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Aug 15, 2011 - 2:49 pm
Peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer: chemosensitivity test and tissue markers as predictors of response to chemotherapy
Chiara Arienti (1), Anna Tesei (1), Giorgio M Verdecchia (2), Massimo Framarini (2), Salvatore Virzì (3), Antonio Grassi (3), Emanuela Scarpi (1), Livia Turci (1), Rosella Silvestrini (1), Dino Amadori (1) and Wainer Zoli (1)
Author Affiliations
(1) Biosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (I.R.S.T.), Meldola, Italy
(2) Department of Surgery and Advanced Cancer Therapies, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
(3) Department of Surgery, Bentivoglio Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Platinum-based regimens are the treatments of choice in ovarian cancer, which remains the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancies in the Western world. The aim of the present study was to compare the advantages and limits of a conventional chemosensitivity test with those of new biomolecular markers in predicting response to platinum regimens in a series of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer.
Fresh surgical biopsy specimens were obtained from 30 patients with primary or recurrent peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer. ERCC1, GSTP1, MGMT, XPD, and BRCA1 gene expression levels were determined by Real-Time RT-PCR. An in vitro chemosensitivity test was used to define a sensitivity or resistance profile to the drugs used to treat each patient.
MGMT and XPD expression was directly and significantly related to resistance to platinum-containing treatment (p = 0.036 and p = 0.043, respectively). Significant predictivity in terms of sensitivity and resistance was observed for MGMT expression (75.0% and 72.5%, respectively; p = 0.03), while high predictivity of resistance (90.9%) but very low predictivity of sensitivity (37.5%) (p = 0.06) were observed for XPD. The best overall and significant predictivity was observed for chemosensitivity test results (85.7% sensitivity and 91.3% resistance; p = 0.0003).
The in vitro assay showed a consistency with results observed in vivo in 27 out of the 30 patients analyzed. Sensitivity and resistance profiles of different drugs used in vivo would therefore seem to be better defined by the in vitro chemosensitivity test than by expression levels of markers.
Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:94 doi:10.1186/1479-5876-9-94
Aug 15, 2011 - 2:50 pm
Clinical Trial Finds Personalized Cancer Cytometrics More Accurate than Molecular Gene Testing
In the first head-to-head clinical trial comparing gene expression patterns with Personalized Cancer Cytometric testing (also known as "functional tumor cell profiling" or "chemosensitivity testing"), Personalized Cancer Cytometrics was found to be substantially more accurate.
In a clinical trial involving ovarian cancer patients, patterns of gene expression identified through molecular gene testing were compared with results of Personalized Cancer Cytometric testing (in which whole, living cancer cells are exposed to candidate chemotherapy drugs). Four different genes were included in the molecular part of the study. The four genes were selected as those which researchers believe to have the greatest likelihood of accurately predicting individual patient response to specific anti-cancer drugs.
Study Results:
For two of the genes studied, there was no significant correlation between gene expression pattern and patient response. In other words, results for these genes were found to be meaningless. For the third gene studied, there was a 75% correlation between expression and patient response. This means that the gene was 75% accurate when it came to identifying an active drug for that patient. For the fourth gene studied, the accuracy in identifying an active drug was only 25%. In marked contrast, Personalized Cancer Cytometric testing was found by the researchers to be 90% accurate in identifying active drugs for ovarian cancer patients in this study.
Molecular testing – that is, testing for gene expression patterns – is widely studied and heavily promoted as a method to identify effective chemotherapy drugs for individual cancer patients. However, most studies of molecular testing carried-out to date show only modest correlation or no correlation between test results and actual patient response. In other words, much work remains to be done before molecular gene testing can be regarded as an accurate tool for chemotherapy selection. And yet in this, first ever, head-to-head study of test accuracy, Personalized Cancer Cytometrics was found to be highly accurate when it came to identifying effective drugs.
Comparing this study with previous studies:
Although this was the first head-to-head trial, the accuracy levels found in this trial for Personalized Cancer Cytometric testing are strikingly consistent with those documented in dozens of previous studies, published by respected cancer researchers around the world. In those studies, as in this one, extremely high levels of correlation (in other words, high levels of test accuracy) were found for Personalized Cancer Cytometrics.
Arienti et al. Peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer: chemosensitivity test and tissue markers as predictors of response to chemotherapy. Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:94.
Sep 24, 2011 - 10:05 pm
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers reported aggressive surgical removal of as much cancer as possible throughout the abdomen in ovarian cancer patients is the best option for most women. Results of the study are published in the January 2006 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
"This study provides further evidence that surgery to remove as much tumor as possible at the initial operation is the best option for most patients," says William Cliby, M.D., Mayo Clinic gynecologic oncologist and lead investigator of the study. "It helps to define a topic that is often debated within our specialty -- the benefit of radical surgery for advanced ovarian cancer patients." Dr. Cliby says that data demonstrate many surgeons choose the more cautious route of less surgical intervention, and this results in shorter overall survival.
Dr. Cliby and his team of researchers found that aggressive surgery greatly improves survival rates for patients with the most severe disease spread. They also found similar five-year survival rates in most cases for patients undergoing radical and non-radical surgery, indicating to the researchers that aggressive surgery is not a significant risk factor, but instead aids in survival. In those patients with the highest volume of disease (carcinomatosis), the researchers found that radical surgery greatly improved the five-year survival rates (44% versus 17%).
Having a general preference towards maximum surgical intervention, Dr. Cliby and his fellow Mayo Clinic surgeons see the results of a survey conducted by the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists in 2001 as troubling, with 45.5% of respondents citing lack of evidence for improved survival as a primary rationale against performing aggressive surgical resection in specific cases of advanced ovarian cancer. The American Cancer Society predicts over 16,000 women in the United States will die from ovarian cancer this year, and Dr. Cliby's team hope their study will promote a trend toward more aggressive surgeries when warranted. "Our study showed a significant survival advantage when a more aggressive surgical approach is used," says Dr. Cliby. "Hopefully we'll see increased education and a movement towards a more uniform surgical management of ovarian cancer."
Dr. Cliby's team notes that while surgery is just one part of the treatment for advanced ovarian cancer, it is the one variable gynecologic oncologists treating this disease can most control. To improve the outcomes of this disease, they hope to see more research in resistance to chemotherapy, prevention of recurrent disease, and earlier detection.
This study's purpose was to estimate the effect of aggressive surgery on overall survival rates for ovarian cancer patients. The main outcome measures were residual disease after tumor reduction surgery, frequency of radical surgical procedures and five-year, disease-specific survival. Radical surgery procedures included diaphragmatic surgery, bowel resection, splenectomy or extensive abdominal peritoneal stripping or resection.
Because several other factors are part of the decision to perform surgery, especially more radical surgeries, Dr. Cliby's team also looked at risks related to age, preoperative medical condition and operative time. They found that residual disease and radical surgery were the only factors that consistently predicted survival.
The study cohort of 194 women was assembled from patients who underwent primary surgery for stage IIIC ovarian cancer at Mayo Clinic between 1994 and 1998.
Other Mayo researchers assisting in the study include: Giovanni Aletti, M.D.; Sean Dowdy, M.D.; Bobbie Gostout, M.D.; Monica Jones, M.D.; Robert Stanhope, M.D.; Timothy Wilson, M.D.; and Karl Podratz, M.D., Ph.D.
Source: Mayo Clinic
Kudos on the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center study of aggressive surgery being the best option for advanced-stage ovarian cancer patients.
Patients with ovarian cancer should undergo aggressive de-bulking surgery up front, prior to chemotherapy. It has long been observed that those patients whose tumors can be resected without any visible residual disease tend to live longer than those who are left with residual tumor after de-bulking surgery. Based upon this, up front, de-bulking surgery has become the standard of care.
Some researchers believe the reason for better survival for patients who could undergo complete resection without any tumor left behind is that these tumors are biologically less aggressive and would do better regardless of the type of treatment they receive.
Surgery is an integral part of the multimodality treatment of many cancers. In the case of ovarian cancer, proper patient selection will ensure the benefit of surgery for those who need it and avoid its morbidity and delay in the commencement of chemotherapy for those who are unlikely to benefit from it.
Sep 26, 2011 - 12:12 am
Thanks for the research Ray.
I'm waiting to see whether I'll be offered an operation. I have already had many ops in the past but whether my surgeon will agree to do one to remove some structures and adhesions now I have cancer remains to be seen. Whether to have the op if it's offered is a close call because, as you have shown, it seems that there are better outcomes for those who undergo radical surgery. However, some researchers believe that those who do have the surgery and are left with little residual cancer are likely to be those who have a biologically less aggressive form of the disease anyway. I think a lot more research will need to be done. Meanwhile, I guess I'll just have to be hopeful that my course is the best one for the type of disease I have and that I'll be offered it in the first place.
Thanks again. Good wishes to you and your family.
Sep 26, 2011 - 5:29 pm
Correct, some researchers believe the reason for better survival for patients who could undergo complete resection without any tumor left behind is that these tumors are biologically less aggressive and would do better regardless of the type of treatment they receive, and that the removal of lymph nodes at the time of surgery may additionally contribute to a better outcome.
The line of reasoning frequently used to explain the value of surgery included five points. (1) surgery is thought to remove resistant clones of tumor cells and thus decrease the likelihood of the early onset of drug resistance. (2) the removal of large masses likely to be associated with poorly vascularized areas of tumor improves the probability of delivering adequate drug doses to the remaining cancer cells. (3) the higher growth fraction in better vascularized small masses enhanced the effect of chemotherapy. (4) smaller masses required fewer cycles of chemotherapy and thus decreased the likelihood of drug resistance. (5) removal of bulky disease enhances the immune system. Patients who present with a large mass are suffering because of that mass and they need that tumor out to relieve symptoms and to save life due to symptoms. It's important to deal with the bulk.
Some are recently finding out that small-cell lung cancer, the most aggressive lung cancer, there is an unusual therapeutic approach - surgery. The surgical specimen is the "personalized" part of personalized cancer medicine. Best wishes!
Feb 27, 2012 - 7:51 pm
The different genes that were studied in the molecular part of the above study were ERCC1, GSTP1, MGMT, XPD and BRCA1. These are putative drug resistance genes. ERCC and XPD are response elements for CDDP repair. BRCA1 is also a response element for DNA damage and part of FANC gene family (a genomic fidelity function).
GSTP1 is a detoxifying enzyme associated with thiol conjugation (alkylator resistance) while MGMT is the specific enzyme associated with the removal of temozolomide residues from DNA base pairs.
What the investigators did was to examine the "Target Now" types of targets and compare clinical responses against the results with functional analyses, establishing that when one measures the biology of the disease it provides a more robust prediction of response. The "driver" term is less operative as these genes are not causative of the disease but causative of drug resistance.
Feb 28, 2012 - 1:40 am
Thanks for the info. I can't remember where I read this but somewhere online there is information about the greater likelihood of metastasis AFTER the primary tumor has been removed. This is what happened to me. The cancer became much more aggressive post-operatively and spread into my liver.
Feb 28, 2012 - 2:44 am
A chemo-induced gene mutation can happen when the original chemo received does not work (ineffective). The cancer comes back. When it does this, the cancer comes back more aggressively. The mutagenic effects (changes in form) of chemotherapy on a genetically-unstable tumor, drives the tumor into a state of more aggressive behavior. You might kill off a whole lot of cancer, only to cause a mutation in the remaining cancer, such that the remaining cancer behaves in a more aggressive fashion.
Cancers that are a product of these genetic mutations release cells from the usual controls of proliferation and survival, making them so much harder to fight it. Following this mutation, the cancer cells acquire the ability to proliferate without the normal restraints. As the cancer grows, it may infiltrate and destroy the surrounding tissue and metastasize by penetrating into blood vessels, lymph nodes and body cavities. Distant metastasis via the blood stream may affect virtually any organ (the lungs, bones, liver, adrenals and even the brain).
Mar 01, 2012 - 11:52 am
My husband is battling secondary ppc from the appendix and is scheduled for the radical surgery. We have hope to see that 5 year survival. We continue to hope for more research for us and for others. We have signed up for clinical studies at Wake and hope it helps down the road! It is a cruel disease and amazingly he still is not in pain but discomfort has started so we are praying for a good surgery and recovery. Thanks again! Kathy


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"Luke, what does smack that cheese mean?" two of my college-aged co-workers asked me the other day.
We were closing down the restaurant, and like usual, we were listening to hip-hop. The subject matter of the question: a song by Lupe Fiasco, in which the chorus is, "stack that cheese". It's not "smack that cheese" I explained to the ladies, it's "stack that cheese," cheese is money, and to stack money means to save it, stash it away.
Another piece of modern lexicon was added to their brilliant young minds, and we went back to cleaning. Then I wondered, when did I become a hip-hop historian?
For me hip-hop is a love-hate relationship. If there is one form of music that speaks directly to my heart it is hip-hop. If there is one form of music that disgusts me it is hip-hop. Hip-hop is alive. Hip-hop is dead. Hip-hop is sitting on the mountaintop, singing the praises and joys of being alive. Hip-hop is down in the gutter, sipping hard liquor and syrup, waiting to be resurrected. Hip-hop is a reflection of the human condition.
I don't remember where my first hip-hop tape came from, probably a Sam Goody store at the mall, but I remember its manila color, and the energetic vibes that the Beastie Boys created. It was License to Ill, a 1980s classic, with Led Zeppelin sampled guitar riffs and outrageous lyrics. Lyrics that would later shape high school and the excessive partying that led into higher education. Simply put, the Beastie Boys were trouble, and what does the confused youth love more than trouble?
In high school, when the world moved into CDs, I kept Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre stashed away in my desk, for fear my parent's would find it. In essence the songs on Doggystyle were similar to License to Ill, partying, misogyny, and standard misbehaving; which is exactly what I wanted to get into as a teenager.
I now look back to the 1990s with nostalgia. So out of reach. Many say the golden age of hip-hop was in the 1990s. In the nineties, to me, hip-hop was simply rap, music that was made for partying, for escape, firmly removed from reality. In my senior year of hip-hop I decided I was tired of rap, and became a hippie, perhaps just for a change in drugs to do at parties.
So the golden age of hip-hop, a crescending wave, crashed over before I even realized it was there. Luckily, at my third college, up in Gunnison, Colorado, I realized there was more to live for than partying. There was the outdoors.
Hip-hop was invented in the concrete streets, in New York in the 1970s. Founded within black culture, there were three essential ingredients in hip-hop: the music, graffiti art, and breakdancing. It didn't take long for hip-hop to spread across the globe, or to become commercialized. Still, today in 2014, the essence of hip-hop remains alive and vibrant: kids are still rapping, dancing and creating art with the same tools from the inventors (at least in a figurative sense) from America to Zimbabwe.
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One buddy in particular, Big Red the Superjock, was a DJ on the local radio station in Crested Butte, and we had intricate discussions about our favorite artists and their work. Hip-hop was more than just music for partying, way more.
Hip-hop is art; it is about knowledge and self-discovery, and in the words of my second favorite duo, Black Star, "Life without knowledge is death in disguise, that's why knowledge of self is like life after death. Apply it to your life let destiny manifest."
I learned about the drug epidemic, about how many rappers only escaped jail because they got into hip-hop (Former crack dealer Jay-Z being the most famous). The anger and injustice of 400 years of slavery was voiced through many artists. Tough and honest voices against capitalism, though hip-hop has been noted as the only pro-capitalist form of music out there (again the contradictions). Another great duo, Dead Prez, raps about a proper diet, exercise, love, poetry and yoga, "You are what you eat, so I strive to eat healthy, my goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy."
My favorite was (is) Andre 3000, of the duo Outkast. Such a poetic pure soul, Andre 3000 is still ahead of his time, 20 years into his career. He embraced the cool of hip-hop, while remaining true to himself, "Softly as if I play piano in the dark, found a way to channel my anger, not to embark. The world's a stage and everybody got to play they part." When Andre 3000 raps, whether it is about struggle, drugs, violence or love, you feel his soul. When he says, "we the coolest mutherfunkers on the planet" you feel like the coolest mutherfunker on the planet.
Even the Beastie Boys came around. My path mirrored theirs. After years of partying and debauchery, they started rapping about meaningful topics. They apologized for their misogyny and stopped carrying weapons. They started getting involved in the Free Tibet movement, and featured Buddhist monks on one of their tracks. Before his untimely death Adam Yauch aka MCA, spent a winter dirtbagging it as a snowboarder at the Alta ski resort.
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The Bears open the season against future Skyline Conference rival Manhattanville College in the opening round of the AJ Buchanan Classic on Friday, November 16. St. Joseph's returns to Brooklyn for their home and Skyline opener against Farmingdale State College on Tuesday, November 20.
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2018-19 Skyline Conference Men's Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll
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1. Yeshiva (18-11, 13-7 Skyline), 95 (6)
2. Farmingdale State (18-8, 16-4), 93 (5)
3t. Purchase (18-9, 13-7) and Old Westbury (12-14, 11-9), 70
5. St. Joseph's-Brooklyn (10-15, 9-11), 62
6. Mount Saint Vincent (16-11, 13-7), 55
8. Mount Saint Mary (13-13, 13-7), 44
9. Sarah Lawrence (4-21, 3-17), 33
10. Maritime (10-15, 7-13), 20
11. St. Joseph's-Long Island (5-20, 5-15), 14


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They said 350 militiamen torched all but two buildings in Khor Abeche, 75km (47 miles) from Nyala on Thursday.
The organisations named Nasir al-Tijani as the militia leader and demanded action from Sudan's government.
A two-year conflict between Sudanese pro-government Arab militias and black African rebels has left at least 180,000 people dead in Darfur.
Cattle revenge
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Khartoum says reports speak of 17 people killed in the raid by militiamen riding horses and camels.
A joint statement by the UN and African Union said: "We condemn this senseless and premeditated savage attack."
It said the militiamen "rampaged through the village killing, burning and destroying everything in their paths and leaving in their wake total destruction with only the mosque and the school spared".
The statement said the raid appeared to be in revenge for villagers allegedly stealing 150 cattle.
Mr Tijani had also accused a rival militia of failing to return the bodies of two of his men killed in an earlier raid, it said.
The organisations said the militia leader had previously threatened to destroy the village but the government had not taken steps to prevent it.
The naming of Mr Tijani comes after the UN Security Council voted recently to refer those believed guilty of war crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
That decision sparked protests in Khartoum. Sudan says it can bring war criminals to justice.
The attack was the worst since a raid on the village of Hamada in January in which about 100 people died.
The Darfur conflict began in February 2003, when Sudanese rebels of African origin took up arms against the government.
Khartoum is alleged to have armed Arab militiamen to fight the rebels.
The fighting has displaced about 1.8 million people.


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November brought an overwhelming OSMC and many announcements and releases. Check here for the video archive and Twitter feed. Especially the hackathon proved yet again many useful enhancements, thoughts, ideas and passion for future #icingalove.
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Access, Coordination, and Counseling Support among Key Opportunities Found in Statewide Postsecondary Landscape Analysis
WILMINGTON, Del.—When it comes to preparing students for life after graduation, Delaware has emerged as a national leader. But the state still has work to do in how it approaches college and career advising and leveraging its many existing resources for students and families with equity and efficiency—according to a landscape analysis report released Monday.
The Rodel Foundation of Delaware, United Way of Delaware, Delaware Department of Education, Delaware Community Foundation, and Delaware Business Roundtable Education Committee presented the results of a statewide landscape analysis of in-school and out-of-school postsecondary resources during a special event at the Route 9 Library & Innovation Center in New Castle.
The analysis was executed to gain a better perspective on the strengths and opportunities of current resources that prepare high school students for postsecondary options, and further enhance the work that is currently in progress. Organizers hope the report's findings spur stakeholders into action and position Delaware as a national model.
The analysis—collected from focus groups, surveys, and individual feedback—revealed significant assets in Delaware, including its committed public- and private-sector leadership, vision, and alignment. And while the state has a long list of successful programs ranging from state agencies, scholarship programs, and community-based organizations, the analysis found there is a need to strengthen the coordination and collaboration among youth-serving organizations, schools, and other stakeholders. Many programs also face capacity and resource needs.
"Delaware has gained national visibility for the rapidity with which it is opening career pathways to young people, preparing them to meet labor market needs in Delaware," said Nancy Hoffman, senior advisor at Jobs for the Future, a national nonprofit that conducted the analysis. "Nearly 9,000 high school students now have access to a career pathway program and early college credit. An increasing number are also gaining work experience.
"What we learned from the research, however, is that Delaware has to do a better job in ensuring that all students learn about the labor market and careers—not just about college—while they are in middle and high school. Delaware is ahead of the game in their honest assessment of the equitable distribution of services across the State. My guess is that other states will follow their lead in doing similar assessments."
The analysis also highlights Delaware's opportunity to rethink its approach to college and career advising. Delaware's counselor-to-student ratio of 1:464 is far beyond the 1:250 ratio recommended by the National School Counselor's Association. Many counselors shared that added job responsibilities like lunch or bus duty have stretched them thin and impacted their effectiveness to deliver postsecondary and career planning services, as well as mental and emotional heath support. However, the analysis revealed that adding more counselors is not necessarily the answer—national experts shared that leveraging out-of-school resources and building public-private partnerships may be Delaware's smartest approach.
It also shows that Delaware can do more to integrate college and career preparation, rather than treating them like separate paths. Other opportunities for the state identified in the report include:
– Increasing programming focused on career planning
– Finding the right college fit for students, and programs that ensure students complete college
– Removing barriers to accessing programming, such as transportation and language barriers
– Empowering families/parents, who are the primary source of information for students
– Strengthening strategic data use, referral of students, and capacity among youth-serving organizations
– More effectively using technology to meet student needs
– Addressing unmet mental health needs of students
"We know that the world is changing rapidly, and businesses can't find the talent they need to fill important jobs. We underwent this analysis to begin to understand where our system was serving young people well, and where we could strengthen or expand support to help them make informed choices and get ready for life after high school," said Gary Stockbridge, president of Delmarva Power, and chair of the state's Workforce Development Board. "We should be encouraging all students to explore their career interests, while supporting them to successfully transition to higher education and future careers with skills and supports they need to be successful."
Hoffman and Dr. Gregory Seaton of Jobs for the Future, which focuses on public policies that increase college readiness and career success, presented the findings. Stockbridge highlighted several updates the state has undergone since the completion of the analysis to showcase Delaware's commitment to improvement, including progress in aligning resources across government agencies, the launch of study to examine social and emotional supports for students and families, and public-private partnerships to expand career advisement. Local leaders from the Rodel Foundation, United Way of Delaware, and the Delaware Department of Education led small group conversations to explore the report's recommendations, build on momentum underway, and work with attendees to identify action steps to address the opportunities identified.
In total, more than 300 Delawareans participated in the process via interviews, focus groups, professional meetings, and surveys. Students, school counselors and administrators, government officials, representatives from business, community-based organizations, and postsecondary communities throughout the state were engaged during the research.
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DOVER, DE (October 25, 2017) — Secretary of Education Dr. Susan Bunting, State Board of Education President Dr. Dennis Loftus, and United Way of Delaware President and Chief Executive Officer Michelle Taylor were today joined by Governor John Carney for the launch of the Delaware Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR), a community coalition to improve statewide literacy rates by the time a child leaves the third grade.
A student's ability to read on grade level by the end of third grade is a key indicator of future success in school. In Delaware, 52% of school children read on grade level by the end of third grade. In 17 low-income zip codes in Wilmington, Dover and western and central Sussex County, that rate drops to 37%.* Some of these students suffer undiagnosed physical, emotional, or learning challenges, live in toxic stress, are often absent from school, and may not have access to after-school or summer learning experiences that enrich the lives of many of their peers.
"Third grade literacy is critical to the future success of our students," said Governor Carney. "This is the time when students shift from the fundamentals of learning how to read, to reading to learn. We must do better as a state, and I look forward to the work of our nonprofit and community partners to tackle this important issue."
"By the age of 3, a 30-million word gap exists between children from the wealthiest families and those who are economically disadvantaged," said Secretary of Education Susan Bunting. "Delaware is committed to aligning birth to grade 3 services throughout the state to benefit children now and for the long term. We know that building a solid foundation for language and literacy in the early years highly contributes to success throughout life."
"Students need early educational opportunities that focus not only on reading but also vocabulary development, written and oral communications skills, and numeracy," added Dr. Loftus, State Board of Education President. "One entity cannot tackle this alone but working together we are excited to help drive the changes needed for our earliest learners throughout Delaware."
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The CGLR coalition will bring together state government, nonprofit organizations, foundations, schools, and others to address this situation, especially in low-income areas of the state, by leveraging resources in five focus areas:
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Improving academic achievement
Reducing chronic student absenteeism
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Taylor of United Way adds, "Improving early grade literacy is a central part of United Way of Delaware's strategy for improving the quality of life in our state. We welcome the opportunity to help lead the Delaware Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and look forward to creating a new generation of motivated young readers across Delaware."
Taylor says United Way operates its Reading Angels and My Very Own Library programs, which provide in-school reading volunteers and more than 90,000 books for Delaware school children, respectively. She noted that individuals interested in promoting grade-level reading can volunteer to read to school children as part of the Reading Angels program by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Hogtown is about to meet Big Muddy.
The Toronto International Film Festival has accepted the Saskatchewan-rooted film Big Muddy into competition this year. It's a big break for the Saskatoon filmmakers.
"I was delighted, obviously," said Bob Crowe of Angel Entertainment. "The competition is intense."
He was one of the producers and, along with his business partner
Wally Start, one of the executive producers. Jeff Moneo, originally from Saskatoon, wrote and directed the full-length feature.
The story is about a woman living in seclusion whose dark past comes back to haunt her. It was shot on location at Big Muddy where Moneo's relatives have land. The region was notorious in the past as a refuge for outlaws.
"I like the fact that it deals with real family struggles. I also like the tone. It feels like a western but it's set in modern day," said Crowe.
Made for around $1 million, Big Muddy was the last film to benefit from Saskatchewan's film tax credit, which provided about $220,000 in funding. Were it not for that and the director's family connection to the location, it wouldn't have been shot in the province, Crowe said.
"At the time, if we didn't have the tax credit, we would have moved to Manitoba and shot it there."
Today, it would qualify for slightly more funding under Creative Saskatchewan but so many crew members have moved or changed jobs that it would be hard to find staff, said Crowe.
"It's a lot harder than it used to be," Crowe said of the movie business. If he were younger, he might have moved on as well but his wife has her medical practice here and they're settled.
"I don't physically need to shoot here, I just want to. I'm too old to be living out of hotels for weeks on end."
It helps that feature film is only one aspect of Angel Entertainment. A very busy wing of the company does corporate films, shoots the SaskTel Max video on demand productions and produces the video and graphics in the stadium for Saskatchewan Roughrider games.
For Big Muddy, getting into TIFF provides enviable exposure and might lead to international deals. It already has a Canadian distributor. The next step is the film festival circuit and a hoped-for week or two on the big screen in Canada next year, Crowe said.
"I'm hoping it will make it into a Cineplex near you."
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Vick And Media Hypocrisy
As if there aren't dogfights, cockfights, snake fights and more going on in trailer parks around the country that don't involve Blacks. And while hip-hop can be blamed for many of our social issues, I don't think dog-fighting is one of them.
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I have always believed that there are two kinds of people in this world, those that get it and those that don't.
I have carefully followed as the media try and turn Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's dog-fighting woes into a racial issue by blaming hip-hop and inner-city violence. We just can't win in the hood.
As if there aren't dogfights, cockfights, snake fights and more going on in trailer parks around the country that don't involve Blacks. And while hip-hop can be blamed for many of our social issues, I don't think dog-fighting is one of them. People were fighting dogs long before Snoop Doggy Dog and DMX came along.
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quick to judge him and that we must remember Vick is innocent until proven guilty.
Normally, I wouldn't have anything to say about their support of Vick. I am not in the camp of people that think that dog-fighting deserves this much of our attention.
Sure it's not pretty and for the most part is horrific, but it's not the worst thing Vick could be charged with; try 14 counts of child pornography and having sex with an under age minor.
Enter the Black phenomenon R&B singer R. Kelly. Set to begin his long overdue trial next month on 14 counts of possessing child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a girl prosecutors have said could be as young as 13, you wouldn't know it the way his albums are still flying off shelves and Black people are still bumping his music.
So what does R. Kelly have to do with Michael Vick? While traditional Black organizations have been quick to jump to Vick's defense, for the most part they've said nothing on Kelly, either way.
Last time I checked a dog was not human, but a 13-year-old girl was. Regardless as to whether or not she willingly engaged in the act, she was the minor and he was the adult. That's really the bottom line.
Many of us saw that video over the Internet or bought it on the street somewhere, so we can't act like that wasn't R. Kelly. Unless you support this type of behavior you should be as shocked and appalled as I am at the silence from our organizations on it.
But tell me this. Would Black America still be looking the other way and steppin' from side-to-side to Kelly's beats and acting as if nothing had happened had he been accused of sleeping with a 13-year-old boy?
Would he still get nominations for Image Awards and sell out concerts from coast-to-coast? I think not because while we're willing to look the other way when it comes to young girls (as if they don't matter at all), we get our panties in a bunch when it comes to anything gay and immediately try and distance ourselves from it.
Well we can't be hollering one minute that Black women are queens and are to be respected and protected and then turnaround and cast a blind eye towards R. Kelly, but want to be quick to jump to the defense of people like Michael Vick and Barry Bonds.
As I said before, prosecuting dogfighters is not high on my list priorities. I mean if we're going to throw the book at Vick at the same time we need to be raiding trailer parks from coast to coast where similar fights are staged and bet on.
However, I am more interested in prosecuting grown ass men who get their rocks off on young under age girls, regardless of whether or not they are music icons.
When we don't jump to the defense of young girls in these types of situations, we send a clear message that they're lives aren't as important as others.
As I said, there are two kinds of people in this world, those that get it and those that don't. Which one are you?
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1) 'When She Loved Me'
I'm sorry, we're hitting you all guns blazing with this one. Definitely the saddest Disney song of all time, no question. Taken from 'Toy Story 2', this heartfelt ballad tells the tale of Jessie, who was abandoned by her owner when she grew too old for toys. Oh god, here come the waterworks already.
2) 'Part of Your World'
We all desire something and one little mermaid just desired to be human. The yearning in her voice just breaks our hearts every time. LET HER BE HUMAN FOR GOD'S SAKE!
3) 'Gotta Go My Own Way'
In every 'High School Musical' film there was a Gabriella leaving song. You literally could not hold that girl down. Her and Troy ended up fighting around two thirds through the film and it looked like they had broken up but she always popped up at the end and was all smiles. Like life is supposed to be.
4) 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'
What starts off as an innocent song about a child wanting to play slowly morphs into a tragic tale of loss and neglect. Well that suddenly got dramatic, didn't it?
5) 'Reflection'
Mulan has a bit of an identity crisis with this one. She feels like she's let her family down and that she will never amount to anything. Little does she know what fate has in store for her.
6) 'I See the Light'
All her life Rapunzel had dreamed of seeing the lanterns which are lit every year on her birthday and finally her dream comes true. In that moment she realises how deeply she is in love with lovable rogue Flynn. It's the ultimate romance goals.
7) 'Beauty and the Beast'
Don't they scrub up well? Belle emerges looking like a princess, the Beast is transformed into the prince we know he is inside and they are joined together in a dance so beautiful that even the angels look on with envy.
8) 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight?'
A serene and perfect song about falling in love. It's so pure it brings a tear to the eye.
9) 'Colours of the Wind'
Pocahontas teaching John Smith to appreciate nature is magnificent. We can all learn a lesson here.
10) 'When There was Me and You'
The original Gabriella 'walking away' song from 'HSM' numero uno back in 2006. Even though we know they get back together in the end, hearing Gabriella doubt the precious love that her and Troy shared makes us well up.
11) 'A Whole New World'
Part of our crying to this song is because we're so seething with jealousy that no-one has ever taken us on a magic carpet ride through the clouds. RUDE!
There aren't enough tissues on the planet to stem the river of tears oozing out of our eye sockets.
I think we need a moment. If you feel our pain, tweet us @maximumpop. Misery loves company.


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The Japanese anime director Mamoru Oshii has been perfecting his vision for a couple of decades now. Like the Patlabor series of videos and films and the original Ghost in the Shell (1995), his new movie takes a story of tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous and terrifying possibilities, what, if anything, is real? Can it be that, as Ghost 2 suggests, "humans are nothing but the thread from which the dream of life is woven"?
The film's hero make that heroid is Batou, a cyborg detective with a face slashed out of marble and a platitude for every plot twist. "No matter how far a jackass travels," he muses, "it won't come back a horse." Batou encounters lots of fantastic creatures (like the crustaceous Crab Man), elegant vistas (pagoda skyscrapers) and bizarre machines (a plane that resembles both a dragon and Groucho Marx, with a cigar as his nose). It's smart, spectacular, luscious picturizing.
It's also static. French critic Michel Ciment called Ghost 2 "animation without animation"--a cartoon in which the images don't move much. On stolid figures and faces, only the mouths move, as in the old Clutch Cargo TV series. The action scenes don't move at a clip either. Sometimes Oshii preens a little, as when the camera tracks slowly around an object. It points out what's missing in his approach: fluidity of character line, the subtlety of expression that brought humanity to a Warner Bros. cartoon duck or rabbit.
That could be just a fogey's rant, mooning about the old days and ways. Viewers who resist the coming posthuman form of filmmaking may be as obsolete as the movies they loved. Get used to it, people: these new techniques will weave our deepest dreams into a cinematic coat of many colors. Thing is, it'll be worn by a cyborg.


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Make tea while the sun shines! And that's exactly what I'm doing today since for once there is not a single cloud in the sky. And it's hot – at least in the upper eighties. Hello summer? We had pancakes out on the deck for breakfast this morning and as soon as I was done clearing the table I whipped up some tea and put it down on the patio to perk away all day –
We also finally got the deck "finished" (yeah I know – I keep saying that). We moved the etagere to accomodate our new chairs and create more of a defined space from the nasty neighbors, and finally hung up the lanterns –
And here's the view from behing the etagere, showing off our new chairs –
You'll notice most of the plants are downstairs on the patio soaking up the sun while we've got some. We bring them back up at night (got to keep the squirrels on their toes!). You'll also notice some pillows – I stitched those up this morning, actually. Here's a close up –
I used some vinyl tablecloth fabric that I've had lying around for a few years now, that I bought with exactly this purpose in mind. Finally I get around to making them! They're nothing fancy – I just eyeballed the dimensions I wanted, sewed them inside out and once I righted them, stuffed them with with batting I had on hand. I did take a shortcut here – instead of inserting a zipper, which I am well-versed in doing at this point, and instead of sewing the stuffing seam shut (which makes me cry every time as I struggle to get a nice closure seam) I closed it with stick-on velco. I know, I know – but no tears for me today and now I can easily replace the stuffing as they get flattened. I love this fabric for outdoor use because it can stand up to a little moisture and can easily be wiped clean. I have a little bit of it left, and I'm thinking of using it to replace the blue fabric in the white windowbox, but not today. A project for another weekend.
Oh, and just because we happened to snap a picture of it, here's our new hops plant and the planter that my husband repaired –
I'm super pleased with how the space turned out. I'm looking forward to grilling out later and relaxing back there as a matter of fact. We're going to be grilling steak, shrimp, onion, mushroom and pepper kabobs for dinner tonight, served with dolma and herbed couscous.
And of course, I can't let a day like today go by without a couple of food projects happening in the background – I've got a double batch of barbecue sauce simmering on the stove, and I liked the jalapeno cornbread so much I've decided to make a variation of it for breakfasts this week – jalapeno-bacon corn muffins with sun dried tomatoes. But I won't do that until after dark and it cools down a bit. And since the duck wasn't defrosted enough to work with yesterday while it was cool and the weather was awful, I've got to do it today. In an hour or so, I've got to sharpen my knife and take it down. The breasts will go in the freezer for another meal. Then I'm going to render the skin and fat so that I can confit the legs and thighs. And then the carcass and wings will go in a stockpot to simmer into stock. It's a hot day for all this kitchen work, but sometimes nature doesn't cooperate. And fortunately, it's not stuff I really have to stand over.
And I'm fitting in some relaxation and reading and internetting as usual… all in all, an excellent three day weekend. Hope yours is just as great!


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Process Training
For an organization to function as a well-oiled machine, functional departments such as Sales, HR, Manufacturing, and IT need to follow a set of guidelines. These guidelines are called Processes, and they help the organization maintain an efficient state of working.
Processes define the exact steps and measures to take, which every department must follow, to achieve the desired end-result. It is aimed at maximizing the output and reducing the wastage of time, efforts, and resources. When all departments follow the outlined processes, the organization as a whole prospers. The emphasis on process training is an organization-wide concern, which makes traditionally training each department a cost-intensive effort. In the event of a department or organization-wide restructuring, which calls for new processes to be outlined, traditional training further contributes towards increasing costs and efforts.
Why does traditional training fail to address an organization-wide processes training activity?
It is an organization-wide function: All departments of an organization need to follow processes. The organization-wide nature of training makes traditional training methods inefficient, as the costs associated with training all departments of an organization are very high.
Processes adapt to regular changes: With the change in policies, management, and conditions of working, processes undergo restructuring. The modern business environment is dynamic and regularly undergoes changes, which makes addressing these changes through traditional training methods a costly affair.
Training is an ongoing activity: Training departments on following the correct processes is a regular affair. It is the only way an organization can ensure a department's efficient functioning. eLearning courses are a cost-effective way of regularly training all departments.
No formalized training structure: eLearning courses stored on an LMS help provide a framework for an L&D team to organize and automate the delivery of training, schedule classroom training sessions and eliminate paper-based assessments, instead of ad-hoc on-the-job training and inconsistent classroom sessions
Channel partners training: Channel partners who help in distributing and marketing products follow a product distribution process. Vendors who supply semi-finished products to an organization are also required to follow a strict manufacturing process. Training partners who may be located across the globe is difficult but an important process in itself.
How does eNyota formalize your processes training?
Interactive videos: eNyota has created interactive videos that chart exact sequences to follow, and these are used by organizations to outline specific processes.
Strong assessments: Each process training course created by eNyota carries strong assessment modules to test the learner's knowledge, post-training.
Department-wise courses: eNyota creates unique courses aimed at outlining department-specific processes. This way your organization can focus on addressing department-specific needs.
Channel partners training: Organizations use courses created by eNyota to train their channel partners and vendors in following the correct processes globally.
Cost-effective: Allocating large budgets for organization-wide processes training is passé. Let eNyota create department-wise eLearning courses that can be re-used repeatedly.
Break complex processes into simple micro-learning modules for your employees to access. We at eNyota specialize in this. Sign up here today.


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Wedding Centerpieces Gallery is a continuing project with many beautiful designs to choose from. Click on each thumbnail link to go to a page where there are larger pictures to view in that category.Try to look at design style, rather than colors. Most centerpieces can be adapted to any wedding color scheme simply by substituting other flowers.
I carry a wide variety of fresh flower supplies in my store, including everything needed to create wedding centerpieces similar to those shown in the above galleries. These supplies are usually difficult to find, because they are the same products that professional florists use.Be cautious about buying "wholesale" on the internet. True wholesale warehouses sell to retailers who hold a retail license from their own state.I try to keep my prices reasonable, so that the DIY bride can truly realize a savings when creating her own wedding centerpieces.
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I'm trying to birth a poem at the moment, and I need to get away from words. Last week, I had so much going on with my addiction post that I didn't post Song of the Week number four. So, I've made it a goodie – 'Samson' by Russian singer Regina Spektor. Seriously, how did she get that song so perfect? How anyone can protest that this is one of the most beautiful songs on her 2002 album 'Begin to Hope' is beyond my comprehension.
My youngest nephew is a Sam. Not a Samson, but he may as well be because that's what I often call him. Either that or 'Sam-YOU-elle!' Sammy was born a few weeks early, but that was enough to make him very sick. He had failure to thrive and had my sister not been a carrier of the CF gene, we would have suspected that he had Cystic Fibrosis. I'm sure my mum was transported back to when I was a baby where I struggled to put on weight, had constant chest infections and hospitalisations. When he was eight months old, baby Sam stopped eating and was losing weight quite rapidly. The only choice my sister was given was to feed him via a naso-gastic tube – a horrible thing for any parent to go through. I say parent, because thankfully he doesn't remember having tubes forced up his nose when he'd rip them out as any baby would do. It's certainly what I did. With a temerity and mother cub instinct, my sister managed to get through that and while that was really only the beginning of Sam's health problems, on my sister's birthday he suddenly began eating – the first thing he munched on being her birthday cake!
When he was three, Sam had been in a private hospital for his asthma for just short of a week and we he just wasn't getting any better. The next thing, he's literally dying in my sister's arms. Sam was in acute respiratory arrest – a frightening shade of blue, his little chest sporting a huge cleave and he had to be brought back to life. I cannot imagine how terrifying that would have been for my sister. Not less than ten doctors worked on him for at least an hour and then he was transferred to the city's best children's hospital by the hospital's head intensivist himself. Sam was placed in the Intensive Care Unit and I arrived to find him not intubated, which was a massive relief. For the next couple of days, he was under the watchful eye of ICU doctors and on bi-pap, a machine often used for CF'ers to force oxygen into the lungs. It's essentially non-invasive intubation.
Sam eventually got better, but he still has terrifying asthmatic episodes. One day he can be running around like a maniac and the next, he's in the back of an ambulance with sirens blaring, my sister terrified about the outcome. Now, because he's awfully cute (all of my nephews are – coincidence they're related to me? I think not), Sam has been don't a lot of media – billboards in shopping centres, in ads, on radio and TV for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (do you think I can find ANY of it?)
And so, this song always reminds me of Sam. The words 'You are my sweetest downfall; I loved you first, I loved you first', are words I've always associated with my nephew. We share a bond where both of us have been to the edge of life and back and we share an amazing spiritual connection. That's all I'll say.
The delicacy of this song is so exquisite and it's just occurred to me that I've been selecting songs that are delicate, so I promise to mix it up with something with a little more robust next week. Maybe even something daggy, because I'm a bit of a dork. For me, 'Samson' has this ethereal quality with its piano trills and Spektor's voice. This ballad is so striking in its simplicity and its shut up beauty and originality. It is the sweetest song on the album and for me, I think Spektor really found her form with this song.
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to see Regina Spektor live, and when I heard the first refrain from her piano, I cried with joy. Such an affecting song. And so I give you 'Samson'.
Sammy and I even wardrobe coordinate …
Sam and I a couple of years ago. We look a lot alike and I've been asked if he's mine progeny, to which I say 'he's my nephew and I hold no responsibility as to what he may or may not do in your shop' 😉


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Fan, Jiarang and Ye, Jianqiao (1993) Exact solutions of buckling for simply supported thick laminates. Composite Structures, 24 (1). pp. 23-28. ISSN 0263-8223Full text not available from this repository.
The three-dimensional state equations for the initial buckling of orthotropic thick plates are established in the Cartesian co-ordinate system in this paper without imposing any assumptions about the displacement models or stress distribution across the thickness of the cross-section. By using the continuity conditions of the displacement and stresses on each interface between any two adjacent layers, the state equations for the laminates, which consist of orthotropic layers, were obtained. A unified exact solution for the buckling of simply supported rectangular laminates with any given number of orthotropic layers is presented in the paper by means of the well-known Cayley-Hamilton theorem. All the equations of elasticity can be satisfied exactly and the nine elasticity constants of orthotropy for each layer are fully taken into account. Regardless of the number of the layers considered, only a set of simultaneous linear algebraic equations of 3rd order needs to be solved in the final stage of the solution. The numerical results were calculated and compared with those of thin plate theory, Mindlin analysis and those due to Srinivas et al. who also solved the problems with the three-dimensional theory of elasticity.
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I wrote a guide a while back outlining some points to consider when choosing the right hiking socks.
A guide which caused quite the debate on twitter and eventually spawned The Great Sock-Off 2011.
Point6 was the first sock up so I hit the trail at Swallow Cliff wearing a pair of Point6 Hiking Tech Light Mini Crew socks in order to evaluate their pros and cons and see how well they would measure up in the ultimate sock showdown… The Great Sock-Off 2011!
I decided to hike one of my favorite trails, the 8 mile Sag Valley Yellow Trail. Field testing my Point6 Hiking Tech Light Mini Crew socks with the following criteria in mind:
- Price and availability
- Comfort and Fit
- Padding and Support
- Durability
- Overall Performance on the Trail
Knowing that I came into The Great Sock-Off 2011 as an advocate for synthetic fiber socks, I think you'll be surprised at my impressions.
Price and availability:
My Point6 Hiking Tech Light Mini Crew socks set me back $18.95, which I think is a bit pricey but not completely out of line for a hiking sock. On the plus side I was able to purchase them locally from a skiing/snow-boarding shop near my office called Alpine Accessories. From what I understand neither Adam or Dave were able to find them locally, and honestly… I think I just got lucky. Chances are if you go to look for them you're not going to find them either… However, Point6 has a great website so you can shop easily and conveniently from home. Or if you're a bargain hunter like me, you can do what I do and Get The Outdoor Gear You Need At Up To 70% Below Retail At The Clymb.com
Comfort and Fit:
I have to admit. I really thought that my Point6 Hiking Tech Light Mini Crew socks would fall flat in this area. I truly thought this would end up being the achilles heel for them. Perhaps I'm showing my age here, but before Point6 when I thought of wool socks I thought of heavy, uncomfortable, scratchy potato sacks on my feet. Imagine my surprise when I slipped on my well fitting, light-weight, soft and sleek Point6 socks… I really can't stress enough just how comfortable they are. The material, the fit, the function, it's like the sock was tailored for my foot, and where I thought this sock would do the worst ended up being one of my favorite features!
Padding and Support:
I expect padding and support from a hiking sock and Point6 did not dissapoint. My Point6 Hiking Tech Light Mini Crew socks offered supportive cushioning across the instep as well as under foot providing just the right amount of support and padding where I needed it, without being bulky or constricting.
Honestly I have to say this is a wash. My hike was only 8.5 miles, not nearly long enough to test the true durability of any sock. However I will update this after several more hikes, and several more washes to let you know how they held up.
Overall Performance on the Trail:
I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by my Point6 socks. I expected them to be heavy, hot and itchy when in fact the 100% Merino Wool was well fitting, lightweight and durable. I advocated synthetic fibers going in to The Great Sock-Off 2011 so I really didn't expect the Point6 socks to fit and feel as well as they did. Overall Point6 socks did better than I expected and they are definitely a heavy contender for The Great Sock-Off 2011 crown (at least in my mind) and I would recommend them without hesitation.
But don't just take my word for it! Remember to read Adam's review at his blog HikingTheTrail.com, and Dave's review at his blog DaveCreech.com, and of course remember to stay tuned for the next Great Sock-Off 2011 review featuring the Thorlo-CoolMax Synthetic trail running sock.
Better yet, instead of just reading about it… Why not participate? Get up, get out, and get hiking! You can Get The Outdoor Gear You Need At Up To 70% Below Retail At The Clymb.com So join today and get yourself a pair of wool socks and a pair of synthetic socks and participate in The Great Sock Off 2011!
Full Disclosure: I purchased the Point6 socks used in this review myself, they were not provided to me by the manufacturer nor their distributors. I was not compensated in any way to provide an opinion on their products, services or website. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own.