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┌── Frederic Calvin Henshaw │ 1887-1969 ┌── Albert William Henshaw ──┤ │ 1921-1998 │ │ └── Caroline Reid Thompson │ 1886-? Albert William Henshaw ───┤ B: 1941 │ ┌── - Fuller │ │ └── Juanita Helen Fuller ────┤ │ └── Floeta Fern Oswalt M: Bonita Phillipsen ├── Bryan William Henshaw (1964-) 1,2,3 ├── Rodney Ivan Henshaw (1966-) 1,3 └── Kristen Wanda Henshaw (1971-) 1
|Albert William Henshaw [ID 05973]
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Born Nov 14 1941, Fresno County, California.1,3
He married Bonita Phillipsen, Oct 12 1963, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California.1 Bonita, daughter of Chester Phillipsen & Lulu Bartram, was born Jul 28 1945, Oregon City, Oregon.1
Al and Bonita were divorced in St. Louis, Missouri.1
Al was an executive officer with Farmer Brother's Coffee until his retirement in March of 1998.1,4 Currently (1998) he is self-employed as a broker.1
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He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 (NASB)
We are busy moms, aren't we? It strikes me that the verses above don't say, "What does the Lord require of you but to clean the kitchen, do the laundry, work full-time, get the groceries, sign the kids up for soccer, sign the kids up for football, sign the kids up for piano, drive the kids to ballet, go to the pool twice a week in the summer, do craft projects with the kids daily, host the company Christmas party, and … so on.
Rather, God's list is pretty short. Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly with God. Maybe it's time to pare down my to-do list.
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:38-42 (ESV)
Are you anxious and troubled about many things–even good things like serving others? Are you missing the one thing?
Entering the holiday season this year, I'm issuing a challenge. Moms, let's find some ways to simplify our lives. I'm not sure how, but maybe we could say no to a party. Decorate more sparingly. Give fewer and simpler gifts. Stay home with our families. Spend less money. Spend more time with those we love. Be content with what we have. Make time for the one thing. Sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from Him!

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Does your ERP WMS provide the functionality you need?
A recent survey from Insight Enterprises found that a large amount of small and medium-size business executives from around the world were planning on making investments in new technology over the next year. Strong sales and steady growth across the board have spurred businesses everywhere to begin putting those increased cash flows to work. The focus of much of this investment will no doubt be on business software that promises to bring higher rates of efficiency and more orders processed. Retailers, manufacturers and anyone involved in supply chain processes are likely to consider an enterprise resource planning solution to open up new business possibilities. However, even with the rapid advance of ERP software that promises to get everything done, there are still some drawbacks inherent in adopting such a broad approach to inventory optimisation.
ERP doesn't cut it
ERP vendors often promise the moon when it comes to solving business issues and optimising end-to-end performance. Unfortunately, the reality is far less rosy. In a study from Gartner Research, which found that 90 per cent of ERP projects initiated by businesses are likely to fail in the next two years, mainly due to cost overruns, complexity and a lack of practical functionality.
"Most ERP projects fail due to the burdensome costs involved."
"Twenty five or more years after ERP solutions entered the applications market, many ERP projects are still compromised in time, cost and more insidiously in business outcomes," Gartner research vice president Carol Hardcastle said in a statement.
While ERP solutions often bill themselves as a one-stop-shop for myriad departments and common tasks within an organisation, they often create a paradoxically more complex environment for everyone involved. Getting them working right means large investments in IT spend, not to mention lost time and productivity from implementation, training and the usual stumbling blocks of new systems and practices. The Gartner study is just the latest piece of evidence that a one-size-fits-all approach to business planning often doesn't fit at all when it comes to key tasks like logistics management.
WMS takes the lead
While modern ERP systems boast a large roster of support functions, including warehouse management capability, the functionality of a fully-fledged cloud WMS still bests most ERP solutions. In their annual report on the "Magic Quadrant" for WMS, Gartner found that these logistics applications were quickly becoming even more advanced to handle the sizable demands being pressed upon retailers and manufacturers these days. The researchers found that WMS solutions continue to grow in breadth and depth, making them even more valuable for business users.
|ERP systems, even those with WMS capabilities, have been the source of more than a few headaches.
While every WMS analysed by Gartner was found to include at least the core capabilities typical of warehouse systems, many of them took things several steps further by including several advanced features. These include the ability to customise and configure rules based on exacting customer requirements, the ability to set seasonal pricing and extremely competitive pricepoints for the software and services themselves. With cloud becoming the norm in the business software realm, many WMS have followed the lead, allowing for a regular licence renewal schedule that allows businesses to commit very little in upfront capital expenditure. Subscription pricing models also include dedicated support and service lines to ensure business users are getting the most out of their software.
ERP solutions continue to evolve as well, but still lack the wide functionality that a best-of-breed cloud WMS can offer. When businesses commit to a dedicated WMS vendor, they can be sure that they aren't throwing away cash just to get things to work properly. With the functionality and ease-of-use of the next generation of WMS, businesses really can have it all.


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Now therefore fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: put away gods which your father s served…serve ye the Lord. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:14-15
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him Job 13:15
Following Biblical principles requires rigorous spiritual orders such as:
- Trust God in every circumstance
- "Take up your cross daily" by absolute surrender – What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?" (Luke 9:24-25).
- Pray without ceasing – 1 Thessalonians 5:17
- Put on the whole armor of God – Ephesians 6
Make your Christian faith your daily walk. "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it" (Matthew 16:25-26).
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Finding inspiration
A Sun Giant...It's funny when you look back through photos that you've taken searching for inspiration and one you might have passed over numerous times before all of a sudden jumps out and says "paint me today!" That's how this one came to be. (15"x15")
6 comments:
- renate said...
Wow Annelein. This is beautiful! I like the flower but the leafes are so nice. It lookes like a lot of washes on them? The heart of the flower is gorgeous. Very nice!!
- Thu Feb 16, 03:27:00 PM 2012
- Autumn Leaves said...
What a beautiful piece, Annelein!
- Fri Feb 17, 05:49:00 AM 2012
- luigi bluoso said...
Sempre splendidi i tuoi fiori, carissima, e la tua tavolozza è decisamente unica. Ciao e buon fine settimana.
- Sat Feb 18, 08:07:00 AM 2012
- Balaji Venugopal said...
This one is superb!
- Mon Feb 20, 10:15:00 AM 2012
- Sergio DS said...
Beutiful, really.
- Mon Feb 20, 05:57:00 PM 2012
- Mary Sheehan Winn said...
I love the way you handle the watercolor.
- Mon Mar 12, 07:25:00 PM 2012
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Public records are public. Government does not own them, but manages them. However, it's difficult to understand who owns these records by listening to government lobbyists at the Iowa Capitol. It's almost funny, and certainly shameful, to see several government representatives oppose a bill that expands the enforcement and oversight of government compliance with the two chapters of the Iowa Code that pertains to public records and open meetings.
A bill is moving through the legislative process (SF 430) that creates an enforcement board to ensure compliance with the open meetings/public records chapters – Chapter 21 & Chapter 22. For years, there has been a back and forth argument between the Senate and House about whether the matter of compliance should be overseen by an advisory committee or an enforcement board. The enforcement board appears to have won out. But that's not the end of the argument. Lobbyists for political subdivisions of the state want an advisory committee, and they don't seem to want to stop complaining until they get one.
The problem with an advisory committee is that it becomes another tentacle of state bureaucracy. The committee is filled with wise people saying brilliant things, but in the end, it's the staffing that makes all of the decisions. This has been repeated far too many times. In a word search of the Iowa Code the word "advisory" shows up 384 times. The phrase "advisory board" shows up 180 times, and the phrase "advisory committee" appears 138 times. Advisory bodies are a dime a dozen and seldom are they taken seriously.
The staff prepares the agenda with the chair's help. Staff does all the research, makes suggestions for recommendations, and performs most of the work before and after meetings. The committee members show up and discuss matters for hours, often leaving with a lack of any accomplishment. The attendance at so many of these types of meetings is poor, especially if there is very little to do but approve items that will be included in a report that no one notices – or reads.
The current situation is not the ideal setup for improving the expectations the public wants or needs as it pertains to open meetings/public records. In most instances, the enforcement is provided by the county attorney, the top law enforcement official in each county. The appearance of a conflict of interest is exposed each and every time a matter of a possible violation comes up in a political subdivision of the state.
There are 940 communities in Iowa. There are 99 counties. Each has its own legal counsel. That means there are potentially 1,039 different opinions on issues involving public records and open meetings. Enforcement, education, compilation of complaints, and compliance with the law needs to be centralized in one place. The ongoing effort of the Citizens' Aide/Ombudsman and Attorney General is admired, but it scatters these essential efforts and promotes duplication. One body, speaking one language, is necessary to the perseverance and equal application of Iowa's dedication to openness in government.
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Contracts and Settlements Manager
City of Liverpool
£35,000 - £40,000 + Bonus + Bens
The Company:
My client, a leading investment management firm, is after a Client Service Executive to join their London based team. You'll be required to provide comprehensive investment administration, alongside looking at improving processes and enhancing the client experience with the firm.
The Role:
You'll be responsible for the oversight and management of the contracts and settlements teams, ensuring that the processes meet the business needs, are robust and are followed by staff within the department. The ideal candidate will be looking to manage multi teams (with reports of approx 20 staff in total).
Accountabilities (including but not limited to):
- To ensure client contracts are dispatched in an accurate and timely fashion and in accordance to FCA regulations.
- To ensure all bargains are inputted correctly to ensure efficient and accurate details are passed to settlements.
- Ensure all trades are matched effectively in order to ensure that settlement failures within the organisation's control are kept to the absolute minimum.
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- Monitor all unsettled positions and actively chase counterparties who have failed to deliver securities. Report these positions to senior management on a weekly basis.
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- 2/3 years experience in a management function.
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Alan Moore doesn't even slum it like the rest of us do. Though some would regard the very thought as heresy, Moore has proven himself able, if not ecstatic, to churn out the scripts when necessity demands. It'd take an exceptionally generous heart to argue that his mid-nineties work for Image Comics' WildC.A.T.s, for example, was consistently very much more than old rope. The dialogue's often undercooked when not actively hackneyed, the plots so loose that the reader could imagine Moore scribbling out first draft one after another following weeks of sleepless nights communing with serpent-headed gods. In places, we can even see Moore lazily hanging his stories on the clichés of his own career, as if he were pastiching the very idea of being Alan Moore, or, more probably, pillorying those writers who'd regurgitated his influence in a shallow, sensationalist fashion.
It was, according to the man himself as quoted in Gary Spencer Millidge's Alan Moore: Storyteller, the result of the Bard of Northampton attempting and failing to gauge what the audience for Image books wanted. "I must have somehow misplaced my arrogance." Millidge quotes him as saying. Nevertheless, it's hard to believe that Moore was in any way intensely committed to the super-books he produced for Image. A loss of faith and direction notwithstanding, the period saw Moore delivering work which, while superior to just about everything else in the superhero market, simply didn't reflect the extraordinarily high standards his work had previously regularly attained. A journeyman Alan Moore script, no matter how competent, is simply no Alan Moore script at all.
Yet only in his work for the WildC.A.T.s/Spawn limited series did Moore entirely push aside his habit of grounding even stereotypical fight scenes on the bedrock of smart ideas, choosing instead to produce what seemed to be a typically hyper-kinetic and ill-thought-through Image book of the period. The point was well-made, although the result resulted in what remain perhaps the most entirely disposable comics ever produced by Moore; the satire was indistinguishable from its target, and the target was almost entirely without merit. But in the WildC.A.T.s book itself, no matter how disinterested Moore often appeared to be, he just couldn't seem to stop himself playing with unconventionally bright-minded, politically radical concepts. Some creators might consider switching off almost entirely when faced with a commission they felt little if any personal connection with, focusing on stringing together familiar cape'n'chest-insignia clichés with little concern for the intellectual superstructure of the work. Yet Moore appears to have proceeded by counter-intuitively investing his scripts with conceits and ambitions which he rarely rigorously worked up in his finished scripts, leaving a clear disjunction visible between the intriguing sub-text and the often mediocre text of his work. Perhaps he could take being alienated from his endeavours so long as the work allowed his mind to keep turning while he typed on and on. Perhaps he just couldn't help himself. Even when producing the thinnest of stories, Alan Moore seems to have found it impossible not to ground his work in something of genuine substance.
Moore's scripts for WildC.A.T.s were all concerned, to a lesser or greater degree, with the myth of the irredeemable Other. Jim Lee and Brandon Choi had originally presented the readers of Wild C.A.T.s with a backdrop of an alien war between the largely virtuous super-gods of the long-lived Kherubim and their loathsome, reptilian opponents, the Daemonites. To an anarchist like Moore, the very idea of a species which was either implicitly noble or implacably sinful while organised in the form of an inconceivably massive warrior nation was as absurd as it was pernicious. All powers, great and small, undertake their land-grabs under the cloak of the flim-flam of superior virtue, and Moore set about revealing that Actums Dictum applied just as much as to the supposedly angelic Kherubim as it did to their apparently devilish opponents. The presumption of inarguable ethical superiority by any community inevitably leads, as Moore's work on WildC.A.T.s argues, to abuse and aggression of one sort or another, to ideologies of racial and cultural meliority, to societies founded on inequity and oppression. Reinvigorating the title with the revelation that the Kherubim had actually long-ago long defeated the Daemonites and reduced the latter to an intergalactic underclass, Moore spun a series of stories illustrating the truth that absolute power will corrupt absolutely. It's a fact that Moore showed applied to knock-off Earthly super-heroes every bit as much as did to god-like beautiful aliens. Faced with the self-righteous, exploitative, racist-to-the-core empire of the victorious Kherubim, the various members of the WildC.A.T.s either succumbed to the lure of membership in the ranks of an entirely objectionable master race or fell foul of its loathing of difference and dissent. In short, and in contradiction of the traditions which even today power the majority of superhero books, the WildC.A.T.s were found to be just as corruptible as history tells us the vast majority of human beings always have been. As Moore's beloved Pogo had long before declared: "We have met the enemy and he is us".
Moore's second major theme throughout his run on WildC.A.T.s concerned the process which social scientists call deviancy amplification, or the ways by which intervention into disapproved-of behaviours can create more rather than less of the same. The superhero comic has always perpetuated the myth that crime is controlled, if not solved, by beating up and incarcerating criminals. The solution, no matter how temporary, to the problem of a rising crime rate in the comics is nearly always the increase of the number of superheroes working together to beat up the enemy, before dumping them off for a no-doubt short-lived spell in one type of institution or another. While Moore had the original members of the WildC.A.T.s off-world learning about their own fallible natures, he created a second Earthbound team unknowingly under the Machiavellian control of the laboratory-grown super-genius Tao. Tao's plan was admittedly a simple one, but it's one which has proven remarkably successful out here in the real world too, and not least in the National Security State as it manifested itself following the tragedies of 9/11. By exaggerating the menace posed by the underworld of the Wildstorm Universe, Tao was able to gather around himself a considerable alliance of super-folks which he could then use to provoke a yet-more fierce reaction from the criminals it threatened. At the same time as escalating NYC's crime war through a process of excessive super-heroic violence inciting an even more excessively violent super-villainous counter-reaction, Tao was also organising atrocities, such as the bombing of Clark's Bar, where off-duty super-people gathered. How better to convince the most powerful individuals in the world to lend him absolute power? Mirroring the way in which the Kherubim had secured their empire through the labelling of the Daemonites as irreversibly corrupt, Tao's campaign served to underscore Moore's critique of the naïve and dangerous approach to power in the superhero comic. Whatever the social problem might be, Moore argued, power is never the solution, and the concentration of an unrestrained and remarkable degree of power into the hands of any group of individuals, no matter how well-meaning, is always - always – a very bad thing.
It's Moore's inability to avoid making his WildC.A.T.s stories as ethically empty as many would argue the characters deserve which both redeems these issues while frustrating anyone trying to appreciate them. Unhelped by constant changes in the artists he was paired with, and by the fact that even the most gifted of them were still mastering their craft, Moore's scripts are in places embarrassingly poor, with page after page of barely-choreographed fight scenes often serving to obscure the worth of his convictions. Yet there are also moments of exquisite storytelling, and several of them are to be found in WildC.A.T.s #28, wherein the original team return to Earth traumatised from the trials they've undergone, and mostly failed, on the planet Khera. It's a comic in which the comparison between the shattered individuals who've partially seen through their own vulnerability and venality and the well-meaning gung-ho superheroes they'd left behind in America is painfully emphasised. While the founding members of WildC.A.T.s can scarcely bring themselves to utter a single word to each other, each isolated in private worlds of regret and shame, their successors are stumbling down the same path towards compromise and corruption as Spartan, Zealot and company once did. Unlike so much in superhero comics since Chris Claremont first pioneered the ultra-soap content of his X-Men issues, WildC.A.T.s #28 is a story where its characters don't express themselves to each other, and where dishonesty is the order of the day amongst those who can still bear to talk at all. Lovers and loved ones lie, brother and sister affect selflessness while pursuing separate agendas; only one of the superheroes on show in WildC.A.T.s #28 is smart enough to realise how everyone else is being manipulated, and, unfortunately, that someone is Tao, who has no-one's best interest except for his own at heart. Not only are Moore's super-people convincingly ethically fragile, but they're often far too trusting and complacent for their own – and therefore everyone else's – good. Only the deluded Kherubim super-man Majestic and the brainwashed, self-confessed ignoramus Ladytron think nothing of expressing themselves honestly, and both of them receive little that's kind or good in return.
There's so much to recommend about Alan Moore's WildC.A.T.s, and yet, in the last analysis, the comics themselves are at best adequate. The reader might cherish the hardnosed and yet incredibly touching scene in which Ladytron turns to Majestic to save her when she's about to be blown apart, and be haunted by the loneliness and misery captured by the single four-panel page in which the entirely alienated WildC.A.T.s finally re-enter Earth's atmosphere after their dispiriting adventures far out in space. We might even choose to appreciate how Moore's work here is uncommonly bleak and uncompromising for a super-book, presenting as it does a world in which self-knowledge brings anything but happiness, in which self-deception and an ignoble cause can lend purpose and self-esteem rather than the shame which it ought to. These are stories in which the truth isn't welcome, in which no-one celebrates the throwing off of deleterious ways of thinking. It's as if the longest winter is almost behind the comic's cast, but no-one's longing for spring, let alone able to recognise it when it threatens to arrive. Yet Moore's WildC.A.T.s ultimately read like the product of an impossibly gifted and yet regrettably inexperienced and immature young writer. If only, the reader might find themselves thinking, this writer, this Alan Moore, could have mastered his trade before taking on this assignment. What an unlikely masterpiece might have resulted from that.


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Work Meets Life
Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems
272 pp., 7 x 9 in, 37 b&w illus.
- Hardcover
- 9780262014120
- Published: January 7, 2011
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Work as fundamental to life, explored at different levels of organization from the perspectives of a variety of biological and nonbiological disciplines.
The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This multidisciplinary volume explores the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization. By addressing how work gets done, and why, from the perspectives of a range of disciplines, including cell and evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical and computer engineering, and design, the volume sets out to establish an integrative approach to the study of work.Chapters introduce the biological work of producing energy in the cell; establish inherent tradeoffs between energy and information in neural systems; relate principles of integrated circuit manufacture to work in biological systems; explore the work of photosynthesis; investigate how work shapes organisms' evolutionary niches; consider the human work of design; describe the effects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on work-life balance; and address the effects of environmental challenges (stress) on how humans and animals do work. Finally, editors and contributors draw these studies together and point to future developments.
Alan Blackwell, Gillian Brown, Christina De La Rocha, Kevin Laland, Simon Laughlin, Robert Levin, Michael Lightner, Steven Maier, Joseph Rosse, Stacy Saturay
This collective work as a whole is breathtaking in its aspiration, and it successfully delivers.
DD Pennington
A refreshingly new gaze.... A genuinely integrative work.... Provides a coherent but rich and complex narrative.... An entirely new way of talking about work.
KN Farrell
American Journal of Human Biology
Work Meets Life succeeds admirably.... Prepared with intellectual honesty.... Work Meets Life is an exemplary collaboration of minds.
JS Turner
Ambitious.... A broad view of work in living systems.... Novel and thought-provoking.
JE Niven
Integrative and Comparative Biology
[A] rewarding read.... Goes beyond the classical concepts of work as defined in physics.


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Last Updated on June 21, 2018 by ThoughtsStained
The Nitty-Gritty Details
Title: Season of Storms
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Publisher: Orbit Books, May 2018
Blurb: The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games.
Geralt of Rivia. A witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign, potions and the pride of every witcher — two swords, steel and silver. But what would happen if Geralt lost his weapons?
In this standalone novel, Geralt fights, travels and loves again, Dandelion sings and flies from trouble to trouble, sorcerers are scheming … and across the whole world clouds are gathering – the season of storms is coming…
The Experience
(ARC given by Orbit in exchange for honest review)
I have mixed feelings about this book.
I don't think it has anything to do with the quality of the writing itself or the translation, done by David French. Or even the story itself. Obviously the Witcher series is well loved by a lot of people–and it should be! The lore is incredible, the idea of Witchers and the complex reception they get from the world around them adds a realistic aspect we don't always see our heroes face and Geralt of Rivia is as complex as they get.
Except, I didn't really get any of that from reading Season of Storms.
I got all that by playing CD Projekt Red's The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt.
And perhaps that's my issue. Perhaps being introduced to the game first, rather than reading the novels beforehand, is why, although I liked the book, I didn't fall in love with it, even though I've spent countless hours (I'm talking months) dedicated to playing as Geralt on my PS4. There are probably a handful of reasons why, so far, after reading two different books in the Witcher series, I haven't fall in love with either one, even though I know they are good stories.
For me, I couldn't become grounded within the story. I think part of it is treating the video game's rendition of lore and events as law, so when plot points conflicted in the book with that lore, I saw them as wrong, when in reality, the books are in the right. But not only that, the book was very, very dialogue heavy. Often, characters would go on page-length rants about topics that, to me, felt unrealistic and inconsequential. Oftentimes, a character would approach Geralt and start talking and we didn't even realize the character approached. There was no narrative, only dialogue. As a result, a lot of information was told through dialogue that could have easily been told through narration, avoiding the phrases like, "But why am I telling you all this? You already know!"
Also, the plot. Perhaps if we had some sort of prologue or some sort of beginning that explicitly stated we'd be following Geralt along on his quest to find his stolen swords, I might have received it a little more kindly.** But instead, I just kept waiting to see what the main plot was, only to find out that exactly what it was: him trying to find his swords and getting caught up in quests along the way. Don't get me wrong: that's not necessary a bad plot, in and of itself. I just was…expecting something different, I guess, so I was caught off-guard.
Overall, I didn't dislike this book. I just didn't love it as much as I wanted to. I recognize that a lot of that can be attributed as my fault as the reader, considering my prior knowledge and exposure is taken from a different medium which tells, as far as I understand, a story that isn't told within any of the books (at least, not directly). But also, these books are a translation from Polish. Sapkowski is the only Polish author I've read, so I have no idea the writing style and culture of Polish writers. Perhaps heavier dialogue is a commonplace trait within that culture that I'm ignorant of.
These factors included, at the end of the day, this book wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't the worst I've ever read, either. If you're interested in the Witcher series at all, I highly recommend you check this series out and form your own opinion, especially because I think I'm in the minority here, with mine.
Read on!
** I realize that it says this on the back cover, but I got an ARC copy of this book, so the back cover wasn't finished yet, so I didn't actually have a little teaser like that before I read.


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Introduction to Circl
Circl is a "pass the hat" game where the prizepot moves around a virtual table from one player to the next player when a selected trigger-event (a.k.a. Circl Game Rule) occurs in a real-life sporting event (e.g. a freekick is taken) and continues to move on every subsequent Circl Game Rule until the final whistle or a final defined Circl Game Rule occurs.
Each Circl Game Rule is matched to a pre-defined action which alters the way the prizepot moves around the table (e.g. Yellow card shown: -2, means the prizepot moves two places anti-clockwise; or Corner: +1, means the prizepot moves one place clockwise).
Once the match or game-period is over, the winner is decided by whichever player is in possession of the Circl prizepot at that point in time. The games are designed to ensure the winner cannot be accurately forecasted by a prediction algorithm.
Circl game types
Players can enter both public and private Circls.
Public Circls have a minimum and maximum number of participants which are published in the app.
Public Circl Game Rules are preset by Circl Game administrators and cannot be altered.
A Circl can be one of the following game types:-
Setting up a private Circl
A player creates a Circl by first selecting a real-life football match, choosing the game type and then Circl Game Rules – by selecting one or more pre-determined trigger-events – setting the buy-in amount (stake) which contributes to the prizepot, and finally inviting other players to join.
The game will be ready to start once the minimum number of players have accepted the invitation to join and have paid their buy-in fee. Each player is given a fixed position on a virtual table which is displayed as a circle.
When a player is choosing to set up their Circl, they will be required to select at least two Circl game rules, one which moves the prizepot an odd number of places and one which moves the prizepot an even number of places. In a Goal Gifter game the selection of the "goal" rule is mandatory and players will be required to select at least two further Circl Game Rules.
In a Goal Gifter Circl the remaining prizepot is displayed at all times. If there are 5 goals scored in a Goal Gifter Circl, the Circl will end at the time of the 5th goal which is deemed the final defined Circl Game Rule.
At match kick-off the starting position of the prizepot is randomly determined among the Players in the Circl.
Inviting players and starting the Circl
When a player has setup a private Circl (the "Host") they can send invitation links via Social Media or invite directly via the app for other players to join the Circl. Each Circl must have a minimum of TWO players.
A Circl can be setup prior to a match starting or during a match.
If a Circl is setup after the selected match has started then the Host can, providing at least one other player has joined, choose when to start the Circl.
A Circl must run for a minimum of 45 minutes of elapsed time.
Joining a private Circl
When a player receives an invitation they can either accept an invitation in-app, or via a social invitation link.
The player will then be presented with a Circl summary, showing the Circl Host, the match selected, the Circl Game Rules selected and the buy in amount. The Player can then choose to either accept or decline this invitation.
To accept an invitation the Player will then be required to pay the buy in fee, and as soon as they have done this, will be redirected into the game, ready to play.
In order to accept the invite and play, a Player must have a Circl account.
Circl Game Rules:
Corner = Each time there is a corner, the prizepot will move 1 place clockwise.
Offside = Each time a player is called offside, the prizepot will move 2 places clockwise.
Goal = Each time a goal is scored, the prizepot will move 4 places clockwise.
Red Card = Each time a red card is given, the prizepot will move 6 places anti-clockwise.
Yellow Card = Each time a yellow card is given, the prizepot will move 2 places anti-clockwise.
Substitute = Each time a player is substituted, the prizepot will move 1 place anti-clockwise.
VAR = Each time VAR is consulted; the prizepot will move 3 places clockwise.
Shot on Target = Each time a player has a shot on target, the prizepot will move 1 place clockwise.
Free kick = Each time a free kick is taken, the prizepot will move 2 places clockwise.
Header = Each time a header is recorded, the prizepot will move 1 place clockwise.
Throw-in = Each time a throw-in is taken, the prizepot will move 2 places clockwise.
Goal kick = Each time a goal kick is taken, the prizepot will move 3 places clockwise.
If any Game Rule is subsequently changed - i.e. Goal ruled out via VAR then the associated prizepot movement will be reversed.
Bet acceptance
Results and bet settlements
Prize payouts & fees
Abandonments & match information
Voids and errors
Circl Gaming Ltd will work with all official sporting bodies and authorities and the Gambling Commission to ensure that all events are fair and to uphold the utmost integrity in sport. A decision given by the relevant governing body of any sport will be considered conclusive evidence. In the event of any suspicion of match-fixing or results-rigging of any kind on any Circl, we reserve the right to provide relevant data to any official sporting body or authorities and/or the Gambling Commission.
Where there is evidence of any form of collusion, we reserve the right to withhold payment, pending the outcome of any subsequent investigation and ultimately to declare bets on that event as void.
Where evidence of collusion exists, or where there is evidence of a series of bets having been placed by or for the same individual or by a syndicate of individuals, we reserve the right to require claims for payment to be submitted in writing to Support.
In the event of an official enquiry in relation to suspicious betting activity surrounding an event we reserve the right to disclose confidential information to the sport's governing body or their representatives, on the conditions that they consent to keeping such information confidential.


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Contains: Vietnamese cinnamon bark, Indonesian cinnamon bark, Liquorice root and Indian cinnamon bark.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Premax Tooth #04 - Montana, Hell Creek, T rex Dinosaur Fossil. A nice Tyrannosaurus rex premax tooth a tooth. From the front of the jaw. From the Hell Creek Formation. This is a nice robust tooth, featuring good enamel, serrations, light feeding wear and one repair (no restoration).
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Adaptations in In Vivo Catecholamine Signaling in Models Of Stress and Addiction Public Deposited
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- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry
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- Catecholamine neurotransmission plays a key role in regulating a variety of behavioral and physiological processes, and its dysregulation is implicated in both neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Understanding how catecholamine signaling is regulated in vivo may provide insight into its role in disease states ranging from anxiety and drug addiction to Parkinson's disease. This work combines rapid, selective, and spatially resolved voltammetric measurements with pharmacology and behavior. We used this approach in divergent animal models to investigate the dynamics of in vivo norepinephrine and dopamine signaling. Our initial investigations focused on norepinephrine release in the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (vBNST), where we found differential regulation in models of anxiety and depression. When animals were challenged with social-isolation stress and drug-dependence, adaptations in vBNST norepinephrine regulation varied with respect to both stressor and baseline stress-reactivity. We hypothesized that certain stressors elicited catecholamine efflux, and turned to real-time measurements in awake, freely moving animals. To understand how release could produce plasticity in catecholamine regulation mechanisms after drug dependence, we focused on opiate exposure and withdrawal. We found opposing responses from dopamine and norepinephrine: whereas dopamine fluctuations in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) increased during morphine intoxication, they decreased during precipitated withdrawal. Conversely, increased norepinephrine overflow in the vBNST was found only during withdrawal, and was time locked to somatic withdrawal behaviors. While probing real-time catecholamine overflow, we also discovered hemispheric synchrony of NAc dopamine fluctuations, and revealed previously unappreciated cross-hemispheric projections in both the dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems. Our findings of opposing catecholamine responses, combined with genetic differences in response to stressors provide new insight into catecholamine regulation. Future work should continue to address how dopamine and norepinephrine signal in vivo and in real time and contribute to the development of a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions.
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2 On His shoulder He shall bear
Power and majesty, and wear
Names most awful, names most high. 3 Wonderful in counsel He,
The Incarnate Deity ;
King of kings, and Prince of Peace. 4 Come and worship at His feet;
Yield to Christ the homage meet:
275 Matt. 1. 23. 75 & 6'S C. WESLEY.
YLORY be to God on high,
God comes down, He bows the sky,
And shows himself our Friend: God th' Invisible appears;
God, the blest, the great I AM, Sojourns in this vale of tears,
And Jesus is His name. 2 Him the angels all ador'd,
Their Maker and their King ; Tidings of their humble Lord
They now to mortals bring. Emptied of His majesty,
Of His dazzling glories shorn, Being's Source begins to be,
Iinmanuel is born. 3 See th' Eternal Son of God
A mortal Son of man; Dwelling in an earthly clod,
Whom heaven cannot contain. Stand amazed, ye heavens, at this;
See the Lord of earth and skies; Humbled to the dust He is,
And in a manger lies.
4 We, the sons of men, rejoice,
The Prince of Peace proclaim ;
And shout Immanuel's name:
of our flesh and of our bone,
And God is all our own.
276 John xil. 46.
O'er the young earth when fresh and bright
In its first bloom it stood. 2 But, lo! another light, that shines
O'er Bethlehem's midnight sky, On man with richer promise beams,
And lovelier scenes draw nigh. 3 Glad tidings of Immanuel's birth
The angelic heralds bring: "Glory to God, and peace on earth,
Good will towards men," they sing. 4 Rise, then, my soul, and greet the morn,
Thus sung by hosts of heaven; For unto us a child is born,
To us a Son is given.
Luke ii. 11. 18.104.22.168.8.8. C.C. Y. 1
Our great Redeemer's love;
And left His throne above;
2 He came not in a warrior's path,
With mighty armies strong;
Avenging Judah's wrong:
A little child, came Christ the Lord. 3 Glad was our Saviour's natal morn,
Angels rejoiced in heaven
To us a Son is given."
278 Rev. xxii
. 16.
7's. C. WESLEY. 1 IONS of men, behold from far,
Star of truth that gilds the night,
Guiding devious nature right. 2 Mild it shines on all beneath,
Piercing through the shades of death;
Kindling darkness into light. 3 Nations all, remote and near,
Haste to see your Lord appear;
Meet Him manifested there.
Pouring light on mortal eyes ;
Isaiah lxi. 1.
comes !
And every voice a song.
2 On Him the Spirit, largely pour'd,
Exerts His sacred fire ;
His holy breast inspire.
In Satan's bondage held;
The iron fetters yield.
To clear the mental ray,
To pour celestial day.
The wounded soul to cure,
To enrich the humble poor.
Thy welcome shall proclaim, And heaven's eternal arches ring
With Thy beloved name.
280 John 1. 11.
S. M. CONDKR 1 His own world He came,
To earth's most favoured spot; Jesus, Immanuel, His name:
Yet Israel knew Him not. 2 Son of the Father's love,
Effulgence of His light,
To suffer man's despite. 3 He came to suffer death,
And, bleeding for His foes,
And peace when He arose.
4 His latest moments here
In benediction pass'd:
That action was His last.
He sent down from above
The riches of His love.
On whom that grace is pour'd, Go, in His Spirit to proclaim
Salvation in the Lord. 281 Mark vii. 37.
L, M. 1 TOW in a song of grateful praise,
Jesus, who deign'd on earth to dwell,
Who while on earth did all things well 2 Wisdom, and power, and love divine
In all His works unrivall'd shine,
That He alone did all things well. 3 Howe'er mysterious are His ways,
Or dark and sorrowful our days;
We know He still does all things well. 4 And when we stand before His throne,
And all His ways are fully known,
282 Tim. iii. 16.
C. M, GREGG. BEFar as the eternal hils,
EYOND the glittering starry skies, Yon heaven of heavens, with living light,
Our great Redeemer fills.


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Summer in Ephrata sucks. At least for mountain bikers. Hot, dry, and dusty, yuck. I turn to my cx bike and take to the gravel roads. But sometimes I forget to get back on my mtb. And that's where the Darkside ride comes in. It is always one of my favorite rides of the year, but I just couldn't get myself excited about it this year for some reason. I waited until the last minute to drag out my poor neglected Trek Superfly ss, wipe off the cobwebs, and add Stans to the bone dry tubeless tires. Even on the way up there I still wasn't feeling it, telling myself at least there's beer afterward so not all is lost.
Well, I am officially stoked, that ride was awesome!!! Seriously, I don't think it could've been more perfect. We started a bit earlier than usual, which gave us full appreciation of the amazing sunset over Tronson Ridge as we began our decent down the upper Mission Ridge trail. The fresh rain from a couple days ago left the trails tacky and fast, the air was crisp and cool with the smell of fall, and the Evergreen Mtb Alliance had everything well manicured. MR trail and Devils Gulch are the perfect blend of tech and flow. Then as if it wasn't already good enough, we roll into the Wen Velo pit stop at the top of DG with tunes, bon fire, and beer! So rad. Back to the Mission Ridge lodge for food, live music, and a couple more beers.
(Thank you Shiggy for the awesome photos)
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Fresh face brings fresh food to school district
Special to The Union
Jeff Coats and his wife always knew they wanted to return to Nevada County, having lived here some 20 years ago — so much so that they bought a house in Nevada City a few years back. When Jeff read about a Food Services Director opening in the Grass Valley School District, he applied and is happy to be "home."
Coats and his team are responsible for providing nutrition to school aged children around the county — breakfast and lunch in Grass Valley schools as well as meals for two preschool and after school programs which consist of dinner and a snack. The district also contracts with other schools to provide meals — be it snacks, lunches or both. Coats said they follow USDA guidelines. "Contrary to what a lot of people believe, the guidelines for school lunches and school breakfasts are geared to more healthy choices. We determined our students need whole grains — they are better for them than processed flour – we provide a meat or meat alternative every day. We are required to serve fresh fruits and vegetables every day, and eight fluid ounces of milk. So, every day, what we send out to the students include all of those components." The current administration is rolling back some of those guidelines which Coats does not necessarily agree with but expects an increase in what he calls "food acceptability" by the students.
The district just underwent an audit which Coats expects to pass but also feels there is room for improvement. "Can we do better? Gosh, we could do so much better! I believe there is some room to improve the program. Parents are concerned about a lot of things, for example, all of the packaging and plastic that we put things in and the perception that it (the food) is not fresh and not healthy for the children."
Less than six months into the job, Coats is already looking at different ways to effectively meet the guidelines while making improvements to the menus and the process. At the beginning of February, he put salad bars back into the Grass Valley elementary and middle schools. "Reintroducing the salad bars gives us an opportunity to offer more of a variety of fresh vegetables and fresh fruit," Coats said. "It also allows us to be able to purchase some of the wonderful local stuff that we have and offer that on our salad bar and do some nice marketing for our local farms." Jeff is looking to connect with local farms this spring and summer and is committed to making purchases of fresh, local food.
Fresh fruits and vegetables in a salad bar do not require packaging so Coats expects to cut packaging by 50% with that one small change. He said more kids eat fruits and vegetables and by giving them a choice, they are more likely to eat what they select, which will cut back on waste while still meeting the guidelines. "It's a start," he said. "We have some longer terms goals to retrofit our areas where we serve and put in some steam wells and hot holding wells so that instead of packaging hot food we can serve more family style." He says while that may not change the corndog they are serving, (which are very popular with students), it won't be in a package. Coats also plans to retrofit the industrial kitchens to do some scratch cooking.
While Coats has the freedom to serve what he chooses as long as he hits the guidelines and stays within budget, he believes processed food is not the best for growing bodies. "Access to fresh fruits and vegetables with natural sugars and things like that give your body that natural energy and gets you through the day, while processed food fills your belly but bogs you down," he said. "I don't think our students can concentrate and be the best they can be in school having that type of (processed) food all the time."
Coats hopes to partner with Sierra Harvest for some marketing to get the word out and to better use produce from local farmers and expects to include harvests from the school's gardens in the salad bar. Coats concludes, "We are making strides. I am excited to be here and am excited to make changes for the better of our community."
Hollie Grimaldi Flores is a Nevada County resident and freelance writer for hire. She can be reached at email@example.com.
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In the future universities might routinely reward academic credit to people based on their actual skills and knowledge, not just on the amount of time they've spent in classrooms. "Competency based" education is becoming popular again.
Basically the idea is that if one can demonstrate knowledge, one can earn credit (and eventually a diploma) for that knowledge; no matter how someone obtained it. It's an idea that's slow to catch on, at least in part because for decades the institutions that awarded credit for "life experience" were mostly diploma mills.
But some innovative institutions, like the all-online, though nonprofit, Western Governors University may have changed how observers see education. Well, perhaps. It turns out even WGU, the promising model for change, isn't really using "competency based" assessment to reward academic credit.
According to a piece by Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed:
At the core of the fascination with WGU (in addition to its focus on adult students, its comparatively reasonable prices, etc.) is the university's emphasis on gauging its students' academic progress based not on how many credit hours they accumulate and how much time they spend in class, but how much learning they show they have mastered through a series of assessments. Breaking the link between seat time and learning is one way that American colleges and universities can educate more people more efficiently, posit [some] reformers….
But most institutions reward academic credit, and qualify to use federal financial aid, using an academic credit model based on the amount of time students spend in class. For years WGU operated differently. As Lederman explained, "Western Governors was able to enroll students on the federal dole through a 'demonstration program' that essentially exempted the entirely online university from a requirement that institutions educate at least half their students in on-ground classes."
When the demonstration project was supposed to end in 2006, policymakers realized that the traditional rules about time and on-ground classes didn't really apply to WGU; that was the point. And so lawmakers created an alternative policy tailor-made for WGU. Lederman:
Congressional supporters of Western Governors (of which there were many, given the many powerful state politicians who helped give the institution its name) crafted a legislative provision that, for the first time, allowed an academic program to qualify for federal student aid through Title IV of the Higher Education Act by establishing "an instructional program that, in lieu of credit hours or clock hours as a measure of student learning, utilizes direct assessment of student learning, or recognizes the direct assessment of student learning by others."
But even Western Governors didn't end up using its own alternative program. The institution uses something very much like credit hours, like everyone else. As Lederman explains:
The university divides the learning competencies it expects students to achieve into units that it equates to credit hours. Students pay a flat rate per term, and while they must complete a minimum number of what WGU calls "competency units" to make sufficient academic progress and qualify for federal student aid, there is no limit on the number of competency units they can earn in any time period. As WGU officials see it, that effectively kills the link between learning and seat time because a student getting credits based on learning she proves she has mastered can earn more credit in a term than would be possible in any classroom-based approach.
Well yes, that possible, but it's not so useful as a reform model. "Competency units" is really just a euphemism for credit hours.
Why did WGU decide to go with the noncontroversial, traditional measure of learning? Basically because it's easier. As the article made clear, using a more traditional credit system made it possible for students to transfer to other institutions and receive corporate tuition reimbursements.
These are practical considerations and very much in the interest of the students, but it doesn't look promising for alternative models.
Alternative education ideas, after all, have to operate in traditional systems and with traditional people.


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The Rhetoric of bell hooks
bell hooks On Rhetoric
"Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle."
(bell hooks in "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness")
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As a direct seller, I'm guessing you have a social media presence in more than one place, right? You're probably on Facebook (maybe you have a group and a biz page there)... Instagram… Twitter… Snapchat... TikTok?? Maybe you even have a text list for your customers or an email list too?? And my guess is that your following on one is greater than the others… yeah? THEN IT'S TIME TO GROW YOUR BIZ WITH A LOOP! (It's like MiracleGro for your social spaces!)
In this done-for-you promo, your goal is to invite your followers from each online space to follow you in the other places you hang out online by making a virtual loop around all your online spaces!
Included in this guide are all the steps, verbiage (and room to brainstorm!) that you'll need to plan out your Let's Grow Loop plus 6 bonus template options ready for your giveaway!
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There's a new kura opening soon in the United States, in Texas of all places! Lone Star Sake is set to have their grand opening on October 1. Check out this story at Edible Austin. Good luck, guys, can't wait to taste some of your sake!
Nice article with some reviews of Canadian and Japanese sake: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/trends/trends-features/canadian-sake-making-headway/article2069549/
Nice article on pairing sake with fish at http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/06/sake-school-sake-pairing-fish-with-sake.html.
Nice story about the new Ontario Spring Water Sake Company: http://goodfoodrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/ontarios-first-home-brewed-sake/.
A lovely review of Senkin Junmai Ginjo: http://eng.jqrmag.com/?p=1039
An article by Johnnie Stroud, owner of Sake Nomi, in the latest edition of Ibuki Magazine: http://ibukimagazine.com/food-and-drink/sake/550.
An article in The Toronto Star features a great photo collection from the new Ontario Spring Water Sake Company: http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/982326–rubin-sake-made-with-ontario-spring-water-in-toronto-s-distillery-district.
Another new sake brewery outside of Japan is opening up, this one in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It's called Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, and their sake will be sold under the brand name Izumi, which means spring or fountain in Japanese.
The brewery is located in the historic Distillery District of Toronto. From their web site:
All of our sake is prepared in the "Junmai" (pure rice) style in several varieties for sale at the Distillery location brewery store and tasting counter. The brewery commenced operations in February 2011 with advisory assistance from the venerable Miyasaka Brewing Co., Ltd. (whose operations in Japan date back to the 1600′s, currently producing sake under the MASUMI and MIYASAKA brands) and consulting master sake brewer Yoshiko Takahashi, an award winning brewmaster from the Nagano region of Japan.
There's a new sake brewery in the United States. It's called Rock Sake, http://rocksake.com. I gather from their web site that the sake is brewed in Oregon, but their offices are in West Hollywood, CA. Might they be contract brewing with Sake One?
If you love Japan, love sake, and can be in New York on Wednesday, there is a great event that you should attend: New York Loves Japan. Over 100 different kinds of sake will be served. More info at www.nylovesjapan.com.


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BMS' Opdivo+Yervoy could become first choice for certain colorectal cancer patients
Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo and Yervoy combination could become first line treatment for a small group of metastatic colorectal cancer patients with aggressive tumours, on the basis of data announced at this year's ESMO 2018 Congress in Munich.
BMS' arch rival in cancer immunotherapy Merck & Co already has its Keytruda approved in second line for solid tumours with high expression of mutations known as microsatellite instability (MSI-high), regardless of where they are in the body.
But this new data could allow BMS to reach around 4% of metastatic colorectal cancers which are MSI-high, also called mismatch repair deficient, ahead of Merck & Co.
When treated with first line chemotherapy, patients with MSI-high tumours have shorter survival, around 14-19 months, compared with those with non MSI-high tumours, who live for between 17-25 months.
BMS' phase 2 CheckMate-142 trial previously showed that in patients with MSI-high metastatic colorectal cancer that is resistant to chemotherapy, immunotherapy with Opdivo (nivolumab) and low-dose Yervoy (ipilimumab) provided durable clinical benefit and manageable side effects, leading to approval by the FDA.
But new data from CheckMate-142 announced at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference showed the combination worked in patients who have received no prior treatment for MSI-high metastatic colorectal cancer, based on results from 45 patients.
The median age was 66 years and 51% were male. Patients were followed-up for a median of 13.8 months for the primary endpoint of objective response rate.
The objective response rate was 60% and 7% of patients with a complete response. Some 84% of patients had tumour shrinkage.
It took a median of 2.6 months to respond to treatment. The median duration of response, median progression-free survival, and median overall survival have not yet been reached. The 12-month progression-free survival and overall survival rates were 77% and 83%, respectively.
Other trials have tested high-dose Yervoy combined with Opdivo, but CheckMate-142 used low-dose Yervoy with Opdivo, which resulted in less toxicity. Treatment-related grade three and four toxicities were reported in 16% of patients and 7% discontinued therapy due to treatment-related adverse events.
Study author Prof Heinz-Josef Lenz, co-leader, Gastrointestinal Cancers Program, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, said: "The combination of low-dose ipilimumab and nivolumab has a durable clinical response and is well tolerated as first line treatment in patients with MSI-high metastatic colorectal cancer. The data suggest that nivolumab and ipilimumab may be a first line treatment option for these patients."
Commenting on the results for ESMO, Prof Thierry André, head of medical oncology, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, France, said: "Nivolumab plus low-dose ipilimumab is effective in most patients with MSI-high metastatic colorectal cancer. Patients improve dramatically and some return to work. It means healthcare systems can be confident that resources are being targeted effectively. This is in contrast to other metastatic cancers (melanoma, lung or kidney) where it is more difficult to select patients who benefit from immunotherapy."
BMS could ask for FDA approval based on these results, André noted, but will likely have to produce phase 3 data for approval by the European Medicines Agency.
The ongoing phase 3 KEYNOTE-177 study in MSI-high metastatic colorectal cancer is comparing first line treatment with pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy with or without targeted therapy and the first results are expected in 2019.
Another question posed by André is whether Opdivo monotherapy is more effective than the combination, although indirect comparisons suggest the combination is the better option.
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If you have never read a book about the great Peshtigo fire, you must read this book. If you have read other books on the great Peshtigo fire, you must read this book! I have read other works on this great, devastating fire and find Gess & Lutz's additional information on the weather, land clearing practices, politics, and the accounts of a ship captain, the governor and his wife, and the wisdom of Increase Lapham and others, give intriguing facts into the development of this horrific fire – it was a perfect storm, literally. The tornado force wind and fire sent fireballs into this town that lifted houses and threw them a hundred feet, destroying the town in less than one hour and killing 2,000. A vivid, compelling account of the October 8, 1871 Wisconsin night.
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If you find yourself the victim of identity theft, you can add a fraud alert to your Experian credit file, which forces creditors to verify your identity before issuing you new credit. In addition, your name is removed from receiving pre-approved credit offers so that your mail isn't intercepted by someone who's trying to open a new credit card in your name. Once the threat has passed, however, you probably want to remove the alert so that you can take advantage of the offers that come your way. To remove a fraud alert, you must do it in writing -- Experian doesn't accept requests online.
Make a copy of one government-issued ID like your driver's license, state ID or military ID, and a copy of a bank statement or utility bill. The copies must show your name, address and the date the statement was issued.
Complete Experian's request to remove a fraud alert letter. It requires your name, address, Social Security number, birthday and phone number. You also need to check the box next to the line that says you are requesting "to remove the fraud alert from my personal credit report."
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Based in the Kansas City area, Mike specializes in personal finance and business topics. He has been writing since 2009 and has been published by "Quicken," "TurboTax," and "The Motley Fool."


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Would you believe that gum disease is a problem that affects nearly half of American adults in some form? It's true! Worse yet, many of those impacted folks don't even realize they have gum disease because it's not very easy to detect without the help of your Fairfax dentist. Here's what you should know.
What Is Gum Disease?
Also called periodontal disease, gum disease is best described as an infection of the gums and bone that support your teeth. Unfortunately, when your gums and bone are not healthy, your teeth are at risk, which is why gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults.
The infection starts when you don't remove plaque and bacteria daily. The plaque begins to irritate your gums, causing them to become red and swollen. The bacteria eventually separates the gums from the teeth and descends below the gum line, where it causes an infection in your bone.
The good news is that gum disease is easily preventable with regular cleanings and checkups with your dentist and an excellent home care routine.
How Gum Disease Impacts Your Overall Health
Over the years, science has shown us that there is a close relation between gum disease and other non-dental health concerns, such as:
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease
- Low Birth Weight in Babies
- Dementia
- Stroke
- High Blood Pressure
The reason that there is a connection is that the bacteria causing gum disease can enter the bloodstream and travel to other parts of the body, contributing to the inflammation that is causing other health problems and vice versa.
Your Best Defense Against Gum Disease
Your six-month cleanings and checkups with your dentist are the best way you can avoid gum disease in Fairfax, VA. Your dentist can detect the problem early on, which allows you to treat it more effectively with less invasive procedures. Give Dr. Fairfax a call today if it's time for your next dental appointment.


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D. P. Dough is actually a small but far-flung chain of 23 restaurants located around colleges centered around New England and the Midwest. Its primary allure is that it delivers calzones at just about any time of the day and night. D. P. Dough specializes in calzones almost exclusively; the menu contains a few salads, breadsticks and chicken wings, but none of these is particularly inspiring. Instead, a huge variety of calzones make the bulk of the menu, and a consistent delicous flavor keep people coming back again and again.
D.P. Dough will take just about anything you want and put it in a calzone for you for $6.75. And then it will deliver that calzone to you at virtually any time. The eatery in Athens closes at 4 a.m. There are a variety of creative calzone ideas.
- Roni Zoni: Pepperoni and cheese. Simple but delightful calzone.
- BBQ Steak: Steak, mozzarella cheese and barbecue sauce. Sounds simple, but the trinity is perfect. My favorite calzone on the whole menu. I'm not exaggerating when I say I have eaten dozens of these.
- Cheeseburg Zone: Beef, American cheese, bacon and pepper. This one is a bit greasy and pepperey but if you like those, it's perfect.
- Buffer Zone: Breaded Chicken, Mozzarella, Hot Sauce, Blue Cheese. A fan favorite, and definitely good with the ranch sauce.
- BBQ Chicken: Breaded Chicken, Bacon, Cheddar, BBQ Sauce. A little crunchy, but barbecued chicken is wonderful, almost like eating wings.
D.P. Dough offers a number of specials including a "zone of the day" discount as well as an almost-permanent buy 2 get 1 free offer so the food is often cheaper than it looks. It's imperative that you research these ideas, be they in a newspaper, a flier or in the restaurant itself; almost any way you cut it, you'll be able to find a deal in some way.
The quality of the calzones, and the convenience of the delivery, is awesome. Unfortunately, if you are in the mood to eat in, or want something other than a calzone, I would say to stick with another place. D.P. dough has very few particularly healthy choices, and the interior of the restaurant leaves much to be desired. It is clear that it keeps to the niche market of delivering calzones. If that sounds appetizing to you, D.P. Dough might be the best place to find them. Also, service has been a mixed bag for me. The prices on food have been steadily going up over the past few years and on top of that, delivery boys seem to constantly "forget" to bring change for you when you pay, hoping for a bigger tip. That's a huge problem to me. Watch your dollar when you order.
- D.P. Dough offers a variety of deals, coupons, and discounts. Check fliers, newspapers, and in the store to see what you could be saving money on.
- With late hours as early as 4 a.m. some mornings, this is the place to go if you're hungry late, it's got the latest hours in town.
- Though there is a small dining room to enjoy calzones, D.P. Dough should generally be regarded as "take-out only."


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Milk & Cookies, Please!
You know when you take a bite of something and you just shout "Ohmigod" in your head? That's how I felt when I took a bite of Ben and Jerry's Milk & Cookies. I'm really happy that I caught the server's mistake because when I glanced over, I saw that she was scooping into the Cookies 'n' Cream barrel, and if I didn't, I wouldn't have found one of my new favorite flavors. I think also, that I was able to get a bite of it, at the optimal moment as well. I love waiting for my ice cream to melt on the outside a little bit, while underneath that layer, it's still firm.
Now, exactly what is so special about this flavor? Let's begin with the description that they give, their website, benjerry.com says, "vanilla ice cream with chocolate cookie swirl, chocolate chip and chocolate chocolate chip cookies." Now what it tasted like when I got to it was a bowl of melted vanilla ice cream with mushy chocolate chip cookies. This is a freaking A+ in my book since my favorite way to eat dunkable cookies is when it gets all mushy. Actually, my favorite way to eat Oreo cookies, is pretty much the idea of this ice cream. I fill a bowl with milk, pour in the Oreos and eat it with a spoon. Yes, as all of you know by now, I was a fat child.
I'm dying to try some of their new flavors too. There's-
Bonnaroo Buzz: coffee and malt ice creams with toffee chunks and a whiskey caramel swirl.
Clusterfluff: peanut butter ice cream with caramel cluster pieces, peanut butter and marshmallow swirls.
Red Velvet Cake: red velvet cake batter ice cream with red velvet cake pieces and a cream cheese frosting swirl.
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This is the new Chiot's Run and a continuation of my efforts to journal our lives as we cultivate a more meaningful life, through local food, gardening, and so many other things. We used to live in a small suburban neighborhood in Ohio but moved to 153 acres in Liberty, Maine in 2012. We raise chickens, turkeys, ducks, and occasionally pigs. Our gardens have grown each year and we are now able to grow almost 100% of the vegetables for our table.
We are currently in the first phases of planning and building a new home on our property. We are enlisting the help of our friend Mike Maines with this new and exciting project.
I grew up in Colombia, South America, my parents are missionaries that worked in the jungle and various cities in the country. I have a passion for growing and cooking good food. Sewing, reading, and snowshoeing are the hobbies that keep me through the long snowy winters here in Maine. They help keep things balanced, seasonal living can be rich with widely varied experiences.


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Jeremy Bailenson
Thomas More Storke Professor, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Education
BioJeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Thomas More Storke Professor in the Department of Communication, Professor (by courtesy) of Education, Professor (by courtesy) Program in Symbolic Systems, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a Faculty Leader at Stanford's Center for Longevity. He earned a B.A. cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University in 1999. He spent four years at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor.
Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual and Augmented Reality, in particular how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space, and explores the changes in the nature of social interaction. His most recent research focuses on how virtual experiences can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health. He is the recipient of the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford. In 2020, IEEE recognized his work with "The Virtual/Augmented Reality Technical Achievement Award".
He has published more than 200 academic papers, spanning the fields of communication, computer science, education, environmental science, law, linguistics, marketing, medicine, political science, and psychology. His work has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation for over 20 years.
Bailenson consults pro bono on Virtual Reality policy for government agencies including the State Department, the US Senate, Congress, the California Supreme Court, the Federal Communication Committee, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the National Research Council, and the National Institutes of Health.
His first book Infinite Reality, co-authored with Jim Blascovich, emerged as an Amazon Best-seller eight years after its initial publication, and was quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court. His new book, Experience on Demand, was reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Nature, and The Times of London, and was an Amazon Best-seller.
He has written opinion pieces for Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, PBS NewsHour, Wired, National Geographic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has produced or directed six Virtual Reality documentary experiences which were official selections at the Tribeca Film Festival. His lab's research has exhibited publicly at museums and aquariums, including a permanent installation at the San Jose Tech Museum.
Laurence Baker
Bing Professor of Human Biology and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes.
Adam Banks
Professor of Education
BioCommitted teacher. Midnight Believer. A Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Cerebral and silly, outgoing and a homebody. Vernacular and grounded but academic and idealistic too. Convinced that Donny Hathaway is the most compelling artist of the entire soul and funk era, and that we still don't give Patrice Rushen enough love. I'm a crate digger, and DJ with words and ideas, and I believe that the people, voices and communities we bring with us to Stanford are every bit as important as those with which we engage here at Stanford.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I come to Stanford from the University of Kentucky, where I served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies and prior to that, from Syracuse University, as a member of the faculty of the Writing Program. In addition to these appointments I served as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kansas and, jointly with Andrea Lunsford, as the Rocky Gooch Visiting Professor for the Bread Loaf School of English.
My scholarship lies at the intersections of writing, rhetoric and technology issues; my specialized interests include African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics and digital humanities. My most recent book is titled Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, and my current digital/book project is titled Technologizing Funk/Funkin Technology: Critical Digital Literacies and the Trope of the Talking Book.
Khalil Barhoum
Senior Lecturer in the Language Center
BioKhalil Barhoum is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics. He holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan. He came to the U.S. on a Rotary International scholarship, which helped him earn a Masters' degree in English Literature from Georgia Southern in 1977; he received a second Masters and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1985. His teaching experience includes the US State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Georgetown University, and the Johns Hopkins' School of International Studies (SAIS). Upon obtaining his Ph.D from Georgetown University, he joined Stanford University where he taught Arabic in the Department of Linguistics. Currently, he is coordinator of Stanford's Program of African and Middle Eastern Languages in the Language Center. He is an ACTFL-certified OPI and WPT Tester/Rater in Arabic and has served on the board of the Association of Arabic Teachers in America (AATA). He is a former national president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates(AAUG) and has served twice as the president of its California Chapter. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, edited by Cheryl Rubenberg and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in 2010. In addition to teaching Arabic courses at all various levels, Dr. Barhoum has designed and taught several language and culture courses, including Arabic Calligraphy; Media Arabic; Colloquial Arabic; Arab Women Writers and Issues; The West through Arab Eyes; The Arab World through Travel Literature; and The Arab World and Culture through Literature. Dr. Barhoum has lectured on Arabic and Arabic literature, Arabic calligraphy, and the Arab world at several college campuses, including Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UMASS Amherst, among others.
Donald Barr
Professor (Teaching) of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics), Emeritus
BioDonald Barr is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Stanford School of Medicine, and Professor by Courtesy in the Graduate School of Education. He teaches in the Undergraduate Program in Human Biology, where he helped to found Human Biology's curriculum in health policy. His research has studied the effect of the organizational structure of the U.S. medical care delivery system on the quality of primary care. He has also studied cultural and linguistic barriers to health care access for low-income patients, and factors associated with higher rates of attrition from pre-medical studies among minority students at Stanford and other universities. The fourth edition of his book, Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America, was published in 2016. The third edition of his book, Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity and the Social Determinants of Health, was published in 2019. In June 2003 Dr. Barr was awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contribution to Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. In 2006 he received the Miriam Aaron Roland Prize, which recognizes Stanford faculty who engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service to society.