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SAN ANTONIO -- Studies of the impact of excess weight on breast cancer outcomes showed mixed results, researchers reported here.
Two of three presentations at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggested that at least certain subgroups of overweight and obese patients have worse survival compared with normal-weight patients. The third study showed no association between body mass index (BMI) and breast cancer outcomes.
An analysis of a large cooperative-group clinical trial showed that obese women (defined as a BMI ≥30) had a significantly worse overall and disease-free survival (DFS) compared with women who had a lower BMI. Subgroup analyses showed that the increased hazard centered on estrogen receptor-positive/HER2-negative tumors.
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- Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Explain that studies looking at the impact of excess weight on breast cancer outcomes showed mixed results, with two of three studies showing that certain subgroups of overweight and obese patients have worse survival compared with normal-weight patients.
"The findings suggest that host-related factors such as obesity can contribute to recurrence, and obesity seems to be a surrogate for other factors that are currently unknown," said Joseph A. Sparano, MD, of Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y. "Further research is required to identify these factors which, when identified, may serve to identify subpopulations that may be suitable for targeted interventions that may serve to reduce these disparities."
Excess body weight increases the risk of cancer and has been associated with worse outcomes in breast cancer, including DFS and overall survival. However, the explanations for obesity's adverse effect on breast cancer outcomes have remained unclear.
In an effort to clarify the association, Sparano and colleagues reviewed data from the E1199 trial, which involved patients with node-positive or high-risk node-negative breast cancer and formed the basis for further analysis. Of the 3,484 women for whom BMI data were available, 38% were obese.
Sparano said obese patients in E1199 were older and more likely to be postmenopausal, black, and to have breast-conserving surgery. Obese and nonobese women did not differ with respect to tumor size, nodal status, hormone-receptor or HER2 status, or the type of endocrine therapy they received.
An unadjusted analysis showed that obese patients had a 27% increase in the hazard for DFS (P=0.012) and a 47% increased hazard in the analysis of overall survival (P=0.0008). In an adjusted model, the influence of obesity on DFS and overall survival disappeared.
The increased risk persisted in one subgroup: women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative tumors. Obese patients with those tumor characteristics had a DFS hazard ratio of 1.23 (P=0.035) and a hazard ratio of 1.46 for overall survival (P=0.002).
Investigators tested for interaction, using a model that included obesity and tumor subtype (hormone-receptor positive/HER2 negative versus others). Obesity no longer had a significant effect on DFS (P=0.21), but the impact on overall survival remained significant (P=0.017).
Analysis of obesity's effect on chemotherapy showed that obese and nonobese patients received similar proportions of planned cycles, with the exception of paclitaxel. Whether patients were on three-week or weekly protocols, obese patients completed significantly fewer cycles (P=0.0016, P=0.0005, respectively).
Obese patients had more grade 4 neutropenia on doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide chemotherapy (40% versus 32%, P<0.0001), but had an adverse event history similar to that of nonobese patients.
For validation purposes, Sparano and colleagues examined the effect of obesity on DFS and overall survival in two additional studies. The E5188 trial involved premenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive, node-positive breast cancer. Among the 1,502 women whose BMI data were available, obese patients had increased hazard for both DFS (HR 1.41, P<0.0001) and overall survival (HR 1.51, P<0.0001).
The E3189 trial involved women with estrogen receptor-negative, node-positive breast cancer. Of 613 patients with BMI data, obesity did not significantly affect DFS or overall survival.
German investigators also reported a significant adverse effect of increasing BMI on breast cancer survival. By univariate analysis, both DFS and overall survival were significantly worse in obese versus overweight patients (P=0.0075, P=0.0138, respectively). Neither outcome differed significantly between overweight and normal-weight patients, said Wolfgang Janni, MD, of Dusseldorf University in Germany.
The findings came from a study of 1,500 women with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer treated with one of two regimens: intensified 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide; or epirubicin, cyclophosphamide, and docetaxel (Taxotere).
Obese women comprised 22% of the study group, overweight women 36.1%, normal-weight women 40.9%, and underweight women 1.0%. The patients had a median follow-up of four years.
The association between weight and DFS did not hold up in multivariate analysis, but obese women had a significantly worse overall survival compared with normal-weight women (HR 1.671, P=0.008). Additionally, the analysis showed that every kg/m2 increase in BMI significantly increased the survival hazard (HR 1.006, P=0.036).
Data from an ongoing trial of endocrine therapy in postmenopausal breast cancer showed no association between body weight and survival. The study of almost 10,000 women with endocrine-sensitive breast cancer is evaluating a strategy of three years of adjuvant tamoxifen followed by two years of exemestane (Aromasin) versus upfront exemestane for five years.
Investigators in Europe and Japan collected BMI data on 6,300 of the study participants, said Caroline Seynaeve, MD, PhD, of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. The records showed that 24.6% of the patients are obese, 37.8% are overweight, 34.6% are normal weight, and 1.5% are underweight.
Comparing DFS by BMI category, the investigators found no significant difference in DFS after 2.75 years of follow-up (90.0% to 91.4%) or after five years (83.0% to 83.6%). Stratification by treatment group also showed no difference in DFS at either time point.
The trial reported by Janni was supported by Amgen, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Pfizer, sanofi-aventis, and Wilex.
Sparano had no disclosures. Janni disclosed relationships with Amgen, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Pfizer, sanofi-aventis, and Wilex. Seynaeve had no disclosures.
Primary Source
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Source Reference: Sparano JA, et al "Obesity at diagnosis is associated with inferior outcomes in hormone reeptor positive breast cancer" SABCS 2010; Abstract S2-1.
Secondary Source
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Source Reference: Hepp PGM, et al "Mulivariate analysis of obesity and disease free survival in patients with nodal positive primary breast cancer -- The ADEBAR Trial" SABCS 2010; Abstract S2-2.
Additional Source
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Source Reference: Seynaeve C, et al "The impact of body mass index (BMI) on the efficacy of adjuvant endocrine therapy in postmenopausal hormone sensitive breast cancer patients: exploratory analysis from the TEAM study" SABCS 2010; Abstract S2-3.


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Not long ago, I mentioned on this blog that I was gearing up to make a movie with some friends entitled "Get Stingray."
Being as this is intended to be a fairly serious endeavor, requiring many hours and weeks of effort to complete, I figure it would be in my best interest to track and log the progression of things on a fairly consistent basis.
Well, being as it's been about a week since I announced this project, I can honestly say that not a whole lot has changed, which is the reasoning for why this diary entry is labeled #0 instead of #1.
While I have yet formally set aside time to devote to budgeting, choreographing, or pounding out a script for Get Stingray as of yet, (that's what this weekend is for) I have had random bits of inspiration come me, mostly in terms of the cinematographic style of things.
After years of watching action/kung fu movies, I finally like I have a decent feel what kind of movements are most dynamic, and what kind of camera angles work to "sell" said motions.
While it sucks to have to admit it, it needs to be said that neither myself, nor any of my friends are particularly gifted in terms of physicality or coordination.
That being said, I'm leaning towards using tight focal points in the framing of the shots during the fights, as well as using quick cuts to mask whatever shortcomings myself and the other performers might have in the physical department.
Speaking of quick cuts, as I write this I find myself peering up at the television to watch Matt Damon and Joey Ansah's spectacular brawl from The Bourne Ultimatum:
Unlike the dreadful stock library sound effects used in this scene though, I intend to do what I can to foley whatever sound I can.
The vision I have for the cinematography during the fights in Get Stingray, is something along the lines of a cross between the Bourne series' quick cuts, and the more polished on-rails camera movements of Donnie Yen's work in the past 5 years or so.
Basically, I want to take the calculated artistry of the camera choreography of Hong Kong action films, pair it with the quick cuts of American films, all while keeping the "shaky-cam" to the bare minimum, or at least in a tasteful proportion.
I know it sounds heady and artsy, and very likely far beyond my capabilities as a barely amateur filmmaker, but that's probably the simplest and most straightforward way one could articulate my intent.
While I'm on the topic of cinematography, I may as well mention that I'm seriously considering investing in a new camera.
I've used a DV cam for every film project I've ever made, but at my old job as a graphic designer, I was afforded the chance to handle a flash memory HD camcorder.
I really grew to love that camera, with it's manual focus and 24p shooting mode, and as such; it's hard for me to consider going back to my 10 year old, dead pixel ridden DV cam.
Anyway, right now I'm looking at the Canon HFS20, and the HFS21, either of which would run me about $1,000.
As it stands, I can definitely afford the expense, but if anyone has any suggestions on a better choice/alternative, it'd be much appreciative.
Anyway, while I haven't had an opportunity to shoot any test footage (again, that might be on the menu this weekend) I did get a chance to rough-house and block out a few beats of the choreography with my friends last week.
As with my confidence in my ability to deliver in terms of the cinematography of the movie, I feel that I have a pretty good sense of the "flow" or "language" of crafting fight scenes.
In playing around with my friends, I found I was able to effectively reference the temperaments and fighting disciplines of the characters, and logically deduce the attacks or defensive maneuvers that each character would utilize on a contextual basis.
Again, I know it's a mouthful, but I couldn't think of a better way to say it.
In many ways, my intent in making Get Stingray is to test myself, to see if I really can do what I've always felt I could.
Expect many Stingray updates from now on.
Chances are I'll have some character bios or something like that next time around.
Filed under: Kung Fu, Movies, Uncategorized, Action, Amateur, camcorder, camera, Canon, Choreography, Donnie Yen, DV, fight scene, filmmaking, Get Stingray, HD, Hong Kong, Jason Bourne, Joey Ansah, Matt Damon, movie, production diary, series, The Bourne Ultimatum

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after the butter is cut in, buttermilk is added and the dough is kneaded about a dozen times. in my opinion, the kneading is not necessary. mix it up and pat it out. game over. the recipe gave us two options; classic wedges or filled, rolled up and sliced. since i have made more wedge shaped scones than i could ever count, i opted to make the rolled scones. the dough was patted out into a 12" x 4" rectangle that was about a half inch thick. first, a brush of melted butter, then a sprinkle of sugar before topping the dough with some candied lemon peel and candied citron that were left over from holiday baking.
to see the recipe, visit this site. but as a cookbook author, i ask that you consider buying the book, baking with julia. it is a wonderful book to add to your cookbook collection! to see what the other tuesdays with dorie bakers came up with, visit the website.


text: Infrastructure Public Sector Focus on IoT – Lan Nguyen, deputy CIO for the City of Toronto Brian Jackson @brianjjackson Published: February 5th, 2016ITWC partnered with the City of Toronto to co-host Technicity this past December. The day brought together leadership within the organization of the city, technology decision makers, and industry influencers to discuss both the opportunity and the challenges brought by the Internet of Things to municipalities. We're featuring a series of interviews we conducted on that day here. You can watch the entire playlist here. Lan Nguyen has been running the open data program at the City of Toronto since its inception of 2009. At Technicity, she talks about the program's history and what it's achieved since then, plus a look at what it plans to do next. Also, learn what the most popular type of open data to access from the city is. Infrastructure, Public Sector Big Data, CIO, City of Toronto, Internet of Things, open-source, technicity


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Happy day after the blog hop day! Did you all enjoy the hop? There was so much beautiful artwork is see and what a great display of the wonderful Sweet 'n Sassy images! (Truth be told...I'm still working my way through that impressive list of participants!)
Today I'm sharing a darling new Christmas stamp set called Christmas Itty Bitties. It's so cute!! The set includes six of these darling 'itty bitty' images for only $9.00...now that's a holiday bargain!
I decided to keep it simple with today's card and only utilized white cardstock (one piece being embossed with the swiss dot embossing folder) and a tiny bit of green layered behind the images. I even kept my coloring simple, going with just red, green, and white. I'm lovin' the simple approach to card making these days! How about you?
Hope you all enjoyed yesterday's hop and today's card! Have a great week!!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Christmas Itty Bitties
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7 comments:
This is wonderful Kim! I love all the white space and the Christman Itty Bitties are adorable!! Great job.ReplyDelete
I love your card Kim. Clean and simple and very pretty. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
A real cute card, I like the embossing and simplicity of the layout and the white on white is so elegant.ReplyDelete
What a pretty card. I love the elegant simplicity! Beautiful work!!ReplyDelete
such a pretty CAS card! I am loving all the whiteReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2010 at 5:00 AM
Love the simplicity and those images are really sweet! Thanks for the blog hop - had loads of fun looking through :)ReplyDelete
Adorable little bitties! Love the card too!ReplyDelete
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On 15th March – Thursday, "For Our Children" Foundation organizes a conference "Vision for Early Childhood in Bulgaria". The forum is under the auspices of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mrs. Maya Manolova, and will be held at 9.30 am in the Opal Hall of Hotel Ramada.
The results of a large-scale study "Early Childhood Development in Bulgaria" on the impact of health, social and educational systems on childcare at the earliest age (0-7 years) and their safety will be presented at the forum. The study was carried out by the "For Our Children" Foundation together with the "Child and Space" Association and the Institute for Population and Human Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The study explores the interaction and co-operation of the three systems and the extent to which they work together to support child development in early childhood care services /nursery schools, hospitals, kindergartens, social services and others/. The practical implementation of the family-oriented approach in the work of the providers of state-sponsored child care has been explored. Subject of the study was also whether the health, social and educational systems use mechanisms to involve the parents, whether the parents feel supported in caring for their children, and the place of system-parent interaction. The care of children with special needs at an early age is examined, as well as the extent to which the state measures for their inclusion are effective, what needs to be changed in the organization and functioning of the systems so that children can develop and their parents be encouraged and supported to take the best care of their children. Participants in the conference will discuss the study's key recommendations for improvement of the performance of childcare systems in order to support the ongoing process of developing a national early child development strategy.
The role of the early childhood education and care policies in the European Union will be presented by Mrs. Nora Milotai – political analyst at the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), who works on European social policy issues.
The integrated systems and early childhood development services in Serbia will be presented by Prof. Veronika Espanovic – member of the National Council on the Rights of the Child and of the working groups that have developed the National Program for Promoting Early Childhood Development and the National Strategy on Violence against Children in Serbia.
Among the participants of the conference will be the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rositsa Dimitrova, the Deputy Minister of Education Denitsa Sacheva, the Deputy Minister of Healthcare Boyko Penkov, the UNICEF Representative for Bulgaria Maria Jesus Conde, the Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus H. E. Stavros Avgoustides, the Ambassador of Great Britain H. E. Emma Hopkins, the Ambassador Israel H. E. Irit Lillian, the Ambassador of Denmark H. E. Soren Jakobsen, the Ambassador of Indonesia H. E. Sri Astari Rasjid.
More than 150 representatives of national and local authorities, the academic community, international experts, professional and non-governmental organizations and personalities engaged in the topic of early childhood development and its importance in achieving a stable and prosperous society will take part in the discussions.
"For Our Children" Foundation advocates adopting a national strategy for early childhood development. Since April 2016, the Foundation has been implementing the Early Childhood Care project funded by the OAK Foundation, whose primary goal is to improve the development and well-being of early childhood (0-7) by introducing an integrated health-social approach to caring for them. The aim is to support, through research and advocacy activities as well as direct field work, the improvement of policy and practice on early child development in health, social and educational systems.


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Reporter Investigates Where This Dog Goes All Day, Has Best Day Ever –
The phrase it's a dog's life has always been seen as a negative thing but if I had this particular dog's life I'd be made up!
Meet Sacchan an adorably chubby mongrel stray who according to his owners is 'the most popular dog in the neighbourhood' and goes mysteriously missing almost every day.
Curious to find out what adventures their daring dog is having without them, Sacchan's owners recruited a TV reporter to follow the animal and work out what he's doing.
The host quickly discovered that Sacchan lives the life you'd expect a celebrity to live, wandering round the town doing whatever the hell he wants to and being adored for it.
I can't believe I'm jealous of a dog…
Anyway, the precocious pup begins his day by heading to visit the neighbours where he takes a bath with the lady of the house, let's hope the tabloids don't find out, before wandering back home.
Sacchan doesn't stay home for long though, hitting the road and heading into town to visit his old friend (and suspected lover) Chibi
Chibi's owner claims that Sacchan pops in most days for a quick visit and they're more than happy to give him a quick feed before he makes his next stop at a local pharmacist.
Apparently the pharmacist is Sacchan's favourite watering hole and he pops by everyday for a drink of water from a bucket outside, presumably to hydrate himself for his next stop the train station.
The train station's basically the dog equivalent of social media with every passerby stopping to pet Sacchan and tell him he's a good boy.
While at the station the host also finds out why Sacchan is so fat despite going on walks everyday, a lot of those passing by feed him treats and snacks which he greedily guzzles down.
Like a Hollywood star who' had too much to drink the pudgy pooch doesn't even bother to get himself home, relying on the reporter to call his owner to come and pick him up in his car.
And I thought I pampered my pets…


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For over 100 years, Massachusetts Maritime Academy has been preparing women and men for exciting and rewarding careers on land and sea. As the nation's finest co-ed maritime college, MMA challenges students to succeed by balancing a unique regimented lifestyle with a typical four-year college environment. As a member of the cadet corps you will live, study, sail, work and play in an atmosphere that encourages you to be your best.
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I have a number of different shares and have developed a sheet to show the profit / loss. I have an autoupdate from the web using api and would like to record the changes so that a profit and loss graph can be made. I am struggling to even find the right terms to use to search for a solution on the web. I would like each change to be recorded and put in a new cell so a graph can be created. If a time stamp could be put on then even better. Any help appreciated
Transfering updated data from web to another sheet in same workbook
You basically just need 3 things:
- Get the next empty row for the data to store.
- Get the time.
- Input the data.
Here is a simple macro that will do that.
Sub dataInput()
'Get the next empty row
NextRow = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Offset(1).Row
'Get the time
currentTime = Time()
' Input the data
'Imported value.
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(NextRow, 1).Value = "Your Value"
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(NextRow, 2).Value = currentTime
End Sub
Sheet1 is the sheet where you want to store the data.
The macro assumes that the data will start in Column A.
When inputting the data, look to this part (NextRow, 1). 1 is the column where that data will be placed. 1 means Column A; 2 means Column B, etc.
Start this project with the workbook design. Leave the code till last.
- You will need a master list of all the stocks you own. In this sheet you need a column for the quantity you own, price per share you paid and another column for the current value, also per share (or per lot). A column to compare those values would give you an immediate P/L value.
- Since you may buy and sell your shares a major step in your project would be to have a separate sheet for each share in which to record transactions with their dates, and from which you carry an average cost and the current quantity to the master sheet. Perhaps this is something you might add on in the future.
(In my own workbook of this type I tied the individual sheets to an accounts sheet and then generated the master from the individuals.)
- For your scrapes you need a history sheet where the shares are in columns and you add a row for each scrap. I recommend to add new rows in this sheet at the top (2nd or 3rd row) instead of the bottom and keep the master in sync with the lastest row as part of the scraping process. If you wish to have daily changes (up, down or unch) the best place to calculate them is in the history sheet where you would need an extra column for that purpose for each share. You can then copy the mark to the master (where you don't have the previous price so easily available).
The design of the sheets and the design of the work flow, and how the sheets interact with each other) determines the code you need. I recommend that you work 100% manually with your design for a couple of weeks. You will find missing columns and decide about formats. Then, when everything actually works fine, you can start automating things, one process, one link, at a time. My own project was started more than 10 years ago and I still add features to it now and then. This is meant as a recommendation to invest time in finding meaningful variable names and add plenty of comments.


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Start of spring for us, darkness at South Pole
* Unsettled today, sunshine returns tomorrow: Full Forecast *
This past weekend, while the Northern Hemisphere sprung into spring and the Arctic sunrise brought sunlight to the North Pole for the first time since September, the other end of the Earth began six months without sunlight. The South Pole's only sunset of the year occurred at 2:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time yesterday (9:01 a.m. on March 23 South Pole/New Zealand time).
Keep reading for more on the change of season at the South Pole...
Forty-seven scientists and staff will winter over at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this season, continuing astronomical and atmospheric research that began in summer. The crew celebrated the year's sunset with a group dinner and party.
The U.S. Antarctic Program flew its last flight of the season to and from the South Pole Station in mid-February, bringing in essential supplies such as food and fuel and carrying out summer-only staff, waste and scientific samples, such as those from the Atmospheric Research Observatory. The next flight to resupply the Pole will arrive in October.
While the sun will not shine there for the next six months, the Pole will experience spectacular views of stars, the moon and the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) during the Southern Hemisphere winter. Temperatures will reach nearly 100 below zero Fahrenheit and wind chills may dip down to 150 below. Aren't you glad it's spring in the Northern Hemisphere?
View a live webcam from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, courtesy of the United States Antarctic Program.
The author was part of a group of journalists selected by the National Science Foundation to travel to Antarctica in January and report on weather, climate and environmental science research going on there. Read more about Ann's trip from previous posts.
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From Weather Underground:
Chance of Snow. Partly Cloudy. High: -40 °F . Wind North 17 mph . 20% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 0.01 in). Windchill: -95 °F . "
Kind of puts Snowpocalypse in perspective...
Posted by: wiredog | March 23, 2010 11:33 AM | Report abuse
For the lowest temperatures of the Antarctic winter, check the Weather Underground posts for the Russian Vostok station. Generally these are the low temperatures recorded for any weather station on Earth. Only occasionally is the South Pole colder than Vostok.
Posted by: Bombo47jea | March 23, 2010 11:39 AM | Report abuse
So Ann...was watching the History channel show called Pawn Stars (that's P-A-W-N) last night and actually thought of you. It's a reality show about a pawn shop in Vegas. A guy brought in what he said was a South Pole marker. Basically it looked like a ultra big metal (bronze?) hockey puck and he said that every year they place a new marker down at the pole location because the the ice shifts and the previous markers are no longer at the pole. He said you can stand at the newly placed pole marker and see the line of old markers. Saw the pic of you by the barbershop pole but the ball did not look anything like his marker. Just wondering if they simply move the marker or if you can see the old marks... and if there was an actual commemorative piece to the South Pole.
Posted by: amaranthpa | March 23, 2010 12:59 PM | Report abuse
amaranthpa - There are two actual poles at the South Pole: one marks the geographic South Pole, and the other is ceremonial. The photo I posted on CWG back in January was at the ceremonial pole.
As for the geographic marker ... While the geographic South Pole does not move, the ice sheet below the marker does -- it's a glacier that moves over bedrock toward the ocean. On January 1 each year, the staff erects a new marker in the new location about 30 feet from the old one. As far as I know, past markers are left up for a few years, then displayed at the South Pole station. The pawn shop version was probably (hopefully) a replica! Check out this article for more information and a picture of the 2010 geographic marker.
Posted by: Ann-CapitalWeatherGang | March 23, 2010 4:00 PM | Report abuse
The marker at the pawn shop was likely a replica, as they sell replicas in the store at the South Pole station. I have one from 2007. Seeing your pictures Ann made me long to go back to the Ice. I miss it down there.
Posted by: gnomish | March 23, 2010 10:47 PM | Report abuse
Thanks. I think he said it was from 1959 so one would think it was a replica or one of the machinists extras the article talks about. But since they say they don't know where the actual one from 59 is...;-) Interesting article.
Posted by: amaranthpa | March 24, 2010 1:23 PM | Report abuse
So when I look at the live WebCam, it does not look like night. Is it 'twilight' time there for a few more weeks?
Posted by: amaranthpa | March 24, 2010 1:26 PM | Report abuse
amaranthpa- Yes, there's a lag time before complete darkness sets in.
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There are a lot of conflicting opinions in the health and fitness industry regarding which exercise modality is most effective for weight loss- cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise versus strength (resistance/weight) training. The weight loss law states that energy expenditure must be greater than energy intake in order for weight loss to occur. Of course, the importance of good nutrition in this equation cannot be overstated! But when it comes down to choosing which type of exercise will contribute the most to fat loss, which one is most effective?
A method of measuring energy expenditure is the amount of calories burned. When considering calories only, research shows that cardiovascular exercise burns more calories per hour than strength training. Accordingly, cardiovascular exercise is a very important part of a weight loss or maintenance regimen. Besides contributing to quick energy expenditure, cardio strengthens the heart and lungs and has numerous health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some forms of cancer, increased bone density, decreased stress, elevated mood and relief from depression and anxiety, less fluctuation in blood glucose levels, protective aging effects, and many more!
While it is clear that cardiovascular exercise burns more calories per hour, the amount of calories burned after strength training is higher. In scientific terms, strength training leads to a higher exercise post oxygen consumption (EPOC). This means that strength training will lead to a higher metabolism, or amount of calories burned to maintain normal body functions, for a longer period of time than cardiovascular exercise. While the metabolism remains elevated for 30-60 minutes after a cardio workout, it will increase for up to 48 hours after strength training. It is also important to note that muscle mass itself increases the body's resting metabolic rate (RMR). RMR determines the majority of calories burned during the day, so the more muscle mass that you have, the greater the number of calories you will burn, even when you're not exercising. Like cardiovascular exercise, strength training also has numerous health benefits, including increased bone density and reduced risk of osteoporosis, anti-aging effects, injury prevention, and immune system boosting effects, among many others.
When it comes to weight loss, both cardiovascular exercise and strength training are critical components. The amount, intensity, frequency, and timing of cardio and strength training may vary depending on your specific goal and your fitness baseline. When designing a weight loss program, it is also important to include all of the components of fitness- cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
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This week the Compensation Clinic-case comes from my stay last week at the fairly new Le Meridien Putrajaya in Malaysia (close to Kuala Lumpur).
Remember that our readers can also always email us, send us a Facebook message or Tweet about the issues you have with hotels, airlines and other travel providers. We'll feature one new Compensation Clinic each week.
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Checked into the hotel around 8PM (came from the airport). As my flight was late in the afternoon the following day, made sure that my key was valid until 4PM.
Around 1PM someone first calls that they need to check the minibar. Told them to come back after I have checked out.
Ten minutes later same guy is knocking at the door while the RED Do-Not-Disturb light is on. When asked him if he knew what that light meant, he just told that he needs to check the minibar. Closed the door and asked him to consult a manager.
Called the front desk manager and reported the incident. Requested 3,000 Starpoints for the inconvenience. Spoke with him again at the time of checking out. He couldn't make the decision but had to get someone to approve it. Was told that unless I hear back from him (by email I would assume) the points would be shortly deposited to my account.
The points posted to my account few days later.
The reason to request points was that the hotel must document the issue with the minibar service and someone foots the bill (internally) for the 3,000 Starpoints.
Obviously, the person checking the minibar wasn't properly trained by the F&B department. There is no excuse to be knocking at the door after being turned down once over the phone and when the DND light is on.
Cannot get my head around this DND issue at hotels? Nobody should be knocking at the door when the light is on or the card hanging outside yet it happens quite frequently.
The suite upgrade was good (the layout was weird and not very functional) and breakfast was quite nice. I have no idea about the other hotel facilities such as the Club lounge because had no time to use them. The hotel is attached to a rather large mall that should have plenty of stores and F&B facilities.
Took Grab taxi both ways to/from the airport and paid 50 to 55 MYR. Uber would have been available as well but at a higher charge and the pick up address from the hotel would have been some coffee shop 5 minutes away.


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Getting Over It is out now, watch me flail and fail in it
Let me tell you a clubhouse secret. We have a mantra at RPS for deciding what to write about, and it's as simple as it is helpful: 'a good time should be shared online'.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy released on Steam yesterday, and whatever kind of time it is, the only way I can properly share it is if you're with me. In the moment. Here are four agonising minutes of me flailing around as a man stuck in a cauldron trying to ascend a mountain with a hammer.
Getting Over It is the latest game from QWOP and GIRP creator, Bennett Foddy. In this one he speaks directly to you, gently musing on the nature of progress and failure as you accidentally hurl yourself down the mountain and undo hours of progress.
You know what, no more words. Only pain.
The game's already been out for a month as part of October's Humble Monthly, but you can now grab it on Steam for £5.79/$7.99/€7.99.
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Now that the tax deadline for filing has come and gone, most Americans will not have any contact with the IRS until after the first of next year when the filing process starts all over again. For most, the receipt of the refund is the last contact necessary until next year. But, what happens if you made a mistake? In some cases, the IRS will notify you, and in others, it is your responsibility to notify them. As you might conclude, the notification is often dependent upon whether you, the taxpayer, owe more tax or have an additional refund coming.
If the mistake is due to an error in mathematics (an addition or subtraction error), the IRS will correct those errors and adjust the tax due accordingly. If you are due an additional refund, they will add it to your check. If you owe additional funds, they will bill you. In these days of computer generated tax forms, these types of errors occur less frequently. However, for those who still rely on the pencil and scratch paper method, mistakes will be corrected by the IRS. There is no need to file an amended return if you find a mathematical error after you file.
If the mistake is due to the omission of W-2s or other income statements, the IRS will usually notify you to supply missing forms or schedules. The IRS will determine your new tax liability. They receive copies of all statements of taxable income that are issued to you. They expect you to provide all statements in the appropriate places on your return. The resulting tax liability in most cases will result in penalties and interest since the required tax was not paid by the due date.
When Should You Amend Your Filed Return?
There are three circumstances under which you should definitely file an amended return: if you filed using an incorrect filing status; if you incorrectly reported your total income, or if you made an error in computing your deductions or credits. Changes in any of these areas should be reported to the IRS on Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.
As stated above, the IRS usually finds out about unreported income and will eventually take steps to collect any additional tax you owe, along with penalties and interest. If you file an amended return claiming the income and pay any additional tax before the IRS catches the mistake, you should not be assessed nearly as much in interest and penalties.
Most often, returns should be amended because deductions and credits were omitted that taxpayers are entitled to yet neglect to include. Usually, this occurs because the taxpayer lacks reliable information. When the taxpayer includes the omitted deductions and credits on their return, it will often result in higher refunds for the taxpayer. The IRS, typically, is not going to make you aware of your error(s).
So what should you do if you discover mistakes in your filed return? The general rule is that if you will owe additional money, you should file an amended return as soon as possible. If the IRS will owe you money, you have until three years from the date you filed the original return, or two years from the date you paid the tax, whichever is later. If you are owed an additional refund and are waiting for a refund for this year, do not file the amended return until you have received the refund from the original return. After you have received and cashed the original refund check, file your amended return to claim your additional refund.
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HILLINGDON Council have pledged £40,000 towards a legal fight over Cherry Lane Cemetery in case assurances it will not go ahead prove to be a false dawn.
Councillors agreed to set aside the money on professional advice at last night's (Thursday) cabinet meeting after admitting they found little comfort in British Airways' announcement that they are no longer considering the cemetery as a site for a through road.
Councillor Keith Burrows, cabinet memeber for planning and transportation, said: "I welcome the £40,000 we are now committing to professional advice on heathrow.
"I attended the meeting as did many members of the council and I thought the British Airways man who attended skirted around the issues.
"It was like going into the lion's den for him and he paid a lot of lip service but there were no real assurances.
"By bringing these issues forward we can continue fighting them."
Motions were also put forward at the meeting to spend £25,000 on the installation of a new CCTV camera in Pole Hill Road, Hillingdon, and £30,000 on a borough wide parking management scheme which will be finalised next March.
Overall councillors were happy to report that while services must continue to be monitored closely over the next few months, there were no damaging effects on the Council's budget brought about by the credit crunch, and the planned festive ice rink is all set to go up untroubled.
Councillor Jonathan Bianco, cabinet member for finance and business services, said: "While some of us will shortly be skating on thin ice, i'm glad to say the budget is good. We are still below budget, and are very aware of the economic climate and the effect it is having on our residents."


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Character Traits, Not Test Scores, Predict PhD Success of STEM Students
If schools were to choose graduate students for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs based on each student's character rather than standardized test scores, they would drastically improve the success of admitted students, and also boost the participation of women and minorities.
This is according to a new essay titled "A test that fails," published in the journal Nature.
According to the authors — Dr. Casey Miller, an associate professor of physics at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Keivan Stassun, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University and Fisk University — the main reason that half of all American Ph.D. students fail to graduate, and the key barrier holding back women and minority students, is our education system's overreliance on the graduate record examination (GRE).
This standardized test was introduced in 1949 and is what most U.S. graduate schools require for entrance.
According to the authors, the problem is the exam's quantitative score (the part measuring math ability) because it is not a good predictor of student success, and especially so in the STEM fields.
For example, females, on average, score 80 points lower in the physical sciences than males, and African-Americans score 200 points below whites. However, research conducted by ETS, the company that administers the test, has shown that the test's predictive ability is only applicable to first-year graduate course grades, and even that is questionable in STEM fields.
"In simple terms, the GRE is a better indicator of sex and skin color than of ability and ultimate success," wrote the authors.
As of now, the typical procedure is to reject the application of any candidate scoring less than 700 on the 800-point math section, even though this practice goes against ETS guidelines.
"The misuse of GRE scores to select applicants may be a strong driver of the continuing underrepresentation of women and minorities in graduate school. Indeed, women earn hardly 20 percent of U.S. physical sciences Ph.D.s and underrepresented minorities — who account for 33 percent of U.S. university-age population — earn just 6 percent. These percentages are striking in their similarity to the percentage of students who score above 700 on the GRE Quantitative Measure," wrote the authors.
The authors have proposed an alternative approach to the selection process, which has proven successful in the bridge programs with which they are involved: Using a 30 minute face-to-face interview that explores a student's college and research experiences, key relationships, leadership experience, service to the community, and life goals.
This gives committee members a good indication not only of the person's academic training and skills but also of the other factors that point to potential success in graduate school and a STEM career.
The proof that this approach works is shown in the track record of students enrolled in the authors' programs. For example, at the Fisk-Vanderbilt bridge program, 85 percent of the students would have been rejected by the 700-point GRE cutoff. However, 81 percent of the 67 students in the program, including 56 underrepresented minorities and 35 women, have earned or are making good progress toward their Ph.D.s.
Furthermore, all the students who have received their doctorates have found jobs in the STEM workforce, as postdoctoral students, university faculty members, or staff scientists in national labs or industry. This 81 percent success rate is far better than the 50 percent national average.
Source: Vanderbilt University
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Pedersen, T. (2018). Character Traits, Not Test Scores, Predict PhD Success of STEM Students. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 27, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/06/15/character-traits-not-test-scores-predict-success-of-science-engineering-majors/71185.html
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There is no doubt that the BMW 5 Series is a stunningly designed series from BMW. Boasting high tech, beautiful design features and a look that only BMW can create, the BMW 5 Series for sale is a superb combination of performance, style and comfort.
Some of the fabulous technology available in the 5 Series BMW includes the traffic jam assist, park assist, camera systems and active protection.
Traffic jam assist is a fabulous system that allows you to easily move in dense traffic at a speed of up to 40 kilometres per hour. This system also automatically helps you maintain a good and safe following distance, helps you to regulate your car's speed and even gives you active steering support.
Park assist is another fabulous tech accessory for both the Sedan and Gran Turismo. Helping you to identify suitable parking spaces, the BMW's park assist will help you find a large enough space and, switching on your indicator and pressing down the park assist switch, help you to effectively and safely park your vehicle.
The camera system of the 5 Series allows you to have a clear view of the areas surrounding your vehicle when pulling into a parking. Park Distance Control (PDC) is equipped at the front and rear, while Surround View shows your car from above.
Active protection is a smartly designed safety system that will perform a number of tasks in cases where critical situations, like an emergency stop, arise. These tasks includes closing the windows, tensioning the front seatbelts and even closing the sliding roof, to name but a few examples. Attentive Assist is also a nifty feature that is responsible for monitoring your behaviour and looking for signs of tiredness. This system will analyse your steering responses and even recommend that you take a break.
Other cool features of the BMW 5 Series for sale include BMW Night Vision, BMW Head-Up Display and the iDrive Touch Controller.
The BMW 5 Series Sedan
With a modern shape and double kidney grille, this BMW for sale in South Africa is a striking work of art. It features short overhangs, a beautifully lengthened bonnet and a large wheelbase – a classic BMW Sedan with a stunning touch of sportiness.
Boasting new rear lights and an L-shaped design and with an optical depth, this BMW Sedan also features newly designed bumpers.
With the 5 Series Sedan you have the option of adaptive LED headlights giving you a variable highway and urban light distribution. This LED optional with the 5 Series BMW includes an anti-dazzle high-beam assist with a high and low headlight beam function.
With the anti-dazzle high-beam assist, your headlights will automatically turn your high bean headlights off and on depending on your traffic situation as well as the ambient light conditions. This technology monitors the presence of other cars in front of you or cars in oncoming traffic, automatically adjusting your lights as not to distract other drivers.
Moving to the interior, the 5 Series BMW Sedan utilises high quality materials to create a luxurious interior that is beautifully laid out with the comfort settings effortlessly reachable. Designed with smooth, long lines, the interior of this BMW is aimed at comfort and style.
5 Series Sedan Lines
The Sedan is available in two lines – the BMW Luxury Line and the BMW Modern Line.
The Luxury Line of the Sedan boasts elegant and classic features. The interior of this particular line boasts features like an attractive fine wood surface, combined with finishing touches like strips in the form of high gloss chrome. It has beautiful leather covers that showcase exquisite stitch work.
With the Luxury Line for this BMW for sale in South Africa you will also have illuminated door sill finishers, chrome plated surrounds on the side windows and the illuminated door handles are stunningly finished off with chrome inserts. With either 18 or 19 inch light alloy wheels featuring the multi spoke design, attractive chrome elements on the rear and front aprons, and exhaust pipe finishers in the form of high-gloss chrome, your Luxury Line from BMW is truly luxurious.
The Modern Line is, simply put, modern. Featuring aluminium design features in both the rear and front, exhaust finishers in chrome matte and a smartly arranged instrument panel. With 17 or 18 inch light-alloy wheels boasting the turbine style, the Modern Line offers exclusive leather covers and a kidney grille with aluminium matte slats in the front.
The M Sport Package
The M Sport Package for the BMW 5 Series for sale comes standard with door sill finishers, Dakota leather sport seats for both the driver as well as the front passenger, an Anthracite roofliner, Aluminium Hexagon interior trim and a multifunctional leather steering wheel.
For the exterior, the M Sport Package features dark chrome tailpipes, 18 inch double spoke 613 M light alloy wheels, the M Aerodynamic package and the high gloss Shadow Line.
Optional extras for the M Sport Package on the BMW 5 Series Sedan includes the Individual extended leather equipment, front comfort seats in Napa or Dakota leather and 19 inch double spoke 351 M light alloy wheels.
BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo
If you love the 5 Series Sedan, but you would like a touch of sportiness, the 5 Series BMW Gran Turismo is for you. With a beautiful combination of a coupe like roofline and elegant bonnet and short overhangs, the Gran Turismo is a sport beauty deserving of the BMW name.
Featuring a dynamically shaped rear, the Turismo has low profile tailgate lights adding the sportiness of this BMW 5 Series for sale's rear.
The interior is beautifully crafted with very special attention being paid to detail. Featuring frameless doors and a spacious interior, the Gran Turismo offers all of its passengers great legroom.
Here you will also find the panorama glass roof. Allowing for the inflow of natural light, the double floating headliner can also be closed. Featuring both lift and slide functions, the panorama glass roof in the Gran Turismo also offers a number of ventilation options, ensuring your comfort.
5 Series Gran Turismo Lines
Like with the 5 Series Sedan, the Gran Turismo is available in two lines – the Luxury Line and the Modern Line.
Taking a look at this package from BMW for sale in South Africa, the Luxury Line accentuates the Gran Turismo's classic and elegant features. Featuring chrome plated slats in the striking kidney grille, the multi-spoke, light- alloy 19 or 20 inch wheels add a touch of elegance. Featuring decorative chrome elements, including exhaust finishers in high-gloss chrome, the Luxury Line's interior boasts fine wood surfaces, exclusive stitch work on the beautiful leather covers, and illuminated door sill finishers.
The Modern Line of the BMW 5 Series boasts beautifully crafted aluminium finishing details, helping to create a sense of timeless style. With chrome matte exhaust pipe finishers and turbine style, light alloy wheels (available in your choice of either 19 or 20 inches), the Modern Line is a modern and sophisticated design line for your 5 Series Gran Turismo.
Gran Turismo M Sport Package
The M Sport Package for the Gran Turismo is a stunningly sporty package that includes either Sport or Comfort front seats in Dakota leather, Palladium Grey interior trim, doorsill finishers and the Individual Anthracite roofliner.
In terms of the exterior, the M Sport Package includes 19 inch v-spoke 302 M light alloy wheels. This package also extends to include the M Sport suspension, the Individual high gloss Shadow Line, tailpipes in dark chrome, the Aerodynamic package as well as the kidney grille with ten vertical bars on each side finished in a high gloss black.
Optional extras on the M Sport Package for the 5 Series BMW Gran Turismo include your choice of six different interior fine-wood trims, BMW Individual Merino leather and 20 inch double spoke 303 M light alloy wheels.
The Sedan vs. the Gran Turismo
Sedan Specifications and Numbers
|ActiveHybrid 5
|Maximum Output
|135/5000 – 6250 kW/rpm
|180/5000 – 6000 kW/rpm
|190/4000 kW/rpm
|225/5800 kW/rpm
|225/5800 kW/rpm
|230/4400 kW/rpm
|330/5500 – 6000 kW/rpm
|Maximum Torque
|270/1250 – 4500 Nm/rpm
|380/1750 – 2750 Nm/rpm
|350/1250 – 4800 Nm/rpm
|560/1500 – 3000 Nm/rpm
|400/1200 – 5000 Nm/rpm
|400/1200 – 5000 Nm/rpm
|630/1500 – 2500 Nm/rpm
|650/2000 – 4500 Nm/rpm
|Cylinders / Valves
|Top Speed
|233 km/h
|231 km/h
|250 km/h
|250 km/h
|250 km/h
|250 km/h
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|Acceleration (0 – 100km/h)
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|Combined Fuel Consumption
|6.0 l / 100 km
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|6.1 l / 100 km
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|7.6 l / 100 km
|6.4 l / 100 km
|5.3 l / 100 km
|8.6 l / 100 km
Gran Turismo Specifications and Numbers
|Maximum Output
|225/5800 – 6000kW/rpm
|330/5500 – 6000 kW/rpm
|135/4000 kW/rpm
|190/4000 kW/rpm
|Maximum Torque
|400/1200 – 5000 Nm/rpm
|650/2000 – 4500 Nm/rpm
|380/1750 – 2750 Nm/rpm
|560/1500 – 3000 Nm/rpm
|Cylinders / Valves
|Top Speed
|250 km/h
|250 km/h
|215 km/h
|246 km/h
|Acceleration (0 – 100km/h)
|6.1 s
|5.0 s
|8.9 s
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|Combined Fuel Consumption
|8.2 l / 100 km
|9.2 l / 100 km
|5.5 l / 100 km
|5.8 l / 100 km
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[Tech] What's faster, a quantum computer or a regular computer? In May, a professor's attempt to answer this question landed her in the media spotlight.
Catherine McGeoch
First, Catherine McGeoch, the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society, was hired by the Canadian company D-Wave to test the speed of its quantum computing system against conventional computing methods.
As McGeoch prepared to share her findings at a conference in Italy, news outlets came calling: "A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test," announced a May 8 New York Times headline. Many other publications covered her research, including The Economist and MIT's Technology Review.
The system she was testing has a thumbnail-sized chip stored in a dilution refrigerator within a shielded cabinet at near absolute zero. Where conventional computing is binary, 1s and 0s get mashed up in quantum computing, and within that super-cooled (and non-observable) state of flux, a lightning-quick logic takes place, capable of solving problems up to 3,600 times as fast as conventional methods, according to her findings.
"Ours is the first paper, to my knowledge, that compares the quantum approach to conventional methods using the same set of problems," McGeoch says. "I'm not claiming that this is the last word, but it's a first word."
McGeoch has 25 years of experience setting up experiments to test computing speed. She is a founder of "experimental algorithmics," a niche that is increasingly helpful in evaluating computing performance. That's why she spent a month consulting at D-Wave, which has produced what it claims is the world's first commercially available quantum computing system.
McGeoch says the D-Wave has the most potential in calculations that involve a specific "combinatorial optimization" problem that is comparable in difficulty to the famous "traveling salesperson" problem. The traveling salesperson problem—foundational to theoretical computing—asks: given a list of cities and the distance between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the original city? The problem can apply to areas such as flight scheduling, search optimization and DNA analysis.
"This type of computer is not intended for surfing the Internet," McGeoch says, "but it does solve this narrow but important type of problem really, really fast—thousands of times faster than anything I'm aware of." For other problems, it simply "does as well as some of the best things I've looked at."
But who needs a quantum machine? For now, not the average personal computer user. "It's probably going to be big companies like Google and government agencies," McGeoch says.
In fact, Nature reported on May 23 that D-Wave "has secured another customer—a collaboration between Google, NASA and the non-profit Universities Space Research Association." According to the magazine, "the deal was sealed after" McGeoch's tests.


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In many ways, selling is both easier and harder than it used to be. For example, you may well still believe that a sale can be helped along mostly by word of mouth. If you have property that you're ready to sell, is it merely a matter of tapping your next door neighbor on the shoulder and whispering, "Pass it on?" The truth is that things are a bit more complex in the modern age of the world wide web. Word of mouth still counts for a great deal, but it has been supplemented by the massive magnifying power of social media. In the 21st century, the internet is the main venue to buy and sell goods.
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It's a big year for John Cabot University as it marks the graduation of our largest class ever!
The Details
The Villa Aurelia, a beautiful Roman villa overlooking the city's historic center, hosted the graduation ceremonies on May 12th for the Class of 2014, whose 134 students came to study abroad in Rome from 22 countries throughout the world.
This year's graduating students have already been accepted to a variety of prestigious graduate schools, including Oxford, Columbia University School of Journalism, Vanderbilt University, Brandeis University and Bocconi University. Other graduates, including many international students in Italy will be moving across the globe, securing rewarding employment and internships at places such as the Library of Congress in Washington DC and ESource Capital.
Meet the Graduates!
Several students look forward to giving back to the international community, volunteering for a variety of international and nongovernmental organizations in the United States and Europe after graduating John Cabot University.
"After my graduation, I would like to take part in volunteer programs. It would be interesting to work for non-profit organizations to help poor children to improve their educational skills," says graduate Barbara Del Negro.
Graduate Sarah Benqlilou has a different plan. "After I graduate, I want to gain as much experience as I can by interning in different parts of Europe, before going back to Morocco and working in my family business," she says.
Tariro Mzezewa is graduating with a degree in Political Science and Communications and will be continuing her studies at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in New York City.
"My professors were what made my entire experience at John Cabot University so valuable. It was thanks to my first journalism class at John Cabot University with Professor Judith Bachrach that I realized how passionate I was about journalism," she says.
"I began contributing to JCU's student newspaper, The Matthew as soon as I arrived at JCU. Then during the 2013-2014 academic year, I became editor-in-chief. Under Professor Rosamaria Mancini 's guidance, I learned about writing, editing, media ethics, leadership, and teamwork – all skills I will take with me into the next phase of my life," says Mzezewa.
2014's class valedictorian is Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, an English Literature major from Mexico who chose to study abroad at John Cabot University. Victor plans on going to City University of New York to pursue a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in the fall. He attributes his success to the great care and attention paid by the professors, and the small class sizes at John Cabot University.
"At JCU I was able to get the attention I needed from professors due to the small classroom setting. I am really passionate about literature, and when the professors understood that, we were able to establish a wonderful connection," he said in an interview in April.
So congratulations to all of our John Cabot University graduates of the class of 2014 – here's to your achievements and future successes!


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Fergie pleased with Rooney display
Sir Alex Ferguson is preferring to focus on Wayne Rooney's all-round contribution to the Manchester United cause rather than merely the end of his number one striker's 13-match goal drought.
Rooney belted home the first-half penalty that set United on their way to a 3-0 defeat of West Ham at Old Trafford on Saturday night. It was Rooney's first goal since March, a period of time that has included a niggling ankle injury and that deflating World Cup campaign.
"Strikers want to score," stressed Ferguson. "But it is Wayne's performance that we should be talking about. He was full of life and energy. He worked his socks off. He needs games but the 90 minutes will bring him on."
For once, Ferguson is happy to have a couple of international fixtures for Rooney to concentrate on, which he feels will ensure his main striker is fully primed for the visit to Everton on September 11.
Dimitar Berbatov scored for the third time this season to wrap up the victory, his acrobatic volley capping a fine individual display. Nani had scored United's second shortly after half-time.
"Dimitar and Paul Scholes orchestrated that victory," said Ferguson. "They deserved their standing ovation and Dimitar's goal was excellent."
Three successive defeats have left Avram Grant's West Ham side bottom of the table and staring at a difficult campaign ahead.
"We knew before it began that it would be a tough season," he said.
"We are trying to change some things but it will take more than three or five games to judge us. We need a lot more than that.
"People can say what they like about this performance but we tried our best."


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Certified MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS of Ontario (ARCHIVED)
This practice offers an approach to streamlining the assessment of qualifications.
Certified Management Accountants of Ontario created a grid which outlines precedent assessment decisions and simplifies the process of reviewing applicants' grades. The grid is for internal use.
Assessors may now review grades and make assessment decisions based on established rules. Previously these decisions were escalated to managers.
This change created a more efficient assessment process.
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