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It's easy to curate a perfect image of your life using social media. Heck, since the beginning of time people have been wearing masks and making their lives look better than they really are. I think of the 50s housewife perfectly coiffed with dinner on the table.
BUT there's a revolution happening. Freedom from having it all together. Women supporting women. Moms admitting that they're flying by the seat of their pants. It's empowering and…helps us feel a little less alone in this life.
So…let me take a moment and a pause from the super cute pictures of Bella (that I go through and delete the blurry ones) and the fun updates that include emojis. These things reflect the real me. They're the real Bella. But they aren't always the nitty gritty realness that's born from confidence and courage. So let me share more into our story, Because YOU reach out to me. You tell me this inspires you.
I'm not sure I ever set out to inspire anyone by our story. To be honest I was just looking for friends…someone else who was up at 3am in a hospital room in a new, unknown city…wincing in pain from a major surgery but wanting to focus energy on a 1 1/2lb baby laying under bilirubin lights. What I know is through this sharing I've connected with others in a unique way and I'm so thankful for it. So I'll always be honest with you. I'll always be positive and confident in the hope of Christ but I'll always keep things real. So let me begin…
The last 2 days have sucked. I've ugly cried more than I have in weeks. I've said hurtful things to Dustin. I've been angry at myself. My head hurts and I'm exhausted. I'm also on my period which intensifies all of this and makes me feel like a sack of potatoes.
Numerous things have made me feel this way. We found out we have a larger minimum on a huge bill from my hospitalization that we need to move around finances to afford. Last night we realized we accidentally overrode the pictures from our NICU photo shoot (Update: They Have Been Restored!!!!!)
Due to frustrations and frantically trying to locate the pictures we didn't get to sleep until 2am…so I did the 3-5 and 7-9 shift so Dustin could rest. Today I got calls from the hospital that I mailed in the wrong part of Bella's medical device for her ph probe, I was on the phone for over 30min fixing a billing issue with our insurance, and I learned our formula is still needing paperwork done before getting mailed to us.
Bella's gtube is leaking and she's teething. After beginning her feed this morning I tried to give her meds and the liquid sprayed all over my face and her. She ended up vomiting her whole feed down my chest and hers. I laid in dried vomit for 2hrs so she could rest on my chest with a blanket between us topless after taking my vomit soaked shirt off. My hair's greasy and my legs are all kinds of hairy (TMI?).
Bella smells like spit up even though we just gave her a bath and her pump has been malfunctioning, throwing us off schedule. My floors are sticky from dripped formula from the pump/pump bags but I don't have the time to mop them. I'm caught up on laundry but Dustin and I argued last night and said hurtful things because we were sleep deprived and sad over losing the pictures. All in all I feel like a mess.
Gods been speaking to me in the midst of the crazy. He tells me I'm his and he loves Bella and I and Dustin. He says loves worth fighting for and saying I'm sorry is hard but so worth it. Serving each other. Sharing Oreos and pouring coffee keeps us going. Smiling over Bella's new way she grabs her toes or tries to giggle warms my heart and helps me know this is all worth it. Money will be tight but Gods got all the money in the world and I just need to be still. I try to be childlike in motherhood. I try to rely on the Spirit to guide me. I try to be playful. I try to take one moment at a time. I throw my hands up a lot. I don't have many answers. All I know is where I end God begins and He's caring for us.
So today was hard.
Then I got a text from a friend. We've been using honest company diapers. They work the best for Bella. She has sensitive skin and they're the best fit. But they're pricey. There's been 3+ friends who said they have them on sale at TJ Maxx. Last time I ran out after Dustin got off work to watch Bella but size 1s were all gone. Today a friend texted me a picture and told me they were there and they're thinking of us and love us. How thoughtful! In that moment I felt as if God had created this wonderful village around us..even though 99% haven't met Bella in person.
But then God took it to another level.
This lovely person texted me there were gifts on our porch for us. I was tethered to Bella and couldn't stop her feed/hold so I waited until Dustin came up to retrieve the items. He explained excitedly as he brought in lots of honest co diapers all in Bella's size. There was also a Starbucks coffee for me!!! I have been trying to save money so I do cut back on Starbucks or other items…I drink coffee at home (somehow there's always room in the budget for ice cream though lol) so this was a real treat!!! We both took turns sipping the chocolatey caffeine goodness.
But before then Dustin read a hand written message on the cup out loud in our living room. I believe strongly in the power of our words. Our words give life. Our words are so important. To hear Dustin deliver this message over our family brought me to tears.
In the midst of a hard day, from the handwriting of a special friend, on a coffee cup, Dustin read over the clanking of the feeding pump
"may God fill this day with wonder, joy, and assurance of his presence."
I hear you Lord. We're all ears ?


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TNA MP Selvam Addaikalanathan says that his party should be offered the parliament opposition leader position.
Speaking to our news team, he said that his party is qualified to claim the Opposition leader post in parliament.
In the general election that concluded recently, UNP secured 105 seats while UPFA secured 95 seats n parliament.
The TNA which contested the general election under Ilangai Arasu Kachchi claimed 16 seats while JVP received 6 seats.
The SLMC won one seat and EPDP also won one seat in the 2015 general election.

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The AWS re:Invent Ultimate Guide for Makers of Digital Health Products
Vice President of Marketing
With more than a thousand possible sessions to choose from and so many parties to attend, we thought we'd offer a bit of help to our friends out there in the healthcare industry who might be attending AWS re:Invent next week. In addition to presenting and exhibiting, many of our own people will be at the following sessions, chalk talks, panel discussions, and, of course, at the healthcare happy hour. Don't forget to stop by the Datica booth #519 while you're there. See you next week!
See the entire session list here.
HLC304 - Architecting for HIPAA on AWS
This Chalk Talk discusses the latest in HIPAA–eligible AWS services that you can use for healthcare applications and private health information. Learn from AWS healthcare solution architects about some general strategies and common architectures to decouple protected data from processing and orchestration, track where data flows using automation, and have logical boundaries between protected and general workflows.
Why Attend: HIPAA Compliance is what makes developing digital health application so much more difficult than developing applications in almost every other industry. Find out what AWS services matter for healthcare compliance.
HLC307 - Building a Secure and Healthcare-Compliant Platform for Adopting a Cloud-First Strategy Using AWS
This session provides an overview of how Change Healthcare invested in people, process, and an automation platform to adopt a cloud-first strategy. Starting from building a Cloud Center of Excellence team, they identified the compliance, security, and cost optimization requirements and process required to build a framework. They also embedded healthcare compliance, security, architecture best practices, and customer-specific rules and standards for a managed adoption of the cloud. Change Healthcare is leveraging their Cloud 2.0 framework to rapidly deploy their mission applications into AWS. Come learn how Change Healthcare built a serverless architecture using Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Service Catalog, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and other managed services.
Why Attend: Change Healthcare is an innovator on the revenue cycle management side of healthcare. If you're developing an application that has anything to do with claims processing, this session might be interesting to attend.
HLC308 - Healthcare Payers and Serverless Batch Processing Engines
In this session, hear how Cambia Health Solutions, a not-for-profit total health solutions company, created a self-service data model to convert a large-scale, on-premises batch processing model to a cloud-based, real-time pub-sub and RESTful API model. Learn how Cambia leveraged AWS services like Amazon Aurora, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Lambda, and AWS messaging services to create an architecture that provides a reasonable runway for legacy customers to convert from old mode to new mode and, at the same time, offer a fast track for onboarding new customers.
Why Attend: Cambia Health is at the heart of innovation in healthcare and it will be interesting to hear how their self-service data model works.
HLC309 - The American Heart Association and How to Build a Secure and Collaborative Precision Medicine Platform on AWS
The American Heart Association (AHA) Precision Medicine Platform was built on AWS to enable the research community to accelerate the development of solutions for cardiovascular diseases and stroke. In this session, AWS Partner Network, REAN Cloud, and the AHA discuss how they architected the AHA Precision Medicine Platform to facilitate healthcare research collaboration and data discovery for hundreds of users around the world. They discuss how to catalog, discover, and analyze precision medicine cohorts at scale using Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. Additionally, they explain how the platform adheres to the strict security and logging requirements necessary for compliance with HIPAA and FedRAMP by using AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Amazon Kinesis.
Why Attend: Find out how the AHA is building a Precision Medicine platform to analyze data at scale to help improve patient outcomes.
HLC310 - How Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's Focus on Standardizing Compliant Ops Led to Breakthrough Apps
The innovation team at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH), an integrated health care delivery system, saw AWS as an enabler to faster ideation on breakthrough patient care products over their existing internal private cloud options. In this session, you learn how they eliminated HIPAA compliance as a barrier to their speed-to-market goals by standardizing internal DevOps and DevSecOps duties across applications, as well as taking advantage of the containerization of enterprise technology. MLH partnered with Datica, an APN Healthcare Competency Partner, to address vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, disaster recovery, backups, encryption, audit logging, and deployment orchestration. You hear how, with this partnership, they ensure that the configuration and orchestration of all AWS HIPAA Eligible Services meet the controls set by healthcare's most stringent accreditation body, HITRUST, with every workload deployment. You also learn how MLH's adoption of a standard compliance layer led to quickly achieving stronger data integration with electronic health records.
Why Attend: Because, Datica! But seriously, we're excited to share how our customer MLH is finding great success on the Datica Platform.
LFS302 - Real World Evidence Platforms to Enable Therapeutic Innovation
Historically, there has been an information asymmetry in pharmaceutical R&D where the biopharmaceutical companies had the deepest understanding and knowledge about their products and how they helped and interacted with patients. Now, there's new, real-world data that exists from regulators, health plans, government authorities, and patients, which is helping pharma companies to understand how their therapies and their innovations drive value and impact in patient populations. There are imperatives to leverage that data, create new partnerships in their ecosystem, and get access to that data in an ethical way to derive insights to both fuel innovation and drive discovery. In this session, you learn best practices from Deloitte and Celgene about strategy, operating models, and execution frameworks when implementing a real-world, evidence data platform.
Why Attend: The evidence stage of your digital health journey is one of the most difficult, yet crucial, stages to get through. Validating that your application is actually doing what you say it will or improving patient outcomes is what will help you grow and scale your business. Attend this session to learn about evidence in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical organizations.
LFS304 - Born in the AWS Cloud: How Eagle Genomics Uses AWS to Process Billions of DNA Sequence Reads
With the increasing use of genomic sequencing for scientific discovery, the rate-limiting step for researchers is not in obtaining genetic code, but in having the capacity for storage and computing power to analyze it. In this session, you learn how Eagle Genomics built a cloud platform that uses an open-source workflow engine (eHive), Docker containers to process jobs, and a REST service to manage pipeline runs, all to help customers process genetic sequences up to 20 times faster without additional costs. You also learn how Eagle used Amazon EC2 Spot instances to provide low-cost compute power, and services such as Amazon S3 to power their cost-effective and scalable genetic processing platform.
Why Attend: One of the biggest impediments we hear about when large organizations are considering migrating to the cloud is the issue of how to handle those massive amounts of data. Find out how Eagle Genomics is scaling.
LFS305 - Automated Policy Enforcement for Real-time Operations, Security, and Compliance for Life Sciences
Implementing stringent security and compliance controls, like GxP, across your enterprise cloud ecosystem, while ensuring the agility of the DevSecOps process requires significant expertise and a lot of time to design, build, and maintain custom operations tooling. In this session, you learn how Turbot used AWS services to simplify IT operations to provide continuous compliance to major life sciences customers. You also hear how life sciences companies like Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) have become agile, ensured control, and automated best practices using automated policy controls to configure, monitor, and maintain their cloud resources. By doing this, they became more supportive of their researchers' application stack. You also learn how data scientists and core researchers can take advantage of the power of DevOps and cloud computing without compromising enterprise security or data protection requirements.
Why Attend: If you're at the enterprise level, or maybe just curious about how large cloud ecosystems in Life Sciences maintain security and compliance, attend this session.
LFS306 - How Eli Lilly Leverages AWS as a Clinical Innovation Platform to Change the Patient Experience in Healthcare
The Clinical Innovation Labs team at Eli Lilly and Company is leveraging AWS services, design thinking methodology, and co-creation to transform ideas for translating clinical research into real-world solutions. The Eli Lilly "Innovators' Platform" is a rapid prototyping environment that combines patient behavior discovery analysis, art-of-the-possible storyboarding, health device mockup creation, and simulated patient walkthrough analysis. This platform is used to demonstrate the capabilities of emerging technologies and enables participants to contribute ideas to extend the platform. This presentation describes how the team and its processes work together, what components make up the platform, and why it's making an impact on patient health. We discuss the team's use of various AWS services, including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS IoT, Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We also provide demos of what has been built using this platform methodology.
Why Attend: Eli Lilly is one of the top innovators in the biopharmaceutical segment of the healthcare industry. You might want to learn about how their innovation labs do things.
ABD316 - American Heart Association: Finding Cures to Heart Disease Through the Power of Technology
Combining disparate datasets and making them accessible to data scientists and researchers is a prevalent challenge for many organizations, not just in healthcare research. American Heart Association (AHA) has built a data science platform using Amazon EMR, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and other AWS services, that corrals multiple datasets and enables advanced research on phenotype and genotype datasets, aimed at curing heart diseases. In this session, we present how AHA built this platform and the key challenges they addressed with the solution. We also provide a demo of the platform, and leave you with suggestions and next steps so you can build similar solutions for your use cases.
Why Attend: Population health management is an area many digital health technologies are focused on today. Attend this one to hear how the AHA is wrangling all that data using AWS.
ARC205 - Born in the Cloud, Built like a Startup
This presentation compares three modern architecture patterns that startups are building their businesses around. It includes a realistic analysis of cost, team management, and security implications of each approach. It covers AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudFront. Attendees will also hear from venture capital investor Third Rock Ventures (TRV) who has launched 40+ biotech startups over the last 10 years. TRV will outline how it launches cloud native startups that turn bleeding edge science into new treatments across the spectrum of disease, with highlights drawn Relay Therapeutics and Tango Therapeutics.
Why Attend: We all want to do everything we can to make sure our digital health startup succeeds in this competitive, highly regulated environment. It will be interesting to hear how Third Rock Ventures sees a startup's viability.
ARC407 - Deconstructing SaaS: A Deep Dive into Building Multi-tenant Solutions on AWS
SaaS presents developers with a unique blend of architectural challenges. While the concepts of multi-tenancy are straightforward, the reality of making all the moving parts work together can be daunting. In this session, we move beyond the conceptual bits of SaaS and look under the hood of an SaaS application. Our goal is to examine the fundamentals of identity, data partitioning, and tenant isolation through the lens of a working solution and to highlight the challenges and strategies associated with building a next generation SaaS application on AWS. We look at the full lifecycle of registering new tenants, applying security policies to prevent cross-tenant access, and leveraging tenant profiles to effectively distribute and partition tenant data. We intend to connect many of the conceptual dots of an SaaS implementation, highlighting the tradeoffs and considerations that can shape your approach to SaaS architecture.
Why Attend: The build vs. buy decision is one many makers of digital health products go through when deciding how to deploy their application into the cloud in a compliant fashion. Of course, we recommend buying Datica, a multi-tenant cloud platform ready-made for healthcare, but you might learn about what's involved if you are considering setting up your own compliant infrastructure.
CON205 - Birds of a Feather: Containers and Open Source at AWS
Cloud native architectures take advantage of on-demand delivery, global deployment, elasticity, and higher-level services to enable developer productivity and business agility. Open source is a core part of making cloud native possible for everyone. In this session, we welcome thought leaders from the CNCF, Docker, and AWS to discuss the cloud's direction for growth and enablement of the open source community. We also discuss how AWS is integrating open source code into its container services and its contributions to open source projects.
Why Attend: At Datica, we believe that the future of healthcare is open and, in fact, just announced a move toward open sourcing our code for healthcare integrations. Since the Datica Platform is multi-tenant and container-based this session might help you understand how Datica enables fast, compliant deployment to the cloud for makers of digital health products.
DEV320 - A Primer on Developing Software in the Cloud
Developers are always looking for new ways to make it faster and easier to develop and release software. However, their development tools haven't evolved to support the highly distributed, dynamic, fast-paced development processes made possible by the cloud. In this session, we take a closer look at the tools that developers can use to improve their productivity. Through demonstrations, we showcase how developers can quickly edit, debug, and deploy applications to the cloud while collaborating with their team.
Why Attend: If you're still at the napkin scribble stage of your digital health journey, you might want to attend this session to find out what it will take to develop your software in the cloud.
ENT320 - How a Global Healthcare Company Built a Migration Factory to Quickly Move Thousands of Applications to AWS
Setting a goal for your teams to move a large number of workloads to AWS in a short period of time can be a great way to motivate teams to migrate quickly. Cardinal Health created a migration factory composed of teams, tools, and processes that streamlined the movement of workloads from on-premises to AWS. In this session, hear from Cardinal Health about how they used a migration factory to successfully move thousands of applications to the AWS Cloud. In addition, learn best practices for creating an effective migration platform and process in your organization.
Why Attend: The thought of migrating to the cloud is one of the things that keeps healthcare CIOs up at night. This session will give you some insights from another brave healthcare team who has made the move.
MSC301 - Cloud Security for Regulated Industries
In this session, we discuss the challenges that regulated industries (e.g., government, financial, and healthcare) face in demonstrating compliance with security requirements. Learn which AWS Marketplace services enable appropriate threat mitigations in cloud computing through customer use cases, and understand how to minimize your burden. We also demonstrate methods to reduce business impact while increasing security effectiveness and reducing risk in your environment.
Why Attend: Compliance is healthcare's middle name so if you're a maker of digital health products, you'll want to attend this session to find out how AWS is for regulated industries.
GPSTEC303 - GPS: Blockchain and the Road to Innovation
For many, Blockchain has been a black box with little standardization on how to use the technology. The need to understand a multitude of protocols, consortiums, and services, along with their strengths and weaknesses, makes it difficult to select the best option for individual use cases. The lack of technical maturity leads to an uneasiness within the community that can negatively affect adoption. With our new partnerships, along with Intel, this panel discusses technology drivers that are pushing standards forward and accelerating the adoption of Blockchain in the AWS enterprise space. Come join us for a closer look at what Blockchain is doing for several industries and their use cases.
Why Attend: It wouldn't be a technology conference if someone wasn't talking about Blockchain! We're hearing lots of buzz about Blockchain in healthcare as some predict it may be the key to the future of secure data interoperability. Attend this session to find out what all the buzz is about.
HLC01 - AWS Healthcare Happy Hour – Sponsored by Cloudticity
Come enjoy a drink and light snacks with your peers from the Healthcare Industry at Buddy V at The Venetian. You'll have the opportunity to network with other industry professionals, as well as meet some of the AWS presenters from Monday's Healthcare track.
Why Attend: The Datica crew will be there!


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There has been a concern from various quarters over the status of the budget proposals presented by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello on December 31, 2015. The curiosity was instigated by a show of concern on the pace of implementation of projects by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello-led administration. Many Nigerlites previously assumed the budget has already been passed by the legislature and thus wondering why intended programmes and policies are yet to be initiated.
In a recent announcement by the State House of Assembly, it confirmed that deliberations are already ongoing in preparation for the passage of the proposed budget. This sensitivity to the the concerns of the people is not only commendable but shows the lawmakers are responsive and follow public discursions by the people whose interests they represent and protect.
However, in a recent report, some members of the State Assembly made an observation on the Governor's promise to recover funds looted by the past administration. They sought to know the reports of the committees up by the Governor to "investigate the activities of the past administration with particular reference to the Finance of the state." And of course, the current administration has been painstaking, though cautious, in its forensic audit of the state and tracking of the financial dealings of the past administrations and the individuals and groups culpable of any financial fraud.
What's perceived as the Governor's "lack of courage" is actually an unfair judgment of his exhibition of caution in his investigation of the suspicious financial dealings of the past administration, and this is so because he has chosen to abide by due process instead of appealing to non-legal sentiments.
Hasty judgements have never been virtuous in documenting evidences against a group under whose watch financial transactions were poorly handled. This is why there's a need to track and prepare convincing evidences before inviting the guilty party for trial, or the process may only end up as a media show with the accused walking away at the end of a dramatic and long litigations with the dismissal of a filed case as one based on weak evidences.
Even at the federal level, the process of bringing treasury looters into book isn't as smooth as foreseen, expected or promised by both the government and the observant citizens. Some of the major actors in the past administration are yet to be tried by the anti-corruption body despite the extent of their participation in the mismanagement of public funds in the court of public opinion. Perhaps this explains President Muhammadu Buhari's description of such dilemma in a famous speech, that "order is more vital than speed."
The truth is, even though it may be the interest of all for those accused to be hastily arrested and tried, there's a difference between our opinions of them and the Law. The legal procedures aren't built on our subjectivity and wishes, and thus appearing for litigations without enough substantial evidences against any member of the past administration found wanting is bound to a certain doom.
According to a statement attributed to the Deputy Speaker in that report, "stolen funds have been recovered in other states." But the truth is funds are actually being recovered in Niger State, which explains the lack of needless drama that's seen as the hallmark of anti-corruption crusade by some. I don't see any state government that has embarked on media trial of former leaders of the state. For all we know, no immediate past Governor of any State has been jailed yet. This is so because due process is being followed by the serving Governor, who's only the head of the Executive, not the Judiciary.
Another aspect of the Governor's anti-corruption crusade that wasn't revealed in the report is, on assuming duty as Executive head of this government, Governor Bello ordered all members of the past administration to return properties of the state in their possessions. This was actualised with the dispatch of law-enforcement agents who tracked them down and retrieved government-owned properties in their possession. Even the residence of the past Governor was visited and government-owned cars in his possession were recovered and submitted to the government. If this is not courage, I wonder what is. This clearly contradicts the statements attributed to the Lawmaker.
In his interview with the Hausa service of Voice of America, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Jibrin Baba Ndace, explained the Governor's administrative style and approach to recovering of looted funds. He clarified that the reason for the misperception of Governor Bello's approach to governance is simply because he's not a showman, and that he has always shied away from putting up a show for media sensationalism. He's chosen to tread the path of honour, honesty and diligence and this obviously may not impress proponents of sensationalism.
One thing that must be understood is, the Governor's relationship with the other branches of government are cordial and geared towards the development of the State. The activities of the legislature are a proof that he doesn't interfere with legislative processes, and allows each branch to function as provided for in the Constitution. Even today, February 27, Governor Bello was Guest of Honour at an event for the launch of a constituency programme by the Hon. Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Ahmad Marafa. This is the beauty of democracy we all yearn for!
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Nicole by OPI Celeb-Bitties Kardashian Kolor Minis Review
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... now I really want to buy Sealed with a Kris.ReplyDelete
These are great. Do the Nicole by OPI minis have the same itty-bitty difficult-to-use brush that the OPI minis do?Replies
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Do you by any chance know how Sealed With a Kris compares with OPI Got the Blues for Red?ReplyDeleteReplies
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There's a new Google Easter Egg.
Type in Zerg Rush. You've just summoned an army of little "Os" that nudge and destroy your search results. It's damn annoying too. Watching that life bar decrease actually gives me pause.
Feel Your Jaw Drop:
You earn points by clicking on the "Os," and attack them till they drop. It seems easy, but there are an endless wave of baddies. You don't really win. Resistance is futile
At the end of the Zerg rush, the "Os" organize themselves into two huge "Gs." Kinda reminds me of the Replicators in Stargate. Good Game indeed.
This little Easter egg is based off the ever-awesome video game Starcraft.
Click refresh at the end of the Easter egg if you have nothing to do.


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A set of identical twin brothers just proposed to a set of identical twin sisters—and the four are tying the knot in a joint twin wedding.
The two couples met last August at the annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Josh and Jeremy Salyers, 34, and Brittany and Briana Deane, 31, said it was love at first sight for both couples.
"It was one of the most magical moments," Briana told the New York Post. "For me, it went in like slow motion, like a movie. We all believe in soulmates and we all felt that instant connection."
Briana will marry Jeremy and Brittany will marry Josh in a joint wedding. The two brothers proposed to the sisters at the exact same time while filming a documentary for Inside Edition. On February 2, (or 2-2... for twins, get it!?), the Deane sisters met the brothers and thought that they were filming for an advertisement when the two brothers got down on their knees and popped the question(s).
The brothers said that in the past, they have had a hard time in relationships as previous girlfriends have had trouble understanding them and their connection. But when the two met the Deane sisters, it was a perfect match. "We found out they were very similar to us," Josh told the News Journal in an interview. "We kind of always knew that we were never getting married unless it was to twins."
And luckily, Briana and Brittany say they've always felt the same way about their love lives. "Ever since we were little girls, we have always known that there were identical twin boys who were going to marry us one day," Brianna said.
And only naturally, the couples will wed back in the place they met: next year's Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg.


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Scientific publications
The functions of the basal ganglia and the paradox of stereotaxic surgery in Parkinson's disease
Marsden CD, Obeso JA.
University Department of Clinical Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
Magazine: Brain
Date: Aug 1, 1994Neurology [SP]
The basal ganglia play a role in controlling movement. The motor circuits within the striato-pallidal complex are thought to facilitate desired movement and inhibit unwanted movement through their influence via thalamus, mainly on precentral motor cortical regions.
Lesions in the motor thalamus, or in the globus pallidus, therefore might be expected to impair voluntary movement. But stereotaxic lesions in patients with Parkinson's disease directed at the motor thalamus verified at autopsy, and lesions in the globus pallidus, which improve rigidity and tremor, apparently do not worsen parkinsonian hypokinesia and bradykinesia; nor do they regularly cause dyskinesias. Reasons for this discrepancy are reviewed. It is concluded that the motor circuits of the basal ganglia are part of a distributed motor system which can operate, albeit imperfectly, in the absence of striato-pallido-thalamo-cortical feedback.
There may, however, be subtle defects in motor performance after thalamic and pallidal lesions which have escaped attention. Further consideration leads to two hypotheses concerning normal basal ganglia motor function. First, it seems most likely that it is a pause in firing of medial pallidal and substantia nigra reticulata neurons that, by disinhibition of thalamic targets, permits movements generated by cortical motor areas. An increase in firing of medial pallidal neurons, which so far has been the major focus of attention, may be more concerned with inhibition of unwanted movement. Secondly, we suggest that the basal ganglia play a particular role in motor control. A change in firing of medial pallidal neurons appears to occur too late to initiate a new movement. However, the motor circuit within the striato-pallidal system routinely receives a continuous delayed read-out of cortical motor activity and issues an output directed via thalamus mainly to premotor cortical regions. This may permit the routine automatic execution of sequences of movements generated in cortical motor areas.
There is evidence that other regions of the striatum respond to significant external or internal cues as dictated by their cortical inputs, the significance being determined by memory, novelty, emotional and other contexts.
We suggest that such events capture the attention of the non-motor striatum, which then interrupts the routine operation of the motor circuit, perhaps at the level of the medial pallidum and substantia nigra pars reticulata, to permit new cortical motor action.
CITATION Brain. 1994 Aug;117 ( Pt 4):877-97
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JOSEPH YOBO is praying for an end to the injury upsets which have plagued his season.
Everton's classy defender (left) has not started a Premiership match since August - and this week saw an opportunity to play in a prestigious international friendly between Nigeria and South Africa denied by another knock.
Yobo had been invited to star in tomorrow's Mandela Challenge - arranged in honour of former president Nelson Mandela.
But an ankle injury picked up in last week's League Cup defeat at Arsenal means he did not travel.
"We're hoping he will be okay in time for Fulham's visit this weekend," said boss David Moyes "but it's just indicative of Joseph's luck this season.
"He picked up an ankle problem in Arsenal which meant he wouldn't have been fit enough to play tomorrow."
Yobo was first choice this season until a knee injury allowed David Weir and Alan Stubbs to resurrect their successful partnership with four successive clean sheets in the Premiership.
Since then, rare opportunities to reclaim his place have coincided with freak injuries.
In contrast, Chinese midfielder Li Tie is hoping to build on his fitness in an international in China tomorrow.
He was not able to join in a full training session at the Guangzhou Stadium yesterday, but still hopes to play against Hong Kong.
"I came back this time to shoulder the duty with everyone," he said. "It depends on the head coach whether I will play and, if I do, where I will play. I just have to show my best during training."
Tie made his come back from almost a year's absence with a broken leg in a reserve defeat by Wolves last week.


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- Minister for Employment
- Minister for Women
- Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service
- Senator for Western Australia
SUBJECT/S: Secret payments between employers and unions, Sunday penalty rates, WA state election
ASHLEIGH GILLON: As you just heard outlined there, the corrupting benefit laws will crack down on unions or employers receiving or making payments that have a corrupting motive. But is this actually a widespread problem? Earlier I spoke with the Employment Minister, Michaelia Cash, and asked her if it was clear how many of these so-called secret payments are actually happening.
MINISTER CASH: The Hayden Royal Commission has basically stated for at least 30 years now, there is evidence of secret payments being made, and the Hayden Royal Commission itself outlines multiple examples of where these secret payments have been made. In fact, when you actually talk to people about what we're proposing to do, the response I get is what do you mean this is not allowed, or this is allowed? So what we are doing is we are banning secret payments between employers and unions. We acknowledge, of course Ashleigh, that there are legitimate payments that can be made, and in relation to the legitimate payments, these will need to be disclosed to employees so that when they are voting on an enterprise agreement they have all of the information in front of them and they are able to make an informed decision.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Yeah, look, it does seem like a good move, but many workers would probably argue that the penalty rates decision is more of an urgent challenge right now that they'd like the Government to be dealing with. We know the Fair Work Commission is an independent body, it was them not the Government that made that decision and the Government seems to want to distance themselves from that decision at every move. But you do have the power to reverse it in the Parliament if you think it was a mistake. Was it the wrong call? Would you have made that call if it was up to you?
MINISTER CASH: Well, as you've correctly stated, this is a decision of the independent Fair Work Commission. It is a decision that was made after approximately two years of taking evidence and they saw over 5000 submissions. And based on all of that evidence, they made the decision that Sundays are not the sacrosanct day that they used to be 10, 20, 30 years ago and that small business needs to be on a level playing field with big business and big unions who actively do deals to trade away penalty rates. So the Commission has made a decision to align Sunday penalty rates slightly closer to Saturday penalty rates and give small business the break that it needs.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Sure I understand that this was the Fair Work Commission's decision but I'm asking you do you think it was a good idea? Do you think that overall the economy will be better off? Do you think it's a fair decision? Is it one that you would have made as Employment Minister, if it was your call?
MINISTER CASH: Well certainly, when you look at the reasoning in the Commission's decision, the Commission acknowledges the positive employment benefits that the decision will bring. I've been speaking to a number of small businesses over the last few weeks, in particular in the retail sector, who have said they look forward now to either opening on a Sunday if they're not already open on a Sunday due to the prohibitive costs or alternatively, employing more people on a Sunday. So certainly I acknowledge the very positive employment benefits that the decision will bring and I'm very supportive of that.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: What do you make of the proposal by Nick Xenophon to quarantine workers who are already getting penalty rates from that decision?
MINISTER CASH: Well basically what the Commission itself has asked for is now submissions to be given to it and these submissions are due in by 24 March in relation to what is the transition. The Commission itself acknowledges in its decision that there will be some hardship felt by employees who are currently working Sundays. On that basis, the Commission has said it wants to hear from all interested parties whether they're unions, whether they're employees, whether they're employers about the appropriate transitional provisions to put in.
So, for example, COSBOA, the Council of Small Business, they've said they'd like the change to commence on 1 July 2017 and basically for – similar to Nick Xenophon – current employers to be grandfathered. On the other hand, a lot of the big businesses have said that they would prefer to see a two year phase in of the penalty rates decision. And of course then there's the Productivity Commission which said 12 months. So the Commission now will analyse all of that evidence and then they will make a decision as to what is the most appropriate transition to mitigate any hardship that may be felt.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: I understand that that is the view of those various bodies that you just described there but what is the Government's view on this? What is your view on this? What will you be including in your submission on those issues?
MINISTER CASH: Well very much the Government would normally provide a factual submission in relation to what the Fair Work Commission requests. So we will look at whether or not take-home pay orders are available. That's exactly what the Commission has asked us to do. And we'll also look at the other options that are available in terms of a transitional period and we will put forward arguments in relation to them. But normally governments provide factual submissions because at the end of the day, this is a decision for the independent Fair Work Commission but it also needs to be a decision made on the basis of all of the evidence that is presented to the Commission.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Okay but you're ruling out legislating to tinker around the edges of any Fair Work Commission decision on this?
MINISTER CASH: Oh absolutely, Ashleigh, and Bill Shorten – what an absolute political stunt. Nothing more and nothing less. This – as you know – Bill Shorten quite frankly has to acknowledge this is …
ASHLEIGH GILLON: [Interrupts] Okay but no, the fact of what you're doing, though, Minister the fact of what you're doing if your submission is effectively ignored by the Fair Work Commission on those various issues that you just went through then, are you saying that you will not look at legislating in the Parliament at all, even if you think that the Fair Work Commission gets it wrong?
MINISTER CASH: Well hold on, the Fair Work Commission will ultimately make a decision in relation to whatever the transitional process is. That's the whole point of the next phase of this decision is now they're asking for submissions. They will then analyse those submissions and they will come up with the most appropriate form of transitional provision. So there will be a transition put into place. It's just what that transition will be. In relation to your question, though, as to legislation, no. The Government will not be legislating. This is an independent decision from an independent body and you do not want your politicians meddling in those decisions. And the question for Bill Shorten needs to be this – if you don't like a decision coming out of the Reserve Bank, are you going to legislate so that the Reserve Bank can't lower or higher interest rates?
There is a reason you have independent commissions looking at these decisions and what Bill Shorten's done today is nothing more and nothing less than a political stunt. Bill Shorten needs to explain to the Australian people why he is happy to support big unions and big businesses doing deals to trade away penalty rates, in particular on a Sunday but he won't support the decision of an independent commission that says we need to level the playing field for small business. I mean Ashleigh, is it fair that small business …
ASHLEIGH GILLON: [Talks over] Just looking at what else Labor has said, Minister, Labor is also arguing that around 700,000 workers are going to be affected by this decision and it seems to have been some confusion about how many …
MINISTER CASH: [Talks over] And we've already shown, Ashleigh, that the department's analysis – sorry the department's analysis of those figures shows that Labor is wrong on their figures. They continue to bandy around the figure of around 700,000 when they know that is a gross overestimation.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: So what's your estimate of how many workers would actually be affected?
MINISTER CASH: Well the estimate is around 250,000 to 450,000 but you've also got to understand that some of those people will only work on a Sunday on the very odd occasion, like a student. So in terms of Labor bandying around the figure of 700,000, they know that is a gross overestimation. But I think the bigger picture is this – the Commission acknowledges the positive employment benefits of this decision and why is it that Labor again supports big businesses and big unions being able to do these deals but when the Commission tries to level the playing field for small business, who does not have the capacity to do these types of deals, apparently that's wrong. You know, as the Prime Minister's said and I've said we will stand up for small business every day of the week.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Now, you were overseas last week when the whole nation was focussing on the wash-up of the WA election in your home state. It's being reported that you,
along with Mathias Cormann, struck that preferencing deal with One Nation. In hindsight was that a bad move? Did it hinder instead of help the WA Liberal Party?
MINISTER CASH: Well I am amused by the reporting because the reporting is wrong. Preferences are an issue for the WA Liberal Party, for our head office endorsed by our state executive, and that is exactly what ensued.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Okay. So the report suggesting that you met with One Nation to get this deal over the line are incorrect? You had nothing to do with that?
MINISTER CASH: They are incorrect, yes.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Okay. So my broader question though, was it a bad move for the WA Liberal Party to go down that road in terms of doing this preference deal with One Nation?
MINISTER CASH: You know, at the end of the day, after eight and a half years in government, it was always going to be a difficult task for the WA Liberal Party to get over the line. We recognised that, and the result, unfortunately, reflects the fact that many people in Western Australia did decide it was time for a change and that is the way they voted, and I respect the decision of the Western Australian public. I may not like the decision, but I certainly respect the decision that they have made.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: Sure, but back to my question, was the One Nation preference deal a bad idea?
MINISTER CASH: No, not at all.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: And why not? Do you think it did actually help the Liberal Party in any way there in WA?
MINISTER CASH: Well again, you'll need to have a look at the wash-up in terms of the what, when, where, why and how. But certainly, it was always going to be a tough ask for the Liberals after eight and a half years in government to get over the line. We recognised that probably a good 12 months ago now that it was going to be a tough gig. But certainly, from the One Nation perspective, from my dealings with One Nation, they have worked very well with me in relation to restoring law and order in the building and construction industry. They have worked well with me in establishing the Registered Organisations Commission and ensuring that registered organisations have the same standards as company directors. They supported our efforts to stand up for the tens of thousands of volunteer firefighters in Victoria who were being subjected to a Daniel Andrews-style hostile takeover by the United Firefighters Union. So I have a very good working relationship with One Nation and I will continue to have that working relationship.
ASHLEIGH GILLON: That deal though was a huge distraction for Colin Barnett throughout the campaign, especially in the final week of the campaign. Do you believe that it should be kept open to strike a similar deal at a federal level, despite the WA experience?
MINISTER CASH: Well you should never rule anything out, because politics changes very rapidly. You should never rule anything out; I think that would be quite naïve to respond to left wing political pressure to rule something out.
[End of excerpt]
ASHLEIGH GILLON: I did continue to ask the Minister for her thoughts on other aspects of the WA election. If you, like me as a West Australian, are interested in the wash-up of that result and where to now on some key issues – like the GST and the Perth Freight Link funding – this evening you will be able to watch more of that interview, canvassing some of those topics, on the Sky News website.


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Now I don't like calling them rules, because it denotes I'm playing some sort of game, or suggesting the like. Truth is, 1, dating is sort of a game, and 2, I don't use these rules to "play" men, but these are just things I do or don't do that I've been successful at. I think, what advice would I give my little sister about men and dating and these are the rules I've come up with.
I've been asked in the past by some girlfriends how is it that, in their words, I have "men wrapped around my finger?" Truth be told I never thought about it that way. I just approach men an dating in a very fearless and confident way and somehow I guess that attracts men. Not always the good ones, mind you, but it works none the less. After a very honest look at myself I did realize I may be the female version of Swarley- Swarla if you will. Only I don't one night stand guys. Ever. I guess that could be rule #2.
I'm gonna list them for easy use as I write them. I will be adding to this post, so bookmark it for future use! Click on each rule for the blog post explaining the rule. So far we have:
#1: Never ask for a guy's number: Give him yours, or wait for him to ask
#2: Don't do one night stands. Yuck.
#3: Always get A's: Never let yourself be anything but an "A"
#5: The best to get over someone is to get on top of someone new. True story.
#7: Honesty: It really is the best policy


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ITV's Racing Rights and Cheltenham Tips
Ever since the arrival of the mass medium of television in the late 1950s to early 1960s, horseracing has been broadcast to the nation and as a result, become the second most widely televised sport after football.
As the infographic from My Racing shows, for over half of the sixty or so decades that the sport has been broadcast, Channel 4 have owned a large part of the rights. However, due to flagging viewership, bosses decided it was a time for a change and the rights now lie with ITV.
It was unarguably time for a change in terms of the broadcast of the much-loved sport, Channel 4's reign as horseracing's sole terrestrial partner has been marred by some pretty calamitous ratings for even the most prestigious of its fixtures.
Royal Ascot waved goodbye to half of its viewers whilst British Champions Day saw its audience shrink dramatically from an average of 1.1million in the BBC's final year just 367,000 in October.
ITV will now cover the racing calendar including highly anticipated fixtures such as Cheltenham Festival, Grand National, the Derby and Royal Ascot, broadcasting a minimum of 34 days annually on its main ITV channel, with an additional 60 on ITV 4.
The four-year deal is reportedly worth a huge £30 million with the likes of the Racecourse Media Group, Jockey Club Racecourses, Ascot, British Champions Series and Arena Racing Company hoping the transfer of racing's main events to a more popular mainstream channel will help to win back many of lost fans viewers from Channel 4.
Racing Tips
The Cheltenham Festival may seem a long way off but we all know how quickly these types of events come around and it pays be prepared so why not clue yourself up on some of the festival's betting trends now.
In terms of the Champion Hurdle, there are some pretty noticeable patterns to bear in mind when picking your bet.
Eight of the last ten winners were aged between six and eight, with an exception of a five-year-old and a nine-year-old, with a further eight of ten winners having ran in the festival at least once.
It's worth looking at the horse's appearances over the season as eight of the previous ten winners had run in the same calendar year. It also pays to look at form as six of the last ten winners won on their last start with the remaining four finishing either 2nd, 3rd or 4th.
There are similar trends in the National Hunt. If a horse you're looking to bet on had a prep run in the last three months, then you take that punt as each of the last ten winners had one between December and February.
Don't be fooled by experience too much as nine of the last ten champions made their debut in running three miles, two furlongs. And out of the last ten National Hunt Chases, only three of the actual winners were favourites, from 2011-2013, so don't be put if the horse you're tempted to go for isn't odds on.


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Sir Alex Ferguson, though, does not enter the international break with the air of a man at ease with his world. The 69 year-old's words to describe his side in recent days seem to have stopped well short of the lavish praise their free-running, free-thinking style has attracted from outside Old Trafford.
They have been lax, and careless. Cavalier, even, with all of its connotations of naivety, of reckless courage.
After a slender, tense victory over newly-promoted Norwich, only secured by late goals from Anderson and Danny Welbeck, he added that they were gritty and determined.
It is an improvement, perhaps, but hardly seems a ringing endorsement. This, though, is United, and their manager is is Ferguson. Theirs is a dogma which prizes artistry and elan, of course, but which demands above all else relentlessness, 90 minutes of blitzkrieg until the desired result is attained.
Few observers would suggest United should shout from the rooftops that they beat Paul Lambert's impressive team. To those inside Manchester United, though, it spoke volumes.
"It was difficult," admitted Phil Jones, the 19-year-old central defender who now appears a cornerstone of United's side, having featured in every Premier League game. "Norwich came here with a game plan and stuck to it. It made it difficult for us to break them down, but we showed signs of champions in getting two late goals. It is a big win for us.
"As champions, fans expect you to turn up and be the best every game, week in and week out. But we know football is not like that and it was proved today. It was very frustrating. They made it hard and we had to be patient.
"That is what the manager said at half-time: be patient, move the ball quicker and we would get our rewards in the end."
That they did, in truth, owed far more to Norwich — and the vicissitudes of fortune — than it did to United's rearguard.
Anthony Pilkington, a trainee at United as a youngster, should have scored a hat-trick for Norwich City, seeing one effort deflected away by Jonny Evans, placing another wide and seeing a third ricochet onto a post, with Anders Lindegaard beaten. Only when Welbeck tapped home after exchanging passes with Ji-Sung Park were the hosts safe, winning 2-0.
That is the area which will trouble Ferguson most, For all of Jones's confidence that winning when playing badly is a harbinger of glory, United's defence melted away against Basle and, against a better or a luckier side, would have done exactly the same onthis occasion. There are mitigating circumstances, of course. United have struggled to name a settled defensive line-up all season, a factor which Jones believes makes the club's start to the season all the more impressive.
"It has been difficult not having a settled back four," he added. "But all the lads are capable of switching around and, again, it shows the signs of champions that we have players coming into any position and still proving they are good enough to play well."
It is an impressively positive spin, and given his start to the season, an understandable one. Jones is a marauding, buccaneering force of nature going forward and was also by far United's most reliable defensive presence.
He has consistently impressed since his £16.5 million move from Blackburn evidenced by the fact that he, not Rio Ferdinand, the most expensive defender in British history, started, the senior man rested after a poor display in the Champions League.
But even with Jones's ascension, United are still visibly affected by the absence of Nemanja Vidic. The Serb, it seems clear, cannot return soon enough, though a trip to Liverpool is hardly the ideal restorative after a month off through injury. Only when Vidic is back, one senses, will Ferguson share the confidence of his players.


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Palo Alto Networks Live Community explains Google's QUIC protocol updates for Chrome 70. Learn what firewall updates you'll need and how to keep your system running smoothly before the planned release takes effect. Users with an active support license will also find useful links to FAQs and best practices.
QUIC is a protocol developed by Google that uses UDP for its transportation and supports multiplexed connections between two endpoints. This provides a security equivalent TLS/SSL and reduces connection and transport latency.
When using Chrome, many Google services like Gmail and YouTube will prefer QUIC over TCP TLS
In Chrome version 70, Google is updating its QUIC protocol to version 44, Application and Threat Content Update version 8080 updates our existing "quic" App-ID to remain compliant with QUIC version 44.
To prevent running into issues when Google releases their update on October 16th, it is recommended to update the content packages on your firewalls to version 8080 or above at your earliest convenience.
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I just block quic - simplest option
Am seeing reports of HTTP-over-QUIC being renamed as HTML/3 by the IETF. If this is actually correct, then I can only assume that with adoption of the new protocol we are going to start seeing a lot more QUIC connections on the network.
Interesting article over at zdnet: https://www.zdnet.com/article/http-over-quic-to-be-renamed-http3/
As metioned by Alex_Samad above and the best practices, I assume the suggested approach is to still block the traffic to force chrome to fallback, but is their anything on the horizon that might help with this issue in future?
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Charles G. Moertel, MD; C. Michael Johnson, MD; Michael A. McKusick, MD; J. Kirk Martin, MD; David M. Nagorney, MD; Larry K. Kvols, MD; Joseph Rubin, MD; Susan Kunselman, MA
To determine the effectiveness of hepatic artery occlusion alone and with sequenced chemotherapy for patients with hepatic-dominant metastases of islet cell carcinomas and carcinoid tumors.
Nonrandomized, observational study with follow-up from 2.5 to 10 years.
111 ambulatory patients referred to a multidisciplinary tertiary care center who had histologically proven islet cell carcinoma or carcinoid tumor and symptomatic measurable metastatic lesions in the liver or hormonal abnormalities or both. The patients were ambulatory but were having substantial symptoms because of their endocrine syndromes or their tumors.
All patients had hepatic artery occlusion done surgically or by catheterization and embolization. After this procedure, 71 patients were selected for chemotherapy with alternating two-drug regimens of doxorubicin plus dacarbazine and streptozocin plus fluorouracil. Main outcome measures of response to therapy were rates of tumor regression, rates of improvement in endocrine abnormalities, symptomatic improvement, and duration of favorable response.
Objective regressions were observed in 60% of patients treated with occlusion alone and in 80% with chemotherapy added. Regressions were associated with substantial or complete relief from the endocrine syndromes. With occlusion alone, the median duration of regression was 4.0 months and with chemotherapy added, it was 18.0 months. Any comparative inferences about the two treatment regimens must be guarded, because this was not a randomized trial and marked differences occurred in the distribution of prognostic factors between the patient groups. Side effects of arterial occlusion included fever, nausea, pain, and abnormalities in liver function. Side effects of chemotherapy included nausea, vomiting, leukopenia, and alopecia.
Hepatic arterial occlusion can frequently produce major regression of neuroendocrine tumors with relief from the hormonal syndromes. Sequential chemotherapy may improve the rate and duration of the regression.
Moertel CG, Johnson CM, McKusick MA, et al. The Management of Patients with Advanced Carcinoid Tumors and Islet Cell Carcinomas. Ann Intern Med. 1994;120:302–309. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-120-4-199402150-00008
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Slideshow: Yesterday's Ocean: A History of Marine Life on California's Central Coast
Prolific underwater photographer Marc Shargel has released a new publication on California's sea life: "Yesterday's Ocean: A History of Marine Life on California's Central Coast." Using present-day images and archival photographs, this booklet tells the story of Central California's boom-and-bust relationship with ocean fisheries over the past three centuries.
As fishermen in the past discovered, the ocean is not without its limits. In "Yesterday's Ocean," Shargel shows that after short, intense periods of exploitation, stocks of otters, abalone and sardines became much harder to find. As one species was depleted, another was targeted.
This pattern came to characterize many of California's Central Coast fisheries, eventually leading to the spectacular crash of the sardine fishery in the late 1940s. The story told in "Yesterday's Ocean" perfectly illustrates the tragedy of the commons: left unchecked, fishermen exploited species after species until each had collapsed.
Ocean Conservancy has made great strides to ensure that Pacific Ocean ecosystems receive the protection they need. In California, after years of hard work, the state finished implementing a statewide network of 124 marine protected areas in 2012.
Taking it one step further, at our urging, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council recently adopted an informal Fisheries Ecosystem Plan to manage fish stocks using ecosystem-based management. This is a critical first step in improving fisheries management in the region because the plan looks at entire ecosystems instead of just one fish at a time.
If there is one thing we can learn from the boom-and-bust cycles of the Central Coast's fisheries, it is the time-honored lesson that those who do not learn from the past are bound to repeat it.
Fisheries managers are facing tough decisions now that will determine the future health of our local marine life, from tiny herring to giant white sharks. The history lesson found in "Yesterday's Ocean" can serve as motivation for getting it right.
For more on "Yesterday's Ocean," check out this Thank You Ocean interview with Marc Shargel:


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Summer is here! Crock Pot/Slow Cooker BAKED Potatoes/SWEET Potatoes Recipe!
Don't heat up your whole house with the oven – use your slow cooker/crock pot!
- 4 – 6 potatoes (washed and scrubbed)
- Olive Oil
- Salt and Pepper
Do This:
- Prick potatoes with a fork 6-8 times (you don't want them to explode!)
- Rub olive oil on the potatoes and sprinkle with salt and pepper*
- Wrap each potatoes in foil
- Place into your slow cooker/crock pot
Cook on High for 2.5 – 5 hours; or Low for 7 – 10 hours.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cooking time will vary depending on the size of the potatoes and crock pot/slow cooker.
- Do not fill the crock more than ¾ full.
- *You may try other herbs and seasonings too!
- Eat with sour crème, butter or try Greek yogurt or cottage cheese!
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1906 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games ▪ Next Summer Games
Host City: Athina, Greece
Date Started: April 24, 1906
Date Finished: April 25, 1906
Events: 4
Participants: 43 (43 men and 0 women) from 11 countries
Youngest Participant: Harald Julin (16 years, 28 days)
Oldest Participant: William Henry (46 years, 304 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): John Jarvis and Henry Taylor (3 medals)
Most Medals (Country): Great Britain (5 medals)
The 1906 swimming competitions were held in the [Neo Phaliron Bay] off the coast of Athens. This was in contrast to 1896 when the events were held in a nearby bay, the [Bay of Zea]. The judges had trouble with the open bay as the site for the swimming events because they had difficulty keeping the swimming lanes free of private boats. Barcs noted that "most of the swimmers complained because of the waves water got into their throat as they tried to breathe, and so they lost valuable seconds. Some even suffered from bouts of coughing and were forced to give up the race."
This was probably the greatest international swimming competition held to that time. Almost all of the greatest swimmers in the world were present. The British sent their top swimmers, Hungary was represented by [Zoltán von Halmay], who was easily their greatest swimmer of that era, the Americans were represented by their greatest swimmer, [Charlie Daniels], and the Australians also sent one top swimmer, [Cecil Healy].
One swimmer, however, was tragically absent. This was the Australian Bernard Bede "Barney" Kieran, who was the world record holder at two of the events on the program, the 400 metres and one mile freestyle events. He was the greatest Australian swimmer in the first decade of the 20th century and had set multiple world records in 1905. It was expected that he would compete at Athens in 1906 but near the end of 1905 he underwent surgery for appendicitis, and died during the surgery. However, he left his mark on the 1906 Olympics in the person of Charlie Daniels. In 1905 Daniels faced Kieran at a meet in London, in which Kieran defeated Daniels easily. Kieran gave Daniels several pointers concerning his stroke and Daniels improved greatly after that, enabling him to win the 100-meter freestyle at Athens in 1906.
The 1906 swimming competitions were marred by poor weather, as they were held out in the open sea. They were begun on 24 April [11 April] and several events were also contested for 25 April [12 April]. However, the entire schedule on 26 April [13 April] had to be canceled because gale force winds that day brought huge waves to the Neo Phaliron Bay and the swimming competitions (and the diving event) could not be conducted on that day.
On 27 April [14 April] when the swimming competitions resumed, they were started but gale force winds again blew up in the afternoon roughening the seas so much that the events were again postponed until the next day.


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Dear Mr. Alexander:
Thank you for your June 19, 2009, email to the Department of Energy (DOE) regarding training in solar and wind energy.
The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) provides information at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/ on renewable energy training, courses, and college programs; in particular, the link http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/adult_education.html provides resources on vocational training opportunities. DOE does not, at present, provide financing for students of renewable energy.
Training information from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners is at the website http://www.nabcep.org/resources/training, and at the link http://www.nabcep.org/pv_installer.cfm is NABCEP's photovoltaics installer certification program—certification is not, however, required to install PV systems. Some other websites regarding solar energy installation and training that may be of interest to you include:
> http://www.energysavers.gov/your_home/electricity/index.cfm/mytopic=10820, an overview on installing a small solar panel system (at EERE's Energy Savers website, http://www.energysavers.gov/)
http://www.irecusa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/NationalOutreachPubs/InspectorGuidelines-Version2.1.pdf, a good detailed guide on what is required for a safe solar panel installation, and
> http://www.solar-estimate.org/, a directory of contractors plus useful solar energy calculating tools
> http://www.solar-estimate.org/, a directory of contractors plus useful solar energy calculating tools
Finally, the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, http://www.dsireusa.org, in addition to listing incentives for installing renewable energy systems, has links to many energy organizations, some of which provide information on training. We appreciate your interest in renewable energy—feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Jim Kern
Office of Solar Energy Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy


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I like the make up subscription boxes but I am loving the lifestyle boxes a lot more. You get some beauty but some other cool stuff too! This is my first fab fit box! I am definitely keeping this subscription!
It came with the cutest umbrella. Personally, I never use umbrellas but yellow is my favorite color and if I ever do use one I want it to be cute.
The black box is some facial masks. I have never heard of this brand but the retail value is $65! I am gonna be beautiful after I use that ! Who would pay that much for some at home masks for real? I mean, I could go get a facial for that (I think). Not sure about how much one costs really.
The strength tubing comes with a DVD. I am one of those who always say I will work out at home but never do. I will definitely try it though. It says the value is $35.
The green box is some wrinkle cream valued at like $50. I don't remember the exact amount though.
There is a cute purse charm that is really cute! My problem is I have a red and white striped canvas purse which would look hideous with this charm. What does that mean? That I need a new fall purse so I can sport my cute purple tassel thing. I really like the meaning behind it though and it supports a good cause. It supports The Purple Purse which I have never heard of but anything to help stop Domestic Violence has my support.
The Bracelet is by Tribe alive. I really like the cause behind the jewelry. They give jobs to Artisan women. The bracelet itself is something I would wear if I could put bracelets on myself. I don't know if it is that I have huge wrists, that I am ADHD and it takes too much concentration or what but I rarely even wear my James Avery Charms bracelets which is my prized possession.
The Manna Lip Stain is absolutely amazing!!! I love the color ! It doesn't stay on as long as I wished but nothing stays on my face so that is nothing new. It is just really natural which is what I like.
My favorite is the portable charger. I have been wanting one of these. It's value was 24.99. I have never heard of this brand but I haven't heard of any other brand I came across while shopping for one either so I am fine with it.
It came with a $75 gift card to a canvas printing too which will be awesome for a Christmas gift. I will look like I spent all kinds of money and didn't 🙂
According to the Pamphlet, it ends up being about $365 value. I love it for $50 every three months. I hate I won't get as much mail but I will use everything in this box for sure!
If you want a more detailed description of each product or a coupon, you can go to http://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/2015/04/fabfitfun-spring-2015-review.html . This woman is who got me addicted to so many dang subscription boxes.


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Michael McGarrity
Photo: © Sean McGarrity
About the Author
Michael McGarrity is author of the Anthony Award-nominated Tularosa, Mexican Hat, Serpent Gate, Hermit's Peak, The Judas Judge, Under the Color of Law, and The Big Gamble. A former deputy sheriff for Santa Fe County, he established the first Sex Crimes Unit. He has also served as an instructor at the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy and as an investigator for the New Mexico Public Defender's Office.


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The following commentary appeared in our sister publication, Breaking Energy. While we don't usually write about the Defense Department's energy use (except when it's a casus belli or a major budget item in aggregate) this piece addresses a fundamental issue of American foreign and domestic policy: climate change and foreign sources of energy. The Editor.
Almost forty years ago, President Nixon exhorted the country: "By the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving." Today, more than 30 years later, the United States may actually be on a course to meet this elusive goal. America is experiencing a surge in energy production. The shale gas boom we see in places like Pennsylvania and Oklahoma means that the U.S. now has more than a century of gas reserves. Similar technology has opened up oil fields in places like the Bakken field in North Dakota and Eagle Ford in Texas. Last month, for the first time since 1995, the United States produced more crude oil than it imported.
In the four decades since President Nixon's statement, every Presidential administration has identified "Energy Independence" as a critical goal. As we approach the elusive goal however, we are learning that it may not actually deliver on the benefits promised. Oil remains above $90 per barrel, and gasoline prices continue to hover near $4 per gallon. We remain tethered to a global price of oil that is determined more by global demand and the threat of conflict in the Middle East than by production in North Dakota. The Navy's 5th fleet remains based in the Persian Gulf and, among other duties, is protecting oil supply lines.
New challenges also reveal how the forty-year-old goal of "Energy Independence" needs updating. The problems associated with energy insecurity in the 1970s are not those of today. Climate change, caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels, is real and already affecting America's national security. The Pentagon and America's intelligence community call climate change a "threat multiplier" and an "accelerant of instability" around the world. This means over the next several decades, a changing climate will impact access to water and food production systems worldwide, increasing the possibility of conflict. The American military will be called to respond.
Together, we three authors share a combined 95 years of experience in America's military. In our careers we saw how energy impacts everything America's armed forces do. In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our adversaries knew that the fuel convoy was a soft target – and many American lives were lost because of our energy dependence. At home, we saw how major disasters like last year's super-storm Sandy can knock out power and fuel and disable vast stretches of the country.
We also know that America's dependence on oil entwines our foreign policy with regimes hostile to American values, especially in the Middle East. Even if our production of oil here at home equals our consumption, world markets will ensure that our politics and economic welfare stay intertwined.
All this combines to mean that America must redefine "Energy Security" in the 21st Century. Energy Security no longer means that all energy produced at home is good, no matter how polluting it is. Instead of focusing on where energy comes from, our country needs an energy policy that considers the real costs and benefits of our energy production and use. Increased investment in R&D for renewable energy sources and improvements are essential. We need to realize that economic stability and environmental sustainability are as much a part of energy security as the threats of supply shortages.
We should start by acknowledging climate change risks are real and growing every day. We cannot afford to ignore them. Even if you choose not to believe that human activity contributes to climate change, or even that the climate is changing, from our military experience we know that waiting for certainty on the battlefield can be disastrous. Managing risk requires a prudent response, the first step of which is an energy debate that addresses the challenges of the 21st Century, not one devised for the 1970s. The greatest dangers lie in our being unprepared. All of this argues for prudent, no regrets action now to reduce future risk
The President has called on Congress to address climate change, and now we are told that he will release a detailed plan tomorrow to move forward because they have not acted. As the debate over this important proposal moves forward, we ask that all parties engage in a rational, fact-based assessment that fully recognizes the breadth and depth of the risks of energy insecurity.
Our energy system is fatally flawed: it is environmentally unsustainable, economically unstable, and we know it endangers our national security. We need a new conversation about energy, one that addresses the challenges of the 21st Century, not the ones that seemed to loom in the 1970s. We should not be misled by achieving what's called "Energy Independence" while creating and using energy in the old ways. Work with us instead on building an energy system that reduces risks to our economy, our environment, and our national security.
Vice Adm. Gunn, (ret.), Brig. Gen. Anderson, US Army (ret.), and Brigadier General Cheney, US Marine Corps are affiliated with the American Security Project, a non-partisan think tank focused on studying issues of national security. They are participating in a panel discussion, "Redefining US Energy Security for the 21st Century" on Tuesday, June 25 as a part of New York Energy Week.


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I just got back from the dentist. He recommended I get a wisdom tooth removed. I had my two bottom ones removed about 15 years ago and it was a horrific experience: couldn't eat for a week afterwards, drugged to suppress the pain; however, he says it'll be easy, doing it in his office.
I hate the dentist.


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Halloween has always held a special place in my heart.
Every year when I was young, my parents would take me to my grandparents. We lived in an area of town where trick-or-treating was fairly hit and miss but my grandparents, they lived where it was a gold mine.
No matter how crappy the weather, my grandpa would always take my cousins and I out for as long as we could keep moving. Then we would come back to their house, dump out all of out candy, and start trading. While my memories of childhood are few and far between, Halloween has always stuck with me.
I now live in a neighborhood surrounded by college students and the only child with-in a four block radiance are my next door neighbor's sons. So instead of candy, I baked them cookies. I love decorating sugar cookies. Art was never my strong suit- I can draw you one lovely stick figure. So, I do edible drawing!
These would also be perfect for a Thanksgiving treat as well! The spices add just a little hint of fall.Print
Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 18-24 1x
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon clove
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 3 2/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- Preheat oven to 350˚.
- Using the paddle attachment on your mixer, cream butter and sugar together. Add one egg at a time, making sure to incorporate each egg well, mix in vanilla. Add dry ingredients and continue to mix until dough comes together- let mixer continue for another two minutes.
- At this point you can put the dough in the refrigerator for later use or roll out onto a floured surface and cut into desired shapes.
- Bake on a parchment covered try for 8-10 minutes. Cookie should have a slight golden color and the edges should be slightly brown.
- Top with your favorite icing or frosting. I use the Wilton Royal icing.