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Mounting tensions in Kashmir has come as a shot in the arm for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which has been looking desperately for a reason to keep the Valley on the boil.
The violence, following the alleged killing of three youths in Central Reserve Paramilitary Forces firing to curb aggressive protests, does not seem to be dying down due to the involvement of terrorist outfits.
Confirming this to rediff.com, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said that he had said earlier that separatists were contributing to the problem.
"There are many other elements from across the border who are playing a part in this problem, and want to ensure that it does not die down. We have got the bullet samples of what were fired upon the CRPF personnel in the valley, and that's an indication that some persons have infiltrated into the valley and are adding to the problem," he said.
Indian intelligence officials feel that there is no doubt that the Lashkar has jumped into the fray and is escalating the tensions. It was an expected move on part of this terrorist organisation, since it has been feeling 'left out' ever since the international pressure it faced following the dastardly 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008.
"Our inputs suggest that there are at least 50 of them fanning the problem, and just when it appears to be dying down, they do their bit to re-escalate the tension," sources said.
The Intelligence Bureau sources also add that the Lashkar alone has not initiated such a move. There are other groups, such as the Jaish-e-Mohammad, which are also in the fray and all these outfits have chalked out such a move with the blessings of the Inter Services Intelligence.
Over the past couple of months, the Lashkar has been losing a lot of ground in Kashmir. The biggest drawback for the Lashkar is the lack of sympathy from local residents. This is mainly because the valley has been by and large peaceful for quite some time now.
However, today the Lashkar and the ISI faces a tough situation in Kashmir since the attitudes towards the Indian government has changed, the IB feels. Hence it is necessary for them to add fuel to the fire and ensure that there are atrocities against the people, so that they can dish up sympathy and keep their fight alive in Kashmir.
Image: Protestors throw stones at security personnel in Srinagar on June 25. Photograph: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters


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Branson area residents are invited to enjoy a special, one-of-a-kind Holiday Showcase Christmas Concert featuring the young talented members of the Branson Regional Arts Council's Showstoppers Youth Performance Troupe as well as the Staccato Show Choir.
There will be two performances on Saturday, December 1st at 2pm and 7pm at the Historic Owen Theatre. All seats are $10 and proceeds benefit the BRAC Youth Education Fund, which provides performing opportunities for area youth between the ages of 8 and 18.
Showstoppers Youth Troupe is a group devoted to all things theatre! Students in the Youth Troupe meet weekly at the Historic Owen Theatre and encounter intensive, interactive studies in Voice, Acting, Stage Presence, Dance Choreography, and Team Work. The students develop both self confidence and respect for the skills required to be successful in the Theatre Arts.
Staccato Show Choir is an energetic advanced musical group that combines a challenging music repertoire with entertaining choreography. The choir focuses on elevating and applying its formal training into lively, breath taking "show" style performances. Students meet at the Historic Owen Theatre and study advanced music theory, vocal warm up, stage etiquette, presence and showmanship, as well as multi-part choral music.
General seating, no reservations required. Tickets may be purchased in advance online at BransonArts.org/showcase, or at the door.
The Branson Regional Arts Council is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization and provides a wide variety of artistic events and theatrical programs for all residents in the Ozarks. Financial support for many of these programs is provided by the Missouri Arts Council and through the generous contributions of private donors and Arts Council members.

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Japan - McCormack would like to work with Higa in establishing another major golf championship in Japan.
1973 Mar. 22
McCormack, Mark H.
Japan - McCormack feels that the solution reached concerning VIP Day in Japan is excellent and solves problems on all sides. McCormack confirms that Arnold Palmer and five leading professionals will participate at Kawana, Japan in a Flying Tiger Event, perhaps to be called the Tiger Invitational.
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Japan - Instructing Matsuki to continue to ship samples to Bonallack. Informs Uji that the World Cup Golf event has been cancelled because of the Dunhill Cup. McCormack informs Fukuhara that Augusta would be receptive to an offer from a Japanese Golf Club to become an official qualifying site in Japan for the British Open Championship in 1987.
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Japan - McCormack believes the attached list of amateurs from the Suntory Pro-Am would be of interest due to certain Chief Executives with major Japanese companies who are interested in golf.
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Haunted Ohio lots of Columbus no Worthington on the list?
The Shadowlands Ohio has lots of haunted places in Central Ohio on the list but nothing in Worthington?
Worthington embraces "ghosts" see links below for some ghost stories from the Worthington Library.
Shadowlands says the Nationwide Arena is haunted, built on the Ohio Pen site. James Thurbers house was haunted of course… because it was near the insane asylum and a poor deranged soul stopped by when Thurber was a young man? Trying to remember if the poor deranged soul was dead or alive? I don't know that Thurber House is even on the list of Haunted Ohio Places. Or is it? Too literary?
Granville has ghosts of course…Buxton Inn has a famous ghost but that is way out in Licking County.
Haunted Ohio lots of Columbus
Where is Walnut Knolls? Where is St. Pius X school? Where is "the Air and Space Museum" in Columbus?
Camp Chase? Fort Hayes High School Kelton House? Of course… those make sense to me! Wonder if it is Walhalla Road that is haunted or the whole ravine?
Children's Hospital, Columbus State Community College, Ohio State University's Mirror Lake are all haunted according to the list.
The Shadowlands Ohio Haunted Places site warns against visiting the sites they have listed. Trespassing. Not because of the ghost but because they are secured, private, or patroled. Much safer to visit the spooky sites online.
Haunted Ohio lots of ghosts in greater Columbus
Central Ohio suburbs.. I see Dublin in the list…the haunted golf course, Cheif Leatherlips, more of a springtime haunting. I see at least one Gahanna ghost on the list. Who knew Gahanna – Jefferson High School gym would be haunted by someone dribbling a basketball in the dark? A pizza hut in Hilliard? Or maybe it is Pizza Hut in Gahanna and an Arby's in Hilliard? Haunted fast food places are funny to me.
It amazes me that there is no Powell, no Worthington or no Westerville on the Shadowlands list of haunted Ohio places. Not that I know of real ghosts in any of those cities, I just think of older houses and buildings spawning ghost stories. I see old houses in Powell, Westerville and Worthington.
I was showing a HUD home in northeast Ohio to a client and she said as old as it was it had to be haunted. I did not think it was even that old. It may have been from the 1920′s?
Is the photo above some old drafty, "mansiony", haunted house in Columbus? Nope. That house is in the Village of New Albany… that is a doctored up photo of a home in Ackerly Park in New Albany…built in 2010. Ackerly Park was the site of the 2010 Columbus BIA Parade of Homes. Ackerly Park is a beautiful neighborhood, walkable to shops, restaurants, etc. in the village. Ackerly Park is adjacent to a picturesque cemetery, should make Halloween fun for those who embrace fall spookiness.
The beautiful home pictured built by New England Homes has the "Amityville Horror House" windows up in the attic there… that may have been what inspired me to ghost the photo up a bit here.
Ackerly Park in New Albany – realism
Haunted Worthington Ohio
Did Worthington's ghost "Irwin" run a business of town?
Worthington Haunted or Just Historic?
This was originally posted on ColumbusBestBlog.com but a similar post will appear on ActiveRain.com and Discover Columbus Ohio, a Columbus real estate blog. Mine, mine all mine.


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Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem (A German Requiem, Op. 45), shares with Handel's oratorio Messiah the fact that it is performed far more frequently than the composer's other choral works (e.g., Schicksalslied, Nänie, Gesang der Parzen, Triumphlied, and the "Alto Rhapsody"). It is a sine qua non for all choral societies worthy of the name, as well as for advanced church choirs. Its countless performances since its completion in 1868 have encompassed instrumental forces including the large symphony orchestra for which Brahms conceived it, a reduction of that orchestral score for organ, and even a four-hand piano version authored by the composer (and combining instrumental and choral parts) for home use.
Under the direction of Alfred E. Sturgis, the North Carolina Master Chorale and a fifty-piece orchestra gave a satisfying performance of the Requiem (called "German" because of its texts, selected by Brahms from Martin Luther's German translations of the Hebrew and Greek/Latin scriptures), preceded by the composer's "Tragic Overture."
In a review of a Master Chorale performance from their previous season, I wrote: "This season, the Master Chorale has reached a new and higher level of performance. Their tone, blend, and diction are excellent, a credit to Sturgis' continued mentoring." This excellence is still present (albeit some under-the-pitch high notes from the sopranos in the opening movements); the choral sound is not only well-balanced and well-blended, but also robust enough to overpower the orchestra at times.
Sturgis showed a preference for tempi that were on the fast side in movements II, V, and VII. Indeed, his beat in the "funeral march" second movement fugue kept slipping out of 4 and into 2 beats per measure.
One thing was missing: attention to Brahms' long, sweeping melodic lines (except for the best-known fourth movement, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen / "How lovely is thy dwelling-place," which was the most lyrically-sung and played movement of the afternoon.) The performance had a metronomic quality which did not allow for the composer's great strength – his measures-long melodies – to provide the quintessential tension and melodic sinews which give this music its power.
As is so frequently the case, and abetted by Brahms' use of a pedal-point undergirding the whole, the third-movement fugue seemed to belie its text: "The redeemed souls are in God's hands, and no torment will come to them." This is a calm, assured statement of faith that suggests a more lyrical, less aggressively sung melodic treatment than it received. The final movement also seemed too fast and heavy for its text: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, that they rest from their labor..."
Gerard Sundberg's clear, resonant baritone contributed beauty and power to the performance. While soprano Marlissa Hudson's voice was silkenly-strong, it was disappointing to hear her breath twice during her opening line even though the tempo was not on the slow side. The placement of both soloists at the front of the stage and behind the conductor led to a near tempo "train wreck" in a passage where soprano and orchestra were a beat apart, likely because the singer could not see the conductor's beat. Sturgis skillfully rescued the situation, getting the orchestra back in sync with the soloist.
The most successful element was the fugue that concludes the Requiem's sixth movement. This is difficult in performance, because the fugue, a forte melodic line, must make its sudden appearance at the end of what sounds like an even louder and dramatic conclusion to the movement. This fugue was the most Brahmsian singing and playing in the performance, well worthy of praise.
There being no overture to the Requiem, it was preceded by Brahms' Tragische Ouvertüre ("Tragic Overture"), Op. 81. Written in the same time-period as the "Academic Festival Overture," this piece is the darker, dramatic foil to the lighter, happy strains of folk tunes in the latter work. Its beginning theme, short and choppy drama, was well-conceived and played. Like the Requiem, however, its more lyrical sections continued as if influenced by the opening passages, lacking the flowing lines that characterize so much of Brahms' writing.
In sum, two great works by one of Western music's iconic composers, played and sung with much beauty, for which a debt of gratitude is owed to the NC Master Chorale and its conductor.


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SIT's investment software is a part of the company's complete suite of banking and financial services software. In addition to managing unique mortgage investment products, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, cash, and deposits, you also have the technology to administer highly regulated Canadian investment products. Registered Educations Savings Plans (RESPs), Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), and many more, including RRISs, RDSPs, and TSFAs can all be managed on SIT's investment software. And when regulations change, so does the software--with regulatory changes that are made available through future software updates.
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Marcus Rideout - Sales Coach For VideoMakers
Tryna figure out this sales thing so you can make a living doing what you love?
I teach video makers how to run sales consultations confidently + how to close deals in-person so you don't have to waste time in coffee meetings with business owners who just wanna 'pick your brain'... or worse, who leave you hanging for weeks with no response after you send your proposals over e-mail.
Learn how to run the meeting like a pro so you can start getting paid like a pro!
Video Selling Formula (eBook + Audiobook)
My name is Marcus and I'm a video creator that cracked the code on how to sell video production services at higher rates. Before we get into how I broke free from selling videos for between $350-500 into my first four figure and five figure video projects, lemme tell you a bit of my story. Maybe you'll see yourself somewhere in this story too… I first got bit by the filmmaking bug in 2005 and always dreamed of one day getting paid to do what I loved. I got so obsessed studying the art and craft of filmmaking, it was with the same kind of intensity and unshakeable grip that a great white shark swimming in chummed water would latch onto you with if you fell in. I put in countless unpaid hours in the edit suite (learning on Final Cut Studio 2 - man the boxes that software came in used to be so epic!). I shot and edited over 40 (shitty) short films with my friends, learning something new every time! Whether it was lighting, sound, placing camera angles, I loved it, and I always dreamed of making a feature and getting paid to do this for a living. That's when I did what a lot of us creatives do… I went to film school. I figured I had to go to film school in order to be taken serious and get paid like a professional - and I still remember the disbelief on Day 1 of year 2 of the program. It was on that day when I realized I had already learned everything they were teaching me just from my passion of making shorts and music videos. This thing I thought I had to do in order to make a living couldn't have actually been further from the truth! If you've been to film school chances are you probably had a similar experience as I did (and if you didn't go, congrats! You're not missing out) in that film school teaches you to become a really good 'technician'. Sure, you can learn to expose an image, balance a shot, set up a mic and lights, but when it comes to actually making money outside of 'working your way up the ladder as a PA in Film or TV industry", they did jack shit to help me figure out how I could justify my worth as a creative. I still remember one of my teachers didn't even have a clue on how to replicate win after win, and he was part of a project that was greenlit by TV channel with a million dollar budget. Nobody could show me how to create an air-tight emotional connection to potential clients and hot to logically back it up so I could convince a business owner to part with their hard-earned dollars to me over any other film school grad. I felt like there there was no hope, and the first year of running my own business looked even more grim than that… but I do wanna foreshadow that there is a light at the end of this story's tunnel. I remember starting my video business shortly after my 26th birthday - I was fed up with working a lame-ass job for someone else and making them rich. I figured, "Hey! I might as well try! My boss ain't so different than me, and if I don't TRY then I have no excuse to complain in my 50s or 60s about what I wish I had of done in my twenties." Let me tell ya - business and sales was rough that year. I struggled, hard. I barely scraped up $17,000 in sales, slinging most of my videos for between $350-500. There was no rhyme or reason, no logical path to follow… yet. I remember the pinnacle for me in that first year was I somehow fluked out selling a project for $1200. This was after he told me how expensive my initial quote of $1600 was, of course, and oh how I buckled at the first sign of rejection. I couldn't lose this gig!!! I remember celebrating Christmas with my family that year - of how I useless I felt for not being able to buy my family or my girlfriend any gifts. They said it wasn't a big deal, that they didn't need material goods, but I still felt like a total failure. That was my rock-bottom moment. It was in that moment where I had a passion re-ignited within. That 'laser-like focus' on learning, except this time I wasn't learning anything about making cinematic videos. No, this time I had my eyes set on cracking the code of selling video to clients and getting paid really well for my work! I inhaled as many books as I could find. I maxed out my credit card on the first sales training course I could find. I inhaled it, but it left me feeling hopeless as it wasn't specific to me as a filmmaker and was mostly just a buncha bullshit motivational stuff. I scoured YouTube for sales training but there was nobody talking about "selling video" at that time (Why do you think I later made my own channel? I owe it to people like you so you don't have to live through what I did). It led me down a path to more courses, and I still hadn't paid off the first credit card. Somehow I convinced my parents to let me put another sales training course on their credit card (that I'd pay them back with the money I made once I learned how to sell). It cost $2997, the most I ever went into debt on ANYTHING. To most it probably looked like a downward spiral to going completely broke, but for me it was "DO OR DIE!" I HAD to figure it out. That's when it happened. Something clicked in my brain. I found the roadmap to run a sales meeting so that I could sell video services with total ease. Without having to spend the whole meeting trying to justify 'why they should hire me'. In fact, it was the complete opposite of them pouring out all the details to me and convincing me of why I should work with them! It was as if a miracle opened my subconscious and the flood gates of the sales legends that went before me said "Marcus… come here dude! It doesn't have to be hard!!!" I know, I know… I'm being dramatic. In reality it was probably just my brain saying "ENOUGH ALREADY - GO CLOSE A DEAL!" from all the non-stop sales studying I was doing. I took my "a-Ha!" to the next meeting I had with a potential client. I asked them the exact same questions I teach you in my book Video Selling Formula, and I pitched my biggest price project at the time ($1997.00 and tax). I was so nervous, my hands were shaking, and you know what happened? The client didn't bat an eye! HE SAID "SURE, I CAN DO THAT!" I was even able to get them to cut me the 50% deposit right there on the spot with total ease. I thought, "Man, I must have fluked out! This must have been a lucky convo with the 'right person at the right time', but sure as shit I tried it at the next meeting and closed that one too! Long story short, in 45 days I closed $26,492 + tax from only FOUR clients!!! They were all happy to pay me and they were WAY better to work with than the people I slaved away for those $350-500 projects. I was even able to bring an editor on to help and I was still able to keep most of the profits! It was around that time I had a friend who was trying to sell local marketing services to clients who struggled with sales come to me looking for help. I shared my insights but I wasn't sold on him being able to replicate the process. I mean, I'm an extrovert and have no trouble having conversations and he was a quiet introverted techie, but do you know what happened? HE STARTED CLOSING DEALS TOO USING THE SAME FORMULA TOO! He went on to do over $40,000 in his first year of running his business, and I thought that was so cool that I got to play a part in helping him get there! We both went on to close our first 5-figure projects using the formula, but I was still a skeptic about it working for others. I mean, I'm not some fancy guru or internet marketing genius. I'm just a random loud Canadian dude (who occassionally gets mistaken for an American because of it) who loves watching movies, hanging with my girlfriend, and going to car shows. I decided to write this little e-book ("Video Selling Formula" - the one I want you to buy right now, actually!) to see if I could help other filmmakers too. Then the darnedest thing happened. It started working for others too! I started a weekly YouTube show to talk about sales and building a video business. That's when a few of them asked me to start a private Facebook group where we could continue talking about sales, and now I run the largest and FIRST ever sales training group for Video makers with my best friend Nik. I can't believe all that's happened in just over the year since I started the group. So many people were emailing this random Canadian dude and sharing stories of how my book transformed their lives. That's when the COOLEST thing for me happened in 2018. I started tracking the sales made from the tribe, the people who watch my show and have read my book. It's called #DealClosed. Any time someone closes a deal they share their success so we can all celebrate, and so we can inspire other filmmakers who are newer to sales and who may not feel it's possible for them. That's when the unthinkable happened. In ONLY 109 days from starting the #DealClosed tracking… after I received success story after success story from filmmakers around the world… is when we cracked over $1 MILLION dollars in sales of VIDEO PRODUCTION PROJECTS! I remember a young dude from Australia sent me a video message. He was only 21 at the time and he emailed me to say he went to sell $11,000 in projects to 3 clients within weeks of reading it. Another guy from Europe went to close over €44,000 from only 4 clients in 60 days. Story after story and it never gets old. No matter how big or small the project is you close, I LOVE hearing from filmmakers like you who take what I teach, put it to work, and start closing deals. I'm still just this loud Canadian dude who loves hanging with his girlfriend, watching movies, and enjoying car shows… though now I get to do so with the endless satisfaction that comes from teaching filmmakers a life-skill that once they learn nobody can ever take away from them. Look, I wrote this book "Video Selling Formula" for filmmakers just like you because there was NOTHING written for me when I got started. There was nothing that led me outta the $350-500 deals to landing my first four figure deal. There was no guide to take the same sales strategy and use it to close 5-figure deals regularly either. I also wanna be 100% clear and transparent with you right now. I'm not promising you'll have any success after you read it. You may or may not make any sales at all. 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If you are thinking of doing an RFP for a new ESP in 2019, you need to make the right New Year's resolutions.
It's the start of a new year in email marketing. And for many email marketers, the calendar in 2019 includes a date for the contract expiration with their exiting ESP. If that date falls in the first half of the year, and you haven't started an RFP, you might as well realize right now that you've going to be renewing that contract. You simply don't have enough time to conduct a thorough email software RFP.
If your contract expires in the second half of the year (or early in 2020), then you need to get moving on your RFP right away. It can't wait "until later". As a public service for those of you contemplating beginning an ESP RFP in the new year, I want to present 5 resolutions you need to make in order to ensure that the process goes as smoothly as an RFP can go (which in most cases isn't that smoothly!).
1. Before starting any RFP I will negotiate a contract extension with my existing vendor
One of the eternal truths of ESP RFPs is that they always take longer than expected. So even if you are starting the RFP process well in advance of your current contract expiration, you are still likely to be concluding the process up until the point that your existing contract expires.
That's why we always recommend that our RFP clients negotiate a month-to-month extension before issuing the RFP. Having run a global ESP myself, I can tell you with all certainty that, as long as your current ESP believes it has a good chance to retain your business, it will be very accommodating. The minute your current email provider determines that you are going elsewhere, it will become much more inflexible. So step one in any RFP process should be to lock down a month-to-month extension.
2. I will bring in an outside resource to help me manage my RFP
RFPs are a lot of work if done correctly. And by done correctly, I mean conducting a very thorough review of your options and putting the vendors through their paces as part of the process.
It's in many ways a full-time job for someone, and unless you have a lot of time on your hands—or someone on your team does—you will find that something has got to give over the course of the RFP. And what invariably gives is the RFP, not your day job.
When that happens all momentum on the RFP will stop, and you will either make an ill-advised decision, or the RFP will drag on and on and on. Bringing in an outside resource to manage the selection process allows you and your team to focus on the outcome of the RFP, not the process. And it also puts the RFP process in the hands of someone who ideally is familiar with the vendors and your needs and can help make sure you make an informed decision (and get a great deal).
3. I will make sure that I compare the vendors as objectively as possible
We all have biases if we've worked in email long enough. It might be an ESP we worked with in the past. Or an ESP salesperson with whom we used to work. Biases are not inherently bad until they become emotional shortcuts in reaching a decision.
All too often a poorly managed RFP process will result in no logical methodology for making a decision other than price (wrong!) or "feeling" (wrong again!). The change of making the wrong decision goes up exponentially when you allow subjective factors to guide your outcome.
The method to prevent subjective factors to take over, is to set up the RFP process in a way that allows for direct, side by side comparisons of the competing vendors, whether its around features and functionality, or pricing. Using scorecards lets you further make objective decisions by including as many people as possible in the process, which has a way of negating the biases of any individual participant.
4. I will finish my RFP and come to a decision
Everyone hates RFPs, but what people really hate are RFPs that never quite get finished.
There are a lot of reasons why an RFP might never come to a conclusion.
We've touched on several of them, including no one having the time to devote to it, not having a clear methodology for choosing a winner, and having it drag on so long that everyone forgets why it was started in the first place.
The only ones who like RFPs that don't finish are the incumbents, who get to keep the business without actually defending it all the way to the end. One of the major drawbacks to this happening is that you lose most of your leverage with the incumbent to get a better deal in a new contract. They eventually realize you aren't moving, and have little incentive to cut pricing to keep you on board.
If your company has a reputation for never-ending RFPs, you will have trouble getting the best vendors to participate in your RFP, and if they do, they won't put 100% into their effort.
5. I will recognize that it is impossible to nail everything down contractually right out of the gate with my new vendor
There are so many unknowns on both sides when you are going into a relationship with a new ESP. There will be surprises during the migration to the new platform. There will also be dramatic differences between the ongoing support you think you will need, and what you will actually need.
There's no surer way to get your new relationship off on the wrong foot than to try to get these details 100% right during the contract negotiation. Because you won't and you, your new vendor, or both of you will feel mistreated shortly into the new relationship.
Email platform migration
In regards to the migration, I don't believe this should be a money-making endeavor for your new vendor. Nor do I think it who should be a money-losing one either. Settling on a discounted hourly rate for key members of the vendor team, and also allowing for some flexibility in the hours allowed to be charge helps to make sure that everyone has a stake in getting the migration done as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. Both sides win!
Services and support
Regarding the services support you need on an ongoing basis—and you are going to need something no matter how "self-service" you consider yourself to be.
In the contracts we negotiation for our clients we try to arrive at the right number of hours, but we also stipulate that an audit of actual hours used be conducted 6 months after the actual cutover to the new vendor. This gives everyone enough time to settle into a routine and know what the real need is.
If the client is using more hours than they are paying for, then they can either cut back on what they expect from the ESP, or add hours to the contract going forward. And if they aren't using all the hours they are paying for, the retainer hours can be adjusted down.
Five RFP resolutions to make at the start of the year
So that's your list of 5 Email RFP resolutions to make at the start of 2019. If you make and keep these resolutions during any RFP you start this year, you will find that things will go smoother for you, and your decisions will be better. And even if you don't have an RFP planned in the near future, keep this list handy and make sure you get your next ESP RFP process started off on the right foot!


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Welfare and Usury
- 1 American History
- 2 Solutions
- 3 The Biblical View
- 4 References
American History[edit]
Welfare is a concept seen from the U.S. Constitution itself, which specifically authorizes Congress in Article 1, Section 8 to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States." However, the current system of government handouts is a recent invention. What the U.S. government did in the past was allow settlers to declare land of their own under Homesteading Acts, which they were then responsible for settling and caring for. The Republican Party advocated for public works since the time of Lincoln, government-funded work programs to increase employment. For example, in the Republican Party Platform of 1860, the GOP called for spending on river and harbor improvements as well as a transcontinental railroad.[1]
Even by the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose administration pioneered what would become today's wide-reaching welfare system, public works were by no means a government giveaway. FDR implemented public works programs, paying millions of Americans to do government jobs such as digging ditches, repairing roads and bridges, cleaning up public buildings, planting trees/conservation, teaching public seminars, and painting murals. While Social Security has become a massive drain on the Treasury, when FDR created it it was actually intended as a government fundraising measure. Social Security originally gave money only to those who lived longer than average (at the time life expectancy was 62) so for over half a century the program continued to bring in more funds than it spent. FDR, however, did not foresee how lifespan would increase, and today the U.S. government is paying for 18 more years of life under Social Security than when the program was designed.
The Republican Party has always been pro-business. The 1900 Republican Party Platform, for example, called for a Department of Commerce (the Democrat Platform that year called instead for a Department of Labor), the gold standard, military spending, and civil rights reforms.[2] The Republican Party Platform of 1860 similarly called for tariffs to protect U.S. business, spending reduction, civil rights reforms, and business-friendly policies. The Democrat Party Platform of 1856, by contrast, criticized Republican associations with banks and business, called on Congress to protect slavery, and expressed a desire for "free seas and progressive free trade throughout the world."[3]
However, that did not stop the early Republican Party from breaking up big businesses to protect small businesses, or what was known at the time as trustbusting. The Republican Party led the way in stopping monopolization to protect the vital aspect of market competition that ensures greater economic growth, higher employment, and equal and fair opportunity for small businesses. For example:
- Republican Presidents Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) and William Howard Taft (1909-1913) were perhaps best known for their practice of trustbusting, as they broke up numerous megacorps, including those in the banking, steel, and railroad industries.
- Even earlier, Republicans in Congress as well as President Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) passed the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which would prove the tool which Roosevelt and Taft would later use to stop monopolies. This followed after passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by a Republican Congress and President Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).
Today, CEO pay has grown far above historical levels. Over the past 30 years CEO pay has been growing 127 times faster than pay of the average worker.[4] CEO pay relative to the average worker was 35:1 in 1978 and by 2000 it had risen to 300:1, an 800% increase in just 22 years. In 2010, the rate was 343:1.[5] In fact, 25 of the top 100 highest-paid CEOs received more money than their company paid in federal income taxes.[6]
Today 80% of Americans live on just 3% of America's land. According to research by Edward Wolff, the wealthiest 1% of Americans own 40% of the nation's non-home real estate, and the wealthiest 10% of Americans own 82%. As reported by Christopher Ingraham, "the 100 largest landowners have holdings of 40.2 million acres, an increase of nearly 50 percent. Their holdings are equivalent in area to the entirety of New England, minus Vermont."[7]
Welfare programs should be work-contingent (i.e. public works based), so that programs are self-supporting as much as possible, similar to those used by FDR. As the Apostle Paul states in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, if someone refuses to work they should not eat. Furthermore, public works programs should be labor intensive to create jobs as effectively as possible per dollar spent.
As seen from a 2007 report by the University of Massachusetts' Institute for Policy Studies (Pollin and Garrett-Peltier) the following numbers of jobs and total wages/benefits were created in each government sector per $1 billion of federal spending:
- Tax Cuts for Personal Consumption: 10, 779 jobs, $504.6 million total wages
- Defense: 8,555 jobs, $564.5 million total wages
- Construction/Infrastructure: 12,804 jobs, $693.7 million total wages
- Health Care: 12,883 jobs, $730.1 million total wages
- Mass Transit: 19,795 jobs, $880.1 million
- Education: 17,687 jobs, $1,309.3 million
As Garrett and Peltier conclude,
|"How can spending on education generate both higher average wages as well as more new jobs per $1 billion in spending? The answer is straightforward. For one thing, the high average wage reflects the fact that a large proportion of people in the sector operate with relatively high credentials and skills, and their incomes reflect this. In addition, education is a relatively labor-intensive industry. This means that, compared with the other industries we are examining, for every $1 billion in new spending in education, proportionally more money is spent on hiring new people into the industry and relatively less is spent on supplies, equipment, buildings."[8]
Obama's Stimulus and related Democratic spending was designed to enrich a few corrupt Democrats, not create jobs for working Americans. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, the Stimulus was "a 40-year wish list... that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years. We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons."[9]
Antitrust Laws[edit]
Monopolization runs counter to laws passed by Congress such as the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act, and 1887 Interstate Commerce Act. Past Republican Presidents such as Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Harrison, and Grover Cleveland all opposed monopolization in favor of protecting small businesses and market competition.
Ultimately, monopolization of land or wealth, as with business, endangers the market and overall prosperity. If all the wealth is concentrated in the hands of an ever diminishing few than the best and brightest cannot contribute to the economy, and small businesses which should grow to bring new products and ideas are prevented from ever starting. Competition is what makes the free market work, which is why monopolization is so dangerous. When there are more businesses competing, there will be more employment, more prosperity, and more innovation.
Land Purchase[edit]
As such, those who don't own land should be allowed to purchase an acre of undeveloped land from those who have 100 acres or more for $1,000, and from those who have 1,000 acres or more for $500. Furthermore, caps on CEO pay at publicly-traded companies in relation to company earnings are needed to restrain CEO pay to historical levels (perhaps on average 50:1 relative to the average worker). Any equation should be based relative to company earnings so that higher-earning companies can pay their CEOs more. Furthermore, privately-traded companies should be able to pay their CEOs as they please, since the CEO founded the company and used their own money to invest in start-up costs and employee hiring; as opposed to publicly-traded companies where CEOs appoint a Board of Directors that they can coerce into paying them out of shareholder funds.
Interest Prohibition for Poverty Line[edit]
There should be a prohibition on charging the poor interest, with poor defined as those below the poverty line, consistent with Biblical teachings in Exodus 22:25-27; Leviticus 25:35-37; and Deuteronomy 23:19-20.
The Biblical View[edit]
For a discussion on wealth in general, see Psalms 112:1.
Support for Welfare[edit]
The Bible in the Old Testament actually supports a form of welfare. Farmers were commanded to only harvest their fields once, and leave a portion for the poor, namely widows, orphans, and immigrants.
|Leviticus 19:9-10 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 24:19-22 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
There was also another commandment to feed the poor directly at certain times, most specifically 3-year intervals.
|Deuteronomy 14:28-29 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy 16:10-11 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy 26:12-13 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Requirement to Work[edit]
The Bible did not condone giving to those who refused to work as clarified by the Apostle Paul:
|2 Thessalonians 3:10: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Jesus' Parable[edit]
Jesus in the New Testament used a parable describing Himself as a Lord who expects His servants to invest what they have wisely so that He will receive back what He provided them with interest.
|Matthew 25:26-28 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
Luke 19:22-23 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Therefore it seems that not all interest is unjust, Biblically. As Adam Smith observes in "The Wealth of Nations":
|The lowest ordinary rate of interest must, in the same manner, be something more than sufficient to compensate the occasional losses to which lending, even with tolerable prudence, is exposed. Were it not more, charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending.[10]
Unjust Usury[edit]
Nonetheless, the Bible repeatedly condemns unfair lending to the poor specifically, not only in the Old Testament but the New Testament as well. Clearly there is a degree of lending that is unjust and abhorrent to God.
Usury, Charging the Poor Interest[edit]
The following verses show that, while charging interest in general is not wrong, charging it to the poor specifically is. It should further be pointed out that, in Israel at the time, such a commandment applied specifically to Israelite poor, not all those who were poor (cp. Deuteronomy 23:20).
|Exodus 22:25 ¶ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Leviticus 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Psalm 15:5: He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Proverbs 28:8: He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Nehemiah 5:5-11 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards. And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Ezekiel 18:13: Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 22:12: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
James 5:5-7 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
- ↑ Peters, G. & Wooley, J.T. (1860, June 2). "Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1860." The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- ↑ Peters, G. & Wooley, J.T. (1900, June 19). "Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1900." The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Peters, G. & Wooley, J.T. (1900, July 4). "Democratic Party Platforms: Democratic Party Platform of 1900." The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- ↑ Peters, G. & Wooley, J.T. (1860, June 2). "Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1860." The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Peters, G. & Wooley, J.T. (1856, June 2). "Democratic Party Platforms: Democratic Party Platform of 1856." The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- ↑ Kavoussi, B. (2012, May 2). "CEO Pay Grew 127 Times Faster Than Worker Pay Over Past 30 Years: Study." The Huffington Post.
- ↑ Liberto, J. (2011, April 20). "CEOs Earn 343 Times More Than Typical Workers." CNN Money.
- ↑ Anderson, S. et. al. (2011, August 31). "Executive Excess, 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging." Institute for Policy Studies.
- ↑ Ingraham, C. (2017, December 21). "American Land Barons: 100 Wealthy Families Now Own Nearly as Much Land as that of New England." Washington Post.
- ↑ Pollin, R. & Garrett-Peltier, H. (2007, October). "The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities." pg. 5. Institute for Policy Studies. Political Economy Research Institute. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- ↑ (2009, January 28). "A 40-Year Wish List." The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Smith, Adam. "The Wealth of Nations. Volume 1. 9.19.


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Had a lot of fun this weekend farming heroics using the new LFG tool. I'm actually pleasantly surprised. As someone famous for refusing to pug I was somewhat skeptical of the new tool. Let's face it, it's just another means for horrible people to find themselves in groups where they can bitch and moan about how others don't know how to play.
So Friday night I entered the queue for the first time and it went quite well. On the other hand it was Violet Hold, but it still went really, really fast! After leaving group I logged off to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with my family and went to bed. But after the movie I started thinking about it a lot. My druid has been neglected pretty much since hitting 80. She had a few blues and greens to replace and only a few crafted or purchased epics.
So when I woke up Saturday morning I spent a few hours farming heroics. With the exception of the Pit, they went quite well. Although I have to give kudos to my group that put up with a slightly undergeared healer. We did it, but it took an hour or so. I continued the farming on Sunday for a few hours and roughly 12 hours play time I had gone from a 1700 gear score on WoWHeroes to a 2300 gear score. In fact at one point I was even outgearing my paladin…
My paladin! My main! Now granted my "main" has been my shaman for some time now, but to go from 1700 to my paladin's gear in less than a day?! That's freaking awesome*!
But why is it awesome? Is it because gear is fun to get? No. Is it because everyone's so much more geared so the old heroics are that much easier? No. And why would someone who avoids pugs like the plague suddenly find fun in this new LFG tool?
Because it's FREAKING FAST!!!
I finally realized my number one complaint about pugs. Time. You spend 30 minutes to an hour getting a group together or trying to find a group. When you finally do at the first sign of trouble half the group bails and you're at step one all over again. Never mind the jerks who are quick to blame others. I just wasted a good hour with nothing to show for it. If it were only fun that would be something!
Give me a way to get into a group fast and half the problem of pugging goes away. It's also nice that if you get screwed with a bad group that random heroics can still get you back in.
So I've been rejuvenated. I look forward to gearing up my druid and going back to finish out gearing my priest which hasn't seen the light of day in months! Heroics have a purpose once again.
*This is no way is an endorsement of what I consider to be the gear problems that continue to plague the game.
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Phase I/II Calcitriol in Lung Cancer
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00794547
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : November 20, 2008
Results First Posted : May 5, 2014
Last Update Posted : December 12, 2017
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|November 20, 2008
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|March 31, 2014
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|May 5, 2014
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|December 12, 2017
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|December 2008
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|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Mean AUC 1,25-D3 Concentration at 12 and 24 Hours [ Time Frame: 12 and 24 hours post dose ]
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|To Correlate the Pharmacokinetic Parameters of Systemic Calcitriol Exposure (AUC) With SNPs of the 24-hydroxylase (CYP24), the Major Vitamin D3 Inactivating Enzyme. [ Time Frame: 3-6 months ]
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|Phase I/II Calcitriol in Lung Cancer
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|A Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Intravenous (IV) Calcitriol With Fixed Dose of Cisplatin and Docetaxel in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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|According to the Cancer Atlas, lung cancer remains the major cancer among the 10.9 million new cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide. The mortality from lung cancer is greater than the combined mortality for breast, colon and prostate cancer combined. Most patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are treated with platinum-based chemotherapy regimens. The drug combination of cisplatin and docetaxel is one of the commonly used regimens in metastatic NSCLC. Although both drugs are powerful disruptors of cell growth, positive therapeutic response rates to this therapy remain low for NSCLC patients, from 25% to 30%. While adding new biologics such as bevacizumab to the current treatment standard can improve treatment response, median survival for advanced NSCLC patients receiving this type of treatment remains low at under 12 months. Research studies have demonstrated that Vitamin D, and it's signaling pathways are important biological targets in cancer therapeutics. In vitro and in vivo calcitriol (1, 25 dihydroxycholecalciferol) is antiproliferative and potentiates the antitumor effects of cytotoxic agents (e.g. taxanes, platinum analogues). We have shown that administration of high doses of calcitriol and cisplatin is feasible and associated with complete tumor regressions in dogs with spontaneous cancers. Calcitriol has also shown to be synergistic with docetaxel both in preclinical as well as in a recent phase II clinical trial in prostate cancer. Based on these results and other supporting data from studies indicating that calcitriol functions as a potent and well tolerated anti-tumor agent when used in combination with drugs likes cisplatin and docetaxel, we hypothesize that introducing calcitriol into treatment regimes for NSCLC patients has the potential to demonstrably improve treatment response for these patients. The overall goals for conducting this phase I/II clinical study will be (1) to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and dose limiting toxicities (DLT) of calcitriol in combination with cisplatin/docetaxel in patients with advanced NSCLC, (2) to assess the response rates of patients with advanced NSCLC to the combination of calcitriol with cisplatin/docetaxel, (3) to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK) of administering calcitriol intravenously at the MTD, and (4) to evaluate correlations between calcitriol PK and changes on specific coding regions of the gene associated with calcitriol breakdown.
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|Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
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|Ramnath N, Daignault-Newton S, Dy GK, Muindi JR, Adjei A, Elingrod VL, Kalemkerian GP, Cease KB, Stella PJ, Brenner DE, Troeschel S, Johnson CS, Trump DL. A phase I/II pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenomic study of calcitriol in combination with cisplatin and docetaxel in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2013 May;71(5):1173-82. doi: 10.1007/s00280-013-2109-x. Epub 2013 Feb 23.
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|August 2013
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|October 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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This film is historically important, because it's the only widely-available adaptation of the 1895 H.G. Wells novel (although that's soon to change), and because it's the functional ancestor of later films on the same theme ("Back to the Future" copies the house full of clocks and the talk about thinking fourth-dimensionally). The special effects won an Oscar.
On Dec. 31, 1899 a British scientist, "George" (Rod Taylor), demonstrates a small working model of a time machine to his friends. When he hits the control lever, the machine disappears. His friends aren't convinced. Dr. Hillyer (Sebastian Cabot) argues that time-travel—especially backward time-travel—is impossible because the future is fixed and can't be changed. Biblically, he's correct. God knows the end from the beginning, as shown by direct statement (Isa. 41:4; 48:3-5) as well as by fulfillment of minutely-detailed prophecies (Genesis Chs. 40 and 41; 1 Sam. 10:1-9; 1 Ki. 13:1,2 with 2 Ki. 23:15-18; Isa. 44:28-45:6 with Ezra 1:1-3; Daniel Chs. 4 and 5; Mark 14:12-16; John 6:64); so there cannot be two "ends" for the same "beginning." Standard physics also says that backward time-travel is impossible. But within this fictitious story, there's both forward and backward time-travel.
George agrees to meet his friends again five days later, and in the meantime uses a full-size time machine to journey to the future and back again. Actually the second meeting is shown first and the rest is flashback, allowing George to supply voiceovers during his journeys. George passes through WWI and WWII (the screenwriters had the benefit of hindsight) plus an imaginary nuclear war set in 1966, six years after the film's release. Volcanic eruptions triggered by the nukes bury him and his machine in lava, but he's unhurt due to his time-travel speed. When the lava mountain around him has worn away, the year is 802,701 A.D. He meets a race of childlike blond, blue-eyed people, the Eloi; and rescues one of their women, Weena (Yvette Mimieux), from drowning. Since the Eloi do no work and don't care about anything, George can't figure out how they're fed and clothed—until he discovers that other descendants of humans, the apelike, underground-dwelling Morlocks, provide for the Eloi's needs but also eat them as though they were cattle. When Weena and other Eloi are taken underground to be slaughtered, George must save her a second time.
No profanity, except one "I'll be d*" from Dr. Hillyer. Special effects of a nuclear attack on England, but no visible deaths. A quick-budding romance between George and Weena, but no sexual content. A lot of violence and some blood as George kills several Morlocks while rescuing Weena. A glimpse of a large cave full of Eloi skeletons. As George escapes from 802,701 he at first goes farther into the future and watches the time-lapse decay of the body of a Morlock that he'd just killed.
Underlying Philosophy (Film): Definitely antiwar in outlook. Nothing wrong there except that (as I learned while I was a '60s activist) the leadership of the antiwar movement intends to abolish war by instituting one-world government. John Lennon said it well: "Imagine there's no countries—nothing to kill or die for." God sent the judgment at the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9) to break up one-world government.
H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, Island of Dr. Moreau) studied under evolutionist Thomas Huxley, and was a Fabian Socialist (that means his goals were the same as those of the Communists, but he believed they could be achieved by gradual, nonviolent change through "reeducation"). Up till Wells' time, most "science fiction" (such as the best work of Jules Verne) was intended as reasonable guesses at what real science might accomplish in the future. Wells was a pioneer in transforming the science fiction genre into the humanist, socialist, one-worldist, Darwinist and spiritualist propaganda tool that it still is today (with feminism and environmentalism now tacked on for good measure).
Although Wells would probably have been pleased with the antiwar polemic of this film version, the novel has a different thrust. In the film, the two new species are descended from groups of people who randomly decided to sit out Nuclear Winter above or below ground. The novel explicitly makes the Eloi the descendants of the indolent, leisured ruling class and the Morlocks the descendants of the working class. The time-traveler conjectures that the rich weren't content to consign the working class to visible slums; they sent them underground, then forgot to feed them. that's a pretty heavy-handed warning that if the Capitalists don't start treating common working people better, they may someday become the slaves rather than the masters. [The "Time Machine" page on one H.G. Wells Web site suggests three additional readings: Marx' "Alienated Labor," Marx' and Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" and Darwin's "The Origin of Species."]
The novel also has the scientist travel 30 million years into the future, to a time when man and most other life is extinct and the sun is dying out. it's reported that President Woodrow Wilson, after reading this novel, caught Wells at a party and distraughtly pleaded with him that even if our destiny is extinction, life must have some meaning. I thank God that I know I'm not an accident, my existence is meaningful, and I can look forward to something beyond this present life (1 Cor. 15:19-22).
There was a made-for-TV 1978 remake of this film. Another remake is scheduled for theatrical release on Christmas 2001. The upcoming version stars Guy Pearce ("L.A. Confidential," Memento, Rules of Engagement) and is directed by Simon Wells ("Fievel Goes West," "Balto," "The Prince of Egypt") who is H.G. Wells' great-grandson. According to the preliminary screenplay, the new version departs even farther from the novel than this version did.


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ROME, May 9: Fourteen bishops of northeast India on their ad limina (five yearly) visit to meet with the Pope, graced the Easter gathering of northeast India people studying or working in Rome, 8 May. The participants joined bishops in extending their heartfelt Easter greetings to the people of northeast India so that they may experience true peace and love which can be found only in the Risen Lord!
The meeting which started with celebration of the solemn Holy Eucharist with three archbishops, 11 bishops and over 30 priests and 20 sisters was held at St Peter's College Church near Vatican City.
In all, some 60 participants represented the seven states of northeast India. It is the first time in the history of Northeast India Rome group, that they had the privilege of having 14 bishops at the gathering.
The spokesperson of 15 bishops of the region, Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati was the president along with archbishops Jala of Shillong and Lumon of Imphal. The region is looking forward to the appointment of bishops for Kohima and Diphu dioceses, as well as creation of new dioceses in northeast.
In his persuasive homily, soft spoken Archbishop Menamparampil, insisted that "higher education should not sophisticate our minds and weaken our character to the detriment of our mission."
He encouraged all to prepare themselves well to carry out "our responsibility towards the people of northeast India who are endowed with very rich cultural heritage and high spiritual values."
In the well prepared English language liturgy interspersed with melodious hymns, the participants offered special prayers for the peace and well being of the people of northeast, especially for young people of the region who are the hope and future leaders.
After a quick introduction of the bishops and formal greetings, there followed a fellowship lunch prepared under the leadership of Coordinating Team members Fr. Lyndoh Tegite Sangma, Fr. Raphael Maiong and Sr. Mary Ann.
Saying the grace, archbishop Lumon cautioned that "the comforts and conveniences we enjoy in Europe should not spoil us. When we return to our region we need to be ambassadors [of Jesus] for our people."
The happy surprise of the day was the visit of newly appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples archbishop Dr Savio Hon Tai Fai, SDB. He took the occasion to greet the bishops and participants.
Also, national director of Holy Childhood Association of India Fr Siluvai from Chennai also made a courtesy call and greeted the participants.
A couple of highly entertaining magic show items presented by Fr Francis D'Costa from Dhaka currently studying at the Camillian University Rome enthralled all.
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