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It started snowing a little on Wednesday night and into the very early morning. No new snow the rest of the day. We don't get snow very often in the Seattle Area but when it falls it has an interesting effect on me. I go right into hibernation mode. I did manage to do some indoor things like a load of wash and made a couple of meals for the two of us. I'm going to have to change my ways when we move to Northeastern Washington and experience more snow.
Someone recommended this book but I can't remember who. Was it you? I started it and I was engaged from the beginning.
Look who is 11 months already! Yikes I was warned grand babies grow fast and now I've seen it with my own eyes. Today her mommy shared that she stood up from a sitting position with no help. Nothing to lift her up but her own strength and balance.
Just like we hoped we are beginning to see some dimples to match her mommy and daddy's.
I've enjoyed reading so many great remembrances, tributes and personal stories from people all over the world whose lives were impacted by God through the evangelist Billy Graham.
The photo above is from the Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade in 1963. My father took us to the crusade every night. My father started his life of following Christ at this crusade. My life as a follower of Christ started in 1963, too. The song, Just As I Am always reminds me of the Billy Graham Crusades and our time at the crusades and what this time meant for the future of myself and my family.
Just as I am – without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
– O Lamb of God, I come!
My mother was home with my newborn siblings, twins, a boy and a girl born on July 29th. I like the illustration above since it has the dates of the crusade. Now I'm wondering how my poor mother managed at home alone with twins!
Here's a quote from Billy Graham…
"By the time you read this, I will be in heaven, and as I write this I'm looking forward with great anticipation to the day when I will be in God's presence forever.
I'm convinced that heaven is far more glorious than anything we can possibly imagine right now, and I look forward not only to its wonder and peace, but also to the joy of being reunited with those who have gone there before me, especially my dear wife, Ruth. The Bible says, "Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12).
But I won't be in heaven because I've preached to large crowds or because I've tried to live a good life. I'll be in heaven for one reason: Many years ago I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to make our forgiveness possible and rose again from the dead to give us eternal life. Do you know you will go to heaven when you die? You can, by committing your life to Jesus Christ today."
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Tasnim– Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is scheduled to pay an official visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran as part of a regional tour.
"This (regional) trip had been arranged previously and has nothing to do with a growing (diplomatic) crisis in the Persian Gulf region," al-Abadi told Iraq's al-Forat news website ahead of his three-day tour.
The crisis he was referring to came to the fore when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates severed ties with Qatar in early June, officially accusing Doha of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the region, which Doha strongly denies. In their apparent bid to secure US support and that of Israel, they further suspended all land, air and sea traffic with Qatar, expelled its diplomats and ordered Qatari citizens to leave their countries.
The top Iraqi official will begin his tour, which will also take him to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, on Sunday.
The visits come as Iraqi forces are making major advances against Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorists and putting finishing touches to their military campaign.
The government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on May 27 to capture the remaining enclave, where up to 200,000 people are trapped.
The Mosul offensive started in October with support of the country's popular forces. It has taken much longer than expected.
The fall of Mosul would, in effect, mark the end of the terrorist group in Iraq.

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PM resigns over secret service scandals
Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and the world's longest-serving elected leader, has resigned after a series of lurid scandals involving the tiny Grand Duchy's secret service.
Following seven hours of debate in the Luxembourg parliament, Mr Juncker announced that he would step down after it became clear his coalition partner would not support him in a vote of no confidence.
''I'm not perspiring because I'm scared but because it's hot,'' he told Luxembourg MPs sardonically, but his characteristic humour was not enough to save his political skin.
Mr Juncker has been forced to resign over his failure to control Luxembourg's secret service, for which he is responsible as the country's prime minister.
''The prime minister didn't inform the parliament enough and said nothing about the service being in chaos,'' Xavier Bettel, president of the opposition Democratic Party, said in parliament last month. ''You can't say that it's not your fault. You have a political responsibility.''
Mr Juncker said he was stepping down after his Socialist Party coalition ally called for early elections.
''Le Service de renseignement de l'Etat luxembourgeois'', or SREL, is currently being investigated by the state prosecutor for illegal wiretapping, corruption and dealing in stolen cars.
The most prominent victim of bugging was Mr Juncker himself, when the intelligence agency's director, Marco Mille, used a recorder disguised as wristwatch to secretly record a meeting with the prime minister in January 2007.
In the recorded conversation, Mr Mille claimed that his staff had also secretly taped a conversation with Luxembourg's head of state and made the allegation that Grand Duke Henri was in regular contact with Britain's MI6. This version of events is denied by Mr Juncker.
A parliamentary inquiry discovered the SREL did illegal wire-taps, kept 13,000 secret files on people and ran a fictional counter-terrorism operation that was really a front to help a Russian oligarch pay $10 million to a Spanish spy.
A heavy smoker with a love of fine cognac, Mr Juncker, 58, has been in power as prime minister for 18 years, a world record.
During eight years in office as the head of the eurozone, until January this year, his political skills were credited with holding the European Union's single currency together during the debt crisis.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Citing a "humanitarian civil rights issue," advocates want to amend the city's hiring process, so that job applications for many government posts no longer inquire about an applicant's criminal history.
Currently, city job applications require candidates to check a "yes" or "no" box about whether they have been convicted "of any felony of the law." A subsequent line requires applicants to describe the offense.
But in a joint press conference and post-agenda meeting with City Council members Tuesday, representatives from the Formerly Convicted Citizens Project, Black Political Empowerment Project, Urban League and other groups asked that the box be stricken.
"In the right situations, with appropriately placed inquiry, criminal background checks promote safety and security at the workplace," said Dean Williams, director of the Formerly Convicted Citizens Project. "However, imposing a background check that denies any type of employment for people with criminal records is not only unreasonable, it can promote public-safety issues and can also be illegal under civil rights laws."
Advocates joined council member Rev. Ricky Burgess, who proposed a bill this spring to remove the box from city applications. (Burgess' bill exempts applications for public-safety positions like policework and firefighting; applications for those posts would still require a candidate to disclose any criminal history.) Yesterday, Burgess announced plans to expand his legislation to cover vendors who do business with the city.
"It is important that a criminal conviction doesn't become a life sentence," Burgess said. "These are people who have paid their debt to society and ere entitled to employment."
Burgess says that his bill wouldn't require the city to hire anyone with a conviction. Nor would it prevent the city from asking about a criminal background; it would only delay that question until after the rest of the applicants' history had been considered. "After the first interviews, if they are being seriously considered for the job, [the city] has every right to ask," Burgess says. "Then that person -- in person -- can defend or give context for their life history."
The FCCP put forward its own legislation at a post-agenda yesterday. The group's legislation extends beyond government hires, prohibiting all private employers within city limits from asking about criminal records on their written applications. The FCCP bill looks to the city's Commission on Human Relations, which investigates claims of discrimination, to enforce the measure.
"The problem with the box is that it doesn't distinguish between a person who has committed a low-level offense many years ago and has been completely rehabilitated versus a person who has recently committed a violent crime," says Williams.
Advocates met with Burgess and councilor Bill Peduto yesterday at a post-agenda hearing on Burgess's bill. Burgess said he planned to put forward a compromise version of his legislation, with hopes of passing it by the end of the year.
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The IRS and Treasury Department announced proposed guidelines clarifying the definition of political activities for social welfare nonprofits last week, a move that could restrict the spending of the dark money groups that dumped more than $254 million of anonymous money into the 2012 elections. Read the guidelines here.
However, the guidelines, which finally define what constitutes "candidate-related political activity," aren't a done deal. They will take some time for public comment and debate, and more time to finalize. (The IRS asks that all comments and requests for a public hearing be submitted by February 27, 2014.) Experts also cautioned that the real test of oversight on the political spending by nonprofits will be how these regulations are enforced, something that the IRS has been so far reticent to do.
The proposed regulations "are only as good as the extent of compliance with them, which history would indicate requires a realistic threat of enforcement and significant sanctions on the groups involved and probably the individuals running those groups," said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in nonprofits and campaign finance.
Social welfare nonprofits are allowed to spend money on election ads without reporting their donors, as long as they can prove that social welfare – and not politics – is their primary purpose. But the IRS guidelines for political spending have been vague. They state that the agency will apply a "facts and circumstances" test to each ad, meaning that if an ad walks and talks like a political ad, it's a political ad.
ProPublica and others have written extensively about how many social welfare nonprofits have exploited loopholes in Federal Election Commission and IRS rules since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling opened the door to unlimited election spending by corporations and nonprofits.
Some of the groups spend more than political action committees. GOP strategist Karl Rove's group Crossroads GPS, for example, told the IRS it spent more than $74.5 million on election activities in 2012, more than any other dark money group and all but two super PACs, which are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from reported donors.
The proposed regulations could dramatically change how the nonprofits spend money. The proposal defines political activity as including any expenditures reported to the FEC and any grants to other tax-exempt organizations that do candidate-related political activity. (We wrote recently about one such grant from Rove's group.) Political activity would also include voter-registration drives and "get out the vote" drives — even for nonpartisan groups. It would also include holding events featuring candidates within two months of a general election.
"This proposed guidance is a first critical step toward creating clear-cut definitions of political activity by tax-exempt social welfare organizations," said Mark Mazur, Treasury's assistant secretary for tax policy, in a statement. "We are committed to getting this right before issuing final guidance that may affect a broad group of organizations. It will take time to work through the regulatory process and carefully consider all public feedback as we strive to ensure that the standards for tax-exemption are clear and can be applied consistently."
Until now, many groups have counted some ads reported to the FEC — those that stop short of telling people how to vote — toward their education mission. Some groups have also counted direct political spending reported to the FEC as part of their social welfare mission. Most nonprofits have counted grants to politically active social welfare nonprofits as part of their social welfare mission.
The regulations represent the first time the IRS has pushed back against political activity by these groups since revealing that the agency targeted the applications of conservative groups for extra review in May, kicking off a political firestorm. (Conservative groups accounted for about 85 percent of the spending by social welfare nonprofits in 2012.)
The proposed regulations appear similar to ones used by the IRS last summer for groups that wanted to expedite approval of their applications. However, the new regulations don't propose a limit on spending, unlike last summer's rules, which said no more than 40 percent of a group's expenditures could be made on political activities.
If adopted, the rules would also make social welfare nonprofits operate much differently than unions and trade associations, nonprofits that are also allowed to spend money on political activity. If that happens, it's likely trade associations like the US Chamber of Commerce will become the vehicle of choice for anonymous money in politics, experts said.
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Prevention of oral cancer
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During the fifteenth century, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch scholar and humanist, wisely stated "Prevention is better than cure." On an intuitive and logical level, it does seem more preferable to avoid rather than repair. If we translate this to the health field, we bring forth the implication that maintaining healthy habits and following basic rules of health can prevent certain diseases from occurring. One such disease which has received a tremendous amount of attention in terms of prevention is cancer and in particular oral cancer. Cancer has been declared as one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity with more than 10 million new cases and more than 6 million deaths each year worldwide. Oral cancer ranks 12th among all cancers. Data from the Oral Cancer Foundation shows that there are more than 350,000–400,000 new cases of oral cancer each year. In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 43% of all cancers are a consequence of tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diets, unhealthy lifestyles, and infection. Of these, tobacco is the world's most avoidable cause of cancer. Oral cancer is considered a major constituent in the world's burden of cancer. Tobacco and alcohol have been proven to be major risk factors for oral cancer. Other risk factors include chewing betel quid (areca nut mixed with Piper betle quid) or gutka, prolonged UV sunlight exposure, long-term irritation of the oral mucous membranes by poor-maintained dentures, immunosuppressive drugs, human papillomavirus 16 (HPV 16) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, radiation exposure, and untreated lichen planus. Other 194 uncontrollable risk factors include gender, race, age, genetic syndromes such as Fanconi anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, family history, previous cancer disease, and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) due to stem cell transplant. Oral cancer, a part of head and neck cancer, is a term used to address the combination of two separate types of cancer: oral cavity cancer and oropharyngeal cancer. The former is comprised of the lips, the inside lining of the lips and cheeks (buccal mucosa), the teeth, the gums, the front two-thirds of the tongue, the floor of the mouth below the tongue, and the bony roof of the mouth (hard palate). The latter includes the part of the throat just behind the mouth. It begins where the oral cavity stops. It includes the base of the tongue (the back third of the tongue), the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth), the tonsils, and the side and back wall of the throat. The most common type of oral cancer is the squamous cell carcinoma which represents more than 90% of oral cancer cases. Other types include the slow-growing verrucous carcinoma (VC) at 5%, salivary gland carcinoma which takes the benign and malignant forms with several subtypes, and lymphomas and melanomas of the mouth and lips. Leukoplakia and erythroplakia are considered benign or precancerous forms of the oropharyngeal tumors but can lead to harmful cancer if left untreated. The increased death rate associated with oral cancer is especially high not because oral cancer is complicated when it comes to detection and diagnosis but rather because it is discovered late in its development. Most times oral cancer is detected at the advanced stage at which point prognosis becomes very poor. Additionally, the 5-year survival rate for oral cancer is low, with only 48–55% surviving 5 years compared with 71% survival following prostate cancer, 62% following cervical cancer, 80% following breast cancer, and 78–91% following malignant melanoma. In light of the above facts, prevention becomes a crucial and central weapon in the challenge of oral cancer. Cancer prevention is defined as action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer, consequently lowering the number of new cases of cancer in a population and hopefully decreasing the number of deaths caused by cancer. However, prevention is not a solid concept but rather a state of priorities and stages, the major of which is primary prevention. Primary prevention aims to decrease the incidence of oral cancer through changing behaviors that may directly contribute to the development of oral cancer. Primary prevention includes but is not limited to cessation of smoking, reduced alcohol consumption, and improved nutrition. While primary prevention is the gold standard to battling oral cancer, behavioral change takes time and is not always easy to achieve, and hence secondary prevention such as detection of malignant or potentially malignant lesions becomes a key player. Secondary prevention also encompasses HPV vaccination, diagnosis, and treatment of erythroplakia and leukoplakia as well as chemoprevention. Tertiary prevention is indicated when the patient has previously had cancer which was treated in its acute clinical phase. Tertiary prevention seeks to soften the impact caused by the disease on the patient's function, life expectancy, and quality of life.
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At the beginning of March, I signed up for a 30-day challenge to perform 300 kettlebell swings a day. I started swinging kettlebells in the fall to help build stability and functional strength, things that would directly transfer over to the bike. I needed a good swift kick in the posterior chain and kettlebells always delivered.
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This week begins semester 8 of 12 in my doctoral program. Seven down, five to go! Can't wait for my dissertation defense and everything else to be over and done! 63 weeks 17 hours 23 minutes and 35 seconds 'til I am Dr. Moon.


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Rest and refresh at the 100 percent smoke-free, pet-friendly and renovated Comfort Inn hotel in Santa Fe, NM. We are near historic Santa Fe Plaza, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe Opera, Loretto Chapel and Museum of International Folk Art. Amenities include free WiFi, free ample parking, free hot breakfast, business and fitness centers, indoor heated pool and guest laundry facilities. Behind every great day is a great night in your guest room, which features a coffee maker, iron and ironing board. Some rooms also have a refrigerator and microwave. Also, earn rewards including free nights and gift cards with our Choice Privileges Rewards program.
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Amenities· AM/FM radio
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The U.N Security Council called an emergency meeting after the North Korean military conducted a confirmed nuclear test at an undisclosed location. A U.S. geological base in Pyongyang registered a 4.9 magnitude tremor late Tuesday night. The test is the first under the presidency of Kim Jong Eun, who went forward with it despite an […]
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Jon Meacham talks with Charles Armstrong, director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, about the recent flare-up between North and South Korea.
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Need to Know presents VII Magazine, a new journalistic partnership with VII Photo, which offers our readers unprecedented intimate access to the work of the world's leading photojournalists. Every day, our partners at VII will showcase a new photo, and each week, a new video or audio slideshow. North and South Korea held their first […]
What will Clinton and Gates say in South Korea?
North Korea abruptly canceled a meeting scheduled for today to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship. But the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense will have to address the thorny issue at a meeting on the peninsula later this month.
U.S., South Korean officials plan for hostage crisis as tensions mount
South Korean leaders said on Thursday that they were preparing for a possible hostage situation at a joint industrial park in North Korea.
South Korea says North will 'pay a price' for torpedo attack
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yesterday yuriy and i rode bikes around treasure island all day. i took a million pictures of abandoned navy buildings and the like.
then we headed back to soma and ate delicious food at brickhouse before bike shopping all evening. at one point while biking down valencia between bike shop stops we ran into asm on the street, so we had surprise coffee.
today before heading to 500 more bike shops (yuriy is in the market for a decent entry level mtb for winter + occasional trails) we took zorya to a couple beaches. we started with kelly's cove at ocean beach, but it was so rainy that it was making her whiny. she hates to be too wet, she will start to fuss if she is out in anything more than a drizzle. i want to pick up a doggle raincoat for her, but i have yet to find one in her size, which while not ridiculously big, is definitely made bulkier by being extra fluffy.
so we headed over towards the marina, and while yura test-rode mountain bikes, we walked along the bay shore at chrissy field. after finding nothing worth buying, yuriy joined us so we could play the running game. zorya will not fetch things, instead she just gives you a look of disbelief, but she will happily run back and forth between her family members for hours.
she also played the chase the wavelets game which was highly amusing. since i had my rainboots on i was able to join her for her wave chasing shenanigans. later we all walked to the russian bakery and bought more delicious perogis & pastries. once we got home she immediately collapsed in her den and hasn't really moved since.
i forgot to add, yura took this picture of me! after i focused the lens on him then handed him the camera and told him not to move, just to shoot, but still, i will make a photographer out of him yet!
yesterday yuriy and i rode bikes around treasure island all day. i took a million pictures of abandoned navy buildings and the like.
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A student's perspective from Alabama's upset of Miss. State
By CAROLINE GAZZARA
College Contributor Network
I had my doubts about Saturday afternoon's game. I may be one of the few to actually admit I was worried.
No. 1 Mississippi State, the then-undefeated, unstoppable force of nature, walked into Tuscaloosa hungry for another kill. It was interesting to witness the confidence on the Bulldogs fans' faces -- they believed they were going to have a quick victory and head on over to the next battleground.
But that wasn't meant to be. After the Ole Miss loss, No. 5 Alabama bounced back. The Crimson Tide took charge of every game, constantly pushing for more. Against LSU, Alabama made the crucial plays that they needed to win.
But this isn't about the overtime win against LSU, which was an impressive win in and of itself.
This is about Alabama showing everyone what it is made of. Coach Nick Saban has said time and time again that Alabama is a strong, powerful team. The upset win over Mississippi State proves that.
In the first half alone, Alabama trounced the Bulldogs. A quick safety had them up by two early in the half, and then the Crimson Tide scored a field goal.
Alabama was up by five points for a while. Those five points would be the deciding factor of the game.
In the stands, the first points scored sent the crowd wild. Alabama didn't let the Bulldogs score first. Knowing that Alabama was taking charge made singing 'Rammer Jammer' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' far more sweeter for the fans.
When Amari Cooper scored the first touchdown, there wasn't a Crimson Tide fan in their seat. The stadium was brimming with excitement. It was now 12-0, with Alabama keeping Dak Prescott at bay.
Derrick Henry's near-miss touchdown eliminated any doubt I had that Alabama might win. I wasn't trying to be cocky or arrogant, but Mississippi State wasn't playing the game the way it should've been played.
I'm not a fan of shut-out games. For every other Alabama fan in Bryant-Denny, it was just exciting that Alabama was shutting out the No. 1 team in the country. But for me, I wanted more.
The half ended 19-3. Mississippi State scored a lone field goal with seconds left in the half. You could see it in Dan Mullen's eyes that he wasn't happy with how his team was playing. Of course he wasn't, he had the best team in the country on his side but they weren't playing like the No. 1 team.
For the fans, they couldn't get enough of how well Alabama was doing. They were feasting off of the energy. It was both enthralling and scary all at once to see how obsessed everyone was about taking down the top-team.
The third quarter came and went without much excitement. Sure, the Bulldogs scored another field goal making the score 19-6 but honestly, the fans just wanted Saban and his team to stomp them out of T-town.
It was the fourth quarter that sent everyone's hearts thumping. Not even a minute went by before Mississippi State scored. It was a hard blow to the fans, who were shocked that the Crimson Tide would let the Bulldogs back into the game. Now 19-13, Alabama had to retaliate.
T.J. Yeldon, who was injured against LSU, had been playing all game but hadn't had much note-worthy action. With a little over eight minutes left, Yeldon ran for a seven-yard touchdown. His score sent the already elated crowd into a frenzy. Alabama was now up 25-13.
School spirit runs deep in the south. If you don't have school spirit you either don't attend school events or just bite your tongue and hope no one finds out. But by this point, even the most non-spirited person I know was cheering. He, along with the rest of the stadium, was alive and excited. Time was running out for the Bulldogs, Alabama could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Mississippi State scored its final touchdown with 15 seconds remaining in the game, not even a hope or a prayer could save them. Alabama and its fans knew this. Even with the onside kick, there was no hope for the Bulldogs.
For the first time since 2011, Alabama beat the No. 1 team at home. It was a big win, a win that Alabama needed.
Caroline Gazzara is a junior at the University of Alabama majoring in Sports Journalism. Her passions are Alabama athletics and soccer. Follow her on Twitter: @CarolineGazzara


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Palestinian militants have for the first time executed a woman suspected of collaborating with Israel. The woman has been shot dead in a public square in the West Bank, as a warning to others not to become informants for the Israeli security forces.
Palestinian residents of Tulkarm said members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade had abducted the 35-year-old woman from her home.
The group is the armed wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, and has been at the forefront of much of the fighting during 23 months of bloody clashes with Israel.
Members of the group forced the woman to make a videotaped confession, before she was shot several times in the head and chest.
A Palestinian militia member said she had admitted to recruiting her 18-year-old son to assist her in helping the Israeli army. He was kidnapped earlier by Fatah gunmen, and allegedly confessed to telling his mother of the movements of the local chief of the militia group, Ziad Da'as.
A wanted member of the Brigades, Mr. Da'as and his deputy were shot dead on August 7 by Israeli forces.
Since the start of clashes in September 2000, more than 60 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been killed on suspicion of working for Israel's secret police, the Shin Bet.
At least 14 of them have been killed in Tulkarm in the past three months.
The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Sunday that at least 200 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel are also being held in Palestinian Authority prisons.
The inmates could face the death penalty, if convicted of assisting the Israelis.


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DINI PRISKA, HERDAVIA (2010) PERENCANAAN LINE BALANCING DENGAN METODE RPW GUNA MENINGKATKAN HASIL PRODUKSI DAN DISIMULASIKAN DENGAN SOFTWARE ARENA (Studi Kasus di CV. Boang Shuttlecocks,Singosari). Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Production line balance in a company is a major factor in production process, effected in machine usage, tools, and workforce effectiveness. The imbalance production line would wasting time (waiting, jobless) in several work station and high work-rate in another work station. Inefficient Production resource allocating (workforce, machine, tools), caused the imbalance of production line. It happened in CV. Boang Shuttlecocks. CV. Boang Shuttlecock, Singosari is one of home industry in shuttlecock making. To overcome the problem faced by CV. Boang, there needed re-planning in existing production resource. In this line balance planning, there used Ranked Positional Weight (RPW) method which would be simulated by ARENA software. From all planning with RPW method, plan I is the most fit for the company. Plan I resulted line balance 92.403% and daily output 5.403 shuttlecocks/day, so that the line balance increasing 83,89%, and daily output increased 72.92% from the early position. While from simulation with ARENA software, line balance plan I could minimize waiting time until 27,41%.
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The line under James Watson's name reads, of course, "Co-discoverer of DNA's structure. Nobel Prize". But it could also read "Provocateur", since he's been pretty good at that over the years. He seems to have the right personality for it – both The Double Helix (fancy new edition there) and its notorious follow-up volume Avoid Boring People illustrate the point. There are any number of people who've interacted with him over the years who can't stand the guy.
But it would be a simpler world if everyone that we found hard to take was wrong about everything, wouldn't it? I bring this up because Watson has published an article, again deliberately provocative, called "Oxidants, Antioxidants, and the Current Incurability of Metastatic Cancers". Here's the thesis:
The vast majority of all agents used to directly kill cancer cells (ionizing radiation, most chemotherapeutic agents and some targeted therapies) work through either directly or indirectly generating reactive oxygen species that block key steps in the cell cycle. As mesenchymal cancers evolve from their epithelial cell progenitors, they almost inevitably possess much-heightened amounts of antioxidants that effectively block otherwise highly effective oxidant therapies.
The article is interesting throughout, but can fairly be described as "rambling". He starts with details of the complexity of cancerous mutations, which is a topic that's come up around here several times (as it does wherever potential cancer therapies are discussed, at least by people with some idea of what they're talking about). Watson is paying particular attention here to mesenchymal tumors:
Resistance to gene-targeted anti-cancer drugs also comes about as a consequence of the radical changes in underlying patterns of gene expression that accompany the epithelial-to-mesenchymal cell transitions (EMTs) that cancer cells undergo when their surrounding environments become hypoxic [4]. EMTs generate free-floating mesenchymal cells whose flexible shapes and still high ATP-generating potential give them the capacity for amoeboid cell-like movements that let them metastasize to other body locations (brain, liver, lungs). Only when they have so moved do most cancers become truly life-threatening. . .
. . .Unfortunately, the inherently very large number of proteins whose expression goes either up or down as the mesenchymal cancer cells move out of quiescent states into the cell cycle makes it still very tricky to know, beyond the cytokines, what other driver proteins to focus on for drug development.
That it does. He makes the case (as have others) that Myc could be one of the most important protein targets – and notes (as have others!) that drug discovery efforts against the Myc pathway have run into many difficulties. There's a good amount of discussion about BRD4 compounds as a way to target Myc. Then he gets down to the title of the paper and starts talking about reactive oxygen species (ROS). Links in the section below added by me:
That elesclomol promotes apoptosis through ROS generation raises the question whether much more, if not most, programmed cell death caused by anti-cancer therapies is also ROS-induced. Long puzzling has been why the highly oxygen sensitive 'hypoxia-inducible transcription factor' HIF1α is inactivated by both the, until now thought very differently acting, 'microtubule binding' anti-cancer taxanes such as paclitaxel and the anti-cancer DNA intercalating topoisomerases such as topotecan or doxorubicin, as well as by frame-shifting mutagens such as acriflavine. All these seemingly unrelated facts finally make sense by postulating that not only does ionizing radiation produce apoptosis through ROS but also today's most effective anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agents as well as the most efficient frame-shifting mutagens induce apoptosis through generating the synthesis of ROS. That the taxane paclitaxel generates ROS through its binding to DNA became known from experiments showing that its relative effectiveness against cancer cell lines of widely different sensitivity is inversely correlated with their respective antioxidant capacity. A common ROS-mediated way through which almost all anti-cancer agents induce apoptosis explains why cancers that become resistant to chemotherapeutic control become equally resistant to ionizing radiotherapy. . .
. . .The fact that cancer cells largely driven by RAS and Myc are among the most difficult to treat may thus often be due to their high levels of ROS-destroying antioxidants. Whether their high antioxidative level totally explains the effective incurability of pancreatic cancer remains to be shown. The fact that late-stage cancers frequently have multiple copies of RAS and MYC oncogenes strongly hints that their general incurability more than occasionally arises from high antioxidant levels.
He adduces a number of other supporting evidence for this line of thought, and then he gets to the take-home message:
For as long as I have been focused on the understanding and curing of cancer (I taught a course on Cancer at Harvard in the autumn of 1959), well-intentioned individuals have been consuming antioxidative nutritional supplements as cancer preventatives if not actual therapies. The past, most prominent scientific proponent of their value was the great Caltech chemist, Linus Pauling, who near the end of his illustrious career wrote a book with Ewan Cameron in 1979, Cancer and Vitamin C, about vitamin C's great potential as an anti-cancer agent [52]. At the time of his death from prostate cancer in 1994, at the age of 93, Linus was taking 12 g of vitamin C every day. In light of the recent data strongly hinting that much of late-stage cancer's untreatability may arise from its possession of too many antioxidants, the time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
All in all, the by now vast number of nutritional intervention trials using the antioxidants β-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium have shown no obvious effectiveness in preventing gastrointestinal cancer nor in lengthening mortality [53]. In fact, they seem to slightly shorten the lives of those who take them. Future data may, in fact, show that antioxidant use, particularly that of vitamin E, leads to a small number of cancers that would not have come into existence but for antioxidant supplementation. Blueberries best be eaten because they taste good, not because their consumption will lead to less cancer.
Now this is quite interesting. The first thing I thought of when I read this was the work on ROS in exercise. This showed that taking antioxidants appeared to cancel out the benefits of exercise, probably because reactive oxygen species are the intracellular signal that sets them off. Taken together, I think we need to seriously consider whether efforts to control ROS are, in fact, completely misguided. They are, perhaps, "essential poisons", without which our cellular metabolism loses its way.
Update: I should also note the work of Joan Brugge's lab in this area, blogged about here. Taken together, you'd really have to advise against cancer patients taking antioxidants, wouldn't you?
Watson ends up the article by suggesting, none too diplomatically, that much current cancer research is misguided:
The now much-touted genome-based personal cancer therapies may turn out to be much less important tools for future medicine than the newspapers of today lead us to hope [54]. Sending more government cancer monies towards innovative, anti-metastatic drug development to appropriate high-quality academic institutions would better use National Cancer Institute's (NCI) monies than the large sums spent now testing drugs for which we have little hope of true breakthroughs. The biggest obstacle today to moving forward effectively towards a true war against cancer may, in fact, come from the inherently conservative nature of today's cancer research establishments. They still are too closely wedded to moving forward with cocktails of drugs targeted against the growth promoting molecules (such as HER2, RAS, RAF, MEK, ERK, PI3K, AKT and mTOR) of signal transduction pathways instead of against Myc molecules that specifically promote the cell cycle.
He singles out the Cancer Genome Atlas project as an example of this sort of thing, saying that while he initially supported it, he no longer does. It will, he maintains, tend to find mostly cancer cell "drivers" as opposed to "vulnerabilities". He's more optimistic about a big RNAi screening effort that's underway at his own Cold Spring Harbor, although he admits that this enthusiasm is "far from universally shared".
We'll find out which is the more productive approach – I'm glad that they're all running, personally, because I don' think I know enough to bet it all on one color. If Watson is right, Pfizer might be the biggest beneficiary in the drug industry – if, and it's a big if, the RNAi screening unearths druggable targets. This is going to be a long-running story – I'm sure that we'll be coming back to it again and again. . .


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This is a wonderful dish that even seafood-haters will love. Plaice fillets are topped with seasoned crab and baked to perfection. Enjoy with rice, potatoes or pasta.
Try this recipe with megrim. It's another flat fish from the turbot family.
Absolutely delicious. Made a few changes since there were mixed reviews about the mayo topping and the lack of seasonings. Well first I used 2 cans of crabmeat, tripled the mustard, crackers and worchestire, added some garlic powder, minced onion, parsley and chili powder. To the fish I brushed on melted butter mixed with some lemon juice and garlic powder. To the mayo topping I used about 4 TB and added about 2 TB of sherry to smooth it out. Turned out absolutely delicious, although next time to make it more resturant quality I'll skip the mayo mixture on top and instead make a sherry cream sauce from roux, and pour it on just before serving for a more impressive presentation. - 02 Feb 2006 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I made this recipe last night...I had purchased the crabmeat on a whim and happened to have flounder in the freezer. I did not have any green bell pepper or mustard powder. I used one tsp dijon mustard in it's place. It turned out very well, but a little bland. Definately needed more salt and I wish I had added some Old Bay, which I did have in my spice cabinet, but forgot about. My family enjoyed it, but agreed it needed just a little more pizazz. The mayo and egg yolk mixture on top was very good...reminded me of hollindaise sauce. It looked very nice on the plate, like something you'd get at a quality seafood restarant. I will definately make this again! - 07 Sep 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Completely Awesome! I have to admit I am impressed with myself...and I owe it to the recipe. It tasted just like we were in a restaurant...even better. I substituted the saltines with a buttery round cracker and dashed in some old bay. My three year old even ate it. Thank you for a great recipe! - 23 Feb 2003 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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It's well into the evening, and members of the Alaska legislature are spread around a cavernous room. Giant American flags are hanging from the walls, and the place is abuzz. That is, until someone strikes the gavel.
SPEAKER: The House will return to order. Our next order of business is the second reading of bills, resolutions, and memorials. Mr. Chief Clerk.
CLERK: House Bill 2, by Rep. Shoup, entitled an act to extend the elective franchise to women.
Those two aren't real political figures — they're actors recreating the inaugural meeting of Alaska's first elected body. And the true-to-life legislators sitting before them are just there for a bit of dinner theatre as part of the Centennial Commission's anniversary celebration.
The commission spent six months planning for the celebration, but the reenactment only came together in the last few weeks. The men — and one woman — cast had just a couple of rehearsals to develop their characters and to learn about one of the territorial legislature's first acts: granting women the right to vote. Odin Brudie plays Rep. Charles Ingersoll of Ketchikan, and he says it's been a little crazy trying to get the whole performance together.
"Fortunately we have a well prepared script, and none of us are totally off book. Which would be next to impossible to accomplish in short order," says Brudie. "But we're situated at desks and sort of orating from our materials, so it works pretty well."
He says it's a trip to be able to reenact the proceedings in Juneau's old Elks Club, where the first legislature met. Even the floors are still the same. And Brudie says it's been a fun learning experience, too.
"I really didn't know anything about this inaugural territorial legislature and the import of their first order of business, taking up the right of women to vote," says Brudie. "It's been fascinating."
The audience seems to enjoy it as much as the actors do. Sen. Gary Stevens is the chair of the centennial commission, and when I catch up with him, he's beaming.
"Well, this is such fun," says Stevens. "I mean, for a retired history professor, it doesn't really get any better than this, you know, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the territorial and state legislature."
Stevens says the centennial has also been a good time for him to reflect on where Alaska was and where it is now.
"The first speech made by the speaker of the House was against federal oversight — federal overreach and taking too much control away from Alaska. And the speaker was talking about how, in 1913, how important it was that Alaska get its fair share. Which is exactly what we're talking about today," says Stevens. "So, things haven't changed a lot, have they?"
And if there's one thing that definitely hasn't changed, it's that there's always work to be done. About halfway through the reenactment, all of the members of the House of Representatives in the audience get up from their seats and head to the door for an 8pm floor session. They have some gaveling in to do themselves.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the actor in the reenactment as Phil Smith. Rep. Charles Ingersoll was played by Odin Brudie.


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Showing Collections: 1 - 26 of 26
Collection 086 Records of the International Christian Broadcasters
Identifier: CN 086
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism.Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates: Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1978
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates: Created: 1933-1980
Collection 125 Oral History Interview with Jane (Teresa) Leasor
Identifier: CN 125
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jane (Teresa) Leasor (1922-2009) in which she describes her post-graduate education at Biblical Seminary in New York City; teaching at a secondary school for girls and a college for women in Beirut, Lebanon; the Arabic language; Islam; the place of women in Islam society; and the relationship between various Christian churches in Lebanon.Teresa Leasor was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 24 and September 7, 1982. There was an earlier tape recorded...
Dates: Created: 1982
Collection 165 Records of Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
Identifier: CN-165
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, maps, posters, etc., related to EFMA Administration and its service to its member missions.Includes documentation of persecution of Protestants in Roman Catholic Colombia, Italy and Spain; efforts to broaden American awareness of conditions; and attempts to apply pressure through the US State Dept. Persons prominently featured include EFMA's Executive Directors Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, and Paul McKaughan. ...
Dates: Created: 1937-1996
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The time...
Dates: Created: 1981
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to 1982.
Dates: Created: 1904-1982
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture, politics...
Dates: Created: 1983
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates: Created: 1984
Collection 296 Oral History Interviews with Stanley Okoro
Identifier: CN 296
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Stanley Okoro in which he discusses his childhood in Nigeria, education participation as a soldier in the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, conversion to Christianity, theological training, youth ministry in Nigeria and Liberia, Christian cults in Nigeria, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Nigerian churches. The time period covered by the interviews is from 1951 to 1985.Stanley Okoro was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 25, 1985 at the Billy...
Dates: Created: 1985
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth's missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth's education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan, linguistics...
Dates: Created: 1976-1985
Collection 319 Oral History Interview with Jesse W. Hoover
Identifier: CN 319
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Jesse Wilbert Hoover (1908-2002) in which he discuesses his pietistic background and beliefs, his education at Messiah and Wheaton Colleges, his involvement in Mennonite relief work in Europe and the Far East and his evangelistic work in Canada. The time period covered by the interviews is 1908-1947.
Jesse W. Hoover was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on October 7, 1985 in Greenfield, Indiana.
Jesse W. Hoover was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on October 7, 1985 in Greenfield, Indiana.
Dates: Created: 1985
Collection 337 Papers of Roger H. Malstead
Identifier: CN 337
Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews and prayer letters, relating to Roger Malstead's ministry with Operation Mobilization.Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Roger Malstead in which he describes his youth, education at Wheaton College, work with Operation Mobilization (OM) in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Lebanon, the United States, at OM headquarters in England, and with the OM ship DOULOS; Other topics described are the director of OM,...
Dates: Created: 1961-1993; Majority of material found within 1986-1993
Collection 346 Oral History Interview with Joshua Adjabeng
Identifier: CN 346
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joshua Adjabeng in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, family, conversion to Christianity, education at Wheaton College; the Church of the Pentecost, evangelistic work among university students, Christian literature in Ghana. Other topics discussed include the condition of the church in Ghana, African Pentecostalism, and a comparison of the Christian church and Ghana and the United States. The time period covered by the interview is 1950-1986....
Dates: Created: 1986
Collection 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori, relations...
Dates: Created: 1986
Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates: Created: 1986
Collection 385 Oral History Interview with Daniel E. Liberek
Identifier: CN 385
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...
Dates: Created: 1988
Collection 387 Papers of William M. Miller
Identifier: CN 387
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and transcripts with William M. Miller in which he describes his education at Princeton, Christian faith, and work as a Presbyterian missionary to Iran from 1919 to 1962. Besides descriptions of his evangelistic, pastoral, and educational work, he also describes many aspects of Iranian and Islamic society. Most of the transcripts are of interviews done for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Dates: Created: 1979-1988
Collection 391 Papers of Robert C. Schneider
Identifier: CN 391
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, oversize materials, and a photograph, relating to the ministry of Robert C. Schneider, missionary in Spain and Morocco with Gospel Missionary Union.Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Robert C. Schneider in which he describes his childhood, education, evangelistic work, the beginnings of Youth for Christ; attendance at Moody Bible Institute, marriage to Doris Gould, missionary work in Morocco and Spain...
Dates: Created: 1988
Collection 403 Oral History Interviews with Duncan Mugisha
Identifier: CN 403
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Duncan Aggrey Mugisha in which he discusses the state of the church in Uganda; life under the rule of Idi Amim, impressions of Bishop Festo Kivengere; the Bolokole movement; relations between Catholics and Protestants in Uganda; relations between Christians and Muslims in Uganda; his conversion and work with the Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS) among college and university students. Other topics discussed include East African revivals of the 1930s; AIDS crisis...
Dates: Created: 1988
Collection 406 Records of SEND International
Identifier: CN-406
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, incorporation documents, news releases, statistics, news/prayer letters, clippings, photographs, negatives, films, and financial records related to the origins, development and operation of SEND.Includes information on ministry in Japan and the Philippines, particularly following World War II and later in in Alaska. Limited information available on work in Hong Kong, Spain and Taiwan. Persons prominently featured include...
Dates: Created: 1943-[ongoing]
Collection 412 Oral History Interview with Gleason L. Archer
Identifier: CN 412
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Gleason Leonard Archer in which he describes his family background; his conversion; his education at Harvard University and Princeton Theological Seminary; his attendance at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts; involvement with Robert Schneider and the Fellowship of Faith and other mission work with the Muslim community in Chicago; forming the United Evangelical Arab Mission; Muslim views of Christians; studying the Arabic language; and his time in Beirut,...
Dates: Created: 1989
Collection 426 Papers of Paul E. Little
Identifier: CN 426
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, course notes, lecture notes, manuscripts, articles, photographs, and audio tapes relating to Little's college education at Wheaton College Graduate School, and his work as an evangelist, teacher, writer, and Evangelical leader.Included are Little's seminary lecture notes, and files on his contribution as assistant director of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. A substantial portion of the collection consists of...
Dates: Created: 1946-1987; Created: Majority of material found in 1954-1975
Collection 512 Oral History Interview with Harry L. Cox
Identifier: CN 512
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Harry Luther Cox (1906-2004) in which he describes his youth and family, conversion and spiritual growth, call to missionary work, service with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, relations with and evangelism among Muslims, tribal characteristics, Kano, language study, establishing a leprosy station, medical missions, the Magazawa and Fulani peoples, raising a family on the mission field, furloughs, death of his sons, World War II, animists, children of...
Dates: Created: 1995
Collection 524 Oral History Interviews with Leonard H. F. Sumule
Identifier: CN 524
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Leonard Hendrik F. Sumule in which he describes his family, childhood in Indonesia, conversion and spiritual development, being a Christian in a predominantly Muslim nation, his experience at Wheaton College's Honey Rock Camp, comparison of Honey Rock with Christian camps in Indonesia, the 1995 revival at Wheaton College, his goals for ministry in Indonesia, involvement in youth ministry, camping and Christian education in the country, and education and church...
Dates: Created: 1996
Collection 553 Oral History Interview with Alex Sackey-Ansah
Identifier: CN 553
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Alex Atempo Sackey-Ansah in which he describes his family, conversion and spiritual development, education, joining PioneersAfrica, distinctives and programs of the mission, his responsibilities, PioneersAfrica director Solomon Aryeetey, Church of Pentecost, the church in Ghana, missions in Africa, African missionaries, church planting philosophy and process, conflict resolution in Africa, American perceptions of Africa and the African church, establishing a...
Dates: Created: 1998
Collection 564 Papers of Felix Onwukanjo Erondu
Identifier: CN 564
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, photograph, videos related to the ministry of Reverend Felix Erondu, Nigerian evangelist and founder of Traveling Light Ministries.Series: Oral History InterviewsTwo oral history interviews with Felix Erondu, in which he decribes his family background in Aba, Nigeria; upbringing in the Anglican church; education; training as a teacher; participation in the Biafran civil war; work as a teacher and principal; committing...
Dates: Created: 1995, 1999


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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aerotherapeutics
AEROTHERAPEUTICS, the treatment of disease by atmospheric air: a term which of late has come to be used somewhat more loosely to include also pneumotherapeutics, or the treatment of disease by artificially prepared atmospheres. The physical and chemical properties of atmospheric air, under ordinary pressure or under modified pressure, may be therapeutically utilized either on the external surface of the body, on the respiratory surface, or on both surfaces together. Also modifications may be induced in the ventilation of the lungs by general gymnastics or respiratory gymnastics.
The beneficial effects of air under ordinary pressure are now utilized in line open-air treatment of phthisical patients, and the main indications of benefit resulting therefrom are reduction of the fever, improvement of appetite and the induction of sleep.
The air, however, may be modified in composition or in temperature. Inhalation is the most common and successful method of applying it—when modified in composition—to the human body. The methods in use are as follows: (1) Inhalation of gases, as oxygen and nitrous oxide. The dyspnoea and cyanosis of pneumonia, capillary bronchitis, heart failure, &c., are much relieved by the inhalation of oxygen; and nitrous oxide is largely used as an anaesthetic in minor operations; (2) Certain liquids are used as anaesthetics, which volatilize at low temperatures, as chloroform and ether. (3) Mercury and sulphur, both of which require heat for volatilization, are very largely used. In a mercurial or sulphur bath, the patient, enveloped in a sheet, sits on a chair beneath which a spirit lamp is placed to vaporize the drug, the best resuits being obtained when the atmosphere is surcharged with steam at the same time. The vapour envelops the patient and is absorbed by the skin. This method is extensively used in the treatment of syphilis, and also for scabies and other parasitic affections of the skin. (4) Moist inhalations are rather losing repute in the light of modern investigations, which tend to show that nothing lower than the larger bronchial tubes is affected. Complicated apparatus has been devised for the application, although a wide-mouthed jug filled with boiling water, into which the drug is thrown, is almost equally efficacious.
Artificial atmospheres may be made for invalids by respirators which cover the mouth and nose, the air being drawn through tow or sponge, on which is sprinkled the disinfectant to be used. This is most valuable in the intensely offensive breath of some cases of bronchiectasis.
The air may be modified as to temperature. Cold air at 32–33° F. has been used in chronic catarrhal conditions of the lungs, with the result that cough diminishes, the pulse becomes fuller and slower and the general condition improves. The more recent observations of Pasquale di Tullio go far to show that this may be immensely valuable in the treatment of haemoptysis. The inspiration of superheated dry air has been the subject of much investigation, but with very doubtful results.
Hot air applied to the skin is more noteworthy in its therapeutic effects. If a current of hot air is directed upon healthy skin, the latter becomes pale and contracts in consequence of vaso-constriction. But if it is directed on a patch of diseased skin, as in lupus, an inflammatory reaction is set up and the diseased part begins to undergo necrosis. This fact has been used with good results in lupus, otorrhoea, rhinitis and other nasal and laryngeal troubles.
Lastly the air may be either compressed or rarefied. The physiological effects of compressed air were first studied in diving-bells, and more recently in caissons. Caisson workers at first enjoy increased strength, vigour and appetite; later, however, the opposite effect is produced and intense debility supervenes. In addition, caisson workers suffer from a series of troubles which are known as accidents of decompression. (See Caisson Disease.) But, therapeutically, compressed air has been utilized by means of pneumatic chambers large enough to hold one or more adults at the time, in which the pressure of the atmosphere can be exactly regulated. This form of treatment has been found of much value in the treatment of emphysema, early pulmonary tuberculosis (not in the presence of persistent high temperature, haemorrhage, softening or suppuration), delayed absorption of pleural effusions, heart disease, anaemia and chlorosis. But compressed air is contra-indicated in advanced tubercle, fever, and in diseases of kidneys, liver or intestines.
Rarefied air was used as long ago as 1835, by V. T. Junod, who utilized it for local application by inventing the Junod Boot. By means of this the blood could be drawn into any part to which it was applied, the vessels of which became gorged with blood at the expense of internal organs. More recently this method of treatment has undergone far-reaching developments and is known as the passive hyperaemic treatment.
There are also various forms of apparatus by means of which air at greater or lesser pressures may be drawn into the lungs, and for the performance of lung gymnastics of various kinds. Mr Ketchum of the United States has invented one which is much used. A committee of the Brompton Hospital, London, investigating its capabilities, decided that its use brought about (1) an increase of chest circumference, and (2) in cases of consolidation of the lung a diminution in the area of dulness.


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TERRE HAUTE, Ind.– Indiana State Police say a 13-year-old runaway girl from Easton, Pennsylvania was found at a bus station in Terre Haute.
The bus station is located near 9th Street and Cherry Street. She was reportedly on a commercial bus heading to California.
The bus had a scheduled stop at the Terre Haute bus station around 3:30 p.m. Police found the girl, who was not injured and traveling alone.
She was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Vigo County Juvenile Center, where Pennsylvania State Police troopers will pick her up and take her back to her Pennsylvania home.
Police say the girl was having family issues and during her difficulties, met another person online that identified themselves as a 15-year-old girl. The friendship evolved into the Pennsylvania teen attempting to travel to the Los Angeles area to establish residence with the person.
State police say parents should remind their children about the dangers of online communications with strangers.


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Statistics released by the Calgary Real Estate Board on Thursday indicate total MLS sales in the city rose by 7.07 per cent from last year to 2,545 units for the month. New listings were also up 8.03 per cent to 3,754 but active listings at the end of the month remained down 13.10 per cent to 3,794.
The average MLS sale price in April of $479,265 represented a 7.42 per cent hike from April 2013 while the median price of $429,000 was up 7.28 per cent.
While prices in April were higher than a year ago, they were slightly down from March when the housing market set several price records.
Ann-Marie Lurie, chief economist with CREB, said as the real estate market moves into the spring the number of listings tend to rise.
"And we did see that on all sectors," she said. "In the condo market, we had already been seeing those listings increase. Now what we actually saw this month is that single-family listings have finally improved. So that was something that we were looking for . . . Even though single-family listings have been improving, they haven't been improving at the lower ends of the market. We're seeing listings improve really in that $500,000-plus market. So that tightness will likely continue in that lower segment of that single-family market.
"Another interesting thing that we've seen in April is that inventory levels for condo apartments have actually risen but not just for new listings but the level of actual inventory, the active listings, have risen above levels that we've seen last year. It's unique to what's happening in apartments. That's still not the case in the single-family market or in the townhouse market. Both levels . . . are still significantly lower than what we saw last year."
In April, the city's single-family market saw sales increase from last year by 8.09 per cent to 1,736 transactions with the median price rising by 7.64 per cent to $484,250 and the average price up by 7.44 per cent to $547,871.
The condo apartment sector saw sales of 449 which was up 4.66 per cent. The median price rose by 10.76 per cent to $283,000 and the average price was up by 9.73 per cent to $319,696.
The condo townhouse sector experienced a 5.26 per cent hike in sales to 360 as the median price rose by 7.93 per cent to $320,000 and the average price was up by 1.92 per cent to $347,447.
The biggest year-over-year increases were in the towns surrounding the city. Sales of 582 increased by 35.03 per cent. The median price jumped by 12.39 per cent to $390,000 and the average sale price rose by 8.42 per cent to $396,022.
Lai Sing Louie, regional economist for the Prairies and Territories Region for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. in Calgary, said the city remains in seller's market conditions.
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Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams on Saturday said the Caribbean's Council for Legal Education (CLE) has effectively blocked the establishment of the planned Joseph Haynes Law School, prompting his immediate predecessor, Anil Nandlall to reiterate that no decision had ever been taken in favour of Guyana doing so. "New Chairman of the Council of Legal ...Read More »
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Private criminal charges loom over ExxonMobil's multi-million US dollar signing bonus
Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram on Saturday signaled that private criminal charges might be laid against several top Guyana government ministers and officials for allegedly failing to deposit a multi-million United States (US) dollar signing bonus from ExxonMobil into the Consolidated Fund. Ram said he did not regard taking the matter to the police, but indicated that it was ...Read More »
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Finance Minister, Winston Jordan railed against the sale of bottled Jamaican water at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and at the same time defended the hiring of Chinese companies to point out that Guyanese are not doing enough to take advantage of business opportunities but still complain. "I don't want to hear anything more about our national airport selling water ...Read More »


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Forget Facebook's IPO. The newest investment on Wall Street is whiskey.
The global demand for the potent amber fluid has been steadily rising over the last few years, leading to triple-digit returns for investors and collectors of the top-performing whiskeys, according to Whisky Highland, a firm that provides valuations.
"Whiskey is emerging as a new alternative investment because the supply of rare whiskeys is very limited," said David Clelland, a Scottish entrepreneur who is planning a fall opening for a New York City luxury club called 1494 to cater to whiskey investors. He told The Huffington Post that he believes the club is the first of its kind in the United States to focus exclusively on whiskey investing and collecting.
With rare bottles going for as much as almost $200,000, the annual fee for his new club seems modest in comparison. The price of a basic membership starts at $15,000, and a premium investor's membership can run as much as $25,000, which includes collection storage and investment advice. The services of on-site Saville Row custom tailor are free.
Why the sudden interest in whiskey investments? Clearly, the popularity of the stuff as hooch has been long established; the first record of a batch of distilled whiskey being made is from 1494. But interest in whiskey as an investment has grown rapidly since 2007 when the United States changed a law to allow auction houses to sell it. In countries like China and Russia, where there has been a boom in cash wealth, rich investors have taste for high-end collectables including art, whiskey and wine. Together, the collective 1 percenters of the world are snatching up rare bottles for private collections and driving up prices.
People investing in high-end whiskeys are buying their way through auction houses, like Bonhams, or high-end spirit stores. But as the price for a premium bottle rises, so do the chances of its being counterfeit. Sites like eBay have listed counterfeit booze, Clelland said, noting that his club will have experts to identify labels and judge a bottle's contents to make sure it's genuine. Concerns over quality can curbed by joining the new club, Clelland claimed.
"To start buying and collecting is an arduous task," he said.
Whiskey is not the only high-end luxury commodity receiving a closer look from the investment community. The diamond market is poised to become a full-fledged commodity exchange. According to The New York Times, the Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing a proposal to create the first diamond-backed exchange-traded fund in the United States, which would be open to investments by anyone with an online trading account.
While the market for whiskey has not reached the level of that for diamonds, investing in whiskey does have a leg up over investing in wine in that the commodity never goes bad in the bottle. Plus Clelland noted, "It's great for the market when people taste and enjoy it because it helps keep supply down."
For investors, rare bottles from brands like Macallan and Glenlivet have been popular, along with anything from a distillery that's no longer in production, Clelland said.
But other whiskey experts say that the current mania for the drink is all hype.
"If the whiskey you buy is just for investment, then -- since it's never going to be opened -- the bottle may as well contain cold tea," stated a recent article in Whisky Advocate. "Today whiskey, tomorrow pork belly futures."


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Imperial Valley Eagle Scout Joins Assemblymember Garcia for State of the State
(Sacramento) – Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) had a special guest with him for Governor Jerry Brown's 16th and final State of the State address. Eagle Scout Joaquin Villegas, who started a community service scout project to have a monument dedicated to Veterans from throughout the Valley and of all six branches of the armed forces, sat in the gallery as the Governor delivered his speech. A dedication ceremony for the completed monument was held recently. "I made a project that I thought would benefit the veterans and fortunately I was very lucky to have opportunities like this to come to me," Villegas said. Here's more from the Eagle Scout in this Assembly Access video.