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Not if you cannot get entered.
How does a test finalize and 50 minutes later the 90 dog limit is reached? HMMMMM
Not if you cannot get entered.
How does a test finalize and 50 minutes later the 90 dog limit is reached? HMMMMM
Its not possible for an amateur to compete against a pro in a hunt test because its not a competition haha
Well when you have a couple " Handlers" take up 1/3 of the entries it doesn't leave many spots open, and then scratch at the last minute NICE......... They might have to go with a "Owner handler" Master, to let the guy who wants to run his own dog a chance to run....
In this case you have three handlers take up 2/3 of the entries. Should make for great mechanics.
Which test is it???
Wait...are you all insinuating that one of the AKC's rule changes had unintended consequences?
Rick Curtis ~ Currently in Ontario, CA by way of Spokane, WA and Northern CA.
Little Man Caught It On The River SH ~ "Ace"
Handlers Handle, Dogs Dog, Judges Judge
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart."
~Rex Carr
Keep your eye on the entries as it gets closer to the event close. As Todd mentioned, often times pro's will scratch dogs as they get closer to the event and then spots open up.
Cody's Gunslingin' Cosmonaut MH QAA (Shooter)
Why not just enter?
Paul Cantrell
Black Ice Retrievers
Marcola OR
Too many dogs to list (By some Bitch)
"Helping Hunters Train Their Dogs"
To your point about a test filling so quickly, I doubt it happened by chance. Sounds like someone may have had some "inside information" regarding when entries would open. Whether it's pros or amateurs, it's sad that certain event committee members feel justified in leaking the date and time to a select few.
Almost as bad as the secretary that manipulates the draw to put all the club members and friends in the flight with the perceived easier set of judges.
I guess fairness and impartiality are just below some people.
Just go have fun! Run your dog!!
HRCH Scaupgetters Tarnation QAA
HR Blackie 2 CGN, WCI
Hashtag Mickey
"Dont cry because its over. Smile because it happened."
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Xaraya is progressing nicely. For more details, check out John Cox's BLOG. As we prep for a March 2003 Beta release, work for the Communications and Documentation groups increases. First out of the gate is the Xaraya Logo Contest, with a new extended deadline of February 21. Details available at www.xaraya.com.
Shortly thereafter, we will go into full-court press mode with press releases and other communications designed to get the word out to the global user base that is itching to get their hands on a production-ready release.
So, stay tuned. Lots of good stuff on the horizon.
Xaraya News
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(define test-env (environment '(rnrs)))
(for-each (lambda (expr) (eval expr test-env))
(protoc:generate-message my-message-def))
(test-assert (protobuf:message-builder? (eval '(make-my-message-builder) test-env)))
...version 0.1 is out! Check out the project page or go straight to the downloads. The thing's almost feature complete (haven't tackled "services" yet), but I decided to keep the version number low because the test suite is a bit anemic, and, of course, to account for bugs.
That was fun!
In the wake of the glorious Guile 2.0 release, I've been working on a prototype re-implementation of GIMP's Script-Fu plugin system that uses Guile in lieu of their embedded TinyScheme. I actually got reasonably far, but then the onboard video on my beloved ZaReason UltraLap SR straight up died, so I had to sideline that project while I waited for a replacement (in the form of a new ZaReason Terra HD) to arrive.
Although I'd temporarily lost access to my GIMP patches, I did have comfortably obsolete desktop machine available to me to use to satisfy my constant, ravening need to write programs all the time. I decided that doing an R6RS Scheme implementation of Google Protocol Buffers would make a cool, discrete project: I use and enjoy protobufs at my day job, and I had a hunch that their requirements would map nicely onto the features provided by R6RS records and enumerations. It turns out I was right about that, although I've now sunk a bit more time than I was expecting into the project. But I did just manage to get an initial import of some working libraries uploaded to Google Code. Check it out here.
...is finally out! Publicity follows:
And we got a link on the GNU Project home page!
Ludovic Courtès, who actually assembled the release, notes in the release docs that 2.0's been in the works for three years. I could've sworn it was longer than that, maybe because the impetus for the changes in this release has been building for quite some time. I've been working on Guile (and whining about it, and more often than not sitting back and watching other people do brilliant things in it), at various rates of productivity, since I left school eight (!) years ago, and consequently I've been able to watch it as it transformed from a project that was more or less in a holding pattern into one that's rapidly improving and incorporating modern language features without compromising the level of stability it's known for.
Even though I came to it because of its designation as the "official" GNU extension language, I've always liked Guile -- I've found it to be more accessible than other Scheme platforms for both the embedded and interactive use cases -- but I'm aware that some people hold a negative opinion of it. Whatever your past experience with Guile, I think it's changed enough with this release that it's strongly worth another look. The pain points have been addressed head-on, and the good parts have gotten even better. Look at that feature set and tell me you don't start imagining applications.
Many, many thanks to Ludovic and to Andy Wingo, who tackled the hardest problems and accomplished some unbelievable things.
I've just released SCSS 0.4.0, which brings with it some pretty major changes. For one, like the recent release of SDOM, it repackages the code as an R6RS library. Not having to chase Scheme platform-compatibility issues is an incredible relief. But I also decided to change the way queries to the cascade work.
In previous versions, you'd specify a node and a property
whose value you wanted to obtain for that particular node.
The API guaranteed you a non-null response to your query,
even if satisfying it meant that additional computation had
to be done, like extracting a sub-value from a more general
property for use as the value of a more specific property
that wasn't set (e.g., figuring out
border-top-style from the value of
border); or re-using the result of repeating
the query for an alternate, related property (e.g.,
obtaining the value for
border-color from
color); or just looking up a default value in a
reference table. To offset the significant cost of repeat
lookups to the cascade, which are not cheap by any means,
I'd devised an elaborate system of cascading caches to store
values that were discovered but not currently required.
This worked reasonably well, but brought with it some
frustrating complexity -- for example, those caches had to
be flushed based on criteria external to SCSS, like the
activation of pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements.
So I've decided to ditch all of that internal complexity at the cost of passing on a fraction of it to the user of the API: I've modified the selection API such that you no longer ask about specific properties, and you get back the complete set of property values that have been assigned to the node. If you need to increase their specificity or look up a default value, there's an auxiliary API for doing those things. It's already had a positive impact in the only client of SCSS that I know of, libRUIN, enabling some more accurate inheritance behavior, and allowing me to scrap a major swath of CSS lookup code that was coupled to assumptions about the way SCSS worked. It would be nice to think that I've reached a point in my development as a software designer that I could afford to make some tentative pronouncements about "best practices." So: APIs that purport to hide, in one shot, all of the complexity that's inherent in a particular source of data are almost certainly not going to be able to make good on that claim. Better to design software that addresses the problem in layers, with each layer solving a very small part.
Another pronouncement I'd like to make is that there's a lot of benefit to be had by taking advantage of language features for structuring data. I'd been relying on Scheme lists for modeling pretty much everything in the system, from the arguments to the value selection calls to the intermediate result values passed around internally. I've since switched those things over to use R6RS records, which makes reasoning about the input and output of functions a lot easier. There used to be a half dozen inputs to the selection API functions, many of them strongly related; I've grouped them into records such that there are now two arguments, one of which will often be invariant over a single application's use of the API.
2.0 is nearly upon us! The release is scheduled for the second week of February. I'm pretty excited about it, given that it represents several years of sporadic work by me, not to mention years of more consistent efforts by lots of brilliant and talented people. We're trying to figure out how to frame the transformative nature of this release -- Guile's finally become what it set out to be, an actual scripting language platform. Now we have to figure out how to communicate that to people. This is where marketing comes in, I suppose.
While waiting for Guile 2.0 to come out, I decided to eat some of my own dog food, so to speak, and take on a serious project that made use of Guile's new support for R6RS. I'd been meaning to revisit SDOM for some time now, in order to address some of the shortcomings I'd noticed through using it over the years -- primarily its adherence to SXML's expression format, which was a performance drain when it came to doing things like looking up attribute values and child and parent nodes; and which required a fair amount of nastiness to manage things like metadata on text nodes. Plus I can't think of any other DOM implementations out there that store data "inline" with an XML representation (unless, I guess, they do parsing as well as DOM manipulation).
So I rewrote the thing as an R6RS library using R6RS records to model the Node interface and its children, and released the result as SDOM 0.5. The process was time-consuming but not hellish, per se, mostly due to the fact that I'd had a fairly extensive test suite in place. And working with records instead of semi-circular lists is just so much neater and easier. I'm still trying to gauge its performance relative to the older version; I'm still doing some complicated things, mostly to optimize the read case for complex properties like "wholeText." And, in theory, the whole thing is now portable to every Scheme that supports R6RS, which is getting to be most of them.
Except that...
...doesn't have a "standard" R6RS library packaging. At the
moment, there are a couple of distributions that some
industrious people have assembled -- I'm thinking of Wak and Xitomatl
-- but these both provide SXML as part of (and with
dependencies on) a larger framework of code that I'm just
not interested in (and I think one or both of them is
missing the crucial I wonder if guile-lib's version (now incorporated into Guile
2.0) might make a good candidate for a "universal" SXML R6RS
library distribution.
make-parser macro). My
feeling is that an XML parser is such a fundamental library
for a language platform that it's gotta be pretty much an
atom. I should just be able to say
(import (sxml
and be done with it.
I wonder if guile-lib's version (now incorporated into Guile 2.0) might make a good candidate for a "universal" SXML R6RS library distribution.
The ever-resourceful wingo just completed a series of patches that enhances the abilities of Guile's syntax expander. Among other wonders, the semantics of the `@@' form have been extended to support arbitrary expressions. To wit:
(@@ (my-module) (my-expr))
...will evaluate -- but, more importantly, expand --
(my-expr) in
I needed Andy's help with the above because, since last I
wrote, I'd gotten pretty far with my implementation of the
R6RS standard libraries for Guile. In fact, I'd pretty much
finished with them -- all twenty-five or so of them (minus
(rnrs bytevectors) and
(rnrs io
ports), which Ludovic Courtès had already taken on),
plus unit tests. And I got them (mostly) done in about one
grueling month. (Granted, a lot of them are just
repackagings of existing Guile functionality, but...)
Maybe this is how things always go. I spent about a year working on R6RS support in Guile: I was on the Acela back to New York City from the 2009 FSF Associate Members meeting when I started playing around with a naive form of the library-to-module transformer that wingo merged to `master' a couple of weeks ago; and spent the next eight months variously getting frustrated, learning `syntax-case', tweaking, and rewriting, before I got the code to the point where I could knock out all those library implementations in one shot.
And now they'll be in Guile 2.0, which is better than I'd hoped, even.
wingo just patched a pretty interesting issue I discovered in Guile's psyntax implementation. Guile uses a modified version of the expander that's module aware, so that lookups and bindings are done -- and hygiene is maintained -- with respect to module eval closures. Top-level definition forms, for example, such as `define' or `define-syntax', create bindings in whatever Guile thinks the "current" module is.
This works great, but there's a wrinkle added by the fact that the expansion process can change the current module. `define-module', for example, does this, by way of an `eval-when' -- after creating a new module, the modules system makes it current, so that if you've got a sequence of expressions like:
(define-module (foo))...then `foo', `bar', and `baz' will be visible to `(foo)' and not to whatever module was current when you called `define-module'. The issue I found involved a slight modification to this pattern, wrapping everything in a `begin' form:
(define foo 'foo) (define bar 'bar) (define baz 'baz)
(begin (define-module (foo)) (define-foo 'foo) ...)Semantically, this should be equivalent to the first form -- at the top level, `begin' splices its contents into the surrounding code as if it weren't even there, enabling you to produce multi-expression, uh, expressions, even in contexts where you're only allowed to produce one, like in the syntax transformer I was writing. But what I was seeing was that my definitions weren't creating bindings in the modules I'd placed them "within" -- particularly hard to troubleshoot when it came syntax definition, since the expander just allowed unbound custom syntax expressions to pass through to the evaluator, assuming they were procedure applications.
The root cause was that Guile didn't anticipate changes to the current module during the expansion of a single top-level form -- so the first form I described would be fine, since the expander would be re-initialized with the current module for each expression; but the second form would only check the current module once, for the `begin', and not after any of the expressions inside it. After Andy's patch, the part of the expander that handles top-level `begin' forms (`chi-top-sequence') checks the current module after each expression in the sequence to see if it's changed and updates the expansion environment appropriately.
All of the above has allowed me to make a fair bit of headway on the R6RS front. A while back I'd gotten started on implementations of the R6RS "standard libraries" and started merging them (along with test suites as appropriate) into Guile's module set (see the wip-r6rs-libraries branch), but I'd had to stop because of the difficulties caused by the issue above (which took me a very long time to isolate and properly articulate). Now I can start again!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Manufacturer: PowerTraveller
MSRP: $130 [BizRate]
Lowest Historical Price: $10 [History]
The PowerMonkey eXplorer is marketed as a backup power supply to give your gadgets an extra boost of battery power. With modern gadgetry placing ever increasing demands for portable power, the PowerMonkey eXplorer Solar Charger comes at just the right time to save you from running out of juice while away from a wall outlet. The standard price is about $110, but when they started offering a whopping $100 rebate on it (bringing the price to $10 AR), I had to pick one up to give it try.
Update: The $100 rebate arrived on 7/21/08.
In The Box
The PM eXplorer comes in a tidy zip case, with everything tightly packed into individual compartments. It also comes with an array of international power adapters. The two main components are the backup battery itself and the folding solar cell, which they call the "solar slave." You'll find a myriad of accessory adapters included that fit almost any portable power application.
The specifications claim as follows: 40 hours of battery life for iPods, 96 hours for Mobile Phones, 1600 pictures for Digital Cameras, 5 Hours for PSP, 6 hours for MP4/MP3 Players. There are three methods for charging the main battery: Directly via AC Adapter in 3.5 hours, USB charging in about 6 hours, or charging with the Solar Slave in 18 hours of direct sunlight.
Battery Capacity: 2200 mAh
Output Voltage: 4.5-5.5V
Output Current: 700mA max
Weight: 83g
Water Resistant
The charging times were in-line with the specifications. When using the solar charging feature, you really want the solar panel to be in direct sunlight. Indirect sunlight will take far longer to charge the battery. The PowerMonkey battery has an LED indicator light that is amber while charging, and green once the battery is full.
iPod Video 5th Generation 30GB. The PowerMonkey was plugged in to a completely discharged iPod, and shuffled music playback was commenced. The PowerMonkey itself ran out of power at 1:40 into the test. The iPod was charging off of the PM during that time, and was able to output music for an additional 7:41 for a total iPod audio playback time of 9:21. This falls short of their claim of "40 hours" for iPods, and is more in line with their estimate of 6 hours for MP4/MP3 players.
Sony PSP Slim 2000: From a completely discharged battery on the PSP, the PowerMonkey was able to impart a 100% charge to the PSP in about 5 hours. The PowerMonkey still had power to spare, as it was reporting 5 bars out of 7 on the integrated LCD indicator. This capability would definitely be a big plus if you're away from regular plug-in power for long periods of time.
In addition to directly using the battery, you can also directly use the solar panel by connecting it to your device. While this will typically not provide a reliable enough current source for operating your device, it can effectively function as a trickle charger, slowly topping off your gadget so that it is charged while there is enough light.
While I had apprehensions about the utility of this device at first, I have come to appreciate that the PowerMonkey eXplorer can be a device that sees everyday use. Green thumbs can use it to effectively take some small gadgets off the grid, while high demand users can use the relatively good capacity of the backup battery to shore up their power reserves. If you're backpacking through the wilderness, hang the solar charger from your pack to always have a supply of gadget power. It's even waterproof should you encounter inclement conditions. I came away with a positive impression of the PowerMonkey eXplorer, especially at the bargain-basement price of $10 that I got it for. The regular selling price of $100 would keep me away, however.
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Friedensfeld: Gedenken an ein Schwabendorf in
der Steppe Sud-Bessarabiens (Friedesfeld: Memories of a Schwabish
Colony in the Steppes of South Bessarabia)
Jundt, Paul. Friedensfeld: Gedenken an ein Schwabendorf in der Steppe Sud-Bessarabiens (Friedesfeld: Memories of a Schwabish Colony in the Steppes of South Bessarabia). Melsungen, Germany: A. Bernecker, 1973.
After Alexander I had taken South Russia from the Turks in 1812,
this vast and empty land was open for settlement. Many Germans accepted
the invitation of the tzar, not least among them a group of Swabians
from Wuerttemburg, who founded Friedensfeld.
The history of this village covers the years of its founding in
1879 up to and through the Repatriation of 1940. It includes: names
of the founding fathers; the development of the village; historical
markers; the development of Wirtschaft, businesses and occupations;
wine industry and fruit trees; gardens, forests; animal husbandry;
churches and schools; governmental provisions; festivals and celebrations;
Repatriation of 1940, the flight of 1944-1945; etc.
This book also contains: a nine-page list of family names, a list
of people in Friedensfeld at the time of the Repatriation of 1940,
a list of the mayors from 1879-1940, a list of public school teachers,
a list of deacons and nurses, a list of school graduates, a list
of those who died in Friedensfedl, a list of soldiers who died in
World War I, names of streets, 1 map, four drawings of streets,
and 13 pages of beautiful pictures of important people, buildings,
farms, etc.
This book is of special value to those who had relatives in Friedensfeld
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This is the view from Mather Point at Grand Canyon Village in the Grand Canyon National Park. The location and other excellent view points (another is visible in the photo) are easily accessible from the south rim trails.
The Grand Canyon was designated as the 17th U.S. National Park in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson. According to Wikipedia, it is over 277 miles (446km) long, up to 18 miles (29km) wide, and over a mile deep (1800m). The Colorado River run through the canyon and has exposed billions of years of geological history.
Most of the tourists during my trip were German. Overcast skies made for difficult conditions, but any conditions at the Grand Canyon are awe-inspiring.
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Neo4j Tutorial - Washington, D.C.
Thursday May 16 09:00-17:00 EDT
This tutorial covers the core functionality of the Neo4j graph database. With a mixture of theory and hands-on practice sessions, attendees will quickly learn how easy it is to develop a Neo4j-backed application.
Topics covered include:
Attendees won't need any previous experience with Neo4j, NOSQL databases or specific development languages, but will need their own laptop with Neo4j installed.
The tutorial will be held at ÜberOffices in Rosslyn, VA. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Wes Freeman, Software Engineer, Information Analysis Inc.
Wes Freeman is an experienced software engineer, excited about graph databases – especially the Cypher query language, to which he is a community contributor. He created the AnormCypher Neo4j "driver" for Scala. He is the top answerer on StackOverflow for Cypher-tagged questions, and runs a Cypher-oriented blog with tutorials and examples, as well as the twitter bot @neoquestions. Wes is also the DC/Baltimore Graph Database meetup group organizer.
Wes works at Information Analysis Inc. (a recently added Neo Technology partner). He's so enthusiastic about Neo4j that his wife even made him a birthday cake with the Neo4j logo and some Cypher syntax on it.
Watch an attendee from an earlier Neo4j Tutorial discuss his experience below
ÜberOffices, 1400 Key Boulevard, Suite 1000, Rosslyn, VA 22209
For any questions about the event, please e-mail Adam at email@example.com


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Swaledale in Yorkshire is a little country in itself. Once there, shut in by barriers of hills, you are satisfied: shrouded in its mystery, the rest of the world seems unimportant and unreal. Ella Pontefract & Marie Hartley
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Binghamton University's Office of Continuing Education and Outreach will sponsor a 20-week Leadership Development Certificate Program beginning January 16 and ending May 28.
The non-credit certificate program consists of four experiential learning modules, which include: Introduction to Leadership; Communication and Leadership; Business and Process and Organizational Leadership and Relationships. Classes, taught by corporate trainers and University faculty, are interactive, hands-on and application-oriented. The program is geared toward team leaders and managers as well as high-potential individuals preparing for future leadership positions.
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"The Jubilee Center* takes its name from the Biblical Year of Jubilee in Leviticus - the great year of social justice. It began with the blowing of the ram's horn trumpet (the jubal) and the cry, "proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all its people!" Since 1984, the St. John's Soup Kitchen and Office of Social Services have served the communities of Broward County. In late 1995, members of St. John's along with members of three other congregations - St. James in The Hills, St. Andrew's, and St. Ann's - formed The Jubilee Center of South Broward, Inc. in order to expand services to the poor and homeless. The Center is a non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Florida. The Board of Directors is composed of members of the four congregations, as well as respected representatives from local cities and from our client community.
Recently Volunteer Broward honored the Jubilee Center as the "Agency of the Year". Volunteer Broward provides a central focus for the development, growth, and coordination of volunteer activities and services within Broward County to over 600 nonprofit organizations in Broward County, Florida.
* The Jubilee Center is a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Florida and the IRS. The Center relies on volunteers from congregations of the Episcopal Church, including St. John's, Hollywood; St. James in The Hills, Hollywood; St. Ann's, Hallandale Beach; St. Andrew's, Hollywood; All Saints, Ft. Lauderdale, local synagogues and other religious and civic organizations. The Jubilee Center is a non-sectarian corporation providing aid and assistance to those in need without regard to creed, race, age, gender; or any distinction.
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You're on Facebook, you tweet to your heart's content, yet the business still isn't flowing from your social media efforts. So what's next? How do you up the ante?
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Radiotherapy with charged particles can potentially deliver maximal doses while minimizing irradiation of surrounding tissues. It may be more effective or less harmful than other forms of radiotherapy for some cancers. Currently, seven centers in the United States have facilities for particle (proton) irradiation, and at least four are under construction, each costing between $100 and $225 million. The aim of this Technical Brief was to survey the evidence on particle beam radiotherapy.
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The Effective Health Care Program was initiated in 2005 to provide valid evidence about the comparative effectiveness of different medical interventions. The object is to help consumers, health care providers, and others in making informed choices among treatment alternatives. Technical Briefs are designed to provide an overview of key issues related to clinical intervention or health care services, especially those for which there are limited published data or protocol-driven studies. They provide an early objective description of the state of the science, a potential framework for assessing applications and implications, a summary of ongoing research, and information on future research needs.
The full report and this summary are available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/reports/final.cfm
We searched MEDLINE from its inception to July 2009 for publications in English, German, French, Italian, and Japanese. We visited Web sites of manufacturers, treatment centers, and professional organizations for relevant information. Four reviewers identified studies of any design describing clinical outcomes or adverse events with 10 or more cancer patients treated with charged particle radiotherapy. Each of four reviewers extracted study, patient, and treatment characteristics; clinical outcomes; and adverse events for nonoverlapping sets of papers. A different reviewer verified data on comparative studies.
Figure A summarizes study designs, diseases, and outcomes in the 243 eligible papers. Charged particle beam radiotherapy was used alone or in combination with other interventions for both common cancers (e.g., lung, prostate, breast) and uncommon cancers (e.g., skull base tumors, uveal melanomas). Out of 243 papers, 185 were single-arm retrospective studies, and another 35 studies were prospective single-arm trials. The number of included patients ranged from 10 to 2,645 (median 63). Seven studies (3 percent) focused on a pediatric population; most of the remaining studies reported mean or median age above 50 years. The reported followup periods ranged from 5 to 157 months (median, 36 months) for 188 studies that commented on the pertinent data. Thirty-one studies followed patients longer than 5 years. Two studies had mean followup longer than 10 years.
The spectrum of included patients varied depending on the cancer type. For uveal melanoma, for example, particle beam therapy was used for a wide range of melanoma locations (i.e., choroid plexus, ciliary body, or iris) and sizes. For non-small-cell lung cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma, patients who either refused surgery or were ineligible for other types of therapies received charged particle beam radiotherapy. Typically, studies did not provide detailed information on the cancer staging or explicit descriptions of the clinical context—i.e., primary stand-alone or adjuvant therapy to other therapies for newly diagnosed cancer, or salvage therapy after treatment failure to previous therapies.
Figure A. Current clinical evidence on charged particle radiotherapy
Notes: Each circle represents a study, with size proportional to the logarithm of the total number of participants included in a study. The number in each cell indicates the total number of studies. Each row shows studies addressing one specific cancer category, and the columns show study designs with reported clinical outcomes. The "Other" row includes studies reporting multiple different cancers. The "Other" columns include studies reporting any clinical outcomes other than overall survival or cancerspecific survival (e.g., disease-free survival, progression-free survival, tumor response rate, or quality of life).
Abbreviations: CS=cancer-specific survival; GI=gastrointestinal; OvS=overall survival.
Most studies reported patient relevant-clinical outcomes: 151 studies (62 percent) described overall survival; 112 studies (46 percent), cancer specific survival; and 210 studies (86 percent), other surrogate outcomes of overall survival. Some studies reported clinical outcomes that are relevant to the quality of life, such as eye retention rates or visual acuity in uveal melanoma or bladder conservation rates in bladder can cer.
Seventy-five percent of studies (188) reported the adverse events. Not all studies adopted established scales to evaluate adverse events. Generally, the harms or complications observed were sustained in structures (extraneous to the tumors) that were unavoidably exposed to the particle beam in the course of treatment. However, it was not clear whether the reported adverse events were exclusively attributable to charged particle radiotherapy or to other cointerventions in the case of multimodality treatment, or whether they also would have occurred with conventional radiation therapy.
Eight randomized and nine nonrandomized comparative studies compared treatments with or without charged particles. The eight randomized trials were reported in 10 publications and enrolled 1,278 patients in total (Table A). Primary outcomes were explicitly stated in only three trials, which also reported a priori sample size calculations. Three trials pertained to prostate cancer, whereas the remaining dealt with less common cancers (ocular melanoma, skull base and brain tumors, and pancreatic cancer). All trials enrolled a relatively small sample size, ranging from 15 to 393 patients, and studied different comparisons (Table A). Most trials did not compare charged particle radiotherapy with contemporary alternates. No trial reported significant differences in overall or cancer-specific survival or in total serious adverse events.
|Cancer Type
|Survival (overall/ specific)
|Abbreviations: CPO=Centre de protonthérapie d'Orsay; GI=gastrointestinal; LLU=Loma Linda University; MGH=Massachusetts General Hospital; N=number of enrolled patients; RT=radiotherapy; TTT=transpupillary thermotherapy; UCSF=University of California San Francisco.
|Ocula (uveal melanoma)
|Higher vs. lower dose proton RT
|Helium RT vs. I125 brachytherapy
|136; 184
|CPO (France)
|Proton RT vs. proton RT + laser TTT
|Head/neck (skull base chordoma/chondrosarcoma)
|Higher vs. lower dose proton RT
|Head/neck (brain glioblastoma)
|Higher vs. lower dose proton RT
|GI (pancreatic cancer)
|Helium RT vs. photon RT
|MGH and LLU (US)
|Photon RT + standarddose proton vs. photon RT + highdose proton
|Photon RT + local photon boost vs. photon RT + local proton boost
|202; 191
Nine nonrandomized comparative studies were reported in 13 papers (estimated 4,086 unique patients). Comparators assessed in the nonrandomized comparative studies are shown in Table B. Charged particle radiotherapy was compared with: brachytherapy for uveal melanoma (four studies); conventional photon radiation for other cancers (six studies); surgery (three studies). None of the studies used advanced statistical analyses, such as propensity score matching or instrumental variable regressions, to better adjust for confounding. Overall, no study found that charged particle radiotherapy is significantly better than alternative treatments with respect to patient-relevant clinical outcomes.
|Cancer Type
|Survival (overall/ specific)
|Ocular (uveal melanoma)
|CPO (France)
|Proton RT vs. I125 brachytherapy
|Helium RT vs. I125 brachytherapy
|Proton RT vs. enucleation
|Helium RT vs. I125 brachytherapy
|Proton RT vs. I125 brachytherapy vs. Ru106 brachytherapy
|Proton RT vs. enucleation
|Proton RT vs. proton RT + laser TTT
|Head/neck (skull base adenocystic carcinoma)
|GSI (Germany)
|SFRT/IMRT vs. SFRT/IMRT + carbon (ion) boost
|NIRS (Japan)
|Carbon RT vs. photon RT + brachytherapy
|GI (bile duct)
|Proton RT vs. photon RT
|Surgery + photon RT vs. surgery + proton RT
|Watchful waiting vs. surgery vs. Standalone photon RT vs. photon RT + proton boost RT vs. Standalone proton RT
|photon RT + photon boost vs. photon RT + proton boost
Remaining Issues and Future Research
In summary, a large number of scientific papers on charged particle radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer currently exist. However, these studies do not document the circumstances in contemporary treatment strategies in which radiotherapy with charged particles is superior to other modalities. Comparative studies in general, and randomized trials in particular (when feasible), are needed to document the theoretical advantages of charged particle radiotherapy to specific clinical situations.
This Technical Brief did not intend to assess outcomes or evaluate the validity of claims on the safety and effectiveness of particle beam radiotherapy. Such questions need to be addressed in comparative studies.
The available slots for particle beam radiotherapy are very limited, and this may have impacted the design of studies conducted to date. Most eligible studies were noncomparative in nature and had small sample sizes.
It is likely that focused systematic reviews will not be able to provide a definitive answer on the effectiveness and safety of charged particle beam radiotherapies compared with alternative interventions. This is simply because of the relative lack of comparative studies in general, and randomized trials in particular.
Comparative studies (preferably randomized) are likely necessary to provide meaningful answers on the relative safety and effectiveness of particle beam therapy vs. other treatment options in the context of current clinical practice. This is especially true for the treatment of common cancers.
Charged particle radiotherapy can deliver radiation doses with high precision anywhere in the patient's body, while sparing healthy tissues that are not in its entry path. This can be a very important advantage for specific tumors that are anatomically adjacent to critical structures. However, it is very likely that, as this technology becomes increasingly available (and as the associated costs decrease), it will also be increasingly used with much broader indications. This anticipated diffusion of the technology can have important implications (economic, regarding prioritization of resources, and potentially on health outcomes). Especially for many common cancers, such as breast, prostate, lung, and pancreatic cancers, it is essential that the theorized advantages of particle beam therapy vs. contemporary alternative interventions are proven in controlled clinical trials, along with concomitant economic evaluations.
Full Report
This executive summary is part of the following document: Trikalinos TA, Terasawa T, Ip S, Raman G, Lau J. Particle Beam Radiation Therapies for Cancer. Technical Brief No. 1. (Prepared by Tufts Medical Center Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. HHSA-290-07-10055.) Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2009.
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Now let's revisit novelist Mary Ellis, author of An Amish Family Reunion (Harvest House Publishers, February 2012).
Mary Ellis grew up close to the eastern Ohio Amish where her parents took her to farmer's markets and woodworking fairs. She loved their peaceful, agrarian lifestyle and strong sense of Christian community.
She met her husband in college and they married six days after graduation. They now live close to the largest population of Amish in the country—a four-county area in central Ohio. They often take weekend trips to purchase produce, research for her books and enjoy a simpler way of life.
Mary enjoys reading, traveling, gardening, bicycling and swimming. Before "retiring" to write full-time, Mary taught Middle School and worked as a sales rep for Hershey Chocolate—a job with amazingly sweet fringe benefits.
All three of her Miller Family series, A Widow's Hope, Never Far from Home, and The Way to a Man's Heart have made the CBA and CBD bestseller lists. A Widow's Hope was a finalist in the ACFW Carol Awards for 2010 in the long contemporary category, and a runner-up in the 2010 Holt Medallion Awards. The fourth in the Miller Family series, An Amish Family Reunion, released this month.
Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
I have worked at just about every vocation you can imagine—probably fifteen or so. But I'll mention the five most interesting.
--I worked as a legal secretary and dispensed more legal advice than I probably should have.
--I taught math and algebra in middle school for years even though math had been my worst subject in high school.
--I had a (delicious!) Hershey Chocolate sales route where I sampled candy all day long.
--I sold Avon makeup and purchased more than I sold.
--I was a (volunteer) snake handler at the Cleveland Zoo to school field trips one summer. By far, writing is the best job!
Okay, I was with you until the snake thing. You're a little nuts, lady.
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of An Amish Family Reunion.
Julia Miller misses her children. They are grown and have families of their own now, but her mother's heart yearns for a houseful of laughter and joy once again. She plans to gather her chicks together in a summer celebration to remember.
At the farm next door, Julia's niece, Phoebe, meets Eli Riehl, a young man who charms her—and everyone else—with his exceptional storytelling ability on a rumschpringe trip to Niagara Falls.
When Phoebe sketches scenes to illustrate one of his tales, Eli encourages her incredible talent, and together they embark on a lofty and unlikely business venture for two young Amish people—writing and illustrating a children's book.
Eli's kindness and appeal extend beyond his knack for words to reach inside Phoebe's shy heart. But he is an only son with five sisters, and when tragedy strikes at home, Eli gives up his writing to assume responsibility on the farm. Though willing to abandon his dream of becoming an author, he won't give up his beloved Phoebe. Can their love for a good story develop into something that lasts forever, or will memories of the past stand in their way?
What is it about your lead character that will make your readers care about her?
My heroine lost her mother at a tender age, but develops a beautiful relationship with her step-mother, Hannah. As an adopted person myself, I learned the bonds of motherhood stretch far beyond blood ties.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
I suppose Ellen Page would make a lovely Phoebe since she's so earnest, forthright and tiny.
And my hero? I love Toby McGuire for the same reasons, except the tiny part. Amish characters must be straight-forward.
Recently a friend gave me a book that provides links to online music meant to accompany the story at specific points in the plot. I thought that was an interesting idea. If you were to choose a song to be played somewhere within your story, what song would it be?
I suppose Evergreen or Unchained Melody. I hear those songs playing in my head during every romantic scene I write.
Yes, they're both such romantic songs! What is the last book you read that you would recommend?
I just finished Miracles Every Day by Maura Poston Zagrans. It was an incredible true story about faith and healing right here in my hometown, Cleveland, Ohio.
What are you working on now?
I'm starting book two of my New Beginnings series, tentatively titled, Living in Paradise.
Where else can readers find you online?
At my brand new website: www.maryellis.net
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Finally, what question would you like to ask my readers?
How do your tastes in books change throughout the year—do seasons make a difference?
Thank you, Mary, for visiting with us and telling us about your novel. Readers, Mary has offered to give a signed copy of her book to the winner of our drawing on Thursday, February 23. To enter, leave a comment below in answer to Mary's question, above. "Please enter me" won't get you entered. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
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Two of my pregnant patients are exposed to inhaled anesthetic on the job. One is an anesthetist, and the other is a veterinarian. They have both expressed concern about this exposure. How should I advise them?
Occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gas is not associated with increased risk of major malformations. Risk of spontaneous abortion might be slightly increased, however. This risk can be reduced, if not eliminated, by good gas scavenging systems.
Currently, 854 anesthetists practise in Ontario; 25% of them are women, and 46% of those are of childbearing age, according to the Ontario Physician Human Resources Data Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. The College of Veterinarians of Ontario indicates there are 2745 practising veterinarians in the province; approximately 45% of them are women.1 Although there are numerous studies in the medical literature on the effects of occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gas (WAG) on the reproductive system, to date there have been no prospective controlled studies.
There are more data on the effects of exposure to WAG on pregnant women working in operating rooms than on those working in the veterinary field. Most existing evidence does not associate occupational exposure to WAG with increased risk of congenital malformations.2-11
Association with spontaneous abortion
A recent meta-analysis showed, however, that occupational exposure to WAG is associated with increased risk of spontaneous abortion (relative risk 1.48, 95% confidence interval 1.4 to 1.58).12 This meta-analysis included 19 studies of various designs with anesthetists, operating-room physicians and nurses, dental assistants, operating-room workers, hospital workers, health workers, and veterinarians and veterinary assistants as subjects. Most of the studies included in the meta-analysis were conducted before WAG scavenging had become a legal requirement, and none of the studies attempted to establish a relationship between amount of exposure and magnitude of risk of spontaneous abortion. The most important limitation is that all the studies were retrospective.
Veterinary work
In the veterinary field, Johnson et al13 have shown that even though the odds ratio (OR) for spontaneous abortion after exposure to WAG among female veterinarians and female veterinary assistants was greater than 1.0 when adjusted for use of diagnostic x-ray machines, it did not reach statistical significance. Schenker et al14 demonstrated that rates of spontaneous abortion and low birth weight infants were statistically similar among female veterinarians and lawyers.
It is a misconception that concentrations of WAG are much greater in veterinary facilities than in human operating rooms. Ward and Byland15 measured WAG levels of 2 parts per million (ppm) in veterinary facilities and 10 ppm in human hospitals. Even though average room size in veterinary practice is smaller, operating times are short, and doors of veterinary surgery rooms are normally left open to allow technicians to work concurrently in other rooms.15 In addition, veterinary staff spend only a small portion of their working time performing surgeries.15 Despite all these factors, the level of WAG in veterinary facilities depends primarily on the presence of gas scavenging systems, good anesthetic practices, and periodic examination and maintenance of anesthetic machines.
Nitrous oxide
Most of the studies did not differentiate between the various inhaled anesthetics because subjects were anesthetists, operating room staff, or hospital staff who were exposed to mixtures of gases. A few studies examined the association between occupational exposure to nitrous oxide and spontaneous abortion among dental assistants and midwives.
Studies on dental staff's exposure to WAG had conflicting results. Cohen et al16 showed an increased risk of spontaneous abortion among dental assistants exposed to nitrous oxide (Pvalue not reported). Heidam,17 on the other hand, showed no increased risk for dental assistants either practising in private clinics or working in dental school services (OR 0.4). Last, Rowland et al18 demonstrated increased risk of spontaneous abortion among dental assistants exposed to nitrous oxide for 3 or more hours weekly in places without scavenging systems.
A study of Swedish midwives exposed to nitrous oxide in more than 50% of deliveries showed no increased risk of spontaneous abortion (OR 0.95). The effect of WAG scavenging was excluded because many midwives were unsure about whether such equipment had been present in the delivery rooms.19
These findings clearly indicate that the question of whether occupational exposure to nitrous oxide increases risk of spontaneous abortion is complicated. The answer depends on the field in which nitrous oxide is being used because this dictates duration of exposure and anesthetic techniques used.
Pregnant patients should aim to minimize their exposure to WAG by always using scavenging systems, by periodically testing anesthetic machines for gas leaks, and by not emptying or filling vaporizers. We also recommend good anesthetic techniques including use of cuffed endotracheal tubes whenever feasible, avoiding use of anesthetic chambers or masks (veterinary staff), and maintaining connections between animals and anesthetic machines such that animals breathe pure oxygen for a few minutes once vaporizers are switched off (veterinary staff). Monitoring WAG is possible through air sampling, dosimeter badges, and portable infrared analyzers, but monitoring is costly and, therefore, not routinely practised.
Currently, the Motherisk Program at The Hospital for Sick
Children, in collaboration with the Ontario Veterinary Medical
Association and the Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians, is
conducting the first prospective study of occupational exposures of
veterinary staff during pregnancy; inhaled anesthetics are one of the
exposures. If you have patients who work in veterinarians' offices and
would like to enrol them in our study, call or direct your patients to
call Samar Shuhaiber at (416) 813-6780.
- Osborne D. Changing gender demographics. J Ont Vet Med Assoc 1999;18(5):15.
- Lauwerys R, Siddons M, Misson CB, Borlee I, Bouckaert A, Lechat MF, et al. Anaesthetic health hazards among Belgian nurses and physicians. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 1981;48(2):195-203.
- Rosenberg PH, Vanttinen H. Occupational hazards to reproduction and health in anaesthetists and paediatricians. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 1978;22:202-7.
- Ad Hoc Committee on the effect of trace anesthetics on health of operating room personnel, American Society of Anesthesiologists. Occupational disease among operating room personnel: national study. Anesthesiology 1974;41(4):321-40.
- Tomlin PJ. Health problems of anaesthetists and their families in the West Midlands. BMJ 1979;1:779-84.
- Spence AA, Cohen EN, Brown BW Jr, Knill-Jones RP, Himmelberger DU. Occupational hazards for operating room–based physicians. Analysis of data from the United States and the United Kingdom. JAMA 1977;238:955-9.
- Hemminki K, Kyyrönen P, Lindbohm ML. Spontaneous abortions and malformations in the offspring of nurses exposed to anaesthetic gases, cytostatic drugs, and other potential hazards in hospitals, based on registered information of outcome. J Epidemiol Community Health 1985;39(2):141-7.
- Sass-Kortsak AM, Purdham JT, Bozek PR, Murphy JH. Exposure of hospital operating room personnel to potentially harmful environmental agents. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1992;53(3):203-9.
- Axelsson G, Rylander R. Exposure to anaesthetic gases and spontaneous abortion: response bias in a postal questionnaire study. Int J Epidemiol 1982;11:250-6.
- Rosenberg P, Kirves A. Miscarriages among operating theatre staff. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand Suppl 1973;53:37-42.
- Cohen EN, Bellville JW, Brown BW Jr. Anesthesia, pregnancy, and miscarriage: a study of operating room nurses and anesthetists. Anesthesiology 1971;35(4):343-7.
- Boivin J. Risk of spontaneous abortion in women occupationally exposed to anaesthetic gases: a meta-analysis. Occup Environ Med 1997;54:541-8.
- Johnson JA, Buchan RM, Reif JS. Effect of waste gas and vapor exposure on reproductive outcome in veterinary personnel. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1987;48(1):62-6.
- Schenker MB, Samuels SJ, Green RS, Wiggins P. Adverse reproductive outcomes among female veterinarians. Am J Epidemiol 1990;132:96-106.
- Ward GS, Byland RR. Concentration of halothane in veterinary operating and treatment rooms. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1982;180:174-7.
- Cohen EN, Gift HC, Brown BW, Greenfield W, Wu ML, Jones TW, et al. Occupational disease in dentistry and chronic exposure to trace anesthetic gases. J Am Dent Assoc 1980;101(1):21-31.
- Heidam HZ. Spontaneous abortion among dental assistants, factory workers, painters and gardening workers: a follow-up study. J Epidemiol Community Health 1984;38:149-55.
- Rowland AS, Baird DD, Shore DL, Weinberg CR, Savitz DA, Wilcox AJ. Nitrous oxide and spontaneous abortion in female dental assistants. Am J Epidemiol 1995;141:531-8.
- Axelesson G, Ahlborg G Jr, Bodin L. Shift work, nitrous oxide exposure and spontaneous abortion among Swedish midwives. Occup Environ Med 1996;53:374-8.


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Couple who died in car fire didn't attempt to exit
Police: Couple might have been asleep, unconscious
MCFARLAND, Wis. - McFarland's police chief says the couple found dead in a burned out car early New Year's Day never attempted to get out of the vehicle.
McFarland Police Chief Craig Sherven said that indicates the couple may have been asleep or overcome by carbon monoxide as fire burned the car.
"I would say that's a very plausible explanation, that in a small contained area such as inside of a vehicle cabin that somebody could be rather quickly overcome by carbon monoxide," Sherven said.
The deaths Brandon Slattery, 24, and Amy Damon, 21, both of Edgerton, have been ruled accidental.
"If the fire were to have started in the engine compartment and started out slowly, this was a very cold night so obviously the heater would have been going, blowing air from the engine compartment potentially into the cabin area of the vehicle," Sherven said.
Toxicology results would also show carbon monoxide levels. Those results should be available in about four weeks.
Sherven said there's no indication of foul play. The chief said Slattery and Damon appeared to have been sitting in the front seats.
Funeral services for the two were held Monday.
Slattery and Damon became engaged this past summer and had plans to get married later this year, according to friends and family.
Sherven said the couple lived in Edgerton and traveled to McFarland with a friend, in the friend's car, for a New Year's Eve gathering.
At around 5 a.m., Slattery and Damon left the New Year's Eve gathering to go back to their home in Edgerton, police said. The owner of the vehicle gave them permission to drive his car home as he wanted to stay, police said.
Police said the couple traveled about a block and a half and pulled over near the intersection of Holscher Road and Prairie Wood Drive. Police aren't sure why the couple pulled over.
According to witnesses at the party, it didn't seem as if Slattery and Damon were impaired, so pulling over because they realized they were too intoxicated to drive doesn't appear to be the case, according to Sherven.
Sherven said police are awaiting toxicology results, which could take a month.
At 6 a.m., firefighters received a report of a car on fire. As authorities arrived at the scene, they saw the car fully engulfed in flames.
Police said it wasn't until after firefighters got the fire out that they discovered Slattery's and Damon's bodies inside.
"The flames were such that when the officer arrived, you couldn't even approach the vehicle -- the heat emanating alone, without proper gear, you couldn't even get near it to look into it or try to do anything with it," Sherven said Wednesday.
Police said it appears the fire started somewhere in the front of the vehicle, presumably the engine compartment, but at this point, investigators are not 100 percent certain.
The case remains under investigation by the Village of McFarland Police, the State Fire Marshal's Office and the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office.
Damon was a nursing student at Madison College. Becky Zarling, one of Damon's classmates in the nursing program, said she and her other classmates are devastated by the loss.
Zarling said Damon was not only caring but she also kept the class going and motivated when things were getting tough.
"Amy is definitely a morale builder -- her smile was just infectious. She could make anyone in the room smile. She never had a bad word to say about anyone or anything. She had the biggest heart," Zarling said.
Slattery also attended Madison College in the auto technician program. He worked at a Zimbrick dealership in Madison.
As construction continues on Madison College's new Health Sciences Learning Center, classmates are working on creating a permanent memorial in Damon's honor.
They're raising funds to build a bench at the entrance of the new building to keep Damon's memory alive. To support the project, people can make a donation for the bench by visitingwww.madisoncollegefriends.org/donations/ and clicking on the link for the "Amy Damon Memorial Fund."
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UPMC, others tackling the diagnosis of concussions with help from the NFL and General ElectricJanuary 23, 2014 11:47 PM
NEW YORK -- Roger Goodell kept talking about Pittsburgh. The National Football League commissioner visited there last summer, meeting with doctors at the UPMC Sports Medicine concussion program, and he was taken aback by the treatments that are already available at the country's largest center of its kind.
"Extraordinary," Mr. Goodell said.
Thursday morning, on the sixth floor of the midtown Manhattan skyscraper that houses NFL headquarters, Mr. Goodell stood behind Michael Collins, director of UPMC's concussion program, and two other scientists at the front of a large conference room. They were gathered to announce the 16 winners in the first stage of the $20 million "Head Health Challenge," through which each of the chosen institutions, UPMC among them, will receive a $300,000 award to advance their research in speeding up diagnosis and improving treatment for mild traumatic brain injury with financial backing from the NFL and General Electric Co.
From more than 400 entries spanning 27 countries, UPMC was one of three picked to explain their research to the public and generate excitement about the initiative. For Mr. Collins, who arrived at UPMC in 2000 with little fanfare, it was a moment that showed how far he and his team have come and, at the same time, the daunting journey ahead in understanding the body's most complex and understudied organ.
"We had a press conference at the Steelers building the day we arrived," he said, "and everyone there was like, 'What the hell are these guys doing here?' What I said that day was that we're going to make Pittsburgh ground zero for this injury, and we have. I'm very proud of our program and what we've accomplished, and, yeah, I'm proud of the fact that we're from Pittsburgh, a very special place when it comes to medical research."
Like the other 15 winners, UPMC will have a specific goal in mind as it uses the grant during the next year. Researchers will assess whether a powerful imaging technology called high-definition fiber tracking (HDFT) -- developed by Walter Schneider, a Pitt professor of psychology and neurological surgery -- can identify concussions and subsequent recovery in a newly injured athlete in order to safely return him or her to the field of play.
The project will study 50 or more athletes ages 13 to 28 who seek care at UPMC within seven days of sustaining a head injury. In addition to undergoing the usual assessments, patients will have an HDFT scan when first joining the study and another when they are cleared to play.
HDFT scans go deeper than conventional imaging, revealing what Mr. Collins referred to as the "white matter" of the brain. There are billions of neural connections in 40 major fiber tracts in the human brain, comprising the information cables of the mind. Conventional imaging does not show subtle damage that can be caused by a mild traumatic brain injury. HDFT uses advanced computational means to process data from MRI machines, revealing these brain pathways and spots where the tracts might be disrupted.
To this point, Mr. Schneider's work with HDFT has focused only on tumors and severe brain injuries. What UPMC hopes to discover is that it also can be used to find biomarkers to help them identify and treat concussions. If UPMC is successful, it would be the first program to successfully use imaging technology in the field of concussions.
"We don't want to put the scientific cart before the horse here," Mr. Collins said. "We want to make sure we are measured. It doesn't mean it's going to work, but it's a great place to start. That's why we do the research."
The NFL and GE will follow the winners this year, and six of the 16 will be chosen for a $500,000 grant to continue their research. GE's CEO, Jeff Immelt, gave the NFL credit for being a catalyst.
"There's a convening process that goes on," he said. "What I've always seen in the NFL is the ability to be a convening factor. This is a way to bring a real focus on a big challenge for society, to bring more dollars and more scientists to it."
The NFL is at the heart of a major public relations battle over its perceived lack of care for former players who have suffered the effects of degenerative brain diseases, like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that are caused by repeated hits to the head.
More than 4,800 former players have sued the NFL, which came to an agreement in August to settle the suit for $765 million. But last week, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody rejected the settlement, "fearing the sum may not be enough to cover injured players."
The NFL and GE combined on the research initiative last year, and employed five judges to narrow the field from an already narrowed 59 entries to 16. One of the judges was retired Gen. Peter Chiarelli, a former vice chief of staff of the Army who now runs One Mind for Research and devotes his time to galvanizing further study of the brain.
"I spent 24 months in Iraq, and I had no idea what traumatic brain injury was," Mr. Chiarelli said. "Traumatic brain injury to me was what my football coach told me I should just shake off and get back in the game. When I came back, someone threw a chart in front of me. It listed the most prolific wounds we had coming out of the war, and I thought for sure the bar on the far left was going to be those soldiers who had lost arms and legs and been shot. Instead it was soldiers with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress."
The NFL, along with most of the scientific world, is playing catch-up on head injuries.
"We're going to make you proud of Pittsburgh with this program," Mr. Collins said.
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Fwiw my buddy who is a Syracuse alum is pissed he is gone. Said he turned them around completely
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wow talk about not doing much to become an NFL head coach
I am from cuse and he did turn this program around...but the only place they could go is up when he got here...they were that bad...they beat some good teams...but beat alot of **** ones too...played alot of cupcakes and even won a gm that they should have lost to maine....su missed an extra point but they called it good from what i remember..the big east was turning into **** when this guy arrived and its been nothing but since...he is not a good coach...he will be one and done....buffalo did this cause he was the cheapest coach...and because they hope he will help bring ppl from syracuse to buffalo to watch games...the guy who took over for the bills just this past week is from cuse and started with the bills in their marketing department...coincidence? I think not..again one and done...they should have hired lovie smith...dude would have turned around their whole d and made it great...
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big reason he was hired looking around, he loves Western New York. Went to school at Syracuse, and understands the culture of the area. Where guys like Chan Gailey and Dick Juron took the jobs just to be head coaches in the league again, Marrone actually wants to be in Buffalo.
It is kind of scary what Lovie Smith could have done to that defense with the pieces they had.
I'm surprised that they didn't make an offer to Lovie Smith once Chip Kelley decided to stay at Oregon. Perhaps they didn't want another fired Bears head coach?
I like the fact they are not going with a retread but I am not sold on Marrone. Going from the bottom of the Big East to the top is not a huge accomplishment. For the Bills fans, I hope they got the right guy this time. It would be nice to battle them for the division.
Kind of reminds me of the sparano hire, who? what? why? Just glad maroane is in the east.
I don't think you guys realize how awful Syracuse was, Doug Marrone did an outstanding job at SU. I don't now if he will be a good HC in the NFL but he was a longtime assistsant so he has familiarity w/ the NFL.


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Kansas Candidate Debates The Kansas Institute for Politics is the central repository of Kansas radio and television debates. Included in this archive is access to televised candidate debates going back to the early 1990's, along with recent TV and radio debates between candidates for offices in Kansas that include Governor, US Congress, and US Senate.
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Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising of a thesis, a compulsory seminar and two coursework units.
The coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the Jewish civilisation honours coordinator, Dr Daniella Doron.
Students complete one of the following options:
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- ATS4004 SOPHIS honours thesis A (12 points) and ATS4005 SOPHIS honours thesis B (12 points)
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Today, April 23rd, is Talk Like Shakespeare Day (as well as Shakespeare's birthday). To honor the occasion, here's a look at 11 of the strangest productions, original plays, and acting companies based on the Bard's inimitable work.
Written by Tom Stoppard, whose earlier Hamlet-based play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead earned immense international acclaim, Fifteen-Minute Hamlet comically retells the classic tragedy twice—first in 13 minutes, and then again immediately thereafter in a heart-pounding two.
In a TV special that aired in April 1964, the Beatles honored Shakespeare's 400th birthday by putting on an extremely-abridged version of one of his most beloved works. Cast in this unforgettable version of the "play within a play" shown in Act V, Scene I of A Midsummer Night's Dream were Paul McCartney as Pyramus, John Lennon as Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Ringo Starr as a bumbling lion.
An advertisement describes this 2000 production as "Shakespeare's classic tale of murder and intrigue performed by inch-high plastic ninjas and assorted dime store figures on a briefcase-sized stage. Grand spectacle on a tiny scale." They've also done Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
According to their mission statement, this unique production company aims at making Shakespeare's work "accessible" through a host of creative methods, most notably puppets which "can be built to highlight aspects of a character that we want to exaggerate or to direct attention to certain ideas in Shakespeare that are so often hidden behind flowery language (and flowery acting)."
How would Othello have ended differently if a bombastic friend had encouraged Desdemona to dump her regularly-abusive boyfriend? The Second City Network took a stab at the question a few years back.
We're all familiar with the theory that "If one gave a million typewriters to a million apes, they'd eventually produce the works of Shakespeare." But what if one of them gets writer's block? In this David Ives play, three frustrated chimps lament their assigned task of writing Hamlet despite having absolutely no idea what it's about, liberally quoting the bard in the process.
Star Trek fans are well aware of the Klingons' knack for referencing Shakespeare. A full translation of Hamlet in their distinctive tongue was first published in 1996 and a few highlights have since been performed on YouTube.
In 2008, a recording of Sir Ian McKellen's rendition of the Bard's evocative eighteenth sonnet (which opens with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") was digitally modified and mixed with beat-boxing and electronic music.
Set immediately after the untimely deaths of the title characters in Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is interrogated and must explain his role in their expiration (the monk raises some eyebrows for having given a coma-inducing potion to a 14-year-old girl) in this courtroom comedy.
Award winning rapper Akala has been running a series of workshops to highlight the links between the Bard's prose and present-day rap since 2009, and later helped found The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company.
How can you honor the English language's most famous wordsmith without using any of his dialogue? Arlington, Virginia's Synetic Theater has, to date, staged nine Shakespearean plays via "pure visual poetry" with colorful sets and live music. This past March, the group gave their unique treatment to The Tempest, adding it to a repertoire that's also included Antony & Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, and King Lear.


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www.360cities.net/image/obama-prague click here to see the spherical version. Barack Obama came to Prague for a couple days last week. Coincidentally, he came at a moment when there is actually no Czech Government - it was dissolved a couple weeks ago by our local slime balls. (It's a stroke of irony, as Czec...