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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. — George P. Landow.]
henever I looked up from my newspaper I met the eye of a middle-aged gentleman who was sitting in the same box---a box, I should mention, in the coffee-room of an old-fashioned hotel in London, which is partitioned off in primitive style. I say gentleman advisedly, for the stranger had every apparent claim to be so called. For the rest there was little to distinguish him from the crowd of well-dressed and well-mannered persons whom one meets about in public places. He might be a clergyman, or a lawyer, or a doctor, though I should doubt his being an active member of either profession. He gave you the idea of a man retired from any pursuit in which he might have been engaged, and to be occupied rather in killing time than in inviting time to kill him. He had a healthy, happy-looking face, bearing no traces of hard work or deep thought, and his hair was only partially grey. He had a mild eye, and a mild voice, and a mild manner---I noticed the two latter qualities through his intercourse with the waiter---and was so suave in his ways as to be polite even to the port that he was drinking after an early dinner. He handled his decanter in a caressing manner such as he might adopt towards a favourite niece, and took up his wine-glass as gently as if it were a child.
Whenever I met his eye, I noticed that it gave me a kind of recognising look, which, however, was not sustained; for, before he had thoroughly attracted my attention he always returned to the illustrated journal before him, as if suddenly determined to master some abstruse subject with a great deal of solution in the way of woodcuts. His communicative appearance made me think that I had met him before, but it did not occur to me where, so I took no further notice. Presently he spoke, but he only said---
"I beg your pardon, sir."
There was nothing to beg my pardon about, so I begged his, not to be outdone in gratuitous courtesy. Then he begged mine again, adding---
"I thought you made a remark---I did not quite hear."
No, I said, I had not made any remark. Then we both bowed and smiled, and resumed our reading---the stranger with some little confusion, I thought.
After a time he made a remark himself.
"I should not have intruded," said he, "but I thought I had met you before."
I am not one of those persons who think that every stranger who addresses them in a public room means to pick their pockets, but I have a proper prejudice against being bored, and in any case I had no resource but to answer as I did, to the effect that I could not recall the when and the where.
"Were you ever in Vancouver's Island?" the stranger asked.
In the cause of truth, I was obliged to declare a negative.
"Then it could not have been there," said he, musingly; "but," he added, "you might have known Colonel Jacko---a relation of mine---who was governor of the Island. You remind me of him---that is why I ask."
I did not quite see the connection between knowing a man and bearing a personal resemblance to him, but in disavowing any acquaintance with Colonel Jacko, I did so with all courtesy.
"You have been probably in New Zealand?" pursued the stranger, warming apparently into considerable interest in the question involved; "if so, you must have known Major-General Mango, who commanded there in 18--."
I was obliged to confess my ignorance of the unfortunate colony in question, and of the distinguished officer alluded to.
"I merely asked," continued the stranger with a desponding air, "as he was a relation of mine."
I had nothing to do with his relatives any more than himself, but his manner was so gentle that I could not think it intentionally obtrusive, so I acknowledged the receipt of the information as pleasantly as possible.
"If you had been in India," he pursued, taking it for granted apparently that I was no traveller, "you would probably have met one of my sons. One is in the civil, the other in the military, service. Both fine fellows. The elder was political agent at Tulwarpatam at the time when the Rajah was so aggressive, and it was through his influence that his highness was induced to remit the Abkaree duties, and give up his claim to the contested Jaghires. The other was through the mutinies, and was wounded both at Delhi and Lucknow---curious coincidence, was it not?"
I admitted that his sons seemed to have done the State some service, and remarked upon the coincidence as one of those mysterious dispensations of Providence for which it is impossible to account. And that was all I could do towards the conversation, which dropped at this point.
Presently the stranger took his hat, with an undecided ultimately effectual movement. Then he called the waiter, and had a little conversation with that functionary about the port, which he said was not quite the same that he used to have in the year 1835. (I strongly suspect, by the way, that he was right in this supposition; as the wine he had been drinking belonged probably to the celebrated vintage of 1869.) At last he made a movement to depart, and ultimately did depart, but only after a great deal of delay; and even when in actual motion across the room, he looked back more than once, as if expecting somebody to ask him to remain.
When the waiter came to clear away the abandoned decanter and glass, I asked him if he knew the gentleman who had just gone out.
"Yes, sir," was the reply; "we have known the gentleman for some years, though he does not come very often. He lives by himself somewhere in town, and has no relations except some who are abroad. He says he has no friends, too, as he has lost a great deal of money, and cannot keep the society he did. He doesn't seem to know anybody who comes here, though he talks to some now and then, as he has to you."
I was sorry not to have heard this before, that I might have treated the stranger with a little more attention. For this glimpse I had of him, and the few hints given me by the waiter, were sufficient to assure me that he belonged to a class who are more perhaps to be pitied than the merely poor; that he is in the world but is not of it, and has a residence but is without a home; that he is, in fact---an Outsider of Society.
People engaged in active pursuits---whether in spending or making money---are not likely to be troubled by deprivations of the kind referred to. They live among their peers, with whom they have interests in common. They are as important to others as others are important to them. They are in the stream of pleasure or business as the case may be. There is no danger that they will be forgotten. Their doors are besieged by visitors, drawn by diverse attractions; so that it is necessary to make a vigorous classification of the latter, not only of the usual social character, but distinguishing those who come to oblige the master of the house from those who come to oblige themselves. Their tables are covered with cards and letters, prospectuses, tradesmen's circulars, begging petitions, newspapers they have never ordered, and books that it is thought they may possibly want. Their vote and interest is always being requested for deserving individuals, and their subscriptions for equally deserving institutions. Chance of being forgotten indeed! So long as they can be made useful there is as much chance of the Bank of England being forgotten. Such men may be alone, sometimes, in one sense of the term. That is to say, their relations may be scattered or dead. But that is of very little practical moment in their case. They can always find people prepared to be second fathers or brothers to them, and even mothers and sisters, it may be. They can always marry, too, and then a home establishes itself as a matter of course.
But there are---who shall say how many?---people living in London who live almost alone; who have no society except of a casual, and what may be called an anonymous kind; and whose homes are merely places where they may obtain shelter and rest. I am not here alluding to the class who are social and domestic outlaws because they are positively poor. There is no anomaly in this condition of life; it is a natural consequence of having no money. The people I mean have mostly money enough for themselves, but not sufficient to make them important to others, and obtain for them consideration in the world. Sometimes their positions have changed; sometimes things have changed around them and left their positions as they were, the result being much the same. It may be that they are seeking to make a little more money by such employments as agencies, secretaryships, and so forth---employments the most difficult of all to get, as any man of moderate education and abilities can do the duties---but most frequently they are content to vegetate upon what they have, and to concentrate themselves upon the attainment of companionship and home. When one of the active men whom I have mentioned goes away from home, the Post Office establishment is ruthlessly disturbed by mandates for the re-addressing and forwarding of letters. The migration of one of our passive friends makes no difference to anybody. Except it be an occasional communication from a relation in a distant colony, sent to the care of an agent, he has no letters to trouble him, and if he did not occasionally make a show of existence by asserting himself in pen and ink, he might perish out of the memory of man. To such people the advertising columns of the newspapers must possess peculiar interest; for a large number of the announcements seem expressly intended to meet their requirements, while, on the other hand, an equal number of the specified "Wants" seem to come from their class.
Homes for special purposes appear to be plentiful enough. You cannot take up a newspaper without having your attention called to a dozen or two. Apart from the "Home for Lost and Starving Dogs,"---which is an establishment not applying, except by sympathy, to any class of my readers---we have such charities as the "Convalescent Home," established by the wife of the Premier. In the next column we are sure to be reminded of the "Home for Little Boys," in addition to which has just been appropriately projected a "Home for Little Girls,"---not the least desirable object of the two. An individual speculator has also established what he rather invidiously calls an "Epileptic Home for the Sons of Gentlemen,"---there being, it is to be presumed, genteel as well as vulgar forms of the malady in question. "Educational Homes" for youth of both sexes abound in newspaper announcements. They may afford very good opportunities for the intended purpose, but I should prefer placing my trust in establishments which are candidly called schools. Not long since I saw an advertisement in a morning paper which ran, as nearly as I can remember, in these terms:---
"A clergyman in a popular parish by the sea-side, offers an Educational Home to a few little boys of good principles, the sons of gentlemen. Apply," &c.
Now, without desiring to be harsh to the advertiser, I must take leave to say that the above contains several important errors in taste. It would have been just as well, and a great deal better perhaps, had the clergyman refrained from mentioning the popularity of his parish, however much the description might be deserved. His specification of little boys "of good principles" suggests a slur upon little boys in general which does not come well from an educator of youth; and one would think that he would be more usefully engaged in taking in hand little boys of bad principles, if any such exist. But the inference next suggested is even less creditable to the reverend advertiser. It is of no use, it seems, for little boys to have good principles, as far as he is concerned, unless they be the sons of gentlemen. This is sad.
But the mention of homes of a special character---of which there are many more in London than have been enumerated---is only incidental to my present purpose. I especially allude to lonely people who seek society, and to which society, in a certain limited degree, seems continually offering to sell itself. And among lonely people, as far as homes are concerned, must be included "persons engaged in the City," or "engaged during the day," who are frequently appealed to by advertisers. The number of persons---idle or occupied---who want homes seem to be equalled only by the number of persons who are prepared to offer them, with very small pecuniary temptation. I have always thought that a great deal of self-sacrifice must be necessary in the case of the family of a dancing-master who for years past has been advertising his lessons with the addition that "the Misses X------- will officiate as partners." The Misses X------- must surely be tired by this time of dancing with people who drop them directly thay are able to dance. But it must be still more sad to take into your family any chance stranger who may be sufficiently respectable, board him, and lodge him, and promise to be "cheerful" and "musical" for his amusement. But offers of this kind are plentiful enough, and they would not be made were there not a fair supply of people to embrace them.
Looking back at only one daily paper for only a week or ten days may be found a host of advertisements of both classes; and I will first allude to a few of these among the "Wants."
Here is a specimen:---"Home wanted by a respectable elderly lady---rather invalid, not helpless---in a sociable family; meals with it understood. Children objectionable. Large bedroom (not top) facing east or south indispensible. Aspect important. Forty guineas [42 pounds]. Must be west of Holborn: other localities useless. Letters," &c.
It would be difficult to determine the exact state of this respectable elderly lady's health from the above description, there being a rather long range between the affirmative and the suggestions offered by the negative statement; but even though she be in a high state of agility the conditions are surely rather complex: and there must be families in which forty guineas a year go a great way if she has any chance of gratifying her wishes.
Another elderly lady is more explicit, if not quite grammatical. She describes herself as "an invalid from rheumatism," and her desire is "to board with a genteel, cheerful family." Here again there must be "no children." She prefers "the neighbourhood of St. John's Wood, near the Park, or an equal distance from the West-End." Letters must be prepaid.
The following looks like a case in which society is an object:---"Board and residence wanted, by a widow lady and a young lady, and partial board for a young gentleman, within three miles north of London, near a station. Children objected to. (Poor children!) Three bedrooms indispensible. Preference given to a musical family, where there is a daughter who would be companionable." Terms, it is added, "must be moderate."
The following has not a pleasant sound:---"Wanted, a comfortable home for a female aged seventy years, where there are no children (children again!). She must be treated with great firmness. Twelve shillings will be paid weekly for board, lodging, and washing. Surrey side preferred," &c.
It is evident that the above offer has not been made by the person for whom the accommodation is sought. But such requirements, including even the "great firmness," doubtless get supplied. One of the numerous advertisers who provide homes for invalid ladies offers, I observe, to give "reference to the relatives of a lady lately deceased," who lived in the house for seven years.
Here is a "home" of remarkable character; it is described as situated in a favourite suburb on the Metropolitan Railway, replete with every beauty and convenience, the details being specially enumerated; and besides the railway, omnibuses pass the door to all parts of town. "The advertiser," it is added, "would prefer one or two City gentlemen of convivial disposition, and to such, liberal terms would be offered."
The advertiser has evidently an abstract love for City gentlemen of convivial disposition, since he is prepared to share his home with any one or two of them. And if a City gentleman of convivial disposition could make a vast wilderness dear---which it is very possible he could do---one can fancy what a paradise he would make of this Cashmere at Shepherd's Bush. It is not quite clear, indeed, that the advertiser is not prepared to pay instead of being paid by the charming society he seeks, since he says that "to such liberal terms will be offered." It must be a very delightful thing to be a City gentleman of convivial disposition, with the feeling of having unknown friends, which has been said to resemble our ideas of the existence of angels.
Another proffered "home" is described as having, in addition to all domestic comforts, "two pianos, with young and musical society." This may be very pleasant; but I should feel some misgivings at the prospect of making one of a "young and musical society" let loose upon two pianos at the same time. There are different opinions, too, even about the best music, under different conditions. The Irish soldier who was singing the "Last Rose of Summer," perhaps from the bottom of his heart, but certainly at the top of his voice, was told by his English comrade to hold his noise. "And he calls Moore's Melodies a noise," said the musical enthusiast, disgusted at the want of taste exhibited by the cold-blooded Saxon.
A cheerful state of existence is suggested by another advertisement of a "home":---"Partial board is offered to a gentleman by a cheerful, musical, private family. Early breakfast; meat tea. Dinner on Sundays. Gas, piano, croquet. Terms L1 1s. per week. Write," &c.
The board must be partial indeed if that melancholy meal known as "meat tea" enters into the arrangement. A "meat tea" would in any case mean that you were expected to go without your dinner, since, if you had dined you would not want meat with your bohea [black tea of lowest quality]. But there is no disguise about the matter here, for you are frankly told that there will be dinner, as distinguished from a meat tea, on Sundays. It is a monstrous, unnatural idea, and the family must be very cheerful, very musical, and very private, I should think, to reconcile most men to such a state of things. Perhaps the piano and the croquet are intended as a set-off, by suggesting female society of an accomplished kind; and of course there are some girls for whom some men will submit to meat teas; but I have my own opinion as to the chances of either one or the other.
Here is an advertisement of a "home" couched in popular terms. It would be a pity to interefere with the writer's style, so I give it in full, with the omission, of course, of the address:---"A lady having a larger house than she requires, is desirous of increasing her daily circle by receiving a few gentlemen (who are engaged during the day) as boarders. The society is cheerful and musical. To foreigners anxious to acquire elegant English, this is a good opportunity."
As for the lady having a larger house than she requires, one can fancy that to be the case if she has room for several gentlemen, but how is it that so many persons get into larger houses than they require, and are thereby impelled to offer similar accommodation? It must be confessed, too, that the opportunity for foreigners to acquire elegant English is not very apparent. Are the candidates for residence examined in elegant English before they are admitted into the family? As for the cheerfulness and the music, those are of course matters of taste.
Among other "homes" which we find offered in the same paper is one with a curious recommendation attached. It has "just been vacated," we are told, "by a young gentleman who has successfully passed his examination." If the same advantage can be secured to the incoming tenant the accommodation would be decidedly cheap, for the modest sum of thirteen shillings a-week, which is all that is asked. But we are not told what is the nature of the examination---for the army, the Civil Service, a degree, or what? Perhaps it is only in the "elegant Engish" intended to qualify the tenant for the higher social sphere of the lady with the partially superfluous house.
Invalid or "mentally afflicted" persons are always in great request among advertisers. Several applications are before me now. One of these comes from "A medical man, residing in a large and well-furnished house in one of the healthiest and most convenient out-districts of London," who "wishes to receive any patient mentally or otherwise afflicted, as a resident; boarding or separate arrangement as desired; a married couple, or two sisters, or friends, not objected to." The contingency of companions in misfortune is a good idea; our medical friend is evidently a far-sighted man. Then we find the wife of a medical man, who is willing to take charge of "an afflicted (not insane) lady, gentleman, or child, to whom she offers a comfortable home with experienced care." A similar offer is made by the occupants of a farmhouse, but these do not draw the line at insanity, but declare that they have had the care of an insane patient for many years, and can be highly recommended in consequence. Some people, indeed, are so fond of taking care of insane patients that they would not have a sane one if you made them a present of him. An illustration of this curious taste came under my notice not long since. A very deserving man called to see a patron of his who had procured him a post of the kind, which he had held for several months. "I am very glad to see you, John," was the greeting, "and hope you are getting on in your employment." "Ah, that indeed I am, sir," was the answer: "thanks to you, I am most comfortably provided for---in fact, I was never so happy in my life. How did I get these two black eyes, sir? Oh, he gave them to me yesterday morning. Oh, yes, I shall always be grateful---I never was so happy in my life."
It must be admitted that the majority of the "homes" which people offer to one another throught the medium of the papers are not exposed to contingencies of this kind; but the said people must surely run the risk of finding themselves ill-assorted in no ordinary degree.
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Dress for Mother-in-Law
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Over a year ago, my mother-in-law showed me a dress that she wanted me to replicate, but the whole thing kind of got swept under the rug and was forgotten . . . until now! I thought it would make an awesome Mother's Day gift to make her a dress kind of like the one she used to have. Because I couldn't take her measurements, I just took the measurements from a size chart from a company where I know what size she wears through them. It is a shift dress with french darts made with a ponte knit and back invisible zipper. I added an embroidery to the dress because I had the ability to. I thought the simple flower outline would give the dress character without throwing it off balance.
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ponte knit (about 2.5 yds), invisible zipper, hook & eye, embroidery thread, stabilizer
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Third-year student Tamara Starks has been awarded the first Sandra P. Zemm Labor Law Prize. The prize was established last year at Chicago-Kent by the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw LLP in honor of the late Sandra P. Zemm, a longtime labor and employment law partner.
The Sandra P. Zemm Labor Law Prize is awarded annually to a third-year Chicago-Kent student in the labor and employment law certificate program who exemplifies the qualities that Ms. Zemm possessed: "a commitment to pursue a career in labor and employment law, a pioneer spirit and willingness to take the initiative whenever possible, and a gracious and generous attitude toward helping those in need." Recipients are selected by Chicago-Kent faculty who teach the law school's Program in Labor and Employment Law.
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Keith A. Cengel
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Photodynamic Therapy Program, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Diseases Program
Department: Radiation Oncology
Contact information
Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 8-136
Univ of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Bldg 421
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Univ of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Bldg 421
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-898-1035
Fax: 215-349-5445
Lab: 215-898-0838
Fax: 215-349-5445
Lab: 215-898-0838
Education:Permanent link
BS (Biochemistry)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
BS (Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
MS (Cellular/Molecular Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
PhD (Cellular/Molecular Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
MD (Medical)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
BS (Biochemistry)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
BS (Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
MS (Cellular/Molecular Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
PhD (Cellular/Molecular Biology)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
MD (Medical)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
Description of Research ExpertiseRESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. Defining Mechanisms and Reducing Toxicity from Normal Tissue Damage Caused by Ionizing Radiation: These projects center on modeling the physical patterns of dose deposition by x-rays, gamma rays and charged particles and determining the mechanism(s) that lead to normal tissue toxicity. From a greater understanding of these mechanisms, these projects seek to identify and formulate potential radiation protectors and mitigators for use in human medicine.
2. Cellular Signaling and PDT cytotoxicity: This project is focused on defining the molecular mechanism by which PDT-initiated growth factor and anti-oxidant signaling leads to decreased PDT-mediated cytotoxicity in human cancer cells and tumors.
3. Clinical trials of RT and PDT: These projects involve using insights gained from pre-clinical studies to design early phase interventional trials for patients with cancers that are difficult to treat using current standard modalities.
Selected PublicationsSanzari JK, Wan XS, Wroe AJ, Rightnar S, Cengel KA, Diffenderfer ES, Krigsfeld GS, Gridley DS, Kennedy AR: Acute Hematological Effects of Solar Particle Event Proton Radiation in the Porcine Model. Radiat Res. 180(1): 7-16, Jul 2013.
Whaley JT, Kirk M, Cengel K, McDonough J, Bekelman J, Christodouleas JP: Protective Effect of Transparent Film Dressing on Proton Therapy Induced Skin Reactions. Radiat Oncol. 8: 19, Jan 24 2013.
Cengel KA, Sanzari J, Billings P, Diffenderfer ES, Kennedy AR: Evaluating Radiation Repose And Countermeasures For Exposure To Solar Particle Events With Differing Energy-Fluence Profiles. Heavy Ion in Therapy and Space Radiation Symposium 2013, Chiba, Japan 2013.
Cengel KA, Sanzari J, Billings P, Diffenderfer ES, Kennedy AR: Determining The Whole Body Radiation Repose To Solar Particle Events With Differing Energy-fluence Profiles. NASA Human Research Program Investigator's Workshop, Galveston, TX 2013.
Cengel KA, Kennedy AR: NSBRI Center For Acute Radiation Research: Dosimetric and Practical Considerations for Simulating Solar Particle Event Exposure for Earth Based Model Systems. National Space Biomedical Research Institute Radiation Effects Team 2013.
Chandra A, Lan S, Zhu J, Lin T, Zhang X, Siclari VA, Altman AR, Cengel KA, Liu XS, Qin L.: PTH prevents the adverse effects of focal radiation on bone architecture in young rats. Bone. 55(2): 449-57, Aug 2013.
Pietrofesa R, Turowski J, Tyagi S, Dukes F, Arguiri E, Busch TM, Gallagher-Colombo SM, Solomides CC, Cengel KA, Christofidou-Solomidou M: Radiation mitigating properties of the lignan component in flaxseed. BMC Cancer. 13: 179, Apr 4 2013.
Edmonds C, Hagan S, Gallagher-Colombo SM, Busch TM, Cengel KA: Photodynamic therapy activated signaling from epidermal growth factor receptor and STAT3: Targeting survival pathways to increase PDT efficacy in ovarian and lung cancer. Cancer Biol Ther. 13(14): 1463-70, Dec 1 2012.
Cengel K, Yendamuri S, Demmy T, Culligan M, Schofield M, Smith D, Punekar S, Sterman D, Stevenson J, Busch T, Glatstein E, Hahn S, Friedberg J : Qualitative And Quantitative Differences in the Toxicity Of HPPH-Mediated PDT with a 24 Versus 48-Hour Drug Light Interval: Moving from the Bedside to the Bench and Back. SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA 2012.
Machtay M, Scherpereel A, Santiago J, Lee J, McDonough J, Kinniry P, Arguiri E, Shuvaev VV, Sun J, Cengel K, Solomides CC, Christofidou-Solomidou M: Systemic polyethylene glycol-modified (PEGylated) superoxide dismutase and catalase mixture attenuates radiation pulmonary fibrosis in the C57/bl6 mouse. Radiother Oncol. 81(2): 196-205, Nov 2006.
Lee JC, Krochak R, Blouin A, Kanterakis S, Chatterjee S, Arguiri E, Vachani A, Solomides CC, Cengel KA, Christofidou-Solomidou M: Dietary flaxseed prevents radiation-induced oxidative lung damage, inflammation and fibrosis in a mouse model of thoracic radiation injury. Cancer Biol Ther. 8(1): 43-9, Jan 2008.
Hill-Kayser CE, Avery S, Mesina CF, James P, Friedberg JS, Cengel K, Lin LL, Hahn SM, Rengan R: Hemithoracic radiotherapy after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a dosimetric comparison of two well-described techniques. J Thorac Oncol. 4(11): 1431-7, Nov 2009.
Lee JC, Kinniry PA, Arguiri E, Serota M, Kanterakis S, Chatterjee S, Solomides CC, Javvadi P, Koumenis C, Cengel KA, Christofidou-Solomidou M: Dietary curcumin increases antioxidant defenses in lung, ameliorates radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis, and improves survival in mice. Radiat Res. 173(5): 590-601, May 2010.
Wilson JM, Sanzari JK, Diffenderfer ES, Yee SS, Seykora JT, Maks C, Ware JH, Litt HI, Reetz JA, McDonough J, Weissman D, Kennedy AR, Cengel KA: Acute Biological Effects of Simulating the Whole Body Radiation Dose Distribution from a Solar Particle Event Using a Porcine Model. Radiat Res. 176(5): 649-59, Nov 2011.
Christofidou-Solomidou M, Tyagi S, Tan KS, Hagan S, Pietrofesa R, Dukes F, Arguiri E, Heitjan DF, Solomides CC, Cengel KA: Dietary flaxseed administered post-thoracic radiation treatment improves survival and mitigates radiation-induced Pneumonopathy in mice. BMC Cancer. 11: 269, Jun 24 2011.
York JM, Blevins NA, Meling DD, Peterlin MB, Gridley DS, Cengel KA, Freund GG: The Biobehavioral and Neuroimmune Impact of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation. Brain Behav Immun. 26(2): 218-27, Feb 2012.
Fishbein L, Bonner L, Torigian DA, Nathanson KL, Cohen DL, Pryma D, Cengel KA: External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) for Patients with Malignant Pheochromocytoma and Non-Head and Neck Paraganglioma: Combination with 131I-MIBG. Horm Metab Res. 44(5): 405-10, May 2012.
Allen AM, Pawlicki T, Dong L, Fourkal E, Buyyounouski M, Cengel K, Plastaras J, Bucci MK, Yock TI, Bonilla L, Price R, Harris EE, Konski AA: An Evidence Based Review of Proton Beam Therapy: The Report of ASTRO's Emerging Technology Committee. Radiother Oncol. 103(1): 8-11, Apr 2012.
Christofidou-Solomidou M, Tyagi S, Pietrofesa R, Dukes F, Arguiri E, Turowski J, Grieshaber PA, Solomides CC, Cengel KA: Radioprotective Role In Lung Of The Flaxseed Lignan Complex Enriched In The Phenolic Secoisolaricresinol Diglucoside (SDG). Radiat Res. 178(6): 568-80, Dec 2012.
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Holiday cocktails in Honolulu
Left: Sous Vide Not Apple Martini at Pint and Jigger, right: Blackberry Cobbler at V Lounge
Drink a holiday cocktail to get festive, or drink one just to survive the holidays. Here are some bars around town serving some liquid cheer.
53 by the Sea
The view may not be of a wintry Christmas, but at 53 by the Sea's bar, you can pretend it is, with a Kamaaina Eggnog. 53's eggnog is made with okolehau liqueur, calvados and Koloa spiced rum, with all the requisite holiday spices.
53 Ahui St., 536-5353
Pint and Jigger
Pint and Jigger's "Sous Vide Not Apple Martini" is like liquid spiced apple pie: a concoction of whiskey and orange brandy infused with apples, lemon and cinnamon. It's garnished with a bruleed brown sugar and cinnamon apple slice.
For those more in pumpkin pie's camp, try Dave Newman's smoky kabocha cocktail. He mixes kabocha simple syrup with rye whiskey, sherry, whiskey barrel aged bitters, amaro and a touch of lemon. Served in a glass smoked with cinnamon and clove, it smells of fireplaces and Christmas.
1936 S. King St., 744-9593
Find an egg nog that's a little lighter than the traditional, with the usual rum replaced with mezcal, sherry and bitters.
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At V Lounge on Mondays, bartender Roxanne Siebert brings holiday cheer with drinks specials that she changes weekly (or so). They've included a bourbon cider—a spiced, mulled apple cider fortified with bourbon—and a blackberry cobbler (she couldn't find sugar plums, so made do with blackberries). The addition of Frangelico gives it a nuttiness that makes it taste like she blended a cobbler crust right into the drink.
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House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Friday that he has created a work group of delegates to study strategies for economic revitalization of the Baltimore region.
Busch said he has directed the nine-member panel to review existing programs and recommend ways in which state and local governments can wrtk together more effectively. The speaker said the work group will seek advice from universities and the private sector on economic revitalization strategies for the metropolitan region.
"The Baltimore region has historically been a hub of economic activity in the State of Maryland," Busch said in a statement released by his office. "We need to better leverage the strengths of the region to bolster investment and job creation, including the Port of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland in Baltimore City; new opportunities at Sparrows Point; and, the (military base realignment) process in Anne Arundel, Harford and Howard Counties."
Chairing the panel will be Del. Keiffer J. Mitchell of Baltimore. Joining him will be Dels. Steve Lafferty (Baltimore County), Joseline Peña-Melnyk(Prince George's/Anne Arundel), Guy Guzzone (Howard), Mary Washington (Baltimore), Dana Stein (Baltimore County) Brian Feldman (Montgomery), A. Wade Kach (Baltimore County) and Peter Hammen (Baltimore). All except Kach are Democrats.
The work group is expected to make some interim recommendations during the current legislative session and to continue its work though the year to develop ideas for the 2014 session.


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Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975Friday, April 10th, 2009
Ann Margret as Nora Walker Hobbs in Ken Russell's 1975 film "Tommy." This scene, not to mention the whole film, was absolutely formative for me (and apparently I'm not alone). It opens with a drunk Nora watching TV in her all-white glam boudoir. On the TV screen is an ad for baked beans, "Fit For A Queen." She throws a champagne bottle through the TV set, and soap suds and baked beans pour out into the white bedroom.


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Salt Lake City is a treasure the world discovered during the 2002 Winter Games. A beautiful and vibrant city, Salt Lake combines unparalleled access to natural recreation, a bustling economy, dynamic nightlife, remarkable history, warm hospitality, and some of the greatest skiing on earth. This hotel is located just 33 miles from four major ski resorts and is 10 short minutes from Salt Lake International Airport via our complimentary shuttle.
Crystal Inn Hotel & Suites Salt Lake City – Downtown is in the center of dining, nightlife and culture; ideal for guests who wish to fill their evenings with fine dining and a late night. This hotel is just one mile from Historic Temple Square. You'll enjoy the unlimited shopping you'll find at the new City Creek Center, the Gateway and Trolley Square mall.
Nestled between two mountain ranges, Salt Lake offers a wide variety of outdoor activities, suitable for all ages and skill levels. During the summer, mountain biking and hiking enthusiasts flock to Salt Lake from around the world. In the winter, skiers and snowboarders rush to the six world-class ski resorts nearby.
History buffs enjoy the unique sights and stories of the Mormon settling of Salt Lake valley including historic Temple Square. Those interested in researching their own history come from all over the world to visit the world's largest genealogical center, the Family History Library.
Hotel Details
- FREE hot buffet breakfast with eggs, breakfast meats and specialty items
- FREE wireless Internet access throughout our Utah hotel
- FREE shuttle to and from airport
- Convenient downtown location with easy access to both North and Southbound I-15
- FREE parking
Top Attractions
- Hogle Zoo
- Historic Temple Square
- Family History Library
- Energy Solutions Arena
- Lagoon
- University of Utah
- City Creek Center
- Gateway Mall
- Children's Discovery Museum
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- Oversized guest rooms with your choice of king or two queen beds, separate seating area with a work station
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How about a coil of plastic line in ice bath for incoming water to wort chiller ?"Freedom is temporary unless you are also Brave!" - Patriot
Just a note on safety. Lifting and moving a pot of boiling hot liquid is not wise. Buy or build a chiller to get the wort down to 100F or less before immersing in the ice bath. That way you don't risk 2nd and 3rd degree burns.


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- 2 slices white bread
- Chives
- Olive slices
- Small carrot slices
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- Snap Pea
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- Fill with desired sandwich filling.
- Set on plate and then cut peppers, as shown for the Robot ears, top of head and Neck piece. Arrange.
- Cut chives for antenna and mouth.
- Cut a small section from the middle of a snap pea, break apart and then use for eye background pieces.
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South Africa, with its vibrant, multimillion dollar tourism industry, is home to thousands of holiday resorts – offering everything from pristine beaches to bush teeming with wild animals. But only one tourist haven is managed by three brothers from Malawi, in an isolated village that seems lost in the past.
In the town of Kaapsche Hoop, in the craggy mountains of South Africa's northeastern Mpumalanga province, Emton, Aaron and Harvest Kalimanjira are known as "The Blantyre Boys."
And while that description conjures up an image of a ruthless street gang wandering the alleys of Malawi's commercial capital, it's with respect and affection that the Kalimanjira brothers are spoken of in their adoptive village.
"It's not a difficult place to stay. It's nice and quiet, everything's fine, no problems." Emton, the eldest of the trio, who are in their mid to late 20s, speaks from behind the bar in the restaurant he runs. Aaron adds, "It is wonderful being here and meeting people from all over the world. They are great people, but sometimes quite strange!"
There are, indeed, many unusual aspects to Kaapsche Hoop. It's a silent, spooky place, often engulfed in thick fog from which a resident herd of wild horses emerges. They graze among old wood and tin houses that once belonged to gold miners in the 1800s. Even the town's name is incongruous – Dutch, for "Cape Hope." Yet South Africa's coastal Cape region lies more than a thousand miles to the south.
History books say a few centuries ago, prospectors named the village "Kaapsche Hoop" for the area's unusual rock formations and swirling mist that reminded them of the Cape.
Locals say the Kalimanjira brothers only add to the village's peculiar aura. Kaapsche Hoop is one of the last places in South Africa where one would expect to find three Malawians – unless they were tourists. Foreign Africans usually settle in or nearby South Africa's big cities. But Kaapsche Hoop is so small that its entire population is less than 100. It's "literally in the middle of nowhere," says Harvest Kalimanjira.
The pull of the South African rand
Three years ago, after a bus journey of almost two days that took them from Malawi through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and finally into South Africa, the brothers arrived at Kaapsche Hoop. They'd been alerted by a fellow Malawian working nearby about probable job openings in the town.
"Because of our friend's good work, the owners of this place wanted other Malawians to work here," Emton says. In Blantyre, he'd been struggling to make ends meet as a heavy-duty truck driver. "The Malawi kwacha is worth almost nothing," he explains, shaking his head.
"The amount of money that I get from this side is 20 times the money I get from Malawi," adds Harvest, who has an interesting theory about why his parents gave him his rather "unusual" first name. "I think I was born in a time when they harvested a lot of maize (near my home village)," he says, smiling.
Aaron Kalimanjira says South Africa – and specifically Kaapsche Hoop – is "beautiful," but he and his brothers are really here "for the money. With money we send our families in just one month, they are able to live in Malawi for about five months, because basic foods are much cheaper there."
'King Aaron'
Popping the cap off yet another beer for a thirsty patron, Emton exclaims, "We do everything here! I'm a barman, but I'm doing everything here – painting stuff or gardening, everything. Driving also. Chopping wood! All (that) stuff; we don't have a choice!"
Inside their restaurant, the ears of customers are more often than not assailed by the Kalimanjira trio's favorite music – reggae. "As loud as possible!" Harvest shouts, above the din from an overhead speaker.
"While one of us is playing music, the other is cooking, the other is serving drinks. Then the other must stand by the door, when we have the nightclub nights on weekends – lots of tourists," Emton says.
When darkness descends on Kaapsche Hoop, the mellow reggae ends, and the "heavier, pumping stuff," as Aaron describes it, begins. The blasting music causes the bottles behind the bar to rattle and shake, just like the people on the dance floor.
While the party rocks, the brawny Aaron Kalimanjira – muscular arms crossed over his chest and a mean glint in his eyes – mans the entrance. He jokes, "Any trouble here and it's pow, pow!" He punches the air with a violent right-left combination. The skull of a dead animal nailed to the door looms over his head.
Aaron says he "hates" being a bouncer. "But when things get out of hand, like when a fight breaks out or when the visitors are very drunk, then I must do something to stop the trouble."
Harvest adds, "That's how he got his nickname, 'King Aaron.'"
The Queen of England's train carriage
Aaron, though, insists he's more into "public relations" than maintaining public order. He says, "I've met with lots of kinds of people – other people from Canada, other people from India, other people from everywhere! To me that's a very, very important thing because then I learn more things than before."
But Aaron's "best" job is to cook, and he especially enjoys making "a whole lot of different pizzas, burgers, pancakes – everything in the kitchen, I make it!" he laughs.
Another of the Kalimanjira brothers' tasks at Kaapsche Hoop is to maintain an extraordinary train coach as accommodation for tourists. It's the original carriage that England's Queen Elizabeth II traveled in on her visit to South Africa in 1947.
"It's got the same bed, the same carpets," says Emton.
The Kalimanjiras miss their families.
Despite the Kalimanjira's good work at Kaapsche Hoop, Harvest says he doesn't like staying in South Africa. Whenever he phones home, he says, it seems as if a "new tragedy" has happened.
"And then I think to myself, 'Maybe if I had been at home this bad thing would not have happened….'"
Harvest says he "bitterly misses" his wife, Sarah, five-year-old daughter, Sharon, and six-month-old son, Paul.
Emton says while he and his brothers have "good times" at Kaapsche Hoop, it's "desperation" that drives their stay in South Africa, and again he repeats that there's "no money to be made" back in Blantyre.
The cost of being economic refugees is etched on the brothers' faces, and in the regrets they frequently voice.
"I've got a little daughter," Emton says. "Her name is Praise. She's now almost a year old. And I have never seen her."
He says he "feels shame" because of this, and it's a feeling that "never goes away" – no matter how much money he earns in South Africa.
Aaron says he, too, misses his daughter. "She's two. Her name is Queen." He laughs when he's reminded that his nickname is "King Aaron…."
But work the Kalimanjiras must, adding unexpected cheer and diversity to one of South Africa's more unusual tourist traps.


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Villa Philmonte Courtyard
The Villa Philmonte was the summer home of Waite and Genevieve Phillips. It was constructed in the Spanish Mediterranean style from 1926 to 1927 and it is 28,400 square feet in size. The Villa Philmonte is a house museum today. Tour guides tell the story of the Phillips family, their Philmont Ranch, and the gifting of that ranch in two parcels to the Boy Scouts of America, 1938 and 1941. Please call the Philmont Museum for tour information – 575-376-1136.
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Waite Phillips was born on a farm in southwestern Iowa on January 19, 1883. He was born with an identical twin whose name was Wiate. Note that the "a" and the "i" in the two names were transposed – very confusing! The boys were extremely adventuresome. When they turned 16 in 1899 they left the farm and set out to see the West. They traveled thousands of miles and took jobs whenever they needed money. They worked at timber camps, railroad camps, a shingle factory, hotels, and even Western Union as messengers... Read More
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In general, writing to the system log slows down performance slightly; and increased disk access (increasing the log level, decreasing the file rotation limit or time limit) also slows down the application.
Also, make sure that any custom log handler doesn't log to a slow device like a network file system since this can adversely affect performance.
Set the log level for the server and its subsystems in the Admin Console Logger Settings page, Log Levels tab. The page enables you to specify the default log level for the server (labeled Root), the default log level for javax.enterprise.system subsystems (labeled Server) such as the EJB Container, MDB Container, Web Container, Classloader, JNDI naming system, and Security, and for each individual subsystem.
Log levels vary from FINEST, which provides maximum log information, through SEVERE, which logs only events that interfere with normal program execution. The default log level is INFO. The individual subsystem log level overrides the Server setting, which in turn overrides the Root setting.
For example, the MDB container can produce log messages at a different level than server default. To get more debug messages, set the log level to FINE, FINER, or FINEST. For best performance under normal conditions, set the log level to WARNING. Under benchmarking conditions, it is often appropriate to set the log level to SEVERE.


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Rob Tomko of Whitehall Township was at the seventh hole at the Allentown Municipal Golf Course when he thought to himself that he should be able to order food and have it delivered to him right there on the course.
That idea served as the springboard for Fedfast.com, Tomko's new venture that seeks to connect hungry, tech-savvy patrons with takeout eats from more than 60 participating Lehigh Valley restaurants.
Through Fedfast's website or mobile app, users will be able to point and click to order food from a growing list of local restaurants, including Keystone Pub & Grill, which has locations in Bethlehem and Whitehall;...


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