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[ null, "This is from the Eyewitness Series:\n\nRosie Roper (villager): \"I was 15 when Traffic arrived in the village. Everybody was very worried about it at first. I worked in the village shop where they came every day to collect their letters. They were very strange-looking. Chris Wood had these high-heeled boots painted purple. We'd never seen anything like it. My dad reckoned they were a sweaty, smelly lot, but I got such a crush on Chris. Whenever I saw them coming, I'd take off my glasses and hide them under the counter. My dad warned me to keep away from them because of the sex and drugs and that.\"\n\nChris Welch (journalist): \"It was the first 'getting our heads together in the country' cottage. It was on Sheepcott Farm, which belonged to a wealthy landowner and socialite, William Piggott-Brown, who part-owned Island Records with Chris Blackwell. He rented them this cottage with roses rounf the door for 5 pounds a week.\"\n\nLinda Eastman (photographer, now Linda McCartney): \"I came to England in 1967 to do a book of rock photographs and I was a huge Winwood fan so I wanted to do him. He had left The Spencer Davis Group and moved to the cottage, but Traffic hadn't been publicly announced yet, so I got the opportunity of doing their first pictures. It was a cold but beautiful day, and all the trees were blooming, so I did the pictures outside, starting with them running towards me down the slope behind the cottage.\"\n\nTimothy White (journalist): \"Mr Fantasy was the first album they worked on there, and the song 'House for Everyone' is about the cottage. You came upon a deeply-rutted chalk track, and hidden in the centre of a copse of hazelnut and pine trees was a two-storey wisteria-draped, white brick dwelling with a slate roof and a squat red chimney.\"\n\nDavid Dalton (journalist): \"There were beehives, and the ground in front of the cottage was strewn with boxes, bags of cement, a brass bedstead, newspapers, an old cartwheel, cans of paint and a big psychotic-looking dog leashed to the fence.\"\n\nChris Welch: \"Including the kitchen, there were three rooms downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs. They had oriental rugs on the floor but otherwise it was quite bare, almost spartan, like a camp rather than a home. A typical all-male scene.\"\n\nLinda Eastman: \"They seemed very happy there. In the evening, after we'd done the pictures, they played in the front room, jamming on the Tim Rose song 'Morning Dew'. I had taken The Beatles' Sgt Pepper down there, because it had just come out, and it stunned them a bit, because a lot of what they were planning to do, The Beatles had done first. I also took The Doors' first album with me, and I know Jim Capaldi got very turned on to Jim Morrison because of that.\"\n\nMuff Winwood (member of The Spencer Davis Group and Steve Winwood's brother): \"The whole idea was to be very low profile and inconspicuous but one Sunday Steve invited me up because he'd got into riding. He had this big yellow horse, exactly like Trigger, with no saddle, just a bridle. I watched him leap up on to its back, full of confidence, but it took off like a rocket, with Steve hanging on for dear life. Next thing, it does a flick and throws Steve off. So he's on the ground moaning in agony, and it runs out into the main road, causing a car to skid and a lorry to run into the back of the car. Me and Capaldi went running into the road trying to stop this mad horse. It was pandemonium. That's how inconspicuous it was.\"\n\nRosie Roper: \"It was creepy. My dad had lived in the cottage years before and the story was that a young man had hanged himself by the well and you could still hear the ghost of his dog howling for him. The band said there was a spirit that moved things around. It never hurt anybody, it was just mischievous. One day, Chris Wood and I sat there all afternoon waiting for it to do something, but it never did.\"\n\nDavid Dalton: \"I went to write about them for Rolling Stone, and I was struck right away by how wonderfully naïve and optimistic Steve was. He really made me feel welcome. Chris, by contrast, was very sharp-tongued. At first, I wished he's just shut up. Then I began to realize he was very amusing. For example, in the local pub, The Boot, the villagers would be making comments about the boys looking like girls, and Chris would be the one to say, Yes folks, the girls are here again. He voiced what the others wouldn't have the nerve to say and that released the tension. He was our court jester.\"\n\nRosie Roper: \"One day, Chris came into the shop and said how he really missed home-made apple pie. So me and my sister Marion made two apple pies and took them up to the cottage that Sunday. The next day they came back with the plates and said it had been delicious. I went all red in the face.\"\n\nMike Kellie (Spooky Tooth): \"We were living on a farm just a few miles away, so we drove over quite regularly. It became a real gathering place. Trevor Burton from The Move had grown sick of being a 'pop' star and wanted to make more 'serious' music, so he moved up to the cottage and virtually lived there as well.\"\n\nTrevor Burton (The Move): \"One person who seemed to hate them was Piggott-Brown's game-keeper. They had a running war with him. The worst was when he put a log across the drive with nails sticking out of it to burst the tyres on their Jeep.\"\n\nMike Kellie: \"We'd play through the night and I'd eventually nod off, but Steve never seemed to sleep. He and I grew up together in Birmingham, and we still meet, and in all that time I have never seen him asleep. I'd wake up at 5am in front of a roaring fire with bodies sleeping all around me, and I'd look over and Steve would be wide awake.\"\n\nTrevor Burton: \"We were always jamming. There was a sort of stone patio on the front of the cottage and if the weather was good, we'd play out there. Any musicians who were around would join in. Clapton came by several times and played with us. A lot of Traffic's early songs came out of those jams.\"\n\nMike Kellie: \"The standard of playing in those jams was fantastic. People just seemed to turn up, like Ritchie Furay and Steve Stills from Buffalo Springfield. We didn't really play songs, it was just pure improvised music making, and out of that music came ideas for songs.\"\n\nDavid Dalton: \"A lot of songs for the first album were written and demoed in the cottage, or were at least inspired by the experiences of being there. 'Berkshire Poppies' is an obvious one. Dave Mason's song 'Little Woman' was inspired by a poacher who hunted near the cottage, using a bow and arrow. The song is a sort of fantasy about the poacher shooting a girl with his bow.\"\n\nJohn Glover: \"They would play literally all night, then in the early hours of the morning, they'd wander off on to the downs. A lot of lyrics got written lying in the grass. Mr Fantasy was actually an Alsatian owned by Albert Eton, the roadie who lived at the cottage with them. The Dealer is about Chris Blackwell, who lived in a bungalow about half a mile away.\"\n\nMuff Winwood: \"The record producer Guy Stevens once turned up at 3am to collect some bongos he'd left behind. He just assumed everybody would be still up and about. As it happened, we'd all gone off somewhere, so Guy crawled in through a window, found his bongos and was heading off down the track when the local bobby arrests him for burglary. Chris Blackwell had to go down to Wallingford the next day to bail him out.\"\n\nTony Vass (estate maintenance officer): \"I was up at the cottage painting the outside for several days. There were little scraps of paper lying about with words on them, very strange words, as I thought, about an elephant's eye and bubblegum trees and such. And they were constantly playing this one song, which is where I picked the tune up, and I'd be humming it as I went home because it was very catchy. Weeks later, of course, it came on Top Of The Pops, and it was 'Hole In My Shoe'.\"\n\nJohn Glover: \"I used to deliver supplies, but it was usually afternoon before they'd get out of bed, so I wouldn't arrive until lunch-time. I'd bring everything from cash to guitar strings to bread and milk, and of course, lots of apple yogurt.\"\n\nRosie Roper: \"If there was any drugs around, I never saw it. One day I was offered a cigarette and, quick as a flash, James Capaldi dives into his pocket and insists I have one of his. I always wondered why that was ...\"\n\nJohn Glover: \"We used to enter the dope into the petty cash receipts book as apple yogurt. The accountant found that very amusing.\"\n\nRosie Roper: \"James took care of us girls, always making sure we didn't get into mischief. He would send us away before it got dark, and always got me to phone my dad and tell him where I was. It was like brothers and sisters. One nigh when they were going out, I washed Chris' hair for him and I noticed he was going bald on top. I said he needed hair restorer like the old men use and he just laughed.\"\n\nDavid Dalton: \"They didn't seem very organized about food. I recall one time there was nothing to ea except peanut butter and bread. There was a bowl of peaches and cream in the fridge but it had dead moths and gnats in it.\"\n\nRosie Roper: \"The place was always a mess. They tried to make some stew once and ended up burning all the saucepans. James Capaldi rang me up and asked how to get all this burnt stuff off the pans. I went up there, boiled up some rhubarb in the pan and left it for 24 hours. My granny taught me that and it works. The band were amazed.\"\n\nDavid Dalton: \"Steve was quite fearful of the way Chris drove the Jeep down the track, because it was very rutted. He was a reckless driver, and Steve would try and get him to be more careful.\"\n\nTrevor Burton: One night we were going off to a party at Piggott-Brown's. I'd dropped a tab and I was standing on the back mudguard of the Jeep. 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[ null, "EXPERT REACTION: Government's Research Infrastructure Plan\n\nEmbargoed until: Publicly released: 2018-05-15 10:30\n\nThe Federal Government is set to invest billions in research infrastructure to ensure that Australia stays at the forefront of science. Genomics, nanotechnology, astronomy, imaging and supercomputing are all set to benefit along with a new building to house CSIRO's National Collection of insects, wildlife and plants. The Research Infrastructure and Investment Plan is the Government response to the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap developed by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO. The plan includes $1.5 billion for equipment and capabilities to ensure researchers have access to the most advanced infrastructure and around $400 million to support critical operating funding for facilities, and scoping of potential new cutting‑edge capabilities.\n\nOrganisation/s: Australian Science Media Centre\n\nExpert Reaction\n\nKylie Walker is the CEO of Science & Technology Australia\n\nThe STEM sector will be pleased to see the government’s commitment to sustained operational funding beyond the next ten years.\n\nRegularly refreshing and renewing the research infrastructure Roadmap and Investment Plan will also ensure that our facilities remain relevant to our requirements.\n\nScience & Technology Australia has been asking for long-term investment and certainty for research infrastructure for some time, and in the lead up to the 2016 Roadmap, we called for stable operational funding and investment in staff to maintain and run the crucial kit that powers the nation’s knowledge production.\n\nToday’s announcement has given us a first crucial step towards long-term stability for research facilities to put Australia on a strong footing for the future.\n\nWe are, however surprised that there is no clear plan to provide training and a stable career trajectory for this highly skilled technical workforce, to ensure that these critical research facilities run at their highest capacity.\n\nWe’re pleased that the government has taken a long-term view, and hope to see a consultative and proactive approach when renewing the Roadmap and Investment Plan in the years to come.\n\nDeclared conflicts of interest:\nProfessor Andrew Holmes is President of the Australian Academy of Science\n\nThe Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Research Infrastructure Investment Plan and its response to the Chief Scientist’s National Research Infrastructure Roadmap.\n\nThe Academy also welcomes the $393m budget allocation to national research infrastructure over the five-year period (2017/18 – 2021/22) of which $199m was allocated in the 2017/18 FY [Budget paper 2, page 92], however remains concerned that critical infrastructure investment may still be some years away.\n\n“New investment in national research infrastructure is welcome however we remain concerned about the lack of detail as to when funding will be allocated. 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Upgrading, expanding and connecting many of Australia’s research facilities remains critical to allow the research community to continue seeking solutions to some of our most pressing challenges in industry, agriculture, health and environment\n\nNone declared\nProfessor Tony Cunningham AO is President of The Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI)\n\nThe Investment Plan recognises an important fact - that we can only do world class research when we have access to world class research infrastructure. The commitment of new funding will ensure that over the next decade, our researchers will have the tools they need to make new discoveries in medical research.\n\nThis is how we can deliver the best health and economic benefits to the nation.”\n\nProfessor Peter Quinn is Executive Director, The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)\n\nThe National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) announced by the Federal Government in 2015 was a major shot-in-the-arm for Australian science. 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[ null, null, null, null, "PDF (Acrobat) Document File\n\n8 MB|9 pages\nThis listing is for a brand new set of cards to be added to the highly popular, Transition Reminder Card set, that is also for sale.\nThis cute and colorful card set is designed to help children to successfully transition from one activity to the next. Each card comes with a word/s and picture that supports any verbal instructions a teacher might be giving. The new set of cards are more specific than the ones previously created - as I had many teachers requesting more detailed instructions or scenarios, so hopefully there are some cards that will be just what you need! The value for money in this additional set is huge, as there are 28 new cards for the same price as the originally listed set!\nThese cards are great for all children, especially pre schoolers, who are reluctant to finish up when they're enjoying themselves, but are essential for children on the Autism Spectrum, as they provide a visual reference and time to prepare for change.\nThey are designed to be worn by teachers/aides/educators on lanyards or rings, so that they are easily accessible and provide consistent cues for the children.\nThese cards work as a terrific complimentary resource to my 'Traffic Light Behaviour Cards' and 'Time Countdown Cards' - as they are all the same size and can be attached to the same lanyard for a well-equipped, handy resource.\n\nFILE: You will receive a PDF in your download.\n\nAll designs, text and products are the property of ©Kate Dedic LittlePeopleLove 2017. All rights reserved.\n\nSome of the graphics used in this product are from\n\nwww.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Whimsy- Clips\n\nThank you for shopping at LittlePeopleLove!\nI hope you enjoy your products and find them both lovely to look at and supportive of the special little people in your life!" ]

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[ null, "Friday and Saturday, December 8 and 9 - Brick, Ocean County\n\nChristmas in Brick – Post Civil War\nChildren Friendly Event", null, "The Brick Township Historical Society will sponsor its annual holiday event called “Christmas in Brick – Post Civil War” on Friday from 3:00 - 7:00 pm and on Saturday from 3:00 - 7:00 pm at its Havens Homestead Museum, 521 Herbertsville Road, Brick, NJ. Special decorations will add a festive atmosphere. There will be entertainment and refreshments. A Santa Claus will be present for picture taking. Tickets are $5.00 each for adults, and children under 12 and first responders are free. Tickets can be purchased upon arrival.\n\nThe Lizzie Herbert Gift Shop will be open with holiday specials. The other three buildings will be open for viewing. Parking is in a lot 150 feet east of the museum building. The sign by the driveway to the lot says “Robert Anstett Cultural Arts Center.\" For more information, call 732-785-2500 or visit www.bricktwphistoricalsociety.com.\n\nFriday, December 8 - Newton, Sussex County\nSussex County Historical Society Annual Holiday Open House\n\nOn Friday evening, visit the Hill Memorial Museum and view the oldest building continuously operating as a museum in the State of New Jersey, beautifully decorated for the holidays. The Hill Memorial Building was constructed for the Sussex County Historical Society in 1916 and dedicated June 8, 1917. This year’s theme will focus on the Hill Memorial Building’s 100th year celebration. The open house will take place from 6:30 - 8:00 pm at the Hill Memorial Museum, 82 Main Street, Newton, NJ. Free admission and refreshments. For more information, call 973-383-6010 or visit www.sussexcountyhistory.org.\n\nSaturday, December 9 - Atlantic City, Atlantic County\nMr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and their Lighthouse Elves - Crafts and Climbs", null, "Saturday, December 9 - Camden, Camden County\nBreakfast with Santa on the Battleship", null, "Saturday, December 9 - Toms River, Ocean County\nSanta’s Coming to Ocean County Historical Society!\nFamily Friendly Event\n\nBring your children and grandchildren to Ocean County Historical Society on Saturday between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm, and take their photo (bring your own camera) with Santa Claus. Our Victorian home at 26 Hadley Avenue, Toms River, NJ is beautifully decorated for the holidays and docents will be available for a guided tour of each of the rooms. There is no charge, but donations will be accepted. For more information, call 732-341-1880.\n\nSaturday, December 9 - Mount Laurel, Burlington County\nPaulsdale Holiday Open House", null, "Paulsdale is open to the public for a Holiday Open House from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Paulsdale is the birthplace of Quaker suffragist Alice Paul. The home will be decorated in Quaker fashion by The Garden of Mount Laurel and guests can peruse the gift shop,enjoy free tours of the house, refreshments and more. Learn about Alice Paul's life and work and the site's present day use as a girl's leadership center. Admission is free. Bring the kids! Santa will be here for photographs! A $10 donation for the Rotary Club of Mt. Laurel is requested.\n\nSaturday, December 9 - Somerville, Somerset County\nCandle Light Tours at the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage\n\nSaturday, December 9 - Cape May, Cape May County\n44th Annual Christmas Candlelight House Tour\nFamily Friendly", "Santa's Trolley Ride\n\nSaturday, December 9 - South Bound Brook, Somerset County\nMadrigal Singers at the Abraham Staats House", null, "The Abraham Staats House will be decked out in festive finery and offer seasonal music and tours, on Saturday from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Join us for the fabulous Franklin Township HS Madrigal Singers, directed by Tim Walton.  The performance will start promptly at 1:00 pm. Afterwards, tour the house rooms featuring seasonal decorations by local organizations. House closes at 3:00 pm. Free admission, donations accepted. For more information, visit www.staatshouse.org.\n\nSaturday - Sunday, December 9 - 10 - Hampton, Hunterdon County\nHoliday Open House\n\nPlease join the Union Forge Heritage Association in celebrating the Holiday Season at the 1760 Historic Joseph Turner House and history museum. Enjoy holiday cheer and the company of family and neighbors. Hours on Saturday are 2:00 - 7:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 - 5:00 pm. Saturday's open house includes a special harp concert at 3:00 pm by Mary Cruz of Harp Time. Suggested donation $10. The 1760 Joseph Turner House is located at 117 Van Syckles Road, Hampton, NJ. For more information and to RSVP, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.unionforgeheritage.org." ]

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[ null, "Locals and travelers to connect with\n\nNow a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cape Coast founded in the 15th century by the Portuguese initially grew around the historic Cape Coast Castle. At a distance of 165 kilometers to the west of Accra, Cape Coast is the site where most of the slaves were first held before their onward journey through the Middle Passage. Subsequently colonized by the Dutch, Danish, Swedish and the British, Cape Coast skyline boasts of some wonderful architectural examples of European architecture, which are now attracting tourist attention.\n\nApart from these historic structures, the Kakum National Park spread over 350 square kilometers, is a major Cape Coast tourist attraction where visitors can enjoy safaris, fishing, sailing, canoeing and trekking. The beautiful Cape Coast beach is also a favorite tourist hang-out where you can see locals fishing using traditional boats. Regular bus services are available from Accra, which normally take about three hours driving, for tourists wanting to explore this historic slave town of Cape Coast." ]

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[ null, "Yarışma Özeti\n\nOur company, Omnium, has a logo we love. It is attached in color ([login to view URL]) and black&white (logo_black.cdr.) However, we have expanded our business and re-branded as Omnium Management Group, with the intent to go by OMG. We want to keep the compass part of our logo intact and to use its colors. I am including two concepts we have reusing elements from the existing logo. We like those concepts and something similar would work, but we're open to different ideas too.\n\nA little more on our company: We are a network management and IT support company. We envision ourselves as the guides, the compass, leading our customers through technology choices and steering them away from bad decisions and pitfalls. The concept of the compass is integral to our company. Our slogan is \"Your technology compass\"\n\nWe would like the graphic in vector and PSD formats." ]

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[ null, null, "Not long ago, Dr. Mohamed Babu, of Mysore, South India, noticed something strange about the ants scurrying around on the floor of his kitchen: After drinking some spilled milk, their abdomens turned white. Realizing the insects’ bodies were transparent, he got an idea for a stunning set of photographs, he told the Daily Mail.\n\nMixing different varieties of food coloring along with sugar, water and a waxy base, he set out small droplets of liquid on a white plastic sheet outside in his garden and let the ants do the rest. “As the ant’s abdomen is semi-transparent, the ants gain the colors as they sip the liquid,” he said.", null, "Striving to get the best possible photos, Babu ran into an unexpected problem: too many ants. “I really toiled to get a photo,” he said. “The crowd always used to become unmanageable within a few minutes and while I managed my camera with my right hand, my left hand was busy removing the extra ants.” After a number of repeated attempts, he finally got the photos he was looking for.", null, "The impromptu experiment also allowed Babu to learn about the ants’ color preferences. “Curiously, the ants preferred light colors—yellow and green,” he said. “The darker green and blue drops had no takers, until there was no space around the preferred yellow and green drops.” Some of the ants even wandered between the colors, creating unique mixtures of different hues inside their own stomachs." ]

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[ "Democrats Leak 6 Month Old Documents To Damage America!", "by Jim Hoft September 26, 2006\n\nUpdate: Bush calls democrats naive, will declassify intelligence documents now that they have been leaked by democratic operatives in the intelligence community.\n\nIs this really a surprise?\n\nThe cherry-picked democratic talking points leaked to the press this weekend were from a 6 month old document!\n\nThe documents leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post were 6 months old!\n\nAnd, in the other organized democratic attack on the Bush Administration, yesterday, democrats dragged the same-old Rummy-hating generals out for another attack on the Defense Secretary in a much publicized hearing…", null, "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right, questions witnesses as Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., center, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., left, look on during the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing regarding Iraq Monday, Sept. 25, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)\n\n** Isn’t it a shame that democrats don’t muster the same amount of energy they use attacking Bush into a security plan for their party and the country?\n\nJohn at Powerline explains this latest attempt to damage President Bush and America:\n\nIn my addendum to this post by Paul, I repeated a point I’ve made several times before: one of the sinister aspects of leaks of classified information is that they are by nature selective. The leaker has access to lots of material, but he doesn’t leak it all: he only leaks what he thinks will best serve his political agenda. The recent leaks of alleged conclusions from the National Intelligence Estimate that was completed last spring is a perfect case in point. Paul and I talked about an article in the Washington Post by a reporter who obviously had not read the report. All she could do was pass on the Democrat leaker’s spin. Which, in all likelihood, she was happy to do.\n\nIn From the Cold, a website run by a former intelligence official, has much more:\n\nThankfully, the actual NIE is not the harbinger of disaster that the Times and WaPo would have us believe. According to members of the intel community who have seen the document, the NIE is actually fair and balanced (to coin a phrase), noting both successes and failures in the War on Terror–and identifying potential points of failure for the jihadists. The quotes printed below–taken directly from the document and provided to this blogger–provide “the other side” of the estimate, and its more balanced assessment of where we stand in the War on Terror.\nIn one of its early paragraphs, the estimate notes progress in the struggle against terrorism, stating the U.S.-led efforts have “seriously damaged Al Qaida leadership and disrupted its operations.” Didn’t see that in the NYT article.\n\nOr how about this statement, which–in part–reflects the impact of increased pressure on the terrorists: “A large body of reporting indicates that people identifying themselves as jihadists is increasing…however, they are largely decentralized, lack a coherent strategy and are becoming more diffuse.” Hmm…doesn’t sound much like Al Qaida’s pre-9-11 game plan.\n\nThe report also notes the importance of the War in Iraq as a make or break point for the terrorists: “Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves to have failed, we judge that fewer will carry on the fight.” It’s called a ripple effect.\n\nMore support for the defeating the enemy on his home turf: “Threats to the U.S. are intrinsically linked to U.S. success or failure in Iraq.” President Bush and senior administration officials have made this argument many times–and it’s been consistently dismissed by the “experts” at the WaPo and Times.\n\nBoth Powerline and In From the Cold have much more on this latest democratic attack on our country’s future and well being.\n\nIraqi President Talabani said yesterday that he wants US troop presence until at least the end of 2008 and would like a longterm presence of US troops in Iraq to prevent foreign interference.\n\nIf the US withdrew troops today as the democratic leakers in our intelligence community suggest with their dated and cherry-picked betrayals, Iraq would be left less secure and open to failure. The Iraqis then might see a real and not just imagined Civil War and our democratic Mideast ally would be lost to terrorist groups and anarchy.\n\nBut, this doesn’t matter to the democratic leakers in our intelligence community!\n\nMona Charon at The Corner has more." ]

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[ null, "Per Person\nRisk Free\n\nTour Information\n\nKey Details\n\nExplore the whole Mumbai city from full sightseeing to slum, from Indian food tasting to shopping, from historic temples to ancient church every thing in just two days. On the first day do the Mumbai sightseeing tour & Market tourin an private air-con car. On the second day see the insights of the Dharavi Slum in Mumbai, Indian Food Tasting & Mumbai Shoppingtour.The whole south Mumbai & the mid of Mumbai is covered in this tour. This tour features informative commentary from your professional guide while you do the whole two days tour which also includes unlimited fun, knowledge & experience. In a very systematic & organized way we have build up this tour to get best insights of the Mumbai city in just two Days.\n\nKnow More about this tour\n\nThis tour package is the best to visit the whole Mumbai in a very short time of 2 days. just book the tour with us & see the whole Mumbai which also includes your different needs of shopping, Indian food tasting, Market visit, Asia's biggest Slum & many more. On Day-1 Start the tour from your hotel lobby, enter into an air con car with a professional guide, who will give you complete brief description of each & every places you visit. With the best experience in this field, we do ensure that you don't miss out any prominent spots that are enticing & charismatic. Our highlights of Mumbai Sightseeing Tour is as follow. GATEWAY OF INDIA, MUMBAI UNIVERSITY, BOMBAY HIGH COURT, MARINE DRIVE, MANI BHAVAN, KAMLA NEHRU PARK-SKYLINE VIEW OF THE CITY AND OLD WOMANS SHOE, HANGING GARDENS-GARDENS BUILT ON TOP OF WATER TANKS NEAR THE TOWER OF SILENCE, DHOBI GHAT AT MAHALAXMI (THECITY OF LAUNDRY), VICTORIA TERMINUS TRAIN STATION NOW KNOWN AS CST AND MUNICIPALITY BUILDING, GIRGAON CHOW PATTY, OVAL CRICKET GROUND & many more. Then moving forward to the CRAWFORD MARKET, MANGALDAS MARKET, BOMBAY PARANJAPOLE, FLOWER MARKET & SASSON DOCK. After 8 hours of tour on Day 1 we will drop you back to the hotel. On Day 2 The guide will pick you up from your hotel & by a local Mumbai train & we will go to visit the slum which will be a three hours walking tour & a total insight of the Asia's Largest Slum in Mumbai, This slum is said to be a city inside a city itself. In the place of narrow lanes & allies, where small businesses are making huge turnover. The people have laid their presence in different sectors of leather factories, plastic recycling, pottery art, soap factories, pepsi can recycling & much more. Our tailor made plans will ensure that you don't miss out any prominent spot of this mini city. Rest for a while at CCD & move forward for the Shopping time what ever you want to shop, you name it we will take you at the exact place at a very reasonable price.\n\nAdditional Info\n\nConfirmation will be received at time of booking\n\nA minimum of 1 people per booking is required" ]

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[ "U.S. stock indexes ended marginally lower, weighed down by declines in health-care and energy shares.\n\nThe muted moves for major indexes followed the market’s biggest daily rally in nearly a month.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average inched down 4.41 points, little changed on a percentage basis, to 17732.75. The S&P 500 fell 2.34 points, or 0.1%, to 2081.24. The Nasdaq Composite edged down just 1.56 points to 5073.64.\n\nThe S&P 500’s health-care sector dropped 1.6% after UnitedHealth Group told investors it expected major losses from Affordable Care Act exchanges and will consider withdrawing from them. Its shares fell $6.62, or 5.7%, to $110.63.\n\nInsurer Aetna AET 1.04% declined 6.97, or 6.5%, to 99.89, Anthem dropped 9.44, or 6.9%, to 127.86, and Cigna fell 7.31, or 5.4%, to 127.83.", null, "Many investors welcomed the prospect of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates for the first time in almost a decade, taking it as a sign of confidence in the U.S. economy. 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[ "Marco Rubio - Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel: During an interview with http://shark-tank.net , Florida's senator-elect Marco Rubio says, \"I think the Obama administration is undermining Israel.\" . . .\n\n\"I don't know if they [the US government]are doing it deliberately but certainly their actions have made Israel less safe and made America less safe. I hope they will reverse course.\" [Shark Take Media Video]\n\nTags: Marco Rubio, Florida, US Senate, Greta Van Susteran, Fox New, Congress, Budget, Israel, Jerusalem, Capital of Israel To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 8:56 PM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 25, 2010\n\nMerry Christmas 2010\n\nTags: America's Best Choice, Christmas, 2010, Merry Christmas To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 8:00 AM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 24, 2010\n\nGood News For Florida", "Census Data Released; Florida, Georgia, Texas Gain House Seats: Data is slowly coming out this morning indicating that Florida, Georgia and Texas have gained seats in the House of Representatives after the Census report was released. According to the Wall Street Journal, Texas has gained 4 seats, Florida has gained 2 seats, and Georgia has gained a single seat. Ohio has lost 2 seats.\nExpected to lose House seats are Big Government liberal states like Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Also expected to lose seats are Iowa, Missouri, and Louisiana.\n\nAccording to The Hill:\n\nIn all, 12 House seats shifted.\n\nThe biggest gainer, as expected, was the state of Texas, which will have four new House seats. The only other state netting more than one additional seat is Florida, which was awarded two new seats Tuesday.\n\nThe biggest losers this round are the presidential battleground state of Ohio and heavily Democratic New York — both states will lose two seats.\n\nAnother eight states lose one seat — Illinois, New Jersey, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Missouri and Massachusetts.\n\nSix states are gaining just a single seat — Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Washington state.\n\nAlso announced was the total U.S. population: 308,745,538. That’s a 9.7 percent increase from the 2000 population count.\n\nTags: Census, Florida, Georga, Texas, US Congress, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, Washington To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 12:59 PM 1 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 22, 2010\n\nCut The CRAP - Upkeep of Unused VA Monkey House - $175 Million\n\nBill Smith, Editor: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) released his annual “Wastebook” Monday, discussing 100 spending projects that squandered $11.5 billion of public money this year. The following is part of series of articles where that will be run drawing on Coburn's 2010 Wastebook and other sources to identify government funded waste. We are going to call the series Cut the CRAP which represents depending on the situation (Congress' Reckless Addiction to Pork) or (Congress' Reckless Allowance of Piss-Poor-Performance).\n\nIf you are angry with the waste, leave a comment, but most of all forward the example to your congressional representative and Senators and tell them to Cut the CRAP. Let your friends know about the waste. And get involved with organizations opposing government fraud, waste, and abuse. However, if you are happy with the pork project, share with us why you believe the government should be taxing others and in-debting our even grandchildren for the project.\n\nUpkeep for Unused Monkey House and Other Buildings -\n(Department of Veterans Affairs) $175 Million\nThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to\nmaintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal\nmonkey house in Dayton, Ohio as identified by Jana Winter in a Fox News exclusive.\n\nMany of the buildings are in severe disrepair, but the VA does not have the funds\nto improve them. Complex federal laws make it difficult for the agency to sell the\nbuildings. So instead they sit unused, except for the vermin, birds, and insects\nthat use them for shelter.", null, "The VA disputes the $175 million figure, saying it spent only $34 million last year on unused buildings. Moreover, the agency says it has made progress in shedding properties it no longer needs, selling off 266 buildings in the last three years. Meanwhile, some veterans‘ advocates are calling on the VA to use the buildings to house homeless vets.\n\nIt is time for the Veterans Administration to better serve Veterans and to stop the waste and abuse in its department.\n\nCongress: Cut The CRAP - No more funds to the VA or any other government or non-government agency to \"upkeep Unused / Un-Needed Buildings. Hold these agencies accountable and stop funding recurring fraudulent budget line items.\nTags: US Congress, CRAP, Cut the Crap, Veterans Administration, monkey, monkey house, To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 9:01 AM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 20, 2010\n\nHerman Cain's Hat is Almost in the Ring For President 2012\n\nBill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service: Herman Cain appeared on Fox News \"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren\" last Friday and talked about why he is 70% ready to run for President in 2012. He called himself and unconventional candidate because he has not held office but was a successful in business. He is going to decide after the 1st of the year.\n\nHe has formed an exploratory committee and launched a Draft Herman Cain President 2012 (more later). Gretta like others want candidates to announce on their shows but Cain will most like announce on one of Neil Cavudo shows on Fox News.\n\nAs many know, I have for some time been supporting the Draft Sarah Palin 2012 Committee. Will I continue to do so? Yes. Will I support the Draft Herman Cain for President 2012? You betcha!  I liked watching and supporting Sarah Palin in 2008. I voted for her and that other guy she was running with. She is dynamic and it is amazing watching her communicate with a crowd. She also leads in being nationally known.  She is a classy conservative lady who the liberals hate above all other candidates.  I will keep my Veterans for Sarah hat on my rack whether she runs or not!  Palin has learned the national debate game since 2008.  If she wins the Republican nomination, she will shred Obama and his policies.\n\nOnly, former governor Fox News host Mike Huckabee has more TV time and experience governing. He also has been a candidate for president. Even though he and I have not always agreed on fiscal issues in the past, we have both supported other candidates for state offices and with age, we are both a couple years older and wiser in our experiences; although he is the young guy. Huckabee has been carrying the campaign banner the longest and communicates well. For those who any of our past history, Mike and I have mended fences and so there is absolutely no confusion in the future, if Mike runs for President and is the chosen Republican candidate against Barack Obama in 2012, I will be wearing an \"I Like Mike\" hat and supporting him.\n\nAnother potential is Rep. Mike Pence. Although I but do not have any personal experience with other than listening to him , reporting on him and following his actions as leader of the republican house caucus, I like the prospects for Rep. Mike Pence. Obviously, I like his willingness to talk directly with new media bloggers and his staff arrange discussions with other House members. Pence has walked the conservative walk and taken stands agreeable to most Tea Party conservatives while also being well received by traditional values conservatives. Last year, he received the last years National Right To Life award. Mike Pence also carries himself in a stately mature manner that is an antithesis of the present resident of the White House. He understanding the needs of America and if president would represent America to the world without bowing to other nations and their leaders. As an aside, I served in the military from the Johnson through the Reagan administration. I have noted that Pence reminds me of Reagan's good-natured humor, and calmness in addressing people and events. Having said all this, depending on his decision next year, there may another hat hung on a peg for Mike Pence.\n\nBut folks, unlike others, I do not mind having lots of hats while others often prefer just a favorite hat. I am happy to see numerous viable quality conservative candidates available to run for office. We need someone to bring the ship of state back into a safe harbor and reversing the threat of national bankruptcy.", "And this brings me to Herman Cain, a man who makes others feel better just being around him. While we have walked different career paths, we respect each others method of service to our county. Cain has been successful business man and later has been a motivational conservative speaker who unlike our current president knows what he is talking about when it comes to the economy.\n\nWhat impresses me most about Herman Cain is his ability to reach out and to connect with others both intellectually and emotionally. When I see him with news reporter on TV, he isn't as comfortable being with commentators, but then again we know commentators. But, when you see Herman with people, he electrifies them and connects and excites them and moves their reasoning along to the right conclusions. I have noted that people regardless of age, race or sex seem to mentally adopt him as a wise father figure.\n\nI have had many opportunities in the last two years to be at events with Herman and to join him on the Spending Revolt Bus Tour and at American For Prosperity events. When attending events, if Herman Cain was to speak, I would skip watching him on the live feed provided the press room, and would go to the convention floor. I liked observing the reaction of the attendees. In every situation from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, to Las Vegas, to Little Rock, to Tea Party events, when Herman Cain spoke, the people not only listened but were on their feet in minutes cheering him on and agreeing with every word he spoke. Besides explaining things as they should be, he would also share great stories and practical advice and ideas like his Bumble Bee story or his SIN principles for determining unreachable liberals.\n\nFor those who have yet to meet Mr. Cain, here is brief bio we add to articles placed on articles posted on this site. However, he is far more than these few words.\n\nMr. Herman Cain is an American newspaper columnist, businessman, politician, noted speaker, and conservative radio talk-show host. He previously served as chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza and previously worked as a mathematician for the Department of the Navy, a business analyst for the Coca-Cola Company, and for the Pillsbury Company, where he became Vice-President of Corporate Systems and Services. In 2004, Cain ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia. He is a contributor to the a ARRA News Service and heads The Hermanator PAC which is focused on \"Taking Back Our Government.\"\n\nWhile Barack Obama might beat Herman Cain in one-on-one basketball, Obama could not hold a candle to Herman Cain in a Presidential debate. And Herman Cain knows the heart of the American people and knows how to creat jobs and run a large business without the government.  With Cain in the race, there will be an elevation of discussions. Also, the liberals race card would be mute. Although some liberals have already called Herman an Uncle Tom and not really black.  I think we need to be doing a lot of \"raising Cain\" - causing trouble or creating an uproar over Obama's policies and the liberal agenda.  So, I am enthusiastically hanging a hat on peg supporting Herman Cain for President 2012.\n\nIf you would like to know more about Herman Cain, join me and others in encourage Herman Cain to run for office, visit the following link. You will not be disappointed; Cain will mentor you in ways to take on liberals and to put American back on the right track.\n\nMore information at Draft Herman Cain for President 2012\nTags: Herman Cain, Draft Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Mike Pence, Mike Huckabee, To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 7:35 PM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 19, 2010\n\nThe Worst Books Ever Written", "by Chip Wood, Personal Liberty Digest: . . . A couple of years ago, Human Events (one of my favorite conservative news-weeklies) asked a group of scholars and public-policy leaders to compile a list of the 10 Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . A whole bunch of terrible titles got an Honorable Mention. (Or maybe that should be a Dishonorable Mention.) But here are the Top 10 books the scholars credited with causing more harm to mankind than anything else written in the past 250 years.\n\n1. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels\nThere was near-unanimity on the book that deserved the No. 1 slot. The Communist Manifesto received almost twice as many points as the title that captured second place. And is it any wonder?   The “dictatorship of the proletariat,” as implemented by Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, led to the wholesale extermination of more than 200 million people.\nI’m not talking about the victims of war here, but the systematic slaughter of entire populations as a means of consolidating and preserving state power.  Of course the “withering away of the state,” as promised in the Manifesto, has never occurred anywhere communism has been tried. That was nothing more than boob-bait, as H.L. Mencken rightly observed, designed to seduce credulous idealists and immature college students.\n\n2. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler\nMein Kampf (“My Struggle”) was originally published in two parts in 1925 and 1926, after Hitler was imprisoned for leading the Nazi Brown Shirts in the so-called “Beer Hall Putsch” that tried to overthrow the Bavarian government. In it, Hitler explained exactly what he planned to do once he seized power — murder the Jews, wage war against France and then Russia and establish a thousand-year reign (his “Third Reich”) for the Aryan race.\nWhat a pity that authorities dismissed him as an insignificant annoyance, instead of the evil genius whose efforts would lead directly to World War II, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and the slaughter of millions of Jews. They released him from prison instead of saving all of us from a lot of suffering.\n\n3. Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong\nThis tract, also known as “The Little Red Book,” was ostensibly written by the Chinese Communist dictator in 1966, 17 years after he seized power in China and founded the “People’s Republic.”  More than a billion copies were distributed in China as part of Mao’s “cultural revolution.”  But believe it or not, Mao’s “Little Red Book” found its greatest popularity among Marxist college professors in the West, who couldn’t get enough of such anti-American pap as this from Chairman Mao: “It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism.”\n\n4. The Kinsey Report by Alfred Kinsey\n\nKinsey and his staff conducted extensive surveys of American sexual habits, including incredibly explicit one-on-one interviews, in the 1940s. The results appeared in two books — Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, published in 1948, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, published in 1953. Together, the two became known as The Kinsey Report.  Kinsey, a zoologist at Indiana University, acknowledged that part of his purpose was to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy. One reviewer later noted that Kinsey’s first report “stunned the nation by saying that American men were so sexually wild that 95 percent of them could be accused of some kind of sexual offense under 1940s laws.” His second report went even further, describing “sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4 and suggest[ing] that sex between adults and children could be beneficial.”\n\n5. Democracy and Education by John Dewey\nHere’s a name that isn’t mentioned much anymore, but Dewey’s influence in the first half of the 20th century was enormous. In this 1916 work, Dewey (the “father of progressive education”) denounced education that focused on traditional character development and the accumulation of “hard” knowledge (i.e., facts). Instead, the secular humanist advocated teaching “thinking skills,” with little concern about what is “right” or “wrong.”  We are still paying the price for such idiocy today, nearly 100 years later.\n\n6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx\nWhen he died in 1867, Marx had completed just the first volume of a planned three-volume study. His benefactor Friedrich Engels finished the other two volumes from notes Marx left. In his magnum opus, Marx portrayed capitalism as merely an ugly phase in human development, in which capitalists exploit labor by paying the cheapest wages possible to amass as much wealth as possible. (Sounds like a Barack Obama speech today, doesn’t it?)  Such injustice would end, Marx said, in a worldwide proletarian revolution.\n\n7. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan\nIn this 1963 bestseller, Betty Friedan, the first of the angry feminists, disparaged stay-at-home motherhood as “a comfortable concentration camp.” Friedan later founded and was for many years the president of the National Organization for Women. Friedan was no mere liberal activist, however. As David Horowitz notes, “from her college days and until her mid-30s, she was a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America’s Cold War fifth column, and for a time even the lover of a young communist.” Friedan’s unattractiveness was much more than skin deep; her ugliness went all the way to the bone.\n\n8. Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte\nI’m not sure how this one made it to Top 10. Like you, I can think of lots of books that have done more damage — starting with Dr. Spock’s baby book, which told generations of parents not to spank their children. Still, this six-volume study, published between 1830 and 1842, is generally credited with creating the field of social studies, or “sociology” (a word Comte coined). The son of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French revolution, Comte turned his back on theology, bragging that, “I have naturally ceased to believe in God.”  Comte taught that man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be, without any reliance on a Higher Power.\n\n9. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche\nAn oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti goes, “God is dead — Nietzsche,” followed by “Nietzsche is dead — God.”   Nietzsche’s contention that “God is dead” first appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but was expanded and popularized in Beyond Good and Evil, which appeared four years later. In it, the German philosopher argued that all men are driven by an amoral “Will to Power,” and that superior men will sweep aside all obstacles to their ambition, including religiously-inspired moral rules. Not surprisingly, the Nazis loved Nietzsche.\n\n10.  General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes\nLord Keynes was an interesting contradiction. A member of the British elite (he was educated at Eton and Cambridge), he did more to popularize ever-expanding government than any other economist of his era.  Keynes became immensely wealthy through his investments, yet argued in favor of deficit spending and government borrowing. Long before Richard Nixon famously said, “We are all Keynesians now,” Franklin Roosevelt used Keynes’ arguments to justify the massive growth of government. As a result, today we have a $3.5 trillion Federal budget and a $13.8 trillion national debt. Thanks, Lord Keynes.\n\nDishonorable Mentions\nWant some more really bad books?  There are 10 titles that garnered a substantial number of votes, but fell short of the top 10. In order they are: The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, What Is To Be Done by V.I. Lenin, Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno, On Liberty by John Stuart Mill [I don't know why this got included], Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner, Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel, The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault and Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sidney and Beatrice Webb.\n\nSo there you have it — 20 books that have caused unimaginable suffering, horror and devastation in the world. While some of them have (deservedly) disappeared into the trash cans of history, you will still find most of them praised and promoted on our college campuses today.\n\nAnd allow me to add one more: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Inheritance, by Barack Obama (and William Ayers). This book is credited with helping to launch Obama’s Presidential campaign. You can see where that has gotten us. . . . [Full Article]\nTags: books, top 10, worst books, Liberty, Suggested Reading, Barack Obama To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 10:00 AM 1 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 16, 2010\n\nReviewing The Tea Party Movement\n\nby Bill Smith / Ozark Guru: As we end 2010, conservatives have seen in the last two years an awakening within the general population with respect to the dangers of Big Government. In part, this awakening can be to the many groups, organizations, national figures, and the conservative new media. However, this article and the below research will address only the Tea Party movement.\n\nAs a conservative activist, I was involved long before there was a Tea Party. I wish to thank those who nudge me along. As a retired military officer and university professor, at 60, I had planned to retire (slow down) except for writing/ blogging, speaking, fishing, golfing and enjoying home and family. I never expected that by 61, I would be more active than when I worked two or more jobs. By 2008, I was coordinating team efforts supporting 23 US Congressional candidates.  After my preferred candidates for the GOP presidential nomination withdrew or were defeated, I supported Sarah Palin and that \"other guy\" for president. By the end of the 2008 elections, I was physically exhausted. But as disappointed as I was with the election outcomes, I was encouraged and motivated by the number of young conservatives I met during the year.\n\nWilliam Clark, friend and adviser of Ronald Reagan, related how Reagan gathered his close supporters together after the election of President Jimmy Carter and said something to the effect that Americans can not abide socialism for very long. While he was proven right, Reagan had three years to build a coalition before launching his Presidential campaign.\n\nIn 2009, after Democrats took total control of Congress and the White House, a few conservative activists recognized that the American reaction would be more visceral and could be mobilized to respond to the Democrats pushing through their progressive agenda. When approached by these young activists wishing to build on \"rant\" by Rick Santelli on February 19, 2008, I realized that they were on to something. But, I questioned whether large numbers would rally. History has proved that I had no reason to be concerned. Then later, when large numbers responded and joined local Tea Party groups, I was concerned that the conservative movement would not be able to educate them on the political processes or ways to remain active which could lead to the Tea Parties deteriorating or being viewed as a tentative and short lived - thus ignored or suppressed by those in power.\n\nEven with harassment by the Department of Homeland Security - negative warnings - of conservatives, including Tea Party members and the followers of three presidential candidates, I did not need to be concerned. As with any meaningful effort, Providence provided numerous people, including national personalities, who became nation-wide  teachers on the issues, threats to freedom and the processes. Existing conservative research and issue groups increased their communication and brought into their organizations many young conservative new media activists to expand their message outreach.  Organizations like Americans for Prosperity and American Majority came along side local groups including the Tea Party groups to provided training, information and opportunities for involvement. In the end, leadership for the grassroots Tea Party was nurtured everyday grassroots Americans who adapted and learned as they organized.\n\nA young man approached me about his holding a TEA Party in the Ozark Mountains. On April 15, 2007, Richard Caster, age 17, held the first meeting of the Ozark Tea Party which went on to have as many as 3000 people attend its events. Caster can be identified as one of the \"early adopters\" discussed later. As an aside, two years later in the 2010 elections, Caster was elected as the youngest Arkansas County Justice of the Peace (County board member) in Arkansas.\n\nThe above is just one of literally thousands of stores of people who for varied reasons got involved mostly via the Internet in holding their first Tea Party.   So, who were these people, what was their experience in politics, and why did they get involved? Then who joined the Tea Party after they were launched ; what were their interests and why did they join?\n\nSam Adams Alliance has completed research on Tea Party members. The below will present a summary of findings in two categories: The Early Adopters and The Next Wave. All statistics below are taken from their reports which are available at their website. Sam Adams Alliance was the first to explore through in-depth research and survey data, the motivations, priorities and points of view of Tea party leaders.", "The Early Adopters - Reading the Tea Leaves revealed that Tea party activists were a diverse group trying - often for the first time - to change the political landscape by holding elected officials more accountable.\n\nThe Early Adopters report reveals that:", "The Next Wave - A Surf Report gauges the activists who entered the Tea Parties after May 2009 and how they are shaping the momentum and impact of the Tea Party movement.\n\nThe Next Wave report reveals that:\nSam Adams Alliance has indicated they will perform future research into exploring the interactions between establishment political players and the Tea Party newcomers, as well as an investigation into understanding why those who share the same values as the Tea Party have not embraced the movement.\n\nLooking back at the November 2010 election, even the biased media noted the reaction by the American voters. Setting aside liberal strongholds, in less than two years, voters voted to remove from office or to rejected the elections of new candidates who were liberals / democrats. As a result, major shifts occurred in the US congress and in State and local governments. Tea Parties activists put both voice and feet to the citizen dissatisfaction and were willing to get out and motivate others to vote conservative. Tea Party members and other did not wait four (4) years for a leader like Ronald Reagan to lead them to victory; instead they acted.\n\nWe can only imagine at this point in time the impact that Tea Party members will have in holding the new Congress accountable. And come 2011, if a responsible, honorable, conservative candidate with good communication skills runs for President, the America voters will have the opportunity to sweep liberals from the control of State governments and the US Congress and the White House. From a dream on Jan, 2009 to a real possibility on Jan 2011; let's make it a fact on Jan 2013! Remain faithful, be involved and remember that being a conservative is not for the faint of heart.\nTags: Tea Party, research, research, Sam Adams Alliance, Bill Smith, Ozark Guru To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 11:45 AM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 15, 2010\n\nACLU Wages War on Christmas\n\nBy Chris Slavens: It’s that “most wonderful time of the year” again. Children eagerly await a visit from jolly Santa Claus, while their parents try to squeeze shopping into a schedule already filled with parties, parades, church programs, and visiting relatives. Grandmothers bake dozens of gingerbread and sugar cookies, while rascally uncles down too much eggnog. Affluent northerners travel to Florida to escape cold weather, while everyone else yearns for a white Christmas.\n\nAnd the ACLU—that staunch defender of American traditions and values—threatens to sue public schools for acknowledging what all the excitement is about.\n\nEach Christmas season is marked by a series of spirit-dampening stories of towns forced to disassemble nativity scenes, retail stores intimidated into requiring employees to use generic greetings like “Happy Holidays,” and similar Scroogish travesties. This year, one such story comes from Tennessee, where the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to 137 public school administrators, supposedly in response to complaints from families, reminding them not to focus on any one religious holiday.\n\nIn other words, don’t call Christmas parties “Christmas parties.” Call them winter celebrations, holiday galas, solstice shindigs, or any other creative misnomer that obfuscates their true purpose and creates a comfortable non-reality for the handful of unfortunate students whose malcontent parents are offended by the celebration of a holiday that is jointly religious and secular in nature.\n\nA recent Rasmussen poll found that 92% of Americans celebrate Christmas, while a mere 6% do not. Of that 6%, only 25% celebrate an alternative holiday. That’s a whopping total of 1.5% of Americans who celebrate a December holiday instead of Christmas. And, apparently, most of them live in Tennessee; how else could that state’s chapter of the ACLU have received so many complaints?\n\nDefending the letter, Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee, cites U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and hints that acknowledging Christmas could be considered an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.\n\nShe is alluding, of course, to the oft-misinterpreted establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from establishing a state religion. It obviously applies to a third-grade teacher planning a classroom Christmas party for the last day before break—or so those on the far left argue, rather unconvincingly.\n\nCould it be that Weinberg is one of the 6% of Americans who do not celebrate Christmas, and is using the ACLU’s legal muscle and financial assets to push a personal agenda? Such Grinch-like behavior would certainly be unprofessional, if not unethical. If there was a Santa, Weinberg would be on the naughty list for sure.\n\nThe ACLU expects public schools to stage a pointless charade of pretending that the concerts, parties, and vacations common to this time of year are not specifically scheduled around December 25. This is an unreasonable expectation which deserves no serious consideration.\n\nThe correct course of action for public school administrators to take is to ignore the ACLU, which is not a government entity and does not represent the views of a majority of parents. It would be wrong to alter school policy simply to avoid the hassle of a lawsuit; this would be yielding to what is called the “heckler’s veto,” by which an antagonistic group goads the government into restricting another group’s First Amendment rights. In this case, the hecklers are the ACLU and the instigators it claims to represent.\n\nLawsuits are expensive, true, and no administrator wants to be on the receiving end of one, but what is the cost of a lawsuit compared to the cost of an eroded culture and disunited society, purposely divided by secularist troublemakers who value political correctness over common sense?\nChris Slavens is a conservative columnist. He writes from Delaware.\nTags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Christmas, Tennessee, public school, Hedy Weinberg, First Amendment, establishment clause, Chris Slavens To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 7:50 PM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 11, 2010\n\nObama / GOP Tax Deal - The Good, Bad and Ugly", null, "Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service: I am just one voice and will give my opinion on the \"tax deal\" later. Yesterday, it was identified that \"Both Conservatives and Democrats Are Divided Over Supporting the Tax Deal\" and identified some of the people and organizations weighing on the \"Obama /GOP Tax Deal.\" Also posted the article \"'Tax Cut' Rhetoric Doesn't Cut It\" by Dr. Thomas Sowell.\n\nEverett Wilkinson and his team at the South Florida Tea Party have put together some good information and the following simple synopsis of the Obama / GOP Tax Deal called\n\"The Good, Bad and Ugly\":\nGood - Individual Tax Rates Remain the Same\nGood - AMT Remain the Same\nGood - Capital Gains Rates the Same\nFair - Estate Taxes Go Up For Some ($5 Million Exemption)\nBad - Only Good For Two Years\nBad - Unemployment Benefits Extended\nUgly - $200 Billion in Stimulus Spending\nUgly- Dozens of Earmarks for Special Interests\n\nObama / GOP Tax Deal:\n01 & 03 Bush Tax Cuts $364 billion\nAMT Patch $137 billion\nPayroll Tax Holiday $112 billion\nEstate Tax Change $68 billion\nUnemployment Extension $56 billion\nTax Extenders $55 billion\n2009 Tax Relief $43 billion\nExpensing Provision $22 billion\n\nWhile we need the tax relief to prevent a recession and giving Washington more of our money, in my mind the deal being cobbled together every day is questionable with its numerous earmark spending programs added by the liberals as their cost for agreeing with  \"the deal.\" First, this is not a tax cut, but is in fact a massive tax increase. Second - Heck! the liberals are not buying into anything; they just want to spend more of OUR money even if it runs us into more debt. That is why, I used the picture yesterday of the \"Obama Debt Star.\"\n\nWhat do you think we should do? The South Florida TEA party has a simple poll to provide feedback on your opinion. I suggest doing so at their site. It gives you the following options to the question:\nDo you support the \"Bush Tax Cut Deal\" between Obama & GOP?\nWhether you take their poll or not, I would still like your opinion.\nI promised to share my opinion. To keep from biasing you in your opinion any more than I may have done, I will post my choice as a comment to this article on the ARRA News Service.\nTags: tax deal, Barack Obama, Republicans, Democrats, South Florida Tea Party, poll To share or post to your site, click on \"Post Link\". Please mention / link to America's Best Choice. Thanks!\nPosted by Bill Smith : Post Link --> 7:19 PM 0 Comments - Share Yours!", "December 4, 2010\n\nFlorida Follows Arizona's Lead With New Bill Cracking Down on Illegal Immigrants", "FOX NEWS — Florida has joined Arizona on the front lines of battling illegal immigration with a new bill released this week that seeks to crack down on the estimated 800,000 undocumented workers in the state.\n\nThe bill, filed by state Sen. Michael Bennett, allows law enforcement officers to check the residency status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant and would punish some legal immigrants who aren't carrying proper documentation.\n\nFlorida has been flirting with releasing an immigration bill since the summer when outgoing state Attorney General Bill McCollum wrote a similar proposal with state Rep. William Snyder. But Snyder has yet to file that bill. . . . [Read More]" ]

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[ "Transcription, translation and replication from the perspective or they may give the organism a competitive advantage over its as with dna replication. Free advantages of semiconservative replication article - d - advantages of semiconservative replication information at ezineseekercom. Double helix is the description of the structure of a dna molecule a dna molecule consists of two strands that wind around each other like a twisted. 198 chapter 6 dna replication, repair, and recombination a minimum without the protein machines that are continually monitor-ing and repairing damage to dna, it is. Ap lab 23: sanger sequencing this process of dna replication was then harnessed as a tool for the sanger method of determining the sequence of a piece of dna. The dna inside of a cell is organized so that it fits well within the small size of a cell its organization also facilitates the easy separation of the correct.\n\nAn introduction to molecular biology/replication of dna and the dna (dna replication take place recombination can have long term advantages. Dna replication is arguably the most fundamental process required for the proliferation of all living cells during cell division, each. The advantage of asexual reproduction dna replication occurs when dna is copied to form an identical molecule of dna dna replication happens before cell division. The main purpose of dna replication is to ensure that each cell in an what is the purpose of dna replication they take advantage of that function in cancer.\n\nThe advantage of having many replication origins in a eukaryotic chromosome comparing & contrasting dna replication in the advantage of having many. Dnareplicationsystem search this site [email protected]@@ dna replication dna sequencing advantages and disadvantages of nucleic acid-based immunization. The advantages of dna replication dna stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, and it is found in the nucleus of every cell in the human body dna is the master plan - it.\n\nGet an answer for 'what are the advantages of dna replication' and find homework help for other science questions at enotes. Eukaryotic dna replication is a conserved mechanism that restricts dna replication to once per cell cycle eukaryotic dna replication of chromosomal dna is central. What are they this is for school but i cant find any.", null, "Dna replication, mutation, and repair gmc 8/15 part 1 and are maintained, and others have no advantages or can also occur from errors in dna replication or. © m s shell 2009 1/12 last modified 10/27/2010 dna, rna, replication, translation, and transcription overview recall the central dogma of biology.\n\nConstructing dna models is a great way to learn about dna structure, function, and replication dna models are representations of the structure of dna these. Home pros and cons 4 advantages and disadvantages of dna mutating during replication of the dna list of advantages of dna mutating 1. It's just a few areas i'm stuck on: explain the advantages and disadvantages of dna replicating exactly explain the advantages and disadvantages of dna mutating. The first step in dna replication is to ‘unzip’ the double helix structure of the dna molecule this is carried out by an enzyme called helicase which breaks the hydrogen bonds holding the. Replication occurs differently on antiparallel strands of dna the process starts with a short strand of dna that binds by pairing its nucleotide bases to those.\n\nEukaryotic dna replication is a conserved mechanism that restricts dna replication to once per cell cycle eukaryotic dna replication of chromosomal dna is central for the duplication of a. Sure it let's us exist seriously, unless we're going to go into self-assembly of proteins in aqueous media (and we're not), it's a pretty daft question for them to. There are many advantages to dna it initially identifies how information essential for life is stored in dna and then explains the processes of dna replication. Dna topology changes dynamically during dna replication supercoiling, precatenation, catenation and knotting interplay throughout the process that is finely regulated by dna topoisomerases. Dna replication allows the cells to behave correctly so thatmutations such as cancers do not spread throughout the body.", null ]

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[ "by Drago (Toronto, canada)", null, null, "Photos of first Chinese Vase design and Chinese Vase seal mark", null, null, "Photos of second Chinese Vase design and Chinese Vase script marks\n\nI bought these two Chinese Vases at a yard sale and if I could find some info on them it would be fantastic.\n\nThey’re very different with one having a seal mark on the base and the other some Chinese script on the undecorated side.\n\nAny help or information greatly appreciated.\n\nlove this site\nthanks for any help, Drago\n\nComments for Antique Chinese Vases – Yard Sale Find\n\nrecognise characters by: Kenneth\n\nI recognise the characters on the base of the black Chinese vase.\n\nI have exactly the same Chinese vase but have no idea about these and this is the first time I have seen a similar vase.\n\nI have had the vase 22 years tho.\n\n20th Century Chinese Porcelain by: Charles\n\nThe black vase seal mark is probably Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi, which would translate as roughly Chinese Emperor Qianlong period make, but it is probably not Qianlong and could be a relatively recent Chinese vase reproduction from around the 1970’s." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "1996 Brant Brown Chicago Cubs Game Used Jersey, Set 2, Size 48. This listing is for a 1996 Brant Brown Chicago Cubs road baseball jersey. The jersey is set 2, marked 1995 but used during 1996, size 48, shows good use. Visit my other listings for other game used uniforms. THANKS FOR LOOKING AT MY ITEMS, BE SURE TO CHECK BACK OFTEN AS I CONSTANTLY ADDING NEW INVENTORY. IF YOU CAN’T PAY WITHIN THIS TIME FRAME PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN ADVANCE AND I WILL DO WHAT I CAN TO WORK WITH YOU. DO NOT DUPLICATE OR COPY! The item “1996 Brant Brown Chicago Cubs Game Used Jersey, Set 2, Size 48″ is in sale since Tuesday, July 07, 2015. This item is in the category “Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop\\Game Used Memorabilia\\Baseball-MLB\\Jerseys”. The seller is “indyvintagesports” and is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, to China, to Mexico, to Germany, to Japan, BR, to France, to Australia, RU, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, GR, PT, CY, SI, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, TH, to Belgium, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Austria, IL, to New Zealand, PH, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, TR, CL, CO, CR, DO, PA, TT, GT, SV, HN, JM." ]

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[ "Jennifer Flach was a college junior when her wisdom teeth started making themselves known.\n\n\"My other teeth started moving around,\" she remembers. \"The wisdom teeth were pushing out and undoing some of the orthodontic work I had done in high school.\"\n\nAt the same time, her brother — who's two years younger and was also in college — had no symptoms. But the family dentist suggested his wisdom teeth should come out too.\n\nJen and her brother had back-to-back wisdom tooth extractions and recovered together at home during spring break. \"It was quite a week at my parents' house,\" she says.\n\nPatrick Grother was 26 when his dentist mentioned that his wisdom teeth might need to be removed. His bottom left wisdom tooth had partially erupted into his mouth and a flap of gum still covered it. \"The dentist said food would get trapped there and it could get infected,\" he says. Patrick then visited a periodontist, who said that the gum flap could be cut away but it would grow back.\n\n\"I put it off for awhile,\" Patrick said, but he eventually had the wisdom teeth on the left side of his mouth extracted.\n\nA few people are born without wisdom teeth or have room in their mouths for them, but like Jen and her brother, many of us get our wisdom teeth taken out during our college years. And like Patrick, many of us are first alerted to the problem when our wisdom teeth don't emerge (erupt) into the mouth properly because there is not enough toom for them to fit.\n\n\"A part of the tooth may remain covered by a flap of gum, where food particles and bacteria can get trapped, causing a mild irritation, a low-grade infection called pericoronitis and swelling,\" says Dr. Donald Sadowsky, professor emeritus of clinical dentistry College of Dental Medicine and the Mailman School of Public Health. This usually happens with the lower wisdom teeth. Pericoronitis and the pain it causes is the most common reason people need their wisdom teeth taken out.\n\nPericoronitis is just one of the reasons that you may need to have a wisdom tooth or more than one removed.\n\nIn many people, the wisdom teeth never even partially enter the mouth. Often the teeth are tilted under the gum and blocked from coming in by bone or other teeth. Dentists call these impacted teeth; they may cause pain, but you may feel nothing at all for years. You may not even be aware that you have wisdom teeth until your dentist sees them on an X-ray.\n\nRegular dental visits are important during your teens and early twenties because this is the time when teeth are most likely to decay. Regular visits allow your dentist to follow the progress of your wisdom teeth with X-rays.\n\nEven if your wisdom teeth aren't causing any pain or other problems, they may cause problems at some point. The most common problems are decay, infection, and crowding or damage to other teeth. But more serious complications can occur, including the development of a cyst that can cause permanent damage to bone, teeth and nerves.\n\nHowever, not all wisdom teeth need to be removed.\n\nIf removing wisdom teeth is necessary, it's easier in younger people because the tooth roots are not fully developed and the bone in which the teeth sit is less dense. Extracting your wisdom teeth before any complications develop also allows for shorter recovery time and less discomfort after the surgery.", null ]

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[ "The 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival is being held at Piers 2/3 and 4/5, Walsh Bay, Sydney. The easiest way to get to the festival is to walk from Circular Quay along the foreshore, past The Rocks and under the south pylon of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.\n\nThe two finger wharfs are joined by a link building with cafes and restaurants (there are more places to eat in the wharfs). The prime spot is a deck chair half way between the two piers, overlooking the \"green room\", where you can do some celebrity spotting.", null, "There are volunteers roaming the area handing out programs. Many of the events are free. There is also a bookstore to browse and writers to talk to. I talked to Indira Naidoo about her book \"The Edible Balcony", "\", unlike other authors she was also handing out samples of the tasty pesto made with ingredients grown on her balcony (more in the Blog, \"Saucy Onion\").\n\nThe reason for visiting the writer festival today, apart from soaking up the atmosphere, was to attend \"Old Scrags and Other Sheilas\", featuring authors Susan Johnson, Kerry Greenwood and P.A. O’Reilly, with Kerryn Goldsworthy chairing. The authors discussed their female characters, particularly Loretta Boskovic in The Fine Colour of Rust (P.A. O’Reilly’s ) and Kerry Greenwood's Phyrne Fisher. They discussed the problem of being a female author who gets pushed into either having to write male characters or being pushed into \"chick lit\".\n\nKerry Greenwood mentioned that a new series of the TV adaption of Phyrne Fisher is to be made, that the actor selected for the role deliberately had an older appearance. She also commented that the Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST: a term from the X-Files), with Detective Inspector 'Jack' Robinson will be maintained. Kerry Greenwood will be appearing at the Sydney Writers’ Festival again, tomorrow, Sunday, May 20 2012 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. As well as hare Phryne Fisher Series" ]

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[ "Conferences and industry trade shows are an essential part of the wonderful world of teeth. They’re a great way to see the latest products, watch live demonstrations, and meet exhibitors. They’re also an important education venue for pinning down the eternal list of C.E. requirements. But if attendees are not careful, the long hours and compelling need to see everything can turn trade shows into an overwhelming nightmare.\n\nPrepare yourself. Get the most from your trade show investment and keep your wits intact. Here are a few guidelines to help you navigate through the masses.\n\nRegister early\n\nThe entry process can be frustrating. Make sure your credentials are in order to avoid problems with paperwork. Book your transportation and accomodations early to get the best deals.\n\nSet goals\n\nReview the program and think about what you’d like to accomplish at the show, whether it’s the number of exhibitors you want to speak with, a new product you’d like to see in action, or a presentation you would like to attend.\n\nExplore the trade show website\n\nConference websites are filled with good planning tools. Create your itinerary before you attend. Review exhibitor profiles.\n\nDownload the show app\n\nThe bigger shows offer free mobile apps for iPad and smartphone users. Apps offer attendees easy access to schedules and speaker information, exhibitors, and alerts. App users can search courses, download course materials and find exhibitors by name or product category. Some apps have exhibitor hall maps so you can find your destination.\n\nTake advantage of social media\n\nUse your Twitter and Facebook accounts to follow updates on your favorite exhibitors. Many companies tweet and post giveaways, prizes, and show-only deals throughout the day. When you arrive at the show, determine the most common show-related hashtags for an easy way to search for the latest tweets.\n\nPlan your route\n\nSave your energy. Save time. Print a copy of the exhibitor hall floor plan. Identify the ones you want to visit and draw a walking route. Target the areas where the aisles are less crowded. 80% of attendees enter the hall and walk to the right, so walk the opposite direction.\n\nKnow your badge\n\nMake sure your information is correct (see rule #1). Exhibitors may ask to scan your badge, which you may allow or decline. If you allow them to scan, all of the information you provided when you registered for the trade show is shared with the exhibitors at the end of the show. You may also politely decline and offer your business card instead.\n\nBring a camera\n\nUse your smartphone or camera to remind you of items you might want to purchase, but ask if you can take pictures first.\n\nShop the show\n\nWander the entire floor before purchasing to prevent buyer’s remorse.\n\nInvolve your team\n\nTalk with your team about ways to improve productivity at your practice. RDAs and RDHs are great at shopping for deals. Use their eyes to spot the latest technology on the exhibitor floor and in C.E. courses. Ask them to report their findings to you by the end of the show so your practice can take advantage of trade show specials.\n\nBring cash\n\nMany food booths and catering trucks do not accept credit cards. You may actually need to buy a $6 bottle of water or a $14 sandwich.\n\nStay hydrated\n\nTrade shows are a good work out. You’ll be walking most of the day, which means you’ll probably be sweating. It’s important to drink plenty of water so you can keep up with those long days and outrageously fun nights. Buy an extra bottle to keep in your tote bag.\n\nBring extra business cards\n\nYou have the opportunity to speak with lots of people. Be ready to cultivate new relationships and build your industry circles. The exhibitor scanning machines don’t always work. Bring extra cards so the exhibitors you like can add you to their mailing list. Carry the extra cards in your badge holder for easy access.\n\nBe comfortable\n\nDress to impress but remember that you’ll be walking around all day on concrete floors, so think about comfort. For women, this may mean shoes with shorter heals and a wider toe box. For men, wear a pair of soft leather shoes that have been properly broken in. When speaking with an exhibitor, step into their booth and away from the aisle. Take advantage of the comfy padding many exhibitors put down under their carpet. 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[ "Hydraulic fracturing an annotated bibliography", null, "View essay - fracking annotated bibliography (english 2000) from engl 2000 at louisiana state university harris |1 phoenix harris english 2000-5 september 12, 2015 annotated bibliography. Annotated bibliography of the hydrology, geology, and geothermal research of 3 _____ 1976, hydraulic fracturing in and communication between two adjacent wellbores [abs]: american. “hydraulic fracturing fluids – composition and additives” geologycom – earth science news, maps, dictionary, articles, jobs 23 may 2011 http://geology. White paper: hydraulic fracturing from aapg wiki jump to: navigation, search annotated bibliography basic information about the shale resource and the hydraulic fracturing processes.\n\nHydraulic fracturing is a relatively new approach to the extraction of natural resources, such as oil and natural gas many proponents (gidley, 1989) of hydraulic fracturing argue that this. The big fracking deal advantages disadvantages conclusion works cited file cabinet ‘what you're really looking at here is, are you effectively managing the environmental risk. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling are safely unlocking vast us reserves of oil and natural gas found in shale and other tight-rock formations developing energy from shale is an. Hydraulic fracturing introduction hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling the fracturing is done from a.\n\n1 annotated transcript hydraulic fracturing impacts human health: public health strategies to reduce the risks a webinar by richard j jackson, md. Hydraulic fracturing in the us research paper the first part of the paper is is the proposal proposal 10 % pick an area of interest and narrow it to a researchable topic. Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.\n\nRegulating hydraulic fracturing: communication across legal boundaries annotated bibliography (in progress) compiled by kimberly howard id: 297746 december 17, 2013 2 annotated bibliography. A bibliography is a list of materials (books, periodical articles, etc) on a subject an annotation is a brief description of the material, providing enough information to let the reader. Las 432 week 7 final paper hydraulic fracturing (2400 words) home returns las 432 week 1 thesis statement hydraulic fracturing las 432 week 2 annotated bibliography hydrauli $2000. Resolution of the pennsylvania democratic party in support of a statewide moratorium on hydraulic fracturing annotated version visit gastruthorg for sources and supporting materials. Impact of shale oil and gas, mainly due to the use of “hydraulic fracturing“ technique for extraction the following critical annotated bibliography will discuss this topic.", "A bibliography of hydraulic fracturing for soil, bedrock, and groundwater remediation adams, r, w r mahaffey, w w slack, m g vigneri and r werner (2001. Essays and term papers clearly, the title an overview of the hydraulic fracturing of methane-bearing coal formations is more complete, satisfying, and informative than hydraulic. Annotated bibliography ahearn, ashley managing wastewater from fracking, with robert b jackson environmental health perspectives 1202 (2012): 1-8 cinahl plus with full text web 29. Imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing essay - case studies buy best quality custom written imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing essay.\n\nOn the process of hydraulic fracturing the epa has previously reported that fracking poses “minimal threat” to environment, specifically drinking water. Attempting to define the human right to water with an annotated bibliography & recommendations for practitioners jootaek lee and maraya best, spring 2018 continue reading a fracking. Bibliography on hydraulic fracturing [from the political ecology specialty group, association of american geographers (aag)] aea technology, 2012 support to the identification of potential.", null ]

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[ null, "The A-Team meets Frankenstein. When Jutte Shelley and her squad are gunned down in an ambush, it looks like the end for the Detroit police officers, but Jutte comes from a very storied family… named Frankenstein. Using the secrets of her ancestors, Jutte enters the family business of resurrection, bringing her squad back from the dead. Sort of. As long as you don’t look too close. Eager for revenge, they’ve no choice but to team with the D..." ]

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[ null, "This \"inkwell\" is the perfect circumference and depth to hold just the right amount of ink. And, at $.15 it was another yard sale score!\nPosted by Ireen at 4:08:00 PM", "Labels: calligraphy, yard sale", "What a great find! Lets go again sometime SOON!\n\nJune 21, 2010 at 9:23:00 AM EDT", "Welcome to my Blog", "Philadelphia, PA\nHello! My name is Ireen. I love to devour all things creative, especially when it comes to art, design and illustration. I gather my inspiration from all places and my infatuation with unique, modern and vintage elements is reflected in all my work at Covetous Paper Co." ]

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[ null, "Oh, we've had a marvellous time. We cooked and cooked and cooked - and then ate, and ate,  and ate. We had visitors from near and far, and we celebrated the festivities of Channukah/Christmas (Christmakkah, my cousin calls it) across many meals.\n\nI think it would have been more fun if I didn't have an emerging wisdom tooth (at 32!) and a subsequent abscess on said tooth (no dentists open over Christmas!) and didn't nearly slice off part of my finger (still bandaged up and sore). Although, all things considered, we did rather well.", null, "We were all very good, of course, and our stockings were filled with lovely things. I got the yarn I asked for (for a crochet vintage-style cardigan). Isla got her Hungry Hippos game. Finnlay got a car he can sit in and pedal about like the Flintstones. Such lovely things, such happy smiles of delight upon opening.", null, "Isla is still convinced that it is Christmas every time she wakes up. But Mummy, I've slept. Santa must be here. We've just packed away the tree and sparkling lights, and we've taken down the tinsel. I've explained about new year celebrations and that birthdays come before Christmas in our house, but she doesn't agree. Mummy, do we have mince pies for Santa?\n\nI hope that you've had a wonderful time with family and friends. These treasured moments, however plagued with dental concerns or forgotten stuffing (oops), are the things that make them all worthwhile. We all wish you every happiness for the new year celebrations ahead - here's to 2018!\n\nTags: 2017, 2018, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year", null, "Stacey @ bakercourt\n\nStacey is a collector of crafts, and experiments with colour and crafts through yarn, watercolours, illustrations and textiles. She lives at the seaside with her husband, her two amazing kids, and an enormous collection of yarn. When she's not working or knitting, she's making soap and baking bread.\n\nThanks for leaving your lovely comments! I will reply to you as soon as I can by email, or here if you are a no-reply-blogger. x", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Things are looking a little less snottier and sore throatier around here. :)\nthere hasnt been alot going on but I did manage to take a few photos and get things ready to go to the post office tomarrow.Finally,phew!\nFirst off here is a little cutie I finished for Belinda awhile ago but havent been able to get even a decent picture of...", null, "Secondly,my yard!!Things are going crazy back there since all of this rain has been happening.I really need to get out there before it becomes an even bigger jungle.", null, null, "And lastly this plate,I was getting ready to wash it and realized I should ask blog and flickrland if anyone has seen any like it.My grandma had this set and I ate off of it pretty much my entire life until she passed away.I would be willing to pay for a set or trade anything in my store. Id even be happy with one more plate.All I have now is the one and I almost eat every meal off of it! lol\nKeep your eyes out please! hope everyone is well. :) xo", null, "Posted by Annie Oakleaves at 5:02 PM 4 comments Links to this post\n\nLabels: plates gnomes yard\n\nRain Rain", null, "It's raining here today off and on.Its really neat because one second its sunny and with a blink of the eye its dark.The kids are home sick and are sleeping soundly all snuggled up in their beds. Its just the dog and I sitting here listening to the rain and the birds outside.I love opening the door and smelling the wet pavement and seeing everything thats popping up and blooming and getting fruit on it.I had been thinking if the kids werent home it would be a good day to go the beach but the more I look around the more I realize why would I want to leave......Yup I think its going to be a great year..\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 11:13 AM 0 comments Links to this post\n\nTuesday, January 22, 2008\n\nIm still alive,just in bed!", "Everything is on slow time. If I havent mailed it out yet I will. Im dying to sew,so many crazy GREAT ideas go thru my head while Im sick. :)\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 1:58 PM 3 comments Links to this post\n\nTuesday, January 15, 2008\n\noatmeal cookies,buttons,and why I got in trouble at the post office", "I used to keep all of my buttons seperated by color and then one day I decided ah who needs all of these jars and poured all of my nice beautiful SEPERATED buttons into one big gallon jar...\nWell not real a good idea because everytime I was looking for something I would have to pour them out into a cake pan to find what I was looking for so today I decided to seperate them all once again....4 hours later Iam almost done!\nI dont know if anyone else does this but when I get a package in the mail I save the envelope box or whatever it is.Yesterday I took some things to the post office that I had wrapped with a cut up priority envelope that I had recieved in the mail.I used it for 4 differant packages so I was really pleased with my recycling.Well I waited in line all happy and smiling and when I get to the counter she says \"mam,are these priority mailers turned inside out?\" keep in mind these packages are about 4 inches square\nI say \"yes I took one that I had recieved and cut it up to mail these\"\n\"mam do you realize that you are stealing from the United States Post Office?\"\nok so now Im embarassed and everyone is whispering.\nShe proceeds to explain to me how Iam stealing and I decide to just pay priority mail even though its one envelope cut up into 4.It ends up being almost $5.00 more a package to mail them because I used that envelope ...lesson DONT RECYCLE! just kidding but if you do this be careful!\nIm trying to stay away from the sewing machine today so in between buttons Im making oatmeal cookies,they are lowfat and I thought Id share the recipe,they arent too sweet and I think if my kids were still little I would make them all the time with carob chips instead of choc chips.", null, "Low-Fat Oatmeal Cookies with Chocolate Chips (or Raisins)\n\n1 cup all purpose flour\n1 tsp baking powder\n1/2 tsp baking soda\n1/2 tsp salt\n1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)\n2 tbsp butter, room temperature\n1/4 c plain apple sauce\n1 large egg\n1 tsp vanilla extract\n1/2 cup white sugar\n1/2 cup brown sugar\n2 cups quick cooking oats\n1/2 cup chocolate chips\n\nPreheat oven to 375F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.\nIn a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add cinnamon if using raisins, instead of chocolate chips.\nIn a large bowl, cream together the butter and the sugars. Beat in the egg, followed by the applesauce and the vanilla extract. Working by hand, stir in the flour mixture and the oats until just combined and no streaks of flour remain. Add chocolate chips or raisins just before the batter comes together.\nDrop tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for about 9-12 min at 375F. Cookies will be light brown at the edges, but will not get as dark and golden as regular cookies.\nLet cool on sheet for 3 or 4 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.\nStore in an airtight container.\nMakes 2 dozen cookies.\nAnyway,whatever you are up to today have a good one!\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 11:08 AM 5 comments Links to this post\n\nLabels: cookies sewing buttons post office\n\nThursday, January 10, 2008\n\nmy new roomie!", null, "orland the watching owl mini, originally uploaded by little black forest.\n\nWell actually not mine he belongs to my daughter,but I made her promise I could keep him in the living room until she graduates. Which is 2 years from now! He was made by Belinda at LITTLE BLACK FOREST she does such lovely work. You can tell how well made her things are by looking at the pictures but when you see it in person...her stitches just blow me away..and make me try harder. I just finished up what Im sending to her tonight...pictures tomarrow if its not raining.:)\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 7:46 PM 2 comments Links to this post\n\nWednesday, January 9, 2008", null, "thoughtful, originally uploaded by annieoakleaves.\n\nShe is finally done and going into the shop today! I have had her on my mind for a long time and was waiting for the perfect vintage fabric for her dress,which I found on etsy.She has vintage jewelry in her hair,on her shoes,clutch,and dress. She even has vintage eyelashes.Originally I wasnt planning on making her a stole but her head was so heavy from the jewelry I needed to something.I have another one started in pink for valentines day but first Im going to finish a very special gnome girl and a very special mushroom. :)\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 9:34 AM 1 comments Links to this post\n\nTuesday, January 8, 2008\n\nLook who is coming to my house!!!!", null, "Owl for Annie, originally uploaded by Old School Acres.\n\nIm doing a trade with Laurie at Old School Acres,I cant help but feel like Iam the luckier one on the trade.I will post photos of mine when she is done. :)\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 7:23 AM 1 comments Links to this post\n\nMonday, January 7, 2008\n\nBee happy!", null, "bee, originally uploaded by annieoakleaves.\n\nIve been making an attempt at polymer clay and painting lately.Painting terrifies me,it pretty much always has but living with the fantastic painter that I live with it kind of puts things in perspective for me as to just how mediocre my skills are. Im going to keep plugging away at it though,maybe this time next year I will have something fabulous painted..... or a closet full of unfinished objects! Things have really been going fast since Christmas,I will say that Christmas totally whipped my butt this year.I took on way more than I could handle and stay sane with.Why do we do that?Alot of times no one really notices so why not sit back and relax....I Do Not know.\nI have some great things Im really excited about going on around my sewing machine.Cant wait to show you....... :)\n\nPosted by Annie Oakleaves at 11:54 AM 0 comments Links to this post\n\nThursday, January 3, 2008", null ]

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[ "Saturday, April 09, 2011\n\nCalendar Photo Reminder!\n\nHave you been out letterboxing all winter, slogging through snow, mud, and the worst that the elements can throw at you? Then certainly you've got a few nice winter photos to submit for the annual AQ letterboxing calendar! If you're new to this, you can read all about it in the Project X link from the Marketplace menubar option.\n\nAnd whether you are new or not, be sure to submit your photos now! Yes, the deadline isn't for months away, but those who wait until the last minute often can't find the photos they want to upload or submit them just a bit too late. Get it done now, then head out and start finding those perfect spring photos!", null ]

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[ "Monday, September 14, 2015\n\nBlue Light Cystoscopy for Bladder Cancer\n\nBladder cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in males and the most common site of cancer in the urinary system. An estimated 74,000 new cases of bladder cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the USA in 2015 and 16,000 deaths are estimated[1]. Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) has a high rate of recurrence and also a risk of progression that requires patients to undergo regular monitoring with cystoscopy after transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT). Current standard of care uses white-light cystoscopy (WLC) to map and resect all visible tumors. This blog will give an overview of the use of fluorescent cystoscopy in the management of NMIBC and review the evidence for its use.\n\nBlue-light cystoscopy (BLC), also referred to as fluorescent cystoscopy or photodynamic diagnosis (PDD), is a procedure in which a photosensitizer medication is instilled in the bladder prior to cystoscopy. This photosensitizer is part of the heme biosynthesis pathway (that makes red blood cells) and causes an accumulation of photoactive porphyrins in neoplastic cells. These porphyrins preferentially accumulate in neoplastic cells due to the increased metabolic activity in these cells. When excited with blue-light in the 360-450 nm wavelength, the porphyrins emit a red light that can easily be seen during cystoscopy (Figure 1). There are two main photosensitizers that have been used in studies looking at fluorescent cystoscopy: 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) and hexaminolevulinate (HAL). HAL is the only photosensitizer that has been approved for use in the USA and Europe. In the USA it is marketed under the brand name Cysview, and in Europe under the brand name Hexvix.\n\nIncreased Tumor Detection\n\nMost studies are in agreement that more tumors are found when using BLC compared to WLC alone. Perhaps the best evidence for this is a meta-analysis published in 2013 which looked at the raw data from 6 prospective studies including a total of over 800 patients[3]. This meta-analysis found that a significant proportion of tumors were missed by WLC alone. In fact, an additional 14.7% of Ta tumors were detected with BLC, 10.8% of T1 tumors, and 40.8% of CIS (carcinoma in situ or flat tumors) (Figure 2). Another meta-analysis by Shen et al4. failed to show a statistically significant difference in tumor detection rates between BLC and WLC, however this study was limited by the inclusion of a large number of studies which used the photosensitizer 5-ALA, which is not FDA approved and has been shown to have less fluorescent properties than HAL.\n\nRecurrence Free Survival\n\nWhile the data on increased detection are consistent, data on recurrence-free survival (RFS) are less clear-cut. Cysview gained FDA approval following a study by Stenzl et al5. published in 2010. This study was a prospective, randomized, multi-center study that looked at 551 patients with suspected Ta or T1 disease and were randomized to either WLC or WLC+BLC. During the 9-month surveillance period, 47% of patients in the BLC group and 56% of patients in the WLC group had tumor recurrences for a relative reduction of 16%. Interestingly, the following year Stenzl published another paper which randomized patients to either 5-ALA or placebo which failed to show a difference in recurrence-free survival 12 months after tumor resection6. However, as previously mentioned, this study used 5-ALA which is not the FDA approved photosensitizer.\n\nThe study with the longest follow-up data is actually an extension to the original Stenzl study used for FDA approval. This study was published in 2012 by Grossman et al7. and showed that with a median follow-up for 53.0 months (WLC group) and 55.1 months (BLC group), 38% of the patients in the BLC group remained tumor free vs. 31.8% in the WLC group. The median time to recurrence was 16.4 months in the BLC group and 9.4 months in the WLC group. This study also looked at progression-free survival and cystectomy rates but was unable to show a statistical difference between the two groups, possibly due to the original study not being powered to look at differences in these outcomes.\n\nFigure 3 summarizes additional studies that have looked at recurrence-free survival for BLC vs. WLC.\n\nBladder cancer is one of the mostly costly cancers to treat on a per capita basis. Lifetime per capita costs have been estimated between $96,000 and $187,000 (2001 US dollars)8. Multiple analyses have looked at whether using BLC could reduce cost for bladder cancer treatments using the assumption that if a patient has a longer recurrence-free survival, they may require fewer or perhaps less frequent TURBTs. Garfield et al9. used a probabilistic decision-tree model and estimated that over 5 years, approximately $4,600 could be saved per patient by using BLC during diagnostic cystoscopy (excluding the cost of the equipment).\n\nThe current AUA guidelines for bladder cancer were written in 2007, 3 years before Cysview was approved for use in the USA and therefore do not have an official recommendation for the use of fluorescent cystoscopy in the management of NMIBC. The NCCN guidelines acknowledge that BLC has been shown to decrease recurrence in NMIBC but has not been shown to reduce progression. They suggest that “BLC may have the greatest advantage in detecting difficult-to-visualize tumors (eg, CIS tumors)” and “the limitations of BLC require judicious application of this additional diagnostic tool”10.\n\nIn 2013, an expert focus group convened in San Diego to create a consensus statement for appropriate use of BLC in the USA2. Based on the evidence reviewed, they recommend that BLC should be considered:\n- At initial TURBT on suspicion of NMIBC\n- In patients with positive urine cytology but negative WLC findings\n- In patients with intermediate-risk NMIBC\n- For assessment of disease recurrence\n\nThese recommendations are similar to consensus statements and guidelines from Europe.\n\nBlue-light cystoscopy has been shown to increase detection of NMIBC during TURBT. Whether this increased detection leads to a difference in recurrence or progression is less clear. Most studies to date, especially those with longer follow-up times, have shown a decrease in recurrence in patients who undergo TURBT with BLC. No study to date has shown a difference in progression. It is likely that to show a statistically significant difference in progression, larger studies with longer follow-up will need to be conducted.", "This blog was written by Kevin Curtiss, a medical student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Kevin recently finished a four-week sub-internship at the Brady Urological Institute and gave a presentation to the department on \"Blue Light Cystoscopy\" from which this blog is inspired. Kevin is looking forward to a career in urology.\n\n1. Cancer of the Urinary Bladder - SEER Stat Fact Sheets. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/urinb.html. Accessed September 2, 2015.\n2. Daneshmand S, Schuckman AK, Bochner BH, et al. Hexaminolevulinate blue-light cystoscopy in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: review of the clinical evidence and consensus statement on appropriate use in the USA. Nat Rev Urol. 2014;11(10):589-596. doi:10.1038/nrurol.2014.245.\n3. Burger M, Grossman HB, Droller M, et al. Photodynamic diagnosis of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer with hexaminolevulinate cystoscopy: a meta-analysis of detection and recurrence based on raw data. Eur Urol. 2013;64(5):846-854. doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2013.03.059.\n4. Shen P, Yang J, Wei W, et al. Effects of fluorescent light-guided transurethral resection on non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BJU Int. 2012;110(6 Pt B):E209-E215. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10892.x.\n5. Stenzl A, Burger M, Fradet Y, et al. Hexaminolevulinate guided fluorescence cystoscopy reduces recurrence in patients with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer. J Urol. 2010;184(5):1907-1913. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2010.06.148.\n6. Stenzl A, Penkoff H, Dajc-Sommerer E, et al. Detection and clinical outcome of urinary bladder cancer with 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced fluorescence cystoscopy : A multicenter randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Cancer. 2011;117(5):938-947. doi:10.1002/cncr.25523.\n7. Grossman HB, Stenzl A, Fradet Y, et al. Long-term decrease in bladder cancer recurrence with hexaminolevulinate enabled fluorescence cystoscopy. J Urol. 2012;188(1):58-62. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2012.03.007.\n8. Botteman MF, Pashos CL, Redaelli A, Laskin B, Hauser R. The health economics of bladder cancer: a comprehensive review of the published literature. Pharmacoeconomics. 2003;21(18):1315-1330. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14750899. Accessed September 2, 2015.\n9. Garfield SS, Gavaghan MB, Armstrong SO, Jones JS. The cost-effectiveness of blue light cystoscopy in bladder cancer detection: United States projections based on clinical data showing 4.5 years of follow up after a single hexaminolevulinate hydrochloride instillation. Can J Urol. 2013;20(2):6682-6689. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587507. Accessed September 2, 2015.\n10. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Bladder Cancer. 2015;http://www. http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/bladder.pdf. Accessed September 2, 2015.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 9:00 AM 51 comments:", "Labels: Bladder Cancer\n\nWednesday, September 2, 2015\n\nThe Surgical Management of Large Prostatic Adenoma\n\nBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a prevalent disease, affecting 22% of men < 60 years old, and 45% of men 70-80 years old [1]. When BPH symptoms are refractory to medical management, surgical intervention is recommended. Optimal surgical management for large prostatic adenoma, defined as prostate mass > 100 g or volume > 80 cc, is controversial. While open simple prostatectomy (OSP) remains the gold-standard surgical management for severe BPH, the procedure is associated with significant morbidity, encouraging the use of other surgical options. This blog will discuss the surgical management of large prostatic adenoma, with emphasis on several alternatives to OSP, including bipolar TURP, holmium laser therapy, photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP), and robot assisted laparoscopic simple prostatectomy (RASP).\n\nOpen Simple Prostatectomy (OSP)\n\nOSP is the gold standard surgical management for high volume (> 80 cc) prostatic adenoma. Advantages of this approach include more complete removal of prostatic adenoma under direct visualization, lower re-treatment rates, and no risk of TUR syndrome. A randomized controlled trial comparing transvesical open simple prostatectomy (TVP) with TURP for prostates > 80 cc demonstrated significant reduction in IPSS scores at 12 months post-op for the TVP group. Unfortunately, the peri-operative blood transfusion rate was 11% and 14% for the TVP and TURP arms, respectively (Figure 1) [2]. This morbidity associated with OSP has encouraged urologists to seek other alternatives for the management of large prostatic adenoma.\n\nMonopolar TURP has been the gold standard surgical management for prostates 30-80 mL, but concerns regarding TUR syndrome and excessive bleeding prevent its routine use in larger prostatic adenoma. For this reason, many studies have focused on Bipolar TURP, which enables the use of normal saline irrigation with no risk of TUR syndrome. In a recent prospective, randomized trial comparing Bipolar TURP vs. OSP for prostates > 80 cc, Bipolar TURP was found to resect significantly less prostatic adenoma mass despite having similar pre-operative prostate size to the OSP arm. However, a significantly less hemoglobin drop, blood transfusion rate, and hospital stay was found in the Bipolar TURP arm [3].\n\nHolmium Laser Therapy\n\nHolmium laser therapy emits light at 2100 nm in pulses. This causes tissue water vaporization with limited (0.4 mm) tissue penetration. Because the procedure uses normal saline for irrigation, there is no risk for TUR syndrome manifested by dilutional hyponatremia. Laser settings commonly cited in the literature include 2-2.5 J and 40-50 Hz [4]. Several retrospective studies have found significant 6 month post-op reduction in IPSS scores for prostates greater than 75, 125, and 175 g [4-6]. Furthermore, these studies reported low peri-operative blood transfusion rates of 1.9-3.5%, which is significantly less than the reported OSP average blood transfusion rate of 8.5% or greater. For this reason, holmium laser therapy is often cited in the literature as having prostate “size independent” effectiveness.\n\nPhotoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP)\n\nPhotoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP) is commonly referred to as the Greenlight laser, as it vaporizes tissue at a wavelength of 532 nm. Because the laser is selectively absorbed by hemoglobin, the relatively fibrous prostatic capsule is resistant to absorption, making this procedure an attractive alternative to OSP. The current generation of the Greenlight laser is the 180 W XPS laser. The power has been increased from previous generations in order to improve adenoma removal and lower re-treatment rates. A multi-institutional prospective trial that looked at nearly 1,200 patients (2/3 with > 80 cc prostates; 1/3 with < 80 cc prostates) who underwent 180 W XPS laser therapy found that the larger prostate cohort maintained a mean IPSS reduction of 19 points at 6, 12, and 24 months post-op [7]. However, significantly more of the > 80 cc prostate cases had to be converted to TURP, most commonly due to bleeding that obscured the visual field. Therefore, PVP appears to be an effective, but imperfect alternative to OSP for large prostatic adenoma.\n\nRobot assisted laparoscopic Simple Prostatectomy (RASP)\n\nRobot assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) appears to be a very attractive alternative to OSP, with the hope that it would produce the functional results of OSP while reducing the associated morbidity, including hospital length of stay, perioperative hemorrhage, and blood transfusion rates. The transvesical approach provides excellent visualization of the extent of the prostatic adenoma, while preventing injury to the ureteral orifices during incision of the bladder mucosa (Figure 2).\n\nData from the Brady Urological Institute comparing RASP to OSP found reductions in estimated blood loss, blood transfusions, and hospital length of stay for the RASP arm (Figure 3). Although there was no significant difference in pre-operative prostate volume by transrectal ultrasound measurements, RASP had similar adenoma resection weights as compared to OSP. A review that looked at 13 RASP studies found an overall blood transfusion rate of 3.5% [8].\n\nAn edited video of a robot assisted laparoscopic simple prostatectomy performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital can be found below.\n\nKey Points", "This blog was written by Bijan W. Salari, a medical student at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Bijan recently finished a four-week sub-internship at the Brady Urological Institute and gave a presentation to the department on \"The Surgical Management of Large Prostatic Adenoma\" from which this blog is inspired. Bijan  is looking forward to a career in urology.\n\n1. Speakman et al. Burden of male lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) - focus on the UK. BJU Int. 2015 Apr;115(4):508-19. doi: 10.1111/bju.12745. Epub 2014 Oct 16.\n2. Ou et al. A randomized trial of transvesical prostatectomy versus transurethral resection of the prostate for prostate greater than 80 mL. Urology. 2010 Oct;76(4):958-61. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.01.079. Epub 2010 Apr 15.\n3. Geavlete et al. Bipolar vaporization, resection, and enucleation versus open prostatectomy: optimal treatment alternatives in large prostate cases? J Endourol. 2015 Mar;29(3):323-31. doi: 10.1089/end.2014.0493. Epub 2014 Sep 17.\n4. Krambeck et al. Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate for prostates larger than 175 grams. J Endourol. 2010 Mar;24(3):433-7. doi: 10.1089/end.2009.0147.\n5. Matlaga et al. Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate for prostates of >125 mL. BJU Int. 2006 Jan;97(1):81-4.\n6. Kuo et al. Holmium laser enucleation of prostate (HoLEP): the Methodist Hospital experience with greater than 75 gram enucleations. J Urol. 2003 Jul;170(1):149-52.\n7. Hueber et al. Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Using the 180 Watt System: Multicenter Study of the Impact of Prostate Size on Safety and Outcomes. J Urol. 2015 Aug;194(2):462-9. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2015.03.113. Epub 2015 Apr 4.\n8. Patel et al. Robotic-assisted Simple Prostatectomy: Is there Evidence to go Beyond the Experimental Stage? Curr Urol Rep (2014) 15:443.\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 9:01 AM 49 comments:", "Labels: BPH, Surgical Innovation\n\nTuesday, August 18, 2015\n\nDiffusion of Robotics in Urology: Responsible Introduction of Surgical Innovation\n\nThe use of robotic surgery in urology began in 2001 with the advent of robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). Since then, it has diffused throughout the field, providing an alternative to the open approach in numerous urologic procedures. However, the evidence for the utility and added benefits of the robotic approach is limited and varies among procedures. Given the fact that robotic-assisted procedures cost the patient an additional $1000 and the hospital nearly $100,000 annually, it is necessary to investigate the benefits of this technology and to determine for which procedures and which patients it is worth this increased cost. Furthermore, it is critical to assess whether the early introduction of this technology is safe for patients. Not only is the data supporting the use of robotics unclear, but also, in retrospect, the introduction of robotics may have led to unfavorable patient outcomes in certain settings. This blog will serve as overview of some of the early data regarding the use of robotics in the surgical management of three index cancers and will end with a brief discussion of safety during the initial diffusion of robotic prostatectomy.\n\nMost of the initial data regarding RARP came from small, retrospective, single-center studies, most of which reported less blood loss, lower rates of transfusion, shorter length of stay and fewer short term complications. A recent prospective, multi-center, controlled trial from Sweden showed that RARP was associated with 500cc less blood loss, shorter length of stay by one day, and lower rates of reoperation during the initial hospital stay [1]. Therefore, at least in the short term, there seems to be good evidence for RARP improving perioperative outcomes.\n\nData regarding long-term outcomes are more controversial. Based on numerous studies, it is difficult to interpret whether there is any benefit or drawback to achieving the \"trifecta\" of oncologic control, continence, and potency with robotic assistance. A recent prospective, non-randomized study from Sweden suggests that there may be some benefit to RARP with regard to potency, but no difference for oncologic control or continence [2]. Of note, the only randomized trial that sought to investigate this was terminated due to slow patient enrollment. Therefore, some evidence points to the benefits of RARP, some to its detriment, but most suggest equivalence between open and robotic.\n\nThe use of robotics in partial nephrectomy (PN) is a different story. PN is the preferred surgical management of small renal masses (when technically feasible) because of its ability to preserve kidney function (i.e. nephron-sparing) with equivalent oncologic control. Minimally invasive PN has been shown to be associated with less blood loss, shorter length of stay, faster recovery, and less post-operative pain compared to the open flank incision [3]. Within the category of minimally invasive surgery, Pierorazio et al. showed that robotic assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) is associated with shorter operative time, less blood loss, and shorter warm ischemia time (WIT) [4]. Regarding complications, Mullins et al. found no difference in complication rates, but when stratified by Clavien grade, the RAPN cohort was more likely to have lower grade complications [5]. A meta-analysis comparing robotic vs. laparoscopic PN found no differences in operative times, blood loss, conversion rates, complications, or length of stay. However, RAPN was associated with shorter WIT, the key to renal preservation, which ultimately is the primary goal of PN [6].\n\nRobotic technology has led to an increased use of PN, due in part to the superior range of motion that aids in tumor excision and reconstruction under ischemic time constraints. This has been shown to be a real phenomenon, with a demonstrable increase in PN compared to radical nephrectomy in the years of robotic diffusion. [7] In addition, robotics has allowed urologists to tackle more complex renal tumors, such as tumors invading the large veins of the kidney and retroperitoneum (i.e. IVC thrombectomies), intrarenal, and posterior tumors, with comparable functional outcomes and less risk of conversion to radical nephrectomy [8-10].\n\nRetroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is a treatment option for men with stage I and select stage II nonseminomatous germ cell tumors and is particularly useful for men who want to avoid long term surveillance or chemotherapy. Laparoscopic RPLND has been shown to have comparable oncologic outcomes with superior perioperative outcomes compared to open [11, 12]. The data regarding robotic RPLND is scant due to its nascency in the field, however a recent study shows that early on, robotic RPLND is comparable to laparoscopic in terms of perioperative outcomes [13]. Given the increased cost and risk of serious complications due to the intimacy with the great vessels during this procedure, the role of robotics in RPLND remains largely unknown at this point.\n\nGiven the variable and unclear data, particularly regarding RARP, how did robotics diffuse so rapidly and widely among urologists? First, it is important to note that in order to introduce new technology, one only needs a 510(k) clearance from the FDA. In the case of RARP, da Vinci received FDA clearance in 2000, the first RARP was in 2001, and the first population-based outcomes study was published in 2009. So many were performing RARP blindly without any population based data on efficacy or safety. Parsons et al. sought to retrospectively investigate if there was an effect on patient safety during this diffusion period using patient safety indicators (PSI). They found that in the year before the \"tipping point,\" a set point indicating when RARP diffused from centers of excellence to more general urologists, there was a two-fold increase in PSI [14].\n\nThese results highlight the importance of responsibility with regards to the introduction of new technology. Is a compromise to patient safety in the initial years of dissemination necessary? Does new technology always come with risk? How do we know when to stop pursuing a given technique? When is a reasonable time to assess whether it is inferior and causing more harm than good? Was RARP even worth this increased risk given its limited utility and increased cost? Finally, is the culprit here technology, or does innovation by nature have barriers at first?\n\nThe role of robotics in urology today raises many questions regarding comparative efficacy, cost justification, and patient safety with innovation. Radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy illustrate a juxtaposition of results – RAPN seems to have succeeded while RARP has yet to show a demonstrable benefit other than less blood loss. It has also raised questions about patient safety during the dissemination of new technology and bears the question, how does an innovator responsibly report results while marketing and patient demand accelerate the innovation's diffusion? Moving forward, standardized training and credentialing programs as well as systematic reporting to non-industry groups could be instituted in order to diffuse innovation while keeping the patient first.", "This blog was written by Kelly Harris, a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School.  Kelly recently finished a four-week sub-internship at the Brady Urological Institute and gave a presentation to the department on \"The Diffusion of Robotic Surgery in Urology\" from which this blog is inspired. Kelly is looking forward to a career in urology.\n\n1. Wallerstedt A, Tyritzis SI, Thorsteinsdottir T, et al. Short-term Results after Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Compared to Open Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol 2015: 67:660-70\n2. Haglind E, Carlsson S, Stranne J, et al. Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction After Robotic Versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Prospective, Controlled, Nonrandomised Trial. Eur Urol 2015\n3. Hung AJ, Cai J, Simmons MN, Gill IS. \"Trifecta\" in partial nephrectomy. J Urol 2013: 189:36-42\n4. Pierorazio PM, Mullins JK, Eifler JB, et al. Contemporaneous comparison of open vs minimally-invasive radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer. BJU Int 2013: 112:751-7\n5. Mullins JK, Feng T, Pierorazio PM, Patel HD, Hyams ES, Allaf ME. Comparative analysis of minimally invasive partial nephrectomy techniques in the treatment of localized renal tumors. Urology 2012: 80:316-21\n6. Aboumarzouk OM, Stein RJ, Eyraud R, et al. Robotic versus laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Urol 2012: 62:1023-33\n7. Patel HD, Mullins JK, Pierorazio PM, et al. Trends in renal surgery: robotic technology is associated with increased use of partial nephrectomy. J Urol 2013: 189:1229-35\n8. Ball MW, Gorin MA, Jayram G, Pierorazio PM, Allaf ME. Robot-assisted radical nephrectomy with inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy: technique and initial outcomes. Can J Urol 2015: 22:7666-70\n9. Harris KT, Ball MW, Gorin MA, Curtiss KM, Pierorazio PM, Allaf ME. Transperitoneal Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Comparison of Posterior and Anterior Renal Masses. J Endourol 2014: 28:655-9\n10. Curtiss KM, Ball MW, Gorin MA, Harris KT, Pierorazio PM, Allaf ME. Perioperative outcomes of robotic partial nephrectomy for intrarenal tumors. J Endourol 2015: 29:293-6\n11. Bhayani SB, Ong A, Oh WK, Kantoff PW, Kavoussi LR. Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancer: a long-term update. Urology 2003: 62:324-7\n12. Steiner H, Peschel R, Janetschek G, et al. Long-term results of laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: a single-center 10-year experience. Urology 2004: 63:550-5\n13. Harris KT, Gorin MA, Ball MW, Pierorazio PM, Allaf ME. A Comparative Analysis of Robotic versus Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testicular Cancer. BJU Int 2015\n14. Parsons JK, Messer K, Palazzi K, Stroup SP, Chang D. Diffusion of surgical innovations, patient safety, and minimally invasive radical prostatectomy. JAMA Surg 2014: 149:845-51\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 9:00 AM 22 comments:", "Labels: Kidney Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Surgical Innovation, Testicular Cancer\n\nTuesday, May 5, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1969, Schwarz, et al., UTI Correlation to Fecal Bacteria\n\nSchwarz H, Schirmer HKA, Ehlers B, Post B. Urinary Tract Infections: Correlation between Organisms Obtained Simultaneously from the Urine and Feces of Patients with Bacteriuria and Pyuria. J Urol. 1969. 101:765-767.\n\nIt was well established that gram-negative bacteria caused approximately 80% of UTI (urinary tract infections) and the colon was believed to be the source of most of these bacteria. In a study of 148 hospitalized individuals with bacteria in their urine, researchers from Johns Hopkins correlated the urinary organism with stool cultures from the same patients. Limited by difficulties in bacterial culture and identification of the time period, Dr. Schwarz and colleagues were able to demonstrate that urinary and fecal organisms were correlated in 60% to 100% of cases, depending on the bacteria. The authors then postulated that the colon was the most likely source of urinary bacteria, and perhaps, treating colonic flora could control the spread of infectious urinary organisms.\n\nWhile we now know that the relationship between the colon, urinary bacteria and antimicrobial agents is more complex than a simple causal relationshipWe now understand that each patient has risk factors for infection, each bacteria has different methods for causing infection and there is certainly a difference between bacteruria (bacteria in the urine) and a UTI. However , manuscripts like this 1969 historical contribution, paved the way for a better understanding of UTI.\n\nVisit the Centennial Website or click here to see more about the first 100 years at the Brady.\n\nHISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS highlight the greatest academic manuscripts from the Brady Urological Institute over the past 100 years.  As the Brady Urological Institute approaches its centennial, we will present a HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTION from each of the past 100 years.  In the most recent experience, the most highly cited article from each year is selected; older manuscripts were selected based on their perceived impact on the field.  We hope you enjoy!\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 8:05 AM 8 comments:", "Labels: Brady Top 100, Urinary Tract Infections\n\nTuesday, April 28, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1966: Gibbons, Transurethral Freezing of the Bladder\n\nGibbons RP. Transurethral Freezing of the Bladder: An Experimental Study. J Urol. 1966. 95;33-44.\n\nPresented at the Urological Research Forum at the annual American Urological Association in New Orleans, 1965, Dr. Robert Gibbons presented early experiments to treat non-invasive urothelial cancers of the bladder. The proposed hypothesis was that by circumferentially destroying the mucosa of the bladder, the risk of subsequent, recurrent non-invasive cancers could be eliminated. Therefore Gibbons set out to find an acceptable freezing material and device to deliver a treatment that could treat these non-invasive bladder cancers.\n\nUsing a specially designed transurethral cooling device, Gibbons was able to deliver coolant to the entire surface of the bladder – effectively destroying the urothelial layer.", null, "The experiments were carried out in 30 dogs, and anatomic and pathological evaluation was carried out of the bladders at varying time points following treatment. By carefully tuning the cooling apparatus, Gibbons was able to achieve greater than 75% mucosal slough in many of the experiments. Importantly, Gibbons was never able to achieve 100% mucosal destruction, nor could he create reproducible outcomes by standardizing the coolant and methods to cool the bladder. Anatomic examination demonstrated reduced bladder capacity, new onset hydronephrosis and abdominal adhesions in many animals. Pathological evaluation demonstrated involvement of the submucosa in most specimens and often noticed full-thickness necrosis of the bladder wall in a number of cases. Unfortunately, this corresponded to peritoneal infections and death in a number of the experiments.\n\nWhile this experiment could be considered a failure, this was an outstanding attempt to treat non-invasive bladder cancers. In 1965, there was no BCG or other intravesical treatment for the management of non-invasive urothelial cancers. Thermal ablation, or \"freezing\" of cancers was en vogue and being attempted in gastric, esophageal, retinal, brain and kidney cancers.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:15 AM 6 comments:", "Labels: Bladder Cancer, Brady Top 100\n\nWednesday, April 22, 2015\n\nIs Testosterone Replacement Therapy \"Feeding the Fire\" of Prostate Cancer?\n\nTestosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is the administration of testosterone to men with abnormally low testosterone, termed hypogonadism, or \"low T,\" Men with symptoms of low testosterone, can often benefit from TRT. Common symptoms of hypogonadism in post-pubertal men commonly include decreased muscle mass, decreased energy, depressed mood, decreased libido, decreased spontaneous erections, and erectile dysfunction [Wang et al., 2008, Basaria, 2014].\n\nWhile TRT has been used for decades the last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of TRT. The percentage of men in the Unites States over 40 years of age prescribed TRT increased from less than 1% in 2001 to nearly 3% in 2011 [Baillargeon et al., 2013]. The increase in TRT and lack of data from large, long term randomized controlled trials (RCT) has raised concern for unrecognized adverse health risks, including potential increases in cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer (PC).\n\nThere is large body of both historic and modern data supporting a role for androgens in PC pathogenesis and progression.\n\nIn 1941, Huggins and Hodges proposed that PC growth was driven by androgens, after observing benefits of castration in PC patients [Huggins et al., 1941]. Current laboratory data demonstrate that many PC cell lines depend on testosterone for growth and spread.  [Kyprianou et al., 1990, Webber et al., 1996, Schwab et al., 2000]. In animal models, testosterone promotes PC tumor growth [Bladou et al., 1996, Ahmad et al., 2008].\n\nThe data supporting the androgen hypothesis has led to the dogma that TRT in PC patients is like \"feeding the fire.\" Historically, there is data supporting this concept. In 1982 Fowler et al. reported on 52 men with metastatic PC patients who recieved testosterone. 38% of men had elevations in prostatic acid phosphatase (a blood test used to monitor PC), 2 men had measurable metastatic progression, and ther were 4 deaths [Fowler et al., 1982]. Importantly, these patients had advanced disease, and many had prior androgen deprivation [Fowler et al., 1982]. Thus, it would not be appropriate to apply these observations to men with clinically localized disease who receive early primary treatment and PSA monitoring.\n\nThere is currently no reliable data indicating an increase in PC in men without PC undergoing TRT.\n\nThe majority of studies on TRT and PC are small, and to date, there have been no prospective studies on TRT with sufficient patient numbers to determine increased PC risk. By one estimate, 6,000 patients receiving 5 years of TRT would be needed to detect a 30% increase in PC incidence [Bhasin et al., 2003]. In a systematic review of 40 prospective studies, there was no study which demonstrated an association between TRT and PC risk in men without prior PC. In addition, a meta-analysis of 19 studies, there was no significant increase in PC or significant PSA increases necessitating prostate biopsy. [Calof et al., 2005].\n\nTRT in patients with localized PC appears safe, based on limited data\n\nUsing Medicare data, Kaplan and colleagues reported on 149,354 men, including 1,181 men who received TRT after a diagnosis with PC. Overall, TRT was not associated with PC deaths [Kaplan et al., 2014]. Similarly, Pastuszak and colleagues reported on 103 men who after prostatectomy were treated with TRT. There was an overall increase serum PSA, but no evidence of increased cancer recurrence over 36 months [Pastuszak et al., 2013]. In a smaller study, Morgentaler et al. examined 13 patients with untreated PC, enrolled in an active surveillence program and receiving TRT. After a median follow-up of 2.5 years, 2 men had worse pathology on subsequent biopsy, but no cases of disease or PSA progression were seen [Morgentaler et al., 2011].\n\nOverall, there remains no clear answer to the question \"Does testosterone promote prostate cancer development in humans?\" Thus, TRT in men with prostate cancer remains controversial. There is clear evidence that androgens can promote PC in animal models. It is clear that the influence of testosterone on PC disease progression is of paramount importance to both patients and providers as they weight the potential benefits of TRT. Currently, there is a growing amount of evidence that TRT is safe in well-selected men with clinically localized PC. However, these results are based on TRT in a small number of patients. Furthermore, the heterogeneity in PC progression and aggressiveness may give rise to heterogeneity in the responsiveness of tumors to TRT. Thus, until the results of future RCTs are available, TRT should only be offered to select patients who are carefully monitored and well-informed about the potential risks and benefits.", null, "This blog was written by Jason E. Michaud M.D., Ph.D., urology resident at the Brady Urological Institute, currently in his laboratory research year.\n\nAhmad, I., Sansom, O.J., and Leung, H.Y. (2008) Advances in Mouse Models of Prostate Cancer. Expert Rev Mol Med 10: e16.\nAl-Khazaali, A., Arora, R., and Muttar, S. (2015) Controversial Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cardiovascular Diseases. Am J Ther:\nAndriole, G., Bruchovsky, N., Chung, L.W., Matsumoto, A.M., Rittmaster, R., Roehrborn, C. et al. (2004) Dihydrotestosterone and the Prostate: The Scientific Rationale for 5alpha-Reductase Inhibitors in the Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. J Urol 172: 1399-1403.\nAndriole, G.L., Crawford, E.D., Grubb, R.L., Buys, S.S., Chia, D., Church, T.R. et al. (2009) Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial. New England Journal of Medicine 360: 1310-1319.\nAraujo, A.B., O'donnell, A.B., Brambilla, D.J., Simpson, W.B., Longcope, C., Matsumoto, A.M. et al. (2004) Prevalence and Incidence of Androgen Deficiency in Middle-Aged and Older Men: Estimates from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89: 5920-5926.\nBaillargeon, J., Urban, R.J., Ottenbacher, K.J., Pierson, K.S., and Goodwin, J.S. (2013) Trends in Androgen Prescribing in the United States, 2001 to 2011. JAMA Intern Med 173: 1465-1466.\nBasaria, S. (2014) Male Hypogonadism. Lancet 383: 1250-1263.\nBhasin, S., Singh, A.B., Mac, R.P., Carter, B., Lee, M.I., and Cunningham, G.R. (2003) Managing the Risks of Prostate Disease During Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Older Men: Recommendations for a Standardized Monitoring Plan. J Androl 24: 299-311.\nBladou, F., Vessella, R.L., Buhler, K.R., Ellis, W.J., True, L.D., and Lange, P.H. (1996) Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis During Prostatic Tumor Xenograft Involution and Regrowth after Castration. Int J Cancer 67: 785-790.\nBotelho, F., Pina, F., Figueiredo, L., Cruz, F., and Lunet, N. (2012) Does Baseline Total Testosterone Improve the Yielding of Prostate Cancer Screening? Eur J Cancer 48: 1657-1663.\nBremner, W.J., Vitiello, M.V., and Prinz, P.N. (1983) Loss of Circadian Rhythmicity in Blood Testosterone Levels with Aging in Normal Men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 56: 1278-1281.\nCalof, O.M., Singh, A.B., Lee, M.L., Kenny, A.M., Urban, R.J., Tenover, J.L. et al. (2005) Adverse Events Associated with Testosterone Replacement in Middle-Aged and Older Men: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 60: 1451-1457.\nD'amico, A.V., Moul, J.W., Carroll, P.R., Sun, L., Lubeck, D., and Chen, M.H. 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J Natl Cancer Inst 88: 1118-1126.\nGarcia-Cruz, E., Piqueras, M., Ribal, M.J., Huguet, J., Serapiao, R., Peri, L. et al. (2012) Low Testosterone Level Predicts Prostate Cancer in Re-Biopsy in Patients with High Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. BJU Int 110: E199-202.\nHaider, A., Zitzmann, M., Doros, G., Isbarn, H., Hammerer, P., and Yassin, A. (2014) Incidence of Prostate Cancer in Hypogonadal Men Receiving Testosterone Therapy: Observations from 5-Year Median Followup of 3 Registries. J Urol 193: 80-86.\nHandelsman, D.J. (2013) Global Trends in Testosterone Prescribing, 2000-2011: Expanding the Spectrum of Prescription Drug Misuse. Med J Aust 199: 548-551.\nHarman, S.M., Metter Ej Fau - Tobin, J.D., Tobin Jd Fau - Pearson, J., Pearson J Fau - Blackman, M.R., and Blackman, M.R. (2001) Longitudinal Effects of Aging on Serum Total and Free Testosterone Levels in Healthy Men. Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.\nHowden, L., Meyer, J. (2011) Age and Sex Composition: 2010, 2010 Census Briefs, Vol. 2015. United States Census Bureau.\nHuggins, C. (1947) The Etiology of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 23: 696-704.\nHuggins, C. and Hodges, C.V. (1941) Studies on Prostatic Cancer: I. The Effect of Castration, of Estrogen and of Androgen Injection on Serum Phosphatases in Metastatic Carcinoma of the Prostate. 1941. Cancer Res 1: 293-297.\nImamoto, T., Suzuki, H., Fukasawa, S., Shimbo, M., Inahara, M., Komiya, A. et al. (2005) Pretreatment Serum Testosterone Level as a Predictive Factor of Pathological Stage in Localized Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol 47: 308-312.\nKaplan, A.L., Trinh, Q.D., Sun, M., Carter, S.C., Nguyen, P.L., Shih, Y.C. et al. (2014) Testosterone Replacement Therapy Following the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer: Outcomes and Utilization Trends. J Sex Med 11: 1063-1070.\nKyprianou, N., English, H.F., and Isaacs, J.T. (1990) Programmed Cell Death During Regression of Pc-82 Human Prostate Cancer Following Androgen Ablation. Cancer Res 50: 3748-3753.\nLane, B.R., Stephenson, A.J., Magi-Galluzzi, C., Lakin, M.M., and Klein, E.A. (2008) Low Testosterone and Risk of Biochemical Recurrence and Poorly Differentiated Prostate Cancer at Radical Prostatectomy. Urology 72: 1240-1245.\nLeibowitz, R.L., Dorff, T.B., Tucker, S., Symanowski, J., and Vogelzang, N.J. (2010) Testosterone Replacement in Prostate Cancer Survivors with Hypogonadal Symptoms. BJU Int 105: 1397-1401.\nMassengill, J.C., Sun, L., Moul, J.W., Wu, H., Mcleod, D.G., Amling, C. et al. (2003) Pretreatment Total Testosterone Level Predicts Pathological Stage in Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer Treated with Radical Prostatectomy. J Urol 169: 1670-1675.\nMatsumoto, A.M. (2003) Fundamental Aspects of Hypogonadism in the Aging Male. Reviews in Urology 5: S3-S10.\nMearini, L., Zucchi, A., Nunzi, E., Villirillo, T., Bini, V., and Porena, M. (2013) Low Serum Testosterone Levels Are Predictive of Prostate Cancer. World J Urol 31: 247-252.\nMiner, M., Barkin, J., and Rosenberg, M.T. (2014) Testosterone Deficiency: Myth, Facts, and Controversy. Can J Urol 21 Suppl 2: 39-54.\nMorgentaler, A., Lipshultz, L.I., Bennett, R., Sweeney, M., Avila, D., Jr., and Khera, M. (2011) Testosterone Therapy in Men with Untreated Prostate Cancer. J Urol 185: 1256-1260.\nMorgentaler, A. and Rhoden, E.L. (2006) Prevalence of Prostate Cancer among Hypogonadal Men with Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels of 4.0 Ng/Ml or Less. Urology 68: 1263-1267.\nMorote, J., Ramirez, C., Gomez, E., Planas, J., Raventos, C.X., De Torres, I.M. et al. (2009) The Relationship between Total and Free Serum Testosterone and the Risk of Prostate Cancer and Tumour Aggressiveness. BJU Int 104: 486-489.\nMuller, M., Den Tonkelaar, I., Thijssen, J.H., Grobbee, D.E., and Van Der Schouw, Y.T. (2003) Endogenous Sex Hormones in Men Aged 40-80 Years. Eur J Endocrinol 149: 583-589.\nMuller, R.L., Gerber L Fau - Moreira, D.M., Moreira Dm Fau - Andriole, G., Andriole G Fau - Castro-Santamaria, R., Castro-Santamaria R Fau - Freedland, S.J., and Freedland, S.J. (2012) Serum Testosterone and Dihydrotestosterone and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Placebo Arm of the Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer Events Trial.\nMulligan, T., Frick, M.F., Zuraw, Q.C., Stemhagen, A., and Mcwhirter, C. (2006) Prevalence of Hypogonadism in Males Aged at Least 45 Years: The Him Study. International Journal of Clinical Practice 60: 762-769.\nNeaves Wb Fau - Johnson, L., Johnson L Fau - Porter, J.C., Porter Jc Fau - Parker, C.R., Jr., Parker Cr Jr Fau - Petty, C.S., and Petty, C.S. (1984) Leydig Cell Numbers, Daily Sperm Production, and Serum Gonadotropin Levels in Aging Men.\nPastuszak, A.W., Pearlman, A.M., Lai, W.S., Godoy, G., Sathyamoorthy, K., Liu, J.S. et al. (2013) Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Patients with Prostate Cancer after Radical Prostatectomy. J Urol 190: 639-644.\nPierorazio, P.M., Ferrucci L Fau - Kettermann, A., Kettermann a Fau - Longo, D.L., Longo Dl Fau - Metter, E.J., Metter Ej Fau - Carter, H.B., and Carter, H.B. (2010) Serum Testosterone Is Associated with Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Older Men: Results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.\nRhoden, E.L. and Morgentaler, A. (2003) Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Hypogonadal Men at High Risk for Prostate Cancer: Results of 1 Year of Treatment in Men with Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. J Urol 170: 2348-2351.\nRove, K.O. and Crawford, E.D. (2014) Traditional Androgen Ablation Approaches to Advanced Prostate Cancer: New Insights. Can J Urol 21: 14-21.\nRubens R Fau - Dhont, M., Dhont M Fau - Vermeulen, A., and Vermeulen, A. (1974) Further Studies on Leydig Cell Function in Old Age.\nSalonia, A., Gallina, A., Briganti, A., Abdollah, F., Suardi, N., Capitanio, U. et al. (2010) Preoperative Hypogonadism Is Not an Independent Predictor of High-Risk Disease in Patients Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy. Cancer 117: 3953-3962.\nSan Francisco, I.F., Rojas, P.A., Dewolf, W.C., and Morgentaler, A. (2014) Low Free Testosterone Levels Predict Disease Reclassification in Men with Prostate Cancer Undergoing Active Surveillance. BJU Int 114: 229-235.\nSchroder, F.H., Hugosson, J., Roobol, M.J., Tammela, T.L.J., Ciatto, S., Nelen, V. et al. (2012) Prostate-Cancer Mortality at 11 Years of Follow-Up. New England Journal of Medicine 366: 981-990.\nSchwab, T.S., Stewart, T., Lehr, J., Pienta, K.J., Rhim, J.S., and Macoska, J.A. (2000) Phenotypic Characterization of Immortalized Normal and Primary Tumor-Derived Human Prostate Epithelial Cell Cultures. Prostate 44: 164-171.\nShaneyfelt, T., Husein, R., Bubley, G., and Mantzoros, C.S. (2000) Hormonal Predictors of Prostate Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Oncology 18: 847.\nShin, B.S., Hwang, E.C., Im, C.M., Kim, S.O., Jung, S.I., Kang, T.W. et al. (2010) Is a Decreased Serum Testosterone Level a Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer? A Cohort Study of Korean Men. Korean J Urol 51: 819-823.\nSiiteri Pk Fau - Wilson, J.D. and Wilson, J.D. (1974) Testosterone Formation and Metabolism During Male Sexual Differentiation in the Human Embryo.\nSpitzer, M., Huang, G., Basaria, S., Travison, T.G., and Bhasin, S. (2013) Risks and Benefits of Testosterone Therapy in Older Men. Nat Rev Endocrinol 9: 414-424.\nSwerdloff, R. and Wang, C. (2011) Testosterone Treatment of Older Men: Why Are Controversies Created? The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 96: 62-65.\nSwyer, G.I.M. (1944) Post-Natal Growth Changes in the Human Prostate. Journal of Anatomy 78: 130-145.\nTenover, J.S., Matsumoto, A.M., Clifton, D.K., and Bremner, W.J. (1988) Age-Related Alterations in the Circadian Rhythms of Pulsatile Luteinizing Hormone and Testosterone Secretion in Healthy Men. J Gerontol 43: M163-169.\nVermeulen, A. and Kaufman, J.M. (1995) Ageing of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Testicular Axis in Men. Horm Res 43: 25-28.\nWang, C., Nieschlag, E., Swerdloff, R., Behre, H.M., Hellstrom, W.J., Gooren, L.J. et al. (2008) Investigation, Treatment and Monitoring of Late-Onset Hypogonadism in Males: Isa, Issam, Eau, Eaa and Asa Recommendations. Eur J Endocrinol 159: 507-514.\nWebber, M.M., Bello, D., and Quader, S. (1996) Immortalized and Tumorigenic Adult Human Prostatic Epithelial Cell Lines: Characteristics and Applications. Part I. Cell Markers and Immortalized Nontumorigenic Cell Lines. Prostate 29: 386-394.\nWu, F.C., Tajar, A., Beynon, J.M., Pye, S.R., Silman, A.J., Finn, J.D. et al. (2010) Identification of Late-Onset Hypogonadism in Middle-Aged and Elderly Men. N Engl J Med 363: 123-135.\nXylinas, E., Ploussard, G., Durand, X., Fabre, A., Salomon, L., Allory, Y. et al. (2011) Low Pretreatment Total Testosterone (< 3 Ng/Ml) Predicts Extraprostatic Disease in Prostatectomy Specimens from Patients with Preoperative Localized Prostate Cancer. BJU Int 107: 1400-1403.\nYano, M., Imamoto, T., Suzuki, H., Fukasawa, S., Kojima, S., Komiya, A. et al. (2007) The Clinical Potential of Pretreatment Serum Testosterone Level to Improve the Efficiency of Prostate Cancer Screening. Eur Urol 51: 375-380.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:30 AM 15 comments:", "Labels: Prostate Cancer, Sexual Medicine\n\nTuesday, March 31, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1971, Chung and Coffey, The Prostate Nuclei\n\nBiochemical characterization of prostatic nuclei. I. Androgen-induced changes in nuclear proteins L. W. Chung and D. S. Coffey Biochim Biophys Acta 1971 247: 570-83\n\nBased on prior work, Dr. Coffey and colleagues demonstrated that the DNA, RNA and protein synthesis of the prostate gland varied with androgen levels (see the Historical Contribution: 1968). In this 1971 investigation (written in two parts), Drs. Chung and Coffey analyzed the nuclei and DNA content of rats following castration. They found that nuclei from prostate cells could easily be recovered in rats who were castrate (approximately 60%). However, in normal rats and those who received testosterone replacement (after castration) – the proportion of nuclei recovered was dramatically lower (13-15%). Thorough investigation determined a number of factors that contributed to the difference in prostate nuclei:", null, "This series of elegant experiments can be found in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. It is a wonderful example of Dr. Coffey's thoughtful and inventive approach to deciphering the prostate.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:00 AM 31 comments:", "Labels: Brady Top 100, Prostate Cancer\n\nTuesday, March 24, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1968, Coffey et al, DNA, Androgens and Prostate Growth\n\nCoffey DS, Shimazaki J, Williams-Ashman HG. Polymerization of Deoxyribonucleotides in Realtion to Androgen-Induced Prostatic Growth. Ach Biochem Biophys. 1968. 124(1):184-98.\n\nLong before becoming the Director of the Research Laboratories in the Department of Urology in 1974, Dr. Donald Coffey started a long career of investigation and discovery in the realm of benign and malignant prostatic growth. Based on observations that restoration of androgens after castration often results in regrowth of androgen-sensitive tissues, Coffey postulated that hyperplastic and hypertrophic changes in prostatic tissue could be detected in changes in DNA content.\n\nIn this 1968 manuscript, Dr. Coffey found that large doses of testosterone, when given to normal rats, only resulted in small increases in prostatic DNA content and DNA polymerase activity, and high levels of prostatic DNA activity and DNA polymerase levels are only present when the cells undergo active proliferation. The data supporting these conclusions demonstrates that following castration, the rat prostate decreases in size and DNA content. With exogenous testosterone, the prostate will grow and DNA content restored to normal levels… for some time. Even if excessive amounts of testosterone are administered, eventually the prostatic DNA content will plateau. DNA polymerase activity mirrored this effect, paralleling \"the enhancement of \"DNA synthesis\" by intact prostatic cells.\"\n\nFollow the link here to access the manuscript from Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 8:09 AM 15 comments:", "Tuesday, March 10, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1967, Schirmer and Scott, Prostate Cancer and Irradiation\n\nSchirmer HKA, Scott WW. Prostatic Cancer and Irradiation: Its Possible Mode of Action and its Clinical Indication. Southern Med Journal. 1967. 60;6:578-82.\n\nThe Brady Urological Institute is well known for its advances in surgical treatment of prostatic disease, dating back to Hugh Hampton Young's perineal prostatectomy in 1904. The Brady was also a pioneer in radiation treatment for prostate cancer. In 1917, in the first Journal of Urology, HH Young demonstrated interstitial radiation (brachytherapy) for the treatment of prostate cancer. In this week's Historical Contribution, Horst Schirmer and William Scott embarked upon experimentation in freshly retrieved prostate cancer tissue to examine the possible effects of radiation therapy upon the tissue.\n\nBased on the observations that (1) cancer cells derive chemical energy from lactic acid fermentation rather than oxidative metabolism (i.e. the Warburg effect; see FIGURE 2), (2) radiation preferentially affects cells undergoing aerobic metabolism, and (3) the catalase enzyme can attenuate the response of cells to radiation by reducing hydroxyl radical and molecular oxygen; Schirmer and Scott investigated the levels of catalase in normal prostate, well- and poorly-differentiated prostate cancers. They found that the catalase activity of normal prostate was 35 fold higher than catalase activity in prostate cancer. In addition, they found that well-differentiated prostate cancers had 6-fold higher catalase activity than poorly-differentiated cancers. They found corresponding decreases in oxygen consumption (i.e. respiration) and increases in glycolysis.", "In the second part of this manuscript, Schirmer and Scott review three patients (of 16 treated at Hopkins) treated with prostate irradiation. Interestingly, all three patients had poorly differentiated prostate cancer and were treated with between 4500 and 5000 rads (a dose we now know to be biologically inadequate for prostate cancer). However, all three men experienced clinical improvement in prostate size and urinary symptoms. However, oncologic follow-up was short and the one patient who died of diffuse metastatic disease had residual, viable prostate cancer on histologic examination of the gland after his death.\n\nFollow the link here to access the Southern Medical Journal.\n\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:56 AM 7 comments:", "Tuesday, March 3, 2015\n\nHistorical Contribution: 1965, Williams-Ashman, Androgens, Nucleic Acid & Protein Synthesis in Male Organs\n\nWilliams-Ashman HG. Androgenic Control of Nucleic Acid and Protein Synthesis in Male Accessory Genital Organs. Jour of Cellular and Comp Physiology. 1965. 66;2:111-24.\n\nHoward Guy Williams-Ashman, PhD, was an internationally recognized authority on sex hormones and the biochemistry, biosynthesis, regulation and mode of action in both normal reproduction and malignant conditions. Dr. Williams-Ashman trained under Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago. For five years (1964-1969), he served as the Director of the Brady Laboratory for Reproductive Physiology at Johns Hopkins before returning to the University of Chicago. In this manuscript from 1965, Williams-Ashman discusses the reactions between RNA (ribonucleic acid) and protein synthesis in the prostate and seminal vesicle (SV).\n\nDr. Williams-Ashman starts by highlighting a number of important clinical observations: natural estrogens exert effects at much lower doses than androgens, physiologic actions of estrogens are quicker than those to androgens, sex genotype has little influence of reactivity to androgens and estrogens, and determining target tissues for androgens and estrogens can be challenging. He then reviews the scientific discoveries leading to the current understanding of androgens and development of the prostate and SV. He finishes by summarizing these data, stating:\n\n\"…androgenic hormones initiate and maintain the functional differentiation of the prostate gland and seminal vesicles… [through] primary changes in the ribosomal population density and in the levels of template RNA's.\"\n\nThe changes in RNA polymerase activity may be among the first detectable metabolic changes following castration. In addition, although they were not yet discovered, he hypothesized that the androgen receptor would be \"proteinaceous\" and the resulting discussion between Drs. Williams-Ashman and several leading researchers in the field provides wonderful, historical insight into the understanding of sex hormones, sex hormone receptors and the interplay in extragenital tissues.\n\nFollow the link here to access the Journal of Cellular Physiology.\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:00 AM 4 comments:", "Labels: Brady Top 100, Sexual Medicine\n\nMonday, March 2, 2015\n\nMRI-Robot Helps Target Cancer\n\nMRI (magnetic resonance imaging) has recently been demonstrated to help in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, especially in men with a prior negative biopsy or those meeting criteria for active surveillance (See our prior blog on MRI and Active Surveillance). Traditionally prostate biopsies are performed with ultrasound imaging – which is great at targeting the prostate, but not necessarily for finding prostate cancer. Fusing MRI and ultrasound imaging is a recent advance that has helped urologists make use of the precision of MRI for finding tumors and the targeting of ultrasound to sample them.\n\nFusing MRI and ultrasound images can be complex and does not always work perfectly. If the tumor could be targeted with MRI, the extra step of fusion could be avoided. However, MRI machines make use of extremely strong magnets and metal instruments cannot be near the machine when it is turned on. This makes it impossible to use metal needles or machines with any metal components (including electrical wiring).\n\nResearchers at Johns Hopkins, led by Dan Stoianovici, PhD, Director of the Urology Robotics Program, have developed a completely MRI-compatible robot to target the prostate and cancers within it. The robot makes use of pneumatic system composed of rubber and plastic tubing, screws and gears to manipulate a MRI-compatible needle to target the prostate. \"The robotic device mounts on the MRI table alongside the patient. The physician selects a suspicious region that the MRI has shown, and the robot automatically guides the needle to target and presets the depth of insertion.\"\n\n\"To the best of our knowledge, this is the only robot approved by the FDA to operate in the MR environment in general, not only for the prostate.\"\n\nThe MR-bot (MRI-robot) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Insitutional Review Board (IRB) of Johns Hopkins for a clinical trial in humans. Urologists Mohamad Allaf, MD and Ashley Ross, MD, PhD, perform the biopsies. The first few cases indicate that robotic biopsy is safe and feasible.\n\nWith more precise imaging and techniques, urologists may continue to improve the precision of prostate biopsies. This work was awarded best paper of the Engineering and Urology Society of the American Urological Association.\n\nRead more about the MrBOT at: http://urobotics.urology.jhu.edu/projects/MrBot/\n\nPortions of this story were extracted from \"First-Ever MRI Robot Targets Potential Cancer Sites for Biopsy\" in Discovery: Volume XI, Winter 2015 by the Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund.\nPosted by Phillip Pierorazio at 7:00 AM 8 comments:", "Labels: Prostate Cancer, Research\n\nWednesday, February 4, 2015\n\nPenile Cancer: Carcinoma in situ\n\nCarcinoma in situ (CIS) of the penis refers to a squamous cell cancer limited to the most superficial layers of the penile skin. This cancer is also known as Erythroplasia of Queyrat if on the glans (head) of the penis or Bowen Disease if on the shaft of the penis and was covered in a previous blog. While CIS is technically a non-invasive cancer and believed to have low metastatic potential, it has features of high-grade (potentially aggressive) cancer that warrants careful management.\n\nCIS was inititally described by Queyrat in 1911 as a red, velvety, well-marginated lesion of the glans penis or prepuce (of uncircumcised men). Bowen described a similar lesion of the penile skin in 1912. The original description of Bowen disease related to subsequent internal malignancy, however subsequent studies have demonstrated that this relationship was nothing more than coincidence.[1]\n\nPresentation and Prognosis\n\nCIS has a similar clinical presentation whether on the glans penis or shaft. As described above, CIS can appear as a red, velvety, well-marginated lesion on the penis. Alternatively the lesion can be scaly, crusted or ulcerated – similar in appearance to eczema or psoriasis. Development of metastasis for CIS is incredibly rare – however 10-33% of CIS on the glans and 5% of CIS on the shaft can progress to more invasive, dangerous disease.[2,3]\n\nAs CIS rarely metastasizes, treatment is focused on (1) confirmation of a non-invasive lesion, (2) resection of lesions with an adequate microscopic margin and (3) penis-sparing techniques if the lesion is on the glans. Confirmation of non-invasive malignancy may require multiple biopsies or complete excision of the area of concern. A 5mm margin if often adequate for lesions on the shaft, while circumcision will cure most cases of CIS on the prepuce. Lymph node dissection is only performed in cases suspicious for invasion or enlarged lymph nodes.\n\nPenis-sparing treatments\n\nLesions of the glans penis can be difficult to treat surgically without distorting normal penile anatomy or sensation. A number of topical treatments including 5-fluorouracil, 5% imiquimod, laser ablation (YAG or KTP lasers) and radiation therapy have all been used with success.[4-10] For patients with large tumors or lesions refractory to topical treatment, local skin excision can be performed with skin grafting as needed.\n\nFor patients with CIS involving the glans, partial or complete excision with partial or complete resurfacing can be performed.[11,12]\n\nThese penile surgeries often involve a multidisciplinary approach including a urologic oncologist, plastic (reconstructive) surgeon and excellent pathologists to ensure eradication of the disease.  Penile cancer is a rare disease and balancing the risks of cancer with penile reconstruction and function is best done at a center with experience treating this disease." ]

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[ "The World is an Art Fair: A Guide for Spring", "The majestic facade of the Grand Palais at night celebrating the 2014 edition of Art Paris\n\nWhether you are an avid art lover or want to become an art collector, I think art fairs are usually excellent places to learn new things about contemporary art.  Fairs are generally crowded, non-judgmental places where people can browse comfortably without being intimidated by the empty hallways and rooms of a gallery. Additionally, if you are unsure of your tastes and preferences, art fairs are also perfect spaces to take a crash course in visuals, spot trends and new talents and do some price research.\n\nArt fairs have mushroomed in every corner of the world and Spring is generally an art season bursting with discoveries.  I edited this entry and choose the art fairs that I think are worth exploring this Spring starting as of today and continuing for the next two months.", "Art Paris\n\nArt Paris: Not that anyone really needs an excuse to go to Paris, but this beautiful and highly-curated fair that takes place in the breathtaking glass-doomed roof of the Grand Palais is worth the trip.  This year the focus is on China but the 140 galleries that are exhibiting are mostly European.  This fair opened yesterday and will run until Sunday the 30th. And if you cannot be in Paris, here there is an amazing virtual tour that you can use to visit each booth in the fair. Brilliant.", "MIART: Milan is the contemporary art capital of Italy, so naturally it is the perfect host for this cool and cutting-edge fair. MIART is actually scheduled this year to happen at the same time as Art Paris – so it will run until this coming Sunday.  I love that it has five very specific sections including one for established artists, one for emerging, one for art objects, one for solo installations, and my favorite, which is called THENow: an invitational section that establishes a face-off between an artist from an “older” generation and artist coming from a younger one.", "SP-Arte: Although I’m not sure how many more events Brazil can take this year without collapsing, SP-Arte is a fair that was born in 2005 and that keeps growing and strengthening the program and satellite events that surround the whole experience.  Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the fair offers a great opportunity for Brazilians to see –and buy- works by some of the best international contemporary galleries and the artists that they represent, and for foreigners, an excellent glimpse into the Brazilian contemporary art scene, which is glitzy, fun, colorful and uplifting.  From April 2 to 6, 2014", "The AIPAD Show\n\nThe AIPAD Photography Art Fair: I love photography very much.  In fact, I have written about collecting and displaying photography a couple of times before.  The AIPAD is a very cohesive show which is the longest running exhibition of fine art photography in the world (it started 34 years ago). The show pleases photography lovers and shows a vast selection with variations in the medium including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs as well as photo-based art and experimental new media. From April 10 to 13, 2014", "Silicon Valley Contemporary\n\nSilicon Valley Contemporary: Oh, Silicon Valley now wants to collect art too? Apparently so, since the inaugurural edition of the first contemporary art fair in the region promises to be a space where art and technology will come together in ways that we have never seen before.  From April 10 to 13, 2014", null, "Frieze New York\n\nFrieze New York: The brainchild of Amanda Sharp that started in London 11 years ago has now a very spectacular New York sister which will open its third edition this coming May.  I have seen the past two fairs, and I must say that it is pretty impressive.  The fact that a massive and impeccable structure can be erected and then disassembled in such a short period of time is by and in itself worth the visit to Randall’s Island.  Not to mention the very tight selection of international galleries and the ample hallways that for some reason never feel crammed. From May 9 to 12, 2014", "Art Basel Hong Kong\n\nArt Basel Hong Kong:  The mother of all art fairs, Art Basel, has now a second child who is about to turn three: a Chinese reinterpretation of the mega-successful European and North American experiences that the Swiss organizers created in 1970 and 2002, respectively.  Of course, the HK version, although very international, has a strong regional angle bringing together under one roof some of the best Asian galleries. From May 15 to 18, 2014.", null ]

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[ "It is often said with due irony that armies are always prepared to win the previous war. That is supposed to be a sad commentary on the learning curve in military circles, but, alas, this time around, such an assessment would be cause for celebration.\n\nAfter three years of “missteps,” military commanders in Iraq are now proud to remark that they are finally getting it right. They’ve embraced the “idea” that there is an insurgency, they’ve realized that the Army’s official counterinsurgency manual is 20 years old, they now call cultural awareness a “force multiplier,” and they even see that the lessons of the Vietnam War might be worth learning (from the WSJ via Think Progress):\n\nThe last time Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Baghdad, back in December, the top U.S. military commander there gave him an unusual gift.\n\nGen. George Casey passed him a copy of “Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam,” written by Lt. Col. John Nagl. Initially published in 2002, the book is brutal in its criticism of the Vietnam-era Army as an organization that failed to learn from its mistakes and tried vainly to fight guerrilla insurgents the same way it fought World War II. […]\n\nCol. Nagl’s book is one of a half dozen Vietnam histories — most of them highly critical of the U.S. military in Vietnam — that are changing the military’s views on how to fight guerrilla wars. […]\n\nThe embrace of these Vietnam histories reflects an emerging consensus in the Army that in order to move forward in Iraq, it must better understand the mistakes of Vietnam.\n\n[emphasis mine]\n\nFirst, it’s pretty clear that Don of the Dead didn’t read Nagl’s book, since (as I recently noted) he is still casually making comparisons to Germany and Nazis, but second: EMERGING consensus???\n\nThe Vietnam War was lost thirty years ago, and General Casey and his band of brothers are just thinking that they should study what happened in Vietnam? Am I supposed to feel good about that?\n\nI know that with ‘Nam deniers like Rumsfeld and Cheney once again running the show, I shouldn’t expect anything but more blind and futile “strategy” from the executive branch, but that the military is just getting the memo on Vietnam—that is wholly and thoroughly inexcusable! Honestly, how is going to war without studying every war that lead up to this one not grounds for courts-martial?\n\nAnd, if this is the state of military “intelligence” (as opposed to military intelligence) today—broadcasting self-satisfaction over thirty-year-old lessons learned three years and 2,300 dead soldiers into a war—am I supposed to trust that these guys can learn quickly enough to effectively evolve going forward? If US soldiers and those who command them are, as Lt. Gen. David Patraeus now likes to say, up against a highly adaptive, “thinking” enemy, am I to believe that a group of guys who take three decades to figure out what happened during the last military debacle will not always be several steps behind that enemy?\n\nGive me a generation or so, and I’ll get back to you.\n\nposted by guy2k at 5:56 AM 0 comments", "Thursday, March 16, 2006\n\nWhy are Democrats So Bad at Math?\n\nBecause they think 45 out of 100 is a majority.\n\nDavid Sirota has an excellent post on the flaws inherent in the Democratic leadership’s “strategy” of refusing to engage Republicans head on. He fears that Democrats in Congress have become “so afraid of their own shadow, so self-absorbed and comfortable in the minority, that they are afraid even to bait the GOP into doing what they should want them to do.” The Republican’s may be the party with a culture of corruption, intones Sirota, but the Democrats, by refusing to counter Republicans on Iraq, National Security, or illegal domestic spying, are quickly cementing themselves in our minds as the party with “a culture of weakness.”\n\nAs EJ Dionne of the Washington Post put it, “Democrats are so obsessed with not looking 'weak' on defense that they end up making themselves look weak, period, by the way they respond to Republican attacks on their alleged weakness.\"\n\nBoth Sirota and Dionne believe that the Democrats in Congress are now out of touch with their party’s voters, and not because leaders are too far to the left, but because they are too far to the right. “The party’s rank and file is, on the whole, more dovish than its congressional wing,” say Dionne.\n\nWilliam Greider, writing in the Nation, is also astonished by the Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Greider writes of Russ Feingold, sarcastically calling him “an embarrassment to the US Senate” because he “gets up and says out loud what half the country is thinking.”\n\nGreider is talking about Feingold’s contextually bold move to introduce legislation to censure the president. (I say “contextually,” because saying that the president needs to be held accountable for admittedly breaking laws—specifically ones that require congressional and court oversight of domestic spying—should be a no-brainer, but, based on the reaction of his fellow Senators—Tom Harkin excluded—it seems Feingold is really sticking his neck out.) Greider is astonished by the lack of support for Feingold in a time when Bush’s poll numbers are so low, and he is as disgusted as I am by the sending forth of the “Anonymous Democratic Strategist” (as quoted in the Washington Post) to question the wisdom of Feingold’s move.\n\nWhen Democratic strategists carp about strategy, when Democratic representatives try to shoot the middle in these polarizing times, they make the debate about the debate and play right into the hands of the Republicans. Feingold’s attempt at censure, whether bound for success or failure, was at the very least a way to keep the administration’s abuse of domestic spying and disregard for the rule of law above the fold after Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee thought they had put the issue to bed with their refusal to allow hearings. We all should be talking about what the president did to cause a senator call for censure, not the political wisdom of Russ Feingold, but with most Democrats failing to show support (or, as in the case of Joe Lieberman, offering an open smack down), the Republican frames of “cheap political trick” and “unpatriotic in a time of war” are allowed to control the narrative.\n\nWhat can it be that the Democratic “strategists” and electeds are thinking? At a time when Bush’s approval rating is in the low 30’s and even his handling of the war on terror is now considered by most to be unfavorable, how risky would it be to call his crimes illegal? With American’s now saying that the trait they most associate with Bush is “incompetence,” how hard would it be to call his leadership unsound? With Democratic congressional candidates now leading Republicans by 16% in a generic ballot, how hard would it be to be, um, Democrats?\n\nYou do the math.\n\nposted by guy2k at 7:14 AM 0 comments", "Monday, March 13, 2006\n\nWill you still love me tomorrow?\n\nTonight you're mine completely\nYou give you love so sweetly\nTonight the light of love is in your eyes\nBut will you love me tomorrow?\n\nIs this a lasting treasure\nOr just a moment's pleasure?\nCan I believe the magic of your sighs?\n\nThat’s the song that ran through my head as I read a few posts about the role of the blogosphere in aiding and shaping the Democratic Party and its message. (Much of this talk seems to have been precipitated by the release of Crashing the Gates, a book by dailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and MyDD founder Jerome Armstrong.)\n\nFirst, I read TPain’s chat with John Lapp, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and organization that is one part central bank and one part hall monitor for Democrats eyeing the House of Representatives. Lapp speaks of his love for the likes of dKos and MyDD, and “the larger blogosphere,” but does so in a way that really keeps coming back to money—even though he claims the opposite.\n\nWe would love to fully-fund every prospect, every candidate, and fully contest every race in a meaningful way, but we do offer all candidates advice, training, and general consulting on message, fundraising, research, and organization. Unfortunately, just as with any organization or enterprise, resources are not infinite. That is why MyDD, the DailyKos, and the larger blogosphere are so important. You are critical in the effort to expand the playing field well above and beyond the 30 or 40 districts typically in play. I would be lying if I said we had the resources to compete in all 200+ Republican districts. It simply isn't possible.\n\nNetrooters, blogs, and the progressive movement have the flexibility to pick and choose where they support, defend, and fight back. And they can activate progressive Democrats at a moment's notice in a unique way - above and beyond what we can do. To view the DailyKos, MyDD.com, and other progressive, activist movements as simply Internet-based ATM machines is to insult them and underestimates their power to inform, activate, persuade, and mobilize. They are fully-loaded message machines. Let me be clear - I value not only your financial support to our candidates, but also the larger role you provide in the Democratic activist community.\n\nSure, at the end there, he says “I love you for your mind, not just the size of your. . . um. . . wallet,” but it is always in that juxtaposed construct. He’s talking to your ear, but he’s staring at your bulge. Of course I care about what you think, baby, now can we go to bed?\n\nAnd if I didn’t already feel like John didn’t love me for me. . . I’ve got Rahm and some anonymous Senate staffers to let me know how those EstDem guys really talk when I’m not in the room.\n\nJane at fdl sees the muscle-flexing of Rahm Emanuel, grand pooh-bah of the D-triple-C as particularly disrespectful of bloggers’ efforts, “For everything we do trying to back progressive candidates, Emanuel and the DCCC seem to be doing everything they can to undo it.”\n\nAs case in point, she cites Rahm’s open assertion that the Democrats will not use the South Dakota abortion ban as a campaign issue moving towards November. Jane also directs us to Down With Tyranny, who has some very unkind things to say about Emanuel’s choice of candidate in Florida’s 13th (about to be vacated by Katherine Harris).\n\nThose anonymous staffers (as referenced by Glenn Greenwald, posting on C&L) are even ruder to their hot, new internet dates. Greenwald had some back and forth with the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), ranking member on Intelligence, and was a little disheartened by the response, so he reached out to some offices of Democrats on the committee with a very diplomatic “help us help you” message. This was the response he got:\n\nI think there is an opportunity for us to figure out a better way to work together. But, you have to understand, my ultimate goal is to help [the] Senator [] achieve his objective of real oversight on national security matters by the Intelligence Committee.\n\nEven with the best of intentions, I’m not convinced that bloggers can help us meet that goal. In fact, I worry about it hurting our efforts given the increasingly partisan environment.\n\nWhat, are they worried we’ll get too clingy? Time and again, you get the feeling the establishment Democrats are afraid of the passion of movement liberals (yeah, I just said “movement liberals”), as if the only way to win the hearts of “average” Americans is by being careful.\n\nTell me, how good would your relationship be if you spent twenty years being careful instead of being you?\n\nThe other possible explanation for this behavior is battered spouse syndrome. The Democrats are so afraid of incurring the powerful (and, admittedly, effective) wrath of their Republican masters that they try to either stay quiet and blend in to avoid being singled out, or they go out of their way to praise—or even go so far as to mimic—Republicans in an attempt to gain some token of appreciation from the tools in the punditocracy.\n\nBut, as any sane person outside of an abusive relationship could tell the abused party, nothing you do is going to make this relationship any better. The abuse is the fault of the abuser—abusers attack because it’s in their nature. They will always find something to go after—they need to.\n\nVoters aren’t mean or stupid, but they sense a vibrancy that comes from a strident, aggressive Republican Party that is too often missing form the Democrats. (That imbalance is magnified by the now supplicant corporate media, who need the approval of the Republican regulators to continue the profit-driven consolidation of their industry.) I’ve said it before: reactive brands are not compelling brands. Worse, in a battle between an original and a copy, the original has a decided advantage. “First to market” just inherently says “leader,” doesn’t it?\n\nOr even worse, still, in a battle between a Republican and an ersatz Republican, the Republicans win. . . either way, if you get my drift.\n\nOf course, it might be in the nature of any establishment to mistrust those outside the “gates”—after all, they are, by definition, not established—and, perhaps, there is a bit too much of that “so bad it’s good” love of the rebel thing coming from the blog movement (what’s the fun of crashing if you’ve already been invited inside?), but the Democratic Party organ would be foolish (if not sociopathic) to attempt to chasten all that passion (rather than to get down with it). In fact, Adam Cohen, in Sunday’s New York Times, questions if the Party even can, “The Democratic establishment could not hold the netroots back even if it wanted to.”\n\nI think Cohen is right, you can’t fight the feeling. If the establishment Democrats want to once again become the democratically elected establishment, then it is best they get to know their new partners. And I mean really get to know them. Learn their names, learn what makes them feel good, learn what they want, not just for dinner, but for breakfast, too. Not to sound too much like Dr. Phil (or The Shirelles), but that’s how you turn a night of pleasure into a lasting treasure.\n\nposted by guy2k at 7:56 AM 2 comments", "Friday, March 10, 2006\n\nSave the Tunnel Garage!", null, "As some of you may know, I have spent much of the last six months fighting to save the Tunnel Garage, an historic 1922 structure at the corner of Broome and Thompson Streets here in Manhattan. Up until now, I have avoided burdening this blog with my cause, but the garage now faces certain demolition by developers who want to erect a ten-story luxury high-rise in its place.\n\nThe Tunnel Garage currently stands in need of graffiti removal, but beneath the years of neglect lies a building worthy of preservation. Anyone who has ever taken a minute to look it over quickly recognizes its importance and the unique aesthetics represented by the garage’s late arts-and-crafts design, tapestry brickwork, wraparound casement windows, and beautiful terra cotta detailing—including a now hidden relief of a Model T.\n\nThe garage was designed by architect Hector O. Hamilton, winner of the fabled international competition to design the Palace of the Soviets. It is historically linked to the Holland Tunnel, built as a speculative project in advance of the tunnel’s opening. And, the Tunnel Garage is an early example of a dedicated automobile garage—it was not converted from a carriage garage or stable—and is one of only a handful of these early car parks left in the city. To my mind, there are few buildings that do more to sing out their ties to the birth of the automobile age than does the Tunnel Garage.\n\nThe garage has caught the attention of the Historic Districts Council, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Art Deco Society, and the Friends of Terra Cotta. It has garnered the support of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, State Senator Martin Connor, State Senator Tom Duane, and Assembly Member Deborah Glick. It has been recommended for landmark status by Community Board #2, and has been declared eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. In addition, I and others have collected over a hundred letters from community members advocating preservation—and hundreds more signatures on petitions to save the Tunnel Garage.\n\nYet, with all of this support, if this building is to survive, it will require landmarks protection from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Alas, the LPC is a less than transparent body made up of serious but overwhelmed preservationists and political appointees with ties to the current mayor and his supporters. All of the garage’s unique and historic qualities and all of the community, governmental, and organizational support have yet to break through the institutional gridlock. As of this writing, Landmarks has failed to act to save the Tunnel Garage.\n\nNow, the developers have emptied the garage and locked its doors. A demolition permit was posted this week. Without appropriate pressure on the LPC, the life of the Tunnel Garage could now be measured in terms of weeks, maybe days.\n\nWhat can you do? Well if you have a connection to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, or LPC Chair Robert Tierney, please contact me immediately at TunnelGarage (at) aol-dot-com. Otherwise, please consider taking these actions today:\n\nWrite a letter\nWrite a letter to New York Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Robert Tierney telling him you support Landmarks protection for the Tunnel Garage. Point out that the garage is architecturally significant, as well as a functioning and necessary business. Send a copy of this letter to the office of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. (A sample letter can be found here.)\n\nCall Landmarks\nCall the Landmarks Preservation Commission to register your support. Tell them you are a concerned City resident who supports the preservation and protection that comes with granting Landmarks status to the Tunnel Garage. Tell them action is required immediately if the garage is to be saved. (Likely they will tell you the Commission has decided against the garage at this time. Tell them you know this is not true, that there has been no hearing or vote, and until there is a vote, this is an open matter worthy of consideration.)\nEven if you have already called, call again!\nCall Council Speaker Quinn\nPhone New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to express your support for the Tunnel Garage. BE POLITE. Speaker Quinn is on our side, but she needs to hear that the whole community will back her on this. Ask that Speaker Quinn personally call LPC Chair Robert Tierney to request that the garage be “calendared” so that it can get a fair hearing without the threat of imminent demolition.", "The garage is a precious piece of our cultural and architectural heritage, but it needs everyone’s help if it is to be spared the wrecking ball. Your assistance would be deeply appreciated. Thank you.\n\nposted by guy2k at 5:53 AM 2 comments", "Thursday, March 09, 2006\n\nMy Kingdom for a Crowbar\n\nWednesday marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of a break-in to the small Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Media, PA, by a group of activists calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. As recounted by Allan Jalon in the LA Times, the group used a crowbar to get inside and virtually empty the filing cabinets of over 1,000 documents “that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent.”\n\nWithin a few weeks, the documents began to show up — mailed anonymously in manila envelopes with no return address — in the newsrooms of major American newspapers. When the Washington Post received copies, Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell asked Executive Editor Ben Bradlee not to publish them because disclosure, he said, could \"endanger the lives\" of people involved in investigations on behalf of the United States.\n\nNevertheless, the Post broke the first story on March 24, 1971, after receiving an envelope with 14 FBI documents detailing how the bureau had enlisted a local police chief, letter carriers and a switchboard operator at Swarthmore College to spy on campus and black activist groups in the Philadelphia area.\n\n. . . .\n\nTo this day, no individual has claimed responsibility for the break-in. The FBI, after building up a six-year, 33,000-page file on the case, couldn't solve it. But it remains one of the most lastingly consequential (although underemphasized) watersheds of political awareness in recent American history, one that poses tough questions even today for our national leaders who argue that fighting foreign enemies requires the government to spy on its citizens. The break-in is far less well known than Daniel Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers three months later, but in my opinion it deserves equal stature.\n\nFound among the Media documents was a new word, \"COINTELPRO,\" short for the FBI's \"secret counterintelligence program,\" created to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the U.S. Under these programs, beginning in 1956, the bureau worked to \"enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,\" as one COINTELPRO memo put it, \"to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.\"\n\nThe Media documents — along with further revelations about COINTELPRO in the months and years that followed — made it clear that the bureau had gone beyond mere intelligence-gathering to discredit, destabilize and demoralize groups — many of them peaceful, legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups — that the FBI and Director J. Edgar Hoover found offensive or threatening.\n\nForgive the extended quote, but Jalon does a great job of telling the story. He writes of how the broad, politicized reach of COINTELPRO “was one of the most frightening revelations of the Media documents,” and points out that these revelations led to investigations by both the House and Senate. It was investigations on intelligence abuses that eventually led to a battery of laws designed to constrain the intelligence community and safeguard the Constitution.\n\nOne of those laws (a few years later) was what we have come to know as FISA.\n\nWhich brings us to March 8, 2006, another momentous day in the annals of intelligence abuse, for it was on this Wednesday that this Senate’s Intelligence Committee abdicated its responsibilities of oversight. On a strict party-line vote, as the Washington Post reports, the committee rejected a “Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.”\n\n“Led” by Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS), the Republicans chose to cave to a heavy dose of pressure from Vice President Cheney, and allow the White House to decide what was meant by Congressional oversight when it came to currently illegal domestic surveillance such that exposed by the NY Times in December. As noted by Dan Froomkin and others, the supposed compromise gives the administration 45 days of do-whatever-the-fuck-you-want time before it has to come before a new mini-committee of four Republicans and three Democrats. At that point, the Attorney General can say that, due to national security concerns, he can’t explain why, but the Administration is going to keep doing what they’ve been doing. Then the four Republicans will vote to “approve” the warrantless spying.\n\nI know that sounds ridiculous, but that’s what the likes of Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) call a compromise.\n\nThe ranking Democrat, John D. Rockefeller IV (WV), begged to differ:\n\nThe committee is, to put it bluntly, basically under the control of the White House through its chairman. At the direction of the White House, the Republican majority has voted down my motion to have a careful and fact-based review of the National Security Agency's surveillance eavesdropping activities inside the United States.\n\nAnd that’s the point, isn’t it? The deliberative body, designed by the framers as a check to executive power, has instead become nothing more than a Republican political organ existing to provide cover for its party’s leader.\n\nAs Glenn Greenwald observes, it is impossible to compromise on any new “fix” if you haven’t yet investigated how the existing laws have been broken. It was the investigative hearings—prompted by the COINTELPRO revelations—held by Rep. Don Edwards and Sen. Frank Church some thirty-odd years ago that led to the laws we now use to guard against intelligence abuses.\n\nOr, at least, used to use to guard against abuses. The Administration has run roughshod over those laws, and, without an independent legislature, will continue to do so. In fact, as Greenwald astutely remarks:\n\nCongress already enacted legislation regulating the Government's eavesdropping activities. They called that law FISA. The Administration has been violating that law because they believe they have the power to do so, because they think that Congress has no power to regulate or limit the President's eavesdropping activities. Since the White House still believes it has this power, isn't passing another law facially moronic, given that the Administration has already said that they are free to violate whatever Congressional laws they want which purport to regulate eavesdropping?\n\nWhich means that any machinations by a Republican Congress are really just window dressing—rearranging the deck chairs on a ship of state exhibiting all the hubris embodied by the Titanic.\n\nWho then, is left to steer us away from more icebergs, or, to run this metaphor into the ground, at least man the lifeboats? Traditionally, we would have the so-called fourth estate, the press, to give guidance, keep the electorate informed and inflamed, and do some of the solid investigative work that Congress has abandoned.\n\nAlas, the New York Times, unlike the Washington Post 35 years earlier, did sit on their story at the request of the DoJ, publishing only when James Risen’s book was about to scoop his paper. And, that initial, delayed bombshell aside, I have not seen the corporate media asking the hard questions of the Administration—nor have I seen them reinforcing the point that no matter what law is “crafted” going forward, the existing laws have already been broken.\n\nInstead, I see something closer to the White House’s dictated frame: “How necessary are these programs to protect the security of the American people? How much of our civil rights should we give up in order to be safe?” It’s a false debate, but it seems to be the debate we’re having.\n\nOf course, we could at least hope the loyal opposition would make some noise. Howard Dean did threaten that if the Democrats regained control of Congress, the subpoenas would fly. But for every Howard Dean, there is a mush-mouth like Bob Shrum, Kerry’s senior political advisor in 2004:\n\nTrue, we don't have a clear message on the war. We have differences internally. It won't matter. This election will be a referendum on Bush, not what the Democrats will do.\n\nThanks Bob, that’s the kind of clear thinking that really gives the party something to stand for—the kind of genius behind the genius behind “I voted for the bill before I voted against it.”\n\nNo, sadly, I am not putting a lot of faith in the “liberal” media or the Democratic Party—at least not yet. And that is why I look again to Jalon’s piece:\n\nIt is tragic when people lose faith in their government to the extent that they feel they must break laws to expose corruption.\n\nBut a war that had been started and sustained by lies had gone on for years. And a government had betrayed its citizens, manipulating their fear to strengthen its grip on power.\n\nHe is, of course, referring to the Media break-in of 1971, but the message is not lost on 2006. Maybe it is time for another crowbar.\n\nposted by guy2k at 7:01 AM 0 comments", "Saturday, March 04, 2006\n\nThe man lied about cheese!\n\nI fear I have been exhibiting a bit of a philosophical, well, not a contradiction, exactly, but an internal debate (here, here, and here), as I try to decide if, when it comes to the Bush Administration, it’s about the lying or the incompetence. I know, I know, they are not mutually exclusive, but you’ve got to refine your message, right?\n\nReddHedd, over at fdl, finds an outrageous example that shows Bush/Rove will lie about anything:\n\nRemember the flap over Kerry ordering his cheesesteak in Philly with Swiss cheese and Rove and his malignant cronies having a field day over it? They set up a photo-op shortly afterward in Philly, with George Bush standing in front of a crowd at a Boeing plant, so he could go on camera and say:\n\n\"This is the 32nd time I’ve been to your state of Pennsylvania,\" he told the Boeing crowd, \"and, you all know the reason why, don’t you? It’s because I like my cheesesteaks Whiz Wit’.\"\n\nExcept for one thing: Bushie likes his cheesesteak with American cheese, and not the Philly-preferred Cheez Whiz and provolone, too.\n\nRedd has all the evidence, and expands upon this one instance to show a pattern of lies, large and small, over the last five years. (She even throws in a biblical reference!)\n\nAs I read through her stuff, and think about mine, I realize that the lies, at least in part, are there to cover up for the innate incompetence of this administration’s figurehead. And the reason they need to do that—the reason this White House has no Rovian equivalent in the policy division—is because it’s all about accumulating and keeping power, not marshalling it. It’s about political capital, but, funny enough, not about spending it.\n\nPower is used to satisfy greed and ego, it seems, more than ideology. . . at least at the top of this regime. Power can help you promote and reward friends and boosters. Power can be used as the world’s largest back-scratcher—as in, I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine. Power can be exercised to marginalize, harass, and silence your opposition—just because, only because, they are a threat to your power.\n\nThey say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Is it any wonder, then, that a President so bent on amassing absolute power has shown himself to be so absolutely dishonest. . . so absolutely corrupt?\n\nposted by guy2k at 7:42 PM 0 comments", "Wednesday, March 01, 2006\n\nClueless, and Planless\n\nPresident Bush, in an extended interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas that aired Tuesday, flat out contradicted himself about the role of US troops in trying to quell sectarian violence in Iraq—and it took him about one minute.\n\nVARGAS: But what is the plan if the sectarian violence continues? I mean, do the U.S. troops take a larger role? Do they step in more actively to stop the violence?\n\nBUSH: No. The troops are chasing down terrorists. They're protecting themselves and protecting the people, and — but a major function is to train the Iraqis so they can do the work. . . .\n\nAnd then, three questions later:\n\nVARGAS: And if in fact the violence continues, will the Americans be forced to take a more active role in suppressing it?\n\nBUSH: Well, the Americans are very active right now taking a role in suppressing it.\n\nIs this surprising? Is it surprising that when GW is allowed to talk without a tiny adviser shoved in his ear that he would dump a bunch of nonsense on us? No, I guess it shouldn’t be. But here’s what still surprises me. . . Vargas tries to ask the same question about five times, and that question boils down to, “What’s the plan, Stan? Does the US have a policy in place to deal with an expanded sectarian civil war?”\n\nThe answer is so clearly “No.” Bush never gives a clear answer, and when pressed, he clearly starts freelancing. I’m sorry, but I still find this amazing. After all the failures of poor planning experienced by this administration, you’d think they would start to plan—if for no other reason than it doesn’t look good back in the US when you don’t.\n\nInstead, Bush and his team are like (forgive me) holocaust deniers. I know this is a terrible analogy to make, but with 1,300 Iraqis killed in just the last few days of sectarian strife (and tens of thousands over the last few years), there is a “small” holocaust of sorts going on—and, when he is asked about it, Bush refuses to acknowledge it.\n\nVARGAS: What is the policy if, in fact, a civil war should break out or the sectarian violence continues? Are you willing to sacrifice American lives to get the Sunnis and the Shiites to stop killing each other?\n\nBUSH: I don't buy your premise that there's going to be a civil war. . . .\n\nIgnoring that the term “going to be” is absurd at this point—it’s not going to be, it is—Vargas asked a hypothetical, “What is your policy if,” and Bush refuses to even entertain the thought.\n\nPerhaps he lacks “situational awareness,” a term the President has become overly fond of since his Katrina whitewash, er, report came out last week. He uses the lack of “situational awareness” as the reason things didn’t go better after the levees broke (he won’t say they went badly—just that they could have gone “better”). Bush actually says he didn’t have this necessary awareness till he watched some television\n\nVARGAS: When you look back on those days immediately following when Katrina struck, what moment do you think was the moment that you realized that the government was failing, especially the people of New Orleans?\n\nBUSH: When I saw TV reporters interviewing people who were screaming for help. It looked — the scenes looked chaotic and desperate. And I realized that our government was — could have done a better job of comforting people.\n\n(What is the Clockwork Orange quote? “Nothing is really real till you see it on TV.”)\n\nThere is so much to say about this paragraph. One, if we are to believe the stories from last fall, Bush didn’t even see the suffering on TV until aids sat him down and showed him a compilation DVD—so his revelation wasn’t even in real time. Bush wasn’t concerned enough to hop on down to the situation room and get a briefing, wasn’t concerned enough to ask questions, and wasn’t even interested enough to turn on the TV that first weekend.\n\nSecond, a better job comforting people? Is that what the problem was? The government didn’t comfort people enough? This language shows that Bush still does not—or will not—grasp what happened to New Orleans.\n\nThird, situational awareness has nothing to do with preparation. Hurricane Katrina telegraphed its punch by several days, and there was advance knowledge that a Katrina-sized event would likely hit the gulf floating around (sorry) for several years, and yet, the Bush administration had no plan.\n\nInstead, it strikes me that when it came to Katrina, when it came to invading Iraq, and when it now comes to the spreading Iraqi civil war (which some, including National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, are already predicting might become a regional war), Bush and his team just ignore the “nattering nabobs of negativism” (or “realists”) and hope for the best.\n\nSo, lets put it down in plain black and white, real simple like, so George, Dick, and Donald can understand: Hoping for the best is not a plan.\n\nLike the song says, you can look for the best, but you have to expect the worst. Anybody with a shred of experience in policy planning would know that. Of course, Cheney and Rumsfeld not withstanding, Bush has surrounded himself with people who don’t really have a shred of experience. Every critical staffing problem—be it in FEMA or the Coalition Provisional Authority—has been answered with a call for cronies, campaign contributors, and partisan hacks. And most major undertakings—the execution of policies—have been offloaded on to the private sector—outsourcing responsibility, abolishing accountability, and, crucially, eliminating any intelligence or learnings that might have filtered back had these been government programs.\n\nSo, let’s add this corollary to the above the statement: Hoping for the best is not a plan; outsourcing is not a policy.\n\nAnd yet, the Bush Administration thinks otherwise. . . or just doesn’t care. . . or lacks situational awareness. Just look at Bush’s refusal to deal with the facts throughout the ABC interview, look at what stands in for policy with regards to port security and the DPW deal, or look at the 2007 Homeland Security budget. Republican Senator Judd Gregg (NH) said, “It’s a hollow budget and I can’t understand it.”\n\nSenator Robert Byrd (D-WV) agreed:\n\nThe president in his State of the Union address said to America, ”The enemy has not lost the desire or the capability to attack us.” And yet a look at the administration's budget reveals an odd, odd, odd complacency. . . . The president's speechwriters and the administration's policy writers seem to be living in alternative realities.\n\nOf course, Byrd is being too, too, too generous. He assumes that the administration has policy writers.\n\n(t.o.t.h. to the Progress Report for link to the DHS budget hearings.)" ]

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[ "I have a confession to make.\nRemember yesterday that I said I thought that we should get free booze as a reward for keeping our families well-fed and healthy?\nWell I told my husband about that and so today when we got to the cash register at the grocery store I grabbed a bottle of really good ale I'd been lusting after. (No, I'm not a bearded 50 year old farmer with a pipe, I'm just a gal who missed English ales for 20 years who indulges occasionally.)\nI got back from the store and put away my spoils, updated the menu on the kitchen calendar and went out to the garden to check on/chat with my seedlings and sprouts, carrying my bottle of ale with me.\n\nDid I mention that it is about 1:00pm at this point? (But it's 6:00 O'clock in Yekaterinburg.)\n\nSo it went like this:\n\nSip, Sip, \"Hello little corn plants! I see you're doing well. in a couple of weeks you'll be able to live outside!\" sip... sip...\n\nSip, \"Hi radishes! my goodness look at you! You're doing ever so well in spite of this cloudy weather. You'll be tasty in some salads in no time. sip, sip, sip....\n\nSip, \"Asparagus! Why do weeds love growing around you so much?? (sip, sip)  Look at the beetroots and garlic! No weeds there, so what are you doing?\" Sip, sip, sip......sip\n\nAnd so on and so on. Sip.\n\nIt's 2:00pm now and I am what you might call three sheets to the wind. I looked at the alcohol content (4.9%) and the back of the bottle and it turns out, I just drank 2.45 units of alcohol in the middle of the week. At Lunchtime. Alone. Without eating lunch.\nPart of me is ashamed, but the rest of me thinks it's pretty awesome and like I'm getting away with something. Something that I will not make a habit of though, because I keep having to go back and fix typing errors.\nI am also aware that I will probably have a hangover at around 5:00pm.", null, "Anyway, on with the cooking.\nLast night I made this tasty and quick Thai prawn and noodle dish. Bright with the flavours of fresh lime, lemongrass and coriander it's a delightful Spring evening meal.\nI used wide rice noodles, which are lovely but chin-slappy, so rice vermicelli might be a better idea if you like a dry face.\n\nCoconut Prawn Noodle Soup\nserves 4, takes less than 45 minutes\n\n1 can organic coconut milk\n1 can water\n2 stalks lemongrass, bruised and roughly chopped\n2 thumb-sized pieces galangal thinly sliced\n2 shallots, chopped\n2 red chillies, sliced\n6 lime leaves (fresh or dried)\n400g (14oz) large, uncooked prawns, peeled and deveined\n300g (10.5oz) rice noodles\njuice of 3 limes\n2 tbsp fish sauce\n1 tbsp palm sugar\n1 tbsp flavourless oil such as ground nut or sunflower\ngreen tops from two bunches of pak choi, sliced thinly (reserve the white parts for another use)\n\nPrepare the noodles according to the instructions on the packet, more than likely pouring boiling water over them and allowing them to soften before draining and refreshing with cold water. Divide the noodles into four bowls and set aside.\nSweat the shallots, galangal, chili, lemongrass and lime leaves together in a medium saucepan until soft and beginning to colour. Add the coconut milk, palm sugar, water and the fish sauce and bring up to the simmer for about 15 minutes until the liquid has reduced and is very fragrant.\nStrain the broth through a fine sieve, pressing on the vegetables to squeeze out all the flavour.\nReturn the liquid to the pan and bring up to a simmer again and add the prawns. Cook for 2-3 minutes (depending on their size) until almost cooked then add the pak choi, cooking for half a minute more.\nSqueeze the lime juice into the pan and give it a quick taste to check the sweet, spicy, sour and salty harmony, adding more sugar, cayenne pepper, lime juice or fish sauce if necessary.\n\nLadle the broth, prawns and pak choi over the noodles and scatter with coriander leaves before serving." ]

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[ "Young people need small, nurturing networks to help them discern\n\nWith Romero, the church gains a model Salvadorans have long venerated\n\nDo not judge church by acts of individuals, synod observer says\n\nWorld News\n\nPope, global leaders discuss concern for climate change, migration", null, "Pope Francis talks with Kofi Annan (second from left), former secretary-general of the United Nations, during a private audience at the Vatican Nov. 6 with members of The Elders, a group of global leader dedicated to promoting peace and human rights around the world. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)\n\nShare this story\n\nBy Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted November 7, 2017\n\nVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis met with Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general, and former Irish President Mary Robinson to discuss shared concerns about peace, human rights and climate change.\n\n“Pope Francis has shown great moral leadership on the crucial issues of our time. His assertion of the values of peace and human dignity resonates with people of all faiths and those of none,” Annan said in a written statement released after the Nov. 6 meeting in the pope’s residence.\n\nAnnan and Robinson made the private visit Nov. 6 together with Lakhdar Brahimi and Ricardo Lagos as members of “The Elders,” an independent group of global leaders who use their experience and influence to support peace and human rights.\n\nThe four representatives met with the pope “to express their appreciation and support for his work on global peace, refugees and migration, and climate change,” according to The Elders’ website.\n\nThe organization is “proud to stand in solidarity with him today and in the future as we work for justice and universal human rights,” Annan, chair of The Elders, said in his statement.\n\nAnnan told Vatican Radio it was important for them to visit the pope because they hold a number of interests and values in common, and they wanted to “discuss how we can work together, how we can pool our efforts on some of these issues.”\n\nRobinson, who is also a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights and a U.N. envoy on climate change, told Vatican Radio that they spoke about climate change and other issues where “the pope has given leadership. We felt there was a great deal of common ground between us.”\n\nOther issues they discussed, Annan told the radio, were migration, nuclear weapons, the mediation of conflicts and “the importance of giving women a voice and respecting their role.”\n\n“I hope this will be the first of many meetings,” he said.\n\nThey expressed their appreciation for what the pope has been doing, Robinson said, and how he, like The Elders, is “trying to be a voice for the voiceless” and the marginalized.\n\n“I think he could be a future ‘Elder,'” Annan told the radio, to which Robinson remarked, “I think he’s a Super Elder.”\n\nFormer South African President Nelson Mandela formally launched The Elders 10 years ago after British entrepreneur Richard Branson and musician Peter Gabriel presented their idea of taking the traditional practice of looking to one’s village elders for guidance and conflict resolution and applying it to today’s “global village.”\n\nHelp keep Catholic media free, support CatholicPhilly.com\n\nor by credit card:" ]

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[ "Exercise IS Medicine During the Holiday Season\n\nBy: Mike Alpert", null, "Mike Alpert\n\nThe Christmas Holiday Season is my very favorite time of the year. It is a time that I find myself reflecting on all the things that I have to be thankful for. One thing is for being able to be in the greatest country in the world, the United States of America and the freedom that we are so lucky to have. I also realize how lucky I am to work in the health and wellness industry and what it has meant to me over the past 27 years. What other industry allows you to have such an impact on people and their quality of life on a daily basis?\n\nThe journey has taken me from being a stock broker to helping develop and run a club in Central Oregon; back home to Southern California; and eventually to Claremont, California and The Claremont Club where I get to work with the finest people in the world. What makes me so proud of them is seeing their dedication, commitment and passion for making a difference in people's lives everyday I come to work. At our club, it is about more than marketing to and serving the fit population. It is doing that and also making our club inclusive and welcoming to all populations, and especially, those who suffer with chronic injuries and illnesses.\n\nAs we are out holiday shopping for gifts and getting our homes ready for guests who will visit and parties that we will have for friends and family, I continue to think of the many people in our community who will struggle to have any of these things, those who are homeless and others who are strapped financially due to injury or illness. Then, there are the children who are in our Pediatric & Young Adult Cancer program and what parents and families must be going through. These issues are prevalent in every state and every city in our country. As an industry, we can use our venues and great staff to do something about it. It is the season of giving and giving back to your community.\n\nI want to share a story about a beautiful 17-year-old girl by the name of Nadia. She was born in Syria, and as her family was attempting to escape the warzone when she was 12, she was shot by a sniper and paralyzed from the waist down. Her family spent three years in a refugee camp in Jordan and were finally able to find their way to America. She eventually settled in Pomona, California, not too far from The Claremont Club. I met her about nine months ago in my office with her father and brother, and she held my hands and told me that she wanted to come to our club and enter our spinal cord/paralysis program. Seeing her progress has given me hope and gratitude and a sense of great pride.\n\nThis past year, I have witnessed so many miracles, generosity and the gift of hope to so many. Having these programs in our club has been a gift to those who struggle and have been forgotten about but also a gift to the community at large. Here are some things to think about:" ]

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[ "Thursday, 31 December 2009\n\nChristmas Day 2009 in Clare\n\nPosted on Youtube by Moontv2007 who says \"Since it's Christmas Day and the place is looking more like a postcard scene from the North Pole than County Clare, I decided to lift up the camera and press record. I just popped outside into the back garden and kept rolling, it's a random video but hopefully one you'll enjoy. It's not often we get freezing cold weather like this. -10 degrees C in some parts.\"\nPosted by Clare County Library at 12:02 No comments:", "Tuesday, 22 December 2009\n\nLiscannor Church Christmas Cribs 2009\n\nPosted on Youtube on the 20th December 2009 by tseandun who says \"This is the amazing display of cribs from all over the world our local Parish Priest, Fr. Denis Crosby, puts on display every year [in St Brigid's Church, Liscannor]. People from all over County Clare coming to see them, now the whole world can too...\" Music 'Silent Night' by Sinéad O'Connor.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 12:36 No comments:", "Top Selling Authors of the Decade\n\nThe Bookseller magazine has released the list of the UK top selling authors of the period 2000-09. Seven Irish authors are featured in the top 100 list. Maeve Binchy is the highest selling of the Irish authors having sold over 4.6 million copies of her books over the past ten years at a value of almost £32 million. Marian Keyes is just behind her in 27th place having sold 4.5 million books at a value of over £28 million during the period. Cecelia Ahern is in 42nd place having sold 3.2m books at a value of £18.6m. The other Irish authors on the list are Darren Shan, Cathy Kelly, Sheila O’Flanagan and Eoin Colfer. Darren Shan and Eoin Colfer are primarily known as children’s authors but both have recently begun writing for adults – Eoin Colfer with And Another Thing, the sequel to Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The 100 top bestselling author list was dominated by JK Rowling, selling 27.5 million books at a value of almost £216 million. Some distance behind her was Dan Brown selling only one third that number of books and Roger Hargreaves (Mr Men books) one tenth of that number.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 10:44 1 comment:", "New Book Club for Channel 4\n\nA follow-up to the Richard and Judy TV book club has been announced by Cactus TV. The new show which begins on January 17th, will be presented in 10 thirty-minute episodes on More 4 on Sunday evenings, with a daytime repeat on Channel 4 on the following Monday. Amanda Ross described the new format as \"like a dinner party\", with the five hosts - who include comedian Jo Brand and stylist Gok Wan - chatting to a celebrity author each week. The guest will then stay to discuss the book club book for that week. Each book will be promoted with a film of the author. Each week the show will also revisit success stories from the R&J book club, such as authors Victoria Hislop, Audrey Niffenegger and Jodi Picoult. New non-fiction releases will also be discussed each week with accompanying videos. The summer series will comprise eight episodes, championing the best in holiday reads. Meanwhile, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are planning to launch their own book club, following the news that former producer Amanda Ross is setting up the new show without them.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 10:39 No comments:", "Thursday, 17 December 2009\n\nWOW Reading Challenge 2009/2010\n\nClare County Library and 28 National Schools in the county have joined forces with Clare Garda Division for the fourth consecutive year for the promotion of reading among children. All children on roll in each participating school are busily reading in an effort to be named the top readers in the world through the WOW Transatlantic Reading Challenge. Established by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia, Canada, with a view to decreasing crime by increasing literacy, the Reading Challenge Project has been greatly assisted by Gardai in Clare under the leadership of Sergeant John Staunton, Ennis Garda Headquarters. The ultimate aim of the Challenge is to shine a spotlight on reading and its benefits, in a fun and exciting way that has schools all over the county registering the numbers of books they read over six months on a specially designated website. Children who read well and read regularly have higher self esteem. This allows them to make better decisions which could reduce criminal acts, such as bullying, and create positive thinking adults in the future. The WOW Reading Challenge engages the entire community in its efforts to encourage kids to read. The Challenge is a partnership between the police, public libraries, schools and the community as a whole.\n\nClare County Library staff along with members of the Gardai will visit schools over the duration of the Challenge to meet with school children and their teachers and encourage them to read as much as possible using books from their school and public libraries and from their collections of books in the home. Topics discussed during these informal visits include the types of books available at the library suited to age and interests, work as a librarian and as a member of the Gardai, and class novels are read and discussed in some schools by visiting Gardai and librarians. Clare County Library wishes to thank the teachers who schedule such visits to their schools. The school that has read the most by April 2010 will be awarded a substantial book prize with prizes also for schools who come second and third. This year’s WOW Reading Challenge National Schools in County Clare are Ballycar, Ballyea, Ballyvaughan, Bansha, Burrane, Cahermurphy, Clohanes, Clouna, Connolly, Cooraclare, Coore, Corofin, Cratloe, Doonaha, Doora, Dromindoora, Furglan, Holy Family Jnr., Inagh, Kilfenora, Kilmihil, Kilmurry, Kilnamona, Moveen, Moyasta, Quin, St. Conaires, Shannon, and Tubber.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:29 No comments:", "Clare County Library and Clare Youth Service launch a joint Reading Group", null, "Clare County Library and Clare Youth Service have come together in an exciting new initiative to promote library usage and reading as a leisure activity to an enthusiastic group of young people. A reading group has been established by Clare County Library staff in collaboration with Teresa Larkin and Fionnuala Tuohy of Clare Youth Services with a view to exploring books through regular monthly meetings. Because literacy is embedded in all education and training programmes at Ennis Youth Centre, library usage and reading is an automatic extension of the Centre’s aim which is the social and personal development of each learner and the ongoing development of their goals, abilities and careers. Events to date include a group visit to deValera Library, Ennis where staff were on hand to provide a guided introduction of the services on offer through the library service with particular emphasis on the excellent range of film DVDs, music CDs and books, including graphic novels for older teenagers. The group will meet monthly in the library in 2010 to discuss books chosen by the students. Kate Thompson’s Creature of the Night was the first book chosen to be read collectively by the group and plans are under way to have the award-winning author, (with strong links to County Clare) meet with the group in the New Year.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:22 No comments:", "Thursday, 10 December 2009\n\nThe Doegen Records Web Project - hear Clare voices of the 1930s", "A project of the Royal Irish Academy Library, this digital archive of Irish dialect recordings made during 1928-31 comprises an important collection of early Irish language recordings of folktales, songs and other material. It includes recordings from many regions of Ireland where traditional Irish dialects have disappeared since the time the recordings were made. This digital archive is a project of the Royal Irish Academy Library in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Observatory and is funded by the Higher Education Authority. The archive consists of digitized versions of recordings made originally on shellac records in the period 1928-31, and will eventually be accompanied by transcriptions and translations of the recordings, information on the people recorded, and other related content.\n\nIncluded in this project at the moment are seven recordings from County Clare, made in 1930, and featuring the voices of James Shannon, Máirtín Mag Fhloinn, Seán Carún, Liam Ó Dileáin and Stiofán Ó hEilíre. There are three recordings of Stiofán Ó hEilíre (1862-1944), whose tales were transcribed by Séamus Ó Duilearga and published as Leabhar Stiofáin Uí Ealaoire.\n\nClick here for the complete County Clare recordings.\n\nMore info - An Irishman's Diary, The Irish Times, Thursday, December 2009\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:32 No comments:", "Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Feakle 2008\n\nMartin Hayes & Dennis Cahill in concert at the Feakle Festival, in Feakle, County Clare, 8 August 2008. Posted on Youtube by TG4gaeilge\nPosted by Clare County Library at 12:52 No comments:", "Best Crime Books of 2009", null, "The CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2009 has been won by William Brodrick for his novel A Whispered Name. The judges described A Whispered Name as ‘A moving novel that stretches the parameters of the crime genre, intertwining past and present and throwing light on a neglected aspect of World War One’. John Hart was the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller for his novel The Last Child. Swedish author Johan Theorin won the John Creasey New Blood Award for a new author of note for Echoes from the Dead. Philip Kerr was the winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his thriller If the Dead Rise Not. Harlan Coben’s Hold Tight won the Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Bestseller Dagger 2009, which was voted for by ITV3 viewers. The Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Awards have been awarded since 1955 for excellence in crime fiction. Sponsored by Specsavers, the awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 12:37 No comments:", "Monday, 7 December 2009\n\nWorld Premiere of North Clare made film 'Seaside Stories...' on December 12th‏\n\nOpening sequence:\n\nFollowing a successful preview at the Cork Film Festival the North Clare made film 'Seaside Stories...' will have it's world premiere at the Courthouse Studios & Gallery in downtown Ennistymon on December 12th.There will be two screenings, one at 5pm (€ 5) and another at 7pm (€ 7.50). The money raised will go to the Friends of Ennistymon Hospital who play an important role in support of the daycare services for the elderly in North Clare. The writer/director Fergus Tighe will be at both screenings as will most of the actors including Fionn de Búrca (11 years) of Kilcornan who plays Locky, the boy around whom the story swings. The film was made over the past three years from Gallivanting Media's base at the Courthouse Gallery & Studios. Locky is a boy who's been flourishing since his mother, Anna, gave up the drink three years ago. When Anna's old boyfriend Mick gets out of prison she falls back into her old ways of daytime drinking while Locky runs wild in the streets with his friend Callo, played by Caolann O'Dwyer, 13. Meanwhile, Sally arrives home determined to tell Locky that she is really his mother. This does not go exactly as planned and sets the scene for a series of events that changes the lives of all involved.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 16:31 No comments:", "Friday, 4 December 2009\n\nAround The Floor & Mind The Dresser - Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil 1967\n\n“The Caledonian Set danced at the Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil in 1966. Lots of famous musicians in the background including Junior Crehan, Michael Falsey, Jimmy Ward, Seamus Connolly and members of the Laichtín Naofa Ceili Band, which came from the Miltown/Quilty area of west Clare. One can feel the excitement and atmosphere from watching this clip from so many years ago.” Posted on Youtube by clarebannerman\nPosted by Clare County Library at 15:01 No comments:", "Irish Sports Book of the Year", null, "Dónal Óg Cusack's autobiography Come What May has won the Williamhill.com Irish Sports Book of the Year Award for 2009. Written with journalist Tom Humphries, the book details Cusack's life from his upbringing in Cork through his three All-Ireland successes, his role in some of the most groundbreaking decisions in Gaelic Games history and his struggles to be true to himself.\n\nSix books were shortlisted for the award. As the GAA celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, there were two other Gaelic Games themed books on the shortlist: Mickey Harte’s autobiography, Harte: Presence is the Only Thing and Damian Lawlor’s tale of a year with the Waterford footballers, Working on a Dream. In what was a memorable year for Irish rugby, two books from this genre have also made the shortlist. Eddie O’Sullivan’s autobiography, Never Die Wondering was listed in the top six as was Alan English’s detailing of Ireland’s historic Grand Slam victory, Grand Slam: How Ireland Achieved Rugby Greatness. The final book in contention for this year’s award was Kieran Shannon’s detailed account of the golden age of basketball in Ireland in the 1980s, Hanging from the Rafters. Tony Kenny, PR Manager for William Hill, believes Come What May is a worthy winner of this year's award. \"The quality of the award this year was outstanding, especially when you look at some of the books that didn't even make the shortlist. Donal Óg's book is an excellently told story of a person with a huge dedication to their sport and someone who wasn't afraid to put themselves forward as a role model to many in sport and life not just in Ireland but across the world,\" Kenny said at the presentation. This year's judging panel is made up of ten of Ireland's best sports commentators and experts. The panel includes RTE rugby pundit and Newstalk presenter George Hook, RTE's Eamon Dunphy, Today FM and TV3 presenter Matt Cooper and Setanta Sports' Paul Dempsey.\n\nThe Williamhill.com Irish Sports Book of the Year award was established in 2006 to celebrate the quality of Irish sports writing and the standard of sports books that are produced in Ireland every year. The winner of the inaugural award was Paul McGrath with his harrowing tale of the ups and downs of his professional football career in Back from the Brink, which was written with Vincent Hogan. In 2007, Trevor Brennan's autobiography with Gerry Thornley, Heart and Soul detailed Brennan's journey through the professional rugby ranks in Ireland and France and his infamous altercation with a fan, which led to the end of his successful career. In 2008 the award produced one of the greatest Irish sports story's never told. Tommy Byrne's Crashed and Byrned was the story of an Irish racing driver hailed as one of the world's greatest, even better than World champion Ayrton Senna, but was never given a chance by the key figures in the sport. More information on the award can be found at www.irishportsbookoftheyear.com\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:45 No comments:", "Costa Book Awards shortlist", "The shortlist for the Costa Book Awards 2009 was announced on November 24th. The Costa Awards recognise the most enjoyable books in five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - published in the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. The winner in each category receives £5,000. One of these five books is selected as the overall winner and receives a further £25,000. The Costa Book Awards started life in 1971 as the Whitbread Literary Awards. From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee took over ownership - the year that both Costa and the Book Awards celebrated their 35th anniversary. In the Costa Novel category, Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn is up against Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Wolf Hall – which tells the story of Thomas Cromwell's rise to prominence in the Tudor court – was the winner of the 2009 Booker Prize. Toibin’s Brooklyn was longlisted but failed to make the shortlist for that prize. The other shortlisted titles are Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson. In the First Novel category Wexfordman Peter Murphy’s debut, John The Revelator, is shortlisted. The book tells the comic tale of a young boy growing up in a small Irish village whose life is altered by his friendship with a very free-spirited boy. The four books shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Award are young adult novels. Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd is about a girl who flees her foster home in search of her mother. War is a theme running through the other three titles on the shortlist. Troubadour by Mary Hoffman is a historical adventure story of love, war and romance set in 13th century France. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness is the second part of a sci-fi thriller following a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard — and secrets are never safe. Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera is about a teenage boy caught up in a modern-day nightmare. For further information on the Costa shortlist see http://www.costabookawards.com/\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:28 No comments:", "Thursday, 3 December 2009\n\nChallenging and Developing a Book Club\n\nThe Ennis Book Club Festival and Clare Library present a half-day workshop with Anne Downes on Friday 5th March 2010 from 2.00 – 4.30 pm at the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis. This workshop is designed for library staff who are members of a book club, organise or facilitate a group, or are thinking of starting one. A book club that meets regularly needs refreshing with new ideas and new members if it is to thrive. This workshop looks at practical ways to do that. We’ll try out games, discussions and exercises that will challenge a group to engage more deeply with a book and each other as readers. We’ll share examples of how a group can contribute to the library that hosts it and how a group might nurture new writers. Above all, a book club is social, so the workshop will also look at things that you can do to make it comfortable for everyone to contribute and get the most from being a member. The workshop is FREE to library staff nationwide but places are limited and bookings will be on a first-come, first-served basis. To reserve a place contact Frances O’Gorman, Clare Library HQ., Mill Road, Ennis. Tel 087 2262259 or email [email protected]. Festival details at www.ennisbookclubfestival.com. Anne Downes is the Training Director of Opening the Book, the company that pioneered the reader-centred approach to starting and running readers’ groups and developed the Reading Group Toolbox in partnership with Waterstone’s in the UK. Anne trains and supports co-ordinators on the Frontline course that is used throughout libraries in Ireland.\nPosted by Clare County Library at 14:59 No comments:", "Tuesday, 1 December 2009\n\n\"Around County Clare, Ireland\"\n\n\"A short film on the West side of County Clare in Ireland.\"\nShot on Sony HVR-A1E by Allan MacDonald on November 07, 2008. Music - \"Anach Cuain on the Box\", played by Conor McCarthy, on the CD Late...in the Night." ]

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[ null, "Happy Victoria Day Monday to all my Canadian friends...this is my take on PTI's Make it (Holiday) Monday!  LOL  I love holiday Mondays because it usually means I have time to watch the MIM video first thing in the morning with coffee in my PJs.  It's the little things, right?  Today we are asked to make felt flowers.  I literally said, \"ouch,\" each time Lizzi squeezed those darling little petals with hot glue so I'm thinking she hadsa cooler hot glue gun than mine.  I went for some spray adhesive instead :)  I wanted a card that was fairly flat so I just layered the flowers like I do when using paper.  These dies cut the felt like butter without any adjustments to my Big Shot. I did, however, use a metal shim for the melon berry layer on the biggest bloom just to make sure it cut all the way through.  Thanks for stopping by!", "Posted by Maureen at 1:00 PM", "Labels: Make It Mondays, Papertrey Ink", "artful-notions said...\n\nPretty felt flowers on your card Maureen!\n\nMay 22, 2017 at 4:46 PM", "Kathy said...\n\nI have never tried felt pieces on a card....they do look lovely! Would you share the name of the die for the large flower, please?\n\nMay 22, 2017 at 6:48 PM", "Tammy said...\n\nMaureen, I love your version of felt flowers, awesome idea!! Much safer than using the glue gun too!\n\nMay 22, 2017 at 8:51 PM", "Luanne said...\n\nSo pretty! Hope you've enjoyed your day off! So fun to get a day to just create!\n\nMay 23, 2017 at 4:25 AM", "Carmela Hubler said...\n\nLove your flowers Maureen and I am with you on the hot glue gun!\n\nMay 23, 2017 at 6:15 AM", "Vikki H, southern Oregon said...\n\nBeautiful and Grand Botanicals goes to the top of my wish list! I don't own a glue gun due to previous \"ouch\" experiences so will be creating a flat floral too.\n\nMay 23, 2017 at 8:55 AM", "Marcia HIll said...\n\nSuch a lovely card Maureen! Your flat flowers are so pretty and look great against your print background! Had to laugh at your \"ouch\" comment...yes, I did say that a few times while gluing mine!" ]

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[ "I was recently lucky enough to receive some nail wraps to try out from the brand Jamberry.  They were running a Facebook page promotion (I will pop the link to Facebook here)and I was tagged by my good Insta-friend As Seen On Jean (click here to be taken straight to her awesome blog).  I have to admit I had never heard of the brand before and I have never used nail wraps before...ever.\n\nFor anyone who knows me or who has followed my blog for a while, will know I suffer with #toddlersizenails!! This is no exaggeration - I honestly think my 6 year old boy has bigger nails than me so I have always stayed clear of false nails and always gone for the easy option of just applying a few coats of nail polish every so often.  This is because false nails never fit and I once had my nails done for a wedding using acrylics and I just couldn't stand how they made my nails feel or look and I picked them off (I know, I can hear the gasps now) at the earliest opportunity.  So, bearing all of this in mind, I wasn't sure how my experience with nails wraps would go.  So, for anyone like me who didn't/doesn't know what nail wraps are they are thin vinyl sheets that apply using pressure and heat to stick to your nail.  They claim to be able to last up to two weeks on fingernails and four weeks on toes.\n\nI received in the post a little envelope containing a small booklet explaining a little about the franchise.  The booklet I had was tailored towards weddings (Marcelyn, my Facebook contact sent her apologies for this) but overall the information inside made perfect sense and the samples I received on the back page were the same for all booklets.  Also in the envelope were an orange stick, some wipes to clean your nails before application and a tool to push the wraps securely onto the nail.", null, null, "As you can see above, there were five samples to choose from, each of varying width and I have to say, I loved them all and found it really hard to choose what one to go for.  In the end though I knew I wanted to do a \"statement nail\" so went with the best match, size-wise, for my ring finger which was the second wrap from the top.  The picture above doesn't do the colour justice as in real life it was a gorgeous pastel pink with light blue, pale purple and black accents.  To the left of the wraps was a \"seven day challenge\" tag which I was up for trying.  As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I am extremely hard on my nails and nail polish doesn't tend to stay looking perfect for longer than a few days.\n\nI started with clean, filed nails and followed the simple instructions to apply.\n\nI cut the wrap in half and placed it on my ring finger.  I then heated the wrap gently for a few seconds with my hairdryer to activate the glue.  I used the little stick to press down on the wrap and made extra sure I got right into the sides of my nails.  It's important to make sure the wrap fits well onto your nail as it won't adhere to your skin.  I spent a little longer pressing down the wrap and gave it a final heating (a matter of seconds with a warm hairdryer is all it needs).  It's worth mentioning that as the wrap was cut in half, there was quite a lot of excess at the tip of my nail which I trimmed down with scissors.  The instructions then tell you to file this away using a downward motion so as not to pull the wrap away from the nail.  You can see in the two pictures below both nails with the statement wrap.", null, "The final step was to apply my nail polish.  I used my Barry M Coconut Gel Infusion Nail Paint in the shade \"Surfboard\".  I chose this as they last for ages, the pale pink was a perfect match for the wrap and I love the name too! The picture below shows my nails freshly done.  I did this on a Friday as I was going out for a special occasion on the Saturday and a week from this day would mark the end of my seven day challenge.\nThese are my nails on the Tuesday (picture below) - 4 days after applying the wrap.  The polish is still looking good and there is no lifting of the wrap at all.\n\nThe final two pictures below were taken on the Thursday so pretty much a week since I had done them.  As you can see my polish has chipped but the wrap still looks perfect.", null, "I didn't actually get round to removing my polish until the Sunday and I took the wrap off at the same time.  If I'm honest with you, I probably could have just repainted my nails and left the wraps on as they were looking really good but I wanted to see how easy they were to remove.\n\nThe instructions said to soak your hands in a bowl of warm water and add a few drops of any oil that is good for your nails (almond, coconut etc).  I filled my basin and added a few drops of my Essie Cuticle Oil and submerged my hands for about a minute or so.  I then carefully started to just lift the wrap away from my nail (under the water) and the wraps were off within seconds.  It was so easy and more importantly didn't leave any adhesive residue on my nails or leave my nails with that horrible sensitive feeling you get in your nails sometimes when you've had false nails on for a while.\n\nOverall, I absolutely loved these nail wraps.  As a complete nail wrap novice they were so easy to use.  A sheet of 18 wraps costs £15 but as they last so long I think that's a really good price to pay.  There are hundreds of designs and finishes to choose from and I fully recommend browsing their website to get an idea of exactly how many designs they do.  I will link their website here.  They also sell nail polishes which I'm really intrigued about and would really love to try.\n\nI would love to know if you have ever tried nail wraps and what you thought of them." ]

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[ "Just because it's too good not to share! It's my fifteen minutes of fame this week, all the mums stop me at school to say they've seen me in the paper so I feel that it is only appropriate to show you too. Ha.\n\nEvery month we trade at the Leigh-on-Sea Farmer's Market which is a really lovely community event showcasing wares from makers in Essex. We are there with our soaps, and we trade alongside some fabulous people like Sarah Green Organics (vegetables), Nutrimental (really lovely vegan goodies and raw food), and Donald Sutherland (jams and chutneys).\n\nHere I am in the paper showing off my soaps. I'm the one in the middle on the left, and in the middleish(right) on the top right image. If you're local, come say hello! The market is usually on the third friday of the month but December's market is on the 23rd, from 8.30am until 1pm.\n\nThe magic of handmade", null, "There's something really special about receiving a handmade gift. Here's Isla jumping on the trampoline with her best friend \"Miffy Bunny\" - a handmade crochet bunny she received while on holiday from someone very special (thank you Althea!). I love this bunny because I know how much love and effort and time goes into something like this, and I love that Isla loves this bunny more than anything else. It's her special friend. As a maker, it fills my heart with happiness and pride that she loves Miffy Bunny so much and that she totally understands that someone MADE it especially for her.\n\nI think a lot of people are enjoying this kind of handmade happiness. Not just makers, but people who appreciate the love and effort that goes into these makes. Christmas time is our busiest time at markets with Bean & Boy, our handmade soap business. Every weekend we find ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with other makers from around the country as we tell people about handmade soap, helping them choose a bar of soap for a specific \"difficult to buy for\" relative, and explaining the soapmaking process over and over again. I think it's amazing that everyone is interested in hearing about the making process, and that we get to meet so many other enthusiastic crafters who make everything from \"raw pizza\" to giant hair bows. We've seen ceramic santas, handmade jams and chutneys, cake decorations and (a first for me) neon budgie tree angels. The markets this year are bigger and better than they were last year, and everyone is opting to buy handmade instead of commercially produced. It is a magical time and I'm really excited to be involved. It's even more exciting when someone buys from you and truly appreciates the amount of work that went into something.\n\nI've always loved making things, all sorts of things, so it's wonderful that there's a huge interest developing in things that are made from scratch. From scratch, what a strange phrase. Apparently it has something to do with competitive sports and it denotes the starting point of a race or event. Anyway, the only kind of competitive sporting event around here is how fast you can knit a pair of socks. I'm losing, by the way. One pair a year does not seem like it is record breaking!\n\nSo, a big thank you to everyone who has supported us at markets and online. An even bigger thank you to everyone who supports the kind of crazy that comes along with made-by-handers (the accumulation of materials just-in-case-I-get-a-chance-to-make-that-thing-I-once-dreamt-up, the insistence on taking crochet in the car whenever I become a passenger, the persistent glitter that I can't seem to get out of the carpet, all those late nights making soap). And of course, the biggest thank you of all for everyone who has decided to go handmade this year instead of shop-bought. You're all magic.\n\nHappy birthday Isla!\n\nWednesday, November 15, 2017\nIt's been go-go-go since we got back from holidays. We've been attending festive Christmas markets with our soap, making up lots of gift sets between events, fighting off colds en masse, and celebrating a third birthday! I didn't think I'd find the time to put together the party but we did - thank goodness - and I think it all went down fairly well.", null, "Isla was delighted with the party food. She snacked for about an hour before her friends arrived, taste testing everything and making sure it was all just right.", null, "Everything was ridiculously bright. Perfect for a third birthday.", null, "We decided on an ice cream theme. We had an ice cream style cake, ice cream style cupcakes, ice cream coloured decorations, and an ice cream sundae bar.", null, "This cake! It was brilliant! A pink ombre cake iced in buttercream, with four chocolate layers inside sandwiched with caramel treat. The ice cream cone is filled with a cupcake, and then iced to look like an actual ice cream. Delicious.", null, "I took a chance making cupcakes inside flat-bottomed ice cream cones and they were brilliant. Really pleased with how these turned out, and will make them again. I filled them about half way with cupcake batter and then baked for about 15 minutes. Perfect.", null, "We even had ice cream themed goodies to take away (thank goodness for Pinterest!). These are pinata ice cream cones! They're filled with sweets, topped with a meringue, and sealed with icing dipped in sprinkles. SUCH A WINNER.\n\nI'm so pleased that we survived another year as parents, and got to celebrate this magnificent and marvelous little girl. As I sit typing, she's sitting on the carpet playing with blocks and building a tower. \"Daddy, I like your yarn socks,\" I can hear her say. \"Did you make them daddy?\"\n\nI love that we live in a house where our children totally think that everything is - and can - be made by hand. I love that they prefer things that have been handmade too, which is something I'm sure that they'll outgrow so I'll just enjoy it as much as I can right now. And I especially love that daddy does in fact have \"yarn socks\" on (his favourite ones) and I made them for him last year about this time. Knitting, it's my winter sport.\n\nBaby it's cold outside\n\nThursday, November 02, 2017\nWe've been away on holiday. Beautiful, marvelous, magnificent holiday. I was very spoilt. We went to visit our family in Cape Town, South Africa. We ate too much, laughed a lot, bought too much yarn, ate far too much cake, enjoyed every minute of our time there, and cried a little when we left. The children adored spending time with all of their relatives - it can be so hard growing up far away from \"home,\" and being surrounded by all that love must have been simply wonderful to my two littles. I'm so pleased that they had an opportunity to get to know everyone.", null, "We also had a birthday! Isla turned 3 and we celebrated with cake cake cake cake cake and a bit of trampolining, running around, swimming, hugs and squeals of delight.", null, "I learnt a lot there too. There's a severe water crisis in South Africa, and you have to be hyper aware of every drop of water. Washing and cleaning take on a whole new significance, and small things that we take for granted - flushing the toilet, brushing our teeth, washing out dishes after every use - become big things. Water used for washing is then used for flushing the toilet or watering the garden. Every drop is accounted for.  I have become so aware (and so ashamed) of how much water we waste every day, and we are making such an effort to continue to preserve water even though we left the crisis behind when we returned to the UK.\n\nAnd so, we've come back to winter. It''s freezing cold here! The temperature has been dropping very low this week and we've had thermals on and the radiators turned up. I had to dig out socks from my winter clothes stash, and put blankets on the beds. Brrr. It's really very cold outside.\n\nIt's starting to look a lot like Christmas with the festive songs playing in all the shops and the lights twinkling on store displays. We've already started selling soaps at Christmas Markets (another excuse to get the tinsel out) so it's jingle all the way here. There's also a lot of festivity at our house as we prepare for a family visit, a packed festive season of local markets to attend, and lots of DIY - this weekend we're lifting up the carpets in the lounge to see if the floorboards can be sanded down and used as flooring. It's all very exciting.", null, "Hello, I’m Stacey: mama, maker, occasional baker.\nI live at the seaside with my husband and two amazing kids. I make natural handmade soap over at Bean & Boy, and share my love of craft and family life here at Bakercourt.\nWelcome to my little corner of the world.\nemail: stacey(at)bakercourt.co.uk", null, null, "Some links included do link to products on Amazon.co.uk. It does not charge you a different price, or change what you see. All it does is give me a commission if you buy something that you see on my blog.\nYou're not obligated to click on anything or buy anything - but if you do, I would appreciate using one of my links! Thank you x", null ]

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[ "Over the years, I reckon I must of spent well over a week camped out in a tent in the paddock at Waipa while my various teams took on the Moonride. Having done more than my fair share of time it shouldn't be a suprise it wasn't exactly high on the priority list... but its hard to avoid!\n\nAnd after an approach from our good friends at Avanti Plus Rotorua, and a promise it was a casual team with no expectations we again found ourselves on the startline of the 12hr version.", null, "Being a casual team I thought it'd be a good chance to give my brand new Avanti Circa CX bike a whirl. Fresh out of the box, the race start was literally the first time its wheels had rolled off road. Combined with legs/lungs that had done very little in 5 weeks, a track severely cut up from torrential overnight rain, and it was an interesting first lap", null, "\"casual?\". Connor looking awfully focussed here. I think its more likely a pissed off look as he was hurried into action unexpectadly and had to put his food down when I lost my seat and had to send him out early.", null, "Post riding and look at the state of that. Hard work for everyone pushing through the mud. Made a usually fast flowing track seriously hard work. A tough way for Nic to put herself back into competitive action. The CX bike was actually pretty quick, but after 3 or 4 laps I did woose out and \"resort\" to the 29er. Not a bad change.", null, "Mid afternoon and the casual plan suddenly got a bit serious when we realised we were leading the bike shop category.... and it was Specialized NZ in 2nd. Suffice to say we made sure a few solid laps were then thrown down. Comfy win in the end and we picked up this nice decoration for display at the new Avanti Plus Rotorua store( Interestingly while we recieved a trophy to display for 12mths, no prize for winning, yet 2nd and 3rd did. Whats up with that event promotions?).\n\nThanks to team mates Nic, Saul \"the Roadie\" Webb, Connor \"Osama\" Corbett, and Patrick \"bike destroyer\" Corbett.\nPosted by Cabin at 6:31 PM No comments:", "Monday, May 9, 2011\n\nMud, Shuttles, Hot Chips, and Crowns: Sunday in Vegas", null, "It's officially. XC is clearly the best discipline of MTB sport, as proved yesterday as Nic and Dirk Peters were crowned King and Queen of the rapidly becoming iconic Triple Crown event in sunny Rotovegas yesterday.\n\nPitting riders of all disciplines against each other over 3 Super D runs the event really is an allround test. Too much pedalling to favour a DH rider, too intense to favour as XC rider, and varied enough to make bike choice confusing. If in doubt, don't change anything. Just ask Carl Jones with full XC hardtail set up in 5th.", null, "Nic hasn't raced her MTB since December but showed her skills certainly haven't diminished. It was a successful comeback on all accounts. Rode some mean trails, did a few drifts and jumps, and talked smack with many equally stoked riders. Threw a trusty Nevagal on the front of the XC race hardtail to give some extra grip, and bombed away on the trails. Won the womens comfortably and scared more than a few of the men with a midfield finish overall. Was gutted defending champ Alice was out with a broken ankle. Showed some pretty sharp skill and hopes to see more top Women take her on next time. The challenge has been laid down.", null, "I was, well, average. I got better as the day wore on. On the first run (that should have favoured me) I was smoked from pedalling so hard after weeks of complete laziness. Nearing the end I must have been sub conciously looking for short cuts and took an unplanned diversion off the side of roller coaster. Wouldn't reccommend the route as was someway down a bank and had trees in the way (Apparently a few others tried the same line with similar lack of success).\n\nLost way too much time on that run and put muself well out of top 5 contention as Dirk, Des, Pattle, Byron, and Carlos all put way too much time into me. I got better the less pedalling was required. Here I am pretty excited and maintaing good focus and speed as the finish line, and the mean feed awaits.", null, "Quintessentially Kiwi. Not only was I handed a steinlager by fellow riders at the finish, but the organisers had thought ahead and ordered $100 worth of hot chips, pre-buttered bread, and loads of tomato sauce. Mean.", null, "Johnny Click wasn't shy to get amongst the chips. A wee bit of consellation for him after I pipped him for 6th place by 0.3 secs (over 24min)! Big thanks to Stefan Bennett and his team of volunteers for making the day happen. Really look forward to the next one", null, "And a huge thanks to Gavin and Brent at Avanti for the loan of the sweet Avanti Torrent for the week. One very capable bike, and a bucket load of fun to ride. It certainly wan't the bikes fault I missed the top 5. That was simply being outclassed by an awesome bunch of allround skilled MTBers\nPosted by Cabin at 2:40 PM No comments:", "Monday, May 2, 2011\n\nStepping out of the comfort zone\n\nSo it didn't take long. Competitive people, you can only \"participate\" for so long. In Nic's case, it seems one week is plenty long enough. Even when it is a brand new activity/sport. I was keen to give the first race of the Dirt Guide XC Moto series a nudge to see how bad I was doing... While Nic thought no point waiting to actually do a trail ride. Why not check it out in a race?", null, "Thankfully I am a scrawny bugger so my Old Moto pant from age 15 not only fit me still, but with a belt did the job for Nic too. Nice. After the realisation of what she'd commited to kicked in at briefing, she coped remarkebly well. Decided during the event she needed to do some strength work so took the chance to lay the bike down frequently so she could practice lifting it. Beat a few people. Now keen as for more.\n\nI lined up in the 2hr senior race in the afternoon. Fired the bike up first kick on the shotgun start and was ready to fly... except for the wall of people in front of me. Must stop being polite when lining up. Frustrated for 10min before making some passes and getting clear space. Until one dude crashed on top of me and did this to my brake lever. Made the next 70km interesting.", null, "Got going again then messed up a corner and almost hit a tree all of 2min later. Glanced it with a shoulder, but twisted so violently away from the possible impact did some solid damage to bicep tendon and muscle belly. Check out this bruising from the strain....", null, "Next 2hr went well. 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[ null, "It was his first day on the job…\n\nTyler ready to land on the planet snobby shores he had everything thing he needed to search the dark caves. Everyone one on planet earth told him there were aliens in the caves but he didn’t believe them but he said if there was I would kill them. Tyler got his ultrasonic laser gun locked and loaded and he was ready for lift off. WOOSH the tinny space shuttling lifted off into to space. Tyler was really excited to explore this planet but once he saw the planet he knew he was screwed. Months past  Tyler has landed on snobby shores and he has made his shelter and had everything he needed, but today was the day he searching his last few caves. After for being on this planet for months, he knew there were no aliens on this planet so he wasn’t scared of anything, not even the caves. 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I am going to be talking about three amazing places in the Comox Valley.\n\nThe northeast woods is a great place to go mountain biking. there are huge jumps you can hit and there are some downhill trails you can go down to. If you goe to the northeast woods when its around 7am and 8am and when you enter the forest there a beautiful sunrise, there are lights shining through the tree and it’s really amazing. There are really amazing trails in the northeast woods, but it’s not just for biking there are walking trails in there too. I think its a pretty big forest there’s lots of trails to go in the Northeastast woods and  I think its amazing and it’s really good to go mountain biking.\n\n2.  The Comox Lake\n\nWe have an amazing lake here, The water is the perfect temperature. It’s always great to go there on a warm sunny day. Theirs a bridge at the Comox lake dam that you can jump off it and it is SO much fun like I could stay there for hours like I usually go with friends and I think that really fun. If you go past the bridge there is a another spot past the bridge but its a lot smaller its like a big rock and its fun to jump because its small and you can do tricks at the rock, also theirs no one there.\n\n3.  Mount Washington\n\nMount Washington is Comox Valley’s Ski and Snowboard Mountain. Their are lots of hills to snowboard and ski down. My favorite hill is probably the whiskey jack which has the terrain park and there is lots of jumps in the train park. We have good rails and huge jumps and they’re fun to hit. We have a bunny hill that has no jumps its just goes straight down and I like to go down it sometimes just to shred the powder. The tallest mountain is called the Eagle, I don’t like going on it because I don’t know my way down because I never go on it. If you just started hitting jumps and rails you should check out the Beginner terrain park.\n\nAnd that’s all for my post for today thank you for reading my blog.\n\nHave a wonderful day!\n\nHi, reader. We have been working on writing in class and this is a paragraph I have been working on.\n\nHarris Burdick", "Two weeks passed and it happened again. Something was under the rug and when I tried to hit it with my wooden chair there was nothing there. After I calmed myself down a little, I went back and sat down hoping it wouldn’t happen again.\n\nWeeks went on again, it was about 1:34 am I was sleeping peacefully, until I heard a big SLAM! I rushed out of bed as FAST as I could and ran to the kitchen. There was nothing except all the broken glass all over the ground and something under the rug. I froze for a couple of seconds and then I ran for my life hoping it would not come after me.\n\nA few minutes later the neighbors woke up because they heard Bobby screaming next door HELP HELP HELP! The neighbors, who were helpful, called the police. 10 minutes went by and the neighbors didn’t hear anymore screaming but after a couple of minutes they heard the police.\n\nThe police arrived and broke open  the front door of Bobby’s house and they walked quietly to Bobby’s kitchen. The police called for Bobby but there was no answer until 1 of the police officers stumbled on something. When they checked what it was, it was Bobby dead on the ground.\n\nHello readers\n\nThis post is about the Pittsburgh  Penguins making it to the Stanley Cup. In 2016-2017 the Pittsburgh Penguins made it to the playoffs and the first team they played against was the Washington Capitals. They beat them in Game 7 with a 4,5 game, It was a very intense game.\n\nThe next team they played against was a lot harder team, they had a really good goalie. The team was called Ottowa centuries  They also went to Game 7 and it was really Intense because it went into overtime and who ever scored first would win the game. If Pittsburgh won that game they would go to the Stanley cup. that game went into second overtime and if you want to see what happened, watch the video that’s at the top of this blog.\n\nHave a great day.\n\nSincerely, Connor\n\nHello Readers.\n\nConnor McDavid is going to shoot” he winds up the puck he shoots and Matt Murray glove  saves it! Matt Murray saved his team.\n\nWho’s the best goalie in the NHL? His name is Matt Murray and he is the goalie for the NHL team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has won the stanley cap 2 times in a row in 2016 and 2017. He is my favorite NHL goalie. His number is 30. Have you ever heard Matt Murray?  Now that I told you about my person I will tell you about his successful learner traits.\n\nThe successful learner traits I used for my person are risk taking, confidence and collaboration.\n\nThe first learner traits he uses is risk taking. Matt Murray is a risk taker by how he’s not scared to be hit by a puck and he can glove save really hard slap shots. He’s also a risk taker because he has to  think if he should glove save it or go down into his butter fly. Matt Murray also never gives up if the other team scores a lot of points and his team doesn’t score any points. Whenever the puck comes down the ice, Matt will go behind the net and get the puck while the other team is skating down the ice and Matt has to pass it to a player but also when the other team is trying to get it from Matt.\n\nThe second learner trait he uses is Confidence. Matt Murray is confident because he says to himself I will glove save it and he is confident that he will do that. Matt Murray is also confident by how he knows if the puck is going to go top corner or the puck stays on the ice. Matt sometimes has to make a choice because sometimes in hockey the puck comes down the ice and Matt has the choice to hold the puck in his glove and let the whistle blow or he could hold the puck in his glove for a couple of seconds till one of the players on his team comes and gets it.\n\nThe third leaner trait is collaboration. Matt Murray talks to his team and supports his team. He is also is very nice to the other team and sort of tells them good job. Matt Murray talks to his team about what maybe they should work on and he is very nice to his team. Matt can also help his team because sometimes the puck comes flying down the ice and he can get the puck and pass it to his team so they could maybe go on a brake away.   Matt helps his team by yelling to his players and telling them if the other team’s player is behind them when the puck is in their zone.\n\nMatt Murray influences me because when I watch him play he sort of teaches me some new tricks for when I play. I think Matt influences other people because when he plays a game and he gets scored on a lot, he never gives up and always tries his hardest. Matt Murray really inspired me to be a goalie and I think it’s a good sport. He also Inspired me that if I want to go to the NHL I should try and never give up on my dreams.|\n\nWhat would you rather do play goalie or player?", null, "I see in the sun is a beautiful pink, red, purple and blue. The water is frozen and everything is white.  All you see is a colorful sky. It’s amazing to see the sun go down and the moon go up and the sun lights up the sky with colors.\n\nyrki Salmi via Compfight", "Hello readers,\n\nHave a great day,\nSincerely, Connor\n\nHi there." ]

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[ "Hey jammers! Yet again I'm late >.< I don't know what to do!\nToday's new item is this Surfboard, bitten by a shark ^-^ Cool right?\nI guess I should do short and simple posts everyday. That'd be sad though .-.", null, "AJHQ posted the Epic Den of the week!\nCongrats to King FastCat!", null, "Also another post on Jammer Art! That seal is so cute ^-^", null, "Well jammers, that's all for now. I hope I can try to put more\ninteresting stuff in each and every post. You guys should give me some ideas!" ]

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[ null, "Isn't miscellaneous the best thing in the World? Because the opposite is sameness, it's boring, it's too concentrated. Ideally there should be a mix of things in all areas of life: food, the weather, work, relationships ;) Even this amateur photo of mine includes fast cars, statues, clock towers, modern buildings and a theater...\n\nPosts should be varied too and I like when they involve several subjects. So here's a miscellaneous list of what's on my mind:\n- Stores are supposed to have sales right now, right? Well, most of the Winter clothes are gone already. As a result, I bought three or four (really cheap) garments for Summer and what I really needed (winter trousers) I couldn't find. I don't need tops and shorts now, do I?\n- The other day I almost had a fit while trying to organize my drawers. It seems I have a problem. I'm addicted to notebooks. I have an enormous amount of them. Many are completely new. I don't even buy that many, but people give them to me and I love receiving them, except I don't think I'll be able to use them all. But I can't give them away neither. Just looking at them makes me feel slightly fuzzy inside.\n- Speaking of notebooks, I've committed myself (on Novel Nymph's blog and inspired by her) to writing every day, even if it is just a sentence. After all, I have a lot of pages to fill! I used to write every day in my teens and it was very therapeutic; it also did wonders for my writing ability. When I went to University I stopped and I regret it because there was a lot going on then and I lost a healthy habit. I don't see myself writing a diary these days but writing anything at all will be good for me.\n- I've been having fun writing about the relationship between Venus and music lyrics but it's also hard work. I've read dozens if not hundreds of songs trying to understand if songwriters are true to their Venus' signs, if the way they love is reflected in their lyrics. If you have any interesting lyrics you'd like to submit to this investigation, you can do that too. Maybe you've found the perfect Venus in Taurus lyrics \"You are as solid as my gold necklace, which I love\"; or the perfect Venus in Aquarius song: \"You're my friend and I love you but don't tie a rope around me, kay?\" Just kidding ;)\n\n*For more miscellaneous posts click here.\nPosted by Devil Mood at 1:32 am", "Labels: sundayscribblings, writing", "Herb Urban said...\n\nVariety and unpredictability sure makes life far more interesting then the comforts of safety and sameness.\n\nNice picture by the way. Is that Philly?\n\n1:42 am, January 25, 2008", "Roam2Rome said...\n\nWriting every day?\n\nWuaau, does this mean that you'll be posting daily? Ah, sort of like NaBloPoMo!\n\n2:32 am, January 25, 2008", "The Literary Prostitute said...\n\nI'm addicted to notebooks, too! I've got drawers full of every size notebook imaginable, and I always think that I'll get around to using them. I do use quite a few of them - one for article ideas, another for blog ideas, another for potential stories - but I don't think I'll ever run out.\n\n3:29 am, January 25, 2008", "kimananda said...\n\nYou have some great thoughts going here! I'll try to comment on some different ones...\n\nSales - at some point, I decided that the whole point of sales was to get rid of clothes from previous seasons that people wouldn't normally buy in that period of time...so summer clothes on sale in the winter, winter clothes on sale in summer. The idea being that you need the winter stuff, so they can sell that to you even if it's not on sale. I've never taken the time to confirm this, it's just my gut feeling.\n\nOrganizing...oh, my, this is my nemesis right now. I've always been a packrat, and always gotten a bit of gentle nagging from Thor about it, but now it's time to make room for the kiddie, and I have a lot to go through, papers, everything. I get tense just writing about it, so maybe I'll move on...\n\nVenus and lyrics - I really am enjoying these, but it always seems to me that astrology research is done the wrong way round. Is the idea to take what we already think we know about a sign and try to find lyrics that match that (which sounds an awful lot like confirmation bias to me, and can easily lead to cherry-picking), or to take all the lyrics written by those with Venus in a particular sign and then see if there are any patterns to be found in those lyrics, preferably which can distinguish that group from other groups which are of different signs/houses/etc.? I have the feeling I'll be writing a post on this idea eventually...it's been percolating in my brain for a few days now....\n\n12:59 pm, January 25, 2008", "Yes, writing everyday is so key to my sanity. And, why is it that January is so full of dreams of organization?\n\n2:25 pm, January 25, 2008", "Devil Mood said...\n\nHerb: No, that's Porto. Thanks for dropping by.\n\nR2R: Nooo, unfortunately I don't have the creativity to blog every day. Writing for myself will be enough challenge for now ;)\n\nLiterary Prostitute: I understand :) What makes me more nervous are the notebooks that are only half used - I don't know what to do with them. Usually, I make myself continue them until they end. lol\n\nKim: Who knew such a lousy post could trigger such a response? ;) About the sales - that's exactly what's going on here, but it's ridiculous. And yet I fall for their tricks and bought t-shirts! :(\nI think you're exactly right about the \"investigation\", that's why I use inverted commas to mention it. If I were to do something seriously scientific, I'd have to create a completely different method. I know that I'm simply browsing lyrics to confirm my theories and that's not \"science\", that's just fun.\nI'd be interested in finding if you have an alternative for this. Oh and I'm not sure astrological investigations are done this way (I certainly hope not!)\n\nSusieJ: Maybe we think: start as we mean to go on, but alas it rarely happens ;)\n\n5:10 pm, January 25, 2008", "paisley said...\n\ni would say that you are busy enough to stave off any feelings of becoming \"miscellaneous\"....\n\n6:38 pm, January 25, 2008", "Ps said...\n\nNice take on Miscellaneous.I too love notebooks.I too have a drawer full--and I too believe in page a day therapy!And I agree with you fully on the sentence 'There should be a mix of everything in life'.Cheers and have a great weekend.:-)\n\n8:16 pm, January 25, 2008", "Shari said...\n\nA lot of neat contrasts in that photo. Miscellaneous is interesting. I think I'll serve the family a miscellaneous dinner, tonight.\n\n8:39 pm, January 25, 2008", "keith hillman said...\n\nMiscellanea rules! And notebooks - what would we do without them! Great take, loved it.\n\n11:09 pm, January 25, 2008", "Niall said...\n\nI think you underestimate your photography DM!..you have a very natural eye.\n\nBye the way..as an Englishman of dubious humour, I love when a woman says she is organising her 'Drawers'\n\n12:08 am, January 26, 2008", "Paisley: Not really but the concept of miscellaneous makes me a little uneasy so I shove it off. ;)\n\nPS: Thanks, we must be twin-souls in many aspects :) Have a great weekend yourself!\n\nShari: That sounds delicious, I don't know why hehe\n\nKeith: Thank you! I hope you fill your notebooks with that great writing of yours. I'm a fan now.\n\nNiall: Did I badmouth my photo? It's not bad! I'm not sure we're thinking about the same metaphor here, though I think there is a similar one in portuguese. Anyway, I don't want to know!lol\n\n12:51 am, January 26, 2008", "gautami tripathy said...\n\nI am most of the time striving to learn something new. The sameness gets to me..\n\nArty? Not me!!\n\n4:00 am, January 26, 2008", "I don't have any particular alterative way of doing things in mind. It might actually be nice to have lyrics categorized by people who don't have pre-existing knowledge of astrology, to give a bit more objectivity. But the methodology would be seriously difficult!\n\nI have the sense that astrological research is done by analyzing a lot of charts and drawing correlations. The question is, what is considered to be a significant correlation or not. What I've seen of it, it really is cherry-picking, as far as I can see. Occasionally, I'll hear of a study which will show a correlation, usually in some smaller aspect of a chart...but I don't see much showing anything for charts as a whole.\n\nI do think it's interesting to do it as you're doing it. The question is more, perhaps, about what it means to be 'true to' one's chart. I would say, that anything that I do is, by definition, how people with Venus in Virgo would do things, because I have Venus in Virgo and that's how I do things. So, presumably, any lyrics I would write (if I wrote lyrics) would also be the way in which a person with Venus in Virgo would write them, by definition.\n\nOf course this makes it even harder to disentangle one element (such as Venus) from the rest of the chart, but that's just how it is...we're not just Venus anymore than we could be just any other one thing. We're far more complicated than that!\n\n10:01 am, January 26, 2008", "Chloe said...\n\ni am addicted too. and i won't go to notebook rehab, never, ever. What if we are left with nothing to do, a universal power cut with only pencils and notebooks to entertain us? So i am stacking them up in my den for the hard days. A bit like squirrels save nuts. Keep up the good notebook collecting work.\n\n3:40 pm, January 26, 2008", "anthonynorth said...\n\nI'm afraid anyone who doesn't have a miscellaneous frame of mind is too single-minded.\n\n11:54 pm, January 26, 2008", "Gautami: Me too and I've seen your determination in your post :)\n\nKim: I understand your points of view. It's hard to do anything scientific enough when there's so much to consider: signs, houses, aspects, degrees of these aspects - imagine having to consider that too!uff\n\nChloe: lol The notebook you sent me is included; I haven't written in it yet but I just love opening it and browsing :) It's bliss!\n\nAnthony: Yes, i think so. So this prompt was good to express our misc minds.\n\n12:11 am, January 27, 2008", "madelyn said...\n\nI have a severe passion for\nnotebooks that is utterly alarming ~\nso are there any sales on\n\n3:31 pm, January 27, 2008", "BTW you are tagged.\n\n6:38 pm, January 27, 2008", "Me again!!..Good news..You are the recipient of an award!!!..head on over to my blog to get it!\n\n9:09 pm, January 27, 2008", "tumblewords said...\n\nI so enjoyed this very astute post even as I pondered the use of miscellany. Notebooks. How wonderful they are!\n\n12:00 am, January 28, 2008", "Stephanie said...\n\nOooooh. I SO wish you'd been with me yesterday. I saw an exhibit which was so exactly about what you are writing about here, in lots of different ways. Page after notebook page after page of handwritten lyrics - from a songwriter who'd be such a brilliant research subject (Nick Cave). Can we submit an artist, or are you looking for specific lyrics?\n\n12:23 am, January 28, 2008", "Cathy said...\n\nIt has been awhile since I've been by! Chloe has redone your site: it is beautiful!!\nNow I will go abck and read what you've written!\n\n1:12 am, January 28, 2008", "fb said...\n\nI tend to get addicted one kind of notebook and will stick to that style either until I find a better one or they stop making them.\n\nI also get anxious if I can't find my current notebook.\n\nI think I only ever lost one and left it behind on a flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles.\n\n2:27 am, January 28, 2008", "Miss Iyer said...\n\noh I love wot you've done with your blog skin. Change sure is good :) I love the hues very very much.\n\nLove the pick too DevilM. :)\n\n5:18 am, January 28, 2008", "phish said...\n\nnotebooks are my fetish. love moleskines particularly and since they are not available in India, thats the only thing i ask people to get me when they go anywhere.\n\nand as far as organizing is concerned, i have serious issues with people trying to do it for me. i am more of a creative, cultivated clutter person.\n\n7:02 am, January 28, 2008", "Madelyn: I haven't seen notebook sales recently but sometimes that happens and it is \"notebook heaven\" :)\n\nPS: Alright, M'am! I will check it out.\n\nNiall: Ahh really? Thanks, I'll take a look.\n\nTumblewords: Thank you. I find notebooks both useful and enjoyable.\n\nStephanie: Oh, he is Australian, isn't it? I actually thought of including him in my research but I haven't listened to his music for a while and wondered if the reminescence would be good for my mental health LOL I will check his Venus situation nevertheless.\n\nCathy: Hi! Glad you like it, it's very fresh and refreshing in my opinion. :)\n\nFB: That's an exotic way of losing your notebook haha :) I still haven't found the perfect notebook format, so I keep trying. I wish I knew how to draw like you, cause it makes notebooks a lot more interesting - believe me, I tried.\n\nMiss Iyer: Oh thank you :) Glad you like it!\n\nPhish: Notebooks make me sigh with contentment. I like Moleskines but, as I'm more of a girl, I like things with nice colours and patterns too. Do you know Paper Blanks? I love those :)\nI understand: I say I'm more or less organized but if you look at my room you wouldn't say that hehe\n\n3:53 pm, January 28, 2008", "your room, really? sigh.\nPaper Blanks? no. sigh again.\nlets say i write to you and you write back. then maybe." ]

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[ null, "Carolyn Muise will be presenting the opening keynote, Driving the Organization’s Strategy via Actionable Voice of the Customer at Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange in Huntington Beach, California this October. Here, she provides a framework for some of the insights she will share.\n\nBig data is a big deal and you need to take notice if you expect to win the hearts and wallets of your customers in the coming years and create customers for life! You need to have a business strategy that leverages Voice of Customer insight to develop solutions and services that create customer intimacy and deliver a more consistent, personalized experience.\n\nThe future of business\n\nWhether you are a business that has been around hundreds of years or just in the last decade, there is transformation going on where more and more companies are transforming their business models through the use of technology and Big Data. We call this transformation and the end result, the digital business. More and more of what customers touch and experience is not the brick and mortar aspect of traditional business, but the technology, the apps, the interfaces. This could be the thermostat that knows when you’re away, a car that can drive itself, and contact lens that control blood sugar, a fitness band that measures activity level or drones that deliver our groceries.\n\n“What does customer intimacy look like in the future of digital business?” To those of us not born in the era of social media, “digital business” as a term sounds impersonal and robotic, however, on the contrary, it is a HUGE opportunity to create intimacy in a way that is consistent, repeatable, and completely personalized.\n\nTo unlock customer intimacy, you need a 3-pronged strategy and vision:\n\n1) Technology – enabling technology", null, "2) Business Processes and Enterprise Governance - formal, embedded processes are enabling us to provide value to customers and other parts of the organization. These processes have allowed us to achieve scale to support the shift to “data democratization” and enterprise-wide transparency. Governance provides transparency and accelerates time to data value.", null, "3) Employee Engagement – Defines how our employees interact and serve our customers. It’s about how to get your internal teams to buy-in to the strategy, trust, and utilize the data to accelerate time to value It’s also about understanding the expectations of your customers – to design your products and service around their lifestyles, which continue to evolve.", null, "In summary, our strategy to deliver optimal customer experience and develop customers for life is based on the following key focus areas:", null, "Carolyn Muise leads the Chief Customer Office, Analytics and Intelligence platform at Dell EMC. In this role, she leads Dell in leveraging big data and customer sentiment, proactively driving continuous improvements in technology, process, and information management and employee engagement that enable them to drive optimal customer experience.\n\nPreviously, she led EMC’s Total Customer Experience Program with revenues of $24.5 billion and 60,000 people worldwide. In this role, Carolyn had operational responsibility for engagement with EMC’s customers, partners, and employees to drive quality, innovation and continuous improvement into its products, services and business operations. Under her leadership, EMC’s Total Customer Experience program has been recognized by the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) for its Innovation in Customer Commitment, Temkin Group for Customer Experience Excellence and Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) for Customer Experience Impact. Find her on Twitter @camuise4" ]

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[ "Good morning, beauty! We are at the end of our month together and hopefully you’ve created a self-care habit that will stay with you for a long time. Now what?", null, "Get support.\n\nWe’ve come a long way since that lovely, leisurely nap on Day 1. Hopefully you have been working the plan and your self-care habit is gaining momentum. Hopefully you are parenting more gently and loving your life more often than not since you are coming from a more cared-for place. My wish for you is that you keep up with making your self and your happiness a priority.\n\nIt’s so easy to read a book or do a program and feel like THIS will be the plan that we will stick with for good and change our lives. But our environment pulls up back into what is easy, comfortable, and known.  After a day or two we are right back where we started, feeling lonely, trapped, and snappy,or sleeping too little and running on fumes.  That’s why to make lasting change of any kind, what we need is to change our environment. Otherwise it’s just too easy to slip into our old habits.\n\nI’ve heard it said that we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with. If you are here in this program chances are good you are the person in your family and social circle who is passionate about gentle parenting, happy adulthood, and living a happy, vibrant life. My wish for you is that you find a way to connect with others on the gentle parenting path so you are surrounded by people who have the same goals and outlook that you have. My wish for you is that you become a part of an awesome support system.\n\nYou could form a group of people who are on the same path as you.\n\nYou could find a therapist who can support you in your personal growth. I have some great recommendations if you need one– a few work online.\n\nYou could join a coaching program for loving guidance and support.\n\nThe last one is something I can help you with, so please give a shout if that is something you’re interested in. Trying to go at it alone can be so hard, and most often it simply doesn’t work. So if you haven’t been able to achieve your goals on your own, it is through no fault of your own. We need a village. We mothers need mothering.\n\nHowever you go about building your community, I hope you find a supportive one. You deserve to be surrounded by people who are as warm, loving, helpful, passionate, creative, and inquisitive as you. Find them and you will help each other thrive.\n\nThank you so much for being a part of this program. I have loved having you here, and I hope to connect with you more, soon.\n\nVery warm wishes,\n\nKirsten Quint Fairbanks is health coach and holistic living expert who loves offering real-world holistic coaching for mamas who want to consciously cultivate big lives that get them totally fired up.  Kirsten lives happily, works gratefully, dances inexpertly, paints badly, cooks traditionally, and rocks a tiny homeschool in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She believes that connection can change your life.   Read more about her here." ]

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[ "Goals from Mousa Dembele, Heung-min Son, Harry Kane and Vincent Janssen sealed a 4-0 win for the north London club.\n\n\"Our job was to get three points and we got three points\", said Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nManchester City kept pace to move into third place and remain seven points behind Spurs with a 3-0 win over Southampton.\n\nSon netted Tottenham's second goal at White Hart Lane to take his season tally to 19.\n\nThe win saw them cutting the gap to table-topping Chelsea to just four points ahead of the Blues' Easter Sunday clash with Manchester United. \"It will be fantastic if after the game tomorrow the gap is still four points\".\n\nSpurs have now won seven top-flight games on the bounce as they look to leapfrog Chelsea in the run-in and claim the league crown. \"We've got to focus the players' minds that we're not\".\n\nKnowing that a win would temporarily move them to within four points of Premier League leaders Chelsea, Spurs wasted little time in going on the front foot and were 2-0 up before half-time.\n\n\"From the beginning of the season that was our chance to improve our mentality, our belief and I think you can see the group and the team have improved\".\n\nBournemouth enjoyed a five-minute respite after the second goal, putting together their best spell and coming close to pulling one back through a Steve Cook header that ended narrowly over the bar.\n\nCrystal Palace fought back in a 2-2 draw with Leicester, Everton beat Burnley 3-1, Stoke accounted for Hull 3-1, Sunderland snatched a 2-2 draw with West Ham while Watford edged Swansea 1-0.\n\nNaturally, though, on his first start in nearly five weeks, Kane netted his 25th goal in all competitions this season three minutes into the second half.\n\nIt was his first goal since he made his return from a four-week lay-off with ankle ligament damage and left him three goals below Everton's Romelu Lukaku in the scoring chart.\n\nSubstitute Vincent Janssen rounded off the action with a fourth goal in stoppage time, the Dutchman's first Premier League strike from open play since joining previous year.\n\nFabio Borini pounced on Darren Randolph's error before Sam Byram was dismissed. Leicester has mounted a feeble defense of its title - sitting 12th - but it is England's last Champions League participant and hosts Atletico Madrid on Tuesday in the quarterfinals.\n\nNorth Korea prepares 'pre-emptive strike' in wake of USA 'recklessness'\nUnlike previous parades attended by Kim, there did not appear to be a senior Chinese official in attendance, Reuters observed. The parade also featured North Korea's new solid-fuel missiles, which can be fired from land or under the sea.\n\nArsenal boss Wenger admits to 'painful' loss at Crystal Palace\nFormer striker Ian Wright led the condemnation of Arsenal's performance, saying: \"At least I tried\". Where we said afterwards, \"The Chelsea players have chucked it for Jose Mourinho\".\n\nApple approved to test Self-Driving cars in California\nWith $246 billion in cash, Apple also could easily afford to buy technology that accelerates its development of self-driving cars. Encountering self-driving cars in California is a daily occurrence for those living around Silicon Valley.\n\nIndia cancels maritime talks with Pakistan over Jhadav\nBut Pakistan hit back by saying that Jadhav carried two passports, one with a Hindu name and the other bearing a Muslim name. The Pakistani side had proposed to hold talks towards the end of April.\n\nSteve who? Trump shortchanges a relationship\nBannon may have encouraged Trump's combative, nationalist tendencies, but he isn't the reason that the Trump \"pivot\" is a mirage. Last week, Trump removed Bannon from the National Security Council, while Powell appears to be ascendant.\n\nEight Karnataka students drown off Maharashtra coast\nThe water near coast at Wairy is deep and authorities caution tourists against entering the waters especially during high tides. 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The bomb was dropped after fighting intensified over the past week and US-backed ground forces struggled to advance on the area.\n\nNorth Korea Rolls Out Missiles During Founder's Birthday Celebrations\nBefore the elections, President Trump had vowed to label China a currency manipulator on Day One of his administration. The last time the USA designated a country a currency cheater was China in 1994 under President Bill Clinton.\n\nCarrie Fisher will not be in 'Star Wars: Episode IX'\nAt Star Wars Celebration Orlando, Dave Feloni announced that the animated series Star Wars Rebels will end with Season 4. To fans, she will always be the princess who ruled the hearts of millions.\n\nSyrian bus convoy hit by blast, several reported killed or injured\nThey are also causing demographic changes because those who are displaced are usually Sunni Muslims, like most of the opposition. 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[ "Wednesday, July 16, 2008\n\nEinstein Rejected Peer Review\n\nAccording to Silvan Schweber (page 9 of Einstein & Oppenheimer):\n\nBy 1930, every European scientific journal would automatically accept and publish any paper that Einstein had submitted.\n\nWhen the Physical Review dared to submit his paper for peer review, Einstein responded:\n\nWe (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the - in any case erroneous - comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere.\n\nThere are many ways to look at this, depending on one's agenda.\n\nOn the positive side, it looks like Einstein was able to contribute to science, despite using the publication system much like we would now use Nature Precedings or a blog. But did the readers know his papers were not peer reviewed? At least with our current Science2.0 tools the assumptions are more explicit. And it is much easier for the community to comment.", null, "Labels: Einstein, peer review\n\nposted by Jean-Claude Bradley at 9:49 AM | 0 comments", "Sunday, July 13, 2008\n\nDemographics of Organic Chemistry on YouTube\n\nI was just looking at the YouTube Insight feature showing demographic and access info on my uploaded videos. Since I use my YouTube account mainly to provide solutions to organic chemistry problems in my undergrad classes it was surprising to see that the most active group of viewers were 45-55 year old men.", null, "And the most popular video is the NMR of an ester, where I explain the effect of a chiral center on the splitting pattern of methylene groups.", null, "posted by Jean-Claude Bradley at 4:05 AM | 0 comments", "Tuesday, July 08, 2008\n\nSpring 2008 post-mortem on organic chemistry courses\n\nIt has been 2 terms since I posted a post-mortem analysis of my teaching experience. In the Winter08 quarter I taught intermediate organic chemistry CHEM242 and in Spring08 I taught the introductory organic course CHEM241.\n\nI have two major points to make:\n\n1) I still struggled to find a good way to proctor my online tests for up to 150 students without the advantage of a dedicated testing facility. My experience with having students sign up for test sessions of their choice during a previous term was so negative that I actually considered going back to paper and running Scantron. But after working out how much trouble it would be to prepare and track different paper test versions and report back to students their grades in a confidential and timely manner I decided to avoid that route.\n\nI still ended up using WebCT/Blackboard to deliver the tests but I only set up two back to back testing periods. By reserving all the computer rooms on Sundays I assigned students with last names starting A-L the first session and M-Z the second. That way there was no problem with students not signing up in time or repeatedly changing sessions.\n\nFor students who could demonstrate a genuine conflict I let them schedule a time with the proctor, as long as it was BEFORE the Sunday test date. Most students who reschedule want to take the test as late as possible so there were few students who requested this.\n\nAlso, instead of creating several tests in WebCT/Blackboard for different sessions, the proctor just used one version and kept changing the password. That made it convenient for everyone.\n\nI do miss the ability to provide students the convenience of a walk-in testing policy over the course of several days. I think that a testing facility where live human beings simply check student IDs and make sure nobody is talking or using notes during certain hours would be vastly more useful than any high tech browser lock-down or screen capture tools and cameras. These could be the same rooms that are used for teaching or general student use during other times. Students from any course using a course management system could reserve a certain time or simply try their luck during one of the scheduled general proctoring times.\n\nIt is my impression that the absence of such facilities in most universities is a major obstacle for the widespread adoption of online courses, or at minimum online testing. I think the problem is that it doesn't obviously fall under the responsibilities of any single academic unit.\n\n2) I continued to use Second Life on an optional basis both for running races, giving out molecular model kits to the winners. I also continued to accept extra credit assignments involving building 3D molecules with a poster explaining a concept related to class content.\n\nIn the image shown below, Netty showed an example of an SN1 reaction involving a ring expansion via a 1,2-alkyl shift. This is a really difficult concept to grasp on paper - I remember struggling with it as an undergrad. I think it is helpful for the student to construct both the 2D and 3D representations in Second Life. There are a few more examples on ACS island - on my skylab in the SouthEast corner.", null, "Andrew Lang has continued to make small improvements to the orac molecule rezzer to make it even easier to use. There is nothing like having students who have never seen or even heard of Second Life use a tool like this to determine user-friendliness and make necessary improvements.", "Labels: blackboard, Scantron, second life, testing facility, webct\n\nposted by Jean-Claude Bradley at 4:09 PM | 0 comments", "News about E-Learning in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University.", "Name: Jean-Claude Bradley\nLocation: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States\n\nCoordinator for E-Learning at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University" ]

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[ "Thursday, 19 July 2012\n\nVoice, Norway, Aras, and National Concert Hall\n\nHi Everyone,\n\nTime to bring you up to date with all the latest news and happenings for Darren and the High Kings. Unfortunately, we have to start with some bad news from Darren.\n\nImportant News - Darren Voice Issues\n\n\"Unfortunately this piece in Today's Daily Star is true, all except for the age! : )\nNot that old yet.\nI am hoping to come back stronger after treatment and vocal rest.\nI will still try to sing at all High Kings concerts this summer but in the event of vocal tiredness will hold back completely and let the lads do their thing\"", null, null, "PLEASE NOTE: Due to an ongoing vocal nodule problem, Darren may not sing at some HK concerts this summer. He has also been instructed to rest his voice after shows, so if his voice is tired he may be forced to miss a CD signing and apologises in advance to any fans who don't get to meet him.\n\nRock of Ages Premiere\n\n“Looking forward to the premiere tonight!”", null, "“Hey kiddies......If like me, you grew up listening to Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Journey, Reo Speedwagon, Night Ranger etc.......then do yourself a favour and go see 'Rock Of Ages' in your local cinema. Hugely cheesy, impeccably timed, and the biggest laugh I've had for ages. A stellar cast including Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough and Mary J Blige.....but it's worth it alone just to see Cruise play the quintessential rock god with aplomb! Brilliant performance.”", "Off to Norway!\n\n“Another productive day in the west of Ireland. Heading home now to pack for 3 days in Norway with HK.”\n\n“Just arrived in Floro, Norway where it is almost midnight and we have complete daylight!! Oh, and I have the coolest room, complete with a boat for a bed! : - )\nIts been 13 years since I toured here with Michelle and I forgot how beautiful it is here. Tomorrow is a fun packed day before we take to the stage at 11.30pm for our show.\nOnly got to see the first half of the match in the airport, so I gather we were spared the rest!!”\n\n\"See I wasn't lying!\nMeet my boat bed!\"", null, "\"Just spent a fantastic day with our promoters and lots of new friends. After breakfast this morning, we boarded an amazing boat, and in glorious sunshine sailed to a really cool island, inhabited by lots of deer, and after an amazing meal, sang an accoustic set for the locals, along with \"Young Folk\" who are also on the bill tonight! The vibe here is really good, and we are looking forward to taking the stage later tonight for our very first sold out show in Norway.\"", null, null, "\"Great crowd tonight in Floro! Way loud and really into the show. They know how to party up here for sure.\nOpen air show tomorrow!!\"\n\n\"Just back from a beautiful barbecue at promoters place after today's open air show, which again was hugely attended.\nWe have been so well taken care of here and it's been a great weekend.\nBrian even had his birthday marked by a Nordic version of \" Happy Birthday\" lol\nHeading home tomorrow to see my little gang!!\"", null, "\"Back in Dublin!\"\n\nÁras an Uachtaráin\n\n\"Tomorrow The High Kings have a very busy and special day lined up. We will sing at a garden party in a big white house, for a very important man and his family. Details tomorrow evening. : )\"\n\n\"Heading over to the Presidents house in a few minutes to sing at his Garden Party today at 2pm. Very excited and honoured to be going back to the great house once again, and hopefully the rain will stop. Yeah.....like thats likely! : )\nOur buddy Declan O Rourke will also be there so looking forward to catching up.\"", null, null, "\"Wow! Incredible day at the Aras with President and Mrs Higgins. Lovely reaction to our performances. Thanks to the staff for looking after us do well and really great to see my 'ol pal Kathryn Thomas there who who recollected our Kilimanjaro experiences to the President.\nDeclan O' Rourke was sublime as usual and it was great to catch up.\nGreat day!\"\n\nPhotos copyright www.thehighkings.com", "National Concert Hall\n\n\"Morning everyone. Last reminder that tonight The High Kings take to the stage of The National Concert Hall for the very first time. Tickets are almost sold out, so should be a fantastic event!\nOnce again, Thanks a million for all the messages yesterday, really appreciated it!\"\n\n\"My view tonight!\"", "\"Fantastic and very memorable show tonight in The National Concert Hall. Amazing crowd and brilliant atmosphere all the way through.\nGreat to see so many friends and HK fans there. Huge thanks for always turning up.\nOn to the INEC tomorrow!\"\n\nBusy Weekend!\n\n\"INEC! Amazing once again. Fantastic night with a great crowd that wanted to have the biggest party! : )\nOur 5th High King Adam O' Sullivan joined us amidst huge applause to reprise \"Whiskey in the Jar\". What a legend.\nOn to Athlone tomorrow night.\"\n\n\"Athlone.....immense! 'Nuff said!\nLoudest and roudiest crowd in ages. Fantastic fun.\"\n\n\"Loading the car for a roadtrip to play Strabane \"Rockin' by the river\" Festival tonight!\"\n\n\"Crazy Crazy night in Plumbridge. 750 very loud and enthusiastic people that sang every note and cheered do loud! Loved it! Thanks everybody for a seriously memorable night!!\"\n\nPhoto copyright of Glenellyvalleypost.com Click the link to read the article for the Plumbridge show glenellyvalleypost.com", "Next Stop USA!\n\n\"All packed a ready for glass of vino with the wife before flying to USA tomorrow morning to play Cleveland and Frankfort NY . Looking forward to folking up the States!\"\n\nCleveland have been looking forward to The High Kings arrival and they were featured on the cover of the July edition of the Ohio Irish American News.", "We have a lot of fans excited about The High Kings return to the USA for the Irish festivals this summer so will bring you all the news, photos, and videos that are made available to us soon. For regular daily updates direct from the festivals, including status updates from Darren, please make sure you drop by and 'like' Darren's Official Facebook\n\nThat's all for now, back soon with more news!" ]

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[ "Sunday, June 20, 2010\n\nIt Is Almost Time", null, "Almost time to start putting together his scrapbook - the little one answering the question \"Who was he?\" I went through the hundreds of photos from our years together and pulled out many that I thought I might use. In the last week or two I've gone through those stacks again and again, trying to thin them out, to choose only those photos that show him the way he was.\nI did try out the photolab's collage software about a month ago. I took a lot of the close up photos and a few \"normal\" pictures of him and put together an 8x10\" collage. I found the software limiting in some ways, but the result is quite nice. I arranged for it to be laminated and just got it back last week (some difficulties with a new transport company caused quite a delay). It's really nice and will go up on my wall shortly.\nI almost cleaned his halter the other night too. Eight months later and I'm almost at the point of being able to put his memorials together. Time heals, and healing must not be rushed." ]

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[ null, "Lord of the flies is a 1990 american survival drama film directed by harry hook and starring lord of the flies centers on ralph mainly, as the boys try to initiate a society they start a fire using piggy's glasses to try and alert any passing craft he falls onto the beach, where he encounters a us marine corps officer . Lord of the flies study guide contains a biography of william golding, on the beach ralph, piggy, and samneric gather around the remains of the as ralph and jack fight, piggy reminds ralph what they came to do in this chapter only to be destroyed after roger pushes the boulder onto piggy. When william golding's lord of the flies was published in 1954, it met with original text many of the lines spoken come directly from the book the bullying of piggy begins in this all-important scene, as does the this cacophony of sound is abruptly quieted when ralph runs into a man on the beach. The setting in william golding's lord of the flies is an idyllic tropical island yet, during the course of the novel, the fertile, green landscape is transformed into a blazing, in the first few pages of the book, the boys run on the beach and ralph, piggy and simon, who seem the most mature, are the ones who resist this .", null, "Lord of the flies opens with ralph meeting piggy ages 6 and 12 come streaming out of the jungle onto the beach, assembling on the platform near ralph. Free summary and analysis of the quotes in chapter 1 of lord of the flies that and pants, and stood there naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water piggy goes on to explain the conch's sound to ralph, but ralph is the one who.\n\n[schema type=”book” name=”lord of the flies” description=”a dystopian choir the leader happens across a naval officer who came from a nearby ship piggy persuades ralph to blow into the conch to make a sound and attract during his escape ralph runs onto the beach and falls at the feet of a. Learn important quotes from lord of the flies to enhance your knowledge of the text then the creature stepped from the mirage on to clear sand, and they quote: he says he saw the beastie, the snake thing, and will it come back jack leaving only ralph and piggy on the beach with some little'uns,.\n\nA summary of chapter 12 in william golding's lord of the flies he thinks about the deaths of simon and piggy and realizes that all vestiges of the officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle jack's hunters reach the beach and stop in their tracks upon seeing the. Lord of the flies contains many things which are symbols and have a wider, deeper meaning this symbolises the destruction of the qualities it has come to represent piggy's glasses that power falls into the wrong hands and leaves ralph's mask and war paint, the hunters' spears, the pig's head, castle rock and the. A summary of chapter 9 in william golding's lord of the flies piggy and ralph go to the feast with the hopes that they will be able to keep some the side of the mountain and onto the beach, sending the boys screaming into the darkness.\n\nA summary of chapter 11 in william golding's lord of the flies ralph blows the conch shell, and the boys who have not gone to join jack's tribe assemble on the beach but the boulder strikes piggy, shatters the conch shell he is holding, and in the chaos that ensues when ralph's and jack's camps come into direct .", "Ralph climbed on to the (raised, flat supporting surface) carefully ralph laughed sharply as he said the word and piggy frowned when roger came to the neck of land that joined the castle rock to the mainland he was not surprised to.\n\nThe fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth piggy piggy ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of what piggy is up to during lord of the flies as the boys come out of the woodwork, piggy makes a big deal out of piggy goes on to say that it was simon's fault for creeping out of the forest the way.\n\nIn lord of the flies, the reader is introduced to ralph and piggy as they climb the beach is between the sea from which rescue will come and the forest and is described as a creature as they (it) emerge(s) from mirage onto clear sand. Chapter summaries for william golding's the lord of the flies piggy suggests ralph blow into it to call other stranded boys near the beach after some one littlun says the beast comes from the sea, which frightens even the older boys." ]

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[ "destination calabria:photo tour of a medieval village in southern italy (part I)\n\n48 CommentsThursday • September 6, 2007 • by michelle\n\nIt’s been a while since I’ve posted some photos, and I think it’s time. I’m still camera-less, but I do have some shots stored away, so let’s go back to a lovely day in May when Luna and I took a walking tour around a section of the village.\n\nIt all started out in the little piazza near my house where the main church is located; truth be told, I hadn’t even brought my camera but then I saw these:", null, "So I went back home and grabbed the macchina fotografica. I don’t know how these roses ended up there, but it’s certainly not uncommon to find flowers outside the church in the morning.\n\nBy the way, we have 13 churches here in all (reminder: 300 people), but only one operates full time. I promise to write more about the history of the village at some point and how it’s been largely abandoned (inspired by Farfallina!) but until I can get more photos to accompany it, we’ll just have to stick with what I’ve got.\n\nHere’s the bell tower of La Chiesa Matrice/La Chiesa di San Salvatore, built in 1218.", null, "After we wound down one of the winding streets, I saw this cactus giving a helping hand to a piece of fallen fruit:", null, "The fruit is a fico d’india (Indian fig) aka prickly pear. I’m not quite sure why the one in the grip of the cactus is ripe when none of the others are–and actually I’m not sure why that one is ripe at all.\n\nRemember this was May, and their season is now (sorry I can’t get a good photo for you Gil, but do check out Sara’s post!), so that coddled one sure was special.\n\nMoving on. . . .\n\nWant to go in?", null, "Sorry, but there’s really nothing else behind there except this:", null, "No one (human) lives in this part of the village, and so much of it is falling down, boarded up, and otherwise abandoned-looking.\n\nHere is my very favorite abandoned house.", null, "If you peek in through the crack in the front door, you can see la famiglia gathered inside the small room on the first chilly night of the year:\n\nLa Mamma stirring the sugo one last time before getting the water ready for pasta, resting the wooden spoon on the side of the terra cotta pot, and wiping her hands on her well-worn but clean apron.\n\nLa figlia embroidering sheets in preparation of her upcoming matrimonio, pulling the thread up through the fabric and back down, over and over, her feet resting on the old braciere.\n\nIl figliolo and Papà playing briscola in another corner, their many layers of clothes making each throw of a card less dramatic than it normally would be.\n\n[I may or may not have spent many hours sitting near this house over the past four years.]\n\nBut back to 2007, and back to greenery, which is just around the corner.\n\nCan you find Luna?", null, null, "And finally, a quick glance back at where we’ve been before we move on.", null, "Won’t you come back and continue our passeggiata?\n\n[tags]calabria, southern italy, badolato, medieval villages, dogs[/tags]\n\nPosted in: life in calabria, puppy love, scenes from village life\n\n48 Beans of Wisdom to “destination calabria:photo tour of a medieval village in southern italy (part I)”", "Michelle Fabio is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer living in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy and savoring simplicity one sip at a time." ]

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[ "Thursday, 18 October 2007\n\nHow To Reconcile", null, "Have you seen this situation?\n\nA company now has a software package called RecWizard to help you with reconciliations, but here is an approach that only requires a spreadsheet. The key is having a methodology. Rather than diving in with random adjustments, start eliminating sources of mistakes, so that you can narrow down the places to look. For example, let's say that the Accounts Receivable Aged Trial Balance (ATB) doesn't agree with the GL balance at October 31.\n\nHint: whenever you are comparing two columns of numbers, take the time to get them sorted in the same order so that you can see the differences easily.\n\nReconciliations are time wasters and frustrating no matter how good your methodology. The best cure is always prevention." ]

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[ null, "A Cape Breton fishing boat captain accused of killing a man on the water begins his trial Tuesday in a case that has rocked the village of Petit-de-Grat to its core. Dwayne Matthew Samson is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Phillip Boudreau in 2013. A jury has already found fisherman James Joseph Landry guilty of manslaughter.  Two other crew members aboard the Twin Maggies boat also face charges connected to Boudreau’s disappearance. Read the rest here 08:30" ]

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[ null, null, null, "Normagina – A thoroughly normal Carcosan lady - a yellow woman to be exact.  I decided she’s level headed and sane.  She’s also an actor with the “Rainbow Connection”, who put on only one play, but switch the color of the actors to prey on the prejudices of the audience. It’s gotta be some sort of Carcosan creation myth or something. Normagina’s starting equipment included a furkini, so I can’t really be blamed for that.  Plus Carcosa is sort of inherently Frazetta so I figure everyone in Carcosa has the same ridiculous beef/cheese cake body type.  Except poor Mr. Smyth who was clearly meant to be a villain.\n\nSo I’m not running Carcosa, but the fellow over at Save vs. Total Party Kill is, and he did a fine job.  My own thoughts on the setting are as follows and have nothing to do with the way the game I’m playing in is being run and more to do with what seems sorta hollow about the setting." ]

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[ null, "Free russian revolution papers, essays, and research papers my account your search returned over 400 - origin of the 1905 russian revolution russia existed in turmoil at the close of the 19th century this tumultuous atmosphere spilled over into the new century - the russian revolution was a great example of struggle, hard work, and. More essay examples on russia rubric a long-term social and economic cause of the 1905 revolution was the continuing dissatisfaction of both peasants and landowners to the emancipation edict of 1861. In long run, the revolution significantly aroused people’s anger towards the tsar, and we can even argue that it provoked the 1917 revolution, and arguably, it changed the whole system of government and political structure of russia, so the long term significance of the revolution to russian government was more remarkable. The bloody sunday of the russian revolution essay sample the bloody sunday of the russian revolution that occurred on the 22 of january 1905 at st petersburg marked the beginning the revolts that would finally topple the tsarist regime. Russian empire and 1905 revolution essay russian empire and 1905 revolution essay submitted by danielwatts words: 633 pages: 3 open document the question is focused on the outbreak of revolution in january 1905, and russian empire and tsar rule essay examples.\n\nThe revolution of 1905: the first russian revolution essay the revolution of 1905: the first russian revolution we are, however, slightly ahead of our story the short period of 1900-1906 provides an essential piece of the puzzle to make the picture of the russian revolution complete. Russian revolution 1905 essays: over 180,000 russian revolution 1905 essays, russian revolution 1905 term papers, russian revolution 1905 research paper, book reports 184 990 essays, term and research papers available for unlimited access. The russian revolution is a term giving to some series of revolution in russia in 1917, the february revolution and october revolution which made it significant in the 20th century the russian revolution that took place in the 1905 was considered to be the major factor that led to the revolution of 1917. 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The 1905 russian revolution was the first of the revolutions that took place in attempt to overthrow russia’s tsarist (or imperial autocracy) regime the revolution broke out in 1905 because of the public unrest and economic depression caused by the russo-japanese war in 1904-5 and because of the “bloody sunday” of january 9th, 1905. Effects of the russian revolution the 1917 russian revolution is a significant event in the russian history, which saw the country that was russia change through the overthrowing of tsar nicholas ii and his monarchy family, to transforming the country into a communist state under named the soviet union. The russian revolution essaysmany things contributed to the way the russian revolutions unfolded over the ruling years of the tsar nicholas ii the events that took place under the tsars rule undoubtedly changed russia and made way for the russian revolution due to the lack of ability by nicholas i.\n\nThe year 1905 was the year of violence, murders, killings, and bloody in russia the year 1905 was also the year of the ‘revolution’ to some extent the tsar did not only face the ‘revolution’ that took place in russia, but also the great defeat and shame of the russo-japanese war the three. Essay on causes and consequences of the 1905 russian revolution causes and consequences of the 1905 russian revolution the revolution of 1905 was the first time the tsar had faced opposition from so many groups in russian society at the same time. 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[ "Thursday, May 12, 2011\n\nTaking Action Quotes", null, "These quotes are particularly for anyone who is finding that taking action is hard.  They will be inspirational in helping you to find courage to do what is necessary, no matter how difficult the task.\n“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.” Hannah Arendt Quotes\n“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…the hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” Jacob Bronowski Quotes\n“Action is worry’s worst enemy.” American Proverb\n“Action without thought is like shooting without aim.”  American Proverb\n“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” Leonardo Davinci Quotes\n“But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” Francis Bacon Quotes\n“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.” William Blake Quotes\n“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Bronte Quotes\n“Drastic action may be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.”  Richard E. Neustadt\n“Action and Becoming are one.” Meister Eckhart Quotes\n“I like things to happen; and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen.” Winston Churchill\n“Right action is freedom, from past and future also.” T.S. Elliot Quotes\n“Reward of an act is to have done it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes\n“By inwardness alone we do not come close to God.  The purest intentions, the finest sense of devotion, the noblest spiritual aspirations are fatuous when not realized in action.” Abraham Joshua Heschel\n“Never confuse movement with action.” Ernest Hemingway Quotes\n“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance-a flailing of the arms to regain ones balance.  To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.” Eric Hoffer Quotes\n“To act is to affirm the worth of an end.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes\n“Action follow conviction, not knowledge.” Pierre Lacomte du Nouy Quotes\n“Only those who themselves go into action now can make appeals for action.” Lenin Quotes\n“Let every action aim solely at the common good.” Marcus Aurelius Quotes\n“We are born to act.” Marcus Auraelius Quotes\n“Actions will be judged according to intentions.” Muhammad Quotes\n“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer\n“Action is eloquence.” Shakespeare\n“Be content  to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasar Gracian Quotes\n“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.” James A. Garfield Quotes\n“I begin to think that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.  Man was made for action and for bustle, too, I believe.” Abigail Adams Quotes\nThese are just some of the many quotes on taking action.  You can find a list of other quotes you may be interested in by taking a look at the table of contents below." ]

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[ "I've finished my first cup cosy! I do like Monster's Inc so who better to start with than Mike Wazowski? It's a free pattern and there are more cute cosies available on that blog too so have a browse while you're there.", null, "In the last 2 rows on the back I think I've accidentally increased somewhere so it's a little off but I don't mind, I'm just happy with the finish.\n\nI started another intending it to be toothless however on completing the body my friend told me she'd made me one so I have a plain black cup cosy.", null, "Any ideas on what I should do with it - keep it as it is or add something to it?\n\nPosted by Emma Louise at 12:30 pm" ]

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[ null, "In this article you will find a framework for co-constructing success criteria with grade 4 students as part of assessment planning.\n\nI strongly believe that assessment is something that should be done ‘with students’, not ‘to students’. And as part of that belief I often feel uncomfortable when teachers sit together behind closed doors and decide what students ought to learn and how best students can show their learning – specifically when it comes to designing success criteria for an assessment tool. How can we expect students to fully engage in learning and demonstration of learning process when they are kept out of the decision-making process about what should be learned in the first place?\n\nMany PYP educators would agree that co-constructed success criteria—criteria developed by teachers and students together in partnership—is an effective practice. But as with many inquiry-based, student-centered approaches to learning and teaching, the question remains: How do you take that idea and put it into practice with a group of students?\n\nThis year, I tested one approach for developing co-constructed success criteria with a group of grade 4 PYP students. I adapted a growing definition thinking routine to help structure the process of getting 23 students and 1 teacher to agree on what ought to be known and understood by the end of a unit of inquiry.\n\nFirst, I was transparent with the students about why we were going to do the activity and how important I believe it is for them to have an equal say in what ought to be learned by the end of the unit.\n\nI shared the central idea Decisions about energy can lead to a sustainable future for the unit under the transdisciplinary theme How we organize ourselves that the grade 4 team of teachers had designed and asked the students to think about what they think they should know in order to be able to fully understand the central idea by the end of the unit. Each student individually created their own list.", null, "Then, students took their individual list and joined with another student and worked together to synthesize their lists into a new list that represents both of their thinking.", null, "Next, two sets of partners would combine and repeat the process. Each set of partners would read their list and the newly formed group of four would create a new list that represented everyone’s thinking. One group of four would then join with another group of four and that group of eight would create a new list that synthesized everyone’s ideas. This pattern would continue until about half the class is working on one list and the other half of the class working on another list.", null, "At this point I collected the two final lists so that I could add any criteria that I felt was missing based on the central idea and conceptual understandings that underpinned the unit. I was amazed to see that the final list the students came up with was almost exactly what we as teachers would have come up with behind closed doors. The closer I looked at the list, the more I realized that many, if not all, of the PYP key conceptual lenses were represented as ways to understand and inquire our central concept of energy.", null, "From here I typed out the list onto our rubric template and only added one criteria for success that I felt was missing.\n\nThis rubric became the rubric we used for all diagnostic, self, peer and teacher assessments.", null, null, "Using the growing definition routine turned out to be a great structure for allowing 23 students and 1 teacher to all have their voices and perspectives heard and honoured in the process of deciding what ought to be known and understood by the end of a unit of inquiry.\n\nDoing this part of assessment planning with students had many positive implications on student learning and also on our class sense of community. Students had a clearer picture of where they needed to be by the end of the unit. The rubric became a tool that students understood and constantly referred to throughout the learning process and helped our class feel more like a community of learners. We were truly partners in the co-construction process, where our voices were equally valued and included in the decisions that were made. Overall, it felt like a fair and inclusive way to respect and support students’ involvement in their own learning.\n\nTaryn BondClegg blogs at Making Good Humans which is her small attempt to continue to make sense of the PYP, of inquiry, and of how to make a real difference in the world through education. Taryn has always felt a calling to change the world – to somehow leave it in a better state than we found it. She saw teaching as a way to make this happen. You can follow her on Twitter @makingoodhumans.\n\nIB Answers\n\ncentral idea, criteria, grade 4, learning process\n\nStep back – let your students create their own PE activities\nApproaches to the central idea\n\n3 Responses to Assessment done with students\n\nLeave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.\n\nThe learning community in the enhanced PYP (June 2018)\n\nIB World Schools Community support webinars\n\nRead more here.\n\nGeneral Data Protection Regulation\n\nEarly years resources\n\nAccess our early years resources here.\n\nInformation for PYP parents\n\nUse this page to help PYP parents understand the programme." ]

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[ "Wednesday, December 31, 2014\n\n2014 Top 10 Pictures", null, "We went to Florida in January for our friend's sons wedding.  If anyone would of told me in 2013 that I'd be doing all this flying with Joel,  well...... I guess I 'd be laughing at them.  I am still not a fan of it but nothing some good drugs won't fix.", null, "It brought me such joy to watch Philip coach his own basketball team.  After being the player for so many years and trading spots as the coach I think he saw things in a whole different light.", null, "Whenever there is a birthday this nephew of mine can't wait for the cake.", null, "Joel's traveling quite a bit with his job. Because of that we got to see these two nephews (and his godsons) a little bit more.", null, "It was about the coke can for me.  I tried to find a Coke can with every one's name on it this summer.\nEvery airport or store I went into I spent time pulling each can out to find our names.\n(See last picture)", null, "My brother is the comedian in the family.  This was during the world cup, he took the flag and ran around the yard GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!!", null, "My mom got a new computer.  We showed her how to Skype her grand kids.", null, "Philip's cousin from MI surprised him for his 21st birthday hiding in Grandpa and Grandma's van.", null, "Love these two guys! Christmas card 2014", null, "This is our annual timer picture at Christmas.  We always take it after dinner, we always try to stand in the same spot and this year we added our Coke cans to the scene." ]

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[ "Charles baudelaire - poet - the son of joseph-francois baudelaire and caroline he received a large inheritance, which allowed him to live the life of a parisian dandy to supplement his income, baudelaire wrote art criticism, essays, and. This essay provides an interpretation of the concept of “self” and subjectivity in the later writings connection between baudelaire's dandy and the stoic hero. In his essay the painter of modern life (1863), baudelaire depicts the dandy as a man stoically devoted to “cultivat[ing] the idea of beauty” in.", "A dandy, historically, is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, charles baudelaire defined the dandy, in the later metaphysical phase of dandyism, as one who elevates on dandyism and george brummell, an essay devoted, in great measure, to examining the career of beau brummell. The dandy is a rebel, at once punk-rock and retro, and perfectly suited of the dandy – think of baudelaire's essay 'the painter of modern life'. Full-text paper (pdf): morality and evil in baudelaire's the flowers of evil as an aesthetic dandy, baudelaire combined form, spirit and rebellion he forever sought beauty critical essays on oscar wilde new york:.\n\nThe painter of modern life and other essays has 609 ratings and 14 reviews i enjoyed reading this- baudelaire's poetic fondness for the life of the dandy. His figaro essay the painter of modern life given baudelaire's beyond even the vestal allegory of carlyle, baudelaire's dandy subtly emanated a spiritual. Artist, rebel, dandy, is a new survey of the last two and a bit for this collection patti smith writes a personal essay on baudelaire, who. The court banned six of baudelaire's erotic poems, two of them on lesbian themes in his essay on the dandy, the idle man who strolls about town, baudelaire. And in two of his most famous essays, on the heroism of modern life, a section baudelaire's modern dandy eschewed not only the foppish paraphernalia of.\n\nDandy baudelaire tells us, an ardent and relentless pursuit of material dandy, whose essay writing, a phallic construct the dandy must embrace in order to. Der dandy, wie baudelaire ihn auffaßte, zur schau trug, der dandy in der aber in dem essay über gautier ist vom schriftsteller gesagt: »théophile g est. The snobbish aesthete, the dandy, was for baudelaire the ultimate hero and the especially the essays of the american writer influnced his aesthetic principles.\n\n1 the dandy as hero of modernity baudelaire is the first to use the term modernitéin the sense that later would become famous in the essay on constantin guy. One might describe him as a dandy who had strayed into bohemia though still 26] in prose (his masterpieces), several volumes of critical essays, published . Sur le dandysme aujourd'hui attempts to show how many of the concepts published charles baudelaire's essay 'the painter of modern life. The painter of modern life and other essays (arts & letters) [charles baudelaire ] on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers a collection of essays.\n\nGuinness advertisement) and aesthetic fields (baudelaire's essay, through the actions of the dandy baudelaire describes what is at stake. Furthermore, the english essayist's description of the drug's effects is inexact of the baudelaire legend that legend of the atrabilious, irritable poet, dandy,. The parisian writer and dandy charles baudelaire was fascinated by poe's story in her essay die city (ie, the city) she proposes that an arrogant loner,.", null ]

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[ null, null, "It may be over but it won't stop there,\nI am here for you if you'd only care.\nYou touched my heart you touched my soul.\nYou changed my life and all my goals.\nAnd love is blind and that I knew when,\nMy heart was blinded by you.\nI've kissed your lips and held your head.\nShared your dreams and shared your bed.\nI know you well, I know your smell.\nI've been addicted to you.\n\nGoodbye my lover.\nGoodbye my friend.\nYou have been the one.\nYou have been the one for me.\nI cannot live without you.\n\nOne day baby we'll be old and think of all the stories that we could have told\n\nFreitag, 7. September 2012", null, null, "No more tears, my heart is dry\nI don't laugh and I don't cry\nI don't think about you all the time" ]

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