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It is believed that the system started in 1787 when Isaac T. Hopper, a Quaker, began to organize a system for hiding and aiding fugitive slaves.
Opponents of slavery allowed their homes, called stations, to be used as places where escaped slaves were provided with food, shelter and money. The various routes went through 14 Northern states and Canada. It is estimated that by 1850 around 3,000 people worked on the underground railroad.
Some of the most best known of the people who provided help on the route included William Still, Gerrit Smith, Salmon Chase, David Ruggle, Thomas Garrett, William Purvis, Jane Grey Swisshelm, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Lucretia Mott, Charles Langston, Levi Coffin and Susan B. Anthony.
The underground railroad also had people known as conductors who went to the south and helped guide slaves to safety. One of the most important of these was the former slave, Harriet Tubman. She made 19 secret trips to the South, during which she led more than 300 slaves to freedom. Tubman was considered such a threat to the slave system that plantation owners offered a $40,000 reward for her capture. Stations were usually about twenty miles apart. Conductors used covered wagons or carts with false bottoms to carry slaves from one station to another.
Runaway slaves usually hid during the day and travelled at night. Some of those involved notified runaways of their stations by brightly lit candles in a window or by lanterns positioned in the frontyard. By the middle of the 19th century it was estimated that over 50,000 slaves had escaped from the South using the underground railroad. Plantation owners became concerned at the large number of slaves escaping to the North and in 1850 managed to persuade Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act. In future, any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. The Fugitive Slave Act failed to stop the underground railroad. Thomas Garrett, the Deleware station-master, paid more than $8,000 in fines and Calvin Fairbank served over seventeen years in prison for his anti-slavery activities. Whereas John Fairfield, one of the best known of the white conductors, was killed working for the underground railroad.
According to Walter Hawkins slaves constantly talked about the possibility of escape: "there arose in some an irrepressible desire for freedom which no danger or power could restrain, no hardship deterred, and no bloodhound could alarm. This desire haunted them night and day; they talked about it to each other in confidence; they knew that the system which bound them was as unjust as it was cruel, and that they ought to strive, as a duty to themselves and their children, to escape from it".
The main problem was having to leave family and friends. Henry Bibb wrote in his autobiography that it was "one of the most self-denying acts of my whole life, to take leave of an affectionate wife, who stood before me on my departure, with dear little Frances in her arms, and with tears of sorrow in her eyes as she bid me a long farewell." They also knew that there was the possibility that if they evaded capture, their closest relatives would be severely punished.
They also knew that successful escapes were rare. Slaveowners used bloodhounds to trace their slaves. Problems of finding food and shelter in a hostile environment and the absence of maps were also other factors in understanding why most slaves failed in their bids for freedom. Moses Grandy explained the problems that runaways faced: "They hide themselves during the day in the woods and swamps; at night they travel, crossing rivers by swimming, or by boats they may chance to meet with, and passing over hills and meadows which they do not know; in these dangerous journeys they are guided by the north-star, for they only know that the land of freedom is in the north. They subsist on such wild fruit as they can gather, and as they are often very long on their way, they reach the free states almost like skeletons."
Within a few days of leaving the plantation most runaways were brought back and heavily punished. Francis Fredric was free for nine weeks but was captured and received 107 strokes of the whip. Moses Roper, received 200 lashes and this was only brought to an end when the master's wife pleaded for his life to be spared.
A study of runaway notices of local newspapers revealed that 76 per cent of all fugitives were under 35, and 89 per cent of them were men. Another study suggested that field slaves were more likely to try and escape than house slaves.
The development of the underground railroad increased the number of slaves who were able to reach safety. By the middle of the 19th century it was estimated that over 50,000 slaves had escaped from the South using this method. Plantation owners became so concerned by these losses that in 1850 they managed to persuade Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act. In future, any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
In 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law. Only John P. Hale, Charles Sumner, Salmon Chase and Benjamin Wade voted against the measure. The law stated that in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on nothing more than his sworn testimony of ownership. A suspected black slave could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf.
Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. Those officers capturing a fugitive slave were entitled to a fee and this encouraged some officers to kidnap free Negroes and sell them to slave-owners.
Many people associated with the Underground Railroad only knew their part of the operation and not of the whole scheme. Though this may seem like a weak route for the slaves to gain their freedom, hundreds of slaves obtained freedom to the North every year.
The resting spots where the runaways could sleep and eat were given the code names "stations" and "depots" which were held by "station masters." There were also those known as "stockholders" who gave money or supplies for assistance. There were the "conductors" who ultimately moved the runaways from station to station. The "conductor" would sometimes act as if he were a slave and enter a plantation. Once a part of a plantation the "conductor" would direct the fugitives to the North. During the night the slaves would move, traveling on about 10-20 miles (15-30 km) per night. They would stop at the so-called "stations" or "depots" during the day and rest. While resting at one station, a message was sent to the next station to let the station master know the runaways were on their way. Sometimes boats or trains would be used for transportation. Money was donated by many people to help buy tickets and even clothing for the fugitives so they would remain unnoticeable.
Some people %u2014 most of them, naturally, pro-slavery Southerners %u2014 were upset by this whole process. Resulting from many efforts to fix this ostensible problem, a law was passed that allowed slave owners to hire people to catch their runaways and arrest them. The fugitive slave laws became a problem because many legally freed slaves were being arrested as well as the fugitives. This then encouraged more people of the North to become a part of the Underground Railroad. Oftentimes, "bounty hunters" would abduct free blacks, and sell them into slavery.
The Underground Railroad stretched for thousands of miles, from Kentucky and Virginia across Ohio and Indiana. In the Northerly direction, it stretched from Maryland, across Pennsylvania and into New York and through New England.


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|Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics (UNU, 1988, 305 pages)
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|2. Spontaneous and planned settlement in south-east Asia
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|Clearing and settlement in the highland-lowland transition zone of northern Thailand
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Anna Kendrick made a name for herself in Hollywood by balancing roles in the blockbuster franchise Twilight and the Academy Award-nominated dramedy Up In The Air. But she became an unexpected singing sensation when she brought her quirky cup game to Pitch Perfect. Since then, roles in musicals have come her way fast and furious, and frankly she's had enough of it.
Talking to Yahoo, Kendrick was frank:
"I never want to sing again, honestly. It's hard as fuck. The Pitch Perfect [sequel] is going to be fine, ten girls have to be able to sing the songs so it's going to be fine, but doing The Last Five Years and then Into the Woods straight away, I was like, I don't want to have to think about my voice so much. I want to be able to drink beer whenever I want….Honestly, after Pitch Perfect I wouldn't have ever wanted to do a musical. I would have intentionally tried not to do a musical, but when it's The Last Five Years and Into the Woods, you can't really say no."" (Emphasis Yahoo's)
It's true Kendrick has a trio of musicals coming up. And we'll break down details on each below. But it's highly unlikely this exhaustion means the end of Kendrick's musical career. The outspoken star has been performing them professionally since 1998, when she made her Broadway debut in High Society at the tender age of 13. It's far more probable that this statement, made at a special distributor screening of The Last Five Years at Lincoln Center on Monday night speaks more to just how taxing her performances in two of these three productions has been.
Following the success of Pitch Perfect, Kendrick was cast in the Walt Disney Pictures' big budgeted adaptation of Steven Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods. Set for Cinderella, Kendrick joined an ensemble that boasts A-Listers like Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep, as well as celebrated character actors like Tracey Ullman, Lucy Punch, Christine Baranski and James Corden. In the Rob Marshall-directed film due out December 25th, she'll perform the song heard below:
While it might have been intimidating being a part of such a big production, her follow-up was more demanding. The Last Five Years is an adaptation of an Off-Broadway musical that centers on the blossoming and eventual wilting of the romantic relationship between a struggling actress named Cathy, and a aspiring novelist names Jamie. Told from two perspectives, the man's begins at the beginning, moving forward, while the woman's starts at the end, progressing back.
Kendrick stars opposite Jeremy Jordan from Broadway's Newsies. But the real challenge here was all about the singing. First off, the entire film is sung--no spoken dialogue. Secondly, all of the songs were recorded live, as opposed to pre-recorded in a studio and then lipsynced to on set. This means every take demanded her to sing at full force, take after drama-drenched take. Jordan explained:
"This we did almost all live, because you have to, because the entire story is told through song. You either do that, or have a week of rehearsal and record it and then you're stuck with these choices and you film it and you can't even explore it and try new things. Because you've already done this one way of singing it, you can't sing it another way, and that might have turned out great, but this gave us so much freedom."
Writer-director Richard LaGravenese made the film with what Yahoo is calling a "shoestring budget", shooting on location in a New York City brownstone over 21 days. All this makes The Last Five Years sound like a fascinating film, but I'm tired just imagining the endurance required for this shoot.
Here's highlights from the musical's 2013 Broadway revival:
Despite all this, Kendrick still has Pitch Perfect 2 on the horizon. Reprising the role of acapella rebel Beca, Kendrick rejoins the cast of Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson and Anna Camp. Elizabeth Banks, who appeared in the first film, will helm the second. At this time, we have no plot details, but we do know Pitch Perfect 2 is set to sing out on May 15, 2015.


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Wow, talk about an oral debate: Did outspoken actor Michael Douglas really say his throat cancer was caused by performing oral sex on a woman with a sexually transmitted disease?
And more important, is he right that it can?
Now that Douglas' frank interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper has gone viral, cooler heads (translation: the actor's appalled publicity people) have said he was just misunderstood, reports the Associated Press.
But maybe we should thank the actor for bringing up a squeamish subject. Because, yes, it's true: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted disease that, if left untreated, can cause cancers of the cervix, anus, penis, vulva and vagina, as well as head and neck cancers, Time magazine reports.
The link between HPV and head and neck cancer "was really only accepted about five years ago," Maura Gillison, M.D., a professor at Ohio State University who studies HPV infections in the head, throat and neck, told Time. "Before then, no one really cared about oral HPV infections."
Statistics released last year from the American Cancer Society also showed that adults ages 55 to 64 had the highest increase in HPV-related oral cancers because of the increased practice of oral sex.
Douglas, now 68, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 after complaining of discomfort at the back of his throat. A doctor found a walnut-size tumor at the base of his tongue, and he was subsequently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He underwent eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation and has been cancer-free for a little more than two years.
The actor, who is married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, told the Guardian that he didn't think his cancer was due to the many years he "drank like a fish and smoked like the devil," as reporter Xan Brooks put it.
"No," Douglas answered. "No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus."
As it turns out, alcohol- and tobacco-related throat cancer has similar symptoms to the HPV-related version, but they are considered two separate diseases, Gillison told Time.
A 2011 study she and her colleagues conducted found that the proportion of oral cancers related to HPV jumped from 16 percent in the late 1980s to 72 percent in the early 2000s, particularly among middle-aged Caucasian men.
And although Douglas' representatives may wish he hadn't brought it up, there's no question the problem of HPV-related cancers is growing. In an interview earlier this year with USA Today, the American Cancer Society's Otis Brawley, M.D., called the growth of these cancers "one of the epidemics of the 21st century."
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Geotechnical examples
This is a collection of various cases where the 2D resistivity imaging method pioneered by Advanced Geosciences Inc have been successfully applied. Click on a section below and you will be shown a full 2D resistivity imaging brochure detailing the case in question.
These cases have been submitted by satisfied customers whom we thank for permission to publish their data on the web. Each detailed brochure will have a citation for the source of the data.
The geophysical instruments used in the resistivity imaging cases described here are the AGI SuperSting R8/IP earth resistivity meter and the AGI Sting R1 earth resistivity meter together with the AGI Swift multi electrode cables and smart switches.
These make up systems with extremely fast data acquisition in the field.
Today the single-channel Sting R1 has been replaced by the even faster and more accurate instrument: SuperSting R8/IP
The interpretation of data like this can be done using the 2D inversion program AGI EarthImager 2D available from AGI.
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Pioneers smiling behind MacNaughton Cup
The cover of DU's postseason media guide is a team picture with the MacNaughton Cup. Everyone is smiling and appears happy. But if you look at the edges of the photo, there are no fans at Magness Arena. That's because this is a retake, presumably after practice last week.
The original picture with the MacNaughton Cup was shot March 5, after DU's first home game following it's Cup-clinching victory at Minnesota State on Jan. 27. But on March 5, the Pios had just lost to CC 2-1, and everyone was frowning. I haven't seen that picture but I remember how the boys looked from the press box.
DU is today traveling to St. Paul, Minn., for this weekend's WCHA Final Five, but I've requested to have the original picture sent to us, and hopefully we'll get the pictures posted here side-by-side.


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I hinted that the DIY Drones team had been working with Google on an Android-compatible RC interface board. Now that I/O is over, I can give the details. We're calling it the "PhoneDrone board for Android", and it's a way to connect any Android device (2.3.4 or higher) to the world of RC and UAVs.The board has 8 channels of RC in and out, with PWM-to-PPM conversion and multiplexing between RC and Android control. You just plug the Android's phone USB connector into the board and you have two-way communications with RC gear and any other board, such as APM.
That means that you can switch between RC control and Android control or mix the two. An example would be "fly/drive by wire". You steer your vehicle via RC, but an Android phone does the actual control using its onboard IMU. On a car, that would allow every turn to be a high-speed controlled drift, for instance (we may show something like that at Maker Faire).
Or, with a UAV, you might have the Android phone doing high-level image processing and object tracking, sending mission commands to an autopilot board such as APM. You might also want to use the phone's long-distance wireless instead of an Xbee for two-way telemetry.
This can either replace APM if you've got equivalent code running on Android, or compliment it with the Android device doing image processing or long-distance wireless comms.
Note that the pictures here are of an early prototype and some branding has been photoshopped out, pending final silkscreen approval.
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Wasn't this called the DroneDroid board just yesterday? Why the sudden name change?
Still, I'm very excited about this! Opens up so many possibilities! Congratulations to those responsible.
Ahhh, yeah, I forgot about that. I guess the name change won't impact performance huh :P
@Sam... You wouldn't believe how often I hear that one on mobile phone blogs...
Whoops! I just reread Androids open accessory API notes and it is backwards compatible to 2.3.4... My mistake :|


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How to Get Lists with the lapply Function in R
The lapply() function works exactly the same as the sapply() function, with one important difference: It always returns a list. This trait can be beneficial if you're not sure what the outcome of sapply() will be.
Say you want to know the unique values of only a subset of the data frame clients. You can get the unique values in the first and third rows of the data frame like this:
> sapply(clients[c(1,3), ], unique) hours public type [1,] "25" "TRUE" "public" [2,] "125" "FALSE" "private"
But because every variable now has two unique values, sapply() simplifies the result to a matrix. If you counted on the result to be a list in the following code, you would get errors. If you used lapply(), on the other hand, you would also get a list in this case, as shown in the following output:
> lapply(clients[c(1,3), ], unique) $hours [1] 25 125 $public [1] TRUE FALSE $type [1] "public" "private"
Actually, the sapply() function has an extra argument, simplify, that you can set to FALSE if you don't want a simplified list. If you set both the arguments simplify and USE.NAMES to FALSE, sapply() and lapply() return exactly the same result.


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This past week, I've been playing around with writing something about how many of the TV shows I like are series where the conflicts are small and life-sized, where things are, more or less, realistic, and where the characters aren't constantly facing down life-and-death stakes. In a world where every other show seems to be a detective series, a show about normal people, just living their lives can feel like a breath of fresh air. In fact, the above description could be applied to any number of shows, but particularly series like Parenthood, Treme, and Girls, three of my favorite shows on TV. I like it when a show takes time to tell a story that doesn't necessarily end in blood but might have a healthy dollop of tears. It's easier to look at that show and say, "Hey, that reflects my life!" even if my actual problems are very different from those of the people on screen.
You can probably see where I'm going with this: Nashville is another show that more or less fits the description above. Yeah, all of these people are in the performing industry, and they're at various stages of their country-music careers. But for the most part, this is a series about relationship building, about people trying to repair broken relationships, trying to hold on to sustainable ones, and trying to construct new ones. Relationship building is one of my favorite things on TV, to be honest, and I love when two characters very slowly mend, break, or build a bridge between themselves, over weeks and weeks, or even seasons and seasons. Nashville has been trying to do this, and there are scenes in tonight's episode—like Deacon and Rayna talking about the end of their relationship, or Juliette tearing up as her mother tells her how she feels about her—that approach a good example of this. But for the most part, it feels like the relationships are growing in vacuums.
Let me explain what I mean: On Parenthood, the show does lots and lots of storylines every season, and they're not all necessarily equals of each other. But the show has a memory for all of those storylines, and any one of them can come up at any given time to inform some of what's going on. On Nashville, the characters all have fairly rich back-stories and such, but the storylines they're involved in also feel hermetically sealed off from each other. There are sequences tonight—like at the party celebrating Rayna and Juliette's duet—that seem like they might start switching things up, but instead, it just feels kind of weird when Juliette's mom is going to talk to Rayna or Avery, who somehow isn't dead yet, is going to say hi to Juliette for some reason. When Juliette's mom talks to Rayna, it's just not immediately clear what the show is going for or what we're supposed to think or anything. It's just another thing that happens.
That sense that the stories are all taking places in bubble universes that never cross over with each other has always been the show's biggest problem, of course, and it's been slowly, slowly course-correcting on that for several episodes now. (By slowly, I mean this thing is turning like a barge would turn.) But the show keeps assuming it can just make us care about things by insisting they're important. The end of this episode, in which Deacon boards the plane Rayna and Juliette are taking on tour and tells Rayna that he's joined Juliette's band, actually kind of works, because the writers have gotten us invested in these plots over the past 11 episodes (or whatever it's been). The Deacon and Rayna story has always been the show's most reliable, and tossing it into the same hopper as the "Rayna and Juliette go on tour" story seems like it could make everything work. For once, the stories coalesce in a way that's deliberate, exciting, and full of forward momentum. And it only took this long!
The rest of the episode, of course, is a mixed bag, with entirely too much time spent on everything that's not anything to do with Rayna and Juliette. The story development on this show is so bizarre, in that it seems to consist entirely of people reacting to things that happen offscreen, like the fallout from Deacon attacking the guy last week, which apparently explodes in his face but does so almost entirely elsewhere. What we see of him mostly just involves him moping around and feeling bad about what happened and how it's hurt his career. He thinks about sinking back into his addiction again, but he avoids it… somehow. He avoids a call from Coleman. Then he joins Juliette's band.
So what we're seeing here isn't really characters taking action, or even being forced to react to things that are popping up in their face. What we're seeing is almost entirely people having delayed reactions to things that have already happened that we haven't seen. This, again, ties into my fundamental disconnect with what this show is trying to do. I have yet to write it off—indeed, I keep giving it "B"s—because I like all of the individual scenes on a craft level, even as I think the storylines themselves don't make a lot of sense. The show veers away from conflict and drama and action/reaction scenes, instead wanting to do scene after scene of people talking out their feelings. And that's fine! I could respect that if I thought any of those scenes had some weight to them, but it's just hard for me to get too worked up about Gunnar's brother because I just met him last week, you know?
Nashville, I think, falls for the assumption a lot of young TV shows fall for: It assumes that because something is presented on screen, it is automatically going to be fascinating to the audience. It's like a TV show constructed out of theories of what a good TV show would look like. And I want to like it. I do. I want it to be awesome, because the world needs more shows where nothing happens, but feel momentous nonetheless. But Nashville is the exact opposite of that: It's a show where momentous, life-shattering things happen—even if they're not the sorts of things that come with life-and-death stakes—and nobody so much as bats an eye at them. Maybe that's why the show sparks to life when Rayna and Juliette are on screen together, even though the "older woman and younger woman throw catty remarks at each other" thing was old during the Reagan administration. At least something is happening that looks like conflict. At least somebody seems like they care.
Stray observations:
- I'm kind of digging the background score in the show, which sounds like somebody heard Explosions In The Sky, then said, "Hey, let's just make that sound a little bit more like the backing tracks from a Garth Brooks ballad." I mean this as a compliment.
- I tried to stand up for Avery there for a while, but he's just an awful character. I hope that he just goes away and goes away very soon.
- Much as I find Scarlett and Gunnar incredibly boring as characters, I do like when they sing together, and the musical number Avery wanders by toward episode's end is one of my new favorite songs this show has done. More peppiness, show!


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McCutchen, Volquez team up to keep Cubs down
PITTSBURGH -- Andrew McCutchen's torrid run of extra-base hits has been going on for so long, there are few words left to describe it. So Clint Hurdle improvised.
"Twenty-two is McHot right now," the Pirates' manager said.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- Andrew McCutchen's torrid run of extra-base hits has been going on for so long, there are few words left to describe it. So Clint Hurdle improvised.
"Twenty-two is McHot right now," the Pirates' manager said.View Full Game Coverage
McCutchen continued that trend Thursday in a 4-0 win over the Cubs, going 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs. Edinson Volquez pitched seven scoreless innings to set up the first Pirates' shutout since Opening Day, as they took three of four from Chicago.
McCutchen, the defending National League MVP, has 15 extra-base knocks this month (nine doubles and six homers), an average of one per every 2.8 at-bats. For reference on what McCutchen has accomplished since the flip of the calendar, the San Diego Padres, as a team, have the same number of extra-base hits since the end of May.
"I'm seeing the ball, and when I get a pitch to hit, I hit it, and I'm finding the gaps," McCutchen said. "[That's] basically what's happening right now for me, so everything is working out right now, and I just want to stay where I'm at."
The only misstep -- or mis-hop, rather -- came when McCutchen popped off third base on a slide and was tagged out after he hit an RBI double. The play was originally ruled a double, then changed to a triple but later reversed again in the seventh inning by the official scorer.
A career .324 hitter in June -- his best average of any month -- McCutchen has taken things to another level in 2014. Through 11 games in June, McCutchen's stat line looks like this: .429 average, 14 RBIs, 1.071 slugging percentage and a 1.570 OPS.
In a game that featured one hour and 35 minutes of rain delays, the extra-base hits were contagious for the home side. Seven of the Bucs' 10 hits were doubles, and they scored all four runs against Jeff Samardzija. Facing the Cubs' righty for the first time since Opening Day, the Pirates got additional offensive boosts from Russell Martin and Jordy Mercer, who each had RBIs in the fourth inning. Samardzija, who entered with a 2.54 ERA, didn't allow a run to the Pirates when he faced them earlier in the season. But he gave up nine hits and was chased after six-plus innings Thursday.
"Probably the most impressive [aspect] was the way we were able to battle against one of the best pitchers in the league throughout the lineup," Hurdle said. "The at-bats, we were able to stretch him out a little bit."
Martin's softly hit ground-rule double down the right-field line got the Bucs on the board, and thanks to his batterymate, the one run would have been enough.
In one of his best starts of 2014, Volquez tossed seven scoreless innings and worked his way out of trouble a few times. With runners in scoring position, the Cubs were 0-for-8 against Volquez and struck out four times.
Volquez used his breaking ball effectively, and got both Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo to swing and miss it in the third inning to halt the Cubs' early scoring chance and keep the game scoreless.
"From throwing long toss, warmup, I just felt good, and I was able to carry it into the game," Volquez said. "I was trying to follow Martin, we were working on the same pace, and I just threw everything he put down."
Volquez scattered seven hits and struck out five on 99 pitches. When rain started pouring in the seventh, Volquez appropriately got the last two batters he faced to both ground out with a runner at second.
"You have to tip your hat to [Volquez]," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said. "Today was one of his better starts. He was commanding the zone like he does when he's in a good place. We were on the other side of it."
Tony Watson and Jared Hughes came out of the Pirates' bullpen, with each pitching a perfect inning to complete the shutout -- the team's first in 65 games, ending its longest shutout drought since the 2009 season.
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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I haven't posted for some time. As many of you are aware, life often interfers with genealogy. Well, that's enough on that subject.
I registered this morning for GRIP. I think the online registration process was easy this year. Perhaps it's because I knew what to expect, but I registered and received confirmation within a few minutes of each other.
For those of you who many not know about this wonderful genealogical institute, here's the link for more information.
http://www.gripitt.org/ There are still openings in five of the six classes offered this year.
Hope to see you there.
AND, I hope to post more about my research efforts on the Blackmore, Blincow, Bryan and Doyle families for my father-in-law.


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NOAA Weather Radio Presentation in Pacific County
The Pacific County Emergency Management Agency is coordinating with the Washington Emergency Management Division to host a NOAA Weather Radio Program on Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Grays Harbor College Riverview Education Center at 600 Washington Ave in Raymond. The program is designed to educate the public on the warnings and alerts that may be issued from the National Weather Service.
Program participants will learn important information about tsunamis and how to make a home preparedness kit during a presentation by the Washington State Emergency Management Division. Participants may be eligible to receive a NOAA weather radio at no cost. All Pacific County residents are welcome to attend this training; however, radios are limited to the first 50 residents who meet the specified income levels. Programming assistance will be provided.
The NOAA Weather Radio Program is coordinated by the Washington State Emergency Management Division, the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, the Pacific County Emergency Management Agency, and the Grays Harbor College.
Please contact AmeriCorps Member Kirsten Harvill at (360) 875-9409 for more information.


text: Burgandy multi camper glass worktop saver £18.50 Quantity: at £18.50 each Add To Basket These glass worktop savers are a lovely bright addition to your home, they can be used in many ways - for your kitchen as a worktop saver, heatproof up to 400 degrees they are perfect for your hot pots and as a chopping board for your fruit and veg. Why not complete the set with a candle/hot-pot stand and a matching set of coasters. The smaller of the savers can also be used as placemats.For other areas of your home they look lovely as a centre piece for your dining or coffee table along with the matching coasters. As a cheese board for your dinner guests or as a dressing table topper to catch drips of makeup or perfume.With rubber feet to protect your furniture, wipe clean and heatproof they are a versatile item to have in your home.Not suitable for dishwashers Size 300 x 400mmWas £24.50 now £18.50


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daylighting tibbetts brook
Located just North of New York City, Tibbetts Brook is an ideal location for creating a new blue-belt system similar to the model developed in Staten Island beginning in the 1980s to day-light streams. Tibbetts Brook currently collects the water of its 850 acres into underground sewer pipes, creating a tremendous load on the city's combined sewer system. An opportunity exists to reestablish a more naturally functioning ecosystem by restoring the stream at grade, a practice commonly known as daylighting. The Institute for Sustainable Design at Cooper Union seeks to assist the DPR and the DEP by providing an assessment and visioning project that explores ideas, precedents, techniques, management & stewardship structures for the project.
On what is now the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the Bloomberg & Cuomo Administrations are faced with the pressing issue of compliance with this important legislation dedicated to restoring health to our streams, rivers and harbor. With PlaNYC and the new Green Infrastructure Plan, the City is taking direct action to help ameliorate ongoing pollution as well as to heal prior environmental wounds. It is a challenge to undertake these initiatives because of the cross agency, cross-disciplinary and thus cross territorial nature of certain problems, which require a coordinating body. The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design is uniquely well positioned to play this coordinating role, and is seeking to assist the city in developing a water management system in which New York's economic development, its near shore habitat and upland waterways all thrive in tandem. Restoration of this site has the potential to improve citywide storm-water management, rehabilitate at-risk natural systems and improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.


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Sunday, April 11, 2010
{Real Parties} Dominic's Superhero 3rd Birthday Party!
10 comments:
- Pretty Party Studio said...
So fun and cute! I am the same I always struggle with boys' themes. It is just way more fun to be a girl in every way!
You did a great job :)
- April 12, 2010 at 1:56 AM
- Kim @ Frost Me! said...
awwww how stinking cute! Great story too ;o)
Kim @ http://frostmeblog.blogspot.com
party inspiration
- April 12, 2010 at 4:29 AM
- cookies and cups said...
so cute! I love that invitation!
- April 12, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- Susan Crabtree said...
SUPER cute-love the superheroes, they are adorable!
- April 12, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Myra said...
SUPERcute! I am doing a no-character GIRLY Superhero next month for my daughter's birthday! Do you know how difficult it is to inspiration for a girly superhero party that's not "Supergirl" pink? I love the favors... "Thanks for being a Super Friend" I may have to use that now... :)
- April 12, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Buttercream said...
how do you make your cupcake labels?
- April 12, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- Candy and Cake said...
Do you have these available for purchase, Kim? I would so love these for my son who is in love with superheroes, especially Spiderman and Batman! He just had his birthday but just to keep in mind for next year..:)
What a cute birthday and birthday party products!!!
- April 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- jo anne said...
oh yes! i just did the best superhero party last year. so cute! i will send you pictures!
- April 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- Shawna said...
love the super hero graphics too cute....I always try to stay away from anything too commercial...but these are adorable so unique!!
After you posted this I realized that I have not posted any of my son's b-day parties lol...we have done Pirate, airplane, trains.......I need to look through my pics!
- April 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- Nancy said...
Love this party! Do you recommend a good site for such cute clipart? I found Digicute on Etsy but would love another suggestion. Thanks!!
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Nine of UMBC's regular season men's lacrosse games plus all post-season action will be broadcast on Q1370 (www.q1370.com) in the Retrievers' 2014 campaign.
Live stats will also be available for all Retriever home lacrosse games and links for road contests (audio, video, live stats) will be posted to www.umbcretrievers.com.
2014 UMBC Men's Lacrosse Radio Schedule
(Air times are 5 minutes before listed game times)
Sat. 22 Monmouth 1:00 p.m
Sat. 1 Richmond 1:00 p.m.; Sat. 8 Johns Hopkins 1:00 p.m.; Tue. 11 Mercer, 7:30 p.m.; Tue.,18 at Towson, 7:00 p.m.; Fri. 28 Stony Brook*, 7:30 p.m.
Sun. 6 at Binghamton*, 2:00 p.m.; Sat. 12 Hartford*, 3:30 p.m.; Sat. 19 Albany*, 3:30 p.m.
Thu., 1 America East Semifinals!, TBA; Sat. 3 America East Championship, 10:00 a.m.!
*America East contest ! America East Championship at Stony Brook
Fans can also follow all the action from their mobile devices via the new UMBC Front Row app. The app can be downloaded for free on the App Store for Apple devices and the Google Play Store for Android devices.
UMBC was picked to finish third out of six teams in the annual America East Coaches' preseason Poll, as announced by the league office on in Cambridge, Mass. on Wednesday, Feb. 5.


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Industry solutions is an important area of endeavour for IBM. An industry solution is an IT asset that helps solve an industry-specific problem and is easily reconfigurable to meet specific needs of each client. A solution often helps a client to reach out to and interact with their own customers or users.
An important segment within industry solutions is called case management, which takes the view that a customer/user interaction pattern can be orchestrated by a case. The definition of a case includes data structure and data type definitions, metadata definitions, business process and user access rules, and other possible resources. Based on an initial request by a customer or user, the case management system instantiates the case definition, and the resultant case orchestrates the interaction to achieve the goal or goals implicit in the defined pattern. For example, a case management system could be used to orchestrate the means by which a customer makes and successfully completes a warranty claim for a defective product. The process would begin with collecting initial information about the defective product, about the defect, and about the purchase. The process would include determining the legitimacy of the warranty claim, providing basic support to qualify the defect and determine a course of action, and ultimately to effect a repair or replacement of the product.
A case management user interface is a collection of interactive components that collect data from a user and store it in the data structure of a case (an instance of a case definition). The presentation of the user interface is also affected by the metadata of the case. A common piece of metadata is an enumeration of the valid values that a data item may take. If such a list is available, then it would be presented in a dropdown menu or list box, and the input would be collected via list selection rather than by free-form typing in a text entry field. Other common metadata are boolean flags such as for indicating whether a data node is readonly or required to fill in a step of the case processing. The user interface components would be affected by enforcing the readonly property or providing a sensory indication of the required property. Still other metadata can define validity constraints, such as a numeric datatype or a minimum or maximum value or length. The user interface of a component associated with a data node would be affected by indicating whether the current data value is or is not valid according to the constraints. A case management asset would also typically forbid progress to the next step of the orchestrated pattern when the data associated with the current step contains invalid values.
The term "case management solution" has been used to describe a software solution that supports the design, deployment, execution and reconfiguration of case management assets. As the field of case management matures, the term "advanced case management" has emerged as a way to characterize case management assets that have advanced feature requirements, such as the requirement to collect many dozens, scores or hundreds of fields of data. Some examples of advanced case management include: home or car insurance claims, credit card charge dispute resolution, citizen-facing ombudsperson cases, contagious disease outbreak tracking, and management of complex medical or psychological treatment cases. IBM Case Manager (ICM) is IBM's advanced case management solutions.
A problem arises in advanced case management solutions with respect to the expected maturity of the user interface. The typical case management solution generates a user interface presentation layer for the data of a step using a simple linear columnar approach or a column of expandable stacks of related data values. The advantage of this approach is that it most easily adapts to a reconfiguration of the case management asset in which the data structure is amended to add or remove data nodes. However, there are a number of disadvantages to this approach. For one, it provides a one-size-fits-all approach to the user interface layout in which usability substantially degrades in quality as the size of the data set grows.
As well, larger data sets tend to correlate to more advanced requirements in an overall solution that a case management asset simply cannot begin to address using only a simple user interface approach. There are many such features, including creating multipage guided interview style wizards, creating mutiple print-style pages to reflect a "document of record" for the case, and of course adding the ability to digitally sign the "document of record" as a way to create a legally binding agreement or a record that can stand up to rigorous auditability requirements.
The new release of IBM Forms is the strategic IBM forms technology that now solves this problem for IBM Case Manager (ICM). An IBM Form combines an XML data structure with a template describing interaction behavior rules and a comprehensive user interface definition. The how-to for connecting an IBM Form to an ICM solution is as simple as going into the IBM Forms Designer, right-clicking on any number of XML data nodes, making them "public" and giving them public names equal to the ICM case property names they must map to, and then ataching the IBM Form into the ICM solution.
The IBM Form can then be used in the Case eForm widget anywhere in the ICM solution where the Case Data Widget would have been used. During execution of a case under the ICM solution, the case property values are automatically injected into the XML data of the IBM Form as it is rendered to the user, based on the public data mapping mentioned above. When the user completes or saves the form, the updated data values from the IBM Form are injected back to case properties so that the Form and the Case are in synch.
Oh, but the story is so much cooler than just adding high precision, multipage user interface control for the data. And it's cooler than having a "document of record" for the data that can be digitally signed. IBM Forms contains this fabulous technology for defining live interaction with XML. It's called... you guessed it... XForms. XForms manages not just XML data, but also metadata pertaining to each data node, such as the node's datatype, or whether the node is required, or whether it must be valid according to some constraint expression. XForms also allows a list of values to be associated with the input mechanism for a data node. Remember above where I said that case management assets define metadata just like this for case properties? Well, when you design a case solution that includes this metadata, and then map a XML node to a case property by assigning the public data name, the IBM Forms integration automatically injects not just the case property values, but also any lists as well as XForms binds for the metadata. During the form run-time, the XForms processor then automatically combines these XForms bind results with any metadata settings that might be defined within the form itself. In effect, there is a seamless bridge from ICM case processing to the user's interaction with the IBM Form.
Finally, this seamless bridge works in the other direction too, from the IBM Form back to the ICM case solution. In addition to synchronizing data updates from the form back to the case, the key lifecycle operations of saving or completing a form interaction are gated by a validation operation. IBM Case Manager delegates the validation operation to the IBM Form technology, which executes a validation operation based on the behavior of an XForms submission. This means that non-relevant nodes are automatically pruned from the validation, and the validation result is the sensible combination validation rules injected from the case solution and validation rules expressed directly in the form.
Netting it out, IBM Forms is a first-class citizen of IBM Case Manager solutions, and the case data and metadata of an IBM Case Manager solution are handled as first-class citizens of the user experience provided by an IBM Form.


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The Pcs discover an ancient, dusty oil lamp, somewhere in the bowels of a dungeon. Naturally they "rub it", and out pops a wizened, old djinn. So far so good. Then it speaks...
"Ah at last, at last I am free! Now grant me my wish!"
When the PCs explain that they are the ones that should be granted a wish, the malignant djinn explains to them that his particular oil-lamp has a curse placed upon it. Whomsoever releases the entity inside shall be geased to grant the djinn's wish to the best of their ability.
Groans ensue from the party. The djinn rubs his wrinkled hands, grins, and proceeds to name his wish. What could it be?
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- 4 Beds
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SubdivisionPINES AT 4 OCLOCK SUB
Listing Date06/10/19
Year Built1995
Lot Size0.14 Acres
Parking1 Car Garage
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This townhome is ski in-ski out along the Four O'clock ski run. Backs up to a natural preservation area that is a favorite area to view wildlife off the back deck. This unit has never been in a rental program but can be used for short term rentals. The Tall Pines townhomes rent well. The Townhome HOA has completed and paid for a complete exterior stucco siding replacement with a new roofing system on the complex w/ exterior painting this summer. Interior painting just completed throughout unit
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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the breast.
The breast is made up of lobes and ducts. Each breast has 15 to 20 sections called lobes, which have many smaller sections called lobules. The lobes and lobules are connected by thin tubes called ducts. Anatomy of the female breast. The nipple and areola are shown on the outside of the breast. The lymph nodes, lobes, lobules, ducts, and other parts of the inside of the breast are also shown.
Each breast also contains blood vessels and lymph vessels. The lymph vessels carry an almost colorless fluid called lymph. The lymph vessels lead to small, bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes that help the body fight infection and disease. Lymph nodes are found throughout the body. Clusters of lymph nodes are found near the breast in the axilla (under the arm), above the collarbone, and in the chest.
Breast cancer is sometimes detected (found) in women who are pregnant or have just given birth.
In women who are pregnant or who have just given birth, breast cancer occurs most often between the ages of 32 and 38. Breast cancer occurs about once in every 3,000 pregnancies.
Possible signs of breast cancer include a lump or change in the breast.
Breast cancer may cause any of the following signs and symptoms. Check with your doctor if you have any of the following problems:
Other conditions that are not breast cancer may cause these same symptoms.
It may be difficult to detect (find) breast cancer early in pregnant or nursing women, whose breasts are often tender and swollen.
Women who are pregnant, nursing, or have just given birth usually have tender, swollen breasts. This can make small lumps difficult to detect and may lead to delays in diagnosing breast cancer. Because of these delays, cancers are often found at a later stage in these women.
Breast examination should be part of prenatal and postnatal care.
To detect breast cancer, pregnant and nursing women should examine their breasts themselves. Women should also receive clinical breast examinations during their routine prenatal and postnatal examinations.
Tests that examine the breasts are used to detect (find) and diagnose breast cancer.
A doctor should be seen if changes in the breast are noticed. The following tests and procedures may be used:
If cancer is found, tests are done to study the cancer cells.
Decisions about the best treatment are based on the results of these tests. The tests give information about:
Tests include the following:
Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options.
The prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:
After breast cancer has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the breast or to other parts of the body.
The process used to find out if the cancer has spread within the breast or to other parts of the body is called staging. The information gathered from the staging process determines the stage of the disease. It is important to know the stage in order to plan treatment.
Methods used to stage breast cancer can be changed to make them safer for the fetus.
Standard methods for giving imaging scans can be adjusted so that the fetus is exposed to less radiation. The following tests and procedures may be used in the staging process:
There are three ways that cancer spreads in the body.
The three ways that cancer spreads in the body are:
When cancer cells break away from the primary (original) tumor and travel through the lymph or blood to other places in the body, another (secondary) tumor may form. This process is called metastasis. The secondary (metastatic) tumor is the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if breast cancer spreads to the bones, the cancer cells in the bones are actually breast cancer cells. The disease is metastatic breast cancer, not bone cancer.
The following stages are used for breast cancer:
This section describes the stages of breast cancer. The breast cancer stage is based on the results of testing that is done on the tumor and lymph nodes removed during surgery and other tests.
Stage 0 (carcinoma in situ)
There are 3 types of breast carcinoma in situ:
Stage I
Stage I breast cancer. In stage IA, the tumor is 2 centimeters or smaller and has not spread outside the breast. In stage IB, no tumor is found in the breast or the tumor is 2 centimeters or smaller. Small clusters of cancer cells (larger than 0.2 millimeter but not larger than 2 millimeters) are found in the lymph nodes.
In stage I, cancer has formed. Stage I is divided into stages IA and IB.
Stage II
Stage II is divided into stages IIA and IIB.
Stage IIIA
Stage IIIA breast cancer. No tumor is found in the breast or the tumor may be any size and cancer is found in 4 to 9 axillary lymph nodes or lymph nodes near the breastbone (left panel); OR the tumor is larger than 5 centimeters and small clusters of cancer cells (larger than 0.2 millimeter but not larger than 2 millimeters) are found in the lymph nodes (middle panel); OR the tumor is larger than 5 centimeters and cancer is found in 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes or lymph nodes near the breastbone (right panel).
In stage IIIA:
Stage IIIB
Stage IIIB breast cancer. The tumor may be any size and cancer has spread to the chest wall and/or to the skin of the breast and caused swelling or an ulcer. Cancer may have spread to axillary lymph nodes or lymph nodes near the breastbone. Cancer that has spread to the skin of the breast may be inflammatory breast cancer.
In stage IIIB, the tumor may be any size and cancer has spread to the chest wall and/or to the skin of the breast and caused swelling or an ulcer. Also, cancer may have spread to:
Cancer that has spread to the skin of the breast may also be inflammatory breast cancer. See the section on Inflammatory Breast Cancer for more information.
Stage IIIC
Stage IIIC breast cancer. No tumor is found in the breast or the tumor may be any size and may have spread to the chest wall and/or the skin of the breast. Also, cancer has spread to 10 or more axillary lymph nodes (left panel); OR to lymph nodes above or below the collarbone (middle panel); OR to axillary lymph nodes and lymph nodes near the breastbone (right panel).
In stage IIIC, no tumor is found in the breast or the tumor may be any size. Cancer may have spread to the skin of the breast and caused swelling or an ulcer and/or has spread to the chest wall. Also, cancer has spread to:
For treatment, stage IIIC breast cancer is divided into operable and inoperable stage IIIC.
Stage IV
Stage IV breast cancer. The cancer has spread to other parts of the body, most often the bones, lungs, liver, or brain.
In stage IV, cancer has spread to other organs of the body, most often the bones, lungs, liver, or brain.
In inflammatory breast cancer, cancer has spread to the skin of the breast and the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm. The redness and warmth occur because the cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin. The skin of the breast may also show the dimpled appearance called peau d'orange (like the skin of an orange). There may not be any lumps in the breast that can be felt. Inflammatory breast cancer may be stage IIIB, stage IIIC, or stage IV.
Inflammatory breast cancer of the left breast showing peau d'orange and inverted nipple.
Recurrent breast cancer is cancer that has recurred (come back) after it has been treated. The cancer may come back in the breast, in the chest wall, or in other parts of the body.
There are different types of treatment for patients with breast cancer.
Different types of treatment are available for patients with breast cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment.
For some patients, taking part in a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. Many of today's standard treatments for cancer are based on earlier clinical trials. Patients who take part in a clinical trial may receive the standard treatment or be among the first to receive a new treatment.
Patients who take part in clinical trials also help improve the way cancer will be treated in the future. Even when clinical trials do not lead to effective new treatments, they often answer important questions and help move research forward.
Some clinical trials only include patients who have not yet received treatment. Other trials test treatments for patients whose cancer has not gotten better. There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop cancer from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of cancer treatment.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Treatment options for pregnant women depend on the stage of the disease and the age of the fetus.
Three types of standard treatment are used:
Most pregnant women with breast cancer have surgery to remove the breast. Some of the lymph nodes under the arm are usually taken out and looked at under a microscope to see if they contain cancer cells.
Types of surgery to remove the breast include:
Breast-conserving surgery, an operation to remove the cancer but not the breast itself, includes the following:
Breast-conserving surgery. Dotted lines show the area containing the tumor that is removed and some of the lymph nodes that may be removed.
Even if the doctor removes all of the cancer that can be seen at the time of surgery, the patient may be given radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or hormone therapy after surgery to try to kill any cancer cells that may be left. Treatment given after surgery, to lower the risk that the cancer will come back, is called adjuvant therapy.
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to kill cancer cells. There are two types of radiation therapy. External radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to send radiation toward the cancer. Internal radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters that are placed directly into or near the cancer. The way the radiation therapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Radiation therapy should not be given to pregnant women with early stage (stage I or II) breast cancer because it can harm the fetus. For women with late stage (stage III or IV) breast cancer, it should not be given during the first 3 months of pregnancy.
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping the cells from dividing. When chemotherapy is taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, the drugs enter the bloodstream and can reach cancer cells throughout the body (systemic chemotherapy). When chemotherapy is placed directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, an organ, or a body cavity such as the abdomen, the drugs mainly affect cancer cells in those areas (regional chemotherapy). The way the chemotherapy is given depends on the type and stage of the cancer being treated.
Chemotherapy should not be given during the first 3 months of pregnancy. Chemotherapy given after this time does not usually harm the fetus but may cause early labor and low birth weight.
See Drugs Approved for Breast Cancer for more information.
New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
This summary section describes treatments that are being studied in clinical trials. It may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy is a cancer treatment that removes hormones or blocks their action and stops cancer cells from growing. Hormones are substances made by glands in the body and circulated in the bloodstream. Some hormones can cause certain cancers to grow. If tests show that the cancer cells have places where hormones can attach (receptors), drugs, surgery, or radiation therapy is used to reduce the production of hormones or block them from working.
The effectiveness of hormone therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, in treating breast cancer in pregnant women is not yet known.
Ending the pregnancy does not seem to improve the mother's chance of survival.
Because ending the pregnancy is not likely to improve the mother's chance of survival, it is not usually a treatment option.
Early Stage Breast Cancer (Stage I and Stage II)
Treatment of early stage breast cancer (stage I and stage II) may be surgery followed by adjuvant therapy as follows:
Late Stage Breast Cancer (Stage III and Stage IV)
Treatment of late stage breast cancer (stage III and stage IV) may include the following:
Radiation therapy and chemotherapy should not be given during the first 3 months of pregnancy.
Lactation (breast milk production) and breast-feeding should be stopped if surgery or chemotherapy is planned.
If surgery is planned, breast-feeding should be stopped to reduce blood flow in the breasts and make them smaller. Breast-feeding should also be stopped if chemotherapy is planned. Many anticancer drugs, especially cyclophosphamide and methotrexate, may occur in high levels in breast milk and may harm the nursing baby. Women receiving chemotherapy should not breast-feed. Stopping lactation does not improve survival of the mother.
Breast cancer does not appear to harm the fetus.
Breast cancer cells do not seem to pass from the mother to the fetus.
Pregnancy does not seem to affect the survival of women who have had breast cancer in the past.
Some doctors recommend that a woman wait 2 years after treatment for breast cancer before trying to have a baby, so that any early return of the cancer would be detected. This may affect a woman's decision to become pregnant. The fetus does not seem to be affected if the mother has previously had breast cancer.
Effects of certain cancer treatments on later pregnancies are not known.
The effects of treatment with high-dose chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, with or without radiation therapy, on later pregnancies are not known.
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The strained relationship of Cepheus and his daughter Andromeda
When we look to the night sky for father figures, we're hard-pressed. There are heroes and rogues, serpents and dragons, birds and beasts, fish and fishermen, harps and chariots. But there is only one father among the constellations, and not a good role model at that.
King Cepheus ruled a seaside kingdom and was father of the great beauty Andromeda. But when his wife Cassiopeia bragged that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs of Poseidon, the enraged god sent a fearsome sea monster, Cetus, to ravage the kingdom. To appease this beast — and the gods — Cepheus chained his daughter to the seaside cliffs. Gee, thanks, Dad.
While the great hero Perseus rescued the princess and they lived happily ever after, father and mother were not so lucky. Both were turned to stone along with the sea monster when Perseus held aloft the severed head of Medusa. That's one way to break the familial knot.
Cepheus looks like a crown, or maybe a Bishop's miter, and for us along Chesapeake Bay is a circumpolar constellation, visible year-round. Look for the crown above the north-northeast horizon just after sunset and high in the north as dawn approaches. His queen, Cassiopeia, is also visible year-round, the familiar M- or W-shaped constellation circling the north pole. Andromeda rises in the northeast around midnight and is home to the Andromeda Galaxy, the only object outside our own Milky Way Galaxy visible to the unaided eye. At 2.5 million light-years away, it is one of the most distant objects we can see, shining at magnitude 4.4 like a hazy patch on the princess's right side.
Aside from teaching us not to sacrifice a daughter to a sea monster, Cepheus, Andromeda and the other 86 major constellations offer countless lessons and ample opportunities for fathers to bond with their daughters and sons.