to correct and monitor posture, and in some cases breathing. It is worth asking if workplaces should invest in these posture aids. Are they useful, or do they delay actual sustainable help and support?
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Rina Raphael, technology, health and wellness writer at Fast Company tested five posture aids to see if they work, and how realistic it is that people incorporate them into their lives.
Raphael stopped using every single one as they "were mostly burdensome to set up, irritating after several hours, and not terribly exciting after day one." If expectations for a quick solution are not met, or it is too much work, interest often diminishes, she found.
Even historically, posture aids were not considered permanent solutions. Furthermore, they might create dependency that "weaken the muscles and may even cause further injury due to the aid supporting the bulk of the weight instead of the muscles, causing atrophy," according to some.
Temporary awareness
Posture aids are training tools that gently remind or encourage correct alignment through alerts. However, 'The Posture Doc', Dr Guy Bahar, argues that they only deliver a temporary awareness, and "having a reminder cue is not enough".
While aids may alert posture change, like a problem reminder, without actionable information you see no sustainable change. Rather, it works on the assumption that one can correctly adjust on cue.
The problem with straight
Instructions to 'sit up straight' encourages the idea that there is a correct straight place to be, which is hard to do as our spine is curved. Attempting to be in one place can be confusing and cooperates poorly with how we are built for movement, also adding unnecessary muscular activity.
Putting on a brace that pulls arms back, might also move balance to the back of a person. Thus creating unhelpful patterns of holding tension between shoulder blades, as seen in some marketing videos.
Posture is a result of movement. Trying to find the correct one has people pulling and pushing parts around, without paying attention to how all parts are connected. Knowledge of how it all moves as a whole is ultimately what solves posture issues in a sustainable way.
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Rediscovering optimally coordinated movement results in good posture, and gives people the realisation that there is a built-in system for posture correction. Conscious movement and choice empowers the individual to create real sustainable change.
John H.M. Austin, MD at Columbia University Medical Center, feels that "habitual patterns of scrunched and tense use of the body are so ingrained in our lives that the concept may seem extraordinary that unlearning these patterns can actually relieve pain and discomfort."
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Why do identity thieves take out fraudulent student loans? Do they want to go to college that badly? In most cases, that's not their goal. Student loans are just one of many methods they can use to get cold, hard cash. The student loan checks come in to pay off educational expenses, but the thieves just cash the checks and keep the money.
Student Loan Identity Theft Doesn't Just Affect College-Bound Kids
If a young person had their identity stolen as a child — which is a growing problem — they might not discover it until they go to apply for student loans. Anyone's identity, however, could be used to take out these types of loans. For an adult that has already gone through school, or never even had student loans in the first place, they could find out when:
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- They're thinking of buying a house and check their credit report to see where they stand. There's a student loan on there that they didn't take out, it was never paid, and it's killing their credit score.
- Default notices start flooding their mailbox, collectors keep calling, and they have no idea why.
Anyone can be affected by student loan identity theft. And, if it isn't caught fairly quickly, thieves can cause a great deal of damage that takes a long time to clean up — especially when they decide not to pay the loans.
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Construction work is one of the most accident prone professions in America. Usually on a construction site there are dozens of people rushing about with heavy equipment moving skids of materials and other objects. Each year the construction fatalities continue in spite of new and stronger safety measures.
Heavy objects can fall on a worker from several stories up. Inexperienced machinery operators may get careless causing injury to workers nearby. Contractors are always in a hurry to get this project finished and move on to the next. This can cause them to cut corners and lead to accidents. Taking the proper safety measures may not be a priority on a job site.
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The designer duo revealed their awesome collection for us girls. Commenting on the association, Mehak & Ashish said "We at Platinoir are extremely thrilled to launch our first ever spring and summer' 16 collection. Each design is a perfect blend of glamour and style. With the current launch we are attempting to carve a niche in the industry as a glamorous destination for the women."
Aren't the above dresses seeking more than a glance? The spring summer'16 collection features pastel hued tulle dresses, peplum tops, embellished mesh jackets, starry dresses, jumpsuits, cocktail gowns and what not, there outfits capture the essence of urban energy and modern styles. If you're looking to pull off a chic look and are fashion forward, their collection is a must have in your wardrobe.
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Young Men on the Field
They talked about the global game of baseball and the passion that keeps them in it and the young players—getting younger every year—whom they now steer through major-league careers. They relived past glories on O'Donnell Field and retraced the winding paths that got them where they are. They talked about rebuilding efforts and pace of play and making trades. They talked about their moms.
On a drizzly January night, not quite on the doorstep of spring training, five Harvard-educated Major League Baseball (MLB) executives came to the Harvard Club of Boston for a wide-ranging Q&A, co-sponsored by the Friends of Harvard Baseball and the Harvard Varsity Club. This was the lineup:
Michael Hill '93, president of baseball operations for the Miami Marlins;
David Forst '98, general manager of the Oakland As;
Peter Woodfork '99, MLB senior vice president of baseball operations;
Jeff Bridich '00, senior vice president and general manager of the Colorado Rockies;
and Ben Crockett '02, vice president of player development for Boston's own Red Sox.
Led along—and once or twice lightly interrogated—by the MLB Network's Jon Morosi '04, while the current Crimson baseball team, in suits and ties, listened from the front rows, the panelists dug into their own experiences and the issues facing the game. But the subject they kept returning to was those young men on the field. Bridich recalled an earlier job in player development, and the lessons it taught him about the gravity of holding young players' "dreams in your hands," as Morosi phrased it. That responsibility included 18-year-old sudden millionaires who were away from home for the first time in their lives, and minor leaguers desperate to make it to the next level. "When you release a minor-league kid and you know that this is the last time he's going to play ball, it's different," Bridich said. "It hurts more than when we release a big leaguer that we know is probably going to get a job somewhere else.…Those tears that come from that 25-year-old kid you're releasing from high A-ball, that hurts more than all the times I've sat with a big leaguer and said, 'I'm sorry, we don't have a spot for you anymore.'"
Forst talked about the shifting system that often places teenagers on major league squads, skipping the step that in earlier eras allowed young players to mature in the minor leagues before they ventured into the glare of the MLB. "These kids get to the big league because they're talented, but like you said, Jeff, they're not fully developed as people," Forst said. "So we're caretakers for these 25 people who you have to somehow shape into a unit and try to win."
A changing media climate adds another dimension, Crockett chimed in. Younger players reaching greater heights earlier in their lives must also handle higher expectations, and with less room for error. Before social media and the Internet's 24-hour news cycle, "Guys could make mistakes, even at the big-league level, on or off the field…and learn from those." Now those mistakes don't just mean a rebuke from a coach or a team captain—they become stories. And the high pressures, if ignored, Bridich added, "often manifest themselves as problems later on in their careers." It becomes important, he said, to find players whom the coaches and managers trust and respect and enlist them to help lead the team and make their teammates better. "That's been huge for us," he said, especially in an industry as competitive as baseball, "where the guy sitting next to you may take your job one day, and it might be tomorrow."
Woodfork noted MLB efforts to raise the league's global profile and recruit more players from outside the United States. "We spend a lot of money trying to grow the game internationally," he said, adding that it's also important to promote more people of color into positions of power. Hill, an African American, "is one of our few people of color that's a GM, a final decision-maker." Recalling a Harvard course he took with the late historian William Gienapp, "Baseball and American Society, 1840-Present," Woodfork said that baseball is "usually pretty reflective" of what's happening in the country, and "as the country becomes more and more diverse, the goal is to have the game look that way."
Which led the conversation back to the players. Hill, working in Miami, talked about speaking Spanish as an important way to bond with players new not only to the MLB but the United States. "We talk about bringing a 16-year-old from the Dominican Republic whose family makes $1,000 a year, and plucking them out of their country and dropping them in the States and then telling them to go get three hits on Field Seven during spring training.…That's an adjustment. It started back when I was playing—I tried to be a liaison for all of our Dominican players, just to help them adjust, get comfortable."
Bridich recalled his first trip to the Dominican Republic, to visit a 17-year-old prospect whose family lived in a one-room house with a tin roof and curtains dividing one living space from another. That trip provided "one of the biggest lessons I ever learned in this game," he said. When they reach the MLB, "Almost everything is foreign to these kids.…It's important for people like us to truly go to the roots and understand the people that are entering this game and the people that we are responsible for, ultimately."
Morosi asked the panel about the problem of baseball's slow pace of play compared to other sports, a question that seemed to find no answer—except that an answer must be found. "I don't see anywhere, at least in my part of the country, where the problem is kids playing the game," Forst said. Little Leagues are full of eager participants. "Where we have issues is with people watching and following the game.…It's no secret that the fans and the networks and the people who pay the bills are demanding that it's something that we need to change."
Added Woodfork: "People like to go to games.…Where it falls apart is when you go to commercial for three and a half minutes, and there's six pitching changes"—as coaches try to switch up left- or right-handed pitchers to maximize their strength against specific hitters. Sometimes this means multiple switches within a single inning—"lefty, righty, lefty, righty," he said—slowing the game and breaking the flow. "And that's bad television."
When the floor opened to questions from the audience, one man rose with an ardent query about whether, in this age of data and analytics, baseball executives still "look for something in here," as he put it, knocking at his chest. "For heart, for soul, for chemistry." Of course, came the reply. A young man stepped up to announce he would be starting as a video coordinator with an MLB club, though his ambitions are far loftier, and did the panel have any advice for him? "You know your passion, but take care of the job at hand," Hill advised—and then ask for more responsibilities. "Mike's right," seconded Bridich. "Kick butt at your job.…And then try to learn as much as you can."
The toughest questions of the night came from fans worried about a trend toward rebuilding efforts that involve stripping teams down first—dumping talented, but expensive, players in order to rebuild a winning-caliber team—or intentionally tanking to try for higher draft picks. Would this now become how baseball works? Especially after World Series wins by the Cubs and the Astros, which pursued that strategy successfully, but at the expense of a few fan-sapping seasons of endless mediocrity and losses, "Is the league concerned that teams will see this as a logical strategy and follow it both in on-field competitiveness and the free-agent market?" wondered one audience member. The next questioner followed up with a similar worry: "Looking at it from a baseball fan perspective, do I feel comfortable that my team is trying to lose for a first draft pick?"
The panelists acknowledged the problem, but argued that the reality is not so simple. Bridich noted that the NBA faces a similar dilemma and is exploring ways to discourage intentional losses. Woodfork pointed out that only a year before the Cubs and the Astros each won their championships, the newspapers in their hometowns had called for their front-office executives to be fired. "So, you can do it, but if your timing is bad, you're going to be in a lot of trouble." Forst elaborated that point: "I will say, as somebody whose team is rebuilding,…what we've seen the last couple of years out of the Cubs and the Astros is not easy to do." In other words, those teams threaded a needle—they were canny, but they were also lucky. "When they came out of their rebuild, they had incredible resources to draw on to get where they were going, but there are plenty of other examples that don't end up that way. So I think as much as we are open for copycats in this industry, I don't think you are faced with this being the norm.…There are a lot of ways to get to where the Cubs and the Astros have gotten."
And then finally, they came to moms, prompted by a question at the mic from Bridich's father, former Crimson baseball player Rick Bridich '73. Forst recalled how his mother—"the one who loved baseball just about as much as anybody in our house"—moved from California to Cambridge and took an apartment on DeWolfe Street during his senior season and went to every game. Crockett's mother, who was not a fan, learned the game "completely on the fly." Bridich remembered the undergraduate struggles his mother and father got him through, an early experience in failure that they knew would be all right, even when he did not.
Hill offered a similar story, from a time when he himself was a young man on the field, with big, anxious hopes. A dual athlete in baseball and football, and "a young kid from Cincinnati who never thought I'd be an Ivy graduate," he spent his freshman fall in practices for both sports and tried to study on top of everything. His first big stumble was a class called, as he remembered it, "Math 1b." "But there was nothing math about it," Hill told the audience. "I was like, 'Where are the numbers?' There were no numbers." That first semester, "I got crushed." One test came back "looking like the Valentine's Day Massacre—grades I didn't even know existed." He called his mother. "I said, 'I don't know about this, Mom.'" But she did. She told him he could do it, and somehow that made it true. "And I never looked back."


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So I'm taking this boat out again, to see if she's sea worthy, or if she'll sink me someplace cold and dark. Considering the people in my life, I seriously doubt that would ever happen. Again.
I recently heard something that made me realize what the problem is. "I got 99 problems and writer's block ain't one". It was about the terror of the blank page.
I have too much to say. If writing were photography I would be the only man with a camera when the aliens landed. Pick a direction... The ships hovering in mid air, the countless reaction shots, that one moron who shoots Klaatu and ruins humanity's only chance to join the galactic society.
Really, the only way I could lose is to never take the shot.
I want to take that shot.
Fuck me running (and I would like to see the pair of sexual athletes that could pull THAT one off, wouldn't you?) but I NEED to take it.
This is the first non-G plus post in... Well, I think it's years now. And I sit here at brigideire's place, about to crash, I have to wonder...
Why now?
And the answer come rising up from a deeper, more primal place, that source of those moments when my "r"s are almost non existent, a strange and magical land called "Queens"; Why the fuck not?
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Part of the York's Musicals in Mufti series, the semi-staged concert production will run Oct. 12-14. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong with musical direction by John Bell, the cast will also feature the previously announced Cady Huffman, Megan Lawrence, Capathia Jenkins, Angie Schworer, Ryan Duncan, Stephen Bienskie and Jim Sorensen. Newcomers to the company include Laura Marie Duncan, Amy Goldberger, Jonathan Kay, Mike McGowan, John Eric Parker and Patrick Richwood.
The Body Beautiful features a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock. The musical, according to press notes, concerns "a wealthy Dartmouth College graduate who wishes to be a prize-winning boxer and the girl he loves who disapproves of his ambitions. His fight manager must deal with uninspired fighters, two ex-wives and a new girlfriend."
The Body Beautiful originally opened at the Broadway Theatre Jan. 23, 1958. George Schaefer directed a cast that included Mindy Carson, Steve Forrest, Jack Warden, Barbara McNair, William Hickey and Brock Peters.
All four fall Mufti offerings boast a book by Stein. The series began with Zorba and Enter Laughing: The Musical and will continue with The Body Beautiful (Oct. 12-14) and The Baker's Wife (Oct. 26-28).
Five performances of each show are presented: Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2:30 and 8 PM and Sundays at 2:30 and 7:30 PM. Audience discussions follow the matinee performances. The Mufti series is presented at the Theatre at Saint Peter's, which is located at 54th Street, east of Lexington Avenue. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (212) 935-5820 or visit www.yorktheatre.org.
"Mufti" means "in street clothes, without the usual trappings."


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Virus-Specific T Cells Treat Posttransplant Infections
Banked T cells offer "off-the-shelf" therapy for patients with BK virus, JC virus, cytomegalovirus infections after stem cell transplant
A novel approach to adoptive T cell immunotherapy holds promise for some patients who develop acute, possibly deadly viral infections after undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).
Physicians at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are using T cells that target BK virus, JC virus, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) to successfully treat infections in HSCT patients. The T cells were developed in the institution's Good Manufacturing Practice and Cellular Therapy Facility by Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D., and Elizabeth Shpall, M.D., both professors in the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.
"Viral infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality in HSCT patients," Dr. Rezvani said. "We're showing that we can immediately treat some of these potentially fatal infections with banked virus-specific T cells from healthy donors."
Potentially fatal infections
People with healthy immune systems may harbor BK virus, JC virus, or CMV and never experience symptoms of infection. But in people with extremely weakened immune systems—such as HSCT patients—these viruses can wreak havoc. The conditions resulting from these infections can be debilitating or even deadly, and conventional treatments to fight the infections are severely lacking. BK virus infection can cause BK hemorrhagic cystitis, which occurs in about 20% of all HSCT patients, depending on how high-risk the transplant is. BK hemorrhagic cystitis can be very painful, and patients with the condition may develop bladder hemorrhage and/or renal failure. For years, the standard of care has been limited to supportive measures, including analgesics, continuous bladder irrigation, hyperhydration, and forced diuresis.
JC virus infection can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that is marked by a sudden and severe loss of coordination and language ability. Treatment for PML is virtually nonexistent, and most patients who are diagnosed with it die within 6 months.
CMV infection can cause multi-organ disease that includes hepatitis, gastroenteritis, pneumonia, and encephalitis. Drugs to treat the infection are toxic and expensive.
The right cells at the right time
Previous efforts to use virus-specific T cells to treat viral infections in immune-deficient patients were hampered by the duration and complexity of cell production. Cell lines were generated on a patient-by-patient basis, which precluded their use in emergent situations.
"If we were to generate the T cells for each patient individually, then the patient would have to sit there for 2 weeks and suffer," Dr. Rezvani said. To overcome these limitations, Dr. Rezvani and her colleagues established a cell bank of virus-specific T cells.
BK virus–specific T cells
For BK virus–specific T cells, an in-house procedure is used to generate the cells and expand them ex vivo. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy donors are cultured with five peptides from the immunodominant capsid proteins of the BK virus (VP1, VP2, VP3, large T antigen, and small T antigen) in the presence of cytokines (interleukin-2, -7, and -5) for 10–14 days. The expanded BK virus–specific T cells are then harvested and frozen.
BK virus–specific T cells can be used to treat both BK hemorrhagic cystitis and PML because the BK and JC viruses have 95% homology. When eligible HSCT patients present with BK hemorrhagic cystitis or PML, they are given BK virus–specific T cells from the most closely HLA (human leukocyte antigen)-matched donor. The cell bank is steadily increasing its number of donors and currently has BK virus–specific T cells from 15 donors covering the most common HLA types.
"From the moment a patient comes in with a viral infection, we can administer T cells within 24 hours because all we have to do is find the best donor, thaw the cells, and give them to the patient intravenously, just like a blood or platelet transfusion," Dr. Rezvani said.
Once the virus-specific T cells are given, the patient is observed for a response. If no response is apparent within 2 weeks, T cells from another donor are given.
About 85% of the HSCT patients with BK hemorrhagic cystitis who have been treated with the cells have responded to the therapy. Dr. Rezvani believes that the other patients did not respond because they had graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and were receiving corticosteroids, which are lymphotoxic and thus kill the T cells before the cells can act. On the basis of these findings, Dr. Rezvani and her colleagues no longer administer virus-specific T cells to patients who are receiving a high dose of steroids.
"Using virus-specific T cells, we've successfully treated more than 20 patients who had BK hemorrhagic cystitis and two who had PML," Dr. Rezvani said, "One of these patients with PML, a 32-year-old woman who had a cord blood transplant, couldn't walk and couldn't talk properly when she came to our clinic. When we gave her these cells, she had an amazing response, and now she can walk and talk again. She's even back to work now, 11 months after first presenting with PML; and the virus is no longer detectable in her blood or cerebrospinal fluid." Given that PML is almost universally fatal, the patient's response to the therapy was particularly encouraging, Dr. Rezvani said.
Although the BK virus–specific T cells are most often used in the post-transplant setting, Dr. Rezvani said that she has also used them to treat leukemia patients who develop BK hemorrhagic cystitis after chemotherapy. She noted that, because patients must be highly immunosuppressed to develop the condition, BK hemorrhagic cystitis is rare in non-transplant settings.
CMV-specific T cells
Unlike BK virus–specific T cells, which must be cultured, manipulated, and expanded over a dozen days or more, CMV-specific T cells, which are substantially more abundant than BK virus–specific T cells in healthy individuals, can be generated in a matter of hours. Donor cells are stimulated with a mix of peptides of the virus's immunodominant proteins overnight. The cells start secreting interferon gamma, which allows their detection and isolation by a cytokine capture device. The T cells are immediately harvested and infused into the patient, where they start growing and mediate an antiviral response. So far, the response rate to CMV-specific T cells has been greater than 80%, and 20 patients have been successfully treated.
Potential limitations
Dr. Rezvani said that although treatment with the virus-specific T cells has been safe and effective overall, it is not without potential limitations.
"There's always the theoretical risk that T cells from an allogeneic source could increase the risk of GVHD, although we haven't noticed a higher-than-average incidence of GVHD in the patients we've treated," Dr. Rezvani said. "There's also a theoretical risk that T cells from an allogeneic source could contribute to graft rejection, but we haven't seen any cases of this in our patients."
There is also a small risk that a good donor match would be unavailable or that even well-matched cells may not work, as was the case in patients who were receiving corticosteroids for GVHD.
Future directions and broader applications
The next step, Dr. Rezvani said, is to make virus-specific T cells available to additional patients. "At the moment, this is a boutique strategy at major transplant centers that have the technology to modify T cells, but we'd like to see the treatment become available to patients at other institutions," she said. She also mentioned that steps are being taken to make virus-specific T cells more effective.
Other uses for virus-specific T cells are also being explored. For example, CMV-specific T cells are being used in combination with temozolomide in a clinical trial to treat recurrent glioblastoma, which expresses CMV antigens (see "Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma," p. 1). Dr. Rezvani said that early findings suggest that virus-specific T cells could also be used to treat other cancers in which viruses play a role (e.g., human papillomavirus–associated head and neck cancers). More broadly, Dr. Rezvani pointed to the work of Ala Abudayyeh, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Nephrology, who is investigating the use of BK virus–specific T cells to prevent graft rejection in kidney transplant patients.
Dr. Rezvani predicts that off-the-shelf, virus-specific T cells will become commercially available within a few years but will likely be expensive. Currently, the in-house generation of the virus-specific T cells used at MD Anderson is supported by the institution's Moon Shot Program, so there is no cost to the patient. With this support, Dr. Rezvani said, she continues to see the therapy elicit dramatic responses in HSCT patients with infections that once were debilitating and deadly.
"Where we used to have these patients in the hospital for weeks on end, now we give them these T cells, and most patients respond within a week of receiving them," Dr. Rezvani said. "The therapy has made a huge difference in these patients' quality of life."
For more information, call Dr. Katy Rezvani at 713-794-4260.
OncoLog, March 2017, Volume 62, Issue 3


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The economic outlook is dire, and social crisis will ensue. The left must fight back with a new strategy for growth and hope
We may be about to see the most deluded and dangerous party conference season in modern British history. Unemployment rates, particularly among the young, are terrible. Nobody has a clue where growth is going to come from. The international climate is darkening. On Monday the banks discover their fate with the publication of the Vickers report – but the mood from Tory ministers is for caution and compromise.
What lies ahead? A xenophobic lurch in politics against Europe, and a new, punitive mood about the poor? Another financial crisis seems very possible, and it's no longer clear we have avoided a second great depression. We've had our wake-up call, but are we truly awake?
We ought to see impassioned, urgent debate in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham about the thing that matters most to voters – economic policy. George Osborne, the brightest of the Tory ministers, ought to feel himself under intense pressure for a change in tack towards a new plan for growth. The Lib Dems should be in greater revolt over banking and fairness. Labour ought to be in angrily questioning form, with rafts of specific proposals for growth.
Yet the signs are that there will be enough wriggle-room on banking for both Tory and Lib Dem ministers to get away with a few nods to party prejudices – a vague form of words on the 50p tax rate here, rhetorical bonus-bashing from Vince Cable there – rather than any real change of course. There will be headline-grabbing announcements from Osborne about new infrastructure projects which will, I'm told, look less substantial when we see the detail.
Meanwhile Labour has been thrown back on the defensive by Alistair Darling's account of his battles over financial honesty with Gordon Brown. Ed Miliband didn't even raise the economy in prime minister's questions last week and Ed Balls is again struggling with questions about the Brown legacy. Just when we need the trumpet to sound most confidently, the note is uncertain.
It has been left to trade union leaders, meeting in London to cut costs, for the first time in the TUC conference history, to lead the attack. They predict mass civil disobedience and a winter of strikes and they may be right. But none of it will make the slightest difference without a clear political strategy – and that means an economic strategy for growth and hope.
What might that be? Where would it come from? There is an increasingly visible alternative economic strategy, which bears no resemblance to the old one, loved by the Bennites, and it should frighten the life out of progressive people. It's the slash-welfare, cut off from Europe, send the foreigners home strategy of the hard right. And if we're not careful, it is the next place British politics is heading. Today, a failure of coalition policies could send voters to the right just as easily as to the left. Look at how the Tory backbenchers and thinktanks are aligning themselves. Listen to the squeaks of alarm coming from the few one-nation Tories left, men such as Stephen Dorrell and Damian Green.
What is missing is a centre-left growth strategy that goes further than simply attacking the speed and depth of spending cuts. Labour in particular needs to become ruthlessly focused on jobs, and willing to entertain almost any idea, however unorthodox, to get the economy moving. That's the only way to get people listening again.
Here are some of the ideas (certainly not a complete list) being talked about by the shrewder MPs.
On tax, the left needs to rethink. The 50p rate should stay, not because it raises a lot of money but because to cut it would be such a terrible signal to the lower-paid majority: the opposite of "we're all in this together". But a growth strategy needs to focus on helping businesses, especially small ones.
Labour ought to become a tax-cutting party for real, job-creating companies. It's rumoured that the coalition is considering a one-year tax holiday for certain kinds of business startup. A pro-growth opposition should get in first.
There should be a determined alliance between Labour politicians and radical Lib Dems who understand the big banks must be broken up and the bankers' threats ignored. Well over three-quarters of people think the government has been too soft on the banks. I'd like to have seen a joint session at one or other conference between Vince Cable and Labour frontbenchers. On this, there should be no compromise, no fudge and a real sense of urgency.
It's time for a return to serious regional and industrial policies. Simply bashing the failed City model is not enough. We need an alliance between businesses, city leaders, universities, schools and politicians to rebuild the skills base, clear away barriers to growth and build a new infrastructure. Next year's Labour conference should be less a party gathering than a national growth and jobs summit.
Being pro-growth will mean eschewing short-term political calls, such as backing the countryside campaigners against the housebuilders. The Tories are in trouble on this, and it would be easy to make that trouble worse – perhaps even to defeat the government in the Commons. But if we want development and jobs, the country needs more houses, and must support building. That ought to take priority over party politics.
Finally, opposition politicians also need to make more of their European alliances. The Tory right is about to launch another anti-Brussels crusade and will need to be vehemently fought: there is no better British future without more trade and business across the EU. The only effective action over banks, regulations, tax havens and trade, is action together.
And here's what should worry us all. We have a dire economic outlook that is going to leave millions without the opportunities and lives they deserve. We are living through the second phase of a major social and political crisis. Yet there is little sense of urgency, little tension, little argument. An amazing number of people seem to think the coalition is doing "all right" – because of Libya, for heavens sake. Or that the banking system is now sorted. Or that the argument about cuts is over.
I am listening hard. But I can't hear the fightback. I haven't heard a properly cogent call to arms for a new plan for growth. Once the conference season is over, the parties retreat to Westminster and business as usual. Will the dogs bark while there's still time?


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Officials say the Roseville Galleria could be closed or limited in operations for months because of Thursday's blaze, which caused part of the roof on the building's south end to collapse.
Authorities say the 1.3 million-square-foot mall was evacuated earlier, after the man holed up in a store and started what appeared at first to be a small fire.
Police said the blaze began spreading as members of the bomb squad were examining the man's backpack, forcing them to flee the building.
Police identified the man as 23-year-old Alexander Corney Pigee.
The man's mother, Mary Carter, told KCRA-3 in Sacramento that her son has mental health problems and recently lost his job.


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Laura and Harry's Blindfold Run story
This will be the fourth year that Harry and Laura will be running the RSBC Blindfold Run together. Harry is profoundly Deaf and works as a Deaf Blind Communicator Guide and Laura is a Registered Sign Language Interpreter. Both are keen runners and will be taking part in the 10K run, each taking turns to run blindfolded.
This is how they have been communicating with one another during the training sessions:
"We created our own signs and gestures using touch and body language, an example of this would be; to indicate turning right we would steer the blindfolded runner by turning their hand to the right. Another example would be; to sign the British Sign Language (BSL) sign for 'slow' on the blindfolded runner's arm so they would know to slow down. We also have signs for checking each other is ok, indicate speeding up etc. We have found that holding hands throughout the run is a big help for both of us.
"When we train, we usually start by training in an open field which automatically makes us feel more relaxed, knowing we have a lot of space. The most important factor is trust. Harry and I trust each other so much which helps immensely."
Over the four years Harry and Laura have raised over £1500 for RSBC! We can't thank the two of them enough for supporting us over the past four years. We are wishing them all the best of luck in their training and can't wait to cheer them on on 4th November.
If you're feeling inspired by Harry and Laura then there's still time to sign up for this year's RSBC Blindfold Run - you have until Thursday 1st November 2018 to sign up!


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Paperweight, "Purple Finch in the Snow". Colorless, red, white, brown non-lead glasses; flameworked and cased. Domed, circular shape, enclosing a lampworked figure of a bird (purple finch) with bright red head, breast and back, white underside, and striated tan wings and tail; standing on a snow-covered branch, with another branch above; scattered white snow in the background; polished, concave base; signed on the side (scratched, script letters) "Ayotte 13/50 '82".
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Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit
Masterpieces of American Glass
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Paperweight Pals (2012) illustrated, pp. 2, 21; BIB# 130749
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001) illustrated, p. 139; BIB# 68214
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 70, 96, pl. 112; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 104, #116; BIB# 34475


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The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is one of the most respected horse races in the world which anchors the biggest weekend of horse racing in France!
The Qatar 2018 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe will be held at its newly renovated home, the Longchamp Racecourse, (or Hippodrome de Longchamp), in Paris.
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I dug out an H&M jumper of yesteryear to wear with it as I thought the lace-effect sleeves would work well. So here's my ensemble du jour:
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Jumper: H&M
Skirt: Pull&Bear
Wedge Boots: Tophop
Now let me tell you, this skirt took some ironing! Irons and I have never got on, but sometimes I just have to admit defeat and reluctantly give an item a good pressing for it to be wearable. Every one of these skirts in the shop was creased to bejaysus, so be warned that you'll need to exert some elbow grease if you want to get one too. Despite my iron-related reservations it was the studs on this skirt that really swung it for me and I just had to have it.
|Q: Where's the camera gone? A: It's behind you!
|The skirt in action: it walks!
|The skirt in stasis: still creased despite my best efforts, gah.
|Hair 'mare.
|I'm very easily distracted.
|Successful pose eventually achieved. Result!


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Epoetin Beta in Treating Anemia in Patients With Cervical Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00046969
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 27, 2003
Last Update Posted : May 30, 2013
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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RATIONALE: Epoetin beta may stimulate red blood cell production to prevent or control anemia in patients treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase IV trial to determine the effectiveness of epoetin beta in treating anemia in patients who are receiving cisplatin and radiation therapy for stage IIB, stage III, or stage IVA cervical cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Anemia Cervical Cancer
|Biological: epoetin beta Drug: cisplatin Radiation: brachytherapy Radiation: radiation therapy
|Phase 4
- Compare the effectiveness of epoetin beta vs standard care for anemia management, in terms of increased hemoglobin levels and the correlation with reduced relapse/treatment failure rate, in patients with stage IIB, III, or IVA cervical cancer treated with cisplatin and radiotherapy.
- Compare the safety of these regimens in these patients.
- Compare the relapse-free and overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the frequency and localization of relapses and metastases in patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the quality of life of patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the type, frequency, and degree of adverse events in patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the overall response rate in patients treated with these regimens.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open-label, parallel-group, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to country, disease stage, and brachytherapy technique. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Patients also undergo high-dose rate, low-dose rate, or boost brachytherapy. Patients receive cisplatin IV beginning on day 1 of radiotherapy and continuing weekly for 6 weeks. Patients also receive epoetin beta subcutaneously 3 times a week beginning 2 weeks before radiotherapy and continuing for 8 weeks.
- Arm II: Patients undergo radiotherapy and brachytherapy and receive cisplatin as in arm I.
Quality of life is assessed at baseline, after the last treatment, and at 3 months.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 80-450 patients will be accrued for this study within 4-22.5 months.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|450 participants
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Management Of Anemia Under RadioChemotherapy (MARCH): An Open, Randomized Multicenter Study Of The Effect Of NeoRecormon On Treatment Outcome In Patients With Advanced Cervical Cancer Stage IIB -IVA Treated With Primary Simultaneous Radiochemotherapy (Radiotherapy Plus Cisplatin)
|Study Start Date :
|July 2002
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2007
- Number of treatment failures within 6 months after beginning radiochemotherapy (RCT) (stage I)
- Overall survival after RCT (stage II)
- Progression/relapse-free survival
- Overall response rate to RCT
- Overall survival after RCT (stage I)
- Frequency and localization of relapses and/or metastases
- Change in hemoglobin from baseline during therapy
- Quality of life as assessed by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Anemia
- Type, frequency, and degree of adverse events
- Safety
- Vital signs
- Number of treatment failures within 6 months after beginning RCT (stage II)
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:
Histologically confirmed stage IIB, III, or IVA cervical cancer
- No chorion carcinoma or neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma
- Previously untreated disease
- Must be scheduled to undergo radiotherapy and receive cisplatin as primary therapy
- Hemoglobin 8.0-13.0 g/dL
- No relevant acute bleeding within the past 3 months, including anemia caused by gross bleeding from tumor
- No distant metastasis
- No positive para-aortic lymph nodes
- Over 18
Performance status
Life expectancy
- At least 3 months
- See Disease Characteristics
- WBC greater than 3,000/mm3
- Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3
- No hemolytic anemia
- No transferrin saturation less than 20% that cannot be treated with IV iron
- No hemoglobinopathies (i.e., sickle cell disease or thalassemia of all types)
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Transaminases no greater than 2.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min
- No chronic heart failure
- No New York Heart Association class II-IV heart disease
- No uncontrolled arterial hypertension (systolic blood pressure at least 170 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure at least 100 mmHg)
- No prior deep vein thrombosis
- No thrombocytosis
- No vitamin B12 deficiency
- No folic acid deficiency
- No newly diagnosed (unstable) epilepsy
- No acute infection
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell carcinoma in situ
- No known peripheral neuropathy or moto-sensory neurotoxicity grade 2 or greater
- No impaired hearing grade 2 or greater
- No hypersensitivity to benzyl alcohol, benzoic acid, benzalkonium chloride, or any excipients of cisplatin preparations
- Not pregnant or nursing
Biologic therapy
- At least 3 months since prior epoetins or related compounds
- See Disease Characteristics
Endocrine therapy
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior radiotherapy for cervical cancer
- Not specified
- At least 30 days since prior investigational drugs
- No prior systemic antineoplastic therapy for cervical cancer
- No other concurrent investigational drugs
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): NCT00046969
|Martin Luther Universitaet
|Halle, Germany, D-06097
|Study Chair:
|Heinz Koelbl, MD
|Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000257189 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 30, 2013
|Last Verified:
|March 2007
stage IIB cervical cancer
stage III cervical cancer
stage IVA cervical cancer
cervical adenosquamous cell carcinoma
cervical squamous cell carcinoma
cervical adenocarcinoma
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Hematologic Diseases
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Uterine Cervical Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents


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College Prep English 3, is a demanding year-long college preparatory course. It is literature-based and integrates the study of writing, literature, speaking, listening, vocabulary, library skills and technology. Applying the writing process, students write interpretation, evaluation, observation, reflection, speculation about cause and effect, controversial issues, and report of information for academic purposes. Students read and analyze literary, historical and cultural backgrounds of American literature through a variety of genres. Using critical thinking skills, students analyze core works and relate them to their own lives. The vocabulary development emphasizes word attack strategies, taught in meaningful contexts. Students participate in a variety of interactive activities, particularly in the preparation and delivery of oral presentations. Students use traditional and electronic reference sources in their reading, writing, and speaking assignments. College Prep English 3 is an academic class designed specifically for serious, college-bound students. The class discussion, collaborative, and cooperative learning, writing assignments, and regular homework stimulate high levels of critical thinking.


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<< Back | Next >>Location: 701 N. Richman Avenue1927: Cottage Style
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This house is a rather streamlined version of a cottage style. The extension of the street-facing gable nearly to the ground on one side and forming the roof of the portecochere on the opposite side, is a unique feature. The triangular-topped opening of the porte-cochere matches the outline of the dramatic picture window.
This house was built as a "model home." In the spring of 1927, the Chamber of Commerce organized a cooperative construction of this house to promote home buying in Fullerton. The home was opened in September with much fanfare. In spite of its status as a model home, none other like it was ever built in Fullerton.


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Every winter term starting in October the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, offers the two-year international Master's programme "Molecular Bioengineering". It is taught completely in English. Applicants must hold a Bachelor's or an equivalent qualification in Biology / Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry / Biochemistry, Computer science, Materials science, Medicine, Nanotechnology or Physics.
The application forms and further information material can be found on the following website: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/teaching.


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How do you know if you are truly making the most of the people around you, the people you come in touch with on a regular basis and all other people you meet through social networking sites, etc?
Today I had a chance to read Martin Zwilling's blog post "Can You Find My Contact Info in a Second?" In this particular post, Martin explains why it is so difficult to find up to date information on the people you've met and why the rolodex with 100 business cards doesn't work anymore. I totally agree with him. It is very difficult to find someone's current contact information these days. Many people are moving around from job to job and hence their contact information is changing on a regular basis. His posting made me wonder throughout the day and it made me think about my own relationships. So I wanted to share my perspective on why it is so important for you to maintain your relationships on a regular basis to not only succeed in business but also in life.
How many true friends do you have? Are you in touch with them on a daily basis? I believe many entrepreneurs don't take this particular subject seriously before they go about starting their own new business. If you maintain your relationships, it will be one of the best tools you can tap into when you launch your new startup. In most cases, this will not cost you a penny. These are the people you can count on to provide you with some feedback for your new website, new service or a product. They are the people that can spread the words about your products and services. They are your free marketers when you are ready to launch your next startup.
However, maintaining the relationship comes with responsibility. It is not an easy task. It requires daily commitment from you to make a phone call or to send an email just to say hi. I think many of us take relationships for granted and we don't give the attention it requires. We believe it will be there when we need it the most but forget to understand that just like us, everyone is busy as well and that old relationship does not wait around for you.
In order to maintain the relationship you need to invest in people. You need to first learn to value who they are, respect their work, respect their view and finally understand them. Understanding one another is not an easy task as well but at least if you want to build relationships to help you with your business analyze the following areas and help them along.
- find out what their goal in life is
- find out what they like doing the most
- do they have any interests or hobbies
- find out what they need help with
- find out what they are working on
Many successful people find a way to keep in touch with hundreds people all the time. They don't know much about the individuals but they have a way to keep a tiny bit of crucial information that they know will spark an interest or a conversation with their contacts. This sort of delicacy will help you go a long way in terms of building relationships. You will need to find a way to keep this information along with your contacts. Martin's post suggests a few tools for you to try out.
In order to find this delicacy, first you need to understand the truth about people. You need to understand that at the end of the day, they are all human beings as well. They have feelings too and they want to feel important and special. You need to learn to give them what they want or lack. For example, if they want to associate with success then you should help them achieve that. If they are insecure then you give them confidence. If they don't feel special, make them feel special by truthfully complementing about their work etc. If they are starting up a business, be the first one to lend a hand.
This is how you build a network of true online friends. This is how you build relationships in your life. If you do it right and help them along, they will be there when you need to count on them. In your niche market, you will meet a lot of people on a regular basis. Help them along and keep in touch. You will need them one day.
I hope my thoughts help your relationships. Please leave comments for others to read on how you manage your relationships and how it has helped you with your startups.


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A traditional backup solution means to implement agents in every server that copy the data in a consistent and recoverable way to a secondary disk system or directly to tape.
The way that you set your backup architecture and components is defined by the type of data, its size, its growth rate and the topology of your IT components (sites, network performance, geographies). Also, you need to define what are the Recovery Point and Times Objectives (RTO & RPO) that is required for your business and therefore your applications and data. Not all data and applications require the same RTO & RPO, that depends on how critical is this asset's availability for your business –you cannot define a much higher RTO/RPO to the email service than the most critical application that manage your production chain worldwide-
Lowering both, RTO and RPO, cost exponentially more.
If you want to define RTO and RPO near to zero this can costs million of dollars because probably you need synchronous replication between sites –duplicated infrastructure and higher speed network resources- and pretty cool stuff to backup it – like consistent snapshots every hour and save every log transaction at every second- An expensive skilled team to react in case of a failure and to test every month this data protection solution as an evidence of control.
The size and type of data as I've mentioned also define your backup components and architecture. In the case of files, these must be copied to external storage equipment stuck to a backup server, sometimes called media or master server –a media/master server has an installed backup application that manages tape or storage devices directly attached.
Why not to send files directly to tape? Well, the stream of data that is being copied from the file server is not flowing in a constant rate through the network –we are talking about thousands of files with different sizes-, the tape is going to run in irregular speed not being so efficient for this type of devices making this backup process lasts years!
A good solution for this last case is to use a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) to receive the data copied directly from file servers to a virtual tape. Virtual tapes shows out disks as tapes to any backup application without the problems to manage irregular stream speed rates. Later you can copy the virtual tape to a physical one in a constant high-speed stream what is the best scenario for any physical tape device. However, this solution doesn't bring much better performance is you are dealing with databases, and you have to deal with vaulting data to physical tapes later anyway.
A Database requires to be set in a consistent state to start copying its data and logs files directly to a backup device. This state could be reached through special database instructions – through RMAN in case of Oracle- that are triggered from the backup agent installed in the same server where the database is located. You can copy this data directly to the tape attached to the database server -Yes, you just read it right: "directly to tape" because in case of databases the stream of data to tape works in a constant rate- Other point to consider is databases usually could be compressed around three times versus the original size, and that saves you a lot of storage capacity.
Special applications like and Exchange server and VMWare images need to be treated like a database. These application requires special agents to set data and logs in a consistent state before be copied and transferred to any media server.
Now in "the Cloud", would you think tape could fit? The answer is "It's depends". However, public cloud solutions are not considering tape at all. Disk is cheaper to manage and more trustable. Disk can be easily automated and you don't need any human assistant at any time during the backup process –at least you don't need people to take a tape to somewhere- however, there isn't any provider offering a full automated backup solution stick to its ANYaaS today
Backup is an overdue bill yet in terms of automation. I don't know any service that can warranty with certainty that your IT stuff will be 100% protected all time. Backup requires an exhaustive management of every protected item and a constant evidence of its control.
There are "Backup as a Service" (BaaS) solutions with different levels of functionalities and system compatibility coverage. Some of them aim an SMB market related to just files. Some vendors promote the usage of object storage as an alternative but they are lack of agents to make easier getting automation policies at application level.
KIO is not fully solving this problem today, but a big step has been taken. KIO has just released a Backup as a Service (BaaS) that brings an exclusive dashboard to your company to manage your own backup resources. BaaS works from our best-in-class datacenters and it gets your data from wherever your IT stuff is located through a monthly payment plan base on the amount of protected GBs. We save 30 online copies of your data (one per day) as part of our retention policy –we charge you only the equivalent of one copy, not the 30 ones of course-
Not every company in LATAM can afford a good quality and high bandwidth connection to Internet or between offices. Our solution was thought to face this condition being highly efficient on the bandwidth usage through compression and de-duplication at the source. Also we can transfer the data encrypted to reinforce control access policies to the information from the source.
We could install a local appliance at your office to improve the local RTO of the most recent copies charging an additional small payment per month. Our compatibility coverage is better than the average: we support systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux, AS400, Oracle, SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange and so on.
There is not required to have your IT systems in our datacenters to get this service. Of course you need a relative good Internet connection at least -a decent bandwidth depending on how much data you need to backup and transfer from your office-
We invite you to test this new service. See you the next Tuesday.
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14,000 people leave the Armed Forces every year. Many have transferable skills & assets that will benefit your company. Construction needs 224,000 new recruits by 2019
Skills & Experience
Ex-Military personnel usually have good leadership skills, are able to think on their feet and are strong team players. They are often ideal candidates for the construction industry
We match Service Leavers and Veterans to your available recruitment opportunities to ensure the right candidate and a smooth transition from the Military to construction
Join Us
The BuildForce Alliance includes individuals from industry, trade bodies and charities who promote BuildForce within their organisation and beyond, to help Service Leavers and Veterans transition to construction careers.
Engagement with BuildForce starts with the BuildForce Charter. Signatories to the Charter become members of the BuildForce Alliance and identify individuals in their organisations to take on the roles of BuildForce Ambassadors, Champions and Mentors.
For smaller businesses this may be one person combining all three roles, and for larger businesses it may be that there is one BuildForce Ambassador, more than one Champion and many Mentors.
It is the connections made between those seeking assistance (Service Leavers and Veterans), those providing industry expertise (BuildForce Mentors), and existing military transition organisations that will be key to the success of this project.
BuildForce Roles
- Act as a senior point of contact for BuildForce
- Promote and support participation in BuildForce within your organisation, supply chain and wider network
- Act as a point of contact for BuildForce
- Promote and support BuildForce within your organisation
- Identify opportunities for Service Leavers and Veterans to engage with your business (e.g. work placements, interview coaching, site visits, job opportunities, etc.)
- Develop a network of BuildForce mentors within your organisation
- Provide information, advice and guidance to Service Leavers and Veterans, face-to-face or remotely, on developing a career in construction
- Develop and implement opportunities for Service Leavers and Veterans to engage with your business (e.g. provision of information and guidance, work placements, interview coaching, site visits, job opportunities, etc.)
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BANGOR, Maine — Jodie Nealley won big at a slot machine in Reno, Nevada, in 2005 while she attended a business conference, taking home $2,500 more than she showed up with. Four years later, she was in a prison cell serving a two-year sentence for embezzling money from her employer to feed an out-of-control gambling problem.
Today, Nealley is intervention and recovery support coordinator at the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, working to help people whose lives are hurt by an unhealthy relationship with gambling, whether in the form of March Madness brackets, scratch tickets, or slot machines. She told her story in Bangor on Friday during Maine's Annual Conference on Problem Gambling Awareness, attended by about 30 people representing Maine community health organizations, treatment centers, casinos and other groups.
"Gambling is not about a slot machine, or even about money; it's about the rush you feel before you're about to do it, after a big win, or in a near miss," Nealley said.
About a year after her successful time in front of the Reno slot machine, she went to Foxwoods, the casino closest to her Massachusetts home. She was drawn to the $100 machine.
Six months later, she'd lost $300,000. She was fired from her job in 2007 for stealing money from her employer and later went to prison. Until she was caught stealing money to fuel her addiction, no one had a clue she had a problem, not even her family, she said. She was divorced while in prison.
In Maine, there is no data on how many people suffer from gambling addictions, according to Christine Theriault, substance abuse prevention and control manager for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That's in part because people are so secretive about their gambling habits.
National survey data indicates that 85 percent of Americans say they have gambled at least once. About 1 percent of the U.S. population has experienced compulsive gambling, while an estimated 4 million to 6 million Americans have struggled with a less serious gambling problem.
Mainers have the option of voluntarily adding themselves to a self-exclusion list, which bars them from casinos for 1-5 years or life, if they choose. Between February 2014 and March 2016, just 270 Mainers added themselves to the list. Most chose to do so at one of the state's two casinos, usually after losing significant amounts of money, according to Theriault.
While there are similarities between problem gambling and other addictions, one major difference is that some gamblers are treated like "winners" — offered free hotel rooms, trips, and other special "high-roller" treatments based on how much they spend to feed their habit. That can aggravate an already serious situation, Nealley said.
Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, also spoke at Friday's conference. He talked about the growing prevalence of Internet gambling, and how online opportunities are making it even more difficult for people to notice a loved one's struggles.
Problem gambling is a "disorder so bound by shame and stigma," that it prevents many people from seeking help. The stigma is enough to keep them from revealing their struggles with others, but isn't enough to prevent them from seeking the "high" of scratching a ticket or setting a chip on the roulette table, he said.
More information about the signs of problem gambling and what to do if you or someone you know are struggling is available at www.maine.gov/dhhs/samhs/osa/help/gambling. Information and assistance also are available by calling the Maine help hotline by dialing 211, or the national helpline at 800-522-4700.
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