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Survival estimates stratified by the Nottingham Prognostic Index for early breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Estimates of survival for women diagnosed with early staged breast cancer are available based on stratification into prognostic categories defined using the Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI). This review aimed to identify and summarize the estimated survival statistics from separate sources in the literature and to explore the extent of between-study heterogeneity in survival estimates.
Observational studies in women diagnosed with early and locally advanced breast cancer reporting overall survival by NPI category were identified using a systematic literature search. An exploratory meta-analysis was conducted to describe survival estimates and assess between-study heterogeneity.
Twenty-eight studies were identified. Nineteen studies with sufficient data on overall survival were included in meta-analysis. A high level of heterogeneity in survival estimates was evident with I2 values in the range of 90 to 98%.
The substantial differences between studies in the relationship between NPI categories and survival at 5 and 10 years poses challenges for use of this prognostic score in both clinical settings and in decision-analytic model-based economic evaluations.
KeywordsBreast cancer Prognosis Precision medicine Meta-analysis Nottingham Prognostic Index
Critical Skills Appraisal Programme
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
Nottingham Prognostic Index
International prospective register of systematic reviews
Randomized controlled trial
Tumour, nodes, metastases
The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) is a commonly used, clinically relevant and internationally validated [1, 2] system for classifying early and locally advanced breast cancer cases (TNM stages I, II, and III [3]) into three or more prognostic groups [4, 5]. Although more advanced models [6, 7] have superseded NPI in some applications, it continues to have an active role in clinical practice and research [8]. In clinical practice, NPI and related prognostic models have an important application for patients and clinicians to inform the decision of whether or not to undergo adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery [9], an early example of what is commonly called precision medicine [10].
The NPI can be used to provide prognostic information by assigning individuals into prognostic categories and then applying the survival estimates from a previous cohort study [11]. As well as providing prognostic estimates for individual patients, the NPI is useful in the context of economic evaluations. In economic evaluation of new interventions, overall survival is a key input for decision-analytic models designed to quantify the incremental costs and benefits and inform if, and how, to allocate finite healthcare budgets towards new screening and management options [12]. Decision-analytic models have a key role in the evaluation of new technologies when clinical trials are not likely to be feasible or timely in terms of producing robust evidence of the impact of introducing new programmes or changing existing programmes [13].
The NPI categories are a linear combination of three prognostic factors: tumour size (maximum diameter in millimetres), histological grade (1- to 3-point scale) and lymph node staging (1- to 3-point scale). Standardized published cut-offs (see Additional file 1: Appendix 1) are used to form prognostic categories within a population (e.g. good, moderate and poor prognostic groups).
This study aimed to identify and describe all published observational studies reporting NPI-category-specific overall survival following a diagnosis of early and/or locally advanced breast cancer. A meta-analysis was used to explore the between-study heterogeneity in survival estimates.
A systematic review and meta-analysis, following published recommendations [14, 15], were used to identify all published cohort studies investigating the survival of early and locally advanced breast cancer patients stratified into prognostic groups using the NPI and to synthesize the results. This systematic review was not registered with PROSPERO.
Data sources and searches
Two databases (Embase: date of inception 1974 to 9 November 2016; MEDLINE: date of inception 1946 to 9 November 2016) were searched using bespoke electronic search strategies (see Additional file 1: Appendix 2) informed by search criteria designed by Nelson et al. [16]. Hand searching of reference lists of included studies was also undertaken.
Study selection
Retrieved titles and abstracts were screened independently by two reviewers (EG, AD) in accordance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The review includes all cohort studies1 of women with early or locally advanced breast cancer, reporting all-cause mortality (overall survival) stratified by NPI group. Only journal articles or reports published in English were included. Studies were excluded if they were limited to only a specified sub-group of the full population (e.g. HER-2-positive patients only) or if they included patients with recurrent cancer2 or ductal carcinoma in situ.3 To be included in the meta-analysis, a study must have reported survival estimates as tables of survivors/events per year or graphically as survival curves.
Quality assessment and data extraction
The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Cohort Study Checklist [17] was used to appraise the reporting quality of the selected studies (see Additional file 1: Appendix 3). The following data were extracted and tabulated by two reviewers: study setting, sample description, methods of analysis and survival estimates ('overall survival'). Overall survival data were presented in identified studies as tables or graphs. Survival data from the studies using graphs were extracted using visual assessment. Guyot et al. suggest the use of algorithms for extracting data from digitized curves and conversion to time-to-event data using inverted Kaplan-Meier equations. Guyot et al.'s method was not used in this study because it requires more detailed reporting of numbers at risk (at multiple time points) than what was generally available in the included studies. Annual survival estimates and initial sample sizes were used recorded (see Additional file 1: Appendix 4 for further details of data extraction). Reconstruction of individual level time-to-event data from published survival curves has been suggested to improve the precision of meta-analysis of survival estimates. The advantages are that is potentially possible to include information regarding the censoring of observations [18] and combine survival data reported over differing lengths of follow-up.
Data analysis
All statistical analyses were conducted using Stata version 14. Forest plots were used to present individual study survival estimates for both 5 years and 10 years of follow-up. These are ordered from most distant to most recent year of mid-point of data collection. Meta-analysis, using both fixed and random effects [19] models, produced pooled estimates of both 5-year and 10-year survival, for each NPI category separately, and allowed calculation of between-study heterogeneity statistics.
Heterogeneity between-study included datasets was assessed primarily using the I2 statistic because the interpretation is appropriate and useful from an exploratory and hypothesis generating perspective [20]. This statistic is an approximate measure of what part of the variance between the estimated effects in the meta-analysis is caused by study heterogeneity rather than sampling error. An I2 score over 75% is typically taken to indicate high heterogeneity. The statistic describes the observed heterogeneity and should not be used to make inference regarding the range of true effects [21]. The Q statistic provides a statistical test of the null hypothesis that studies are homogenous (all estimating the same true effect). However, it should be noted that statistical test may be an underpowered test for heterogeneity when the number of studies is small [22].
The tau statistic was also considered, which provides an estimate of the between-study standard deviation in the true effects within a random effects meta-analysis framework [23]. The choice between using the fixed effects or the random effects meta-analysis depends on the assumed perspective regarding the underlying true effect(s) and the desired interpretation of the precision weighted average survival estimate [24]. Assumptions about the underlying true effects for these data are discussed in the terminology of Spiegelhalter et al. [25]: 'identical parameters', 'independent parameters' or 'exchangeable parameters'. The 'identical parameters' assumption is probably unrealistic in this setting given the diversity in study circumstances. Assuming 'independent parameters' may be reasonable if the variation between studies is caused by a variety of unique differences in specific settings, and the 'exchangeable parameters' assumption may also be reasonable if the variation between studies can be described by a single mixing distribution. An independent parameters assumption would motivate a fixed effects meta-analysis, while exchangeable parameters would motivate a random effects meta-analysis. In this exploratory study, we are ambivalent about which of these assumptions is the most appropriate, believing both may be reasonable, and therefore present both fixed and random effects estimates.
Summary of studies included in the review and meta-analysis
Study details
Systematic review
Number of data series (n = 30)
Number of data series (n = 14)
UK only
Size of sample
< 100 women
100 to 1000 women
1000 to 10,000 women
> 10,000 women
NPI categories
Length of analysis
5 years
Between 5 and 10 years
10 years or more
Type of analysis
Cox proportional hazard model
Other (Kaplan-Meier estimator)
Description of studies
The earliest data reported in the published studies came from 1970 [42] and most recent data from 2014 [43] (see Fig. 2). Fourteen of the identified data series (47%) reported UK data. Ten studies reported data from other European countries, and one study [1] reported data from ten European countries, including the UK. One study [2] compared two datasets: from Finland and the USA. Single studies reported data from each of Canada [42], Japan [35], South Korea [32], Hong Kong [27] and Iran [43]. Study reporting quality was generally assessed as satisfactory, and risk of bias in relation to the study survival estimates was considered to be low for all included studies (see Additional file 1: Appendix 3).
Start of each line represents first time point of data collection, and arrow head represents last time point of data collection for each study dataset.
Systematic review of evidence
There was diversity between the included studies in how women with breast cancer were classified by NPI category. The majority of the studies (n = 18; 60%) used three NPI-categories. Two studies [29, 44] (7%) grouped the sample into five NPI categories. The remaining ten (33%) studies used other numbers of NPI groups ranging from four to ten (see Table 1). Given the majority of studies used three NPI categories, the data from all studies were aggregated into three groups collapsing NPI categories where necessary. Three studies [30, 42, 45] did not provide cut-off points for NPI categories, and it was, therefore, assumed these studies used the standard cut-off values: NPI less than 3.4 for 'good prognostic group', between 3.4 and 5.4 for 'moderate prognostic group' and greater than 5.4 for 'poor prognostic group'. Two studies [28, 41] provided different cut-off points. It was assumed that observations with NPI less than 3.41 belong to the good prognostic group and observations with NPI less than 5.41 in the Jarman et al. [28] study and NPI less than 5.28 in Allgood et al. [41] study belong to the moderate prognostic group.
The forest plots provide a clear visualisation of the trends between NPI categories within studies and, as these are ordered by the mid-point of data collection, differences in overall survival across time periods. The observed pattern of overall survival by NPI category was consistent across all datasets. Overall survival was seen to be noticeably worse in NPI category 3 compared with NPI categories 1 and 2. Visual inspection suggests substantial heterogeneity was observed in overall survival between the available datasets. To illustrate, 5-year survival for NPI category 1 was as low as 81.25% [27] but also as high as 99.26% [8]. Similarly, for NPI category 3, the lowest 5-year overall survival was 24.56% [5] and the highest was 83.55% [46].
Results from the meta-analysis, pooled survival estimates and heterogeneity statistics
5-year follow-up
Fixed effects I-V estimate (95% CI)
0.953 (0.949, 0.957)
0.831 (0.825, 0.837)
0.535 (0.521, 0.549)
Random effects D-L estimate (95% CI)
0.943 (0.927, 0.96)
0.811 (0.769, 0.853)
0.565 (0.462, 0.668)
Tau (% points)
10-year follow-up
Fixed effects I-V estimate (95% CI)
0.883 (0.877, 0.888)
0.682 (0.675, 0.689)
0.353 (0.341, 0.364)
Random effects D-L estimate (95% CI)
0.869 (0.837, 0.901)
0.674 (0.608, 0.74)
0.414 (0.329, 0.499)
Tau (% points)
This review identified a substantial number of observational studies that aimed to generate estimates of the overall survival of women diagnosed with early and/or locally advanced breast cancer stratified by prognostic category using NPI.
The strengths of this study include using a comprehensive, systematic review of the literature underpinned by robust review methods (see Additional file 2: PRISMA checklist). A broad electronic search strategy, supplemented with hand searching of reference lists of identified studies, to collate all the relevant studies and datasets. The search strategy and inclusion criteria achieved good sensitivity in identifying relevant studies. The identified studies included patient cohorts from a broad range of time periods for data collection, countries and age groups. Critical appraisal following a standard protocol found study reporting quality to be generally satisfactory. A number of relevant identified studies had to be excluded from the meta-analysis of overall survival as the relevant data could not be extracted from the published manuscript and authors were not able to provide the data required. The studies excluded at this stage did not appear to suggest different outcomes for survival compared to the included studies based on the more limited information available. We focussed on cohort studies and did not include randomized controlled trials (RCT). RCT studies were considered unlikely to report NPI-stratified survival estimates and are likely to have applied more extensive exclusion criteria than cohort studies. No formal quantitative assessment of publication bias was made. It is not clear in this context the mechanism or result of publication bias that should be expected because each study was testing different hypothesis/hypotheses and in which the data extracted for this study were presented descriptively.
A particular concern in evidence synthesis is whether it was valid to pool data across multiple studies [20].This exploratory meta-analysis investigated study heterogeneity and demonstrated that this was too severe for simple pooling of survival estimates to be appropriate for the purposes of estimating survival in the current population. It is of interest to understand the factors driving the heterogeneity in survival estimates; however, these data are insufficient to allow a robust meta-regression or multilevel analysis to test hypotheses about such determinants. There are only a small number of studies and many possible explanatory variables, including some for which only weak surrogate markers would be available from study level data. Investigation of the sources of between-study heterogeneity could be best achieved using an individual patient data meta-analysis to explore factors such as the year of diagnosis of patients, country, screen detection rate and age.
This study had a number of limitations. To provide quantitative estimates of overall survival by NPI category, given the relative age of some of the identified studies, it was necessary to collate some data by visual inspection of published survival curves. This process will have introduced some measurement error. Due to lack of detailed reporting of losses to follow-up it was also necessary to assume that all studies had no loss to follow-up, which could result in different degrees of selection bias in the results if there were differential losses to follow-up across studies. Based on the published study protocols and the routine and often statutory collection of mortality data, we believe that losses to follow-up are likely to be minimal. Due to limitations of available resources, non-English language studies and those with insufficient reporting of data were excluded. Furthermore, it was considered infeasible based on available resources and likely data sharing restrictions, to attempt to collate individual patient data to address some of these limitations. The resulting exclusions may introduce some selection bias, but it is not possible to know the impact of such a bias.
There were some observed differences in included studies in the methods used to assess lymph node status which is a key input to define NPI category. Originally, node involvement for selected NPI category was assessed using biopsy results of a lower axillary node, an apical axillary node and a node from the internal mammary chain. Node status was specified as one if the tumour was absent from all three nodes, two if tumour cells were found in lower axillary node only, and three if tumour cells were in the apical and/or internal mammary node [4]. To increase usability of the NPI, Galea et al. [5] suggested staging based on the number of involved nodes from the single location as a viable alternative, which was subsequently used in later studies. However, we believe this change in assessment of node status was sufficiently similar to not introduce bias in the analysis.
Precision medicine promises to deliver improved patient outcomes through better understanding of patient and disease heterogeneity, and ultimately better targeted screening and therapeutic strategies. Moving the concept of precision medicine into clinical practice requires mechanisms to identify and stratify eligible patient populations. Prognostic models are an important component in such a mechanism because they allow an individualized quantitative estimate of potential treatment benefit.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of NPI stratified estimates of survival revealed a key challenge in the design and evaluation of precision medicine interventions; that substantial differences may exist between studies estimating the relationship between a marker or score and the outcome of interest. Heterogeneity of study estimates should be investigated carefully for all such interventions. This finding suggests a potential additional burden on shared decision-making between clinicians and patients. Achieving a better informed decision is only possible if all of the available evidence is correctly synthesized and clearly presented.
The results of this systematic review and meta-analysis have implications for patients, clinicians, decision analysts and policy analysts requiring a prediction of long-term overall survival, in women diagnosed with early and/or locally advanced breast cancer. The observed heterogeneity in overall survival estimates indicates that it is important to make use of survival data from an appropriate setting to provide reliable prognostic information for use in clinical practice, and also in decision-analytic model-based economic evaluations of new treatments, screening programmes or prevention strategies to inform health care resource allocation decisions.
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A study that takes a group (cohort) of patients and follows their progress over time in order to measure outcomes such as disease or mortality rates and make comparisons according to the treatments or interventions that patients received [47].
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Cancer reappearing after a remission [48].
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A proliferation of malignant-appearing cells of the ducts and terminal lobular units of the breast that have not breached the ductal basement membrane [49].
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7 under grant agreement no. 306088. The funder had no role in the design of the study or collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or in writing the manuscript.
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Authors' contributions
EG contributed to the design of the study, abstract and full text review; design of the statistical analysis; and writing of the manuscript. AD contributed to the literature search, abstract and full text review; data extraction; data analysis; and writing of the manuscript. PH contributed to interpretation of the results and writing of the manuscript. KP contributed to the design of the study, interpretation of the results and writing of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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HAWK who formed in its current line-up in spring 2013, is quickly becoming a favourite of Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq, Frank Skinner, Simon Raymonde among many others in the UK, together with being playlisted by XFM, BBC Radio 6 and Amazing Radio to name a few. While May 2015's 'Glass' (released in solidarity with the Irish Marriage Equality YES campaign) has been the attraction for some new admirers in media circles in the UK, others such as Tom Robinson & Dave Rowntree have been following the band for some time. Of the band's 'Clock Hands' (rel spring 2015) UK release BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson is quoted as saying "Clock Hands is one of the strongest records we've played all year", and Dave Rowntree of XFM "Almost impossibly beautiful"
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Time Goes By Too Slow After DivorcePosted: March 21, 2012 in divorce, healing
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I used to think that time was my enemy.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick….tock.
The seconds, minutes and hours continuously counting down… pressuring me to make a decision, accomplish something or be somewhere. I was constantly in a race to get to where I wanted to be; literally and figuratively.
But, after my divorce, I noticed that time could also work in the opposite way as well.
When we are waiting in line for something, most of us feel that the time just doesn't pass by quick enough… When we're in pain, it always feels like the time will never pass…
One night, after my divorce, I felt triumphant, though still hopeless.
I had done it! I had divorced my husband. I had gone back to work after being a stay at home mom for two years. I had successfully made it through a twelve month legal battle and I was happy!
So why was so uneasy?
Because, I felt like the clock of life was going too fast. I had no idea what was next…but that clock kept ticking. Going too slow to erase the pain, but too fast for me to catch up on life's plans.
That was over six years ago and to look back and think about it now seems silly to worry about today…
So, here I am; it is March of 2012 and it I realized now that time was never the enemy… always my friend…and a true gift. Time was a tool; patience and faith the key.
I'm right where I'm supposed to be, and although difficult, it's been a glorious journey.
I was eager for results and too quickly wanted to arrive somewhere..
But I see that when we are patient, we give ourselves the necessary opportunities and experiences we require, to become who we are meant to be… as well as where we are meant to be…
Our destiny, if you will.
So, after your divorce, don't be pressured by the tick-tick-tock of the clock. Be thankful you have that extra time to heal, make choices, change your mind, grow as a person, or fix a mistake.
Be thankful that you have that extra time to say you're sorry, change your mind, grow as a person or fix a mistake.
This was written in 2012 and i'm reading it now as I will be going through a divorce soon. Maybe be in few months. I am from India, from a family where divorce is still looked down on. I am 26 and blindly fell in love and got married two years back. Got to know on day 3 of wedding that he doesn't love me. So I've moved back with my parents who've been very supportive. I am at a stage where even trusting another man has become difficult. I hope it gets better. I feel like a failure and i hope it changes over time. I just felt like telling you this.
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It's over. The nightmare. The depression. All gone. I feel so good.
3 days after starting the asthma medication ALL symptoms were gone and I can breathe. I can't remember the last time I felt this good. I sleep 1000x better than before, I don't feel like drowning at night anymore, no more coughing, no more troubles getting air. Also, I got rid of the big dose of Ketipinor and only have 100mg for sleeping. No more being paralyzed! Getting off caffeine reduced the arrhythmia to 0. Excessive resting healed some of the injury in my foot and I can actually walk without constant pain. I've been a week without the sleeping pill since I had no money to buy it and I can live without it. Really. I never thought I'd actually feel this way but I don't actually need chems to sleep. Of course I will take advantage of having the prescription for as long as possible… But if I'm ever encountered by a situation where I just need to get along without my little helpers I'm sure I'll get along. LOL
Also I got my new clothes and having new, big enough and not broken clothes has done wonders to my self confidence. I even went for a walk the other day! Should go to blood tests this week. Should've gone last week but I kept pushing it ahead.
Since all this I have more energy and motivation and am more creative again. I've started to clean up the house again. This was an impossible dump and all dishes were dirty. x__x It's still baby steps but a lot better than two weeks ago. Brought out the trash, washed some dishes and bed sheets. It's a long road to the point where I can let other people in here but at least I never had a bug problem. Need to vacuum very soon. There's a massive carpet of cat hair everywhere.
We've had a bad dust problem. It was a mild winter but the amount of (useless) sand that was used on the streets has now created massive dust clouds when it's windy. The day I went to pick up my new clothes there was an apocalyptic glow when setting sun hit the enormous dust cloud hanging between the houses. It was very windy and the dust was blown into my eyes and I breathed it in. Should start to carry one of my dust masks around with me. I made them out of old pants a long time ago. XD I've never seen this bad dust problem in the spring.
Yesterday I had luck when I saw that the rent support had been paid already when I was about to go redeem bottles. Got a good amount of stuff to eat, like bread, margarine, cheese, soy yoghurt, 3 liters of Coke, bananas and ice cream. Also stuff to cook a meal from. Going to make a bolognese today. My sleeping routine is still backwards. Yesterday I slept til 5.30pm so I'm not getting tired until around 10am today (it's 3.45am now) and I will have to push myself not to go to sleep during day. I need a celery for the bolognese so might go buy that and energy drink sometime in the morning to stay awake. The money won't last forever though and I still gotta pay rent, but I'm happy to announce that I only have 2 rates left from couch and Samsung tablet and beginning June will have 70 euro more left every month. Yayyy!! I've been waiting a long time for this. I was originally going to update my pc after those rates are paid but I need to wait a little longer. After all I can run Fallout 4 with several mods and Maru loves to warm his belly on the super heated machine. It has started to make a weird noise lately and today I got the shock of my life when after start I was greeted with a blank desktop void of all personal files. All pics, music, other data and GAME SAVES gone. Something died in me, but after panicking a while I did a restart and it all came back. Jeez. Currently waiting for the backup to finish. Been waiting for the past 4 hours and it's done in maybe another 45 or 50 minutes.
The past few days I've been extra active in Facebook in a new group. Fun and welcoming. But I have generally had real bad experiences with Facebook groups so I'm not getting my hopes up for this to last. Oh, the backup finished and Maru already managed to drool on Rindou, my backup drive. XD For some reason I'm not able to make a full backup with all the libraries included but at least a system backup works and I regularly move the private stuff to one of the storage drives. Yeah, should really see if some company can either fix my big drive or pull the data from there. I had a lot of important stuff there.
Some time ago I went to look for something in my dvd shelf and discovered that I own Mass Effect 2 and 3. Never played, never even installed. Should try them sometime. I propably got one of them as a present but not sure. I can't remember when I bought most of my games. LOL Need some grub now. Starting to feel dizzy. After that getting Maru's belly warmed up and trying to find that one damn gun in Fallout 4…


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"Digital Construction Week brings to together the most innovative players in the built environment attracting visitors with the opportunity to get hands on with the latest technology, including our VR and 4D visualisations, and more than 90 hours of conference and seminar content," commented Dr Jozef Dobos, CEO of 3D Repo.
Digital Construction Week (DCW) is the only event series in the UK dedicated to digital transformation in construction, engineering, design, manufacturing and operation. The event series features a 2 day exhibition, hands on demonstrations and free-to-attend seminars, workshops, classes, networking events and a full 2 day thought leadership conference. Co-curated by the UK Governments Digital Built Britain Strategy, the conference boasts 5 themed seminar streams covering Visualisation, Geospatial, Industry 4.0, Tech and BIM.
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To coincide with DCW and kick off the week's proceedings 3D Repo will be organising the fourth British Information Modelling event. Bringing together innovators and experts from across the BIM and GIS sectors high profile representatives from Flux.io, Bryden Wood and Ordnance Survey will join 3D Repo at Geovation Hub in London on the 16th October. Further details including a full speaker line up and joining instructions are available at https://3drepo.com/registration-for-4th-british-information-modelling-by-3d-repo-now-open/
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde
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Kvällens tekopp: Kustfägring
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Milt, sött, doftar gott. Blir lätt beskt om det drar för länge eller om vattnet är för hett, så koka ej till 100grader.
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There's a week left 'til my 26th birthday. It's been a very busy and hectic year, mostly in a good way, I think.
Autumn's been very stressful, and apart from the internship I'm also up to the neck in studies, which means I am basically doing two full-time scheduals and therefor studying at 200%. Because of some really messed up paper-work, I also get no financial aid until I can prove that I've taken credits these past months. I lack 2,5credits to be appointed student aid, and during november I will be finishing 30credits worth of course work. You'd think that should be enough, together with plenty of phonecalls and both e-mails and letters from my teacher, but my case is one of many amongst the masses of paper being shuffled between idiots, so at the moment I live off of my parents never-ending goodwill.
Being home, I do get to see my Stockholm friend's once in a while, but mostly for lunches during the weeks. I spend a lot of time with my sister as well, which I really appreciate. We have fun together, and we talk and watch tv-series a lot.
I do miss my Uppsala-life, and my friends, and having more of my own space. I also miss my old neighbours alot. This week especially, I've been going through pictures from the past two years and been ridiculously nostalgic. I blame the fact that they are far, but also the fact that this time of year makes me emotional and travel-sick. November always holds the promise of more grey and more cold than I would like to see, all in one place, inside and out.
Also, closing in on my birthday, it makes me all the more aware of the
I had laid out for myself this year. I didn't even come close to finish it. But I did do alot of things I've wanted to do, and did manage to atleast begin on a lot of projects that I'll finish in a near future. I'm quite pleased by the results all the same. Now I'm thinking, should I make a new one for next year? Or throw myself into the very ambitious
101 things in 1001 days
-project instead? I could always continue on the stages from my first that I left unfinished and go from there.
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Hello CIA
It's been a strange year when it comes to the war against terror.
The world is (still, and always will be) full of oppression that many agree on should not be ignored, but many are also the people who throw non-appreciative glances towards the US. and their foreign-policies.
The 10th year marker after 9/11 came and went, and it was odd for me to realize it had been so long since a happening that monumentally changed the world's view on people with my ethnical heritage, and gave nations the right to invade other countries far away, with no proof, no plan, and no other intention than "doing the right thing"; which was essentially bombing poor people, looking for political figures for years without finding them and then leaving whole countries in shambles in the Middle East after being accused of only going there for the oil in the first place.
Yet things have happened, and changed. Bin Laden was finally killed this year. I say finally, not because it was a good thing that a crazy oppressor was killed (because there was no trial and no real punishment for all he's done), but because he was a symbol of many a things evil, and an easy way to look at a very complicated problem. He was one face to represent many horrors in Afghanistan (and in the world) and now that he is finally out of the picture, perhaps the rest of the western world can concentrate more on actually helping the people of Afghanistan build new lives with some dignity, instead of wrecking everything and then just leaving all our shit behind for them to deal with, when not finding what we're looking for.
The people of Egypt took up arms, and marched and marched for their freedom. It was, in everyway a glorious, powerfully haunting and brutal thing. They lost so very much to gain new ground, and hopefully,
, there are new roads to pave. Of course, one of the major issues pressed on from the western world should now be
"Will this new democracy you are striving for include the rights of women?"
Because that aspect seems conviniently forgotten now that people (a.k.a. men) want to rebuild a new and free Egypt (for men, apparently).
And today, Muammar Gaddafi, the military ruler of Libya was announced dead. In Stockholm, the news showed people of Libean heritage celebrate. Ofcourse, there is always fear, even through the happiness. What if the news is wrong? What if the riots that follow claim more lives? What if the next regime is even worse? (Believe me, that's what most Iranians had to wittness after the revolution of -79).
But still, times they are a-changing. With casualties, with chaos, but maybe maybe in a slightly better direction.
I was thinking this, when I a couple of hours earlier mentioned to a friend on Facebook-chat that I had seen the news of Gaddaffi's death. I said, it was interesting how many (I meant of these dictators) who had died or been overthrown this year. I then said, that I wondered why noone had tried to take out the Israeli regime.
Now, many would think that this is a very strange comparison. That Israel is not a dictatorship or a terrorist nation. I disagree. I believe that the Jewish people have a right to their own country, to freedom and happiness and dignified lives. I refuse to believe though, that this can only be achieved by the systematic and terrorfilled oppression of their neighbours the Palestinians, who finally made a formal appeal for their independence this autumn. Perhaps it is as writer
Amos Oz
says, for both nations to reach a satisfying solution, there must perhaps first be made compromises that leave both parties un-satisfied.
The Israeli regime might represent the fears of their people, persecuted for generations, but they cannot make me believe that the entire nation agrees that the best way of securing your own rights is to bring a new Holocaust upon you neighbours. The Gaza war of January 2009 was basically an attempt of annihilating a country from the face of the Earth, and the fact that the rest of the world just stood by and watch will forever be one of the most disgusting political dicisions made in my youth. It was so dispicable that some Jewish soldiers refused to go to war. Civilians protested. And everyone who part-took in these "unpatriotic acts" was sent to prison. In Sweden, that would be called discrimination against human rights and freedome of speech being violated by the rulers, but apparently, Isreal is not to be judged.
I find that horrific, and disgusting. I believe the regime of Israel is in many ways the same cruel, self-deluded madmen and murderers as Ghadaffi and Bin Laden. I believe that the nation of Israel deserves more than to carve it's future through the bodies of Palestinians, and I believe the people of Palestine have been long denied their human rights.
, apparently saying this, or even indicating this by comparing the Israeli regime to Gaddafi and questioning why noone has tried to overthrow and kill them yet, is not kosher (haha), cause withing 5 minutes of writing this in my chat, my Facebook account was down for maintnance. The page informed me to return in a couple of minutes, and has as of then been unavailable to me for hours.
So, as I now feel very, very watched, I want to take this moment to say openly to whoever did all the conspiracy-like watching:
As a woman of Middle Eastern heritage, a feminist and socialist, I find the American foreign-politics to be a self-righteous, patriotic, religiously fanatic load of crap, and truly believe that the rest of the world would despise you much less if you kept it in your pants and stopped being such hypocritical arses. By now, half the third world would rather live in misery than have your wrecking-ball mentality invade their countries, and the other half are mostly blaming you for their regimes, as you continuously help opressors until they turn their backs on you.
Also, I am a literature major at Uni that barely passed second year high school chemistry, so you have no fear of me ever wanting to concoct anything strange on planes, not even now, even though my comments above might make me look like a potential risk. I can ofcourse see why you think me tempted though, cause of me being of so-called "terrorist decent" as i think it was called on
American Dad,
and the fact that your flight rules forced everyone else in the world to adapt to a system were we bring everything in with hundreds of miniature bottles, making everyone's bag look like something out of CSI. At least make it up to me by letting me off the hook when having to sign the ridiculous papers about not being a
or affiliated with Nazi Germany pre-1945 everytime I fly to the US to visit relatives and friends, and finally:
If you really have the time to flag people like me through Facebook, mail, or phone-conversations, I propose you put your resources into other more urgent stuff: as in finding actual criminals, repaying your humoungous debt to China or donating the money to Zuckerberg - who despite all his money cannot seem to design a new Facebook update that doesn't suck.
That would be all.
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I have lots of friends who are really into decluttering right now! This is fine, but I wasn't having any part of it, hating housework the way I do. And living in an apartment (after living in a 2,000 sq ft house on 6 acres), I just thought clutter was unavoidable.
Yesterday I had a little time to kill and did this:
This is the top of our dresser BEFORE:
And this is the top of the dresser AFTER:
And these are my scrapbook magazines, BEFORE:
And these are the Magazines, AFTER:
Okay, I fully realize that this is no big deal to most people, but I have enjoyed seeing other people's before and after pictures, so why not take and post some of my own?
Because, truly, I am waiting for some HOT WATER TO SHOWER IN!
And I'm not likely to get it, and I really have to go shower anyway. So wish me luck!
Life with two teenage daughters = cold showers.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Decluttering is Contagious!
Posted by Wanda at 6:30 AM
3 comments:
- Amy said...
Great job, Wanda & I LOVE your magazine rack....that is so cool! Funny how that decluttering bug has been passed from one to the other these past few days! ;-)
- January 22, 2008 at 7:08 AM
- sharon said...
ha... love the before and after pic's. i have done the same thing here at home.. oops, but without the pics... sniff. love it.
- January 22, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- Kaye said...
Looks great, Wanda!!!
- January 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM
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These are on my favorite list for medical transcription reference sites:
http://www.labtestsonline.org/map/aindex.html This site provides a very comprehensive list of labs tests
http://www.medicinenet.com/medications/article.htm I use this site to reference medications. They are in alphabetical order, with 1 page per letter.
There are also categories for diseases, symptoms, procedures and a medical dictionary.
http://upin.ecare.com/ You can look up physician name with only a few letters of last name/first name. Also narrows search by state, specialty and zip
Sometimes in a surgical report the doctor will mention an instrument that I've never heard of. This site is actually a medical supply company but has categories for surgical instruments, wound care products, different types of slings, etc. http://www.medical-supplies-equipment-company.com/
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Church Announces BYU–Pathway Worldwide
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the creation of a global higher-education organization, BYU–Pathway Worldwide (BYU–PW). The institution will have responsibility for all online certificate and degree programs offered by the Church Educational System (CES).
Clark G. Gilbert, current president of BYU–Idaho, will oversee this new organization. BYU–Pathway Worldwide will be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and will begin operating May 1, 2017.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, made these announcements Tuesday during a press conference on Temple Square.
BYU–Pathway Worldwide has its roots in BYU–Idaho's Pathway program, which began in 2009 with 50 total students at three pilot sites in Idaho, Arizona and New York. The program has since expanded to nearly 500 sites in 50 countries and has served 57,000 students.
Gilbert's previous experience in mentoring students, navigating the ever-changing world of communication technology and building and leading large organizations makes him a sound fit to head BYU–PW. He left a faculty position at Harvard Business School in 2006 to work in student services at BYU–Idaho. Since then he has filled assignments as CEO of Deseret Digital Media (2009), president of Deseret News (2010) and president of BYU–Idaho (2015).
"Based on the rapid growth of the Pathway program, the educational needs across the Church and the need to work with other Church institutions to make this work, it is the right time to expand Pathway," Gilbert said. "We are part of a worldwide Church, and there are members all across the world who are ready for this."
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Village to remember soldier sent to battle after just 35 days of training
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A Norfolk village is continuing with its centenary commemorations of The Great War by remembering the life of a serviceman from the parish who died 100 years ago.
A special three-hour peal is set to be rung at St Andrew's Church, Great Ryburgh from 2pm on Friday in memory of Private Joseph Thomas Baker of the Royal West Surrey Regiment who was conscripted into the army on February 7, 1917 at the age of 33.
Just 35 days later he had been sent to France, where he fell ill and died on pneumonia on March 14.
This short time between his start of service and his death has left the community group, Ryburgh Remembers, questioning the training he was given before being sent to the frontlines, particuarly when compared to fellow Ryburgh casualty Stanley Curson who enlisted in 1915 and went through 164 days of training before being sent to battle.
Pte Baker was born in Oxfordshire in 1883 but moved to Norfolk when he married to Edith Nobes of Little Ryburgh in 1915.
Today he lies in France among 1,266 Portland Stone graves at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery in Saulty, where his gravestone is simply inscribed 'Peace Perfect Peace'.
Ryburgh Remembers researcher Peter Trent said: "One of the successes of the project has been in the sharing of information with descendants and other family members.
"Pte Baker is one of those about whom we know very little and with a special commemoration arranged for March 17, we hope that even at this late stage to make contact with descendants or someone who can join us on the day or help enhance the short biography we've created."
Through their research, Ryburgh Remembers has discovered that Joseph's widow Edith lived in Highfield Lane, Great Ryburgh and that their son James attended the village school between May, 1921 and October, 1925 before being "removed to Snoring".
Edith later remarried a Sidney J. Peel in Dereham in 1930 and they had a son Eric born in December of that year. In 1950, James William Thomas Baker married Daphne King and they also lived in the Dereham area.
Anyone with information on the descendants of Pte Baker, or who can help Ryburgh Remembers in their efforts to commemorate the fallen, can contact Steve Bushby on 07760 451755.


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Cheney kept Congress in dark about CIA program
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The report that Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.
Panetta, who ended the program when he learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.
Efforts to reach Cheney through relatives and associates were unsuccessful.
Sensitive programs
The question of how completely the CIA informed Congress about sensitive programs has been hotly disputed by Democrats and Republicans since May, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, accused the agency of failing to reveal in 2002 that it was waterboarding a terrorism suspect, an allegation Panetta denied.
The law requires the president to ensure the intelligence committees "are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity." But the language of the statute, the amended National Security Act of 1947, leaves some leeway for judgment, saying such briefings should be conducted "to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters."
In addition, for covert action programs, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden, the law says that briefings can be limited to the so-called Gang of Eight, consisting of the Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress and of their intelligence committees.
The disclosure about Cheney's role in the unidentified CIA program comes a day after an inspector general's report underscored the central role of the former vice president's office in restricting to a small circle of officials knowledge of the National Security Agency's program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort.
A spokesman for the intelligence agency, Paul Gimigliano, declined Saturday to comment on the report of Cheney's role.
Bill Harlow, a spokesman for George Tenet, who was director of central intelligence when the unidentified program began, declined to comment Saturday, noting that the program remains classified.
Intelligence and congressional officials have said the unidentified program did not involve the CIA interrogation program and did not involve domestic intelligence activities. They have said the program was started by the counterterrorism center at the CIA shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but never became fully operational, involving planning and some training that took place sporadically from 2001 until this year.
Never operational
"Because this program never went fully operational and hadn't been briefed as Panetta thought it should have been, his decision to kill it was neither difficult nor controversial," one intelligence official, who would speak about the classified program only on condition of anonymity. "That's worth remembering amid all the drama."
In the eight years of his vice presidency, Cheney was the Bush administration's most vehement defender of the secrecy of government activities, particularly in the intelligence arena. He went to the Supreme Court to keep secret the advisers to his task force on energy, and won.
A report released on Friday by the inspectors general of five agencies about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program makes clear that Cheney's legal adviser, David Addington, had to personally approve every government official who was told about the program. The report said "the exceptionally compartmented nature of the program" frustrated FBI agents who were assigned to follow up on tips it turned up.
Addington could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., a member of the House intelligence committee, wrote on Friday to the chairman, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, to demand an investigation of the unidentified program and why Congress was not told of it. Aides said Reyes was reviewing the matter.


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After a improbable three days of sporting achievements from all COBIS faculties, the Championship desk named St Saviour's School, Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria the winners of the 2015 COBIS Primary Games, adopted by The British School Al Khubairat in 2nd place and joint third place was shared between St Catherine's British School and The British School in The Netherlands.
Day 2 was dedicated to T-ball, with six diamonds in use it was another motion packed day with every match being contested over two innings. This is the best place on the net to play on-line video games free of charge… play on Armor Games! Kerry midfield duo Anthony Maher and David Moran are graduates of the Munster GAA Primary Game as well as soccer star David Meyler and Munster and Ireland scrum half Conor Murray. The remaining day of the Games occurred at Dubai College with students raring to get going on the soccer event. They went on to beat North Armidale in a last filled with passion that epitomised the rivalry on the sector and friendship off the sector that the Games push. Five interactive video games to support the year goals set out in the Primary Strategy.
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COBIS colleges and college students from around the world took half in another sporting Championship last week, The Primary Invitation Cup, hosted by King's College: The British School of Alicante. This was awarded to St Catherine's British School, Athens, hosts of the 2015 Primary and Secondary Games. Congratulations and thanks to all members, elc students, lecturers, coaches, and oldsters for making these Games so memorable. After an incredible three days of sporting excellence, just one school could take away the prestige of 1st place in the COBIS Secondary Games and that was Dubai College. The first one is Word Wonderland Primary Lite, which is the free version and the second one is Word Wonderland Primary which supplies more choices and ranges for the younger person. Visit our Curriculum Guide to search out games and actions to fulfill your classroom's curriculum wants for Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies.


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Tuesday Treasures at the Ranch
May 22 through August 28
- Date: 06/19/2018 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Location: Sandstone Ranch Visitors & Learning Center
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Longmont, Colorado 80504
- Introduction: Join us each Tuesday for information, examples, and free activities for themes relating to Sandstone Ranch. All ages welcome.
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Tables will be set up from 9am-noon with information, examples and activities for kids and adults about themes relating to Sandstone Ranch. Weekly themes:
- 1st Tuesday: Earth and Sky
- 2nd Tuesday: Feathered Friends
- 3rd Tuesday: History (Tour at 10am)
- 4th Tuesday: Critters Warm & Cold
- 5th Tuesday: Predators & Prey
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3001 Sandstone Drive, Longmont, CO 80504
To get to Sandstone Ranch from Longmont, go east on Ken Pratt Boulevard / Highway 119, past the intersection of Weld County Road (WCR) 1. The ballpark facilities are located on the south side of the road, 1/2 mile east of WCR 1. The Visitors & Learning Center, sports field complex, skate park, adventure playground and picnic shelter are also located on the south side of the road, 1 mile east of WCR 1. View pdf map.


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Archaeologists have reportedly uncovered the ancient entrance gate to the biblical city of Zer in Israel, also known as Bethsaida, which is mentioned in the New Testament as the city where Jesus fed the 5,000 with five loaves and two fish in one His most well-known miracles.
"There are not many gates in this country from this period. Bethsaida was the name of the city during the Second Temple period, but during the First Temple period it was the city of Zer," said Dr. Rami Arav, director of the Bethsaida Project, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The discovery of the gate was made during excavations carried out in the Golan Heights, with the size and wealth of the fortification suggesting that Zer was a big city.
In recent weeks, archaeologists have also found coins, beads, jugs, a house key, along with a shield that belonged to a Roman soldier. One of the coins was dated back to 35 BCE, or not long before the birth of Christ.
Arav has been carrying out excavations in the Bethsaida area for close to 30 years, which have increased the popularity of the region, and led to masses of Christian pilgrims visiting the site.
Avi Lieberman, director of the Jordan Park, where Bethsaida is located, said that the latest discovery can attract even more people.
"The staff at the Jordan Park and the Golan Tourism are happy for the tens of thousands of visitors who visit the park every day. The wonderful park is also an impressive archaeological site. I [am] amazed each time by the arrival of thousands of evangelical visitors to Bethsaida. I am confident that the latest discoveries will bring more visitors to the park from around the world and from Israel," Lieberman said.
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North Carolina's 2017/18 school performance grades have been released, and Buncombe County Schools (BCS) is proud to share some of the accomplishments noted by the state. Thirty-six Buncombe County schools met or exceeded growth, and 23 schools earned A or B grades; additionally, six of our seven BCS middle schools exceeded growth and the seventh met growth. Buncombe County Schools graduation rate is 87.8% which is slightly above the state average of 86.3%.
"Our staff and students have much to be proud of in this year's school performance scores. Our classrooms are home to rigorous curriculums and innovative teaching practices," Superintendent Dr. Tony Baldwin said. "We continue to work through our challenges and are focused on ensuring that each and every one of our students are prepared with a 21st-century education," he added.
Other notable accomplishments in this year's performance grades include:
-Valley Springs Middle School has experienced six straight years of exceeding growth and had the highest growth index among all BCS schools.
-Emma Elementary has experienced five consecutive years of exceeding growth.
-Nesbitt Discovery Academy, Buncombe County Early and Middle College each earned an 'A'.
-Six BCS schools improved from 'not meeting growth' to 'exceeding growth' last year.
In 2012, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law requiring all schools to be graded from an A to an F. State legislation requires that School Performance Grades are based 80-percent on a school's achievement score and 20-percent on students' academic growth over the course of the year. Please visit the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's website using this link to see the full report.


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ole/Last Gang Ink 'Rock Star Supernova' Deal
TORONTO: ole/Last Gang Publishing is pleased to announce a worldwide co-publishing agreement with Dominic Cifarelli for his interest in the song "Headspin," co-written by Rock Star Supernova front man Lukas Rossi and destined to be on the band's debut album, out worldwide on Epic, on November 21.
Written while both Cifarelli and Rossi were members of Rise Electric, "Headspin" was performed twice by Rossi on the final two episodes of the hit CBS reality series Rock Star: Supernova and helped secure his victory.
The deal to acquire an interest in "Headspin" is the latest development in the co-venture between ole, the Canadian independent music publishing giant and Toronto-based Last Gang Publishing, a division of Last Gang Entertainment, to build promising artists and songwriters from around the world and advance their careers.
Lukas Rossi is currently in the studio finishing up the album with producer Butch Walker and bandmates Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), Jason Newsted (Metallica, Voivod) and Gilby Clarke (Guns 'N Roses.) The band will makes its live debut at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve for a two-night stand and embarks on a 31-date North American and Australian tour on January 16 in Hollywood, Florida, with more dates to follow.
Chris Taylor, founder and president of Last Gang Publishing, a division of Last Gang Entertainment, says the agreement reached with Dominic Cifarelli is just the beginning and that he should greatly benefit from ole's global administrative expertise.
"ole provides a fantastic way for writers to collect their money worldwide and we are looking at this as part of a longer term relationship with Dominic as he develops his writing talent and recording project," said Taylor. "More to come!"
Cifarelli was former lead guitarist of Montreal Nü Metal band and former Atlantic Recording artists Pulse Ultra.
About Last Gang Publishing
A sister company to Last Gang Records, Last Gang Management and under the umbrella of Last Gang Entertainment, Last Gang Publishing was established in 2005 by music industry attorney Chris Taylor. LGP is focused on new, cool, developing talent that will grow into the stars of tomorrow, and their signings include Panurge, O'Luge, Kinnie Starr, Murray Yates of Forty Foot Echo and Steven Dall. Last Gang entered a joint venture agreement in 2005 with ole to find and develop cutting edge artist and songwriters from around the world and take them to new career heights. Contact: email@example.com
about ole
ole is a multi-national, Canadian owned, full-service music publisher founded by Robert Ott (former VP/GM BMGMP Canada) and Tim Laing (former radio and TV producer and finance executive). ole boasts an experienced team of some 18 industry professionals involved in acquisitions, creative development and administration worldwide.
The ole catalogue includes over twenty thousand songs across all genres ranging from pop, to country, to urban to rhythm & blues and soul. ole has completed some $28MM USD in new acquisitions over the past year including purchases of the, Balmur, Encore, Keith Follese, Dream Warriors, Frank Myers, David Tyson and Lighthouse catalogues. Recent cuts include the lead-off single "Shoes" by Shania Twain from Music Inspired by Desperate Housewives, Jaheim's 'Daddy Thing', Sean Paul's "Change the Game," "He Ain't Even Cold Yet" by Gretchen Wilson, Ronnie Milsap's "My Life" and Trace Adkins' "High." ole has concluded worldwide publishing administration agreements with film and television producers Nelvana, The National Film Board of Canada, DiC Entertainment, Shaftesbury Films, Arcadia Entertainment, Devine Entertainment, Lenz Entertainment, CCI, Breakthrough Films, Amberwood Entertainment, Slanted Wheel and Mona Lisa and Suman out of Europe.
ole also recently signed its first administration deal with Sound Of Pop, a Toronto-based music publishing company, label and management firm whose clients include Cadence Grace, London Apartments and J.C. Smith. ole is the sole Canadian administrator for the prestigious Arc Music Group, a catalogue that includes songs by Jerry Butler, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and Otis Rush.
The company has signed songwriters Gerald O'Brien, John Wesley Chisholm, Ben Dunk, James Huff, Willie Mack, Scarlett, Steve Mandile and Derek Brin and struck a co-venture deal with Last Gang Publishing -- a division of Last Gang Entertainment -- bringing West Coast rockers Panurge, Murray Yates of Forty Foot Echo and Kinnie Starr to the roster as well as Steven Dall. ole recently announced co-ventures with Roots Three Music -- which includes songwriters Bruce Wallace, Chris Thorsteinson, Dave Wasyliw (of Doc Walker), Denny Carr (The Road Hammers and Doc Walker) -- and IB Entertainment.
At ole the goal is to be the home for the best songwriters, composers, management talent and intellectual property investors and the first choice music source for creators in all media.
The ole website can be found at www.majorlyindie.com